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Absurdly High-Stakes Game

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Absurdly High-Stakes Game	comment	Gambling games are fun for the participants. But, as anyone who's watched Poker on television can attest, the same games that are fun to play can be painfully boring to watch, as spectators have no stake in the proceedings and do not experience the thrill of winning. Therefore, storytellers will crank the stakes up by causing characters to bet enormous sums of money well above the table limits of a casino game. Cars, houses, family members, organs, their life, or other non-liquid assets they can't afford to lose will be wagered by a desperate, cash-starved gambler. The item wagered is usually not appraised, with no agreement made about what reward the player should receive in the unlikely event he does, somehow, win the game. (Especially common in poker, where the rule that all "holding" players must have contributed equally to the pot is easily ignored.) Losers will honor the bet even though there is no legal grounds compelling them to follow through. This is usually justified by setting the game in an underground gambling facility, possibly operated by an Eccentric Millionaire, where unconventional bets are accepted and violence can be used to collect on debts. Players are rarely forced to play these games or make the absurdly high wager. They are generally given a choice of whether or not to participate, even if the alternative is another bad situation. Often, the wager is made due to overconfidence, or an attempt to escape from gambling debts. The games are usually based on skill, not simply luck. When the player inevitably loses, they will invoke Rules Lawyer or Loophole Abuse to avoid paying out. If the game being played IS based on luck, cheating is to be expected (and perhaps even encouraged). Deals with Devils and Chess with Death are common examples. Russian Roulette is also related. If the game is televised, expect it to be an Immoral Reality Show. Entertainment-hungry psychopaths might invoke this trope along with Criminal Mind Games. Life-or-Death Question will usually be an element. Related to The Bet and Gambling Ruins Lives. Examples
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_10e9182d	comment	The Tales from the Crypt episode "Cutting Cards" features two feuding gamblers who want nothing more than to see each other leave town forever. They start with a dice roll (both get a double-six), then move on to Russian Roulette (the one bullet turns out to be a dud). Finally, they play five-card draw poker in which the loser of each hand gets a body part chopped off, starting with fingers. The final scene reveals that they have once again come out even, having lost their arms and legs to the game.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_117116ef	comment	The Penguins of Madagascar: The episode "Mr. Tux" has Private playing a mini-golf game against his old rival, the Amarillo Kid, to save the zoo (and everyone in it) from being vaporized by the thermonuclear self-destruct generator in the penguin's hideout.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_12bd21c9	comment	The Long Walk revolves around one of these. Every year, 100 teenage boys are chosen from thousands of volunteer applicants to take part in an endurance walking contest. There are no stops or rest periods, and the Walk only ends when 99 of them are dead. The last survivor receives "The Prize": anything he wants for the rest of his life.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_14504d82	comment	Collar 6: Sixx makes a bet to become a slave if she doesn't win a spanking contest.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_15655dd	comment	In Cabin Fever: Parting Shot, Jeff and Bert squabble over who is the better marksman, leading to a shooting contest between them. Bert goads Jeff into wagering a 'roll in the hay' with his girlfriend, Marcy, as the winner's reward. It goes without saying that Marcy is less than pleased with this arrangement. Though ultimately she consents to give the Dark Horse third entrant this prize, mainly out of spite towards Jeff for making the bet in the first place.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_15870207	comment	El ChapulÃn Colorado once was in a carambole game with the CuajinÃ¡is betting his life.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_15c97dce	comment	The Petriculture Cycle: Pandelirium, Discord has a chance to win unrestricted freedom, but only if he can make Penumbra laugh, but it's not easy. She has a strange sense of humor and is very dour.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: The Tendos and Ranma vs the Gambling King, wagering parts of their house in order to win back their dojo.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Wolverine loves to play poker and has been known to invoke this trope on occasion.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1bfa015e	comment	In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the title characters play games with Death to win back custody of their souls. Instead of playing chess, like in The Seventh Seal, they pick kids' board games like Battleship and Twister.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1d06757f	comment	The Running Man: The protagonist participates in a reality TV game show in which, with a 12 hour head start, he attempts to elude elite hunters trying to kill him, earning $100 for each hour on the run and $1 billion if he can successfully survive 30 days.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1f19973b	comment	After a series of defeats, legendary judoka Masahiko Kimura swore to commit Seppuku if he lost ever again. He retired unbeaten.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1f34e364	comment	Barbary Coast: In "Sauce for the Goose", Cable disguises himself as a gypsy Fortune Teller with a gift for prophecy to goad crooked gambler Austin Benedict into a poker game with Cash: Benedict's diary wagered against the Golden Gate Casino, winner take all.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_1fcfc25	comment	In The Player of Games, the Azad empire is named after their favorite game. Briefly, whoever wins the quadriennial tournament becomes emperor. Uncommonly people even bet limbs or lives on the outcome. The game is meant as a metaphor for life and the psychology of the player, so when a Culture citizen defeats the ministers of state and then the emperor, using the ideas of the Culture, the culture shock is immense.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_20e0ce9f	comment	In Crash Team Racing, a speed-obsessed alien named Nitros Oxide challenges Earth's best racers to compete with him for the fate of the planet. If he wins, he plans to turn Earth into a giant parking lot and enslave its inhabitants.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2134b407	comment	Travis McGee named the houseboat he lives on after the poker hand that he used to win it: the Busted Flush. This is only moderately high stakes, except that the person who lost the houseboat wanted to play another hand with his South American girlfriend as the stakes. McGee declined.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_21b21f35	comment	BoJack Horseman: In "See Mr. Peanutbutter Run", the title of Governor of California gets put up to whoever can win a downhill skiing race.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2212773a	comment	Angel In "Double Or Nothing" in season 3, it is revealed that Gunn had sold his soul to a casino-owning demon years earlier in return for his truck. To save him, Angel played cards against the demon double-or-nothing with his own soul on the line. In a twist, Angel lost the game, but then beheads the casino owner and asks all of the casino patrons and staff how much they had owed him as well. "The House Always Wins" featured a Las Vegas casino which forced Lorne to read the destinies of casino patrons; those with "good" destinies (Fortune, fame, political power, etc.) were directed to a complimentary free spin on a million-dollar prize wheel, and their destinies were taken and sold to the highest bidder when they lost. They are never told that they are risking their futures on the spin, and the game itself is rigged to always lose; afterwards, they become aimless, nearly-mindless casino patrons who spend all their time pointlessly shuffling coins into slot machines. Angel himself is tricked into putting down a chip onto the game but is saved when the team busts up the operation at the end of the episode.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2547d61f	comment	In episode 1.06 of White Collar, "All In," Neal bets hundreds of thousands of dollars in a high-stakes Pai Gow game against a Chinese money-launderer. Especially considering he barely knows how to play, with Mozzie teaching him by watching Chinese movies centered on the game but with few artistic additions, such as the dreaded "Death Tile". Neal loses the game, but arranges for his watch, which contains a listening device, to be part of the spoils. The FBI gets all the evidence they need to arrest the money-launderer.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Bart Carny", after a group of carnies start squatting the Simpsons' house and refuse to let them back in, Homer makes a wager: If he can successfully throw a hula hoop onto the house's chimney, the carnies will leave. If he fails, the carnies get the deed to the house. Subverted when it turns out to be a trap — just as it seems Homer is about to throw the hoop, he and the rest of the family immediately run back into the house and lock the carnies out. "Children of a Lesser Clod" shows an out-of-context clip in which Homer bets his own baby Maggie in a card game. Moe wins the hand, saying "Come to new pappa!". In "Lisa the Greek", Lisa starts watching football with Homer and turns out to have a knack for predicting winners. Homer makes a lot of money betting based on her recommendations, and the two have a lot of fun together. But when Homer inadvertently hurts her feelings just before the Super Bowl, she tells him she can't be sure if her prediction for the game is genuine, or if she's subconsciously trying to hurt him back by picking a loser. As he stressfully watches the game at Moe's, a fellow patron asks him what he has riding on the game. Homer responds "My daughter!", causing the man to whistle and admiringly say, "What a gambler!" "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore" makes an allusion to The Lady or the Tiger?. In the episode, Mr. Burns has transferred his plant's operations to India. Because he is required by federal law to keep at least one union worker on his payroll, Homer is sent there to oversee the plant. When Lenny and Carl go there to visit him, they meet a man who shows them two doors, telling them that Homer Simpson is behind one of the doors and that there is a tiger behind the other door. They find a tiger behind the first door they open and quickly close it. As they open the other door, they find... another tiger. Lenny and Carl are then told that one of the tigers is named "Homer Simpson".
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_272563be	comment	In Tower of London, Richard and George hold a Drinking Contest for possession of all of the Warwick estates.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997): Jack wins his ticket on board in a poker game. The gamblers know it's a valuable thing to be betting, but only the audience knows how high the stakes really are.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2990bf98	comment	In Dicey Dungeons, the six contestants, who were turned into dice by Lady Luck, are forced to compete in her gameshow where they must fight enemies in the dungeons in order to escape. Should they lose Lady Luck's game, their soul belongs to her.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2a842e3a	comment	In a Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story, Bernice Summerfield accidentally acquires a ticket to "the big game", and happily plays until she notices the look of horror on the face of the guy who lost all his chips. It's at that point that it occurs to her to ask what the stakes are, and is told "Exactly what you think they are."
