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Money Is Not Power

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Money Is Not Power	comment	There's always that one rich Jerkass — the corporate snob, that one with the Lexus, that arrogant prick who's always looking down their nose at everybody else. "I can have anything I want, because haha, I'm rich." Or maybe he has quite the friendship with the mayor/governor/President (often because of the occasional donation), but then shit hits the fan. Maybe it's a natural disaster (or a supernatural disaster), an unstoppable disease, the RMS Titanic sinking, or even The End of the World as We Know It. Or maybe it's merely a Communist revolution or some weird kind of hyperinflation. Suddenly, all that wealth and "friendship" isn't worth so much, because people are more worried about plain ol' survival rather than making money or following whoever is supposedly in charge. However, it could be on a much smaller scale — maybe Kids Just Prefer Boxes or money simply isn't important to somebody, either because they value their honor more or because their desire to see you suffer is greater than any amount you could offer due to either personal reasons or sheer bloodlust. Remember to Beware the Honest Ones, because they believe in things bigger than cold, hard cash. Getting hit with this trope is typically a huge moment for any character used to money solving all their problems. Sometimes it can lead up to a Villainous BSoD or even a Heelâ€“Face Turn, but at other times, they simply die. Often the ironic twist to The Elites Jump Ship, when the rich and powerful try to escape a calamity and learn the hard way that their former privileges mean nothing. Compare Screw the Money, I Have Rules!, Screw the Money, This Is Personal!, and Worthless Yellow Rocks. Contrast Every Man Has His Price (you can get people to do anything if you spend enough money), Bribe Backfire (when money does have power, but the attempt to use it has greater negative consequences than not having done so), Hit Them in the Pocketbook (in which one of the steps in the strike back against the rich jerk is turn them into a penniless jerk) and the even bigger contrast Crimefighting with Cash where a character's money supply is so great it counts as a superpower in the war against crime. See also No Fame, No Wealth, No Service.
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Money Is Not Power / int_109b49e1	comment	In Predator 2, Jamaican gangsters kidnap the leader of their rival Columbian gang, hang him from the ceiling naked by his ankles, and prepare to execute him. He desperately offers his fortune to them, but they reply, "This is not about money, this is about power. There's a new king in the streets. This is a message he has for your people: 'you are history!' Fucking history. Goddamn puto." Shortly afterwards, they are all killed by the Predator, which (although it's never brought up) is another thing that can't be bought off, reasoned with, or satisfied by anything other than your skinned skull on a spike.
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Money Is Not Power / int_11b7db91	comment	In the Adventure Time episode "Furniture and Meat", Finn and Jake go to the Wildberry kingdom to spend all of their excess treasure. Jake quickly goes nuts when he realizes he can get away with just about anything by tossing around money. He finally bites off more than he can chew when he offers Wildberry Princess money if she lets him sit on her head. She gets so angry and embarrassed that she orders Finn and Jake's arrests and confiscates their loot.
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Money Is Not Power / int_11fccf8c	comment	In God of War: Chains of Olympus, Kratos defeats the Persian King in a fight. The Persian King begs for his life and even tries to bribe him with his kingdom, his women, and a chest full of gold. Kratos not only refuses to spare him, he crushes his head with the chest before having sex with his slave girls.
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Money Is Not Power / int_14b52449	comment	Played with, somewhat, in 2012. While some of the surviving humans were selected by geneticists, a good portion of the rest were rich snobs whose tickets ran at a billion euros apiece. It was the money from these ticket sales that paid for the ships in the first place. The trope comes into play when the storylines converge in China, where one of the ark ships has been severely damaged and its assembled passengers are nearly left to die (one of them yells "I paid a fortune to be here!"). It's also not pointed out that, in the post-disaster world, their money and power will be gone, as the economy that supported their fortunes no longer exists, meaning they'll have to work just like everyone else.
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Money Is Not Power / int_17e8a772	comment	In Dick Tracy, Big Boy Caprice tries to buy off Tracy. It doesn't work — Tracy just pretends to be interested long enough to entrap Caprice and then tells him that now he has added attempting to bribe an officer of the law to the very long list of crimes Tracy will arrest him for. (In fact, in the novelization, the other mob bosses in his group initially question if it's even possible.)
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Money Is Not Power / int_1b9ff398	comment	Us: After the Tethered break into his home and round up him and his family to kill them, Gabe Wilson tries to offer his money, car, and boat to leave them alone. The Tethered don't care about these things.
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Money Is Not Power / int_1bda074e	comment	Maus features one of the rare occasions where the person on the receiving end of this trope is sympathetic. Vladek's father-in-law, a Jewish millionaire in Nazi-occupied Poland, tries to bribe himself and his wife out of the Holocaust. Unfortunately, smuggling two middle-aged Jews to safety in 1940 is simply too much risk for anyone, no matter how great the reward. In one of the saddest scenes of the story, Vladek tries to bribe one of his relatives, a Jewish ghetto policeman, into sparing his father-in-law from deportation. Unfortunately, the relative takes the bribe and just ships the old man to his doom.
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Money Is Not Power / int_222a8847	comment	RoboCop (1987): Two thugs chase down a woman. She tries to offer her purse, but they knock it away and say they don't care about money, they just want to rape her. RoboCop steps in and saves her.
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Money Is Not Power / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk", Burns sells the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to some German businessmen for what he considers a very good price. Then he pays a visit to Moe's Tavern, only to get jeered at and thrown out by the plant employees who no longer have reason to fear him. So Burns decides to buy the plant back, and rehires Homer (who the Germans fired).
