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And yes, the trope name sounds like a [[Mad Lib Thriller Title|Robert Ludlum novel]].
 
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'''Examples:'''
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* Female example: In ''The Way We Live Now'', the evil American woman pulls one of these on Paul. She will reveal the fact that he has previously slept with her to his fiancee if he doesn't give her one last night. And there is no Third Option. Then again, it's hard to feel sorry for him when all he needs is to decide to ''not'' trick a woman into marriage on false premises.
* On an episode of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', Teri Bauer offers herself to a thug in order to prevent him from raping [[Damsel Scrappy|Kim]]. She then uses the opportunity to steal his cell phone and call for help.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'': In the beginning of Season 3, Ellen Tigh sleeps with a Cylon to get her husband out of jail. He's released, but {{spoiler|it was only a test. Now that it's established she'd do anything for him, the real condition to release him is to have her agreeing to spying on him while he catches up with the rebels. But as soon as her husband believes his rebel friends that she must be spying on him, he kills her after saying he would rather still be tortured in prison that having her spying on him. So not only did she agree to be raped for nothing, it got her killed by the very man she agreed to be raped for in the first place. Can't be more Greek tragedy that that}}.
** Yes it can: {{spoiler|Ellen is later [[Oedipus Complex|revealed to be Cavil's mother figure]], and she created him in the image of her father. [[Squick|Cavil knew all of this at the time]].}}
** And {{spoiler|we find out that Ellen and Tigh are both Cylons.}}
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* Judy Collins sings "Anathea," with much the same plot. (It likely derives from a Hungarian song and may share ancestry with [[Child Ballad]] 95 "The Maid Freed From the Gallows.")
* "Hangman, Hangman" by [[Great Big Sea]]; his brother brings money, his sister brings... herself (and "warms [the hangman's] soul"), but the hangman goes back on his word and executes the prisoner.
** "Gallows Pole" is a cover of the [[Led Zeppelin]] arrangement of a traditional song called "The Maid Freed From the Gallows". It's discussed at [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maid_Freed_from_the_Gallows:The Maid Freed from the Gallows|the other wiki]].
 
== [[Opera]] and [[Theater]] ==
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* ''[[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]]''. And Beetlejuice makes it very clear that one implies the other (it is a [[Tim Burton]] film, after all).
* Rare male version: In ''[[The Matrix]]: Reloaded'', Persephone refuses to help the rebels unless Neo gives her a passionate kiss, as he would to Trinity. Trinity is not amused.
** She does this again in the ''Enter the Matrix'' videogame with the main character, whether you chose Ghost...[[Girl -On -Girl Is Hot|or Niobe]].
 
== Literature ==
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