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Episode I: The Phantom Menace': A dice game is used to decide whether Anakin Skywalker or his mother will go free. Qui-Gon Jinn cheats and uses the Force to flip the dice such that Anakin gets to go free. Qui-Gon also wagers the ship the main cast came to Tatooine on, which would leave them stranded with no way to stop the Trade Federation if they lost.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2e645c1f	comment	The game in One Outs is technically just baseball. However, the main character is a pitcher with a bizarre contract that grants him money for every strike and penalized him hugely for every run he lets through. This leads to some intricate and convoluted ways of 'winning'.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_2edc143e	comment	Around the World in 80 Days (2004): If Phileas Fogg circumnavigates the world in 80 days, he'll replace Lord Kelvin as Minister of Science. If he doesn't, he'll have to destroy his lab and never invent anything again.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_30065ab	comment	Cuphead's plot is kicked off by Cuphead losing a game of Craps, where he bet his and Mugman's souls against the Devil's vast fortune.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_306233e6	comment	At the climax of Summer Wars, a game of Hanafuda is played with avatars as currency. If Love Machine wins, it plans to use a hijacked satellite as a ballistic missile to blow up a nuclear plant, causing untold collateral damage.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_31ca9925	comment	The Dukes of Hazzard: "The $10 Million Sheriff", Roscoe inherits a lot of money. He and Boss Hogg play a hand of poker against each other, with both ultimately betting everything they own. Roscoe wins and declares "I just made the richest man in Hazzard the poorest in the state!" "The Boars Nest Bears," where Boss Hogg exemplifies everything that is wrong with youth sports: Gambling (with a rival county bossnote , who himself has had the game rigged by forging the birth certificate of Hazzard's star player, to ensure an easy win for his team), and more importantly, Boss making Bo and Luke's very freedom ride on the Bears winning the game, since Boss is well aware of his rival's tricks and, expecting Hazzard to lose, plans to have Bo and Luke cuffed and stuffed, charged with several felonies (which would, by the way, never stick in a real-life criminal justice system) even before the final buzzer quits sounding.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3286ac85	comment	Hoyle's Rules of Dragon Poker has exactly one limitation on betting: kids lost in game must be returned to their parents before the police have to get involved. Not don't do it, just don't get caught. Beyond that, anything that can be successfully argued to the group is fair game. Names are specifically mentioned.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_336a5711	comment	In Season 2 Luther encounters two brothers who commit random acts of violence decided by the throw of a dice. One brother offers to help capture the other if he loses a throw; unfortunately, Luther loses. The police then find the brother, but he's got a Dead Man's Switch and an explosive vest. So Luther pours petrol on himself, throws him a lighter, and offers to decide the matter on a dice throw as well. If Luther can guess what number has come up, the man will surrender, if not Luther goes up in smoke. But he has to deactivate the switch anyway to roll the dice, as he has Luther's lighter in his other hand. Luther (who is wired for sound) then tells the snipers where to shoot.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_350771b4	comment	Wintermoor Tactics Club: A series of snowball fights determine which club will be allowed to stay at the titular school. First prize is one club being named the Ultimate Club. Second Prize, as well as every other prize? Dissolution of the club.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_366a284d	comment	Kenshiro enters into an arm-wrestling contest in Fist of the North Star that cuts the loser's arm off with a table saw. Though Kenshiro wins, he takes a third option by not cutting off the Mook's arm... just snapping it in half.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_39135117	comment	Night Shift: In "The Ledge", man is forced to walk around the ledge of a skyscraper. If he succeeds, he will get large amounts of money and the wife of his tormentor. This was later adapted into a segment in Cat's Eye.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_392a827a	comment	In Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, there's a piece of cut footage, later added into the game by a paid DLC, called 21note after the score the player needs to get to win a game of blackjack. In this sequence, the player has to take part in three rounds of blackjack for his life. In the first round, the player loses their fingers if they lose. In the second round, they get treated to an increasingly high current of electricity. In the third round, the loser gets their face torn apart by a homemade buzzsaw.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_39fd62bd	comment	Spiral: There are a few Absurdly High Stakes Games throughout the series, but the most obvious example would be when the hero wagers that he can guess which card his opponent is holding. If he wins, he will receive crucial information, but if he loses, he will have a swarm of deadly bees released on him.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3c1828ea	comment	Arkham Horror: The Card Game: In The Scarlet Keys, if Desi has one of the titular keys, he's willing to wager it in a card game.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3c2663bd	comment	Undead Poker in Pirates of the Caribbean Online is played as part of the Raven's Cove story quest. Winning games will gain you a lot of money, as well as bringing you one step closer to entering the mines. Losing them, however, will reduce your health. HP regeneration is also disabled while in the area, so you can't cheat your way out of it by taking a breather and stepping away from the table.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3c4f3e49	comment	The Night Circus has the Challenge, where two magicians pit their proteges who use the entire circus as their exhibit without knowing the rules or how to win the competition. They later find out the Challenge ends when one student breaks first and only when one competitor kills themselves does the contest conclude.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3d93edd6	comment	Usogui: Another manga series that focuses on high-stakes games. The main character is an expert gambler who tends to bet on bizarre and dangerous wagers, for instance — whether or not he can escape a building with multiple armed guards chasing him.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3e4d48d5	comment	In Food Wars! anything and everything can be staked in a shokugeki. In fact, the bylaws that govern the shokugeki state that both parties must put up stakes of equal value, to be agreed upon by the participants. So far, we have seen prized kitchen knives, booth sites for the School Festival, a secretarial job, a Hollywood Restraining Order, several club rooms (along with millions of yen in cooking equipment), significant areas of farmland, seats on the Absurdly Powerful Student Council and a chef's entire career staked in shokugeki at some point.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_3fe0a130	comment	In Ugly Betty, Daniel and Alexis agree to decide control of Meade Publications, a billion-dollar company, with a paintball game.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_4141af74	comment	Future Diary has characters betting their diaries and lives on a simple coin game with even odds. The game gets complicated because the diaries involved can tell the future — including the outcome of the coin game, and destroying a diary kills its owner. Guile Hero Aru Akise manages to win even though he's the only one playing who can't predict the future.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: Miraschon's Stand allows her to automatically collect the wager of a bet somone makes with her whenever her opponent loses. The problem is that if you don't have enough money to pay her, her Stand will take your body parts (like your liver) to cover your bet — and is completely invincible while doing so. On top of that, she can freely cheat all she wants; but, if her opponents even thinks of cheating, they automatically lose. However, unlike the D'Arby brothers' Stands, Miraschon's Stand is subject to Exact Words and Loophole Abuse. When it looks like Miraschon has managed to sabotage a game of catch by having a prison guard confiscate the ball and trapping Jolyne in an elevator with her, which allegedly means that the game is over with Jolyne as the loser, Jolyne reveals that technically, she didn't specify who her partner for the game would be, meaning that the guard counts as well, before using her own string-based Stand to reach over to the guard's pocket, unravel the ball into a lump of string, and retrieve it. Since Jolyne didn't lose, Miraschon's stand returns everything it confiscated before disappearing, and since Miraschon is now trapped inside an elevator with Jolyne, she is powerless to defend herself against Jolyne delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, bouncing the ball off of Miraschon's face enough times to win the bet.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural In "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester", the boys come across a traveling witch-gambler who plays poker for years of people's lives instead of money; the loser instantly ages the number of years that they have lost, while the winner remains young for that much longer. The witch is not particularly mean-spirited and doesn't cheat, he just wants to keep living himself. He will sometimes take pity on his opponents who are desperate for more time of their own, as was the case of an old man just wanting a few more years to see his grandkids grow up; he folded his own hand so that the old man would get the years. In "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?", the boys are not at a game, but at a supernatural auction. The bidding includes offers of tons of dwarves' gold, five-eighths of a virgin, people's souls, Vatican City, Alaska, and the Moon.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_4531122c	comment	Button Man: Millions of pounds are bet on every single Game. It's explicitly mentioned that a modestly wealthy person who becomes a Voice for a talented button man can become obscenely rich.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_455e3038	comment	Subverted in the King of the Hill episode "The Miseducation of Bobby Hill," when Buck Strickland loses Hank to his rival M.F. Thatherton in a poker game. Once sales at Strickland Propane falter, Buck sends Bobby to bring Hank back and pay off the bet — a measly $20. Played straight in the episode "The Good Buck"; this time, Buck loses not only a pile of cash and a pair of expensive shoes but also an entire branch of Strickland Propane.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novels, people often challenge Death to various games of skill to wager for their lives. The only one to ever win was Granny Weatherwax playing for a little girl because Death lost on purpose.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_469b635d	comment	In Consider Phlebas, we're introduced to Damage. Each player brings a team of Lives (mostly depressives, members of suicide cults, and other volunteers) and when the player loses a hand, one of the Lives is killed. When the player runs out of Lives, it's their own life on the line. Oh, and it's played in the most dangerous places in the galaxy — the game we see on-page takes place on a ringworld in the process of being demolished.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_47dc9ef0	comment	Expect to see this show up in Spirit of the Century games in which at least one player character actually has a significant Gambling skill on his or her sheet. While the skill has its "mundane" applications (mostly rolling to see if the gambler can supplement their regular income with winnings), it's niche enough that the GM is advised to take having it as an indicator of interest in scenes like this as per the pulp tradition.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_501dae19	comment	Star Trek: String Theory has a pandimensional casino frequented by the Q and other non-corporeal entities where gamblers wager pandimensional deeds to any number of interstellar objects from asteroids to nebula. Some patrons are known to be "destroyers" who delight in destroying whatever object they just won, especially if it has any sentimental value to whoever just lost it.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Whenever you play Sburb, your planet and entire species are the initial wage, the quarter in the arcade cabinet, to be lost forever whether you win or lose. The prize is creating a whole new universe. Notably, it's not like you ever had the option of not betting. If a single session is ever started, then it's The End of the World as We Know It. Also, of the four sessions seen so far, two of them didn't know that that would happen, and a third had only one person know. A more minor appearance is when Terezi takes a gamble with everyone's life on the line in [S] Flip through a coin toss.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_50e1cace	comment	In Life is Money, the losers die violent deaths and the winners make more money with each death. (Note: Nobody is required to lose the game. If everyone lives, they will all win 50 million yen.) For Meguru, the stakes are even higher; if he doesn't win 100 million yen (or at least enough that it will be 100 million yen combined with what he's already earned) his younger sister will never receive a surgery she needs to survive.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_514c970c	comment	Avengers: No Surrender does it during its climax with a poker game. Begins with Lightning betting his freedom to free another Avenger. Then betting his life for two comrades' freedom. Then he bets Earth to be destroyed against Earth to be restored. Then Lightning bets that the loser will be erased from history, and Grandmaster folds. Try to match this, Kakegurui!
