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'''Steranko''': Not my gold! [''falls out''] [[OverlyLongScream Aahhhhh!]]

** Warden Gad Hassan is certainly portrayed as greedy, only commuting Rick's death sentence after learning from Evie that the American knows the way to Hamunaptra with its vast riches, and on the condition that he come along. His gold obsession is downplayed, and is really only used as a plot device to get him to release Rick. Other than this, he is portrayed in a comic light and his greed only comes up again once they're actually ''at'' Hamunaptra and he gets GoldFever really badly, [[NeverSplitTheParty wandering away from the others]] and getting himself killed.
** And finally there's Evie Carnahan's LovableCoward brother Jonathan. He, too, is obsessed with treasure, but like Warden Hassan, he is presented as comedic, and he is able to prioritize things far better than either him or Beni, ignoring the mountains of treasure both coming into and fleeing from the pyramid when he, Rick and Ardeth Bey come to rescue Evie.
*** In the sequel, though, he does almost get himself killed retrieving a giant diamond-encrusted pyramid topper.

** Warden Gad Hassan is certainly portrayed as greedy, only commuting Rick's death sentence after learning from Evie that the American knows the way to Hamunaptra with its vast riches, and on the condition that he come along. Unlike Beni, he's likable (or at least amusing), and never does anything bad, a few instances of ImAManICantHelpIt aside. His gold obsession is downplayed, and is really only used as a plot device to get him to release Rick. Other than this, it only comes up again once they're actually ''at'' Hamunaptra and he gets GoldFever really badly, [[NeverSplitTheParty wandering away from the others]] and getting himself killed.
** And finally there's Evie Carnahan's LovableCoward brother Jonathan. He, too, is obsessed with treasure (almost getting himself killed over a giant diamond-encrusted pyramid topper in ''Film/TheMummyReturns''), but like Warden Hassan, he is presented as comedic, and (that incident in ''The Mummy Returns'' aside) he is able to prioritize things far better than either him or Beni, ignoring the mountains of treasure both coming into and fleeing from the pyramid when he, Rick and Ardeth Bey come to rescue Evie.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' two-part epiosde "Darkly Dawns the Duck," Taurus Bulba is obsessed with getting his hands on the Ram Rod, an [[ArtificialGravity anti-gravity beam]] [[WeaponOfMassDestruction weapon]]. After going through all the trouble of stealing it ''and'' learning the activation code, and ends up just using it to steal all the gold from the federal gold depository. He goes so far as to vow to "strip St. Canard clean, then hit every city in the country." Whether he meant gold specifically or just wealth in general is unclear. What ''is'' clear, though, that with [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot all the possibilities and potential]] an anti-gravity gun, he's only interested in the Ram Rod as a means to accumulate lots and lots of gold.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' two-part epiosde "Darkly Dawns the Duck," Taurus Bulba is obsessed with getting his hands on the Ram Rod, an [[ArtificialGravity anti-gravity]] beam [[WeaponOfMassDestruction weapon]]. After going through all the trouble of stealing it ''and'' learning the activation code, and ends up just using it to steal all the gold from the federal gold depository. He goes so far as to vow to "strip St. Canard clean, then hit every city in the country." Whether he meant gold specifically or just wealth in general is unclear. What ''is'' clear, though, that with [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot all the possibilities and potential]] an anti-gravity gun, he's only interested in the Ram Rod as a means to accumulate lots and lots of gold.

* Although he makes a good page image to visually illustrate the love of gold, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''' Scrooge [=McDuck=] is actually a subversion. Yes, he really, ''really'' loves gold, jewels and vast wealth, and wants to amass as much of he can and half the time can barely stand spending any of it, and enjoys swimming in it, but he does not love ''only'' gold; he also loves his friends and family deeply. Besides, he is at heart a charitable man (er, duck), one who ''[[SelfMadeMan earned]]'' his wealth through a lifetime of mining (often with his own hands), investments and hard work, and his stinginess is more through a dislike of reckless spending writ large as opposed to actual greed for the gold itself.

* In ''Film/DocSavage'', Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier CorruptBureaucrat [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakeForGranite gold "statue."]]

