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If you can imagine a luxury, rich people have purchased it. In a nutshell, conspicuous consumption is any extravagant spending that has no real purpose other than just to show off someone's wealth. Sometimes this leads to a vicious cycle of "keeping up with the Joneses", when two well-off people or families each feel that they need to buy more things to show they're just as wealthy as the other, sometimes with Serial Escalation (even if what is bought is Simple, yet Opulent). Any way you look at it, these people are just spending money for the hell of it. You aren't buying a luxury car, you're buying a gold-plated one. You don't just have a private jet, you have a private aircraft carrier (and not for your private army either). Yes, there can be at least somewhat understandable reasons to spend a lot of money. If you see an expenditure for a reason like these, it's not this trope: |
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Tooth and Tail: The consumption of meat is implied to be this In-Universe. Several characters refer to grains and vegetables as 'the food of beasts', implying they can eat them. They simply refuse to because it's seen as uncivilized, instead preferring to starve — or even go to war so they can feast upon the bodies of the fallen. | |
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The protagonist of Fight Club had a neat apartment with all the latest furnishings as a sign of his financial opulence. The whole place then gets torched in a fire which he set himself. | |
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The Ballad of Gay Tony introduces Yusuf Amir, who spends his money on Bling-Bling-BANG!, Hookers and Blow, and ridiculous vanity projects like building the tallest skyscraper in Liberty City. Since he apparently has the money to buy anything, the only use he has for the player character is to steal "the things they won't sell him", like military hardware. | |
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Chanel Oberlin of Scream Queens (2015) has no problems flaunting her wealth. Her insanely enormous wardrobe is replaced regularly. She recounts a story about a party her dad held for her, which seems to be a monument to how rich they are: he bought her a foreclosed Mc Mansion for the party and filled the pool with a caviar slurry, before setting the house on fire. The fire department was, in fact, strippers who put the fire out with champagne. | |
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The One Ring: Adventuring Player Characters raise their Standing score by spending huge amounts of Treasure in their homelands "as a demonstration of their worth, affluence and loyalty to their culture". | |
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In A Northern Dragoness, the Great Sept of Baelor is projected to have an obscene cost of two and a half million dragons - twice what the Sept of Remembrance, which was heavily fortified and included barracks for the Faith Militant, cost. Most of the money is budgeted to go towards charity, for which Baelor is famous, but a lot of it is also meant to be spent in high-quality materials, splendid salaries for all workers, and a lot of rituals Baelor insists must be carried out on each stone. | |
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Clone High: Principal Scudworth devotes a considerable chunk of the advertising kickbacks he got toward having Mr. Butlertron gold-plated and lowered. The rest of the money disappears in a similar fashion. | |
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Jacques McKeown by Ben Croshaw: It's explicitly noted that this trope is the only reason spaceships still exist in a world where instantaneous teleportation is the most common way to get around; every transporter booth is identical, but spaceships can go all-out on the first-class accommodations. | |
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The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #19 actually does have her experience some Character Development where she and Peter take a cruise vacation, and MJ drags him to a fancy dinner where they interact with snobby fellow travelers. By the end of the issue, after MJ had earlier told Peter to let it slide, she unloads on them for their ingratitude to Spider-Man and Spinneret (their alter-egos who saved them) and then she and Peter take a cheaper road-trip that is more romantic and peaceful, with MJ starting to adopt some of Peter's taste for austerity. | |
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The Marquis de Gramont in John Wick: Chapter 4 spends almost every scene he's in flaunting his ridiculous wealth, whether it be buying out an entire theater to watch a performance by himself or having a massive private art gallery to admire. Ironically, he's actually a pretty cheap bastard when it comes to spending money on anything but himself, constantly trying to shortchange Mr. Nobody and threatening Caine's daughter to ensure his compliance (though Caine likely wouldn't have accepted otherwise). Mr. Nobody even lampshades that the Marquis can "clearly afford" his exorbitant finder's fee for tracking John Wick as the man attempts to negotiate it down in their first meeting. | |
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On Chappelle's Show, one MTV Cribs parody sketch had an insanely rich celebrity (Dave Chapelle himself) who ate dinosaur eggs and sprinkled diamonds on his food because it made his "doody twinkle". | |
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Nibelungenlied: Features buhurts (spellings vary), jousting tournaments in which the knights wear fine clothing instead of armor. Even with blunted lances, this clothing will usually be ripped to shreds, thereby demonstrating the knight's talent for conspicuous waste. | |
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The Satyricon: Written by the Ancient Roman author Petronius, and is full of this. In the chapter describing the banquet of Trimalchio, a heavy silver platter is dropped by one of the household slaves, and the wealthy Trimalchio commands that the platter be left on the floor and swept out with the rest of the garbage. Between courses, the guests have their fingers washed with wine instead of water. The narrators are obviously party-crashers, but no one cares. | |
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Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni, deals with the omnipresence of this in America, from the giant billboards, advertising, the display in the malls and the tacky and insipid proposed commercials for the real estate project that Allen's company wants to install. The finale likewise focuses on the destruction of all the household objects in the house, which is played as a kind of liberation. | |
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Dishonored 2 invokes this trope with Aramis Stilton, a self-made man who started out as a dirt-poor commoner and made his fortune mining silver. He became an incredibly rich and notable man, but the nobility still scorned and looked down on him, so Stilton did everything he could to try to impress and fit in with them, like filling his mansion with books he never read and instruments nobody played. It didn't work. | |
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The Replacements (2000) has the striking players' attempt at gaining sympathy from the public derailed when one payer remarks on how expensive the insurance is on a Ferrari. | |
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In The Expanse, a summit between the UN and MCR takes place on Earth in a large, mostly empty hall with big windows that let in plenty of sunlight. There are also large flower arrangements and a buffet featuring plenty of fresh fruit on clear display. This is all done so that the UN can thumb its nose at the MCR delegation, showing the Martians that, in spite of their superiority complex over Earth, none of them will ever get to see such luxuries on Mars in their lifetimes. | |
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In The Simpsons: In "Dog of Death", Homer imagines that if he won the lottery, he would become the world's largest man and be covered entirely in gold. The original creator of Itchy and Scratchy used the money from his settlement to buy a solid gold house. One of the many things Mr. Burns paid Homer to do for his own amusement was to buy a copy of The Amazing Spider-Man #1 from Comic Book Guy... then eat it in front of him, as he breaks down in tears. After Homer seemingly ends his run as a paparazzi photographer, Rainer Wolfcastle is happy they can resume their "Lives of sybaritic excess." A waiter then offers him a stem cell fajita, which he eats. Earlier in the episode, Krusty can be seen mixing a pile of dollar bills into a drink, then complaining to the bartender when it tastes bad. Krusty tends towards this. One episode featured him noting that there was nothing better than a cigar lit with a hundred-dollar bill, and he'd follow up in the episode by using a copy of Action Comics #1 and a pearl necklace. This has bankrupted him a couple times. Bleeding Gums Murphy states that he squandered the money he made from his first album on an addiction to Faberge Eggs. |
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On Parks and Recreation Tom and Jean Ralphio start their own entertainment company after Jean Ralphio gets a lot of money. They primarily spend the money on extravagant furniture and hire pro basketball players and beautiful women to just hang around the office (since nobody in the company is doing any actual work). They even give everyone who visits them a free iPad. Naturally, the business fails. The entire town of Eagleton does this. They fill their pools and water their lawns only with imported bottled water and literally pave their streets with gold. Naturally, their town ends up going bankrupt and requires Pawnee to bail them out. This doesn't stop them from resenting the entire town of Pawnee. |
