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Is there a trope of wastefulness as a villainous trait? if there isn't I'm planning on creating one. Examples from fiction include:
- In Toriko, characters who waste food or kill animals without eating them are always villains.
- In Yogi's Gang, there is a villain literally named "Mr Waste" who actively goes out of his way to be wasteful; he has a giant machine that can instantly create any item out of resources, and he ends up exhausting multiple islands' worth of resources with his wastefulness.
- In Captain Planet, the villain Hoggish Greedly is meant to embody the evils of overconsumption and wastefulness; his evil plans usually involve exhausting resources in unsustainable ways, such as cutting down entire forests, killing endangered animals, destroying ecosystems etc.
- In DuckTales (2017), Flintheart Glomgold wastes tons of money trying to one-up or kill Scrooge. Unlike the comics, in which Glomgold is only slightly poorer than Scrooge, this incarnation of Glomgold is much poorer than Scrooge as a result of the former's wasteful spending.
Edited by cybirddude