History Main / ComicallySmallBribe

* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', Van Pelt bribes a gun shop owner with 25 or so gold sovereigns to sell him a hyper-futuristic sniper rifle. Gold sovereigns today are only $550, and in 1995 gold was more than 5 and half times cheaper, meaning Van Pelt bribed a guy to commit a felony and sell him an amazing weapon for less than $2,500. Somewhat justified in that the town is a severe economic downturn.

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* ''Fanfic/TheSagesDisciple'': [[spoiler:Aozaki Touko was fully prepared to offer her firstborn or second child to Crow when she found out he learned Primeval Runes from Cu Chulainn. What Crow wanted? To work as her bodyguard. Compared to what Touko offered, Crow offered the puppet magus peanuts in exchange... Until you think about what exactly he gets out of the deal. After the Grail War, the only thing that had changed from before it was that Crow had some magecraft under his belt and some more money. By working as Touko's bodyguard, he effectively gained a base of operations to work out of (as temporary as it is), basic necessities (food, shelter, income), the protection provided by Touko's reputation, and access to a magus that would be willing to teach him the basics he had completely bypassed to learn his Rune Magic. To a traditional magus, it is indeed peanuts. But to someone focused on surviving? Crow got everything he wanted out of the bargain.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Mike tries bribing [[HalfHeartedHenchman Fungus]] to let him go when he's about to get used a test subject for the Scream Extractor, making this overlap with DeathByMaterialism (although it's possible no bribe would have saved him, given that [[{{Jerkass}} Randall]] was the one calling the shots for Fungus):

* In "Film/Jumanji", Van Pelt bribes a gun shop owner with 25 or so gold sovereigns to sell him a hyper-futuristic sniper rifle. Gold sovereigns today are only $550, and in 1995 gold was more than 5 and half times cheaper, meaning Van Pelt bribed a guy to commit a felony and sell him an amazing weapon for less than $2,500. Somewhat justified in that the town is a severe economic downturn.

* In "[[Film/Jumanji]]", Van Pelt bribes a gun shop owner with 25 or so gold sovereigns to sell him a hyper-futuristic sniper rifle. Gold sovereigns today are only $550, and in 1995 gold was more than 5 and half times cheaper, meaning Van Pelt bribed a guy to commit a felony and sell him an amazing weapon for less than $2,500. Somewhat justified in that the town is a severe economic downturn.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd does its own spin on this. When WebVideo/PatTheNESPunk [[spoiler:discovers a gold ''Nintendo World Championship '90'' cart in a game bundle the Nerd bought]], the Nerd tries to trade it back for some very common/pack-in games, such as ''Combat'' for UsefulNotes/Atari2600 and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''/''VideoGame/DuckHunt'' for [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem the NES]]. [[YouCantThwartStageOne It goes along as well as you'd expect.]]

* In the ''Creator/DonRosa'' story "The Quest for Sampo", the Finnish guardian of the underworld, Tuoni, [[ItMakesSenseInContext visits Scrooge's office to give him back his hat]]. Never one to waste an opportunity, Scrooge asks if there is some way he can take his wealth with him when he eventually passes away. Tuoni responds that such secrets are not for mortal ken... but he'll say it for 50 markka (about 10 USD). Naturally, [[TheScrooge this is too much]], and Scrooge has Donald [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu kick Tuoni out of his office]].