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Trapped by Gambling Debts
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You need a character to betray your hero, or kidnap someone, or be The Mole. But you don't want them to do it For the Evulz, so they need a motivation. The easiest one is that they need lots of quick money. And why would they? This trope is the answer. They have been gambling too much and now have to pay or face serious consequences, ranging from Knee-capping to actual death, especially if they owe money to an Illegal Gambling Den. So the evil guys blackmail them into whatever they need in exchange for having the debts paid. That does it: they're not evil, just desperate. It's an easy move, because you have a character with a dangerous flaw and a clear motivation, but who still can be good if the story needs it. Kind of a Discredited Trope maybe because of that, especially in spy stories, but still used occasionally. A common reason why Gambling Ruins Lives. Often happens to The Gambling Addict, especially after an Absurdly High-Stakes Game. May be the victim of the Professional Gambler, as well as The Mafia, creating a Mob Debt. Compare Boxed Crook. For similar stock motivations without the tragic flaw, see Healthcare Motivation and The Commies Made Me Do It. |
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In The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, main character Cosmo Vittelli celebrates finally paying off his strip club by getting into a poker game that ends up putting him in debt to the mob. They say he can pay off the debt by killing a rival Chinese bookie. | |
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In Enter the Dragon, Roper has built up some sizable gambling debts, which Han tries to use to persuade him to become his agent in America. Roper, however, refuses to join him. (The fact that Han had just killed Roper's friend Williams may have something to do with that.) | |
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Miami Vice has an episode in the final season where Switek has to convince an aspiring football player to throw the Big Game to cover his massive debts. | |
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A single episode arc in GLOW (2017) deals with Cherry Bang, living in the Fan Tan casino and having maritial problems with her husband Keith, gets deep in debt as the casino manager kept extending her credit. To settle the debt, Cherry and Carmen agree to do Mud Wrestling for a paid audience. | |
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A series of Get Fuzzy comic strips had Bucky facing the threat of getting killed by another cat because Bucky lost a bet on a baseball game and didn't have enough money to pay the debt. The team that Bucky bet on was the Mariners, but he lost that bet because one of their players had retired before he even made the bet. | |
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In Chassis, Rothchild Billings is forced to call off his engagement to Chassis by gangsters who offer to pay off his debts. They hope the emotional distress will cause Chassis to lose her next race. | |
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In The Cooler, the reason why Bernie Lootz works for the casino as a "Cooler" (he so unlucky that he can "cool off" other people's winning streaks) is because he owes the casino over a hundred thousand dollars in gambling debts. | |
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Wild Things 2: Niles Dunlap was deep in debt to various Cuban gangsters, and was misallocating funds belonging to his company to feed his addiction. | |
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Gang Related: Detective Rodriguez is hounded by an Evil Debt Collector and his huge bodyguard because of outstanding gambling debts. When the crimes he committed with his partner are about to be exposed he attacks them in a moment of rage and is shot to death. | |
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The traitor in the Secret Service in No Deals, Mr. Bond works for the Soviets thanks to "fast women and slow horses". | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Against the Odds", a jockey is seriously in debt to a bookie. The bookie agrees to wipe the slate if the jockey — who is riding the favourite in the Ballarat Cup — throws the race. | |
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In the Lord Darcy novel Too Many Magicians, uncovering one character's gambling debts and the associated blackmail forms a major subplot. | |
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On the second to last play of The Replacements (2000), Nigel, the field goal kicker, confesses to Shane that he has to throw the game in order to not lose his bar as a result of gambling debts. Shane decides to improvise instead, by pulling the ball very much like Lucy would do to Charlie Brown, and running the ball instead. | |
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In Kiss Me, Kate, Bill has lost money gambling and forged Fred's signature on a $10,000 IOU. This results in two gangsters entering to make sure The Show Must Go On. | |
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The Sign of the Four: The British guards of a small prison camp have gambling as their only pastime, one of them realizing he'll have to sell his commission. Small uses the perspective of getting back the treasure Small stole to hook one of them into freeing him and him accomplices, but the man takes the treasure and runs (out of guilt, he later sends valuable pearls to the daughter of the other guard who was an accomplice). Small escapes from the camp and pursues him, ending up killing other people he sees as having stolen the treasure from him (although said treasure wasn't his in the first place). | |
