Seems like it's supposed to be about ludicrously low-value currencies. The description should probably be made more clear.
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk BirdAs in extreme exchange rates? Yes.
Some examples could stand being moved, though.
edited 23rd Sep '12 10:11:11 AM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!Sounds close to Ridiculous Futureinflation.
That's only supposed to be in science fiction works extrapolating current inflation into the future, though. (Yes, I know, the examples are bad.)
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk BirdIn the Real World(tm), the term "funny money" is used for counterfeit money at least as often as it's used for valueless real currency. It may even simply mean "foreign currency".
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.Apparently not: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1348392656071780100&page=1
edited 23rd Sep '12 8:49:31 PM by spacemarine50
That's your conclusion of it. The thread isn't resolved yet.
Check out my fanfiction!I think we need an Extreme Exchange Rate(or some other name) page for money that have lots and lots of zeros and for money with a ridiculously high value. Like when three eggs costs 100 billion or when the smallest coin (1 cent) could buy a fancy dinner.
Funny money(or maybe odd tender?) would then be used for when the legal tender itself is funny(or odd). Like using cacaobeans/seashells, banknotes with funny colors/pictures, ridiculously big copper coins etc.
@6: Agree, "funny money" is a pre-established term for counterfeit cash. That's a misuse magnet right there (actual Wick Check notwithstanding) for a trope whose definition is merely a Ridiculous Exchange Rate.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Agreed; the current name is no good.
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk BirdI move for a rename crowner on the grounds that the title is misleading and there isn't enough usage for Name Inertia to protect it.
edited 10th Dec '12 12:57:44 PM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."I s'pose.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerI feel like the relative strength of currencies could be added to this trope as well - while they often go together as when a currency gets weaker it tends to suffer hyperinflation, I'm not sure if it's really worthy of a separate trope by itself.
Could it perhaps be an internal subtrope, where currency strength is dealt with separate from exchange rate? Or should I take this elsewhere?
Bumping for votes/ alt titles.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerCalling for Ridiculous Exchange Rates.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerPage and wicks moved, discussion, FAQ topic and Renamed Tropes tagged.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Crown Description:
I don't know the original intent, but the examples are basically anything funny about or involving money, and some examples are questionable based on that. Description is all over the place, and way more specific than the name and examples. Some of the examples should go in Ridiculous Future Inflation, for starters. Is This Tropable?
edited 23rd Sep '12 2:10:18 AM by spacemarine50