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