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Disproportionate Reward
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It's human nature to focus on the negative, to overreact to slights and swear Disproportionate Retribution on the perpetrator far in excess of the crime. Then there are times when characters are kind to each other, going out of their way to be nice and help someone else for no other reason than Good Feels Good thanks to the benevolent part of human nature. They'll wish they hadn't. The receiver will proceed to make it his life's work to repay this minor favor done with no intent for reward with a lifetime of devoted friendship and service. It might be because the receiver has never been helped or shown kindness before, has a rather strange set of personal ethics, or was on the verge of breaking down (often to the point of committing suicide) during the time the act of kindness occurred; whatever the case, he considers this small service to be the most selflessly wonderful thing done for him, ever. Cue them having a life debt for the hero, becoming a True Companion — helpful, annoying or overwhelming) that the heroes can't shoo off because the receiver's technically good, too. If the receiver's ethics are so skewed that his idea of good are truly at odds with the good of the hero, then you have the Psycho Supporter. Expect "Stop Helping Me!" to be uttered sometime. See also Does Not Know How to Say "Thanks" for a Trope that can lead to this. A contrasting Sister Trope to Disproportionate Retribution, where the character seeks revenge on another to this extent. Also contrast Dude, Where's My Reward? (where the reward is smaller (instead of bigger) than what you have deserved), Androcles' Lion and Character Witness (who give a pretty much proportionate reward). |
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The police force in Marville has no problem giving KalAOL (later just named "Al") $200,000,000 for collaring a lowly bank robber, given in separate $100 mil installments. Both times, Al's dog AOLstro was the real hero, with the robber defeating himself by first slipping on AOLstro's drool puddle, and the second time by passing out after the dog farts in his face. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Kreacher the house elf, of all people, gives this to the heroes. Hermione explains that house elves are people too (well, they have feelings too, okay?), so when Harry is kind to him and makes him felt valued, Kreacher bursts into tears, bodily teleports Mundungus Fletcher in for questioning, and cleans the Black house from top to bottom, providing them with delicious food. What specifically prompts his gratitude is being given a possession of "Master Regulus's". He probably never received gifts even from people who were nice to him. The Black house almost feels like home soon. | |
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There were so few female wrestlers in the Alberta Canada area during the early 2000s that Sarah Stock was awarded the Can-Am Wrestling Federation Women's Title just for accepting a booking and actually showing up. This turned out to be a double edged sword though as one of her few opponents, Charlotte Webb, ended up challenging for it in multiple promotions since Stock couldn't really put off a women's title defense to wrestle a man. | |
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Bleak Expectations has Mr. Skinflint Parsimonious, ironically the most generous of people, who will give you everything imaginable, or at hand, simply as a reward for knowing him. | |
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In The Diamont Chariot, Erast Fandorin considers saving the life and freedom of Yakuza Masahiro Shibata a very natural thing, yet he also manages to save his personal honor, prompting "Masa" to become his lifelong Battle Butler in return. | |
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Minato in Hyakko follows Torako around, trying to help her, after Torako does her a favor. | |
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In The Phantom Menace, Jar Jar declares himself the "humble servant" of Qui-Gon for pushing him out of the way of a Trade Federation vehicle. Qui-Gon is less than thrilled. | |
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In The Adventures of Stefón Rudel, Stefón is given two time machines for a rather small successful military operation. Later all students get a day off because of something he did. | |
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In The Princess and the Frog during "Down in New Orleans" Big Daddy LaBouff throws a paperboy a big wad of cash for one newspaper. This is an Establishing Character Moment for Big Daddy to highlight his generosity. | |
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Harry Potter: Dobby spends the rest of his life being grateful to Harry for freeing him from his former masters. This leads to him bringing Harry a crucial item needed to solve the Second Task in the fourth book, as well as helping to spy on Malfoy in the sixth and dying to save them all in the seventh book. Justified in that Harry really did give him a shot at a much better life (working at Hogwarts is much nicer than working for the Malfoy family), but Dobby still goes overboard (he seriously considers throwing himself out of a tower if he doesn't fulfill Harry's request, he goes without sleep to spy on Malfoy, etc). Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry does an interview telling the world of Voldemort's return, which the entire school is promptly banned from reading or discussing by Umbridge. Harry's teachers, wanting to praise Harry for his bravery in speaking out but unable to admit to having read the article, find other excuses to reward him, with Professor Sprout giving twenty points to Gryffindor for Harry handing her a watering can. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Kreacher the house elf, of all people, gives this to the heroes. Hermione explains that house elves are people too (well, they have feelings too, okay?), so when Harry is kind to him and makes him felt valued, Kreacher bursts into tears, bodily teleports Mundungus Fletcher in for questioning, and cleans the Black house from top to bottom, providing them with delicious food. What specifically prompts his gratitude is being given a possession of "Master Regulus's". He probably never received gifts even from people who were nice to him. The Black house almost feels like home soon. |
