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The Con
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This type of plot has been done hundreds of ways, with dozens of names in every language, so pinning down exactly what each element is called can be difficult. It starts with the Con Man, who might also be called a grifter, a hustler, a scam artist. They hatch a plan, which might also be called a grift, a ripoff, a swindle. They target a victim, who they may call the mark, the rube, the sucker. The con-artist tells their victim some sort of story (perhaps with props and assistants) to gain their trust and run away with their victim's money. Yes, this is basically the act of pickpocketing, except that instead of having dexterous hands, the confidence man has a silver tongue. Sweet-talking the victim might take only a few moments (where you're probably only getting the money they had in their wallet and maybe not even all of that), or they might take place over the course of several days and weeks (in which case, you'll probably need some help to keep the scam going, but you're looking at a much bigger payday). A short con ("Hey, can I hold your wallet for a moment?") by definition doesn't take very long and establishes the conman's credentials. A longer con can form the basis of an entire storyarc, pulling an elaborate theft by multiple members of the crew gaining the trust of their victims and betraying that trust in a critical moment. A fictional version of the long con may involve a payday of millions of dollars for everyone in on the scam. Other roles in a confidence game include: Someone to filter through the options and find/prime the victim. This is typically an attractive woman, but a small child is also good. This person typically meets a lot of potential marks and is looking for which one will be easily fooled by the story being told by the group. A common name for this role is the roper. Someone to provide urgency for the scam. This can be in the form of competition ("There's only one left, let me cut in ahead of you.") or in the form of cooperation ("Check out how much I got from their last investment strategy!"). A common name for this role is the shill, as they appear to be providing third-party approval of the scam, but are actually part of it in the first place. A different form of urgency is a way to discourage the victim from chasing after the members of the scam. The scam may have involved an illegal investment, and the FBI or local SWAT shows up to capture the scammers, but the victim manages to get away. Except... the so-called police were in on the scam as well. The victim now believes that a more powerful group has control over their investment, and knows not to bother the con artist who, despite being released, is still being watched and can't get the money, either. Not to be confused with a Fan Convention, or with someone who is in jail due to being convicted of a crime; though an unsuccessful confidence man might end up there. |
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Suplex Finisher | |
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African-American female wrestler "Bonesaw" Jessie Brooks calls her German Suplex finisher The Brooklyn Bridge. The problem is rooted in the old scam, since she would want her opponents to, well, "sell" The Brooklyn Bridge. | |
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Scam Religion | |
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Scam Religion | |
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The Fixer | |
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The Fixer | |
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Model Scam | |
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Model Scam | |
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Gentleman Thief | |
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This (and being a Gentleman Thief) was Neal Caffrey's MO before Peter Burke caught him. Since then, he's often run The Con on criminals for the FBI. Burke himself gets in on the act sometimes. | |
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Conversational Troping | |
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Conversed when Wednesday is talking about some of his favorite grifts, one of which involves a violin, two grifters, and an upper-class waiter as the mark. | |
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Scamming the Bereaved | |
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Scamming the Bereaved | |
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Good Is Dumb | |
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This happened a lot to Sting in his WCW run, often at the hands of Ric Flair and The Four Horsemen or Lex Luger. Perhaps the most famous example occurred in an angle involving our hero and Flair in 1995. Flair lost a match to Arn Anderson at Fall Brawl due to interference from Brian Pillman, and spent the next month trying to convince an extremely wary Sting to be his partner against the duo for Halloween Havoc. After weeks of vehement refusal, Flair finally got Sting to relent, but not before the latter threatened to mess up the former real good if he got screwed. Before the match, Anderson and Pillman ambushed and seemingly injured Flair, forcing Sting to face the heels by himself. However, in the middle of the match, as Sting was getting his ass kicked, Flair appeared to the roar of the crowd and took his place at Sting's corner. Sting played Ricky Morton for a long time, getting closer and closer to making the tag to Flair each time. When he finally made the tag, the arena went nuts, and Flair looked prepared to kill Arn and Pillman...and then proceeded to immediately lay out Sting, revealing that the incident was a set up to re-form The Four Horsemen and humiliate Sting. | |
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Fake Faith Healer | |
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Fake Faith Healer | |
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Kansas City Shuffle | |
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Kansas City Shuffle | |
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All-Natural Snake Oil | |
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All-Natural Snake Oil | |
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Little Miss Con Artist | |
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Little Miss Con Artist | |
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Theseus' Ship Paradox | |
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The actual Eiffel Tower has been sold... piecewise. Or more exactly, it has been completely replaced part by part over time and the old parts were auctioned off. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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In a Mickey Mouse story, Goofy gets conned into "buying" the Eiffel Tower during a vacation with Mickey in France, prompting Mickey to look for the con man and bring him to justice. At the end of the story when everything is resolved, Goofy announces to Mickey that he bought Notre Dame, causing Mickey to faint... but then Goofy takes out a scale model of the cathedral from his bag. | |
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Monster Protection Racket | |
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Monster Protection Racket | |
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Fake Charity | |
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Fake Charity | |
