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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!

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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!	comment	A character is able to Screw the Rules, simply because their friends or family are very influential, powerful or wealthy people. Can be Truth in Television, especially with The Mafia and similar criminal organizations. A favored technique of the son of the villain and those who realize they are Not on the List. Wives of powerful men often do this, as do their children. And their brothers. And their nephews. And their sisters. And their mothers. And their... oh, you already get it by now. Often phrased as: "Do you know who my dad is?" or "You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With!" See also Coattail-Riding Relative, Daddy's Little Villain, Diplomatic Impunity, Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy, Nepotism, Single-Target Law, No Fame, No Wealth, No Service, Screw the Rules, I Have Money!, and Screw the Rules, I Make Them!.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_1463a028	comment	Used frequently in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Though expect whoever just got off on that to get killed shortly after by a victim that couldn't care less.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_1484a16e	comment	Draco Malfoy is the biggest example. He uses the threat "When my father hears about this..." at least once a conversation, at least in the earlier books. It's not particularly effective. In the first book, when he says he's going to tell his father about how he has to go into the Forbidden Forest for punishment, Hagrid dismisses the threat, saying that Lucius Malfoy would tell him that's how things are done at Hogwarts. In Book 4, bringing up Lucius Malfoy practically makes Mad-Eye Moody nÃ©e Barty Crouch Jr. salivate at the thought of an excuse to talk to a former Death Eater. Particularly one he hates for his lack of fealty to Voldemort. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Draco incites a new wave of panic in the students studying for their OWLs by loudly declaring that his father has history with Griselda Marchbanks (head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority). However, Neville says he's almost certainly bluffing, as his grandmother actually is friends with Marchbanks (and she's never mentioned the Malfoys) and he doubts he'll get a leg up because of this relationship.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_14c51337	comment	ST☆R: Strike it Rich: Ichika used her position as a member of the gang unit to help Hana to fly under the radar. Naturally, her being reassigned put a stop to it.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_14d341dc	comment	In Star Trek Online, there's Nog, the son of the Grand Nagus Rom and first Ferengi in Starfleet. Despite this humongous helping hand, Nog prefers to do things without his help. When you first meet him, yes, he's carrying around his father's staff, but he tells the Player Character that he's here on Starfleet duty and, besides, the staff was his father's second best.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_14fb4b79	comment	A Cloudy Path: Taylor sees the Unwritten Rules as a prime example of this, noting how they seem to favor those who are already in power:
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_15753606	comment	In Waking Nightmares, a rare heroic version of this is used when the Flim Flam brothers come to claim Sweet Apple Acres, which they did actually win in the series. Trixie promptly points out the multitude of ways that the heroes could use their own connections to make their victory decidedly meaningless.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_182ce539	comment	The McMahon kids don't fall into this too well... Shane's a fan favorite (the inversion of Vince in many ways, but he has broken out into one of his catchphrases once. Not the one you're thinking of though.), and while Stephanie is a bit of a bitch as well as a Daddy's Girl, she was a face in her General Manager days (and ironically, her reign came to an end when Vince beat her in an I Quit match).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_1a79cabc	comment	Apex Predator features a benevolent version: All Might takes advantage of his status as the Number 1 Hero in Japan to protect people from being taken in and exploited by the Hero Commission.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_1aa611bd	comment	Averted in Burnt by the Sun. After being arrested by the NKVD, Colonel Kotov rattles off Joseph Stalin's personal phone number. The secret policemen squirm in their seats, but when he goes to leave the car they inflict a brutal beating. Kotov has no idea that Stalin is the one ordering his arrest in the first place.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_1f3f258d	comment	A Brighter Dark: After pushing one too many of her buttons, Corrin punches Niles in the face and tells him that as a member of the Nohrian royal family, she could easily get away with killing him, and even convince her brother Leo to look the other way at her murdering one of his subordinates due to their close relationship.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_20409a0a	comment	The Defenders: After Danny Rand and Luke Cage get into a fight when Luke interrupts Danny's attempt to interrogate Cole, Luke gives Danny a dressing-down about how his crusade against the Hand has him going after bottom-feeders when his wealth and social status give him the ability to take his fight right to the top. After much discussion with Colleen, Danny decides to go to the Hand's headquarters at Midland Circle in his capacity as the CEO of Rand Enterprises. Unfortunately, it's a trap, and while he manages to fight off most of Alexandra's men, he's almost captured, until Luke, Jessica, and Matt show up to rescue him. The pull Luke has with Misty Knight from their work on Cottonmouth and Diamondback is how he's able to convince her to stash Claire Temple, Colleen Wing, Malcolm Ducasse, Trish Walker, Foggy Nelson, and Karen Page in her precinct when the Hand begin targeting them. The Hand have thrived for so long because of their use of connections. They use contacts in the mayor's office and Trish's radio station to shut down talk about the earthquake triggered by underground mining at Midland Circle. After Elektra kills Alexandra, the remaining fingers — Murakami, Bakuto and Madame Gao — try to reason with her by pointing out that the Hand's connections are what gives them power and has allowed them to survive, but Elektra flat-out tells them she doesn't care about them beyond using them as tools to get the substance.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_21aa8fe8	comment	Big Sky: Ronald gets away with kidnapping women for so long partly due to being in bed with a dirty cop who protected him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_22211d68	comment	In Bones, Brennan appears to have some fairly high connections of her own, as indicated in one episode in which a State Department agent was reviewing the Jeffersonian to maintain their security clearance:
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_22212fe4	comment	Bosch: Part of the reason why George Irving is tapped to go undercover into the corrupt cop ring in season 2 is because Irvin being his father makes him valuable to the rest of the crew. They'll want to bring him into their circle because they think George can provide access to dirty secrets and intelligence. Early in season 3, Phil Gentry, whose daughter Becca is a classmate of Maddie's on the volleyball team, approaches Harry asking for him to help quash a speeding ticket. Harry pretends to agree to look into it, but actually has no intention of doing so. He doesn't tell Phil about it until Phil gets a notice in the mail for failing to pay the ticket and confronts him. At this point, Harry non-apologetically lies and claims he's tied up by red tape and that quashing tickets (by reaching out to the ticketing officer and asking him to call in sick on the day the ticket is being contested in traffic court) is not doable anymore. Bradley Walker, the president of the Police Commission in seasons 3 and 4. His father was a powerful city councilman, and used his influence to keep young Walker out of trouble when Walker began sleeping with prostitutes, and quashed Caffrey's investigation when Walker murdered Harry's mother. It turns out in the present day that Walker is still up to using his connections for his own gain, like using ICE to deport the welder he hired to kill Caffrey before he can testify to the RHD investigators looking for him, and being part of a scheme with Howard Elias to bilk the city out of taxpayers' money from police brutality settlements to fund his construction projects. In 1996, Justin "Beto" Frank, a police cadet, went riding with some childhood friends who chose to commit a drive-by shooting. Ryan Rodgers, then a detective in Hollywood Division, interrogated Beto. Beto's police career would've been over before it even got started and he would've ended up in prison had Irving, then a lieutenant, not swooped in and shut down the interview as a favor to Beto's father, who was a Deputy Chief at the time. Irving got put on the command track soon after the interview, and Beto got to join the force. Rodgers kept a tape recording of the interview as insurance after the fact. It ends up in Barrel's hands after Rodgers dies midway through season 6 of a heart attack, and his daughter gives it to him. Barrel, well aware of the damage the tape could do to Irving's mayoral campaign, reluctantly returns it to Melissa. A copy of it, however, makes its way to Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Anderson, who tries to blackmail his way into becoming Irving's press secretary. Later, when Irving chooses to drop out of the race and endorse Susanna Lopez, his opponent Jack Killoran tries to blackmail him with the threat of releasing the tape, only for Irving to call his bluff by pointing out that Killoran will only expose himself to criminal charges.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_23633967	comment	Top Gun: Maverick: Apparently, Maverick has gotten away with decades of shenanigans, because of the protection he gets from his old buddy Iceman (or, as he is now known, Admiral Tom Kazansky).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: Pavel Young lived and breathed this trope, abusing the heck out of the North Hollow family's position as one of the more powerful noble houses in the Star Kingdom to satisfy his basest desires and avoid any responsibility for his actions.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_24a18ffe	comment	In the backstory of PartnerShip, several teens got into trouble that should have led to severe consequences, but as they were all Royal Brats from very powerful families they were instead assigned to positions in the remote Nyota system. Alpha, for testing Ganglicide on humans, was denied her impending doctorate but still assigned to work in a clinic, for example. On the trip there they all certainly carped as if they'd recieved real punishments, but each of them managed to exploit the situation to their own gain, and it took investigators who were themselves from powerful families to take them in after five years of free rein.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_24e41891	comment	Part of a climactic scene in late Season 3 of Dexter. Dexter confronts a monster he's created by reminding him of the evidence he has. Miguel's reply? "You got what, a ring? I got fucking CITY HALL!" Of course, he never did learn exactly who or what Dexter really is...
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_254cfb4	comment	Al Rawabi School For Girls: Alpha Bitch Layan, which is most apparent when intimidating Sumayyah, the school caretaker.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Subverted by Mayor Quimby's nephew, who is a Spoiled Brat, but didn't actually commit the crime he is thought to have. Also subverted in that in spite of Quimby's rampant bribery, his nephew still comes very close to being imprisoned for the crime. However, played straight in how he regularly behaves like a spoiled brat and mistreats everyone around him without facing any consequences. Marge benefited from this in an episode when she had a nervous breakdown and blocked traffic on a bridge. She was arrested, but Mayor Quimby immediately pulled some strings to get her released without charge. Quimby did it because he knew that if Marge went to jail, he could kiss the "chick vote" goodbye, but the results were still beneficial. Subverted in an episode where Lisa takes up soccer and Homer ends up refereeing one of her matches. Lisa tries getting him to bend the rules in her favour since she's his daughter, but Homer points out that he's "no one's father" when refereeing, and has Lisa sent off the match when she protests further.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_298a47a9	comment	Jackie Treehorn from The Big Lebowski, according to the Malibu Police Chief.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_29e2fa5b	comment	Crimson and Emerald: Hawks warns Monoma to be careful about taunting Pro Heroes, as many of them are willing to punch civilians... and powerful enough to get away with it. Monoma responds by pointing out that his mother's an ambassador while his father is an MEP. Any hero who hurt him would have to explain themselves to the Japanese Prime Minister. Inko attempted to blow the whistle on Endeavor's abuse, only for the Heroics Commission to cover it up and discredit her. Hawks was trained inside facilities that were supposedly shut down on the Prime Minister's orders twenty years before; the Heroics Commission completely ignored this command.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: The only reason ChloÃ© can get away with being such an insufferable Alpha Bitch to everyone is because her dad is the mayor, as well as a Doting Parent who will use the full extent of his authority to bring harsh punishment upon anyone who dares make his precious little angel displeased in any way. She is well aware of this and exploits this trope to its fullest potential. On the ludicrously rare occasion that her dad shows something resembling a spine and doesn't do what she says, she quickly puts him back in line by threatening to call the only person who has authority over him: her mom.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2acb12c5	comment	Having a high reputation with a government in the X-Universe series lets you get away with an absurd amount of murders. You can capture their flagship, murder the crew, then sell the fighter pilots into slavery, and you'll often take only a minor reputation hit unless you started slaughtering everything else in the sector.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2b2691f6	comment	The Faith Chronicles: Quentin Travers, head of the Watcher's Council, tries this several times but it becomes increasingly useless as Faith's mother Sam Carter is fully prepared to use all her connections to keep her daughter in her life.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2b3ba9e	comment	In Asteroid in Love, when the rest of the Earth Sciences Club learn that Mira is the sister of the Student Council President, Monroe attempts to invoke this by asking Mira if she could lobby for more funding for their club. This is never followed through, so it's assumed to be averted.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle (2009): Castle is a surprisingly benign version of this... while he uses his influence as a best-selling mystery author (and the fact that he has the mayor on speed dial) to be allowed to shadow Detective Beckett, he has proved quite useful, with his Genre Savvy providing breakthroughs in several cases, and on one occasion using his connections to rush evidence through the lab to close a case. Captain Montgomery is good at subverting this. He later reveals to Beckett that he could have gotten rid of Castle at any time ("The mayor doesn't run this place, I do."), but only kept him around because he thought it would be good for her. Also, when a suspect threatens to call the police commissioner, he replies "Tell him I said hi. And that I could use a raise."
