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* Enchantress from Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/SecretWars'' is beseeched by Volcana to be teleported to Molecule Man's side, after learning that he'd been hurt by the X-Men. Volcana offers "anything" as payment, which Enchantress accepts. Later, when Enchantress needs to warn Asgard about a new and awesome threat, she cashes in Volcana's [=IOU=] by extracting Volcana's life energy for a huge trans-galactic teleport.
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* Enchantress from Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/SecretWars'' ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' is beseeched by Volcana to be teleported to Molecule Man's side, after learning that he'd been hurt by the X-Men. Volcana offers "anything" as payment, which Enchantress accepts. Later, when Enchantress needs to warn Asgard about a new and awesome threat, she cashes in Volcana's [=IOU=] by extracting Volcana's life energy for a huge trans-galactic teleport.
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* If you're out of Funds in ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'', you may be approached by a strange, sinister man who offers to buy one of three different things from you for 2 Funds. Of the three things he's interested in, the most tangible is the Jar of Blood[[note]]which costs you [[HealthMeter 3 Stamina]][[/note]]; alternately, you can sell him a Fond Memory[[note]][[SanityMeter 3 Reason]][[/note]] or Peace of Mind[[note]]advancing the Doom Track by 5%[[/note]].
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* Ursula the Sea Witch offers ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' the chance to become human, walk on land and meet her dashing prince. Her price: Ariel's voice. "No talking, no singing, zip."
** Though in the Hans Christian Anderson tale the Sea Witch's price was a bit more tangible, her tongue.
* In ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' a trio of witches trade the secret of how to destroy the titular artifact for Taran's magic sword. Later, they offer the sword back in exchange for the Cauldron itself, but Taran instead demands the life of his friend, Gurgi, and the witches oblige.
** Though in the Hans Christian Anderson tale the Sea Witch's price was a bit more tangible, her tongue.
* In ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' a trio of witches trade the secret of how to destroy the titular artifact for Taran's magic sword. Later, they offer the sword back in exchange for the Cauldron itself, but Taran instead demands the life of his friend, Gurgi, and the witches oblige.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Ursula the Sea Witch offers ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' Ariel the chance to become human, walk on land and meet her dashing prince. Her price: Ariel's voice. "No talking, no singing, zip."
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* In''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' a trio of witches trade the secret of how to destroy the titular artifact for Taran's magic sword. Later, they offer the sword back in exchange for the Cauldron itself, but Taran instead demands the life of his friend, Gurgi, and the witches oblige.
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* In ''Literature/TheLastWish'' Duny (cursed human) asks this sort of payment from Pavetta's father (in hopes it'll turn out to cure his {{curse}}).
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* ''Literature/TheColdfireTrilogy'' has [[DealWithTheDevil deals with the devil]] as a major theme. While sanity and free will are common tolls levied in exchange for power, the charges can get exotic - identity, memory and moral certainty are traded away too. At one point a character is ressurected in exchange for one of their personality traits.
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* ''Literature/TheColdfireTrilogy'' has [[DealWithTheDevil deals with the devil]] as a major theme. While sanity and free will are common tolls levied in exchange for power, the charges can get exotic - identity, memory and moral certainty are traded away too. At one point a character is ressurected resurrected in exchange for one of their personality traits.traits.
* In {{Literature/Moonflowers}}, Chinese-American Ned Song makes a BloodOath with his father's patron-spirit the Lady of Scales, since he needs to break TheWildHunt's curse on his family. The Lady goes through memories and the color of his hair before they settle on the color of his eyes, and she notes that there's some risk of going blind--but some people [[TouchedByVorlons gain powers instead.]]
* In {{Literature/Moonflowers}}, Chinese-American Ned Song makes a BloodOath with his father's patron-spirit the Lady of Scales, since he needs to break TheWildHunt's curse on his family. The Lady goes through memories and the color of his hair before they settle on the color of his eyes, and she notes that there's some risk of going blind--but some people [[TouchedByVorlons gain powers instead.]]