* In ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze'', Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier CorruptBureaucrat [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakeForGranite gold "statue."]]

* In ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze'', Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier SleazyPolitician [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakeForGranite gold "statue."]]

* British Army Captain William "Billy" Boone in the ''Film/TheJungleBook''. He leads a mutiny against his fiancée Kitty Brydon's father to kidnap her and force Mowgli to take him and his men to the lost monkey city so he can his hands on the fabled gold there. He doesn't care about a single one of the men he loses along the way (except maybe Wilkins). Upon actually arriving at the city, he very quickly proves he loves the treasure more than Kitty. Ignoring Mowgli's warnings that the treasure "only brings death," Billy helps himself to the treasure, and is promptly attacked by Kaa, who knocks him into a moat. The backpack full of gold he's wearing drags him down to his watery doom.
-->'''Billy''': [''as Kitty is escaping with Mowgli''] All right, then! Go! Go with your jungle boy! I got what I came for! I don't need you!

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' five-parter "To the Rescue," the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane using a [[CrazyEnoughToWork giant lime gelatin mold]] as a sort of makeshift EarthquakeMachine to steal all the gold (represented as gold coins) from the gold reserve and chooses to [[BadBoss abandon all of his men]] and escape with the trainload of gold all by himself when the police show up. His decision to keep all the gold to himself comes back to bite him when the Rescue Rangers turn out to have stowed away and Chlordane has to alternate between trying to drive the train ''and'' fight the pesky heroes. As a result, he can't do both, and ends up being unable to stop the train from crashing. If he'd chosen to save his men, someone could've remained in the engine and stopped in time while he went out to deal with the Rescue Rangers.