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Money Is Not Power / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In the second half of Season 3, Hive, an ancient Inhuman who HYDRA was originally founded to worship, and who was banished from Earth centuries ago, asks Gideon Malick why he is helping Hive. Malick says that his family was promised that Hive would help them take over the world. Hive muses that Malick already owns an appreciable portion of the world; between his money and his connections, he can have very nearly anything he wants at any time. Hive says that what Malick actually wants is power, personal superhuman power like what the Inhumans have. Hive, being Affably Evil, helps him find this power. A few episodes later, after Malick's death, Hive is informed that there is a lot of money up for grabs. Hive is dismissive, and says that they have neither the time nor the inclination to sort through a bunch of diversified investments. Giyera says that while Hive is right, they can't get all of it within a reasonable timeframe, but they can get nine hundred and sixty million dollars immediately. That manages to give even Hive pause, and Hive admits that will be useful.
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Money Is Not Power / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997): Cal tries to bribe his way off the doomed ship. While it appears to work initially, the money is thrown back in his face when it matters most.
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Money Is Not Power / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V during the Golden Ending: One of the main villains Devin Weston cheats the heroes out of their payment and tries to put a hit on one of them, thinking he can get away because he is so rich and powerful (though to be fair, he does own his own small army of Merryweather guards). Trevor goes after him in his luxurious and heavily guarded mansion, kills all his guards, and imprisons Weston inside his own car's trunk. Weston tries to bargain with Trevor by offering money and employment in exchange for sparing him and gets increasingly desperate as he realizes that Trevor doesn't really care about money since not only is he already rich from all the heists and crimes he's done by that point, he really hates Weston and no fortune in the world can save him from his inevitable death.
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Money Is Not Power / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: This trope coming into play motivates Thief into wanting to save the world, since if the world ends, "money won't be worth the act of picking it up".
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Money Is Not Power / int_341c02e9	comment	In Batman Begins, Falcone says he runs the city with "power you can't buy... the power of fear" and demonstrates how he sees Bruce as some snot-nosed kid who can't handle the ugly side of life. In a twist of irony, Falcone learns that this power can't save him when scarier people start to show up.
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Money Is Not Power / int_35097ab9	comment	Weight Off Your Shoulder: ChloÃ©'s Karma Houdini Warranty runs out when the new Ladybug reveals how she betrayed Team Miraculous and willingly worked with Hawk/Shadow Moth. After this, her father is no longer able to use his connections as the Mayor to get her out of trouble; in fact, he's faced with serious trouble himself as public opinion turns against him for enabling her so much in the first place. Tellingly, ChloÃ© shows No Sympathy for her father, declaring that he's not useful to her anymore. She also sincerely believes that she can escape the consequences of her actions by working with Gabriel Agreste's legal team, underscoring how she hasn't learned anything from the whole debacle. ChloÃ© makes the huge mistake of doing said gloating about working with Agreste's legal team to Madame Bustier, which leads to Bustier accepting that ChloÃ© is Beyond Redemption partially because of her fault and convincing the jury ChloÃ© is guilty when she calls Bustier to the witness stand. Gabriel Agreste also runs into this. After he unintentionally exposes himself as Hawk/Shadow Moth, he finds himself faced with an angry mob and haughtily declares that You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With...only to learn that yes, they do.
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Money Is Not Power / int_3544ad11	comment	House of Cards (US): Frank Underwood states that he went into the public sector because he values power over money. He prefers to surround himself with people who also seek power over money, as their loyalty can't be bought. He comments on this when he analyses where he thinks his nominal ally and former Press Secretary, the lobbyist Remy Danton, has gone wrong. Remy later on provides a counter-argument: power is better than money but only as long as it lasts. Which it never does. Raymond Tusk, a billionaire Affluent Ascetic who is more interested in the power that his money affords him rather than the luxury, often uses his net worth to browbeat politicians to let him have his way. He is ultimately outmanuevered. Xander Feng, another billionaire, also threatens Frank with his wealth, but Frank coolly retorts that all of Feng's fortune amounts to little more than the GDP of Slovakia, while Frank himself wields the United States government.
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Money Is Not Power / int_3651bc0c	comment	Inverted in The Princess and the Frog, where Dr. Facilier notes that while he has magic, money is what gets you real power. Logically enough, he spends the movie trying to use black magic to steal a fortune. This is most likely due to his inability to conjure things for himself.
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Money Is Not Power / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star: One of the first scenes is a gang of thugs murdering some people... And then calling them stupid for carrying money rather than food, water, or other things that were more useful in the post-apocalyptic world. Late in the manga, a former low-ranked member of Raoh's army has amassed economic power (in food and resources) thanks to his mind and uses it to order around some other survivors of Raoh's army and become a local leader and oppress people. When Kenshiro shows up, he tries to bribe him too... And ends up killed for his crimes.
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Money Is Not Power / int_3790ae45	comment	In Double Homework, coming from a wealthy (or even royal) background is not enough to keep Amy and Dennis from being subjects of Dr. Moselyâ€™s experiment, or from having them killed for knowing too much.
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Money Is Not Power / int_38d60efe	comment	Never Had a Friend Like Me: Amanda is forced by her parents into a playdate with Remy Buxaplenty. Remy learns about Norm and tries to pay Amanda for his lamp. Even if Norm hadn't already been freed from his lamp, Amanda is still annoyed by Remy's offer. Later, when Remy poofs up a genie, and he proceeds to twist his wishes for fun, Remy tries to bribe the genie into granting his wishes exactly, but he is laughed at since genies can wish up their own cash.
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Money Is Not Power / int_3defe34c	comment	Opium kingpin Takeda Kanryuu tries to bribe Kenshin out of attacking his mansion. This works about as well as you'd expect. Discussed by his Dragon-in-Chief Shinomori Aoshi:
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Money Is Not Power / int_3e374b30	comment	The Dark Knight Rises: Corporate mogul John Daggett gets hit in the face by this trope when Bane stops doing what he's told. Once Bane tanks all law and order in Gotham, the wealthy elites have no protection from the poor mobs or from being given "death or exile" by Judge Scarecrow
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Money Is Not Power / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan's Battle of Trost has Mikasa confront a greedy merchant who insists on bringing all of his wares through a gate too small to accommodate them, risking the lives of all those around him. She delivers a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, pointing out that her comrades are putting their lives on the line to help everyone evacuate.