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_5261d625	comment	In one episode of Samurai Champloo, Jin sees a man playing shogi against himself, and comments on the best strategy for the next move. The man then offers to play Jin — if Jin wins, he gets a large pouch of gold; if he loses, the man wins his life — the phrasing is ambiguous as to whether that means slavery or immediate death. Since he needs the money, Jin accepts.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_5392bc91	comment	In the final episode of The Wonder Years, Kevin takes a job at a resort and occasionally plays poker with the Mexican band, usually winning. Right after being fired, he tries to win enough money to get home and bets his car, later finding the band was suckering him into such an outrageous bet. He ends up walking.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_562b5b6b	comment	Deathworld opens with Kirk Pyrrus needing three billion credits to pay for a shipment of weapons, but only 27 million to pay with. He makes Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler with the ability to control dice, an offer he can't refuse: turn the 27 million into at least three billion in a single night of gambling. On the final roll of the dice, with two billion riding on the outcome, Jason's powers desert him.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_57b27cb9	comment	One episode of Tutenstein involves Tut being punished by Isis for cheating in a game of senet against her. Said punishment ends up being that Tut can no longer interact with the present. The climax of this episode is Tut rematching the goddess in a high-stakes senet game so Tut could win back his future, or be permanently condemned to the underworld. This turns out to be a subversion, as the game itself turned out to be a Secret Test of Character to see if Tut would cheat once more.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_59091c4c	comment	Liar Game: Throughout the story, the stakes have never been more than money. However, the money involved ranges from hundreds of millions to billions of yen, and the losers are expected to pay back every yen they lose, with the Liar Game officials promising they will do "whatever is necessary" to collect on those debts. At one point the characters discuss the possibility that the company would be willing to enslave their debtors, which is more befitting this trope; one character states that if she loses, Nao might be forced into prostitution to pay her debts. Played with in "24-Shot Russian Roulette", which was played with a special prop gun and "bullets" which only make a loud bang without actually firing any projectile. However, a player who fires one has to pay 50 million yen. And the game continues until all 6 "bullets" out of the 24 chambers have been fired. It's obviously better than dying, but each team is looking at potentially racking up 300 million yen (over US $3 million) in debt.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_594b85e4	comment	Roots: In an attempt to buy his freedom, the slave George engages in cockfighting and becomes one of the best cockfighters in the state. Eventually, he convinces his master Tom Lea to bet an absurdly high bet on a fight against an English nobleman — more than Tom owns in total, including all of his slaves. He wins — but then Tom agrees on a rematch with the stakes doubled. Now he loses, and with it his entire property, and George is denied freedom.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_5995d4d5	comment	Spies Like Us: The final scene has Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge working on "peaceful negotiations for nuclear disarmament" with the Russian government (read: making Russia bet their silos on a combination between Risk and Trivial Pursuit).
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_5ada53ed	comment	The James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006) centers on these. Early on, Bond wins an Aston-Martin in a poker game. Later, he plays an extremely high-stakes poker game, both in dollar figures (up to $150 million to the winner) and global security. Several of the other players are terrorists, so if they win then the British government "will have directly financed terrorism". In the original novel, Bond is trying to bankrupt Le Chiffre so that he will fall out of favor with the Russian counter-intelligence organization SMERSH — Le Chiffre has been embezzling from SMERSHâ€™s funds and is trying to square his accounts with a big night at the table. The game is baccarat rather than poker, but the stakes still run high (tens of millions of francs). In the film, Bond is trying to bankrupt Le Chiffre so he cannot settle his outstanding criminal debts and will trade information to MI6 to protect him from retaliation.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, Mettaton makes his bombastic introduction by having the player compete in his game show with only one rule: "Answer correctly, or you die." Answering questions wrong will result in damage. Thankfully, Alphys is standing by sneakily giving you the correct answers.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_5ed0217f	comment	In Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario competes on a Game Show called Snifit or Whiffit. If he wins, he gets the Mini Paint Star he's been looking for. Playing it perfectly also gets Mario an instant camera, which he'll need later. If he loses, the Snifits drown him in the ocean.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_609fc58f	comment	Betrayal at House on the Hill: One of the Haunts for the Widow's Walk expansion involves playing a Deadly Game of Hangman against the traitor, who has been possessed by the spirit of an actual hangman from the Old West.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_637554db	comment	The Middleman: Shabumi. This one is based on skill, run by an eccentric millionaire, and highly unusual. "Each player is dealt a full deck of cards. Every card has its own name. There are 589 unique physical and verbal challenges to every hand. And if anyone shows the slightest ignorance of the game's byzantine rules, they are decapitated by [...] the thoughtless, speechless brute, Govindar." The game might also be based on cheating and not getting caught... despite a table of five players, each dealt a normal 52-card deck, at one point our hero plays a winning hand of 52-of-a-kind; every one a Deuce of Spades. His prize is the official schematics for the Lunar Landing Sound Stage (he entered the game with a buy-in of The Missing 18-and-a-half Minutes). When our heroine joins the game, she is dealt a deck of cards... and a white rabbit. The game ends when a player builds a five-foot-tall house of cards with his hand but is caught with a glue stick.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_65608478	comment	Choujin Sensen: The [Superhuman Game] grants the winner of the death match anything they so desired, provided if the winner does survive in the first place.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_677a713c	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_677a713c	comment	Since Mr. Lucky is a series about a professional gambler, this trope was almost bound to make an appearance. In "That Stands For Pool" the main character, Mr. Lucky, is forced into playing a game of pool in which the stakes are threefold: a huge wad of cash, his own life, and the life of his friend Andamo. Unfortunately, he stands to lose one or more of those things even if he wins...
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_691be369	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In the episode "Hell Money", Mulder and Sculley investigate a Chinese gambling ring in San Francisco where the losers are forced to donate their organs.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_693689f1	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_693689f1	comment	In Noel The Mortal Fate, Chapter 6 revolves around Noel taking on Madame Coffin, the head of Casino Misty in a bet by gambling everything the casino offers with herself and the others at stake by settling it with Blackjack.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_694ab80	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_694ab80	comment	One Batman Beyond episode features the Derby, an annual poker game held by mob leaders for incredibly high stakes, which Bruce Wayne says is a tradition that goes back even before his time. (A minor example, as they only play for money, although it is a veritable fortune.)
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_694ab80	featureApplicability	1.0
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_6ac55ec7	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, the cards in the Deck Of Many Things have powerful magical effects that range from "receive 1-4 Wishes" to "your soul is imprisoned on a distant world". You must declare how many cards you will draw from it in advance, and there's no backing out.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Rygel on Farscape is prone to this. To distract a pirate crew that boarded Moya (as well as alleviate his own boredom) in one episode, Rygel played a low-stakes game of Tadek with the crew's captain. When Rygel accidentally revealed Moya had recently hosted a fugitive the pirates were hunting, the game suddenly turned extremely high-stakes with Rygel forced to wager the location of the man (and their shipmates) in exchange for his life. The pirate captain won, but it turns out that the entire thing was a Batman Gambit and that Rygel intentionally threw the game (which itself was quite a challenge because his opponent was a horrible player) once he realized that unless the pirates thought they would leave with something of particular value, they would have simply killed everyone aboard when they departed regardless of an earlier promise to leave them in peace. For good measure, Rygel had pilot change their Comms frequencies the moment the pirates boarded, and the frequency he gave to pay his wager was a fake, leading the pirates on a wild goose chase far from their actual target. Rygel is less than successful on other occasions, however, having been defeated when gambling for food in a later episode. In the novel House of Cards, he also loses Moya to a local despot entirely. To Rygel's credit, however, his opponents cheated in both cases and it is clearly established that Rygel is a highly skilled gambler, even at games he is initially unfamiliar with.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_6edaecea	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_6edaecea	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum, Yami Marik and Yami Bakura's duels are Shadow Games, which makes them deadly.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_6f254fcb	comment	Three... Extremes: In the segment "Cut," a man is forced to follow a madman's directions or else one of his wife's fingers will be cut off every five minutes.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7094d7a8	comment	Interstellar Pig revolves around the titular board game that is eventually revealed to be more than it seems with stakes that involve more or less the complete destruction of every planet in the universe except one, or, it would seem, just one. The actual stakes are ambiguous, however.
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7094d7a8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_70bc1d72	comment	Dofus: Kerub's Bazaar has Kerub's adventure in Ecaflip City, a massive casino town where literally anything and everything can be wagered. Thanks to his incredible luck, he becomes wealthy enough to challenge the Baron, a legendary gambler who has never lost a game. They bet untold millions of kamas and the private belongings of kings and gods alike on a single hand of poker, but the real stakes came when the Baron raises a dofus, and Kerub calls with his engagement ring, the symbol of his and Lou's love for each other. Heartbreakingly, he loses, and Lou loses her memories of loving him.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_73bd5338	comment	Tarantino's short "The Man from Hollywood" in Four Rooms involves one character betting he can light his Zippo 10 times in a row. The stakes? His pinkynote they plan to get it reattached afterward for a car. He fails to even light it once.
