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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
9th Jun, 2019 12:40:26 PM

Not sure the Ferengi's belief system quite crosses the line from "guiding philosophy" into "religion", but religions of that sort would fall under Scary Amoral Religion, of the Blue-and-Orange Morality variety.

Edited by Scorpion451
megarockman Since: Apr, 2010
11th Jun, 2019 10:28:40 AM

Money Fetish is the closest I can come up with, though I'm guessing you're looking for a reaction to money as a religious or soulful experience rather than something, uh, physical.

I scanned the Money Tropes index and couldn't find anything closer. You could try to create a proposal at the Launch Pad to see if there are enough examples to merit a trope page.

Unsung Since: Jun, 2016
11th Jun, 2019 10:31:20 AM

The Ferengi afterlife is basically a great big stock market in the sky, if I'm remembering it right, and their funeral rites involve auctioning off slices of their own bodies as souvenirs. Something of a sympathetic/comedic deconstruction in DS 9, like with the rest of that show's portrayal of the Ferengi.

I think it's viable along with other more specific subtropes of Odd Job Gods, as long as there are enough well-written examples.

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