1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character tries to escape from his misdeed by paying the victims. |
2 | * '''Straight''': John kills Jack and throws his widow and children some money. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** John budgets money for widows and orphans and throws fits when any of them repulse it. |
5 | ** RetiredMonster |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': John beats Jack up and pays his medical bill. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Poor people will have a serious difficulty doing anything to people as powerful as John, and he can delude himself about the value of the money. |
9 | ** Paying ''wergild'' is standard practice in the setting, or at least in John's culture such that he '''thinks''' it's OK. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': |
11 | ** John robs the widow and children, figuring he's already evil. |
12 | ** Jack's widow demands that John pay for his crime... preferably in small, unmarked bills. |
13 | * '''Subverted''': John genuinely had to kill Jack, and gave the money out of pity. |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': It was self-defense, but only because he had driven Jack out of his head with previous cruelties. |
15 | * '''Parodied''': John robs a bank and then pays off the cops that show up with the money he just stole from it. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
17 | * '''Averted''': John kills Jack and doesn’t try to pay anyone off. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': ??? |
20 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
21 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
22 | * '''Defied''': |
23 | ** John carries nothing of value on his person so that he isn't tempted to pay off his victims. |
24 | ** John kills Jack and ties to pay Jill off. Jill shoots him instead. |
25 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
26 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
28 | ** The widow and children are further insulted by his attempts to pay them off with such a shallow gesture and seek to exact revenge for the crime and his dismissal of their grief. |
29 | ** John is a broken and tragic individual who genuinely can only see value in terms of money, and absoulely nothing else. |
30 | * '''Reconstructed''': John offers them such an impressive bribe that it derails their revenge. |
31 | ---- |
32 | Sorry I killed your father. Here, take this link back to BuyThemOff, and forget about this, alright? |
33 | ---- |
34 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
35 | %% |
36 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
37 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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