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Black Markets Best Markets! A Black Market is an established "underground" economy which deals in the transfer of illicit goods and services, the exact nature of which will vary wildly depending on era and location. The Empire may be actively trying to stamp it all out, or taking its cut under the table and vigilantly looking in some other direction. The stuff for sale may be worthless crap, lethally dangerous, genuinely useful, or, most likely, a mixture of all three. But you're going to pay through the nose, and when you arrive to pick up your purchase, it might be a good idea to come armed. Or send someone who knows what they are doing. As there are no price stickers, haggling is used to arrive at the price. In Real Life, the term is generally used to describe the encompassing gestalt: a collection of individuals and covert operations which can be spread across a wide geographic range, dealing in goods which may be entirely illegal (such as hard drugs, military weapons, human organs, human trafficking), or legal but regulated (such as prescription drugs and rationed goods), legal but people want to evade taxes (cigarettes) or entirely legal but acquired illicitly (such as stolen goods or goods that Fell Off the Back of a Truck). As well, illicit services are available, ranging from prostitution to off-the-books plastic surgery. The archetypal example probably being the vast array of illicit transactions which occurred in Great Britain during World War II; in that particular case, it was rationed food, clothing, textiles, cigarettes, gasoline, nylons, and real and forged ration books which were being bought and sold. A subcategory of Black Market are the underground channels for buying goods and services in prisons. The items on the prison black market might be everyday items that are easily available in the outside world, but in jail, they are contraband that'll get you thrown in solitary if you're caught with them. Items that are legal outside jail but contraband inside include cell phones, cigarettes and liquor. Illegal items are sold too, such as drugs.note Necessity is the mother of invention, and when it comes to prison smuggling, there is an impressive repertoire of techniques. Accomplices outside the jail put contraband in tennis balls and throw them in, hide them inside gifts, and even fly small items in with drones. Sometimes you will encounter a literal Black Market, a covert shopping emporium complete with merchants hawking their dubious wares from established stalls. This latter type is often a subset of the Bazaar of the Bizarre, with everything for sale and the outright illegal stuff lurking around the edges. The black market goods may be offered in a private, invitation-only section of an innocuous-seeming front business, which looks normal except for the 6'4" Bouncer at the door. Honest John, The Scrounger, The Rat, Venturous Smuggler and obviously the Friend in the Black Market will often be found thriving in this environment (and possibly an undercover cop or spy doing The Infiltration), but they'll just be manning one of the (literal or metaphorical) stalls; the ultimate power will usually be in the hands of The Syndicate. Unless it all comes full circle, and the whole thing is just another branch of The Empire. |
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In Shin Megami Tensei IV, as soon as you arrive in Tokyo's Ueno region, you will find an old man selling various odds and ends. Chat with the old man and correctly repeat the password he gives you to access the local Black Market, where you can buy armor and weaponry. There's one in every city visited afterwards, except Ikebukuro (everyone left the place already). | |
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The Third Man deals with the black market in post-World War II Vienna. | |
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In They Made Me a Fugitive, Narcy makes his money through the thriving London black market. As mentioned above, England continued to ration their food until 1954, so several commodities were still hard to find and were often found through the unsavoury black market. | |
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In Wild ARMs 2 the black market is the only way you can get healing items without winning them (very rarely) from enemies. | |
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Barnabas' Black Market in ADOM is the only general-store style shop in the early game. It often has good stuff, but the prices are quite steep unless you're the head of the Thieves' Guild. | |
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Klaue is discreetly willing to sell any vibranium that he either smuggles out of Wakanda in Avengers: Age of Ultron, or finds through misidentified artifacts in Black Panther (2018). | |
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Andor: Bix and Paak have legitimate salvage related businesses, but also sell stolen items and things that are outright illegal for civilians to have possession of. Cassian steals parts off of Imperial ships which he sells through Bix's contacts. | |
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The Omar in Deus Ex: Invisible War use their Hive Mind to run a global black market. | |
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In Heinlein's Between Planets, there is a flourishing one on rebellious Venus to, among other things, convert Federation currency to Venus Republic bills. | |
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Octopath Traveler II has one in New Delsta that only runs at night. Various items that can't be bought elsewhere can be bought at the black market, from Soulstones to rare equipments and items. | |
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One-Eyed Sam's in the NetHack variants Slash'EM and UnNetHack. | |
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The elven markets in Dark Sun, where you can even buy prohibited magic. | |
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The Global Liberation Army in Command & Conquer: Generals has the Black Market as a building for researching weapon upgrades, which as a bonus generates a steady stream of income. In the Game Mod Rise of the Reds, the GLA still has the Black Market, but because their extensive black market network made it very easy for their enemies to follow their money trails, they have to reduce their operations, represented in-game as being able to only build one such structure. |
