History Main / AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted

* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'': One of the {{Scripted Event}}s in this game has an agent from the [[LaResistance anti-government]] organization EZIC bribing you with 1,000 credits one day after work, about 50 times more credits than you'll likely make in a single day of your usual duties. This can be used to provide your family with the usual food and heat as well as upgrade to a new apartment, but if you accept this SchmuckBait of a gift, then one of your neighbors snitches you out to Ministry of Income, causing ''all'' of your money to be taken (even amounts over 1,000 credits). EZIC will then send another agent to clear your name, and if you choose to let them in, this saves you from [[NonStandardGameOver arrest]] but you will not get any of the confiscated money back. Choosing to skip this 1,000-credit gift will lead to EZIC offering you ''2,000'' credits the next day, and accepting that gift leads to the same consequence.

* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'': One of the {{Scripted Event}}s in this game has an agent from the [[LaResistance anti-government]] organization EZIC bribing you with 1,000 credits one day after work, about 50 times more credits than you'll likely make in a single day of your usual duties. This can be used to provide your family with the usual food and heat as well as upgrade to a new apartment, but if you accept this gift, then one of your neighbors snitches you out to Ministry of Income, causing ''all'' of your money to be taken (even amounts over 1,000 credits). EZIC will then send another agent to clear your name, and if you choose to let them in, this saves you from [[NonStandardGameOver arrest]] but you will not get any of the confiscated money back.

* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfTheBlackBuccaneer'' have this happening in the BadEnding. You escape the Island alone without your LoveInterest Vanilla, and once you made it back to civilization you then started indulging in women, wine, gambling... and months later you're broke again. The ending cutscene even name-drops the trope.

* RidiculousFutureInflation: Where this happens to so many characters that is breaks the economy.

* Jared from ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' gets an internship that pays [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/you-brought-this-on-yourself $500 a week]][[note]]Technically this is only equivalent to $12.50/hr but he doesn't spend rent on his secret base so it works out the same.[[/note]]... which he promptly spends on gummy bears and movie costume replicas. And a bubble trap for his Secret Base. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome And getting his stomach pumped after eating $500 worth of gummy bears at once]].

Almost invariably, AcquiredSituationalNarcissism makes the character start to act like an UpperClassTwit or NouveauRiche, [[ConspicuousConsumption spend like there's no tomorrow]], mindlessly buy "[[UpMarketing whatever it is that rich people like]]", make bad investments, blow off their former friends as has-beens, etc. The IntimidatingRevenueService and distant relatives never heard of before or since may also demand ''their'' share of the character's winnings. Within a few days, one of the following happens:

Almost invariably, AcquiredSituationalNarcissism makes the character start to act like an UpperClassTwit or NouveauRiche, [[ConspicuousConsumption spend like there's no tomorrow]], mindlessly buy "[[UpMarketing whatever it is that rich people like]]", blow off their former friends as has-beens, etc. The IntimidatingRevenueService and distant relatives never heard of before or since may also demand ''their'' share of the character's winnings. Within a few days, one of the following happens:

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "Lottery Fever"

A plot where one non-rich character has a huge and very sudden increase in expendable income, then proceeds to waste it all. This gain in fortune might be for any reason, such as [[LotteryTicket winning a lottery]], [[UnexpectedInheritance inheriting the fortune]] of a rich friend or a long lost family member (maybe OnOneCondition...), getting a better job, criminal enterprise, inventing the latest popular gadget, a GetRichQuickScheme that actually works, or even because something was delivered to the wrong address or a computer glitch suddenly put a extra few zeroes on their bank balance. Simultaneously, however, they are handed the IdiotBall.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' :