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The Rise of Kyoshi: Since the Earth Kingdom is more corrupt than usual in Kyoshi's era, this shows up a lot. Nobles use a lot more land than they need, import foreign animals for their grounds, and even specifically use ugly paints simply because they are known for being expensive. They even manage to do this with the stones of the buildings themselves; in a country where a significant portion of the population can build a structure straight out of the ground, it's considered high-status to ship in rocks quarried from as far away as possible. | |
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Captive Prince: One of the greatest shows of wealth in the Veretian court is to contract a high-class escort "Pet", decked out in the most luxurious clothes and jewels the patron can afford. Their sexual services are almost secondary to their role as a status symbol. | |
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Eretz Nehederet: The Money Song "Gaza's sky is black but Qatar is always sunny" features the leaders of Hamas living it up in a luxury hotel in Qatar while Gaza is being bombed, tossing money around and spending it on expensive food, sports cars, and hiring porn star Mia Khalifa to hang out with them. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer mode is centered around this trope. The game offers a vast array of exorbitant purchases for your character to show off his/her wealth. Of note is the gold-plated Luxor Deluxe private jet, which costs $10,000,000. | |
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In Scarface, Tony Montana spends the second half of the film in a hideous, gaudy mansion with various signs of his ill-gotten wealth. In particular he has a spinning, neon-lit globe in his lobby (boasting "The World Is Yours") and a pet tiger. | |
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Bigger Than Life is a Melodrama Unbuilt Trope that criticizes this mentality in The '50s (the decade with which it is highly associated). A poor-struggling family goes on a shopping spree to feel good about themselves and the result is a day of excitement and exhilaration followed with anxiety and guilt about living beyond their means. | |
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In the season 3 Community episode "Course Curriculum Unavailable", Troy somehow got a lot of money and spent it on an ATV. | |
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Camp Candy: When Chester wins the lottery, he buys an amphibious yacht. | |
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In Magik Online the King of the Midnight Market Mammon uses his wealth to buy some weird things, like his collection of thirty-seven suns and tries to buy a planet he doesn't like so he can blow it up. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: When she's first seen the self professed Queen Atomia's servants are piling precious gems in front of her and the drum-like arms of her throne are hollow things filled with diamonds and emeralds. | |
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The title characters in Fun with Dick and Jane are very much concerned with what the neighbors think — and what the neighbors think is that it's best to show off one's wealth. This intersects brutally with their poverty. | |
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The Divine Comedy: The fourth circle of Hell is shared by hoarders and wasters rolling big rocks to smash into each other while the hoarders criticize the wasters (and vice versa). Larry Niven's take on Inferno implies the big rocks are gigantic diamonds. | |
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Cracked: Has a list of real-life ways to show off wealth. An episode of Cracked's Does Not Compute deals with the Numi, a real-life $6500 toilet that comes with a tablet PC to pick various settings like seat temperature, bidet control, and a selection of music. Yes, music, which was composed specifically for the Numi. Another article stated that if you were rich enough to own and operate a minigun, you might as well cover your fleet of cars in explosive tannerite and use the minigun to blow them up because obviously you were stupidly rich. |
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Thanks: After Cotton makes money by selling tobacco to all the people of Plymouth, he replaces his regular pilgrim clothes with a gaudy red and gold outfit that clearly costs a lot more than the drab clothes everyone else wears. | |
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BURN THE WITCH (Miraculous Ladybug): This bites Lila in the butt after she sets up a Fake Charity, conning Rose and several others into donating to it. Once the deception is exposed, Chloe casually points out that the other girl has been filling her wardrobe with all kinds of designer styles that she couldn't possibly have been able to afford with her allowance alone. | |
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On Raising Hope Virginia's cousin Delilah gets married, and Virginia recalls how when they were teenagers early in The '90s, they talked about the kind of weddings they wanted. Delilah wanted a dress with an extremely long train, which was to be held up by Michael Jackson. She got exactly that when she finally did marry, and Burt "stole" Delilah's wedding to give Virginia the nice wedding she wanted but (due to...unforeseen circumstances that forced her and Burt to have a simple courthouse wedding) never got. (They repeated their vows quietly in the back while Delilah and her new husband made theirs, danced discreetly to their first dance, and did the cake-cutting from the other side of the cake.) It seems Delilah cared more about being a bride than about being a wife. | |
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In Mermaid, Aleksandr has decked out his apartment with the finest furnishings including multiple remote-controlled systems. It's a general theme of the movie, with Russia embracing capitalism in all of its facets. | |
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Richie Rich lived this trope. Fuel for thought comes when you contrast his typical attire of a sweater with the letter R on it (or a black jacket and shorts when he was younger) to his hyper-luxurious lifestyle. It's almost as if he's Zen'd past needing to display personal bling. One Robot Chicken skit plays with this and mixes Richie with a black rapper stereotype. | |
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Metalocalypse: The episode "Renovationklok" has the band spending literal billions of money on things impractically and impossibly expensive for their house and guitars. | |
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In Disney's Pocahontas, Ratcliffe envisions himself wearing a suit of armor made of solid gold, beset with gemstones. | |
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The Karma of Lies: Lila takes advantage of this mentality; when she goes to withdraw the money she's stolen from the Agreste emergency account as eurobonds, she makes sure to do so at a location that's popular with rich kids prone to flaunting their wealth in this fashion. This lets her pass herself off as another Spoiled Brat that's Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Jake was like this in the first season, with an old car that required a lot of expensive maintenance, multiple massage chairs, and a DJ turntable. Despite having a reasonable job and a rather cheap rent-controlled apartment, he was deep in debt—the banker laughed when he asked for a loan. | |
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Claudius the God: In this sequel to Robert Graves's I, Claudius, Claudius has a strategy meeting with his ministers to decide how to restore the Roman treasury after Caligula has bankrupted it. Claudius also includes his friend Herod Agrippa (the archetypal Scoundrel with a Heart of Gold), who is probably the world's foremost expert on raising loans and staving off debts. Herod explains that conspicuous consumption can actually be a useful debt management tool: By the same token, he suggests, a few ostentatious displays of public prosperity can be made relatively cheaply and will go a long way towards restoring faith in the economy; such as by using the marble Caligula imported to build a new temple to himself to instead re-do the facades of the existing temples; or by gold-plating the entrance ways of the Circus Maximus, which will look rich but only cost a few hundred gold pieces. |
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Alan Ford played for laughs in Do-Re-Mi: a millionaire buys an original Paganini violin and as soon as the transaction is complete he promptly eats it whole, strings included, in front of the horrified store owner. According to what he says, it's his habit. | |
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Tough Love: Charlie reveals to Bella that the Cullens are close to going broke because they keep spending on luxury cars and designer clothes. He did some research and found out their Aston Martin cost $35,000 more than Carlisle's annual salary, and their Lamborghini cost almost $100,000 more than that. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Some Careers require entrants to have expensive, high-quality clothing, jewellery, and other trappings of wealth to flaunt their means. | |
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Return of the Jedi: Jabba The Hutt runs a criminal empire on Tatooine, where most people are slaves, farmers, peasants, and thieves struggling to make a living in the sandy wastes. Jabba by contrast lives in a cool, air-conditioned palace where he's perpetually entertained by dancers, musicians, scantily-clad slave women, his personal jester, lavish meals that he gobbles down greedily, and a small collection of monsters he regularly feeds people to for his amusement. He's constantly in need of new droids because he keeps having his old ones destroyed (read: tortured to death) for petty reasons, like a toddler breaking his toys. When he plans to execute our heroes, he does so in a massive sand barge that roars over the barren planet blaring loud music and serving exotic drinks. Even Jabba's design as a grotesque, morbidly obese slug who can barely move under his own power is designed to indicate the worst excesses of greed, gluttony, and selfishness. | |
