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* ''Film/TheMenu:'' Bitter celebrity chef Julian Slowik decides to take his revenge on the rich jerks who patronise his restaurant. They realise that things are going wrong when he serves them tacos laser printed with evidence of their misdeeds. The restaurant critic gets a clipping of a review that closed another restaurant. Easy enough to get. A rich old married man gets a photo of him with a young woman who is not his wife. Possible, if not easy. The finance bros get ''a bank statement with evidence of fraud''. One of them says "This is a taco that will stand up in court." We are not told how Slowik managed to get his hands on such a thing.
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** Averted when ComicBook/TheJoker was seriously low on funds for multiple episodes thanks to Batman foiling his schemes, leaving him vulnerable to a hated enemy's masterful scheme to humiliate him with a [[OnOneCondition massive inheritance with a ''big'' catch]] in "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE7JokersMillions Joker's Millions]]".
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** Averted when ComicBook/TheJoker [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]] was seriously low on funds for multiple episodes thanks to Batman foiling his schemes, leaving him vulnerable to a hated enemy's masterful scheme to humiliate him with a [[OnOneCondition massive inheritance with a ''big'' catch]] in "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE7JokersMillions Joker's Millions]]".
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* ''[[Franchise/MonsterVerse Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted]]'': For the head of a mere construction company, [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Raymond Martin]] is somehow able to fund cartoonish levels of villainy. He has his own private army, a gigantic base, a HumongousMecha, and he effortlessly bribes every other agency that might interfere with his Titan murder sprees, including ''Monarch itself'', to look the other way.
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** Brian Azzarello's ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'' graphic novel seems to suggest that the Clown Prince is a silent partner/co-owner of a local strip club[[note]]''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' ran with this idea[[/note]] and hires Penguin as a stockbroker to ensure a steady flow of cash. While working with Joker is undoubtedly risky, it's probably also good insurance against anyone who might want to make trouble. Who's going to mess with ''the Joker's'' club? The story also shows that if he needs a quick boost, he just has to walk up to a bank with a picture of the director's daughter.
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** Brian Azzarello's ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'' graphic novel seems to suggest that the Clown Prince is a silent partner/co-owner of a local strip club[[note]]''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' ran with this idea[[/note]] and hires Penguin as a stockbroker to ensure a steady flow of cash. While working with Joker is undoubtedly risky, it's probably also good insurance against anyone who might want to make trouble. Who's going to mess with ''the Joker's'' club? The story also shows that if he needs a quick boost, he just has to walk up to a bank with a picture of the director's daughter.%%
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s longtime foes The Beagle Boys, though [[DependingOnTheWriter not always]]. Lately we often see them more realistically broke, but they've also been seen going after Scrooge [=McDuck=] at sea or elsewhere with special equipment that should probably cost more than the amount of money they were after, when it wasn't Scrooge's entire property. An explanation might have something to do with how they're (rarely) shown as a world-wide criminal organization family of which the Duckburg gang is just a small part, but it still wouldn't make much sense. A possible explanation comes from Italian stories showing they are actually ''formidable'' thieves and only Scrooge or bad luck can stop them, implying they fund their special equipment to go after Scrooge with the loot of other heists.
* Cobra in ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' has enough military hardware to put up a good fight against the U.S. military. The comics do make a much better effort at explaining where their resources come from than the animated series. Cobra is shown being involved in various legitimate, though highly corrupt businesses. They even sell military equipment they themselves designed and built to some shady government officials from small countries, presumably the kind who have little chance of making any deals with the U.S. government.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s longtime foes The Beagle Boys, though [[DependingOnTheWriter not always]]. Lately we often see them more realistically broke, but they've also been seen going after Scrooge [=McDuck=] at sea or elsewhere with special equipment that should probably cost more than the amount of money they were after, when it wasn't Scrooge's entire property. An explanation might have something to do with how they're (rarely) shown as a world-wide criminal organization family of which the Duckburg gang is just a small part, but it still wouldn't make much sense. A possible explanation comes from Italian stories showing they are actually ''formidable'' thieves and only Scrooge or bad luck can stop them, implying they fund their special equipment to go after Scrooge with the loot of other heists.
* Cobra in ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' has enough military hardware to put up a good fight against the U.S. military. The comics do make a much better effort at explaining where their resources come from than the animated series. Cobra is shown being involved in various legitimate, though highly corrupt businesses. They even sell military equipment they themselves designed and built to some shady government officials from small countries, presumably the kind who have little chance of making any deals with the U.S. government.
