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The Scrooge
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Traditionally, misers are portrayed in media as grasping, penny-pinching people who live in squalor and who never spend money despite being quite wealthy. Some are businessmen, some are loan sharks, moneylenders or Morally Bankrupt Bankers, some are pawnbrokers, some are lawyers... but regardless of how they made their money, the Scrooge is sitting on a pile of it. But getting him to spend it is... difficult to say the least. In real life, many rich people became rich in the first place by saving their money and spending only the minimum they needed to, and by only putting their money where it was guaranteed to make them more. Not all wealthy people in real life are like this, but it is worth noting that this is where the image of stereotypical misers came from. It is also worth noting that some of history's biggest misers started out wealthy. In previous eras, it was common to portray pretty much all Jewish characters like this. The Scottish were traditionally subject to this stereotype as well. In India, it was the Marwari community of pawnbrokers and money lenders based mostly in present day Gujarat. And in Germany, it's the Swabian people. The Scrooge is a clear embodiment of greed. Sometimes overlaps with Grumpy Old Man and is a sub-trope of Affluent Ascetic. See also Mr. Vice Guy, a trope that heroic-leaning Scrooges also qualify as, and Miser Advisor. One of these will also partake in Cutting Corners to save money. May also suffer from Loves Only Gold. Expect him to have contempt for Conspicuous Consumption, which he thinks is a stupid use of money and a great way to eventually run out of it. Contrast Wicked Wastefulness, where a character has wastefulness as a flaw. Not to be confused with The Grinch, even though the namer for this trope also hated Christmas. That said, the name is often used as a distinction between someone who simply hates Christmas and one who actively ruins the holiday for others. |
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Condorito has Don Máximo Tacaño (his name in Spanish means Mr. Maximum Miser). All his jokes are greed-related. | |
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Ok's mom in I'm Ok (2018) is all about saving money. Be it by stuffing her pockets with condiments and napkins from McDonald's or by flushing the toilet only once a week. | |
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In Trading Places, Randolph and Mortimer Duke, despite being multi-millionaires, hand out "Christmas bonuses" of $5 to their employees (total—that is $2.5 each) and make wagers that ruin other people's lives all over a stake of $1. | |
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In Maus, Vladek Spiegelman is incredibly miserly. His son wonders what people will make of a person who is advancing that particular stereotype about Jews. | |
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Cheers: Norm Peterson is a much more cheerful example, but an example nonetheless. He is almost never shown paying for drinks at Cheers, and it’s implied he only stays there because they allow him a tab. The fact is, he’s outright BANNED from several bars in Boston for not paying (in one episode, he walks into a bar and the owner point-blank yells "GET OUT, PETERSON!"). Paul, a recurring character actually says of him "Norm Peterson has a tab the size of his pants." His tab is so large it’s joked that if he ever got around to paying it, Cheers would be the wealthiest bar in Boston. Jokes aside, his Scrooge tendencies are so bad at one point even SAM loses his patience with Norm when Norm comes into money. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Frank Reynolds is incredibly wealthy (having obtained it through multiple unscrupulous means,) but instead chooses to live in squalor with his possible son/bar janitor Charlie, only ever spending money on schemes that will make him more money or to spite someone he dislikes. This is lampshaded in the Christmas Special when his children try to show him how horrible of a person he is (so that he will actually give them gifts) by tracking down his former business partner to portray the Ghosts of Christmas. | |
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The Simpsons: Charles Montgomery Burns is the very definition of this trope. Also Marge Simpson, Depending on the Writer. Oftentimes the fact Homer is an uninsurable Walking Disaster Area and money-wasting jerk is brought up (and even then the rest of the family make a point to mention that she's taking it way too far), but on many episodes the reason she tries to save is out of pure jerkassery of her own, risking things like multi-thousand-dollar car repairs or life and limb for the sake of saving so much as a dime. |
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Grand Theft Auto V: One of the targets of Lester's assassination missions is a tight-fisted billionaire venture capitalist of the "corporate raider" variety, who, despite planning to acquire a controlling stake in a major automotive company, takes the same bus to and from work every day. When you impersonate the driver to get close to him, he balks when he thinks the fares have been raised to $1.50 and steals a pedestrian's bicycle instead. | |
