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Business Is Business

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Business Is Business	comment	This occurs when two or more characters or organizations, ordinarily enemies, decide to cooperate. Not for the greater good, or to defeat the Big Bad, or a world-ending Eldritch Abomination, but because not cooperating and working together would be...bad for business. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sometimes the bottom line is the most important thing, and keeping the profits up and the income stream flowing takes priority over anything else. Personal feelings, likes and dislikes, how much you hate that son-of-a-bitch, it doesn't matter. Can be a sister trope to Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, but not always. If the cooperation is long-term, it's hard to keep your teeth clenched that long, and after awhile you just accept that that's the way things are. Pragmatic Villainy can also come into play, but not always. A Pragmatic Villain will pick the pocket of a rich man, but he won't pick the pocket of a homeless person because that person probably doesn't have anything worth taking. This is not Nothing Personal, where one character is trying to kill another one, but feelings have nothing to do with it. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples:
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Business Is Business / int_23510405	comment	Shake it Up: This is revealed to be the crux of why new executive producer of Shake It Up Chicago, Phil won't rehire Rocky in season three despite her skills as a dancer. He's been put in charge of completely refurbishing the show following the fire that canceled it, and has already hired (in his opinion) too many old cast members that take away from the point of it being all new, "It's not personal, it's just business."
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Business Is Business / int_39bd4a10	comment	Deathstroke often shifts between this mentality and It's Personal, in regards to his animosity with the Teen Titans. He was introduced taking up his son's contract to kill the Titans out of a combination of professional duty as well as personal vengeance. As a mercenary, Slade is often hired to do a heinous job and will carry it out with ruthless efficiency. He utilizes the same professionalism if hired or proffered by more heroic characters as well. However, his hatred for the Titans is personal: they were responsible for (or connected to) the death of two of his sons, and have also done more damage to his family and career than any other adversary. Sometimes, Slade will challenge or attack the Titans just out of spite, but even then, he has some standards.
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Business Is Business / int_3ab29433	comment	In M, the police, the beggars and the mob are all tracking the killer, because he harms the businesses of every of them.
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Business Is Business / int_58f28be1	comment	The Godfather: This approach is taken by all the crime families when it's time to sit down and talk. In fact, this is the reason they are all willing to sit down and talk at the conference called by Don Corleone. Prior to that, virtually all the major characters make reference to it: Later, when Tom delivers Solozzo's message: And, finally and most chillingly:
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Business Is Business / int_5d4da196	comment	Spider-Man: J. Jonah Jameson embodies this trope here. While ranting about why someone put Spider-Man (whom he regards as an outlaw and vigilante) on the front page of his newspaper, he's interrupted by his City Editor, Robbie (who probably made the decision to put Spider-Man on the front page in the first place).
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Business Is Business / int_60996c02	comment	Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Following discovering that a giant interdimensional rip could effectively destroy reality, the Kingpin abandons his attempts to kill Spider-Man and instead helps him seal the tear. When one of his underlings inquires why he's helping his sworn enemy the Kingpin drolly retorts that the end of the world would be "bad for business".
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Business Is Business / int_663b2cb6	comment	Kelly's Heroes: At the climax of the film, Kelly and his men are almost to the bank where there's a fortune in gold, but there's a Tiger Tank in front of the bank, all of their tanks are knocked out, and they don't have any anti-tank weapons that can deal with a Tiger. All looks lost, until Big Joe and Crapgame have this conversation:
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Business Is Business / int_6f0b3497	comment	The Penguin views his dealings with Batman this way, when it comes to acting as a source of information from what he sees and hears among the criminal underworld element who frequent his Iceberg Lounge. He's said this exact phrase to Batman when sharing information, or to those who try to call him out for working with Bats. It's better to cooperate with Batman instead of having him busting the place up, and it's also good to have a relationship where each of them owes the other a favor. Besides, some of the truly insane, Gotham City-destroying schemes hatched by the more whackjob members of Batman's enemies are things that Cobblepott wants stopped dead in their tracks. He can't run his businesses in Gotham, or run Gotham's underworld, if there isn't a Gotham. For Batman, getting information quickly from Penquin is much more efficient than adopting one of his alternate identities and spending days or weeks in the criminal underworld, or scaring the crap out of random mooks in the hopes they'll reveal something.
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Business Is Business / int_73d7930f	comment	This happens with Brunt and Quark in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Magnificent Ferengi". Brunt, a former Ferengi Commerce Authority liquidator, comes to help Quark rescue his mother. Not because he cares about either of them, mind you, but because saving the girlfriend of the Grand Nagus would get him back in the Nagus's good graces.
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Business Is Business / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: The reason Don Guise decides to finally chose Jack Donahue as his successor at the climax of season two, over Devon Banks. Banks may have married his daughter and thus become part of his family, "but I'm not running a family, I'm running a business" and Jack was the better businessman.
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Business Is Business / int_9e824391	comment	The Hood has this concept front and center during the Secret Invasion storyline, wherein the Skrulls have infiltrated all levels of world government and assumed the identities of many heroes with the ultimate goal of taking over the Earth. In the end, the scheme has been exposed and all the supers are fighting the Skrulls. Hood and his super-powered henchmen are watching everything on the TV, and things are going badly for the heroes.
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Business Is Business / int_b748d40d	comment	Mr. & Mrs. Smith: The titular couple are, initially unbeknown to one another, both Professional Killers working for rival organizations. Their employers both agree that the two of them living under one roof is bad for business, so they decide to work together to have the pair killed.
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Business Is Business / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: Subverted. "It's just good business" is Lord Cutler Beckett's explanation for nearly everything he does, to the point of it bordering on his catchphrase. However, despite genuinely intending to expand the East India Trading Company (of which he is governor) it is clear that a large amount of his choices are actually motivated by pettiness, spite, arrogance and a need for control, with him regularly needlessly betraying and cheating people even at the detriment of the business. Jack's entire gambit when dealing with him about getting to Shipwreck Cove is by proving that despite the massive advantages it would bring him, it's not what his heart most desires (thus making it pointless to steal Jack's Magic Compass), it's killing Jack.
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Business Is Business / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher has observed that this trope is in action among the leaders of large drug cartels. He states that despite what the movies would have you believe, all the cartel leaders would rather talk than fight. Fighting disrupts business, chews up your soldiers, can make your supply lines vanish, and draws the attention of both governments and law enforcement. Sure, they're competing with each other, but they all know it's ridiculous to think one man can run it all, and everyone's bottom line benefits if they all cooperate.
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Business Is Business / int_dd5c5eed	comment	The Rockford Files: Jim Rockford occasionally invoked this trope when working for clients he didn't particularly care for. Regardless of his personal feelings, the bills had to be paid. Of course, it wasn't unusual for both himself and the client to have a higher opinion of each other by the end of the episode.
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