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# Before/after the Bargain is struck, the character must perform some great and noble deed or accept some bizarre code of behavior in exchange for the power or rewards sought.

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# Before/after the Bargain is struck, the character must perform some great and noble deed or [[OathboundPower accept some bizarre code of behavior behavior]] in exchange for the power or rewards sought.
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* In ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged,'' upon meeting Red XIII, Barett tells the group that when he was a kid, he'd pray every night that God could take his family, home, and even the very bed he slept in if He would grant him a talking dog best friend. He's since lost his family, home, and bed, but now has met a talking dog. Funny enough, this follows the "petitioner gets cheated somehow" subclause from the 0 to this trope's 1, as Barett and Red end up having a falling-out.

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* In ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged,'' upon meeting Red XIII, Barett tells the group him that when he was a kid, he'd pray every night that God could take his family, home, arm, his friends, and even the very bed home in which he slept in if He would grant him a talking dog best friend. He's since lost his family, home, and bed, arm, but now has met a talking dog. Funny enough, this follows the "petitioner gets cheated somehow" subclause from the 0 to this trope's 1, as Barett and Red end up having a falling-out.falling-out, although it is short-lived.
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* ''Literature/BewareOfChicken'' has the Pact of Shennong. If a cultivator chooses to give his ''qi'' to the earth freely and without thought of reward, then he may attract the attention of a nature spirit who will bond with him, strengthening him even as he strengthens it. This pact grants vast power (including a number of techniques specially effective at countering other cultivators), long life, and the feedback cycle with the nature spirit will ensure that the land the cultivator works is rich in all the gifts of the earth (including Spirit Herbs and other qi-invested resources). But the nature spirit can revoke the bond if the cultivator strays. And more importantly, to make the Pact of Shennong is to bind your soul to the mortal world, forever abandoning the quest for ascension and immortality.

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