History Main / AuctionOfEvil

* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Adventures #6]]'' as seen above, with time-travelling villain Chronos on the seller's podium. In this issue [[spoiler:the whole thing is a BatmanGambit by the man himself (and the rest of the League) to capture all the attending supervillains. The gambit sees Batman disguise himself as Chronos while the other six members each disguise themselves as another villain (Superman as Solomon Grundy, Wonder Woman as Catwoman, Flash as Warp, Martian Manhunter as Parasite, Green Lantern as Count Vertigo, and Hawkgirl as Roxie Rocket) and lure the villains into Chronos' island lair to attend the fake auction of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The villains do eventually catch on, but by the time they do, their numbers have dwindled so much that the Justice League has an easy time mopping them up.]]

* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Adventures #6]]'' as seen above, with time-travelling villain Chronos on the seller's podium. In this issue [[spoiler:the whole thing is a BatmanGambit by the man himself (and the rest of the League) to capture all the attending supervillains. The gambit sees Batman disguise himself as Chronos while the other six members each disguise themselves as another villain (Superman as Solomon Grundy, Wonder Woman as Catwoman, Flash as Warp, Martian Manhunter as Parasite, Green Lantern as Count Vertigo, and Hawkgirl as Roxie Rocket) and lure the villains into Chronos' island lair to attend the fake auction of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The villains do eventually catch on, but by the time they do, their numbers have been dwindled so much that the Justice League has an easy time mopping them up.]]

* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Adventures #6]]'' as seen above, with time-travelling villain Chronos on the seller's podium. In this issue [[spoiler:the whole thing is a BatmanGambit by the man himself (and the rest of the League) to capture all the attending supervillains.]]

* In a turn of events, a resurrected Mystique would later attend an auction for the remains of Wolverine's body in ''Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy'' #5.

* In ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} #9 (2011), after Mystique was killed by Wolverine, her body was auctioned off to the Hand.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': The second (excluding the issues that are part of ''ComicBook/StarWarsTheScreamingCitadel'') arc of the series centers on Aphra assembling representatives of most of the galaxy's criminal organizations in order to sell the [[SoulJar Rur crystal]] off to the highest bidder. Though things get complicated when [[spoiler: her droids sabotage things in an attempt to [[TheStarscream kill her]]]].

* A DeletedScene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' has Zola turning up at one of these, claiming the Hydra weapon they're selling is rubbish, and then killing everyone with DeadlyGas so he can take the one item that is valuable, the notebook with the TriggerPhrase for the Winter Soldier.

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* In the second ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', the fourth case centers around an illegal auction at the prosecutors' office for evidence from past cases, in which participants hid their identities using masks with voice-changers. The victim was a [[TheMole Mole]] posing as a buyer and trying to bring down the auctioneer. [[spoiler:The true murder weapon even turns out to be an auction gavel.]]
* One of these is going on in the background of your first official mission in the 2016 ''VideoGame/{{Hitman|2016}}'' game. A freelance spy ring is auctioning off a NOC list with the identities of every [=MI6=] agent in the Middle East to a cabal of shady characters, including the son of an East Asian dictator and an Arab sheikh with ties to terrorist cells. 47's mission is to shut down the auction by killing both of the spy ring's leaders.
* Most of the second act of ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' revolves around Aiden infiltrating an auction dedicated to selling runaway, kidnapped, and other type of missing girls as sex slaves. Although shutting down the auction (and the human trafficking ring behind it) is only an ancillary goal for Aiden during his mission, once he's presented with the opportunity he swiftly, and brutally, follows through.

* The ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''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. The bidding got up into the millions.[[note]]Harry does not make friends easily.[[/note]]

** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. After Blofeld launches his EnergyWeapon equipped KillSat, he sets up "An international auction, with nuclear supremacy going to the highest bidder."

** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. After Blofeld launches his FrickinLaserBeams equipped KillSat, he sets up "An international auction, with nuclear supremacy going to the highest bidder."

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/groups-of-interest#toc19 Marshall, Carter and Dark]] from the Wiki/SCPFoundation universe is a rival ArtifactCollectionAgency which regularly auctions anomalous artifacts off to the super rich. An interesting example in that they're not ''evil'' as such, but rather that they have a cavalier attitude to the consequences of their inventory falling into the wrong hands, and large sections of their catalogs are typically devoted to items with obvious PowerPerversionPotential. On at least a couple occasions, however, they've turned something even ''they'' thought was too [[PragmaticVillainy dangerous]] or [[EvenEvilHasStandards depraved]] to sell over to the Foundation, and have also ([[TeethClenchedTeamwork grudgingly]]) acted as broker to the Foundation when securing items from private collections.

* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeason1'': In the chapter "J-WITCH Meets The J-Team!", [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Valmont]] hosts an auction for all of his recently stolen artifacts (including the [[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} Heart of Kandrakar]]), which is attended by all of the Chan Clan's other prominent human criminal enemies, as well as [[CoDragons Daolon Wong and Cedric]] (who are there for the Heart). Then the J-Team and Guardians crash the party, everyone starts fighting over the Heart, and it turns into a [[MeleeATrois massive brawl]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' had a variation of this with 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. The winner ends up being Armando Gutierez, but he drags out the countdown too long and Freakazoid ends up being saved by NormAbram.

* One of these is going on in the background of your first official mission in the 2016 ''VideoGame/{{Hitman|2016}}'' game. A freelance spy ring is auctioning off a list containing the identities of every [=MI6=] agent in the Middle East to a cabal of shady characters, including the son of an East Asian dictator and an Arab sheikh with ties to terrorist cells. 47's mission is to shut down the auction by killing both of the spy ring's leaders.

Since [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave-taking is a form of villainy]], a [[SlaveMarket slave auction]] would also fall under this trope. This is more TruthInTelevision than many other examples, though, as most slave societies (e.g. the United States, before the Emancipation Proclamation) did commonly sell their slaves at auctions. This may be the heroes themselves being put up for auction, often for the right of the highest bidder to slice them up, or it may be someone or something important to the heroes that's on the block. In this case, the good guys may go undercover to make a bid themselves, but this gambit rarely turns out well. Often, especially in pornograhpic works such as {{Hentai}}, the slaves are {{Sex Slave}}s.

Since [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave-taking is a form of villainy]], a [[SlaveMarket slave auction]] would also fall under this trope. This is more TruthInTelevision than many other examples, though, as most slave societies (e.g. the United States, before the Emancipation Proclamation) did commonly sell their slaves at auctions. This may be the heroes themselves being put up for auction, often for the right of the highest bidder to slice them up, or it may be someone or something important to the heroes that's on the block. In this case, the good guys may go undercover to make a bid themselves, but this gambit rarely turns out well. Often, especially in pornoprahpic works such as {{Hentai}}, the slaves are {{Sex Slave}}s.

Since [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave-taking is a form of villainy]], a [[SlaveMarket slave auction]] would also fall under this trope. This is more TruthInTelevision than many other examples, though, as most slave societies (e.g. the United States, before the Emancipation Proclamation) did commonly sell their slaves at auctions. This may be the heroes themselves being put up for auction, often for the right of the highest bidder to slice them up, or it may be someone or something important to the heroes that's on the block. In this case, the good guys may go undercover to make a bid themselves, but this gambit rarely turns out well.