History Main / MoneyFetish

* ''Manhwa/CavalierOfTheAbyss'': Back when he was a normal human, Jae-Hoon had to save to the point his friends considered it his defining trait.

** Pretty much all of the evil pirates as well, as well as [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to understand how anything besides money could be considered treasure]].

* In the French webfiction ''[[http://mapage.noos.fr/aspexpl/kalonbrw.htm Les Aventures de Morgoth]]'', the titular mage with an UnfortunateName has an Elf girlfriend who likes filling her bed with gold before sleep. It's actually foreshadowing that [[spoiler:she's a polymorphed dragon]].

* Emperor Nero in "Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI": "Treasure bath? TREASURE BATH!"
* Diana Murphy, played by Demi Moore, in ''Film/IndecentProposal''.

* Cricket O'Dell from ComicBook/ArchieComics has a bloodhound's sense of smell for money, and absolutely enjoys being near anyone who can give her some.

* Nicole Porter from the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/BoyScoutsOneHalf''. Being an {{Expy}} of Nabiki Tendo, it shouldn't be a surprise.

* Trina in the silent film ''Film/{{Greed}}'' literally rolls around in her lottery winnings.

* ''Rogue Trader'' takes this trope and turns it up to eleven by having the bed is covered in ''bearer bonds.'' These instruments have now been phased out, but at the time the movie was set, bearer bonds were paper certificates that were typically worth something like ''one hundred thousand dollars.'' And Nick Leeson's bed was covered with them.

* Parodied in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': "I love gooooold. The look of it, the taste of it, the smell of it, the texture. I love gold so much that I even lost my genitalia in an unfortunate smelting accident."
* ''Film/DelusionsOfGrandeur'': Don Salluste, Marquess of Montalegre, Baron Del Pisco, Minister of Finances and Police under Charles II of Spain and tax collector. He is ''obsessed'' with riches, and can never have enough, embezzling as much of the taxes as he can. He wakes up in the morning to the sound of gold coins cascading in a bowl, courtesy of his valet. And if only one coin happens to be missing from the bowl, Don Salluste can guess it immediately by sound.
* The film version of ''Film/TheSpirit'' has Sand Saref, who wants all of the money in the world for her self (and has wanted it since her origin story!), even to the point of going after the Golden Fleece.

* Disneyfied version: in ''Film/BlankCheck'' just after buying a house, Preston dumps his backpack of money onto his bed, and rolls around in it while fully clothed.

* Diana Murphy, played by Demi Moore, in ''Film/IndecentProposal''.
* Perico, BumblingSidekick to Wrestling/ElSanto in ''Film/SantoEnElTesoroDeDracula'', doesn't seem to be wealthy or greedy, but [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Perico_3930.jpg his outlandish twenty-years-before-its-time dollar sign bling]] is otherwise pretty inexplicable.
* In ''Money for Nothing: The Joey Coyle Story'', Joey's girlfriend Monica, having realized that Joey is the one who found and made off with the $1.2 million from the armored car, asks him to show her what that much money looks like. The film then cuts to the two of them making love atop a pile of money.
* Emperor Nero in "Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI": "Treasure bath? TREASURE BATH!"
* The Wolf of Wall Street has Jordan Belfort and his wife Naomi having sex on a bed of money. One shot is framed to hide Naomi so that it looks like Jordan is sleeping with the money itself, seen [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcxYjRmZjMtODkwYy00MDliLTgzNGQtZGY5MzFkMTFiYjNkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDQxNjcxNQ@@._V1_UX1280_.jpg here]].

* This is the title character's major flaw in the classic book ''Literature/SilasMarner''.

* Dwarfs in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' aren't ''quite'' as bad, but even [[Literature/GotrekAndFelix Gotrek]] will forestall his epic quest to [[DeathSeeker get himself killed]] to go on a treasure hunt. Especially if he can do both by going after treasure someplace dangerous.

* Lotus Cloud from ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds'', although she's a lot pickier than the standard money fetishist. Giving her pearls and jade will cause her to tremble with greed and profess her undying love to you, but giving her anything else like gold or diamonds will only bore her. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that her insatiable love of pearls and jade isn't actually rooted in greed, but rooted in how they subconsciously remind her of her true identity -- a goddess named Jade Pearl]].
* Subverted in ''Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm''. The dragons of the setting all regularly lie on heaps of treasure . . . because dragons require dermal absorption of gold to maintain good health. The dragons end up joining LaResistance because the BigBad is stealing their treasure and causing their population to sicken.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Ce'Nedra, a princess of the Tolnedran ProudMerchantRace. The topic rarely comes up, but when Garion has a considerable fortune in coinage at hand, she relaxes by polishing and sorting the entire thing. He jokes that they should let her at the royal treasury.

