History Main / ManOfWealthAndTaste

* Mob boss Top Dollar from the movie adaptation of ''Film/TheCrow'' wears very fancy, expensive vintage clothing and keeps an array of antique swords nearby. This contrasts with his mooks who all dress in average clothing (jeans, jackets, etc.).

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Characters/DoctorDoom is always clad in a regal green tunic over his PoweredArmor.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons Walter Simmons]], the billionaire CorruptCorporateExecutive who spearheads Mechagodzilla's creation as part of a MugglePower plan and out of sheer egotism; is dressed head-to-toe in sharp, expensive-looking and tailored clothes.

See also WickedCultured, and AGlassOfChianti. The polar opposite of WildMan -- a hero with no resources, no fashion, but a very good heart. The other polar opposite is FashionVictimVillain. Oh, and his (normally) GoodCounterpart? That's a OfficerAndAGentleman. Also a common trait of LouisCypher.

** Raven Sable is a famous, jet-setting ''restauranteur'' and diet guru, always looking lean and well-dressed. He's also secretly [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Famine, one of the Horsepersons of the Apocalypse]], and he secretly revels in encouraging humans towards disordered eating, food waste, and the consumption of unsatisfying meals, from ''nouvelle cuisine'' in tiny portions to fast food and junk food with only slightly more nutritional value than the packaging.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has the Joker, Two-Face, the Riddler and the Mad Hatter, who all wear over the top suits, and the Penguin, who wears a more conventional (allowing for his body shape) formal suit.

See also WickedCultured, and AGlassOfChianti. The polar opposite of WildMan -- a hero with no resources, no fashion, but a very good heart. The other polar opposite is FashionVictimVillain. Oh, and his (normally) GoodCounterpart? That's a GentlemanAndAScholar. Also a common trait of LouisCypher.

See also WickedCultured, and AGlassOfChianti. The polar opposite of WildMan -- a hero with no resources, no fashion, but a very good heart. The other polar opposite is FashionVictimVillain. Oh, and his (normally) GoodCounterpart? That's a SharpDressedMan. Also a common trait of LouisCypher.

%%* Liquid Ocelot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' is fairly snappy dresser.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' has several. The characters that probably fit best are Oswald Cobblepot, when he's not down on his luck and has access to all the wealth of a mob kingpin, and [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]]. Both are extremely fond of nice, possibly custom made suits, though their dress sense can be a tad eccentric, with Jeremiah's preference for bold colors and Oswald's tendency to occasionally accessorize with less business formal things like feather boas.

* An essential feature of [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. He always was seen in black coat and slacks, with a white vest and tie. In his last appearance, in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', he even remarks that to properly deal with {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}, he has to get into his "power suit", abandoning the khaki uniform he had been wearing for his original garb.
** His appearance in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' also counts. Vandal Savage and Count Vertigo also fit the bill.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Vandal Savage always wears a nice suit or a nice uniform, when he hasn't had a castle dropped on him. Also, the Ultra Humanite is a lover of the fine arts, including opera. (Much to the chagrin of Luthor, who ''hates'' opera, and has a cell next to his on Stryker's Island.)

* From ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' there's ComicBook/TheJoker, ComicBook/TwoFace, ComicBook/TheRiddler, and TheMadHatter who all wear over the top suits, and ComicBook/ThePenguin who wears a more conventional (allowing for his body shape) formal suit.

* Black Hat in ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous|CartoonNetwork}}'', who wears a black suit, grey waistcoat, red tie, monocle, and black top hat with red band. When he creates a duplicate of himself, we learn that he has a bowler hat ''under the top hat''.

%%* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Fulgrim, the Primarch of the Emperor's Children, qualifies.

