History Main / MoneyToThrowAway

* In ''Film/TheMagicChristian'', incredibly rich Guy Grand builds a giant heated vat which he fills with many $100 bills-- and also urine, excrement, and animal blood-- and posts a sign saying "Free Money." Lots of people dive in.

* Justified in ''VisualNovel/{{Bustafellows}}''. When exposing Ortega for his crimes, Limbo opens a suitcase full of dirty money, sending all the bills flying into the ocean, while being watched live by hundreds of viewers. Tetuta is surprised he would waste all that money. Limbo then reveals to Teuta that the money in the suitcase was swapped with fake bills so the group could split the real money amongst themselves while still appearing gallant for arresting a corrupted official for the watching audience.

* Justified in ''VisualNovel/{{Bustafellows}}''. When exposing Ortega for his crimes, Limbo opens a suitcase full of dirty money, sending all the bills flying into the ocean, while being watched live by hundreds of viewers. Limbo later reveals to Teuta that the money in the suitcase was swapped with fake bills so the group could split the real money amongst themselves.

* Done very well in the Creator/RoaldDahl novella "[[Literature/TheWonderfulStoryOfHenrySugar Henry Sugar]]", where the title character begins as an UpperClassTwit but then studies for months and gains the ability to see through playing cards. While initially his interest in the skill was greed, after he breaks the bank at a casino, he starts throwing his winnings off his balcony into the street, realizing it has suddenly become meaningless. At this point, a police officer almost arrests him for creating a public nuisance and scolds him for wasting money that way, providing the impetus for Sugar to devote his life to philanthropy.

* Jayne Cobb did this before he joined the crew on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', when robbing a magistrate named Higgins. [[spoiler:Thing is, he wanted to keep the cash, but after some antiaircraft fire, he had to lose some weight in his skiff, and he'd already tossed his partner overboard.]] The people in the city under him hailed him as a hero, of course.

* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' opens with Lupin and Jigen robbing a Monte Carlo casino, only to throw it out onto the highway after they realize every bill they've stolen is counterfeit. It's implied by Jigen that they are still spendable but this is Lupin and Jigen we are talking about.
* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Mikoto Misaka's signature Railgun attack has her use her electrical powers to propel a coin at several times the speed of sound. Of course, she can use anything made of metal for this, but coins are convenient.
** Some close-ups show she's not actually using coins but game arcade tokens which she buys by the bucket load. Presumably the bulk discount means that its cheaper than using an equivalent number of coins.

* Happened in manga and anime of ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}''. Ryotsu manage to manipulate the bonus payroll system on the computer to give himself a ridiculous amount. Later while he's on pursuit by the police and local store-owners whom he owes money to, he throws some of his cash at the crowd to hold them off.
** In other chapters, Ryotsu ends up losing his bonus pay or his get-rich-quick vendor profits whenever he gets into an accident which ends up losing his money to a crowd from a high place.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. As part of his BigEntrance, Aladdin throws gold coins to the admiring crowd during the Prince Ali song.

* ''Film/BabylonAD''. Toorop is offered a million dollar cash bribe to abandon the women he's protecting. He's clearly tempted for a moment, then he knocks the bag in the air and uses the subsequent money scramble to escape with his clients.

* ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler''. The eponymous villain hands a huge amount of money to a grateful beggar, who doesn't know that the cash is virtually worthless thanks to Dr Mabuse's manipulation of the stock market.

* ''Film/ThePunisher2004''. Frank Castle appears to be RobbingTheMobBank, but we then see him using a HollywoodGlassCutter to cut a hole in the window, which he forces the mobsters to throw the money through onto the street outside. The two goons guarding the lobby only realise what's happening when everyone in the building rushes outside to grab the falling cash. He does keep some of the money though, and leaves it for [[TrueCompanions his friends who risked their lives to protect him]] in the course of the movie.

* ''Film/{{TENET}}''. Because WeNeedADistraction, the protagonists hijack a cargo-carrying 747 on the ground at Oslo airport and taxi it into the building they're planning to break into, setting off the halon gas system so the staff have to evacuate the vaults. To create further chaos, they blow a hole in the hull and scatter its cargo of gold bullion on the runway, forcing the police to stop and secure the area and also creating confusion over [[InfractionDistraction whether it was an act of terrorism or a heist gone wrong]]. One member of the team is shown [[NotSoAboveItAll tucking a gold bar into his vest]] before shoving the rest onto the runway.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'' has a mission where a woman hires you to destroy some armoured cars and the money within. Toni does question the waste before he goes for it though.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the confusion status effect has a random chance of making a party member decide to "waste money". Which translates to throwing away a large chunk of your money (complete with an animation which surrounds them with bank notes). Oddly enough, monsters under the effect do the same thing (although not with your money, fortunatly).

* The Pay Day attack in ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'', which will net you extra Pokédollars (double or quintuple the user's level per use, depending on the generation) at the end of the battle.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline'' the player can choose an emote they can perform witha button push and to celebrate winning a race or a death match, one of which is "Make it Rain" which takes $1,000 of the player's cash to throw around bills from a stack.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', when Aladdin becomes a prince, he throws out gold coins to the poor, since he was poor up until this point. He does this again at the beginning of ''Return of Jafar'', though that wasn't his own money, he had just stolen it from a bunch of thieves.

* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Monty Burns, wanting to become popular, throws ''silver dollars'' at passersby, causing a lot of property damage and numerous injuries. This is a parody of John D. Rockefeller who was probably best known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to children wherever he went... including, canonically, [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]. Earlier in the same episode beloved billionaire Arthur Fortune tosses out dollars to the people at his mall grand opening
%%** And bringing this full circle, Abe Simpson. "So I ran out of the house with a big washtub and..."