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* In the ''Podcast/MetamorCity'' story "Whispers in the Wood" Abbie Preston trades a song to a greater Fae in exchange for the answers to three questions, and only afterwards realizes that the price included her memory of the song as well.
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The BazaarOfTheBizarre often will take these, and so can a [[TrollBridge troll]] or another ThresholdGuardian who isn't interested in SecretTestOfCharacter. [[DealWithTheDevil Deals with the Devil]] or with TheFairFolk are also likely to involve these as the price that the dealer must pay, and especially with the former are more likely to screw you over down the road. Compare InsubstantialIngredients.
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There's no free lunch. Or pass through a river. Or, in fact, a bit of knowledge. Known fact. Methods of paying for these useful things, however, may vary.
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** In ''Grave Peril'', Harry's FairyGodmother accepts a year of his girlfriend's memories in trade for letting Harry off the hook for breaking a [[MagicallyBindingContract magical vow]]. Unusually, she's able to recover the lost memories later.
** A variant in ''Ghost Story'' has same said fairy godmother so interested in the story of Harry's escape from his EvilMentor [[spoiler:and subsequent confrontation with an EldritchAbomination]] that she offers information in exchange for Harry telling her what happened. (TheFairFolk being what they are, this ''is'' [[SeriousBusiness treated as a transaction]].)
** A variant in ''Ghost Story'' has same said fairy godmother so interested in the story of Harry's escape from his EvilMentor [[spoiler:and subsequent confrontation with an EldritchAbomination]] that she offers information in exchange for Harry telling her what happened. (TheFairFolk being what they are, this ''is'' [[SeriousBusiness treated as a transaction]].)
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** In ''Grave Peril'', ''Literature/GravePeril'', Harry's FairyGodmother accepts a year of his girlfriend's memories in trade for letting Harry off the hook for breaking a [[MagicallyBindingContract magical vow]]. Unusually, she's able to recover the lost memories later.
** A variant in''Ghost Story'' ''Literature/GhostStory'' has same said fairy godmother so interested in the story of Harry's escape from his EvilMentor [[spoiler:and subsequent confrontation with an EldritchAbomination]] that she offers information in exchange for Harry telling her what happened. (TheFairFolk being what they are, this ''is'' [[SeriousBusiness treated as a transaction]].)
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* In Literature/{{the Dresden Files}} book ''Grave Peril'', Harry's FairyGodmother accepts a year of his girlfriend's memories in trade for letting Harry off the hook for breaking a [[MagicallyBindingContract magical vow]]. Unusually, she's able to recover the lost memories later.
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** InLiterature/{{the Dresden Files}} book ''Grave Peril'', Harry's FairyGodmother accepts a year of his girlfriend's memories in trade for letting Harry off the hook for breaking a [[MagicallyBindingContract magical vow]]. Unusually, she's able to recover the lost memories later.later.
** A variant in ''Ghost Story'' has same said fairy godmother so interested in the story of Harry's escape from his EvilMentor [[spoiler:and subsequent confrontation with an EldritchAbomination]] that she offers information in exchange for Harry telling her what happened. (TheFairFolk being what they are, this ''is'' [[SeriousBusiness treated as a transaction]].)
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** A variant in ''Ghost Story'' has same said fairy godmother so interested in the story of Harry's escape from his EvilMentor [[spoiler:and subsequent confrontation with an EldritchAbomination]] that she offers information in exchange for Harry telling her what happened. (TheFairFolk being what they are, this ''is'' [[SeriousBusiness treated as a transaction]].)
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Dark Eldar can directly manipulate souls, so it's often a price for their intervention. Sometimes they take other things, like heartbeats or dying breaths.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Dark Eldar can directly manipulate souls, so it's often a price for their intervention. Sometimes they take other things, like heartbeats or dying breaths.