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The title character of Bill Hoest's Agatha Crumm was a rare female example of this. | |
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"Doom Over Dead Man", by Amon Amarth | |
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J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man Trilogy directed by Sam Raimi — he is an enormous miser, even as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, seeking to cut on costs in any way imaginable, from paychecks to organizing his own son's wedding. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's Dad likes to tease Calvin like this. Notably by suggesting they get a Christmas Tree at New Year's by picking up one sitting by the trash. Since it may still have tinsel on, they'll save money and time on decorations. | |
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Discworld dwarfs can be like this. If a highwayman says to a group of dwarfs "Your money or your life!" he'd better bring a book to read while they discuss it. Though at one point a dwarf comments that since dwarfs aren't human, slapping labels like "miser" on them might be missing the point. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: First, there is their tight-fisted boss, Vicente. If he gives them any money at all, it doesn't even come close to covering their expenses (they were once expected to travel around the globe on $10), and it often turns out to be fake. During their adventure in Germany, they visit Swabenland, and the Swabians they encounter manage to make Vicente look generous in comparison: They drink only when it rains, read their palms to save on a newspaper, train passengers are expected to push or pull the train themselves, and they have a stroke when asked to give something, even if it's just the time or directions. During the world championship soccer episode, a Scottish player refuses to kick the ball with his new shoes, and Mortadelo makes another one faint by disguising himself as a charity fundraiser. |
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Matlock is a cheapskate. At first, it was out of necessity after some bad investments but, by the time he became wealthy again, he remained thrifty. | |
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Ben Weaver, from The Andy Griffith Show, though he's actually a Jerk with a Heart of Gold when he sees the consequences of his actions. | |
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Subverted in The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon Cooper is anal and obsessive about every aspect of his life, except money. He makes more than enough to pay for food, shelter and whatever geeky trinket catches his eye, and beyond that he really doesn't care, to the point he doesn't even cash his paychecks, and will hand hundreds of dollars over to his friends without a second thought. | |
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Rudolph, the titular character of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Grand Duke is a master of thrift; along with his love interest, Caroline. His opening "I Am" Song is even based entirely around this theme. | |
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The Raccoons: The cruel greedy aardvark Cyril Sneer lives to embody this trope, although he mellowed a little as the show progressed. | |
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Kenan & Kel: Roger Rockmore (Kenan's father) hates spending money and often cuts corners, specifically shown in the Made-for-TV Movie. | |
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The fictionalized Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm seems to be made of this trope. Like Jack Benny, the real Larry David isn't like this at all. | |
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Obviously Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (1987). His rival Flintheart Glomgold is even worse. In the reboot, Scrooge's Board of Directors are a group of buzzards hired because they're even more penny-pinching than Scrooge himself. Their collective Establishing Character Moment is complaining about Scrooge's "waste" of a few thousand dollars (which, comparatively speaking, is pocket change) on a cushion for his #1 Dime. Then it's revealed they are F.O.W.L. High Command, which puts a darker spin on their greed; they don't want Scrooge spending money because it's less money for them to use in their schemes to steal even more money. |
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Top Cat: The Movie: After becoming Chief of Police, Lou Strickland fires all police officers and replaces them with robots except for Officer Dibble, who's allowed to keep his job because Dibble and Strickland share birthdays and Strickland doesn't want to pay for the party. | |
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Mr. Mean in Mr. Men lives in a squalid house, eats very meagre meals, and spends every evening counting his money in a big box in the kitchen. | |
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Henry VIII in Wolf Hall spends a lot on his wars, but he can be much stingier with the women in his life. When his first wife Katherine passes, he tells them to bury her in Peterborough rather than St. Paul's because it will be cheaper and reclaims her fur and plate. And while courting Jane Seymour, he gives her a prayerbook with the letters "H" and "A" on the cover. Cromwell tries to make excuses and says it can be redone, but he also notices that you can still see traces of the K under that—Henry has used the same gift for three different women. | |
