History Main / BlackMarket

* Many Communist nations do business in the black market, in some cases its the only reliable place where they can get anything at all. From guns, fuel, food...they trade/buy with anything that they need from it.

* In DanAbnett's ''{{Ravenor}} Rogue'', Ravenor and his retinue go fishing for "coherence" on a planet. They badly offend a merchant by going about it the wrong way. Eventually, they make the right hook-ups to reach the [[CoolGate psychic door]] that will take them to where they need to learn the information.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Somewhat parodied when Lois and Peter are trapped in Cuba without passports. They find the Black Market, which is pretty much a UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} with bombs and other weapons. They even had a "Black Market Club", 10% off your first purchase!

* There's a fence in each ''QuestForGlory'' game where thieving types can unload their loot.

* Many Communist nations do business in the black market, in some cases its the only reliable place where they can get anything. From guns, fuel, food...they trade/buy with anything that they need from it.

HonestJohn, TheScrounger and/or TheRat will often be found thriving in this environment, but s/he'll just be manning one of the (literal or metaphorical) stalls; the ultimate power will usually be in the hands of TheSyndicate. Unless it all comes full circle, and the whole thing is just another branch of the TheEmpire...

HonestJohn, TheScrounger and/or TheRat will often be found thriving in this environment, but s/he'll just be manning one of the (literal or metaphorical) stalls; the ultimate power will usually be in the hands of TheSyndicate. Unless it all comes full circle, and the whole thing is just another branch of the The Empire...

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Somewhat parodied when Lois and Peter are trapped in Cuba without passports. They find the Black Market, which is pretty much a walmart with bombs and other weapons. They even had a "Black Market Club", 10% off your first purchase!

* ''{{MASH}}'' episode "To Market, To Market." After black marketeers steal vital medical supplies, the doctors must make a deal to get them back. Their contact with the underworld? Father Mulcahy!

* There are fences in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrolls Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]''.There's also a vendor called Shady Sam who is dressed in all black, hangs around outside a city wall and sells illegal goods.

* In ''TheHungerGames'', District 12 has the Hob, which operates out of an abandoned coal warehouse. [[spoiler: until it goes up in flames]]

** In the later episode "Death Takes a Holiday", [[DrJerk Burns]] [[PetTheDog donates a substantial amount of chocolates to an orphanage]], but is outraged to learn that the chocolates intended for the orphans was instead sold on the black market, until he is told that the chocolates netted the orphanage enough money to buy food for the orphans for a month.

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* Barnabas' Black Market in ''{{ADOM}}'' is the only general-store style shop in the early game. It often has good stuff, but the prices are quite steep [[spoiler:unless you're the head of the Thieves' Guild.]]

* The various "businesses" running on the TOR anonymity network. Located in the so-called "deep web", the traders are protected by some of the most powerful encryption softwares publicly available and transactions are done via Bitcoins, an untraceable digital currency. The most famous of the TOR shops are Silk Road and The Armory, specializing in illicit drugs and weapons, respectively.

** In ''MassEffect1'', your supply officer on the Normandy justifies making you pay for gear because he strictly speaking s only authorized to pull Alliance standard issue gear (that is, what you are issued at the beginning of the game). He spends money out of pocket to get you the ''good stuff'' from various sources.

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* TheThirdMan deals with the black market in post-WorldWarII Vienna
-->'''Opening narrator:''' ''I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better.''
-->[Scenes of black market goods changing hands]
-->'''Opening narrator:''' '' I really got to know it in the classic period of the black market. We'd run anything if people wanted it enough and had the money to pay. Of course a situation like that does tempt amateurs''
-->[Dead body seen floating in the river]

* The black market in a WWII French boarding school plays a significant role in ''Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants''

* There are fences in ''[[TheElderScrolls Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]''.There's also a vendor called Shady Sam who is dressed in all black, hangs around outside a city wall and sells illegal goods.

* ''FamilyGuy'': Somewhat parodied when Lois and Peter are trapped in Cuba without passports. They find the Black Market, which is pretty much a walmart with bombs and other weapons. They even had a "Black Market Club", 10% off your first purchase!

* The various "businesses" running deep web", the traders are protected by some of the most powerful encryption softwares publicly available and transactions are done via Bitcoins, an untraceable digital currency. The most famous of the TOR shops are Silk Road and The Armory, specializing in illicit drugs and weapons, respectively.

-->'''Opening narrator:''' '' ut, well, you know, they can't stay the course [[FriendInTheBlackMarket like a professional.]]''

* ''PowerRangersJungleFury'': Implied to be how RJ got his morphers -- apparently, he "knew a guy who knew a guy who had an uncle". How else is a guy running a pizza shop who isn't a rocket scientist going to get some of those?!