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In EarthBound, Pokey Minch and his father have offices in the Monotoli building made entirely of gold. | |
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Light Verse: Mrs Lardner, a wealthy Socialite, often throws parties at her home, displaying jeweled objects from distant corners of the world and the distant past. Her collection includes glasses, daggers, and watches. | |
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In Littlest Pet Shop (2012) this is a characteristic of the Biskit family, though it's much more pronounced in the twins, Whittany and Brittany. For instance, they order pizza from a restaurant in space for no reason other than it's extremely expensive to do so. | |
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Wayward Children: Jill Wolcott wears expensive, diaphanous pastel gowns for everything, including walking through muddy streets. As the adopted "daughter" of a Vampire Monarch, money is absolutely no object — if she ruins one, it'll be fixed or replaced before she even thinks to look. | |
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DuckTales (1987) eventually adapted the aforementioned Carl Barks comic into the episode "The Status Seekers," where his treatment by his wealthy peers leads Scrooge (who never spends a cent if he can help it, let alone thousands of dollars on useless status symbols) to think he ought to "start acting rich." Unlike Barks' story, which ends as another successful treasure hunt, with Scrooge keeping the valuable artifact he finds, the episode ends with him deciding to screw it and give up trying to fit In with the In Crowd this way. | |
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In Speed Grapher, there was a Euphoric who literally eats diamonds. If she eats enough, she becomes a walking, talking diamond. In another example, Suitengu smokes cigarettes literally rolled in 10,000-yen bills. |
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James Bond: Franz Sanchez from Licence to Kill has a Right Hand Iguana with a diamond necklace. His Big Fancy House also qualifies. In Casino Royale, Le Chiffre's fine clothes, yacht, and platinum inhaler are all testaments to his immense wealth. |
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Caliban's War: Jules-Pierre Mao manages to exaggerate this trope within the confines of a near-future sci-fi universe, directly flipping almost every established economic constraint in the series. To establish a baseline, most characters wouldn't even be able to buy a rust bucket of a ship with their life savings. For Mao, though… apart from his company, which has some kind of presence on almost every inhabited rock in the solar system, he also owns a dedicated racing spacecraft for one of his daughters to use, a small fleet of pleasure yachts, and a private space station dedicated solely to docking those yachts. The one pleasure yacht we see, the Guanshiyin, features gold and wood accents everywhere (Earth has long since been paved over), sweeping curves throughout its architecture (most ships are boxy to maximize storage space), multiple safety redundancies, and an ornate mural on the outer hull in a location that almost no one will ever see. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Plutocrats, Earth politicians who buy their seats, are ridiculously rich. The mercenaries have trouble getting used to just the basics of their lifestyles, such as their limos. | |
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Wolf Hall: Cardinal Wolsey was known for enjoying a very lavish lifestyle. His loyal protege Thomas Cromwell glosses over the excess by either not thinking much about it, joking about it with Wolsey by pricing him by the yard, or saying that he's a public man and should keep up an appropriate appearance. Few others are so circumspect. Cromwell at one point chides Mary Tudor for making a crack about it, but he does eventually admit to himself that it was a bit much. This becomes a habit of Cromwell's when he becomes truly wealthy— not just because he's Henry's right hand but because he uses his position there to exercise his financial skills to the utmost (and by dissolving some wealthy monasteries, that too). His kitchens are so good that his cook complains city officials are disguising themselves as beggars to get leftovers, he throws big Christmas parties, and he decks out his sisters-in-law, nieces, and any other woman in his house in the best clothing that money can buy. Him being a former wool merchant, he knows exactly how much it's worth and notes the price of every fabric by the yard. |
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Exalted: This is common in Yu-Shan and the Underworld; since the former has prayer form into a substance that can be formed into practically anything, and the latter has items used in burial rites carry over as idealised (and sometimes magical) versions of themselves (such as a wooden cart painted gold becoming a magnificent golden carriage), excessive and blatant luxury is the norm. Glowstones are shining rocks often used as Fantastic Light Sources. Most glow red or orange; yellow or white ones are uncommon and ones of other colors are extremely rare. This, combined with the fact that they can only be mined in very remote areas of the South, leads wealthy people throughout Creation to light their homes with colorful glowstones as a display of their wealth and connections. |
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Parasite (2019) has the Park family eating jjapaguri, or ram-don (a mix of instant noodle brands), but topped with expensive sirloin steak. While it makes for a handy metaphor for class stratification, the fact that they can't stand eating crappy junk food unless something expensive gets involved, along with the fact that mixing steak and instant noodles is probably missing the point of both, also reflects this trope pretty well. | |
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Both Ricci and his manager in Fite! sport solid gold jewelry once Ricci gets the belt. | |
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The Last Jedi: Canto Bight is a haven for rich socialites and gamblers, so that city is dripping with luxuries. | |
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In the third act of Path of Exile the player visits the ruined city of the fallen empire. The empire was known for having indulged in a lot of Conspicuous Consumption shortly before its fall. It's nowhere more evident than in the Solaris Temple where everything is made from polished white stone, red fabrics, and covered in gold. The nature bound Ranger character even comments on how creepily unnatural it all looks. | |
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In Mad Max: Fury Road, the three head warlords, Immortan Joe, The People Eater, and The Bullet Farmer, all make a big show of their wealth and status in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Whereas most have a simple tricked-out car and primitive explosive weapons, Immortan Joe has two Cadillacs fused together into an impressive monstrosity and about two or three magnums, as well as a mobile soundstage in his fleet. The People Eater has a (mostly) intact three-piece suit and a giant limousine that also acts as a mobile oil rig. The Bullet Farmer has a tricked out all-terrain vehicle and a massive amount of guns and ammunition, so much so that he uses bullets as teeth and to form a judge's wig. All of these are used to impress their followers, ensuring even more fanatical devotion. | |
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A long sequence in Apocalypto highlights the conspicuous consumption of the Mayan royalty to construct their ostentatious buildings. The damage this causes to the environment and their peasants is shown to be terrible. The nobility is also shown to be covered practically from head to toe in jade jewelry. In the DVD commentary, director Mel Gibson uses the name of the trope frequently to point out his thinly-veiled commentary on modern society. | |
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Schitt's Creek: Although they are now broke, the Roses still have their expensive wardrobes and memories, which include stories of lavish parties, jewelry, multiple houses, yachts, globe-trotting and a private jet. The very fact that Johnny bought the town as a long-forgotten gag gift illustrates their former spending habits. | |
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In an article in Dragon about the economics of the Forgotten Realms, Ed Greenwood says anyone doing this in Waterdeep will be regarded as a foolish spendthrift at best, and more likely as a conman or foreign spy trying to convince everyone he's rich as part of a scam.Waterdhavian nobles and merchants are far from miserly (in general) and live very well, but they tend not to flaunt their wealth too much, lest their rivals work out how well they're actually doing. | |
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Pathfinder: Characters take social penalties against nobles if they're not wearing appropriately fancy clothes, which need to be accessorized with even more expensive jewelry so as not to "look like an out-of-place commoner". | |