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LunarLux: In Silica Colony, there's a black market hidden in the mines, where the player can buy Upgrade Chips and rare ship parts. The merchants there are understandably suspicious that a Space Cop like Bella is willing to trade with them. | |
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An issue of Invader Zim (Oni) takes place entirely on the planet Cyberflox, the hat of which is being the most dangerous black market in the galaxy. Funnily enough, it's organized like a giant mall, full of various shops selling everything from ordinary products like scented candles and sweaters, to more dangerous stuff like bombs and laser guns. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Harbor Town is home to various black market products ranging from weapon modifications, materials from dissembled tech, and a fighting arena to earn quick credits. | |
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Borderlands 2 has a black market run by Crazy Earl, who sells inventory upgrades that increase the amount of ammo/guns you can carry in exchange for Eridium, the game's Purple Rocks. | |
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Star Trek: Discovery: A black market on the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS was based out of the Orion outpost. In the episode "The Red Angel" a Section 31 operative learned that a time crystal was being offered for sale through the market and informed Section 31 chief Leland, who promptly had Section 31 agents steal the crystal. | |
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The Infrared Market in the RPG Paranoia. The secret society Free Enterprise has a major hand in it. | |
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With This Ring: When he wants a sample of the Dominators' plant-based computer technology, Paul turns to an under-the-table arms dealer. There are limits on what the dealer is willing to work with, since anything large-scale will draw the Dominators' attention, but so long as Paul sticks to small purchases of older-generation technology, not threatening the Dominators' monopoly control of warp gates, they have better things to do than crack down. | |
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City of Bones by Martha Wells: Charisat's "Silent Market" is a loose network of people who deal in information, favours, and illegally traded artifacts. Like many traders, Khat tries to do business aboveboard as much as possible, but dearly values his Silent Market connections. | |
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Knockturn Alley in the Harry Potter novels. Also, Hagrid's frequent purchases of contraband magical creatures. | |
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In Champions of Far'aus, Skye and Rom go looking for the Stage Thief at a literal market a fair distance away from the city of Vickerton. Skye points out the sign outside the market, reading "You can't prove anything" is the opposite of inconspicuous, while Rom points out that at the very least, they aren't advertising "stolen stuff for sale". | |
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There are fences in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. There's also a vendor called Shady Sam who is dressed in all black, hangs around outside a city wall and sells illegal goods. | |
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Queen of Thieves features the Underbelly, an illegal market slash criminal trade bazaar operating in an abandoned subway station in Paris. The main characters, a Caper Crew of infamous thieves, frequent the Underbelly to meet with professional contacts and are well-known there. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure: Crossbell is a trade hub between Erebonia and Calvard to the west and east and Liberl and Remiferia to the south and north. It's the capital and heart of Crossbell State and unlike its Liberlian equivalent of Bose, there is a thriving Black Market run by the Mafia. | |
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The Black Market Auction House in World of Warcraft acts as a source of items removed from the game, high-end items that are difficult to acquire legitimately, and rare vanity items such as mounts. Both factions are able to visit and bid on items. It was introduced partly to act as a gold sink, as even the least expensive items still cost several thousand golds for the first bid. | |
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In Lockwood & Co., following the onset of The Problem (of ghosts), any and all historical artifacts were shunned as potentially dangerous items from which ghosts might arise. Over time, however, there emerged a shadowy black market of people interested in collecting these objects and relic-men in the business of acquiring them and selling them to the highest bidder. | |
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Fat, French and Fabulous has the following exchange: | |
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Iron Man: Stane has been selling weapons to the Ten Rings organization behind Tony's back. | |
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Going down a trap door leading to a crawl space in The Binding of Isaac Rebirth has a small chance to open a path to a black market, where you can buy a variety of items with heart containers. | |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown has a "Gray Market" that will purchase alien corpses and artifacts, and indeed some items like wrecked alien devices from downed UFOs are nothing but Shop Fodder. During your Early Game Hell, it can be a primary source of income - just don't ask what your buyers are doing with all those dead Sectoids or "alien entertainment" systems. | |
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A black market is the beginning point of the Nero Wolfe story "Before I Die", published in the omnibus volume Trouble In Triplicate. It's set in 1946, after World War II, but with food rationing still in full effect. When a crime boss tries to hire Wolfe to stop a blackmailer, Wolfe declares that he'll accept the case only if he's given access to the meat black market as part of his fee. The crime boss agrees and provides a phone number of a man "who might have meat", and the necessary password. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Mind of Simon Foster", the black market is the only way that people can get real meat as opposed to meat substitutes in 1999. The pawnbroker Mr. Quint also illegally sells memories removed from desperate people to wealthy collectors. | |
