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together doesn't resolve as many of their psychological issues as one might think.
"Come! Take thy rightful place at my side! Do so, and I will grant unto thee dominion over half this world!"
Say you're a villain and your
is being ruined by this pesky hero who just will not let you scheme in peace. You've sent , you've , maybe you've even tried . No dice, the hero keeps coming. You can't beat them!
Well, if you can't beat them, don't join them — offer to let them join you. That's right: you can become the // if you will just drop this silly crusade against the
and get with the program. Go on, those oppressed peasants you're fighting for won't mind — they'll understand that you can't let an opportunity like this slide. The offer is usually made by someone who needs to
When this offer is made, it's usually a sign that either the hero or the villain is going to die very soon. If not, it's the hero's final rejection of the villain's vision, and marks the point where things get serious...
Because the hero rarely follows up on the offer. From the human perspective, it's a pretty foolish move anyway. How could any villain ever be serious about hiring someone who's been thwarting their evil schemes every step of the way, especially when it's a morally righteous ? How could the villain possibly trust someone treacherous enough to do such a blatant ?
Because...
perspective, it makes perfect sense. Temptation is part of the complete Evil package. Every evil force is . (Of course, some villains are more
than others.)
Some villains are just
that they literally
— they don't believe in , , , and so forth, and can't believe the good guy really does, either.
The villain just decides it's worth the risk - if the good guy's this impressive when ,
The villain has some connection to the hero (either
or , usually), and despite being evil . He'd much rather convince the hero to join him than to kill somebody he'd prefer to keep alive.
The villain takes an interest in the hero either as a , or as
from himself, or may perhaps even have a
on him or her. In the former two cases, the villain sees a potentially powerful ally, while in the latter it may qualify as a case of .
The villain has a huge ego and craves the validation that having the hero join him would bring.
The villain is using
to undermine the hero's confidence, morals or even his very identity. A hero crippled by self-doubt is much more likely to listen to the villain's offer.
The villain may need the hero to join him for some
he's putting into motion to work.
The villain is an
who genuinely believes that he's in the right and would rather win the hero over than kill him.
The final case
because the villain believes he is offering the hero a chance to do the right thing, and will be surprised (or in the case of a , outraged) at being turned down.
The villain's
for the hero usually (intentionally) leaves lasting
scars. If the villain is a little too insistent, then expect
to occur. The specific and openly romantic variation where a villainess offers the hero a chance to become her consort is covered under .
Some Videogames may give this option to the player, leading to an alternate ending or a , in a great many cases, an "evil" player's scripted response to this offer is commonly the player killing the villain and seizing the . Certain villains should be aware that even success can be dangerous to them if the
The three most common responses are:
The hero joins, .
A refusal that consists of either a , , , or a mix of the three, where a hero shows his true colors.
The inversion is , when it's the hero making the offer to the villain.
is a very common subversion.
Contrast , which is another way the hero may try to bring the villain over to the good side, and , where the hero is offered power by the good guys as a reward for heroism.
Compare , .
See also .
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: Medusa offers this to Stein on several occasions, in an
sort of way, and confesses her "love". Professor Stein turns her down flat on (almost) all occasions.
: Seto's side of the story in the
centers largely around this trope, with a
for good measure.
Later in the series, Yami Marik tries this on good Marik in a last-ditch effort to avoid banishment to the Shadow Realm. He's completely ignored.
In , Carly, as a Dark Signer, showed Jack a world where they would rule together as King and Queen. Jack almost fell for it, too bad that his
snapped him out of it.
: Roget, the main villain of the Synchro arc, proposes this to Yuya: if Yuya beats Jack, he will take his place as the city's champion, and keep the peace between the two warring states of the city. Yuya declines, as he realizes that Roget has no intention of using the role to actually fix the problem, and would rather keep the peace and retain his control over the city. Roget also tries to groom Serena as his next pawn, but Serena refuses his hand-outs and doesn't want to work with him.
: In the third episode, enemy soldier and ace mecha pilot L-Elf reveals that he wants
to "form a contract with him and serve as his right hand", essentially asking Haruto to become his , to bring revolution to Dorsia.
Haruto eventually accepts, realizing that L-Elf's genius can potentially minimize the losses his friends will have to face. That wasn't part of L-elf's plan, but Haruto says that L-elf is like bitter coffee that needs sugar, and offers to be L-elf's sugar.
In the last episode of , the Obsidian Lord offers Mai a chance to replace Mikoto as his ,
after the latter does a
. Mai tells him
where to stick it, and the final battle begins.
In the last episode of season one of
Lan, fused with Megaman, is fighting with a
Dr. Regal. Our
is on the ropes, but rather than taking Lan out,
Dr. Regalexplains that he's impressed with him and explicitly states "I want you by my side, Lan." His offer is refused.
Also used in .
The maddened
Hiroko offers this to her friend Shiina as they face each other after Hiroko's
And before that,
gets offers from the likes of
to join their respective causes of creating a new world. .
The entire ending of the manga is the result of
Shiina accepting one of these.
After the deaths of her father, mother, boyfriend, best friend and everyone she'd ever cared about, Mamiko asks her if there's any reason left not to end the world. Shiina replies that there isn't.
In an interesting example, in the first
novel (and comic),
give this offer to
"As two beautiful lords ruling the night" (to paraphrase) - despite that
would most certainly have something to say about the attempt to double-cross him.
Grosser offers this to the titular
in the first season finale. Yui says no.
gets this offer from his
Nanami. In this case, it was combined with a .
appears to want to bring Saya to the
by revealing that
is her sister.
that Amshel did this in order to isolate
so he could "convince" Haji into becoming Diva's groom. Amshel actually plans to kill
as she will never stop trying to kill Diva.
Solomon- more out of
than any agenda- asks her to reasoning that in spite of their bad history,
are family while Saya's human family will reject her. She is strongly tempted this time but ultimately turns him down, mainly because on principle,
cannot let Diva live after all she has done and plans to keep doing to humans.
In the manga, Saya and Diva had a sisterly friendship in The Zoo until Diva . Saya immediately hates Diva for killing everyone but Diva is oblivious to her rage and earnestly believes that Saya will join her as soon as the humans are out of the way.
Creed from
practically lives this trope. According to him, his entire plot to rule the world will always be incomplete if Train isn't by his side. It could be said that he is the most persistent character in the entire series, offering Train this countless times.
Tabool from , a child soldier whose
has driven him to the brink of scathing insanity, tries to convince his sane best friend Nabuca that they can take over Hellywood together. Strange subversion in that
Nabuca refuses, but it's Tabool who winds up killing Nabuca.
Senator Kurt Godel proposes that to Negi in , apparently for the sole purpose of getting him angry. It works wonders.
was he serious after all?
His true offer?
He wants Negi to take up Queen Arika's legacy and become King. Apparently. In the end, Negi
nearly does take him up on it, but ultimately rejects it, as Kurt's
means that he would only save about an eighteenth of the population. According to Negi,
Arika would have tried to save everyone, so if he's going to follow in her footsteps, he's saving everyone too.
