History Main / MoneyFetish

* Peter Griffin wins the lottery on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and has a vault built containing a large number 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!"

* 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.]]

** It appears in one episode as Homer's fantasy -- the one where Homer loses the family's money investing in motion capture technology.
** In another episode, upon hearing of a scheme to become "moderately wealthy", Homer imagines himself rolling around on a small pile of money, shouting, "I'm sort of rich! I can rent anything I want!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Cartman has this reaction after winning a bet with Kyle, having the cash converted into ever-smaller denominations so he can enjoy its increased mass (loudly, in front of Kyle). This includes wallowing in a kiddie-pool full of quarters. However, it was revealed that he was more interested in annoying Kyle. As soon as Kyle stopped getting annoyed Cartman stormed off leaving the money behind.
* 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":

* Io Naraku, one of the magical boys from ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'', is a man who loves money so much that he's TheScrooge of the group.
--> '''Io''': I bet I'll feel love when I get one billion in my Cayman Islands account.

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* UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} allegedly did things like walk on piles of coins and even wallowing in them just for that special feeling of gold.
* A milder example would be scripophily, 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. Even modern banknotes tend to be very intricately designed, mainly to prevent counterfeiting and to remain distinct from other currencies, but you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't appreciate their illustrations.
* Hal Needham lived with Burt Reynolds for a while between marriages. After his earliest directorial projects were successful, he put together $100,000 in cash and gave it to Reynolds as payment for his hospitality. As Needham was leaving, he turned around to see Burt rolling around in the cash - as his business manager handled his monetary affairs, Burt hadn't actually seen how much money $100,000 was before.
* Inverted by the practice of "financial domination". It turns out some people get off on seeing someone else spend all their money. Rule 34 is ''truly'' universal.
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* Glenn Radars from ''LightNovel/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor'' views making Sisti his wife as an excuse to not work, and essentially, be married to money. This gets him [[BlowYouAway blown]] [[RunningGag away]] by her.

* ''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.

* Penelope in ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' loves money more than anything. In fact, this is implied that the only reason why she joined the Cooper Gang is to steal the wealth of the Cooper Vault, worth about ''billions''. [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves Dr. M quashed that]], so she instead turned to Bentley's skills to make a fortune in weapon designs. But her greed, paranoia, and jealousy consume her, turning Penelope into a cold-blooded villain and ruining her shot at wealth when Bentley dumps her for trying to murder his friends.
* Moneybags in the ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' games is a slimeball bear who's obsessed with gems, and spends his entire time following Spyro and charging him to open doors, learn new skills, or free imprisoned folk (who attack him right away). He never gets to keep them, either; [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage in Avalar]], Elora forces Moneybags to hand back the gems to Spyro as a reward for defeating Ripto; [[VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon in the Forgotten Realms]], Moneybags is attacked by Spyro when he intends to [[MoralEventHorizon sell a dragon egg back in Avalar]], causing him to lose all the gems as well as the egg. Moneybags does [[VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail eventually]] have a HeelFaceTurn and become a professional shopkeeper, though his greed remains.
* Simon Greedwell, the first boss of ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'', whose last words are "Bury me with my money."

* Rogues in ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'' are obsessed with gold. When initiating combat, they declare "you won't get my gold!" under the apparent assumption that it's what their enemy is after, and their death quote is an admonishment to leave their gold alone. They are so driven by their desire for cash that you can induce them to ''destroy their own guild'' if you stick a high enough reward flag on it.

* The Golden Queen in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has a massive obsession with owning gold, and wants it more than anything. She even taught herself to gain the MidasTouch simply to make herself even richer. When asked by [[BigBad Kaos]] if she would prefer to either rule Skylands as its supreme overlord or have all of its gold, she flatly said that she'd have the gold, dismissing the possibility of anything else being more important. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Kaos was utterly floored]] [[DisappointedByTheMotive by her petty desires]], and decided to try to sabotage her plans afterwards.

* The Golden Queen in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has a massive obsession with owning gold, and wants it more than anything. She even taught herself to gain the MidasTouch simply to make herself even richer. When asked by [[BigBad Kaos]] if she would prefer to either rule Skylands as its supreme overlord or have all of its gold, she flatly said that she'd have the gold, dismissing the possibility of anything else being more important. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Kaos was utterly floored by her petty desires]], and decided to try to sabotage her plans afterwards.

* The Golden Queen in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has a massive obsession with owning gold, and wants it more than anything. She even taught herself to gain the MidasTouch simply to make herself even richer. When asked by [[BigBad Kaos]] if she would prefer to either rule Skylands as its supreme overlord or have all of its gold, she flat out said that she'd have the gold, dismissing the possibility of anything else being more important. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Kaos was flat out floored by her petty desires]], and decided to try to sabotage her plans afterwards.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-261 SCP-261]] (a sentient Japanese vending machine):

* Wario defines this in both the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' and ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' series.

[[caption-width-right:350:It usually isn’t [[LiteralMetaphor this literal]].]]

* What the overall goal of every Daft Capo member seems to be from ''Fanfic/DanganPinguino'', as they all nonchalantly commit their crimes all for the sake of acquiring even more money (or “dosh”, as they call them) and flexing so much more material property whenever they can.