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In one episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Kubiak gives his last quarter to a guy on the street so he can make a phone call. At the end of the episode, the guy swept in and paid off Kubiak's $10,000 debt. Turns out he was a musician who was using the call to set up a multi-million dollar tour. | |
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In season 5 of Supernatural, Death is bound to and partially controlled by Lucifer and is eventually ordered to unleash a cyclone in Chicago that will kill 3 million people. In the end he decides not to because he likes the pizza. | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry does an interview telling the world of Voldemort's return, which the entire school is promptly banned from reading or discussing by Umbridge. Harry's teachers, wanting to praise Harry for his bravery in speaking out but unable to admit to having read the article, find other excuses to reward him, with Professor Sprout giving twenty points to Gryffindor for Harry handing her a watering can. | |
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In one episode of Johnny Test, Gil dramatically volunteers to help rescue Johnny from a gang of supervillains... because Johnny once helped him see that his shoelace was untied. | |
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Depending on how you help someone, this can happen in Skyrim. For instance, if you sell some firewood to the innkeeper at Whiterun, you can sleep there for free and take almost anything she owns. This is one of the more extreme cases, but there are worse. Capture an enemy of the state? 500 gold. Get a persistent suitor off the widowed fruit-peddler's back? 400 gold. And did we mention that ANY non-important character you help will try to propose to you if you wear an Amulet of Mara, tired widowers included? And then there is the other end of the scale, the quest 'Forbidden Legend', which involves four dungeons, several boss fights and a lot of travelling to get you a relatively weak amulet. It's more about kicking the asses of three horrible tyrants. Due to the way rewards scale with level, you could end up with absurd situations like being rewarded with an enchanted daedric battleaxe for fetching some iron ores, or collecting some gems for somebody and being rewarded with gems and jewellery worth several times the stones you turned in. |
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Fallout: New Vegas: Potentially, being inducted into the Brotherhood of Steel. You're required to install a doohickey on a Black Mountain transmitter. However, you could have already completed the Black Mountain quest, which means you can casually stroll there without firing a shot at the Super Mutants, plant the bug in plain sight, and stroll back down to receive a shiny set of Power Armor, Power Armor training, and a new safehouse. Even compared to the previous mission, one of the longest and most dangerous Fetch Quests of the game, this mission is a breeze. | |
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Ramen Fighter Miki presents Miki, who is willing to be a substitute pitcher for a junior baseball league after a player helps her to find an address. Kankuro does the same and is willing to help Megumi to get revenge on Miki in exchange for her care after another of Miki’s beatings. However, Miki only winds up using the reward money to goof off at her job. | |
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In Fallout 2, you're asked to call in a fairly small debt on a guy in the Den, but can instead pay his debt for him, since he claims he's working on a master plan that will definitely pay off but will take some money. If you return later in the game, he's become fabulously wealthy after striking it big at the casino and showers you with riches and powerful items because you helped him when he really needed it. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey has something like this as a Running Gag in its Legacy of the First Blade DLC pack. The Eagle Bearer keeps getting rewarded by an overly proud guy who's outraged to be in debt to anyone, even though none of the help the Eagle Bearer lent was intentional - it all happened as a byproduct of other, far more important actions. The rewards aren't all that valuable, but they're so numerous that the guy ends up bankrupting himself about halfway through his questline. Neither him nor the Eagle Bearer are happy with the whole situation, but fortunately there are ways to finish the affair amicably, and it's all Played for Laughs anyway. | |
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Olivia offers sex to the protagonist of Daughter for Dessert for being “a good person.� | |
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In Final Fantasy X-2, Yuna and her friends can choose to help O'aka the merchant pay off his debts by buying items from him. When they do it, O'aka thanks them by offering all the objects he sells at a reduced fraction - setting up a Game-Breaker because the price is less than the money earned from re-selling them. | |
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Invoked in Girl Genius: Zeetha points out that the Jagers have already helped Agatha enough for the one time she saved them. So they obviously have another motivation. | |
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Done in an episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye saves a marine who was shot in the neck. Granted, he did save the marine's life, the marine spends the rest of the episode fulfilling a life debt, constantly doing favors for Hawkeye such as scaring away people in the mess tent so Hawkeye could have a place to sit, and twirling Frank Burns around in the air to prevent him filing a report on some of the hijinxs going on at the 4077. | |
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One of the most excessive examples comes from Gear Head. It's played so straight and is so exaggerated that it's very nearly a parody of the trope. One of your first tasks in the starting town of Hogye is a Rat Stomp. Singular, that is. One rat, with at most 10 hit points. You can literally with this fight by stepping on it. Kill this rat and the overjoyed garage owner gives you a spare Humongous Mecha that he had lying around. It's not one of the basic civilian models like the mining robot you can get from the bottom of the nearby Abandoned Mine. He basically gives you a perfectly intact and functional war machine, strikingly similar to a Griffin from BattleTech. | |
