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Fatal Reward

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18 feature instances
7 referencing feature instances

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Fatal Reward	comment	Bad guys simply cannot be trusted. As such, whenever one promises a valuable but suspiciously unspecified "reward" for completing a task or providing information or something that benefits the baddie in some way, beware: said "reward" will probably be a quick death (if you're lucky). Generally a sign of gross incompetence on the part of the villain if this is done to a minion, since competent minions are pretty valuable. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Common in the fantasy genre. Compare You Have Failed Me and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, in which the subject is killed in similar circumstances; though usually as a result of failure or part of a grand design, as opposed to being given a task or opportunity, fulfilling it competently, then being killed anyway. Also compare Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves, a subtrope which is this in specific cases where the victim has actively and knowingly betrayed their party to their killer in some way. Enforced in a more literal sense in cases where the victim actually wants to die, particularly in cases they can't do it themselves. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. Examples
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Fatal Reward / int_14a837ea	comment	Awful Hospital's setting has extremely broad notions of life, death, and morality, so when BBQ Girll kicks Fern into a meat grinder in "thanks" for her help, it's with the full expectation that a new instance of Fern will come back to enjoy the sandwich they make out of her old body. Fern's soon restored to life, but can't quite stomach the thought of the sandwich.
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Fatal Reward / int_22aa22cc	comment	Dreamworks' The Road to El Dorado: The wicked high priest Tzekel-Kan seeks to destroy the posers Miguel and Tulio by using a huge stone jaguar. Tzekel-Kan's faithful flunky is mixing the magic potion, but something seems to be missing from the recipe. Tzekel-Kan deduces that his minion must perish in order to give the stone icon life, and promptly pushes his stooge into the roiling ooze.
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Fatal Reward / int_23d67c89	comment	The Hobbit. Semi-heroic-ish example in Thranduil, who promises to "free" the captive orc in exchange for information. After getting said information, the orc is swiftly decapitated and Thranduil justifies this by claiming he "freed his wretched head" from his body.
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Fatal Reward / int_3e1e745c	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_3e1e745c	comment	Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Played with in 'Dealing With Dragons Cimorene finds and frees a genie trapped in a bottle while organizing Kazul's hoard. This being a world of fairy tales, the event is a reference to the above Arabian Nights tale and the genie claims he will reward Cimorene with the death of her choice. At first she makes light of it by asking to die of old age, but the genie refuses because that's just not how this is done. Unfortunately for him while he's explaining all this, the Princess realizes from his story that he hasn't actually been trapped long enough to make death the reward, and is still in the time frame he's supposed to grant wishes. This is upsetting because while he can't break his vow, if he returns without having hit the mark, he'll be a laughingstock amongst other genies. They comprise with the idea that in exchange for one wish, Cimorene will put the cap back on the bottle for the genie lightly so he can let himself out after his term is done. By that time, Cimorene will have died of old age (just as she'd asked), and the genie can go home vows fulfilled without killing anyone.
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Fatal Reward / int_3f445492	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_3f445492	comment	One of the Arabian Nights has a djinn trapped in a bottle. At first he'll willingly becomes his liberator's slave, after a few hundred years go by he'll grant them three wishes, and after a few hundred years more he'll kill the person that frees him. When a fisherman comes along and does just that, the djinn explains his reasoning and gets ready to kill him. The fisherman expresses his incredulity that so huge and powerful a djinn could fit in a tiny bottle. The djinn demonstrates, and the fisherman puts the seal back on.
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Fatal Reward / int_423d62c4	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_423d62c4	comment	At one point in Papers, Please, Vonel will ask if you've ever heard of the Order of the EZIC Star. You can hand him a coded document you received from an EZIC operative and get arrested for associating with suspicious persons. In the Steam version you'll also unlock the achievement "Too Honest".
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Fatal Reward / int_56a211e9	comment	In Slayers, the Tragic Villain Erisiel Vrumugun does everything to bring her beloved master Copy Rezo back to power. But when her task if finally complete, her master promptly kills her off to concentrate on defeating the heroes.
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Fatal Reward / int_5755b96a	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_5755b96a	comment	Referenced in The Order of the Stick. One of the hobgoblins who found Xykon's missing phylactery makes sure to ask his superior if the reward is real, and not "an ironic 'final reward' reward."
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Fatal Reward / int_59140854	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_59140854	comment	Jessica Jones (2015). The fate of Detective Clemens is this after revealing the probable locations of Jessica and Kilgrave to Officer Simpson.
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Fatal Reward / int_5c208620	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_5c208620	comment	In the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Apokolips... Now!", after the mobster Bruno Mannheim (who was hired by the alien warlord Darkseid under promises of wealth and power) completes his last mission (to blow up a nuclear reactor on an island), he is left behind to die.
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Fatal Reward / int_5d844f37	comment	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Jafar does something similar here with the Grendel, promising to "reunite" him with his dead wife in exchange for information. Of course, after getting said information, Jafar promptly kills him.
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Fatal Reward / int_74f1eb4c	comment	Sneakers. After the protagonists steal the black box from Janek, Martin and Crease go to the men who hired them to receive their payment. Crease learns that Janek has been murdered and that they're being set up for execution. He calls Martin over to him and they escape before the men can kill them.
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Fatal Reward / int_8ec33a88	type	Fatal Reward
Fatal Reward / int_8ec33a88	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 3: The soldiers who survive to the end of the ten years that they're allotted without dying in battle get the privilege of Homecoming: Which simply means that they're Killed Off for Real instead of reincarnated to fight again like the soldiers who don't survive to the end of their lifespan. All of the colonies strive to reach Gold rank, which means that they're pardoned from having to continue to fight. It also means that a member of Moebius will be along shortly to harvest their life force.
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Fatal Reward / int_94bfa327	comment	Played with in The Dreamstone episode "Return of the Nightmare Stone". Urpgor agrees to help Zordrak find the title stone, with the assurance that he won't be fired (as he had the last time Zordrak got the stone and thus decided he didn't need to rely on him anymore) and will in fact be "suitably rewarded". When the stone is collected, Urpgor is predictably expelled, his "reward" is that Zordrak will hold himself from using this trope full on and executing him outright.
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Fatal Reward / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In Dragonfire, Kane rewards the sculptor who just finished carving a life-sized statue of Xana by letting him look at the statue as Kane kills him.
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Fatal Reward / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest. The "bank manager" working for Decima who stole and delivered the Samaritan drives to Greer was thanked with a bullet through the chest.
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Fatal Reward / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin. Jafar's plan for Aladdin after he gets him the lamp: stab him, leave him to die and take the lamp back to Agrabah. Luckily it fails.
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Fatal Reward / int_e6695c62	comment	Hudson Hawk. Hawk's parole officer probably shouldn't have demanded "his cut" from a Literal-Minded person with a knife.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Fatal Reward	processingCategory2	Death Tropes
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Slayers / int_75e11a4e	type	Fatal Reward
Endgame Trilogy / int_75e11a4e	type	Fatal Reward
Slayers / int_75e11a4e	type	Fatal Reward
For The Tyrants Fear Your Might (Roleplay) / int_75e11a4e	type	Fatal Reward
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_75e11a4e	type	Fatal Reward

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