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* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Cassian shoots Skeen when the latter tries to convince the former to help him abandon Vel and Nemik and steal the transport full of credits.

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Cassian shoots Skeen when he Skeen tries to convince Cassian to help him abandon Vel and Nemik and steal the transport full of credits.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: 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]].

* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': One of the series' main characters is Serena Joy, who helped create Gilead with her extreme StayInTheKitchen ideology - which was promptly applied to her the moment Gilead took power. [[spoiler:More directly in Season 3's finale, where her betrayal of Fred Waterford for the sake of legal immunity for her role in Gilead's rise to power prompts him to reveal quite a few things she's done that weren't covered by her deal - getting her arrested as well.]]

* ''Series/PrisonBreak'': Roland sells Michael and Lincoln out to The Company's assassin Wyatt, expecting to get paid 1 million dollars. Wyatt shoots him dead instead.

* In ''Series/Rome'' Ptolemy shows Julius Caesar the head of Pompey, expecting praise. Caesar is instead furious that Pompey has been treated with such disrespect. He orders Pompey's killer executed, and fines Ptolemy heavily (which he might have planned all along).

** Averted Trope with [[spoiler: Tom Neville, who defects to the Georgia Federation with his wife in tow after "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E13TheSongRemainsTheSame The Song Remains the Same]]"]]. President Kelly Foster puts him in charge of working with Miles Matheson in "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E15Home Home]]" and "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat The Love Boat]]". [[spoiler: Unfortunately, sparing Tom Neville proves to be a mistake, because in "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E19ChildrenOfMen Children of Men]]" and "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower The Dark Tower]]", he betrays them by taking over the Monroe Republic and he intends to take over the continent]].

** And it ultimately happens to Petyer Bealish, himself, in Season 7, [[spoiler: when after showing [[NaiveEveryGirl Sansa Stark]] how to survive in the game of thrones, she uses the knowledge he taught her against him and [[{{OutGambitted}} sets him up]] to be executed for the treasonous acts he committed, even before the start of the series and beyond.]]

* ''Series/{{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 his partner volunteers to kill his own daughter when she appears to have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived Her Usefulness]], 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.

** Jaime and Bronn pay a boat captain who sailed them to Dorne not to tell anybody about them. He tells the Sand Snakes, who bury him up to his neck in sand and release scorpions near his head, and eventually just run a spear through his head.
** Peter Baelish tells a man to poison his liege, [[spoiler: Joffrey Baratheon]]. However, instead of paying the man with gold, he pays him with a free crossbow bolt.
** Earlier, Peter Baelish also bribed City Watch head Janos Slynt to betray Ned Stark. Slynt was rewarded with a lordship, but Hand of the King Tyrion Lannister decides he can't trust a man who can be so easily bought and [[ReassignedToAntarctica sends him to the Wall]] to dispose of him.

** Played with in "A Matter of Honor". 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.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the first season episode "Hero", Angel Investigations is prepared to help a clan of Lister demons escape L.A. on a barge to save them from [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Scourge]]. The ship's first mate, however, sells the Listers out to the Scourge... who reward him by using him to demonstrate the effects of the Beacon, a super-weapon designed to gruesomely vaporize any being with a trace of human DNA.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the first season episode "Hero," Angel Investigations is prepared to help a clan of Lister demons escape L.A. on a barge to save them from [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Scourge]]. The ship's first mate, however, sells the Listers out to the Scourge... who reward him by using him to demonstrate the effects of the Beacon, a super-weapon designed to gruesomely vaporize any being with a trace of human DNA.

** 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]].
** Done in "The Sontaran Experiment", when Vural betrays his party to Styre to save himself from experimentation. Styre goes back on his end because he ''doesn't'' want to deal with "a traitor to his kind." However, Vural's death is a HeroicSacrifice, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath when he saves the Doctor's life.]]
** In "Daleks in Manhattan", [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Diagoras]] helps the Cult of Skaro gather test subjects and build the equipment needed for their "Final Experiment". The Daleks reward him by using him to make the first of their [[HalfHumanHybrid Dalek-Human hybrids]]. Of course, considering that they had previously complimented Diagoras by telling him that "[he] think[s] like a Dalek", it's possible they actually saw this as a reward.
*** This tends to be how the Daleks act often, not that it isn't quite predictable since they view all non-Dalek life as pests to be exterminated. A traitor can buy themselves ''some'' time, but the Daleks will get rid of them sooner or later.
** In ''The Runaway Bride'' Donna's fiance Lance is secretly working with the Racnoss Empress, and has been manipulating Donna so the Empress can use her to revive her sleeping children. As soon as the children are ready to awaken, the Empress feeds Lance to them; apparently she [[EvenEvilHasStandards doesn't approve of males who mistreat their mates]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]", Varan's Son assassinates Ky on behalf on the Marshal. When he comes to the Marshal's office to collect the promised reward, the Marshal shoots him with a dart gun.
** 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.

** Scorpius later tries this again with TheMole in "Look at the Princess," ordering Braca to LeaveNoWitnesses after she turns Crichton over to him. In this case, however, Crichton kills her himself before Braca can.

** 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.

-->'''Hussein:''' You call this fair, Ali?!
-->'''Ali:''' (shoots Hussein dead) As fair as a traitor deserves.

->''"[[LampshadeHanging Nobody likes a clever dick.]]"''

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': [[BigBad Lucifer]] kills [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Mercury]] after the latter sold out the rest of the deities/pagan gods to Lucifer, [[DeathOfTheOldGods before he slaughters the rest of them]]. Apparently, according to Lucifer's FantasticRacism-fueled rant to Mercury, pretty much all of the pagans and other deities suffer from ChronicBackstabbingDisordder.
--> '''Lucifer:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You know, I never understood you pagans]]. You're such petty little things. Always fighting, always happy to sell out your own kind. No wonder you forfeited this planet to us. You are worse than humans. You're worse than demons. And yet you claim to be gods? (*snaps Mercury's neck*) And they call me prideful.

* ''Series/ShakaZulu'': When Shaka returns to his hometown after his father's death to claim the throne of the Zulus, he orders his cowering half-brother Sigujana to kill his advisor and submit to him. After he does, Shaka calls him a fool and kills him as well.

* ''Series/{{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/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.

* ''{{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.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': One episode 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.