Rich Boredom/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character finds the life he can live as a rich man is very boring.

• Straight: Hubert receives enough money to support himself for life from his uncle, and finds that having no job leaves him bored.
  • Natalie's parents shower her with everything so she never has a need, but she finds life in their mansion dull and meaningless.
• Exaggerated: Jeremiah gets a surprise inheritance making him the richest man in the world and is suicidal within a week.
• Downplayed: Daisy no longer needs to work three jobs but is doing well with just one. She finds it hard to think what to do with her new free time.
• Justified: ???
• Inverted: Yvonne enjoyed her life of parties and shopping, but when her father lost all his money, she found doing housework and menial jobs deathly dull.
• Subverted: Martin acts bored about his wealth, but it proves to be a way to con those who try to get him to play them money for exciting things.
• Double Subverted: He really was bored, and finds con games to be the most interesting thing he can do.
• Parodied: ???
• Zig Zagged: Werner has volatile moods and his feelings about his riches change from day to day.
• Averted: None of the characters' financial situation is ever mentioned.
• Enforced: "I want to teach children a lesson about the emptiness of materialism."
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: A dying rich villain makes Sandra his only heir out of a convoluted form of spite.
• Exploited: Georgiana targets rich men for her con, because she knows some will be bored enough to take her up on it.
• Defied: "I may have won in the lottery, but I'm going to keep my old job and take up some new hobbies too."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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