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Money Is Not Power / int_44715363	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Shadi is a mysterious being who protects the Millennium Items and punishes those who would desecrate tombs and steal their artifacts. Some of his victims try to bribe their way out, and Maximilian Pegasus once tried to save one of his victims by offering to pay for what he stole, but Shadi says he and his ilk do not care about money at all and such crimes are only punishable by death or Penalty Game. He also makes it clear that one cannot buy a Millennium Item or its power; it tests its potential wielder to determine their worthiness, and those who fail such tests die horribly.
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Money Is Not Power / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Making Money plays with this trope: Moist Von Lipwig, Boxed Crook, works for the government as the leader of the National Bank, treating it as a complex con game, which, in a very real sense, it is. He faces the resistance of the Lavish family, who are the Royally Screwed Up shareholders of the bank. And while their money definitely grants them power, this power is mere leverage, and not just Moist, but also their true opponent, the Big Goodnote sort of Vetinari, know and understand this much better than they do.
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Money Is Not Power / int_47bc4e32	comment	In American Vampire, Skinner Sweet's sire Percy has him dug up and asks him to join him. He promises Skinner money and territory to sweeten the deal. Unfortunately, Skinner's a total psychopath who has hated Percy for decades. Skinner drags Percy screaming into the sun.
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Money Is Not Power / int_489c6d22	comment	Lost to Dust: The bounty hunter Quetzalcoatl attacks Raven and tries to kill her. When Yang and Gilgamesh find them, they point out the bounty called for her to be taken alive, so they thank her for her help and try to pay her the reward. She scoffs and says she does not care about money; the only reason she is a bounty hunter is so she can fight the strongest opponents, then continues attacking Raven.
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Money Is Not Power / int_490a7d52	comment	The Karma of Lies: Thanks to his Control Freak father, Adrien is an Upper-Class Twit who is rather out of touch with reality, having little idea of what anything is actually worth and taking their family fortune for granted. When Lila steals from the Agrestes' emergency account (courtesy of Adrien stupidly entering the password in front of the girl he knows is conning their classmates), Adrien assumes that the police will prioritize their case above all others simply because his family's still incredibly rich...while ignoring the tiny little detail that his father was recently exposed as Hawkmoth. He's very confused — and increasingly annoyed — when the police try to explain to him that they can't magically find and return the stolen funds just on his say-so. Discussed during the epilogue, when Ladybug warns Lila that while she might have gotten away with her crimes in Paris, karma will eventually catch up to her if she doesn't change her ways. No amount of money will be able to save her if she pisses off the wrong people. Most of the Recursive Fanfictions of this story make a point of proving Marinette right, with at least two making it literal by having Lila being murdered by people she destroyed with her conniving.
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Money Is Not Power / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock: A similar principle in "Romeo in the Mix". When Leech kidnaps Lil' Romeo, the rapper threatens to sue him. Leech mocks him for thinking he would be intimidated before using him as bait to trap Static.
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Money Is Not Power / int_5524b5fd	comment	Unicorn Jelly: The Arks of the dying world would probably be tailored for the rich and powerful... IF there were enough damn space for a bunch of useless snobs. As the Arks are barely functioning on unknown precursor technology that has not been improved for over 500 cycles, there simply isn't enough weight support for more than a skeleton crew of the fittest soldiers and the thinnest assassins, a handful of the thinnest and not smartest scientists, and a few dozen children for colonization because their weight is by far the lightest. In fact, the heroes only get to board because one of them accidentally slaughtered a dozen kids. No amount of money, or even political power, will make up for the ability to float the ark off a planet that's up next for asteroid target practice.
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Money Is Not Power / int_55a377ab	comment	An interesting example from The Reckless Moment for women during The '40s and The '50s: Although Lucia isnâ€™t a jerk, she is part of a wealthy upper-class family. However, she canâ€™t use this wealth to get blackmail money because of her position as a powerless Housewife. She needs her husband's signature (read: permission) for everything at her bank, she doesnâ€™t have collateral (therefore, she doesnâ€™t own anything) to get a loan from a loaning institution, and her valuables arenâ€™t worth much.
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Money Is Not Power / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: When the Crystal Golem decides to rebel against Bozzok for all the abuse he's put her through, including being reanimated as a golem in constant agony, Bozzok tries to get Grubwiggler (the wizard who reanimated Crystal) to help him deal with her. Grubwiggler decides that helping Bozzok is against his best interests, and leaves. Bozzok tries to offer Grubwiggler triple what he was paying, but Grubwiggler, tired of Bozzok's constant infringing on his magical research, tells him he wasn't as smart as he thought he was, and teleports home.
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Money Is Not Power / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Tagon's Toughs hate General Xinchub so much that even obscene amounts of money are not enough to get them to rescue him. Particularly notable when they (eventually) forgave, and even employed, several people who ticked them off, betrayed them, or both; Xinchub was that bad. Downplayed in the Hand-To-Mouth Arc; a wealthy merchant wants the Toughs to protect him, and seems to be under the impression that since he's paying them an obscene amount of money, the mercenaries will be at his side instantly.
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Money Is Not Power / int_5db577ba	comment	In The Dark Knight, the Joker burns his cash payment from the mob and then kills the mob boss who paid him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_5f831ed	comment	Murder on the Orient Express: Ratchett made a good amount of money on his evil deeds...but when those deeds come back to haunt him, he finds out his cash can't save him from deserved revenge. He does try and offer Poirot cash, but the detective smells the man is no good.