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The browser game Black Market unsurprisingly features a black market or two. | |
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Grand Theft Auto games include black markets to buy weapons in Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto 4 and its expansions. In Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you buy weapons from Phil Cassidy at a certain store from each game. In Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansions, you buy weapons from Little Jacob's car by calling him up. |
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Metompsychosis Union: The Megacorps are secretly trading and selling things on a black market through unmarked shipping containers. The first chapter reveals that an unmarked shipping container Tilo had been wondering about, with a redacted log, contains people, which the rich have been euphemistically referring to as labor. | |
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In Persona 5 after fixing a broken laptop you gain access to a black market website called "Shady Commodities" run by President Tanaka from Persona 3. | |
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In Sonic Adventure 2, there's the Black Chao Market. Both function the same way - it allows players to pay rings for Chao toys, specialized Chao Eggs and even brand new soundbites for the main screen. However, it's how you got there that differed - in the original, it was an actual Sega-ran website. In SA2B, it was a market that you went into in the Chao Garden hub world. | |
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XCOM: Chimera Squad doesn't have a Black Market, no sir! These are all legally scrounged things found throughout the city, and the Scavengers are absolutely on their way to give them to the authorities as required by law! But, since they're here at Chimera Squad headquarters for a break...do you want to take a look? | |
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In Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you buy weapons from Phil Cassidy at a certain store from each game. | |
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The Floating Market in Neverwhere. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: Unsurprisingly one is revealed to exist in Gilead. Not only are alcohol and various illegal drugs traded, but also cosmetics and pregnancy tests. Nick provides drugs to a Martha working in the brothel, with her giving him dirt on the customers back (they also have a casual sexual relationship). | |
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In Persepolis, Mariane buys Iron Maiden tapes at a black market in Teheran. | |
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If you choose to use weapons in Death Rally, then you will visit the black market before each race. The market tends to sell items that are double edged swords, like rocket fuel that makes you go fast, but damages the your car when used. | |
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In The Owl House, the Boiling Isles have the Night Market. Eda visits it to get some potion to stave of her curse when her usual apothecarist is out, and a flashback in the season one finale shows that Lilith got the owlbeast curse from a stall there. | |
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Pathfinder: The Night Market in Numeria's capital city Starfall, an irregular and secret meeting where the city's thieves and scavengers gather to sell the technological artifacts they've plundered from the wrecks of the spaceship littering the nation — from flare guns and stun batons to advanced medical tech, laser weaponry and AI personality chips — outside of the stranglehold that the Technic Legue enforces on the sale and possession of technology. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe Iron Man: Stane has been selling weapons to the Ten Rings organization behind Tony's back. Klaue is discreetly willing to sell any vibranium that he either smuggles out of Wakanda in Avengers: Age of Ultron, or finds through misidentified artifacts in Black Panther (2018). Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne had been buying illegal technologies from Sonny Burch to build their Quantum Tunnel to save Janet van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp. However, Sonny reveals that he had found out what they had been doing, and wanted a cut a deal to sell the Quantum Tunnel along the black market, but they refuse and have to take the last part that they need by force. |
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Elite Dangerous has examples at some starports as a way to sell off illegal or stolen goods that can't be sold at the normal market. From pirated goods, to weapons and narcotics, to slaves, if you've got it, the black market will buy it. The influx of illegal goods can also lower the security of the system you sell them to, or have other effects, such as the infamous Unknown Artifact bombing disrupting several stations soon after their discovery. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The underground enclave of Skullport in the Forgotten Realms thrives on this trope, being the site where Underdark trade routes and surface-world black markets intersect. The elven markets in Dark Sun, where you can even buy prohibited magic. |
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In Yakuza Kiwami, the doctor handling the heart transplant for Nishikiyama's sister openly admits that he plans on using black market organ dealers to get the heart he needs. Whether he really has black market connections is unknown, because he actually uses Nishiki's money to settle his gambling debts and skip town. Online brings this up again when Nishikiyama sells that doctor to black market organ harvesters. | |
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In The Iron Teeth web serial, the city of Daggerpoint is basically one big black market. Bandits and thieves gather there to sell goods that are illegal or stolen. | |
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Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth Adventures novels features the Bazaar, which fills the entire dimension of Deva, and serves as the Black Market for all the other dimensions. People go to Deva to buy things that are illegal in other places, usually for a good reason. | |
