This trope is about the bargain being one-sided. That trope is about people who cannot say "No" to a bargain, one sided or no.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
According to the trope description, the difference is that the person making the leonine offer isn't creating the danger, merely exploiting it. I think, though, that a lot of the examples here are then misfiled and actually belong under An Offer You Can't Refuse.
What makes it particularly interesting is that in the original fable of the lion and his fellow hunters, the lion did indeed create the danger himself; many versions of the tale have him kill and eat the animal who tried to divide the spoils fairly.
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A possibly related possibly tropeworthy item I discarded because of having been made aware of this Leonine Contract. I very much dislike how this existing page is written, yet it doesn't look like there's any option of having it repaired anytime soon. Perhaps in the future it could be of use.
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Bird mom
The Tangled example doesn't fit. "Give me a tour for a few days in exchange for the royal crown" is NOT an unreasonable deal by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is it a real matter of life or death whether Flynn gets the crown or not or at least it isn't from Rapunzel's perspective (she isn't aware of the Stabbington Brothers at all until much later in the film). Flynn could just as easily have not agreed to the deal, but he was too greedy to accept.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
What's the difference between this and An Offer You Can't Refuse? At first glance both of them seem to have a similar "You can try to refuse this, but it's gonna end poorly for you if you do" thing going on.
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