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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2791 SCP-2791 ("Fauste Bank plc")]]. The entities involved in SCP-2791 sometimes demand non-tangible things as part of their DealWithTheDevil, such as the memories of the summoner's name or a period of torment after death.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day AYearAndADay (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-738 SCP-738 ("The Devil's Deal")]] is a writing desk that offers a DealWithTheDevil for various prices, like the death of your best friend or memories of your mother.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2523 SCP-2523 ("Goblin Market")]] . The workers in SCP-2523 sell anomalous Halloween items in exchange for such things as "The memory of a childhood family trip", "The ability to sing" and "Empathy".
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-738 SCP-738 ("The Devil's Deal")]] is a writing desk that offers a DealWithTheDevil for various prices, like the death of your best friend or memories of your mother.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2523 SCP-2523 ("Goblin Market")]] . The workers in SCP-2523 sell anomalous Halloween items in exchange for such things as "The memory of a childhood family trip", "The ability to sing" and "Empathy".
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2523 SCP-2523 ("Goblin Market")]] . The workers in SCP-2523 sell anomalous Halloween items in exchange for such things as "The memory of a childhood family trip", "The ability to sing" and "Empathy".
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-738 SCP-738 ("The Devil's Deal")]] is a writing desk that offers a DealWithTheDevil for various prices, like the death of your best friend or memories of your mother.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2523 SCP-2523 ("Goblin Market")]] . The workers in SCP-2523 sell anomalous Halloween items in exchange for such things as "The memory of a childhood family trip", "The ability to sing" and "Empathy".
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
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* In ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' a trio of witches trade the secret of how to destroy the titular artifact for Taran's magic sword. Later, they offer the sword back in exchange for the Cauldron itself, but Taran instead demands the life of his friend, Gurgi, and the witches oblige.
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* Padraig, a FairFolk in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' at one point offers Maggie Holt his aid in exchange for his choice of something from her backpack. Thinking there was nothing of value there, she agrees. Then he uses an essay there to ''take her name'' causing her entire power and being to slowly unravel, while he impersonates her.
* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'' has Auri a homeless crazed waif, who gives and receives a variety of gifts, some tangible and others less so, like a secret, a song, or a moonbeam.
* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'' has Auri a homeless crazed waif, who gives and receives a variety of gifts, some tangible and others less so, like a secret, a song, or a moonbeam.
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* One ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode involved a shop run by the devil. Everything was free in terms of money, but each item came with an unadvertised curse. For example, one artifact increased libido at the price of impotence. Most were played for laughs.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' The Weird Sisters oversaw a covenant between Macbeth and Demona. He would give his youth in return for her being able to fight for him. Both would share the other's pain as a side effect.
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* In one ''Anime/DoraEmon'' story, Nobita comes across one of Doraemon's abandoned gadgets. It talks to Nobita and introduces itself as "The Devil Card". Its demonic projection tells Nobita that he can shake the card and get virtually limitless amounts of money, but in exchange, his height will be reduced by 1 cm per 100,000 yen he pulled out of the card when the midnight (i.e 12:00 AM) comes. This causes a problem later in the story when his parents found the card and uses it to gain a lot of money without knowing its consequences for Nobita. He later resolves this by [[spoiler: Doraemon using his "Grow-up Flashlight" on Nobita when the next 12:00 AM comes.]]
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Sometimes it's [[FictionalCurrency bits of symbol-stamped metal]]. Sometimes it's [[EnergyEconomy units of energy]] or [[PracticalCurrency actual immediately useful objects]]. Some places use [[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture bitcoins]]. Others prefer [[WeirdCurrency seeds of the World Tree]] or some such.
TheFairFolk, however, has an interesting tendency to only accept payments made in ''actual'' valuables. That is, things you'd be reluctant to part with. Things with emotional value, if [[InsubstantialIngredients little material weight]], or things that are part of you (not necessarily arms and/or legs, but, say, [[Literature/{{Stardust}} the hearing in your left ear]] or your first childhood memory). Or favours that will be pain to pay, sometime in the future.
