Basic Trope: A character tries to obtain money via drastic or even illegal means to provide healthcare for a sick on injured loved one.
- Straight: Bob can't afford Alice's medical bills, so he robs a bank to pay for her bills.
- Exaggerated: Bob orchestrates a massive hostage situation in hopes of getting a massive ransom to pay for the medical care of several of his loved ones.
- Downplayed: Bob skims the top of the registers to pay for Alice's insulin.
- Justified:
- Bob's country has for profit healthcare.
- Bob's country's state run healthcare is notoriously poor, so he is forced to rely on the criminal underworld to provide healthcare.
- Inverted:
- Bob fakes or even deliberately causes illness or injury in a family member to acquire money from donations, insurance, etc that he plans to use for other means.
- Bob performs noble acts, like fighting crime or inventing useful technology, to help pay for Alice's medical care.
- Subverted: Right before Bob is about to take drastic measures, a healthcare reform bill is passed.
- Double Subverted: The bill is beneficial to for-profit health-care.
- Parodied:
- Bob becomes a career criminal because Alice cuts her finger, and he can't afford a single bandage.
- Bob shows up to the hospital wearing a balaclava, wielding a gun, and with a bag of cash. The doctors accept the cash, no questions asked.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Enforced:
- The creators want to give the villain a sympathetic motivation.
- The story is a critique of for-profit healthcare.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Mob Boss Carl deliberately injures Alice to push Bob towards becoming his henchman.
- Exploited: When Mob Boss Carl notices where Bob's money is going, he promises a promotion to him, knowing he will earn himself an epically loyal henchman.
- Defied:
- Bob is given a loan, with plenty of time to pay it off.
- Despite being tempted multiple times to turn to crime, Bob sticks to purely legal means of paying their medical bills.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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