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Excel Saga : Kapabu's control of Fukuoka City is founded entirely on bribery and blackmail.
Yu-Gi-Oh! :
Early in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! , Kaiba was known to use both bribery and blackmail to get what he wanted. (In the manga, he even admitted he got his three Blue-Eyes White Dragons cards this way.) Mokuba intended to do the same thing in the manga (he was far more evil in that version than he was in the anime, at least early on). Kaiba mellowed on this a little as the series progressed (he stopped using methods that were outright illegal, but he still tended to use his wealth to his advantage). Of course, as bad as Kaiba was, his adoptive father was much worse. To Gozuburo's thinking, money was the answer to everything, and there was nothing that couldn't be bought. (That was a big factor that led to Kaiba taking him down the first time, come to think of it.)
This was inverted in the episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX that featured one-shot character Anacis. An incredibly wealthy man (among his possessions were a gold-and-gem-encrusted Duel Disk and a submarine with a private dueling arena) he was also a very shallow and arrogant man who thought anyone could be bought. Unfortunately for him, his attempt to recruit Judai into his new project through bribery (even though the amount he offered was the equivalent of over a million dollars) failed; Judai's loyalty to Duel Academy and his allies was more important than money.
In the Alternate History of Code Geass , Benjamin Franklin was bribed by the British Empire with titles of nobility. He then betrayed the American Revolutionary movement. With the information provided by him, the British army organized an ambush where George Washington was killed, thus bringing the American Revolution to a screeching halt.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure :
Stardust Crusaders : Used constantly by Joseph Joestar . Like in the example image of the trope, there are many times when Joseph solves problems by throwing money at them. Including, but not limited to, buying a car to trade for camels, buying an airplane, bribes, a goddamn submarine , and buying a car in the middle of a life or death fight to use as a getaway vehicle. Not to mention all the hospital visits.
Stone Ocean : The Green Dolphin Street Prison has the inmates running on a hierarchy within prison walls, prisoners occasionally use money to bribe guards and get pass other prisoners to use the phone, and would resort to extortion from other inmates who weren't able to pay back money they borrowed.
Inverted by the God Hand in Berserk , they believe that anyone can be brought to a point so low that they would give up anything to escape it, and are usually right .
Played for laughs in The Case Files of Jeweler Richard with Richard's constant weakness to sweets.


Magic: The Gathering : In addition to the monger cards, and the new legend rule (wherein playing a second copy is bribing the character to leave), this is the default behavior of black, which uses everything as a resource.
Perhaps the best proof of this is Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer , who is able to buy off anyone (except those with Hexproof, Shroud, an applicable Protection effect, or Tatterkite ). Mercenaries , soldiers , spies , bats , vampires , evil robots , dragons , Lovecraftian horrors , anyone , doesn't matter, Gwafa Hazid has enough money to pay them off.


Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman : Diana gets Savi's thugs into turncoating to work for her by offering them lots of more money that what Savi offered.
During Grant Morrison 's run on Justice League of America , Lex Luthor recruited mercenary The Flash villain Mirror Master as part of his Injustice League. Mirror Master ultimately quit the team; his loyalties were always to the highest bidder, and Luthor was ultimately outbid... by Bruce Wayne . Also a rare usage of this trope as a Pet the Dog moment, Luthor couldn't outbid Wayne because Wayne was giving the money to Mirror Master's favorite charity: an orphanage he grew up in.
In Violine , the Zongo customs official takes the bribe after being offered enough money.
X-Men : The Juggernaut is known and feared for being an unstoppable, invulnerable villain who crushes anything in his path. However, one surefire way to stop him (assuming he's working as a hired gun, and not pursuing a personal vendetta) is to offer him more cash than his current employer is offering.
Zig-zagged and subverted for laughs in The Powerpuff Girls story "Everything Must Go." Mojo Jojo is having a yard sale of all his weapons and robots. Ms. Keane is eyeing one of his robots but notices its rather steep price tag ($2 million). Mojo vehemently defends his pricing saying it was labor intensive and he's even selling it at a loss. Ms. Keane offers 75 cents for it. Mojo takes it.