* In ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the host of "The Money Programme" gets a bit carried away (see [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hwqky here]]), and provides the page quote.
* Lampshaded in the ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Malcolm Babysits" where Malcolm, having money for the first time in his life, rubs it on his face and then asks to camera "Is this as creepy as I think it is?"
* Parker of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', to the point of unnerving her crewmates. When confronted with a shipping crate full of bills, she can't even speak. Of course she didn't speak! She was too busy ''hugging the pallet full of 100-dollar bills''. She still has a money fetish despite the fact that the team's business has made her filthy rich. Given she's a very socially odd thief, it might even be that she has a highly specific '''''Other People's Money''''' Fetish.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' gives us this:
-->'''Sam:''' How do you sleep at night?\\
'''Bela:''' On silk sheets, rolling naked in money.
* On ''Series/LasVegas'', after Danny sells his car, one suggestion of what he should do with the money was to cash the check out in singles and roll nude in the pile of cash. Danny claims that he has already tried that with the check itself, much to the consternation of the person holding it.
* In ''Series/TheBill'' episode Big Eagle Day, two known criminals are discovered with a pile of money and two women. During the investigation, one of the women admits that they did indeed to the bed of banknotes thing. Ultimately it is revealed that [[spoiler: they got the money as compensation for being wrongfully arrested and were trying a con to get Sun Hill to also wrongfully arrest them. When signing to retrieve it and suggesting suing Sun Hill also, it turns out that a lot of the money has walked out the door hidden in the clothes of the two women.]]
* In ''Series/TheLWord'', Helena and her lover [[ManipulativeBitch Catherine]] win a ton of money playing poker and have sex while gloating over it.
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise of course has the Ferengi. For them, money isn't just a fetish, it's a ''[[TheAlmightyDollar religion]]''. The "Rules of Acquisition" are treated essentially as a holy scripture, and young Ferengi children are taught to memorize all 285 of them. They believe that when a Ferengi dies, if their life was profitable, then they're allowed into the [[{{Heaven}} Divine Treasury]] to meet the Celestial Auctioneers and place bids on new lives. But if their life was not profitable, then they're cast down into the [[{{Hell}} Vault of Eternal Destitution]].

* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' featured a beautiful woman who obviously married her very old husband for his millions of dollars. She had apparently amassed a great deal of coins and cash and rather enjoyed laying on it and playing with it. Unfortunately, while she was doing so one day, there was an Earthquake that caused massive bags of money to fall down on top of her and crush her to death.

* ''Theatre/BlackFriday'': Frank [[MeaningfulName Price]]ly is all but stated to have one, being ''deeply'' fixated on selling a lot of toys this Black Friday. While part of it is justified by the fact that he owns a brick-and-mortar toy store (which are ''very'' difficult to keep open in the modern era), he also [[EstablishingCharacterMoment enters the show]] literally singing an ode to capitalism, and his big song, "Our Doors Are Open," involves a lot of suggestive lyrics and pelvic thrusting.
-->''When our doors are open,''\\
''your republic is on the market.''\\
''Your net worth is in my back pocket,''\\
''and it weighs my pants down.''\\
''As our doors first open,''\\
''I'm your annual entrepreneur!''\\
''Yes, our doors are open...''

* Warbucks, a removed character from ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', gains sanity by keeping Oincs (Hamlet's currency) in his inventory.

* Fran from ''VideoGame/DemonGaze''. Running a profitable business if one thing, but she's an absolute skinflint on maintenance and if you want any more than the Dragon Princess Inn's most basic services, you're looking at a sky-high bill. [[spoiler:Dragons tend to be touchy about their treasure hoard, after all.]]
* ''VideoGame/FateExtra CCC'': Rin Tousaka, naturally. The game takes pains to point out that it's the money itself that she likes, not the luxuries she could buy with it, and explicitly calls it a fetish of hers.
* In ''VideoGame/FairyFencerF'', Lola repeatedly states that she loves money multiple times. She loves even the smell of money, as well as hearing coins clink. And it shows with her progressively expensive wares and her attempts at getting people to buy them.

