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* ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' "Legends Of The Dark Mite": Catman attempts to sell a rare wild tiger.

* In the Ruby-Spears ''MegaMan'' cartoon, one episode had Dr. Wily shrink entire American cities - specifically, [[NewYorkCity New York]], [[WashingtonDC Washington]], and [[TheWindyCity Chicago]] - and then encase them in glass before auctioning them off to the highest bidder. One scene of the Robot Masters driving around in their van also had Guts Man mention that {{Pittsburgh}}, [[ClevelandRocks Cleveland]], and LosAngeles were next on the list.

* Avon is paraded at a slave auction in one episode of ''BlakesSeven''.

* ''{{Farscape}}'', Crichton sets up one of these for the wormhole knowledge inside his brain. He doesn't intend to actually let the auction conclude, but merely uses the competition between the {{Big Bad}}s this stirs up as a cover for his real plans. Needless to say, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome it's awesome.]]

* In TheMasterofDisguise, the main villain steals all the worlds most valuable objects and then sells them on Black Market eBay.

* ''DoctorWho'':

* ''{{Freakazoid}}'' had a variation of this in which a raffle, hosted by The Lobe, the winner being allowed to [[spoiler: set off the giant wooden horn which would play a note at Freakazoid's resonant frequency, shattering him]]. Naturally all of Freak's villains were there to get in on this (and I'm pretty sure CandleJack was

* In ''{{NeverwinterNights}}'' Hordes of the Underdark expansion, you can buy a female human slave from the Illithid. You can either send her to fight or free her.

* The premise of [[spoiler: the season 1 finale of Warehouse13]]

* The Venom symbiote was auctioned to the highest bidder eventually in ''SpiderMan'' comics by Eddie Brock himself. All the top villains were in attendance, as were scrubs like the Looter. The Scorpion won and continues to be Venom to this day.
** Actually, the auction was won by a mobster, who gave the suit to his son, Angelo. Unfortunately for him, as he was fleeing after finding out that he couldn't beat Spider-Man (He was not as strong as Brock), the symbiote abandoned him in mid leap, claiming that he was even more pathetic than Brock. Angelo died, and the symbiote found its way to Gargan later.

* ''TheAvengers'':

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** Also in "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne", Hugo Strange tries to auction off Batman's SecretIdentity to The Joker, The Penguin, and Two-Face.

-->--'''Tucker:''' I Dunno, they're gonna steal it and auction it off to the highest bidder or something
-->--'''Caboose:''' GASP! They're like Evil Ebay!
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** Actually, the auction was won by a mobster, who gave the suit to his son, Angelo. Unfortunately for him, as he was fleeing after finding out that he couldn't beat Spider-Man (He was not as strong as Brock), the symbiote abandoned him in mid leap, claiming that he was even more pathetic than Brock. Angelo died, and the symbiote found its way to Gargin later.

* ''[[TheDresdenFiles Proven Guilty]]'' has a member of the White Court abduct Harry Dresden and auction him off ''on [=eBay=]'' to all those he's severely pissed off.

* One episode of ''DarkwingDuck'' the villain turns his lair into an island resort and auctions off a list of secret identities of various S.H.U.S.H. agents.