It makes the world go around.
"We've GOT to have... MONEYYY."
— Lickboot, Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Tropes about wealth, currency, commerce, and economics in general.
Money as depicted in media
Categories:
- Action Insurance Gag
- Affluent Ascetic
- All Jews Are Cheapskates
- All That Glitters
- ...And 99¢
- Arbitrarily Large Bank Account
- Astronomical Exchange Rate
- Auction
- Auction of Evil
- Bankruptcy Barrel
- Bank Toaster
- Barefoot Poverty
- "Begone" Bribe
- Big Fancy House
- Bottle Episode
- Brand Names Are Better
- Bribe Backfire
- Briefcase Full of Money
- Broke Episode
- Bulk Buy Only
- Cash Lure
- Cheap Gold Coins
- City of Gold
- Clamshell Currency
- Coin-on-a-String Trick
- Coins for the Dead
- Cold Cash
- Comically Small Bribe
- Comically Small Demand
- Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Corporate Warfare
- Counterfeit Cash
- Credit Card Plot
- Cutting Corners
- Death by Materialism
- Disney Owns This Trope
- Divorce Assets Conflict
- Do You Want to Haggle?
- Dowry Dilemma
- Dungeon-Based Economy
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- Eat the Rich
- Eleventy Zillion
- Energy Economy
- Enjo Kosai (Paid Dating)
- Every Man Has His Price
- Evil Debt Collector
- Fake Charity
- Fiction 500
- Fictional Currency
- Financial Abuse
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
- Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
- Forensic Accounting
- Forgot to Pay the Bill
- 419 Scam
- "Friends" Rent Control
- Get Rich Quick Scheme
- Giant Novelty Check
- Gold Digger
- Gold Fever
- Gold–Silver–Copper Standard
- Good Fortune from God
- Greed
- Greedy Jew
- Grows on Trees
- Hear Me the Money
- Hero Insurance
- Heroism Incentive
- Heroism Won't Pay the Bills
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold
- Hospitality for Heroes
- Hospital Paradiso
- I Don't Pay You to Think
- If I Were a Rich Man
- Impoverished Patrician
- Improbable Food Budget
- Infinite Supplies
- Inflation Negation
- Insists on Paying
- Interclass Friendship
- Intimidating Revenue Service
- Involuntary Charity Donation
- Jewish American Princess
- Kill the Creditor
- Kill the Poor
- Land Poor
- Lint Value
- Loan Shark
- Lonely Rich Kid
- Loves Only Gold
- Lower-Class Lout
- A MacGuffin Full of Money
- Mainlining the Monster
- Majority-Share Dictator
- Meal Ticket
- Microtransactions
- Milking the Monster
- Miser Advisor
- Missing Steps Plan
- Mock Millionaire
- Money Is Not Power
- Money Fetish
- Money for Nothing
- Money Mauling
- Money Song
- Money Spider
- Money to Burn
- Money to Throw Away
- Morally Bankrupt Banker
- Ms. Red Ink
- Nazi Gold
- Never Lend to a Friend
- Never Win the Lottery
- New Tech Is Not Cheap
- Nobility Marries Money
- No Budget
- Non-Idle Rich
- No-Paper Future
- Not with Them for the Money
- Nouveau Riche
- Offer Void In Nebraska
- Offscreen Villain Dark Matter
- Old Money
- One-Hour Work Week
- Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
- Only in It for the Money
- Only Shop in Town
- On One Condition
- On the Money
- Organization with Unlimited Funding
- Pauper Patches
- Paying in Coins
- Paying for the Action Scene
- Peace & Love, Incorporated
- Penny Among Diamonds
- Penny-Pinching Crab
- Perpetual Poverty
- Piggy Bank
- Plunder
- Pooled Funds
- Post-Scarcity Economy
- Pottery Barn Poor
- Pro Bono Barter
- Progressive Jackpot
- Puzzlement About Payment
- Rags to Riches
- Rare Money
- Refining Resources
- Retail Therapy
- Rich Bitch
- Rich Idiot with No Day Job
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
- Riches to Rags
- Ridiculous Exchange Rates
- Ridiculous Future Inflation
- Royalties Heir
- Scolded For Not Buying
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
- Secretly Wealthy
- Self-Made Man
- Shockingly Expensive Bill
- Silent Offer
- Silly Will
- Simple, yet Opulent
- Slobs vs. Snobs
- Slumming It
- Socialite
- Solid Gold Poop
- Spoiled Sweet
- Stage Money
- The Swear Jar
- Swiss Bank Account
- Tasty Gold
- Tax Deductions
- Taxman Takes the Winnings
- Thief Bag
- Time Travel for Fun and Profit
- Tontine
- Trapped by Gambling Debts
- Treasure Room
- Two-Headed Coin
- Unable to Support a Wife
- Uncle Pennybags
- Undisclosed Funds
- Unexpected Inheritance
- Upper-Class Twit
- Wallet Moths
- War for Fun and Profit
- Wealth's in a Name
- Wealthy Ever After
- Wealthy Philanthropist
- We Will Spend Credits in the Future
- Weird Currency
- Whammy Bid
- Will Talk for a Price
- Work Off the Debt
- Worthless Treasure Twist
- Worthless Yellow Rocks
- You Get What You Pay For
- Young Entrepreneur
- Zillion-Dollar Bill
Money in Video Games
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
- Betting Mini-Game
- Command & Conquer Economy
- Discount Card
- An Economy Is You
- An Entrepreneur Is You
- Global Currency
- Global Currency Exception
- A Homeowner Is You
- Karl Marx Hates Your Guts
- Money for Nothing
- Money Multiplier
- Money Sink
- Money Spider
- No Bulk Discounts
- No Hero Discount
- Player-Generated Economy
- Rewarding Vandalism
- Teaser Equipment
- Treasure Hunter
- Wallet of Holding
- Wallet Upgrade
- We Buy Anything
- We Sell Everything
- You Require More Vespene Gas
Economics in general
- Allegedly Free Game
- Artistic License – Economics
- Crack Is Cheaper
- Freemium
- Just Pennies a Day
- Microtransactions
Oi You!! Schut your mouf and Look at my WWAAAADDD! LOADSAMONEY!!!
- — Harry Enfield, "Loadsamoney"
