History RewardedAsATraitorDeserves / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Any [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Jaffa]] who betrays his Goa'uld master is branded as a Shol'va (literally, "traitor") by all other Goa'uld, despite their feudal nature. This is largely because the Goa'uld rely heavily on their Jaffa to maintain control of their empires; any Jaffa that willingly betrays their master is a threat to the balance of power. Especially given that it could undermine the Goa'uld claim to being gods.

* ''Series/{{PrisonBreak}}'': In the first season finale "Flight," Michael Scoffield decided that since Tweener betrayed them to CO Bellick, he is no longer responsible for helping Tweener to escape and forces him to leave the group.

* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Mickey Doyle somehow manages to make it through five seasons of [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing absolutely anyone]] to get a better deal for himself in the criminal underworld. It isn't until the end of the final season where he meets his end while trying to switch sides in a MobWar, during the middle of a literal MexicanStandoff. Instead of being killed because of the other side's [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] or [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]], [[spoiler:"Lucky" Luciano]] is just angry and annoyed to bother with him, so he just shoots him in the head to shut him up forever.

** Former rebel Brian who gives up Miles and Nora's ultimate destination in "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E12Ghosts Ghosts]]" gets the same treatment. The Monroe Militia, for all of its other deficiencies, seems to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy when it comes to dealing with defectors and informants.

** In the second season, Robb Stark offers the Ironborn who invaded Winterfell amnesty and safe passage home if they turn over Theon Greyjoy, the nominal heir of their king and the man who led them there. They promptly do so...and are rewarded by falling into the hands of Roose Bolton's son Ramsay Snow, who ignores Robb Stark's command and has them all flayed alive for his amusement.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In the second season, Robb Stark offers the Ironborn who invaded Winterfell amnesty and safe passage home if they turn over Theon Greyjoy, the nominal heir of their king and the man who led them there. They promptly do so...and are rewarded by falling into the hands of Roose Bolton's son Ramsay Snow, who ignores Robb Stark's command and has them all flayed alive for his amusement.

** ** In "The Princess", a traitor provides details of the princess' security procedures to a terrorist group. The terrorist leader provides him with a briefcase full of cash which he handcuffs to his wrist. However, the case also contains a bomb.

* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': In "Reprisal", an orderly has been helping the villain escape the maximum security mental hospital to commit murders. When the orderly gets cold feet and demands more money, the villain promises him "a big payout" when he makes his final escape. The "payout" is being murdered.

* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': The title character doesn't hesitate in killing Arthur's EvilUncle and TreacherousAdvisor, Lord Agravaine.

* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': [[spoiler:Boo]] betrays Red to [[spoiler:Vee]]. When she gets found out and booted from the family, she goes looking for a place in [[spoiler:Vee's]] gang. The response? "I don't like traitors." She's left out in the cold.

** Completely an AvertedTrope in "The Seeds of Doom." When dissatisfied World Ecology Bureau pencil pusher Richard Dunbar puts EccentricMillionaire Harrison Chase on to the existence of the Krynoid pod so Chase can add it to his private collection, he wants a lot of money in exchange for the information. It seems like he'll instead kill Dunbar when he comes to collect his money later, but Chase actually [[PragmaticVillainy pays him off]] as he'd promised and lets him go unharmed.

* ''Series/{{GameOfThrones}}'': In the second season, Robb Stark offers the Ironborn who take Winterfell amnesty and safe passage home if they turn over Theon Greyjoy, the nominal heir of their king and the man who led them there. They promptly do so...and are rewarded by falling into the hands of Roose Bolton's son Ramsay, who ignores Robb Stark's command and has them all flayed alive for his amusement.

* ''{{Bugs}}'': Lampshaded, with it not being uncommon for the good guys to explicitly point out to people being blackmailed by bad guys (typically in exchange for a hostage release) that villains never carry through with their end of the bargain, and will either kill them anyway after they're done, or continue to ask for things. Also played straight, where, after asking his partner to kill his daughter, John-Daniel shoots his partner on account of "How could I trust a man who'd kill his own daughter?" and spends the rest of the season working with the daughter.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Newly elected PM [[TheMaster Harold Saxon]] begins his first cabinet meeting by calling his ministers traitors for abandoning their parties to support him once they saw the votes swinging his way. He ends it by [[BoardToDeath gassing them to death]].