In , the Apostle and
Rosine offers this to her best friend Jill. Who refuses, so
Rosine abducts and tries to transform her into one of her followers instead.
Later, Emperor Ganishka offers Guts a position in his army so he can get revenge on Griffith. Guts tells him to
In , Red was given the offer twice with Team Rocket and The Elite Four. Both times he refused, though the outcomes were quite different. First time, epic battle which he barely wins thanks to a . Second time, not so lucky as he ends up as a .
In the first episode of , Megatron offers to let Optimus Prime join him so they can despoil Earth together. Optimus, naturally enough, refuses.
In the Ocean dub of , Vegeta makes this offer to Goku. Goku turns him down, not only for moral reasons, but pointing out that Vegeta . This is changed back to the original dialogue of Vegeta bragging about how he was going to kill Goku for the Funimation re-dub.
A lot of DBZ villains try this. Vegeta, Frieza, King Cold, Zarbon, Raditz, Turles... probably a bunch of others, too.
This actually goes all the way back to Adviser Black from the original series. After taking over as leader of the Red Ribbon Army, he offers joining forces with Goku, even going so far as to propose first using the Dragon Balls to revive the man Goku is trying to bring back to life. Goku still refuses.
Frieza does it again in the Resurrection F movie, offering Vegeta the chance to kill Goku while the latter is helpless and reinstating Vegeta as supreme commander of Frieza's army (second to Frieza himself, naturally). Vegeta seems to be intrigued for a moment, but turns him down, saying that he needs Goku alive because their rivalry is what pushes him to better himself... and besides which, Frieza blew up Vegeta's planet, and he still hasn't forgiven him for that.
Genkaku of
frequently offers this to Nagi who always turns him down.
Gokudo, being an , actually takes the offer. It backfires, but he still tried.
Faye Valentine gets an offer like this from
Vincent in
. She rejects it.
has an interesting take on this trope. The Maou wants the Yuusha to work together with so they can end the war between their races peacefully with the least repercussions and enough benefits for everyone. They also note that offering to rule together is considered standard procedure for a Maou (one of the manga adaptions shows a picture of
over his eyes during this explanation), and lampshade how a real hero would never accept such an offer. They also discuss how such division would not actually end the war, just change the names for the sides (from human-demon to Hero-Demon King)
Later, the spirit of a previous Maou who's
the current one makes a similar offer. The Yuusha again points out how ridiculous it is to expect a hero to accept such an offer.
The Green King, Nagare Hisui, makes this offer to Shiro,
the Silver King, right after the latter has formed an alliance with the other Clans to defeat the former. Shiro turns him down, because his ideas sound a bit too familiar to Shiro, considering his backstory.
Later, Nagare makes this offer to ,
Saruhiko Fushimi. Nagare is something of an , and
Saruhiko is definitely an
- it was ambiguous up to that point whether he was in Jungle as a mole or as a real traitor, and he legitimately might accept the offer. He
turns it down in his usual brilliant deadpan way.
In chapter 581 of
Kabuto actually asks this of
Sasuke twice.
He refuses the offers.
After killing Neji and giving Naruto a
about his naivety and inability to protect everyone, Tobi asks Naruto what he even has left in this reality and invites him to stop prolonging his suffering and
him and Madara. Naruto hesitates, but Hinata .
Madara asks Sasuke about this in the recent chapter. Of course, his offer has been refused.
Kirge Opie offers Apacci, Mila Rose and Sung-Sung the chance to join with the Vandenreich. They refuse.
Since he has a join or die mentality, he obliterates them.
Yhwach makes this offer as well.
To both Aizen and Ichigo. They both refuse. Yhwach doesn' he planned for that.
: In chapters 385, 386, and 387 Bermuda asks Reborn to join him and says he likes him and wants him (for his team). Reborn refuses and Bermuda responds by capturing him.
in the finale of the 2003
series, Dr. Tenma takes over the Ministry of Science and demands to see "Tobio" again. Fully believing that Astro is Tobio, he asks him to join him. When Astro refuses, Tenma snaps completely and tries to commit suicide.
In , this offer is already in effect with most of the .
Queen Beryl from
offers Prince Endymion the chance to join her and rule over her kingdom (and presumably whatever else she conquers) during her attack on the Silver Millennium. Naturally, he refuses
which results in his death.
The second time around, she doesn't bother offering it
she just brainwashes him.
This is the same proposal that
offers anytime he sees a potential tool to use. Usually, though, he's secretly planning on killing that person
This is actual a common idea that fanfic writers have him use.
Reiner Braun makes various attempts to convince Eren and Ymir to join their side due to considering both . Eren refuses outright, while the
Ymir weighs the benefits and drawbacks of such an alliance.
Rod Reiss makes his daughter
such an offer.
If she takes the serum and eats Eren, she can become ruler of the Walls and "reunite" with the inherited memories of her beloved sister, Freida. She almost takes the offer, but then recalls Ymir's words and realizes she's being used. She takes a third option, rejecting his offer completely but later
killing Rod's Titan form before hundreds of witnesses, claiming the throne on her own terms.
, full of heroes and villains and being all about dreams and goals, ha
Near the end of their fight on Drum Island, Wapol offers Luffy the title of 'Vice King'. In this case, it's because Luffy's winning the fight, and all Wapol can do is throw out worthless positions in the hopes that it'll stop Luffy from Bazooka-ing him off the island. It fails.
After Enies Lobby, Blackbeard offers Portgas D Ace, who had been hunting the former because he had killed a crew mate, to join on his plan to killed Whitebeard and become Pirate King. It f One, Ace idolizes Whitebeard, and two, during the pitch Blackbeard outlines the first step of his plan- Killing Luffy to become a Shichibukai. When Blackbeard shows himself to be the stronger of the two and asks , Ace retorts that giving in would invalidate him being born as a man.
A flashback during Dressrosa shows that Don Quixote Doflamingo was so impressed by Trafalgar Law's
that he offered to make him his right-hand man someday. Initially, Law loved the idea, but after circumstances involving Doflamingo's brother (The then-current right-hand) and the Op-Op Fruit, he realized that Doflamingo only saw his minions as tools to be used and sacrificed if need be. But even after Law left the Don Quixote Pirates, Doflamingo apparently kept the Heart seat open for Law.
The soon to be Pirate King hinself was offered this by a rival of his, Shiki. The two apparently had many disagreemsnts and issues in the past, but Shiki was willing to ignore it if they could team up. Unfortunately, Roger had no interest in dominating the world.
: Kaiō Academy's consistent proposition to Smile. Surprisingly, even Mr. Koizumi, his trainer thinks the opportunity is nice.
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In the Esperanto comic
("10 Years After"),
Colonel Osto offers hero Orajno "wealth, women, whatever you desire!" if Orajno will join him. A disgusted Orajno knocks Osto to the ground.
