Buy Them Off/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character tries to escape from his misdeed by paying the victims.

• Straight: John kills Jack and throws his widow and children some money.
• Exaggerated: John budgets money for widows and orphans and throws fits when any of them repulse it.
• Justified: Poor people will have a serious difficulty doing anything to people as powerful as John, and he can delude himself about the value of the money.
• Inverted: John robs the widow and children, figuring he's already evil.
• Subverted: John genuinely had to kill Jack, and gave the money out of pity.
• Double Subverted: It was self-defense, but only because he had driven Jack out of his head with previous cruelties.
• Parodied: John robs a bank and then pays off the cops that show up with the money he just stole from it.
• Deconstructed:
  • The widow and children are further insulted by his attempts to pay them off with such a shallow gesture and seek to exact revenge for the crime and his dismissal of their grief.
  • John is a broken and tragic individual who genuinely can only see value in terms of money, and absoulely nothing else.
• Reconstructed: John offers them such an impressive bribe that it derails their revenge.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: John kills Jack.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: John carries nothing of value on his person so that he isn't tempted to pay off his victims.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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Sorry I killed your father. Here, take this link back to Buy Them Off, and forget about this, alright?