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* Auric Goldfinger in ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}''. Goldfinger is obsessed with gold, going so far as to have yellow-bound erotic photographs, and have his lovers painted head to toe in gold so that he can make love to gold and carries a [[CoolGun gold Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket]] as his personal gun. He plots Operation: Grand Slam; a scheme to rob the US Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

* 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]] of an anti-gravity gun, he's only interested in the Ram Rod as a means to accumulate lots and lots of gold.

* Minor Franchise/{{Batman}} foe Sterling Silversmith is obsessed with silver. All of his crimes are aimed at increasing his stock of it.

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* Auric Goldfinger in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' is obsessed with gold. In many respects, Creator/GertFrobe's portrayal of Goldfinger has become the TropeCodifier for this type of character and the movie's [[VillainSong theme song]] is the TropeNamer. He has his henchman Oddjob paint the bodies of his dead female victims gold as a calling card, and he carries a [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated Colt Official Police revolver]] as his personal weapon. Despite the undeniable sexual element of painting dead, naked people gold, there's no indication Goldfinger has sex with them as he does in the novel. His EvilPlan, Operation Grand Slam, involves attempting to destroy Fort Knox's gold (and irradiate what would be left) to increase the value of his own already inestimable supply.

* 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 is killed when the now pilotless helicopter lands on him as a result.
-->'''Steranko:''' ''[grabbing desperately at falling coins]'' No! My money! My gold!\\
'''Michael:''' Time to cash it in, Steranko!\\
'''Steranko:''' Not my gold! ''[falls out]'' Aahhhhh!
* This is Santer's motivation in ''Film/ApacheGold'', and he will stop at nothing to possess the eponymous treasure, even if it means stirring up war between the Apaches and the palefaces.

** The Master in ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' chooses to save his gold rather than any of his subjects during Smaug's attack. When Alfrid realizes that it's weighing their ship down and suggests dumping it, the Master responds by throwing ''him'' out instead in a scene similar to ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'' above.

* 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's 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 by being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]
* In ''Film/TheGoonies'', legendary pirate captain and PosthumousCharacter One-Eyed Willie loved gold and jewels and other treasure so much that instead of actually ''spending'' all the loot he and his crew stole, he shut himself (and his ship!) up in a cave. After apparently murdering all of his men, Willie appears to have just sat at the head of a big banquet table covered in gold until he died. At least this is how the Goonies find his skeleton.

* Auric Goldfinger in ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}''. Goldfinger is obsessed with gold, going so far as to have yellow-bound erotic photographs, and have his lovers painted head to toe in gold so that he can make love to gold and carries a [[CoolGun gold Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket]] as his personal gun. He plots Operation: Grand Slam; a scheme to rob the US Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

* 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 pile of gold krugerrands piled onto his bed and [[{{Squick}} has sex with it]].

* In ''Series/HarmonQuest'', Eddie Lizard will pretty much only help out the party in exchange for gold. By the end, he has all the party's gold and most of the cult's gold, too.

* ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr'' has Goldfinger's daughter Goldie Finger, who shares her father's obsession with gold, and is possibly even greedier than he is, as while Goldfinger was willing to wait the few months that it would take to remove all of the gold from a mine, Goldie petulantly whines that she wants it all ''now.''
* ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'': Secret Squirrel's archenemy Yellow Pinkie specialized in stealing gold in the original 1965 cartoon, while the 90s revival segment from ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' had a similar villain also obsessed with gold named Goldflipper.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
** Although he makes a good page image to visually illustrate the love of gold, 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 contrast, El Capitán from the five-part episode "Treasure of the Golden Suns" is ''so'' greedy for gold that even though he's a [[Really700YearsOld four-hundred year old]] (!) Spanish captain he has sustained himself over the years through sheer determination to survive thanks to GoldFever. He wants to raise a sunken ship containing an unfathomably wealthy hoard of treasure, and is willing to do anything to do it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' five-parter "To the Rescue," the [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]-esque Aldrin Chlordane uses 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.
* 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]] of an anti-gravity gun, he's only interested in the Ram Rod as a means to accumulate lots and lots of gold.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DinoTrux'', Goldtrux is a gold-obsessed Stegarbasaur that kidnaps Reptools and Junktools to work in mining and refining gold to make into plating for himself.

* The Golden Queen from ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' is utterly obsessed with gold, and would rather possess all the gold in Skylands rather than rule it as its supreme overlord. Her obsession with gold even led her to learn how to use a MidasTouch.

