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: ???

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