"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
— Maya Angelou
The only person I care about is me! My wants and needs matter more than yours and everyone else! I want everything to myself and I won't share it with others! This is one of the reasons why Humans Are Bastards, but whatever. Here is MY index dealing with selfish and greedy characters.
Compare with Ego Tropes, Entitled to This Index, Obsession Tropes, Prideful Tropes, and The Jerk Index, five of my defining traits. Money Tropes are high on my list of favorite priorities. Contrast with those sharing twinks at Selflessness Tropes.
These are my Tropes which you can't have!:
- Above Good and Evil: Screw right and wrong, I'm doing what I want!!
- All Take and No Give: Taking is better than giving!
- Always Save the Girl: MY relationship with the girl is more important than others' suffering!
- Ambition Is Evil: "Ambitious" in fiction means "Will screw over everything and everyone for prestige".
- Apathetic Citizens: We got better things to do than to help save some homeless people.
- Apathetic Clerk: I don't care if it's my job, I'm not going to work.
- Artifact of Attraction: That thing is mine. Move aside!
- Ate It All: *Burp* I'm sorry, I was supposed to share all of the food with others.
- Attention Whore: PAY ATTENTION TO ME AND ME ONLY, GODDAMMIT!!
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: I only ever pretend to be a nice, friendly person if doing so can benefit me somehow.
- Bratty Food Demand: I don't CARE how much time and hard work food preparation takes for the chef, I WANT TO EAT NOW!
- Bystander Syndrome: I've got better things to do than being concerned about someone else's problems which doesn't matter to me anyway.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: I'm the boss around here, and the only thing that's important is increasing my own profits, no matter how many people I have to step on or laws I have to break to do so!
- Con Man: I play gullible people for fools to get rich off their stupidity.
- Crazy Survivalist: I'm preparing myself for this catastrophe. I don't care about you!
- Crocodile Tears: Waaaaah! Pay attention to meee!
- Deal with the Devil: If the Big Bad has your best desires, then you better accept his offer you can't refuse.
- Death by Materialism: This gold! It's all mine! Wait, what the hell is happening? HOLY CR—
- Despotism Justifies the Means: I don't care about making the world a better or terrible place. I just want to be a ruler.
- Dirty Coward: Sorry, but my safety is more important than yours. See ya!
- The Ditherer: So apparently, it's selfish of me to not make a decision for others. Whatever!
- Dude, Where's My Respect? I deserve every one inch of admiration!
- Dude, Where's My Reward? You're giving me, and only me, everything I deserve for breaking my back!
- Egocentrically Religious: God, give me everything I want! Amen!
- Enlightened Self-Interest: I'm doing good things just so I can get a lot of rewards and recognition.
- Entitled Bastard: These idiots should only be helping ME with my problems. Who cares how I treated them!
- Entitled to Have You: You're going to be mine, regardless of what YOU want! You have to be with me, I WANT you!
- Executive Excess: Who cares about working a full day anymore? I'm head of the company, so I get to party whenever I want!
- False Friend: The only reason I ever hang out with you or tolerate your company is because you're just a gullible lonely sap, who I can easily manipulate to get whatever I want!
- Frivolous Summoning: I need you to do this annoying chore for me that I probably could have done myself. It's more important than whatever you were doing.
- A Gift for Themselves: No, I didn't buy this gift for you—it's for me!
- Girlboss Feminist: A female character, usually a High-Powered Career Woman, and often Token Girl, who uses the language of feminism, but doesn't live up to it in practice.
- Gold Digger: I'm not dating or marrying you for "true love." I just want all your money, you rich fool!
- Gold Fever: I want gold! And I'm not sharing it with any of you!
- Greed: One of my favorite deadly sins! It's all mine and I'm not going to share!
- Greedy Jew: The old and harmful stereotype about Jewish people being greedy and malicious.
- Greedy Televangelist: Televangelists are Only in It for the Money.
- The Hedonist: I only care about my own pleasures, and mine alone!
- Heroic Team Revolt: I don't have to save that guy. What? You guys are gonna save him? Whatever.
- Homework Slave: I don't feel like doing my homework, so you do it for me, or else!
- If I Can't Have You…: I want you all to myself and if you won't be with me, I'll make sure no one else can have you either.
- It Amused Me: I do it because I'm bored.
- It's All About Me: It sure is! And anyone who thinks I should care about others can piss off!
- Jerkass: Screw politeness or respect, because you're just an idiot who's wasting my precious time!
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When I do nice things, only for me to yank it away, get a cheap laugh, or some other selfish reason behind it.