** Completely averted in "The Seeds of Doom." When dissatisfied World Ecology Bureau pencil pusher Richard Dunbar puts EccentricMillionaire Harrison Chase on to the existence of the Krynoid pod so Chase can add it to his private collection, he wants a lot of money in exchange for the information. It seems like he'll instead kill Dunbar when he comes to collect his money later, but Chase actually [[PragmaticVillainy pays him off]] as he'd promised and lets him go unharmed.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Rygel sells out the rest of the cast in the first-season finale, but quickly changes his tune when Crais tells him in no uncertain terms what's in store: Scorpius will use Rygel to catch Crichton, but then he'll have him killed slowly "to show everyone what he thinks of traitors". Luckily for the little toad, Crais has a complex double-betrayal of his own in mind, and one side effect is Rygel's safe return to Moya.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Happens to Jayne in the episode "Ariel" when he tries to turn Simon and River in to the Feds: the Feds, led by Agent [=McGinnis=], arrest all three of them because [=McGinnis=] wants to keep the reward money for himself. The result is that Simon and River don't realize that they were betrayed by Jayne, while Jayne is forced back to his original side. When the three of them are taken to a holding facility Jayne proceeds to take out the Feds guarding them and free them both. When [[PapaWolf Mal]] finds out what Jayne did he's ready to have him ThrownOutTheAirlock. On [=McGinnis=]' side, when the Hands of Blue discover that he and his men have spoken with River in the first place, they promptly kill them with their fancy sonic weapon.

** The guy who sells out the rebels in "No Quarter". He ''really'' [[GenreBlindness should have seen it coming]].
** The guy who gives up Miles and Nora's ultimate destination in "Ghosts" gets the same treatment. The Monroe Militia for all of its other deficiencies seems to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy when it comes to dealing with defectors and informants.
** AvertedTrope with [[spoiler: Mia, Nora's sister, by Strausser,]] of all people. In exchange for [[spoiler: the power pendant, he spares both their lives.]]

* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': Sometimes people who flip and join other alliances end up voted out first when their target(s) are gone. There are several reasons for this: One that you would probably not want someone who you ''know'' would flip around, two because they often end up the third wheel in an alliance and the third wheel often goes out.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Happens to Jayne in the episode "Ariel" when he tries to turn Simon and River in to the Feds: the Feds, led by Agent [=McGinnis=], arrest all three of them because [=McGinnis=] wants to keep the reward money for himself. The result is that Simon and River don't realize that they were betrayed by Jayne, while Jayne is forced back to his original side. When the three of them are taken to a holding facility Jayne proceeds to take out the Feds guarding them and free them both. When [[PapaWolf Mal]] finds out what Jayne did he's ready to have him ThrownOutTheAirlock.

* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': A comedic (albeit [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic]]) example in the "How Not to Be Seen" sketch: "When we called at their house, we found that they had gone away on two weeks' holiday... However, a neighbor told us where they were." The house that they're in blows up. Cut to a Gumby. "And here is the neighbor who told us where they were." He blows up.

* Happens to Jayne in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Ariel" when he tries to turn Simon and River in to the Feds: the Feds, led by Agent [=McGinnis=], arrest all three of them because [=McGinnis=] wants to keep the reward money for himself. The result is that Simon and River don't realize that they were betrayed by Jayne, while Jayne is forced back to his original side. When the three of them are taken to a holding facility Jayne proceeds to take out the Feds guarding them and free them both. When [[PapaWolf Mal]] finds out what Jayne did he's ready to have him ThrownOutTheAirlock.
** In "Heart of Gold'", one of the female prostitutes at the brothel [[TheMole opts to side with]] the scumbag misogynist villain Rance Burgess. Her reward is to be subjected to a speech on how women are subservient to men, before being forced to blow him in front of a crowd of people. At the end of the episode, she is kicked out of the brothel and forced to go back to town with Burgess's men.
* The Federation on ''Series/BlakesSeven '' has never ''not'' done this, which [[FridgeLogic raises the question of]] why anyone continues to betray the rebels to them (or, later, to Servalan acting alone). Sure shows how evil the bad guys are, though. The traitors are killed, except in one case where Servalan just took his only spaceship and marooned him. Sometimes the traitors shout things like "I gave you Avalon [a rebel]! I gave you Avalon!" or "I served you well!!"

