History Main / OnTheMoney

* In ''Manhua/BowlingKing'', Shautieh Ley needs to get 3 million Taiwan dollars to pay off his love interest's debt... and it just so happens that the prize money for the big bowling tournament is 3 million Taiwan dollars. This is, however, ultimately {{subverted}}; the company sponsoring the God's Hand Cup goes bankrupt while the tournament is underway, and the competition is cancelled indefinitely just after the semifinals were finished. Meaning he ''didn't'' get the money.

* Franchise/SpiderMan does this around the time of ''Secret Wars II''; he takes a notebook from a building that the Beyonder had turned to gold and he exactly uses up the notebook's value for Aunt May.
* Justified in the ComicBook/DallasBarr story ''Immortalité à Vendre'', where Stileman knows exactly how much Barr needs for his next LongevityTreatment, and makes a point of offering exactly that amount (one million pounds) for the mission. In the end, Stileman skips the middleman and directly takes the dying Barr to the longevity clinic.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', there's the novel side story "Golden Days With Captain Amigo," where Kurz convinces Sousuke to go on a treasure hunt with him. They "borrow" without permission an [[HumongousMecha M6 AS]], and get into the cave. They actually end up having gold and jewels, which amount to being worth 10 million dollars. Both Kurz ''and'' Sousuke, seeing the possibility of a ''much'' nicer future (leaving Mithril and having an early retirement), get very excited, and take the treasure chests out of the cave. However, the cave ends up collapsing, causing the M6 AS to explode. Of course, it turns out that the M6 AS was worth 10 million dollars, and the treasure is taken from them to pay for it. (However, it ''is'' mentioned that the executives rounded the cost of the AS to be higher, so that they ''could'' take all the treasure from them.)

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': After finding out that Angelica, one of her guard knights, is one the verge of failing WizardingSchool, the protagonist drags her three other guard knights into helping Angelica get better grades. She decides to give the three other knights a bonus for their trouble: one of her "[[GivingRadioToTheRomans creations]]" for each of the better off ones, a relatively large sum of money for the ImpoverishedPatrician among them. When the latter gets the money, it turns out to be just enough to cover a debt he incurred earlier in the story. Hearing this, the protagonist briefly considers giving him something else on top of the money because [[spoiler:her poorest knight incurred that debt because he was involved in an incident that damaged a set of very expensive clothes needed for the protagonist's previous job and had to pay part of the cost of replacing them. However, after getting the new set of clothes, the protagonist ended up only keeping said previous job for half a year before her sudden adoption into nobility]].

* Inverted in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. In Part 7, Johnny and Gyro gain a lot of money through the Stand Sugar Mountain's Spring, but if they don't spend it all before the sun sets, they are [[BalefulPolymorph turned into trees.]]

* Series/AllInTheFamily: Season 3 saw the episode “Mike Comes Into Money,” where Mike receives an inheritance check for $200 after an uncle passed away. He announces plans to donate the entire sum to the George [=McGovern=] presidential campaign. Archie then declares that said amount is exactly what he’s demanding for rent.

* The Telltale ''VideoGame/SamAndMax'' games have one of these in almost every episode for the first season.
* The plot of ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 2'' involves this. The president of the company Captain Olimar works for took out a huge loan (10,100 pokos, to be exact) and is at a loss as to how to repay it. Luckily, the planet Olimar had just been stranded on happens to harbour trinkets which are VERY valuable (with the bottle cap he brought home as a souvenir being worth precisely 100 Pokos, no less)...

** "Round Springfield": The radio station tells Lisa it would play the songs of the late Bleeding Gums Murphy if they actually had a copy of the music. The comic book shop has the album for $250, and when Lisa says that Murphy has just died and she needs the record for a tribute, Comic Book Guy raises the price to $500. Bart happens to have $500 from a lawsuit settlement, and when he sees how upset his sister is, he buys the record for her. He plans afterward to get more money through another lawsuit settlement through similar circumstances to the first one.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': After finding out that Angelica, one of her guard knights, is one the verge of failing WizardingSchool, the protagonist drags her three other guard knights into helping Angelica get better grades. She decides to give the three other knights a bonus for their trouble: one of her "[[GivingRadioToTheRomans creations]]" for each of the better off ones, a relatively large sum of money for the ImpoverishedPatrician among them. When the latter gets the money, it turns out to have been just enough to cover a debt he incurred earlier in the story. Hearing this, the protagonist briefly considers giving him something else on top of the money because [[spoiler:her poorest knight incurred that debt because he was involved in an incident that damaged a set of very expensive clothes needed for the protagonist's previous job and had to pay part of the cost of replacing them. However, after getting the new set of clothes, the protagonist ended up only keeping said previous job for half a year before her sudden adoption into nobility]].

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': After finding out that Angelica, one of her guard knights, is one the verge of failing WizardingSchool, the protagonist drags her three other guard knights into helping Angelica get better grades. She decides to give the three other knights a bonus for their trouble: one of her "[[GivingRadioToTheRomans creations]]" for each of the better off ones, a relatively large sum of money for the ImpoverishedPatrician among them. When the latter gets the money, it turns out to have been just enough to cover a debt he incurred earlier in the story. Hearing this, the protagonist briefly considers giving him something else on top of the money because [[spoiler:her poorest knight incurred that debt because he was involved in an incident that damaged a set of very expensive clothes needed for the protagonist's previous job and had to pay part of the cost of replacing them. However, the protagonist ended up only keeping said previous job for half a year before her sudden adoption into nobility]].