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Oliver & Company: If one notices at the end, Fagin the hobo makes a bet with Winston and after losing it, tries to walk away, implying that this was how he got involved with Loan Shark Sykes. He clearly hasn’t learned his lesson. | |
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The Simpsons: When Sideshow Bob framed Krusty with armed robbery, the prosecutor used Krusty's gambling debts to establish motive. Krusty asked if it was a crime to gamble and he was told it was. A later episode has Krusty's gambling debts to the Mob get so bad that he's forced to open a clown college and (when he blows all the money from that betting against the Harlem Globetrotters playing the Washington Generalsnote the joke being that the Generals always deliberately lose) fleeing to Europe. His debts turn out to amount to $48. The mob even gives him change for a $50. Moe's not exactly a stranger to gambling debt himself. |
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The entire plot of Cuphead is kicked off when the titular character loses a bet at the Devil's casino. To save their souls, Cuphead and Mugman have to go out and collect the soul contracts of the Devil's other debtors who haven't paid their dues. | |
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Subverted by Tsunade in Naruto, who uses her jutsu to change her looks from an old woman to a young girl and everything in between, and is always on the move with Shizune to escape her creditors, with IOU note in tow. (This aspect of her character may be inspired by the Tanuki.) | |
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Hoyle's Rules of Dragon Poker "helpfully" requires players to use only Clubs when they fall into debt. Zigzagged in that the guide discourages players from letting anyone lose too much in friendly games. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Bookie" is all about this happening to Shake. | |
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Red Dwarf: In the first novel, a minor character finds himself deep in debt to the Ganymede Mafia after taking out a loan to cover debts he racked up gambling on snail fights while drunk. The loan contract came with a huge interest rate in a clause printed in the dot over one ''i''. When he can't pay up, they chop his nose off and force-feed it to him. He then kills himself, knowing that he's the next Red Dwarf crew member in line to be resurrected as a hologram. | |
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Stumptown (2019): Like in the comics, Dex Parios has a bad gambling problem and consequently owes a lot of money to the Confederated Tribes of the Wind River. Dex has taken a few jobs directly from chief Sue Lynn Blackbird in exchange for paying down her debts, and when working for her again after her debts are paid Sue Lynn ends up paying Dex in casino chips, since she'd be spending her pay there anyways. | |
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In at least one episode of the Poirot series of Agatha Christie adaptations starring David Suchet, a character was persuaded to get involved in a jewel robbery to pay off a gambling debt. | |
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In the first episode of The Adventures of Harry Nile, Harry owes a gambling debt to a mob boss and is sent to kill a guy to pay it back. | |
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In the movie Dirty Work, the gambling-addicted Dr. Farthing (Chevy Chase) will only raise Pops on the heart transplant list if he is paid $50,000 to save him from his bookie. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20), Dean pretends to be stealing his mother's good silver to cover a gambling debt. His brother believes him, but Dean actually needs the silver to kill a djinn. | |
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Since the nature of Faye's debt on Cowboy Bebop is not explained for several episodes, some characters assume it is this. | |
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James Bond The traitor in the Secret Service in No Deals, Mr. Bond works for the Soviets thanks to "fast women and slow horses". A Naval Intelligence agent in Brokenclaw manages to get inside the eponymous villain's inner circle because of her father's gambling debts. She is presented to Brokenclaw as a payment, and he takes her as his lover. |
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Gambling debts are what got Booker DeWitt involved in the plot of BioShock Infinite. This article's header, "Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt," is one of the game's Arc Phrases, although it's not actually referring to what he's doing in the present day. | |
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The male protagonist of Hayate the Combat Butler is trapped by his parents' debts. | |
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UHF: George's Uncle Harvey, who won U62 in a poker game, ends up $75,000 in debt to Big Louie. RJ Fletcher then calls up, and offers to buy U62 so he can shutter it and prevent it from threatening his own TV station's ratings. To prevent this from happening, the U62 staffers put on a telethon to raise the necessary cash. Despite Fletcher's interference, they barely make the deadline and pay off Big Louie, saving U62 and causing Fletcher to get hit with a load of Laser-Guided Karma. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas if you have the "Debt Collector" and "Wang Dang Atomic Tango" quests active at the same time you can force Santiago to work off his gambling debt to the Garret twins as a prostitute. | |