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In One Piece, bounties seem astronomically high, if you compare bounties placed on Real Life pirates of the Elizabethan and Victorian Era to those in the anime. For instance, Buggy, the first Arc Villain with a Devil Fruit power, has a bounty of 15 million Berries at the start of the series, and is not considered dangerous; for real pirates, a bounty of £6 would be considered high even for someone wanted for murder (of course, £6 was considered a lot of money two centuries ago, but it was not nearly enough to buy back then what 15 million Berries can buy in the One Piece world.) Bounties can go all the way to 5 billion Berries, such as for the King of the Pirates, Gol D. Roger (who willingly turned himself, since he was dying of a disease anyway, and used his execution to spark the Great Pirate Era). The trope is justified since pirates with excessively high bounties have a variety of superpowers that can make them more dangerous. | |
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In Toy Story 2, Mr. Potato Head immediately regrets saving some alien toys from falling out of a moving car - mainly because they tend to do nothing but follow him around and say "You have saved our lives! We are eternally grateful!" They do end up returning the favor in Toy Story 3. |
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They do end up returning the favor in Toy Story 3. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In his first major appearance, the April Fool agrees to help Timmy pull pranks on his friends simply because Timmy gave him a stick of gum. | |
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Mystery Team. The protagonists deal with murderous drug dealers, strippers, disgusting toilets and drinking dog urine... for a dime. | |
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The Incredible Hercules: In New York City, restaurant and hotel owners and staff know that Hercules is a loud, demanding, and at times overly flamboyant customer, but they don't care; he's also a huge tipper. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has done this twice so far, Once as a major plot point in "Spike at your Service" (Spike helping Applejack for saving him, despite not being helpful), and once as a gag in "Rarity takes Manehattan" (Rarity tipping a bellhop with a large gem several times throughout the episode). | |
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In Dragon Ball when Goku was looking for Bulma's house for the first time he gave a woman who told him to ask a cop for directions a wad of cash (500,000 zenny). Justified that Goku does not know the value of money and he came to believe that you paid people in the city for advice. | |
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On The Looney Tunes Show, Granny told a story about how she saved the Eiffel Tower from being stolen by Nazis. As a reward, the French gave her the Eiffel Tower. The one in Paris is a fake. One of the musical segments (entitled "Be Polite") involves Mac and Tosh repaying everyday acts of courtesy with eleborate gifts. |
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The Sandman (1989): Delirium of the Endless has a habit of giving rewards to mortals who are nice to her or who do things for her. Since she is the physical personification of insanity and her "gifts" usually entail some sort of mental illness, it's usually best to politely decline. | |
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In the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Lie Like a Dog", Dudley lies about going to the dentist in order to avoid boring workdays at T.U.F.F. HQ, and stops Snaptrap from licking other people's wallets and The Chameleon (disguised as a shark) from drowning while in disguise. The Mayor of Petropolis, assuming the mystery hero is a T.U.F.F. agent, rewards T.U.F.F. with many expensive items, including a snow-cone machine, a chocolate fountain, a pool, and an all-terrain jet ski, all of which Dudley wants to use, but The Chief forbids him from doing so. Lampshaded by The Chief when Dudley tells the truth at the end of the episode. | |
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In the Elfen Lied fic Family Sticks Together, Yuka thanks Alex for walking Nyu to Maple House by letting him stay for dinner and even using their shower. Alex himself tells her that she may be going overboard. | |
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The Burns and Allen Show had an episode where Gracie agrees to host a wedding for the daughter of a woman who "did (her) a wonderful favor!" After all hilarity has ensued, George asks what this amazing favor was. She helped give Gracie's car a push. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Deconstructed because Cyrano and Roxane had a very unusual set of personal ethics. At Act I Scene VII, Ligniere begs Cyrano to let him sleep in his house to avoid an ambush. Cyrano is so enchanted with Ligniere's gesture of Courtly Love to a Lady that he insists on fighting the One Hundred Thugs hired to punish Ligniere. Justified because Cyrano is a Gascon and they have a rather strange set of personal ethics… and because Cyrano is looking for a challenge and one hundred men are more or less that for him At Act IV Scene VIII, Christian ask Roxane why she risked her life meeting him at the battlefield, she responds him that it was for his (really Cyrano’s) love letters. When Christian lampshades that they were a few inconsequential love letters, Roxane answers that they are Serious Business. |
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In a season one episode of Friends, Phoebe finds that her bank account has been accidentally credited with a large amount of money. She reports this to the bank, who confuses her message and interprets it as her missing this amount, doubling it! Feeling like she doesn't deserve it, she gives it to a homeless woman, who insists that she return the favour by buying her a can of soda. The soda contains a human thumb, which Phoebe reports to the company, and freaks out when she receives $10,000 in damages that she doesn't want and feels like she's entirely unentitled to. She resolves her feelings by putting the money to good use. |
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In the Fighting Fantasy book Deathmoor, you're competing against your rival, Fang-zen of Jitar, on a quest to rescue a princess. You're doing this out of altruism since the King is your benefactor, Fang-zen on the other hand only accepts the quest with half the kingdom as his fee. | |
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