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Kid Icarus (1986): The Black Marketeer's goods are both more expensive, and in many ways more useful than the stuff you get from the normal shopkeeper. You can also find a credit card that would allow you to buy an item from him you couldn't afford, but you won't gain any more money until you pay the balance off. Even worse, the second world in the game features thieves that can steal your powerups. | |
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The Mammago Garage in Beyond Good & Evil is a place that sells rare and illegal modifications for various vehicles, such as jumpers (for hopping over government laser barriers) and space engines. Of course, they only accept illegal pearls. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi bar owner Quark ran the black market on DS9, then known as Terok Nor, during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. The Bajoran Ibudan ran black market medical supplies through the station during the occupation. After the Cardassians left Quark was still involved with black market activities. | |
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In the second and the third game of Richman series, cards are sold in places called black markets while items are sold in item shops. That said, the black market and the shopkeeper look pretty normal and not shady at all, and so are the cards' prices, they are all sold in reasonable amounts of coupons like items do. | |
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X-Wing Series: General Horton Salm's aide obtains some vintage Abrax for the General on the black market. When Wedge asks about the age Salm isn't sure but mentions the bottle has Old Republic tax holograms on it. | |
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Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne had been buying illegal technologies from Sonny Burch to build their Quantum Tunnel to save Janet van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp. However, Sonny reveals that he had found out what they had been doing, and wanted a cut a deal to sell the Quantum Tunnel along the black market, but they refuse and have to take the last part that they need by force. | |
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In Mass Effect, your supply officer on the Normandy justifies making you pay for gear because he strictly speaking is only authorized to draw on supplies of Alliance standard issue gear (that is, what you are issued at the beginning of the game). He spends money out of pocket to get you the good stuff from various sources, and needs to be reimbursed. Buying licenses for different manufacturers will improve his selection. | |
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The underground enclave of Skullport in the Forgotten Realms thrives on this trope, being the site where Underdark trade routes and surface-world black markets intersect. | |
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In Mass Effect, various types of markets, both black, white, and grey, are depicted. In Mass Effect, your supply officer on the Normandy justifies making you pay for gear because he strictly speaking is only authorized to draw on supplies of Alliance standard issue gear (that is, what you are issued at the beginning of the game). He spends money out of pocket to get you the good stuff from various sources, and needs to be reimbursed. Buying licenses for different manufacturers will improve his selection. Various places avoid the normal restrictions on the sale of certain goods by operating out of the boundaries of Citadel Space, such as Noveria and Illium. It is lampshaded that certain dangerous products, such as Red Sand, which are considered contraband in Citadel Space, are actually perfectly legal on Illium and thus aren't actually Black Market. Omega is nothing but the Black Market, with cutthroat dealers operating nearly every business you find (save one honest quarian selling salvage, and he's only doing so to pay for a ticket to get out of Omega; you can pay his way if you're feeling generous, or put him out of business if you're not.). You can even talk up one slightly more honest merchant by telling him his prices are too high and saying you'd rather buy black market, and he'll adjust his prices to give you the "uppity human discount." Ilium is described in-game as "Omega with nicer shoes", and is also home to a wide variety of commercial services that are not available in more civilized (or at least better regulated and enforced) areas of the galaxy. Sidequests mention that red sand (a drug with biotic-enhancing powers and debilitating and possibly deadly side-effects, illegal in the rest of Citadel space) can be sold with nothing more than a disclaimer, and that slaves are openly traded. |
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In The Good, The Bad, The Weird, The Ghost Market is a physical black market that has grown to be a full-scale Outlaw Town. | |
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In Palworld, Black Marketeers are Obviously Evil merchants dressed like medieval executioners that deal in all sorts of mons, with a lot of the ones they have to offer being rare ones only found in Wildlife Sanctuaries and thus obtained illegally. They won't try to harm you or rip you off in any way, but they also make no bones about the fact that their goods are often very illegal. They even have special menu options labeled "Buy contraband" and "Sell contraband", although at the moment regular Pal merchants will accept from you all the same things they do (including humans). | |
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In Traveller Interstaller Wars, the Vilani duraag serves this purpose. This is a generic term for all black-market activities in the Vilani Imperium. Theoretically all trade in the Vilani Imperium is dominated by the three Shangarim (major castes). However it is common enough to secretly trade in the duraag. Marginalized people trade there. Sometimes as well important grandees, when short of supplies will arrange to make exchanges there. So in a sense it is "another branch of the empire". When a Terran Intrepid Merchant vessel arrives carrying the swashbuckling PCs to smuggle, raid, and gain glory and gold in the Vilani Imperium they will tend to go here. | |
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The Glass Scientists has Blackfog Bazaar, where an enterprising rogue scientist can find many illegal substances necessary for their research and potions. Jekyll doesn't go there due to both his and its reputations, but Hyde claims to visit it every night. | |