In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines , Professor Oak suffers severe financial problems, which sometimes force him to do things he doesn't like to keep his lab afloat and continue his research work. This is established as early as the second chapter, when he's forced to give starter Pokémon to a pair of twins when their father ( who is an important politician ) threatens to cut his funds.
In Helluva Job , Blitzo tries to bring up professional integrity while denying St. Anger's use of the grimoire to get to Earth, but is shut up when Anger shows him a check worth a lot of money.
Miss Piggy in The Rainbow Connection paid Shinji's teacher enough money to give up his guardianship of Shinji over to her and lie to Gendo about it, despite the teacher knowing exactly how Gendo would react.
Played for Laughs in With Sprinkles . Everytime Xander does something that the crew of the Serenity say is impossible, he passes Mal a roll of gold coins, causing the captain to either buy Xander's blatantly false excuse or make one up. Xander pulling off a Wall Crawl ? Must be a malfunction with the gravity controls. Xander pulls far too much out of his pockets ? Nothing wrong with having deep pockets.

McLeach : Everyone's got his price. All I gotta do is offer him whatever he wants... and then not give it to him.

McLeach : I didn't make it all the way to the Third Grade for nothing!

They say every man has his price - but not every man gets it. Interpol Agent Jack Valentine couldn't be bought, at least not with money. For Jack, glory was the prize.

"Every man has a price he will willingly accept. Even for what he hoped never to sell."

Jack : So, we've established my proposal as sound in principle. Now, we're just haggling over price.

Director : Ten thousand roubles. Pianist : Twenty.

"A hypothetical question: Would you sleep with me for one billion dollars?"

"Wow, that's a lot of money... yes, I guess I would."

"Would you sleep with me for five dollars?"

"Just what sort of a girl do you think I am?!"

"We've already settled that. Now we're just haggling over price."

Simon: It expanded my world view, ever after. Money, power, sex . . . and elephants.

Zorian : Yes, but what if you gave them an outrageous offer? The collected secrets of dozens of mages. More money than they'd ever seen in their life. Rare materials that cannot be obtained on the open market. A chance to hire a group of archmages for a task. That sort of thing. ... Xvim : There is some merit to it. Some of these people… I don't think there is anything I could offer them to share their findings with me. Most, though, probably have their price, if one were willing to go high enough, and the offer looked credible.

"Suppose I paid you. You were at the bank; you know I've got funds." "Probably millions, but I wouldn't touch a franc note." "Why? Are you afraid?" "Most assuredly. Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn't have five minutes."

Diane: You listen to me! I wouldn't take your job if you offered... (Beat) How much? (Beat again) Plus medical?? (Beat again) , then grunts and hangs up in disgust.

Norm: Sir, I cannot be threatened... And I cannot be bought... But... Put the two together and you've got a deal.

Luke: I can't be bought. Rosalie Carbone: You can't answer that truthfully yet, sweetheart. You don't know your price yet.

Fisk: How much are each of those years worth to you? In round figures.

Myrtle's Father : I will give you $10 million.

Eddie : Daddy! *hugs Myrtle's father*

Hobbes : I don't know which is worse: that everyone has their price, or that the price is always so low.

Calvin : I'd make mine higher, but it's hard enough to find buyers as it is.

Garfield : If you give me a good number, I'll make it worth your while. Scale : You can't bribe me! Garfield : Two words: unlimited batteries. Scale : Hellooooo, SKINNY!


Ted DiBiase 's character in WWE bribed quite a few people during his time as a wrestling Heel , to the point that it actually became his routine. His Catchphrase , also the first line in his entrance theme, was "Everybody's got a price".
The Godfather bribed opponents as well, though with "hos" instead of money.


In the Cabin Pressure episode "Edinburgh", Martin refuses to humiliate himself groveling to Mr. Birling for £500. £6000, however, is another matter entirely. Unfortunately, Martin's terrible luck holds out.