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This is the plot of the One Piece Film: Gold. The Gran Tesoro is a massive ship carrying a city-sized casino resort, but most of the workers are former customers who end up slaves trying to work off their debts from lost bets. And good luck trying to escape, because the Big Bad, Gild Tesoro, has gold-controlling Devil Fruit powers and makes sure everyone is coated with a little gold dust. The Straw Hats end up in the same predicament and the rest of the movie is The Caper to steal Tesoro's money and pay the debt which is actually a ruse to distract the villains so Franky can pump seawater onto the ship and wash off the gold dust, giving them the freedom to fight back. | |
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In Hussar Ballad that's the reason for Lieutenant Rzhevsky to visit the main character's house. His uncle covered his card debt but insisted that Rzhevsky finally marries. | |
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On Banshee, a criminal owes the local Indian casino thousands of dollars so the new tribal chief offers to forgive the debt in exchange for murdering Kai Proctor. | |
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In the Phule's Company novel Phule's Paradise, it's mentioned that most people working low-level jobs at the Lorelei space station (essentially Space Vegas) originally arrived as gamblers, lost everything, and are now trying to make enough money for a ticket back home. Something that would be easier were it not for the fact most of them haven't actually stopped gambling. | |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Makalov is a compulsive gambler with a tendency to wrack up large debts then skip town, leaving others, often his sister Marcia, to deal with the debtors. This leads him to the employ of various shady characters until his sister drags him away to join the Greil Mercenaries. Ike has the debts paid off to keep collectors from hounding them, so he now owns the debt, and has Makalov fight to work it off. | |
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One of several problems the Castillo family has in Destinos is finding out that Carlos has been embezzling from the family business to cover wife Gloria's gambling debts. | |
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In Murder at the Baskervilles, Moriarty buys up Straker's debts and uses them to extort him into complying with his scheme to nobble Silver Blaze. | |
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Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: When Klordane framed a cop with theft, he forged evidence suggesting the cop had gambling debts to pay. | |
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30 Rock: One of Jack's love interests is a nurse named Elisa. She mentions that she takes extra shifts at her job because her mother is addicted to online gambling. | |
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In New Town Killers, Sean discovers that his sister Alice owes £12,000 in gambling debts to dangerous people that are forcing her to travel to Amsterdam to traffic drugs. | |
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This is the reason Wickham absconds in Pride and Prejudice. He's run up gambling debts with with numerous members of his regiment and the town they are currently encamped in (and it's subsequently revealed that he has considerable debt in Meryton as well). So his solution is just to run off in the middle of the night and persuades Lydia to join him to have a little fun along the way. | |
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Ludovic Bagman in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is suspiciously generous to Harry during the Triwizard Tournament, always offering him tips and pointers and giving him consistently high marks. In the end, it's revealed he's in massive debt to goblins and was trying to help Harry because he put a massive bet on him to win the tournament. It doesn't work because the goblins argue that Harry drew even with Cedric Diggory (never mind the latter ending up dead), so Bagman goes on the run and is never seen again. | |
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Vera: In "Home", the brother-in-law of the Victim of the Week is deep in debt to a local gang boss who is currently in prison. His brother, the victim's husband, is a prison officer who is offered the chance to clear the debt by acting as a mule and smuggling contraband into the prison. | |
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In "Hong Kong Nights" of American Dragon: Jake Long, this is how Fu Dog was before meeting Lao Shi, Jake's grandfather in the '70s — a petty thief forced into the life by his debts. | |
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Mark Allan in The Spectacular Spider-Man. His gambling problem gets him in deep with the Green Goblin's middle-management guy, who coerces him into taking part in an experiment that turns him into the Molten Man. | |
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The Dry: Scott Whitlam is The Gambling Addict who fled Melbourne to a remote country town to escape his debtors. However, the people he owed money to pursued him and winds up committing embezzlement to pay them off, and then commits murder to hide the embezzlement. | |
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Early in the Garrett, P.I. series, Morley Dotes gets into trouble because of his addiction to water-spider races. | |
