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Some people just really love money. Not wealth for the [[Luxury Tropes|luxuries]] or the power. They love money ''itself'', to the point they have a [['''Money Fetish]]'''.

Compare [[Conspicuous Consumption]] and [[Gold Fever]].

* [[The Barnum|Nabiki Tendo]] in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' just loves money, so damn much. She's never actually shown in the usual sexual situations, but an anime filler episode does have her envision a great tidal wave of golden coins, which is used to force a telepath out of her head. So much does she adore money that she actually caused the [[Blast Out|"wedding disaster"]] at the end of the manga because she believed that the other members of Ranma's [[Unwanted Harem]] would A: bring money as a present for the "happy couple",<ref>Which was not unreasonable; in Japan, wedding gifts are almost always in cash.</ref> B: she could take that money for herself, and C: they wouldn't [[Mad Love|cause such destruction in their outrage]] that it would ''cost'' more thenthan was brought in to fix the place. [[Captain Obvious|She was wrong on all accounts.]]

** Don't forget that sheShe never brings her own money, since she always manages to swindle someone else into paying the bill, and keeps a jar full of 1-Yen coins. Or that she made the telepathic child back off by apparently embarrassing him with sexual imagery right after the sea of money.

** Nami (pictured above) fromis ''[[Onethe Piece]]''most notable example in the series, largely due to a tragic [[Freudian Excuse]]. She never had much money for what she wanted while growing up, and after Arlong's pirates invaded and killed her foster mother, she was forced to work to collect money to free her village. After Arlong's defeat and her village's liberation, she is just as determined to collect money, particularly since she can now use any money she collects for herself.

* In ''[[Heat Guy J]]'', Monica is talking about her recent commodity investments with Daisuke (never mind that she's only 10!), and her eyes get all sparkly, and she has [[Love Bubbles]] in the background. She also later uses J to help her gamble. Her money fetish is understandable, given that she lives in a trailer, caring for her alcoholic mother.

* [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'s Aunt Noovo is constantly seen as this, though she mostly does this for show as she is a very charitable person.

* Heavily implied with Larfleeze of the [[Green Lantern|Orange Lantern Corps]]. His home is a ruined palace filled with rotting treasures. Every time he kills and his ring consumes another being and adds them to his corps, a new power ring is created and it goes to Larfleeze. In one panel in his first appearance, Larfleeze is seen emerging from a pile of orange power rings like Scrooge [[McDuck]].

* In the film ''[[Danger: Diabolik]]'', after Diabolik has a successful robbery, he has fun with his girl on a bed covered in money.

* Salluste in ''La Folie des Grandeurs'': his manservant wakes him up every morning by dropping handfuls of gold coins in a basin--andbasin—and he can tell just by the sound whether one is missing.

* Perico, [[Bumbling Sidekick]] to [[El Santo]] in ''[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula|Santo En El Tesoro De Dracula]]'', doesn't seem to be wealthy or greedy, but [[media:Perico_3930Perico 3930.jpg|his outlandish twenty-years-before-its-time dollar sign bling]] is otherwise pretty inexplicable.

== [[Literature ]] ==

* This is the title character's major flaw in the classic book ''[[Silas Marner]]''.

* Dwarfs in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' aren't ''quite'' as bad, but even [[Gotrek and Felix|Gotrek]] will forestall his epic quest to [[Death Seeker|get himself killed]] to go on a treasure hunt. Especially if he can do both by going after treasure someplace dangerous.

** see it at; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sor9GzivGbk {{dead link}}

== [[Tabletop New Media Games]] ==

* Thief from ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''.

* Kharisma, from ''[[Something *Positive]]''.

* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Khan made a lot of money--allmoney—all in quarters--viaquarters—via ownership of a DIY carwash, and he and Minh dumped it on their bed and rolled around in it.

* [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] himself definitely fits this trope.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[Real Life]] example (well, if you believe what some not-so-friendly biographer says): [[Emperor Caligula|the original Caligula]], in addition to being a generally greedy bastard, eventually started doing things like walking on piles of coins and even wallowing in them just for that special feeling of gold.

** So this is where [[Mel Brooks]] got the idea for the 'Treasure Bath!' bit from ''[[History of the World, Part I]]''.

* A milder example would be scripophilia, which is not, in fact, a sexual perversion: it's the [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|technical term]] for collecting old paper money and financial certificates. Nineteenth -century railroad bonds and such were often very elaborate pieces of engraving and quite aesthetically pleasing to people who like that sort of thing.