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Rimmer in Red Dwarf has twenty-five thousand dollarpounds (in cash!), but borrowed $£15 from Lister to buy Lister's own birthday present. And then gave him a $£5 booktoken. And never paid him back. | |
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Frank from Luann is like this. He balks at the price of nearly everything, yet had the money to purchase an abandoned warehouse on a whim in order to start his own business. Then when a woman offered to work there for free, he still wanted to charge her rent for living in his house. On the other hand, he's perfectly happy to spend others' money; when his dishwasher Les asked him to a business dinner to discuss how to expand, not only did he not offer to cover the expense as the owner/employer (which could then be written off as a business expense), he invited his entire family to the dinner and ended up spending $300 of his own employee's money. | |
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In The Philosophical Strangler the narrator and co-protagonist Ignace starts out life dirt-poor, but makes a literal pile of money by managing his foster-brother Greyboar's professional strangling career. He stores said pile under Greyboar's bed and pretty much has to be physically forced to ever spend any of it. | |
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Woody Woodpecker had an uncle named Scrooge like this, although while clearly a miserly old curmudgeon, he was presented somewhat contradictory. To emphasize he was a miser, he reused sugar cubes and clubbed his hapless butler for wasting them, but on the other hand, he seemed to spend a lot more on home security than even the typical Scrooge, having a moat full of alligators to keep annoying relatives away. (His poor butler had to rescue him from said moat several times in his efforts to keep Woody out, to the point where he went nuts and quit before throwing himself to them.) | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck, pictured above, is as big a skinflint as his namesake from A Christmas Carol... though that doesn't mean he's not an admirable member of the Non-Idle Rich. For bonus points, the picture is from Mickey's Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge McDuck plays Ebenezer Scrooge, so you get twice the Scrooge in one. Scrooge's Archenemy is Flintheart Glomgold, who's an even bigger Scrooge. (And unlike Scrooge himself, dishonest. He's willing to do any corrupt, immoral, or illegal act or any dirty trick in order to make more money.) Averted by Scrooge's other archenemy (mostly featured in the comics), John D. Rockerduck. While not an Evil Counterpart (he's pretty moral), his philosophy is "buying the best money can buy." This sometimes helps John and other times he goes too far. In Around the World in Eighty Daze, Scrooge challenges John D. Rockerduck to a race around the world, and the traveler who spends the least amount of money will win the contest. Scrooge enlists Donald's assistance, noting that he will charge Donald later for any incurred expenses. Rockerduck displays one of his most notorious performances of Dick Dastardly-style cheating, as he steals a steamship, a passenger train, a motorcycle, and an airplane, forging Scrooge's name to the bill and sticking Scrooge with the expenses. In the end, Scrooge's expenses are 2 cents shorter than Rockerduck's, and he ends up winning the trophy at his own expense; as a result of Scrooge sponsoring the race, he ends up paying the trophy's manufacturing costs. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck shows that being a tightwad runs in the family. When the McDuck ancestors take a peek at Scrooge's future and learn that he'll go down in history as one of the most infamous skinflints, they celebrate. His ancestor Sir Eider McDuck lost a battle because he tried paying his entire army only 30 copper pieces for all and they deserted him. He also didn't buy his archers arrows because he felt it was too much of an expense. |
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In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark Griswold's boss Mr. Shirley decides to cut back on company expenses by removing Christmas bonuses to his employees and instead giving them yearly memberships to the Jelly of the Month Club. This decision he did without warning anybody in advance, leading Clark (and maybe other employees of the company) to become broke from their Christmas expenses, and this bombshell leads to Clark reaching his Rage Breaking Point which leads to the film's climax when Eddie kidnaps Mr. Shirley so Clark can give him what-for. Nobody, not even Mr. Shirley's wife or the commander of the SWAT team that kicked down the Griswolds' door to rescue Shirley, are happy with what he did. | |