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A Brother's Price: When Jerin is shown the husband's quarters in the palace, he learns that the princesses' late husband Keifer planned to have the floor ripped out and replaced by the most expensive marble, and have the ceiling gold-plated. Fortunately, he died before he got around to actually doing it - the princesses didn't approve of so much luxury, as they're aware that they're already living in much more comfortable surroundings than their subjects. Nobility tends towards this, with expensive outfits that are only intended to be worn once. |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic The Artist's Garden at Madripoor, Steve and Natasha go to Madripoor in order to acquire the component they need for the Quantum Tunnel from the Power Broker who resides in a large upscale building containing an art gallery filled with priceless works of art. The Power Broker, who Steve is shocked to discover is Sharon, meets with them wearing a form-fitting, low-cut, sequined white dress and diamonds which Steve describes as worth more money than he's ever owned his whole life. When she invites Steve and Natasha in to talk, Steve takes note of how elegant the place is. She also uses the building to host lavish parties. | |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Occurs frequently. The currency in this setting is "spheres", small glass beads with chips of gemstone in them. However, one of the reasons gemstones are valued is that they are the only things capable of holding the titular Light for more than a few minutes. Therefore, the rich often use spheres for illumination, as Stormlight illumination is brighter and more steady than firelight. This, of course, doubles as a way of showing off how many spheres they have. Unusual for this trope in that this is actually more cost-efficient than the "poor" alternative - candles and torches are consumed and must be replaced, but a sphere can be recharged for free in the next highstorm. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: A cloud giant's standing in the Ordning depends on two things: how wealthy it is, and how well it's able to flaunt that wealth; to a Cloud Giant, money isn't worth much if you don't do anything with it. The most powerful cloud giants display their wealth in ostentatious ways like decorating their homes with ridiculously expensive works of artnote Volo's Guide to Monsters mentions such things as rare perfumes stored in crystal bottles with silver caps, and tapestries made entirely out of pearls and giving lavish gifts to their peers. In an article in Dragon about the economics of the Forgotten Realms, Ed Greenwood says anyone doing this in Waterdeep will be regarded as a foolish spendthrift at best, and more likely as a conman or foreign spy trying to convince everyone he's rich as part of a scam.Waterdhavian nobles and merchants are far from miserly (in general) and live very well, but they tend not to flaunt their wealth too much, lest their rivals work out how well they're actually doing. |
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Being set in 1988, Yakuza 0 is all about showing off the riches of 80s Japan in the tackiest ways possible. Yakuza wear garish suits, Tokyo and Osaka are full of glimmering neon lights, and billionaires are made and gone in the constant fight for real estate. Kazuma Kiryu can even learn to toss entire handfuls of Cash Confetti as a means to avoid fights after being taught by Mr. Moneybags, a man who literally lives in his private jets (yes, plural) and travels the world. Both Kiryu and Majima can also purchase life-sized golden statues of themselves for 10 billion yen upon completing their Business Sidequest, with the game specifically telling the player that they serve no function other than being a big garish decoration. | |
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An oil tycoon in Elite Beat Agents is prone to this. | |
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Elite Beat Agents (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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In the ancient Hindu epic the Ramayana, several entire chapters are devoted to explaining the over-the-top splendor of Ravana's palace, of which everything constructed is constructed of rare metals and stones, and everything natural (i.e. gardens) is of only the finest, purest quality. | |
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Ramayana | hasFeature |
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X-Wing Series: Ysanne Isard's office on Coruscant manages to look the height of opulence despite being very spartan, as despite being a large, high-ceilinged room it only contains carpeting and a simple but elegant desk and chair. On the extremely densely populated City Planet, space is at a considerable premium and wasting that much room is the height of decadent luxury. | |
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X-Wing Series | hasFeature |
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Karma's a Bitch: Lila fantasizes about using her ill-gotten gains from the scam she's running with Zoe to add some designer clothing to her wardrobe, along with buying herself the latest technology — and a fancy car once she's old enough to drive. Zoe, by contrast, defies this; she's careful to avoid making too many expensive purchases at once in order to avoid drawing unwanted attention and awkward questions about how she's able to afford such things. |
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Karma's a Bitch (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Aria from Seitokai Yakuindomo comes from a family that is rich that her mansion has a room made of solid gold. | |
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Seitokai Yakuindomo (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Tropico allows the player to build a play gold statue of yourself along with other such needless expenses while your people starve and live in ramshackle houses. | |
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Tropico (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Psychonauts 2: The Big Bad absolutely loves this, and his whole evil plan is to get unlimited wealth to flaunt obnoxiously. Even being able to live in a ritzy casino penthouse and carelessly leave leftover caviar everywhere isn't enough for him, because he can't eat bucketfuls (literally, as in carrying around a bucket full of caviar to snack on) of caviar whenever he wants, like he did when he was the prince of Grulovia and his family used their position to enrich themselves at the citizenry's expense. | |
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Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Dr. Greta Helsing: Leonora Van Dorne wears Simple, yet Opulent designer wardrobes, accented with a single piece of authentic Ancient Egyptian jewellery — a different one each time. A qualified Egyptologist, she knows just how precious and irreplaceable each piece is, but does it anyway. | |
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Dr. Greta Helsing | hasFeature |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Madison Country Club", Miss Brooks brags about how much she spends on travel, food, champagne, and clothes to society matron Mrs. Grabar. Miss Brooks thinks that Mr. Conklin is poking fun of the faculty; in reality Conklin was soliciting a donation from the wealthy philanthropist. | |
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Our Miss Brooks (Radio) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Casino: Expected since it takes place in Las Vegas, but especially anything to do with Ginger, from her clothes and her furs to her Big Fancy House and her vault full of jewels. | |
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Casino | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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In Star Wars: The Old Republic during the Smuggler Storyline, you run into a Republic spy on Balmorra who got busted for buying customized speeders beyond his salary. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Dorothy Catalonia seems to have a thing for gold-plated vehicles: a limousine, a space shuttle, and a truck. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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The Diabolic: The only reason actual human employees are ever used. Robots and servitors can do anything, but hiring humans with free will who demand money and might turn on you is a sign of power and prestige. | |
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The Diabolic | hasFeature |
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City-Building Series: In Caesar III and Pharaoh, the Idle Rich in the highest-quality housing demand access to multiple varieties of fine wines and luxury goods (respectively), requiring an imported supply on top of whatever your city might create. | |
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City-Building Series (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, Hella Jeff takes a moment to give a "fuckin squirrelt" all his "momey" for no apparent reason other than that he can. | |
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Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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In The Office Michael Scott manages to do this in the absence of actual wealth. When Oscar examined his finances to explain his debts he ended up dividing his spending into three categories, of which the third was the largest: Things that he needed, things that he didn't need, and things that no one, anywhere, ever needed. | |
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The Office (US) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
Conspicuous Consumption / int_8833918c | comment |
In In Time, time is literally money, so the rich show off their wealth by just doing everything very slowly. | |
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In Time | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Franz Sanchez from Licence to Kill has a Right Hand Iguana with a diamond necklace. His Big Fancy House also qualifies. | |
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Licence to Kill | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: One of Grandpa Joe's anecdotes of the legend that is Willy Wonka is the story of how an Indian prince commissioned the chocolatier to build an entire palace out of chocolate for him — and he intended to live in it! The prince didn't see the folly of his ways until the hot Indian summer rolled around and the castle melted around him. Note that Wonka himself is an aversion to this trope. Though he says repeatedly he's rich, it says in the book that most of his fortune is used to maintain his business, research new candies, and care for the Oompa-Loompas. In fact, in the above anecdote, Grandpa Joe says Wonka was absolutely shocked at the prince's declaration that he'd live in the chocolate palace. |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | hasFeature |
