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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

*** In the first [=WarioWare=], he converts his house on the top of a mountain pillar into a videogame company and then he moves into another normal house in later games, the intro of ''[=WarioWare Gold=]'' confirms that Wario became broke, and plots a scheme to become rich, and in [=WarioWare: Get It Together!=] he doesn't even have the original flashy company headquarters on the mountain pillar after it was destroyed, and the new [=WarioWare=] Inc. building looks like a cheap garage.

*** In the first [=WarioWare=], he converts his house on the top of a mountain pillar into a videogame company and then he moves into another normal house in later games, the intro of ''[=WarioWare Gold=]'' confirms that Wario became broke, and plots a scheme to become rich, and in [=WarioWare: Get It Together!=] he doesn't even have the original flashy company headquarters on the mountain pillar after it was destroyed, and the new WarioWare Inc. building looks like a cheap garage.

*** However, [[DependingOnTheWriter Wario's fortune varies between games]], since in other games, he is shown living in a normal house instead of a castle, in the first [=WarioWare=], he converts his house into a videogame company and then he moves into another normal house in later games, and the intro of ''[=WarioWare Gold=]'' confirms that Wario became broke, and plots a scheme to become rich.

* In ''VisualNovel/NuCarnival'', the vampire Aster apparently has enough funds to cover ''the next few hundred years'' of his lifestyle. Said lifestyle including buying or creating very successfull businesses on a whim, routinely bribing the entire Klein nobility extravagant amounts of money to accomodate to his every desire and employing an army of staff for his gigantic mansion. Amongst others.

* In ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'', all twelve of the Seleção are given [[{{Magitek}} magic cell phones]] that they can use to make any request from the "concierge," whether material goods or to cause any event to happen -- essentially a technological GenieInABottle. The cost for these "wishes" are automatically billed against a 10 billion yen limit (that's about $100 million). And all of it was arranged by the mysterious "Mr. Outside", who can apparently just give 12 people 10 billion yen ''each'' without it mattering overly much.

* Yai's family, of ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', regularly shows off their wealth in the form of private jets, a submarine, helicopters... And their mansion transforms into a HumongousMecha. Naturally, she uses these things to help the rest of the gang get to places faster. Her [[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Star Force]] counterpart, Luna, only has her wealth touched upon once, but her family's estate, her army of servants, and making countless orders to try and see Mega Man again practically puts her into this trope as well.

** After the Toughs become the military arm of the Neofan Freehold (a revived {{Precursor}} race with lots of LostTechnology), they gain a budget typically referred to as "all the numbers." When they need to hire a police force quickly due to a scheduling mix-up, the police chief has some difficulty getting them to suggest a price, because they just ''don't care''.

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Willy Wonka owns the world's largest chocolate factory (so big it has an entire subterranean river system made from liquid chocolate) and develops things like teleportation just to boost his advertising revenues. At one time he had a huge human workforce that he spontaneously sacked in its entirety due to industrial espionage issues (severance pay, anyone?); he then imported ''an entire unknown nation of people IN SECRET'' just to staff his factory, and had ''enough cash stockpiled to allow him to do this while the factory was closed and he was receiving no income''. Better yet, he pays the Oompa-Loompas wages not in money but in leftover cacao beans, so every penny spent on a Wonka bar goes straight to him! While Wonka tends to laugh a lot, he laughs ''really'' hard in [[Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator the sequel]] when Charlie's family is concerned about money, telling them he "has ''plenty'' of ''that!''"\\\

* ''Magazine/NintendoPower'': The Magnate from ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comics, being the CEO of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Starship Corporation]] in a universe where spaceships are the most-used means of travel, funds research for a super-advanced fighter out of his own pocket and single-handedly supplies most of the Cornerian fleet. [[WarForFunAndProfit For a price, naturally.]] If he switched sides they'd be ''screwed''[[note]]He won't. The bad guys were dumb enough to [[BullyingADragon try kidnapping his daughter at one point]][[/note]].

In the [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2013 stage musical adaptation]], Sir Robert Salt -- SpoiledBrat Veruca's dad and a billionaire himself -- questions Wonka as to the "point" of the elaborate Chocolate Room, as only its waterfall (which mixes the chocolate river's contents) seems to have a practical, money-making application. As it turns out, the rest of the room was created ''solely as a personal, private work of art''; Wonka is a firm believer in the concept of DoingItForTheArt and prefers to use his fortune in the service of creating new things (if only for himself) rather than conventional ConspicuousConsumption.

* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': At the end of ''On Basilisk Station'' Honor becomes a millionaire after a Manticoran court condemns as a prize a ship whose captain she arrested for smuggling. She later uses her funds to create a company to improve on existing Graysonite {{Domed Hometown}}s (something they developed to control exposure to the heavy metal-rich environment of Grayson).

* The eponymous family in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' are not particularly wealthy members of the Vor aristocracy...but they are still members of the established land-owning aristocracy and related to the Imperial family. In his first appearance Miles Vorkosigan essentially mortgages a (completely irradiated) city to buy a spaceship, because he inherited it outright from his grandfather. And this is before he will eventually go on to run a successful mercenary company and occasionally be paid three times for the same job. In a later book Mark Vorkosigan is believed to be broke by potential in-laws, until he explains that for him 'broke' means all his liquid capital is tied up in an investing cycle; he could withdraw it all and would be a multi-millionaire, but think of all the interest he would lose.

* Literature/ArtemisFowl is already the son of a wealthy crime lord, and uses his intelligence and ruthlessness to get even more money if necessary (in the first book, he steals $15 million worth of gold out of the fairy fund). '''#3''' on the 2011 list, behind only [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Carlisle Cullen]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]].

* This sort of character often shows up in Franchise/TheDCU:
** In ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'', Bruce Wayne can bury the cost of the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} Watchtower in his aerospace budget. To put this in perspective, the smaller and far more primitive International Space Station cost over $150 billion by the time construction was completed.[[note]]Justified with the satellite, in part because Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter and Franchise/GreenLantern transport the materials to orbit and do the assembly, which is the lion's share of the cost of a normal space station.[[/note]] He is also funding his secret life of fighting crime using assorted [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys wonderful toys]]. An entire issue of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' was devoted to delivering a cost-accounting of Batman's arsenal. In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', Bruce and Alfred decide that the best way to disguise their purchase of ears for Batman costumes is to [[RefugeInAudacity buy 10,000 of them]].

** As of The ComicBook/New52, Oliver Queen, aka ComicBook/GreenArrow, is one too. While he already had Queen Industries, he was nowhere near the level of Wayne Enterprises or [=LexCorp=]. Now, Q-Core, his current financial endeavor, is Wayne Ent.'s main competition in the technology sector and basically the [=DCU's=] equivalent of [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Apple]].
** In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Steve Dayton, AKA Mento. Routinely described as the fifth richest man on Earth in Franchise/TheDCU.
** In ''The Green Team: Boy Millionaires'', the only prerequisite for joining the Green Team is one million dollars. The boys paid fortunes to anyone who could offer them a worthy adventure. In their first and only (at the time) published story, they funded the "Great American Pleasure Machine", a sort of roller coaster ride that brings so much pleasure, it drives the villain of the piece insane. As a text page in ''1st Issue Special'' #2 (May 1975) explained, their jumpsuit uniforms had many pockets for money, with special locks, and they carried ticker-tape wristwatches, a chain of keys that would unlock any of their many labs and money vaults in far-flung lands, and a quarter-million dollars each that any of them could whip out at any time in the name of adventure.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', ComicBook/LexLuthor, since TheEighties. At the time, writers finally decided to literally CutLexLuthorACheck and made him incredibly rich through making money off his genius. He can also budget in plans to defeat ComicBook/{{Superman}}. Lois Lane calculates Luthor's income and determines that he won't stop to pick up a $100 bill from the ground, because it's not worth one second of his time.
** The Most Excellent Superbat (no name given) from ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam states that his power is being rich enough to do ''anything''. This is backed up in story by having his own private island made for him (complete with secret base), inventing an automatic mental Twitter, and in his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, buying [[spoiler:Japan -- yes, the entire country -- to rebuild it.]] Do anything indeed.
** The ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' tend to get a few of these too. Some are technical qualifiers such as Starfire being an Alien Princess who doesn't typically tap her stuff from her home due to being captured or exiled several times depending on when. However, in the 2000's, when they were just The Titans, they ended up bankrolling themselves this time, so that brought 2 big investors to the team. First was Jesse Quick, who ran her own company and managed to fight crime in her spare time. And second was the former Aqualad who became Tempest. He goes the route of finding sunken treasure to bankroll stuff. So much so they're able to create an enormous hologram of Titans Tower as well as an underground base without breaking a sweat.
** ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'', although it's not a major part of his character. When he's King of Atlantis, he has his own treasury, and when he's deposed for the nth time, he makes ends meet with his personal secret hoard of [[PirateBooty pirate treasure]]. It's a common habit of his to pay in restaurants with solid gold doubloons.
** In a different universe, ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Leo Quintum is called a zillionaire by Jimmy Olsen, and when he hacked into his company's bank account, he found an infinity symbol.
* They're no stranger to Creator/MarvelComics, either:
** In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'', the title character is able to purchase entire bars with gold he has in his pocket, and his diverse portfolio requires two superheroes a full week to even gather, let alone settle, in the wake of his (temporary) demise. One example alone that qualifies for this list: he was one of the initial investors in Stark Enterprises, [[ComicBook/IronMan whose founder]] is listed below. When the size of the investment was calculated, a ''second line of zeroes'' was required. Assuming 1.25 inch margins on each side of the page and a 12-point font, this investment would come to at least 10 novemdecillion (10^61) dollars. (Though after the fourth novemdecillion dollars, who's really counting?)
** From ''ComicBook/IronMan'', Anthony (Tony) Edward Stark. Even without any funds, he's a gadgeteer genius who managed to build the Iron Man suit out of, basically, tin cans and string. That said, having loads of ''spare'' suits, many built in a lab in his own house most definitely counts. As does having a fully automated production facility in his garage that can build him another one in 5 hours. Case in point: Comicbook/SpiderMan thinks they should all get armor. [[http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c166/Ennead13x/Western%20Comic/Picture1-1.png Tony responds by asking if Spidey has seven billion dollars.]] And in ''Mini-Marvels'' Tony ''does'' give everyone powered armor just to prove how awesome he is. He also keeps fully working versions of previous armors in a trophy room, has destroyed them to keep them out of enemy hands, and apparently rebuilt them for the unlikely occasions when they'd come in useful in the future. Tony's ridiculous fortune is lampshaded in the pages of ''Avengers'' Vol. 4:
--->'''Steve Rogers:''' I thought you were broke.
--->'''Iron Man:''' '''My''' broke is not the same as '''your''' broke.

