History Main / TreasureIsBiggerInFiction

* Rose in ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' wears the 'Heart of the Ocean', a large blue gemstone.
* The titular green jewel in ''Film/{{JeweloftheNile}}'' that Joan and Jack find on their cross-country treasure hunt.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceandGromit'' short ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers, Feathers [=McGraw=] has Wallace steal a fist-sized diamond in his sleep.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceandGromit'' short ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers, Feathers [McGraw] has Wallace steal a fist-sized diamond in his sleep.

* Rose in ''Film/Titanic'' wears the 'Heart of the Ocean', a large blue gemstone.
* The titular green jewel in ''Film/JeweloftheNile'' that Joan and Jack find on their cross-country treasure hunt.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceandGromit'' short ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers, Feathers McGraw has Wallace steal a fist-sized diamond in his sleep.

* No other Animated films, but Creator/{{Disney}}:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', Madame Medusa uses Penny to get the Devil's Eye, the size of a grapefruit and supposedly the biggest diamond in existence.
* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' introduced the Dwarfs by showing their mining operation, in which they dug out pre-cut gems averaging [[SublimeRhyme the size of Dopey's eyes]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', a monkey idol in the Cave of Wonders holds a giant ruby that [[SchmuckBait Abu really shouldn't have picked up]]. It's almost as big as he is.

* Surprisingly, this has been TruthInTelevision at least once. The ''rai'' of Yap Island were stone wheels with holes; the largest one discovered measured 4 meters in diameter. These are still used today for ceremonial purposes. Sometimes the inhabitants agree that a stone has changed hands, and leave it where it lies. One of them is legal tender despite lying at the bottom of the ocean. [[NotSoDifferent Much like our cash can be exchanged despite lying in a distant vault.]]

Next time you get a chance, pop into your local jewelry store and take a look at the gems. Notice anything about them? They're all ''tiny'', on the order of the size of a pinhead. If you pried every stone in the place loose from its setting and piled them up, the entire heap would probably fit in a soup pot. [[RealityEnsues (And then you would be arrested, but that's beside the point.)]]

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/LEGOCityUndercover''. [[FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster Vinnie Pappalardo]] tells [[CowboyCop Chase [=McCain=]]] that he's heard the Bell Pepper Emerald is as large as a man's head. A royal woman used to wear it as a brooch, but eventually she sold it [[RealityEnsues because wearing it gave her back problems]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', a monkey idol in the Cave of Wonders holds a giant ruby that [[SchmuckBait Abu really shouldn't have picked up]].

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', [[TropeOverdosed naturally]]. Rupees are as large as Link's sprite in the original game, as well as several handheld games. Recent games have most rupees represented as slightly smaller, although the large-denomination rupees still closely match Adult!Link for size.

* Parodied in ''LEGOCityUndercover''. [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangster Vinnie Pappalardo]] tells [[CowboyCop Chase [=McCain=]]] that he's heard the Bell Pepper Emerald is as large as a man's head. A royal woman used to wear it as a brooch, but eventually she sold it [[RealityEnsues because wearing it gave her back problems]].

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Alfred mentions "a ruby the size of a tangerine" as one of the precious stones the bandit he fought in UsefulNotes/ThatSouthEastAsianCountry had stolen and given away. We never actually see it though, so it's entirely possible he was exaggerating.

** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', Strewth the opal miner discovers an oblong opal several feet wide and about half as tall. It's specifically mentioned that if he'd found an opal the size of a bean, that would have been enough to knock off for the day. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Strewth and his mates, the fact this opal's dimensions are identical to those of the Luggage turns out not to be a coincidence]].

* In ''Film/MissFisherAndTheCryptOfTears''', the MacGuffin is the 'Eye of God': an emerald approximately the size of a loaf of bread.

