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→Literature: fixed the link and provided an explanation for the "How to Eat Fried Worms" example, moved "Discworld" examples here from Side Bet
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* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'': Nick Fury offers to bet Steve Rogers $10 that there's still surprises left in the world for Steve. We don't see Steve accept, but after the Helicarrier takes off Steve walks onto the bridge and hands Fury a ten dollar bill.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Mark Twain]]'s story ''The Million Pound Bank Note'' the bet is actually between two rich brothers as to what the main character will do when given the titular bank note.
* ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'', where Fogg embarks on the trip just because other members of his club bet him it couldn't be done.
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* The basis for several [[Roald Dahl]] short stories, the most famous of which is probably ''Man from the South''. In this story, an old man named Carlos offers a boastful American boy his Cadillac if the boy can strike his lighter ten times in a row. The catch is that if the lighter does not light ten times in a row, Carlos will cut off the boy's left little finger. {{spoiler|It fails on eight. Just as Carlos is about to take the boy's finger, his wife stops him - Carlos doesn't own anything; ''she'' owns all his possessions. She also has three fingers left...}}
* Garren's father, a [[The Empire|Hrum]] senator in the [[Farsala Trilogy]], bets his seat in the Senate if his son can't conquer Farsala with only ten thousand troops.
* ''[[How
* Han Solo's penchant for gambling is almost a [[Running Gag]] in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], with the Millennium Falcon being the best example of that. He won it off Lando Calrissian in a sabacc game, lost it back to him in another game, won it back, and then finally lost it permanently. Luckily, Lando was trying to impress Mara Jade and gave it back.
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* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', Vimes assumes that someone in the Watch will be running a book on whether William De Worde will survive. "Find out who's responsible, and once you've found out it's Nobby, take it away from him."
** Nobby also runs a book on Moist von Lipwig's chances in ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]''. Such is the Lipwig mystique, however, that even though ''he'' thinks he's doomed, no-one will bet on that.
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