Basic Trope: Swimming in lots of wealth like water.
- Straight: Joe discovers he owns a roomful of gold pieces. Ecstatic, he dives in and plays around in it.
- Exaggerated: Joe swims in an entire ocean made out of money.
- Downplayed:
- Joe doesn't jump into the gold; he just lies on top of it, making "gold" angels.
- Joe has only silver in which to 'swim'.
- Joe isn't swimming in gold coins, but he IS swimming in a pool of paper money.
- Justified:
- Joe is happy to have found all this money. He has to do something with all this excitement welling up in his chest, and he is not allowed to scream for joy for whatever reason.
- Joe is a Reality Warper who can make coins "liquid".
- Inverted:
- A truckful of gold pieces is dumped over Joe.
- Joe throws a gold coin into a pond filled entirely with people and watches it sink.
- Subverted:
- The roomful of gold is actually a death trap.
- Joe doesn't actually own the gold. He merely holds it in trust for another's benefit.
- Double Subverted:
- Said trap is rather easy to avoid.
- When the owner dies before they can claim the gold, it passes into Joe's hands for real.
- Parodied:
- The pool of funds is literal liquid gold, scalding hot. Joe jumps in to his death.
- Joe accidentally inhales some of the gold in the pool.
- The pool is full of chocolate coins.
- Zig Zagged: Joe discovers a roomful of gold. He decides not to swim in it, and when he decides to show his friends the room, one of them walks into the gold... And just sits there. Some time later, Joe's children are seen swimming in it, but it's implied that it's All Just a Dream.
- Averted: Joe has no treasure in which to 'swim'.
- Enforced: "We need to show how happy Joe is to have all this money all of a sudden when he can't go on a shopping splurge due to the plot."
- Lampshaded: "This is the richest bath I've ever taken!"
- Invoked: The room's creator put all of the coins in large piles so the next person to own the money could do this.
- Exploited: When fighting someone on piles of treasure, Joe demonstrates that being able to swim through said treasure has some very useful tactical applications.
- Defied: Joe has his gold stored outside his house.
- Discussed:
- "So, Joe, I heard you got rich recently. What have you been doing with it? Installing a golden pool, hint hint?"
- When Joe first sees the treasure all piled up, he comments, "I sure wish that swimming-in-money thing wasn't physically impossible, because I really want to do that right now."
- Conversed: "If a pal of mine got rich and he tried diving into the money like that, I'd just get worried about his mental health."
- Deconstructed: Joe dives into the coins... And falls flat on his face onto metal. Ouch.
- Reconstructed: Joe slowly dips into the gold as if he were entering the shallow end of the pool. When he gets deep enough, he uses his gold hoard as a means of swimming exercise, given that his gold pool would provide a greater challenge than a regular one.
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