Inverted in a story in . Diminutive supergenius Jacob Krigstein creates hundreds of superheroes in order to attack the titular super-team, kidnap , and use her to influence the course of the entire next century. The good guys beat up the bad, fly into Krigstein's secret base...and offer him a job. Clearly he's got the brainpower necessary to h it just needs to be appropriately channeled.
In , the villainous wizard Ixis Naugus attempts to sway his fellow villain Mammoth Mogul to his side. The trope is inverted somewhat when Naugus realises that Mogul is the more powerful villain of the two, and immediately swears himself into Mogul's service.
Used twice in the Milestone Comic . The first time was played completely straight. The second time,
the titular character's , Edwin Alva finally realised that his employee was really the superhero who was thwarting him at every turn, so he sweetened the deal. He would give Hardware's alter ego, Curtis Metcalf, a Vice-Presidency, and would try to curb his extra-legal activities. To do this, though, he would need Hardware's help, as most of the time he had only done illegal things out of (to his way of thinking) necessity. With a powerful superhero enforcer, he wouldn't need to rely on criminal operations to maintain his profit margin. Hardware actually accepted this deal, and not only got the promotion but also an unlimited budget to improve his Hardware armour, which to that point had been constructed out of whatever he could steal from work.
Used almost obligatorily in
by the twin clones of Hitler running the show. The potentially interesting idea of cloning Superman into a race of "Supermen" with Nazi/Aryan overtones goes undeveloped beyond a single sentence, because this is .
story Adventure Comics #415 when Supergirl is abducted by a wannabe space dictator who wants to destroy Earth, conquer the universe and make her his mate. She turns him down, wrecks his warship and turns him over to the authorities. As he is being put away, the tyrant cries the universe could have been theirs.
: In The Making of Baron Fel]], Ysanne Isard first gives
Soontir Fel a , then says she could raise him up, make him take Tarkin's place, become bigger than Vader. When he adamantly rejects both, she ◊ and says that this was a . She'd told the Emperor that Fel was utterly loyal and incorruptible, and she was right. A few years after this, Fel
to the Rebellion both because what the Empire had become disgusted him and because the Rebels would help him find his , the sister of Wedge Antilles.
tried this with
in the finale of The Assassination Plot, trying to bribe the hero with a million dollars to "look the other way" while he planted a bomb in the National Archives. The Skull was counting on Spidey to be angry at the U.S. government for kicking him off the team due to legal issues - and he was - but clearly, the . Spidey
After having Blue Beetle beaten up by a cyborg, Max Lord tries to recruit him into Checkmate and his plan for "" With a literal gun to his head.
: So that's it. Join me or die time, is that it?
Max Lord: That's it exactly.
series based on , Ganon makes this offer to Link after Link gets his hands on the Triforce of Power.
In , after Gideon discovers that
Ramona has left Scott, he asks Scott to join him, telling him that "together, we can rule Ramona's future love life!" - parodying Darth Vader. Naturally, Scott rejects the offer, then gets killed. He did get better, though.
There's a rare successful version of this in . After capturing Luke, Palpatine offers to become his Master. And although Luke has his lightsaber, the guards have been dismissed, and there is no Vader standing by... Luke accepts. Palpatine can
into anyone after his current body is killed, and Luke would be an ideal body to take, with such horrific potential consequences for the New Republic. Luke thinks he can thwart Imperial efforts from within, and indeed he does some of that... but the Emperor isn't that easily duped. When Luke starts killing the Emperor's unborn clones, he's
into submission.
offers Squee a position in
since he's friends with . When he politely declines, he shrugs and says "I guess that's that."
comic "Mistress of Fear," the Scarecrow tries to
Becky Albright after she testifies against him in court and discovers that she was bullied as an
child, which forces him to recall his own experiences with bullying. He then makes this offer to her, arguing that her .
album "Somewhere Within The Shadows" Ivo Statoc tries to offer Blacksad a job in his employ when he's finally tracked him down and already dispa Blacksad refuses.
likes to poke Professor X with this idea from time to time in
but the Professor's ideals of mutant equality (not supremacy) always win out. Professor X in turn tries to convince his old friend to give peace a chance. Magneto has actually tried doing things Xavier's way a few times, but for the most part
since he's just too compelling as a Foil.
Similarly with
and Batman, Ra's has tremendous respect for Batman and would love to bring him round to his own
point of view—especially since Bats and Ra's's daughter Talia are
Ra's ultimately wants Batman to agree to be his successor.
makes this offer to
after trapping Tony in a virtual reality. Tony's second option, surprisingly, isn't death. No, he can either
at Tiberius' feet
who are . Not surprisingly, Tony doesn't find either option very appealing and
Chrysalis tries to convince Twilight to join her upon seeing the magic power she possesses. Naturally, Twilight refuses.
and the Secret Weapon, this is how Bravura makes her marriage proposal to Asterix, promising they can become joint chiefs of the village. Asterix totally loses his temper at this and refuses, but she just .
The Hand wants
to be their new leader. They actually got what they wanted in one storyline, though they had to
to make him more agreeable to the offer.
gets this offer from Madelyne Pryor, his mother who, despite evil, still has soft spots on him when they are reunited. He obviously refuses, though.
In the first volume of The Masters of the Barley, the rich, old, greedy brewer De Ruiter offers his young, idealist competitor Charles Steenfort to betray his best friend and associate, his pregnant lover and his ideals to marry his daughter and become his associate and heir at the head of the the biggest brewery in the area.
Much to the reader's shock, he accepts!
In , Nova Prime forcefully tries to convince Orion Pax (whom he insists on calling Optimus Prime even after he renounced the title) that they are the rightful masters of all existence because they are Primes.
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fic , Jade offers Viper a chance to join with her early on. Viper refuses, partly due to her concern for Jade, and otherwise because she's reformed, and she promptly throws an onion in Jade's face.
some chapters later, Jade decides Viper doesn't have a choice in the matter, and kidnaps and brainwashes her.
story , Basil talks about his youth, when he was a student with Professor Ratigan as chemistry teacher. Rattigan had always been an outcast who had barely managed thanks to his exceptional intellect to reach a status in the mice's society but still suffered from the mice's prejudices against him. His pupil Basil, though a mice, was somehow the only person Ratigan could relate to, as Basil was quite as intelligent as Ratigan and also not well-liked for other reasons. When Basil uncovers Ratigan's first attempt at ruling Mousedom, Ratigan didn't even try to deny the facts: he said to be impressed by Basil finding out, and took this is as the last proof that Basil was the right mouse Ratigan would choose to rule with him. He then genuinely offers the detective this trope, and doesn't understand Basil's scruples. (It must be noted that Ratigan's plan involved drugging all the Mousedom citizen to make them mindless and easily manipulated). Basil, though, still thinks .
