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* ''Literature/TheMerchantOfVenice'': Antonio gets a massive interest-free loan from the Jewish moneylender Shylock on the condition that the price of forfeiture is a pound of his flesh. When he's unable to repay the loan in time, Shylock demands the flesh even when Antonio's friends offer him triple the original sum, bluntly explaining that Antonio has inflicted so much public insult and humiliation on him for his religion and profession that his revenge is worth more.

* ''Film/JohnWick'': Implied. When Viggo finds out that his son Iosef had stolen John Wick's car and killed his dog, he calls John and tries to reason with him, knowing that John is about to embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. John listens to him beg for a few seconds before wordlessly hanging up -- making it quite clear he won't be bribed or reasoned out of this. Viggo goes to great lengths to protect his son, so John starts hitting Viggo where it hurts: his money. He burns ''all of it'', not even taking pennies for himself, it's all about vengeance.

As the one offering the bribe is almost always a villain who had greatly wronged the person they're trying to buy off (who is usually TheHero, or at least a heroic character), the latter's refusal to back down from their revenge often goes hand-in-hand with TheVillainMustBePunished mentality. But it is also possible for this scenario to come up in cases of EvilVersusEvil or EvilIsPetty, when the wronged party is portrayed as being just as villainous, or even worse.

Compare/Contrast ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules, where a character rejects another's attempt to buy them off due to their integrity rather than anything personal against the one offering the money.

-->'''Bruce Wayne:''' "How much is a good night sleep's worth?" Now ''there's'' a riddle for you.

-->--'''The Riddler''', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"

A character tries to get someone off their back by attempting to offer money and/or [[WeCanRuleTogether power]] to their pursuer, only to be coldly rejected because the pursuer [[MoneyIsNotPower isn't interested in money]]--they just really, ''really'' want to see their adversary dead--or, at least, suffering. Turns out, the pursuer has a grievance towards their adversary that no bribe will be able to make up for, and in some cases, actually [[BribeBackfire pisses off the pursuer even more]], causing them to double down on their rampage.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?", CEO Daniel Mockridge stiffs Edward Nygma out of millions of dollars of product royalties and fires him when Nygma tries to sue. [[StartOfDarkness This pisses off Nygma, who becomes]] ComicBook/TheRiddler and kidnaps Mockridge with intent to kill him. Mockridge tries to buy his freedom but Nygma makes clear that he wishes nothing more than revenge, and even when Batman manages to save Mockridge, the Riddler manages to escape and Mockridge is left [[PyrrhicVictory a rich man haunted by paranoia and fear that Nygma will return someday to finish the job]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the last episode, Bill Cypher threatens to kill Dipper and Mabel unless Ford lets him enter his mind. [[spoiler: Ford agrees, but he actually is Stan, who changed clothes with his twin brother, so Ford would shoot him with the Memory Erasing Gun, [[HeroicSacrifice destroying Stan's mind along with Bill]]. The demon panics when he discovers that he is trapped and offers Stan's inner self riches and anything else he would want. Stan, however, is furious because Bill threatened his family and home and disintegrates him with a single powerful punch.]]

* ''Literature/TheBible'': The Literature/BookOfProverbs mentions this in a warning against adultery; if you sleep with another guy's wife, all the gifts in the world won't turn his wrath aside.

A character tries to get someone off their back by attempting to offer money and/or [[WeCanRuleTogether power]] to their pursuer, only to be coldly rejected because the pursuer [[MoneyIsNotPower isn't interested in money]]--they just really, ''really'' want to see their adversary dead--or, at least, suffering. Sometimes, the bribery attempt actually [[BribeBackfire pisses off the pursuer even more]], causing them to double down on their rampage.

* Literature/TheBible mentions this in a warning against adultery; if you sleep with another guy's wife, all the gifts in the world won't turn his wrath aside.

A character tries to get someone off their back by attempting to offer money and/or [[WeCanRuleTogether power]] to their pursuer, only to be coldly rejected because the pursuer [[MoneyIsNotPower isn't interested in money]]--they just really, ''really'' want to see their adversary dead--or, at least, suffer. Sometimes, the bribery attempt actually [[BribeBackfire pisses off the pursuer even more]], causing them to double down on their rampage.

* In the third ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', Max confronts a plastic surgeon who has been [[spoiler:harvesting organs from kidnapped citizens from the San Paleo favelas]]. The doctor tries throwing money and begs for his life, but an appalled and furious Max only yells and holds him at gunpoint before [[spoiler: letting one of the doctor's victims kill him with a scalpel]].

* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', opium dealer Takeda Kanryuu gloats that he has enough money to buy anything, but after massacring most of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Onibanwashu]] with a [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] at the climax of the arc, he has royally pissed off Kenshin to the point he ''really'' wants to kill Takeda, and as he approaches Takeda and [[OhCrap he finds out he ran out of ammo]], he starts begging Kenshin to be spared and that he'll pay anything. Kenshin's answer?

