Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Consequence Combo

 Consequence Combo
type
FeatureClass
 Consequence Combo
label
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo
page
ConsequenceCombo
 Consequence Combo
comment
The Hero has received the Call to Adventure, but has refused it. He is then told he will receive a reward for accepting it. If he doesn't do it, something suitably horrible will happen to him. Simply put, this is a way that the hero is forced to answer the call.
This is specifically for those instances when the same person (usually The Herald) will initiate both the reward and the punishment. Contrastly, if the hero is called upon to defuse a bomb, he might expect to be rewarded for succeeding, while the natural consequence of failing is being blown up. That is not this trope.
Essentially, while some people inspire loyalty by offering a carrot, and some people inspire fear by threatening a stick, this person just hits you over the head with the carrot.
Compare The Call Knows Where You Live.

Examples
 Consequence Combo
fetched
2024-03-08T13:01:32Z
 Consequence Combo
parsed
2024-03-08T13:01:32Z
 Consequence Combo
processingComment
Dropped link to AdoptedIntoRoyalty: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Consequence Combo
processingComment
Dropped link to BodyguardBetrayal: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Consequence Combo
processingComment
Dropped link to BoxedCrook: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Consequence Combo
processingComment
Dropped link to GlengarryGlenRoss: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Consequence Combo
processingComment
Dropped link to evilcounterpart: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Consequence Combo
processingUnknown
GlengarryGlenRoss
 Consequence Combo
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Consequence Combo / int_3ee8e7c7
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_3ee8e7c7
comment
In Run Fat Boy Run, Dennis' motivation to run the marathon starts out as "prove to the woman I love that I have the willpower to see something through to the end". However, following her Guess Who I'm Marrying? scene he gives up on winning her back. By now there are other people involved, though; his Cranky Landlady threatens to call off his back rent if he finishes the race or kick him into the street if he doesn't, and his best friend has bet a lot of money on him (with dodgy people) and falls out with him when he quits.
 Consequence Combo / int_3ee8e7c7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_3ee8e7c7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Run Fatboy Run
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_3ee8e7c7
 Consequence Combo / int_43ad18a
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_43ad18a
comment
The title heroine of Glorianna is told that she has a twin somewhere out in the world, and that she will "never know peace" until she finds her. The "twin" ultimately turns out to be her abandoned daughter, Hope.
 Consequence Combo / int_43ad18a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_43ad18a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Glorianna (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_43ad18a
 Consequence Combo / int_468bebb0
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_468bebb0
comment
Discworld:
Going Postal:
Vetinari offers Moist a stable job as postmaster general, with decent pay and good retirement benefits and, of course, the chance to live relatively free for a convicted criminal formerly on death row. Alternatively, he can walk out the door next to him... into a Bottomless Pit.
When Reacher Gilt, Moist's Evil Counterpart, is given the same choice as Moist, they choose the door. It's left unclear whether or not he checked the other side of the door before walking through it. Vetinari remarks that some people really believe in freedom of choice.
Making Money: Moist von Lipwig is written a dear old note by an elderly widow telling him that "the sum of $20 000 annually will be paid for performing this duty, which I beg you to accept. If you do not ... your arse will belong to the Guild of Assassins." Thus inspiring him to start another adventure, inventing economics. Soon after, Vetinari appears to repeat his choice from the previous book, only to discover that the door next to him contains a completely normal room with a solid floor, and that he's free to return to his job at the post office. It's the aforementioned old widow who drags him into it instead.
 Consequence Combo / int_468bebb0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_468bebb0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Discworld
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_468bebb0
 Consequence Combo / int_4e5b6428
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_4e5b6428
comment
Making Money: Moist von Lipwig is written a dear old note by an elderly widow telling him that "the sum of $20 000 annually will be paid for performing this duty, which I beg you to accept. If you do not ... your arse will belong to the Guild of Assassins." Thus inspiring him to start another adventure, inventing economics. Soon after, Vetinari appears to repeat his choice from the previous book, only to discover that the door next to him contains a completely normal room with a solid floor, and that he's free to return to his job at the post office. It's the aforementioned old widow who drags him into it instead.
 Consequence Combo / int_4e5b6428
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_4e5b6428
featureConfidence
1.0
 Making Money
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_4e5b6428
 Consequence Combo / int_595333fe
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_595333fe
comment
"Sally": Jacob Folkers, who runs a Farm for Retired Automobiles, is offered a large sum of money for removing twenty-five positronic brains used to make self-driving cars. If he refuses, all fifty-one brains will be removed from the cars and he will get nothing.
 Consequence Combo / int_595333fe
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_595333fe
featureConfidence
1.0
 Sally
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_595333fe
 Consequence Combo / int_69811250
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_69811250
comment
Foundation's Edge: Mayor Branno banishes Trevize from Terminus, with the instruction to publicly lead a two-man search for Earth (secretly, he's looking for evidence of the Second Foundation). It's indirectly stated that if he returns without success, he will be killed. Success, however, will mean great honor. Choosing not to go at all would be punished with life imprisonment on manufactured charges of treason.
 Consequence Combo / int_69811250
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_69811250
featureConfidence
1.0
 Foundation's Edge
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_69811250
 Consequence Combo / int_6c39a620
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_6c39a620
comment
Ascendance of a Bookworm:
In the setting, it's quite frequent for people who committed a crime serious enough to be punished by execution to have family and associates executed alongside them. The archduke of the duchy in which the protagonist lives likes to avoid doing so when he can, and the alternatives he offers sometimes qualify for this trope. For instance, when a knight is executed for Bodyguard Betrayal, his family is allowed to live if the patriarch accepts to pay a fine and sign a contract in which he promises nobody in the family will ever interact with the betrayal's victim. A bonus added to that option is having the knight recorded as having died honorably while doing his job.
The protagonist getting Adopted into Royalty (nobility in the present case) is the result of a similar situation. The very person who was offering to adopt her would have had to order her execution alongside that of her family and attendants if she had refused.
 Consequence Combo / int_6c39a620
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_6c39a620
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ascendance of a Bookworm
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_6c39a620
 Consequence Combo / int_74365738
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_74365738
comment
Going Postal:
Vetinari offers Moist a stable job as postmaster general, with decent pay and good retirement benefits and, of course, the chance to live relatively free for a convicted criminal formerly on death row. Alternatively, he can walk out the door next to him... into a Bottomless Pit.
When Reacher Gilt, Moist's Evil Counterpart, is given the same choice as Moist, they choose the door. It's left unclear whether or not he checked the other side of the door before walking through it. Vetinari remarks that some people really believe in freedom of choice.
 Consequence Combo / int_74365738
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_74365738
featureConfidence
1.0
 Going Postal
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_74365738
 Consequence Combo / int_910d714b
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_910d714b
comment
Evil version from PAYDAY 2: The Dentist gives Dallas two choices: take part in several high risk high reward heists and get his share of the loot as well as a shot to release one of Dallas' fellow career criminal Hoxton from prison, or refuse and have the Dentist use his connections to take out the whole Payday gang.
 Consequence Combo / int_910d714b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_910d714b
featureConfidence
1.0
 PAYDAY 2 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_910d714b
 Consequence Combo / int_960062b7
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_960062b7
comment
Subverted in My Hero Academia. On the first day of school, Aizawa performs a Quirk Apprehension Test, putting his class through a physical with the caveat that they're allowed to use their Quirks, and the threat that the lowest-performing student will be expelled. Later, he reveals the threat was a "logical ruse" in order to motivate them. Only a few students figured it out, but only because they thought he couldn't expel any of them on the first day.
 Consequence Combo / int_960062b7
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Consequence Combo / int_960062b7
featureConfidence
1.0
 My Hero Academia (Manga)
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_960062b7
 Consequence Combo / int_c43df4d8
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_c43df4d8
comment
Doctor Who's "The Ribos Operation": The Doctor is commissioned by the White Guardian to retrieve the Key to Time.
 Consequence Combo / int_c43df4d8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_c43df4d8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Doctor Who
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_c43df4d8
 Consequence Combo / int_cb6abef3
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_cb6abef3
comment
The Avengers (2012): Loki wants to get revenge against his brother and Take Over the World into the bargain, and enlists the help of prospective Galactic Conqueror Thanos and the Chitauri to do so (he gets to rule Earth; they get the Tesseract to aid them in conquering everything else). Early on in the movie, it's made painfully clear to him that should the conquest of Earth fail, he will be held entirely responsible and punished in ways he could not begin to imagine. In the Final Battle, he's almost talked out of his vendetta, but he's clearly terrified of what Thanos would do to him, and claims that it's "too late for that." Then, he largely intentionally brought in all of the Avengers and pointed them in the right direction to foil the plot with increasingly unsubtle hints, and in his next film appearance he faked his death well enough to fool a pack of Physical Gods, so he may have been taking an escape hatch out instead of actually accepting the call.
 Consequence Combo / int_cb6abef3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_cb6abef3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Avengers (2012)
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_cb6abef3
 Consequence Combo / int_cba48b98
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_cba48b98
comment
Gene from God Hand is put into this position when he loses a limb in a fight and has the God Hand grafted in its place. If he goes out and confronts the forces of evil, there's the potential of money, a lot of really good fights, and maybe a little extra attention from Olivia. If he doesn't, Olivia has an axe and no qualms about using it to get the God Hand back.
 Consequence Combo / int_cba48b98
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_cba48b98
featureConfidence
1.0
 God Hand (Video Game)
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_cba48b98
 Consequence Combo / int_d4ce066b
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_d4ce066b
comment
In Ninja Scroll, Jubei initially doesn't want to fight against the Seven Devils of Kimon, having nearly died fighting Tessei and barely escaping from Benisato. Dakuan offers him a generous sum of gold but Jubei still refuses. Then Dakuan reveals the throwing star he used to break Benisato's hypnosis was poisoned. If Jubei agrees to work for Dakuan, he gets the gold and the antidote. Otherwise, he'll die.
 Consequence Combo / int_d4ce066b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_d4ce066b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ninja Scroll
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_d4ce066b
 Consequence Combo / int_f8b33a79
type
Consequence Combo
 Consequence Combo / int_f8b33a79
comment
At the start of The Naked Sun, Elijah Bailey is told he will get a possible promotion to class 7 if he accepts and does a good job, meaning his family will be looked after, he will get better rations, better showers and all that comes with it. However with the offer comes the unspoken threat of declassification if he refuses.
 Consequence Combo / int_f8b33a79
featureApplicability
1.0
 Consequence Combo / int_f8b33a79
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Naked Sun
hasFeature
Consequence Combo / int_f8b33a79

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Consequence Combo
processingCategory2
Call to Adventure
 Consequence Combo
processingCategory2
Index of Consequences
 Run Fatboy Run / int_8d4f63f0
type
Consequence Combo
 Foundation's Edge / int_8d4f63f0
type
Consequence Combo
 Making Money / int_8d4f63f0
type
Consequence Combo
 Sally / int_8d4f63f0
type
Consequence Combo
 The Naked Sun / int_8d4f63f0
type
Consequence Combo
 Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8d4f63f0
type
Consequence Combo