* Giovanni Villanova from ''TabletopGame/SeventhSea'' is an archetypal example of this trope. He's [[CardCarryingVillain evil with a capital E]], has a prison built to spec as his own private hell for his enemies, [[KickTheDog beats]] his "fate witch" wife, and is generally despicable to the Nth degree... but he's a ''Prince,'' by [[CrystalDragonJesus Deus]], and that means showing some ''style.'' One iconic moment is when he knifes a man from behind (one who's threatening the [=PCs=]), shoves him aside... and starts eating the victim's Fettucine Alfredo, because it's too good to waste. He also laments having the cook killed, because the pasta's that good...but while it's one thing to poison an enemy, it's another entirely for the cook to poison such works of art, so he had his men feeding said cook his own poison. EvenEvilHasStandards, after all.
* Creator/WhiteWolf offered an interesting [[JustifiedTrope justification]] in a short vignette written from Lucifer's perspective in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen''. He can't feel pleasure, or happiness, or anything good... but the bad stuff? He can feel the bad stuff. Every scratch of the fabric, every slight pain from an ill-fitting piece of clothing, every pang of hunger. He travels in utmost luxury, wears the best clothes and eats the finest food just so he can get as close as possible to feeling ''nothing''.
* While not a suit, [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Asmodeus]] from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' wears "regal finery of unimaginable expense", said to cost as much as a country spends on food in a year.
** Strahd von Zarovich of ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''-fame is dressed rather spiffy in any of his appearances. He ''is'' a vampire, after all.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] Sorin Markov. It's stated that, when he's not upholding various pacts that he's made over his [[OlderThanTheyLook extremely long life]], he's [[TheHedonist pursuing only his own pleasure]]. [[PlanetOfHats Innistradi vampires on the whole are like this.]]
** If you're on New Capenna and you're ''not'' dressed like it's TheRoaringTwenties, it'll paint you as a tourist so effectively you might as well be wearing an "I <3 NC" shirt. As a result, while there is some variety - such as the Riveteers typically sporting downmarket work clothes, as befits a more underclass kind of gang - there are a lot of prominent gangsters and scoundrels sporting fancy suits - [[https://scryfall.com/card/snc/206/ob-nixilis-the-adversary just look at Ob Nixilis]] in a very flashy black and gold number.

* Music/{{U2}}: MacPhisto, a "persona" used by Bono on the Zoo TV tour. He's basically Satan as an aging Vegas crooner.

* An essential feature of ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. He always was seen in black coat and slacks, with a white vest and tie. In his last appearance, in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', he even remarks that to properly deal with {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}, he has to get into his "power suit", abandoning the khaki uniform he had been wearing for his original garb.

* Most of the Imperial officers in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse wear the same sort of [[PuttingOnTheReich uniforms]] as they do in the movies, and they are pretty much stock evil. Grand Admiral Thrawn wears ''white'', and he is extremely cultured and, while still villainous, visibly more ambiguous. He's also an alien, and actually all the Grand Admirals have white uniforms. It's just that none of ''them'' are nearly as prominent, having all been either killed or captured years earlier. Another example is title character from ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' who a wealthy banker in his civilian life, and is outright referred to as "a [[JustForPun Muun]] of wealth and taste" at one point.

See also WickedCultured, and AGlassOfChianti. The polar opposite of WildMan -- a hero with no resources, no fashion, but a very good heart. The other polar opposite is FashionVictimVillain. Oh, and his (normally) GoodCounterpart?
That's a SharpDressedMan. Also a common trait of LouisCypher.

** The Master, depending on who's portraying him. Creator/RogerDelgado and Creator/JohnSimm's Masters frequently wore great suits, Creator/AnthonyAinley's Master wore suits a few times, and Creator/DerekJacobi's Master wears a Victorian version.

* Giovanni in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''.
* Ladd Russo from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' fits this trope.

* Tyki Mikk from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' when he makes the effort.

%%* Pokey begins wearing a suit after becoming Monotoli's right-hand man in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

* [[MagnificentBastard Lionel]] and ComicBook/LexLuthor of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' are this trope overlapped with BadassInANiceSuit. So's Ultraman, Clark's EvilTwin from Earth-2. For examples that are purely evil, there's also Lex's [[TheDragon Dragon]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Regan Matthews]], Earth-2 Lionel, the relentlessy AxeCrazy [[CloningBlues Lx-3]], and [[EnfanteTerrible Alexander]].

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':

* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' is the TropeCodifier for portraying the devil this way; practically the first thing Mephistopheles does in it is call attention to his elegant, fashionable attire, and throughout the play he's portrayed as elegant, witty, and sophisticated.

* The trope codifier is Mephistopheles in ''Creator/JohannGoethe'' play ''Literature/DoctorFaust'', where the Devil is presented as elegant, witty, and sophisticated.

* Practically the first thing Mephistopheles does in Goethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' is call attention to his elegant, fashionable attire.