Basic Trope: The Hero becomes rich at the end of the story.
- Straight:
- Jack, a poor Farm Boy, sets out to destroy a dragon that was menacing the kingdom. After defeating it, he takes home some treasures from the Dragon Hoard. He ends the story as the richest man in the country.
- Annette is a Starving Student and part-time-waitress who is stuck in perpetual poverty because she keeps on breaking the restaurant's cutleries, and having to pay it out of her paycheck. Just before her graduation (after which she would no longer be able to save her expenses on student benefits), she suddenly finds a winning lottery ticket, becoming a millionaire.
- Exaggerated:
- The dragon's rampages had left the kingdom in destitution. However, the Dragon Hoard Jack brings back after killing it is enough to make everyone in the kingdom wealthy. The story ends with a wide shot of the kingdom now transformed into a Shining City.
- Annette is a student at a Sucky School where people who live under the poverty line gets their "education". By the end of the story, every student from that school manages to find success in one way or another, and the credits roll after showing each of them enjoying their Conspicuous Consumption.
- Downplayed:
- Jack is given some expensive gems after saving a jeweller from robbers. He becomes significantly wealthier than he was before, though not considered rich by the story's standards.
- After returning some important documents belonging to a very important customer, Annette is given a large tip that would significantly improve her living conditions until she graduates and could find a better-paying job.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Alice the Rich Bitch suddenly loses all her money when her stock investments fail, her properties burn down, and her businesses take a nosedive due to a sudden plague infecting her workers.
- Subverted:
- The Dragon Hoard that Jack found is an illusion, and when the magic finally wears off, so does Jack's newfound wealth.
- The number called out to win the 1 million lottery prize is 1923768. Annette's number is 1923769.
- Double Subverted:
- While Jack fails to find any treasure from the dragon's lair, the grateful King rewards him with half the kingdom (which had somehow returned to its former state of glory after the dragon menace is vanquished).
- The 1923769 ticket eventually wins the lottery grand prize worth 100 million.
- Parodied: The Creative Closing Credits have the personnels' names burst into gold coins as they disappear, which the main characters collect. At the end of the scene, they are sitting on a mountain of gold.
- Zig-Zagged:
- After defeating the dragon, Jack tries to collect some treasure from its hoard, but it's an illusion and disappears. The king promises to reward him with some riches from the kingdom's treasury... only to find it empty. Thankfully, some gold miraculously rained from the sky. But due to the sudden overabundance of gold, it is now worthless. The story ends with a disgruntled Jack and a group of annoyed townsfolk dumping the gold in a heap called "trash", while the ghost of the dead dragon laughs at them from "heaven".
- While cleaning up the restaurant, Annette finds a lottery ticket. The number is called to win a grand prize, but the one she found was for the previous month's contest and is therefore invalid. However, no one came forward with the real winning ticket, so the lottery organizers decide to give the money to Annette after all. However, the customer who lost the ticket that Annette found shows up to demand his ticket back, and in the ensuing fight over the ticket, it gets torn or lost. No one ends up winning anything.
- Averted: No one gets any significant changes to their economic status.
- Enforced: The show's creator wants the hero to Earn Your Happy Ending, but doesn't think that they'd manage it while remaining poor.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Jack decides not to take any treasure from the dragon's hoard since he refuses to "steal" anything that doesn't belong to him.
- Annette immediately donates all the money she got from the lottery, leaving her as penniless as before.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I wish it was that easy to get rich in real life..."
- Deconstructed: Since the heroes aren't used to being wealthy, they are unable to manage the sudden increase in wealth. In the sequel, they've returned to their original state of poverty (or worse) because A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted.
- Reconstructed: The heroes learn from their mistakes, and when they are given another chance at becoming wealthy at the end of their second adventure, they are able keep it.
- Played For Laughs: The heroes immediately use their new riches to buy themselves some Impossibly Tacky Clothes then rides off to the sunset in an even tackier carriage (or car), while everyone else look on in bewilderment and/or embarrassment.
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