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** In the graphic novel ''Revenge of the Living Monolith'', the title supervillain is the leader of a centuries-old religious cult that still worships the Pharaohs, and also possesses vast underground bases described as rivaling anything Washington or Moscow could built, fleets of high-tech vehicles that could turn half the world's dictators green with envy and the other half with fear, atomic generators enough to power a city, and consisting of thousands of agents from around the world. The comic never explains how a simple cult acquired such resources.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s longtime foes The Beagle Boys, though [[DependingOnTheWriter not always]]. Lately we often see them more realistically broke, but they've also been seen going after Scrooge [=McDuck=] at sea or elsewhere with special equipment that should probably cost more than the amount of money they were after, when it wasn't Scrooge's entire property. An explanation might have something to do with how they're (rarely) shown as a world-wide criminal organization family of which the Duckburg gang is just a small part, but it still wouldn't make much sense. A possible explanation comes from Italian stories showing they are actually ''formidable'' thieves and only Scrooge or bad luck can stop them, implying they fund their special equipment to go after Scrooge with the loot of other heists.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s longtime foes The Beagle Boys, though [[DependingOnTheWriter not always]]. Lately we often see them more realistically broke, but they've also been seen going after Scrooge [=McDuck=] at sea or elsewhere with special equipment that should probably cost more than the amount of money they were after, when it wasn't Scrooge's entire property. An explanation might have something to do with how they're (rarely) shown as a world-wide criminal organization family of which the Duckburg gang is just a small part, but it still wouldn't make much sense. A possible explanation comes from Italian stories showing they are actually ''formidable'' thieves and only Scrooge or bad luck can stop them, implying they fund their special equipment to go after Scrooge with the loot of other heists.
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** In the graphic novel ''Revenge of the Living Monolith'', the title supervillain is the leader of a centuries-old religious cult that still worships the Pharaohs, and also possesses vast underground bases described as rivaling anything Washington or Moscow could built, fleets of high-tech vehicles that could turn half the world's dictators green with envy and the other half with fear, atomic generators enough to power a city, and consisting of thousands of agents from around the world. The comic never explains how a simple cult acquired such resources.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s longtime foes The Beagle Boys, though [[DependingOnTheWriter not always]]. Lately we often see them more realistically broke, but they've also been seen going after Scrooge [=McDuck=] at sea or elsewhere with special equipment that should probably cost more than the amount of money they were after, when it wasn't Scrooge's entire property. An explanation might have something to do with how they're (rarely) shown as a world-wide criminal organization family of which the Duckburg gang is just a small part, but it still wouldn't make much sense. A possible explanation comes from Italian stories showing they are actually ''formidable'' thieves and only Scrooge or bad luck can stop them, implying they fund their special equipment to go after Scrooge with the loot of other heists.resources.%%
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s longtime foes The Beagle Boys, though [[DependingOnTheWriter not always]]. Lately we often see them more realistically broke, but they've also been seen going after Scrooge [=McDuck=] at sea or elsewhere with special equipment that should probably cost more than the amount of money they were after, when it wasn't Scrooge's entire property. An explanation might have something to do with how they're (rarely) shown as a world-wide criminal organization family of which the Duckburg gang is just a small part, but it still wouldn't make much sense. A possible explanation comes from Italian stories showing they are actually ''formidable'' thieves and only Scrooge or bad luck can stop them, implying they fund their special equipment to go after Scrooge with the loot of other heists.
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* Cobra in ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' has enough military hardware to put up a good fight against the U.S. military. The comics do make a much better effort at explaining where their resources come from than the animated series. Cobra is shown being involved in various legitimate, though highly corrupt businesses. They even sell military equipment they themselves designed and built to some shady government officials from small countries, presumably the kind who have little chance of making any deals with the U.S. government.
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* Cobra in ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' Franchise/MonsterVerse graphic novel ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Raymond Martin]]. For the head of a mere construction company, he's somehow able to fund ''cartoonish'' levels of villainy. He has enough military hardware to put up his own private army, a good fight against the U.S. military. The comics do make gigantic base, a much better effort at explaining where their resources come from than the animated series. Cobra is shown being involved in various legitimate, though highly corrupt businesses. They even sell military equipment they themselves designed HumongousMecha, and built to some shady government officials from small countries, presumably the kind who have little chance of making any deals he effortlessly bribes every other agency that might interfere with his Titan murder sprees, including Monarch itself, to look the U.S. government.other way.
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* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Apex Cybernetics]] have the resources to build a trans-Atlantic underground tunnel system with futuristic car-pods linking their facilities on different continents, and to build a 400-foot-tall HumongousMecha that's armed to the teeth with missiles, rocket launchers, plasma punches and an all-destroying lazer beam.
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* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Apex Cybernetics]] have the resources to build a trans-Atlantic underground tunnel system with futuristic car-pods linking their facilities on different continents, and to build a 400-foot-tall HumongousMecha that's armed to the teeth with missiles, rocket launchers, plasma punches and an all-destroying lazer beam.
