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| - An Offer You Can't Refuse is the second chapter of Part II in Max Payne.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse is the 1st mission in Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It introduces you to your later friends, Paulie and Sam. The mission asks you to drive away from some Morello thugs who were chasing Paulie and Sam. When you finally lose them, drive the duo back to Salieri's Bar.
- Sometimes a bad guy wants something done, something none of his own men are up to the task of doing for some reason (too well known, too incompetent, whatever), and he's not about to risk his own hide in order to do it. So what's a bad guy to do? He gets in touch with a good guy and makes him an Offer He Can't Refuse. There are a number of reasons that the offer Can't Be Refused, of course: Compare Enemy Mine, in which the bad guy accompanies the hero, and Screw the Rules, I Have a Nuke, where having greater violent power puts one in a better position.
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| - An Offer You Can't Refuse is the second chapter of Part II in Max Payne.
- Sometimes a bad guy wants something done, something none of his own men are up to the task of doing for some reason (too well known, too incompetent, whatever), and he's not about to risk his own hide in order to do it. So what's a bad guy to do? He gets in touch with a good guy and makes him an Offer He Can't Refuse. There are a number of reasons that the offer Can't Be Refused, of course:
* Something dearly important to the Hero is held at stake:
* If the Big Bad has a loved one held hostage, or threatens to do something nasty to them if the hero refuses.
* Or if it's the Hero's own life that's on the line.
* If it's implied that something bad will happen to the Hero's cherised family house or business legacy if he refuses.
* An all-time Soap Opera favorite is the Ill Girl.
* I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
* If the Big Bad is blackmailing the hero in some way, using some past actual or perceived fault or failure of the hero as leverage against him in order to make him do the job for him.
* If the Hero and Big Bad are actually fighting a common threat for a change.
* Sometimes it's this new threat who has taken the Hero's loved ones hostage, or otherwise done enough to justify a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
* Or if it's the Big Bad's loved ones who are held hostage. Either way, it's clear That Wasn't a Request. It usually turns out that by taking up the offer, the hero has been advancing some form of Evil Plan orchestrated by the Big Bad, and there's at least a fifty-fifty chance that the bad guy will double-cross the hero at some point along the way, usually in a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness moment. This often leads to the hero launching an all-guns-blazing assault on the bad guy, either to get revenge on him, rescue the loved one, or both. May not work on Heroic Sociopaths or The Unfettered, who probably don't care about the fallout in the process of kicking your ass. The trope name comes from the movie The Godfather where the titular mafia boss was always making people offers (such as letting one of his favorites star in a movie or signing a business over to him) with dire consequences attached if they were refused (like, say, a bullet in the head, getting put in the hospital, or having the head of the person's prize horse being delivered to his bed). Actually the line was borrowed by Mario Puzo from the earlier novel Le Pere Goriot (1835), by Honoré de Balzac, when Vautrin tells Eugène that he is "making him an offer that he cannot refuse". Namely, that he [Vautrin] will make Eugène rich, profiting off the death of a man who he has never met. This concept, in turn, was Balzac's bringing-to-life of a theoretical concept by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, of "Rousseau's Chinaman" (the root of disinterested evil). Compare Enemy Mine, in which the bad guy accompanies the hero, and Screw the Rules, I Have a Nuke, where having greater violent power puts one in a better position. In real life, this was sometimes known as "Plata o Plomo?", literally, "Silver or Lead?" Your choice is between accepting a bribe or getting shot. Examples of An Offer You Can't Refuse include:
- An Offer You Can't Refuse is the 1st mission in Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It introduces you to your later friends, Paulie and Sam. The mission asks you to drive away from some Morello thugs who were chasing Paulie and Sam. When you finally lose them, drive the duo back to Salieri's Bar.
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