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In Thunder Cats 2011, young prince Lion-O apparently makes a habit of traveling incognito in cloak and hood through Thundera's City Narrows to frequent his friend Jorma's shop in search of what Lion-O politely calls "certain hard-to-find collectibles." He's hoping to discover Black Box Lost Technology. His new friend Cheetara takes a look at one Grail in the Garbage and assumes that Jorma's wares are universally forgeries. | |
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Tropico 2 has a literal version in which the Black Market is a marketplace-type structure you can construct on the coast that allows you to buy weapons for piracy. The third game allowed the player to sell weapons to "everyone", (presumably the black market) which would lower relations with the superpowers. The fourth game didn't give you an option on where one could sell the weapons too, but making assault weapons or landmines would end up in the wrong hands, which would also upset the global powers. |
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Star Trek: Various black markets appear throughout the franchise. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi bar owner Quark ran the black market on DS9, then known as Terok Nor, during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. The Bajoran Ibudan ran black market medical supplies through the station during the occupation. After the Cardassians left Quark was still involved with black market activities. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Random Thoughts", an ostensibly peaceful telepathic race has a black market in violent thoughts. The Crisis of the Week occurs when B'Elanna Torres has a violent thought illicitly stolen, which leads to a murder for which B'Elanna is held legally responsible. Star Trek: Discovery: A black market on the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS was based out of the Orion outpost. In the episode "The Red Angel" a Section 31 operative learned that a time crystal was being offered for sale through the market and informed Section 31 chief Leland, who promptly had Section 31 agents steal the crystal. |
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Dad's Army featured both sides of the World War 2 Black Market with the classic 'spiv' Walker selling all sorts of dodgy goods 'off the back of a truck' and the genial Jonesy quietly providing extra sausages and the like from his butcher's shop. | |
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In Girl Genius, the Black Market of Paris is an underground Bazaar of the Bizarre. Since the Master is aware of its existence and keeps an eye on it many of the things sold there fall into a legal grey area rather than being completely illegal, like parts scavenged off ruined clanks in the wastelands which are legally considered stolen but since they're from abandoned wrecks it's not like they were stolen from someone. | |
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Red Markets: The titular Red Market is an interesting take on this. The term is used for the underground economy between the the survivor enclaves of The Loss and The Recession. It is not legal, but because the the survivors were all declared Legally Dead by the Recession government, it is not technically illegal either. | |
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Journey to Chaos: It's implied that Motsuc's Customization shop is part of a black market and that he is the one who sold a prison runed maid outfit to Tahart Ligo. | |
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Stampy's Lovely World: Played for Laughs in Episode 101, "Chubby Kitty", where Stampy resorts to attempt an "illicit" trade with Finnball in order to eat cake during the Diet Episode. | |
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Invictus: There's a thriving black market of items stolen from the past. The main characters are time travelers stealing artifacts to sell on the market. | |
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Angband and most of its variants have black markets in the town. The black market can sell any item in the game—but at a substantial markup. | |
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In Mother Keeper, Zelik runs one that's used by some of the people in the slums. | |
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M*A*S*H had several episodes involving the black market. In "To Market, To Market", black marketeers steal vital medical supplies, the doctors must make a deal to get them back. Their contact with the underworld? Father Mulcahy! In the later episode "Death Takes a Holiday", Winchester donates a substantial amount of chocolates to an orphanage, but is outraged to learn that the chocolates intended for the orphans was instead sold on the black market, until he is told that the chocolates netted the orphanage enough money to buy food for the orphans for a month. In "Snap Judgment", Klinger goes to the black market (called "Little Chicago" in this episode) to try and find Hawkeye and BJ's stolen camera. He succeeds and buys it back, but gets stopped by MP's and charged with the theft. |
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In Pokémon Red and Blue, Team Rocket used their Illegal Gambling Den the Rocket Game Corner as a front for their mon trafficking operation, with the player freely able to rack up coins and participate themselves. In fact, doing so is required to complete the Pokédex as it's the only place you can obtain Porygon. Subverted in the sequels Pokémon Gold and Silver however, as while it still offers rare Pokémon the now-Celadon Game Corner is a more or less legitimate business. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has an interesting example in Tantal. Due to the country's extreme isolationism and poor conditions for farming causing a shortage of most goods, a flourishing black market has sprung up in the middle of the capital, charging exorbitant prices for smuggled goods. It is unofficially allowed to operate in the open, as the market is essentially the only thing keeping the country's citizens from starving to death. | |
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The plot of Kissed by the Baddest Bidder involves a secret black-market auction at which anything can go up for sale, including stolen artwork, the rights to donor organs, and occasionally even people. In theory the rules of the auction prohibit selling a person without their consent, but that doesn't keep the protagonist from ending up on the block. | |
