Basic Trope: A character gets into a fight in a private establishment and pays the owner(s) afterwards.
- Straight: The hero beats up a few mooks inside the Bad Guy Bar and busts up the furniture in the process but has the decency to toss a few bucks the bartender's way.
- Exaggerated: During the fight, the hero somehow blows up the entire establishment, leaving nothing but ash. He goes bankrupt paying for the damages.
- Downplayed: The hero breaks a single chair and slides a few dollars over to the owner.
- Justified: The hero made a really big mess and doesn't want to seem like a Jerkass for not paying.
- Inverted: A character beats up a bunch of guys in a bar and gets hurt, so the owner pays for his injuries.
- Subverted: The character tries to pay for damages but the owner refuses...
- Double Subverted: ... as it turns out, the owner was using the fight as an insurance scam and has his insurance company pay for the damages instead.
- Parodied: A character beats up someone in a bar without breaking anything and goes to the bartender, apologizing for the mess and giving him a large sum of money. The bartender looks at the character and asks, "What's this for?", only for the entire bar to crumble to the ground.
- Zig Zagged: The hero tries to pay but the owner refuses, only for him to demand payment from the losers of the fight instead.
- Averted: A fight happens in an establishment and the winner walks away without paying for the damages done, despite protests from the owner.
- Enforced:
- It's an episode of a kids' show and one scene involves the hero defeating a bad guy in a restaurant where some furniture gets smashed in the process. The censors are nervous about this so they ask a quick scene to be added in which the hero pays for the damage he caused.
- The writers are trying to show that the hero is perfectly willing to get in a fight in a bar, but Everyone Has Standards, and they're still willing to pay for what they break.
- Lampshaded: Bob tells Alice that it is always polite to give the bartender some cash any time she kills bad guys inside one.
- Invoked: After a Bar Brawl happens, the bartender demands reparations for the damages and the winner obliges.
- Exploited: A character Does Not Know His Own Strength, resulting in him smashing any area he fights in. The owner of a bar decides to have some mooks pick a fight with him inside his establishment so he can force money out of him.
- Defied:
- The person who caused the damage was a villain. Of course he won't pay for the damage.
- [Bartender pulls out shotgun and trains it on Alice and Bob] I don't care that you can give me more money than King Midas! Take it outside! And far away!
- Discussed:Bob: Why did you give the bartender all that money?
Alice: Did you see how many chairs I broke in there? - Conversed: Bob and Alice see a Bar Brawl on a TV show and mention the number of occurences in which the hero actually pays for the damages done.
- Implied: A character gets into a fight in an establishment and acknolwedges the mess he's made while the owner glares at him angrily. The scene cuts to him leaving the establishment while putting his wallet away.
- Deconstructed: A character gets into a fight and is forced to not only pay for damages to avoid getting sued but also bribe the owner so that he'll not call the cops.
- Reconstructed: As it turns out, the fight took place in a place with different laws so he would not have to worry about getting sued or bribing someone to not call the cops. He pays for the damages anyway just to be nice.
- Played For Laughs:
- A character gets into a slapstick-filled fight in an establishment and groans when he has to pay for damages.
- Unable to pay out of his pocket, the hero has to work at the establishment for free wearing an ugly or skimpy uniform.
- Played For Drama: A character is forced against his will to fight in an establishment and pays the owner for the damages due to intense guilt over the entire ordeal.
- Played For Horror: Bob is The Sociopath and does not understands why is it that the bartender is upset about having his bar destroyed when he is giving him nine times what he would have gotten out of the insurance. As the bartender insists for the hundredth time that It's the Principle of the Thing and that Bob still committed a crime by destroying his establishment (let alone the bloodbath Bob unleashed in there), Bob decides the bartender is better off dead.
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