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Money Is Not Power / int_62f94c6	comment	One of the themes of the The Dark Knight Trilogy are villains who aren't motivated by pure greed but by some greater philosophic, if terrible, goal. In general, money won't get you anywhere with Batman's enemies, any more than it would with Batman himself. In Batman Begins, Falcone says he runs the city with "power you can't buy... the power of fear" and demonstrates how he sees Bruce as some snot-nosed kid who can't handle the ugly side of life. In a twist of irony, Falcone learns that this power can't save him when scarier people start to show up. In The Dark Knight, the Joker burns his cash payment from the mob and then kills the mob boss who paid him. The Dark Knight Rises: Corporate mogul John Daggett gets hit in the face by this trope when Bane stops doing what he's told. Once Bane tanks all law and order in Gotham, the wealthy elites have no protection from the poor mobs or from being given "death or exile" by Judge Scarecrow
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Money Is Not Power / int_648ca4a0	comment	Hellblazer: Rise and Fall: The story involves Despondeo conning wealthy plutocrats out of their fortunes by lying to them that handing over all their wealth will be enough to enable them to avoid going to Hell for their misdeeds.
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Money Is Not Power / int_6af809ab	comment	Arc Corp: Mountain Glenn was founded by a rich couple who couldn't understand that their money wasn't enough to save their fatally malformed baby.
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Money Is Not Power / int_6ed95443	comment	In Quick Change, one of the bank hostages tries to bribe the robber (Bill Murray in a clown costume) by offering his very expensive watch. Being Bill Murray, the mocking reply is priceless. Also played with (and an Ironic Echo of sorts) on the situation that is the film's visual Title Drop: Grimm tries to buy a ride on the bus for him and his companions, but he has no exact change for the fare and the bus driver is such a hard-core stickler to the rules that he will not take a payment with a high-denomination bill (even when Grimm insists that he can keep the rest) and continues to demand exact change, forcing Grimm to run to a nearby store and get it (evading the police as he does so) before the bus takes off.
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Money Is Not Power / int_6fa2c385	comment	In Max Payne 3, when Max reaches the innermost part of the dilapidated Imperial Palace Hotel, he finds Dr. Fisher harvesting the organs of Gangbangers and regular people rounded up by an aggressive SWAT team that sold them to a crooked paramilitary organization, which hired Fisher for the sole purpose of performing the extractions. When Max confronts him, he insists he did it to save the lives of people in need of organ transplants, but when Max doesn't buy that explanation, Fisher gives an armful of money to Max so he can look the other way. Max lets the money drop to the floor, and when Serrano, who had been antagonizing Max up until that point, comes into the room, Max steps back and allows Serrano to stab Fisher with a scalpel.
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Money Is Not Power / int_746814ae	comment	In one episode of Arthur, Elwood City is struck by a massive blizzard. Mr. Crosswire manages to beat Mr. Read to the last of the food at the supermarket, but that's where his influence ends. Upon returning home, Muffy complains that none of her electrical devices are working and begs him to fix it by paying someone. He replies "This is something money can't fix."
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Money Is Not Power / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta: This is the final fate of Rich Bitch Helen: losing all of her money and power. Her husband (who was in charge of the Norsefire party's Sinister Surveillance) is dead, having just killed her lover (an up-and-coming street rat, who she was grooming to become the chief of Norsefire's goons). The total collapse of the Norsefire party leaves her on the streets. She desperately flings herself onto the first guy she recognizes as a former party member, trying to seduce him by claiming that with her, they'll seize power. He no longer cares about any of it and leaves her screeching.
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Money Is Not Power / int_778a73b9	comment	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Metori Saiko is introduced as a snobby heir to one of Japan's largest corporations, who thinks he can buy everyone off to do anything he wants. However, after the arc where the main characters get stranded on an island after their boat sinks, he gets some character development.
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Money Is Not Power / int_7d325c78	comment	Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope: A man who is begging for his life tries to offer the Androids money. Android 17 says he is immortal so he doesn't want or need money before killing him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_7e368d5b	comment	G.I. Joe: Resolute: During his ultimatum to the UN, Cobra Commander admits to learning this lesson the hard way, expressing the belief that his constant defeats at the hands of G.I. Joe were the result of him thinking money brought power. He now understands that it's the other way around; with control over others comes wealth, meaning that by forcing the nations of the world to cede power to him, he will have all the money he could ever want. note It should be pointed out that many versions of Cobra Commander are still firm believers in the power of money, and Cobra's lower ranks are very highly motivated because they have many options to gain wealth (e.g. getting a percentage cut of weapons sales, commissions on successful recruitment).
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Money Is Not Power / int_804cf2d3	comment	Riverworld: In the 2010 adaptation, a bunch of modern-day people wake up in a new world. While exploring it, they spot some unfriendly-looking Spanish conquistadors. One of the group, Dan, suddenly comes out of hiding and tries to boss the conquistadors around while holding out his law degree, ranting that he is a rich and powerful lawyer. They kill him out of annoyance while his friends run and wonder what in the world he was thinking. The conquistadors comment on how stupid and arrogant he was. Even if he did manage to convince them to follow him, they probably would have turned on him since he lacked physical prowess and was likely not carrying that much money, if they would even accept modern money.
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Money Is Not Power / int_841e6d0b	comment	Gandhi: After being thrown off a train in South Africa, Gandhi meets his client, an Indian Muslim businessman named Mr. Khan. He explains to Gandhi that his background as an Indian outweighs his status as a wealthy man, and because of this, he does not expect to travel by first class or walk down the street with his white Christian attorney.