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Marcus Kincaid of Borderlands. Would rather shoot you than give you a refund, and in Borderlands 2, he gives the wrong change to a customer and sends you on a mission to get the excess change back. How much change? Nine dollars. (and this is for a sale where he conned the guy out of two million dollars!) He pays you tons of money to get his nine dollars back, but that's business. He also sends you on a mission to reclaim refund checks he wrote while drunk before they're sent.This is Gameplay and Story Integration: towards the end of the second game, you can go around and speak to many of the other characters before facing Handsome Jack. Each will encourage you, and give you a useful item to aid you. This includes Marcus, who doesn't just want you to win because Jack is bad for his business, but because he's a "greedy murdering sonofabitch who needs to die screaming". He then gives you an assault rifle... several levels lower in power than what everyone else gives you. | |
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Gaea from Noob gets lots of money and precious items from her Manipulative Bastard activities, doesn't contribute to her guild's common fund, and acts as if she were in Perpetual Poverty, including using the guild's fund for her own expenses. | |
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Jack Benny used this trope for comedic effect on his radio show (and later, his television show) to the point that his fans came to assume he was a miser in real life. On the contrary, he was actually a kind, generous, and very giving man. It's probably worth noting that before Benny, most jokes about misers and skinflints were about Scotsmen or Jews. Afterwards, they were mostly about Jack Benny. |
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Milburn Drysdale, from The Beverly Hillbillies became more and more miserly as the series progressed. This was Played for Laughs, of course. | |
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In All the Money in the World, J. Paul Getty is the wealthiest man in the history of the world, but also infamously tightfisted. Besides refusing to pay his grandson’s ransom, he also washes his clothes by hand (instead of paying for a laundering service) and makes his houseguests use a coin-operated pay phone. To make things even worse, the one time we see him sparing no expense for anything, it's to purchase a painting, a moment intercut with his grandson being tortured. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: Manny Kaminsky from Death of a Bachelorette feeds the crew and cast cheap airline food, while he gets damn good food for himself. Ironically for a man who played Tiny Tim as a child, Scotty Parker from Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge was a very cheap man. |
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck shows that being a tightwad runs in the family. When the McDuck ancestors take a peek at Scrooge's future and learn that he'll go down in history as one of the most infamous skinflints, they celebrate. His ancestor Sir Eider McDuck lost a battle because he tried paying his entire army only 30 copper pieces for all and they deserted him. He also didn't buy his archers arrows because he felt it was too much of an expense. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters: The villain in the episode "You Can't Take It With You" is a miserly old billionaire who had built a device that would send his wealth to the afterlife, in effect, allowing him to take it with him. ("I didn't spend my whole life becoming rich just to leave it all to charity!" he rants.) Naturally, he doesn't give a damn about the adverse effects the device will have on the environment; and this isn't a case of a villain just not knowing it's dangerous either, he made sure that he was well protected. When the machine causes an endless mob of ghosts to spill out and Egon discovers that it will cause The End of the World as We Know It, the heroes are forced to confront him and fool him into taking himself out. "X-Mas Marks the Spot" has the Ghostbusters accidentally time travel back to Victorian England and meet the real Ebenezer Scrooge. When Peter tries to bill him for busting the Christmas ghosts, Scrooge balks. He gets out of it by using the lines he tried to pull on Jacob Marley, basically saying he doesn't owe the Ghostbusters anything because he hallucinated the ghosts. |
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Homer Bedloe, from Petticoat Junction. Once he even teamed with Drysdale on a Crossover with The Beverly Hillbillies |
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Cénile from De Cape et de Crocs. His son's servant has seen The Miser and tries the same trick — asking for gold for the life of his son, supposedly kidnapped by Turks. In the play, Harpagon did pay, with much tears. Cénile refuses. | |
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Secrets In The Hot Spring: Qie's grandparents are shown to be this in the way they run the hotel. They refuse to hire help because they would have to pay them, they filled the hotel with coin-operated devices, and they charge exorbitant prices for things that would otherwise be free, like towels and bathrobes. | |
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Ruel Stroud of Wakfu. Despite his hoards of gold, he's reluctant to part with a single kama. | |
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"Silas Stingy" by The Who, from The Who Sell Out. | |
