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It's an easy move, because you have a character with a dangerous flaw and a clear motivation, but who still can be good if the story needs it. Kind of a [[Discredited Trope]] maybe because of that, specially in spy stories, but still used occasionally.
Often happens to [[The Gambling Addict]], especially after an [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]. May be the victim of the [[Professional Gambler]] or a crooked [[Bookie]]. Compare [[Wager Slave]].
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== [[Anime]]
* [[Kaiji]] is constantly trying to find a way to pay off his debt. It usually ends up with him in worse debt.
* The male protagonist of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' is trapped by his parents' debts.
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** Henchmen that actually consider working for The Joker (known for offing henchmen for any or no reason) are generally very desperate for money, often due to this trope.
* In ''[[Tintin]]'', this is how Colonel Boris/Jorgen trapped {{spoiler|Frank Wolff}} into becoming [[The Mole]].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
* A series of ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' comic strips had Bucky facing the threat of getting killed by another cat, because Bucky lost a bet on a baseball game and didn't have enough money to pay the debt. {{spoiler|The team that Bucky bet on was the Mariners, but he lost that bet because one of their players had retired before he even made the bet.}}▼
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the [[Lord Darcy]] novel ''Too Many Magicians'', uncovering one character's gambling debts and the associated blackmail forms a major subplot.
* Early in the ''[[Garrett P.I.]]'' series, Morley Dotes gets into trouble because of his addiction to water-spider races.
* Ludovic Bagman in ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Live
* In at least one episode of the ''[[Poirot]]'' series of [[Agatha Christie]] adaptations starring David Suchet, a character was persuaded to get involved in a jewel robbery to pay off a gambling debt.
* One of Garibaldi's men is compromised this way in an early episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]''.
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' has Jacky's father who is blackmailed into working security for a morally ambiguous casino owner in order to pay off his debt.
▲== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* A series of ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' comic strips had Bucky facing the threat of getting killed by another cat, because Bucky lost a bet on a baseball game and didn't have enough money to pay the debt. {{spoiler|The team that Bucky bet on was the Mariners, but he lost that bet because one of their players had retired before he even made the bet.}}
== [[Radio]] ==
* In the first ''[[Harry Nile]]'' episode, Harry owes a gambling debt to a mob boss and is sent to kill a guy to pay it back.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[Truth in Television]] as far as the Mafia were/are concerned. A favourite way for them to get their hooks into a business was to let a gambling-addicted owner run up impossible debts with a mob bookie.▼
* One of the reasons Marc Anthony was so loyal to [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] was that the latter covered the former's gambling and prostitute debts that in modern terms [[wikipedia:Mark Antony|stacked up to about US$5 million]].▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* In the second ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', a Twi'lek laborer is so addicted to Pazaak that he gambled away his ''girlfriend'.' You can play the dealer to whom he owes the debt in order to bail out the girlfriend. Either she dumps her idiot boyfriend, or you order her to go with her idiot boyfriend, or you can take ownership of her yourself and keep her wages while telling the idiot boyfriend he's out of luck.
* [[Grand Theft Auto IV|Roman Bellic's]] gambling problems are why his cousin Niko ends up getting in trouble at the start of of the game.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Truth in Television]] as far as the Mafia were/are concerned. A favourite way for them to get their hooks into a business was to let a gambling-addicted owner run up impossible debts with a mob bookie.
▲* One of the reasons Marc Anthony was so loyal to [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] was that the latter covered the former's gambling and prostitute debts that in modern terms [[wikipedia:Mark Antony|stacked up to about US$5 million]].
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[[Category:Trapped by Gambling Debts]]
[[Category:Corruption Tropes]]
[[Category:Gambling and Games of Chance]]
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