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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"[[Sophisticated As Hell|Duh, essentially, we all enter into a contract whereby the last surviving participant becomes the sole possessor of all them purty pictures]]."''
|'''Milton "Oxford" Haas''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
This is when a group of people take one or more collectively owned items of worth and put it in trust. The last surviving member of the group will then receive the items. [[Blatant Lies|Coincidentally]], participants in a tontine tend to have a slightly short life expectancy.
Originally, a
This is almost an example of a [[Forgotten Trope]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]'' has volume 3 in which suicidal and/or people desperately needing money signing on to a game where they make certain changes into their life insurances so that it pays into an escrow account after they die. Since insurance won't pay for suicides, the members of the game has to get murdered...by other people playing the game. The players need to find the other members of the game and kill them or lead other members who are more comfortable with murder, to kill the ones whose house they have discovered. The game ends when about two-thirds of the original group dies and the rest gain an equal share of the collective amount gained by the escrow account for a second chance at life.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The very first ''[[Batman]]'' story, "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate".
* In [[DC Comics]]' ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' #75, we learn that the [[Blackhawk|Blackhawk Squadron]] had a tontine. As with the ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
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* The men of Maggody arrange a tontine for possession of the bass boat in Joan Hess's ''Merry Wives of Maggody'', apparently not aware that such a document is illegal and unenforceable. Roy Stiver Lampshades how tontines had never made much sense to begin with, even in mystery novels.
== [[Live
* This was used in an eighth season episode of ''[[
* It has been used as recently as ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]''.
* In ''[[The Daily Show]]'' during the "You're Welcome" session John Hodgeman suggested that they solve national debt problems by making Social Security a tontine. And by making murder legal. Seconds later he attempted to strangle Jon Stewart.
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* ''[[Archer]]'', "The Double Deuce." When members of Wodehouse's old World War I flying squad start dropping dead ( {{spoiler|of perfectly natural causes that just happen to look suspicious}}), he suspects that it's because of the tontine they set up. Once word leaks out, Cheryl, Pam and Cyril think about starting an ISIS tontine.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'' include this:
{{quote|1471. The party will not enter into a tontine, that just encourages the evil players.}}
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