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In the reboot, Scrooge's Board of Directors are a group of buzzards hired because they're even more penny-pinching than Scrooge himself. Their collective Establishing Character Moment is complaining about Scrooge's "waste" of a few thousand dollars (which, comparatively speaking, is pocket change) on a cushion for his #1 Dime. Then it's revealed they are F.O.W.L. High Command, which puts a darker spin on their greed; they don't want Scrooge spending money because it's less money for them to use in their schemes to steal even more money. | |
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According to her actress, The Nostalgia Chick is too cheap and miserly to give anyone money. She's also notable for being The Grinch as well. | |
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Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol is the Trope Namer. In addition to being a tight-fisted miser, he's a cold-hearted, selfish man, who despises anything that engenders happiness. One telling of the story literally has him take the coins off the deceased Marley's eyes. It takes three ghosts to do it (four if you count Marley), but he gets better. An Unbuilt Trope: he's honest despite his ruthlessness and stinginess, and it's taken a lot of suffering to make him what he is. | |
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In The Millionaire, each episode features somebody anonymously receiving a check for one million dollars from an Eccentric Millionaire. One of the recipients, Quentin Harwood, was excessively frugal before he had a million dollars, and continues to be so even when he's wealthy, causing friction with his wife. | |
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The Faerie Queene: A member of Lucifera's court named Auarice is a childless old man who carries overflowing sacks of silver and gold at his side. Despite this, his clothes are frayed, he's starving, and it's clear he isn't even spending money on his health, since he so refuses to give up a single coin when he could hoard it. | |
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In FoxTrot, Roger can be notoriously cheap. He tips the paperboy five cents a month (and then fails to realize why the guy never hits the front steps). He once offered to pay Peter five cents a hole for caddying at golf (resulting in Peter angrily confronting his own father with a golf club), and another time a dollar for mowing the lawn (which took six hours, because they still have a manual lawnmower). | |
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In Fate/stay night and its assorted spin-offs, Rin Tohsaka is quite wealthy, owning a large Western-style house filled with ornate furniture in the midst of a crowded Japanese city. Aside from the fortune she inherited from her father, the Tohsaka family also owns a number of magical patents that bring in tens of millions of yen per year. Despite all this, Rin is often portrayed as a penny-pincher, always going for the cheapest option available, even occasionally working part-time jobs for extra cash even though she really has no need for it. Part of this is justified by her family's particular brand of magic requiring the use of large jewels as catalysts, which are, of course, expensive, but she's rarely portrayed as being under genuine financial duress even with this taken into account. It's mentioned a few times in the extended universe that Rin isn't as rich as she implies, as after her mother died, the Tohsaka properties were placed in the hands of Kirei Kotomine, her legal guardian, and through some level of mismanagement on his part the more valuable ones were lost An an offical encyclopeida on Fate zero notes it was due to his his "naïve honesty and crude management" but notes it might have been wilfully inflicted by the priest to teach her humility. And that rin should wollap him for it. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Eugene Krabs is a miser with a heart of... well, not gold, but certainly bronze... possibly tin. Or some other metal common enough to make pawning it off not quite worth the effort. Two early examples of this are the episodes "Squid on Strike" and "Born Again Krabs". In the former, Squidward goes on strike when Mr. Krabs starts charging him and SpongeBob for things such as existing. In the latter, a near-death experience leads Mr. Krabs to try and change his greedy ways, but the fact that he's losing money freaks him out so badly that he forces a man watching TV to unwatch it. In the episode "SpongeBob, You're Fired", he decides SpongeBob is redundant and lets him go...to save five cents on his budget. And when Krabs' attempt at stepping into SpongeBob's shoes is a complete disaster and nearly forces him to close the restaurant, he re-hires SpongeBob... but installs a coin-operated lock on the bathroom so he, Squidward and all customers now need to pay five cents every time they need to go. |
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MoniRobo: Itetsu hates wasting money and puts half of his paycheck into savings. He took it too far when his wife Hanayo got pregnant and cut her food expenses from 30,000 yen even after the baby is born. His mother forced him to live on 10,000 yen but he struggled to live with the amount of money and quit. He apologized to his wife and he increased the budget to 70,000 yen. | |
