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[[File:scrooge mcduck money diving.jpg|link=Disney Ducks Comic Universe|
{{quote|''"I dive around in it like a porpoise! And I burrow through it like a gopher! And I toss it up and let it hit me on the head!''"
|'''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Scrooge McDuck]]'''}}
The greedy character finally has his desired fortune piled under his feet, he couldn't be any more glad. So how does he enjoy this moment? He dives into the pile and [[Sand Is Water|gleefully swims around]] like it was the best swimming pool ever, or rest on it like you would while floating peacefully.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', the goal of the swim team is to garner enough money to fill a swimming pool and then swim around in it.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[Hellboy]]'' story "Box Full of Evil", one of the people opening the titular box demands from the demon within "Enough gold to lie down in and a crown for my head". He gets it {{spoiler|[[Literal Genie|Sort of.]] The demon posesses his sister and turns him into a monkey first, and it's only at the end of the story, after he's died, does his body come to rest on a large pile of money, with a crown at his head}}
* As pictured, Scrooge McDuck of the ''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'' does this all the time. This originated in the comics, but is probably more widely known because of his animated incantation in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''. This is such a well-known trait of the character that it's played around with a fair bit:
** Lampshaded in that [[Donald Duck]] and his nephews will occasionally try it, and break their heads on the metal. Scrooge even managed to trick the Beagle Boys into trying this in ''Only A Poor Old Man''.
** Also, it only works with money, even for Scrooge. While diving around in his cash-filled train wagons in the second-to-last album of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', he comes to an abrupt halt on a pile of coals.
** Subverted in ''The Last Lord of Eldorado''. After having found a pile of coins on a treasure cruise, Scrooge tries to dive into it. Instead he cracks his head because the coins were fused together after spending hundreds of years on the bottom of the sea.
** Deconstructed in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRQSpORW0 this parody video], where Scrooge accidentally breaks all of his bones after jumping into his pool of money, resulting in him being immediately rushed to the hospital where he then dies. A funeral is held for him, where he is buried with all of his money, and as a result his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie go crazy over their granduncle's death and end up in prison, their uncle (and Scrooge's nephew) [[Donald Duck]] becoming very angry with them and refuses to pay their "duck bail", before finally going bankrupt and committing suicide.
{{quote|''[[DuckTales (1987)|DuckTales]]! (Whoo-hoo!)
''Get to the ER before his brain swells! (Uh-oh!)
''Stabilize his neck, Oh, no! His heart failed!
''Book a funeral, time for mourning
''Happened so fast without warning
''This peaceful bird's now a duck angel! (Uh-oh!)
''Kids can't cope and wind up in a duck jail! (Uh-oh!)
''Donald's pissed and he refused to pay the duck bail! (Uh-oh!)
''Family falls apart, now there's no more [[DuckTales (1987)|DuckTales]]! (Boo-hoo!) }}
== Fan Works ==
* More than a few ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fics have Harry look longingly at the piles of gold in his vault at Gringotts and imagine diving into them like Scrooge McDuck. In some, like ''[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/resources/files/12407/ Modest, Too]'' by Jeconais, he actually tries it, and finds [[Reality Ensues|it doesn't quite work like in the comics]]. In at least one, he finds out the Purebloods actually have a spell to make it possible.
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* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "Queen of the Black Coast", Belit does this.
{{quote|''With a cry Belît dropped to her knees among the bloodstained rubble on the brink and thrust her white arms shoulder-deep into that pool of splendor.''}}
* The Western Paladin in the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card [https://web.archive.org/web/20120608055211/http://www.cardkingdom.com/catalog/item/49139 Greed] does this.
* Like Smaug (see below), this is considered standard behavior for dragons in [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. One book devoted to them, the ''Draconomicon'', points out how improbable this is considering the volume of the coins and the size of most dragons (even taking into consideration that they are typically 3x as rich as monsters of the same power level). The book even mentions that some dragons will convert their treasure into smaller denominations just to make wallowing in their wealth more practical.
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== Western Animation ==
* Scrooge McDuck of ''[[DuckTales (1987)|Duck Tales]]'' does this as his main pastime. See the comics section for more information.
** In an episode of [[DuckTales (2017)|the 2017 version]], he tells Dewey that most people ''would'' be hurt trying to dive into money the way he does, claiming it's a skill he spent years perfecting. He doesn't elaborate, but given [[Charles Atlas Superpower| the physical feats he can do that others cannot]], it's not much of a stretch.
* On ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Squidward does this on a pile of Krabby Patties after he becomes addicted to them.
** Mr. Krabs does this with money, and in one episode, a vault full of diamonds.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aU1dmg5IE&feature=related Deconstructed] in ''[[Family Guy]]''. Peter jumps into one of these after hitting the lottery and winds up bloody with bones sticking out. Turns out gold is quite dense, so even though it's malleable, you don't want to jump into a pile of it.
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Aaahhh!! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter, that form a hard floor-like surface! Ahhh!!}}
== Real Life ==
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