History ComicBook / RichieRich

%% * HonestCorporateExecutive: Mr. Rich.

%% * PunnyName:
%% ** Mayda Munny.
%% ** Aunt Noovo Rich.

%% * RichBitch: Mayda Munny.
%% * RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Mayda Munny (Rich Suitor) and Gloria Glad (Poor Suitor). Well, Gloria isn't exactly poor, but compare her to either Richie or Mayda.

%% * UnclePennybags: Richie and his parents.

* ConspicuousConsumption: Boy howdy! The entire Rich family flaunts their wealth in absurdly exaggerated and hilarious ways, as a glance at even the cover of any issue will show. In many cases it’s practically the only joke. This often includes custom luxury items covered on gold and jewels, or designed to look like dollar signs or other currency signifiers, just to reinforce the connection to wealth. On at least one occasion Richie pointed out to his mother how impractical much of this was, such as in the case of a washcloth [[AwesomeButImpractical so encrusted with jewels that you scratch your face when you try to wash with it]].

* ConspicuousConsumption: Boy howdy! The entire Rich family flaunts their wealth in absurdly exaggerated and hilarious ways, as a glance at even the cover of any issue will show. This often includes custom luxury items designed to look like dollar signs or other currency signifiers, just to reinforce the connection to wealth.

Derivative works include two AnimatedSeries. [[WesternAnimation/RichieRich1980 The first]], produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, marked the voice acting debut of Creator/NancyCartwright as [[https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Gloria_Glad Gloria Glad]], and [[WesternAnimation/RichieRich1996 the second series]] was produced by Creator/FilmRoman. Later, Creator/WarnerBros released a [[Film/RichieRich 1994 feature film]]. The film cast Creator/MacaulayCulkin as Richie and Stephi Lineburg as Gloria. The film initially only earned $38,087,756 in the United States market. It was the 37th most successful film of its year, but just barely covering its budget, until coming out on VHS and making an additional $125 million in rentals and sales. Just before the movie was released, the ''Richie Rich'' comics [[FranchiseKiller temporarily stopped being published]].

* TimePassageBeard: In once story, Richie has a RipVanWinkle dream where he wakes up years in the future wearing a beard.

* GoldTooth: Richie Rich had his dog, Dollar, fitted with gold braces to correct an overbite problem that he had, which were so shiny that it blinded would-be robbers and assailants. It also attracts the attention of a female dog, which made Dollar refuse having his braces removed until he was passed over for another male dog.

* TriangRelations: Richie has two admirers. Gloria's a sweet, kind, middle-class girl. Mayda Munny's a vain, selfish, foul-tempered, wealthy girl. Richie only has eyes for Gloria.

The stories feature the adventures of the titular character, Richie $ Rich (yes, his middle name is indeed a dollar sign), the world's richest boy. Born into a fantastically wealthy family, Richie lives in a lavish mansion and owns at least two of everything that money can buy. Despite this, he's generally depicted as a generous and good-hearted person.

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* BattleButler: Cadbury. He knows enough fighting skill at times to help Richie in the comics (Wiki/TheOtherWiki notes, "When need demands, however, he becomes a tough, gun-toting man of action"). Butler Cadbury has a lot of other skills which come in handy. One of Richie's uncles, the athletic Olympus Van Sporting, thinks glumly, "With that butler around, who needs me?" (One of Cadbury's skills involved mountain climbing... without gear, in his butler uniform. He'd also given Olympus a CrushingHandshake, where out of earshot, Olympus [[UnderestimatingBadassery dismissed him]] as a "sissy butler".)

** Richie has a dog named Dollar. He's a pampered pet.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Happened a few times in earlier stories, Gloria Glad tends to assume that Richie Rich is cheating on her when she sees him with another girl. Richie Rich tries to tell her what was really going but she refuses to listen and slams the door on his face but later makes up after realizing her mistake. In one story, when Richie Rich was unexpectedly going with another girl, he was well aware that Gloria will assume that he is cheating on her with another girl and puts in his best efforts to hide himself from her.