History DealWithTheDevil / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/ToServeInHell'': Pegasi who swear fealty to Nightmare Moon are turned into thestrals, her favoured children. For Nightmare Moon's enemies, this is comparable to selling your soul, and both Redheart and Scootaloo are resentful of Rainbow for having become the first thestral.

* In ''Fanfic/OneHelluvaBrokenDay:'' SCP-1879-2 inverts this trope. That is to say, he maneuvers ''[[WebAnimation/HazbinHotel Lucifer himself]]'' into a Faustian bargain for a mysterious monster [[spoiler: (SCP-999)]] in exchange for dumping a bunch of SCP objects in Hell.

* ''[[Fanfic/GlassMarionetteNaruto Glass Marionette]]'':

** This is why [[spoiler:Itachi and Kisame]] choose to visit Konoha [[ForWantOfANail when they do]]: [[spoiler:Itachi had previously bargained with Danzo to spy on Akatsuki for him so long as he kept Sasuke safe. With Danzo breaking the terms by attempting to kidnap Sasuke, Itachi wants to renegociate new terms with the Godaime]].

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10156375/1/My-Child My Child]]'' centers around a [[FauxAffablyEvil demon]] named [[OriginalCharacter Xaphan]] trying to get Levi to sell his soul to him, using every method he can to persuade him. However, Levi wants none of it and basically tells Xaphan to fuck off every time. [[spoiler:He does eventually end up making a deal with the demon to save his son from dying in childbirth, and the story ends with him being tortured in Hell for it.]]

* ''FanFic/YoungOffender'': Since the first generation cyborgs escaped their clutches early on, the Black Ghost organization gets clever when it comes to the second generation. Instead of simply kidnapping people to turn into cyborgs, they find ways to get them into their debt first; that way, if they think of backing out, well... it'd be a ShameIfSomethingHappened.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', Bagan gathers several {{Kaiju}} and offers them several boons if they agree to serve him. When Grand King Ghidorah and Legion tried to tell him to shove it, his response is to send them all to their knees in pain and threaten to kill them where they stand if they don't accept. Once they accept, he keeps his word and grants them their boons. [[spoiler:He's still screwing them over, because he told them that they would conquer the universe under his leadership, but he's really an OmnicidalManiac and he's just biding his time until their efforts allow him to regain his full strength. Once that happens, he plans to wipe out all life, including them.]]

[[AC:''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']]
* In ''Fanfic/ForgedDestiny'', this is [[NebulousEvilOrganization the Greycloaks']] only unifying factor. The only thing their members seem to have in common is a desire to summon [[spoiler:Salem]] and ask for a wish. [[spoiler:Merlot]] asked for the power of the Grimm while [[spoiler:Tyrian]] asked for a fair and just ruler. [[JackassGenie Neither]] [[KarmicTransformation were given what]] [[DespairEventHorizon they truly wanted.]]

[[AC:''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'']]

[[AC:''Franchise/SpiderMan'']]
* ''Fanfic/BreakingTheDeal'' stresses the dangers of this, highlighting how Parker's deal with Mephisto in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' was one of the worst decisions he could have possibly made. No matter ''what'' the devil got out of it, he was inevitably going to do awful things with it.

* ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'': Discord forcing Celestia into one with him kickstarts the plot of the story, and he later forces several other characters into such deals to suit his own ends.
* In ''Fanfic/ADream'', the main character Valiant [[spoiler: brings himself back from the dead]] by making a deal with the most beloved entity he could find: Santa Claus. He briefly wishes he had made the deal with Music/TheBeatles instead.

** The Diamond Dogs agree to help [[BigBad Checker Monarch]] ruin Trixie's life in exchange for a huge payment of gems. They quickly find out [[EvilerThanThou Checker is somepony they shouldn't have messed with]] and are [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified by the methods she uses]], but can't back out or she'll turn their mine into a parking lot, with them still in it. In the end, they [[spoiler:get out of it by helping the Mane Six trick her into an EngineeredPublicConfession]].

* ''FanFic/InnerDemons'' has a couple of metaphorical examples.

** Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo]] pledging loyalty to Queen!Twilight after she [[spoiler: [[PlotRelevantAgeUp ages them up]] and gives them their Cutie Marks]] fits the thematics a little better.
* ''FanFic/AKnightToRemember'': Dim offers to release the potential of Nuance in exchange for Nuance leaving Quiet alone. Blackbird banishes his avatar before Nuance can respond.
* In ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'', Pinkie Pie offers one of these to Svengallop once he finally pisses her off enough. Applejack immediately leaps in to stop the deal, and states that while Pinkie Pie ''can'' deliver, it's a bad idea all around. Sure, he'd get his soul back next loop, and probably no more tarnished than it already was, but it's the principle of the thing. (Pinkie just wanted a spare soul as a chip for the next time she and the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' Elder Gods had a poker night.)
* ''FanFic/TheNuptialverse'': Chrysalis was once a normal pegasus, until Discord offered her the power of the three pony races in exchange for destroying the Energy of Friendship (the fires that destroyed the Windigos) to allow him to enter Equestria. Notably, Chrysalis thought that he was going to turn her into an alicorn; [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves instead]], he decided it would be [[JackassGenie funnier]] to make her a changeling.

* ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'':

* In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/237992/who-is-this-lord-tirek-you-speak-of Who Is This Lord Tirek You Speak Of?]]'', King Sombra gained his dark powers by sacrificing his blood relatives to Grogar. In the present, he attempts to keep the Mane Six as {{Sex Slave}}s so that he can have a steady supply of children to sacrifice and dramatically boost his powers. Later subverted when it is revealed that [[spoiler:Grogar has no interest in souls whatsoever. He agreed to the deal because he wanted to empower Sombra so that the tyrant could plunge Equestria into darkness, and, due to things that Sombra was unaware of, Grogar had a loophole in the contract so that he could always do away with Sombra later if he proved ineffective]].

** Doctor Strange's bargain with [[spoiler: the Time Stone]] for his legendary [[{{Seers}} precognitive powers]] and [[TheAgeless agelessness]] is portrayed as a mixture of this and a BargainWithHeaven, depending entirely on your perspective of the EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity. Their shared purpose is ultimately benevolent, but Strange has done a ''lot'' of horrible things in pursuit of it, and beneath his style and swagger, is ultimately a broken man who has resigned himself to being a NecessaryEvil. The power behind him, meanwhile, seems fundamentally amoral - just opposed to Thanos - and is implied to have emotionally manipulated Strange the way he has everyone else since.

[[AC:''Literature/{{Worm}}]]

* In ''Fanfic/ASagaOfParallelWorlds'', Fred Fucks sold his soul to the Devil so that he could make shitty games for the rest of his life.

* "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25670374/ Alloparent]]" features an unusual variation where the Devil was essentially the "innocent" party in this deal. After a chain of events lead to Lucifer bonding with Trixie Espinoza since a chance meeting when she was two, after Chloe divorces Dan when Trixie was almost abducted [[spoiler:Dan signs over his parental rights to Lucifer as he's clearly more interested in being Trixie's father than Dan is. However, when Lucifer and Chloe compare the legal documents they were provided, they realise that Dan and his lawyer (Charlotte Richards) manipulated the child payment agreement; Chloe has been receiving the amount Dan agreed to pay based on his current level of income, but Lucifer has been making far larger deposits than that, and Dan has been pocketing the difference in a separate account]].