In the / universe, Hades , and convince her to let him kill the
so that they could go to Elysium, instead of letting her and Troia return to life with them. They would have a life in paradise as innocent children, with Omen taking Persephone's place as Queen of the Dead. Particularly vicious, as Omen was under
at that point, and Hades . Hades also broadly hinted at why heroes get a ...and this was written 4 years before !
frequently has
offering this to . To a lesser extent, she sometimes offers it to , sweetening the deal by offering Eliza's crystal. The answer of "Go to Hell, Your Majesty" is the usual .
In , Ares, the God of War attempts to tempt Superman into joining him, which fails.
Ares: Don't think that way. My true duty is to regulate strength and aggression. I support Darwin's Theory of Evolution because it is true. The strong live and the weak die! (He points out the surrounding plants and animals, which are dying from the unnatural cold.) I sent that deluded fool Mr. Freeze to test you. And you, my friend, are strong! And open to aggression! Join me, in the ultimate war! With you at my right hand, I shall conquer this pathetic world. In the new world order, you can have anything you want, even Lois.
Superman: No. I'll never serve you, evil one. I'm taking you down.
Admiral Lindy Harlaown pulls off a magnificent rebuttal to one of these in the
at one point when she faces a
who tries to pull this on her by appealing to her honor, morals and sense of duty as a
working for a government with corruption problems, the alternative being working for an imperialistic dictatorship with a
mindset. Lindy's defense of the TSAB?
Enlil: I am offering you the universe. And you are... you are seriously snubbing that in favor of an organization that regards you as expendable? For no reason other than...
Lindy: You are an admitted military dictator and something of a hypocrite? That you claim the moral high ground despite claiming responsibility for murder, torture, and warmongering against peaceful worlds? Maybe it does result in a happy, shiny empire filled with joy and rainbows, but that is only because the people know that if they complain too loudly they'll be murdered. The TSAB might have many and significant flaws, but if nothing else, at least I can claim with certainty that those flaws do not change the fact that the organization as a whole exists for a purpose that I truly believe to be a noble one. You, on the other hand, appear to be offering a system that has some very significant flaws of its own, operates in pursuit of goals that most reasoning beings would consider abhorrent, and which you then attempt to put a positive spin on so that nobody will notice. And that, to me, seems like a very good reason.
Vita: ...Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.
fanfic , Saruman offers to help restore Aragorn to the throne of Gondor in return for his allegiance and the Ring. Aragorn doesn't bite.
: When Rarity is confronted by her father, , he offers her a chance to join him in serving
and living like royalty. Rarity basically tells him to shove the offer up his ass, before proceeding to
As it could be expected it eventually happens in a
fanfic , but the one who actually offers Luke this isn?t Anakin, but Padme.
It works much better than in canon, because Padme is a
and Luke desperately longs for a family.
: Much like The Immortal Game above,
Pinkie's father
repeatedly tries to get Pinkie to rejoin the
and serve Nightmare Moon. And like Rarity above, Pinkie refuses (though she's more
Near the end of the story,
tries to talk Rainbow Dash into joining the Shadowbolts, even encouraging her to be a . Dash responds by shooting her.
Just before the climax of , Nightmare Moon offers to give Rainbow Dash
if she swears loyalty to her. Dash momentarily considers the deal, but realizes that Nightmare is just using her and refuses.
Red Eye from
torments Littlepip with this for most of the story, as he has the most sensible, most realistic chance of actually making the wasteland a better place and sees Littlepip as a worthy opponent deserving of ruling over it once his plan is complete.
Drake from
tried to tempt Red Ranger Sean O'Callahan into joining his alchemical organization using Sean's own personal beliefs. It almost works... until Sean points out he's still a
villain. His only goal is to . Oh, and one more thing:
His organization had nearly killed his sister.
doesn't even begin to describe Sean's feelings.
Harry/Tristan makes this offer to Voldemort.
Light/Kira keeps asking L if he's changed his mind yet and is going to join him
: In "The Exile From Psychelia", Empath learns that the Psyche Master has been grooming him to be his successor and is hoping that he would someday forsake the Smurf way of living and embrace becoming the next Psyche Master. Empath refuses the Psyche Master's offer. However, in the alternate timeline story "Hefty, The Luckiest Smurf", Empath is forcibly taken back to Psychelia and is eventually made the next Psyche Master.
where L wants to find the
in order to protect him and, if Kougoukan continues to use his powers responsibly, recruit him as his partner.
In , ProtoMan wants Mega Man to join him. In this continuity he extends the offer to Roll as well, and would be happiest with both on his side.
Bass wants Roll to rule at his side as his queen.
At the climax of The Princess of Themyscira,
a chance to rule the world by his side as he conquers it with a . She naturally refuses.
Light makes this offer to Mello after getting caught up in some rather compromising circumstances.
Light makes this offer to L:
Light: How about we be together and execute justice as Kira? You want to be together so bad, then join me. Come with me and we can rule the world together. Together we can be unstoppable. Think of all the good we can do.
Morgause offers this to Merlin, saying they can take over Albion and rule over those without magic with an iron fist. When he tells her to shove it, she goes with brainwashing instead.
When Harribel kicks his ass, Xiphias Gladius desperately tries to persuade her to join the demons of Zeref, claiming Zeref can give her power beyond her wildest imagination. She doesn't listen.
Later, a demon offers Lucy the chance to join them and use her keys in service to Zeref. When she refuses, he shrugs and says he'll just have to kill her then.
Sombra does this with Rarity, saying that he'll save her and her sister from the Ruin Worms (which actually have nothing to do with him) in exchange for her becoming his slave. Rarity's refusal and subsequent
leads to his
In the , we have Tucker receiving this from Ghost Tucker. Fortunately, it doesn't work thanks to Tucker's .
: During the final battle, Veran offers Link this. Of course, considering the fact that Veran had quite literally put Link and Zelda through absolute Hell
during the course of the fic, committed all manner of horrible atrocities against both Hyrule and Termina, as well as the fact that Veran gives Link said offer after she just gave him a savage
ended with her sadistically , Link flat-out tells Veran that he would rather die.
: Ghenghis Khan makes this offer to Juvage, even throwing in his daughter in marriage. Juvage refuses, since he wants to be the one who killed the Khan or die trying. He even asks the Khan to keep his gifts ready, since he'll be taking them after the battle.
In nearly every Harry Potter story written by , Voldemort tries to manipulate Harry Potter into fulfilling this trope using a variety of means. He is very persistent.
a dying Voldemort offers this to both Harry and Neville. They pretend to consider it and string him along for a bit before finally stating what they really want from him.
Harry and Neville: We want our families back you son of a bitch.
: Right before the final battle, Discord offers Pinkie Pie a chance to marry him and become his queen. To sweeten the pot, he offers to bring her lost friend Minty back. Pinkie refuses, both on principle and because the method to bring back Minty would require sacrificing Twilight Sparkle.