*** [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Iron Man]], in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, is as rich and wealthy as mainstream Iron Man. He also has an evil brother, Gregory Stark, and they grew up with a huge SiblingRivalry. Whatever Tony did, Gregory always did something better. Including, of course, raising an even higher fortune of his own. Their rivalry grew into CainAndAbel levels in ''Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates'', and he died at the end of the conflict. And his huge fortune? It was inherited by his closest living relative... Tony Stark!
** In ''ComicBook/XMen'' [[ComicBook/ProfessorX Charles Xavier]]'s inherited fortune made him able to turn the basement of a mansion into an ElaborateUndergroundBase with an absurdly advanced holodeck room, as well as building various vehicles, including helicopters and [[CoolPlane a really advanced jet]]. Plus the Cerebro. Those can't come cheap. [[note]]Although, with Magneto's help, all labor costs would pretty much become zero, meaning he's only really paying for parts. At least during the times when Magneto was his ally and not his arch-enemy.[[/note]]

** Angel's no slouch either. While his fortune is not flaunted to the degree that Tony Stark's is, he's able to say "Oh, don't worry, I'll just write a check" to expenditures that would boggle the mind. He's also financed several of the teams he's been a part of (such as the Champions, the [[ComicBook/TheDefenders New Defenders]], ComicBook/XFactor and ComicBook/XForce) out of his own pocket.
** Now in the ComicBook/DawnOfX Era, Mutants have a monopoly on certain pharmaceuticals that can only be produced on Krakoa. It's also demonstrated that Xavier used his family fortune [[spoiler: and Moira's foreknowledge]] to invest in a wildly diverse and incredibly lucrative portfolio from entertainment to waste management, finally explaining where the money comes from.
** Reed Richards of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour.'' Again, you can miss it because it's not part of his character like Tony (or even Angel, who flaunts it ''some''), but it's there. The Baxter Building is huge and super-luxurious, and the materials needed to make his many tools and vehicles and scientific equipment don't grow on trees (and sometimes require {{Unobtanium}} that is ridiculously hard to come by.) Making another of something that blows up is ''never'' a problem, and he'll always pull out bigger and better versions of any of the team's signature gear. Basically, it turns out that [[ReedRichardsIsUseless Reed Richards is NOT useless]], and money from selling inventions that don't endanger the planet (sorry, no pocket Negative Zone portals) as well as the Four's celebrity status (they get cash from every film, action figure, etc.) - not even counting the stuff he gets paid not to release since it would single-handedly render the entire industry irrelevant resulting in millions of people losing their jobs - has made him rich enough that a trivial little problem like "doing this would require ten times the amount of money that exists in the world" will ''never'' hold the Four back. Reed is so rich that he rakes in more money than the entire US GDP.
** Oneshot ComicBook/{{Cable}} foe Jackie Singapore is noted to be richer than both Stark and Bill Gates, and 17% of Singapore's population thinks the country is named after ''him''. It's also implied that entire countries make decisions based on his word, and that he can, among other things, get the two Koreas to actually agree on something.
** ComicBook/{{Norman Osborn}}[=/=]Green Goblin is so rich and well connected that he can get himself out of any charges as the Goblin, get a political position with ease, and form his own evil SHIELD army, HAMMER. An alternate version of him, the Ghost Goblin, from Creator/JasonAaron's [[ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron Avengers run]] described himself as "the richest man in the multiverse", with enough cash to bribe Elder Gods.
** ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Arcade is so rich that, in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', he personally bankrolls the construction of a DeathCourse the size of a small country, locates it on a private island off the coast of Antarctica, and packs it with so much [[ClarkesThirdLaw ridiculously advanced technology]] that he is essentially a RealityWarper within its borders. In an early appearance, Arcade is able to steal Shi'ar technology from the Xavier Mansion, but having a sample of alien super-tech is one thing. Having the resources to reverse-engineer and duplicate it requires serious cash. Especially on the scale that Arcade does it. And prior to ''Avengers Arena'', Arcade has been doing the same thing for decades on a smaller scale with dozens of iterations of "Murderworld". Whenever superheroes shut him down in one city, he [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buys his way out of jail time]] (whether through hiring top lawyers or just outright bribery is never specified) and sets up a new Murderworld somewhere else. Every Murderworld is a combination ElaborateUndergroundBase and AmusementParkOfDoom, and he somehow has the resources to build such sprawling facilities undetected beneath ''New York City'', among other places.
