A MacGuffin is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story, but has little other relvance to the story.(Also known as McGuffin or Maguffin)
"We have a name in the Studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin'. It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers." - Alfred Hitchcock
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