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_73bd5338	featureApplicability	1.0
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_73c536ea	comment	Love, Death & Robots: The Mon-based Beastly Bloodsports featured in "Sonnie's Edge" aren't this, despite their violent nature; they don't even use real animals, just mindless, bioengineered Meat Puppets the players control through implant chips. For the protagonist, however, it's literally a matter of life and death. Her monster is her real body and if it dies, she goes with it. This has made her into the best player ever; unlike the other contestants, she's genuinely fighting for her life every night and behaves accordingly in the ring.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_74e9a4d8	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_74e9a4d8	comment	Miracle Workers (Season One): Eliza bets God that she and Craig can answer one impossible prayer in exchange for giving Earth a reprieve from fiery destruction. If Eliza loses, God blows the Earth up and she has to eat a worm in front of her co-workers.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_78146d21	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_78146d21	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the crew of the Flying Dutchman play liar's dice with the only thing they have left to wager — the years of service they owe to the ship. Will wagers his soul, meaning an eternity of service, against Jones to goad him into wagering the key to the chest containing his Soul Jar. Will's father takes the hit for him, only for Will to reveal he just wanted to see where Jones kept the key.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7aaf9e41	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: During the the Bronze Age, Batman once played Russian Roulette to catch a criminal. The criminal had been playing with millionaires in the area, and the two participants each had to write out a will that left everything to the winner of the game. The gun had an extra safety catch so the criminal never lost. Batman discovered this with the aid of a mirror and won.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7adc421e	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7adc421e	comment	In Vanguard Bandits, Lord Alden, undefeated Chessmaster of the continent, is more than willing to wager his powerful Altagrave ATAC against a completely new chess player.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7c253305	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7c253305	comment	In Fleuret Blanc, members of FOIL must wager their most prized possessions in fencing bouts. This case is actually pretty gentle by the trope's standards, as it's not permanent; prized possessions can be easily won or bought back most of the time.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7dd9fe24	comment	Nine Kings is a popular game among the nobility of the Seven Satrapies in The Lightbringer Series. There are some stories of people losing fortunes in matches of Nine Kings, but the real example focuses on the games between Kip and his grandfather Andross. The stakes include the fate of Kip's friends (including one's contract as a slave), Kip's marriage, and learning what led to his birth. In the final book, Andross even uses a game to try to predict the major battle that will come the following day and determine which of two empires survives.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7de22ab8	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7de22ab8	comment	Clerks: The film itself. Kevin Smith financed the movie by hocking valuable comic books and buying supplies on his credit card. Had the movie flopped or not been picked up by a major studio, he'd have been left with tens of thousands in high-interest debt with no real job prospects.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7ec770d3	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7ec770d3	comment	The Legend of Koizumi stakes natural resources, a fleet of F-15s, lives, and the fate of nations on Mahjong.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7f9dbbcd	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7f9dbbcd	comment	In Far Cry 3, upon revealing that he knew who Jason really was, Hoyt turns the poker game into this. One finger cut off for every time he loses a hand.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7fbd6753	comment	In the Thunder Cats 2011 episode "The Duelist and the Drifter", Professional Gambler and Master Swordsman the Duelist makes a habit of betting swordsmen they can't defeat him and offering up his own best blade as incentive, taking theirs as trophies when they inevitably lose. When young hero Lion-O challenges him and tries to raise the stakes so he can win the Duelist's entire sword collection, the Duelist insists that since Lion-O has only one to offer in return, the boy should agree to give up his life if he loses. Lion-O agrees to the terms.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7ff3216c	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7ff3216c	comment	In the Garfield and Friends episode "The Lasagna Zone", Garfield is playing cards against a cowboy. The stakes reach over two million dollars, plus a gold watch, the Klopman diamond, a horse, a grand piano, and the mayor of Davenport, Iowa.
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_7ff3216c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_810c9b91	comment	Rick and Morty (Oni): After being goaded into an argument with Jerry about the 'noble nature' of sports, Rick takes Jerry and Morty to the biggest game in the Galaxy, where parents bet on their children as they fight to the death. Then, after getting into an argument with another fan, Rick bets that Morty could win the next match.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_819b8c9e	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_819b8c9e	comment	An episode of Warehouse 13 uses a chessboard as a puzzle lock to a door. "Players" are manacled into their chair and faced with a board that will result in checkmate against them in 3 moves. Winning the game frees them and unlocks the door, losing the game results in an axe cleaving their head in two. The person who made that lock is well-known for stressing outside-the-box thinking, and thus the only way to win is to cheat by making impossible moves.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_854344f9	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_854344f9	comment	The real-life Oskar Schindler won Helen Hirsch (a Jew being forced to work as a maid before her inevitable execution) from Amon Goeth in a blackjack game so he could keep her safe at his factory. According to Hirsch's testimony, Schindler cheated outrageously throughout the game, and when he won and Goeth tried to wriggle out of the bet, Schindler had the balls to chide him for not playing fair!
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_860fb7f5	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_860fb7f5	comment	In Gentlemen Explorers, Riley is sent to infiltrate a high stakes poker by posing as the American representative. The game is a winner-takes-all game of Texas hold 'em where the Mexican representative is wagering a boxcar of gold, the Prussian a shipment of high-tech rifles, and the American the territories the U.S. won in the Mexicanâ€“American War.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8833918c	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8833918c	comment	In In Time, people can literally gamble away portions of their lifespan through various games such as poker. There's also a game simply called "fighting" where contestants try to pull the lifespan directly out of each other.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_890f6a72	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_890f6a72	comment	Space Jam: A New Legacy raises the stakes even higher after LeBron James and his son get trapped in the Warner Bros. Serververse by the rouge A.I. Al-G Rhythm. Initially, the stakes were if LeBron wins, he and his son can leave. If he loses, then they stay forever. He ends up raising them after learning about Dom's scanning technology from his phone, which he uses to trap thousands of civilians and LeBron followers for the big game. They all get to leave if the Tune Squad wins but if they lose, they ALL get trapped there forever. The Looney Tunes themselves will also get deleted if they lose.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_892aa56a	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: In "Stairway to Heaven", a small society meets annually and plays faro for the chance to die in controlled circumstances and be revived in an effort to learn about the afterlife. One of the players extols the pure chance of the game allowing everyone to have the same chance of winning, but it turns out one of the players cheated with marked cards.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_89bf8ce	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_89bf8ce	comment	In the 30 Rock episode "Blind Date", Jack joins the weekly poker game in the writer's room and proceeds to completely decimate almost everyone. Pete, all out of cash, tosses in his wedding ring; once he loses it, he realizes what's about to happen when he gets home, and Kenneth takes his place at the table because Pete is currently in the bathroom "laying in his own sick". Kenneth wins the lot of it because Jack can't read him at all, which infuriates him so much that he challenges him to another game, this time in front of the entire crew. He taunts Kenneth about his humble origins to try and rattle him, and goads him into putting his page jacket on the table, therefore betting his job. He loses to Jack's hand and tells Liz that he did it because he both likes living on the edge and was confused about the rules, but Jack stops him from leaving, gives back his jacket, and tells him that he just wanted to remind him that he could fire him if he wanted to.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8a6d835c	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8a6d835c	comment	Henry Coleman from As the World Turns tends to get himself in these sorts of situations.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8abc6482	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8abc6482	comment	Jamie's Got Tentacles!: In "I Bet You The World", Jamie's father loses planet Blarb to the Vlok General in a card game.
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8abc6482	featureApplicability	1.0
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8aef1fcf	comment	The slots-o-death machine in Space Quest. You can win a relatively paltry sum, but roll three skulls and you are toast. The only way for Roger to earn enough cash for a ticket out of Ulence Flats is by Save Scumming or (in the remake) a magnet on the bottom of the machine.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8c76c03	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8c76c03	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters, it's implied that anyone who loses all their Capsule Monsters in the final round will die. In the final battle, the power to control the world is up for grabs.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8d8157e0	comment	One of the final episodes of Lexx, "The Game", has Kai, who has never played chess before in his life (or undeath), playing a game against Prince. If Kai wins, Prince will restore Kai from the state of undeath he had been in for 5000 years. If Prince wins, he will take the souls of Stan and Zev.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8e8086c3	comment	Goldfinger: To draw Auric Goldfinger out James Bond challenges him to a golf game, with the stakes being a bar of Nazi Gold.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters: In "Night Game" Winston learns that a local baseball diamond is actually the site of an ancient battleground, where the forces of good and evil fight each other once every 500 years for the prize of a human soul. When the time comes again Winston convinces the two opposing sides to participate in a baseball game, with Winston taking the shortstop position for the side of Good. Igon, Ray and Peter are convinced that Winston is fighting for his own soul, but after Good wins the game over Evil, Winston tells the others that he was fighting for Peter's soul.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_91bfc110	comment	In Outlaw Women, Woody and Mae play one hand of five-card stud for ownership of the Paradise Saloon.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_95818d99	comment	In Killer7, there is a climactic game of Russian Roulette between Garcian Smith and Benjamin Keane. If Garcian wins, Keane will tell him the secret to hitting on any woman with 100% success. If Keane wins, Garcian must kill the President. The stakes end up being pretty meaningless anyway.