%%* Thief from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'', Tiffany once got an orgasm just from seeing a vault full of gold.

* [[https://joshreads.com/2014/05/mostly-depressing-thursday/ This post]] by ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' argues that due to the value of spices in TheDungAges the included ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' strip where Hagar and Helga spice up their love life with black pepper, ginger and cloves is a CulturalTranslation of this trope.

* Mr. Krabs from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is stingy, mainly due to this trope. Heck, in the prehistoric episode, his cry was a constant "Money, money, money,..." The crab has regular money baths and showers, he cries in pain if a dollar is put in a blender, he sticks his claw in a sink and loses his arm to retrieve a dime, and he has, at least once, had a romantic dinner with a pile of bills. And he dreams about catching a giant Moby Dick-esque dollar bill. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjMwdGgi0Y Not to mention this bit]]. Hell, [=SpongeBob=], of all people, points this out in the episode "Plankton's Good Eye":
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' The green stuff, you know, money!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Oh, you mean your obsession?\\
'''Mr. Krabs:''' Obsession is such a strong word.\\
''[[[HypocriticalHumor Mr. Krabs opens his safe, tucks a stack of bills in a little bed and pours it a tiny glass of milk that he sets on a little nightstand]]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Into The Wild Green Yonder", Professor Farnsworth dances naked in a swirling vat of cash.
* Money was the motivation for everything Cousin Mel did in ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer''.
* Kaz Harada from ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' can definitely count as one of these. He's obsessed with money to the point that he's always coming up with new ways he can make Ami and Yumi more profitable.
* Aunt Figg and Lickboot in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry: TheMovie''. They even have a whole [[VillainSong musical]] [[MoneySong number]] about how much they love money.
-->'''Lickboot:''' We've ''got'' to have... [[ChewingTheScenery moneyyyyy!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** Daffy Duck definitely fits this trope. In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' after becoming rich in "Peel of Fortune", Daffy is shown rolling around in a pile of cash on his bed.
** Sylvester the Cat rolls around in a pile of money after inheriting a fortune in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Heir Conditioning''.

* Skwisgaar from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' seems to ''literally'' have this trait:
-->"So fucking expensive that it makes me horny."

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' literally [[PooledFunds swims in money]] on a regular basis, and his most treasured possession is his NumberOneDime.
%% Zero Context Example. How exactly was parodied? ** This was parodied on Teen Titans Go.
* Peter Griffin wins the lottery on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and has a vault built containing a large amount of gold coins. When he tries to [[PooledFunds dive into it]], a la Scrooge [=McDuck=], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he lands bloodily and twisted]], screaming "Aaaaagghh! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface! Aaaaaaagh!"
* Gorgonzola from ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}''. After he starts earning a fortune as Chowder's manager in "Toots", he is seen rubbing money all over his face while cackling gleefully.
* Grunkle Stan from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. Apparently his life's dream is simply "to possess money". In "Boss Mabel" he [[ImagineSpot imagines]] that a family going to the Mystery Shack are [[MeatOVision sentient wallets]], one of whom gets car-sick and pukes out coins. [[spoiler: It's part of his FreudianExcuse; Stan was disowned by his father after messing up an invention of his brother, Ford, that could have gotten the latter into a prestigious college. The last thing his father said to him was to not come back until he remade the millions they would have skimmed off Ford's success.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' has this with Phil Ken Sebben, the president of [[MegaCorp Sebben & Sebben]]. During the episode "Employee Orientation", it opens on him sitting in a personal jet, the back half of which is filled to the ceiling with money he is counting:
-->'''Phil''': Oh hello! I didn't see you there, I was counting money. Sometimes [[IdleRich I stay up thirteen-fourteen hours a day and I still can't keep up]]! ''Ever get a papercut from a $7,000 bill? Doesn't tickle.''
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon "We Can Work It Out," Hollywood soothsayer Mr. Lucky Wizard doesn't read palms or the bumps on heads. He reads money.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'': In "Sorcerer Snacks Scare", Beverly is seen bathing in money. Daphne comments that it cannot be called "money bath" when one uses fifty-dollar bills.

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* Peter Griffin wins the lottery on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and has a vault built containing a large amount of gold coins. When he tries to [[PooledFunds dive into it]], a la Scrooge [=McDuck=], [[RealityEnsues he lands bloodily and twisted]], screaming "Aaaaagghh! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface! Aaaaaaagh!"

