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Working Title: Fiction 500: From YKTTW
As mentioned in the YKTTW, does L from Death Note count? IIRC, he built an entire skyscraper to house the investigation. (YKTTW says he only purchased 15 floors, which is still impressive. Difference in anime/manga canon perhaps?)
Sabre Justice: So, are we gonna try and go for exactly 500 on this page eventually?
Unknown Troper: The Adrian Veidt section needs spoiler tags for obvious spoilers. If I hadn't already read the graphic novel, I'd be pretty pissed right now.
Whitewings: Dose Lara Croft belong here? She is wealthy, yes, and I will not claim otherwise, but she doesn't really seem to be wealthy enough for this entry. She keeps multiple houses, yes, and has many vehicles, yes, and travels widely, yes, but frankly, no more so than many wealthy persons in RL.
- Daibhid C: If Stargate's USAF count, how about Torchwood One, who built One Canada Square/Canary Wharf/Torchwood Tower purely to investigate a weird rift at the top? As one UNIT officer says in a fanfic "If it had been us, we'd have used a helicopter."
- I say add it. That kind of money clearly deserves it.
Sijo: Bruce Wayne is not as rich as some people think. While some stories have made him out to be second only to Lex Luthor in riches, Wayne could not pay for the full reconstruction of Gotham after an Earthquake (but Luthor did) and the equipment Batman carries is NOT the best example of existing DC Universe technology- at the very least, his costume should be a Power Armor like the one many DC characters own (often supplied by the government; Agent Liberty's comes to mind.) Of course it is possible that Wayne is intentionally restricting his personal budget so most of his money goes to the Wayne Foundation, which helps more people in the long run than Batman ever could.
- This bin allegedly contains "three cubic acres" of money. As an acre is a unit of area, and not length, a "cubic acre" is a nonsense unit; however, some have speculated that Scrooge actually has so much cash that he needs a four-dimensional money bin to contain it all.
Lale: An acre is indeed a measurement of area (44,000 square feet, I think), which is two dimensions — length x width. The volume of the money bin would be measured in three dimensions — length x width x height — because it's obviously not flat. "Square acres" would be redundant; "cubic acres" is correct.
I'd like to suggest the Brotherhood of Nod from the Command and Conquer tiberium universe. Having the market cornered on tiberium production and related technologies has made them a world superpower. Not to mention Kane himself who is implied to be immortal. He would probably have accumulated centuries worth of wealth, which would have been used to fund Nod before the initial appearance of tiberium, and to seed the development of tiberium technologies. It's also implied he has limited prescient abilities; this would have enabled him to greatly expand his wealth with the stock market.