* In ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', Inigo Montoya invokes this trope. His father, Domingo, was contracted by Count Rugen to forge a sword with the hilt custom-fitted to his six-fingered hand. Rugen then tried to cheat him on the fee just because he could (Rugen is a nobleman and the Montoyas commoners). Domingo refused to be cheated and Rugen killed him. Years later, when Inigo's sword is at Rugen's throat, he sarcastically suggests that Rugen buy him off with money, and scorns the very idea. By doing that, Inigo forces Rugen to understand just how petty his crime was.

A character tries to get someone off their back by attempting to offer money and/or [[WeCanRuleTogether power]] to their pursuer, only to be coldly rejected because the pursuer [[MoneyIsNotPower isn't interested in money]]--they just really, ''really'' want to see their adversary dead -- or, at least, suffer. Sometimes, the bribery attempt actually [[BribeBackfire pisses off the pursuer even worse]], causing them to double down on their rampage.

* ‘’WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?", CEO Daniel Mockridge stiffs Edward Nygma out of millions of dollars of product royalties and fires him when Nygma tries to sue. [[StartOfDarkness This pisses off Nygma, who becomes]] ComicBook/TheRiddler and kidnaps Mockridge with intent to kill him. Mockridge tries to buy his freedom but Nygma makes clear that he wishes nothing more than revenge, and even when Batman manages to save Mockridge, the Riddler manages to escape and Mockridge is left [[PyrrhicVictory a rich man haunted by paranoia and fear that Nygma will return someday to finish the job]].

A character tries to get someone off their back by attempting to offer money and/or [[WeCanRuleTogether power]] to their pursuer, only to be coldly rejected because the pursuer [[MoneyIsNotPower isn't interested in money]]--they just really, ''really'' want to see their adversary dead--or, at least, suffer. Sometimes, the bribery attempt actually [[BribeBackfire pisses off the pursuer even worse]], causing them to double down on their rampage.

As the one offering the bribe is almost always a villain who had greatly wronged the person they're trying to buy off (who is usually TheHero, or at least a heroic character), the latter's refusal to back down from their revenge often go hand-in-hand with TheVillainMustBePunished mentality. But it is also possible for this scenario to come up in cases of EvilVersusEvil or EvilIsPetty, when the wronged party is portrayed as being just as villainous, or even worse.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': After Jasley Donomikols's plotting gets Tekkadan ally Naze Turbine killed (which he follows up by having Turbine survivor Laftey gunned down while she's shopping), the Tekkadan cuts ties with the Teiwaz organisation and frees themselves from the ApeShallNeverKillApe caveat of being under the organisation's umbrella. To Jasley's horror, his forces are [[CurbStompBattle quickly smashed to pieces]] and his expected reinforcements don't show up because his superior is sick and tired of him being TheStarscream. After his own men turn on him for leading them into the whole mess, he desperately tries to plea for a ceasefire, and then offers to surrender and turn over all his not-insubstantial assets, and finally even offers to have his fingers all cut off and further mutilated. However, Tekkadan leader Orga assures him that the only reason he even agreed to hear Jasley out was to hear him beg before he dies, and has Jasley killed mid-plea.

* ''Film/TheDogsOfWar'': While main character Jamie "Cat" Shannon is a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and willing to get as much money as he can out of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir Manson]], it doesn't takes much from Manson to talk Shannon into leading the assault on Zangaro after the police [[ColdBloodedTorture beats the living crap out of him]] while he's doing recon (and has also seen first-hand [[TheCaligula what kind of monster President Kimba is]]). When he ends up facing off against Kimba on the climactic assault, Kimba has been driven into a VillainousBreakdown and offers him a small mountain of money to let him go. Shannon just shoots him, [[FullCircleRevolution and then goes on to screw over Sir Manson (who wasn't going to improve Zangaro with his puppet government anyway)]].
* ''Film/JohnWick'': Implied. When Viggo finds out about that his son Iosef had stolen John Wick's car and killed his dog, he calls John and tries to reason with him, knowing that John is about to embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. John listens to him beg for a few seconds, before wordlnessly hanging up--making it quite clear he won't be bribed or reasoned out of this. Viggo goes to great lengths to protect his son, so John starts hitting Viggo where it hurts: his money. He burns ''all of it'', not even taking pennies for himself, it's all about vengeance.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': In the final episode, Walt has gotten his revenge on Jack Welker's gang for killing Hank, courtesy of an automated M-60. Jack lies bleeding on the floor, and warns Walt that if he kills him, he'll never find the millions in drug money the gang stole from him. Walt shows how much he cares by shooting Jack in the head midsentence.

* In ''Series/{{Limitless}}'', Sands offers Rebecca a high paying position on Senator Morra's staff that would require her to quit the FBI and stop her investigation into Morra's connection to NZT. Rebecca suspects that Morra might have been behind her father's murder, so she strings Sands along for a bit and then throws the offer back in his face.