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SaGa Frontier has it as basically the only form of commerce in Koorong. Everything from off-brand medicine to looted military goods can be purchased on the streets of the city, with even more questionable items available in the "Back Streets". | |
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The "Underworld" features increasingly in One Piece, with the crew encountering major black market hubs on Sabaody and Dressrossa. The clientele are often pirates less scrupulous than our main characters, explaining the bad reputation pirates have with the government (but since the government-supported World Nobles are also major buyers on the black market the hypocrisy is obvious). | |
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Power Rangers Jungle Fury: Implied to be how RJ got his morphers — apparently, he "knew a guy who knew a guy who had an uncle". How else is a guy running a pizza shop who isn't a rocket scientist going to get some of those?! | |
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In Star Traders: Frontiers, the Black Market, which you gain access to from various Contacts, such as Smugglers or Weapons Dealers, provides an excellent means of selling illegal goods, especially Xeno Artifacts. Furthermore, it can be used to bypass the Rep penalities from trading into a Trade War or Trade Ban. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel games, the Erebonian Empire has a relationship with its foreign neighbors, particularly Calvard, that can be described as... complex, at best. Naturally it has a black market, and in Cold Steel III you get to meet some of its leaders and even buy some of their merchandise. | |
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In Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) a black marketeer exchanges food for gold and jewelry that's been picked up in the abandoned villages of Britain (even though such things should now be worthless). | |
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The episode "One Man Band" of The Unusuals provides us with a Murder Store. Everything you need to kill someone, including the weapons and cleaning products for body disposal. You can only get in if you know the password, although every potential client used a different one, so the screening process must have been crap. | |
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Ellie in The Half of It has perfect grades... And secretly writes essays for her classmates as a side hustle. $10 for only 3 pages adds up quickly. | |
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The Brave One. The female protagonist goes to buy a gun but is told there's a thirty day waiting limit. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a Kar K-9 automatic for a thousand dollars, throwing in a box of ammunition and an impromptu instruction on how to load and fire it. | |
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Every weapon dealer in Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a local version of this, selling weapons, ammo and modifications out of somewhat low-key establishments. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, a Black Market is standard rather than exception in the hive cities and major spaceports in the Imperium of Man. | |
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In the RPG Shadowrun, the players must usually turn to this to unload any loot they acquire. Seattle has a literal example in the Crime Mall, a gathering of merchants hawking just about everything under the sun, and a large portion of these goods are usually not seen in places found in the common eye; from the most common drugs to high-end weaponry and cybernetic/bionic implants (such as the rare and costly Betaware and Deltaware implants) up to the ridiculously elusive (and expensive) Fairlight Excalibur cyberdeck; all set up in the decaying shell of an abandoned, actual mall located in the Puyallup Barrens. It gets raided regularly by the police/Lone Star, but it's mentioned in supplemental materials that these raids are almost perfunctory, and the mall always reopens the next day. | |
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Inverted in the Left Behind books, as Christians operate an underground co-op during the latter half of the Tribulation when the Mark of the Beast is in place. | |
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Gotham Central features the black market of Gotham City as a pretty integral plot-point for its multiple Corrigan story arcs. Jim Corrigan, a crime scene technician for the Gotham City Police Department, has a nasty habit of stealing evidence from crime scenes to sell on the black market, since there is a brisk trade in Gotham crime memorabilia. This originally seems to be something of a victimless crime, since he is not actually stealing from a person who is losing their own property, except that his tampering with evidence lets criminals go free and gets honest police officers charged with felonies. After his memorabilia scheme is halted by Renee Montoya, it is revealed that his black market connections actually run a lot deeper than believed, and for years he has also been stealing and reselling heroin that the narcotics squad had confiscated. | |
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Spelunky has a Black Market level, which features one of every kind of shop (but not automatically every type of item in the game) plus one very expensive unique item, the ankh, which acts as an extra life and helps gain access to the City of Gold. | |
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Undead Unluck: The mafia runs auctions that deal in Negators, UM As, and artifacts. Fuuko and Andy must infiltrate one of them in order to find Unrepair. | |
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SMPLive: After the outlawing of potions, Cooper has the idea to create an underground illegal drug ring on the server. Hilariously, this is in spite of the fact that said law was instilled during his time in the server cop role just a week earlier. | |
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The black market in a WWII French boarding school plays a significant role in Au revoir les enfants. | |
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There is one in Professor Layton and the Last Specter. This one deserves special mention because it is run entirely by children. | |