This carries a significant risk of being [[{{Foreshadowing}} plot-fuelling]], as well as emotionally engaging for the reader (do you feel sad for a guy who has to pay a copper coin to pass a bridge? How about one who must give up "whatever they find at home that they were not expecting"?)
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* In one ''Anime/DoraEmon'' story, Nobita comes across one of Doraemon's abandoned gadgets. It talks to Nobita and introduces itself as "The Devil Card". Its demonic projection tells Nobita that he can shake the card and get virtually limitless amounts of money, but in exchange, his height will be reduced by 1 cm per 100,000 yen he pulled out of the card when the midnight (i.e 12:00 AM) comes. This causes a problem later in the story when his parents found the card and uses it to gain a lot of money without knowing its consequences for Nobita. He later resolves this by [[spoiler: Doraemon using his "Grow-up Flashlight" on Nobita when the next 12:00 AM comes.]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Enchantress from Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/SecretWars'' is beseeched by Volcana to be teleported to Molecule Man's side, after learning that he'd been hurt by the X-Men. Volcana offers "anything" as payment, which Enchantress accepts. Later, when Enchantress needs to warn Asgard about a new and awesome threat, she cashes in Volcana's [=IOU=] by extracting Volcana's life energy for a huge trans-galactic teleport.
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[[folder: Film -- Animated]]
* Ursula the Sea Witch offers ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' the chance to become human, walk on land and meet her dashing prince. Her price: Ariel's voice. "No talking, no singing, zip *."
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'': The London Below has a barter-based economy, but the Marquis de Carabas deals in favours, and Lamia wants to be paid in [[spoiler: Richard's life]].
* In another Creator/NeilGaiman FairyTale example, ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' has the slave girl discuss various exotic payments, only to settle for Dunstan's kiss.
* In ''Literature/TheLastWish'' Duny (cursed human) asks this sort of payment from Pavetta's father (in hopes it'll turn out to cure his {{curse}}).
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' has Mr. Norrell's make a deal with one of TheFairFolk to bring a politician's fiancee back to life in exchange for a portion of said life and one of her little fingers.
* In ''[[Literature/TheDreamingDark The Gates of Night]]'' the party gets a night in an inn in Thelanis, the Faerie Court, in exchange for Daine's voice, though the innkeeper agrees to return [[ExactWords a voice]] to him when they leave, like it was just a loan.
* In ''Literature/WieldingARedSword'' by Creator/PiersAnthony, Mother Nature takes the protagonist's stammer as payment for a favor.
* An exchange based on this trope is a major plot point in Creator/UrsulaVernon's novel ''The Seventh Bride''. An evil sorcerer has figured out that he can use his powers to [[spoiler: make marriage work as a MagicallyBindingContract. So he flatters or coerces various women into marrying him, whereupon he "gives" them his name, and in exchange they owe him a "gift" of his choosing. So far, he has taken his previous wives' life, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever death]], magic, will, sight, and voice, and plans to take the titular bride's youth.]]
* ''Literature/ShadowPolice'': Members of London's magical community often trade in intangibles. In ''The Severed Streets'', Ross exchanges [[spoiler:her capacity to ever feel happiness]] for being allowed to study the auction's ledger for 15 minutes.
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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E07TheRingsOfAkhaten Akhaten]] has this sort of economy. -ZCE
* In order for the Dark Curse to be cast in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', the caster must destroy the thing they love most, normally a loved one.
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[[folder: Other Sites ]]
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-738 SCP-738 ("The Devil's Deal")]] is a writing desk that offers a DealWithTheDevil for various prices, like the death of your best friend or memories of your mother.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2523 SCP-2523 ("Goblin Market")]] . The workers in SCP-2523 sell anomalous Halloween items in exchange for such things as "The memory of a childhood family trip", "The ability to sing" and "Empathy".