In , after transforming
Megan into an alicorn using the newfoal potion, TCB!Celestia tries to convince
Megan to join her crusade of transforming humans. Subverted however, in that Celestia tries to use the
properties of the potion to turn
Megan rather than words, which Megan only can barely fight off.
A villain-to-villain example occurs in . The Bloodline King is the leader of a faction of bloodliners who believes
, and offered Sabrina the chance to be his queen. Says a lot that , especially considering she is a
who seeks to purge the world of mediocre and unremarkable people, either by pushing them (through fear) to develop their full potential, or outright killing them if she feels they're but a waste of space.
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Happens in , where
Eduardo/El Macho offers is quite enthusiastic about working with Gru.
In , there's Kadaj's speech to
the kidnapped children.
In , Titan makes this offer to Megamind, claiming they could rule Metro City together, the
method. Megamind, who gave Titan his powers specifically to get back into a comfortable hero-villain routine, is bewildered.
Happens twice in . First off, Buzz is offered a position among
to be able to get out of the torturous position, which he declines because he doesn't want to leave his friends behind. Unfortunately, . The second is, to a lesser extent, with . She isn't aware of the truth when she accepts Ken's offer and immediately changes her mind when she learns the truth.
Although she and Ken kind of do rule together at the end, when Lotso is removed and his dictatorship over the toys in the preschool is dismantled. The two take over as head in his place, albeit much kinder.
, a powered-up and gigantic Mojo offers this to the girls. Naturally, this being an origin-movie, they refuse.
2: Timmy to the Rescue, there's a song based on this, appropriately titled "Just Say Yes", where
tries to get Tim to help him take over Thorn Valley.
has Pitch Black practically proposing to Jack Frost, saying what goes together better than cold and dark. Both of them being very similar spirits in a lot of ways makes them somewhat sympathetic to each other and Pitch's offer is seemingly a sincere attempt at getting a friend he can relate to... The look on his face when Jack turns down the offer .
The direct to DVD film
has Sinestro trying to convince Hal throughout the movie that the Guardians are failing at their duties, though it's only near the end that he actually makes the offer.
At the climax of , Henna is about to take control over Flutterfield and tells Mariposa that they can rule it together. Not too surprisingly, Mariposa refuses.
During the climax of , the
Mayor Bellwether attempts to convince Judy Hopps to pull a , pointing that they are
as both of them are small mistreated prey animals, and that working together they have the power to
unite the prey species to drive all of the predators out of Zootopia.
When Judy refuses, she attempts to murder her by turning Nick savage.
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: Sith in general are fond of this one, as it fits with their overall theme as tempters, and they seem to take a particular pleasure from corrupting Jedi into minions.
Darth Vader's offer in
is probably the most heartfelt, if not the , as he offers to take
on as his apprentice so they can destroy the Emperor together and take over the Galactic Empire. Vader goes so far as to point out (concerning teaming up to destroy his master) that "The Emperor has foreseen this," and some of the
novels mention that although (of course) he later pretended to Emperor Palpatine that he was just making a false offer to tempt his son to the dark side, they both knew the offer was wholly credible and that Vader would quite certainly have delivered on it if Luke had accepted.
In , The Emperor also tries to lure Luke to the Dark Side, though he's obviously less than sincere about wanting to be replaced; he actually wants to replace Vader. (It fails partially because the Emperor is far, far too obvious about it, and partially because of the very different circumstances under which this latter temptation takes place.)
Happens again in , with Dooku offering to team up with Obi-Wan to defeat the Sith. Dooku's motives for making this offer are a bit unclear, since Dooku himself is a servant of the Dark Lord he claims to be opposed to. Most likely he wants to destroy Darth Sidious and become the new Sith master with Obi-Wan as his apprentice, but the way he frames it makes it seem like he's been infiltrating the Sith to destroy them from within (unlike Anakin to Luke, who makes no bones about the fact that he wants to rule the Empire from the Dark Side).
And, again, in , with Anakin offering to rule the galaxy with Padme as his Empress. Also earlier in the same film with Palpatine's offer to Anakin, which, unfortunately for the galaxy, he accepts.
The sequel trilogy does this again. This time it's a
variant with
Kylo Ren and Rey:
In the climactic scene of , Kylo Ren offers to be Rey's teacher in the ways of the Force. (She doesn't go for it.)
In , Kylo Ren wants Rey to join him and for them to rule the Galaxy together (in a speech that sounds eerily similar to
in ) after killing Snoke. Instead of agreeing to turn to the Resistance like she had hoped. She refuses, again. The heartbroken look on her face makes it clear that she knows .
Please don't do this Ben. Please don't go this way.
A considerably less credible version of this occurs in the first
movie: the Green Goblin recommends to Spider-Man that he "join me" — notwithstanding the extreme improbability of Spider-Man's possibly being interested in joining the psychopathic killing spree of the man who tried to murder his girlfriend. This prompts the Goblin to play the
card, claiming that in prolonging their feud, Spider-Man will be held responsible for anyone killed as collateral damage. Spidey's not buying any of this, of course. This offer is particularly bizarre because at that point in the movie, the Green Goblin had already killed the general who'd wanted to pull Oscorp's funding and the board members who'd wanted to give his alter ego Norman Osborne the boot. Since he'd already settled his scores and secured his position, he had no clear motive to continue operating behind a mask himself, let alone team up with anyone else. What exactly he and Spider-Man would actually do if Spidey had accepted the offer is an utter mystery. Then again, he
anyway. To the extent that Green Goblin's thought processes had any logical at all at this point, he could simply have been thinking that since he and Spidey are both "better" than mere humans, they ought to be on the same side.
Subverted in : when Inigo Montoya has the his father's murderer at his mercy, he actually demands the villain try tempting him out of revenge:
Inigo: Offer me money!
Rugen: Yes.
Inigo: Power too, promise me that!
Rugen: All that I have, and more. Please...
Inigo: Offer me everything I ask for.
Rugen: Anything you want.
Inigo: *jabs Rugen in his heart* I want my father back, .
At the end of
offers the Spartan King Leonidas the opportunity to serve him as Warlord of Greece, by simply kneeling before him, or else die in a hail of arrows. Leonidas responds by wordlessly removing his helmet, dropping his spear and shield, and kneeling before Xerxes...the better to aim as he hurls a spear at Xerxes' face and proves "that even a God-King can bleed."
In the sequel , Artemisia is looking for a man to be at her side, and as her Generals prove to be totally incopetent. She summons Themistokles to her ship, gives him a We Can Rule Together speech and tries to kiss him.
He falls for the temptation and they procede to have
that it's more like a "Who's raping who" contest. Just at the climax, when she shows her satisfaction for finally finding a real man up to her status, he simply replies "No".
In , the Borg Queen invites Data to join her, causing him to actually consider the offer. (For a total of 0.68 seconds - almost an eternity for an android with a supercomputer in his head.)
