History Main / UnclePennybags

* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Deconsructed with Victor Reynolds, one of the wealthiest men in all of Britain and the president of a major bank. His grandchildren Thomas and Mary are cruel {{Spoiled Brat}}s as a result of him always saying yes to their whims, [[spoiler: and when he finds this out, he's disgusted by them and refuses to fund them any longer]].

* Arthur Fortune was a one-episode character on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (specifically, the episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"). He's exactly like this. He may have been an allusion to Arthur Bach, the titular character of the 1981 movie ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'' or RealLife adventurous billionaire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_branson Richard Branson.]]

* Richard Series/{{Castle}}, best-selling mystery novelist and unofficial volunteer consultant for the NYPD. If a problem can be solved by throwing money at it, he never hesitates to reach for his wallet, and he throws great parties for his friends. This becomes plot-relevant every now and then when he contributes large sums of cash to police investigations that couldn't move forward without a budget, such as [[spoiler:setting a sting for the hired assassin who killed Beckett's mother]].

* The main characters' ludicrously wealthy friend in ''Film/{{Benchwarmers}}'' is implied to keep $1 billion on his person, and uses his colossal money to build his friends a baseball stadium.

* Daniel Clamp, of ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', was originally going to be a thoroughly-unlikable character (and, as the name implies, a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody]] of Donald Trump). The actor, John Glover, apparently sick of being TypeCast as the CorruptCorporateExecutive, talked the director into letting him play the character as this trope.

* Souichirou Mikuni from ''Anime/CControl''. Granted, he [[AntiVillain may not be all nice]], and he's not cheery and sociable per se, but he's still much nicer than everyone else with his kind of money.

* In ''Literature/RebuildWorld'', Akira foots the bill for Sheryl's gang on multiple occasions, such as paying for new clothes for Sheryl to help her with relic negotiations and laying down some cash for Sheryl to feed the younger orphans good food and teach them to read and write. While this is largely selfishly motivated due to his belief that these actions will either make him money or give him better luck, it also shows that he's not as stingy or unreasonable as he appears.

* Just about every single Creator/PGWodehouse protagonist, and most of their friends. Of particular note are Bertie Wooster, his Aunt Dahlia, and the Earl of Emsworth.
** Although Bertie's stories rarely have him in direct contact with the working class, he's shown to be generous whenever the opportunity arises, and he's established as a general tipper. The best example of this is probably in the novel ''Joy in the Morning'', in which Bertie, discovering that it is [[TheJeeves Jeeves]]' birthday, insists on buying him a present, which Jeeves informs him is not required or expected. Relenting, Jeeves admits that he would very much appreciate a certain volume of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, which Bertie somehow assumes is an exciting detective novel. He's also repeatedly shown to have no problem at all with members of his own social class (usually Bingo Little) wanting to marry commoners, which puts him at odds with the more conservative characters.

* Charles Dickens was fond of this trope. See the Cheeryble brothers in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', John Jarndyce in ''Bleak House'', and of course Ebenezer Scrooge after his reformation. And Scrooge had an example in his first employer, Fezziwig.

* In ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'', Akira foots the bill for Sheryl's gang on multiple occasions, such as paying for new clothes for Sheryl to help her with relic negotiations and laying down some cash for Sheryl to feed the younger orphans good food and teach them to read and write. While this is largely selfishly motivated due to his belief that these actions will either make him money or give him better luck, it also shows that he's not as stingy or unreasonable as he appears.