"Our reward is that justice has been done!"
You found this page! Here's your reward: a list of tropes about tangible rewards and prizes!
See Gratitude Tropes for when the reward is intangible.
Tropes
- All or Nothing: Either you win something big, or nothing at all.
- And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: A common bad reward.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: A wearable reward.
- And Your Reward is Edible: Getting food as a reward.
- And Your Reward Is Infancy: Being transformed into a baby as a reward.
- And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating: A reward you can place in your house.
- And Your Reward Is Parenthood: A baby for a reward.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership
- Bragging Rights Reward
- Challenging the Chief
- Choose Your Own Reward
- Consolation Prize
- Cosmetic Award: A reward that has no effect other than aesthetics.
- Disproportionate Reward
- Dude, Where's My Reward?
- Employee of the Month: Being honored for being the hardest-working employee of the month.
- Expose the Villain, Get His Job
- Fatal Reward
- Free Prize at the Bottom: A cereal box that comes with a toy.
- Forced Prize Fight
- Game Show Winnings Cap: A limit to how much you can win on a game show.
- Good Behavior Points
- I Feel Guilty; You Take It
- Keep the Reward
- Klingon Promotion
- Medal of Dishonor
- Medals for Everyone
- Monty Haul
- New Skill as Reward
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A negative "reward" for an act of good.
- On the Money
- Promotion, Not Punishment
- Rejecting the Consolation Prize
- Revisit Reward
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
- Reward for Removal
- Second Prize: A character was expecting a different outcome in a competition.
- Smooch of Victory
- Standard Hero Reward
- That Was the Reward
- Undesirable Prize
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Someone wants praise for doing the bare minimum.
- Year's Supply Prize
- You Kill It, You Bought It
- Your Reward Is Your Life
- Zonk: A possible negative "reward" in a game of chance.