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