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': After finding out tha, Angelica, one of her guard knights, is one the verge of failing WizardingSchool, the protagonist drags her three other guard knights into helping Angelica get better grades. She decides to give the three other knights a bonus for their trouble: one of her "[[GivingRadioToTheRomans creations]]" for each of the better off ones, a relatively large sum of money for the ImpoverishedPatrician among them. When the latter gets the money, it turns out to have been just enough to cover a debt he incurred earlier in the story. Hearing this, the protagonist briefly considers giving him something else on top of the money because [[spoiler:her poorest knight incurred that debt because he was involved in an incident that damaged a set of very expensive clothes needed for the protagonist's previous job and had to pay part of the cost of replacing them. However, the protagonist ended up only keeping said previous job for half a year before her sudden adoption into nobility]].

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': After finding out that, Angelica, one of her guard knights, is one the verge of failing WizardingSchool, the protagonist drags her three other guard knights into helping Angelica get better grades. She decides to give the three other knights a bonus for their trouble: one of her "[[GivingRadioToTheRomans creations]]" for each of the better off ones, a relatively large sum of money for the ImpoverishedPatrician among them. When the latter gets the money, it turns out to have been just enough to cover a debt he incurred earlier in the story. Hearing this, the protagonist briefly considers giving him something else on top of the money because [[spoiler:her poorest knight incurred that debt because he was involved in an incident that damaged a set of very expensive clothes needed for the protagonist's previous job and had to pay part of the cost of replacing them. However, the protagonist ended up only keeping that job for half a year before her sudden adoption into nobility]].

** "Round Springfield": The radio station tells Lisa it would play the songs of the late Bleeding Gums Murphy if they actually had a copy of the music. The comic book shop has the album for $250, and when Lisa says that Murphy has just died and she needs the record for a tribute, Comic Book Guy raises the price to $500. Bart happens to have $500 from a lawsuit settlement, and when he sees how upset his sister is, he buys the record for her.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/TheDucksters" has Daffy Duck playing a sadistic radio quiz show host and Porky Pig as his much-suffering contestant. Once he wins the prize, Porky calls up the station owner and asks his price for the station. As it turns out, it's the exact amount of the prize money ''to the cent.'' Cue demonic grin and switching of roles.

* A non-money example: ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' features an episode where the cast needs an appendix. Cut to a shot of The Appendix Cup, a golf tournament with a prize of one appendix.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', the [[MagicLand Magic World]] tournament prize is exactly how much the group need to [[spoiler:buy back Ako, Akira and Natsumi from slavery]]. It's also the "more believable" variant as the prize is a very round 1 million.

* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'', at least in the manga. Upon completing the [[TrainingFromHell Death March,]] the Devil Bats need to get enough money to fly back to Japan (don't ask how some 16~ year old kids are permitted to gamble, even ''if'' one of them has {{blackmail}} on damn near everyone). Monta and Sena get extremely lucky, but eventually lose it all. Cue Hiruma playing blackjack and counting cards, winning the money they need and then some.

* Justified in the Comicbook/DallasBarr story ''Immortalité à Vendre'', where Stileman knows exactly how much Barr needs for his next LongevityTreatment, and makes a point of offering exactly that amount (one million pounds) for the mission. In the end, Stileman skips the middleman and directly takes the dying Barr to the longevity clinic.

* The plot of ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 2'' involves this. The president of the company Captin Olimar works for took out a huge loan (10,100 pokos, to be exact) and is at a loss as to how to repay it. Luckily, the planet Olimar had just been stranded on happens to harbour trinkets which are VERY valuable (with the bottle cap he brought home as a souvenir being worth precisely 100 Pokos, no less)...

* Drives the plot of Disney's ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange''. Patch of Heaven is about to go under unless the cows can come up with $750 in three days, and what do you know? That cattle rustler who displaced Maggie has a bounty of $750 on him.

* This happens a ''lot'' in ''Anime/LiarGame'', as the whole point of the series is for the characters to get out of the millions of yen debt that the organization had put them in in the first place. All the characters are actually ''required'' to compete and win the challenges in order to break even or come out with more money.
* In ''Anime/BowlingKing'', Shautieh Ley needs to get 3 million Taiwan dollars to pay off his love interest's debt... and it just so happens that the prize money for the big bowling tournament is 3 million Taiwan dollars. This is, however, ultimately {{subverted}}; the company sponsoring the God's Hand Cup goes bankrupt while the tournament is underway, and the competition is cancelled indefinitely just after the semifinals were finished. Meaning he ''didn't'' get the money.

* In German comedian Otto's first movie, he has to pay a loan shark exactly 9876.50 German marks. During the movie, there's not just one, [[RunningGag but many opportunities presenting to him to get exact that amount]].

A SubTrope of ContrivedCoincidence. Often overlaps with CashGate. Compare and contrast AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted, when there's no specific expense in the plot, the character just loses their newfound fortune.

A SubTrope of ContrivedCoincidence. Often overlaps with CashGate.