* In ''VideoGame/RidgeRacer Type 4'', the Dig Racing Team arc has the executives abuse team manager Robert Chrisman throughout the game. When the player wins the final race, the executives do an about face and offer Chrisman a raise for the following year. Instead, he lashes out at them and resigns to spend more time with his family.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': At the last episode, Bill Cypher threatens to kill Dipper and Mabel unless Ford lets him enter his mind. [[spoiler: Ford agrees, but he actually is Stan, who changed clothes with his twin brother, so Ford would shoot him with the Memory Erasing Gun, [[HeroicSacrifice destroying Stan's mind along with Bill]]. The demon panics when he discovers that he is trapped and offers to Stan's inner self riches and anything else he would want. Stan, however, is furious because Bill threatened his family and home and disintegrates him with a single powerful punch.]]

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A character tries to get someone off their back by attempting to offer money and/or [[WeCanRuleTogether power]] to their pursuer, only to be coldly rejected because the pursuer [[MoneyIsNotPower isn't interested in money]]--they just really, ''really'' want to see their adversary dead--or, at least, suffer. Sometimes, the bribery attempt actually makes the pursuer even [[BribeBackfire more enraged]], causing them to double down on their rampage.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': After Jasley Donomikols's plotting gets Tekkadan ally Naze Turbine killed (which he follows up by having Turbine survivor Laftey gunned down while she's shopping), the Tekkadan cuts ties with the Teiwaz organisation and frees themselves from the Ape Shall Not Harm Ape caveat of being under the organisation's umbrella. To Jasley's horror, his forces are [[CurbStompBattle quickly smashed to pieces]] and his expected reinforcements don't show up because his superior is sick and tired of him being TheStarscream. After his own men turn on him for leading them into the whole mess, he desperately tries to plea for a ceasefire, and then offers to surrender and turn over all his not-insubstantial assets, and finally even offers to have his fingers all cut off and further mutilated. However, Tekkadan leader Orga assures him that the only reason he even agreed to hear Jasley out was to hear him beg before he dies, and has Jasley killed mid-plea.

-->Do you know what your money can't buy? That's right. ''Your life!'' [''Smashes all of Takeda's teeth out with his Zampakutou'']

* ''WebAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastDingoPictures'': When Wabuu realizes that Beauty is at the Beast's castle, he plans to MurderTheHypotenuse so he can marry Beauty. The Beast tries to bribe Wabuu into not killing him. Wabuu [[spoiler:refuses and murders the Beast anyway]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': At the last episode, Bill Cypher threatens to kill Dipper and Mabel unless Ford lets him enter his mind. [[spoiler: Ford agrees, but he actually is Stan, who changed clothes with his twin brother, so Ford would shoot him with the Memory Erasing Gun, [[HeroicSacrifice destroying Stan's mind along with Bill]]. The demon panics when he discovers that he is trapped and offers to Stan's inner self riches and anything else he would want. Stan, however, is furious because Bill threatened his family and disintegrates him with a punch.]]

* ''WebVideo/CrossedLines'': [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. Killian Hardgraves wants nothing more in the world than to cut Amber up for scrap metal. Whistler, the diesel who oversees the scrapyard at Masonry Bridge, asks why Killian doesn't sell Amber for a lot of money. Killian states he wants Amber scrapped because [[spoiler:his family was on the train that Amber crashed. The one Atlas was pulling, which made him lose his memory]].

* When the Tethered first attack the Wilsons in ''{{Film/Us}}'', the family patriarch Gabe attempts to persuade them to leave them alone by offering them money, the beach house, or even his boat! Red just stares at him, and it soon becomes ''very'' clear that she (and the rest of the Tethered) are there to make the Wilsons' lives hell out of envy and resentment.
-->'''Zora:''' No one wants the boat, Dad.

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

-->'''Beck:''' All those KGB colonels in the Russian mafia, well, they work for an old KGB general, who happens to be a business associate of mine. Now, I don't want to name names, but he controls about 800 miles of the Siberian oil pipeline. Yeah. Yeah, I do all their import-export work. You nearly cost him a lot of money today. I'm gonna have to give him a call, see how they feel about that.
-->'''Vlad:''' I give you fifty thousand and I swear you'll never see me again.
-->'''Beck:''' I ''know'' I won't. Get this fool outta here.
-->'''Vlad:''' Stop. One hundred. Come on. Don't be stupid, come on!
-->'''Beck:''' There's not enough money in the world!

--> '''Deathstroke:''' ''You beat me to it.''
--> '''Cyborg:''' ''Another contract lost?''
--> '''Deathstroke:''' ''[[ItsPersonal This one was personal.]]''
--> '''Cyborg:''' ''I didn't think anything was personal with you.''
--> '''Deathstroke:''' ''He made it personal when he tortured me.''

-->'''Bozzok:''' I'll pay you double! Triple!
-->'''Grubwiggler:''' Farewell, Bozzok. You were never as clever as you thought you were.