In , Ming offers Flash rulership of the Earth in his name at one point. However it's pointed out earlier that Ming is clever re this trope: by giving troublemakers their own lesser kingdoms, they'll fight each other and not cooperate to overthrow him.
In 's , Revok has been tracking down Vale for the whole movie specifically to offer him this, because
(1990). Big Boy Caprice captures Tracy and offers him $15,000 to join Big Boy's organization.
Big Boy Caprice: Welcome to new waters, Dick! We're gonna run one hell of a ship with you aboard. There's a big world out there, and it's up for sale. All of it. All we gotta do is make sure that the people know I'm the one big enough to run it.
Dick Tracy: And that you are guilty of attempting to bribe an officer of the law.
Long John Silver offers Jim Hawkins a chance to join him and the pirates in .
: Damian Thorn, the adolescent antichrist, offers to let his beloved cousin join him. Unlike in most stories, when the young idealist refuses and vows to stop him, Damian has an attack of "real life" and just kills him.
. Rico makes the offer to Judge Dredd after capturing him.
Sir August tells Mrs. Peel, "Join me, Emma, and we have the world."
Adrian sort of makes this offer to Jon in . He explains that the plan was Jon's achievement as much as it was his own, and that without Jon's interference, a united humanity could create a perfect world. Jon
leaves Earth.
makes this kind of an offer to , though it's not so much "join me" and more "stick around a while longer".
declines — not out of any particular moral code or personal conviction, but simply because he doesn't think it's worth the effort. He's been around long enough to see other empires crumble, and so knows that the 's is going to follow suit eventually.
In , Major Cain is hopeful in getting
Alice to join him: "With my help, just imagine what [we] can achieve!"
At the climax,
offers Magneto a chance to join him so that together they can ensure mutant supremacy, a goal that Magneto actually agrees with. Unfortunately, Shaw was the one who
in the concentration camp, so Magneto kills him and takes up his "mutant vs. human" crusade . Later, he tells Xavier that he wants him by his side in the cause, but Xavier refuses.
When Shaw introduces himself to the kids this is his main pitch.
Also implied between Magneto and Mystique.
In the first scene of , as Jor-El is about to sentence Zod and his followers to the Phantom Zone, Zod tries to sway him with this trope. "Yours will be a powerful voice in the new order, second only to my own." Jor-El just walks away, ""
due to the
on Krypton. General Zod and his followers are genetically-engineered to be soldiers, so don't have the natural skills or temperament to rebuild their world. Jor-El was created to be a scientist, and Kal-El (Superman) is his son, so Zod tries to enlist both men to his cause. When they refuse however, he's .
Played with in . Dr. No says that he was impressed by Bond's skills and was considering offering him a job. Unfortunately, Bond has pissed him off way too many times, so instead he's going to have him tortured and imprisoned. In fairness, Bond also offered Dr No the opportunity of working for the West, only for Dr No to inform Bond that both sides of the Cold War had already rejected his services.
Also played with and subverted in . Trevelyan says that he considered making this offer to James, but realised that Bond would never accept it.
In , Silva had first tried to persuade Bond to ally with him against M.
Silva: You see, we are the last two rats. We can either eat each other...
or eat everyone else.
In the 1997 film version of , Morgan le Fay tries to convince Valiant to join her and kill everyone, so they can rule together as King and Queen. She even shapeshifts into his beloved Princess Ilene. The real Ilene arrives and snaps him out of it.
. After Jim and Gordon attack Loveless' spider tank with a flying machine, they're captured. Loveless then compliments them on their ingenuity, and offers them to come work for him. West tells him to shove it.
After Cmdr. Shaw is captured by the rogue Chinese in Battle Beneath the Earth, General Lu offers him a position as
to the soon-to-be-demolished-with-atom-bombs United States.
: The Djinn offers Lisa to rule beside him as his queen, and offers her immortality and eternal bliss along with it. The contents of her wish ("I wish I could love you for who you really are", not knowing that he's an evil Djinn at the time) dictate that his offer of ruling beside him be sincere.
In , the Queen attempts this on Ben and fails.
2, Osric regains his dragon form and asks Drake to join him in his campaign to wipe out humanity. Drake is initially overjoyed to find a fellow dragon, but his human friend Geoff reminds him that Osric tried to steal Drake's heart to change into a dragon again and only stopped because he found another heart instead. Drake angrily declares that Geoff is his true brother, not Osric. Cue the final battle.
Attempted and failed by the Queen on Ben in .
In , Pinhead promises Monroe a place by his side for helping him. When Monroe fails, he makes the same offer to Terri, and she gives in. He "rewards" them both by turning them into lesser Cenobites.
In , Voz says he sees Machete as the ultimate warrior and tries to recruit him, or at the very least, get him to consent to being cloned. Machete refuses both requests.
In , Satan offers Jericho to forget his mission to protect the chosen girl from Satan and to bring back his dead wife and child in exchange and come work for him in his new hellworld. Jericho is genuinely tempted by the offer because of his grief, but he ultimately rejects.
In , Kurt tries to get Ed to quit his job at Good Burger and work for him in order to gain his ultra-popular sauce recipe.
In , the human villain Paul Sarone suggest to Owen Wilson's character that they should become partners so he can help him catch the Anaconda. Wilson looks forward to getting rich off it and filming the whole thing. He gets bitten for his troubles, with Sarone sacrificing him without a second care.
Implied in : The Return of the King when Aragorn leads his ragtag army to assault Mordor in order to buy time for Frodo to complete his mission. Aragorn looks into the Great Eye atop Barad-d&r and hears the Black Voice whispering his Quenya Elvish name, Elessar, in the same seductive tone that has been previously heard . After taking
to compose himself, Aragorn's only response is to whisper ""... and
the chance to join him and Valentine in honour of 's memory. Eggsy says he'd rather join Harry.
: A variation. After Ben Richards kills several stalkers,
offers him a job as a Stalker. Having had to
close the eyes of his friend who was just killed by a Stalker, Ben strongly refuses in a way that even Cinema Sins admired.
Ben Richards:You cold-hearted bastard! I'll tell what I think about it. I live to see you eat that contract! But I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and BREAK YOUR GODDAMN SPINE!
In , John offers his parents a chance to be assimilated willingly, so they can become one
of cyborgs. They don't agree to it.
: Kabal gives Mordrid the standard "join me and we'll rule this world together" offer, though with more cause than most examples as . Mordrid naturally refuses, pointing out that wizards have no right to rule humanity.
: After arranging Kull's fake death on their wedding night to usurp the throne from him, Akivasha wakes up Kull in the dungeons. Since he was so good in the bedroom she offers him to rule by her side. He instantly refuses.
: Commissioner Farnsworth offers Alex to join forces with the other cyborgs late in the movie. Alex shoots him in the face while delivering a
in response.
: Ego wants Peter to willingly join him in his plan to . When Peter realizes what Ego has done to reach this point he refuses.
