History Main / GoldTooth

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Gold has been used by dentists as filling for cavities as well as prosthetic teeth for centuries, because of its resistance to corrosion and it is malleable enough to work with easily. Gold teeth are also a status symbol and a symbol of wealth in certain parts of the world and in some subcultures. In Fictionland, it can also be an indicator that a character is wealthy, but characters with gold teeth tend to be villains at least most of the time, perhaps because it can also be an indicator of greed, ostentation, and ConspicuousConsumption. In RealLife often associated with UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia in Europe, since gold was commonly used in Soviet dentistry (now mostly phased out with modern ceramics), and with gangsters.

Silver teeth seem to be less common in fiction. At times it might be accompanied by an AudibleGleam. It can be a realistic justification for a TwinkleSmile. A [[DressedToPlunder common feature]] of {{Pirate}}s in fiction. Bonus points whenever it is also the given nickname of the character.

The act of stealing these teeth for their gold can serve to make a villain especially chilling, depending on how exactly they get them. Someone who murders people for their gold teeth or pulls them from living people's heads will come across as particularly brutal, while [[GraveRobbing stealing gold teeth from the dead]] may make the perpetrator seem far more ghoulish or unsentimental than simply going through a dead man's pockets for change would. Someone taking out ''their own'' gold teeth typically indicates extreme gratitude, charity or desperation.

A SubTrope of GoldMakesEverythingShiny and MadeOGold.

Compare PurpleIsPowerful.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/CControl'': Taketazaki has a ''whole mouth'' full of 'em.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': The thoroughly evil and [[NoNameGiven nameless]] "gold-toothed doctor".
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'''s [[TheAce Gyro Zeppeli]] has golden gnashers with "Go! Go! Zeppeli" engraved on them.
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Takarada gets an honorable mention for his gold grills with ZENI ("money") embossed on them.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/GajuBhai'': One of the bad guys Gaju faces in the movies he stars in is a gorilla with a golden tooth.
* ''Animation/GGBond'': The almost thuggish sweets shop owner that GG Bond and Peter meet in Season 12 episode 3 has two gold teeth at the front of his mouth, on the upper half of his mouth.
* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': John the Don, a thief serving as the main villain, has several golden teeth in his mouth.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheBadEggs'': Ript has a gold tooth on his upper jaw, which is visible in certain panels.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': [[ScaryBlackMan Barracuda]] has a row of four in his upper gums and a row of three in his lower gums, which collectively have the words "FUCK YOU" engraved on them. Unfortunately, he loses the last two to Frank, leading a guy being introduced to him asking what "fucky" means.
* ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' had his dog Dollar fitted with gold braces to correct an overbite problem, which were so shiny that they blinded would-be robbers and assailants. Of course, it also attracted the attention of a female dog, which made Dollar refuse to have his braces removed until he's passed over for another male dog.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': At the end of the film, when the returning crew members have incorporated their Atlantean crystals into their clothing in various ways, Cookie wears his as a crystal tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'':
** Warren T. Rat has a gold fang.
** In ''Fievel Goes West'', Cat R. Waul's evil sidekick tarantula Chula has a gold tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'': The Cow Russelers Pecos Bill (and his horse Widow-maker) confront are depicted with gold teeth. Both Pecos Bill and Widow-maker show off gilded teeth after knocking the felons' golden teeth out.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/{{Bloodsport}}'', one of the Kumite staff in charge of wiping blood off the fighting platform notices a gold tooth lying there after one of the fights. He quickly grabs it, [[TastyGold bites it]] and, after being satisfied that it's gold, pockets it with a big smile.
* ''Film/DeathHunt'': Albert Johnson, a Yukon trapper in 1931, is wrongfully accused of being a "mad trapper" believed to be murdering people for their gold teeth. After the real Mad Trapper is shot in the face and found to be carrying a pouch full of gold teeth, the Mounties [[FakingTheDead pretend it's Albert Johnson's body and let him escape]].