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Adam Adamant Lives!: Happens to the Arab prince in "Allah Is Not Always With You". The entire scheme was a set-up to get him to sign an IOU that would allow the villain to blackmail him once he inherited the throne. | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a Twi'lek laborer is so addicted to Pazaak that he gambled away his girlfriend. You can play the dealer to whom he owes the debt in order to bail out the girlfriend, or simply buy her freedom if you have the credits for it. Either she dumps her idiot boyfriend, or you order her to go with her idiot boyfriend, or you can take ownership of her yourself and keep her wages while telling the idiot boyfriend he's out of luck. | |
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Bridgerton: Lord Featherington has gambled away his daughters' dowries and needs to recoup, so he convinces up-and-coming boxer Mondrich to throw his next fight for a big payday from the betting pool. Mondrich uses the money to start a gentleman's club, but the bookies smell a rat and kill Featherington. | |
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In The Drop "Glory Days", Bob and Cousin Marv's dead friend, was one. To Cousin Marv. Bob killed him because Marv was also in debt from gambling, and Glory Days having won the lottery and paid his debts presented an opportunity. | |
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A variation in Hitman. The final target of Season One is a former assassin turned board director who, despite presumably having a high paying job on top of a comfortable pension, is constantly short on money thanks to his crippling gambling addiction. Because of this, when he suddenly needs a major expensive surgery using an impossible to get transplant organ to save his life, he was forced to sell out the ICA to Providence in exchange for the surgery, which results in Agent 47 sent after him to claim retribution. | |
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Black Library novel Hammers of Ulric has Anspach the Templar and his debts to the head of the criminal organization in Middenheim. | |
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One The Punisher story involves a cop trying to pay off his gambling debts by passing off cocaine seizures to the mobsters. | |
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A Naval Intelligence agent in Brokenclaw manages to get inside the eponymous villain's inner circle because of her father's gambling debts. She is presented to Brokenclaw as a payment, and he takes her as his lover. | |
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Some deleted scenes in The Punisher (2004) show how Howard Saint found Frank's hideout. He blackmailed Frank's FBI buddy into telling him, which he did because of his gambling addiction. | |
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Most of the plot of Tomcats revolves around the protagonist owing money to a casino because of a major dice roll bet that he did not even do (he handed the dice to a woman and turned to talk to someone else and the woman made the bet. The casino owner makes pretty clear that it does not matters — it was his turn, it's his loss, now fork over the money or we'll break your legs) and thus the protagonist being forced to manipulate his friends in order to get the money from the only place he can get such a sum — from a Tontine they had set together with the winnings going to the last (male) friend to get married. A Running Gag also involves the owner sending repo men to take literally everything the protagonist owns, piece by piece, to keep as collateral. | |
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On Person of Interest a PoI is forced into participating in a money-laundering scheme because he owes a crooked casino owner a lot of money. However, Finch later discovers that the man accrued the debt not because he is The Gambling Addict but because he is a Card Sharp who cheated the casino out of a lot of money to pay his wife's medical bills and could not pay it back when the casino owner found out what happened.. | |
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CSI: The motivation of the theft of some loose diamonds from a jeweler in "In Vino Veritas" is for a pair of brothers to pay off $50,000 in gambling debts they owe to some Egyptian mobsters in NYC. The case concludes there in "Seth and Apep." | |
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In Lucky Number Slevin, the Boss and The Rabbi rope Slevin into their war by mistaking him for Nick Fisher, a lowlife who owes each of them tens of thousands of dollars. Of course, Slevin planned for the mobsters to mistake him for Fisher as part of his own plan. | |
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On Vegas a crooked casino manager would extend credit to hopeless gamblers and when they could not pay back, he coerced them into embezzling from their employers. He would then let them gamble more so they had to embezzle more. Ironically, his mobster bosses would not have approved of this scheme because they were making way more money from legitimate gambling and this type of petty scheme risked unwanted police attention. | |
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The plot of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is driven by the main character's need to pay off a massive gambling debt owed to the gangster Hatchet Harry. Harry's hoping to use the debt to force the guy's father to hand over his pub. A debt that he has because Harry cheated in the game. | |
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Kaiji is constantly trying to find a way to pay off his debt. It usually ends up with him in worse debt. | |
