Tropescilloscope: Only in It for the Money

A character does good so he can get paid. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Suddenly SHOUTING! Humiliation Conga Training Montage Take That! Serial Killer Loads and Loads of Characters Black Comedy Rape Faking the Dead Shown Their Work Animated Credits Opening Important Haircut Toplessness from the Back Music Stories For Want of a Nail Logo Joke Cool Shades Martial Arts Movie Cat Scare Blood Knight Scare Chord Bad "Bad Acting" Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Hell Is That Noise Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Unreliable Narrator Loophole Abuse Half the Man He Used to Be Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Crapsack World Hair-Trigger Temper timeperiod Improvised Weapon Visual Pun Wounded Gazelle Gambit You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Did Not Get the Girl Only Known by Their Nickname Villainous Breakdown Broken Bird Sacrificial Lion Woman Scorned I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Every Car Is a Pinto Laughing Mad Sequel Escalation Downer Ending Fainting Silent Movie Ax-Crazy Spared by the Adaptation Translation Convention Race Against the Clock Film Series Accidental Murder Air-Vent Passageway Cool Old Lady Drill Sergeant Nasty "Awesome McCool" Name Determinator Slasher Movie Black and Gray Morality Obfuscating Stupidity The Casanova The Bad Guy Wins Gratuitous English Flipping the Bird Cloudcuckoolander Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique He Who Fights Monsters Take a Third Option Fun with Acronyms Historical In-Joke Ungrateful Bastard Asshole Victim Accidental Misnaming Police are Useless The Remake Blackmail Vampire Fiction Big Brother Instinct I'm a Humanitarian Stalker with a Crush Gilligan Cut Punctuated! For! Emphasis! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Yandere Pragmatic Adaptation More Dakka Word of God Hate Sink The Stoic Jerk with a Heart of Gold Male Gaze Karmic Death Evil Is Hammy Smoking Is Cool Kick the Son of a Bitch The Hero Overly Long Gag Improbable Aiming Skills Disappeared Dad Line-of-Sight Name Corpsing The Stinger German Films Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Large Ham Idiot Ball Destination Defenestration Russian Films Historical-Domain Character Reality Is Unrealistic Shower Scene Chiaroscuro Noodle Incident Mercy Kill Evil Sounds Deep Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big Bad Duumvirate The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Irony Jump Scare Author Appeal Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Not Using the "Z" Word Artistic License – Law Vacation Films Drives Like Crazy Dull Surprise This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Biology Auto Erotica Stuff Blowing Up Properly Paranoid A Date with Rosie Palms Evil-Detecting Dog Call-Forward Big-Bad Ensemble Wicked Cultured Shipper on Deck All Men Are Perverts Gender Flip Rewatch Bonus Broken Pedestal Eye Scream Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Evil Brit Narrator All There in the Manual Easily Forgiven Manly Tears Adaptation Distillation Due to the Dead The Smurfette Principle Sci-Fi Horror Suspiciously Similar Substitute Non-Indicative Name Agony of the Feet Green-Eyed Monster Distracted by the Sexy Gold Digger Exact Words Immune to Bullets Four-Temperament Ensemble Combat Pragmatist Psychopathic Manchild Getting Crap Past the Radar The '60s All Girls Want Bad Boys Married to the Job Be Careful What You Wish For folderlabel Oh, Crap! Badass Boast Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Enemy Mine Hope Spot Setting Update Made of Explodium Chewing the Scenery No Celebrities Were Harmed Cain and Abel Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Danny Peary Cult Movies List Framing Device Drugs Are Bad Superhero Belligerent Sexual Tension Guns Akimbo Death by Irony Intergenerational Friendship Male Frontal Nudity Parental Incest The Dreaded It Can Think The Quiet One Undying Loyalty Horror Films Chekhov's Gun Make It Look Like an Accident In Name Only Gone Horribly Right Early Installment Weirdness Plucky Comic Relief Even Evil Has Standards Sequel Hook She Cleans Up Nicely Costume Porn Fate Worse than Death Trailers Always Spoil Product Placement Shirtless Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender No Name Given The Ditz Needs Wiki Magic Love Red Herring Mugging the Monster Fatal Flaw Military and Warfare Films Stepford Smiler The Chessmaster Killed Mid-Sentence Bond Villain Stupidity Dutch Angle Our Zombies Are Different Armor-Piercing Question Villain