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* GuiltTripping-- Invoking guilt towards another person for a past wrongdoing.
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** FabricatedBlackmail: Just because the "secret" isn't real doesn't mean that someone can't do damage with it.
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Crosswicking


* ThreateningTheTies: Threatening to cut ties with someone as an intimidation tactic.

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* ThreateningTheTies: ThreateningToCutTies: Threatening to cut ties with someone as an intimidation tactic.
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* ThreateningTheTies: Threatening to cut ties with someone as an intimidation tactic.

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* TheComplianceGame: Someone tries to get someone else (usually a kid) to do something by passing it off as a game.
* ConfessionDeferred: Lying until it benefits you to tell the truth.

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* TheComplianceGame: TheComplianceGame-- Someone tries to get someone else (usually a kid) to do something by passing it off as a game.
* ConfessionDeferred: ConfessionDeferred-- Lying until it benefits you to tell the truth.truth.
* ConsummationCounterfeit-- Falsifying BloodstainedDefloration
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* SuddenContestFormatChange--Changing the entire format of a contest or competition in the middle of it.
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* RevengePornBlackmail: Threatening someone via indecent material of them.
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* PlayingTheFamilyCard-- A character manipulates someone by using family ties to guilt-trip them.
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Per TRS, this trope was merged with The Con


* MassiveMultiplayerScam -- Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam -- Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* ObfuscatingDisability-- Pretending to be disabled or embellishing one's preexisting disability, often to their own personal gain, specifically for sympathy and/or money.
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* TheComplianceGame: Someone tries to get someone else (usually a kid) to do something by passing it off as a game.
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* PainlessDeathForAPrice-- Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable.
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* FakedFoodContaminant: Faking something disgusting in one's food to get a free meal/damage the restaurant's reputation.
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Tropes are flexible, I think.


* PostRapeTaunt-- A rapist taunts the hero by gloating (and lying) about how the victim [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization "loved it."]]

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* PostRapeTaunt-- A rapist taunts the hero by gloating (and lying) about how the victim [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization "loved it."]]it"]], or commenting that the victim [[ButForMeItWasTuesday "was disappointing"]].

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