Ghilz
Perpetually Confused
from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities
Since: Jan, 2001
Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#2: Mar 18th 2012 at 7:31:57 AM
Wick Check
Correct
- Every Man Has His Price
- Ignored Epiphany
- J Pod
- It's All About Me
- Men Are the Expendable Gender
- Series/Revenge
Misuse
- Abdicate the Throne: Used to refer to someone being bribed into abdicating their throne.
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Used to refer to paying for one's entrance fees.
- A Simple Plan: Refers to simple bribery
- Batman Gambit: Refers to bribing a Corrupt cop.
- Bribery Backfire: Correct if I am being generous. Really counts as bribing your way out of any situation.
- Captain Obvious: Getting paid for a verse.
- Conspicuous Consumption: Buying your way in somewhere.
- YMMV.Don Quixote: Corrupt Cop releasing criminals for bribe.
- Elemental Doom: Bribing foes rather than fighting them.
- Farsala Trilogy: Generic Bribery
Unknown / Zero Context Example
- A Tale Of Two Cities Zero Context
- Series/Firefly Zero Context
- Gaunt's Ghosts Zero Context
- Law & Order S13E24 "Smoke" Zero Context
- Lilyhammer: "Frank's modus operandi for dealing with anything." Dunno if it's generic bribery or actually the trope.
- Limbo System: Zero Context
- Madeleine L Engle: Zero Context
ALOT of the misuse are related to Cyrano De Bergerac. Me thinks Entry Pimp gone wrong.
edited 18th Mar '12 7:39:46 AM by Ghilz
Catbert
Since: Jan, 2012
#3: Mar 18th 2012 at 7:47:10 AM
Methinks that a rename is very much in order.
Buying Off Your Victims perhaps?
edited 18th Mar '12 7:59:17 AM by Catbert
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R.I.P 2 My Youth
#5: Apr 13th 2012 at 12:43:38 PM
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That would work nicely.
Tsundere pet.
#6: Apr 13th 2012 at 12:58:42 PM
Buy Off Your Guilt? Since they're not necessarily paying the victims directly.
edited 13th Apr '12 12:59:12 PM by lebrel
Calling someone a pedant is an automatic Insult Backfire. Real pedants will be flattered.
Ravenous Sophovore
#7: May 14th 2012 at 7:30:01 AM
Clocking due to lack of activity.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
#8: May 14th 2012 at 10:18:59 AM
Rename crowner hooked.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Spark9
Gentleman Troper!
from Castle Wulfenbach
Since: Nov, 2010
Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Gentleman Troper!
#9: May 25th 2012 at 11:19:48 AM
Bump for votes!
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
Ravenous Sophovore
#10: Jun 27th 2012 at 5:57:18 AM
Calling crowner in favor of a rename.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Ravenous Sophovore
#11: Aug 9th 2012 at 11:59:54 AM
Expired clock and no activity towards picking a new name. This is going nowhere. Locking.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
SingleProposition:
BuyThemOff
14th May '12 10:09:43 AM
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Total posts: 11
Buy Them Off is "An insincere Atoner attempts by his good deeds to stifle any guilt he feels, or buy off his victims so they will not seek Revenge when they learn he has wronged them. He often resorts to material assistance, because personal help prods his conscience and makes him feel worse."
Essentially someone using bribery to make up for what wrong they did or avoid punishment for said wrong. The problem is the trope is used whenever someone tries to bribe or buy off something:
Examples of Misuse:
Seriously, that's 4 of the first 5 things on the Related to (The last one is a Zero Context Example). And they are ALL bad. The page itself has misuse. The title being WAY broader than the trope implies doesn't help.
edited 17th Mar '12 7:45:39 PM by Ghilz