Basic Trope: Crabs and other crustaceans are greedy, selfish, and often rich.
- Straight: Cranston Crab hoards gold and other treasures.
- Exaggerated: Cranston Crab is a dictator who puts heavy taxes on the other animals, leaving them with almost nothing while he rolls in his riches.
- Downplayed: Cranston Crab likes treasure, but he doesn't go out of his way to keep an unusual amount of it.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted:
- Cranston Crab is very generous. He'll give his possessions to anyone in need.
- Cranston Crab is dirt-poor.
- Subverted: Cranston Crab stares at a chest of gold coins excitedly, but then he decides he doesn't need them and walks away.
- Double Subverted: But then he runs back and grabs the chest anyway.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Whether or not Cranston is greedy depends on the writer.
- Averted: Cranston is not any more greedy or generous than usual.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "That Cranston sure loves money, doesn't he?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A fisherman puts a gold coin in a crab trap, knowing Cranston won't be able to resist it.
- Defied: Cranston tries to resist taking every gold coin he sees.
- Discussed: "I wonder if all crabs are just, like, naturally inclined to be greedy."
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Cranston's greed leads to him often being involved in plots or jokes with money.
- Played for Drama: Cranston's Dark and Troubled Past is that he used to be poor as a kid. He now latches onto any riches he can to avoid that pain again.
- Played for Horror: Cranston is an assassin-for-hire who has no qualms about killing as long as he'd paid enough.
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