with Good Publicity Ms. Fanservice Madness Mantra Man on Fire It's All About Me Central Theme Bare Your Midriff Motor Mouth Cool Guns All Just a Dream Sassy Black Woman Fanservice Becoming the Mask Real Life Writes the Plot Canon Foreigner Not So Different Bolivian Army Ending Really Gets Around Bound and Gagged Suspiciously Specific Denial Whole Plot Reference I Have Your Wife The X of Y You Have Failed Me Curb-Stomp Battle Double Entendre Running Gag Expy Amusing Injuries Face–Heel Turn Bullying a Dragon Jerkass Famous Last Words Decoy Protagonist Developing Doomed Characters My Beloved Smother Red Shirt Heterosexual Life-Partners Stealth Hi/Bye Re-Cut Age Lift Laser-Guided Karma MacGuffin Storming the Castle Stylistic Suck Chase Scene Bloodier and Gorier Reality Has No Subtitles A God Am I War Is Hell Say My Name Dirty Old Man Morality Pet Not So Stoic Adaptational Heroism Ripped from the Headlines Disney Villain Death Scary Black Man Action Prologue Smug Snake One-Man Army Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Alas, Poor Villain I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dark Action Girl Wham Shot Posthumous Character Disproportionate Retribution Redshirt Army The Big Guy Science Fiction Films Cat Fight Final Girl Serious Business Gainax Ending Worthy Opponent Love at First Sight Only One Name Older Than They Look Film Noir Index Blood from the Mouth Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dramatic Irony Well-Intentioned Extremist Mooks Historical Hero Upgrade Karma Houdini Informed Ability Darker and Edgier Sexy Discretion Shot Fantastic Racism Left the Background Music On As You Know One-Word Title The Dog Bites Back Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Christmas Movies Index Fiery Redhead Together in Death Darkest Hour Creepy Child Spiteful Spit Show Within a Show Paper-Thin Disguise Evil vs. Evil Those Wacky Nazis Dirty Coward Adults Are Useless Shout-Out Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Musical Pay Evil unto Evil '80s Hair Closed Circle Earn Your Happy Ending British Films Unusually Uninteresting Sight Not Quite Dead The Lancer Advertised Extra Deliberate Values Dissonance Dark Is Not Evil Didn't Think This Through Despair Event Horizon Dramatic Gun Cock Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Recycled IN SPACE! Leaning on the Fourth Wall Mr. Fanservice Celebrity Paradox Betty and Veronica Video Credits Butt-Monkey Insistent Terminology Face Death with Dignity Jerk Jock Book-Ends Better to Die than Be Killed Tagline Neck Snap Stealth Pun Dissonant Serenity Ambiguous Disorder Meaningful Echo Eyepatch of Power Big Damn Heroes Bilingual Bonus Rich Bitch Unspoken Plan Guarantee Author Avatar Deal with the Devil Break the Haughty A Minor Kidroduction Mama Bear Contrived Coincidence Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Determinator aka: The Determinator Your Head A-Splode Cold-Blooded Torture Arc Words N-Word Privileges Overprotective Dad Time Skip Sir Swears-a-Lot BFG Affably Evil Never Found the Body Credits Gag You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Papa Wolf Plot Hole Badass Normal Bar Brawl Lighter and Softer Fake Shemp Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Not So Above It All Unwitting Instigator of Doom Brutal Honesty And Starring No OSHA Compliance Reckless Gun Usage Action Girl Public Domain Feature Films Never My Fault Not What It Looks Like After the End In the Back Mundane Made Awesome Names to Run Away from Really Fast Defiant to the End From Bad to Worse Extremely Short Timespan Dirty Cop Bait-and-Switch Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Catch-Phrase Alliterative Name Bad Boss Hong Kong Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fan Disservice Evil Laugh Black Best Friend Hollywood Darkness Japanese Films Wrong Genre Savvy The Voiceless Super Strength The Sociopath Badass in a Nice Suit Taking the Bullet Bavarian Fire Drill Mood Whiplash Crucified Hero Shot Nothing Is Scarier Adaptational Villainy Hoist by His Own Petard Eureka Moment Playing Gertrude Room Full of Crazy Big Fancy House May–December Romance Sole Survivor Anachronic Order Car Fu Mystery and Detective Films Psycho for Hire Hooker with a Heart of Gold Punny Name The Load Damsel in Distress An Axe to Grind Historical Villain Upgrade Artistic License – Military "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Greater-Scope Villain Sanity Slippage Would Hit a Girl Ominous Latin Chanting Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Straight Gay Tap on the Head Only a Flesh Wound Artistic License – Physics