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* ''VideoGame/StarWarsKnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': It's mentioned throughout the game that the Sith fleet seems to get bigger by the day and they don't seem to lack for resources. [[spoiler: The source of this wealth is the Star Forge, a massive factory that draws its raw materials directly from the sun it orbits.]]
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* Referenced [[https://www.theonion.com/mad-scientists-plot-thwarted-by-budget-cuts-1819567053 in an article from]] ''Website/TheOnion'', where a MadScientist faces budget cuts in his federal grants, forcing him to get funding by way of mundane scientific research.
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1''. When the main villain, Gru, wants to build a rocket to fly to the Moon, he doesn't have the funds and must get a loan from the Bank of Evil. The Bank denies him the loan until he steals a certain item, putting the events of the movie into motion.
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1''. When the main villain, Gru, wants to build a rocket to fly to the Moon, Moon and steal it, he doesn't have the funds and must get a loan from the Bank of Evil. The Unfortunately, the Bank has been getting annoyed at how few of his previous plots they invested in have actually turned a profit, and it denies him the loan until he steals a certain item, the ShrinkRay central to the heist, putting the events of the movie into motion.
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** In the late 2010 reboot ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'', Cobra is a legitimate worldwide conglomerate with a reach in literally everything from military weaponry to grocery store pies. Their ubiquity is what makes it so hard to get people to believe the heroes when they say Cobra is behind illegal genetic experiments, supplying weapons to foreign enemy countries, and slow (but effective) world domination.
** 2009's ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'' (a more mature/TV-MA take on the classic Joes of the 80s) implies but never outright states that Cobra is funded by basically having their universe's version of Walmart under their control.
** 2009's ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'' (a more mature/TV-MA take on the classic Joes of the 80s) implies but never outright states that Cobra is funded by basically having their universe's version of Walmart under their control.
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** In the late 2010 reboot ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'', Cobra is a legitimate worldwide conglomerate with a reach in literally everything from military weaponry to grocery store pies. Their ubiquity is what makes it so hard to get people to believe the heroes when they say Cobra is behind illegal genetic experiments, supplying weapons to foreign enemy countries, and slow (but effective) world domination.
** 2009's ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'' (a more mature/TV-MA take on the classic Joes of the 80s) implies but never outright statesdomination. It helps that Cobra is funded by basically having their universe's version of Walmart under their control.control. Fortunately, the heroes finally triumph in the GrandFinale, stopping Cobra's plan to use the MASS Device to teleport Bio-Vipers and tanks all over the world (a GodzillaThreshold since the Joes kept derailing Cobra's other plans)...only Cobra Commander [[NotQuiteDead survived the destruction of his mansion]] [[ThisMeansWar and vows to finish the war the Joes started]]. Given Cobra's still-extant assets, it's likely he could've done so... [[CutShort had the show been given another season]].
** 2009's ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'' (a more mature/TV-MA take on the classic Joes of the 80s) implies but never outright states
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*** ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'' is an downplayed example. Wily still has his fortress, but we explicitly see him kidnap the Robot Masters this time around to justify where he got them from. It's also mentioned in the in-game bios that the fortress bosses can't fully utilize the Double Gear system as Wily lacked either the resources or money to build them to use both gears.
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*** ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'' is an downplayed example. Wily still has his fortress, but we explicitly see him kidnap the Robot Masters this time around to justify where he got them from. It's also mentioned in the in-game bios that the fortress bosses can't fully utilize the Double Gear system as Wily lacked either the resources or money to build them to use both gears. During a Twitter ask session to promote the game, he also mentioned that budget restraints are what keeps him from just building a room full of insta-death spikes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsTheNineRealms'': Recurring antagonist Welma Sledkin has an entire lab set up in a mine despite being exiled from Rakke Town, the only settlement on the island. It is never mentioned where she got all the expensive, high-tech equipment from.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Despite being a BasementDweller and living on a teacher's salary, Crocker can somehow afford to build fancy, fairy-finding gadgets. {{Subverted}} in ''Wishology'' when he explains to Mark that he pilfered the school's science fund to build his lab.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Despite being a BasementDweller and living on a teacher's salary, Crocker can somehow afford to build fancy, fairy-finding gadgets. {{Subverted}} in ''Wishology'' when he explains to Mark that he pilfered the school's science fund to build his lab.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Despite being a BasementDweller and living on a teacher's salary, Crocker can somehow afford to build fancy, fairy-finding gadgets. {{Subverted}} in ''Wishology'' when he explains to Mark that he pilfered the school's science fund to build his lab.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Rob is implied to be a MinorLivingAlone or possibly even homeless, yet he's never shown having any problems obtaining whatever he needs for his latest evil scheme, including several bombs.
