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* '''Parodied''': Robert writes his falsified contents using a purple-coloured sharpie. Somehow no one notices.

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* '''Parodied''': Robert writes his falsified contents on a loose-leaf paper using a purple-coloured sharpie. Somehow no one notices.

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* '''Justified''': Robert is an IdleRich and will not survive without his portion of inheritance. Besides he ''is'' his father's son, and he feels that he has a rightful claim to Albert's wealth.

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Robert is an IdleRich and will not survive without his portion of inheritance. Besides he ''is'' his father's son, and he feels that he has a rightful claim to Albert's wealth.
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** Alternatively, Robert is extremely poor and forging the will is the only way that he can get the money he needs to buy important lifesaving medicine.
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* '''Straight''': Just before billionaire Albion Ferrars dies, his [[PassedOverInheritance disinherited son]] Robert, steals his father's will and replaces it with a fake one where he is reinstated as a legatee.

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* '''Straight''': Just before billionaire Albion Ferrars Albert Von Trope dies, his [[PassedOverInheritance disinherited son]] Robert, steals his father's will and replaces it with a fake one where he is reinstated as a legatee.



* '''Justified''': Robert is an IdleRich and will not survive without his portion of inheritance. Besides he ''is'' his father's son, and he feels that he has a rightful claim to Albion's wealth.

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* '''Justified''': Robert is an IdleRich and will not survive without his portion of inheritance. Besides he ''is'' his father's son, and he feels that he has a rightful claim to Albion's Albert's wealth.



* '''Double Subverted''': Albion did write a new will, but it's not the one that Robert has. The new will is kept by the family's attorney, and Robert's will is fake after all.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Albion Albert did write a new will, but it's not the one that Robert has. The new will is kept by the family's attorney, and Robert's will is fake after all.



* '''Lampshaded''': "That doesn't sound like something Uncle Albion would write. Something's fishy here..."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "That doesn't sound like something Uncle Albion Albert would write. Something's fishy here..."



* '''Defied''': On his deathbed, Albion verbally announces how he's distributing his wealth and explicitly claims that he has no written will, because he knows that someone might try some funny business to get their hands on extra cash.

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* '''Defied''': On his deathbed, Albion Albert verbally announces how he's distributing his wealth and explicitly claims that he has no written will, because he knows that someone might try some funny business to get their hands on extra cash.



* '''Conversed''': "Albion should have called a lawyer to draw up his will. That way, it won't be so easy for people to write a fake one."

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* '''Conversed''': "Albion "Albert should have called a lawyer to draw up his will. That way, it won't be so easy for people to write a fake one."
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* '''Exaggerated''': Robert writes a fake will in which he inherits every single penny his father owns, leaving the other legitimate devisees in the dust.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Robert writes a fake will in which he inherits every single penny his father owns, leaving the other legitimate devisees in the dust. He does the same for his other deceased relatives, making it so that he's the sole heir to all of their wills.



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'''Basic Trope''': A character changes the content of a deceased's will in order to gain more inheritance.
* '''Straight''': Just before billionaire Albion Ferrars dies, his [[PassedOverInheritance disinherited son]] Robert, steals his father's will and replaces it with a fake one where he is reinstated as a legatee.
* '''Exaggerated''': Robert writes a fake will in which he inherits every single penny his father owns, leaving the other legitimate devisees in the dust.
* '''Downplayed''': Robert rewrites the numbers stipulated on the will so that he receives 10% more than what he's actually meant to inherit.
* '''Justified''': Robert is an IdleRich and will not survive without his portion of inheritance. Besides he ''is'' his father's son, and he feels that he has a rightful claim to Albion's wealth.
* '''Subverted''': The will that Robert has isn't forged, it's just a newer version that his father wrote just before he dies to supercede the old one.
* '''Double Subverted''': Albion did write a new will, but it's not the one that Robert has. The new will is kept by the family's attorney, and Robert's will is fake after all.
* '''Parodied''': Robert writes his falsified contents using a purple-coloured sharpie. Somehow no one notices.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': There is no will, forged or otherwise.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "That doesn't sound like something Uncle Albion would write. Something's fishy here..."
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': On his deathbed, Albion verbally announces how he's distributing his wealth and explicitly claims that he has no written will, because he knows that someone might try some funny business to get their hands on extra cash.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Albion should have called a lawyer to draw up his will. That way, it won't be so easy for people to write a fake one."
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%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???

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