History Main / InvoluntaryCharityDonation

-->'''Dick:''' You're a hero, Jack. Now go to hell!

* In the WWI comic, ''Charley's War,'' when Charley Bourne returns to London after being injured in the Western Front, he forces his no good brother in-law to donate all the money he's made from stealing and fencing jewelry taken from dead bodies following a zeppelin air raid.

* At the end of the remake of ''Film/{{Fun with Dick and Jane}}'', Dick and Jane forge Jack's signature to set up a relief fund for former Globodyne employees using the money Jack stole from the company. That was their plan for the last part of the movie (although they needed Jack to personally sign the transfer form), but Jack appears to thwart them by recognizing the ploy and seems to come out on top. Dick, desperate for something, demands a check from Jack. Jack writes him one for a small amount as a symbol of what he considers Dick's worth. Before Jack can transfer the money somewhere safer, Dick copies the signature on the check to a new transfer form and submits it before Jack.

* Creating expies of both Martin Shkreli and the [[''Once Upon A Time In Shaolin'' Music/WuTangClan]] album in the process, VideoGame/WatchDogs2 features a sidequest where Marcus and the DedSec team learn of reviled pharmaceutical billionnaire Gene Carcani's love of popular rap artist Bobo Dakes. Upon learning that Dakes is in the middle of making a new album, Carcani offers millions of dollars in an attempt to prevent its public release and keep it to himself. Realising the opportunity, Marcus rips samples of both the new album and Dakes' voice; creating a Bobo Dakes soundboard from the latter and using the former to legitimise their future claims. By hacking into Carcani's living room via his numerous devices, they trick him into paying out his offer - all ''twenty million dollars'' of it - before intercepting the payment and diverting it to a leukemia research charity.

* The main character of JackieChan's ''WhoAmI'' does this to two villains who are exchanging a sum of money electronically.

->''"You will be making an anonymous donation to the Widows and Orphans of War Fund. Bishop to Bishop Eight, Discovered Check, and incidentally.... '''''Mate'''''.''"

* Inverted in KevinJAnderson's ''Unnatural Acts''. When the ghost of a bank robber learns he can't spend any of the money he'd hidden before dying in prison, because the bank's insurance company will confiscate it, he donates it all to charity himself so they won't dare try to claim it for fear of bad publicity. (He didn't really have any use for it anyway, as a ghost.)

* A variation. Whoopi Goldberg's character, the psychic Oda Mae Brown, does to the villain in ''Film/{{Ghost}}'': With Sam's help, she's able to steal the money from its special account, turn it into a check and donate it to a nuns' charity.

* LaffALympics #7 (Marvel, Sept. 1978) had "The Purple Pig Puzzle," in which a famous gambler, [[PunnyName Lucky Starr]] won the charity money that the Laff-A-Lympics athletes raised. To get it back, he challenges them to search for a ceramic purple pig and gives clues to who has it with a cash bonus to the winner. To hedge his bet, he not only bets $20 million on the Rottens but he has his henchmen help the Rottens. It's Super Snooper who deduces who eventually has the Purple Pig (it was in Captain Caveman's club), and when Lucky Starr tries to take it on the lam, Dynomutt delivers him to the Coast Guard. Flanked by Dynomutt and Yogi Bear, Starr sheepishly says all the money in his suit case is earmarked for charity.

* In Creator/WilliamGibson's short story ''Burning Chrome'' the two "Console Cowboy" protagonists hack the Swiss bank account of a local mob boss and donate most of it to a dozen different charities because the sum was simply too big to move discretely and they needed to make sure that she couldn't put out a hit on them.

* This is Moriarty's final humiliation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''--the money he'd raised from WarForFunAndProfit goes to a fund for widows and orphans of war. Sherlock details meticulously how Moriarty lost his fortune all while scoring a SurpriseCheckMate against Moriarty in a game of [[SmartPeoplePlayChess chess]], the last plays of which were done in their heads.

* LaffALympics #7 (Marvel, Sept. 1978) had "The Purple Pig Puzzle," in which a famous gambler,[[PunnyName Lucky Starr]] won the charity money that the Laff-A-Lympics athletes raised. To get it back, he challenges them to search for a ceramic purple pig and gives clues to who has it with a cash bonus to the winner. To hedge his bet, he not only bets $10 million on the Rottens but he has his henchmen help the Rottens. It's Super Snooper who deduces who eventually has the Purple Pig (it was in Captain Caveman's club), and when Lucky Starr tries to take it on the lam, Dynomutt delivers him to the Coast Guard. Flanked by Dynomutt and Yogi Bear, Starr sheepishly says all the money in his suit case is earmarked for charity.

-->''"You will be making an anonymous donation to the Widows and Orphans of War Fund. Bishop to Bishop Eight, Discovered Check, and incidentally.... '''''Mate'''''.''"
--->--Sherlock to Moriarty, Franchise/SherlockHolmes[[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows : A Game Of Shadows]]

* As payback for an attempted double-cross by [[EnemyMine Benedict]] in ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Thirteen]]'', the crew donates his entire share of the profits to charity in his name. Shortly afterward, Danny, Rusty, and Linus watch Benedict talk to [[TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]] about his "sudden burst of generosity". He (somewhat) willingly goes along with it, recognizing both the bad publicity of taking it back, and the good publicity of saying he did it.

* The main character of ''{{Sneakers}}'' does this to the ''Republican National Committee'', sending all their money to Greenpeace. This was also done in the prologue, where the hero and the eventual BigBad robbed then-President Nixon and donated the money to a PAC dedicated to legalizing marijuana (This might explain why the FBI was so upset with them).

* This is Moriarty's final humiliation in the 2011 ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Holmes]]'' movie--the money he'd raised from WarForFunAndProfit goes to a fund for widows and orphans of war. Sherlock details meticulously how Moriarty lost his fortune all while scoring a SurpriseCheckMate against Moriarty in a game of [[SmartPeoplePlayChess chess]], the last plays of which were done in their heads.

* The ComicBook/BlackPanther did this to ruin DoctorDoom. Given Doom's JokerImmunity, this is probably the closest [[MemeticBadass anyone other than]] [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl Squirrel Girl's]] gotten to actually beating him.