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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas: Chip Rockfeller and Fred Flintstone were rivals for Wilma's affections. Rockfeller lured Fred into a casino of his, where Fred got a debt of 1.4 million clams. Rockfeller then offered to cancel the debt if Fred agreed to get out of Wilma's life forever. When Fred refused, Rockfeller stole Wilma's pearl necklace and framed Fred, claiming Fred intended to sell the necklace to pay his debt. Ironic because he himself was trying to repay his debt to Loan Sharks. | |
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Veronica Mars: Jacky's father is blackmailed into working security for a morally ambiguous casino owner in order to pay off his debt. | |
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The F1rst Hero: Jake Roth's friend, Cooper Bradshaw, is a compulsive gambler who's found himself deeply in debt to the mafia. One of the ways he's being forced to help them is to let them run an illegal extrahuman cage match ring in one of his warehouses. He actually comes to Jake once he's back from Afghanistan in hopes of getting him to bail him out. He even makes Jake take part in the fighting in the cage in hopes it'll get him out of his debt. | |
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In A Knight's Tale, William bails Geoffrey Chaucer out of his gambling debts, and in return, Chaucer travels as Will's herald. | |
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Stumptown: In the first volume Dex owes the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast $17,616, fortunately Chief Sue-Lynn needs a private investigator to find her missing granddaughter, unfortunately said granddaughter has gotten into trouble with the local Cartels. | |
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In the climax of Always Sometimes Monsters, your old friend pisses away $10,000 gambling to buy an expensive honeymoon and both them and you are kidnapped by the casino's owner to settle the debt. You can either let them plagiarize your journal and kill your career to save their skin, leave them to dry (which results in them getting shot dead on the spot), or (if you're actually liquid enough) pay off the debt on the spot with cash. | |
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Invoked by the heroes in Casino Royale (2006). MI6's entire plan was to send Bond in to bust out Le Chiffre so that he would be forced to come to them for protection from his creditors. | |
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Roman Bellic's gambling problems are why his cousin Niko ends up getting in trouble at the start of Grand Theft Auto IV. | |
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In The Slammin' Salmon, the owner of the titular restaurant is in debt to the Yakuza for about $20,000 and thus forces his staff to go all out on service to make some money quick. Near the end, it's revealed that his debt is actually 20,000 in Yen (which amounts to roughly $190) and that he simply didn't know the difference between the two currencies. | |
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In the Ace Attorney series, Glen Elg fits this trope. He created a powerful computer virus, MC Bomber, to repay his debt in barter (the virus would be worth millions on the black market). However, he won enough in the lottery to repay his debt — and as such, Furio Tigre, to whom he'd owed the money and who was desperate to repay a massive debt of his own (the collateral was enough to repay his debt, but the money Glen owed was not), murdered him to claim the virus and lottery ticket together. | |
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Squid Game: Gi-hun is introduced stealing money from his mom to bet on the race track, and when he finally wins a substantial amount, he's cornered by a Loan Shark and his goons. When Gi-hun tries to hand his winnings over as a down payment of what he owes, he discovers its missing, and then remembers bumping onto a girl whose coffee he spilled. | |
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The Witches' Tea Party: This causes a noble to sell his daughter into marriage, so someone else can gain status from the title. The seller being Maribell's father. | |
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In Kakegurui, students who can't afford to pay their dues to the Absurdly Powerful Student Council as a result of their gambling debts can have two fates. One, if the debt is only enough to land them in the bottom 100 on the wealth roster of the school, they end up being enslaved to the last person they lost against and are called Pochi/Fido if boys and Mike/Mittens if girls (the latter having a harder time due to the situation being exploited sexually at times). Two, if the debt is really outstanding even by the standards of a school where a 10 million yen debt is not that bad, the student in question gets a "life plan" made for them by the student council detailling what and where they will study, whom they will marry, how many children they will have and when, what their work will be. And they have to follow it to the letter unless they find a way to repay the debt or at least most of it before graduating. | |
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The murder in the Diagnosis: Murder episode "The Busy Body" was ultimately brought about by this. The killer, Ralph McReedy was trying to discredit the new security firm Norman had hired so that his father, Community General's security officer, would get his job back, therefore not retiring to his cabin, which Ralph needed to sell to pay off the people he owednote For the record, Ralph was initially trying to do this by stealing drugs from the hospital pharmacy and didn't set out to hurt someone, but when the victim stumbled across him, he killed him in a panic, then decided the murder would do much better for discrediting the security firm. | |
