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Beleaguered Benefactor
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In many stories requiring a character a team, heroic or otherwise, to have grand schemes, there needs to be someone to fund their endeavors if they aren't independently wealthy. After all, big plans or grand spectacles aren't cheap. That's where The Team Benefactor comes in. However, sometimes the same team or character's exploits hemorrhage the benefactor's bank account since while rich and wealthy with an Arbitrarily Large Bank Account, their wealth isn't infinite and expenses can add up, even for a Fiction 500. Expensive and irreplaceable equipment is broken too often, too much collateral damage is made, and bills outweigh the gains much to a benefactor's displeasure. That's when this trope occurs. This trope is when the benefactor of a team or character is notably financially or personally distraught by the actions of the party they support. At best, they'll gripe and complain, but still begrudgingly fund their associates. At worst, they'll cut their associates off completely out of disgust or demand to be compensated due to being in financial ruin. At times the trope can veer into familial ties where a rich parent or Uncle Pennybags gets fed up with the spending habits of their charge. See Beleaguered Boss, Da Chief and Da Editor for other bosses often exasperated by their subordinates. |
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Happens to Mr. E in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated where as the head of Mega-Corp Destroido, he is responsible for all its environmental damage and dangerous products, eventually aiding the Mystery Team and Professor Pericles in his plans. Eventually Professor Perciles' schemes grow out of control by the episode The Horrible Herd and Mr. E spends the entire episode griping about Pericles wasting Destroido's money and the lives of dozens of his best scientists on ravenous mutant cattle and missile launchers, which eventually results in Mr. E trying to lock Perciles out of any control over his company. | |
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In The Princess and the Frog, Prince Naveen's parents were implied to be this trope as despite being their oldest son and heir, Naveen's extravagant lifestyle and hedonistic party guy mentality leeched from the family wealth so much that his parents decided to cut him off for good and exiled him to America as punishment. | |
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In Johnny Test, the scientists of Porkbelly University are often this in regards to Susan and Mary's experiments. A notable example in "Johnny Test in 3D" where the scientists supporting the girls' experiment to turn salt water into drinking water grow more frustrated after their many failed attempts. The experiment eventually succeeds, but it now costs 2.4 million dollars to produce just one glass of water to make up for all the wasted time and research money. | |
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Spy X Family: While Sylvia Sherwood normally isn't subjected to this on account of Twlight/Loid Forger being The Ace and managing funds very well, she does explode at him after (due to some pressuring from Frankie) he rents out an entire castle, a plane, and the services of all available WISE agents so that he can have them enact an episode of Spy Wars (it's his way of congratulating Anya for getting into Eden Academy) and puts the cost as mission expenses. She's amazed (and slightly impressed) that Loid's response to her indignation is to had her another bill - in this case, the one for Anya's uniform (which, on its own, is a legitimate expense, since Anya's getting into Eden Academy is a necessary part of the operation, so the cost of the school uniform is essential). | |
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Batman becomes this trope at times when working with the Justice League, often angrily snarking when his teammates damage expensive equipment that he ends up paying for to repair. | |
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In Despicable Me, Mr. Perkins, the owner of the Bank of Evil, expresses his reluctance to give Gru funding for his moon heist plan unless he has the mentioned shrink ray, pointing out how very few of Gru's schemes actually wind up turning a profit. It's after the girls interfere with Gru's video meeting does Perkins decide to completely cut all ties with him, even when Gru has the shrink ray in his possession. | |
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Occurs for the Monarch in The Venture Bros. where he finds out the family fortune left to him by his deceased parents that he's repeatedly drawn from to fund his supervillain antics has run dry. The account he's had at for decades at the bank he draws his wealth from is now listed as overdrawn and he resorts to bank robberies to get by. | |
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Alan Garner ends up making his exasperated well-off parents this trope in the TheHangover series, essentially blowing much of their money on his insane escapades or whatever amuses him. This reaches its limit in the third film after Alan's incident led to the death of a giraffe he stole from the zoo. Alan's father berates him as a complete waste and is ready to cut him off, but ends up having a heart attack from the stress his son has caused him. | |
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In Person of Interest, Team Machine is forced to go into hiding under new identities when the new Master Computer, Samaritan, comes online, which cuts the team's financial backer Mr. Finch off from his Arbitrarily Large Bank Account. Within a couple episodes after the Time Skip, they're able to acquire a new, albeit smaller, slush fund from money they seize from The Mafiya. | |
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In The George Lopez Show, Vic Palmero was this for his family and a deconstruction of The Team Benefactor. Vic, who grew up in poverty and worked hard to become a wealthy cardiologist, wanted to provide his wife and children the things he didn't have growing up by catering to their every need. Unfortunately this only resulted in his wife becoming a Rich Bitch who cheated and divorced him and his children become variations of Entitled Bastard, to the point his two oldest children became a dysfunctional con artist and Serial Spouse respectively that he would cut off completely. He rarely speaks to any of his children other than Angie and displays envy of his son-in-law George for having a greater work ethic than his own children. | |
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In Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Garterbelt constantly gripes how the Angel duo's Destructive Savior tendency to wreck the city to stop the Ghost of the Day causes collateral damage that he has to pay with his earthly cash. This habit eventually means the church they all live in starts falling apart due to Garterbelt not being able to afford repairs and the angels having to take jobs to earn money. | |
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In Hellsing, Sir Shelby M. Penwood often expresses displeasure at how Arthur Hellsing and later his daughter Integra continuously ask him to provide for whatever equipment they need to ridiculous levels. This even extend's to Penwood's grandson who Integra casually asks for a new helicopter. | |
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In OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, the villain investors for Box More are constantly annoyed with Lord Boxman's antics and obsession with destroying Lakewood Plaza, rather than doing his job of producing robots for them to sell, often threatening to cut his funding because of it. It eventually gets to the point where they are more interested in funding Box More once Darrell takes over and Boxman is no longer around to waste their money and resources. | |
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