** Come ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'''s relaunch, [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] joins these men and women, having turned Parker Industries, a company [[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan Doc Ock started while hijacking Peter's body]], into a massively successful company around the globe. While he has some help with the fact that his step-uncle is John Jameson Sr. (that's J. Jonah Jameson's dad), it does give him a lot more freedom and the chance to enhance his webs. However, an interesting thing about this is that, while he does have a successful business, he's completely out of his league and has become a massive target for other foes, such as the Zodiac and the Ghost. It ultimately gets so bad that Peter ultimately decides to destroy everything to keep it out of Doctor Octopus' tentacles in ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', financially destroying him.
** Roberto da Costa, a.k.a. Sunspot, is another example. His father was an extremely wealthy and influential Afro-Brazilian businessman, and when he died, Roberto inherited his company and all his wealth. While an Avenger, Roberto famously defeated A.I.M. not through violence, but by simply buying them out and firing all of their villainous higher-ups. He now funds the ComicBook/NewAvengers out of his own pocket, and is not shy about flaunting his wealth to motivate his "employees"; when one of his scientists comes up with a successful plan to save the day, he rewards her by buying her a new Lexus.
** T'Challa, a.k.a. the ComicBook/BlackPanther, was an example until Dr. Doom pulled some crap. T'Challa is king of Wakanda, meaning he legally controls the trade and distribution of [[{{Unobtainium}} Vibranium]] (Captain America's shield is made of that stuff and Adamantium), and according to the comics, Vibranium costs $10,000 ''per gram''. And according to ''Doomwar #1'', the Wakandan vaults have 10,000 tons of it. Do the math: it's all worth ''$9.7 trillion'', more than the GPA of the nonfictional world. Unfortunately, a plot by Doctor Doom to loot the Vibranium forced T'Challa to use a failsafe that rendered the stockpile inert and potentially worthless, but that doesn't mean it will always be. While not quite as loose with his money as Iron Man or Angel, he's also used his wealth to make a few pretty significant contributions over the years. Case in point: he provided the Avengers with their first Quinjet, and continued to provide more advanced versions of the craft for a number of years.
** Danny Rand, the ComicBook/IronFist, is pretty fabulously wealthy too. He notably replaced Tony Stark as the bankroller of the ComicBook/NewAvengers during the period where they were branded fugitives after ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.
** ComicBook/SubMariner technically owns all the treasure on the sea floor (are ''you'' going to tell him otherwise?). If he ever needs cash, he's never found wanting.
** As Prince and sometimes King of Asgard, ComicBook/TheMightyThor is pretty well off. He once purchased an entire steel mill to forge battle armor by walking into the owner's office and dumping a bag of gold on the table, stating "The Rhinegold of myth is quite real". And years later, when Thor restored Asgard after suffering its latest "Ragnarok", he purchased a huge plot of land to place the city on, and he did this by leading the land owner into the Royal Treasure Chamber with literal '''MOUNTAINS''' of gold and precious gems, telling the man to "take whatever you want and leave". The man got help and filled his pickup truck, making no discernible dent in the treasure. Balder and even non-royals like The Warriors Three routinely buy things on Earth or make reparations for damage (or worse, pay for Volstagg's food orgies) with sacks of gold that they hand out freely.
* From ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'', ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and elsewhere, [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]'s wealth is one of his defining characteristics. He has so much money he can swim in it, which happens to be one of his favorite pastimes. He is the owner of a windowless concrete block, affectionately called The Money Bin, filled with so much cold, hard cash that the bottom layer probably collapsed into electron-degeneracy sometime in the early 1990s. Creator/DonRosa makes a point that the money in the bin is what Scrooge earned ''before'' he became the world's richest duck.[[note]]Not an OverlyNarrowSuperlative--Scrooge's biggest rival in money-hoarding, Flintheart Glomgold, is also a duck, with humans not existing at all in the setting.[[/note]] He has dozens of times more, in bank accounts and in investments, but the money in the bin is there because every coin and bill is a mark of victory to its owner; he can actually tell how he earned each one by looking at them, and would never part with one unless the story behind it is not worth remembering. As implied by [[Literature/AChristmasCarol his name]], Scrooge is a satirical take on the idea that one can achieve vast wealth through nothing but obsessive penny-pinching; he always insists that (unlike his rivals) he earned it all "square," i.e. through legitimate work (though he rarely explains any of the details), and usually labels anyone who spends money on anything as a "spendthrift."