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story Misadventures in the Inderdimensional Black Market focuses on, well, what it says on the tin: the wanderings of Director Darius and Tracker a black market for Dimensional Travelers, in which to purchase supernatural items or advanced technology away from the prying eyes of the various authorities which attempt to regulate interdimensional travel. | |
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In The Hunger Games, District 12 has the Hob, which operates out of an abandoned coal warehouse. Until it goes up in flames. | |
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Trials of Mana has a black market located in Beiser, the merchant city. Open only at night, it's the only place where you can buy spell-replicating items. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003). As shown in the episode of that name, there's a thriving black market dealing in everything from fresh fruit to antibiotics and child trafficking. Even Apollo argues that the black market is necessary and should be allowed to continue as long as it stops doing Obviously Evil stuff like the latter. Given that the difference between legitimate and illegitimate trade in a post-apocalyptic society was ill-defined, Ron Moore regarded this as lazy writing, with the child trafficking thing put in as a Kick the Dog to make the black marketeers the villains. | |
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XCOM 2 has you running La Résistance in a Vichy Earth, and you can turn to the Black Market for supplies, useful gear, and personnel. It's unclear whether they're genuinely sympathetic to the cause, war profiteers, or straight-up The Syndicate, but whatever the case, XCOM is in no position to be choosy. The catch is that while you can unload captured alien equipment, spare munitions, and alien corpses on the Black Market for some extra resources, the market itself isn't interested in currency, instead you have to spend your rare Intel resource to purchase things on it. | |
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There's a very, very small one in Tancred's in Summoner, but the only place you get illegal goods is from him. | |
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Star Sector has a black market available at any inhabited world, which is a big benefit to your profit margin when the minimum and standard tariff on trading is 30%. The Black Market is an excellent way to make money, but the more you buy and sell there, the more likely you are to attract local law enforcement to run a customs check when you leave, which will definitely degrade your combat readiness, and is also likely to find any prohibited goods. The Pirate faction is unique in that they don't care if you trade in their Black Market and will never send enforcers after you, so you can ignore their standard market (and their tariffs) all you want. | |
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There's a fence in each Quest for Glory game* except the third where thieving types can unload their loot. In the first and fifth game, they also sell useful thieving tools. | |
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The people of Ceres slums largely survive in Ai no Kusabi by relying on goods from the Black market. Unbeknownst to them save a key few, it is actually run by Iason, the top ruling Blondy. | |
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Detective Pikachu: The S. S. Prime Treasure hosts an exclusive auction which deals in stolen goods. | |
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In Kengan Ashura, Chairman Metsudo in the past ran a post-WWII black market under a Yakuza don and turned it into the biggest market in the Kant� region, earning his spot in the titular Kengan tournament. | |
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The Tex Avery short Jerky Turkey has the pilgrim getting a turkey from the "Black Market", which is a deli market that is painted black and hidden behind a curtain painted to resemble the scenery. | |
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Lampshaded by the band In Extremo in an interview. When they played in Mexico City, they saw merchandise of themselves that they've never seen before. | |
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SunDog: Frozen Legacy: Each world has a tech level and a law level that control what can be bought there, and there can be good money to be made by carrying personal items such as weapons, high-tech starship parts, stat-boosting drugs, and questionably-legal starship accessories to worlds where such things are not available. | |
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Both of the Mercenaries games have these. In the first game, there's the Merchant of Menace, whose prices depend on your current standing with the Russian mafia (get on their good side and you'll get discounts; get on their bad side and you can't even use the service). In the sequel, it's the Caribbean gangsters who play this role. | |
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In Wilder's A Foreign Affair, John trades a cake given to him by an old girlfriend for a mattress in postwar Berlin's underground market. | |
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At the start of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory you rescue your starter Digimon and two others from a black market dealer mistreating them. Later on, he gives you access to the DigiMarket where you can buy Digimon off The Deep Web from him and his partners. In Chapter 8, you have to choose whether to liberate the Digimon or protect the market so you can keep using it. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansions, you buy weapons from Little Jacob's car by calling him up. | |
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In Force 10 from Navarone, the leaders of the title group pretend to be black marketeers on the run from the Allied authorities. | |