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2c0b67f1	comment	Southland: Cooper and Sherman stop a speeder, who tries to pull the "do you know who my father is?" card, leading to one of Cooper's more memorable comebacks.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2cfe43cb	comment	The early Adventures in Odyssey episode "Camp What-A-Nut" features a low-key version of this. Chas Wentworth, son of a wealthy businessman who (among other things) partially owns the camp itself, has a well-earned reputation as a troublemaker who figures his money will cover any trouble he might get into. For once, among other things, this doesn't come hand in hand with being popular. In fact, it eventually comes out that he is caught in a cycle of being a jerk to everyone because most people don't like him because he keeps flaunting his cash on the flawed assumption that people universally respect money.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Tales of Destiny 2: Loni suggests Kyle cut the line to see King Woodrow by bringing up that he's the Legendary Hero Stahn's son. While it works, it also gets Kyle chewed out by Woodrow for not respecting the system and Judas calls Kyle out on relying too much on his father's name rather than standing on his own as a person. Zigzagged as after the chewing out, Woodrow tells Kyle that he will always make time for him because Stahn was his dear friend. In Tales of the Abyss, there's an unusual example in that it's actually useful to the player outside of cutscenes: equipping Jade with his "Emperor's Best Friend" title gets you a discount in shops. Tales of Vesperia has 2 characters who due to their positions of power will probably be acquitted for their heinous crimes even after being arrested. Yuri murders both of them in cold blood before they're given the chance.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_2dfd87a4	comment	The Rookie (2018): A downplayed example, but Aaron Thorsen's affluent upbringing and his past legal problems has meant that he has numerous connections that an average patrol officer would not have. In one case when Harper felt she needed a better divorce lawyer to deal with a custody dispute, he offered to put her in contact with his high-powered attorney that she would normally never be able to afford and get her a "Friends and family discount". When someone turns in a Katana that was potentially used in a murder he happens to know the prop guy that makes all the Katanas for Hollywood movies and he gets the name of who he sold it to without even needing a warrant. When Harper decides to marry James he and Lopez are able to throw together a last minute party because his mom's best friend is a party planner who owns a venue.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_30ece126	comment	Lightly used in Paladin of Shadows novel A Deeper Blue. When an admiral objects to Adams pulling a cigar, the former is asked to check whose authority is behind him.note The US President's. The man quickly gives in.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_341c02e9	comment	Batman Begins: Bruce Wayne became Batman because nearly all the public officials of Gotham were in the pocket of the crime lord Carmine Falcone, preventing Falcone from facing justice.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_35097ab9	comment	Weight Off Your Shoulder has this cause a cascading effect when ChloÃ©'s Karma Houdini Warranty finally runs out. Since said warranty relied upon her father's status as the Mayor, once it expires, public opinion turns against him as well for constantly enabling her by blatantly abusing his position. Same goes for Miss Bustier and Principal Damocles, who face harsh reviews and potentially losing their jobs as a result.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_352bb510	comment	In Jupiter-Men, Rick picks a fight with Arrio, who defends himself and gives Rick a black eye. Arrio is given three weeks detention for the Crime of Self-Defense on account of it being his birthday (his principal says he would've expelled him any other day). Meanwhile, Rick gets to walk away scot-free on the condition that he doesn't breathe a word of this to his mother. This implies that Rick's mom is powerful and influential enough that Jupiter High's staff lets him get away with a lot of things out of fear of drawing her ire.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3692a962	comment	Lord of War: When the Hero Antagonist captures the Arms Dealer Villain Protagonist Yuri, Yuri sympathetically explains that he'll be set free because he's a deniable middleman for the American military and government to supply weapons to the enemies of their enemies. He's released immediately afterwards.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3942bcd6	comment	ChloÃ©'s Lament: ChloÃ©'s overreliance upon this screws her over after she makes a Wish to swap places with Marinette. Since her father is now a 'mere' baker rather than the Mayor of Paris, she's no longer able to fall back upon this tactic. She also assumes that Marinette will abuse her position just like SHE did, only to find that's not the case. Though she continues to insist otherwise despite all evidence to the contrary. This triggers a Villainous Breakdown on ChloÃ©'s end when she learns that Marinette abstained from competing in Gabriel's hat-making contest because she didn't want anyone to think the Agrestes were giving her special treatment due to her friendship with Adrien. It's so completely at odds with her belief that connections are meant to be abused that she accuses Marinette of being lazy.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Draco Malfoy is the biggest example. He uses the threat "When my father hears about this..." at least once a conversation, at least in the earlier books. It's not particularly effective. In the first book, when he says he's going to tell his father about how he has to go into the Forbidden Forest for punishment, Hagrid dismisses the threat, saying that Lucius Malfoy would tell him that's how things are done at Hogwarts. In Book 4, bringing up Lucius Malfoy practically makes Mad-Eye Moody nÃ©e Barty Crouch Jr. salivate at the thought of an excuse to talk to a former Death Eater. Particularly one he hates for his lack of fealty to Voldemort. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Draco incites a new wave of panic in the students studying for their OWLs by loudly declaring that his father has history with Griselda Marchbanks (head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority). However, Neville says he's almost certainly bluffing, as his grandmother actually is friends with Marchbanks (and she's never mentioned the Malfoys) and he doubts he'll get a leg up because of this relationship. Similarly, Umbridge's connections in the Ministry allow her to literally get away with (attempted) murder in Book 5, as she's still around in Books 6 and 7. Snape's connection to Dumbledore allows him to get away with blatantly unprofessional conduct that would get him banned from teaching in a Muggle school. James Potter. You'd think the fact that a Prefect like Remus Lupin hanging around him most of the time would hamper his ability to bully people... except, Lupin was also one of his closest friends (because James didn't ostracize him when he learned that he was a werewolf before the werewolf became school prefect) who preferred to simply look the other way in regards to James' bullying. Though, to James's credit, he outgrew the bullying behavior by the time he became Head Boy.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3c761480	comment	Destiny is a Hazy Thing: Tsunade attempts to use her position as the Shodaime's daughter to get her way. Shikaku bluntly informs her that if she abandons the village in its hour of need, she'll be labeled a missing-nin and blacklisted.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3c912cc2	comment	Tales of Vesperia has 2 characters who due to their positions of power will probably be acquitted for their heinous crimes even after being arrested. Yuri murders both of them in cold blood before they're given the chance.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in The Headhunt. A conversation between the nonhuman members of the USS Bajor's command crew has them basically decide that the Federation law banning Augments from Starfleet or public office (see DS9: "Dr. Bashir, I Presume") not only runs counter to Federation values but is actually unconstitutional under the Articles of Federation. However, the humans are terrified of Augments thanks to the Eugenics Wars, and because they have so much political mojo in the Federation, nobody's had the balls to mount a legal challenge and get it struck down.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs, a medical student is annoying the shit out of Elliot, because his father is the CEO of the corporation that owns the hospital, so Elliot can't punish or treat him badly. After Kelso tells Elliot that it's his job to kiss his father's ass and that she should go out and kick his ass, she does so. Cole, one of the medical students introduced in Season 9, is the son of a major donor to the hospital and pulls this to get away with screwing around in the hospital. While it does keep him from being expelled, it doesn't keep anyone from getting back at him for his general jackassery.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3e77f59a	comment	Miyano from Maga-Tsuki is able to get so much stuff done via this method that it borders on Reality Warping.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: Edward "Dimo" Reeves blocks off an emergency exit during a Titan attack with his merchandise, declaring that the Survey Corps exist solely to die so people like him can live. When Mikasa threatens him, he tries to pull this, stating that he's known her boss for a long time and can "decide [her] fate with a single word." Mikasa is undeterred, casually knocking out his bodyguards and retorting "how is a corpse going to talk?", after which Dimo gives in and gets out of the way.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3e9c95a2	comment	Subverted in the Sharpe TV-adaption of "Sharpe's Eagle". When Upper-Class Twit and exemplary Neidermeyer Henry Simmerson gets rightfully chewed out for his disastrous incompetence by the Duke of Wellington, capped off with Lt. Sharpe being gazetted to Captain over Simmerson's own choice (and nephew) Lt. Gibbons to lead the now-disbanded South Essex's light company, he makes a poorly-veiled threat regarding his connections. Wellington immediately shuts him down by noting none of those "connections" will risk themselves to help a man who lost the King's Colours.note Meaning that the Regiment's flags were abandoned or taken by the enemy, a supreme humiliation.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3ec41667	comment	Wolf in the Streets, Sardine in the Sheets: Despite growing up as The Dreaded 'Street Tyrant', Valvatorez is able to set up a children's shelter thanks to his familiarity with Axel, along with other connections he's hinted to have with the city council. This infuriates Carter, who'd planned to abuse his own connections to block his path only to find himself unable to. This is also how Killia and Christo were released into Valvatorez's care; the latter being the son of the Police Chief has its perks.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series, many, many criminals in Haven use or try to use this to get away with their crimes, including the villain of book 1, an influential person who got Hawk and Fisher pulled off a case involving a child prostitution ring he was a patron for. It's also why he killed William Blackstone, who'd also figured out his involvement and was building a case against him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_41b75e36	comment	Exitum Eternal: Saren uses his status as a Spectre to shorten his commute times.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_43a79959	comment	One of the routes in Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! has a Sadist Teacher who is already jerk becoming even worse, which in many cases has him assaulting people, while bragging about his powerful family meaning he can do whatever wants and get away with it. This eventually causes one of the main characters to have enough and hit the teacher. When the principal is seen taking things over with the teacher's father, he does nothing because he doesn't approve of his son arrogantly tormenting others and thinking his family's power will let him get away with it.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4505668c	comment	Occurs in a brief exchange in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. A man trying to get Mannie to get the government to buy patriotic buttons for members of La RÃ©sistance gets the brush-off. The man takes umbrage, threatening to go directly to Party Chairman Adam Selene, a close friend of his. Mannie is unimpressed by this statement, since Adam Selene is an alter ego of Mike. Since only Mannie and two others know that Mike is secretly a sentient computer, it's pretty obvious that the man is bluffing.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: This used to be the case in Ankh-Morpork; an ongoing theme is the way Sam Vimes and Lord Vetinari have made it harder and harder to pull this off, providing an almost endless source of plot conflict as the city's Blue Blood population fight for their privilege. There's a beautiful moment in Feet of Clay where an Upper-Class Twit tries to pull the "I'm a friend of your Commander" line on some badly-shaved watchman in battered armour. This does not go well for him. Subverted in Snuff when the obnoxious Upper-Class Twit Gravid Rust escapes capital punishment for trafficking goblin slaves and troll drugs by accepting exile to Fourecks instead, since Ankh-Morpork nobility wouldn't accept one of their own being sentenced by non-humans. However, Vetinari also has connections, including a clerk in Fourecks with a singular interest in venomous spiders...
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_468c2a7a	comment	Judge Dee: A fact of life in Imperial China, and several of the judge's cases have him resort to Justice by Other Legal Means (or nowhere near legal, like leaving a rapist and murderer alone in a room with a temperamental bear as a Trial by Ordeal) to ensure the criminal doesn't get away with it. At the end of The Chinese Bell Murders, some higher-ups in the government are discussing the case and the difficulties in getting a trial, and generally agree Dee did the right thing in both cases: a temple of corrupt Buddhist priests who rape the women staying there to pray for fertility (relying on the social stigma to keep them silent) who will be protected by the Buddhist clique in the capital; and a white-collar criminal who arranged for the murder of a rival family and bought off multiple politicians. The false Buddhists are dealt with when the judge holds the trial in the temple and orders the guilty ones held in a stockade outside the yamen instead of in the cells. By the time the prisoners arrive, a furious mob has heard the news and tears the monks apart (the guards tried to send for help, but the local garrison was absent on maneuvers, as the judge knew full well. The other is tricked into confessing that he smuggles salt (a lesser crime that will let him bring his connections to bear) and that he did trap the judge and his lieutenants under the titular bell as a "prank". The judge accepts this... then reveals the law states an attack on a magistrate is an attack on the State itself, meaning the criminal is going straight to the capital with none of his connections able or willing to intercede for him. His various crimes ensure he's torn apart by wild buffalo.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_47029c77	comment	Dad Villain AU: Zig-Zagged with ChloÃ©. While she's always banked on her father's status keeping her safe, Tom was able to give the Bourgeois a run for their money by exploiting the fact that she'd created an extensive record of her own bullying campaign against Marinette online. AndrÃ© was ultimately able to prevent his daughter from winding up in juvie, but has been forced to crack down on her bad behavior. ZoÃ©'s father initially didn't bother with seeking any child support from Audrey, as he figured she'd use her connections to bury the case and screw them over. It took Tom stepping in, along with some discreet support from Viceroy's Blackmail network, in order for them to get a fair trial. Tom plays with this himself. In the public eye, the Dupain-Cheng bakery has grown well-connected in the time since his wife's passing due to him working at several high-profile events, making a lot of powerful acquaintances. What's actually happening behind the scenes is that he's been using the information he's gathered as Viceroy to blackmail his way up the social ladder.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_490a7d52	comment	The Karma of Lies: Lila cons her classmates by leading them to believe that she's got high-tier connections and is more than happy to use them to help her dear friends. For instance, she convinces Nathaniel that she knows somebody at Marvel Comics and can ensure that his entry for a contest is seen by 'the right people'. After he's been robbed, Adrien expects that his case will receive immediate attention because he's an Agreste. He also pressures Marinette, trying to get her to put in a good word for him since it's now widely known that she's Ladybug; however, she refuses to use her influence like that.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_49340431	comment	Deconstructed in Brooklyn Nine-Nine in an episode where the Deputy Commissioner's son is revealed to have been tagging police cars with graffiti, but whenever he gets arrested he calls his father, who puts pressure on the arresting detectives to drop the charges. While venting to Captain Holt, Detective Peralta enviously calls the kid lucky, which gets this response:
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4962e658	comment	Mean Girls: I don't think my father, the inventor of Toaster Struedel, would like that I'm not on this list.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_499d9dff	comment	Bad Future Crusaders: Babs Seed is able to get away with much more than other members of the guard simply because she is Captain Rumble's ex and a lot of characters are afraid to mess with her purely out of fear of what he'll do to them if they do. Also at one point, Dinky makes it perfectly clear Babs would have been punished severely for attacking Featherweight but is lenient because of her own friendship with Rumble.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4a1549c1	comment	On The Edge: Shigeo's victims bring up their connections with powerful people before he tortures them. However, he doesn't care and tortures them anyway. What's more, he captures the powerful person connected with the criminal as well.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4c99197e	comment	Scooter on The Muppet Show gets by (at least early in the show) mostly on the fact that his uncle owns the theater where the show takes place. He's not necessarily a brat about it, and he doesn't make that many demands, but just casually mentioning his uncle is enough for Kermit to cave in instantly. (Scooters uncle appeared in one episode, and it's easy to see why someone would be afraid of him. He's a nasty guy to work for.) This aspect slowly disappears over time.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4d8931d9	comment	Utopia Falls: Aliyah's father Gerald is on the Tribunal, New Babyl's ruling council. As a result, she's gotten a lot of strings pulled in her favor over the years, including release from the Authority's custody when she's detained for suspected subversion. Not that Aliyah's done anything bad, or even asked for this-her dad just does it anyway.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4e05b96d	comment	Early on in NBA Ballers: Phenom's story mode, Hot Sauce pulls strings to ice your character out of the Beverly Hills tournaments for a decent stretch of the story. After building up enough goodwill with Ludacris, he makes it clear that Sauce doesn't have as much pull as he thinks, and lets you inside the Beverly Hills gates.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4e250102	comment	S.W.A.T. (2017): Chris arrests a young man for drunk driving while off duty, but it turns out that his father is the deputy mayor and he makes the case disappear. He'd done so twice before too. She fights to bring him down, and eventually succeeds with Lynch's help, catching the guy on tape admitting his acts, which is used for making him resign (while they urge that his son get the help he needs).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4fd6a2e6	comment	Under Heaven: Shen Tai is able to unintentionally pull this off. A servent to the Beloved Consort (the Emperor's favorite) ends up informing Tai that his horse was moved without his permission, in preparation for a meeting. During the heated discussion that follows, Shen Tai uses a gesture that means "be quiet"; but wonders why he isn't being reprimanded for excessive rudeness - as far as he knows, he's just an army officer, with the rank being an appointment to support actions he might need to take claiming a gift from another country. Then he realizes: since his sister was "promoted" to princess to justify using her in an arranged marriage, his entire family can be treated as royalty... including him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_4fd9904a	comment	Similarly, Umbridge's connections in the Ministry allow her to literally get away with (attempted) murder in Book 5, as she's still around in Books 6 and 7.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage: Mariah Dillard is a city councilwoman in bed with the criminal activities of her gangster cousin Cottonmouth, and these connections are how she and Diamondback are able to sell Judas bullets to the NYPD as part of their scheme to discredit and kill Luke Cage. Cottonmouth, in turn, has managed to escape arrest and convictions because he's got cops on his payroll to interfere in investigations that might incriminate him or his underlings, one of whom is Misty Knight's partner. Diamondback has connections that give him access to Hammer Industries weapons, such as the brand-new Judas bullet.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_50b9a0e2	comment	Deconstructed in The Phantom of the Opera: The original book by Gaston Leroux shows the consequences of a society that embraces this principle: The opera managers know how to play politics better than to manage, and who the opera singer knows is more important to being The Prima Donna than to sing better. This means that everyone is a Stupid Boss who doesnâ€™t know how to do his job. Every employee knows that, so the bosses are Properly Paranoid about being pranked by them because nobody respects them. They also are the ideal victims for a BlackMailer, and thatâ€™s how Erik (the titular phantom) could convince them to let him do whatever he pleases.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5283bd72	comment	In the fourth book of Protector of the Small, Neal puts a spell on an abusive innkeeper that will prevent him from beating his servants by reflecting the pain back on himself. When the innkeeper says that it's illegal to force a magic on a person, Neal says that nobody's going to believe the innkeeper over Duke Baird of Queenscove's son. (To be fair, the innkeeper himself implied that he was buddies with the local magistrate and they're in a border town with an impending war, preventing a by-the-book resolution.)
