Line #33 RewardedAsATraitorDeserves/LiveActionTV


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6	Times where someone is RewardedAsATraitorDeserves in LiveActionTV series.
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8	* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Cassian shoots Skeen dead when the latter tries to convince the former to help him abandon Vel and Nemik and steal the transport full of credits. However, it's at least partially in self-defense, as it's implied Skeen would have killed Cassian if he had refused the offer to backstab the others.
9	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the first season episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E09Hero 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.
10	* ''Series/BlakesSeven'': The Federation 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!!"
11	** Those actions are more Servalan disposing of people who have outlived their usefulness. A standard tactic of the Federation is shown to be killing the followers of a RebelLeader, but leaving them alive to publicly recant their cause to discredit it.
12	* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Mickey Doyle somehow manages to make it through five seasons of [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing absolutely anyone]] to get better deals for himself in the criminal underworld. It isn't until the penultimate episode 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 too angry and annoyed to bother with him, so he just shoots him in the throat to shut him up forever.
13	* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[spoiler:A-Train is offered the chance to join Starlight's coup against [[BigBad Homelander]], and [[DirtyCoward sells out her boyfriend]] [[SacrificialLion Supersonic]] to get on his good side instead. Homelander rewards him by forcing Blue Hawk to make a public apology as he requested so A-Train could make amends with his brother for turning his back on their community, but Blue Hawk instead riles up the crowd with a BackhandedApology before attacking them, crippling A-Train's brother in the ensuing brawl and making his betrayal AllForNothing.]]
14	* ''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.
15	* ''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.)
16	* In ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'', when the Gelfling guards rise up against the Skeksis, one of them betrays his friends and tells the villains of their plan. As a consequence, the Gelfling's attack against the castle fails. And the stool pigeon? [[spoiler:He gets drained of his essence right alongside the friends he betrayed, with the Scientist telling him, "It's only fitting you suffer the same fate as your fellow guards!"]]
17	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
18	** The Daleks do this 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.
19	** "[[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.
20	** Done in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment "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]].
21	** {{Averted\|Trope}} in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom "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.
22	** [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]]: Donna's fiancé 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]].
23	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "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.
24	** [[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]]. This is a particularly hypocritical example as it's not hard to infer that The Master's own [[SubliminalSeduction Archangel Network]] likely influenced their decision to defect to his side, meaning he's [[NeverMyFault punishing them for something he arguably forced them to do]].
25	* ''Series/{{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.
26	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
27	** 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.
28	** 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.
29	* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
30	** Happens to Jayne in "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel 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.
31	** In "[[Recap/FireflyE13HeartOfGold 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.
32	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
33	** 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.
34	** 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.
35	** Petyr 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.
36	** Earlier, Petyr 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.
37	** And it ultimately happens to Petyr Baelish, 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. Adding insult to injury, she thanks him for his teachings before the act is carried out.]]
38	* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'':
39	** 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.]]
40	** In "[[Recap/TheHandmaidsTaleS4E10TheWilderness Progress]]" Fred, when he realizes what awaits him in Gilead, protests he'd kept his deal with the US to give information. Trullo, without an ounce of remorse, says they activated a clause of the deal to revoke this and hand him over for execution (in return for multiple American hostages being released by Gilead of course).
41	* ''Series/HogansHeroes:'' In one episode, Burkhalter catches Klink and two other kommandants plotting to discredit him so one of them can take his job. Klink (who, in all fairness, was pretty half-hearted about the whole plan) is quick to accept Burkhalter's offer to incriminate the others in exchange for more lenient treatment. To his dismay, Burkhalter's idea of leniency is sentencing all three men to death and having Klink shot last. Fortunately, Hogan has Klink FramedForHeroism, getting him pardoned, and helps the other two officers defect.
42	* ''Series/HouseOfSaddam'': Delivered almost word for word by Ali as he guns down Hussein Kamel.
43	-->'''Hussein:''' You call this fair, Ali?!\
44	'''Ali:''' ''[shoots Hussein dead]'' As fair as a traitor deserves.
45	* ''Series/InLivingColor'', has a skit about a game show host family. During the skit, husband game show host ask his contestant children, "Who broke the damn lamp?". The sister tells on her brother and he is sent to bed with no dinner. Afterwards, he also sends the daughter to bed with no dinner, because the secret word of the day was "Snitch".
46	* ''Series/{{The Librarians\|2014}}'': Initially subverted in [[Recap/TheLibrariansS1E02AndTheSwordInTheStone the second episode]], when Lamia prepares to backstab Cassandra (who betrayed the Library) but is waved off by Dulaque - partly in case she's useful again, and partly because she was standing on a new rug he didn't want stained. Played straight later when Lamia has Cassandra thrown into a dungeon cell after she gains access to the Stone.
47	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': SubvertedTrope: 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...]]
48	* ''Series/MissionImpossible'':
49	** 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.
50	** 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.
51	* ''Series/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.
52	-->''"[[LampshadeHanging Nobody likes a clever dick.]]"''
