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1	'''Basic Trope''': An offer that has dire consequences if one doesn't accept.
2	* '''Straight''': Emperor Evulz tries to get the protagonist, Hiro, to allow him to marry the LoveInterest. If Hiro doesn't accept, he will be killed.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Emperor Evulz will destroy the whole universe if he doesn't get to marry Hiro's love interest.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Emperor Evulz threatens to harm Hiro if he doesn't allow him to marry the love interest.
5	* '''Justified''': Evulz didn't have any other way to get Hiro to accept his offer.
6	* '''Inverted''': If Hiro declines the offer, he gets rewarded.
7	* '''Subverted''': Evulz reveals he was lying when he threatened to harm Hiro.
8	* '''Double Subverted''': ...He's actually going to harm the love interest.
9	* '''Parodied''': Evulz tries to invite Hiro to his birthday party in this way.
10	* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
11	* '''Averted''': There is no offer.
12	* '''Enforced''': A way to show that Evulz has crossed the MoralEventHorizon, especially if he actually succeeds in killing somebody.
13	* '''Lampshaded''': Hiro agrees under protest that it's not much of a choice. Evulz tells him that was the whole idea.
14	* '''Invoked''': ???
15	* '''Exploited''': ???
16	* '''Defied''':
17	** Evulz realizes that this kind of action is [[EvenEvilHasStandards too low, even for him]].
18	** Hiro makes damned sure, before approaching Evulz, [[AppealToForce that he has the power (political or through superior weapons) to force Evulz to accept him backing down from any potential bad deals]].
19	* '''Discussed''': "And then he told me that if I didn't allow him to marry her, he'd kill me."
20	* '''Conversed''': "I wonder why villains often make threatening offers like that."
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24	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
25	%% * '''Implied''': ???
26	%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
27	%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
28	%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
29	%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???

Context PlayingWith / AnOfferYouCantRefuse