- Lack of Empathy: I couldn't care less about other people's stupid feelings or problems, because what I want is far more important!
- Leeroy Jenkins: I don't care about strategy, all I care about is that I fight in my way: Charging towards our—or rather—my foes head on!
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Selfish people are bad in bed because they don't care for the pleasure of their partner.
- Lovable Rogue: I break the rules for my own benefit, but I'm still a likable guy.
- Loves Only Gold: I'm greedy, but for a very specific form of wealth, like gold!
- Manipulative Bastard: I actively fool and mislead other people in order to trick them into serving my own interests.
- Marrying the Mark: I'm not dating or marrying this person for "true love". I'm actually just trying to rob them blind, or worse.
- Miser Advisor: I only wanted to be your friend so I can get your money.
- Money, Dear Boy: I know this film is a load of crap but hey, money!
- Murder by Inaction: I didn't care that that person needed my help, so I chose to let them die instead of saving their life.
- Moral Myopia: I did horrible things to you? Who cares, you deserved all of it. But you did the same things to me? How dare you even try to mess with me!
- Narcissist: The universe revolves around me, because I'm the greatest person to ever live! Other people only exist to admire my greatness and serve my desires.
- Never My Fault: It's your fault, not mine!
- Nominal Hero: I'm joining you guys not because I really care about doing the right thing, but because I just want to kick the villain's ass for messing with me personally.
- No Sympathy: I don't care about your problems!
- Not in My Backyard!: I'd like that thing to be built... just not near me!
- Not in This for Your Revolution: I'm not here for your little war against the bad guys.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The end justifies the means... What I meant is my own ends.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: If I don't get what I want, I'm calling your manager!
- Offering Another in Your Stead: I'm not dying here—take this guy instead, he's less important than me!
- Only in It for the Money: ...I'm in it for the money.
- Opportunistic Bastard: In order to get to the top, I take advantage of the plans of others.
- Original Position Fallacy: I'm all for it! Surely I will benefit from this! What do you mean I'm gonna pay the price? Can I back down?
- Parental Savings Splurge: Son, I know we were saving up money for college, but this completely arbitrary sale is way too good to pass up!
- Penny-Pinching Crab: I'm a crab, and I want more material wealth!
- Personal Gain Hurts: Sadly, there's consequences in getting what I want. Fuck this!
- Pragmatic Villainy: Even Evil Has Standards. True, but I'm always in it for myself.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: If you're good to me regardless of your actions, you're good. If you're a nice person but don't agree with me, you're bad.
- Proud Peacock: I'm a peacock! Everyone look at me and adore me!
- Pushed at the Monster: I don't have to outrun the monster. I just have to outrun you.
- Psychological Projection: It's not me who's being a selfish prick, it's everyone else!
- Reluctant Gift: I want to give away something, but I can't help clinging to it.
- The Scrooge: My money matters more than you!
- Secretly Selfish: An altruistic character is forced to question if their motives are really selfless.
- Self-Serving Memory: This is how I remember these events... so here's a personal account that shows my own actions in the best light possible.
- Signed Up for the Dental: I work here so I can get healthcare (or other specific benefits).
- Slimeball: I'm selfish and I'm not afraid to show it!
- Smug Snake: I use and crush foolish people so I can get what I want!
- The Social Darwinist: It's survival of the fittest! Working together is so lame!
- The Sociopath: I absolutely do not care about any other people around me, because they're all just disposable tools for me to exploit in order to get whatever the hell I want.
- Spoiled Brat: It's all about what I want and I want it now!
- Royal Brat: I'm royalty, therefore, you give me what I want now!
- Stringing the Hopeless Suitor Along: Someone likes having a Hopeless Suitor and prevents them from getting into other relationships, but doesn't actually want to be with the suitor.
- Taking Advantage of Generosity: What better way to achieve my goals than to exploit others' kindness.
- Think of the Children!: The media must be censored to the fullest extent because I'm a puritan dirtbag who's too lazy to bother monitoring what I let my kids watch, and I don't give a crap if those who don't share my views think I'm ruining entertainment for them!
- The Unapologetic: I don't care about anyone who says I hurt them. I won't apologize to make them feel better, because I regret nothing.
- The Unfettered: I'm gonna get what I want, and I don't care who I have to step on or who suffers to get it!
- Wasteful Wishing: If wishing for something that's unimportant seems selfish, then so be it!
- What Have You Done for Me Lately?: You're only valuable if you do things for me and me only!
- Wild Card: I'm on nobody's side. I'm on my side!
The hell are you standing there for? These are all mine! I'm not letting you see these!