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_98359872	comment	Soul Eater: Troubled Souls: To figure out how to curse somebody, Medusa subjects the protagonists to a series of four of these. In summation, they are: destroy all cobras even though they constantly regenerate and can multiply, get through an elaborate maze full of traps with no directions on time, solve an excruciatingly difficult puzzle, and finally survive fights with full-powered doppelgangers. The stakes are powers and abilities, personality traits, and their lives.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_98d2e5b5	comment	In the Secret Histories novel Casino Infernale, Eddie and Molly infiltrate the eponymous casino, where the stakes are people's souls.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_98f107f3	comment	Even though contestants are forced to participate in a competition in Bokurano, it's still true that the fate of countless entire universes are at stake in this competition.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_9bb5aad4	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Prince Ojin wagered the Doomsday Device his government had built in a duel against Saiou, for no other reason than to prove how badass he was. Whether he was brainwashed by the villain or not when he made the bet is unclear, but he certainly was after he lost. Even worse, Saiou's ante was the Destiny Hero cards, which he didn't even have, meaning it was a wager he couldn't have kept.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show: In the episode "Skips Strikes" has Rigby making a bet with Death: If Death's Team wins he'll get the team's souls and if Rigby's Team wins he gets a bowling ball filled with souls. Mordecai and Benson aren't happy about this, even for a joyful, friendly old man like Pops. "Over the Top" has Skips arm-wrestling Death for Rigby's soul. In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai eventually bets his computer privileges for life on a basketball game just so he can help Margaret make a website in hopes of impressing her.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_9e2f90f4	comment	The Davy Back Fight in One Piece is a series of contests between pirate crews. After each game, the captain of the winning crew gets to take something, anything, from the losing crew — whether it be personal property, their Jolly Roger, or even crewmates! "Silver Fox" Foxy has built a massive crew of at least 500 by winning people in these games, and actually won Chopper for a short time before the Straw Hats won their doctor back. Furthermore, he's a total cheat who goes out of his way to rig things in his crew's favor, whether it's interfering in a race or having a crooked referee for a ball game. Ultimately, Foxy loses to Luffy in the final boxing match, and Luffy (Not wanting any of Foxy's crew), takes Foxy's flag, leaving a horribly drawn replacement.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_9ec61fa1	comment	A NewsRadio episode has Jimmy lose Bill's employment contract in a poker game.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a0e4a1cb	comment	In Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, Jonah, Khalil and The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything play a game of Go Fish where the loser has to jump off the ship in the middle of a storm, since Captain Pa Grape rightfully assumes that "someone up there is really upset with someone down here". As the storm was caused by Jonah running away from God to avoid going to Ninevah, he naturally loses the game.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: The episode "Hell Is Other Robots" parodies the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". In the episode, Leela and Fry have to get Bender out of Robot Hell. The Robot Devil, after failing to get them to sign a "fiddle contest waiver", explains that they can have Bender if they can outplay him on a golden fiddle (when Fry points out the poor construction of such an instrument, he admits it's mostly for show). If they lose, they would only receive a silver fiddle as a consolation prize. He then offhanded added that he'd kill Fry as if it were expected of him instead of something he actually wanted to do. The Robot Devil's skill far outpaces Leela's, so she just beats him senseless with the golden fiddle so she, Fry, and Bender can escape. Defied in "Time Keeps on Slippin'", in which the Globetrotters' challenge of a basketball game against Earth is explicitly strings-free. Everyone treats it as Serious Business anyway.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a31501ec	comment	Happens in Gamble Fish quite often, where they are usually betting large amounts of money. In one case Tomu even bet his own finger; he lost and immediately had it chopped off with a chainsaw. The blood from his finger spilling on to the deck meant that the card shark he was playing against could no longer shift cards without it becoming obvious.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a4a6b86a	comment	At one point in Code Geass, Mao kidnaps Nunnally and challenges Lelouch to a game of chess: if Lelouch wins, he lets Nunnally go, but if he loses, she dies. Subverted when, after Lelouch loses, it's revealed that he had already formulated a plan to rescue her and then geassed himself to forget about it so that the mind-reading Mao wouldn't find out. While he and Mao both thought the stakes were high, in reality, Nunnally was never in any danger.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a578ebb5	comment	The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter who must consent to be hunted by a Cossack aristocrat on a deserted island, or be whipped to death.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a705c715	comment	Subverted in Cabin Fever. Jeff and Bert make a bet that they'll only drink beer for the duration of their vacation. Though the only thing they intentionally wager is their pride, unbeknownst to either of them, the stakes are actually much higher. Their cabin's water supply is infected with a deadly flesh-eating virus. So whoever breaks the wager and drinks water... dies.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering had an Ante rule, whereby after shuffling but before drawing hands, the first card in each player's deck would become an Ante card. The winner of the game gets both cards. Adding to this, a few cards manipulated the ante. This was eventually dropped, since 1) nobody wanted to risk losing their cards, and 2) Wizards didn't want Magic to be classified as a form of gambling in markets where such things would be frowned upon.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a9347d80	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour, losing a Shadow Game causes your soul to be lost to the darkness and you get a Game Over.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!. Weirdly enough, in the manga, Atem has a policy of not playing the Duel Monsters card game with an ante because he doesn't want to bet his precious cards on a wager, but he is perfectly fine to bet his and Yugi's life to compensate the lack of Star Chips... only to instead inflict penalty games on evildoers, where if they cheat they suffer psychosis or death. Later, the Duel Monsters series has no qualms about not only introducing an ante rule for both rare cards, Star Chips, and Locator Cards for tournament progression, but the villain plans often include wagers of souls. The most bizarre stakes often belong to minor antagonists, though. Especially during the arc where an entire city has its streets taken over 24/7 by holographic card games: If the protagonist loses, they're burned alive, or trapped in a cave forever — Pegasus' Eliminators Panik and the Brothers Paradox, respectively The loser gets their death by bleeding out from having their ankles severed by a buzzsaw (or sent to the Shadow Realm via Dark Energy Disk, in the dub) — Marik's Rare Hunter Arkana The loser is dropped through an exploding glass skydeck, through a busy shopping mall, to their death (or dropped into a portal to the Shadow Realm, in the dub) — Marik's Rare Hunters Lumis and Umbra The loser is drowned after being tied to a giant weight — Marik forcing Yugi and Joey to duel each other. This one actually isn't changed in the dub. Losing any monster cards causes an important person to be wiped from the player's memory — Marik, vs. Mai The loser's body is forfeit to the winner's mental possession, while the loser is trapped in a digital world — The Big Five Losing any monster cards causes physical pain — Marik, vs. Joey The loser loses their soul to fuel a giant demon — DOMA and the Seal of Orichalcos Playing a counterfeit Egyptian God Card will cause a Bolt of Divine Retribution to descend from the sky, knocking the victim and possible bystanders into a coma Parodied in one ProZD video, with the suggestion that either the writers are sadists, or the protagonist is a masochist. In terms of the Millennium Items, this is a Justified Trope, as the items can only fully change hands if won through a game of skill. Although why is never completely specified, the implication is their powers won't work unless the person won it off someone else. Considering the dark powers each one holds, there's often a reason games that wager them tend to turn deadly. In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters, it's implied that anyone who loses all their Capsule Monsters in the final round will die. In the final battle, the power to control the world is up for grabs. In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Prince Ojin wagered the Doomsday Device his government had built in a duel against Saiou, for no other reason than to prove how badass he was. Whether he was brainwashed by the villain or not when he made the bet is unclear, but he certainly was after he lost. Even worse, Saiou's ante was the Destiny Hero cards, which he didn't even have, meaning it was a wager he couldn't have kept.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ac129b14	comment	A downplayed example in The Courtship of Princess Leia. Force Sabaac is a known (if obscure) variant of the standard Star Wars card game, and Han legitimately worked his way up from high-but-reasonable stakes until he held some 800 million credits when he went head-to-head with an eccentric alien warlord. But the fact remains that he sat down to a card game and walked away with the deed to a planet.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ad44d362	comment	The Golden Phoenix: The game of hide-and-seek to which the Sultan challenges the young prince. If he wins the first round, he will escape with his life. If he wins a second time, he may marry the Sultan's daughter, and if he wins a third time, the Sultan must give him his choice of dowry.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ae806378	comment	In No More Heroes III, the boss fight with Velvet Chair Girl takes the form of an absurdly high-stakes game of musical chairs. Those eliminated from play are blown away by Ohma's Gastro Cannon. When Velvet Chair Girl herself is eliminated, she is Driven to Suicide.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Daniel J. D'Arby has the power to take the souls of whoever loses to him in a game, which he uses successfully against Polnareff and Joseph. Also, if you kill him, the souls will be trapped unconscious forever, and knocking him unconscious doesn't work either. When Jotaro faces him in a game of poker, Jotaro loses half of his soul on one hand, then ramps the stakes up massively for the second. Jotaro bets his own soul, Avdol's, and Kakyoinnote Who, it must be noted, isn't even present.'s to get back the ones taken. Jotaro then bets the soul of his own mother (who would die anyway if their quest ended in failure), against D'Arby revealing the power of DIO's Stand (and facing a certain, horrible death as a consequence). Jotaro wins only through magnificent bluffing, putting this all on a hand he didn't even look at. D'Arby is so shocked by Jotaro's confidence that he himself becomes too afraid to call Jotaro's bluff, believing that Jotaro used Star Platinum's extreme speed to switch out cards without D'Arby noticing after Jotaro uses it to do just that to grab a cigarette and a drink. The thought of him being punished for betraying DIO's secret sends him into a tailspin, and he passes out, thus forfeiting. Jotaro's hand turned out to be worthless, and Jotaro admits that if he had looked and realized how shit his hand really was, he would have had a heart attack. Later on, the heroes encounter D'Arby's younger brother Telence, who has a similar power but prefers to play video games, trapping Kakyoin's soul after winning. He's even worse than his brother because he keeps his victims fully aware. Jotaro has to cheat to win this time, because Telence's Stand gives him the power to "read" a person's aura, letting him predict what his opponents will do by asking them simple "yes or no" questions. He gets around this by having his grandpa Joseph control the game secretly using his Stand so that Telence can no longer figure out his strategy. Diamond is Unbreakable: Rohan encounters one of the Stand Users created by Yoshikage Kira's father using the Stand Arrow; a boy whose Stand lets him steal another person's Stand if he can beat them three times out of five at Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors. It