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Several episodes of Mission: Impossible have a team member deliberately end up like this as the opening move of a scheme against the person they owe money to. | |
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The Sopranos features various examples throughout the series, as illegal gambling is one of the prime moneymakers of The Mafia. It is even the one aspect of his illegal career that Tony Soprano admits to his daughter Meadow when she confronts him, while still denying the existence of the Mafia as a whole.note New Jersey has long had the most permissive gambling laws of any state other than Nevada, so New Jerseyans tend to regard what gambling is illegal in NJ as "not that illegal." The pilot shows Tony trying to collect a debt that a gambler simply can't afford. Hesh Rebkin, a moneylender and associate of Soprano, says that the guy really doesn't have the money so no amount of intimidation will get him to pay. Since he works for a medical insurance company, they decide to start running a scam for phony payouts through his company. Towards the end of the first season, Dirty Cop Vin Makazian accuses Big Pussy of being an informant. While checking out his story, Tony learns that Vin is deeply in debt to Pussy and wonders if Vin is trying to frame Pussy to eliminate the debt. Later seasons reveal that Pussy is an informant, but whether Vin really knew that or not is never resolved as he commits suicide soon after the initial accusation. David Scatino was Tony's childhood friend and is now the owner of a large sporting goods store. Despite already being in debt to Richie Aprile, he gets involved in some of Tony's high-stakes poker games and gets in way over his head. To "repay" the debt, Tony decides to "bust out" David's store: forcing him to buy useless crap on credit and give it to them so they can sell it (for practically all profit). Within weeks, the business is dead and David is forced into bankruptcy. This wasn't the first time David's gambling had gotten out of control, and his family actually took steps to put the business under his wife's name so he couldn't sign it away, but their efforts come to naught since the Mafia doesn't care about the store's official ownership title. TV script writer J.T. Dolan is a former drug addict that Christopher met in rehab, and even though he managed to successfully kick his drug habit he can't seem to shake his gambling addiction. After he has gotten heavily indebted to Christopher, Chris forces him to write the script for Cleaver, the supernatural mafia film he produces in the sixth season. In an odd reversal of the usual status quo, mob boss Tony Soprano himself gets heavily in debt in season six when he hits a long string of gambling bad luck. He gets a loan from his friend Hesh Rebkin to cover the gambling losses, but now finds himself indebted to Hesh for the total sum. Hesh obviously can't threaten or intimidate Tony into paying, but Tony finds the stigma of owing money to be galling, and their formerly-friendly working relationship breaks down as Tony considers having Hesh killed. |
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One of Garibaldi's men is compromised this way in an early episode of Babylon 5. Garibaldi is smart enough to have him taken off duty to avoid the usual results of this. Then when he suddenly comes up with enough cash to repay his debts and be placed back on duty, Garibaldi is smart enough to see why that should be a red flag. | |
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This happens several times, to Rudy Wong, Lily's brother, in The World of Lily Wong. | |
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A few characters suffer from this in Octopath Traveler Russell, a professor in Atlasdam and the boss of Cyrus' Chapter 1, steals and sells ancient tomes to pay his gambling debts. H'aanit's master Zaanta, while a renowned hunter, has a bad habit of gambling an ending up in debt. In a sidequest, Kevin, a prisoner on death row, remarks that gambling ruined his life and led him to drive away the one woman who cared about him. His Last Request before his sentence is carried out is to find out what became of that woman. |
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In the Midnight Caller episode "Blood Red," an artist played by Pam Grier is forced to create counterfeit paintings to pay off her gambling debts. | |
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Harry and the Shipgirls makes Bagman arguably even worse than canon. He'll gamble his money away, then double down and use his winnings for more gambling instead of actually paying off his debts with it. | |
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The film Drive (2011) has an ex-convict having to pay off the mob for the protection he received in jail, at first it was $2,000 but it quickly rose to $8,000 when he got out of jail. This forces the protagonist to go on a heist in order to protect the ex-convict's wife and child, who he's madly in love with. | |
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In The Heist (1989), The Gambling Addict Dancer is stuck working as the racetrack paramedic because he owes the track so much money from his gambling losses. | |
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This is how The Call of the Wild is set in motion: one of the servants of Buck's original owner has a lot of gambling debt to pay off, and steals Buck in order to sell him to mushers for money. | |
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