History Main / ComicallySmallDemand

* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', it is revealed that the amount of money Harold Finch and his partner asked of the U.S. Government to create the Machine was $1 (that's right -- ''a single dollar''. They were already living large as tech moguls in the Fiction500 bracket). This leads to a hilarious moment in a later flashback when a CIA officer gets angry at hearing that the Machine will be a BlackBox (it will surveil all electronic traffic in America, but the government will not have any access to this feed nor it will be able to reprogram the Machine in any way) and demands this feature to be changed or he will see that all funding of the project get pulled... and when he hears how much the project is costing the government, he does a double-take.
** A similar example of this trope happens when Finch asks mob boss Elias to remove a bounty on their current protectee. Elias agrees, as long as Finch agrees to [[GoKartingWithBowser play chess with him]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Gaius's only demand upon being recruited is that he be provided with candy. It probably helped that he didn't really appreciate [[NotWhatISignedOnFor the goals of the group he was with at the time]].

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', there's two little girls who [[IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou won't tell you any gossip about the other townspeople]], not even for ''two whole rupees!'' (They're so little that they're pleased to get even one rupee each.)
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'': [[spoiler:Jake Muller's scenario's ending has him sending a text message to Sherry that he's dropped his price for his blood to 50 dollars. He goes even further in the secret ending, where he's seen taking an apple as payment from a kid for getting rid of some B.O.W.s. It's a pre-arranged price, too.]]

* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' one of the inmates at the prison took the police commissioner hostage with a flame-thrower. When asked what he wanted, he paused to think, then demanded a curry dinner. He then torched the office when his curry was too spicy. [[spoiler: It turns out this was actually because he was being controlled by an outside force to destroy documents in the office, rather than any reason of his own.]]
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', the ending to the Enter The Dominatrix DLC, [[spoiler: [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext the Space Raptor enemies of the Zin]] save the Saints from the simulation. Their King, Cirano, offers the Saints a reward for each of them. For Pierce, a dinosaur with guns, for Donnie, to be respected, for Kinzie, vengeance, for Shandi, to be Cirano's queen, as for the Boss? They don't want anything and instead asks if the King wants to go bowling with them]]

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', in a [[https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2010-07-16 filler comic]], Susan asks Jerry to repay her for risking her life among other traumatic things and demands 10 dollars.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', the duo bust a terrorist group holding a TV studio hostage. The Terrorist's demands? To make the programming nothing but figure skating.
** When The Geek builds a mecha for Sam and Max to destroy an impending meteor, the duo agreed that it would look like Max and even share his name in exchange for Sam having full control of its radio.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', [[spoiler:Bradford]] offers Black Heron to join his organization he calls the Organization for World Larceny (O.W.L.) if he breaks her out of SHUSH prison. Heron, finding the name bland, refuses to join unless he agrees to call it the ''Fiendish'' Organization for World Larceny (F.O.W.L.). He reluctantly agrees.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': In "Chicken He Clucked", Cubby is driven mad by the constant smell of chicken due to living next to a chicken stand, so he summons a demon named Morganon to rid the world of all chickens. Morganon, embarrassed by such a request, tries to offer him his own country but Cubby refuses to budge. Morganon compromises with giving him the power to make anything he wants disappear, thus allowing him to get rid of the chickens for himself. [[spoiler: Morganon later becomes a laughing stock and teams up with the Ghostbusters to break the deal with Cubby.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/NYPDBlue'' a suspect promises to confess his crime (a rather grisly murder) for two 2-liter bottles of Coke. It has to be Coke though: not Pepsi, not RC, not ''Diet'' Coke.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In ''Equal Fights'', the villain [[StrawFeminist Femme Fatale]] robs banks of all their Susan B. Anthony dollars. She even gets angry when a banker tried to give her $100s because they had Ben Franklin on them.

* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' has many characters making [[DealWithTheDevil pacts with Devils]] in exchange for various abilities. Usually, these are debilitating, or at least seriously unpleasant, such as losing a part of your body or [[CastFromLifespan having years shaved off your life]]. However, when Aki goes to the Future Devil, the Devil, in exchange for CombatClairvoyance, only asks that it be allowed to see anything that his right eye does. Naturally, this isn't the Future Devil being nice; rather, it's that [[YourDaysAreNumbered it has predicted Aki will die in a horrible fashion]] and it wants a front-row seat for when it happens.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In ''Equal Fights'', the villain [[StrawFeminist Femme Fatale]] robs banks of all their Susan B. Anthony dollars.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', TheMafia is after Krusty because he didn't pay his debts to them, with Fat Tony personally hunting him down with his men and later calling a world-wide search. In the end, it turns out that the amount of money in question is just 48 dollars which he pays in hand. They even give him a couple of bucks change for a fifty.

* ForWantOfANail (The not-so-comical version. Be ''very'' wary when you are [[DealWithTheDevil making deals with otherworldly entities]] and they ask for suspiciously simple things. Chances are that tiny, simple thing would lead to a chain reaction that leaves you much worse off than you expect.)

* Early on in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', lowly corporal [[BlobMonster Schlock]] acquires a controlling interest in his own mercenary company due to a stock crash. With dread in their hearts, his bosses ask what his demands are...
-->'''Schlock:''' I wanna be a sergeant.