* In ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft'', everything tends to have exaggerated proportions for stylistic reasons, so all gemstones follow this trope, but the most extreme example is [[http://www.wowpedia.org/Oshu%27gun Oshu'gun]], a ''mountain''-sized diamond that was originally a sort of magical dimension-traveling spaceship.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The Dewitchery Diamond is [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-27 about the size of Elliot's head]], and in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-16 the journal that details the circumstances of its enchantment]] it is described as merely "large", suggesting that it was ''not'' the biggest diamond the author of the journal had ever seen. [[http://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-03-14 Much later]], though, it turns out that it's [[JustifiedTrope not even a diamond]], providing the even more likely explanation that said author just didn't know anything about geology.

* Surprisingly, this has been TruthInTelevision at least once. The ''rai'' of Yap Island were stone wheels with holes; the largest one discovered measured 4 meters in diameter. These are still used today in ceremonial purposes. Sometimes the inhabitants agree that a stone has changed hands, and leave it where it lies. One of them is legal tender despite lying at the bottom of the ocean. [[NotSoDifferent Much like our cash can be exchanged despite lying in a distant vault]].

** Also, it's unlikely that they actually look like jewels, despite of having diamond composition - most of the diamonds used in diamond-edged blades, among other things, look rather like gray dust to a bare eye.
** Additionally, there's the planet PSR J1719-1438 b, which probably is a diamond the size of Jupiter.
** Carbon-rich planets in general would likely contain thick layers of underground diamond due to the heating and compression of their carbon crusts. If tectonic pressures subsequently lifted these layers above the surface, such planets could potentially have mountains of diamond. However, as noted these would not look [[AllNaturalGemPolish shiny]].
* The largest rough gem-quality diamond ever discovered, the Cullinan, was about four inches long and weighed over a pound (3106.75 carats before cutting). After cutting, the largest stone of the Cullinan, the ''Great Star of Africa'' was 530.4 carats. The ''Koh-i-Noor,'' literally "Mountain of Light," was once the largest known, but as it was first cut thousands of years ago in India nobody is sure how big it originally was, and the British Crown had it recut down to only 105.6 carats. Both reside in the UK Crown Jewels today. The largest cut diamond today is the Golden Jubilee, at 545 carats, though the Golden Jubilee was smaller than the Cullinan in the rough, its shape was better for cutting into a single large stone.
* Diamonds are small fry compared to some other stones. The largest piece of Jade resides in Myanmar, uncut in its natural state. It weighs over 30 tons.

* Synthetic sapphire is grown in lumps [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK7VmZt2VXs hundreds of kilograms apiece]]. Now, they are normally uncolored (technically, corundum) and mainly used to make windows or smartphone screens, but it's theoretically quite possible to make a million-carat gem.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Stealing the Diamond]]'', the titular diamond Henry plots to steal is as big as him and can be used to knock out a guard by simply [[DeathFromAbove dropping it on his head]]. Additionally, one route in ''Infiltrating the Airship'' has him steal a ruby that's just as big as the aforementioned diamond.

* In early editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', every single coin, whether copper, silver, gold or whatever, weighed 1/10th of a pound, which naturally resulted in some fairly large treasure piles. The logistics of getting found riches ''out'' of the dungeon so you could get {{experience points}} for them were a deliberate part of the challenge.

* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "Where the Buggalo Roam", the native Martians' ancestors traded the entire western hemisphere of Mars to Amy Wong's ancestor for what the current Martians believe is a worthless single bead. In the climax of the episode, when Kif is about to be crushed to death by the "bead" for accidentally insulting the Martians, Fry and Leela remark that the "worthless bead" is actually a gigantic diamond the size of a car. The Native Martians then realize that they thought that their ancestors were swindled because they had no concept of ownership, which is not the case with the contemporary Native Martians after Amy suggests they just trade the land back:

* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "Where the Buggalo Roam", the native Martians sold their land for what they thought was a bead, with which they plan to crush Kif. It turns out to be a gigantic diamond. After the protagonists explain how much it's worth, the Martians decide they don't need their land back.

* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "Where the Buggalo Roam", the native Martians sold their land for what they thought was a glass bead, with which they plan to crush Kif. It turns out to be a gigantic diamond. After the protagonists explain how much it's worth, the Martians decide they don't need their land back.
--> "This planet's a dump anyway. We'll buy a NEW planet and CALL it holy. With cash like this, who's gonna argue? No one, that's who."