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[[caption-width-right:300:For some reason, sibling series ''Proletariat Pete'' didn't do so hot. Even in Soviet Russia!]]
Richie Rich, often billed as "The Poor Little Rich Boy", debuted in 1953 as a backup character in ''Little Dot''. Richie would later receive his own comic book series in 1960. Eventually, Richie Rich became Creator/HarveyComics' flagship character, appearing in as many as 32 Harvey titles every two months and often [[CrossOver crossing over]] with ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost''.

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, [[SpoiledSweet he's generally depicted as a generous and good-hearted person]].

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 ''Film/HomeAlone'' star 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]].

A direct-to-video sequel to the movie was later released, ''Richie Rich's Christmas Wish'' (1998). It cast Creator/DavidGallagher as Richie and Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg as Gloria.

In 2011, Ape Entertainment published a short-lived revival series which featured Richie and his friends going on globetrotting adventures.

[[Series/RichieRich A live-action Richie Rich series]] premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} in February 2015. There's no Cadbury, no Dollar, no Mrs. Rich, no Gloria, or any other characters from the comics but Irona and Mr. Rich. Richie made his money by, according to the intro, taking all of the vegetables he refused to eat, figuring out how to make a new energy source from them and sold the process for a trillion dollars. He has a sister who seems to hate him, Irona the robot maid who looks like a teenage girl in a French maid's outfit, two friends (Murray, the money manager and Darcy, his money-spending friend who's a girl) and a father who seems developmentally stunted.

In 2019, he returned to television with an appearance on the season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids''. He became a main character in Season 3, which premiered later that year.

