Traditionally, misers are portrayed in media as grasping, penny-pinching people who live in squalor and who never spend money despite being quite wealthy. Some are businessmen, some are loan sharks, moneylenders and Morally Bankrupt Bankers, some are pawnbrokers, some are lawyers... but regardless of how they made their money, The Scrooge is sitting on a pile of it. But getting him to spend it is... problematic to say the least. Sometimes overlaps with Grumpy Old Man. See also Mr. Vice Guy, a trope that heroic-leaning Scrooges also qualify as. Examples of The Scrooge include: