Ideas for the Anthropomorphization of Greed

[War Pony]

This isn't quite about anthropomorphizing greed, it's just that "anthropomorphizing" looks a hell of a lot more professional than "animalization." Also I can't immediately recall if there's a word for personifying something to... animals. Anyhow.

What I'd like to know are other peoples' ideas of how greed is personified through animals.

In short, when you think greed, which animals come to mind that are neither a pig nor a dragon?

E: Also, why?

--I would like to thank everyone that took the time out to post their ideas. You've all lent me a great deal of fodder that granted ideas for the sculpting. I appreciate the lot of you posting.

I'm quite glad that I took the time to make a topic to ask because a pig and dragon were the only two that I thought of. The other person I asked threw the idea of a vulture at me, otherwise what's been posted is all new to me.

Also, fat cat makes me sad.

 

[Jonluw]

A duck.

Also, there are so many horribly inappropriate jokes that could be made here...

 

[Daveman]

Cats. They always struck me as greedy. I imagine them with the cheshire cat grin too.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Jackals, wolves, and cats.

 

[Farseer Lolotea]

I'm going to have to say a vulture, scrounging around for something to scavenge.

 

[War Pony]

A duck.

Also, there are so many horribly inappropriate jokes that could be made here...

This is probably something I should've put in the first post, but I didn't expect the first one to cause me to ask: "Why a duck?"

 

[similar.squirrel]

Why use anthropomorphization when you mean something only tangentially related?

Hm.. I'd say a badger, because they look really greedy as they gather materials to line their burrows. They sort of.. shuffle backwards with a load of hay and stuff.
Or a hamster, because they stuff their cheeks.

 

[Lord Of Cyberia]

A man made of black hole matter. An all consuming, horrifically destructive object with terrible power over the rest of reality, resulting from one celestial body's absolute need for matter driving it to self destruct into a thing of absolute darkness and death.

Alternately, use that one for Gluttony and make it a Knight in Shining Armor drenched in the blood of all those he crushed to get that armor...

 

[Massaudi]

Probably a cat (that or Activision).

 

[Dane Tesston]

I'm going to go with a bit from the left field and go with a rabbit. Greed is obsessed with gathering things, often dangerous things, and power is one of the biggest objects of hording you can imagine. And since there's power in numbers...

 

[Jonluw]

A duck.

Also, there are so many horribly inappropriate jokes that could be made here...

This is probably something I should've put in the first post, but I didn't expect the first one to cause me to ask: "Why a duck?"

What do you think?

 

[penguindude42]

WARIO. /thread

-tom

 

[War Pony]

A duck.

Also, there are so many horribly inappropriate jokes that could be made here...

This is probably something I should've put in the first post, but I didn't expect the first one to cause me to ask: "Why a duck?"

What do you think?

It suddenly makes a massive amount of sense, yes.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Ticks. Ticks always struck me as a good creature to associate with greed. They gorge themselves on the life others, growing grotesquely swollen and bulbous in the process. They can not help but continue sucking greedily until they have grown so immense that they can barely even move. They do nothing but latch onto others and dine to their hearts content. They live to consume, and they do so in a hideous manner.

 

[Sieg Firebrand]

A Magpie, suits it fine as Magpies like shiny things, they want your shiny things and they will steal your shiny things

 

[II2]

How about a Fat Cat?

 

[AceAngel]

The most greedy and heinous animal would have to be...

Spoiler

 

[Lazzi]

Frankly any animal that exibits hording behavior. I would actully go with a chipmunk, they countinously gather food and attempt to steal food from other chipmunks.

 

[Faux Furry]

What about a Capitalist Dog?

No, seriously, though, an insect such as Locusts whose ravenous hunger lays waste to entire regions if left unchecked...by commie frogs (comrade Kermit?), I guess, is a good embodiment of greed. But frogs are green which is pretty much the opposite of red. What a conundrum.

Anyway, turn those into bug and beast-people and then you're good.