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* '''Parodied''': Emperor Evulz buys increasingly ridiculous things, and they frequently backfire in comical ways.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

** '''Heroic''': Bob is an HonestCorporateExecutive who has a lot of money and other financial assets, and in addition to being a philanthropist, he [[CrimefightingWithCash uses his money to fight crime as a vigilante]].

* '''Straight''': Emperor Evulz owns an improbable fraction of the world's assets. He's capable of buying things that are inconceivable to most people.

* '''Reconstructed''': ...But he successfully pins all his crimes on a [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit Deceased Fall Guy]], liquidates what he can and overall pulls off a masterful KarmaHoudini. He continues his lavish lifestyle on the straight and narrow as a [[TheGreatGatsby Gatsby]]-esque SelfMadeMan with a MysteriousPast.

* '''Straight''': Bob owns an improbable fraction of the world's assets. He's capable of buying things that are inconceivable to most people.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has an ''impossible'' store of liquid assets. If there's anything he wants, even if it belongs to ''aliens'', it will soon belong to him.
* '''Downplayed:''' Bob is rich enough to HandWave ordinary expenses away - he flies all around the world without batting an eyelid, doesn't think twice about driving his top-of-the-range sports car to destruction, etc - but doesn't do anything that would really break WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.
* '''Justified''': Bob lives in a [[TheSingularity post-scarcity economy]].

* '''Subverted''': Bob is a MockMillionaire without a dime of actual cash to his name, and his ConspicuousConsumption is fueled by an [[CreditCardPlot unending line of credit]]...

* '''Parodied''': Bob buys increasingly ridiculous things, and they frequently backfire in comical ways.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's wealth is shown to be everywhere from immense to mediocre to pitiful under varying circumstances.

* '''Invoked''': Bob is a ConArtist who plays the MockMillionaire in order to sponge off people who actually ''do'' have money.
* '''Exploited''': "Wow, did you hear about the inheritance Bob is getting? If I were to soak up just a little bit of his money, I'd never need to work again."
* '''Defied''': Bob becomes unfathomably rich, but then he promptly disposes of all his wealth so people don't think he's [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense too rich for his own good]].

'''Bob''': "Internet."

'''Bob''': "He... I... Er...''[[MST3KMantra Just tell yourself "It's just a show, I really should relax."]]''
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and his lifestyle is shown to be exceedingly hollow, lonely and unfulfilling. His unbelievable expenses are based on a precariously balanced web of deceit, credit fraud, embezzlement and {{Con Artist}}ry that may well be [[CutLexLuthorACheck more work than he'd have to put into an honest job for the same return]].

* '''Double Subverted''': ...because he knows that he's going to receive an endowment that will elevate him to {{Fiction 500}} status proper.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and his lifestyle is shown to be exceedingly hollow, lonely and unfulfilling. His unbelievable expenses are based on a precariously balanced web of deceit, credit fraud, embezzlement and {{Con Artist}}ry that may well be [[CutLexLuthorACheck more work than he'd have to put into an honest job for the same return]].
* '''Reconstructed''': ...but he successfully pins all his crimes on a [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit Deceased Fall Guy]], liquidates what he can and overall pulls off a masterful KarmaHoudini. He continues his lavish lifestyle on the straight and narrow as a [[TheGreatGatsby Gatsby]]-esque SelfMadeMan with a MysteriousPast.

* '''Discussed''': Alice: "Dude, how could you possibly afford that whale circus?" Bob: "Internet."
* '''Conversed''': Alice: "I just don't get it. How can Batman possibly afford [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys all those wonderful toys]]?" Bob: "He...I...Er...''[[MST3KMantra Just tell yourself "It's just a show, I really should relax."]]''

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* '''Subverted''': Bob is a MockMillionaire and his ConspicuousConsumption is fueled by an [[CreditCardPlot unending line of credit]]...

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and his lifestyle is shown to be exceedingly hollow, lonely and unfulfilling...
* '''Reconstructed''': ...until he learns AnAesop about what's important in life, [[CharacterDevelopment becomes]] UnclePennybags, and begins applying his wealth a la CrimeFightingWithCash.

* '''Invoked''': "Hey, when I have the wealth of RichieRich, then I could just buy it!"

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': ...because he knows that he's going to receive an endowment that will elevate him to [[FictionFiveHundred Fiction 500]] status proper.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...because he knows that he's going to receive an endowment that will elevate him to Fiction500 status proper.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...because he knows that he's going to receive an endowment that will elevate him to Fortune 500 status proper.

* '''Subverted''': Bob's ConspicuousConsumption is fueled by an [[CreditCardPlot unending line of credit]]...

* '''Subverted''': Bob's ConspicuousConsumption is fueled by an unending line of credit...

* '''Straight''': A person has money that defies the laws of reality.
* '''Exaggerated''': (It is difficult to exaggerate this trope. No matter exaggerated it is, it is still played straight.)
* '''Justified''': The economy works differently in this story's universe.
* '''Inverted''': The person is so desperately poor that it defies logic.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Yes, I do have a that much money. It almost seems impossible."
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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???