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| rdfs:comment | - Blackmail is a crime in which someone threatens another person into giving them what they want or else they will do something that will put them in a bad position, perhaps even killing them. Professor Baffles stated his demands to the United States Government, Colonel Wilcox stated that the government will not submit to such blackmail. When Wendy tried to convince Luther Fenwick to sit down with Doctor Pelagian to talk about how to stop pollution, he asked her if she expected him to "knuckle" under to blackmail.
- Blackmail is the twenty-third episode of Galactik Football. It aired on July 30th 2006.
- Blackmail is a cool, quiet, female warrior with a greedy, conniving outlook on life. Having been around since the second war she's seen it all and done most of it. This has made her very religious and she prefers to meditate and take things easy these days. In her Robot mode she sports a light frame covered in night black armor and uses a force field Projector in her left arm to block oncoming shots for short periods of time. In her jet mode she is a highly maneuverable unarmed courier jet who's only means of defense is her speed. However, her speed and small frame comes at a price, her armor cannot withstand too many direct hits before becoming next to useless.
- Blackmail is is a criminal offense that occurs when someone demands money from a person in return for not revealing compromising or injurious information about that person.
- BlackMail is a research topic in the Godfather Five Families. It's one of the last research topics that can be unlocked the other being Bureaucracy. Each Upgrade Yields +1% more troops trained.
- Blackmail (Advantage 1 - 5 points) [Granted] [Social] A character with the Blackmail advantage has a bit of information or evidence that he can hold over someone's head, so he can gain advantages.
- Blackmail are a type of information gained as a reward from Civic Diplomacy. Gossip parleys have the highest reward rate for blackmail. Blackmail can be turned in to Blackmail informants for presence clothing/one-time use item rewards. The specific rewards for Blackmail are (in rough order of rarity) gloves, neck, one-time use parley items, and cash loot.
- The Blackmail show is a Monty Python sketch that first aired in episode 18, Live from the Grill-o-mat, of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It has also appeared in the film And Now For Something Completely Different. In it, Michael Palin plays a smarmy television game show host who extorts money from his viewers by threatening to reveal embarrassing or illegal facts about them. (In the film version, he has been transformed from the timid Mr. Anchovy of the Vocational Guidance Counsellor sketch by his fairy godmother.)
- Blackmail was a crime involving threats to reveal information to the public or legal authorities unless paid. Sean Harris tried to blackmail Ed Morgan after he saw him murder Lizzie Lewis using a quantum transducer. Morgan refused and assumed Owen Harper was also after money when he told Morgan he also knew. (TV: Ghost Machine) Using Lois Habiba's film as leverage, Torchwood Three blackmailed the government to give them access to Thames House. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)
- Alice knows something that Bob doesn't want anyone else to know. So Bob has to do something for Alice so that she doesn't tell anyone. In a teen comedy, a character is blackmailed by someone outside the main cast. The others find out and stick up for their friend. In a Government Procedural, a respected politician is confronted with pictures of him in a strip club or with a girl twenty years too young for him, and is asked for hush money. In a Superhero story, the hero is blackmailed when someone discovers their Secret Identity. In a Sitcom, a child blackmails their sibling when they break a rare, expensive heirloom.
- When Bernard and Lupo find a woman dead in an abandoned apartment, they learn she was a journalist working for a celebrity gossip site. The investigation reveals that the dead journalist was in a lesbian affair with daytime talk show host Vanessa Carville. When they go to talk to Carville, the men find her in a meeting with McCoy, who reports that Carville has received a blackmail package. In McCoy's office sometime later, Van Buren looks through the package, which turns out to not only contain sexually compromising photos of Carville with other women, but a demand for three million dollars to not publish the photos, which Carville confirms are real. Bernard and Lupo arrest the blackmailer, Dennis di Palma, after a sting operation, during which Carville hands di Palma a check for the three
- Lawyer Robert Waverly is leaving his mistress' apartment with his video camera when he spots two men with swords in fight to the death. Waverly gets it all on tape - the fight, the beheading, the Quickening. When he later encounters MacLeod, the victor of the battle he taped, he tries to cut a deal: if MacLeod kills Waverly's wife, then Waverly won't go to the police.
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| abstract | - Alice knows something that Bob doesn't want anyone else to know. So Bob has to do something for Alice so that she doesn't tell anyone. In a teen comedy, a character is blackmailed by someone outside the main cast. The others find out and stick up for their friend. In a Government Procedural, a respected politician is confronted with pictures of him in a strip club or with a girl twenty years too young for him, and is asked for hush money. In a Superhero story, the hero is blackmailed when someone discovers their Secret Identity. In a Sitcom, a child blackmails their sibling when they break a rare, expensive heirloom. The possibilities are endless. To list all the variations and permutations of this trope here would be a lesson in madness. Blackmail is such a key plot device, so intrinsic to the art of storytelling and human nature that it is used by almost every series at one point or another. Sadly, it's very seldom these days that a blackmail resister (him/herself a rare animal) does so with the traditional response, and in real life usually effective, "Publish and be damned!" One of the many ways of making someone An Offer He Can't Refuse. Of course, it's rarely stated as such, because "Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word". While the words 'blackmail' and 'extortion' are used interchangeably, this is not strictly true. Blackmail is a form of extortion where what the blackmailing party is threatening to do would otherwise be legal. For example "I have your loved one hostage, give me the MacGuffin or they're done for" would be extortion as taking hostages is a crime. However, "I have pictures of your loved one committing acceptable but punishable crime, give me MacGuffin or their reputation is toast" would be blackmail as otherwise releasing the pictures would be legal. Also note that blackmail is an inherently dangerous activity. Informing someone that you know too much is quite rarely the best course of action, especially if Agatha Christie is holding the pen. Or you haven't told anyone else (but not too many people, as that would, of course, destroy the point of blackmail). Examples of Blackmail include:
- Blackmail is a crime in which someone threatens another person into giving them what they want or else they will do something that will put them in a bad position, perhaps even killing them. Professor Baffles stated his demands to the United States Government, Colonel Wilcox stated that the government will not submit to such blackmail. When Wendy tried to convince Luther Fenwick to sit down with Doctor Pelagian to talk about how to stop pollution, he asked her if she expected him to "knuckle" under to blackmail.