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Money Is Not Power / int_841e72e9	comment	A Man of Iron: Someone hires a gang of bandits to kill Tony Stark. They later remark that they don't really care about money because they can just take whatever they want from their victims, and do it more because they get off on hurting people. When they kidnap Tony, he attempts to negotiate, but they mock him and say his wealth and titles are meaningless; from now on, he's just their toy that they will torture for fun and eventually kill. It takes a Big Damn Heroes from Jon, Rhodey, and the others to save him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_87b24f8a	comment	Reapers Among Fairies: Princess Hisui E. Fiore's money and royal titles are meaningless when facing superhumans like Karin and Yuzu who don't give a damn who she is or how much money she has and will not hesitate to kill her for hurting their family. Hisui laments that she thought she was untouchable, but now she knows she never had any real power.
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Money Is Not Power / int_87d2b52a	comment	Used in the climax of Marathon Man. After dragging everyone around him through hell, Szell gets his diamonds, only to run into Babe, who he tortured earlier. It quickly becomes clear that Szell has none of the power in this confrontation, which ends with him first broken and then dead.
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Money Is Not Power / int_8d8100ab	comment	Early in Lost, Sawyer is quick to point out that money is completely worthless on the Island, which makes the formerly wealthy Shannon powerless. This is why he's able to quickly assert himself as an economic leader, by salvaging anything that might be of value from the wreckage.
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Money Is Not Power / int_9045b1b7	comment	World War Z: This is a major theme in the later sections of the book. Because of how the world has been turned upside down by the Zombie Apocalypse, people who had previously held high-paying, "important" positions like stock brokers, celebrities, and professional athletes find themselves having to be retrained so they can actually do something useful. At one point, it's mentioned that a formerly wealthy woman who held a white-collar job before the end of the world is now taking a class on useful skills — being taught by her former maid. The tale of the "celebrity party fortress" brings it down home even harder: money will buy you no survival in the Zombie Apocalypse if you are Too Dumb to Live, like broadcasting the location of your zombie-proof fortress over the Internet and showing how you are partying in style during the apocalypse while surrounded by millions of people who are desperate to keep themselves and their families safe from the zombies. In practically no time after the broadcast starts, thousands of people show up outside to demand entry and safety, and when they're refused, they begin to attack. The fortress falls in minutes to the desperate people, (because while the fortress might be zombie proof, that's not going to stop people from blowing off the doors) and the mercenaries hired to protect their rich clients decide that their lives are worth more than their pay and run away.
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Money Is Not Power / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series has a case of this in the episode "The Terrible Trio" where Warren, the group's leader, truly thinks that he can get away with murder because he has money. When he finds he can't bribe Batman, he still thinks that his family's lawyers will get him off. This is followed by a Gilligan Cut to him being thrown in prison.
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Money Is Not Power / int_90cc79f0	comment	"My Dinner with Ares": Ogbunabali regales to Ares about a follower whom he kept alive for centuries in exchange for offerings, but eventually Ogbunabali had to reap his soul since no mortal can avoid death forever. In response, the man begged to be spared, offering everything from burning his entire fortune in his honor to having Steven Spielberg make a movie glorifying him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_92d87e3d	comment	In the remake of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Nicholai Ginovaef is willing to let the world burn if it gives him a nice bonus, causing him to exacerbate casualties in order to get more combat data. By the end, after getting injured and being held at gunpoint by Jill, he begs her to help him escape in exchange for his information on his backers (who isn't Umbrella this time). Jill, however, fed up with his mercenary nature and backstabbing, tells him she can do her own detective work, and leaves him to an uncertain fate ahead of an impending missile strike that obliterates Raccoon City.
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Money Is Not Power / int_96f61f3b	comment	Fate: Kill: Shirou confronts Bach, who commits the atrocity of selling girls into slavery to people who enjoy torturing and killing girls. Bach tries to offer money to be left alone and is shocked when Shirou points out that his crimes cannot be paid for with mere money.
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Money Is Not Power / int_971cb5be	comment	Life (1999): In 1932, the black men Ray and Claude travel from New York to Mississippi. They enter a diner and try to order a pie, but are refused service by the racist cashier. Ray tries to offer a huge wad of cash obviously worth the pie several times over, but the cashier refuses and threatens them with a shotgun, forcing them to leave.
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Money Is Not Power / int_98418025	comment	In the book of Acts, Simon Magus tries to purchase the power of the Holy Spirit with money so that he could lay hands on people and give them the same power. Peter the apostle outrightly rejects it, saying that Simon's heart is not right before God and that he should pray that such a thought in his mind will be forgiven by him for attempting it.
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Money Is Not Power / int_9c3af928	comment	In the Book of Ezekiel, God through the prophet tells Jerusalem that their silver and gold won't save them in the time when the Babylonians invade their city and take them as prisoners or kill them.
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Money Is Not Power / int_9f1284a8	comment	I Am Legend: Dr. Neville finds himself walking over a fortune in bank notes, abandoned on the floor. Considering that humanity got wiped out by a plague and he is the last survivor left in the city besides the vampires, money is pretty much useless as the paper it was printed on.
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Money Is Not Power / int_a14e5771	comment	28 Days Later: Mark talks about the early days when people were trying to escape the country.
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Money Is Not Power / int_a3c14f85	comment	In Don't Look Up, most, if not all, of the survivors on the Sleeper Ship are President Orlean's wealthy allies, titans of finance and industry. People who have relied on money and personal connections throughout their entire lives have no practical skills for survival or scientific knowledge. As such, they can only stand helpless and (literally) naked as a pack of alien predators close in on them seconds after they disembark. And even if they could fight the predators off, they are all clearly past fertile age, meaning their society would last only a couple of decades at most. Given it was their greed and arrogance that doomed human civilization back on Earth, it might count as Laser-Guided Karma. Also Jason Orlean is shown to have somehow miraculously survived the impact, but he's a rich dimwit and he looks utterly lost as he takes in the devastation around him, so he'll probably die of thirst or starvation soon anyway.