* ''WebVideo/TheWarpZone:'' In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o952kUxFXzo The X-Men Try Joining the MCU]], {{Creator/Disney}} executive [[Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive Dick Richards]] is shown counting the vast amounts of money from [[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame's]] box office. He later tells the X-Men that while he could easily have a robot count it, he prefers to do it himself because it's his kink. When he has more of Endgame's revenue fall of him, he lets out a cathartic sigh and even takes a deep breath through his nose to smell the bills of money that fall on him. In [[https://youtu.be/sc2KPKg549k Batman Reacts to the Snyder Cut]], while working at Warner Bros in this video, he says to Batman that his nipples get hard just from the thought of charging $15 per month for a subscription to [[Creator/HBOMax HBOMax]].

* 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.]]

-->'''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.''

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

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

* 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!]]

** El Drago, the BigBad of the first ''One Piece'' movie, '''''loves''''' gold, to the point where he rejects other valuables, such as gems and diamonds.

Okay, not to the point they [[{{Fetish}} actually get turned on by it]] [[{{Rule34}} (usually)]]. They just like feeling it, bathing in it, [[TastyGold tasting it]], [[HearMeTheMoney listening to it]], [[DragonHoard sleeping on it]], [[PooledFunds diving around in it like a porpoise, and burrowing through it like a gopher]]. It could be coins, jewelry, paper money or all three. Either way, these characters treat money itself as a luxury to enjoy. They might break into a MoneySong.

* Haqua from ''Anime/BattleSpiritsSwordEyes''. Somewhat justifiable since he owns a business, but he gets to the point of tricking Hagakure into buying useless junk, and trying to bribe Cornell to get out of prison.
* Halekulani from ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' bathes in money and uses money as his source of power, being able to turn peoples into coins and diamonds.

** 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]].

* [[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.

* 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.
* ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'' 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]].

* 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]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' borrows from Western mythologies. Dragons of all alignments ''absolutely love'' to sleep on a [[DragonHoard pile of gold coins]] and other valuables (carapace and all, it's not painful for them). Even the goodest and nicest of dragons aren't immune to avarice. Rumor has it that they also frolic in hoards like hogs do in mud when no-one is watching.

* 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.]]

* In ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'', most of the protagonists have emotional goals like avenging their dead father or completing a religious ritual. [[IntrepidMerchant Tressa]] just really wants money, so one day she gets up, tells her parents she's leaving home, and walks halfway across the world to set up shop.

* In ''VideoGame/SINoALICE'', Aladdin is absolutely obsessed with money, believing that everything in the world can be obtained with enough money and desires to gain more wealth. When confronted with a problem in the story, his first instinct is to throw money at it, and considers it to be the most valuable thing in the world.
* Penelope in ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' loves money more than anything. In fact, this is implied that the only reason why she joined the Cooper Gang is to steal the wealth of the Cooper Vault, worth about ''billions''. [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves Dr. M quashed that]], so she instead turned to Bentley's skills to make a fortune in weapon designs. But her greed, paranoia and jealousy consume her, turning Penelope into a cold-blooded villain and ruining her shot at wealth when Bentley dumps her for trying to murder his friends.
* Moneybags in the ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' games is a slimeball bear who's obsessed with gems, and spends his entire time following Spyro and charging him to open doors, learn new skills, or free imprisoned folk (who attack him right away). He never gets to keep them, either; [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage in Avalar]], Elora forces Moneybags to hand back the gems to Spyro as an reward for defeating Ripto; [[VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon in the Forgotten Realms]], Moneybags is attacked by Spyro when he intends to [[MoralEventHorizon sell a dragon egg back in Avalar]], causing him to lose all the gems as well as the egg. Moneybags does [[VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail eventually]] have a HeelFaceTurn and become a professional shopkeeper, though his greed remains.
* Simon Greedwell, the first boss of ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'', who's last words are "Bury me with my money."

* Cabbage from ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest''. The acquirement of more and more wealth seems to be his sole motivation for existing. Gigi even (reluctantly) drew a sketch for a fan of [[http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/61566732337/dear-gigi-digi-im-writing-to-inquire-about-the Cabbage sleeping with a body pillow, itself printed with a drawing of himself hugging a 100-dollar bill]].

* Kharisma, from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', partly through being a RichBitch who lost the "rich" part. She even sleeps with the awful Avogadro once she sees him as his fortune and not his physically horrifying (everything sagging, falling off or harbouring illnesses) body.

* [[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.

** It was once photographed by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-978 SCP-978]] (a camera that shows the desires of those photographed in its pictures). It showed SCP-261 half-way buried in yen coins.

* ''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.

* 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!"

* 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.]]

* 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. Even modern banknotes tend to be very intricately designed, mainly to prevent counterfeiting and to remain distinct from other currencies, but you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't appreciate their illustrations.

[[caption-width-right:350:Nami enjoying how it feels [[{{Fanservice}} on her naked skin]].]]

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} the original Caligula]] allegedly did things like walk on piles of coins and even wallowing in them just for that special feeling of gold.

* RealLife example (well, if you believe what some not-so-friendly biographer says): [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} the original Caligula]], in addition to being a generally greedy bastard, eventually started doing things like walking on piles of coins and even wallowing in them just for that special feeling of gold.

->''"Good evening, and welcome to The Money Programme. Tonight on The Money Programme, we're going to look at money. Lots of it. On film, and in the studio. Some of it in nice piles, others in lovely clanky bits of loose change. Some of it neatly counted into fat little hundreds. Delicate fivers stuffed into bulging wallets. Nice crisp clean checks. ''Pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets! Romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity!'' '''Beautiful wayward curlicued banknotes! Filigreed copper plating cheek by jowl with tumbly hexagonal-milled edges ''rubbing gently against the terse leather of beautifully balanced bank books!''''' ... I'm sorry, but I love money."''