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* In ''[[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' you must collect 100 coins in the local currency (which is apparently [[Global Currency Exception|worth a lot more than]] the Mushroom Kingdom's) to get past a tollbooth (the guard for which [[Jerkass|attacks you anyway]]).

* In ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'', Chapter 2-3, you need to make 1,000,000 rubees by working in a generator room after breaking one of Mimi's vases. {{spoiler|In actuality, this merely involves raising around 1000 rubees to get access to the more lucrative work room, and then to buy the password to the vault which contains the remaining cash for 10,000 rubees}}.

** Clearing the [[Cash Gate]] by making the final repayment unlocks Endless Mode, where the game continues without the money pressure, allowing you to focus on dungeons and plot; and Survival Mode, where the debt constantly ramps and can can't ever be fully paid off.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy the 4 Heroes of Light]]'', there's one part of the game where Jusqua has to raise 10,000 gil in order to un-[[Baleful Polymorph]] Princess Aire, who got turned into a cat, even though {{spoiler|he's got the wrong cat}}. To help with this, at this point you have the option to open your own shop and, fortunately, [[Karl Marx Hates Your Guts|Karl Marx]] [[Averted Trope|DOESN'T]] hate your guts!

 

== Non-Video Game Examples ==

* ''[[In Time (Film)|In Time]]'' had excessive border tolls for moving between districts, which were larger for entry into richer areas and designed to keep poor people walled in. However, they were less than welcoming to people who did make it through.

* In [[Real Life]], there's a building owned by [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/the-million-dollar-club/article1482153/ Morgan Meighen & Associates], where you need $1 million dollars to proceed beyond the soft yellow interior.

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