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The thing about Greed is that it's ''never'' satisfied - as soon as the thing sought after is obtained, the obtainer starts craving more, and more, and more, ''ad infinitum''.
Greed is the main motivation of the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. It is also a [[Fatal Flaw]] of the [[Miser Advisor]] and commonly of a [[Mr. Vice Guy]]; in the cases of these characters, they usually learn a [[Moral of the Story|valuable lesson]] at some point about what's really important. The [[Gold Digger]] is motivated by
May lead to [[Death by Materialism]]. [[Gold Fever]] is a [[Sub-Trope]]. Often goes hand in hand with [[Villainous Glutton|gluttony]]. Compare [[Lust]], which is desire for abstract concepts as opposed to material possessions. If a greedy character is featured in a musical, expect a [[Money Song]].
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* Kakuzu for ''[[Naruto]]''.
** Also, Shiranami. He even stated that the reason he killed his father, who was protecting the expensive forbidden jutsu, was because he's greedy.
* Nabiki of ''[[Ranma ½]]''
** Genma accidently knocks his wife off a cliff in his attempts to steal a 20 dollar medal to pawn.
* Greed from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as his name would imply]]. However, the positive qualities related to his sin are also inspected: He is so possessive over his minions that it crosses to being actual loyalty and caring. Even Greed himself eventually addresses the fact that while things like wanting money, food, power, etc. seem worlds apart from wanting to protect people, they're also still both forms of desire.
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* Ebenezer Scrooge in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' is the greediest, most miserly man in London. After [[Future Me Scares Me|a visit from the Ghost of Christmas-Yet-To-Come]], he gets second thoughts.
* Each of the villains in the [[Keys to the Kingdom]] series represents a deadly sin, with Grim Tuesday representing greed. He takes it to rather ridiculous levels, in fact. He turns ''his entire kingdom'' into an open-pit mine and risks ''the destruction of the entire universe'' in order to obtain more stuff. And he already posseses the power to make anything out of Nothing and a building about the size of a small town filled entirely with treasure.
* Miss Minchin in ''[[A Little Princess]]''
* Count Olaf in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. Pretty much everything that he does is because of his desire to obtain the Baudelaire fortune.
* Sir Peter, Ella's father, in ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''.
* Smaug from ''[[The Hobbit]]'' - probably the [[Trope Codifier]] for the evil dragon sleeping on a bed of treasure.
** As well as the character he is based on - the dragon from Beowulf who has similar ... ummm ... exactly the same hoarding-and-killing tendencies.
* In [[Peter S. Beagle]]'s ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'', while King Haggard explains that the reason he keeps {{spoiler|unicorns}} is that they are the only thing that makes him happy. Where it becomes greed is that his goal is to collect them
{{quote|"Each time I see the {{spoiler|unicorns}}, MY {{spoiler|unicorns}}, it is like that morning in the woods, and I am truly young, in spite of myself!"}}
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''The Hour of The Dragon'', a man offers to betray [[Conan the Barbarian]] for this.
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* Chichikov's vice in ''[[Dead Souls]]'' which drives him.
* In Julian May's ''The Rampart Worlds'' sci-fi trilogy, this is pretty much the main reason the [[Mega Corp|Hundred Concerns]] start dealing with the Haluk (although {{spoiler|Emily Konigsberg}} started all the trouble through naivete). It turns out that giving technology to a touchy, paranoid race ''is not a good idea''.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Let's see...the Monarch HMO from ''Payback''. The Barristers from ''The Jury''. Rosemary Hershey in ''Sweet Revenge''. Arden Gillespie and Roland Sullivan in ''Lethal Justice''. Maxwell Zenowicz in ''Fast Track''. Baron Bell in ''Deadly Deals''. Owen Orzell and Jason Parker in ''Home Free''. In at least 7 books out of 20, you have
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** The Ferengi (see above) would disagree vehemently. While "Peace is good for business" is one of the most important Rules of Acquisition, the very next rule is "War is good for business", and [[Planet of Hats|they would know]]
* Parker on [[Leverage]]. From the episode "The Nigerian Job": "My money is not in my account. That makes my cry inside... in my special angry place." From "The Homecoming Job": "I don't like stuff.. I like MONEY."
* The villains of ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', the Greeed (sic), are literally made out of desire. The hero Eiji has no desires due to [[Survivor Guilt]], which allows him to use their powers easily. Interestingly, it slowly becomes apparent that having no desires is a ''bad'' thing, with the [[Big Good]] believing that desire is necessary for life and encouraging his workers to be ambitious as long as they are not [[
* One of the primary vices of the mercenary Jayne Cobb of ''[[Firefly]]'', though he's usually smart enough not to let this drive him to do stupid things. Unless the money's ''too'' good...
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** As pointed out in the author commentary for the first prequel book, she was always pretty greedy before getting a motivation. ''And she still intends to ultimately make a profit from that.''
** So it's odd that ''since'' we learned that motivation, that aspect of her character has been rather [[Character Development|de-Flanderized]].
** It's still here, it's just not her ''main''
* Vince, the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Greed in ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'', "earned" his position in Hell because he was an insane cult leader in life who always wanted more
* Among the [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Seven Stakes of Purgatory]], Greed is represented by a girl named Mammon, Ange's "closest friend" and the one who is serious about "taking {{spoiler|Sakutaro}} home".
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2137 the bank tries to guilt Seymour over this.]
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