comes down to the wire, but Rohan wins in the end by physically beating the boy to damage his confidence. Later, Josuke challenges Rohan to a game of dice, using dice that are actually a shapeshifting "alien". Unfortunately, the alien has no idea of subtlety, resulting in increasingly improbable rolls (i.e. rolling perfect twenties more than five times in a row). Rohan knows Josuke is cheating, but isn't sure how, and raises the stakes to betting fingers. Rohan almost completely chops off his pinky and says that Josuke can heal it if and only if he can keep cheating successfully, but if Rohan can suss out his trick he'll be chopping off one of Josuke's fingers as punishment note Josuke's Stand Crazy Diamond can restore things to their original state, including injured people, but he can't heal himself so this is a major risk for him. Josuke manages to get out of it when Rohan's house accidentally catches fire due to a misplaced magnifying glass that Rohan had used earlier to inspect the dice; Josuke quickly heals Rohan while he's distracted and beats a hasty retreat. He walks away with nothing, while Rohan pays 7 million yen to repair his house and his hatred of Josuke gets even stronger. Rohan once again encounters this in the spinoff manga Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, where an innocuous game at the gym involving two treadmills and a remote control becomes an impromptu Jigsaw Trap where the loser gets thrown out of a window, all because Rohan failed to realize the person who he was playing against had been possessed by the Greek God Hermes, who is no less prone to Blue-and-Orange Morality and Disproportionate Retribution than his Olympian brethren. Stone Ocean: Miraschon's Stand allows her to automatically collect the wager of a bet somone makes with her whenever her opponent loses. The problem is that if you don't have enough money to pay her, her Stand will take your body parts (like your liver) to cover your bet — and is completely invincible while doing so. On top of that, she can freely cheat all she wants; but, if her opponents even thinks of cheating, they automatically lose. However, unlike the D'Arby brothers' Stands, Miraschon's Stand is subject to Exact Words and Loophole Abuse. When it looks like Miraschon has managed to sabotage a game of catch by having a prison guard confiscate the ball and trapping Jolyne in an elevator with her, which allegedly means that the game is over with Jolyne as the loser, Jolyne reveals that technically, she didn't specify who her partner for the game would be, meaning that the guard counts as well, before using her own string-based Stand to reach over to the guard's pocket, unravel the ball into a lump of string, and retrieve it. Since Jolyne didn't lose, Miraschon's stand returns everything it confiscated before disappearing, and since Miraschon is now trapped inside an elevator with Jolyne, she is powerless to defend herself against Jolyne delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, bouncing the ball off of Miraschon's face enough times to win the bet. JoJolion: Josuke is challenged to a game by Daiya, who possesses a Stand that allows her to steal her opponent's memories if they break one of the game's rules, forcing Josuke to tread carefully to prevent Daiya from permanently destroying his memories. Josuke manages to recover his stolen memories after getting Daiya to step on his shadow.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b0f7bb9	comment	The Gambling Den in the Ghost City in Heaven Officialâ€™s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu only takes this kind of bet. People bet years off their lives (or their family members') and important body parts. They win: their wish comes true; they lose: they pay up. And the House is supernaturally lucky.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b17e4ecb	comment	European Folk and Fairy Tales: In The Three Soldiers, the sergeant bets with the card-playing princess the three magic objects he and his companions gained from the old woman in the woods: a purse that always provides money, a tablecloth that provides food and a whistle that summons a regiment of soldiers.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b2700e28	comment	Parodied in a special episode of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, in which Kitten challenges Tzeentch to a game of Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker. The objective is already to see who will claim Magnus the Red's soul, but then Tzeentch raises the stakes further by declaring it to be an "Ultra Game," in which the loser will be banished to Ultramar, realm of the Ultramarines.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b3708359	comment	Sabacc is a well-known card game played by criminals and smugglers across the galaxy where you're allowed to wager anything, slaves, land, any amount of wealth, you name it. Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian this way in Solo: A Star Wars Story. In the Expanded Universe, this is the explanation for how Lando obtained his post as Administrator of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, meaning somebody wagered an entire city. This was also the way Han got an entire planet that he took Leia to after "kidnapping" her in the Star Wars Legends novel The Courtship of Princess Leia.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The Spectacular Spider-Man #21 had a somewhat lighter-hearted version of this. The New York superheroes have a yearly poker game with twenty-dollar stakes with the winner donating their winnings to charity. Then along comes the Kingpin with a ridiculous amount of money. There's nothing really at stake more than pride and a good cause, but that doesn't mean it's any less entertaining to watch Spider-Man and Kingpin play out the final round with ludicrous piles of chips each. (Spidey won — his Spider-Sense means that he always knows whether or not someone's bluffing.)
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b56e7fd	comment	Jean-Eric Louvier of Endless Ocean: Blue World won an island in a game of nine ball. It's appropriately named Nineball Island.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b5c45bf5	comment	Over the Edge: "Chick" runs a floating casino called the Winds of Change, which specializes in such games. You can bet your life against someone else's; the winner gets a 1-Up in exchange for the loser's death. Just do yourself a favor: don't try and cheat.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b79a4672	comment	The government in Decks Fall Everyone Dies is based around dice games. The characters plan a coup d'Ã©tat to bring back the old card-based government.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b919e22c	comment	Return to Zork has a board game called "Survivor" with really simple rules: One player controls a piece called "the Wizard" and the other a piece called "Canuck." Canuck can move wherever he wants, the Wizard can only move in L-formations and leaves pits when he vacates a space. The goal of the game is for the other player to be forced to move into a pit (and thus lose). You play this game twice, and the second time is the final boss of the game, with the fate of all Zork riding on the outcome. For good measure, losing will also result in you being turned to stone and having your strategic abilities assimilated by the villain.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_b951170	comment	A Big Hand for the Little Lady focuses on a yearly poker game played by "western rules" in which there are no table stakes. You can raise the bet to as much wealth as you can possibly raise. The film revolves around a hand in which a lady must run around town trying to find someone to lend her the funds to call an astronomical raise.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ba63d0a9	comment	Oh, God!, You Devil!. God and the Devil play a poker hand over Bobby's soul. God raises the stakes, by allowing the Devil to consider any soul available for stealing (the Devil can only offer a contract if the person offers his soul first); the Devil folds. God bluffed him out of his full house with a busted flush, and won.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ba6e04f6	comment	The Cuphead Show!: Fittingly, considering the game the show is based on, the final episode sees Cuphead bet both his and Mugman's souls to the Devil over a game of rock, paper, scissors in hopes of saving Miss Chalice. If he wins, then he, Mugman and Chalice all walk free. If the Devil wins, he not only finally claims Cuphead's soul, but he will also kill Miss Chalice. Cuphead wins repeatedly, but refuses to stop until his brother has to interfere and drag him off in case the Devil actually manages to beat him.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_bd310eaa	comment	Parodied in El Goonish Shive, when the prize in question is use of the original, unedited version of Star Wars on laserdisc.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_bd447006	comment	In the Dr. Watson At War series by Robert Ryan, Watson has to parachute out of a bomber at a time when it's still a highly dangerous technique (he's told the fatality rate is one in three, through that's from aircraft that are already spinning out of control or in flames). It's pretty risky for the bomber crew as well, as when they descend to drop a parachutist they're a sitting duck for the enemy defenses. Watson and the bomber pilot end up playing chess with the stakes being what height they drop him from — one thousand or three thousand feet. Watson loses the game, but the pilot drops him from a thousand feet anyway.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: Daniel J. D'Arby has the power to take the souls of whoever loses to him in a game, which he uses successfully against Polnareff and Joseph. Also, if you kill him, the souls will be trapped unconscious forever, and knocking him unconscious doesn't work either. When Jotaro faces him in a game of poker, Jotaro loses half of his soul on one hand, then ramps the stakes up massively for the second. Jotaro bets his own soul, Avdol's, and Kakyoinnote Who, it must be noted, isn't even present.'s to get back the ones taken. Jotaro then bets the soul of his own mother (who would die anyway if their quest ended in failure), against D'Arby revealing the power of DIO's Stand (and facing a certain, horrible death as a consequence). Jotaro wins only through magnificent bluffing, putting this all on a hand he didn't even look at. D'Arby is so shocked by Jotaro's confidence that he himself becomes too afraid to call Jotaro's bluff, believing that Jotaro used Star Platinum's extreme speed to switch out cards without D'Arby noticing after Jotaro uses it to do just that to grab a cigarette and a drink. The thought of him being punished for betraying DIO's secret sends him into a tailspin, and he passes out, thus forfeiting. Jotaro's hand turned out to be worthless, and Jotaro admits that if he had looked and realized how shit his hand really was, he would have had a heart attack. Later on, the heroes encounter D'Arby's younger brother Telence, who has a similar power but prefers to play video games, trapping Kakyoin's soul after winning. He's even worse than his brother because he keeps his victims fully aware. Jotaro has to cheat to win this time, because Telence's Stand gives him the power to "read" a person's aura, letting him predict what his opponents will do by asking them simple "yes or no" questions. He gets around this by having his grandpa Joseph control the game secretly using his Stand so that Telence can no longer figure out his strategy.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The 11th Doctor episode "The Wedding of River Song" gives us "Live Chess". Live, as in the pieces are electrified, and each time a piece is moved the voltage in it increases. Another 11th Doctor episode, "Nightmare in Silver", has the Doctor play a game of chess against himself. Actually, a Cyber-Planner is trying to take over his body and had intermittent control. If the Doctor loses the game, then the Cybermen will have him as their new leader.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_c7912cea	comment	Jimmy Two-Shoes: Funny Face-Off is a game played by the Rodeo Clowns where the funniest face between two players wins and the loser gets their face frozen. While anyone, even non-clowns, can play the regular version as the freezing is only temporary, they would never allow newbies to participate in Extreme Funny Face-Offs where the loser's face ends up permanently frozen, only making an exception for Jimmy after Lucious bribes them into letting him do it so he'll lose.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_c97e8ce3	comment	Hardcore Leveling Warrior: If Hardcore Leveling Warrior can't pay back his debt in time by collecting money in-game, he'll have his organs removed. If Hardcore Leveling Warrior dies in-game for any reason, including in what is effectively a mini-game with multiple lives, his stats and level are reset to 1. Considering that Death Is a Slap on the Wrist for all other players we've seen...
