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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames'': Harlequin has Koridians gamble with eachother until they end up in complete dept which he then subjects each loser to being ReforgedIntoAMinion.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' shows how gamlbing can ruin ''after''lives; In "Masquerade", Husk reveals that he used to be an overlord himself, but his chronic gambling caused him to slowly lose the souls bound to him. Eventually, he bet his own soul and lost to Alastor, becoming the Radio Demon's servant.
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* ''Series/{{Lewis}}'': In episode "[[Recap/LewisS2E1 And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea]]", Reg Chapman's crippling gambling addiction cost him his job and his house and has left the family in much inferior lodgings, and broke. His wife was on the verge of divorcing him--"was", because Reg's gambling addiction also was the indirect cause of his murder.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E6HootysMovingHassle Hooty's Moving Hassle]]", [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]] gets a CompressedVice to Hexas Hold'Em to the level that she's playing it ''without realising''. In fact, she nearly [[LostHimInACardGame lost King in a card game]] if not for the ContrivedCoincidence in the form of Moving Owl House under Hooty's control. All to teach AnAesop about it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E6HootysMovingHassle Hooty's Moving Hassle]]", [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]] Clawthorne gets a CompressedVice to Hexas Hold'Em to the level that she's playing it ''without realising''. In fact, she nearly [[LostHimInACardGame lost King in a card game]] if not for the ContrivedCoincidence in the form of Moving Owl House under Hooty's control. All to teach AnAesop about it.
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* ''Series/Numb3rs'': In "Double Down", [[spoiler:Leonard Philbrick]], who did card counting with Larry in their younger years, got caught up in the gambling, which destroyed his promising academic career and his marriage, he ended up teaching at a high school. [[spoiler:However, he wanted a second chance at proving himself with the casinos and he got several students to do card counting, which results in a couple of their deaths]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In a 1947 comic, one of the many failings of the future Penny Plunderer according to the Narrator, was pitching pennies. When the Penny Plunderer's boss catches him gambling, he fires him and Penny Plunderer subsequently falls into a life of crime, which ultimately leads to him getting arrested and executed.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In a 1947 comic, one of the many failings of the future Penny Plunderer according to the Narrator, was pitching pennies. When the Penny Plunderer's boss catches him gambling, he fires him and Penny Plunderer subsequently falls into a life of crime, which ultimately leads to him getting arrested and executed.
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* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In the episode "Snake Eyes", the [[MonsterOfTheWeek UnSub of the week]] is a gambling addict who has completely destroyed his life and marriage (his ex-wife makes very clear that she is sick and tired of him coming home saying that he has found the alleged 'perfect system' for gambling again and again. He also spends the whole episode looking strung out) and only gets worse when a series of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s make him develop the superstition that he can boost his luck if he murders people.
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Compare SmokingIsNotCool and AntiAlcoholAesop, for similar tropes that portray common vices in a negative fashion. See also GamblersFallacy, TrappedByGamblingDebts, and TheGamblingAddict for tropes that portray specific aspects of gambling as negative. Sometimes overlaps with WickedWastefulness if gambling is done only by villainous and/or jerkish characters.
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Compare SmokingIsNotCool and AntiAlcoholAesop, for similar tropes that portray common vices in a negative fashion. See also GamblersFallacy, TrappedByGamblingDebts, and TheGamblingAddict for tropes that portray specific aspects of gambling as negative. Sometimes overlaps with WickedWastefulness if gambling is done only by villainous and/or jerkish characters.
characters. Overlaps with GreedMakesYouDumb if a character gambles out of {{greed}}.
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Compare SmokingIsNotCool and AntiAlcoholAesop, for similar tropes that portray common vices in a negative fashion. See also GamblersFallacy, TrappedByGamblingDebts, and TheGamblingAddict for tropes that portray specific aspects of gambling as negative.
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Compare SmokingIsNotCool and AntiAlcoholAesop, for similar tropes that portray common vices in a negative fashion. See also GamblersFallacy, TrappedByGamblingDebts, and TheGamblingAddict for tropes that portray specific aspects of gambling as negative.
negative. Sometimes overlaps with WickedWastefulness if gambling is done only by villainous and/or jerkish characters.
