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** ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' specifically features a villain known for his "million dollar bribes". {{spoiler|His [[The Dragon|Dragon]] [[Kick the Dog|betrays Felix Leiter]] to help him escape at the begining of the film for 2 million. [[It's Personal|Bond]] [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|is not]] [[Karmic Death|Amused]].}}

** ''[[Casino Royale]]'' has a very minor but well-placed villain whose price [[Averted Trope|happens to be more than MI6 can afford]]. So [[Magnificent Bastard|Mathis]] instead [[Take a Third Option|forges evidence that they had successfully bribed him]] and leaked the evidence to the villain's [[The Starscream|second-in-command]].

* ''Les Invasions Barbares'': The frequency and relative ease with which the protagonist bribes the people around him to make his father's last weeks the best he can is both funny and rather depressing.

* The corporate executive in ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' solves all problems by throwing money at them. At the end of the film, he passes out cheques to everybody involved to get them to keep quiet about what happened. One of them protests that you can't just buy people's silence like that, then reads the amount of the cheque and decides that actually you can.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** “The Play”: When escaping from the [[People's Republic of Tyranny]] Vitol Enzor bribes the border guard checkpoint commander and tells Jim that [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|bribe money]] solves any problem in an Eastern Europe nation-state. [http://www.tv.com/shows/mission-impossible/the-play-69709/\], [http://www.tv.com/shows/mission-impossible/the-play-69709/recap/\], [http://www.tv.com/shows/mission-impossible/the-play-69709/trivia/\], [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIuploader\]

** "The Pawn": Phelps offers an indirect bribe to the KGB officer who is guarding the nuclear scientist Phelps has been assigned to extract. He is threatened with deportation by the KGB officer who sees through his [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] and orders more surveillance. However, Phelps knew the KGB officer could not be bribed and used the conversation to manipulate the officer’s emotions.

* [[Cop Rock]]: the mayor accepts a bribe in exchange for awarding a building contract [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4neVtfd2rQI Cop Rock - You Know You're The One]

* ''[[Star Trek]]'': The Ferengi have this trope name as their 98th rule of acquisition.

** As stated above, this trope is the 98th Rule of Acquisition, listed in a book that Quark lives (and almost died) by.

* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'': London Tipton exhibits this and also appears in spin-off [[The Suite Life On Deck]].

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