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': Goblin Markets accept such items as eye colors, springtime afternoon or a song.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Dark Eldar can directly manipulate souls, so it's often a price for their intervention. Sometimes they take other things, like heartbeats or dying breaths.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* The [[Literature/BabaYaga Yaga]] in ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'' is a primordial being that feeds on fear, but lets Zo#&235; pass for a slightly milder cost of some of her memories (admittedly, ones that Zo#&235; may want to forget, anyway).
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[[folder: Webcomics ]]
* The [[TheFairFolk shadow creatures]] in ''Webcomic/MissingMonday'' treat any other form of payment as rude. They are also very into ExactWords.
* ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'' has nightmares and dreams. RGB also pays someone once with his hand (but he can get another, so he's not very reluctant to do that).
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[[folder: Web Original]]
* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' the pawn shop sometimes pays in cash and sometimes in intangibles like "a good night's sleep" or "an interesting idea about time".
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' The Weird Sisters oversaw a covenant between Macbeth and Demona. He would give his youth in return for her being able to fight for him. Both would share the other's pain as a side effect.
* One ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode involved a shop run by the devil. Everything was free in terms of money, but each item came with an unadvertised curse. For example, one artifact increased libido at the price of impotence. Most were played for laughs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when Brian and Stewie try to rent a helicopter, the shop accepts cash, check or a "jaunty tune". Now guess with what they pay.
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Sometimes it's [[FictionalCurrency bits of symbol-stamped metal]]. Sometimes it's [[EnergyEconomy units of energy]] or [[PracticalCurrency actual immediately useful objects]]. Some places use [[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture bitcoins]]. Others prefer [[WeirdCurrency seeds of the World Tree]] or some such.
TheFairFolk, however, has an interesting tendency to only accept payments made in ''actual'' valuables. That is, things you'd be reluctant to part with. Things with emotional value, if [[InsubstantialIngredients little material weight]], or things that are part of you (not necessarily arms and/or legs, but, say, [[Literature/{{Stardust}} the hearing in your left ear]] or your first childhood memory). Or favours that will be pain to pay, sometime in the future.
This carries a significant risk of being [[{{Foreshadowing}} plot-fuelling]], as well as emotionally engaging for the reader (do you feel sad for a guy who has to pay a copper coin to pass a bridge? How about one who must give up "whatever they find at home that they were not expecting"?)
BazaarOfTheBizarre often will take these, and so can a [[TrollBridge troll]] or another ThresholdGuardian who isn't interested in SecretTestOfCharacter. Compare InsubstantialIngredients.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder: Anime and Manga]]
* In one ''Anime/DoraEmon'' story, Nobita comes across one of Doraemon's abandoned gadgets. It talks to Nobita and introduces itself as "The Devil Card". Its demonic projection tells Nobita that he can shake the card and get virtually limitless amounts of money, but in exchange, his height will be reduced by 1 cm per 100,000 yen he pulled out of the card when the midnight (i.e 12:00 AM) comes. This causes a problem later in the story when his parents found the card and uses it to gain a lot of money without knowing its consequences for Nobita. He later resolves this by [[spoiler: Doraemon using his "Grow-up Flashlight" on Nobita when the next 12:00 AM comes.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Enchantress from Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/SecretWars'' is beseeched by Volcana to be teleported to Molecule Man's side, after learning that he'd been hurt by the X-Men. Volcana offers "anything" as payment, which Enchantress accepts. Later, when Enchantress needs to warn Asgard about a new and awesome threat, she cashes in Volcana's [=IOU=] by extracting Volcana's life energy for a huge trans-galactic teleport.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Film -- Animated]]
* Ursula the Sea Witch offers ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' the chance to become human, walk on land and meet her dashing prince. Her price: Ariel's voice. "No talking, no singing, zip *."
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Literature ]]
* ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'': The London Below has a barter-based economy, but the Marquis de Carabas deals in favours, and Lamia wants to be paid in [[spoiler: Richard's life]].
* In another Creator/NeilGaiman FairyTale example, ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' has the slave girl discuss various exotic payments, only to settle for Dunstan's kiss.