* ''Film/DirtyLaundry'': The film's antagonist is a brutal pimp named Goldtooth. He ends up doused in whiskey and burned alive by his prostitute.
* In ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'', at the end, the DJ character smiles to reveal a mouthful of these to indicate a HappyEnding.
* ''Film/EverythingIsIlluminated'': Alex has a gold tooth, but that may just be because he was played by Gogol Bordello singer Eugene Hutz, who has a gold tooth.
* ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': One of the American soldiers likes cutting golden teeth out of the mouths of dead Nazis. When the platoon comes across a group of fleeing civilians, one of them takes the teeth and gives it to a woman, presumably so she can use the gold to pay for something to help her.
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Tuco, the titular "Ugly", has a prominent silver tooth.
* ''Film/HomeAlone1'': Harry, one of the bandits, has a gold tooth that produces a rare live-action TwinkleSmile. When Kevin recognizes it, he realizes Harry was the same man posing as a police officer at the beginning of the film. It ends up getting knocked out at one point due to one of Kevin's booby traps. This turns into a BrickJoke when Kevin's dad finds it at the end of the film (but doesn't know what it is).
* ''Film/HustleAndFlow'': [=DJay=] has a gold tooth and jewelry. Writer/Director Craig Brewer noted that big-name rappers typically have platinum grills and jewelry these days, but [=DJay=] is still an aspiring no-name who must hustle for every dollar he gets. Brewer says that he wants ''Hustle and Flow'' to be "a gold movie."
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Jaws, from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', has steel teeth that serve as his main killing weapon.
** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Valentin Zukovsky's bodyguard Mr. Bullion (played by a real-life gold grill wearer, DJ Goldie) has gold teeth.
* ''Film/Leprechaun2'': The Leprechaun steals some whiskey and a gold tooth from a homeless man.
* ''Film/TheLifeOfGeneralVilla'': One scene features impoverished Mexican peasants using rocks to smash the gold teeth out of corpses left by the firing squads. Projectionists screening the movie were physically sick over footage of this event.
%%* ''Film/MajorPayne'' has one of these.
* ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'': The team come across an entire barrel full of gold teeth among a depository of Nazi loot, in a chilling testament to the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis.
* The Slovak fairytale "Perinbaba"("Frau Holle") -- It's the last you'll see: Death has gold teeth. Her maiden form wears braces, probably to make her not as pretty as in Slav mythology (which probably would lead to sympathize with her -- technically, she's a villain). Probably also plays a pun that works in Slovak, German and English alike -- "bone"/"Bein"/"Zubata" all can refer to tooth ''and'' skeleton.
* ''Film/ThePhantom1996'': One of the thieves in the opening action sequence has a gold tooth.
* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', Winslow Leach's teeth were replaced with stainless steel metal ones after he was sent to prison.
* ''Literature/PippiLongstocking'': One of the villains in the movie sings an entire musical number fantasizing about buying one.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Jack Sparrow has several.
* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'': A hobo had gold-capped teeth. Since Rita needs gold in order to regain her strength and assemble Goldar, that hobo's remaining time alive quickly becomes measured in seconds.
* ''Film/SchindlersList'':
** The grateful ''Schindlerjuden'' craft a ring for Oskar Schindler using one guy's gold fillings. The man seemed a pretty good sport about it, as they got him ''very'' drunk so they could extract the teeth.
** Far less heartwarmingly, earlier in the film we see piles of gold teeth among the Jewish property seized by the Nazis.
* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': Bullet-Tooth Tony was shot six times in one sitting and survived. Doug the Head molded the bullets into gold (don't think too hard about that) and now Tony wears them as teeth.
* ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}'': A soldier nicknamed "the Dentist" who steals gold teeth from battlefield corpses has to be taken out because the film was BackedByThePentagon, even though such acts were TruthInTelevision.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BloodFever'': Count Carnifex owns a great amount of silver, which has provided him many artifacts made from the stuff, including a silver tooth which makes him lisp whenever he speaks.