** In one Don Rosa story it's shown that Scrooge has every federal and state organization, including the U.S. Armed Forces, at his beck and call because his taxes comprise about 90% of their income. When you put together all Creator/CarlBarks and Don Rosa stories, Scrooge could probably buy out every other person mentioned on this page. And yet he still figures he doesn't have enough wealth to buy even a tenth of a solid gold moon, when engaged in a trade with the wealthiest man from Venus for it. And then he trades it for a handful of dirt.
** In some Creator/CarlBarks stories, it's stated that Scrooge can't transfer the money from his bin to banks because they already have so much of his money, they have no place to guard more.
** In an early Carl Barks story Scrooge says that if he loses one billion dollars a minute, he'll go bankrupt in 600 years. That would be 315,576,000 billion dollars, or 315,576 quintillion dollars. Needless to say, this is astronomically more than there exists wealth in the entire world (Scrooge would lose that much in less than half a year). This is a variation of a line from ''Film/CitizenKane'' where it was losing a million dollars per year would lead to closing down in sixty years.
** In one story, Scrooge spends several millions of dollars merely because he has no safe place to keep them. (The Money Bin is already full, and it'd cost billions to build another one.) In the end, it's all for nothing because the money is spent on places that belong to him. He's so wealthy he can't remember all businesses he owns.
*** Although this does contradict one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' where he says he has actually memorized ''every'' serial number on ''every'' piece of paper money he owns, a skill that makes him realize that the money that Ma Beagle paid him with was stolen from him. (This is RuleOfFunny, of course, but still...)
*** Another story has Scrooge getting screwed by storms on his resorts, because the insurance companies that secure the places are his as well.
** Scrooge was the top person in the Forbes Fiction 15 for 25 years running, until he lost a round-the-world race to Flintheart Glomgold, where the prize was Scrooge's money bin. This was enough to knock Scrooge out of the Fiction 15 and put Glomgold at #2 in 2012 behind [[Literature/TheHobbit Smaug]], with just the Money Bin). Total worth: 5 multiplujillion, 9 impossibidillion, 7 fantasticatrillion dollars and 16 cents. So rich, they [[EleventyZillion make up numbers]] for it.
** Someone quantified it down to 25 trillion dollars in real life. Forbes put it at 65.4 billion dollars as of their last list, in 2013 ([[https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2013/fictional-15/ with Scrooge back at #1]]).
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-hQf-F3hyU&app=desktop After extensive mathematics]], [[WebVideo/GameTheory MatPat]] calculated Scrooge's Money Bin alone to contain between $52.3 billion and ''[[BeyondTheImpossible $333.9 trillion]]''.
** Not to be forgotten are his two billionaire rivals, Flintheart Glomgold (mostly in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'') and John D. Rockerduck (mostly in the comics), both of whom are trying to surpass his fortune. In the case of Rockerduck, spending a lot instead of being [[TheScrooge a tightwad like Scrooge]].
** In fact, especially in the European comics, Duckburg is usually portrayed as having a literal billionaire's club. Since there are usually only several hundred billionaires on the entire world, one wonders why they all decided to huddle together.
*** Most European currencies are worth quite a lot less than the American dollar, and since translations usually use the local one instead of the latter, it is often entirely plausible for a literal billionaire's club to exist in a real-life major city such as New York from that perspective. To give a couple of examples, 1 billion Polish złoty is about $270 million and 1 billion Swedish krona is about $110 million. Sometimes the numbers become ridiculously low, like in Hungary where you only need $3.6 million to get 1 billion forint, or Italy, where the popular ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' comics originated and whose pre-euro currency lira made anyone able to muster up just north of half a million dollars a billionaire.
* From ''ComicBook/RichieRich'', Richard and Regina Rich, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and their son, Richie.]] Richie apparently receives his allowance in stacks of $100 bills (for some time, the canon was a weekly allowance of $100K). Their personal maid, Irona, is a DoAnythingRobot which the Rich family paid scientists to invent. One of Regina's hobbies is collecting gemstones -- not to wear for jewelry, or keep in a vault or museum, but to display on her dresser.