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* ''Literature/TheLegendOfSunKnight'':
** Usually averted when it comes to bandits and undead. Since society rejects them, they can't buy weapons, clothes, or armor, so they're usually poorly equipped. Sun once identifies a man from a child's testimony as a bandit because he tied his pant legs, a common practice for ill-fitting clothes.
** The Demon King's massive palace, army of loyal soldiers, and sheer amount of stuff comes courtesy of the Cathedral of the Shadow God, a religion that is obligated to provide such things to the Demon King. Silent Eagle mentions that the luxurious palace was created so the Demon Kings would stop trying to steal the other palaces around the world.
** Usually averted when it comes to bandits and undead. Since society rejects them, they can't buy weapons, clothes, or armor, so they're usually poorly equipped. Sun once identifies a man from a child's testimony as a bandit because he tied his pant legs, a common practice for ill-fitting clothes.
** The Demon King's massive palace, army of loyal soldiers, and sheer amount of stuff comes courtesy of the Cathedral of the Shadow God, a religion that is obligated to provide such things to the Demon King. Silent Eagle mentions that the luxurious palace was created so the Demon Kings would stop trying to steal the other palaces around the world.
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''. When the main villain, Gru, wants to build a rocket to fly to the Moon, he doesn't have the funds and must get a loan from the Bank of Evil. The Bank denies him the loan until he steals a certain item, putting the events of the movie into motion.
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''.''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1''. When the main villain, Gru, wants to build a rocket to fly to the Moon, he doesn't have the funds and must get a loan from the Bank of Evil. The Bank denies him the loan until he steals a certain item, putting the events of the movie into motion.
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': [[NGOSuperpower Cerberus]] is absolutely dripping in money. Even in the first game, they had enough money to keep losing research bases full of valuable technicians to [[GoneHorriblyWrong problematic experiments]]; in the second, they built an improved version of a top-secret Alliance frigate (which was said to cost more than a heavy cruiser or ''12,000'' fighters) and, oh yes, ''brought Shepard back to life'' (estimated budget overrun: at least two billion credits), and in the third game they have enough resources to wage open war with the Alliance and Citadel races at certain points. Once unshackled, EDI can explain the basics of where it all comes from; mostly shell corporations and other legitimate interests. They could construct the ''Normandy SR-2'' because they own many of the contractors who built parts for the ''Normandy'' project in the first place. This gets ridiculous in the third game, where they suddenly have entire ''fleets'' of modern warships and an army that can wage open war with galactic governments; [[spoiler:the army is eventually revealed to be a result of hideously unethical brainwashing experiments, and it's also mentioned they had to liquidate a ''lot'' of their assets to wage war on the Citadel. So much so that they had to take over Omega and its eezo mining opperations just to get funding from somewhere]].
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': [[NGOSuperpower Cerberus]] is absolutely dripping in money. Even in the first game, they had enough money to keep losing research bases full of valuable technicians to [[GoneHorriblyWrong problematic experiments]]; in the second, they built an improved version of a top-secret Alliance frigate (which was said to cost more than a heavy cruiser or ''12,000'' fighters) and, oh yes, ''brought Shepard back to life'' (estimated budget overrun: at least two billion credits), and in the third game they have enough resources to wage open war with the Alliance and Citadel races at certain points. Once unshackled, EDI can explain the basics of where it all comes from; mostly shell corporations and other legitimate interests. Miranda's father, an obscenely wealthy man with similar goals to Cerberus, is also said to have been a generous donor. They could construct the ''Normandy SR-2'' because they own many of the contractors who built parts for the ''Normandy'' project in the first place. This gets ridiculous in the third game, where they suddenly have entire ''fleets'' of modern warships and an army that can wage open war with galactic governments; [[spoiler:the army is eventually revealed to be a result of hideously unethical brainwashing experiments, and it's also mentioned they had to liquidate a ''lot'' of their assets to wage war on the Citadel. So much so that they had to take over Omega and its eezo mining opperations operations just to get funding from somewhere]].
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** The endless armies of mooks are supplied by a temp agency run by a man named Jack Hench. [[IncrediblyLamePun They're Hench-Men, get it?]] So long as the bad guys' checks clear, Hench makes sure that the mooks are trained and equipped to the villains' specifications and takes care of all the bothersome administrative work that would distract from evil plots.
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** The endless armies of mooks are supplied by a temp agency run by a man named Jack Hench. [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} They're Hench-Men, get it?]] So long as the bad guys' checks clear, Hench makes sure that the mooks are trained and equipped to the villains' specifications and takes care of all the bothersome administrative work that would distract from evil plots.