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ca171922	comment	Guys and Dolls's Sky Masterson got his name from his love for "crazy" bets. In the climax of the show ("Luck Be A Lady"), bets every man at the craps game $1,000 against their souls — if he wins, they have to show up at the Save-a-Soul Mission.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_cae652c	comment	Komugi of Hunter Ã— Hunter plays every single game of Gungi, a fictional board game in the Hunterverse, with the resolve to end her life if she loses even once. She has played thousands of games of Gungi and never lost once, near the end of her life becoming skilled enough she was for all intents and purposes impossible to beat.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_cb6abea3	comment	Later, the Duel Monsters series has no qualms about not only introducing an ante rule for both rare cards, Star Chips, and Locator Cards for tournament progression, but the villain plans often include wagers of souls. The most bizarre stakes often belong to minor antagonists, though. Especially during the arc where an entire city has its streets taken over 24/7 by holographic card games: If the protagonist loses, they're burned alive, or trapped in a cave forever — Pegasus' Eliminators Panik and the Brothers Paradox, respectively The loser gets their death by bleeding out from having their ankles severed by a buzzsaw (or sent to the Shadow Realm via Dark Energy Disk, in the dub) — Marik's Rare Hunter Arkana The loser is dropped through an exploding glass skydeck, through a busy shopping mall, to their death (or dropped into a portal to the Shadow Realm, in the dub) — Marik's Rare Hunters Lumis and Umbra The loser is drowned after being tied to a giant weight — Marik forcing Yugi and Joey to duel each other. This one actually isn't changed in the dub. Losing any monster cards causes an important person to be wiped from the player's memory — Marik, vs. Mai The loser's body is forfeit to the winner's mental possession, while the loser is trapped in a digital world — The Big Five Losing any monster cards causes physical pain — Marik, vs. Joey The loser loses their soul to fuel a giant demon — DOMA and the Seal of Orichalcos Playing a counterfeit Egyptian God Card will cause a Bolt of Divine Retribution to descend from the sky, knocking the victim and possible bystanders into a coma Parodied in one ProZD video, with the suggestion that either the writers are sadists, or the protagonist is a masochist. In terms of the Millennium Items, this is a Justified Trope, as the items can only fully change hands if won through a game of skill. Although why is never completely specified, the implication is their powers won't work unless the person won it off someone else. Considering the dark powers each one holds, there's often a reason games that wager them tend to turn deadly.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_cb9dd407	comment	In Amalgamate, Kokichi and the rest of DICE were put through a Deadly Game that hinged heavily upon I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: if anyone participating in a challenge failed, another member of the group would be chosen at random to die. This all added up to a Pyrrhic Victory when Kokichi became the Sole Survivor.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt pits several contestants against each other, and heavily encouraged to kill each other off in other to ensure their own survival until the endÃ¯Â¿Â½ most of the players are hardened criminals eager to use the show as a way to get out, but not all. Word of God has stated that the contestants are NOT required to kill anyone during the show. But, the stakes up for grabs are either death, going back to jail, or freedom with a full pardon. The producers are waiting for the contestants to take advantage of the payoff of a full pardon of all their crimes.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ccb49159	comment	Laff-A-Lympics: Issue #4 had an alien named Moon Man Murray challenge of selection of Laff-A-Lympics team members transported to the Moon and compete in a series of events with the Earth at
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Johnny Bravo was once abducted by aliens after trying to fix his tv, and gets trapped in a game show, where the loser gets their planet blown up. Johnny wins in the final round "suck my brain out", which his opponent finds he has none. The alien host then has to blow up his own planet and Johnny goes free.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_d31cdea	comment	This is pretty much the whole point of The Hunger Games. Win, and not only are you rich for life, but your whole district gets monthly deliveries of food, which makes a big difference for a place where most people are perpetually on the brink of starvation. Lose, and you die, likely in a painful and violent way — certainly in a public way. The games are mandatory viewing for everyone in the country, including your family and anyone who may care about you, and there's always a full recap of each death. They feature less in the sequels, as by that point, a civil war has erupted.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	In Deadlands, the character type called the Huckster plays hands of poker to cast their spells, where they need to get a good enough hand... or else a demon might fry a chunk of their brain, drive them insane, or just tear their body asunder. The interesting part here being that the PLAYER is the one who plays this Absurdly High Stakes Game with his character's life.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_d794834d	comment	Akagi: In the final story arc for the anime, the hero plays an unusual version of Mahjong where he bets his own blood instead of money. Akagi eventually won all of Washizu's money so the game continues with both competitors wage blood.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_d7edcdb3	comment	Gunnm: Gally promises to give her own heart to Jashugan if he defeats her at arm wrestling.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_d8040caa	comment	Space Jam involves familiar Looney Tunes characters playing a basketball game against their would-be alien abductors. If the aliens win, the Looney Tunes characters will become slaves on the aliens' homeworld. If the Looney Tunes win, the aliens will leave them in peace. When Michael Jordan learned the aliens became monstrosities (or Monstars, as they were called) by stealing the talent of other professional basketball players, he talked the Big Bad into raising the stakes. If the Looney Tunes win, the aliens will not only leave them in peace as originally agreed but also give the talent back to their rightful owners. If the aliens win, Jordan, like the Looney Tunes, will also become a slave.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_d81d0106	comment	Kaiji: The entire premise of the show revolves around this. Over the course of the show, the main character bets his freedom, his life, and various body parts, in order to win money. These fingers◊ are being bet on a game of drawing lots from a tissue box!.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London has the Marvellous, described as "a notorious card game in which you can stake your soul and win your heart's desire", played with 77 First City coins as tokens. This stake doesn't actually seem very high, in-universe, as opportunities to lose your soul aren't exactly rare, but... losers of past games have wagered and lost far more precious things than their souls. Yes, that's possible. As to winning your Heart's Desire, this part is also entirely true. Imprisoning a Master of the Bazaar has been one of the previous prizes, and even if your Heart's Desire is extremely hard to attain (which, in your character's case, it will) or even abstract, the Masters will make it happen. You can also invert this against your final opponent, knowing he is The Gambling Addict, and just bet a single penny to watch him take the bet anyways despite himself.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	No Game No Life: The entire world of Disboard revolves around this trope. Tet, the One True God of Disboard after the great war, forbade all robbery, war and murder after he rose to power. Disputes are decided by games — enforced via Magically-Binding Contract — where both participants wager things they agree are of equal value. These things can be anything from money to servitude to entire kingdoms. One of the first things that Sora and Shiro do after becoming king is bet Imanity's Race Piece—meaning that if they lose, Imanity will lose their rights as a sapient species, and no longer be protected from robbery, war, and murder. Worse, what they get if they win is relatively minor in comparison, just some lands that they don't need and lost years ago. Their people are understandably upset about this, and riots break out. Turns out the whole point was to bait the enemy into a game they otherwise wouldn't play because it would be far too suspicious to pass up such a good bet.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_df290812	comment	In Gossip Girl, Serena and Nate join a high-stakes poker game hoping to clear Carter Baizen's debt, the stakes becoming even higher when Nate gives Serena a photo to wager that could cost Chip the election. Ends up being averted; Serena loses, but Nate meant her to. The picture is photoshopped, so when the Buckleys attempt to use it, the van der Bilts will 'expose' them as liars.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_dfcc3501	comment	In The Cambist and Lord Iron, Lord Iron entangles Olaf in one of these.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_dff248f8	comment	The Adventures of Puss in Boots: In the episode "Coin Toss", Dulcinea arguably puts the fate of the world on the line in a final coin toss. Subverted in that said coin is a Two-Headed Coin, but Dulci was the only one who knew that.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the occasional scene where some of the show's more benign demons, including Spike, are in a closed-door poker game where the stakes are kittens. Perfectly mundane, live, purring, walking kittens. Not very large stakes in terms of monetary value, but of enormous personal value from the kittens' perspective.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_e5c5bc22	comment	In one sidestory in GURPS Traveller: Starports there is a bar story about a floating poker game between the top spymasters in the Imperium with pieces of interstellar intelligence as the stakes.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "The Dagger Club", The Gambling Addict is playing poker in an attempt to win his way out of debts. After going all in, the woman who holds his gambling debts goads him into betting more: his share of the book store he co-owns, and the missing manuscript that is the MacGuffin of the episode. He accepts and loses. When it turns out he never had the manuscript, the woman claims his wife's share of the book store as well, as recompense.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_e6642a46	comment	The entire premise of Diggstown revolves around a high-stakes boxing bet. In the long run, one side of the bet is a man's life (because if he loses, the guy he borrowed the money from will kill him) and the other side is basically an entire town (about $2.5 million).
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_e83541f7	comment	A Knight's Devotion: During Gaia's route, he's forced to play cards with a pirate captain. Should he win, the pirates will let his ship reprovision and leave port, but if he loses, the pirate gets to claim the protagonist as his own.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening: During Chrom and Vaike's support conversations, Vaike suggests that in order to make their sparring more interesting, they should make some sort of wager... namely, everything they own. Chrom points out that he's royalty and they're in the middle of a war, so Vaike comes up with a much more reasonable wager that still arguably fits this trope: loser has to sneak behind resident badass Frederick, and pull down his pants.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_eb0c9938	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: Rohan encounters one of the Stand Users created by Yoshikage Kira's father using the Stand Arrow; a boy whose Stand lets him steal another person's Stand if he can beat them three times out of five at Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors. It comes down to the wire, but Rohan wins in the end by physically beating the boy to damage his confidence. Later, Josuke challenges Rohan to a game of dice, using dice that are actually a shapeshifting "alien". Unfortunately, the alien has no idea of subtlety, resulting in increasingly improbable rolls (i.e. rolling perfect twenties more than five times in a row). Rohan knows Josuke is cheating, but isn't sure how, and raises the stakes to betting fingers. Rohan almost completely chops off his pinky and says that Josuke can heal it if and only if he can keep cheating successfully, but if Rohan can suss out his trick he'll be chopping off one of Josuke's fingers as punishment note Josuke's Stand Crazy Diamond can restore things to their original state, including injured people, but he can't heal himself so this is a major risk for him. Josuke manages to get out of it when Rohan's house accidentally catches fire due to a misplaced magnifying glass that Rohan had used earlier to inspect the dice; Josuke quickly heals Rohan while he's distracted and beats a hasty retreat. He walks away with nothing, while Rohan pays 7 million yen to repair his house and his hatred of Josuke gets even stronger. Rohan once again encounters this in the spinoff manga Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, where an innocuous game at the gym involving two treadmills and a remote control becomes an impromptu Jigsaw Trap where the loser gets thrown out of a window, all because Rohan failed to realize the person who he was playing against had been possessed by the Greek God Hermes, who is no less prone to Blue-and-Orange Morality and Disproportionate Retribution than his Olympian brethren.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_eb59224d	comment	LazyTown: Robbie often schemes to give games ridiculously high stakes, like Sportacus leaving town forever if he loses.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: In "Swamp and Sensibility", if Wally wins the beast-ball game, then he'll be free to leave Ribbitvale and free to be himself. If he loses, then he'll have no choice but to stay and inherit the family business.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening: At one point in the starter adventure "Gloria Mundi", the Player Party needs to rescue a PC's soul from the spirit that's stolen it. One suggestion is to exploit its love of gambling to win the soul back in a card game, but it will only wager the soul for a chance at an equivalent prize...