* ''Literature/BekaCooper'': Pearl Skinner has a variant in magically transmuted pearl teeth.
* ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz'': In the first section, an ancient rumour that the Beatified Leibowitz's wife had a gold tooth plays a role in identifying her remains.
* [[Creator/CJCherryh C.J. Cherryh’s]] ''Literature/ChanurNovels'': the appropriately-nicknamed Goldtooth, a mahendo’sat government agent disguised as a merchant captain, has all his fangs capped with gold. No indication what this indicates, culturally, to a ''mahe'' but it suits his determinedly-jovial, swashbuckling personality very well to a human reader.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': [[OldSoldier Cohen the Barbarian]] has a complete set of dentures made from ''diamond'' -- troll teeth are naturally made of the stuff, and he got his by punching his way out the mouth of a very big troll.
* ''Literature/GeronimoStilton'': In a story where a villain is holding New Mouse City hostage in exchange for all its gold, every citizen gives up whatever little gold they have to add to the pile. In Trap's case, this means pulling a gold molar from his jaw.
* ''Literature/HerculePoirot'': One story involves a man who describes such a person tailing him. Poirot later ridicules the story, pointing out how clichéd it is (and how golden teeth are decades out of use) while deducing the true motives behind the visit.
* ''Literature/HighSchoolProdigiesHaveItEasyEvenInAnotherWorld'': Marquis Findolf has a mouth full of gold teeth, which makes his smug, sadistic smile look even more unwholesome.
* ''Literature/OldManHottabych'' has the titular genie give himself golden teeth, after seeing a man who has a few and deciding it is cool. He also does the same for his friends (two schoolboys). Of course, they don't like it, so he reverses it -- for them; he keeps his own golden teeth. Later, they release his jerkass brother, who, upon seeing the golden teeth, decided to outdo it and gives himself diamond ones. He regrets it a few moments later; 32 sharp gems in your mouth isn't a pleasant experience, although he is too proud to admit it and undo the magic.
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': The Mandrossian mercenary Grymbart from ''Reynard the Fox'' has a silver tooth.
* ''Literature/RiverOfTeeth'': Ruby, Houndstooth's [[HorseOfADifferentColor hippo]], has gold-capped tusks. How and why she got them are explained in a short story that's bundled with the digital edition of the novella- Houndstooth stole a large amount of gold only to discover that she'd cracked her tusks badly and was forced to use most of the take to both make the caps and pay for the necessary dental surgery.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': In "The Stockbroker's Clerk", the clerk in question realizes something's going on when he notices that the two brothers employing him are actually the same person because they both have exactly the same gold filling. [[spoiler:The employer ''does'' have a brother: he's impersonating the stockbroker to pull off a bank heist]].
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', TheDandy mercenary Naharis has one gold tooth. Mord, a jailer with totally disgusting hygiene, including bad teeth, uses a generous bequest to get several gold teeth.
* In Creator/SvenHassel's [=WW2=] novels, Porta and Tiny have a habit of collecting gold teeth from the corpses of those killed.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': After Dunn Purnsley [[BullyingADragon makes the mistake of trying to pick a fight with Chalky White while locked in a jail cell with 4 other men who all owed Chalky a great deal]], he replaces a missing tooth with a gold one, [[DefeatMeansFriendship courtesy of Chalky]].
* ''Series/{{Cliffhangers}}'': This is the exact name and defining feature of a henchman contracted to stop Susan Williams.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Max Capricorn wears a gold tooth, which visibly gleams when he smiles.
-->'''Max:''' My name is Max. ''[grins, his gold tooth gleaming]''\\
'''Doctor:''' Oh, it really does that.
%%* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Mr. Gold, naturally.