Traveller campaign supplement The Traveller Adventure . The section "Zilan Wine" says that PCs can bribe every single government official on the planet Zila, no exceptions.
Dungeons & Dragons
In the Planescape campaign setting, it's possible to get almost anything you want in Sigil through bribery - information, special treatment from a service, entrance into a place you couldn't otherwise get into, even getting the town watch to look the other way (depending on how honest he is). Probably nowhere in the universe is the expression "money talks" more true than there.
White Dwarf magazine #42 article "Irilian". Almost everyone in the town of Irilian can be bribed. The article lists each Non-Player Character 's "bribe level" (the minimum amount necessary to bribe that character). If the Player Character pays more money, the chance of successfully bribing the Non-Player Character increases: each additional payment equal to the bribe level increases the success chance by 20%.
Warhammer Fantasy
Greasus Goldtooth is rich enough to bribe any enemy into incompetence thanks to controlling and extracting a considerable tax on anyone using the Warhammer equivalent of the Silk Road, which runs through his territory. This includes most royal guards and is, by name, actually one of his special abilities , which allows him to force Stupidity tests by bribing enemy units near him in the middle of battle.
There's also the Lore of Slaanesh spell from the End Times update. Song of Seduction allows a Slaaneshi sorcerer to tempt any enemy unit into switching sides using this trope, even using the Trope Name in its description. "Every man has his price, even if he knows it not, and Slaanesh's wizards can divine such things whilst magic flows strong."
Exalted 's Solar charm Knowing the Soul's Price allows you to do exactly that by revealing the one thing for which its target will do anything . The charm description, however, states that although every man has his price, this price is not necessarily money, and that it is more likely both to be really high and not to be money for persons with high moral standards.
This is the hat of the Syndicate from Mage: The Ascension . Their Enlightened science focuses on manipulating economies and individuals through the flow of money and valuable resources; the more powerful ones can literally break reality by throwing money at it. "Hey, fire hydrant! I'll give you two hundred dollars if you'll become a flamethrower!"


In Knickerbocker Holiday , the Councilmen distribute hush-money to people who ask troublesome questions, including each other.
In The Mikado , Pooh-Bah would be insulted if you offered him a bribe, and mortified at the prospect of working for a salary. However, as a man of high moral principles, he is grateful for every such opportunity to practice self-abasement.

Shepard: I just went all the way up to the Presidium for this. Why should I give it to a random Krogan?

Shepard: Oh, well, that's different.

Tiffany: Aw c'mon... can't we turn a blind eye just this once? Faith: [outraged] No way! It's burning at the stake for her! Tiffany: [rolls eyes] Sigh... Tell you what: be lenient, and I'll talk to Tiffany Winters about giving you a DVD recording of her morning yoga workout. M.M.A.A's honor. Faith: [ blushing ] What would I— Tiffany: It's nude yoga. Faith: Grrr, cheater.


In Critical Role : Campaign Three , the group is not above using bribes in order to "convince" people to do what they want. Ashton bribes a tavern owner for the name of a dwarf patron who visited the inn in the recent past, and Dorian bribes a Dreamscape Theater worker to give the group box seats to a play.
In the Pokémon short film Pokémon Apokélypse , which is a parody of Darker and Edgier , Team Rocket has basically overrun Kanto society with this trope. Giovanni even has a Briefcase Full of Money . Unfortunately, even in this messed-up universe, Ash still has standards.

Ultra-Humanite : What do I need with money?

Luthor : Everybody needs money. The only question is: How much?

Inspector : Burns, if I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to bribe me. Burns: Is there some confusion about this? [thrusts the money into the inspector's pockets] Take it! Take it! Take it, you poor schmo!

Chief: The person [wink] that I'm looking for [wink] is Mr. Bribe. [wink, wink, places hand on money box] Homer: It's a ring-toss game.

David Xanatos : Pay a man enough, and he'll walk barefoot into Hell.

Jay : You think you can put a price on my humiliation? (Duke hands him a check. Jay looks at it) Wow! That's it to the penny!