Slashed Throat Dramedy One Steve Limit Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome How We Got Here Instant Death Bullet Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Parental Substitute No-Sell Cluster F-Bomb Daylight Horror Death Glare Token Minority Intrepid Reporter Brother–Sister Incest Affectionate Parody Silence Is Golden Kill 'em All Anachronism Stew Mighty Whitey Only Sane Man The Starscream Lock and Load Montage Mexican Standoff Canadian Movies No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rape as Drama Neck Lift Awesome, but Impractical Italian Films Off with His Head! Henpecked Husband Kick the Dog Here We Go Again! Unusual Euphemism Meet Cute As Himself From Nobody to Nightmare Took a Level in Jerkass Ragtag Bunch of Misfits No-Holds-Barred Beatdown No Antagonist Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Groin Attack Kill It with Fire Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Domestic Abuse Adorkable Love Triangle Race Lift Self-Deprecation Soundtrack Dissonance Ship Tease Twist Ending Does This Remind You of Anything? Deadpan Snarker The Smart Guy Manipulative Bastard Pretty Little Headshots Unresolved Sexual Tension Everyone Has Standards Corrupt Corporate Executive Country Matters Precision F-Strike Too Dumb to Live Once More, with Clarity! Attempted Rape Kids Are Cruel Five-Man Band Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Funny Background Event And I Must Scream Retirony Parental Neglect Ass Shove My God, What Have I Done? Death by Adaptation Reasonable Authority Figure Manic Pixie Dream Girl Meaningful Name The Cavalry Conspicuous CG Moment Killer A.I. Is a Crapshoot Dark Reprise Insane Troll Logic All for Nothing Humans Are Bastards Up to Eleven Politically Incorrect Villain The Vamp Grievous Bottley Harm Epic Movie Heel Realization Shoot the Shaggy Dog Beta Couple Retired Badass Heel–Face Turn Antagonist Title The Oner Hero of Another Story Dogged Nice Guy The Mole Leave the Camera Running Ghost Fiction Eagleland Let's Get Dangerous! Deliberately Monochrome Mad Scientist Villain Opening Scene Animal Title Index The Chick Genre Shift Mr. Exposition Break the Cutie Badass Longcoat Fingore Spanner in the Works Fantasy Films Hidden Depths The Film of the Book Parental Abandonment Manchild Crazy Jealous Guy The Bully Woman in White Guile Hero Composite Character Bloodless Carnage Character Development The Alcoholic Artistic License – Geography Honor Before Reason Death Seeker Poor Communication Kills Disney Death Hypocritical Humor Apocalypse How Empathic Environment Freeze-Frame Bonus He Knows Too Much Creative Closing Credits Biopic Expository Hairstyle Change Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bury Your Gays Badass Grandpa What You Are in the Dark Department of Redundancy Department Adaptational Attractiveness Bowdlerise 20 Minutes into the Future Alpha Bitch Sadistic Choice Homage The Un-Reveal Malevolent Masked Men Covers Always Lie Anyone Can Die Ascended Extra Aside Glance No Ending Chekhov's Skill Pyrrhic Victory Happily Married Crazy-Prepared Last-Name Basis Villain Protagonist Very Loosely Based on a True Story Flashback Dies Wide Open The Atoner The Brute It Will Never Catch On Camp Gay Light Is Not Good Call-Back Wretched Hive Red Right Hand "The Reason You Suck" Speech Sealed Evil in a Can Cool Car Award-Bait Song Rule of Three Fatal Family Photo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Captain Obvious The Dragon Rasputinian Death Femme Fatale Establishing Character Moment Tempting Fate Cool Old Guy Artistic License – History "Well Done, Son!" Guy Foil Offscreen Moment of Awesome Index of Film Westerns O.O.C. Is Serious Business Imagine Spot Death by Sex My Greatest Failure Spiritual Successor Reality Ensues Nice Hat Same Language Dub Monumental Damage Heroic Sacrifice Those Two Guys Naked People Are Funny Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! What the Hell, Hero? Adaptation Name Change The '70s Pragmatic Villainy Extreme Doormat Throwing Your Sword Always Works Totally Radical Adaptational Badass Deconstruction Beware the Nice Ones Creator Cameo And the Adventure Continues Driven to Suicide You Killed My Father Never Trust a Trailer Vitriolic Best Buds It's Personal Only in It for the Money Star-Crossed Lovers Big Bad Lampshade Hanging Mythology Gag Zombie Stories Diabolus ex Machina La Résistance Scenery Porn Fourth Date Marriage Red Eyes, Take Warning Coming-of-Age Story Red Oni, Blue Oni Black Comedy Dark and Troubled Past Blatant Lies Ambiguous Ending Black Dude Dies First Took a Level in Badass Chekhov's