* Auric Goldfinger in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' is obsessed with gold. In many respects, Creator/GertFrobe's portrayal of Goldfinger has become the TropeCodifier for this type of character and the movie's [[VillainSong theme song]] is the TropeNamer. He has his henchman Oddjob paint the bodies of his dead female victims gold as a calling card, and he carries a [[BlingBlingBang gold Colt Official Police]] as his personal weapon. Despite the undeniable sexual element of painting dead, naked people gold, there's no indication Goldfinger has sex with them as he does in the novel. His EvilPlan, Operation Grand Slam, involves attempting to destroy Fort Knox's gold (and irradiate what would be left) to increase the value of his own already inestimable supply.

* 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 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 by being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]

* Goldie in ''Film/LeftForDead'' is obsessed with gold and will do anything to obtain it: even RobbingTheDead by extracting the gold teeth from a murdered bounty hunter, and stealing Clem's wedding ring.

Compare GoldFever which is a (usually) temporary obsession with gold which can overwhelm someone.

* Auric Goldfinger in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' is obsessed with gold. In many respects, Gert Frobe's portrayal of Goldfinger has become the TropeCodifier for this type of character and the movie's [[VillainSong theme song]] is the TropeNamer. He has his henchman Oddjob paint the bodies of his dead female victims gold as a calling card, and he carries a [[BlingBlingBang gold Colt Official Police]] as his personal weapon. Despite the undeniable sexual element of painting dead, naked people gold, there's no indication Goldfinger has sex with them as he does in the novel. His EvilPlan, Operation Grand Slam, involves attempting to destroy Fort Knox's gold (and irradiate what would be left) to increase the value of his own already inestimable supply.

* Auric Goldfinger in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' is obsessed with gold. In many respects, Gert Frobe's portrayal of Goldfinger has become the TropeCodifier for this type of character and the movie's [[VillainSong theme song]] is the TropeNamer. He has his henchman Oddjob paint the bodies of his dead female victims gold as a calling card, and he carries a [[CoolGun gold Colt Official Police]] as his personal weapon. Despite the undeniable sexual element of painting dead, naked people gold, there's no indication Goldfinger has sex with them as he does in the novel. His EvilPlan, Operation Grand Slam, involves attempting to destroy Fort Knox's gold (and irradiate what would be left) to increase the value of his own already inestimable supply.

* There are plenty of people in RealLife who think fiat currency [[ArtisticLicenseEconomics will cause the world economy to collapse any day now]] and therefore invest in as much gold as they can, never questioning why dealers are willing to exchange their precious gold for "worthless government paper". On the flipside, one has to wonder why financial advisors recommended against it while banks and even businesses (for example Palantir) have been increasingly stockpiling gold in recent years if it's not valuable in an economic crisis.

** Smaug, who destroys the dwarf kingdom of Erebor and the human city of Dale to obtain the famous hoard of King Thrór. He has no practical use for it, being a dragon and all, having it just to have it, and flying into a [[RantInducingSlight murderous rage]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution attacking]] the nearby human settlement of Lake-town (all that remains of Dale) because Bilbo stole a gold cup in order to prove his prowess as a burglar to Thorin. Creator/JRRTolkien describes Smaug as experiencing what basically amounts to "rich people's anger" at the loss of this one single solitary item from the treasure hoard.

** Alfrid himself, despite his situational PragmaticVillainy described above where he wanted to throw the gold out of the Master's boat to escape Smaug, soon succumbs to greed himself when he absconds with a goodly amount of gold coins he finds hidden in a smashed vase in Dale. [[spoiler:This ends up causing his KarmicDeath, as a coin falling out of his, eh, let's say "[[DisguisedInDrag outfit]]" lands on the triggering mechanism for the catapult he's hiding in, sending him flying to his death.]] However, it's conceivable that he saw the coins as merely money he'd need to pay for things while on the lam after his big ScrewThisImOuttaHere moment, so he may not completely apply.

* Prince John in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' may be driven mainly by spite and wounded pride, but he also seems to love the gold he's extorted from the overtaxed populace, judging from his cries of anguish when he finds that it's being stolen. He also keeps it all in his bedroom, apparently so he can cuddle up to bags of coins while sleeping.

* There are plenty of people in RealLife who think fiat currency [[ArtisticLicenseEconomics will cause the world economy to collapse any day now]] and therefore invest in as much gold as they can, never questioning why dealers are willing to exchange their precious gold for "worthless government paper".

* ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr'' has Goldfinger's daughter Goldie Finger, who shares her father's obsession with gold.

* Wario of the ''Franchise/MarioBros'' franchise is a money-grubbing jerk no matter how you slice it, but he adores anything gold. Many of his adventures start off with him hunting for treasure, and his ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' incarnation has him get into the video game industry solely to see more green and gold. He hardly seems to care for anything else.

* 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 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 by being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]

* Prince John in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' may be driven mainly by spite and wounded pride, but he also seems to love the gold he's extorted from the overtaxed populace, judging from his cries of anguish when he finds that it's being stolen. He also keeps it all in his bedroom, apparently so he can cuddle up to bags of coins while sleeping.