%%* Hoggmeiser in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}''.

* A milder example would be scripophilia, which is not, in fact, a sexual perversion: it's the [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness technical term]] for collecting old paper money and financial certificates, a branch of the wider field of Numismatics, which is all about the study and collection of coins, banknotes and other financial goods. Nineteenth-century railroad bonds and such were often very elaborate pieces of engraving and quite aesthetically pleasing to people who like that sort of thing.

* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise of course has the Ferengi. For them, money isn't just a fetish, it's a ''religion''. The "Rules of Acquisition" are treated essentially as a holy scripture, and young Ferengi children are taught to memorize all 285 of them. They believe that when a Ferengi dies, if their life was profitable, then they're allowed into the [[{{Heaven}} Divine Treasury]] to meet the Celestial Auctioneers and place bids on new lives. But if their life was not profitable, then they're cast down into the [[{{Hell}} Vault of Eternal Destitution]].

* Mr. Krabs from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is stingy, mainly due to this trope. Heck, in the prehistoric episode, his cry was a constant "Money, money, money,..." The crab has regular money baths and showers, he cries in pain if a dollar is put in a blender, he sticks his claw in a sink and loses his arm to retrieve a dime, and he has, at least once, had a romantic dinner with a pile of bills. And he dreams about catching a giant Moby Dick-esque dollar bill. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjMwdGgi0Y Not to mention this little bit of]] GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Hell, [=SpongeBob=], of all people, points this out in the episode "Plankton's Good Eye":

* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise of course has the Ferengi, whose society is based so much around the acquisition of wealth, that they actually have a holy scripture about it, the "Rules of Acquisition".

* Komachi Oba of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' frequently loves money since she works as a gift shop vender for the Imperial Revue.

* In ''Money for Nothing: The Joey Coyle Story'', Joey's girlfriend Monica, having realized that Joey is the one who found and made off with the $1.2 million from the armored car, asks him to show her what that much money looks like. The film then cuts to the two of them making love atop said pile of money.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Haley Starshine obsessively shines every gold piece she owns, and once swims through a DragonHoard -- and losing her share of said treasure pile inflicts such mental trauma that she speaks in cryptograms for a time.[[note]]While losing the treasure ''triggers'' the aphasia, the ''actual'' root cause is a particularly bad case of CannotSpitItOut.[[/note]] She has jokingly (or [[SarcasticConfession not]]?) explained that she's a half-dragon. She has also considered a more [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0765.html physical version]] of this trope.

** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes Heroes]]'' Anna at first seemed to be missing this trait like the older versions of Anna, however, this Awakening aspect did appear later on in some of the seasonal event plots.

%%* Hotaru Imai from ''Manga/AliceAcademy''.

* [[MeaningfulName Greed]], the Demon Lord who rules the Treasure Realm in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. According to [[WordOfGod the lead writer, Brian Kindregan]], "Greed is obsessed with all things valuable" to the point that she "takes a bath in all her gold every three hours." [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck himself]] would be proud!

* A milder example would be scripophilia, which is not, in fact, a sexual perversion: it's the [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness technical term]] for collecting old paper money and financial certificates. Nineteenth-century railroad bonds and such were often very elaborate pieces of engraving and quite aesthetically pleasing to people who like that sort of thing.

** Gild Tesoro, the Big Bad from ''Anime/OnePieceFilmGold. If the [[MeaningfulName name didn't give it away]], the dude loves gold. His main base is a gold tower and he practically sporting it all over his body at one point. Heck, even his main power is gold-based. Though we later find out his obsession with this is tied to the tragedy of his past and [[spoiler:losing Stella. As since a World Noble was the one to buy her, he came to the conclusion that the world is ruled by money]].

* Nami in the ''Franchise/OnePiece'' fanfiction, ''Fanfic/ThisBites''. Yes, this is the same Nami.

* Nami from the ''Franchise/OnePiece'' fanfiction, ''Fanfic/ThisBites''. Yes, this is the same Nami.

* Grunkle Stan from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. Apparently his life's dream is simply "to possess money". In "Boss Mabel" he [[ImagineSpot imagines]] that a family going to the Mystery Shack are [[MeatOVision sentient wallets]], one of whom gets car-sick and pukes out coins.

'''Rainer Wolfcastle:''' On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.

** So this is where Creator/MelBrooks got the idea for the 'Treasure Bath!' bit from ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge McDuck swims in his money bin. He can apparently tell immediately if even a single coin is missing while swimming through it.

* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': [[{{shorttank}} Merrill]] is a thief and always hoping to strike it rich on their adventures. In episode 6, she locks herself away with a jar of gold coins, strips naked, and climbs in. And does so again in the 14th episode, after being mistaken for Odessa, by Sir William, who whisked away to his estate. When he tells Merrill that she can have anything she wants, she requests a tub full of gold coins to bathe in.
* [[TheBarnum Nabiki Tendō]] in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' just loves money, so damn much. She's never actually shown in the usual sexual situations, but an anime filler episode does have her envision a great tidal wave of golden coins, which is used to force a telepath out of her head. So much does she adore money that she actually caused the [[BlastOut "wedding disaster"]] at the end of the manga because she believed that the other members of Ranma's UnwantedHarem would A: bring money as a present for the "happy couple", B: she could take that money for herself, and C: they wouldn't [[MadLove cause such destruction in their outrage]] that it would ''cost'' more then was brought in to fix the place. She was wrong on all accounts. And she never brings her own money, since she always manages to swindle someone else into paying the bill, and keeps a jar full of 1-Yen coins.

* Early on in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', this is one of Tamahome's defining character traits. Although it's traced to his BackStory regarding a poor family, it's a running gag that even the smallest coin is like catnip to him.
** And even after [[spoiler:being reincarnated in the real world as Taka Sukunami]], he's still obsessed.
* The swim team of ''Manga/MedakaBox'' are "money-zombies". Their ultimate fantasy is a swimming pool filled with cash.
* Baron Danglars from ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}''. His last scene in the series was of him wallowing naked in a pile of goldbricks, suckling on one of them. [[spoiler:This happens in a spaceship with no pilot or destination, or food or water for that matter. Danglars is subjected to IronicHell by the Count of Monte-Cristo by giving him what he cares for the most, and depriving him of basic necessities of life.]]
* Hoteye of ''Manga/FairyTail'' had this. After he has a magic-induced HeelFaceTurn, it turns out that he was originally a LoveFreak who was trying to raise money to find his missing brother, [[StartOfDarkness but lost sight of his goal.]]

%%* Kakuzu from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' as well.
%%* Seto from ''Manga/{{Needless}}'' had this obsession as well.

* In ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'', Monica is talking about her recent commodity investments with Daisuke (never mind that she's only 10!), and her eyes get all sparkly, and she has LoveBubbles in the background. She also later uses J to help her gamble. Her money fetish is understandable, given that she lives in a trailer, caring for her alcoholic mother.
* Halekulani from ''Anime/BoboboboBobobo'' bathes in money and uses money as his source of power, being able to turn peoples into coins and diamonds.
* Kaneo Takarada of ''Anime/KillLaKill'', who heads the Osaka-based Takarada Conglomorate, practically eats money for breakfast and takes pride in Osaka's history as a merchant town. He's known by the fandom as "The Dosh King."

* Sayaka Kanamori from ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'' is a huge money-grubber and considers anything that doesn't involve monetary gain as a waste of time. She's not above nickel-and-diming her friends when doing favors for them, either.

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] swimming in his money bin. He can apparently tell immediately if even a single coin is missing while swimming through it.

* Heavily implied with Larfleeze of the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Orange Lantern Corps]]. His home is a ruined palace filled with rotting treasures. Every time he kills and his ring consumes another being and adds them to his corps, a new power ring is created and it goes to Larfleeze. In one panel in his first appearance, Larfleeze is seen emerging from a pile of orange power rings like Scrooge [=McDuck=].
* Newman Xeno, BigBad of ''ComicBook/{{Casanova}}'' apparently likes to have sex on bloodstained piles of money.

* Prince John in Disney's ''Disney/RobinHood''. He even sleeps with his arms wrapped around bags of gold.
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'':

* VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft has the goblins, which have been described as "the [[Franchise/StarTrek Ferengi]] of Azeroth." It's commonly said that they will sell their own mother if the price is right.

* In ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the host of "The Money Programme" gets a bit carried away (see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sor9GzivGbk here]]), and provides the page quote.

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' literally swims in money,

* Peter Griffin wins the lottery on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and has a vault built containing a large amount of gold coins. When he tries to dive into it, a la Scrooge [=McDuck=], [[RealityEnsues he lands bloodily and twisted]], screaming "Aaaaagghh! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface! Aaaaaaagh!"