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!!''Richie Rich'' contains the following tropes:
%% * AbsentMindedProfessor: Professor Keenbean.
* AgentScully: Richie always writes off any adventures or meetings he has with WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost as dreams.
* AlliterativeName: Names with alliteration in the given name and surname appear often.
** Richie Rich
** Gloria Glad
** Freckles Friendly
** Jackie Jokers
** Mayda Munny.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Upon learning of a poor country where kids can legally get married, Mayda Munny lures Richie there under the pretense of making a movie to help them. Her plan fails because the Justice of Peace, having a real marriage to officiate when Mayda had her "fake" one to Richie, sent his twin brother to perform his role in the "movie".
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Both the Rich family and Rich Enterprises have an endless supply of money. They are supposed to be the wealthiest people on the planet.
* AscendedExtra: Richie started as a supporting character in ''ComicBook/LittleDot''.
* BattleButler: Cadbury. He knows enough fighting skill at times to help Richie in the comics (Website/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".)
* BigFancyHouse: The Rich Mansion is so big, Richie's father had to call long distance to get in touch with his wife in another part of the house. In another case, a team of traffic controllers were hired to make sure people who visited didn't get lost inside it.
* BreakoutCharacter: Richie first appeared in a backup issue for Little Dot. Soon he became so popular that he had his own series and grew to having the most comic series in Harvey Comics.
* BreathWeapon: The Onion, a recurring villain, has onion breath so bad it can ''destroy walls''.
* BrokeEpisode: This series has what appears to be one when Richie overhears his father in his office speaking to other people that he was "wiped out", which Richie took to mean that the Rich family is suddenly without money, and so takes it upon himself to sell the mansion and earn as much money as his family would need to settle down somewhere in their new downgraded social status. However, it turns out that Mr. Rich meant that he had wiped out doing surfing while trying out his new surfing pool.
* CannotTellAJoke: A short story has Cadbury in the next room telling some very old and clichéd jokes, and in his usual stuffy British style of speaking. Gloria is puzzled when she hears laughter, but then Richie takes her into the room and shows her that the laughter is emanating from a "laugh box" that he got for Cadbury so that at least ''someone'' would find his jokes funny.
* CastFullOfRichPeople: Richard $ Rich, Junior, is the son of stupendously wealthy parents, and lives in a sprawling mansion where even the household staff qualify as millionaires. Richie's chief rivals are Reginald Van Dough and Mayda Munny, likewise very wealthy, but also spoiled rotten. As part of Richie's PetTheDog personality, he keeps company with working-class FreeRangeChildren Freckles and Pee-Wee.
* 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 usually includes custom luxury items covered in 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]].
* CrazyPrepared: Richie seems to have a gadget or gizmo up his sleeve to deal with any contingency, more prevalent in the cartoon adaptation. (Most of them invented by Dr. Keenbean.) In one cartoon, when he and Reggie are held hostage by two thugs who searched and disarmed him, he improvises and uses Reggie's practical joke equipment to subdue them.
* CriminalAmnesiac: One issue had Richie suffer a blow to the head while trying to stop a Parisian street gang from mugging a kid, and loses his memories, becoming a [[PintSizedPowerhouse surprisingly strong]] EnfantTerrible. Richie then joins the gang and helps in a robbery on himself. Fortunately, he is restored to normal after suffering yet another blow to the head.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Throughout the comic's run, the name of Richie's hometown was never set in stone. In his appearances in the Little Dot comics, Richie lived in Bonnie Dell. In the later years of the comic, the town is either called Richville or Harveyville. The adaptations tend to go with Richville.
%% * DitzyGenius: The Rich's resident scientist, Professor Keenbean, who invents most of the gizmos Richie uses.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference:
** During the early years of the comic, Richie's mom, Regina Rich had platinum blond hair. But in the later years of the comic, Regina is now a pure blond.
** When Irona first appeared in issue #100, she had a completely different design. In said issue, Irona looked more robotic and lacked her maid outfit.
* {{Fembot}}: Female robot Irona, Richie's robot maid.
* FlintstoneTheming: This universe offers many money-related {{Punny Name}}s and they appear repeatedly for as many jokes as it can get away with.
* {{Fiction 500}}: Wealth that seems to break the laws of reality. The Rich family is on sixth place of 2012's [[http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/fictional-15-12/fictional-15.html Forbes Fictional 15]], just below [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]].
%% * FieryRedhead: Gloria Glad can be this, especially when she scolds Richie for showing off his wealth.