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_53a11288	comment	Destiny Intertwined: Dragons that are part of noble clans are given preferential treatment under the law, to the point of being able to get away with murder even if there's evidence. Clanless dragons are treated a great deal more harshly.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_553a6794	comment	Didn't Expect That: A Cardassian ambassador gets assassinated due to the Yoyodyne Division having connections to Section 31.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5547b156	comment	Winter Kills: When Nick and Yvette are refused seating at the restaurant, and Yvette takes off her trousers (see Dress Code above), the maitre'd is ready to have them thrown out until Nick reveals his father owns the restaurant, at which point the maitre'd apologizes and lets Nick and Yvette sit where they want.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_564871a	comment	In Blue Bloods, the Reagan kids avert this trope in that they refuse to use their father's clout as Police Commissioner. In "Critical Condition," Sosa suggests that with Jamie's family connections, he could have made Detective by now. That said, other characters try to invoke the trope, to mixed results: Inverted in "Parenthood," when Mayor Carter Poole's illegitimate daughter Ariel joins a protest and is caught up in the ensuring dragnet. Ariel doesn't demand special treatment, but her parents politely suggest, separately, that Frank had better let the matter drop. In "Rush to Judgment," Jamie is accused of undue force (he was actually trying to knock someone out of the path of an oncoming biker), a D.A. makes it clear she thinks he's guilty and his father must be covering for him. When video proves Jamie innocent, the woman continues to smark about his family always getting their way. In "Men in Black," Jamie and Vinny arrest the previous mayor's daughter and her friend after catching them in the act of smoking pot on a park bench. When preparing to arrest them, said daughter tries to invoke this: Of course, after a discussion with Erin her dad tells the judge: The bad guys don't have a monopoly on this. In "Warriors" the State Department refuses to grant political asylum to a Turkish cellist in danger of being the victim of an honor killing if she returns home (for having dated and slept with an American during the tour). Frank talks a contact into getting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to hire her, and his opposite number at State, the episode's Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist, expedites a work visa. There's an implication that when Nicky is arrested with her friends in "Road to Hell" after drugs are found in the car during a traffic stop that Nicky was expecting the process to be easier for her on the basis of her last name. In "In the Box," Garrett's stepson Sam has been arrested for scoring oxycodone during an observational buy. Garrett wants to have him released into rehab. However, Frank is suspicious of the circumstances and has his secretary Abigail Baker investigate, discovering that Garrett has used his pull at 1PP to keep Sam out of prison on several prior occasions. Frank confronts Garrett and gets him to see that he's enabling his stepson's drug habit and not helping him. In "Dedications," Frank brings up having to use Henry's influence to squash a commendation when a botched attempt to arrest the head of a Westies gang faction led to the death of the guy's wife and grandson. It's played almost ridiculously straight in one episode which features the Deputy Commissioner cheating on his wife during a marital spat with a woman in Atlantic City. He makes it clear that the affair was mutual, admits to lying about his position when he met the woman, and she has pictures of text messages they sent to each other. The DPC is ready to resign, as he doesn't want to bring a scandal down on the department...so Frank asks his father to call up his old buddies on the Atlantic City force to put some pressure on the woman to "disappear," specifically saying he wants Henry to do it off the record so it can't be traced back to him. What makes it particularly egregious is that the episode's A-plot features Danny going on a rant about how priests lie to cover up child molesters (which, while true, turns out to have nothing to do with the case at hand). And the show doesn't even mention the parallels. Maybe the producers thought no one would notice.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_58bcf32e	comment	Crusade: The Pro Zeta Corporation uses its influence with its clients to avoid an investigation.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_58f28be1	comment	Hilariously, Randy tries to invoke this trope, saying that he "knows people now" who can put a horse head in Greg's sheets — after he's spent three days as a male prostitute in Manwhores, while threatening him ineffectually.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Doing favors for the jarls can result in the Dragonborn becoming a Thane. It's mostly a ceremonial title, but one of the perks is the ability to force guards to overlook any bounty that you might have on your head. It only works if your crimes are minor, though. Oddly enough, however, the bounty for assassinating the Emperor is low enough for you to do this. (1500, 150% of the bounty for normal murder.) Sure, it was a decoy, but you didn't know that and your intent was to kill the real Emperor. This might make sense if you've completed the Stormcloak questline and liberated Skyrim from the Empire, but if you have, that in itself presents Fridge Logic as to why the Penitus Oculatus is still in Skyrim in the first place. The Thieves Guild questline also allows you to do this; when you reach a certain rank you can bribe guards for half the normal price for bounties. Several quests in the game also allow you to bring up your title if you've become the faction leader of a certain faction (by completing the relevant questlines).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_59140854	comment	Jessica Jones: Jessica attempts to use the connections of her acquaintances when trying to acquire sufentanil that she can use to temporarily disable Kilgrave's powers. She tries to ask Trish if she has connections to any shady doctors who might be willing to slip her some, but Trish says that all the doctors she knows save small African villages and wouldn't be easy to persuade. Then she goes to Jeri Hogarth's ex-wife Wendy, who is a doctor. Wendy is not helpful either, because on top of not giving a damn about Jessica, she works in a clinic and sufentanil is surgical anesthesia. So Jessica just resorts to stealing some from a hospital, using Malcolm as a distraction. After Jessica, Trish and Simpson find out that Kilgrave has hired private security to protect him in case Jessica disables his powers, Trish uses her own celebrity status to sweet talk the right people into revealing which security firm he hired. Played for laughs in a later episode. When Jessica and Trish are searching the morgues looking for Kilgrave's father, Trish bribes Maury Tuttlebaum, the morgue attendant at Riverbank Medical Center, into letting them search the bodies by getting him the chef's table at Per Se. In Season 2, Trish uses another favor with Maury to get him to fast-track the identification of a charred skull she and Jessica find in Dr. Hansen's incinerator. In Episode 6 of Season 2, Trish and Jessica try to enter a private country club to talk to Dr. Karl Malus's donor Justis Ambrose. But because Trish is not a member there, the maitre'd refuses to let them through despite recognizing Trish. Ultimately, Jessica has to sneak in by hopping over a wall while Trish just launches a tirade at the maitre'd by calling him a sexist, which culminates in her eventually throwing up due to going through the withdrawal of being off Simpson's inhaler. In episode four of Season 2, Trish's new boyfriend Griffin Sinclair offers to use his pull as a newscaster at ZCN to get Trish a job there. She politely declines, saying, "I love you for offering, but going to them as Griffin Sinclair's girlfriend won't get me taken seriously," and she would rather get the job by her own merits than her connections.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5921531c	comment	In Persona 5, a drunk douchebag tries to sexually harass a woman. Fortunately for her, you happen to be passing by and stop him. Unfortunately for you, said douchebag has more pull with the police than you and promptly has you arrested for assault, expelled from your high school, and forced to move away to serve a year of probation. Many of the villains in the game are people who get away with misdeeds due to their connections, all the way up to Masayoshi Shido, a candidate for Prime Minister and the aforementioned drunken douchebag who gave your protagonist such grief in the first place. Luckily, the Phantom Thieves don't really give a damn about how famous or well-connected 'shitty adults' are. In fact, trying to invoke this trope and act above the law is a quick way to piss them off and get your heart stolen.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_59593dcd	comment	Subverted in Snuff when the obnoxious Upper-Class Twit Gravid Rust escapes capital punishment for trafficking goblin slaves and troll drugs by accepting exile to Fourecks instead, since Ankh-Morpork nobility wouldn't accept one of their own being sentenced by non-humans. However, Vetinari also has connections, including a clerk in Fourecks with a singular interest in venomous spiders...
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5a0daa35	comment	While it may not be potent enough to really count for this trope (barring GM Fiat, of course), the 2012 version of the Iron Kingdoms RPG introduced a Connections system. Mainly representing membership to certain organisations, like the Order of the Golden Crucible or the Greylord Covenant, or a specific nation's military and these connections can provide some material help at the GM's discretion. The section does mention that it can't be used to, say, have the party's Mage Hunter use his contacts in the Retribution of Scyrah to call in a couple of Mage Hunter Strike Teams to clear out an Orgoth ruin for them. Played somewhat more straight with one of the Aristocrat career's starting abilities, Privilege. Short version is that he's immune to persecution for petty crimes and can only be tried by a court of his peers (meaning other nobles). A successful Etiquette roll can let the character demand hospitality and request aid from a noble not at war with his kingdom (so don't expect Cygnaran noble to get much help in Khador or the Protectorate) and gets a nice bonus so social skill rolls made against people of a lower station who recognise him as a noble. Drawback is that the punishments from a high court are typically quite severe.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5cd7e19a	comment	Another positive example in Hussar Ballad: while having a lower rank than Field Marshal Kutuzov, General Balmashov is a personal assistant to the Russian Tsar, and demonstrate willingness to throw all his weight to overrule Kutuzov's unjust decision.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5d21fab8	comment	Wolf Hall: Thomas Cromwell is a member of a covert reading group of John Tyndale's English translation of the Bible, who face death by burning if discovered (as indeed several of them are). Cromwell is a little safer than people like Little Bilney because he's the right hand of Cardinal Wolsey, and it's an unspoken understanding between the two of them that he's allowed his little bit of heresy because of their friendship. (Cromwell also pays close attention to when Wolsey mentions names from the group and warns them of forthcoming raids. Later, when he's Master Secretary and thus becomes the Connection, he tries to arrange an escape for John Frith, but Frith refuses to take it.) Cromwell later does this from the other end in an example of "screw the rules for my connections." When he's put in charge of bringing down Anne Boleyn, he's reminded by his accomplices of Thomas Wyatt, a poet with a well-known crush on Anne. Henry Wyatt is a family friend who once asked Cromwell to look after his wayward son, so when Mark Smeaton names Thomas Wyatt as one of Anne's partners, Cromwell refuses to add him to the list and refuses his accomplices' advice to arrest him until Wyatt arrives in London and Cromwell has no choice but to take him in. Even then he puts Wyatt in the Tower of London only for protective custody and doesn't even start a case in the hopes that the well-publicized executions of Anne and her five accused lovers will take the heat off. It does, and he releases Wyatt unharmed a little while later.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5db4b412	comment	Carlito became this way in Ohio Valley Wrestling after joining Bolin Services, telling Jim Cornette he could do whatever he wanted when being yelled at him for arriving to a training session late. It also led, somewhat ironically, to Carly disowning his family and WWC, who'd you'd think would provide more connections than Kenny Bolin...
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_5efe69cc	comment	Zero (2021): Ricci is let out of police custody at the end as a result of his high connections in Milan.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_600454b2	comment	Always Visible: As a police inspector, Galbraith takes advantage of his position sometimes even without any reason - the first chapter of the first act is the most striking example of this. It is ironic that in the third act he no longer has power, because the American policeman in England can no longer rule like he does at home.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Miles Vorkosigan, the Barrayaran Prime Minister's son and Emperor's foster brother, occasionally does this; he considers it a last resort. He still gets in a lot of trouble, and the time he does try to use connections to keep from losing his secret covert ops identity after injuring an officer during a seizure, then falsifying the report of the incident, it doesn't work, though he still gets a medical discharge instead of dishonorable discharge and a further sentence. Really, his usual philosophy is more "Screw the Rules, My Results Will Justify It" or "Screw The Rules, I'll Deal With the Consequences Later". It's probably ironic that in the aftermath of the above incident, not only did his connections prove as valuable as he could possibly have wanted, they were taking care of and protecting him to a degree neither her nor they were aware of at the time. Similar to the Discworld example above, this used to be the case for the aristocracy in general, and the efforts toward reforming the government to stop this are frequently mentioned.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6189b025	comment	After the grotto is closed in The Songof Bernadette thereâ€™s a group arrested with a vial of water from the grotto. The woman with the vial is told itâ€™s being seized but she tells them she got it for the Empress Eugenie who requested it for the young prince, whoâ€™s sick. She happens to be the boyâ€™s governess. Itâ€™s enough to get her and the vial released.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6196490	comment	Used by both the heroes and the villains in the various iterations of the Ghost in the Shell franchise. Quite memorably, in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV series, a perp managed to avoid conviction partially thanks to this trope, and in response Chief Aramaki quietly arranged his "accidental" death in a car accident and hushed up any investigation that might follow, neatly demonstrating that the trope goes both ways. In another incident, some college kids were running an amateur organ black market, under the impression that their influential parents would get them out of any trouble. The Major literally scares the piss out of them instead, though her motivations were more personal than getting around their connections.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, Bann Vaughan, son of the current Arl of Denerim, employs this trope throughout the City Elf Origin, first by responding to the Warden's threats with the stock phrase "Do you have any idea who I am?" He later claims the Alienage will be purged by his father should the Warden slay him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_630755ab	comment	Subverted throughout the Codex Alera series. Several times, egotistical figures with connections attempt to invoke their connections or just pull rank on their own authority, only to be outmaneuvered or simply punched out. The one time saying "Screw the rules, I have connections" works in the series, it's a bluff. One Hilarious in Hindsight moment in the second book has a character saying "I have connections" to defuse a tense moment between some guards and an enemy nation's ambassador, but it's only a bluff because he's really just a page boy and student acting on no authority but his own. The Hilarious in Hindsight part is, he actually is the legitimate prince, but no one knows it except for the enemy he's trying to bluff.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6346a57a	comment	One for All and Eight for the Ninth reveals that Mineta has managed to avoid any charges of sexual harassment making it onto his records because several of his family members hold positions on various school boards, including at U.A. Eventually, Nedzu turns this against him by arranging a match between Momo and Mineta in order to test the latter's self control. None of Mineta's connections are powerful enough to match those of the extremely wealthy and influential Yaoyorozu family.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6664e2ff	comment	On Queer as Folk (US), a police officer who frequently uses male prostitutes accidentally strangles one of them. Luckily (for him), his long-time friend and former partner on the force is now the chief of police and agrees to help him cover up the whole thing.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, if security proves to be too much of a hassle for the characters to get past, then Seiji tugs on his Yakuza connections and has them 'taken care of', allowing the protagonists free reign. Later on, he's replaced by Cowboy Cop Ooe, who uses her status to the same effect.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_67b085d3	comment	In The Priory of the Orange Tree, Truyde ett Zeedeur is a high-ranking Mentish noblewoman serving in the Inysh court as a handmaid of Queen Sabran for diplomatic reasons. As such, she feels free to throw her weight around with Ead, and concocts a fake assassination in order to convince Sabran that she needs to do something about the world-ending dragon's imminent return. She is actually justified in thinking that harming her would have an enormous diplomatic fallout. Unfortunately, Igrain Crest decides it's a risk worth taking, turns the fake assassination into a real one, and has Truyde beheaded anyway.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_67ed82fa	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_67ed82fa	comment	In The Godfather 2, you can do favours for corrupt officials in exchange for getting their help later.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_692d0ad4	comment	Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story: The Simms repeatedly tell teenage lesbian Alex there's nothing that she can do to stop them from holding her in their brutal conversion therapy camp, as they're both connected with everybody in town and well-respected counselors. At first it's true, but thankfully she connects with a teacher, crisis counselor and lawyer to free herself.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_69331e52	comment	Hive Mind (2016): Telepaths are rare and valuable enough to be effectively above the law. Many of them realize this and undergo 'distancing', where they do whatever they want. Most develop a moral code eventually; Keith is still distant. Amber is considered unlikely to become distant due to being The Empath.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_699c1e80	comment	In the She-Hulk graphic novel, Jennifer is captured by SHIELD and forced to be strip-searched in public in front of male personnel and in violation of all established procedure. Dum-Dum Dugan, acting director, comes in and is furious at this abuse, and orders the agent responsible confined to quarters pending a formal reprimand. The agent threatens to use his connections, and Dugan gets a harsh phone call by those connections ordering him to let the agent go. He didn't get away with it; he was the first casualty of a sentient swarm of cockroaches who invaded the craft, who used him as host. More than likely, his last few moments weren't pleasant. On top of that, this led to the Helicarrier being destroyed, one of SHIELD's biggest disasters; in all likelihood, those powerful connections he called didn't retain whatever authority they had much longer...