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ec9965ca	comment	The Culture: In The Player of Games, the Azad empire is named after their favorite game. Briefly, whoever wins the quadriennial tournament becomes emperor. Uncommonly people even bet limbs or lives on the outcome. The game is meant as a metaphor for life and the psychology of the player, so when a Culture citizen defeats the ministers of state and then the emperor, using the ideas of the Culture, the culture shock is immense. In Consider Phlebas, we're introduced to Damage. Each player brings a team of Lives (mostly depressives, members of suicide cults, and other volunteers) and when the player loses a hand, one of the Lives is killed. When the player runs out of Lives, it's their own life on the line. Oh, and it's played in the most dangerous places in the galaxy — the game we see on-page takes place on a ringworld in the process of being demolished.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_ed2a7866	comment	The usual stakes in the Sword Art Online canon have been upped even further in Fate Revelation Online due to the fact that even if they get out, the Mage's Association will proceed to eliminate all witnesses for revealing the fact that Magic is Real.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow: The Legends find themselves in a cosmic bowling alley where a bunch of jerks are forcing people to play for their planets. The planets are first transformed into the bowling ball, then if the aliens win, are kept permanently in a trophy case.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f168045c	comment	The central setting of Kakegurui has a vast underground gambling scene where millions and occasionally billions of yen are wagered on a daily basis on everything from poker to roulette to rock-paper-scissors. Those who fall deep in debt and can't afford to pay their dues to the Absurdly Powerful Student Council are treated like animals, and (especially in Mary Saotome's case) people who were once friends/associates will turn against the losers on a dime once their debts are made public.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f367511c	comment	Despite being based on Yu-Gi-Oh!, most stories from Arc-Ved Protagonists avert this. It is however played straight in "Reluctant Choice" and "Dark Fusion" where at least 1 party is at risk of turning into a card should they lose.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f3f3618e	comment	Halloween Unspectacular X features this as a key part of the story "A House in New Orleans". The titular house is a gambling den that's fairly normal, but the private second level is magically addictive, and even winners are compelled to come back for the thrill over and over until eventually they run out of money and have to start wagering other things as collateral — things like their memories, their freedom, and finally their souls. Gaz ended up losing all three, being reduced to just another mindless employee of the casino. Dib is made to play for her freedom with his collateral being Gaz's very existence... and one scene break later, he's heading home, having completely forgotten why he was in New Orleans to begin with.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f510a5c1	comment	Around the World in Eighty Days: Phileas Fogg wages half his fortune that he can travel around the world in 80 days and expects the other half to be spent on his efforts to win. If he wins, he'll have as much money as he'd have if he never entered the bet. If he loses, he's broke.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f565604d	comment	In the exhibition match in Eyeshield 21 between the Deimon Devilbats and the NASA Aliens, Aliens' coach Apollo in response to an embarrassing viral video sent by Devilbats captain Hiruma, furiously announced that if the Aliens doesn't win by more than 10 points, they will never return to America. Hiruma in turn responded that if the Devilbats don't win by more than 10 points, they will leave Japan. Of course, Loophole Abuse was in play when the NASA Aliens won but not by a 10 point difference. Apollo changed the name of the team to NASA Shuttles so the NASA Aliens won't be returning to America. And the Devilbats do leave Japan but Hiruma never specified that they wouldn't be returning.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: When Yuusuke's gang broke into Tarukane's mansion to save Yukina, Tarukane invited his friends from the Black Black Club to place bets on the outcome of the eventual fights. When Yusuke and Kuwabara were about to fight the Toguro brothers, Sakyo waged so much on the heroes' victory Tarukane had to risk practically everything he owned in order to accept the bet. Too bad for him the Toguro brothers were actually working for Sakyo. When Team Toguro and Team Urameshi later became the finalists of a tournament, Sakyo and Koenma waged their lives in the fight that decided the tournament. It was not the first time Sakyo bets his life but became the first time he lost. Also, during other stages of the tournament, some other people wagered their wealth and lost. The word game Kurama plays against Kaito is bet with souls. The video games against Game Master can count as well. If they don't win quickly, they'll be too late to seal the tunnel to demon world. They don't die or lose as long as they don't quit. By becoming the heroes of the video game brought to life, Yusuke's group can play the game again if they lose but will die if they let it go to game over. Also, Game Master took the place of the Big Bad, meaning that if he loses he'll die, as stated by the video game. Kurama made him realize this to unnerve him and win the game faster.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_fb873b86	comment	The Saw series of films is based entirely around extremely dangerous, torturous games.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_fc29ccc7	comment	Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Roald Dahl's "The Man from the South", written in 1948, appeared both on the original show (with Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre) and the 1985 revival (with John Huston and Steven Bauer). It also inspired the segment of Four Rooms mentioned above in Film.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: In "Dungeons, Dungeons & More Dungeons", the wizard Probabilitor forces Stan and Mabel to play a game of DD&MD for the lives of Ford and Dipper.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_fe85bfc8	comment	In the canon of Super Smash Bros., fights are usually low-stakes, so long as your opponent is a good sport. However, in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fanfic Crusader of Life III, Emily and Lucio find that if they lose, they could be trapped in that world forever.
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Absurdly High-Stakes Game / int_fee93d77	comment	13 Tzameti: A group of men play a modified version of Russian Roulette while gamblers bet huge stakes on the outcome. The film received an American remake called 13.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Forever (Fanfic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Re-GX (Fanfic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
A Big Hand for the Little Lady / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Ash Is Purest White / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Casino Royale (2006) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Cheap Thrills / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Death Cage / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Escape Room / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Escape Room (2019) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Four Rooms / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
God of Gamblers / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
In Time / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Little Giants / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Love & Basketball / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Mean Guns / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Out Cold / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Schindler's List / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Space Jam: A New Legacy / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Spies Like Us / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Big Sleep / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Love Bug / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Phantom Menace / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Quick and the Dead / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Three... Extremes / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Tower of London / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Winner Takes All / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Cardfight!! Vanguard (Franchise) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Tabaluga (Franchise) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Franchise) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Accel World / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Danganronpa Kirigiri / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Date A Live / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Accel World / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Around the World in Eighty Days / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Bas-LagCycle	seeAlso	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Danganronpa Kirigiri / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Date A Live / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
European Folk and Fairy Tales / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Firefly: Generations / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Grand Central Arena / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Halcyon Park / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Mahabharata / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Precious Bane / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Ready Player One / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Ready Player Two / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Revolving Door / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Beast from the East / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Cambist and Lord Iron / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Golden Phoenix / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Hunger Games / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Lightbringer Series / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Player of Games / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Wonder Boy Of Whistle Stop / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Akagi (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
BECK (1999) (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Choujin Sensen (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Fatal Chaos (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Food Wars! (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Gamble Fish (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Kaiji (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Kakegurui (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Kengan Ashura (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Liar Game (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Life Is Money (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Noragami (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Oldboy (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
One Outs (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Plunderer (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Spiral (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Tricks Dedicated to Witches (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Usogui (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
World Embryo (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Diary of a Tourney Kid (Music) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Penumbra Podcast (Podcast) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Alfred Hitchcock Presents / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Around the World in 80 Days (2021) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Around the World in 80 Days (2021) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Bread / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Bread (1986) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Chase (NBC) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Chinese Paladin 3 / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Dans Une Galaxie PrÃ¨s De Chez Vous / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Echo (2024) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
El gran juego de la oca / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
LazyTown / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Luther / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Midsomer Murders / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Miracle Workers (Season One) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Mr. Lucky / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Murdoch Mysteries / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Paranoia / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Squid Game: The Challenge / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Switched at Birth / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Tales from the Crypt / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Middleman / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Numbers / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Ugly Betty / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Vegas (2012) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
White Collar / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Wiseguy / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Betrayal at House on the Hill (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Blood on the Clocktower (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Deadlands (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Hoyle's Rules of Dragon Poker (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Over the Edge (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Strange (Tabletop Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Guys and Dolls (Theatre) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Khan!!! The Musical! (Theatre) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Manon (Theatre) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Dicey Dungeons (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Dota 2 (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Endless Ocean (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Far Cry 3 (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Hard West (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Killer7 (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Medieval Cop (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Meteos (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Paper Mario: Color Splash (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Pikmin 4 (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Pirates of the Caribbean Online (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Soul At Stake (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Vanguard Bandits (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Wintermoor Tactics Club (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Hand of Fate (Video Game) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Haunted Legends / Videogame / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
A Knight's Devotion (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Bachelorette Party (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Fleuret Blanc (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Mr. Love: Queen's Choice (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Period Cube (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Slow Burn (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Slow Damage (Visual Novel) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Dudim In The Family (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Calfreezy (Web Video) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Critical Role: Campaign Two (Web Video) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Shady Oaks SMP (Web Video) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Sidemen (Web Video) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Crystal (Web Video) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
A Complete Waste of Time (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Hardcore Leveling Warrior (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Hoofstuck (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Nepetaquest 2011 (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Nightmare Factory (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Sandswept (Webcomic)	seeAlso	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The 10 Doctors (Webcomic) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Angelo Rules / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Dofus: Kerub's Bazaar / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Garfield and Friends / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Jamie's Got Tentacles! / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Odd Job Jack / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Tales from the Cryptkeeper / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Emoji Movie / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Real Ghostbusters / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Wildfire / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Defiant Wrestling (Wrestling) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Masahiko Kimura (Wrestling) / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Summer Wars / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Courtship of Princess Leia / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
The Night Circus / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game

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