53	* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'': [[spoiler: Years ago Sam was kept safe from the Taliban by an Afghan elder's SacredHospitality and was able to get the man and his nephew into the US. What Sam didn't know was that the Taliban killed the elder's family and the nephew's been holding a grudge against Sam. After Sam is captured by the Taliban the nephew hopes he and his uncle will be released but the Taliban recruiter reveals that they're both going to be executed: the elder for defying the Taliban and the nephew for betraying his family. The team saves the day but the nephew can't let go of his grudge and his uncle winds up killing him to save Sam.]]
54	* ''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.
55	* ''Series/TheOrville'': In the WhamEpisode "[[Recap/TheOrvilleSeason3E09Domino Domino]]", the Union has finally found a way to keep the Kaylon from attacking by creating a device that, if used, sends out a signal that destroys any nearby Kaylon (except for Isaac, seeing as how he helped build the device). Admiral Perry steals the device and gives it to the Krill-Moclan alliance, believing that if the Union won't use the device to destroy the Krill, then the Krill and Moclans will. After making his delivery, his shuttle is destroyed by the Krill ship, killing him.
56	* ''Series/PrisonBreak'': Roland sells Michael and Lincoln out to The Company's assassin Wyatt, after being offered 1 million dollars for them. Wyatt shoots him dead instead.
57	* ''Series/TheProfessionals'': In "Mixed Doubles", a President's aide is working with an assassin to kill his boss, revealing the location of the venue where he's going to be, plus a backup venue in case the first is compromised (which he's not supposed to know about, but the President told him anyway). To ensure they switch to the less secure backup venue, the assassin tortures and kills the aide, then dumps his body where it will be found.
58	* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'':
59	** The guy who sells out the rebels in "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E3NoQuarter No Quarter]]". He ''really'' [[GenreBlindness should have seen it coming]].
60	** 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 savvy when it comes to dealing with defectors and informants.
61	** AvertedTrope with [[spoiler: Mia Clayton, Nora's sister, by Sergeant Will Strausser]], of all people in "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E8TiesThatBind Ties That Bind]]". In exchange for [[spoiler: the power pendant, he spares both their lives]].
62	** 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]]
63	* 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).
64	* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': Kudlak ''tries'' to pull this on Mr. Grantham once Kudlak feels he's outlived his usefulness, out of disgust that he'd sell the children of his own race into slavery for simple profit, but is interrupted by Mistress, who insists they still need Grantham.
65	* ''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, who had been crowned king upon their father's death, to kill his advisor and submit to him. After he does, Shaka calls him a fool and kills him as well.
66	* ''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. The Jaffa resistance founded by Bra'tac and Teal'c eventually takes the term "Shol'va" as a badge of honor, signifying that they have betrayed their false deities in favor of freedom.
67	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
68	** Played with in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E8AMatterOfHonor 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.
69	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E10TheDefector The Defector]]", the Romulan Admiral Jarok, initially disguised as "Sublieutenant Setal", gives information about a Romulan base to the Enterprise crew. It turns out this was really a SecretTestOfCharacter by the Romulans, who wanted to test Jarok's loyalty. Despite their pleasure that he helped tricked the Federation into making an aggressive move, Commander Tomalak demands that they hand him over to summarily be executed. [[OutGambitted The Enterprise gets out of the trap]], but Jarok, [[ShootTheShaggyDog despondent that his defection, which meant leaving his family behind, was for nothing]], [[spoiler:kills himself]].
70	** Prior to the start of the series, the Romulans massacred a Klingon colony on Khitomer. The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E17SinsOfTheFather Sins of the Father]]" reveals that this happened because of the treachery of the Klingon Ja'rod, who was killed in the massacre as well. That it was this trope is never confirmed , but the implication is there. You'd think this would put his family off the idea of working with them in the future, but it doesn't seem to.
71	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': When the Cardassians switch sides and ally themselves with former Dominion collaborator Damar, the Female Changeling turns on remaining collaborator Broca and assumes he will betray the Dominion, too. Despite Broca's pleas that he's faithful to the Dominion, she has him executed.
72	-->'''Weyoun:''' ''[deadpan]'' I won't miss him.
73	* ''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 ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
74	--> '''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.
75	* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'':
76	** 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.
77	** 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?
78	* ''Series/{{Treadstone}}'': CIA agent John Bentley escapes from the Soviet brainwashing program only to be suspected of being a traitor, so he goes on the run. As he was only captured because he stayed behind to HoldTheLine while his colleague Fergusson escaped, he contacts Fergusson for help. Fergusson listens to Bentley confessing to how he killed three agents while brainwashed, then his station chief Kohlar enters with gun drawn, but kills Fergusson instead, expressing contempt for how he betrayed his own partner (though it's also because he's impressed with the potential of the brainwashing technique and needs Bentley alive to get more information).
79	* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'' has an episode where the [[UndeadLaborers Vampiric Council's wraiths]] form a [[WeirdTradeUnion union]] in hopes of earning better treatment from the vampires. The wraiths' union representative proves difficult to bribe and steadfastly loyal to the other wraiths, until Nadja offers [[FantasticDrug Water Lily of the Nile]], a rare drug that can [[AndIMustScream soothe the constant pain of being a wraith]], at which point the union rep folds like a card table. When the wraith reports back, the other wraiths mob him, leaving nothing but a bloody smear on the floor. The display of violence [[MurderIsTheBestSolution works flawlessly]], with Nadja caving to the union's demands on the spot.

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