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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]": [[JustifiedTrope In an attempt to prove the soul doesn't exist]], Bart writes "Bart Simpson's Soul" on a piece of paper and sells it to Milhouse for $5. Milhouse in turn trades it to the Comic Book Guy for Alf pogs. Bart, meanwhile, experiences some unusual happenings, apparently due to now being [[TheSoulless soulless]], and spends the episode trying to retrieve the piece of paper.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': In "[[RockosModernLifeS2E9BornToSpawnUniformBehavior Uniform Behavior]]", when Heffer arrives at Cafe Conglomo, he says he'd sell his soul for a soda. Lloyd the demon bartender appears and asks him, "What flavor, Heffer?", at which point Heffer orders a root beer float, only to regret it when he has visions of his friends telling him off for letting the power of his position go to his head.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" is the TropeNamer. In the segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson", Homer sells his soul to the Devil (played by Ned Flanders, of all people) for a donut. He tries to cheat the devil by not finishing it, but ends up going to Hell anyway because he ate the donut while raiding the fridge for a late-night snack. Marge manages to get him out by presenting their marriage contract in which Homer offers his soul to her, meaning it wasn't his to sell in the first place.

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SubTrope of DealWithTheDevil. Compare MundaneWish and WastefulWishing, when a character who can wish for anything and get it requests something incredibly ordinary, ComicallySmallBribe, when a character offers an incredibly small payment for a service, and ComicallySmallDemand, when someone with authority or power over others uses it to achieve something minor or mundane.

->'''Squidward''': Mr. Krabs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but how could you trade [=SpongeBob=] for ''62 cents?!''\\
'''Mr. Krabs''': You think I could have gotten more?

* ''FanFic/TheMLPLoops'': PlayedForLaughs in Loop 191.8, when Apple Bloom finds [[UltimateEvil Grogar]] in her cookie jar, demanding souls in exchange for cookies (and apparently, it's not the first time this has happened). Luckily, the TimeAbyss of the loops means Apple Bloom has some extra souls she can pay with.
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony:'' Rarity gives her soul to the demon Maud, and all she asks for in return is for Maud to pull a really petty prank against Rainbow Dash. Of course, this version of Rarity is [[TooKinkyToTorture such an over-the-top masochist]], it would be totally in-character for her to ''want'' to end up in Hell anyway.

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* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5721 5721]] is a[[note]]fictional[[/note]] paragraph within the [[ReadTheFinePrint Terms of Service]] for the messaging software Discord that signs over the users' souls to the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman goddess Eris]], allowing her to [[VampiricDraining drain]] users' LifeEnergy [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly as a substitute for actual worship]]. "The majority of users who read the clause were found to have assumed it was a joke, as Discord is known for its humorous loading screens."

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* In the episode "Go To Hell" of ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'', Ross mentions a scheme where he and his buddy from his college's print shop would gave away free candy-- all the receiver had to do was sign a contract giving one of them their soul. [[InsaneTrollLogic Apparently these contracts were valid because his friend worked at a notary office]].

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]": [[JustifiedTrope In an attempt to prove the soul doesn't exist]], Bart writes "Bart Simpson's Soul" on a piece of paper and sells it to Milhouse for $5. Milhouse in turn trades it to the Comic Book Guy for Alf pogs. Bart, meanwhile, experiences some unusual happenings, apparently due to now being soulless, and spends the episode trying to retrieve the piece of paper.

** In "Born Again Krabs", the Flying Dutchman bets [=SpongeBob=] that Mr. Krabs is so greedy he'd sell ''[=SpongeBob's=]'' soul for a nickel. The Dutchman then offers Krabs all the change in his pockets--62 cents--for [=SpongeBob's=] soul. Krabs accepts without hesitation. Even Squidward was disgusted by this.

* ''Anime/Devilman1972'': Jacon's victims had some rather small desires; Hairo wanted to go ice skating with his friends when he was stuck home studying, Alphonse wanted to drive fast while he was stuck in a traffic jam, the only one who had an understandable goal was Chaco who wanted to kill Alphonse after his reckless driving caused a car accident that injured Hairo.
* ''Anime/HellGirl'': By contracting the ''Jigoku Shoujo'', you are able to send another person to hell, but in change, your soul will also go to hell once you die. In later seasons, a couple of characters send people to hell for ''very petty'' reasons, like the one guy who was upset that his car was accidentally scratched by another guy, sending the latter to hell just for that.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" is the TropeNamer. Homer sells his soul to the Devil (played by Ned Flanders, of all people) for a donut. He tries to cheat the devil by not finishing it, but ends up going to Hell anyway because he finished the donut later after forgetting about the deal. Marge manages to get him out by presenting their marriage contract in which Homer offers his soul to her, meaning it wasn't his to sell in the first place.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" is the TropeNamer. Homer sells his soul to the Devil (played by Ned Flanders, of all people) for a donut. He tries to cheat the devil by not finishing it, but ends up going to Hell anyway because he finished the donut later after forgetting about the deal. Marge manages to get him out by presenting their marriage contract, in which Homer offers his soul to her, meaning it wasn't his to sell in the first place.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" is the TropeNamer. Homer sells his soul to the Devil (played by Ned Flanders, of all people) for a donut. He tries to cheat the devil by not finishing it, but ends up going to Hell anyway because he finished the donut later after forgetting about the deal.

-->'''Delmar:''' "Aw, son, for that ya traded yer everlasting soul?"
-->'''Tommy:''' "Well, I wasn't doin' nothin' with it..."

* ''VideoGame/{{Zombidle}}'': Devil Deals (powerups or bonuses every 5 or 10 minutes) are offered in exchange for your soul... or watching an ad for 15 seconds. And sometimes the ad doesn't even show up.

* This is the modus operandi of [[BadSanta Santa Claus]] in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}''. He gets children to swear their souls to him in exchange for toys while they're too young to know better, and then enslaves their spirits in his workshop after they die as adults.
* ''Webcomic/DemonCandyParallel'': Jonathan jokingly offers to sell his soul to Noelle for a Klondike bar, not realising that she was serious. HilarityEnsues.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnCallahansQuads'' has Riley sell his soul to the Devil in exchange for curing his erectile dysfunction. Of course, [[TooDumbToLive this being Riley]], he never even considers to ask for a cure for his quadriplegia as well.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' episode, "Our Brand Is Chaos", Bubbles and Buttercup are a dollar short to buy a bobsled they want. HIM offers to give them a dollar... at the expense of something precious they care about.
--> '''Blossom''': THEY SOLD MY SOUL FOR A BOBSLED?!
--> '''HIM''': Technically they sold it for a dollar.

->'''Squidward''': Mr. Krabs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but how could you trade [=SpongeBob=] for ''62 cents?''\\
'''Mr. Krabs''': Do you think I could have gotten more?

[[DealWithTheDevil Selling one's soul to the Devil]] is an old plot. Usually, characters sell it for something extraordinary -- life, power, riches -- only to be [[JerkassGenie blindsided by the other]] party when they least expect it. But sometimes, someone gets scammed into selling or willingly sells their soul for essentially nothing.

** In "Born Again Krabs", the Flying Dutchman bets [=SpongeBob=] that Mr. Krabs is so greedy he'd sell ''[=SpongeBob's=]'' soul for a nickel. The Dutchman then offers Krabs all the change in his pockets--62 cents--for [=SpongeBob's=] soul. Krabs accepts without hesitation. Even Squidward was disgusted by this.