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Gundam: In some of the ancillary material to Mobile Suit Gundam, some Zeon officers have personalised Mobile Suits that include ostentatious gold trimmings. M'Quve, for example, has a customised Gouf with such trimmings that is only mentioned in the Mobile Suit Variation series. Similarly, the MSV series also mentions the personalised Zaku-II of Vice-Admiral Dozle Zabi, which has a deeper green than regular Zakus and also has gold trimmings on it. This might also cross over with Ermine Cape Effect, though, since Dozle is part of the ruling Zabi family in addition to being a Frontline General. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Dorothy Catalonia seems to have a thing for gold-plated vehicles: a limousine, a space shuttle, and a truck. |
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Gundam (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Pride and Prejudice: Lady Catherine de Bourgh. After visiting both Lady Catherine's estate of Rosing. and Darcy's at Pemberly, Elizabeth draws a contrast—the decorative style at Rosings is grand, but it's also too obviously chosen to show how much money Lady Catherine can spend, not for its actual taste. | |
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Pride and Prejudice | hasFeature |
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The Life season 2 episode "Jackpot" is about a murder among a support group of lottery winners. One of them lives in a party bus inhabited by paid hangers-on, and Chips actor Eric Estrada. | |
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Life | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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On Lost, several characters, especially evil tycoon Charles Widmore, make a show of drinking the fictional MacCutcheon whiskey, a bottle of which costs several thousand dollars. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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Shovel Knight has the Ornate Plate, the most expensive set of armor in the game at a whopping $8000, which does absolutely nothing other than make you look rich and flashy (unlike every other armor that provides some sort of ability). Even it's description describes it as "Flashy! Acrobatic! Useless!" It also has the effect of letting you do flips, making you stick the landing from the catapult, leaving a trail of sparkles behind you, and getting a compliment from King Knight: | |
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Shovel Knight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Who Moved My Soap: The narrator defends his doing this as a way to inspire faith in his (sham) company. | |
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Who Moved My Soap | hasFeature |
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Persuasion: This is the root of the Elliots' financial troubles. Sir Walter thinks he has to live up to the style of a baronet, which means buying expensive, flashy things until he runs into such deep debt he's forced to rent out his estate to an admiral. This brings Anne's sea-captain ex-fiance back into her life. | |
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Persuasion | hasFeature |
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Doctor Strange (2016): Early on in the film, we see that Stephen Strange has a selection of very expensive watches at his home. This occurs before the accident that robs him of any precision in his hands, whereupon he immediately starts throwing money at even the slightest possibility that he can get his career back. Christine notes that he's always spent money as fast as he can make it. | |
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Doctor Strange (2016) | hasFeature |
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Martian Time-Slip: Water is scarce on Mars, so Arnie Kott is proud of his steam bath, which wastefully lets run-off soak into the sand instead of preserving it. | |
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Martian Time-Slip | hasFeature |
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In The Gilded Age, the Russells are not old blood, so they have to use their fantastic wealth to make an impact on New York society. Their new Beaux-Arts mansion is built of bright limestone walls, elaborate gilding and marble in every room, and furniture from every court in Europe or an exact replica thereof. Even their footmen are dressed in elaborate blue and gold livery that stands out everywhere they go. | |
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The Gilded Age | hasFeature |
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Lampshaded in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Clock King": | |
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Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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The Stars My Destination: Almost everyone can teleport themselves, so the rich show off their wealth by "conspicuous transportation"—traveling the old-fashioned way (which not only shows that they're rich enough to afford it but also important enough to make people wait for them). At one point a character arrives at a party by steam locomotive, on a track laid just for the occasion. | |
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The Stars My Destination | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
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The History of Middle-earth: The House of the Heavenly Arch is one of 12 kindreds of the Elven city of Gondolin, and possibly the wealthiest of them; not only do they wear clothes in many bright colors (“heavenly arch� refers to a rainbow), but their helms, weapons, and even their shields are all adorned with gems. | |
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The History of Middle-earth | hasFeature |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: The Demiurge Mottom and her Decadent Court symbolize the sin of Gluttony and lean heavily on this. At one point, she has a lavish banquet for hundreds laid out for a one-on-one audience with Allison, and none of the food gets eaten. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Thy Good Neighbor: Cyril does this by accident upon going from Yharnam to Westeros, simply because of the vast technology difference between the Gaslamp Fantasy Yharnam and Medieval Stasis Westeros. By his own standards, he lives a comfortable and modestly wealthy life, but in Westeros, things like glassware, wrought iron fences, porcelain, and sugar are all big luxury items in their own right, and put together are a level of opulence that would be the envy of most kings. They're also very surprised that Evetta considers salting roads to de-ice them to be routine, since they consider salt to be too valuable to waste in that way. | |
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Thy Good Neighbor (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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An Alvin and the Chipmunks episode had Simon develop a device that could look into possible futures. One was where the chipmunks and chipettes were incredibly wealthy. They bought their kids guitars made of diamonds, with ruby picks, and there were apparently emerald strings. | |
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Double subverted in the My Hero Academia Yonkoma spinoff, My Heroine Academia. The rest of the girls of Class 1-A assume that Momo Yaoyorozu, a girl so rich that she drinks teas that cost 50,000 yen per cup and has 10,000 yen towels (roughly $500 and $100, respectively), has a fancy case for her smartphone made out of gold or jewels, but in reality, it's a simple plastic case; she just buys a new one whenever the case gets scratched. Ochaco Uraraka, whose family is so poor she can't even afford a smartphone, is appropriately shocked. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 noted this in the short film Design for Dreaming, made in 1956 to advertise GM's Motorama expo. As the heroine and her man drive away in their fabulous Firebird II, Mike Nelson quips, "Conspicuous consumption makes our love stronger!" | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
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Northanger Abbey: General Tilney gives Catherine a tour of all the improvements he's made to the Abbey, having fitted it out with a number of very expensive Regency mod cons. Contemporary readers would have recognized the expense involved in replacing all the windows with the newly-invented sash windows, the hyacinths were very expensive, and hothouses (with their attending maintenance staff) would be a huge domestic expense in any era. | |
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Northanger Abbey | hasFeature |
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My Super Sweet Sixteen was all about this. | |
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My Super Sweet Sixteen | hasFeature |
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Melancholia features an extravagant wedding at a castle as the world ends. The director actually contacted a wedding planning service and let them go wild. | |
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Melancholia | hasFeature |
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Bob's Burgers: Attempted (badly) by Teddy, who buys a boat he names the "Sea Me Now" just to show his ex-wife how well off he is. The boat is hardly luxurious, and Teddy ends up crashing it into the pier attempting to get her ex's attention. Calvin Fischoeder, the Belchers' landlord, is so rich he buys a car as a pre-show ritual before performing. In "Pro Tiki Con Tiki", Bob's rich friend Warren mentions once having eaten a $1,700 burger with caviar and wrapped in gold leaf, which he had to eat inside a hologram. |
