someone should do a fallout-esque setting where the currency is funko pops
A statuette made from a material you can not recognise or recreate depicting a long dead icon is incredibly potent in a post apocalypse until the reader notices it’s a funko pop
Archaeologists believe these statuettes may have served a religious or ritual function, with some ancient dwellings containing small dedicated shrines holding a great number of statuettes. Some speculate that these figures depict major gods of the pre-collapse society's pantheon, with some common figures showing humanoids with imaginative skin colors such as green or bright yellow.
(i looked at the "bestsellers" part of the funko websites and i wasn't expecting it to be so dominated by homer simpson, shrek, naruto, and stranger things)
for the first time in my life, i'm tempted to buy a funko pop (so that i can subject it to powerful UV rays for an extended period and see what happens)