* ''Series/{{Rome}}'': In the first episode, Octavian is kidnapped by a Gaul with gold teeth, as shown by his big grin when he comes across the Roman youth trying to hide in the bushes. When Pullo turns up and slaughters his captors, he uses the butt of his knife to knock out these teeth as booty.
* ''TheMagnificentSeven1998'': Ezra Standish, the dandyish gambler of the Seven, has a gold tooth.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Hip-hop stars such as Flavor Flav sometimes have gold teeth; all part of the conspicuous consumption schtick.
* Ludacris' "Roll Out (My Business)" makes mention of this trope's use in the hip-hop community:
-->''Now tell me who's your housekeeper, and what you keep in your house?''\\
''What about diamonds and gold, is that what you keep in your mouth?''
%%* Goldie (see the ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' example above).
* The guy running the "pay for a dance" club in the video for Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" had one.
* "Love Potion Number Nine" is sold by "that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth".
* The animated music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksoGzg547F4 "What Matters"]] involves, among other singing drunken hallucinations, a grinning monkey with a golden fang.
* Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance" has the line: "You had to have style, get a gold-tooth smile."
* From Music/ZZTop's "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide":
-->''Well I was movin' down the road in my V-8 Ford,''
-->''I had a shine on my boots, I had my sideburns lowered.''
-->''With my New York brim and my gold tooth displayed,''
-->''Nobody give me trouble cause they know I got it made.''
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** Dr. Teeth, leader of the Electric Mayhem, sports a gold tooth as part of his flashy attire.
--->'''Dr. Teeth:''' Golden teeth and golden tone, welcome to my presence.
** Statler mentions having one at one point. He bought gold as an investment, and that's his way of keeping it safe.
--->'''Statler:''' I bought gold back when it was cheap.\\
'''Waldorf:''' Really? Where is it now?\\
'''Statler:''' Ah! ''[opens his mouth; Waldorf looks inside and laughs]''
* GTI from ''Series/{{Telechat}}'' loses a tooth after being punched by Groucha and replace it by a gold one several episodes later.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has Greasus Goldtooth, Overtyrant of the Ogre Kingdoms. His tribe, the Goldtooth Tribe, tend to replace their teeth with precious metals as a means of showing off their wealth, even going to far as to incorporate the practice into their religious observances. Ogre tribes each possess a special religious monolith, called a Mawtooth, which is carried to great ogre tribal meetings. The teeth are set up in a great ring, representing the mouth of the Ogre deity -- the Great Maw. The Goldtooth tribe, naturally, has a solid gold Mawtooth, and use as their tribal emblem a ring of sharp teeth with a single golden fang, making the god displays this trope as well.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] Freebooters like to do this as part of their SpacePirate schtick, but special character Kaptain Badrukk takes it to another level. First, he's plated his [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily many tusks]] with "priceless ur-gold" looted from an Imperial shrine world. Second, he's defeated so many rival captains that he had ''their'' teeth [[BlingOfWar melted down into a suit of armor]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon'': As part of his [[PimpDuds "Pimp Extraordinaire" outfit]], Donny Debonair had ''[[ExaggeratedTrope all]]'' of his teeth replaced with gold ones, one of which has a [[GemEncrusted ruby jutting out of it!]]
* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'': Blondebeard sports such a tooth. Guybrush has to find a way to steal it.
* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromStMarys'': John must retrieve a basketball player's gold tooth for a potion.
* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': Peter has two gold teeth he can have a DepravedDentist remove so he can use the gold for currency.
* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'': The Black Baron's presumably gold (the game is in black and white) teeth spell out "DEATHWATCH". By the time this is first noticed, some of them are soon to be punched out of his mouth [[spoiler: If you do well enough in the boss battle]] to spell one half of a TitleDrop. In ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'', his teeth now say "Fuck You!"
* In an early quest in ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' you can convince a barber/undertaker to sell a deceased customer's golden teeth to pay off his own grave fees.