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XCOM: XCOM: Enemy Unknown has a "Gray Market" that will purchase alien corpses and artifacts, and indeed some items like wrecked alien devices from downed UFOs are nothing but Shop Fodder. During your Early Game Hell, it can be a primary source of income - just don't ask what your buyers are doing with all those dead Sectoids or "alien entertainment" systems. XCOM 2 has you running La Résistance in a Vichy Earth, and you can turn to the Black Market for supplies, useful gear, and personnel. It's unclear whether they're genuinely sympathetic to the cause, war profiteers, or straight-up The Syndicate, but whatever the case, XCOM is in no position to be choosy. The catch is that while you can unload captured alien equipment, spare munitions, and alien corpses on the Black Market for some extra resources, the market itself isn't interested in currency, instead you have to spend your rare Intel resource to purchase things on it. XCOM: Chimera Squad doesn't have a Black Market, no sir! These are all legally scrounged things found throughout the city, and the Scavengers are absolutely on their way to give them to the authorities as required by law! But, since they're here at Chimera Squad headquarters for a break...do you want to take a look? |
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The Black Market in Rifts is probably more grey than anything. On top of the usual illicit goods and organized crime rackets, they sell weapons and armor from both legitimate vendors and "acquired" military gear, and even weapons and commercial goods they make themselves. At least one faction of the Black Market is one large organization that even owns a Powered Armor factory out West (at Area 51, no less), one that brings in more money as a semi-legitimate business than their criminal activities do. | |
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The main villain of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Agent Aburera, is a prominent figure in a galactic black market, providing Mecha-Mooks and equipment for any alien criminal who can meet his price, and fencing their spoils for them. In fact, he doesn't even get directly involved with the Rangers until late in the series, when their interference of his clients' plots start tanking his profits. | |
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In Firefly, Mal and the other heroes have dealings with Badger, who runs a small black market operation on Persephone. In the movie Serenity it's Fanty and Mingo on Beaumonde. Mal and his crew often act as agents of the black market, either smuggling or stealing the illicit goods that one of the traders wants. | |
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BattleTech has a black market for weapons, 'Mech parts, and even whole Battlemechs that you can gain access to through a random event. The prices are better if the Space Pirates like you. On top of that, it contains a much better selection of lostech mechs and weapons than legitimate stores. | |
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Family Guy: Somewhat parodied when Lois and Peter are trapped in Cuba without passports. They find the Black Market, which is pretty much a Walmart with bombs and other weapons. They even had a "Black Market Club", 10% off your first purchase! Sadly for Peter, they do not accept bits of string as bartering objects. | |
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Empires SMP Season 2: There exists one that's accessible under Chromia's outpost on the Greatbridge, dedicated to selling misellaneous goods and contraband items, including and not limited to custom hatsnote which are technically not banned, but it was against the Sheriff's law to steal or wear another player's hat, a law which is mostly ignored as most players are fine with others trying on their hats with their consent, Sheriff toys (in Joel's case)note which were banned for showing "disrespect" to the Sheriff, and various treasures that Scott has robbed from the items' rightful owners. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Random Thoughts", an ostensibly peaceful telepathic race has a black market in violent thoughts. The Crisis of the Week occurs when B'Elanna Torres has a violent thought illicitly stolen, which leads to a murder for which B'Elanna is held legally responsible. | |
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Moe's gang in Sky Blue intends to steal a shipment of weapons being moved into Ecoban to sell on the black market. Unfortunately for them, this turns out to be an Evil Plan on the part of Locke. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, the Black Market is rather literal; it's located in the Black Forest, and everything it sells is black in addition to being illegal. Except your kidney. | |
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In Replica, there is a thriving Black Market. Though it's illegal, many Executives not-so-secretly use it. | |
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Babylon 5: A substantial black market exists on the station dealing in a variety of items, despite the efforts of station security to stamp them out. In "Comes the Inquisitor" G'Kar makes arrangements with the black market to smuggle weapons to the Narn resistance after the fall of Narn to the Centauri Republic. G'Kar however warns his contact Chase that if Chase had any thoughts of swindling the Narn resistance his fate would not be a pleasant one. In the episode "Racing Mars" Captain Sheridan and Commander Ivanova turn to the black market to help bring in needed supplies by providing smugglers with upgrades for their ships, armed escorts, and pardons for relatively minor crimes they were being sought for. |
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Germany, Year Zero: In an attempt to get some money for his family in the years after World War II, Edmund seeks out possible trades in the black market. He sells a record of Hitler given to him by his former teacher Henning to some allied soldiers. | |
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The Wild ARMs series has black markets in every game, traditionally in the form of a shop hidden within a normal shop, often requiring you to have to have some sort of authorization to interact with (in the form of a Black Pass, which oddly enough is found in a random treasure box in the middle of a dungeon). In the earlier games, they simply sold rare things that you couldn't buy elsewhere (like healing items), but in the fourth and fifth games they started selling the best equipment in the game... at the cost of your characters' levels rather than money. Cue Power Leveling. In Wild ARMs 2 the black market is the only way you can get healing items without winning them (very rarely) from enemies. |
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Tomorrow Never Dies opens with James Bond infiltrating — and destroying — a terrorist arms bazaar. | |
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