In , Loki makes an offer like this to Thor while he's imprisoned on Sakaar. As Hela is more powerful than both of them put together, Loki reasons that they may as well forget about saving Asgard, get in good with the Grandmaster, and wait until they can arrange an "accident" for him and take over.
: From the moment they meet, Vlad tries to get Vampirella to join his side.
offers Diana a chance to work together at the climax of , the two using their powers to destroy humanity and return Earth to the natural state it was before Zeus created Man. Even after having her idealism shattered by the hell that was , Diana refuses to take part in mass genocide.
In , the scene in which Marcia finally realizes that Lonesome Rhodes must be stopped at all costs is the one in which he tells her, "I'm gonna be the power behind the president and you'll be the power behind me."
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offers this option to Sarah, but it's questionable as to how sincere he is.
The protagonist of Jennifer Fallon's Second Sons series is given this offer at the end of the second book. In a subversion, he accepts, and uses his newfound position of power within the enemy ranks to bring down
from within with misdirection and trickery. As the series is largely a subversion of heroic fantasy in general, this is fitting.
In , Ward gets such an offer from the villain. As he's desperate and sees no other option, he agrees (but of course helps his friends escape, give him a
to make it look like he didn't).
When Oreg suggests another path of action, Ward takes it, killing the villain.
This happens more than once to the heroine of the
novels, although the most recent example was a subversion — the villain knew she would reject the offer, and was only stalling to let Medusa sneak in behind her.
: Much speculation surrounded what Neville's it was to receive this speech from Voldemort, but reject it.
Voldemort offered Harry this back in , also stating they could bring Harry's parents back. What with Harry being , this was , since it is impossible to bring the dead back to life even with magic, and Voldemort actually planned to kill him as soon as he handed over the Stone.
has a moment of this kind, when Damon Julian offers Abner Marsh to stay aboard the ship as a captain. Worth notice, Abner does not actually reject the deal because running a ship full of vampires is wrong, but because he realizes Julian is trying to manipulate him in order to break Joshua's spirit.
of : , although he is not a villain, Edmund is still an
tempted by evil who actually tries to convince his little sister, Lucy, to gain power along with him.
Edmund: Lucy, we'd be so rich...no one could tell us what to do. Or to live with.
Subverted in the
story "The Last Defender of Camelot", where an immortal Lancelot tries to stop an awakened Merlin turned evil from attempting to conquer the world. Merlin easily disables Lancelot with magic, and then offers him a place at his side. Lancelot, unbelieving, asks how stupid Merlin would have to be to trust someone who changed sides so easily. Merlin counters that he wouldn't, and admits he just asked that question to give Lancelot false hope, out of spite.
Occurs quite famously in , where Satan tempts Jesus with control over the entire Earth. Jesus' choice is fairly obvious.
This has interesting theological implications: Jesus rejects the offer, but never implies that Satan couldn't deliver. Therefore, Satan apparently has some degree of authority over Earth.
In fact, John 12:31 describes Satan as the "ruler of this world."
Almost as famously
offers to 'share' the power of the Ring with Gandalf — who doesn't bite. Moreover, he reasonably points out that a Ring of power can't be shared- one hand has to wear it.
In , John Galt is offered leadership of the "looters" he's been fighting against. For entirely selfish reasons, he refuses - even at gunpoint. By the end, Galt is being
to force him to agree — unsuccessfully. The concept is known in the novel as "the sanction of the victim" — Hank Rearden and others conclude that the looters do "crave the validation that having the hero join [them] would bring" exactly.
Taran, protagonist of 's , is shocked to find his beloved and idolized mentor offering him the chance to conquer and rule the Kingdom of Prydain together with him near the end of the series.
Its actually the
in disguise.
In 's , when Nemos Moore learns that Ridley Dow is his great to the nth grand nephew (how many generations is never made clear), and Dow rejects the notion of leaving, Moore offers to teach him magic — and perhaps, in time, to think like him.
Rider, the
of , interrupts Saber and Lancer's duel, declares his true name (even though it was supposed to be kept secret) and offers that if they both surrender now, "we could conquer the world together". Naturally, they refuse. After staring at him a bit in flabbergasted silence because of his ridiculous his offer is.
This actually happens to be his Modus Operandi, backstory-wise and again towards Gilgamesh. It's implied that, though he selfishly pursues his own desires, he does this so that he does not have to destroy people he likes in the process, even if they are his enemies, making this a heroic example.
In the beginning of DJ MacHale's
offers Bobby the chance to join his several times. Doesn't work.
Both Lanfear and Ishamael try this on Rand in the early books of . Lanfear was serious, but her idea of "ruling together" would have ultimately involved turning Rand into a sex slave. Though a section from her perspective in book 9 shows that she meant every word of her offer, Lanfear is so intrinsically obsessive, clingy, and manipulative that any partnership with her that started equal would have ended with one member controlling or killing the other.
At the end of the second
book, Battle Comp, the AI commander of the Achuultani invasion, enthusiastically makes this offer to Dahak after it realizes Dahak is a fellow AI. Dahak leads it on for a moment, then hacks Battle Comp's core programming into total shutdown.
Then join us! You are ending?join us! We will free you from the bio-forms!
In 's , villain Azrael de Gray tries to pull this one on a captured hero (incidentally, one of his distant ). The hero, though, correctly points out that the offer is merely because Azrael is up a wall, and proceeds to
him out of the room.
book Dead Beat, Harry assumes Kumori is going to say this when she says she's going to "make him an offer", and says as such. He guessed incorrectly, though his second guess, "go away and I won't kill you", is entirely accurate.
However, in Ghost Story, "Evil Bob" also says he's going to make Dresden an offer. That time, it's this trope played entirely straight. (Dresden refuses, obviously.)
And Nicodemus has made this offer several times to Harry.
In , Melkor/Morgoth tries to convince F&anor to defy the Valar and come to Middle-Earth with him. F&anor almost agrees until he realises Melkor wants his Silmarils, and proceeds to . Morgoth later offers to make H&rin his greatest lieutenant if he tells the location of . H&rin refuses.
In , Tigerstar convinces RiverClan and ShadowClan to combine into one Clan, and offers the other two Clans the chance to join, saying the all the leaders will rule jointly. Tallstar and Firestar refuse, and Tigerstar snarls to Firestar that he just gave up his last chance to save ThunderClan.
tries this twice. First, to his , then later to , .
In , the entity called Spore tries to appeal to Tash, who earlier in the book
and her desire to have a stronger connection with the Force, so she could feel like part of a team, part of something bigger than herself. It's gaining on her, and while it doesn't look like it thinks she'll really stop for it, this is distracting.
". Didn't you want to become one with the Force? Isn't that what you told me? [...] The Force is nothing. If it ever existed, it belonged to Jedi who died years ago. I can offer you something more. Join me, and . [...] You know, you're not strong enough to stop me. Not nearly strong enough. Once you're under my control, I'll make you my primary host. I will be you."