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Subverted in a Donald Duck comic where Donald works at a theatre. The son of a mob boss basically threatens his way to being the leading man, despite being an incredibly bad actor. The subversion occurs when Donald breaks and becomes as angry as only Donald Duck can be, telling the guy just how bad he is. The offended young man calls upon his father... who turns up and thanks Donald for finally standing up to his obnoxious son, who is always using his connections to get away with stupid stuff.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6b436ffe	comment	Refreshing Stories: "I confronted the woman in the accounting department who was causing trouble": Ms. Tachibana brings up that she is the mistress of President Sakanoue and therefore with the same authority as him to silence Hiroshi for trying to call her out for unjustly accusing him and his coworkers of embezzlement for taking expensive services. "The teacher tried to force my son to drink milk even though he's allergic to it, but I had a planâ€¦": Mr. Takahashi became a teacher because of his connections, as he was the Principal's son. When Hiroshi tried to call out the principal for letting said teacher bully his son Ren for his dairy allergy, he didn't do anything. "My idiot wife got into my taxi with her cheating partner to go to a hotelâ€¦": Miha used her status as the Refreshing Hotels CEO's daughter to not only cheat on Hiroshi with another man but also have the guy pass as Hiroshi and threaten the receptionists into not charging her the room services she abused under threat of firing them. "My wife was cheating on my while secretly lying about being on maternity leave": Yumi seemed to defy this trope when she demanded her father, the CEO, to not give her special treatment since she wanted to be in the company through her hard work, even threatening him with a lawsuit for power harassment when he brought up her recent behavior. However, it turns out she has been forging numbers and documents to cover up her mistakes and Manato exposed her after Hiroshi caught her cheating. She then begs her dad for help only for the man to fire her for said crimes. "A colleague stole my girlfriend, became the CEO, and then fired meâ€¦": Shota Temae always stole deals from Hiroshi to pass as his own to the higher-ups. Moreover, the latter couldn't do anything about it because the former was the CEO's son and got his job at the company through personal connections and put on a pleasant facade around other coworkers and higher-ups to make himself untouchable and eventually get Hiroshi.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6bcd58c7	comment	That Yellow Bastard and Kevin in Sin City have heavy ties to the O'Rourke family. Fortunately, Hartigan and Marv don't care.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6c013d08	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6c013d08	comment	This is what the various "Influence" backgrounds in The World of Darkness represent. Vampires, being immortal, are especially prone to cultivating these. Particularly the Ventrue.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6e11075f	comment	Every single target of Akumetsu, being filthy-rich megalomaniacs, Corrupt Corporate Executives, and/or Sleazy Politicians, in any combination. Not that this stops him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6e4b9f70	comment	The Chosen Six: Defied for Draco in particular: After he destroys Neville's Remembrall, he is banned from subsequent Quidditch tryouts and given a particularly unpleasant Punishment Detail. He had expected his parents to take his side, but they instead tell him the incident was his own fault, with his father adding he expected more subtlety. Draco attempts to invoke this trope again by namedropping his father to intimidate Moody, who responds by making it clear he isn't afraid of Lucius one bit. By contrast, Harry and his friends reject the idea that they should get special treatment, to the extent that Harry insists on taking part in actual Quidditch tryouts rather than just getting a position because he shows some talent for the game. Played straight when Sirius uses his influence to expedite the process of removing Harry's warning for illegal use of underage magic from the latter's files. It's a rather justified example, though, seeing as the Ministry is stated to be extremely corrupt, and their incompetence resulted in Harry receiving a warning for something he didn't do without even getting a chance to explain himself first.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6f3fcfe8	comment	On Life, Russian gangster Roman Nevikov has a whole bunch of FBI agents in his pocket, which allows him to walk away from pretty much any criminal charges the LAPD cares to bring by claiming to be a federal informant providing information about terrorist networks.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6f73a6e9	comment	In Weak Hero, the bullies in Gray's middle school got away with hospitalising his best friend because one of them had a city representative as a parent. At least, they got away with it until Gray took matters into his own hands.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_6fa2c385	comment	In Max Payne 3, the paramilitary leader Neves says that he knows a lot of powerful people. Max tells him that they won't be able to help him now. Victor Branco pulls the same thing, declaring that even if Max takes him in, he'll walk. Max responds "You'll walk with a limp" and shatters one of Branco's legs with a harsh stomp.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_70a86caa	comment	Dr. Chrome Ballanche was able to dabble in the forbidden arts only because he was a lifetime friend of the God-Emperor of the most powerful nation around, even if his intentions were noble.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7382347e	comment	Peppermint: The judge and lawyer of the murderers are in the pocket of the cartel, leading to the dismissal of the case against them.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_755e2357	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_755e2357	comment	Gaea from Noob has done plenty of ban-worthy stuff. Some of that stuff was cooperating with Tenshirock, who helped her get her avatar back when it was banned, then kept it from being kicked out a second time when she got framed by someone else in the webseries and novels.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, Aria T'loak, a crimelord and former de-facto ruler of Omega, is capable of bypassing Citadel customs by calling up the Asari councilor and telling her to give her permission.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7668653b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Spectres more or less have this privilege. They answer directly to the Citadel Council, and are explicitly "above the law", enabling them to do things that would otherwise be very illegal in the pursuit of greater threats. Some Spectres abuse this, others are more scrupulous, but as long as they get the job done, the Council will back them. Of course, if the Council decides a Spectre has gone too far, they can revoke this privilege, and then the ex-Spectre is on the hook for everything they've done. In Mass Effect 3, Aria T'loak, a crimelord and former de-facto ruler of Omega, is capable of bypassing Citadel customs by calling up the Asari councilor and telling her to give her permission.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_79b295e	comment	Linked in Life and Love: Despite knowing that Jacques attempted to kidnap Weiss while she was recovering, Team RWBY can't do anything to challenge him due to his being the richest man in Remnant and holding a monopoly on Dust.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a7102f5	comment	Some of the bystanders in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City claim that they "know people".
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Video Game)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a7102f5
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a8eea7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a8eea7e	comment	The Scholomance: Todd breaks one of the biggest taboos of the magical community by killing another student for his room, but he avoids any major punishment due to his father being a prominent member of the New York enclave.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a8eea7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a8eea7e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Scholomance	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7a8eea7e
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7aaf9e41	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7aaf9e41	comment	In Batman #424 we have Felipe Garzonas the son of a wealthy diplomat, he's an obnoxious jerk who is very abusive to his girlfriend and is also involved in a drug-smuggling ring, he is arrested twice for his crimes but quickly released and it is later arranged that he won't serve any jail time because of his father's diplomatic immunity, after his second release he harasses his girlfriend to the point where she commits suicide and Batman can't do anything about it, Jason Todd the second Robin is furious so he takes manners into his own hands, when Batman arrives on the scene Felipe has fallen to his death from his apartment, he asks if he pushed him but Jason claimed he slipped.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7aaf9e41
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7d4d63ef	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7d4d63ef	comment	Casino: Subverted. The cowboy who puts his feet on the table at Ace's casino protests that he has "important friends" when he's escorted off the premises kicking and screaming for being a jerkoff. He does turn out to be a friend of Nicky's, although unfortunately for the cowboy, so is Ace, and he's a much more valuable friend to Nicky. Nicky is ready to lay the smackdown on the cowboy himself and forces him to apologize.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7d4d63ef	featureApplicability	-0.3
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7d4d63ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Casino	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7d4d63ef
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e49f77f	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e49f77f	comment	The Night Manager: Roper is unconcerned with being caught since he has some very high-level connections in the American and British governments (including a top member of MI6). His luck runs out eventually on that score though, since his business partners seek revenge and his MI6 connection is forced to drop him.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e49f77f	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e49f77f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Night Manager	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e49f77f
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e90688	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e90688	comment	What Goes Around Comes Around: ChloÃ© honestly believes that she can use her status as the Mayor's daughter to force the recently unmasked Marinette to hand over the Miracle Box, threatening to have the Dupain-Chengs' business shut down if she refuses. Much to her shock, Marinette stands up to her... and she also finds that the local law enforcement is no longer willing to bow to her father's whims. Mayor Bourgeois learns the hard way that his Karma Houdini Warranty has expired when he attempts to threaten the police into releasing his daughter from custody, only to get arrested himself for obstruction of justice... on orders of the President. Ms. Bustier attempts to invoke this by pressuring Marinette to publicly forgive ChloÃ© and Lila despite how both not only bullied her constantly but are being investigated for aiding and abetting Hawkmoth's terrorism. Since Marinette is Ladybug, she expects her model student's word to have extra weight, and for her to continue 'leading by example'. Again, Marinette refuses to cooperate.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e90688	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e90688	featureConfidence	1.0
What Goes Around Comes Around (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7e90688
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7f735611	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7f735611	comment	A rare good example in Oblomov. Tarantyev's buddy thinks he can pull off robbing Oblomov blind, but his friend Stolz happens to be on first-name base with the general, who gets Mukhoyarov (said buddy) fired.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7f735611	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7f735611	featureConfidence	1.0
Oblomov	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7f735611
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7fbcb2e9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7fbcb2e9	comment	Basically invoked in Lady In White, which features an immortal Elsa meeting a woman who appears to be Anna's reincarnation. At one point Anna is captured by Remington, the head of a group that has been hunting Elsa for some time, with Remington using her authority to subject Anna to an interrogation device known as "the Chair", violating a range of medical protocols such as running the Chair at a very high level without a supervising nurse.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7fbcb2e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7fbcb2e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Lady In White (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_7fbcb2e9
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8296168	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8296168	comment	Being friends with a high-profile wrestler is a great way to guarantee a job. Brutus Beefcake owes his entire career to his friendship with Hulk Hogan. Kevin Nash was first brought into the WWF because of his friendship with Scott Hall, and then they became good friends with Shawn Michaels and former indy sensation the 1-2-3 Kid (Sean Waltman)note It was actually Michaels who brought Nash in after seeing him as Vinnie Vegas on WCW TV and thinking he'd make a good bodyguard, Hall relayed this to Nash and Nash got his release from WCW to go up north. They would form The Kliq and amass all kinds of backstage power for themselves, with Triple H joining in 1995. Later in WCW, the top wrestlers would try to become friends with Eric Bischoff and would usually get a huge push from it. Just ask Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Diamond Dallas Page, among others.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8296168	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8296168	featureConfidence	1.0
Brutus Beefcake (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8296168
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_84f3f987	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_84f3f987	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Shingo Sawatari often name-drops his father, the Mayor, when things don't go his way. Played for Laughs later when he's in the Synchro Dimension and he doesn't seem to understand the concept that this won't work because nobody there has ever heard of him or his father.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_84f3f987	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_84f3f987	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_84f3f987
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_854344f9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_854344f9	comment	Schindler's List: A rare positive example: Oskar Schindler's membership of the Nazi party and friendship with senior Nazi officials are the reason he can save the lives of his eponymous List (well, that and a certain amount of outright bribery).
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_854344f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_854344f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Schindler's List	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_854344f9
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_860c8dcc	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_860c8dcc	comment	An Extraordinary Journey: Giles basically attempts this after the new Council attempt to interrogate Willow about what she's doing in her new job, but unfortunately for him the SGC have better connections.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_860c8dcc	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_860c8dcc	featureConfidence	1.0
An Extraordinary Journey (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_860c8dcc
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_869fa138	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_869fa138	comment	A woman who gets into an altercation with Bamboo Blade's teacher, Toraji-sensei, uses her position as the superintendent's next-door neighbor to get him fired.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_869fa138	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_869fa138	featureConfidence	1.0
Bamboo Blade (Manga)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_869fa138
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_86c3beca	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: While this is not at all Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, his paper doll sports useful phrases such as "Do you know who I am?" and "My father will hear of this!".