Gunman Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil Plan Punch-Clock Villain Naïve Newcomer Bittersweet Ending Pretty in Mink Major Injury Underreaction Depraved Bisexual Have a Gay Old Time Babies Ever After A Father to His Men Implacable Man An Aesop Knife Nut Your Cheating Heart Villain Ball World of Ham Retcon Body Horror Cowboy Cop Works Set in World War II Eiffel Tower Effect Cruel and Unusual Death Faux Affably Evil Hollywood Law Big Eater Evil Is Petty Random Events Plot Animal Motifs Vomit Indiscretion Shot The '80s The Reveal Foregone Conclusion Cassandra Truth Put on a Bus Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Children Are Innocent Abhorrent Admirer Breaking the Fourth Wall Knight Templar The Alleged Car Action Survivor Skewed Priorities Brainless Beauty Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Handicapped Badass Truth in Television Slap-Slap-Kiss Bond One-Liner Jerkass Has a Point Rousing Speech Facial Horror Freudian Excuse Market-Based Title Frame-Up Daddy's Girl Missing Mom Match Cut Casting Gag Captain Ersatz Sports Stories Based on a True Story Aluminum Christmas Trees Friend to All Children Obviously Evil Thriller Big "NO!" Chuck Cunningham Syndrome I Need a Freaking Drink Vomit Discretion Shot Anti-Villain Dropped a Bridge on Him Bunny-Ears Lawyer Boom, Headshot! For the Evulz Death of a Child Authority Equals Asskicking Off-into-the-Distance Ending Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Calling the Old Man Out The Cameo Genre Savvy Psychological Thriller In Medias Res Insult Backfire Title Drop Evil Counterpart Rule of Funny The Mafia Dumb Blonde The End... Or Is It? Pimped-Out Dress Small Name, Big Ego I Did What I Had to Do Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dying Moment of Awesome Actually Pretty Funny Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Big Applesauce Arranged Marriage Get Out! Catapult Nightmare Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds An Arm and a Leg Bring My Brown Pants Bi the Way Soft Glass Comically Missing the Point Actor Allusion Camera Abuse Fire-Forged Friends Australian Movies Action Genre Card-Carrying Villain Continuity Nod Protagonist Title Shell-Shocked Veteran Berserk Button Early-Bird Cameo Failed a Spot Check The '90s Shut Up, Hannibal! Would Hurt a Child Broken Aesop The Power of Love Bald of Evil Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Pet the Dog Gory Discretion Shot Heroes Want Redheads Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Ace Rule of Cool Made of Iron Meaningful Background Event Anguished Declaration of Love Improbable Weapon User Bottomless Magazines Dwindling Party Fish out of Water What Happened to the Mouse? Funny Foreigner All There in the Script True Companions Television Movie Index Horror Comedy Adapted Out Jitter Cam Interrupted Suicide Grey and Gray Morality Pre-Mortem One-Liner Novelization Annoying Younger Sibling The '50s Epic Fail Exactly What It Says on the Tin Back from the Dead Artistic License – Gun Safety Demonic Possession Bland-Name Product Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Nice Guy Hypocrite The Stoner Almost Kiss Disguised in Drag Dual Wielding Adult Fear "Shaggy Dog" Story Genre Throwback Dressing as the Enemy Fat Bastard Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bloody Hilarious Refuge in Audacity Revenge Wham Line Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold As the Good Book Says... Batman Gambit Spell My Name with an "S" Villain Song The Place Mind Screw The Hero Dies Documentary Hero Antagonist Our Vampires Are Different Romantic False Lead Film Noir Tranquil Fury Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Leitmotif Demoted to Extra Arch-Enemy Those Two Bad Guys Brick Joke Double-Meaning Title Foreshadowing NO INDOOR VOICE Stock Footage B-Movie Good Is Not Nice Fanservice Extra Does Not Like Shoes Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! French Films Heroic BSoD Slasher Smile Kubrick Stare Maybe Ever After Scenery Gorn Deus ex Machina Drowning My Sorrows Redemption Equals Death The Ghost Adaptation Dye-Job Outrun the Fireball Eldritch Abomination Curse Cut Short Amoral Attorney Victoria's Secret Compartment Anti-Hero The Great Depression Rule of Symbolism Real Life Rated M for Manly Ambiguously Gay The Lost Lenore Beard of Evil She's Got Legs Defrosting Ice Queen Romantic Comedy Obstructive Bureaucrat Gorn Adaptation Expansion Offscreen Teleportation Sinister Minister Abusive Parents Mistaken for Gay Badass Bookworm Police Brutality The Faceless Riddle for the Ages Ironic Echo Taking You with Me