In Brisingr of , Eragon receives this offer from his father Morzan.... but A.) It was only a nightmare (Morzan had long been dead.) and B.) Morzan wasn' he just thought that he was, until he later learned otherwise.
has Luke Castellan, who offers Annabeth this thrice and Thalia once. Becomes a / when you learn of his past with these three in book 5.
The non-canon
picture book Darth Vader and Son depicts Vader making this offer to little Luke Skywalker. Little Luke asks if he can then have a treat.
is seeking to depose a planetary dictator by fair means or foul in The Stainless Steel Rat for President. At one stage the dictator meets with Jim DiGriz in private and suggests
— he'll run the government, DiGriz will run the opposition, and they'll quietly eliminate anyone who's a real threat. DiGriz refuses outright because he believes in democracy and thinks the dictator is a total scumbag. The dictator rejects this . Fine, says DiGriz, and goes on a spiel about how he wants all the goodies for himself, "All the power, the money, the women" causing the dictator to shed . "." The truth is that DiGriz is doing all this for fun, so he fakes his death at the end to get out of running the planet.
series, Dimitri is turned into a Strigoi and comes face to face with his ex-girlfriend Rose. He wishes to turn her into a Strigoi too and uses this as one of methods to coerce her. It nearly works, but she eventually manages to decline.
In , Henry says this to Luxa, trying to convince her to side with him in his betrayal.
In desperation,
tries this toward the end of , sending Garion a dream in which he offers to become Garion's father, and Polgara his mother. Garion is troubled, and tempted to take the offer, but finally responds with spite. Torak also offers Polgara the chance to be his bride. That was not out of desperation, Torak genuinely wants Polgara to love him.
The sequel series
sees the new Child of Dark Zandramas desperately offer to be (Bel)garion's new bride and for them both to become gods with the powers of the Stones after almost every plan she had to stave away the Choice between Light and Dark fails. Garion tells the Dark Prophecy that was behind Torak and is behind Zandramas off for being so unchanging as to try a ploy that didn't work on him the last time either.
Lorelei makes a variant of this speech to her cousin Malachi in
Khan tries to recruit the other superhumans to his cause. The others flatly refuse, not liking the idea of serving under Khan.
In , after Stark leads a mutiny, the General holds out the offer of high rank and prot&g&e status as an inducement to pretend it never happened.
In , the villain makes this offer to the protagonist at the eponymous dinner, noting that they're
and could work together for their respective selfish benefit. The protagonist initially dismisses the offer as "insincere, impossible, and definitely, absolutely unattractive"; after the villain has elaborated on his offer, he withdraws all three objections but says that he's still not going to take it.
In Ira Levin's ,
those who successfully rebel against the dystopia to the point of reaching the ruling cabal's headquarters are offered the chance to join them.
In , after Kullen comes back from the dead, he offers Merik this, proposing that they kill Vivia and put Merik on the throne. Merik declines.
: The White Queen has made this kind of offer to Kyousuke several times, due to her
for him. Since she is responsible for most of the trouble in the world, and because he thinks she , Kyousuke always refuses.
: At the end CEO Killian offers Richards a job at the network to replace the head Hunter of The Running Man. Richards responds to his offer in the most spectacular way possible, by hijacking a passenger plane and ramming it into Killian's ivory tower office while flipping the bird at him.
A peculiar example happens in
Infiltrator by . There, the titular Agent receives a job offer from
to work for the U.S. Government against his employers, the chance to keep all of the money he's made from assassinations, as well as a pardon for his crimes.
G takes it.
: After the Man gains the upper-hand in their fight, the Supervisor offers the Man the chance to be an equal partner with him in Iotech rather than a test subject if he stays. The Man wants nothing more to do with any of them at this point, and refuses.
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: The protracted war between Angel Investigations and Wolfram & Hart LLC comes to an apparent close in S4, when the firm suffers huge losses at the hands of Jasmine and her pet Beast. The firm magically rematerialized with a new office building, but with a worker shortage: Impressed by Angel's ingenuity and ideas, they offer him an ever-increasing suitcase of money ? essentially corporate head-hunting ? until he finally caves and unilaterally merges his agency into the firm (admittedly to save his son). This leads us into S5, aka Dilbert with vampires, where most of Angel's ideas for reform end up in the conference room wastebasket anyway.
The First Evil tries this on Andrew and Spike.
After Faith kills Genevieve, Roden tries to convince her to replace her in his plan to kill Buffy and survive the End of Magic.
The leader of the bat-like Krillitanes offers the Doctor the chance to join their
plan, tempting him with the power to bring his long-dead people back and ensure he'll never . Sarah-Jane talks him out of it.
In "Colony in Space", the Master (believing he's got control of an all-powerful Doomsday weapon) offers his old school chum the chance to jointly rule the universe as a . The Doctor replies that he wants to see the universe, not rule it.
The Master does this a lot - until it's inverted beautifully in "The End of Time", when the Doctor asks the Master to join him, even paraphrasing the dialogue from "Colony In Space". "You don't need to own the universe, just see it." The Master seems tempted, then slingshots back to evil... then saves the Doctor from Rassilon at the last minute.
(aka the Mistress, aka the Master regenerated into a female form) spends series 8 setting up another one of these, just to prove that she and the Doctor . Having assembled an army of zombie Cybermen, she hands total control of them to the Doctor, daring him to use them against the Daleks and all his other enemies.
An evil offering evil example from the episode "Doomsday". The Daleks and the Cybermen meet face to face for the first time, both regard each others as hostiles, but the Cybermen can see that together, the two groups would be all powerful, and propose an alliance. The Daleks, , reject this offer with lasers.
The Master gives this speech to Adric in "Castrovalva" to try and get him to help him. Adric pretends to accept, but the Master sees through it immediately. Since the Master already had Adric strung up in a hadron web, , it doesn't put his plan in much jeopardy.
Prince of Fire offers this to Xev in .
Prince: I will be King, you will be Queen...or, perhaps, you'll be my slave. Same thing really.
sometimes receives offers like this, with his enemies usually throwing in the
card. Most notably, a powerful sorcerer sweetened the offer by playing up his insecurities and the past abuse heaped upon him. Once he threatened
however, all bets were off.
In "Aftermath", Servalan offers this to Avon. He rejects her not for , but because he suspects that once she had what she wanted from him, he'd "."
Played for laughs when a
who's enamored with Servalan offers this trope in exchange for his superweapon. Servalan has had plenty of , but as the scientist is a
even she finds it difficult to play along.
episode "Redemption II", the Duras sisters offer Worf a regency (through marriage) over the Klingon Empire, which he rejects immediately out of disgust (and hey, they were scheming all over the place). The Romulans just as quickly make themselves known, since it was their hands in it.
Hilariously inverted in the episode "Our Man Bashir", where Bashir is playing a Bond-like hero on the holodeck, and
is attempting to keep the story going without killing any of the villains like he's supposed to, or have any of the
die like one of them is supposed to. It ends with Bashir, the