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_86c3beca	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_86c3beca	featureConfidence	1.0
Girl Genius (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_86c3beca
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8768d171	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8768d171	comment	Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy: Principal Nedzu uses his position to order a contact to ensure that Uravity gets any and all news about the vigilante King directed to her.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8768d171	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8768d171	featureConfidence	1.0
Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8768d171
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8815832f	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8815832f	comment	Neo Yokio: The Magistocracy, the families of magic and psychic users, have "Magisticratic Immunity" from the law enforcement of Neo Yokio and will only answer to the Lord Mayor. Aunt Agatha uses this to save Kaz from the Remembrancer's interrogation.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8815832f	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8815832f	featureConfidence	1.0
Neo Yokio	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8815832f
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_892aa56a	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: The murderer in the episode "Breaking Ranks" seems unconcerned about being caught dead to rights because "My father's name means something in this town." Murdoch replies "And now, so will yours." In the two-parter "The Long Goodbye", the newly appointed Inspector Edwards goes on a moral crusade, sending the constables to arrest anyone whose activities offend his sensibilities, regardless of whether the law in question is normally enforced or even exists (patrons at a legal and licenced nightclub must be guilty of something, apparently), Crabtree and Higgins try Bothering by the Book by arresting the Board of Control (who appointed Edwards) for breaking the Sunday Observance Act. Edwards just throws the case out. Later, they come up with the variant "Screw the Rules, You Have Connections", pointing out to the board member who recommended Edwards that he might think arresting and banishing anyone who attends a "den of iniquity" is cleaning up Toronto, but some of his friends probably own dens of iniquity, and will know who to blame for their lost profits. Edwards is gone the same day.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_892aa56a	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_892aa56a	featureConfidence	1.0
Murdoch Mysteries	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_892aa56a
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8a6d835c	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8a6d835c	comment	As the World Turns loves this trope because of its legacy families. Many of the characters, even just with ties to super couples and their parents/children, tend to be able to get away with anything on connections alone.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8a6d835c	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8a6d835c	featureConfidence	1.0
As the World Turns	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8a6d835c
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8ba4613a	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Though Light Yagami is one of the suspects of the Kira case from the very beginning, his father's status as the Chief of Police is what protects him from being seriously considered as such by the normal police and he knows it.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8ba4613a	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8ba4613a	featureConfidence	1.0
Death Note (Manga)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8ba4613a
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8bd3842a	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8bd3842a	comment	More than a few of the targets in Hitman have used their connections to get away with huge and heinous crimes. Too bad for them that other people have connections to the ICA, the employers of one Agent 47.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8bd3842a	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8bd3842a	featureConfidence	1.0
Hitman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8bd3842a
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8cfd5671	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8cfd5671	comment	Class of '09: In 2025, Tayo starts investigating corrupt corporations with the new AI system, relating how the FBI's conviction rate on such charges fell steadily over the prior decade due to them having vast money to pay for good defense lawyers. With the AI's help, he gets evidence to nail a bank despite this. After that, he decides to go after corrupt politicians using it too. He is soon nearly murdered for this, and he's forced to accept having certain high-level people exempted as suspects who the AI would consider for it being used by the FBI at all.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8cfd5671	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8cfd5671	featureConfidence	1.0
Class of '09	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8cfd5671
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8d840170	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8d840170	comment	Rake: A lot of people get away with their crimes due to having friends in high places, like Edgar Mitchell with his dirty cops.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8d840170	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8d840170	featureConfidence	1.0
Rake	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8d840170
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8fd3db0b	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Cupid's Errant Arrow", Docent is able to push through a transfer request because an admiral was his grandma's neighbour.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8fd3db0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8fd3db0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Lower Decks	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_8fd3db0b
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_909622f4	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_909622f4	comment	Arrow: Rebirth: As a benign example, Laurel has no problems using the fact that her boyfriend is the Green Arrow to threaten private investigators into doing their jobs at their actual rates instead of letting them hike it up for a profit. Tommy planned to do this after exposing Oliver to get his best friend into a psychiatric facility, believing that his talk of "Tempest" as a conspiracy is just a delusion caused by Oliver suffering a psychotic breakdown. What he completely failed to realize is that those "connections" are the same people Oliver has been targeting as the Green Arrow, meaning they'd be more inclined to kill Oliver rather than help him.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_909622f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_909622f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Arrow: Rebirth (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_909622f4
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90a126e1	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90a126e1	comment	Abbott Elementary: Melissa is a heroic example. She's a schoolteacher whose family is all but stated to be connected to the Mob, and she "has a guy" for everything, but she exploits her connections in order to get things like new school supplies and rugs for the classrooms. The fact that it's quicker and much more effective for Melissa to get basic necessities via her criminal contacts than it is for her to rely on the official channels is presented more as an indictment of the school system and its administrative issues than anything else.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90a126e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90a126e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Abbott Elementary	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90a126e1
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90d056dd	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90d056dd	comment	In Nobody Hutch kills dozens of Russian mafiosos, burns down his house, steals a multi-million dollar piece of art, turns his construction company into a battlefield, and hotwires his neighbor's car. While sitting in an interrogation room, his two captors get a phone call each and he's let go as nobody in the US government wants to mess with the "Auditor".
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90d056dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90d056dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Nobody	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90d056dd
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90e2f673	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90e2f673	comment	This trope is directly responsible for the entire Archer Christifori arc in BattleTech. A Smug Snake of a junior officer with heavy political leanings towards the increasingly oppressive Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion killed Archer's sister when he was supposed to be picking her up for an interview then tried to weasel out of it with some Blatant Lies. When all he got was a slap on the wrist as punishment (he was demoted a couple ranks but spent no time in the brig and was never even charged with murder) thanks to his family's political connections, it was the final straw for Archer, who started a rebellion on his planet with his entire militia company before becoming one of the major players in the FedCom Civil War.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90e2f673	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90e2f673	featureConfidence	1.0
BattleTech (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_90e2f673
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_91c3a59e	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_91c3a59e	comment	Heis'he Ri'nanovai: The Federation ambassador is willing to let Jethro Wisniewski be tried under Romulan law as long as the death penalty is taken off the table. Praetor Velal initially refuses, but then Ambassador Rama offers to help Velal get sanctions relief past the Federation Council.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_91c3a59e	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_91c3a59e	featureConfidence	1.0
Heis'he Ri'nanovai (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_91c3a59e
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_924bb56e	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_924bb56e	comment	In Dollhouse, it's not a person but the title business. It largely survives because it has a lot of rich and powerful people, including at least one senator and the Governor of California, on its client list.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_924bb56e	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_924bb56e	featureConfidence	1.0
Dollhouse	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_924bb56e
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_96f1ceb4	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_96f1ceb4	comment	In the Police Academy movies, a politician pulls this stunt on Hooks to get out of a parking ticket, thinking he can easily intimidate the squeaky-voiced policewoman. He discovers that Beware the Quiet Ones applies instead when she hits him with a bunch of additional charges.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_96f1ceb4	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_96f1ceb4	featureConfidence	1.0
Police Academy	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_96f1ceb4
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_976efc02	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_976efc02	comment	In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 short film "Cheating", Johnny gets caught cheating on a test, and Tom Servo riffs, "Fortunately, your mob ties will get you off, Johnny."
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_976efc02	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_976efc02	featureConfidence	1.0
Mystery Science Theater 3000	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_976efc02
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_98a84b4a	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_98a84b4a	comment	Jerk in Sheep's Clothing: While ChloÃ© is used to using her father's position this way, Henri possesses even more powerful connections in the form of having a parental relationship with the head of a very powerful tech company... one that happens to be tied to her father's campaign. This gives him the pull to potentially ruin her father.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_98a84b4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_98a84b4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Jerk in Sheep's Clothing (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_98a84b4a
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_99076d6d	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_99076d6d	comment	Text Theater: Liam disregarded his boss and had a bad attitude towards other employees and sales representatives just because he is the executive manager's son. Unfortunately for him, he lost his power when his father got fired for harassing the female employees and he was fired when it came out that he was helping his father look for the employees.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_99076d6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_99076d6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Text Theater (Web Video)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_99076d6d
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9908a031	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9908a031	comment	City on a Hill: Sinclair Dryden is a former FBI agent with friends in not only the bureau but the Boston Police and he's also close with the Suffolk County District Attorney. As a result, he was able to intimidate young women whom he'd raped into not pressing charges, in one case by sending a Boston Police officer as his envoy. He also bribed them not to, but his connections had more pull. Finally it collapses as Jackie and Decourcy investigate.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9908a031	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9908a031	featureConfidence	1.0
City on a Hill	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9908a031
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_994af351	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_994af351	comment	In the second case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Redd White is a man who has connections with the judges, prosecutors, police force... He essentially has the entire legal system wrapped around his finger. He uses said connections to get Phoenix arrested and charged with the murder of Mia Fey, despite Maya Fey being the original defendant, because he knew Phoenix could prove his guilt... and then ended up being proven guilty by Phoenix anyway.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_994af351	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_994af351	featureConfidence	1.0
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_994af351
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_998cbda3	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil: Part of the reason that Wilson Fisk is so hard to take down is that he's deeply connected, with corrupt cops and senators on his payroll. Karen Page gets her job at the New York Bulletin because Mitchell Ellison feels bad about not having previously supported Ben Urich, who he knew had been close with Karen and had been mentoring her through her investigation of Wilson Fisk up until Fisk killed Ben. It's clear that Karen's connection to Ben and to Ellison is why she's getting a job with one of New York City's major newspapers and immediately getting a private office, despite not having any journalism degree or prior experience in the field. (Most reporters would be lucky to get a cubicle to start) Rosalie Carbone, introduced in the last two episodes of Luke Cage Season 2 prior to showing up in Daredevil Season 3, has immense influence in organized crime. She has as much control over the underworld in Rikers as Fisk does.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_998cbda3	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_998cbda3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks: Ed Wuncler III's grandfather is the ultra-rich owner of... pretty much everything, so Ed gets away with... well, pretty much everything. Take, for example, his foray into bank robbery. It was bungled about as badly as it could have been, and when they get into the car, they start arguing and eventually ask the bank manager (who they had also kidnapped) for a second opinion. Later, back at Ed's house, a police officer shows up to return Ed's wallet, which he lost at the bank while in the process of robbing it. He even apologizes for having wasted Ed's time. It helps when your granddad owns both the police and the bank in question. Wuncler Sr. does this in the Season 3 finale by calling the President of the United States to get a renegade agent to stand down.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9a6ae6b8	comment	The Gospel Of Malachel: When an assassination squad that has hit the Eva pilots' classroom gets captured by Nerv's security, Gendo expects to treat his prisoners however he sees fit and get away with it because Seele controls the U.N.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9b018733	comment	Rare heroic example in Kubera: Asha has such good connections that she can literally get away with murder. 29 times.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls Throughout the series, the Order of the Black Worm, a secretive Magical Society/Necrocracy founded by the legendary/infamous Lich/Necromancer Mannimarco that is dedicated to the study of The Dark Arts, has long been able to forge connections with people in positions of power. Empress Clivia Tharn allowed the Order to practice freely in Cyrodiil during the Planemeld, and the Order forged connections with Lord K'avar and Princess Morgiah leading up to the Warp in the West. When this has failed, the Order has simply resorted to bribery or threats instead. Skyrim: Doing favors for the jarls can result in the Dragonborn becoming a Thane. It's mostly a ceremonial title, but one of the perks is the ability to force guards to overlook any bounty that you might have on your head. It only works if your crimes are minor, though. Oddly enough, however, the bounty for assassinating the Emperor is low enough for you to do this. (1500, 150% of the bounty for normal murder.) Sure, it was a decoy, but you didn't know that and your intent was to kill the real Emperor. This might make sense if you've completed the Stormcloak questline and liberated Skyrim from the Empire, but if you have, that in itself presents Fridge Logic as to why the Penitus Oculatus is still in Skyrim in the first place. The Thieves Guild questline also allows you to do this; when you reach a certain rank you can bribe guards for half the normal price for bounties. Several quests in the game also allow you to bring up your title if you've become the faction leader of a certain faction (by completing the relevant questlines).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire Has Janos Slynt attempt to do this at the Wall, despite the fact that at the Wall you're essentially a dead man and no one will care what happens to you. Jaime Lannister got away with his killing of Aerys and stayed in part in part thanks to his father's power and reputation, as Robert didn't want to risk offending or punishing Tywin after the sack of King's Landing, and of him being the queen's brother. Him being a Lannister and the son of the mighty Tywin made him feel that he was above the laws, and could always get away with anything in the end. Deconstructed when he faces the Brave Companions, finding out the hard way that Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire who kill, pillage, torture and rape just for the sake of it aren't going to care much about who your father and family name are.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9da04de7	comment	In The A-Team, Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck is able to turn his stay in prison for the last six months into a Luxury Prison Suite to the bafflement of one of the guards due to his top-notch people skills and extensive contacts both military and civilian. As Face puts it, "It isn't who you know, it's how you know them."
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9e21578d	comment	Contract Labor: The Urashima clan's connections are widespread enough that Keitaro is able to arrange for a police motorcycle escort for a speeding taxi van in less than five minutes with just one call to the local police watch commander.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In the first few episodes, Helmeppo can do whatever he likes because his father, Axe-Hand Morgan, runs the town. Morgan actually hates his son but lets him use his name and authority as long as it doesn't put a dent in his ego. The World Nobles are an even more extreme example. If there's someone they can't shoot and is openly defying them, an Admiral gets involved immediately. Arguably, the only people in the world who could get away with defying the World Nobles are the Four Emperors — not even the Seven Warlords of the Sea (who have a notorious amount of Ultimate Job Security) can get away with that. Though this is because one of the Emperors alone is enough to challenge the World Government and the Marines with sheer manpower rather than any kind of strong influence beyond that of pirates. Another exception is another World Noble, such as when Saint Mjosgard strikes Saint Charlos with a spiked club. No admiral is summoned because it would create a paradox, with the admiral being unable to enforce the law without the admiral themselves harming a World Noble. Ultimately however, Mjosgard is judged and sentenced to death by Saint Figarland Garling — the only World Noble with the authority to judge the others — for using his privileges to do good. Caesar Clown attempts to invoke this trope at the tail end of the Punk Hazard arc, citing all of the people who rely on his factory, the weapons he makes from it, and even all the children who suffer under him. Luffy promptly responds that he doesn't care. Doflamingo is able to fake quitting the Seven Warlords because he is a former World Noble. According to him, he isn't considered one anymore by the others, but he still holds clout as a descendant of one of the World Government's founding families, and apparently knows something that allows him to blackmail the World Government. Orochi is only able to get away with his tyrannical rule of Wano Country because he has Kaido of the Four Emperors and the Beast Pirates backing him up. That is, until Kaido decides he doesn't need Orochi anymore.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9e7653e4	comment	Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: The Vigilantes definitely use this trope to accomplish their missions and with style! In fact, it seems that Washington, D.C. pretty much requires everyone to make use of this trope. A number of the bad guys use this, and John Chai from Vendetta happens to be very explicit, considering how he was promising the Vigilantes that his father would make them pay (The Vigilantes were not intimidated by this, for the record).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9f78fda3	comment	In the Murder, She Wrote episode "The Committee", when the eponymous committee of a Smoky Gentlemen's Club turns out to have randomly appointed an anonymous member to "punish" the murder victim in whatever way he sees fit, the police detective tells the senior member that he can't think of a reason not to charge the whole lot of them with conspiracy. The senior member responds by phoning the police commissioner.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a00491b8	comment	Escape From The Hokage's Hat: The Council uses their position to threaten Tsunade with banishing Naruto. Later on, she notes that Naruto is placing himself in a better position to turn the tables, by virtue of earning the trust of various Daimyo around the Elemental Countries. Jiraiya suggests telling Naruto about his parentage so that he could use the leverage that offers to appeal to the Daimyo of Fire Country directly.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a0ada33a	comment	Mauling Snarks: Taylor's relationship with Jacob makes her life a fair bit easier, as he's able to get her a phone with enhanced features and security clearance, helps her brand as an Anti-Hero, and encourages her to use her kinetic projection powers on a wrecking ball. Later, her relationship with Dragon as the AI's new mother grants her SL10 security access.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Used with the Mayor's aide dating Leela. Parodied to some degree, since he likes to try and use his position even when it wouldn't make any difference (e.g. saying he's the mayor's aide and requesting a table even after the restraunteer in question cheerfully showed them to a table).
