Basic Trope: A monster drops money when slain.
- Straight: The hero slays a Giant Spider and collects the money it drops.
- Exaggerated: The hero swats a tiny jumping spider and gold coins that are at least twice its size begin scattering everywhere.
- Downplayed: The hero slays a large-but-not-unrealistically-large spider but only a few coins appear.
- Justified:
- The spiders are actually coin-operated robots.
- The spiders eat other heroes, and their money is all that remains undigested.
- The spiders normally feed on whatever the world’s currency is made of.
- The Adventure Guild offers a bounty for killed monsters, and has set up a system that teleports the money directly to the location of each kill.
- The people of this world use monster body parts as currency.
- An evil wizard is transforming money into monsters, and killing the monsters changes them back.
- Inverted:
- A spider slays the hero and digs money out of his body.
- The hero finds a stash of money, but it turns into a monster when he picks it up.
- Subverted: The hero slays a monster in a game. When the hero looks for coins, all he can find is entrails.
- Double Subverted: However, it did swallow a chest.
- Parodied: The hero slays the monster. It's eyes turn into slot-machine symbols and it proceeds to barf piles of coins while the jackpot siren sounds.
- Zig Zagged: Some monsters in the hero's world drop money when slain but others don't.
- Averted: The monsters teleport or run away when critically injured.
- Enforced: The maker of Troper Knights believes that gamers will get bored and quit if killing monsters doesn't give them a useful reward.
- Lampshaded: "Does this thing eat money?"
- Invoked: A broke hero kills a few spiders, hoping the killings will give him something to buy food with.
- Exploited: The hero makes a fortune by spending days killing every animal in the forest he can find.
- Defied: The hero refuses to kill living beings for money because he loves animals too much.
- Discussed: The hero plans out with his team mates how many animals each will have to kill apiece in order to buy a room for the night at a nearby inn.
- Conversed: Alice tells Bob how having monsters drop money when killed makes Troper Knights dated and unrealistic.
- Deconstructed: The monsters are hunted to near extinction, putting monster hunters out of business.
- Reconstructed: The kingdom establishes hunting laws to regulate the killing of monsters.
Back to Money Spider. I wonder how the money got in there in the first place, though.