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Alan on Two and a Half Men. Usually he is just portrayed as being broke from his divorce and bad at making financial decisions, but a couple of episodes have shown that he does actually have quite a bit of money saved up, he'd rather just mooch off Charlie. | |
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Kazran Sardick, in a Doctor Who Christmas special. The whole episode is basically an Affectionate Parody of A Christmas Carol. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa): In the adaptation of Phantom Hourglass, Linebeck is reluctant to buy a cannon, even to keep his ship safe from monsters. | |
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The Merchant Banker in Monty Python's Flying Circus. | |
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In Wylder's Hand, the lawyer Josiah Larkin lives comfortably enough at home. But when he's undertaking work on a client's behalf, he lives with the utmost frugality — while charging the client top rates for lodgings, food, transport, and so on, and pocketing the difference. | |
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In Spoonbenders, Teddy Telemachus is a firm believer in making one's own fortune, having grown up in poverty before becoming independently well-off, and has tried enforcing that idea onto his kids. Irene blames this for her brother Frankie's "crooked little heart". | |
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Wario of Super Mario refuses to pay any of his employees in the WarioWare series, and most of his adventures in the Wario Land games are all motivated by greed and profit. He also refuses to let anyone touch his treasure. | |
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Manolito in Mafalda even when he's just a little boy he's already a miser. | |
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In Diablo III Reaper of Souls one of the locations in Westmarch is the Miser's Hovel. The titular miser died there and left a note for any relatives telling them he'd rather see them dead than inherit any of his money, so he booby-trapped three chests with only one containing his fortune. His corpse is notable for spawning a large amount of gold all on its own. | |
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A third outstanding Brazilian case was Count Klaus from Chocolate Com Pimenta, whose cheapskate tendencies were one of the many things that displeased the woman who was forced to marry him. For bonus points, his Leitmotif had cash register sounds! | |
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Plyushkin in Dead Souls. He owns several hundred souls but lives as cheap as a beggar. Chichikov, the protagonist, also doesn't like giving away money. | |
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Transpecial: Suza's mother hoards money and takes anything Suza manages to earn. If she ever buys anything for herself, her mother screams at her about all the food that money could have bought. | |
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Another comedy example is Fred Mertz from I Love Lucy. | |
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Mister Potter, from It's a Wonderful Life. The Alternate Universe that is formed out of George Bailey's wish to have never been born cements what is foreshadowed from the very first second he's on screen, and that is that the man has no problem bringing endless misery to Bedford Falls for the sake of making and saving money (charging top dollar for crappy shacks that could become death traps at the drop of a hat, for example). Aside from looking sinister, it's also possible he prefers to use a carriage to move around because he thinks it's cheaper. | |
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Paulie Walnuts from The Sopranos fits this trope to a T. This is not his only personality quirk, it should be noted. | |
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In Terraria, once you've reached Hardmode you can get the Tax Collector NPC which will collect coins from other NPCs. Aside from his personality and demeanor, you get the NPC by throwing Purification Powder at a Tortured Soul enemy in the Underworld (the soul even has chains to complete the Jacob Marley Apparel look). He's not entirely greedy, though, considering he'll (begrudgingly) give the coins he's collected to you. | |
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Harpagon, the main character in L'Avare (The Miser) by Molière (to the extent that "un harpagon" is practically synonymous with "un avare", i.e. "a miser.", in the French language) | |
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The main character of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Cheap is Cheap" is a penny-pinching miser who reads other people's newspapers. In reality, he had quite a bit of money saved up. | |
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| The Scrooge / int_fdbace96 | comment |
Gravity Falls: Grunkle Stan is shown to be like this. Although he is greedy because he wants to bring his brother back from Another Dimension and needs money to survive in the meantime. | |
| The Scrooge / int_fdbace96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Scrooge / int_fdbace96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gravity Falls | hasFeature |
The Scrooge / int_fdbace96 |
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