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a2a4ee1a	comment	Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra: Trey gets away with everything he does (from bullying to attempted murder) because his father is a powerful politician.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a32b6a64	comment	In The West Wing, an inversion of this got Charlie Young his job as personal assistant to President Bartlett. Deborah Fiderer was pressured to give Charlie's position to the son of a prominent Democratic supporter (read: donor), but she wouldn't do it and ended up getting fired as a result. Despite this, though, she refused to admit what had happened as she didn't want Charlie to feel obliged to her for doing what she knew was right. The President is so impressed by her loyalty (and amazing memory) that he hires her to become his new private secretary.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a583fe1e	comment	Sam the Cat: Detective: Prior to The Great Catsby, a local woman shot her rich husband and got away with claiming sheâ€™d mistaken him for a burglar because her sister was married to the sheriff.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a59597f2	comment	The 1948 Soviet adaptation of Cinderella is most frequently remembered for the stepmother who boasted of having better connections than the king himself.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a69ea70d	comment	Agent Graves in 100 Bullets. He spends the first half of the series giving out cases with a gun and well... you know. Graves is so connected that if a bullet from his cases is found at a crime scene, the investigation stops altogether. Any friend of Graves' is flat out allowed to get away with murder.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a7b775cb	comment	Sorority Row:
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a7ba3dc6	comment	The Confectionary Chronicles: When Hermione becomes the high priestess to the pagan god Loki (really the archangel Gabriel), he essentially does this on her behalf. Realising that the magic used by Hermione's type of witch and wizard is because of a blessing from the pagan goddess Hecate, Gabriel is able to replace Hermione's specific blessing from Hecate with an aspect of his own power as he doesn't want to share his most interesting worshipper for centuries with another god. As a result, Gabriel has also removed the Trace, which means that Hermione will never be bothered with warnings of underage magic use simply because of her worship of Loki.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_a851d974	comment	The Nostalgia Chick, as part justification for the high-grade (cameras in Nella's house across the country, stealing Todd's government pay records, that kinda thing) stalking she does.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_aa04e2b4	comment	Love, doubt and super cute babies!: Yaomomo doesn't like taking advantage of her wealthy and privileged background. However, she's more than happy to do so for her friends, such as helping Mei and Izuku get a summer internship with one of her family's companies. She's also ready to use her family's legal teams to help fight against the HPSC. Her parents make clear to Mei and Izuku that they despise the very concept of Nepotism; friends are not, they'll have to prove themselves during their internships and be hired on their own merits, if at all. Aldera Middle School is secretly meant to help groom future members of the MLA. Though they're supposed to be subtle about this, the cell leader is being anything but discreet, certain that his family connections will keep him safe.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_aaa12219	comment	In Terra Kaleb Ceros is still alive at the start of the comic because of somebody else's connections. He was sentenced to death for beating one of his subordinates to death, but Solus Kalar had his father, the Sovereign of the Asurian Empire, overturn the execution so Solus could use him in the Shadow Cabal.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ac5ace8e	comment	Roy Cohn in Angels in America.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ac76e13b	comment	In Akame ga Kill!, the depraved group Wild Hunt often excuse their actions by pointing out that they are sanctioned by the government, and their leader Syura is the son of Prime Minister Honest. After, Wild Hunt rapes and kills Bols's wife and daughter and then Syura attempts to rape Kurome, Wave says he doesn't care and kicks Syura's ass.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Polnareff is briefly arrested for being the prime suspect in Devo the Cursed's sudden murder (which he did indeed commit, but Devo was an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer that was trying to kill him, so it evens out), but luckily manages to avoid jail time thanks to lawyers from the Speedwagon Foundation. The JoJoLands: A Dirty Cop Jodio encounters doesn't follow any ethical practices needed of a police officer, but to him, it doesn't matter, since he has other cops to back him up while he's committing his heinous acts.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b067a18f	comment	What it Means to Be a Hero: In addition to being the #2 Hero, Endeavor comes from a wealthy background, giving him access to highly influential lawyers. Due to this, Shouto believes that it's impossible to make any kind of dent in his social standing, no matter how much evidence they have of his abuse.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b0793848	comment	The Boondock Saints: Yakavetta. Not that it helped him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b260df6	comment	Haganai: During Season 2 of the anime and Volume 8 of the novels, there have been attempts to destroy the Neighbor's Club via RulesLawyering. The issue this time was that it turns out that Maria wasn't actually a teacher or a nun at the school, and Kate was just letting her think that to make her go to the school and behave. This means that the club didn't have a supervisor as is required in the school rules. Sena proceeds to get her daddy(the chairman) to fix the problem by having him appoint Maria as a temporary part-time instructor meaning she could now be their supervisor. Aoi (the Rules Lawyer in question) then tries to get them shut down for not having an instructor when the club was formed, meaning their club shouldn't exist in the first place but Sena then proceeds to tell her that if she does not cease and desist she will have her reputation ruined and expelled. Needless to say, Sena won that round.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b29621f3	comment	There's a beautiful moment in Feet of Clay where an Upper-Class Twit tries to pull the "I'm a friend of your Commander" line on some badly-shaved watchman in battered armour. This does not go well for him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Ser Jaime and Tyrion of the wealthy and powerful House Lannister get by on Tywin's and Cersei's reputation as well as their family's gold. Subverted in "Walk of Punishment" when Jaime tries to bribe Locke into releasing him. Locke gives Jaime a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech, mocking him for acting as if he's better than others and in control, when in fact nearly all of his influence and power comes from his father, and that when separated from him Jaime is helpless and should talk more wisely. To emphasize his point, he then lops off Jaime's hand. Tywin Lannister, probably the most powerful (and certainly the richest) person in Westeros, backs the Baratheons of King's Landing to the hilt, allowing them to pretty much do whatever they want, no matter the obstacles. Unfortunately, this has also extended to the borrowing of money, leading to the Baratheons of King's Landing acquiring astronomical amounts of debt which they are largely unable to service.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b3e81703	comment	Subverted in Arthur, King of Time and Space: Morgan (before she's openly evil) expects that as the king's half-sister she can do whatever she wants, but egalitarian Arthur has instructed his people that anyone saying "Do you know who I am?" is to be ignored.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b5795660	comment	Death Daggers: Ochako is attacked by a Smug Snake with an emotional manipulation Quirk and a father who happens to be a powerful executive. He threatens to ruin the lives of not only her and the three who came to help her, but their families as well, gloating about how he'll destroy their futures purely because he can.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b583de72	comment	This is the case for students at the military academy "The Roost" whose parents have high positions in government in The Croaking: for example, Del gets away with trying to murder another student (Scra) in plain view of his classmates and instructors — Scra nearly falling to his death is instead explained away with faulty equipment.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b5c89107	comment	Carrie: Overlapping with Screw the Rules, I Have Money!, Chris Hargensen's father is a rich Amoral Attorney who regularly employs Loophole Abuse to ensure she never faces the consequences of her bullying actions. He got her into Oberlin despite her poor grades, and when she's banned from attending the prom for taunting Carrie over her first period in the shower, he threatens to sue the school unless they let Chris attend; he's forced to back off when the principal shows him Chris' long record of violations, declaring that they could easily have Chris locked up for them.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b6faea53	comment	Raise Yourselves Up (We're Done): Lila and Alya attempt to exploit this by having Principal Damocles disband the World Travellers' Club. However, Marinette and the club members outmanuever them by getting the school board involved, forcing Damocles to back down.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b7f918cc	comment	The Leagans in Candyâ™¡Candy; when Candy is working at Joseph Hospital in New York City, Eliza frequently uses her family's connections to hospital to interfere with Candy's work life and Eliza's mother, Mrs. Leagan, gets Candy fired from her job by threatening to withdraw her family's funding if Candy remains employed there, simply because she disapproves of her son Neil having fallen in love with her.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_b80e5912	comment	My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: Played with in the second novel. At Wizarding School, Katarina has permission to come and go as she pleases from the student council room despite not being on it. However, it's because her friends on the council get the school faculty to agree to it by threatening to deny them the use of the room. Katarina herself didn't ask for it and has no clue as to why she's given the privilege of using the room. In the sixth novel, Katarina is surprised to see both Mary and Sophia in the Department of Magic's onboarding. It turns out both requested—in different ways—their fathers to pull strings to get a place so that they can stick close to Katarina.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: As the star football player, the teachers often give Dash's bullying behavior a free pass. Best displayed in the pilot episode, where Mr. Lancer punishes Danny, Sam, and Tucker for a food fight Dash started while Dash gets off scot-free, declaring that his athletic status makes him "exempt from scorn."
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun characters can cultivate connections that vary in function, influence, and loyalty. Being a 'connection horse' is a popular way to make a socially-oriented character extra useful: having a ton of loyal friends in high places makes running the shadows fairly easy at times.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bd05abd4	comment	For His Own Sake: Kagura's rich father and his influential lawyers ensured she didn't get so much as a slap on the wrist for murdering Takeru.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bd360eb5	comment	MoniRobo: Spoiled son ran over me with his car and tried to pretend it never happened: Eri filed a lawsuit against Eiji for trying to run her over, but it didn't stick as his dad was a powerful congressman. A spoiled brat beat me and my friend up and tried to use money to hide it...: Takakuni always thinks he could use his father's money and power to get out of trouble and force Mari to date him, but his luck runs out when his father's company turns out to be a client to her brother Masaki's company. The new recruit is using her family's powers to threaten me!: Ikari was a lousy worker who was only accepted into the office because she was a Yakuza's daughter. Whenever Atsumu tried to take her to task, she always brings it up to silence him into submission by threatening his loved ones. My sister's being bullied at school, but the principal wants to cover it up: Ai's bullying of Sayuu was never dealt with properly despite the latter's sister Miyuu presenting evidence her dad was friends with the principal and had him cover up said bullying.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bd516ff2	comment	A Professor and a Student: Professor Kukui does this accidentally. While struggling to coordinate the legalities of organizing a class trip to Kanto, he calls Delia to explain the situation. In addition to immediately securing aid from Professor Oak, Gym Leaders like Brock and Misty get involved to help their friend Ash. Even the Kanto Champion Lance gets involved...!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bdbcdadf	comment	In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Alexis Lois "Lexi" Luthor is able to wield her family's vast network of connections to get her hands on information that should be restricted to the Japanese government, police, and the Top Ten Heroes. She makes full use of this to track down Izuku to satisfy her interest in talking to an alien.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bf3a0285	comment	Averted in the pilot of Without a Trace. Martin Fitzgerald tells Jack Malone he doesn't want any special treatment just because he's the FBI Director's son, to which Malone replies that he wasn't planning on giving him any.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_bfef9cdb	comment	Invoked by one of the mayor's assistants in Welcome to Night Vale, she claims to have supernatural mayoral powers. She then urges to have Cecil's reporters look away, and then follows through before they do.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c00df586	comment	Androgyninja's A Dose of Venom: After working incredibly hard to prove herself throughout A Drop of Poison, Sakura learns that she's made enemies who aren't happy with how a mere 'civilian-born' shinobi is challenging the status quo. These people use their connections to sabotage her, considering that more important than focusing on rebuilding Konoha in the wake of disaster... and outright want her DEAD.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c12d2d38	comment	AQUA: The First Step: According to Dr. Polendina, the only reason Commander Vasilyevich still had a job in the Atlesian army despite his General Ripper tendencies is that Jacques Schnee backed him up, bribing people and pulling strings to keep him employed.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c21f934c	comment	Living in a Frog World: Maggie is the daughter of the school district's superintendent, who uses his influence to prevent Frank from being able to reenter school after he was unjustly convicted of a crime that was committed by Sasha, claiming he was too dangerous to be allowed around "normal kids".
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c25b1f2f	comment	Landry in Friday Night Lights is a cop's son, and therefore, when he confesses to murder, the police are visibly trying to find a way to avoid prosecuting him. Even in his interview, the detective almost desperately tries to coach him into setting up his defence, and when his dad arrives, they let him go and ultimately fail to file charges.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c2e48301	comment	The Hunt for Red October: A Soviet doctor who was drunk on duty botched what should have been a simple appendix removal. Being the son of a senior party official, he remained unpunished for the violation of the rules and the death resulting from it. This is part of what drove Ramius to defect, as the victim was his wife.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c372feb	comment	CONSEQUENCES: In WORLD BEYOND: PART II, FÃ©lix presumes that he's completely untouchable because the Graham de Vanily are British nobility, with plenty of old money and connections. He doesn't consider that said connections might not want to be associated with somebody who aided an international terrorist, especially since he was the one who stole the Miracle Box and handed it over to Shadow Moth, enabling all the horror that followed. His mother is just as bad and ends up having a Villainous Breakdown when they're stripped of their titles and status.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: Polnareff is briefly arrested for being the prime suspect in Devo the Cursed's sudden murder (which he did indeed commit, but Devo was an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer that was trying to kill him, so it evens out), but luckily manages to avoid jail time thanks to lawyers from the Speedwagon Foundation.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c3d129cd	comment	High School DÃ—D: Diodora Astaroth is a sadistic Hope Crusher who's favorite pastime is getting nuns branded as heretics and driving them to despair before raping and/or murdering them; as Issei himself realizes, the only reason anyone even puts up with Diodora, much less hasn't just killed him, is because he's related to Ajuka Beelzebub, one of the Four Great Satans, and doing so would risk provoking the Old Satan faction and triggering a civil war. Once he joins the Khaos Brigade and participates in a plot that would have killed a lot of high-ranking people, he loses that protection, and nobody gives a shit when Issei beats him senseless and Shalba offs him. Ultimately deconstructed, as the Astaroth clan soon finds its reputation in tatters as a direct result of Diodora's actions. Ajuka himself has this trope inverted being briefly Mistaken for Terrorist because of his relation to Diodora.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Mokuba Kaiba: "My brother is Seto Kaiba; I can decide who lives and who dies."
