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* A WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse storybook had Mickey working as a shepherd. When he goes to a well for a drink, he drops his staff into the well. A Well Sprite appears and offers to retrieve the staff and keeps coming up with finer and finer staffs each time. Mickey, being the honest mouse he is, denies each one is his. However, unlike the original tale, the Well Sprite is acting maliciously: he WANTS Mickey to take the bronze/silver/gold staffs so he can turn him to stone, and in fact several large stones we're shown earlier turn out to be shepherds who've already fallen prey to the sprite. When Mickey accepts his wooden staff, the Sprite angrily vanishes, and his spell on the previous shepherds is broken. Mickey then takes the expensive staffs left behind and gives them to the family he works for, who are quite poor, so they can sell them.
* In ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', a water demon gives a woodcutter a gold axe to replace a lost iron axe. The woodcutter freezes to death in the winter because gold is too soft to cut firewood with. [[TheFairFolk That's what you get for annoying water demons by dropping things in their lakes.]]
* Specifically parodied in the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Flight}}'', in the story "The Maiden and the River Spirit". There, a young woman drops her thermos into the river. The spirit brings up a gold thermos, which she says isn't hers, then a silver one, which she also denies. He finds the original thermos and gives it to her... and nothing else, save "the satisfaction of having been honest." After he was back under the water, she muttered to herself, "What a gyp."
* In ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', a water demon gives a woodcutter a gold axe to replace a lost iron axe. The woodcutter freezes to death in the winter because gold is too soft to cut firewood with. [[TheFairFolk That's what you get for annoying water demons by dropping things in their lakes.]]
* Specifically parodied in the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Flight}}'', in the story "The Maiden and the River Spirit". There, a young woman drops her thermos into the river. The spirit brings up a gold thermos, which she says isn't hers, then a silver one, which she also denies. He finds the original thermos and gives it to her... and nothing else, save "the satisfaction of having been honest." After he was back under the water, she muttered to herself, "What a gyp."
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* ''ComicBook/Flight2004'': Specifically parodied in the story "The Maiden and the River Spirit". There, a young woman drops her thermos into the river. The spirit brings up a gold thermos, which she says isn't hers, then a silver one, which she also denies. He finds the original thermos and gives it to her... and nothing else, save "the satisfaction of having been honest." After he was back under the water, she muttered to herself, "What a gyp."
* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': A WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse storybook had Mickey working as a shepherd. When he goes to a well for a drink, he drops his staff into the well. A Well Sprite appears and offers to retrieve the staff and keeps coming up with finer and finer staffs each time. Mickey, being the honest mouse he is, denies each one is his. However, unlike the original tale, the Well Sprite is acting maliciously: he WANTS Mickey to take the bronze/silver/gold staffs so he can turn him to stone, and in fact several large stones we're shown earlier turn out to be shepherds who've already fallen prey to the sprite. When Mickey accepts his wooden staff, the Sprite angrily vanishes, and his spell on the previous shepherds is broken. Mickey then takes the expensive staffs left behind and gives them to the family he works for, who are quite poor, so they can sell them.
*In ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', a ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': A water demon gives a woodcutter a gold axe to replace a lost iron axe. The woodcutter freezes to death in the winter because gold is too soft to cut firewood with. [[TheFairFolk That's what you get for annoying water demons by dropping things in their lakes.]]
* Specifically parodied in the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Flight}}'', in the story "The Maiden and the River Spirit". There, a young woman drops her thermos into the river. The spirit brings up a gold thermos, which she says isn't hers, then a silver one, which she also denies. He finds the original thermos and gives it to her... and nothing else, save "the satisfaction of having been honest." After he was back under the water, she muttered to herself, "What a gyp."]]
* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': A WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse storybook had Mickey working as a shepherd. When he goes to a well for a drink, he drops his staff into the well. A Well Sprite appears and offers to retrieve the staff and keeps coming up with finer and finer staffs each time. Mickey, being the honest mouse he is, denies each one is his. However, unlike the original tale, the Well Sprite is acting maliciously: he WANTS Mickey to take the bronze/silver/gold staffs so he can turn him to stone, and in fact several large stones we're shown earlier turn out to be shepherds who've already fallen prey to the sprite. When Mickey accepts his wooden staff, the Sprite angrily vanishes, and his spell on the previous shepherds is broken. Mickey then takes the expensive staffs left behind and gives them to the family he works for, who are quite poor, so they can sell them.
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* Specifically parodied in the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Flight}}'', in the story "The Maiden and the River Spirit". There, a young woman drops her thermos into the river. The spirit brings up a gold thermos, which she says isn't hers, then a silver one, which she also denies. He finds the original thermos and gives it to her... and nothing else, save "the satisfaction of having been honest." After he was back under the water, she muttered to herself, "What a gyp."
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SubTrope of GoodnessExam. SisterTrope to OldBeggarTest.
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* A variation appears in the first ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasy1 Final Fantasy]]'' if you stop to think about it: the dragon Bahamut promises you great power if you go to the Citadel of Trials and retrieve a "token of your courage". The item you get at the end is a simple rat's tail, when you would expect some kind of major artifact. Bahamut recognizes this as the true token and upgrades your party's classes.
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* A variation appears in the first ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasy1 Final Fantasy]]'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' if you stop to think about it: the dragon Bahamut promises you great power if you go to the Citadel of Trials and retrieve a "token of your courage". The item you get at the end is a simple rat's tail, when you would expect some kind of major artifact. Bahamut recognizes this as the true token and upgrades your party's classes.
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* ''WebAnimation/MangaRoom'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEujxQDzS8 Shinji]] accidentally dropped his phone in the school pond. A spirit named Yurika emerged from the pond with two phones and asked Shinji which phone belongs to him, one a brand new phone and a beat up old one. He answered honestly, and she gave him both phones as a reward. Ren saw the whole thing and deliberately dropped his own phone and tried to claim that the new iPhone Pro Max is his but Yurika saw through him and kept both phones. Things went worse for Ren, as his phone was given to a girl by Yurika (disguised as a schoolgirl) and saw other's pictures and shaming them for being poor.
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In one of ''Literature/AesopsFables'' (specifically, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honest_Woodcutter The Honest Woodman]]), a workman dropped his axe into the river. The [[Myth/ClassicalMythology god Hermes]] found out what was wrong, and offered his aid. First Hermes pulled out a silver axe, and asked whether it was the one the workman lost. He told the god that no, it wasn't. Then Hermes pulled out a golden axe, and asked whether it was his. Again... no. Finally, Hermes pulls out the original axe. The man says yes, this is his. For his honesty, Hermes [[SweetAndSourGrapes gives him the golden and silver one as well]]. Later, another workman hears the story and tries to invoke it deliberately. But when he claims that one of the axes made of precious metals is his, Hermes knows that he is lying, and punishes him - by not only not giving him the axe in his hands, but also by leaving the original axe at the bottom of the river.
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In one of ''Literature/AesopsFables'' (specifically, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honest_Woodcutter The Honest Woodman]]), Woodcutter]]), a workman dropped his axe into the river. The [[Myth/ClassicalMythology god Hermes]] found out what was wrong, and offered his aid. First Hermes pulled out a silver axe, and asked whether it was the one the workman lost. He told the god that no, it wasn't. Then Hermes pulled out a golden axe, and asked whether it was his. Again... no. Finally, Hermes pulls out the original axe. The man says yes, this is his. For his honesty, Hermes [[SweetAndSourGrapes gives him the golden and silver one as well]]. Later, another workman hears the story and tries to invoke it deliberately. But when he claims that one of the axes made of precious metals is his, Hermes knows that he is lying, and punishes him - by not only not giving him the axe in his hands, but also by leaving the original axe at the bottom of the river.