** Beni Gabor is the worst of them all. There's no shortage of greedy characters in the movie, but Beni alone is ''so'' greedy that his love of gold and treasure negates any positive traits he has. When confronted by Imhotep, he initially only works for him because he's afraid of the guy, which is understandable... but then come the promises of great riches, after which Beni becomes Imhotep's YesMan and ProfessionalButtKisser, serving him willingly instead of out of fear, and his cooperation leads to several people's deaths. At the end, when he has a chance to escape Hamunaptra before anyone else (even the good guys), he chooses to remain behind and [[SkewedPriorities stuff sacks full of treasure]]. As a result, he passes up the one chance he had to get away, and ends up [[DeathByMaterialism dying]] after being shut inside the collapsing pyramid with the scarabs.
** Warden Gad Hassan is certainly portrayed as greedy, only commuting Rick's death sentence after learning from Evie that the American knows the way to Hamunaptra with its vast riches, and on the condition that he come along. Unlike Beni, he's likable (or at least amusing), and never does anything bad, a few instances of ImAManICantHelpIt aside. His gold obsession is downplayed, and is really only used as a plot device to get him to release Rick. Other than this, it only comes up again once they're actually ''at'' Hamunaptra and he gets GoldFever really badly, [[NeverSplitTheParty wandering away from the others]] to collect what he thinks are ornamental scarabs made of blue gold. Turns out, though, they're hollow and contain ''real'' scarabs, one of which kills him by [[BodyHorror burrowing into his body]].
** And finally there's Evie Carnahan's LovableCoward brother Jonathan. He, too, is obsessed with treasure (almost getting himself killed over a giant diamond-encrusted pyramid topper in ''Film/TheMummyReturns''), but like Warden Hassan, he is presented as comedic, and (that incident in ''The Mummy Returns'' aside) he is able to prioritize things far better than either him or Beni, ignoring the mountains of treasure both coming into and fleeing from the pyramid when he, Rick and Ardeth Bey come to rescue Evie. He does very briefly encounter the same "blue gold" scarabs Hassan had, and one does get into his arm, but fortunately, Rick and Ardeth are able to cut it out before he shares Hassan's fate.
* British Army Captain William "Billy" Boone in the ''Film/TheJungleBook''. After learning that Mowgli knows the way to the fabled monkey city with its legendary treasure hoards, he leads a mutiny against Kitty's father Colonel Brydon to kidnap her and force Mowgli to take him and his men to the lost city so he can get the gold. He doesn't care about a single one of the men he loses along the way (except maybe Wilkins). Upon actually arriving at the city and finding the treasure, he very quickly proves he loves the treasure more than Kitty by discarding her when she chooses Mowgli over him. Ignoring Mowgli's warnings that the treasure "only brings death," Billy fills his backpack to overflowing with all the gold it'll hold... and then gets attacked by Kaa, who it turns out lives in the treasure chamber. He falls into an ornate moat, and is unable to escape because the backpack full of gold weighs him down and drags him to the bottom.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' five-parter "To the Rescue," the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane steals all the gold (represented as gold coins) from a federal reserve building by using a giant lime gelatin mold as a kind of makeshift EarthquakeMachine to crack open the bottom of the building, so that all of its gold will rain down into the cavern where he and his henchmen are waiting to retrieve it and escape with it aboard a modified train using abandoned subway tracks. When the police come down there to investigate, Chlordane chooses to abandon all of his men and escape with the trainload of gold all by himself. His decision to keep all the gold to himself comes back to bite him when the Rescue Rangers turn out to have stowed away and Chlordane has to alternate between trying to drive the train ''and'' fight the pesky heroes. As a result, he can't do both, and ends up being unable to stop the train from crashing. If he'd chosen to save his men (even ''one'' of them, like Percy), someone could've remained in the engine and stopped in time while he went out to deal with the Rescue Rangers.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' two-part epiosde "Darkly Dawns the Duck," Taurus Bulba is obsessed with getting his hands on the Ram Rod, an [[ArtificialGravity anti-gravity]] beam [[WeaponOfMassDestruction weapon]]. After going through all the trouble of stealing it ''and'' learning the activation code, what does he use it for? To steal all the gold from the federal gold depository. He goes so far as to vow to "strip St. Canard clean, then hit every city in the country." Whether he meant gold specifically or just wealth in general is unclear. What ''is'' clear, though, that he's only interested in the Ram Rod as a means to accumulate lots and lots of gold. Ultimately, Darkwing sabotages the thing, and the malfunctioning weapon zaps his airship, causing it to crash into the bay, dumping all of the gold into the water.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive and BigBad extraordinaire Louis Strack Jr. in the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/Darkman'' by Randall Boyll. In a subplot ultimately removed from the film and existing only in this book, Strack is obsessed with investing in South African krugerrands. When his father Louis Strack Sr. disagrees, insisting the Stracks are in construction and real estate, not gold, Strack Jr. [[SelfMadeOrphan has him killed]]. Near the end of the book, Strack takes the "Love" part of the trope to a literal level when he has a literal mountain of gold krugerrand coins piled onto his bed and [[{{Squick}} has sex with it]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive and BigBad extraordinaire Louis Strack Jr. in the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/Darkman'' by Randall Boyll. In a subplot ultimately removed from the film and existing only in this book, Strack is obsessed with investing in South African krugerrands. When his father Louis Strack Sr. disagrees, insisting the Stracks are in construction and real estate, not gold, Strack Jr. [[SelfMadeOrppan has him killed]]. Near the end of the book, Strack takes the "Love" part of the trope to a literal level when he has a literal mountain of gold krugerrand coins piled onto his bed and [[{{Squick}} has sex with it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane steals all the gold (represented as gold coins) from a federal reserve building by using a giant lime gelatin mold as a kind of makeshift EarthquakeMachine to crack open the bottom of the building, so that all of its gold will rain down into the cavern where he and his henchmen are waiting to retrieve it and escape with it aboard a modified train using abandoned subway tracks. When the police come down there to investigate, Chlordane chooses to abandon all of his men and escape with the trainload of gold all by himself. His decision to keep all the gold to himself comes back to bite him when the Rescue Rangers turn out to have stowed away and Chlordane has to alternate between trying to drive the train ''and'' fight the pesky heroes. As a result, he can't do both, and ends up being unable to stop the train from crashing. If he'd chosen to save his men (even ''one'' of them, like Percy), someone could've remained in the engine and stopped in time while he went out to deal with the Rescue Rangers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', Taurus Bulba is obsessed with getting his hands on the Ram Rod, an [[ArtificialGravity anti-gravity]] beam [[WeaponOfMassDestruction weapon]]. After going through all the trouble of stealing it ''and'' learning the activation code, what does he use it for? To steal all the gold from the federal gold depository. He goes so far as to vow to "strip St. Canard clean, then hit every city in the country." Whether he meant gold specifically or just wealth in general is unclear. What ''is'' clear, though, that he's only interested in the Ram Rod as a means to accumulate lots and lots of gold. Ultimately, Darkwing sabotages the thing, and the malfunctioning weapon zaps his airship, causing it to crash into the bay, dumping all of the gold into the water.

* British Army Captain William "Billy" Boone in the 1994 version of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook1994 The Jungle Book]]''. After learning that Mowgli knows the way to the fabled monkey city with its legendary treasure hoards, he leads a mutiny against Kitty's father Colonel Brydon to kidnap her and force Mowgli to take him and his men to the lost city so he can get the gold. He doesn't care about a single one of the men he loses along the way (except maybe Wilkins). Upon actually arriving at the city and finding the treasure, he very quickly proves he loves the treasure more than Kitty by discarding her when she chooses Mowgli over him. Ignoring Mowgli's warnings that the treasure "only brings death," Billy fills his backpack to overflowing with all the gold it'll hold... and then gets attacked by Kaa, who it turns out lives in the treasure chamber. He falls into an ornate moat, and is unable to escape because the backpack full of gold weighs him down and drags him to the bottom.

* In ''WesternAnimationChipNDaleRescueRangers'', the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane steals all the gold (represented as gold coins) from a federal reserve building by using a giant lime gelatin mold as a kind of makeshift EarthquakeMachine to crack open the bottom of the building, so that all of its gold will rain down into the cavern where he and his henchmen are waiting to retrieve it and escape with it aboard a modified train using abandoned subway tracks. When the police come down there to investigate, Chlordane chooses to abandon all of his men and escape with the trainload of gold all by himself. His decision to keep all the gold to himself comes back to bite him when the Rescue Rangers turn out to have stowed away and Chlordane has to alternate between trying to drive the train ''and'' fight the pesky heroes. As a result, he can't do both, and ends up being unable to stop the train from crashing. If he'd chosen to save his men (even ''one'' of them, like Percy), someone could've remained in the engine and stopped in time while he went out to deal with the Rescue Rangers.

* In ''WesternAnimationChipNDalesRescueRangers'', the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane steals all the gold (represented as gold coins) from a federal reserve building by using a giant lime gelatin mold as a kind of makeshift EarthquakeMachine to crack open the bottom of the building, so that all of its gold will rain down into the cavern where he and his henchmen are waiting to retrieve it and escape with it aboard a modified train using abandoned subway tracks. When the police come down there to investigate, Chlordane chooses to abandon all of his men and escape with the trainload of gold all by himself. His decision to keep all the gold to himself comes back to bite him when the Rescue Rangers turn out to have stowed away and Chlordane has to alternate between trying to drive the train ''and'' fight the pesky heroes. As a result, he can't do both, and ends up being unable to stop the train from crashing. If he'd chosen to save his men (even ''one'' of them, like Percy), someone could've remained in the engine and stopped in time while he went out to deal with the Rescue Rangers.

* In ''WesternAnimationChipAndDalesRescueRangers'', the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane steals all the gold (represented as gold coins) from a federal reserve building by using a giant lime gelatin mold as a kind of makeshift EarthquakeMachine to crack open the bottom of the building, so that all of its gold will rain down into the cavern where he and his henchmen are waiting to retrieve it and escape with it aboard a modified train using abandoned subway tracks. When the police come down there to investigate, Chlordane chooses to abandon all of his men and escape with the trainload of gold all by himself. His decision to keep all the gold to himself comes back to bite him when the Rescue Rangers turn out to have stowed away and Chlordane has to alternate between trying to drive the train ''and'' fight the pesky heroes. As a result, he can't do both, and ends up being unable to stop the train from crashing. If he'd chosen to save his men (even ''one'' of them, like Percy), someone could've remained in the engine and stopped in time while he went out to deal with the Rescue Rangers.

* Although he makes a good page image to visually illustrate the love of gold, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''' Scrooge [=McDuck=] is actually a subversion. Yes, he really, ''really'' loves gold, jewels and vast wealth, and wants to amass as much of he can and half the time can barely stand spending any of it, and enjoys swimming in it, but he does not love ''only'' gold; he also loves his friends and family deeply. Besides, he is at heart a charitable man (er, duck), one who ''[[SelfMadeMan earned]]'' his wealth through a lifetime of mining (often with his own hands), investments and hard work, and his stinginess is more through a dislike of reckless spending writ large as opposed to actual greed for the gold itself.

* George "Mac" [=McHale=] in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheCrystalSkull'' is established early on as a particularly greedy individual. When the main characters are fleeing Akator at the end, Mac stuffs every last one of his pockets with coins and jewels from the aliens' treasure trove, meaning that the dimensional vortex (to which gold is magnetic) sucks him in along with the Soviets while the other good guys get away. Not really a KarmicDeath, as we don't know where Mac (or the Soviets for that matter) ''die'' by being pulled through the portal, but his insistence on burdening himself with so much loot instead of thinking of his own survival definitely contributes to being, at least, stuck in another dimension.

* Ebenezer Scrooge in Creator/CharlesDickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (and its [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol many, many adaptations]]) is a greedy, penny-pinching money lender who, being TheScrooge and all ([[TroperNamer ''The'' Scrooge]], in fact), refuses to spend his vast amounts of wealth, even on himself, let alone his poor employee Bob Cratchit. Fortunately, though, he soon learns the error of his miserly ways, and that there are things more important than money, like his fellow human beings, in one of literature's great redemption stories.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive and BigBad extraordinaire Louis Strack Jr. in the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/Darkman'' by Randall Boyll. In a subplot ultimately removed from the film and existing only in this book, Strack is obsessed with investing in South African krugerrands. When his father Louis Strack Sr. disagrees, insisting the Stracks are in construction and real estate, not gold, Strack Jr. [[SelfMadeOrpan has him killed]]. Near the end of the book, Strack takes the "Love" part of the trope to a literal level when he has a literal mountain of gold krugerrand coins piled onto his bed and [[{{Squick}} has sex with it]].

* Although he makes a good page image to visually illustrate the love of gold, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''' Scrooge [=McDuck=] is actually a subversion. Yes, he really, ''really'' loves gold, jewels and vast wealth, and wants to amass as much of he can and half the time can barely stand spending any of it, and enjoys swimming in it, he does not love ''only'' gold; he also loves his friends and family deeply. Besides, he is at heart a charitable man (er, duck), one who ''[[SelfMadeMan earned]]'' his wealth through a lifetime of mining (often with his own hands), investments and hard work, and his stinginess is more through a dislike of reckless spending writ large as opposed to actual greed for the gold itself.

* ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'': Secret Squirrel's archenemy Yellow Pinkie specialized in stealing gold in the original 1965 cartoon, while the 90's revival segment from ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' had a similar villain also obsessed with gold named Goldflipper.

** And finally, there is Thorn Oakenshield. Much like his grandfather Thrór, the minute Smaug dies and he and his Company wind up in possession of the vast mountains of gold and jewels, he begins to jealously covet it, suspiciously thinking everyone, even his own kin, are out to steal it, the Arkenstone especially. Fortunately, he gradually is able to realize he is becoming just like his grandfather, and is able to shake off the "dragon sickness" and become a better person (er, dwarf).

* Augustus Steranko in ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'', who steals gold to make coins bearing his likeness. When escaping at the end, he loads his getaway helicopter with so much of it the thing will barely get more than thirty feet off the ground. Repeated entreaties by his right-hand woman Ilsa Grunt to throw the gold out are met with refusal. Forced to decide between her and the gold in order to make his helicopter lighter, Steranko throws ''her'' out. He dies when Michael Corben shoots at the copter, causing the gold to fall out. Letting go of the steering stick, Steranko falls out with the gold trying to save it, and dies when the now pilotless helicopter crashlands on him as a result.