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"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" by Waylon Jennings, is about Waylon suggesting to his wife that they abandoned the "successful life they're living" and go "back to the basic of love". In on part of the song he talk about trying to living a fancy lifestyle and always feeling the need to be "keeping up with the jones" may not be such a good thing for their relationship: | |
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Waylon Jennings (Music) | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
Conspicuous Consumption / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
The Rich Boy and Lady Trainer classes in Pokémon often use expensive Full Restores to heal their low-leveled Pokémon when regular Potions would've healed said 'mons up to full health. The player can also purchase Gorgeous, Royal, and Gorgeous Royal Ribbons for their Pokémon, which cost 10,000, 100,000, and 999,999 (the most the player can hold in the Sinnoh games) Pokémon Dollars respectively and only serve to show that the player has cash to burn. | |
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Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Conspicuous Consumption / int_9f89a5f0 | |
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Conspicuous Consumption | |
Conspicuous Consumption / int_9fc6d946 | comment |
In Fire & Blood, Ser Rickard Thorne and Prince Maelor Targaryen fled King's Landing while disguised as peasants. They went into an inn and Thorne paid for the services with silver which is something a mere peasant should not have. Their cover was blown by a greedy stable boy and got them killed. | |
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Fire & Blood | hasFeature |
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In the Futurama movie Bender's Big Score, Earth is taken over by alien scammers who buy a fleet of solid gold, Gem-Encrusted death stars to defend it. | |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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In Hadestown, Hades praises the capitalistic innovations of Hadestown, including automobiles, foundries, and cathode screens, in an effort to impress Persephone with his riches and status. | |
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In the Bible, this practice was often railed against by the prophets, especially when fabulous wealth existed side-by-side with crushing poverty. | |
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The Bible | hasFeature |
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Jo'on Yorigami from Touhou Project is a pestilence goddess whose power is explicitly to cause others to do this, usually for her own gain. She's even guilty of it herself, dressing in very modern and fashionable clothing, making very impulsive and extravagant purchases, and carelessly throwing away valuables in her attacks. | |
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Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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In Trouble in Paradise, the filthy-rich Mariette spends 125,000 francs on a diamond-encrusted handbag. Lily, one of the two con artists out to swindle her, is disgusted. (Of course, Mariette also refuses her corporate board's demand to cut employee salaries.) | |
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Trouble in Paradise | hasFeature |
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Goldie Gold and Action Jack: Goldie Gold has a few of these that aren't even gadgets, like a diamond-studded nail clipper. | |
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Goldie Gold and Action Jack | hasFeature |
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Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Defied. Soma has the ability to generate pennies by getting injured and then heal his own injuries, but as Kazuya points out, other than the whole thing of having a ton of American pennies in Japan being odd, it's a known fact that the three of them (he, Soma, and Naoki) are strapped for cash, so while buying better quality food is an acceptable expense, buying a console definitely isn't. | |
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Temeraire: The setting's sapient dragons generally wear their wealth in lieu of traditional Dragon Hoards and treat their jewellery as Serious Business. Temeraire's pride and joy is a platinum breastplate worth ten thousand 19th-Century pounds*(i.e.: nearly a million pounds in modern-day currency), while Iskierka fights with her captain over her desire to deck him out in Impractically Fancy Outfits that drip with jewels and cloth-of-gold. | |
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Temeraire | hasFeature |
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Game of Thrones: The Lannisters are the wealthiest noble family in the Seven Kingdoms and not afraid to let everyone know it. They put gold and jewels on everything and boast about being able to buy anything and their ability to pay debts. It's ultimately revealed to be a subversion: their gold mines have run out and the War of Five Kings wiped out both their savings and the only thing they had left of any value; an obscene debt owed them by the Iron Throne and House Baratheon. Now that they've taken the throne and eliminated House Baratheon, they're flat broke and have nothing left save two slummy port towns and the family heirs. They continue to spend lavishly with loaned money to make themselves appear prosperous and powerful, knowing the instant someone tries to call in their debts this will become common knowledge and the entire family is screwed. The merchant-prince Xaro Xoan Daxos has a sumptuous mansion filled with gold artwork. It's ultimately a subversion, as Xaro's vault is empty. His lavish lifestyle is a con to make him appear wealthy. Although it could be considered a double subversion; as Danny points out the gold and gems decorating his estate represent a massive fortune by themselves. It's played with in his rival the Spice King; while he makes a show of sleeping in and having many servants, his estate is far plainer (more like a typical Westerosi Noble) and most of his wealth is explicitly tied up in his trading fleet. Olenna discusses the importance of a spectacular presentation at the royal wedding with Tyrion in Season 2 and with Margaery in "Two Swords". |
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Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
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One of the many things Mr. Burns paid Homer to do for his own amusement was to buy a copy of The Amazing Spider-Man #1 from Comic Book Guy... then eat it in front of him, as he breaks down in tears. | |
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Spider-Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Right up there as well was Ted DiBiase in his Million Dollar Man persona, when it was actually enforced. During his heel heyday in the 80's and early 90's when Kayfabe was still enforced, the WWF gave him an expense account so he could travel by private jet, stay in five star hotels, and hire limos so that he would seem to be as rich as the company portrayed him. | |
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Ted DiBiase (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Justice League/Zack Snyder's Justice League: When meeting Deathstroke on his yacht, Lex Luthor serves himself some Goût de Diamants ("Taste of Diamonds" in French). It is the most expensive Champagne (and alcohol overall) in the world, it costs about $1.2 million for a single bottle - the alcohol itself doesn't contain diamonds of course, the bottle is encrusted with diamonds. Lex can afford it, of course. | |
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Justice League (2017) | hasFeature |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Squilliam Fancyson owns a private yacht, a private lake, a private heliport, a private island, and a Zeppelin casino. His house shows even more of this. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
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Warhammer 40,000: Orks use their own teeth as money, and as the Bad Moons have teeth that grow in quicker than all other Orks' they're generally the wealthiest Orks around and very proud of it. Bad Moon warlords thus make immense and conspicuous shows with their wealth. Their vehicles are covered in gold plate and gaudy paint and topped with colorful totems and glinting statues of Gork and Mork, and when on foot they strut around to show off their kustom weapons, jewelry and gem-studded piercings and retinues of grots carrying around the boss' extra weapons and immense chests filled with teef. This does often lead to bigger, harder orks within any of the clans to bash the teeth out of their faces and mug them of the rest, but that's just ork society working as intended. | |
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"Minnie the Moocher", made famous by Cab Calloway (with a little help from Betty Boop), especially the second half; | |
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Betty Boop | hasFeature |
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Conspicuous Consumption / int_c0869433 | comment |
During the Lucky Blocks Walls battle against the rest of the Yogscast, Hat Films were so inundated with gold that they wound up using it to build armor and paths between their sky bases (it's just Worthless Yellow Rocks, after all). | |
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Yogscast (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
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In Team Fortress 2, several of the purchasable items in the game (for example, Something Special for Someone Special) do nothing except show off that its owner has money to blow on a video game. | |
