Tropescilloscope: Only in It for the Money

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

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