* FlatJoy: In a one-page gag, Richie Rich tells Cadbury a joke which he [Richie] thinks is funny. Cadbury, however, fails to laugh, and even when he goes outside to take a walk, he simply lets out a faint "haw".
* GemEncrusted: Richie's mother, in the comic book. She doesn't load herself down with too many jewels, but she collects them -- fully cut, faceted and polished emeralds, diamonds, rubies, aquamarines the size of baseballs -- and displays them on her dresser like Fabergé eggs.
%% * GentlemanAdventurer:
%% ** Richie, often accompanied by his father, Richard; his butler, Cadbury, or both.
%% ** Cadbury's former employer Sir Ruddy Blighter, in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback]] stories.
%% ** In one comic, Cadbury shows he can keep up with Richie's athletic uncle, Olympus Van Sporting, with very little effort (and Olympus winces at Cadbury's grip).
%% * GoldMakesEverythingShiny
* GoldToothOfWealth: To correct an overbite, Richie fits his dog, Dollar, with gold braces that were so shiny that it blinded would-be robbers and assailants. It's a fitting choice of material for the richest boy in the world.
* GradeSchoolCEO: Richie, in the film version. He's just a kid but has substantial power within his parents' company.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mayda Munny, point blank. She loathes Gloria with a passion simply because Gloria has the one thing she wants most of all but hasn't ever been able to get: Richie's heart.
%% * HappilyMarried: Mr. and Mrs. Rich
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde-haired Richie is undoubtedly the nicest boy you have ever met.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Mr. Rich is the CEO of a massively successful corporation, and is a very kind man.
* IconicOutfit: Richie's black tuxedo and red bow tie is instantly recognisable to readers of this comic book and comic book fans.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Reggie Van Dough's hair is invariably styled in several big lumps that stick out all over his head.
%% * IntergenerationalFriendship: Richie with Cadbury and Keenbean.
%% * ItsAllJunk: Subverted in the live-action movie. It's not the Rich family who thinks the Vault is full of junk...
%% * TheJeeves: Cadbury, Richie's butler.
%% * LateToThePunchline: Cadbury was portrayed as this at one point.
* LiteralMinded: In a comic story, Mayda orders her driver to take her to her private plane and "step on it". The driver assumes Mayda wants him to "step on her private plane".
* LoveTriangle: 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.
* LuckyCharmsTitle: ''Ri¢hie Ri¢h''. Symbol for cent instead of the letter C, yet again pointing to Richie's wealth.
* MadeOGold: They have an entire museum with objects made of gold because they simply want to drive the people of their homeworld crazy with gold.
* MamaBear: Whenever Richie's in a tight situation and he uses his signal watch, in the 1980's animated version, this instinct will cause Irona the robot maid to put her chores aside and fight any baddies that threaten Richie.
* MoneyFetish: Aunt Noovo just loves to swim in her wealth, though she mostly does this for show as she is a very charitable person.
%% * NiceToTheWaiter: Richie's relationship with Cadbury.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Richie Rich and the rest of the characters have remained their respective ages as the comic stories were being developed.
** However, both Richie Rich and Gloria Glad have imagined their adult life with the two being a married couple at least once, albeit somewhat exaggerated:
*** In "Richie's Richie", he imagines being married to Gloria Glad and have a son also named Richie, who looks much like his father but with red hair. In this scenario, Richie Jr. is rather snobbish and overly-pampered. As a result of this imaginary future, Richie decides to "toughen up" by getting dirty and not letting his mother comb his hair.
*** Gloria on the other hand in "Man of Money", imagines living in a mansion married to Richie Rich. However, she imagines being surrounded by ginormous piles of cash in every place in their mansion she encounters.
* 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 (whether it be his cousins or a co-star shooting for a movie). 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.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: Gloria Glad is notorious for always turning down the luxurious gifts Richie offers her. She has lost her temper more than once at Richie's more outrageous stunts with his wealth and he seems unable to remember how much they annoy her. In one story, when she suddenly starts accepting his gifts greedily, it sets off alarm bells with Richie who investigates and learns he is dealing with an impostor who has kidnapped the real Gloria in order to con him out of money. It's probably important to remember that Richie never means to "show off" with his wealth. He just likes Gloria so much, he often wants to express it by buying her expensive gifts. In one story, Mayda Munny secretly gives her rival, Gloria Glad, gifts that supposedly came from Richie Rich, starting off with an expensive doll, to which Gloria says it's a perfect gift -- Mayda not knowing that all those gifts Gloria received were going to be given to charity.
%% * OfficialCouple: Richie and Gloria.
%% * OrWasItADream: This trope tends to happen on Richie's end every time his book crosses over with Casper.
