History CrimeFightingWithCash / MarvelUniverse

* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]], back when the Young Avengers were just starting out. At the end of the first arc, she sets the team up in a run-down building owned by her family's business and uses a few connections in the fashion industry to replace their ruined costumes (or, in her case, just make one). She's moved away from this since then, however, and as of 2017 her father is being built up as one of her ''enemies''.

* [[Comicbook/ProfessorX Professor Xavier]], founder and mentor of the Comicbook/XMen, can't always directly fight crime (paraplegia is a bitch that way), but he still uses his mountains of cash to [[DangerRoomColdOpen help his students do so]]. Well, that and his absolutely immense amount of PsychicPowers, anyway.
** One such student, Angel/Archangel, has enough money that he wouldn't need the Professor's, though he's seldom seen to use his resources to create gadgets, etc. However, when he was a solo hero, he ''did'' have that stun pellet gun. He once solved the problem of Vanisher developing and selling a dangerous drug by simply buying out his company. During his time away from the X-Men, he's also funded the other teams he's been a part of, most notably the New Defenders, Uncanny X-Force and the original Champions.

* Sunspot of the Comicbook/NewMutants recently did this after Comicbook/SecretWars2015. He is fantastically rich, owning a Brazilian TV network and a large chunk of the land. So he easily had enough money to buy out the science crime organization AIM (these are the guys whose past projects include making the Cosmic Cube, Super-Adaptoid and Comicbook/{{MODOK}}) after he realized that they'd be more than happy to turn their science to benevolent aims so long as they have the money and not get assaulted by mutants, super-soldiers and/or sociopathic vigilantes. He ran as one of his own enterprises as well as a personal HQ and scientific think-tank (he has no brains for mad science so he used theirs) for the Comicbook/NewAvengers2015 and the Comicbook/USAvengers.

* Danny Rand, Marvel's Comicbook/IronFist, is a glorious aversion. He's a billionaire superhero whose crimefighting has almost ''nothing'' to do with his being a billionaire: he's the heir to the Iron Fist, a set of martial arts based abilities. Not only do these require no financial resources whatsoever, he's best known as being, along with ComicBook/LukeCage, one of the core [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Heroes for Hire]]. Similar to Batman, Danny gives huge amounts of money to charity. A recent development in his book is that he's converted Rand International solely into a charitable organization, which he intends to run until he's "Able to die poor."
* The civilian identity (well, one of them, at any rate) of the B-list Marvel hero Comicbook/MoonKnight is that of a wealthy businessman who owns and operates his own corporation, the money from which he uses to [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys pay for all the fancy weapons and other devices he uses in his war on crime.]] Unfortunately, he is what you call "cash poor"; he has wealth but getting a significant portion in cash on short notice is harder than he anticipated when he was facing a ransom demand.

* In one issue of ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', ComicBook/CaptainBritain proved that the only thing that could stop the Juggernaut...was a check bigger than the one he was expecting from his "client".

* ComicBook/KateBishop, back when the ComicBook/YoungAvengers were just starting out. At the end of the first arc, she sets the team up in a run-down building owned by her family's business and uses a few connections in the fashion industry to replace their ruined costumes (or, in her case, just make one). She's moved away from this since then, however, and as of 2017 her father is being built up as one of her ''enemies''.

* Another inversion is the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Angelo Fortunato, a wannabe DaddysLittleVillain whose mobster father bought him the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote outright during a period when it was separated from its usual host, Eddie Brock. Don Fortunato intended for his son to make a name for himself, but unlike Arcade above, Angelo couldn't even rise to supervillainy and was ultimately abandoned in midair when the symbiote judged him as too weak to be its host, leading him to fall to his death.

* ComicBook/IronMan is the poster child for this in the Marvel Universe. He also provides ComicBook/TheAvengers and many other superheroes with financial assistance or expensive resources whenever they need it. Which is often (it sometimes seemed that the Avengers couldn't go more than a couple issues without someone throwing out the line "Tony Stark will pay for that!" to an irate citizen whose property had been damaged). To the point where it was kind of a big deal when Stark's finances were once impacted enough that he couldn't afford to simply finance the ComicBook/NewAvengers. He couldn't, for example, pay the salaries he had previously paid to team members. He also has lost and regained his fortune several times.

* Inverted with the ''ComicBook/XMen'' character Arcade, an obscenely wealthy NightmareFetishist who uses his vast resources to become a super-''villain'' ForTheEvulz. Ostensibly, he's a ProfessionalKiller, but his [[AmusementParkOfDoom Murderworlds]] cost so much to build and maintain that -- even at a standard fee of $1 million a hit -- he never turns a profit. He took it UpToEleven in the ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' series, in which he bankrolled the creation of a Murderworld the size of a small country in Antarctica, in which [[ClarkesThirdLaw ultra-high-tech devices]] granted him RealityWarper powers on the premises.