History Main / PleaseIWillDoAnything

* TheNostalgiaCritic does this in the TomAndJerry movie review, where he ''really'' doesn't want to listen to another song.
-->'''Critic''': "I'll do anything! I'll do your taxes, shave your back... '''prostitute''' myself for money! Just please not another song!"

-->'''Count Rugen''': "Anything you want..."
-->'''Inigo Montoya''': ''*stabs Rugen**'' "I want my father back, you son of a bitch!"

* Guaranteed to make Yuuko's ears perk in ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and '''{{xxxHolic}}''.

* Cecily in ''SacredBlacksmith'' offers to give Luke anything if he'll help her save Aria. "If it's money, I will work for you until the day I die. [[ScarpiaUltimatum If it's my body, you can do anything you want with me]]." (Luke, being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, helps out and doesn't ask for any reward.)

-->'''Inigo Montoya''': Offer me money.
-->'''Count Rugen''': Yes!
-->'''Inigo Montoya''': Power, too, promise me that.
-->'''Count Rugen''': '''All that I have and more. Please...'''
-->'''Inigo Montoya''': Offer me anything I ask for.
-->'''Count Rugen''': Anything you want...
-->'''Inigo Montoya''': I want my father back, you son of a bitch!

* For many tropers, when you hear PleaseIWillDoAnything, you think of this scene from ''ThePrincessBride'' (too bad for the Count that didn't have the "Anything" Inigo wanted...):

* Cecily in ''SacredBlacksmith'' offers to give Luke anything if he'll help her save Aria. "If it's money, I will work for you until the day I die. If it's my body, you can do anything you want with me." (Luke, being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, helps out and doesn't ask for any reward.)

* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''BlackadderGoesForth'' when Blackadder discovers Bob, a [[woman disguised as a male soldier SweetPollyOliver]].

* Something of a pornography staple...

->"'Anything', you say? Hmmm."

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* In the Life Action TV show of ''{{Jin}}'', Kyotaro, a samurai, privately begs actor Sawamura for money and declares he would do anything (though not with the exact words.) Sawamura tells him to "partake in a show" - that show being to prostrate himself before Sawamura in the streets and publically plead, which Kyotaro does.

* Used as a MeaningfulEcho in ''[[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast Disney's Beauty And The Beast]]'':
** First when Belle is pleading for her father's life
** Second when Beast is hanging Gaston over the edge of the roof.

* A significant plot point in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4876578/1/I_Want_a_Refund I Want a Refund]]''. This [[PlayingWithATrope trope is played]] with quite a bit. To elaborate, it is Invoked in an Inverted form, Subverted, Double Subverted, Triple Subverted, and then [[ZigZaggingTrope Subverted again]].
* In ''Oliver!'', the musical of ''OliverTwist'' they have a song "I'd Do Anything," which is mostly one guy saying he'd do anything for a girl, and the girl making ridiculous or strange suggestions, to all of which he agrees. Then Fagin co-opts it, and does the routine with his gang of loyal street urchins, and his suggestions are a little darker.
* The MeatLoaf song ''I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)''.
* In several episodes of ''SpongebobSquarepants''.
* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Encounter at Farpoint", when Picard believes his away team to be in danger, he makes said bargain in exchange for Q bringing them back. When they're teleported to the bridge, he echoes the bargain to Picard. [[spoiler:But it wasn't Q who brought them back, but the creature.]]
* ''RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma actually uses it on Kuno in canon. Kuno has a wish granting sword and Ranma (female) offers to do "anything" if he uses the wish for her. Ranma of course intends to first get the wish and so become permanently male before paying up- thus being safe from any shenanigans- but Kuno asks for a kiss first. Ranma [[FateWorseThanDeath just can't do it]].
* Though not stated out loud, in the DreamBallet from ''{{Oklahoma}}!'' Laurey suggests that she will do anything to have Jud spare Curly's life.
* ''{{Gargoyles}}'': The Weird Sisters ask [=MacBeth=] what he would be willing to trade for Demona's aid in protecting his family and kingdom. He answers, "Anything."

* Something of a pornography staple...
* OrderOfTheStick: When Nale is annoyed that Sabine met up with another of her old flames, she suggests, to make it up to him, they could play "Evil Conqueror and the Innocent Virgin"; Nale says that this time, he gets to play the conqueror.

* Something of a pornography staple...OrSoIveHeard anyway...

-->"'Anything', you say? Hmmm."
-->--Stock response

If the other is ready to listen, expect to be ''doing'' anything. A particularly cruel villain will take the pleading character at their word, extort something out of them that they'd never agree to otherwise, and then [[DidYouActuallyBelieve gloat]] and [[ILied commit the atrocity anyway.]] Hope against hope it won't cross over into ScarpiaUltimatum territory.

** Second when Beast is hanging Gaston over the edge ot the roof.

* In ''Oliver!'', the musical of ''OliverTwist'' they have a song "I'd do anything", which is mostly one guy saying he'd do anything for a girl, and the girl making ridiculous or strange suggestions, to all of which he agrees. Then Fagin co-opts it, and does the routine with his gang of loyal street urchins, and his suggestions are a little darker.

* Used as a MeanginfulEcho in ''[[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast Disney's Beauty And The Beast]]'':

If the other is ready to listen, expect to be ''doing'' anything. A particularly cruel villain will take the pleading character at their word, extort something out of them that they'd never agree to otherwise, and then [[DidYouActuallyBelieve gloat]] and [[ILied commit the atrocity anyway.]]