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Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Most stuff in Minecraft generally has some use in the game, but golden tools and diamond hoes are just plain conspicuous consumption. Tools and armour made of gold may have more enchantments stick to them, but their base attributes (damage dealt, blocks that can be mined, number of uses before depletion, etc.) are simply too low (gold is too soft to make good tools) to compensate for such a rare material. Hoes, meanwhile, all perform the exact same function, with the only difference being the amount of farmland they can create before breaking, so while a single diamond hoe will last much longer than a wood or cobblestone one, it's pointless when you can easily make all the wood or cobblestone hoes you want long before you find diamonds and replace them with a quick trip to a crafting table. | |
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Minecraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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American Psycho: The yuppie characters go to fancy restaurants, order impractically extravagant food, and then don't actually eat it. | |
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American Psycho | hasFeature |
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Parodied in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with Rarity who wears needlessly extravagant outfits draped with precious gemstones and jewels. However, she's a seamstress who makes all the clothing herself. Furthermore, gems are actually fairly common in Equestria (in fact, one of Rarity's unique spells is a gem-finding one as shown with her Cutie Mark) and serve as a food source for dragons (though a few instances have subtly implied some gems are rarer than others and there's even several fictional gems such as a heart-shaped Fire Ruby Spike would've gifted himself on his birthday, giving it to Rarity instead). | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
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In Maps to the Stars, past-her-prime actress Havana Segrand is quite vocal about how expensive it is to maintain her Hollywood lifestyle: after a shopping spree on Rodeo Drive, she publicly moans "I can't believe I just spent eighteen thousand dollars!" | |
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Maps to the Stars | hasFeature |
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Asterix: In Obelix and Co., Obelix becomes rich from selling menhirs to the Roman economist Preposterus. At the suggestion of Preposterus, Obelix gets some "smarter clothes". Said clothes turn out to be hideously garish. Once the rest of the village is caught up in the craze, all the other menhir entrepreneurs start wearing these hideous clothes as well. Preposterus markets the menhirs as status symbols since they have no other use. A narration box warns the reader that this concept might be hard to understand since in modern times, no one would dream of selling something completely useless. |
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Asterix (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Beetlejuice: In "Keeping Up With the Boneses", The Ghost With The Most gets a credit card and goes on a major spending spree just to outdo the affluent Bones family. Of course, when the first bill comes in, Beetlejuice has no money to pay for it. He winds up surrendering everything back but only because his beloved pal Lydia was being kept as collateral. He gets a job as a department store Santa to pay for the interest, but he sees firsthand how karma can be a bitch — the Boneses are in the same boat, having overspent on credit. | |
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Beetlejuice | hasFeature |
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After the Lufthansa robbery in Goodfellas the Caper Crew is told to lay low and not spread their money around, but one can't resist the temptation of a pink Caddilac and a mink coat for his old lady. All four are later found full of bullet holes. | |
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GoodFellas | hasFeature |
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Two Letters: Marinette bitterly notes that while Mayor Bourgeois always refused any of Ladybug's suggestions to improve Paris' security or enact any countermeasures or defenses against Hawkmoth, he was more than happy to spend plenty of money on his latest vanity projects... or on things like diamond-encrusted cellphone cases for his Spoiled Brat of a daughter. As a result, she's not particularly sympathetic when she learns that he's been paying the new Ladybug to endorse him... and keeps having to pay more and more so that he's not outbid by his political rivals. | |
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Two Letters (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Blake's 7. An episode taking place in President Servalan's palace was filmed in a stately home of England and this trope was used as a handwave — rather than the usual Domed City, Servalan has had a reconstruction of a "pre-Atomic" Big Fancy House built on the ruins of the old. A member of her administration comments bitterly, "We could have built two cities for what it cost to build that absurdity." | |
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Blake's 7 | hasFeature |
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Conan the Barbarian: In "A Witch Shall Be Born", Salome goes in for this. | |
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The Great Gatsby: Also deconstructs the American Dream and The Roaring '20s into teeny, tiny pieces. Gatsby regularly throws the biggest parties just to show off, in hopes of attracting the attention of his childhood crush. In one notable scene, a guest enters his impressive library and wonders if all the books are fake. He examines them and sees that all of the books are quite real, but none of their pages have been cut. It's an entire library of unread books, just for show. | |
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Zigfried von Schroeder from Yu-Gi-Oh! has a fancy castle, an army of maids, private jets, and swimming pools filled with fresh milk... to hide the fact that his life of luxury is in jeopardy since SchroederCorp is going broke. | |
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In an episode of The Looney Tunes Show, Daffy Duck finally gets the wealth he so ardently desires and spends it on, among other things, a fancy-dress outfit (complete with powdered wig) and a hand-painted mural for the ceiling. He can't even go grocery shopping without embarking on a search for the most expensive brand of soup. | |
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The Twilight Saga: The Cullens all wear designer clothes and drive brand-new cars despite living in a backwoods town. According to the author this is done on purpose, because for some reason making shows of wealth helps them keep a low profile. | |
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Ocean's Eleven: In Ocean's 13, Al Pacino's character receives a gold-plated and diamond-encrusted cell phone as a gift. He's obviously been desiring one for a while. This is Flaw Exploitation by the protagonists, who have put an app on the phone that allows them to hack his security system, something that no other person would be able to go near with a personal device. | |
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Dark Future: There's a lot of this, with the cosmetic genetic enhancements offered by GenTech, including up to five implanted sets of teeth to replace your own as they wear out, but Gavin Mantle, winner of the ZBC Blotto Lotto prize of 100 million dollars goes on a spree of spending to live up to this including a gold-plated Rolls Royce shaped like a penis, a huge mansion shaped like a pair of breasts with a swimming pool the bottom of which is covered in gemstones and a small army of personal Sexbots turns the dial up a touch more. | |
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A recurring theme in The Book of Mormon is that society faces total collapse when it reaches a point where people become divided into classes or social strata defined by the quality of the clothes they wear or the education they have access to. The wicked are often identified by their flaunting of wealth and/or power over the poor rather than helping them to acquire it. note This theme has one major advantage for recruitment/whipping worshippers into a frenzy: The historically literate will notice that the above can accurately describe all of human history. But you'd be surprised how many people don't know this, so they tend to assume that now is more unequal than any other time in history, and that therefore the end times are near. | |
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Silicon Valley: Hooli is a big perpetrator of this. After Jared defects to Pied Piper, Gavin offers Big Head a promotion, pretty much in retaliation for this (and Richard turning down a $10 million buyout in favor of Peter Gregory's offer of a $200,000 5 percent investment) and given an annual salary of $600,000 a year. One character refers to him as the VP of spite. Discussed by Monica who tells Richard that the standard MO for billionaires is to throw a bunch of money some times millions into no other purpose other than humiliating their rivals. Bachmann rents out Alcatraz to throw a lavish party, just so he could invite all the people who said he'd never amount to anything. But the kicker is that not only did he get the money for it by scamming Big Head, Big Head had actually already squandered his fortune, leaving them both heavily in debt. |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Jacqueline, the wealthy housewife, spends this way. In one of her first appearances, she offers Kimmy a bottle of exotic water. When it's declined, she throws the unopened bottle away as if it's been used. | |
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Parodied in South Park, when the boys are shown the evils of downloading music illegally by seeing what it does to the artists: namely, forcing them to do this to a slightly lesser extent (for example, having to fly in a private jet that's one model out of date, or not being able to give their kid a private island for his birthday). | |