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_c4f05ee4	comment	The Wayfarer Redemption: Hagen gets away with burning his wife alive and brutally maiming and torturing his adoptive daughter for years because he's the mayor and part of the Seneschal, claiming to have a connection to the god Artor himself. It's finally averted when Azhure murders him herself.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ca08598f	comment	One of the major themes on The Wire. Clay Davis and Ervin Burrell are two of the biggest offenders.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ca267378	comment	In Hurricane Suite, Naruto is the Sole Survivor of his team after a mission to Kusa goes disastrously wrong, and drops off the grid for a while. Normally, this would get him labeled a missing-nin, seen as a deserter and condemned to death. But since he's the son of the Fourth Hokage, he's able to return home without facing any serious consequences aside from having others keeping an eye on him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: Meg Austin's father was a friend with Colonel Oliver North (of the Iran-Contra scandal fame). Meg calls in a favor from "Uncle Ollie" once or twice when they need info they can't get through official channels.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_cb3f37de	comment	DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story: The Purple Cobras are able to enter the big Las Vegas dodgeball tournament without a regional qualifying match because the dodgeball chancellor is a friend of White's.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ccc95cd2	comment	Accidental Companions: Naruto's landlady Syne uses her connections to ensure that Naruto has no way of escaping the power she holds over him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_cdd82de8	comment	Gossip City: Harumi could get away with bullying Mari and other girls because she was the Chairman's daughter. When the latter's mother Azusa came to the hospital to check on her, the former showed up and gloated about her connections and how he's good friends with the police, even when Azusa's husband is the police chief. However, she loses her connections after Mamoru bought Uwasa Middle School while Leon had the Chairman arrested.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ce247635	comment	Another Time, Another Place, Another Story: Chen Baozhai tries to use her boyfriends — she's a Gold Digger who dates several young men coming from very wealthy and influential families — to try and ruin Liu Qingge's life and reputation, by framing him as a domestic abuser and pressuring his boss to fire him. Unfortunately for her, Liu Qingge is friends with Shen Yuan who belongs to THE most wealthy family in China and is rather eager to retaliate in his name. Shang Lei bitterly confesses he's unable to find a job in spite of his very prestigious credentials because he has no backup ready to vouch for his reliability. Shen Yuan fixes this by introducing him to his brother Shen Jiu, thus playing it straight.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d145590	comment	This epically backfired on an episode of Beyond Scared Straight where a bunch of female inmates, including a young one about to be sentenced for robbery, were scolding the preteens and teenagers who were acting up. A 12-year-old tried to pull this on the young inmate, saying her recently-released mother was once the head of a vicious gang, only for her to tell her she wasn't scared of the woman and became so angry and threatening to the girl and her mother that both the guards and other inmates had to hold her back. The girl herself was soon reduced to tears.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: A different interpretation of the word "connections" in this case, but the reason Katniss hasn't been tossed in a cell for illegally hunting the District 12 wildlife isn't because of any particular skill at evading the Peacemakers. It's because the Peacemakers are also her customers.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d3343e2f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader: As a holder of a Warrant of Trade issued by the God Emperor Himself, you have permission to operate outside of the spatial borders and legal scope of the Imperium and the Lex Imperialis.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d3c800ed	comment	In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Tsali is able to get away with genocide and mass murder without Demon government interference because of his personal connections with Maledict himself. He also has near-limitless access to money from the Demon treasury for the same reason.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d461f757	comment	This almost has to be happening for Lee "Apollo" Adama in Battlestar Galactica (2003). Having your dad be the head of the Colonial Military can mean you get cut a lot of slack. At the end of Season 1, he commits mutiny and puts a gun to the head of Galactica's XO, but this doesn't seem to hurt his career much. Towards the end of Season 2, he's even promoted to commander (over a few higher-ranking and more-experienced officers, the aforementioned XO included — though events early in the season hint said XO wouldn't be the best commander) and put in charge of his own Battlestar. And is there any other explanation for in Season 4 when despite the pressing need for experienced pilots at all times, he is allowed to quit the military for good and gets shoehorned into a Quorum seat, which allows him to temporarily rise to be president when Roslin is missing, mostly because they needed a candidate his father would accept? Given what we have seen of the lack of options open to ordinary people of the fleet and the need for all those in essential positions to do their duty all the time, one can't help but feel Lee is lucky to have the opportunities he has. And, in fact, he lampshades this a bit. At Baltar's trial, specifically, he notes that he had done some ridiculous things that should have gotten him prosecuted at least... but he was forgiven.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d5077de1	comment	Gwen Stacy in The Real Queen of Midtown once got arrested for destruction of public property during a protest. Her father, a police captain, managed to get the arrest dismissed and was able to hide it so that anyone not doing a thorough investigation wouldn't be able to find it.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d593aea7	comment	Bridges Burned (Mama always told me that I should play nice. But she never met you) makes this a central element of Marinette's revenge against her Fair-Weather Friends. Since they turned on her in favor of Lila, who lies about knowing various celebrities, Marinette calls in favors from famous figures like Lois Lane and Tony Hawk, who proceed to pull various strings on behalf of the people she points them towards — all friends who didn't betray Marinette's trust. It's explictly stated that many of the opportunities they're giving her friends would typically go to older candidates, but all of the celebrities she contacts are so pissed off by how she was betrayed that they're willing to bend the rules in order to send a message to those who hurt her.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	The PokÃ©mon: The Series fic Ash's Adventure: Girls' Hunter Edition is set in a world where humans can also train PokeGirls- female trainers defeated in battle can be 'captured' with human balls and gain a Pokemon type- a chain of events leads to Ash being unable to receive a licence from Professor Oak, but he acquires a set of human balls that he uses to save Misty's life when they meet during a thunderstorm and a Spearow attack. As part of Misty's efforts to help Ash, she is able to call Bill (the inventor of the Pokemon storage system) and arrange for him to provide Ash with a trainer's licence that deliberately ignores any PokeGirls Ash might catch so that they don't register as part of his full team. As a result, Ash could theoretically catch a full team of six Pokemon and as many PokeGirls as he wants so long as he doesn't keep them in their human balls full-time, although when informed about this he was planning to release his only PokeGirl captures as soon as was practical.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends: Shyvana is a magical being, being half-dragon, and would normally be arrested, much less be allowed to be part of an elite task force for the prince. However, because she saved Jarvan IV's life, she is an exception to the rules. Called out in The Mageseeker, where Shyvana is very aware that even with Jarvan's protection, she is likely to end up on the wrong end of the Mageseekers the second Jarvan's attention is turned towards something else.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d726aa63	comment	In It's Over, Isn't It (it's only just begun), Endeavor has become the Number One Hero in the wake of All-Might's world-changing Heroic Sacrifice. One way he's taken advantage of his new status is to turn the whole block around his agency into a dead zone. No internet; no phone; minimal electricity. Why? So he wouldn't have to deal with the press camping on his doorstep.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d817edcb	comment	In Judge, the reason the drunk truck driver that ran over the protagonist's brother didn't get the full sentence he deserved was that he was well-acquainted with the judge, and had everyone on the jury being bribed.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d88eb5	comment	LadyBugOut: After Marinette reveals that she "helped" Ladybug set up the titular blog, pretending to be friends with her alter ego, she's ambushed outside her school by a Media Scrum. Nadja shoves her way through the crowd, declaring that since she's friends with the Dupain-Chengs, she's got "dibs" on this big scoop.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d96ef00c	comment	In What It Takes, once Laurel's identity is exposed, Diggle is forced to sign up with A.R.G.U.S. for protection. When Quentin arrives to arrest him, this is enough to force him to back off.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_d9e1a051	comment	Fruits Basket: Akito's status as both God of the Zodiac and head of the Sohma family effectively makes her exempt from scorn or punishment for any of her actions; the Zodiac members are compelled to forgive and honor her no matter what due to the curse, and the maids just allow her to do whatever she wants on the grounds that a God can do as they please.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_da861da1	comment	Practically everyone on Veronica Mars is guilty of some version of this. Veronica herself constantly exploits any and all connections she has in law enforcement. Usually justifiable, considering she lives in Neptune.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_dc217e32	comment	A Kanto politician in PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines forces Professor Oak to give his children starter PokÃ©mon (despite not getting high enough scores in his official test) on threats of cutting his research budget.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_dc9bbcf2	comment	Taaroko's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9: When a government agency attempts to take the Slayers prisoner in the belief that they are super-soldiers funded by the now-defunct Wolfram & Hart, the lieutenant who authorised the operation is quickly shut down when his superior shows up, as the man is Captain Graham Miller, formerly of the Initiative, who notes that people don't get far when Buffy Summers sees them as the bad guy; as Buffy puts it, "They called in the cavalry, who happened to like me better than them." On the other hand, Cole, a member of Oz's new band and boyfriend to new Slayer Alex (Cole plays the keyboards while Alex is the drummer), applies to become a Watcher so he can be there for Alex, but makes it clear that he wants the full Watcher-training experience rather than just using his close friendship with the original gang to 'fast-track' through the training.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_dca041af	comment	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: In Season 3, when Joel is opening up his own club in Chinatown, he finds that it's difficult to get things done. Fortunately, Mei comes along and is quick to use her family connections in Chinatown to make business easier for Joel, such as getting the liquor board to fasttracking the approval of the liquor license that Joel had had tied up for months.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_dd3fe595	comment	This is the stock in trade of the "looters" in Atlas Shrugged, who essentially make themselves into an "Aristocracy of Pull".
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e0051c3b	comment	Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath: When Ms. Bustier has to deal with divorce court, she tries taking advantage of how Marinette and several other members of Team Miraculous used to be her students by calling them in as Character Witnesses, hoping that she'll be lauded by association and land full custody of her unborn child. Marinette and the rest make clear that they aren't impressed by her attempt to ride their coattails, and that they won't shill for her on the stand.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e1c3178b	comment	your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue): Inverted with the Harunos; Sakura's parents don't have enough political clout to prevent their daughter from being drafted as a Child Soldier at the tender age of five. Her mother tried to get help from the other members of the Allied Mothers Force, only to be booted out. Danzo pulls rank in order to send Kizashi on a ROOT-sponsored mission, as part of a scheme to get them out of the way. Orochimaru uses their influence to help Tenten land an apprenticeship with the blacksmith guild.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e293455a	comment	Essentially deconstructed in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Harry Potter crossover The Key to Marauding, which features Dawn Summers arriving at Hogwarts during the Marauders' fifth year. After Lucius Malfoy (currently a seventh year) tries to rape Dawn, his father Abraxas attempts to cover up the incident while also trying to get James and Sirius expelled for attacking Lucius (as they jumped in to defend her). While Dumbledore can't make the rape charges stick without putting Dawn in an uncomfortable position, he and Professor McGonagall do their best to punish Lucius for his actions, including restricting his movements through Hogwarts for the rest of the year, forcing him to hand his wand in whenever he's not in class, and making it clear that he will be expelled if he gets into any further trouble before graduating.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e3b75023	comment	Vampire Hunter D film. Greco, the mayor's son who sexually harasses Doris Rumm. This happens in the novel and is not the only example in the series.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e47dcbe3	comment	Death Note Series: In this incarnation, this is Light's primary motivation to become Kira; he holds the legal system on a Broken Pedestal because he's sick of those with connections abusing the law and getting off scot-free.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: In the second case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Redd White is a man who has connections with the judges, prosecutors, police force... He essentially has the entire legal system wrapped around his finger. He uses said connections to get Phoenix arrested and charged with the murder of Mia Fey, despite Maya Fey being the original defendant, because he knew Phoenix could prove his guilt... and then ended up being proven guilty by Phoenix anyway. In Ace Attorney Investigations, these are the exact people the Yatagarasu tries to combat. It's also pulled by Alba in the final case. If he committed the murder on Allebahstian soil, then he only gets a trial in Allebahst, where he will surely get off lightly due to his war hero status. This is before Agent Lang shows Edgeworth's trump card to the Allebahst royal family; after that, Alba attempts to leave for parts unknown instead.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Painted in Blood", DI Gudgeon attempts to intimidate Barnaby by bringing up that he has a very good working relationship with Barnaby's chief constable.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: Dr. Desmond Bradford grew up alongside Karl Prosek, the man who would become Emperor of the Coalition States. This has kept his more horrific work at the Lone Star Complex (Bradford is a geneticist who literally believes he is a god) under wraps, as Karl refuses to believe his friend would do anything as hideous as human experimentation. This fact makes Joseph Prosek II's life all the harder - he knows Dr. Bradford is up to things even the Coalition States would find unacceptable, but he also knows he needs absolute ironclad proof or else his father will never believe it... and Dr. Bradford is far too intelligent to leave that kind of proof.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e71c679	comment	In the Japanese Tokusatsu Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, a group of villains are incredibly calm towards Sen-chan's questions, annoyances, and at one point death sentence because one of their fathers is a judge for the Space police. Unfortunately for them, Sen-chan just decides to kill them before they have time to tell their connections.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e799fdf1	comment	ZoÃ©'s father initially didn't bother with seeking any child support from Audrey, as he figured she'd use her connections to bury the case and screw them over. It took Tom stepping in, along with some discreet support from Viceroy's Blackmail network, in order for them to get a fair trial.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ebadd9a4	comment	In Diaries of a Madman, Navarone's unusual friendship with Celestia keeps him out of prison and gives him a lot of leeway in what he does, though it's also because she finds him too useful to imprison, and resorts to non-standard punishments instead.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_eee7448f	comment	In Dora Wilk Series, one of Thorn Councilmen tries to force Dora to free his nephew from prison and rape charges, basing himself on this trope. She has none of this, though.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_eef62751	comment	Tales of Destiny 2: Loni suggests Kyle cut the line to see King Woodrow by bringing up that he's the Legendary Hero Stahn's son. While it works, it also gets Kyle chewed out by Woodrow for not respecting the system and Judas calls Kyle out on relying too much on his father's name rather than standing on his own as a person. Zigzagged as after the chewing out, Woodrow tells Kyle that he will always make time for him because Stahn was his dear friend.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_efa49b17	comment	Attempted on The Mentalist by a Victim of the Week's wealthy husband, who demands that Agent Cho tell him the name of his murdered wife's lover.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f023dd18	comment	Wild Bill: One of the reasons Russian mobster Oleg Kraznov gets away with his crimes is through having a close relationship with the local police and crime commissioner.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f0a86c12	comment	An episode of How I Met Your Mother has Ted try to break up with Jeannette, only for her to trash his apartment, behave incredibly violently, and refuse to leave. He tries calling the police, only to discover that Jeannette is a police officer, and she informs her coworkers over the radio that she'll "take care of it".
