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See also [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]], which is where shop prices steadily rise regardless of how much sense this makes, and [[Karl Marx Hates Your Guts]], where prices stay the same, again, regardless of logic. Also see [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]. This is averted with [[Hospitality for Heroes]].

 

 

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* ''The Daichis: Earth's Defense Family'' are enlisted to protect the world from danger, and given all sorts of cool weapons to do it with. But they have to '''pay''' each time they use them. And the cost of using their weapons is usually much more than the reward. And they weren't warned about this ahead of time.

* Also happens in most any bounty hunter anime, from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' to ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]''. You break it, you bought it. Used mostly as an excuse to keep the heroes working by remaining in debt for the period of the show. (and sometimes past the ending as well)

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Marvel's ''[[Alias (Comic Book)|Alias]]'' featured Jessica Jones complaining that she still had to pay for a pack of cigarettes after saving the shopkeeper from a robbery.

 

* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', a Raise Dead spell requires 5,000 gp worth of diamonds as material components (and the more advanced versions charge way more), which are presumably consumed in the process. There is no clear explanation (other than game balance) for why every single divine force in the cosmos demand monetary compensation for this particular spell.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Of course: Only Adventurers can affored those prices! It's a [[Lampshade Hanging]] of the fact that the prices in most DnD books don't fit the amount non-adventurers make. Your average town-person gets a gold piece a month.

* In [[Antihero for Hire]], there is constant concern over the cost of specialty ammunition outweighing rewards. He eats a lot of ramen.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' Yahzee made fun of such RPG shopkeeper behavior, in the ''[[Torchlight]]'' review:

{{quote|'''Yahtzee:''' I have a lot of respect for the fantasy peasant village economic model. It seems those guys have a good scam going. You just [[Sarcasm Mode|accidentally]] build your village in walking distance of the local gnoll camp, or near a dragon cave, or directly on top of a gateway to hell, build a big fat checkpoint in the village center and keep giving birth to potential kidnap-victims, and your shopkeeper, your blacksmith, your tailor and your inkeeper, they'll all be set for fucking life.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Frequently averted as people will often just GIVE the group supplies (at least in the first season when they weren't really trying to hide the fact that Aang is the [[Hope Bringer|Avatar]] most of the time).

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Masked superheroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are frequent patrons of the Krusty Krab, but they have to pay full price just like everyone else. Barnacle Boy attempts to ask for a "living legend discount", to no avail.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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