* PedestrianCrushesCar: In one story, Irona the robot maid (female design) is on a date with Steelo, a male-design robot, when a car tries to run the red light while they are crossing and in the way. No effect on the robots. The car is comprehensively totaled. This being a kid's comic book, the driver is [[NeverSayDie merely stunned]].
%% * PorkyPigPronunciation: Richie has trouble pronouncing "ventriloquist".
%% * ThePrankster: Reggie Van Dough.
%% ** NotMeThisTime: One of the Hanna-Barbera episodes had Reggie accused of a practical joke, and he used this line [[spoiler:and that once it really wasn't]].
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* ProtagonistTitle: ''Richie Rich''. The comic book is named after its title character.
* PunnyName: Mayda Munny (made of money) and Aunt Noovo Rich (nouveau riche).
%% * RepetitiveName
%% * {{Revival}}: TheMovie sort of counts, but the [[http://ape-entertainment.com/comics/licensed-properties/richie-rich/ new Richie Rich comic]] definitely counts.
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%% Sort of counts? Examples are not arguable.
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%% * RichBitch: Mayda Munny. While Gloria is middle-class, she's a very nice girl. Mayda, who is rich, definitely isn't.
%% * RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Mayda Munny (Rich Suitor) and Gloria Glad (Poor Suitor) to Richie. Well, Gloria isn't exactly poor, but compare her to either Richie or Mayda.
%% Whose suitors are they? How their wealth affects the plot?
* RipVanWinkle: In one story, Richie dreams of waking up years in the future, wearing a TimePassageBeard, to star in a Jackie Jokers version of "This Is Your Life" where he sees all his friends, family members, and even enemies as older people.
%% * RoadSignReversal
* RobotMaid: Irona is a [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids Super Powered Robot Maid]] and [[DoAnythingRobot she can do any work]] in the household.
%% Doubles as a RobotBuddy, FunnyRobot (especially in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, where she talks in RoboSpeak).
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: The Rich family are the wealthiest people on the planet, yet they also seem to have the greatest moral compass when it comes to being overall decent.
%% ** ''do not'' try to bribe Cadbury. ''Ever.]]''
* SeriousBusiness: In one story, the Riches watch a cooking show hosted by someone who claims to be the world's greatest chef. Chef Pierre is so angry, he actually charges down to the studio and challenges the other chef to a CookingDuel (Pierre wins).
* SpoiledBrat:
** Richie's cousin Reggie, who is often seen as being self-centered, rude to his servants, and plays mean pranks.
** Mayda Munny is shown to be rather vain, selfish, and will scheme to get what she wants.
* SuperDickery: While Richie's a nice boy in canon, a lot of comic covers portray him blatantly flaunting his wealth over the less fortunate. ''Blog/OccupyRichieRich'' takes this and [[CrapsackWorld runs with it.]]
* TalkingLightbulb: The villain Dr. N-R-Gee is a human being with a lightbulb for a head. In his origin story, he was a scientist who was trying out an electric head scratcher with an experimental power generator that somehow electrocuted him, and when he came to, he found out that his head has been replaced with a head-sized lightbulb.
%% * TechnoWizard: Professor Keenbean.
* TimePassageBeard: In one story, Richie has a RipVanWinkle dream where he wakes up years in the future wearing a beard.
* UnclePennybags: Richie and his parents are the world's richest people, but they, especially Richie, are all truly kind and caring people.
* UndyingLoyalty: Try to bribe Cadbury and you're entering BullyingADragon territory. Emphasized in one story where a foreign government did it [[SecretTestOfCharacter to test him]] because they wanted to offer him a position as Prime Minister; he ''turned down the offer'' because he felt the test only showed he was needed in his current job.
%% * UptownGirl: He has more money than the mint, Gloria is just a middle-class kid.
%% Are they in love? Are they a couple?
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* TheVoiceless: Peewee doesn't talk. He has thought balloons or his "word" balloons might have "?" or "!". More often than not, his ''actions'' speak for him.
* WealthsInAName: Nomen est omen. Wealthy people have names that hint at their financial status.
** Richie Rich just screams that this kid comes from money.
** Richie has a dog named Dollar. He's a pampered pet who happens to have dollar signs on his fur instead of spots.
** Richie's snobby cousin named Reggie van Dough (as in slang for cash). As extremely wealthy as Richie's family branch.
** A RichBitch friend named Mayda Munny ("made of money").
* WritersCannotDoMath: In a one-page comic, Reggie donates $5 to an orphanage, while Richie does the "penny doubled for 30 days" trick as his donation. According to the story, the final doubling amounts to $3,368,699.12, although the actual amount is $5,368,709.12 for the 30th day alone. If he contributed for each previous day as well, then the total contributed becomes $10,737,418.23.
* YouthfulFreckles: Reggie has these, but they're usually drawn big enough to look like some ghastly form of acne, presumably to hint at his deporable personalty.
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