-->'''Conrad Sadik:''' Eugene's golden teeth were a family heirloom, representing three generations of poor dental hygiene.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': A side-quest involves finding a man's gold dentures that he lost in the Safari Zone.
** When Sableye [[SuperMode mega-evolves]] into Mega Sableye, its teeth become gold in addition to its diamond eyes turning red and it gaining a giant ruby shield.
* In ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii'', Super Macho Man has one as a symbol of his wealth.
* ''VideoGame/VultureCulture'': Avenue the debt collector fittingly has one, with bonus points for being a ToothyBird to boot.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Angel Dust has a notable single gold tooth (or fang, more accurately).
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The Cheat has a golden tooth and has shown it off on multiple occasions.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/EscapeFromAbjectReality'': Snake Oil has a golden fang that sticks out of his mouth when it is closed. All his other teeth/fangs are just normal teeth.
* ''Webcomic/{{Hellp}}'': Marcus has one, but due to the comic's style it's only visible in promotional pictures.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Lord English, the BigBad, has a prominent golden fang, in addition to a [[BlingblingBang golden rifle]] and a [[ArtificialLimbs golden pegleg]]. He lost the original tooth [[spoiler:after biting off that leg]].
* Yongbae from ''Webcomic/WeakHero'' is a {{corrupt| Corporate Executive}} businessman who's introduced with an open mouth so that his golden tooth is on full display.
%%* ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': Alanzo has one.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime:'' Eddie Chiplucky, arcade owner and insider at the underground superhero fighting ring is constantly flashing his gold tooth, which serves as a representation of his greed.
* ''WebVideo/VideoGamesAwesome'': Fraser brings us his "new rap", ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9IBBbYIiw8 Gold in Mah Teeth]]''. [[labelnote:explanation]] While discussing gold in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdenyr4d40&t=1m55s here]]), Fraser mentioned how the metal is useless outside technology and dentistry. "You know, like Hip-hop dentists!" This led him to make up a short parody song about gold teeth. The fans took this and made it into a full song.[[/labelnote]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': Partway into Season 2, [[BigBad Chip Whistler]] goes a step above this trope and gets a [[PlatinumMakesEverythingShinier platinum]] tooth, which is later replaced by a titanium tooth, then a whole mouthful of titanium teeth. Yeah, [[TheToothHurts dental damage]] [[RunningGag is a common thing for him.]] Averted since partway through [[WhamEpisode "Chipwrecked"]], where he switches to a more normal-looking set of false teeth.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseCatwoman'', has ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} going up against the crime boss [[MeaningfulName Rough Cut]] who has a mouth full of diamond teeth. At the end, Catwoman knocks them out of his mouth and gives them to [[TheRunaway Holly Robinson.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'': One of the villains has one, which is constantly accompanied by an AudibleGleam.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': "The Curse of Shirley" has Courage forcibly rip out his (only once-seen) gold tooth so he can charitably offer it to Shirley the Medium.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': When Granny glances at Ma's new 3D printer cloner machine, she considers cloning her gold tooth so she can buy diamond-encrusted dentures for her teeth.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': [[spoiler:Della Duck]] has a gold tooth, which comes in handy when looking for fuel for their gold-powered ship.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield on the Town]]'': Ali Cat, the leader of the Claws, has a gold tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' had a recurring villain in Mama Meany, a [[FatBastard rotund]] restaurant owner who makes his fortune using cheaply-manufactured food that tastes awful. He happens to have a golden tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Old Man [=McGucket=] has a gold tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Peep. He probably [[StickyFingers stole it]].
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyWabbit'', Bugs and Elmer have a gold tooth each. Elmer, who'd been digging for gold, decides to take Bugs' gold tooth instead after a frustrating series of tricks the rabbit pulls on him, but it's revealed after their struggle that Elmer has taken out his own gold tooth and Bugs still has his.
--->'''Elmer''': (''holding his own tooth in his hand'') [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Euweka]], gold at wast, huhuhuhuhuhuh.