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Money Is Not Power / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible reminds its readers in a few places (the Book of Psalms and The Four Gospels) that all the money in the world can't save your eternal soul from death, since God basically owns everything in creation, and that the price on a soul is costly. The only thing that can save a person is faith in God's only begotten Son Jesus Christ, who has paid for the sins of mankind with His blood. (The Book of Tobit and 2nd Maccabees, which appear in the Catholic canon of Scripture, contradict this by saying that almsgiving saves a soul from death.) In the book of Acts, Simon Magus tries to purchase the power of the Holy Spirit with money so that he could lay hands on people and give them the same power. Peter the apostle outrightly rejects it, saying that Simon's heart is not right before God and that he should pray that such a thought in his mind will be forgiven by him for attempting it. In the Song of Songs, the Shulamite says that if a man were to give the wealth of his whole house for love, it would be utterly condemned. In the Book of Ezekiel, God through the prophet tells Jerusalem that their silver and gold won't save them in the time when the Babylonians invade their city and take them as prisoners or kill them.
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Money Is Not Power / int_a7a51256	comment	In When Worlds Collide, a rich tycoon tries to buy his way onto the ark spaceship.
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Money Is Not Power / int_ada42ce8	comment	Boys on the Side: After Robin falls ill due to a lung infection from her AIDS, Jane goes to the same tarot card woman she met months earlier and offers her money to help remove "the curse" foreshadowed in her tarot cards. The woman politely refuses Jane's money, saying though she practices some form of magic and spirituality, she cannot perform miracles.
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Money Is Not Power / int_af6ee0ec	comment	Tywin thinks that he can buy out his problems but there's things that his money can't buy in Bequeathed from Pale Estates: He tries to set up trade agreements for food with Dorne and the Reach only for both to refuse. Dorne hates him for ordering the murders of Princess Elia and the children while the Reach has too much internal instability. He constantly sinks money into the Crown but has increasingly little to show for it besides more debt. Tywin can't get Cersei, Robert, or Joffery under control. Tywin offers that any lady who marries Joffery and bears a son will live in the highest luxury for the rest of her life. Unfortunately, with how Stupid Evil Joffery is, no one wants their daughters anywhere near him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_b1cbc51	comment	In The Untouchables (1987), this trope is the entire reason for the film's title. Eliot Ness and his group cannot be bribed, which is Al Capone's usual way of keeping the cops away from him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_b2314993	comment	In the first Blacksad comic, the Big Bad is rich enough to kill with impunity, muzzle the chief of police, and send his goons to beat up a detective. Problem is the chief of police, while forced to back down, doesn't like rich assholes using their influence to escape their crimes, and gives carte blanche to the detective, Blacksad, to find the rich murderer and kill him. When Blacksad confronts the murderer, he rejects any bribe on principle and kills him while the chief of police writes it as a suicide. Blacksad even notes that if the Big Bad wasn't so smug, he wouldn't have been able to pull the trigger.
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Money Is Not Power / int_b29a69ec	comment	What You Knead (Naruto): Gato fires Zabuza, declaring that he owns all of Wave Country and doesn't need the missing-nin anymore. Unimpressed, Zabuza borrows Kakashi's tanto and uses the blade to cut Gato down.
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Money Is Not Power / int_b2b67330	comment	The War of the Worlds (1953): As Los Angeles is being evacuated, people are rioting in the streets while trying to obtain transportation out of the city.
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Money Is Not Power / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The show really shows that gold alone does not guarantee power. The Lannisters are able to stay in power not just because they are the richest house in Westeros, but due to Tywin's cunning, ruthlessness, and strong leadership, with him calling gold "just another rock". This becomes a plot point in Season 4 when it's revealed that the Westerland mines have been dry for years, and the Lannisters themselves are actually bankrupt, though Tywin was able to maintain the illusion that all was well with their finances for some time. When Baelish doubts Ned Stark for antagonizing the Lannisters because gold, not soldiers, is what wins wars, Ned retorts that by that logic, it makes no sense that Robert is king and not Tywin Lannister. (The "joke" being that Robert Baratheon, not Tywin Lannister, is king.) Ned is proven wrong in that the Lannisters and the Tyrells are major powers thanks to their gold and resources, and the support and loans from the Iron Bank can bring a nearly defeated contender (Stannis) Back from the Brink. Ned, however, is also right in that neither the Lannisters nor the Tyrells can openly rule even after defeating their opponents because they still need the appearance of legitimacy (i.e. a King named Baratheon who is descended from the Rebel King who won the Iron Throne). The Lannisters (who are wealthy and have a reputation for "paying debts") also suffer the consequences of Bad PR and poor heirs since the Iron Bank has faith in Tywin Lannister, the Hand of the King, but has none whatsoever in any of his descendants, while Stannis can count on relative youth and dependability. Petyr Baelish, who is an embodiment of a nascent Corrupt Corporate Executive, is also seen as a "money grubber" by the High Lords of Westeros, and ultimately the word of a teenage daughter of a High Lord counts for more than that of a longtime successful finance minister. Jaime gets a lesson in this from Locke, who is enraged by Jaime's arrogant attempts to buy him off with promises of gold. To prove the point, Locke cuts his hand off. When hiring the sellsword Bronn, Tyrion Lannister boasts that he can beat any price Bronn is offered to betray him. Unfortunately, his sister Queen Cersei is able to bribe Bronn with a noble title and he already planned on making the castle of his future wife his. While gold is good for him, being able to drink his own wine in his own keep is a dream he can't afford with standard sellsword pay and he really wants his promised castle, and to become part of the High Class of society, with a marriage, children, and a legacy of his own. In the end, Tyrion does manage to make good on his promise to double whatever anyone else offers Bronn by promising Bronn he can have Highgarden, a far better prize than the one Cersei is offering him. Essentially, Tyrion bribes Bronn with power rather than mere coin.