- Blackmail is the twenty-third episode of Galactik Football. It aired on July 30th 2006.
- Blackmail is a cool, quiet, female warrior with a greedy, conniving outlook on life. Having been around since the second war she's seen it all and done most of it. This has made her very religious and she prefers to meditate and take things easy these days. In her Robot mode she sports a light frame covered in night black armor and uses a force field Projector in her left arm to block oncoming shots for short periods of time. In her jet mode she is a highly maneuverable unarmed courier jet who's only means of defense is her speed. However, her speed and small frame comes at a price, her armor cannot withstand too many direct hits before becoming next to useless.
- Lawyer Robert Waverly is leaving his mistress' apartment with his video camera when he spots two men with swords in fight to the death. Waverly gets it all on tape - the fight, the beheading, the Quickening. When he later encounters MacLeod, the victor of the battle he taped, he tries to cut a deal: if MacLeod kills Waverly's wife, then Waverly won't go to the police. When Kurlow, partner of the Immortal MacLeod killed on the tape, comes after MacLeod, Waverly, unaware of what he's dealing with, proposes another deal. A la "Strangers on a Train," Waverly will kill Kurlow and MacLeod will kill his wife, and no one will suspect a thing. Disbelieving Duncan declines, but Waverly carries on and challenges Kurlow, who kills Waverly easily. MacLeod is left to save Waverly's wife and challenge Kurlow.
- The Blackmail show is a Monty Python sketch that first aired in episode 18, Live from the Grill-o-mat, of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It has also appeared in the film And Now For Something Completely Different. In it, Michael Palin plays a smarmy television game show host who extorts money from his viewers by threatening to reveal embarrassing or illegal facts about them. (In the film version, he has been transformed from the timid Mr. Anchovy of the Vocational Guidance Counsellor sketch by his fairy godmother.) Several photos (or parts thereof) are shown as the host obliquely discusses the subject's illegal or embarrassing situation. In talking about the people involved, he uses their initials, towns of residence, names of their children and/or social positions, then smilingly threatens to reveal more if not paid promptly. After each round, we briefly see a nude organist (Terry Gilliam in the TV version, Terry Jones in the film version) playing a couple of chords. The final game is "Stop The Film," where a scandalous film is played until a phone call is received, and the amount of money needed increases the longer the subject waits. The music which accompanies the film in the film version is "Swing-a-Day" by Johnny Hawksworth, while the TV version features "Roving Report No.2" by Jack Trombey. In the TV sketch the increasing amount of money is shown by a set of numerical indicator tubes, the amount increasing continuously. In the film the amount is shown as a conventional superimposed caption, increasing every few seconds to the sound of a cash till ringing.
- Blackmail is is a criminal offense that occurs when someone demands money from a person in return for not revealing compromising or injurious information about that person.
- BlackMail is a research topic in the Godfather Five Families. It's one of the last research topics that can be unlocked the other being Bureaucracy. Each Upgrade Yields +1% more troops trained.
- Blackmail was a crime involving threats to reveal information to the public or legal authorities unless paid. Sean Harris tried to blackmail Ed Morgan after he saw him murder Lizzie Lewis using a quantum transducer. Morgan refused and assumed Owen Harper was also after money when he told Morgan he also knew. (TV: Ghost Machine) Using Lois Habiba's film as leverage, Torchwood Three blackmailed the government to give them access to Thames House. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four) Shortly after meeting them, when a broken spring in the fast return switch caused an explosion in the TARDIS, the First Doctor accused Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright of sabotaging his ship to blackmail him into returning them to 1960s England. (TV: The Edge of Destruction)
- Blackmail (Advantage 1 - 5 points) [Granted] [Social] A character with the Blackmail advantage has a bit of information or evidence that he can hold over someone's head, so he can gain advantages.
- Blackmail are a type of information gained as a reward from Civic Diplomacy. Gossip parleys have the highest reward rate for blackmail. Blackmail can be turned in to Blackmail informants for presence clothing/one-time use item rewards. The specific rewards for Blackmail are (in rough order of rarity) gloves, neck, one-time use parley items, and cash loot.
- When Bernard and Lupo find a woman dead in an abandoned apartment, they learn she was a journalist working for a celebrity gossip site. The investigation reveals that the dead journalist was in a lesbian affair with daytime talk show host Vanessa Carville. When they go to talk to Carville, the men find her in a meeting with McCoy, who reports that Carville has received a blackmail package. In McCoy's office sometime later, Van Buren looks through the package, which turns out to not only contain sexually compromising photos of Carville with other women, but a demand for three million dollars to not publish the photos, which Carville confirms are real. Bernard and Lupo arrest the blackmailer, Dennis di Palma, after a sting operation, during which Carville hands di Palma a check for the three million dollars. Afterward, Carville makes a confession on her show regarding the affairs. Meanwhile, a judge sets di Palma's bail at three million dollars, after which di Palma and his attorney, Baron, hold a press conference outside the courthouse, during which Baron says he and his client are going to tell the real story. It turns out di Palma is being blackmailed by his accomplice, Derek Fanning, and McCoy resorts to a similar tactic to get a conviction against Fanning.
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