* In ''Literature/TheLastWish'' Duny (cursed human) asks this sort of payment from Pavetta's father (in hopes it'll turn out to cure his {{curse}}).
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' has Mr. Norrell's make a deal with one of TheFairFolk to bring a politician's fiancee back to life in exchange for a portion of said life and one of her little fingers.
* In ''[[Literature/TheDreamingDark The Gates of Night]]'' the party gets a night in an inn in Thelanis, the Faerie Court, in exchange for Daine's voice, though the innkeeper agrees to return [[ExactWords a voice]] to him when they leave, like it was just a loan.
* In ''Literature/WieldingARedSword'' by Creator/PiersAnthony, Mother Nature takes the protagonist's stammer as payment for a favor.
* An exchange based on this trope is a major plot point in Creator/UrsulaVernon's novel ''The Seventh Bride''. An evil sorcerer has figured out that he can use his powers to [[spoiler: make marriage work as a MagicallyBindingContract. So he flatters or coerces various women into marrying him, whereupon he "gives" them his name, and in exchange they owe him a "gift" of his choosing. So far, he has taken his previous wives' life, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever death]], magic, will, sight, and voice, and plans to take the titular bride's youth.]]
* ''Literature/ShadowPolice'': Members of London's magical community often trade in intangibles. In ''The Severed Streets'', Ross exchanges [[spoiler:her capacity to ever feel happiness]] for being allowed to study the auction's ledger for 15 minutes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E07TheRingsOfAkhaten Akhaten]] has this sort of economy. -ZCE
* In order for the Dark Curse to be cast in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', the caster must destroy the thing they love most, normally a loved one.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Other Sites ]]
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-738 SCP-738 ("The Devil's Deal")]] is a writing desk that offers a DealWithTheDevil for various prices, like the death of your best friend or memories of your mother.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1323 SCP-1323 ("A County Fair")]] . The inhabitants of SCP-1323 sell fair tickets for varying prices: a joyful laugh and a sorrowful tear (1 ticket), a cherished memory (5 tickets), A Year And A Day (10 tickets), a lost love (25 tickets), and a favor (100 tickets).
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2523 SCP-2523 ("Goblin Market")]] . The workers in SCP-2523 sell anomalous Halloween items in exchange for such things as "The memory of a childhood family trip", "The ability to sing" and "Empathy".
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1879 SCP-1879 ("Indoor Salesman")]]. SCP-1879 is a man who appears inside a person's house and tries to sell them something. The price he asks in return is sometimes intangible, such as "12 years of your time". When the person agreed, they disappeared for 12 years. When they reappeared they were the same as when they vanished, with no memory of the intervening time.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': Goblin Markets accept such items as eye colors, springtime afternoon or a song.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Dark Eldar can directly manipulate souls, so it's often a price for their intervention. Sometimes they take other things, like heartbeats or dying breaths.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Video Games]]
* The [[Literature/BabaYaga Yaga]] in ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'' is a primordial being that feeds on fear, but lets Zo#&235; pass for a slightly milder cost of some of her memories (admittedly, ones that Zo#&235; may want to forget, anyway).
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Webcomics ]]
* The [[TheFairFolk shadow creatures]] in ''Webcomic/MissingMonday'' treat any other form of payment as rude. They are also very into ExactWords.
* ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'' has nightmares and dreams. RGB also pays someone once with his hand (but he can get another, so he's not very reluctant to do that).
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Web Original]]
* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' the pawn shop sometimes pays in cash and sometimes in intangibles like "a good night's sleep" or "an interesting idea about time".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Western Animation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' The Weird Sisters oversaw a covenant between Macbeth and Demona. He would give his youth in return for her being able to fight for him. Both would share the other's pain as a side effect.
* One ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode involved a shop run by the devil. Everything was free in terms of money, but each item came with an unadvertised curse. For example, one artifact increased libido at the price of impotence. Most were played for laughs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when Brian and Stewie try to rent a helicopter, the shop accepts cash, check or a "jaunty tune". Now guess with what they pay.
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