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Money Is Not Power / int_b58c29fb	comment	This is Koreiko's plight in The Little Golden Calf and the reason why he patiently awaits the end of the Soviet rule. Ostap Bender also learns to appreciate this trope when he finally makes it big.
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Money Is Not Power / int_bb5be2d4	comment	There's a reason MVP's wanted TNA's World Heavyweight Championship belt. He had money already, being the "Highest Paid Free Agent" in the sport and respect for his runs in Florida, Puerto Rico, WWE and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Then he became director of wrestling operations of Impact and all was good until he saw the owner of the LA Clippers lose the team in a scandal and decided he wanted something that couldn't be so easily taken away.
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Money Is Not Power / int_c2fcda	comment	SHAZAM! (2019): After acquiring superpowers and the allegiance of demons representing the Seven Deadly Sins, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana confronts his abusive father, a CEO, at a board meeting and slaughters everyone else in the room. His father begs for his life and offers money and his CEO position. Thaddeus lectures him on his cowardice and says his material wealth is not power like his, then has Greed kill him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?", Filthy Rich tries to bribe the Tantabus, a dream monster created from Princess Luna's guilt, into letting him go. It doesn't work. Played With, as he later uses the dream reality to give himself money-themed superpowers, which he uses to ride a cloud of bits and fire them at high speeds at the monster, to much greater effect.
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Money Is Not Power / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: A common fate of wealthy characters, especially in the more horror-infused episodes, is "rich person who ends up being killed by the monster/disaster of the week, usually as a result of their own hubris". As a case study, "Dalek" features Henry van Statten, a ludicrously rich man who owns the internet and is shown to be able to do things like have underperforming employees memory-wiped and ditched on the side of the road or single-handedly decide the next Presidential election. He's genuinely stunned when the Doctor tells him that the Dalek that's just escaped from his collection and started murdering all his security guards cannot be bribed or negotiated with, and will kill everyone in its path out of simple hatred. Nor does his wealth do him much good when his surviving employees, infuriated at how many people died because of his nonsense, turn on him and wipe HIS memory and ditch him by the side of the road.
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Money Is Not Power / int_ca08598f	comment	In Season 3 of The Wire, Omar Little and Brother Mouzone corner Stringer Bell in one of the buildings he's developing, intent on killing him. Stringer tries to offer money. Considering he ordered the torture/murder of Omar's boyfriend in the past and set Mouzone up to be shot, it fails. Omar says it isn't about the money and they kill him.
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Money Is Not Power / int_cb6abea3	comment	In the Yu-Gi-Oh! fic Yu-Gi-Oh! Soul of Silicon, corrupt businessman turned warlord Gansley learned this but was able to adjust thanks to Daala.
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Money Is Not Power / int_cc994c2c	comment	White Rain: Marnix finds this out the hard way when Sasuke cuts his arm off and burns him to a cinder with Amaterasu.
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Money Is Not Power / int_d461f757	comment	In the miniseries of Battlestar Galactica (2003), Helo and Boomer land on Caprica as it's getting nuked to make repairs to their Raptor. Not long after they land, they are swarmed by a large group of civilians. One of them tries to buy his way onboard with 50,000 cubits, even though the bank they're backed by is more than likely dust now. Even if that hadn't been the case, they're military officers and it would be against their ethos to accept bribes. Needless to say, they refuse his offer, first loading all the children present and then three more people chosen by lottery.
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Money Is Not Power / int_dfabfce5	comment	In Red Dead Redemption 2, Angelo Bronte tries to offer a bribe to any of the Dutch Van Der Linde gang that will kill Dutch and set him free. He's actually surprised when none of them take the offer. It never occurred to him that his immense wealth and web of corrupt officials would be useless against men who a) value loyalty more than money and b) have already wiped out the gangsters guarding him. He still goes out defiant, unlike Devin Weston, but he's proof that when your only real power is your checkbook, you better hope you get to use it on people who care about cashing checks. In a similar vein, being a man of great wealth and resources does not mean that you're somehow bulletproof. Status as a Captain of Industry doesn't mean the right (wrong?) man won't just shoot you down if you push him hard enough. Leviticus Cornwall finds this out the hard and stupid way, after laughing at Dutch's offer to let him go in exchange for a payoff... while the trigger-happy outlaw is standing ten feet away... fully armed.
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Money Is Not Power / int_e2c448c7	comment	In Volume 3/Episode 4 of Roll Over and Die, Satils, the previous slave owner of Milkit, has Milkit kidnapped because she cannot stand to see one of her former slaves having a happy life. She tortures Milkit until Flum manages to find them. When Satils mentions her church connections do not dissuade Flum, she attempts to bribe Flum. Flum makes it clear that no amount of money is worth all the torment she inflicted upon Milkit, and she proceeds to torture Satils to death.
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Money Is Not Power / int_e484b5e6	comment	Batman: No Man's Land plays with this; in the sealed-off Gotham, all barter is for basic survival necessities, so anyone who flashes around paper money or jewels and expects results is treated as an idiot by most people. However, while money may not be power, the trade that it used to represent is more important than ever, and those who master the new currencies (tinned food, batteries, servitude, etc.) become very powerful. The Penguin becomes the most powerful man in Gotham this way and is famous for being the only major trader who will accept traditional valuables as payment, but only because he has a pipeline to the outside world and enough resources to survive until the No Man's Land is lifted and the economy returns to normal.
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Money Is Not Power / int_e914355	comment	RWBY Zero: Weiss Schnee, her father Jacques, and her brother Whitley get kidnapped by Salem. Jacques thinks this is about ransom and asks Salem how much she wants. Salem says this is not about him, this is about Weiss. Confused, Jacques says Weiss has been disowned and has no access to the family fortune. Salem mocks him for thinking this is about something as insignificant as money. What she wants are Weiss' powers on her side. With Jacques and Whitley imprisoned, it will reduce the chances of Weiss running away, as even though she hates them, she still cares about them on some level.
