Basic Trope: A character sells candid photographs or videos of someone else.
- Straight: Bob takes candid photos of Alice naked and sells them.
- Exaggerated:
- The entire school get their hands on photos of Alice and sell them.
- Bob gets naked photos of every student and teacher in school and sells them.
- Bob becomes a billionaire from selling the photos.
- The school administrators themselves sell the photo, seeing it as a fundraising opportunity, and even make Alice work as a nude model and pose for more photos.
- Downplayed:
- Bob takes pictures of Alice in her underwear.
- Bob takes pictures of Alice in a swimsuit.
- Bob takes pictures of Alice in ugly sweatpants.
- Justified:
- Bob is a perverted Jerkass.
- Alice had previously taken and published nude photos of several of her classmates for profit, including a now vengeful Bob, who figures this is an opportunity to exact Laser-Guided Karma.
- Inverted:
- Bob blackmails Alice, forcing her to give him money in exchange for the photos.
- Alice, a pin-up girl, pays Bob to take nude photos of her and spread them around.
- Bob pays Alice, a pin-up girl, to pose nude for him.
- Bob takes tasteful photos of Alice and sells them on her behalf.
- Bob sells nude photos of himself to Alice for money.
- Bob, working for Alice’s father, steals the nude photos Alice was hoping to publish and destroys them.
- Subverted: The photos are fakes.
- Double Subverted: Bob ends up taking real photos and publishing them.
- Parodied:
- Bob took photos of Shameless Fanservice Girl Alice clothed.
- Alice is outraged, not because she is naked in the photo, but because she had a bad hair day in the photo.
- Bob somehow doesn't notice that he is also naked in the pictures of Alice, and he's bemused when people start laughing at him as well.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Bob takes candid nudes of Alice and is going to sell them, but then she finds out about it. He destroys all but a few and sells the rest. But they turn out to be of Alice's twin sister Cathy, whose birthmark is the giveaway. Since Cathy is the "good" sister of the two, it's more devastating than if Bob had gotten Alice.
- Bob has candid nudes of Alice and can't make up his mind about whether to release them.
- Averted: Bob never gets nude photos of Alice.
- Enforced: The episode is Ripped from the Headlines about a case of revenge porn in a local high school.
- Lampshaded: “Nice photos, Alice.”
- Invoked: Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl who lured Bob into taking nude photos of her to indulge in her lifestyle and get him in trouble.
- Exploited:
- Bob gets Alice to leave town in shame.
- When Bob runs for office on a family values platform, a journalist interviews Alice and learns about what Bob did to her. The journalist either publicises the news or blackmails Bob.
- Defied:
- Bob finds doing so morally abhorrent and too risky.
- Bob decides to blackmail Alice with the photos instead.
- Alice takes the initiative from Bob by letting everybody at school see her naked.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "!"
- Implied:
- Students are seen looking at Polaroids and laughing at Alice. When she finds out, she goes up to Bob and pummels him.
- Alice mentions having been humiliated in high school, is passionate about fighting revenge porn, and has a panic attack whenever someone takes a photo of her.
- Students are seen looking at naked photos of Alice. Whether she consented to them is unknown.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alice has her revenge by taking nude photos of Bob and spreading them around the school before framing him for stealing and getting him arrested. She sends nude photos of him to other inmates at his new prison.
- Played for Drama:
- The photos are of Alice getting raped, possibly by Bob.
- The photos are of Alice raping someone.
- The photos are child pornography of Alice.
- The photos are of Alice molesting a child.
- Alice or someone close to her murders Bob.
- Bob is murdered and Alice becomes a prime suspect.
- Alice is Driven to Suicide.
- Alice’s abusive father murders her for dishonouring the family and frames Bob.
- Immoral Journalist Charlie interviews Alice and finds out that Bob spread nudes of Alice around school. He chooses to blackmail Bob instead. Either:
- Bob has Alice and Charlie killed so he won’t be blackmailed.
- Alice confronts Charlie and threatens to reveal the story herself. To protect his money flow, Charlie kills Alice.
- Alice kills Charlie for refusing to publish her story.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob is a Serial Rapist and Serial Killer who sells nude photos of his victims on the dark web.
- Bits of Alice's consciousness are trapped in her photos.
- Alice kills Bob and becomes a Serial Killer targeting her classmates and Bob’s family.
- Alice commits suicide. Bob and the other students notice Alice's nude photos have started to develop Slasher Smiles, red eyes, and lost limbs. They start to die in gruesome ways unless they humiliate themselves in a similar way Alice was.
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