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: After the failed attempt on Hank's life by the Salamanca twins which ends with both of them dead, Juan Bolsa calls Gus Fring to accuse him of having set it all up to put pressure from the authorities on the cartel and invokes this as part of his Badass Boast to downplay the threat. Gomez uses this to bluff the manager of Gus's laundromat when Hank sends him there to search for evidence of the meth lab that exists underneath the facility:
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f0d1e61a	comment	Another rare heroic example in The Raven Cycle: Richard Campbell Gansey III lives among psychics, spirits, and magicians. His super power? Calling in favors. He uses this power for good, either to help a friend in trouble (such as when Ronan faces expulsion or Adam presses charges against his father) or to further his search for Glendower
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f10619d8	comment	In Tales of the Abyss, there's an unusual example in that it's actually useful to the player outside of cutscenes: equipping Jade with his "Emperor's Best Friend" title gets you a discount in shops.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f2eaba83	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f2eaba83	comment	The JoJoLands: A Dirty Cop Jodio encounters doesn't follow any ethical practices needed of a police officer, but to him, it doesn't matter, since he has other cops to back him up while he's committing his heinous acts.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f2eaba83	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f2eaba83	featureConfidence	1.0
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands (Manga)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f2eaba83
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f41aa707	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f41aa707	comment	Sugawara Akitada: Even though he's a lowly clerk, being on a mission for the Emperor is empowering enough that Akitada is able to hire a wanted criminal*(Turns out to be a case of mistaken identity but that's not the point) as a servant and walk around with him in the very region he was wanted. Akitada also has influential friends among the government willing to help him, too.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f41aa707	featureConfidence	1.0
Sugawara Akitada	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f41aa707
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f46fa37	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f46fa37	comment	Cyrano de Bergerac: At Act II Scene VII, De Guiche wants to Buy Them Off Cyrano, offering to say to his uncle, Cardinal Richelieu, whom Cyrano has already impressed, I'll gladly say a word to him for you. And at Act III Scene II, he lampshades how he will occult in a monastery:
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f46fa37	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f46fa37	featureConfidence	1.0
Cyrano de Bergerac (Theatre)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f46fa37
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f4e799ee	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f4e799ee	comment	In Burn Notice, one scumbag Abusive Parent uses his connections to protect his mobster brother. When Michael and company take out the scumbag by making him look like an unstable lunatic, it's mentioned in the epilogue that the brother will likely go down with him.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f4e799ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f4e799ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Burn Notice	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f4e799ee
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f565604d	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f565604d	comment	In Eyeshield 21, There's Donald "Mr. Don" Oberman who was able to expel a talented player in Notre Dame and have all his affiliations and achievements in the school erased simply because Mr. Don didn't feel said player was worthy of being Notre Dame's ace running back. How influential are his connections? He's just the son of the President of the United States.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f565604d	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f565604d	featureConfidence	1.0
Eyeshield 21 (Manga)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f565604d
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7661425	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7661425	comment	Hailey Grimm from The Other Kingdom often feels like certain school rules don't apply to her due to the fact that she's the principal's niece.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7661425	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7661425	featureConfidence	1.0
The Other Kingdom	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7661425
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7b5a440	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7b5a440	comment	Dumb Money: Gabe Plotkin gets bailed out of the failing short by Ken Griffin's firm (for the moment), and the duo go to work on putting down the retail investor uprising: Reddit is made to lock r/Wallstreetbets, Robinhood is forced to turn off the "Buy" button on GME, and it's strongly implied they squeezed MassMutual to make them fire Keith Gill for accidentally starting the whole thing.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7b5a440	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7b5a440	featureConfidence	1.0
Dumb Money	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_f7b5a440
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb4513c1	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb4513c1	comment	The Unteachables: In the Back Story, Jake avoided being expelled after being caught selling test answers because two school board members were former fraternity brothers of Jake's dad.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb4513c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb4513c1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Unteachables	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb4513c1
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb7c549b	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb7c549b	comment	Feralnette AU: After proposing to Marinette that they should work together in order to discover Hawk Moth's identity, ChloÃ© uses her connections to ensure that Lila can't attempt to get Marinette kicked out of school again: she claims that Marinette is tutoring her, and if Principal Damocles attempts to expel her again, she'll bring her father's wrath down upon the school.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb7c549b	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb7c549b	featureConfidence	1.0
Feralnette AU (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fb7c549b
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fe08cb30	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fe08cb30	comment	The Punisher (2017): William Rawlins has managed to escape prosecution for the war crimes he committed in Afghanistan thanks to his rise to being the Director of Covert Operations for the CIA. In turn, Billy Russo has managed to also escape persecution for his role in these war crimes thanks to his pretty face and good charisma when it comes to schmoozing politicians.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fe08cb30	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fe08cb30	featureConfidence	1.0
The Punisher (2017)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_fe08cb30
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_feee10db	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_feee10db	comment	Warformed Stormweaver: According to an epigraph, the MIND's influence means that wealth is far less important than it used to be; now what matters is social capital and family connections. Even then, it's limited. Notably, while Aria and Viv both come from well-off families, their actual money is never mentioned, just their connections.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_feee10db	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_feee10db	featureConfidence	1.0
Warformed Stormweaver	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_feee10db
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ff8bc445	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ff8bc445	comment	In the opera The Barber of Seville, Count Almaviva's connections keep him from being arrested by his romantic rival, Dr. Bartolo.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ff8bc445	featureApplicability	1.0
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ff8bc445	featureConfidence	1.0
The Barber of Seville (Theatre)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_ff8bc445

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Combattler V / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Doraemon / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ghost in the Shell: Arise / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Kill la Kill / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Marginal Prince / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tenchi Muyo! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Castle of Cagliostro / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Voice in the Dark (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Avengers Standoff (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Back to the Future (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Carbon Grey (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Civil War (2006) (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Gotham Central (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lex Luthor (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Maus (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Spider-Man Noir (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Ambassadors (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Simpsons (Comic Book) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dennis the Menace (UK) (Comic Strip) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Twisted Toyfare Theatre (Comic Strip) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Civil War / Comicbook / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Escape From The Hokage's Hat / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Leave for Mendeleiev (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
MyHostageNotYours	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Service with a Smile / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
/SovereignGFC/Origins / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Team 8 (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
ThePromiseOfALifetime	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
They Shook Hands / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Triptych Continuum / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Waking Nightmares / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Devil Amongst Worms (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Game of Vengeance and Justice (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Girl and Her Bike (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Possible Encounter for a Phantom (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Professor and a Student (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Very Scary Thought (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Absolute Trust (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Alien Exodus (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Always Visible (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Androgyninja's A Dose of Venom (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Apex Predator (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Arcanum (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bridges Burned (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Collector Hero: Synthesis (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cupid's Wrath (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Danny Phantom: Blackmailed (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Darkfire1220's Challenger (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Escape From The Hokage's Hat (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Exitum Eternal (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Feralnette AU (Big Fat Break) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Flashback (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
For His Own Sake (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Heis'he Ri'nanovai (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again! / Fan Fic / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Issei: The Gaming Gear (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
It's Just a Light Rain (But the Storm's Still Comin') (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
LadyBugOut (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Little Hands, Big Attitude (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
lost in the infinite lights (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Love, doubt and super cute babies! (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Manager (Seraviel) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Maria Campbell of the Astral Clocktower (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mauling Snarks (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Miraculous Ladybug Salt-Shots (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Miraculous: Tales of Scarlet Beetle & Ikati Black (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mœbius (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My Ideal Academia (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ned Stark Lives (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Nukume Dori (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Null and Void (NevaraRaven) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Of Crystal Shards and Dust (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Of Love and Bunnies (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
One for All and Eight for the Ninth (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Origins (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Perfect Masks MHA (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Pretty Cure Seasons Delight (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Princess of the Blacks (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Quiververse (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Raise Yourselves Up (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Rise of the Phoenix (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
SMPRonpa (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Seven Days in Sunny June (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Shed Some of This Black Light to Surrounding Towns (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Snakeskins (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Taaroko's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Thank You (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Accidental Warlord And His Pack (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Chosen Six (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Karma of Lies (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The King Nobody Wanted (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Lament Series (ChaoticNeutral) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Odds Were Never In My Favour (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Wolves in the Woods (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
This And That (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
To Love A Frozen Heart (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tough Love (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wayward (RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Weight Off Your Shoulder (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
What Goes Around Comes Around (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
What it Means to Be a Hero (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
What It Takes (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue) (Fanfic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Buck Privates / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Burnt by the Sun / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Captain America: Civil War / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Casino / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Chappaquiddick / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
City of Life and Death / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cowboys & Aliens / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cruel Intentions / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dancin': It's On! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
District 9 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
From Justin to Kelly / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Glory / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Grand Hotel / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Green Book / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Heneral Luna / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Hussar Ballad / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
I, Robot / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Il Marchese Del Grillo / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Indochine / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Inspecteur Lavardin / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ip Man 2 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ip Man 4 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
John Wick: Chapter 2 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lady Bird / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Last Known Address / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Le Gendarme se marie / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lemonade Mouth / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lockout / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lord of War / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lovely But Deadly / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Monster Trucks / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Moxie / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
No Hard Feelings / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Nobody / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ocean's Eleven / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Once Upon a Time in High School / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
One Night in the Tropics / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Operation Grandma / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Pacific Rim: Uprising / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Rosen für den Staatsanwalt / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Rushmore / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Schindler's List / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
'71 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Shorts / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sinister / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Smokey and the Bandit / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sorority Row / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Spotlight / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Striptease / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Suicide Squad (2016) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tetris (2023) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Beekeeper / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Big Lebowski / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Black Godfather / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Book of Henry / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Emperor of Paris / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Faculty / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Gauntlet / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Green Mile / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Last Duel / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Magdalene Sisters / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Menu / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Running Man / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Saint (2017) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Shack / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Thinning / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Towering Inferno	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Untouchables (1987) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Usual Suspects / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
13 Assassins / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
This Film is Not Yet Rated / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Top Gun: Maverick / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Training Day / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Trumbo / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Twins of Evil / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
W. / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
White Lightning / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Winter Kills / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Evillious Chronicles (Franchise) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Love Live! (Franchise) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Haganai / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
All Quiet on the Western Front / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ave Xia Rem Y / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Baccano! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bad Blood / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Beast Tamer / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bodacious Space Pirates / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Citizen of the Galaxy / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Claw & Warder / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Crazy Rich Asians / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Darth Plagueis / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Doctor Sleep / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dora Wilk Series / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dream, Delusion, and Reality / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Endo and Kobayashi Live! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Fallocaust / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Forest Kingdom / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
From the New World / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Galactic Milieu / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Gate / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Gorky Park / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Haganai / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
If Her Flag Breaks / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Infinite Stratos / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Jedi Apprentice / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Julian Comstock / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lincoln Rhyme / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lorna Doone / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Masquerade (1979) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Millennium Series / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mitch and Amy / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Modern Villainess / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Murder on the Orient Express / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Nínay / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Poor Man's Fight / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Rihannsu / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sam the Cat: Detective / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Shadow Ops / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sisterhood Series / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Smaller & Smaller Circles / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Solar Defenders: The Role of a Shield / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Star Trek: Picard - Firewall / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Starship's Mage / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Starting Today I Work As A City Lord / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sugawara Akitada / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Bands of Mourning / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Boxcar Children / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Cardinal of the Kremlin / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Da Vinci Code / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Death of WCW / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Dungeon Cleaning Life Of A Once Genius Hunter / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Finishing School Series / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Gadfly / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Green Mile / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Hunt for Red October / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Man Who Knew Too Much / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Odyssey / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Raven Cycle / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Rising of the Shield Hero / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Scholomance / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ubik / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ultramarines / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Warchild Series / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Warformed Stormweaver / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Way of Choices / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wintergirls / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wolf Hall / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wonder (2012) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Worldwar / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Damages	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dichter And Denker	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
GustavMannerheim	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
JuiceBoxHero	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
LornaDoone	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ptitlej2qa66yo	seeAlso	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
ScrewtheRulesIHaveConnections	sameAs	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
act-age (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Akagi (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Akumetsu (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bamboo Blade (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Boys over Flowers (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Doraemon (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Engaged to the Unidentified (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Hanayamata (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Imadoki! (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My First Girlfriend Is a Gal (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
PandoraHearts (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Prison School (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Psychic Squad (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
RIN-NE (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Romantic Killer (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Skip Beat! (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Snow White with the Red Hair (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
ST☆R: Strike it Rich (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Beautiful Skies of Houou High (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Until Death Do Us Part (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Evillious Chronicles (Music) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Quest in Show (Podcast) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Ballad of Edgardo (Roleplay) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Black Sand Bar (Roleplay) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Trustfell 2 Trust Harder (Roleplay) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Xander Quest: Reborn on the Hellmouth (Roleplay) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Atlanta / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Banshee / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Blue Bloods / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Boomtown / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Boomtown (2002) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Boris (2007) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bosch / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Boys Before Flowers / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Class of '09 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cocaine Coast / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cold Case / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Crash Landing on You / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Damages / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Doctor Syn ("The Scarecrow") / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dog / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dr. Death / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
18-Year-Old Sky / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Emergency! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Endeavour / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
FBI: International / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Fargo: Season Five / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Flashpoint / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Foyle's War / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Glee / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Hogan's Heroes / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Horrible Histories / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Houdini & Doyle / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Itaewon Class / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Jack Ryan / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Jessica Jones (2015) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Jonathan Creek / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Joy of Life / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Killjoys / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Lethal Weapon (2016) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Life (2007) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mad Men / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Maddigan's Quest / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Major Crimes / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
McHale's Navy / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Medici / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mr. Belvedere / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Murder, She Wrote / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
NCIS: New Orleans / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
One Life to Live / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
ReGenesis / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Recht Op Recht / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Red Band Society / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Roswell, New Mexico / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Rumpole of the Bailey / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
S.W.A.T. (2017) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Succession / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Suits / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Ark (2023) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Bold Type / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The City Hunter / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Haves and the Have Nots / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Night Manager / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Resident / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Shield / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Sopranos / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Ultimate Fighter / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tiger King / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Untold Stories of the E.R. / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Veronica Mars / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Walker, Texas Ranger / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wild Bill / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wiseguy / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Wynonna Earp / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Fading Suns (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Infinite Worlds (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Rogue Trader (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
An Inspector Calls (Theatre) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Angels in America (Theatre) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Curtains (Theatre) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Barber of Seville (Theatre) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Ad Infinitum (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Choice of Robots (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Crime O'Clock (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Crusader Kings II: Game of Thrones Mod (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dress Up! Time Princess (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Haunted Hotel (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Max Payne 3 (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
NBA Ballers (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Overwatch (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Phantom Doctrine (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Shin Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sunless Skies (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Godfather (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Unavowed (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
World in Conflict (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Animamundi Dark Alchemist (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Because We're Here (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Class of '09 (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mother of the Year (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II (Visual Novel) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
A Fox in Space (Web Animation) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My Story Animated (Web Animation) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
OverSimplified (Web Animation) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Unclassified Encounter (Web Animation) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Brandon F (Web Video) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Filthy Frank (Web Video) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My Hero Abridged (Web Video) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap (Web Video) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Oculus Imperia (Web Video) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Very Important People (Web Video) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Athena Complex (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Dad Villain AU (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Destiny Intertwined (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Feralnette AU (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Get Schooled (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Girls of the Wild's (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Joe vs. Elan School (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Kubera (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
NEXT!!! Sound of the Future (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Pacificators (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Croaking (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Dungeon Cleaning Life Of A Once Genius Hunter (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Vampire Cheerleaders (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Weak Hero (Webcomic) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bob's Burgers / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Codename: Kids Next Door / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Foot 2 Rue / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Littlest Pet Shop (2012) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Monsters, Inc. / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Monsters, Inc. / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Mr. Peabody & Sherman / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Neo Yokio / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Sabrina: The Animated Series / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Skatoony / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Star Wars Rebels / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Willows in Winter (1996) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Yogi's Space Race / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Bob Sapp (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Carlito ColÃ³n (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Joey Ryan (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
John "Bradshaw" Layfield (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Kevin Nash (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Minoru Suzuki (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Roddy Piper (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Scott Hall (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Triple H (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Wrestling) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Temptation Island / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Baccano! / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Atlas Shrugged / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Hikaru no Go (Manga) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Copper / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Intelligence (2006) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!

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