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Money Is Not Power / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: In Captain Ginyu's backstory, as a child, he once swapped bodies with a rich pretty boy in hopes of winning girls and respect. Upon learning that the boy was weak, stupid, and had nothing going for him except his wealth and looks, Ginyu swapped back and decided money is meaningless compared to intelligence, personal strength, and fighting prowess.
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Money Is Not Power / int_ecf31fa3	comment	In Battle Royale, Oda is a rich asshole, but that doesn't save him from the Program. Everyone goes to the Program at random, even rich people. (Although it turns out Oda likes having the chance to kill his poor classmates anyway).
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Money Is Not Power / int_edbc9738	comment	Discussed at the end of Transmetropolitan, when the Big Bad has all his crimes exposed to the public. It's noted afterwards that he's using his considerable wealth to avoid legal prosecution... but he's only got so much money, and with the absolutely massive number of people that now want him dead, it's really only a matter of time before he either bankrupts himself through constant bribes or has the bad luck of encountering somebody who cares more about their hate for him than cash. Even if he somehow manages to completely avoid prosecution, assassination, or bankruptcy, he can never be the President again, the only thing in his life he gave anything resembling a damn about.
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Money Is Not Power / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: One of the Serial Killer Jin-e's victims tried to bribe him into leaving him alone, but Jin-e doesn't care about money, only about the fun of killing people and having interesting fights. Opium kingpin Takeda Kanryuu tries to bribe Kenshin out of attacking his mansion. This works about as well as you'd expect. Discussed by his Dragon-in-Chief Shinomori Aoshi: Later on, when Kenshin finally confronts him face to face, Kanryuu tries to beg Kenshin for forgiveness. After all Kanryuu has done and threatened to do, Kenshin is not in a forgiving mood. Saito Hajime believes wholeheartedly in "Aku Soku Zan" (Swift Death to Evil). All the money in the world will not stop him from killing you if he thinks you deserve it. Trying to bribe him would just reinforce the idea that you deserve it.
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Money Is Not Power / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: This trope is played with a lot. While illegal money can be useful sometimes, there are other times when it can't help in any way. In Ozymandias, Walt tries to bribe Jack into sparing Hank from summary execution. Jack, knowing Hank won't keep his mouth shut, kills Hank anyway. As a final twist of the knife, Jack and his crew take Walt's barrels of money, only letting Walt keep one barrel out of a twisted sense of honor. In Granite State, Walt being a fugitive from the law means he can't deposit or hide his money, nor send it to Skyler, without attracting the attention of the feds who will just take it from him. While Ed is honest enough to help Walt escape, he isn't honest enough that he won't try and keep Walt's money for himself. Walt Jr. is so disgusted with his father, he won't accept a dime from him. Walt is so isolated and lonely, he straight-up burns some of his money at one point. In Felina, Walt does manage to get his family money, but he has to pretend that it came from Gretchen and Elliot, who he manipulates into helping him with the help of two crooks and a laser pointer. Also Jack tries to buy his way out of trouble, but Walt is too vengeful to really care and is also dying and has no use for the money anyway.
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Money Is Not Power / int_f163bd9f	comment	ElfQuest: In The Rebels #12, Cauldron City on the innermost planet is facing certain doom. There's just one ship available, a military ship without much extra capacity. When the rich and wealthy administrators ask Commander Junnard if he'll transport some of them and a few specialists off-planet, Junnard snaps back that only children, chosen by Skyward-monitored random lot, will be allowed on. When the rich folks try to pull "we have connections", Junnard tells them to try that argument with the soldiers he has guarding his shuttles -the rich snobs won't like the orders Junnard's issued.
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Money Is Not Power / int_f1aaff66	comment	In Batman RIP, the Black Glove mock Batman that they have more money than even him, making them completely untouchable with no court they cannot bribe. They learn the hard way their money offers no protection from either Talia al Ghul or The Joker who track down and kill them all.
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Money Is Not Power / int_f2ca724e	comment	Hercules (2014): King Eurystheus tries to offer Hercules gold to leave him alone. Given he had confessed to killing Hercules' family and framing him for it, Hercules doesn't listen and kills him. He really should have seen that coming given he earlier noted that Hercules has no price.
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Money Is Not Power / int_f6477a2b	comment	In Alas, Babylon, the town banker measures a person's worth by their net worth. When World War III renders money, stocks, bonds, etc., useless, he's Driven to Suicide, unable to cope with the idea.
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Money Is Not Power / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: When Bill Cipher invades our dimension and takes over Gravity Falls, Preston Northwest tries to use his wealth to join Bill's forces as some sort of Horseman of the Apocalypse. Having no use for money, Bill simply deforms Preston's face.
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Money Is Not Power / int_fe2db938	comment	The scene mentioned in Anime and Manga also happens in the live adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin, made more chilling by the fact that the person confronting Kanryu isn't Himura Kenshin the Rurouni, but Himura Battousai the Hitokiri, only just keeping his homicidal impulses in check.
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My Dinner with Ares / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Revenge of the Sith / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Shadowrun Storytime / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Song of Songs / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
The Dogs of War / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
The Four Gospels / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Ultramarines / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Adolf (Manga) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Parklife (Music) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Errorverse: Tropes J-S (Roleplay) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Frank Herbert's Dune / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Gotham / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
House of Cards (US) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Moses the Lawgiver / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Superman & Lois / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Lost Ruins of Arnak (Tabletop Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Humankind (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Jagged Alliance (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Kingdom (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Max Payne 3 (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Organ Trail (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Surviving the Aftermath (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Blue Eye Samurai / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power

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