* While maybe not as over the top as most others here, ComicBook/ArchieComics's Hiram and Hermione Lodge, Veronica's parents, still rank high on the social ladder. Evidence would come from (a) Veronica's spending sprees, where she buys out whole boutiques, new cars, vacations, on a whim, and (b) the cost to repair the endless mayhem caused by Archie's visits. Also, according to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Lodge The Other Wiki]], Veronica states that "Daddy has billions," which is likely due to the extreme rise of wealth in the real world since the introduction of the Lodges. In order to maintain the pretense that the Lodges are one of the richest in the world, her parents have to be billionaires.
** Veronica claims that her father owns a (fictional) country.
** In an ''Archie 3000'' story, he buys a planet.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', Adrian Veidt became absurdly rich on the patent for the spark hydrants that power the electric cars of the Watchmen world. He also owns dozens of other companies, but his ultimate money-wasting venture is that of [[spoiler:creating a massive "alien" creature on a private island which he then teleports into New York City and "saves the world" from]]. Oh, and he owns a palace in Antarctica, too. The funny thing is that he was already rich as a teenager, then gave away the wealth and, starting from scratch, built a second fortune. The movie features Veidt on the cover of ''Forbes'' magazine, and the company included him in a "fictional 500" list of richest fictional characters on their website.
* ''Multy the Millionare'', a strip from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' during the 1950s. It [[PlayedForLaughs plays this trope for laughs]] and features a character whose only trait seems to be his incredible wealth. Lord Snooty also has aspects of this trope, living in a castle and being a lord and everything, but occasionally [[ImpoverishedPatrician he is very poor]], even using the WalletMoths trope. Lord Snooty's 2000s revival as Lord Snooty the Third uses this trope a lot more than the original Lord Snooty, and has never been shown to have any kind of un-absurdly-richness.
* The Magnate from ''Magazine/NintendoPower'''s ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comics, being the CEO of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Starship Corporation]] in a universe where spaceships are the most-used means of travel, funds research for a super-advanced fighter out of his own pocket and single-handedly supplies most of the Cornerian fleet. [[WarForFunAndProfit For a price, naturally.]] If he switched sides they'd be ''screwed''[[note]]He won't. The bad guys were dumb enough to [[BullyingADragon try kidnapping his daughter at one point]][[/note]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': Hari Vallalkozo (the series initial BigBad) is the richest man in the world, and Douglas Zemeckis (who takes over the BigBad role later) the second richest. Their exact fortunes are never given, but in the final album (while deciding if she still wants to Marry Zemeckis or not) [[GoldDigger Ursula]] mentions the fourth richest person has ''only'' 30 billion dollars.
* Reclusive trillionaire Fred Wayne in ''ComicBook/{{Prez|2015}}''. This is how rich he is: His corporate headquarters is Delaware. That's not a typo -- he bought the entire state outright, and the only people who live there now are him and his employees and their families.