* Lampshaded in ''{{Bugs}}'', with it not being uncommon for the good guys to explicitly point out to people being blackmailed by bad guys (typically in exchange for a hostage release) that villains never carry through with their end of the bargain, and will either kill them anyway after they're done, or continue to ask for things. Also played straight, where, after asking his partner to kill his daughter, John-Daniel shoots his partner on account of "How could I trust a man who'd kill his own daughter?" and spends the rest of the season working with the daughter.
* An episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' played with this. Riker was made second in command of a Klingon ship as part of a cultural exchange program, and was made to swear a loyalty oath to the Klingon captain. Events happen that resulted in the Klingon captain declaring that the ''Enterprise'' attacked them, and so they were going to attack the ''Enterprise''. The Klingon captain then demanded that Riker give him the access codes to the ''Enterprise'', which Riker refused to do, due to his pre-existing oaths to Starfleet, but he was still willing to participate in the attack as part of the captain's orders [[spoiler:(well, not really)]]. The Klingon captain proceeded to tell him that if he ''had'' betrayed his original Starfleet oaths, he'd have had Riker executed as a traitor.
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Lost}}'': in the second season finale, Michael sells out his fellow lostaways to Ben in exchange for his son and a boat off the island. The boat pulls away, Ben's eyes follow it ominously, and he even mutters "Bon voyage"... and nothing happens. [[spoiler:Well, not right away...]]
* Rygel sells out the rest of the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' cast in the first-season finale, but quickly changes his tune when Crais tells him in no uncertain terms what's in store: Scorpius will use Rygel to catch Crichton, but then he'll have him killed slowly "to show everyone what he thinks of traitors". Luckily for the little toad, Crais has a complex double-betrayal of his own in mind, and one side effect is Rygel's safe return to Moya.

* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', any [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Jaffa]] who betrays his Goa'uld master is branded as a Shol'va (literally, "traitor") by all other Goa'uld, despite their feudal nature. This is largely because the Goa'uld rely heavily on their Jaffa to maintain control of their empires; any Jaffa that willingly betrays their master is a threat to the balance of power. Especially given that it could undermine the Goa'uld claim to being gods.
* In ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', sometimes people who flip and join other alliances end up voted out first when their target(s) are gone. There are several reasons for this: One that you would probably not want someone who you ''know'' would flip around, two because they often end up the third wheel in an alliance and the third wheel often goes out.
** Shambo, did you ''really'' think Russell was going to take you to the finals, knowing the jury would be full of Galu sympathizers, and that he had two other people he thought were more worthless?
* In ''{{Emmerdale}}'' Sadie King blackmails business rival Zoe Tate into selling her property over to her. This is achieved by Sadie, knowing that Zoe is a lesbian, getting Effie Harrison, who was employed by Zoe as a nanny, to firstly pretend that she has romantic feelings for Zoe and secondly to persuade Zoe to go on the run with her. Unfortunately for Zoe, who was in a vulnerable state and worried about an upcoming court case, she falls for it and when she goes to meet Effie she finds Sadie there instead. After this is done, Effie asks Sadie for the payment that she promised, and Sadie throws some loose change on the floor calling it "30 pieces of silver" and telling Effie that "Zoe is more of a woman than you'll ever be", leaving Effie to claw for the coins in the dirt.
* In ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' the title character doesn't hesitate in killing Arthur's EvilUncle and TreacherousAdvisor, Lord Agravaine.
* In ''Series/TheCaesars'', at the beginning of "Caligula", Macro [[VorpalPillow smothers Tiberius]] to help Caligula succeed to the Imperial throne. At the end of the episode, Caligula forces Macro to admit that he was technically still serving Tiberius at the time, and concludes that if Macro would betray the Emperor he served once, there is no reason why he might not do so again, and that he and his wife must therefore [[{{Seppuku}} do the honourable thing and commit suicide.]] (In real life, Caligula pretended to offer Macro the governorship of Egypt, only to have him murdered as soon as he boarded the boat for Alexandria.)

* A comedic (albeit [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic]]) example in ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus,'' in the "How Not to Be Seen" sketch: "When we called at their house, we found that they had gone away on two weeks' holiday... However, a neighbor told us where they were." The house that they're in blows up. Cut to a Gumby. "And here is the neighbor who told us where they were." He blows up.