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Line 1: {{~~work~~trope}} Bob is dead. His potential heirs gather after his funeral. Who will inherit his possessions? The will is opened, but...there's no clear heir. Line 8: May be a result of [[Inadequate Inheritor]]. Compare [[On One Condition]]. ~~----~~ {{examples}} == Anime & Manga == Line 25: == Live-Action TV == * In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S3 /E20 Digital Estate Planning\|Digital Estate Planning]]", Pierce's father leaves his will in the form of a video game. Whoever wins the game gets the inheritance. * In an episode of ''[[Married... with Children\|Married With Children]]'', Al Bundy's Uncle Stymie, the only male Bundy to be a success in life (Al credits this to the fact that Stymie was the only one who never married), left his $500,000 estate to the first male Bundy to have a legitimate son named after him. Considering that the lawyer who read the will would later marry a male Bundy and give birth to Stymie Junior to get the money, Al and the other Bundys didn't get the money, even though they [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot\|could have challenged the will under claims of undue influence]]. Line 35: == [[Visual Novels]] == * ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'': The successor to the Ushiromiya family's headship and fortune (which includes 10 tons of solid gold) seemed to be locked and ~~set--and~~set—and then a letter from the [[Magnificent Bastard\|resident witch]] arrived, announcing that the spoils have been made fair game to anyone who can solve the Witch's Epitaph, a long riddle which incidentally, details a ritual requiring human sacrifice. Mind games (and [[Anyone Can Die\|lots and]] [[Kill'Em All\|lots of murder]]) ensue. == [[Western Animation]] == * In one story arc on ''[[The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show]]'', a will specified that the deceased's "million-dollar note" would go to whoever had a foot bearing a certain name on ~~it--which~~it—which turned out to be Bullwinkle. Except that [[On One Condition\|to claim the money]], he had to spend the night in the owner's mansion (with the owner's sons making various attempts to get him out of the building). Rocky and Bullwinkle succeed, but then it's revealed that Bullwinkle's foot no longer bears the mark, because apparently it was just an imprint from his shower mat. So the million-dollar note goes to the sons. [[Twist Ending\|BUT!]] It turns out to be a ''promissory'' note, placing the sons in a $1 million debt, while Bullwinkle gets to go home to the happy status quo (telling Rocky that although that mark on his foot was just a temporary imprint, the mark on his ''other'' foot "never comes off"). {{reflist}} [[Category:Game Between Heirs]] ~~[[Category:Pages needing more categories]]~~ [[Category:Will and Inheritance Tropes]]