Scrooge: Everyone has their price. (Pete drives up in a golf cart, dressed like a pimp and hauling around a huge sack of cash with a dollar sign on it) Pete: And my price is a big fat bag of cash!

Greenback: How about...Australia? Duckula: Australia? Bondi Beach... Woolamaloo... kangaroo stew... yes... Done!


Economics regards this as a near-universal fact—all motivations can be quantified and converted into money. note More generally, it's "utility" that everything can be measured in; money is just another thing that can be measured in utility. There are even economic analyses of how people could engage in suicide attacks on the basis of rational self-interest.
Many defectors have used bribe money to escape North Korea and/or convince North Korean officials to ignore black market deals. Bribery became very common after North Korea's economy started to fail when the Cold War ended. North Korea depended on foreign aid to keep its economy intact. When Russia and China began to charge higher prices for petroleum and other supplies; the infrastructure suffered a breakdown that became worse after the famine. However, the Bribe Backfire can instantly apply if the bribe threatens the North Korean official with public exposure.
In China , bribes are paid so black market operations will be ignored.
This is common practice in many countries, especially poorer ones. There are many places around the world where the difference between success and failure is dependent on giving the right corrupt official a small cash payout. Where foreigners from richer countries are involved, such a bribe can easily amount to more than said official's paycheck.
Often though, it is customary to have a small face-saving device by paying the bribe in something that looks less crass than money. An art object or rare wine bottle might do, for example.
On the other hand, it is sometimes a custom to send such an object as a gift after a successful or lucrative business deal. While this can actually be perfectly innocent, the recipient can't accept the gift, because of company policy born of this trope.
In some places where bribery is so ubiquitous, it's necessary in order to get an official to actually do their job at all note Not about bribing a water inspector to change the results of a test of river water, but about simply getting them to take the sample in the first place . Companies will often have (suitably discreet) line items in their planning budgets to handle the required bribes. This is often because public servants in these countries are ludicrously underpaid, as the government there has no money. At least, no money for lower-level government employees, because usually the people at the top have been lining their own pockets out of the state treasury .
Ubiquitous to the point that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the American law that prohibits bribing officials in foreign countries, actually has an exception for bribes that are required for people to do their job.
This is also why there are so many "bad Russian driving" videos uploaded to YouTube - because of the rampant use of bribes, installing dashboard cameras was the easiest way to combat the corruption. It's a bit hard to convince a judge that you were at fault when there's video evidence proving that the other guy ran a stop sign.
When Ritchie Blackmore was leaving Deep Purple in 1975, he invited the members of their opening act, Elf, to be part of his new band, Rainbow . The offer did not extend to their guitarist, Steve Edwards, whom Blackmore offered a sizable "Begone" Bribe (rumored to be in the neighborhood of $50,000). He took it.
Soldiers throughout history have fallen into primarily one of two categories: honor-bound aristocrats and paid ruffians. Considering how bad military pay has been up until just last century, soldiers used to be very easy to bribe. Now, thanks to things like professional militaries, decent wages, and strict accountability, good luck.
To this day, irregular and poor troops can be bribed, especially if they aren't sitting on anything especially important, are bored, dissatisfied, or a combination. Works quite easily on freelance mercs, considering how the boss often pays peanuts if anything, and they generally don't have to hold up to ethics inquiries.
There are several instances in history of wars being won by bribing the enemy's soldiers to abandon their cause. A prime example would be the brief, largely-abortive war the (New/2nd) 'Guangxi Clique' waged against the Kuomintang in the mid-1930s. Chiang Kai-Shek's 'Silver Bullets' did far more to ensure the collapse of the Warlords' forces than did the efforts of the Kuomintang's troops. Since they were all nominally under the government of the Republic of China, all the country's troops (regardless of who actually paid them and where their real allegiances lay) technically answered to Generalissimo Chiang, it was actually perfectly legal for him to give large bonuses to 'his' commanders as 'rewards for their service and loyalty' - though all said commanders were actually equipped and supplied by and answered to the Guangxi Clique.
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