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Big Bad | |
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The Corrupt Corporate Executive Big Bad in You Don't Mess with the Zohan tries to make the New York Israeli and Palestinian communities fight each other so he can buy off the neighbourhood and build a mall on top of it. When creating a conflict doesn't work out, they hire a group of neo-nazis to vandalize the neighbourhood. | |
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Con Man | |
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Con Man | |
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Marrying the Mark | |
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Marrying the Mark | |
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The Con / int_a4d189fc | |
| The Con / int_a98abeda | type |
Roguish Romani | |
| The Con / int_a98abeda | comment |
Roguish Romani | |
| The Con / int_a98abeda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_a98abeda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_a98abeda | |
| The Con / int_ac92aad1 | type |
White-Collar Crime | |
| The Con / int_ac92aad1 | comment |
White-Collar Crime | |
| The Con / int_ac92aad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_ac92aad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_ac92aad1 | |
| The Con / int_b3230549 | type |
419 Scam | |
| The Con / int_b3230549 | comment |
419 Scam | |
| The Con / int_b3230549 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_b3230549 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_b3230549 | |
| The Con / int_b5b3599d | type |
Amoral Attorney | |
| The Con / int_b5b3599d | comment |
Maurice Levy from The Wire constantly suggests his clients from Organized Crime turn to real estate; they do. One of the background subplots is that drug money is being funneled to State Sen. Clay Davis, who then tells Stringer which buildings are due to get revitalization grants so Stringer can buy them while they are still dirt cheap. Clay Davis, however, is just being a Snake Oil Salesman to Stringer. | |
| The Con / int_b5b3599d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_b5b3599d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_b5b3599d | |
| The Con / int_b5fc9737 | type |
Tricked into Another Jurisdiction | |
| The Con / int_b5fc9737 | comment |
Tricked into Another Jurisdiction | |
| The Con / int_b5fc9737 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_b5fc9737 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_b5fc9737 | |
| The Con / int_bc103f8b | type |
Subverted | |
| The Con / int_bc103f8b | comment |
The rigged carnival balloon game scam (usually done with half-full balloons and dulled darts IRL) is Subverted in West of Loathing. The clown running the minigame in the "Barnaby Bob's Carnival" area tells you that the balloons are under-inflated and the pistol is undercharged. When your charachter asks if that means he gets no business, he responds that explaining how he rigged it makes people want to play it more, because if they win, they'll be the guy who beat the admittedly-rigged game. | |
| The Con / int_bc103f8b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Con / int_bc103f8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_bc103f8b | |
| The Con / int_c396fef9 | type |
Ponzi | |
| The Con / int_c396fef9 | comment |
Ponzi | |
| The Con / int_c396fef9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_c396fef9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_c396fef9 | |
| The Con / int_cc6f4612 | type |
Beyond the Impossible | |
| The Con / int_cc6f4612 | comment |
Loki is not far behind, if there is someone in the Marvel universe they didn't con, and they already conned themself, that must be probably part of a con yet to come. This is more evident in series featuring his kid (Journey into Mystery (Gillen)) and teen (Loki: Agent of Asgard) versions who don't have the raw magical power. They're the kind of guy who would con Mephisto to get an inside man for a caper that turns out to be a diversion for a spy mission. | |
| The Con / int_cc6f4612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_cc6f4612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_cc6f4612 | |
| The Con / int_d60c2915 | type |
Staged Pedestrian Accident | |
| The Con / int_d60c2915 | comment |
Staged Pedestrian Accident | |
| The Con / int_d60c2915 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_d60c2915 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_d60c2915 | |
| The Con / int_df968cf | type |
Insurance Fraud | |
| The Con / int_df968cf | comment |
Insurance Fraud | |
| The Con / int_df968cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_df968cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_df968cf | |
| The Con / int_e596b496 | type |
False Prophet | |
| The Con / int_e596b496 | comment |
False Prophet | |
| The Con / int_e596b496 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_e596b496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_e596b496 | |
| The Con / int_e912c1 | type |
The Rant | |
| The Con / int_e912c1 | comment |
In The Rant of this El Goonish Shive, Dan makes a completely believable statement, then informs anyone that believed him that he has a bridge to sell. | |
| The Con / int_e912c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_e912c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_e912c1 | |
| The Con / int_eb9bc4b6 | type |
Violin Scam | |
| The Con / int_eb9bc4b6 | comment |
Violin Scam | |
| The Con / int_eb9bc4b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_eb9bc4b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_eb9bc4b6 | |
| The Con / int_ed914e98 | type |
Tricked into Signing | |
| The Con / int_ed914e98 | comment |
Tricked into Signing | |
| The Con / int_ed914e98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_ed914e98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_ed914e98 | |
| The Con / int_f7257495 | type |
Hustling the Mark | |
| The Con / int_f7257495 | comment |
Hustling the Mark | |
| The Con / int_f7257495 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_f7257495 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_f7257495 | |
| The Con / int_f8b893e5 | type |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme | |
| The Con / int_f8b893e5 | comment |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme | |
| The Con / int_f8b893e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_f8b893e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_f8b893e5 | |
| The Con / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
| The Con / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Used as a Brick Joke in an episode of Top Cat: T.C. goes to the doctor after a nasty fall. When Choo-Choo mentions this to Dibble, the latter snidely remarks that T.C. will try to sell him the Brooklyn Bridge ("I didn't even know it was for sale!" replies Choo-Choo). Sure enough, when the doctor begins discussing his fee, T.C. then tries to pay him with a "business opportunity": "I can't mention any names but it's about a certain bridge..." | |
| The Con / int_fe0330fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Con / int_fe0330fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Con | hasFeature |
The Con / int_fe0330fb | |
| The Con / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| The Con / int_name | comment |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Con / int_name | |
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The Con |
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