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