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The [[Trope Namer]] comes from Shakespeare's ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', where the gain is a literal pound of flesh. Since one cannot extract a pound of flesh without also spilling blood, the contract is ruled null and void.
 
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** Another ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' example: "The Hand of Fear". Eldrad the Kastrian, having long ago been executed by his people for attempting to usurp rulership of Kastria, is resurrected on Earth many centuries later. He returns to Kastria to become its ruler, only to find the planet entirely dead. A final message from King Rokon (the king who Eldrad planned to usurp) crowns him 'King of Nothing'.
*** "[[Metallica|Where's your crown, King Nothing?!]]"
* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' does the [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]] plot involving the Doctor's property rights to a holonovel he's written. His publisher argues that the Doctor can not own his work, as, legally, a holonovel is the property of the artist who created it, and an artist is defined as "a person who creates an artistic work". Going against the handful of precedents set in ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', the courts find that the Doctor doesn't count as a person, which ought to disqualify him. But the victory is a hollow ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|or holo]]) one for the publisher, as the courts instead decide to expand the definition of ''artist'', so that personhood is not a necessary precondition.
** Which turns a loss into a similar hollow victory for the doctor, who's now legally an artist, but still no person.
** By this point it was clear that the Federation was trying really hard not to admit that they had accidentally created a slave race.
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