** ''WesternAnimation/CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs'' has Prince Chawmin with ''a mouth full of gold teeth'', with his top incisors being a pair of dice.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'': Chomly sports one thanks to his eating patterns culminating in being basically a trash compactor, so he can't chew his food properly, and ended up chipping a tooth. Meanwhile, Lewt has multiple gold ''and'' silver ones, as his teeth are made out of his treasure chest coins.
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyManAndYukk'': This is the exact given (and {{meaningful|name}}!) name of a villain the duo has to deal with. He actually chomps through brick walls to get the loot.
* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'': The short "The Feelers" features a sequence of the titular rock band of anthropomorphic insects taking a ride from a walrus in a suit with a gold tooth during their performance of the song "Drop Me Off in Hollywood".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Eda the Owl Lady has a gold fang.
* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'': One of the crocodile's fangs is made of gold. How the hell someone put that there is the matter.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'': In "Ducky Dearest", the con man Dr. Chuck Homer has a gold tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'': In one short short, a Mexican peasant shows where his gold tooth used to be.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': Cyril Sneer, the BigBad, has a gold fang in each side of his mouth.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', General Specific's party-loving cousin General Lee Outrageous had a gold tooth as one of the many aspects of his appearance that kept him from being completely identical to his cousin.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one episode, Lenny has a diamond in his tooth, courtesy of the plant's dental plan. It's promptly snatched away from him.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Growth Spout" When Squidward threatened to call the cops on Mr. Krabs, who had been raiding his and other peoples' houses for food to feed his whale daughter who's undergoing a growth spurt. Squidward sarcastically asks "Or else what? You'll give me your gold tooth?" Mr. Krabs then yanks the gold tooth right out and gives it to Squidward.
-->'''[=Spongebob=]''': I didn't even know Mr. Krabs ''had'' a gold tooth!\\
'''Squidward''': Neither did I.
* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': In one episode, a tiger criminal has diamond teeth.
* ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheGooseLady'': In "Little Pigs 3", Dizzy (the pig who plays the cello) is shown to have a gold tooth.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In ''Total Drama World Tour'', Heather gets one after Leshawna punches out one of her real teeth. However, after ''World Tour'', it is gone; it is implied that she replaced it with a natural-colored prosthetic.
* In ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', Mr. Lunt, who is some kind of squash, has a gold tooth and invariably plays the bad guy.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* In Creator/AnimalPlanet's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPuiSExmHw "Weird, True, and Freaky"]], a man had his black short-haired persian cat undergo a procedure to reinforce its exposed front teeth with gold coating (which are turned backwards instead of inwards like ordinary cats) to protect them from external/environmental hazards.
* Gold teeth were historically associated with wealth and freedom in African-American communities, since a good number of former slaves who could afford to live in New York sported such prosthetics. Grills, removable accessories that give the appearance of gold or otherwise bedazzled teeth, exist as a relic of this.
* Stealing gold teeth from murdered prisoners was a common tactic in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. These teeth would then be melted down (along with other forms of stolen gold) into NaziGold ingots that could be traded without being traced to the metal's original owners.
* This is becoming a DiscreditedTrope in real life; a gold cap and a porcelain/ceramic cap cost the exact same, depending on your dentist.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': [[spoiler:Della Duck]] has a gold tooth, which comes in handy when looking for fuel for their gold-powered ship.

Gold has been used by dentists as filling for cavities as well as prosthetic teeth for centuries, because of its resistance to corrosion snd it is malleable enough to work with easily. Gold teeth are also a status symbol and a symbol of wealth in certain parts of the world and in some subcultures. In Fictionland, it can also be an indicator that a character is wealthy, but characters with gold teeth tend to be villains at least most of the time, perhaps because it can also be an indicator of greed, ostentation, and ConspicuousConsumption. In RealLife often associated with UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia in Europe, since gold was commonly used in Soviet dentistry (now mostly phased out with modern ceramics), and with gangsters.