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In Spider-Girl Mayday who takes after her father in his tastes and lifestyle attitude in her early years often avoided her mother's love for shopping and her fashion tastes with MJ noting that Mayday never seemed to like her taste in clothing. After a while, Mayday does start to have her taste rub off on her, and in one time-travel issue, Mayday on meeting the young version of her mother aside from noting how beautiful she was at her age, is bemused when the first thing teenage MJ does is insist that they go shopping so she can dress better: | |
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In the original Mercenaries; Mattias Nilsson expresses a desire to spend his share of the bounty on General Song's head on a custom gold-plated Lamborghini with diamond-encrusted hubcaps. | |
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In Casino Royale, Le Chiffre's fine clothes, yacht, and platinum inhaler are all testaments to his immense wealth. | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV parodies it with the in-game TV show "I'm Rich", including obvious parodies of people like Paris Hilton and others. The Ballad of Gay Tony introduces Yusuf Amir, who spends his money on Bling-Bling-BANG!, Hookers and Blow, and ridiculous vanity projects like building the tallest skyscraper in Liberty City. Since he apparently has the money to buy anything, the only use he has for the player character is to steal "the things they won't sell him", like military hardware. |
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Mentioned by name in Snow By Night. One rich family puts on a contest involving shooting at expensive glassware containing expensive wine. | |
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No one in the entire industry embodies this more than Ric Flair. The big, gorgeous, feathery robes he wore out to the ring? A new one for practically every big headlining event. Same with customized gear and boots. And that's just the start. His boasts about riding around in limousines, chartered planes, driving highest-end cars, and having every stitch of clothing on his body be custom made and/or made by big-name tailors and costing thousands or tens-of-thousands are Not Hyperbole. When he says he's spent more money on spilled liquor than an average fan makes in a year, he's not kidding. | |
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Duty Calls: Amberley Vail is undercover as a blue-blooded Socialite. One of the ways she reinforced her cover was to rent the penthouse suite of the most exclusive hotel on the planet and demand they replant the suite's roof garden with her favorite flowers. | |
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In some of the ancillary material to Mobile Suit Gundam, some Zeon officers have personalised Mobile Suits that include ostentatious gold trimmings. M'Quve, for example, has a customised Gouf with such trimmings that is only mentioned in the Mobile Suit Variation series. | |
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Doctor Doom once outraged Tony Stark by off-handedly mentioning that he owned several Rembrandts but had one burned because it displeased him. He's also been shown to enjoy lavish meals prepared by master chefs all by himself (though on at least one occasion when he didn't feel like dessert he instructed his chef Pierre to "bestow it on some deserving peasant family"). | |
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Family Guy: When Peter Griffin got a 150,000 welfare check every week, the first thing he did was rent the Statue of David. Happens again when the Griffins win $150 million on the lottery and immediately begin spending it on ridiculous crap. At one point, Peter shows up wearing a solid gold suit and says he had to "fight three rappers over it down at the Nonsense Store". |
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The Neokitsch style in Cyberpunk 2077 is all about this. It's the style of politicians, celebrities and trust fund kids, and frequently utilises materials like wood, ivory and natural fur, a true rarity in the ecologically devastated world where a bottle of water costs about twenty (Euro)dollars. Also, plenty of gold, silver and platinum. | |
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Spoofed in one sketch of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme when a man becomes a millionaire, much to a friend's complaint, because he's now coating everything he owns in a thick layer of chocolate (a play on "millionaire's shortbread"). While he admits this is impractical and disgusting, he has no plans to stop, vowing that if he wins the lottery again, he'll waste his money in even more ludicrous ways. | |
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Howard and Linda in Krampus drive a Hummer, own a ton of guns, and live a very lavish "rich redneck" lifestyle reminiscent of the Robertsons from Duck Dynasty. They're also living well beyond their means and facing financial hardship, and they express jealousy of the relative financial stability of their comparatively down-to-Earth (if somewhat Bourgeois Bohemian) relatives, the Engels. The film also opens with a scene of a chaotic Black Friday shopping spree where people are viciously fighting each other for hot consumer items that are on sale. | |
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Revenge of the Sith: Chancellor Palpatine's office on Coruscant. It's huge and empty and on a city planet like Coruscant, it would have been mind-numbingly expensive to rent or buy that real estate. It is a subtle display of his wealth and power that he can have a huge office and not need to fill it with anything. The Expanded universe took it even further by revealing that after becoming Emperor he moved into the even larger and more empty-yet-decadent Imperial Palace... Which for ultimate bragging rights used to be the Jedi Temple. | |
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In Housepets! the Milton ferrets inherited more money than they could possibly spend, not for want of trying. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano combines this with A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: At Act I Scene IV, Cyrano confides to Le Bret that the bag of crowns he used to pay the entrance fees of the Burgundy Theater was his parental bounty and so, he has no money for the rest of the month. Even when Le Bret scolds Cyrano for his folly, Cyrano calls this "a graceful act". This conduct explains better than anything why Cyrano is condemned to a Perpetual Poverty life. In Act II Scene I, we see Ragueneau’s Bakery, where Ragueneau is giving his pastries free to his friends, the starving poets... who in return give Ragueneau their poems and hear his own poetry (and they flatter him). Ragueneau buys a lyre made of pastry from one of his own apprentices, and when he shows it to his wife, Lise, she lampshades that is a silly consumption. Also, when a multitude of invaders comes to his bakery in Act II scene VII and break everything, he doesn’t ask them to pay the damages. This attitude explains why he is ruined in Act III. |
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Succession: In season 1, Tom tries to teach Greg "how to be rich," and it amounts to spending ridiculous amounts of money for weird food and paying to stand by yourself in the VIP section of clubs. Greg finds it all very unpleasant. In season 3, Greg's peer-pressured into buying a $40,000 watch even though he clearly doesn't want it, reasoning that he just uses his phone to check the time. Later, he clumsily tries to impress a girl by pretending to check the time on his expensive watch. In season 3, Kendall throws a 40th birthday party that is supposed to be the blowout of the season. He rents out a huge space, decorates it lavishly, and invites every celebrity he can contact, all simply to show off. |
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Jewel Robbery: Teri is obsessed with getting the Excelsior diamond; it's worth about $50,000. | |
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Done in Blade Runner 2049 to highlight the wealth of Niander Wallace. In a dystopian future where space is at a premium, clean water is a luxury (even Officer K can only afford a shower for five seconds at a time, at least if he wants it mostly non-toxic), and trees are so rare that a toy wooden horse the size of your hand is worth as much as a real one, the Wallace Corp is not only massive but consists mostly of huge, empty rooms, and Wallace's office consists of a platform paneled and furnished in wood that's surrounded by crystal-clear water. Wallace is blind, so he can't even appreciate the luxuries that he surrounds himself with. | |
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Deadpool owns a gun that seems to be made of this trope; it's solid gold and the bullets he uses for it are diamonds, he calls it the Compensator. | |
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On Downton Abbey Martha Levinson does a major one of these: if it's not the furs, then it's the pearls and jewelry; if it's none of the above, then it's the seriously posh car that is very fancy for the time, with white wheels (even Robert is impressed) and her "generous" income that proves it. This woman is stinking rich! | |
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Nickelback's "Rock Star" is one long ode to just what the singer's going to buy when he's successful. | |
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The Cold Case episode "Lottery" is about a murdered lottery winner who spent most of the money on ridiculous things. The mystery is about who killed him and what happened to the last $100,000. | |
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Sewer, Gas & Electric: A corporate executive prepares for his upcoming date by ordering, among other things, a $50,000 ten-pack of condoms. | |
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