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-->''Money in the motherfuckin' jar!\\
[[CrossesTheLineTwice Shark-fin pastries]], summers on Mars!\\

747 full of women and cigars!''

* ''Multy the Millionare'', a strip from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' during the 1950s. It [[PlayedForLaughs plays this trope for laughs]] and features a character whose only trait seems to be his incredible wealth. Lord Snooty also has aspects of this trope, living in a castle and being a lord and everything, but occasionally he is very poor, even using the WalletMoths trope. Lord Snooty's 2000s revival as Lord Snooty the Third uses this trope a lot more than the original Lord Snooty, and has never been shown to have any kind of un-absurdly-richness.

* The Cullens of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', thanks to hundreds of years of art collecting and a century of playing the stock market (with a clairvoyant guiding them), have a cash stockpile that the 2011 ''Forbes'' Fortune 15 estimates as larger than those of Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark ''combined''.

* In ''Anime/CTheMoneyAndSoulOfPossibility'', Mikuni has enough money to single-handedly shoulder Japan's national debt. Note that due to the show's premise, a lot of characters can fall into this trope (the protagonist went from a college student struggling to make ends meet to having a bank account of several hundred million overnight), but Mikuni still stands out.

** Implied in Final Fantasy VI with the unnamed bidder in the Auction House, who can repeatedly purchase items for 1 million gil and call it a treat for the day.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Hahari's house is enormous, the hallways have a laser security system to ward off intruders, she was able to get IVF treatment as a teenager, and she employs a legion of housekeepers who are trained to attack any boyfriend her daughter brings home. Once she joins the harem, she buys out their high school to become the "chairwoman" so as to spend time with Rentarou, despite having no teaching credentials.

*** However, it's possible that Wario actually lost much of his fortune between games, since in the [=WarioWare=] series, he is shown living in a normal house instead of a castle, in the first GBA game, he converts his house into a videogame company, but then he moves into another normal house.
*** The intro of ''[=WarioWare Gold=]'' confirms that Wario became broke, and plots a scheme to become rich.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', there's rarely any mention of currency whatsoever, but even by that standard, James's parents are loaded. When they're introduced, their butler brings Ash, Misty, and Brock to their mansion. The property is so large, it takes them hours to get down the driveway. The trio is in awe of the stupendous mansion when they finally arrive, only to be told it's a ''dog house'' (for ''one'' Growlthe) and the real house dwarfs it. A few seasons later, we find out it's not the only property they own, and while the others are modest in comparison, they're still extremely lavish.

* Literature/ArtemisFowl is already the son of a wealthy crime lord, and uses his intelligence and ruthlessness to get even more money if necessary (in the first book, he steals $15 million worth of gold out of the fairy fund). '''#3''' on the 2011 list, behind only [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Carlisle Cullen]] and [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]].

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the Ubuyashiki family, creators and lords of the Demon Slayer Corps, have said corps as a private army in the ever difficult secret war against demon kind; the first databook states the Ubuyashiki family is extremely rich without ever going into specifics, however, the fact a single family can personally pay for a personal army of hundreds, and give each slayer a very generous fee - where the lowest ranked member is paid 200k yen (a very good amount at the early 20th century) and 10 ranks above that, the Hashira, are literally said to be "paid as much as they want" - shows that the Ubuyashiki are absurdly rich as the series never shows money is of any issue to them. [[spoiler:After the end of the series a special oneshot chapter, contained within the second databook, even goes an extra step to show Kiriya Ubuyashiki casually gave enough money to Tanjiro and Nezuko, as a token of eternal gratitude, for them not to ever work a single day in their lives again]].

--->'''Clark Kent''' : How did you get the house back from the bank?
--->'''Bruce Wayne''' : I bought the bank.