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** Thingol, King of Doriath in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. Put it this way: Elros and Elrond split up his money. Elros used his half to build a fleet and then a ginormous palace. Elrond used his half to build Rivendell. And that was after the dwarves had raided Thingol's treasury because he refused to pay them for their work making the Nauglamir. Which was also gone by the time Elrond and Elros got there. Basically, the guy was loaded. But, as per usual in Tolkien's stories: this ended up badly for him. In the same book: apparently the Noldor took quite a bit of cash with them when they went to Middle Earth (presumably in the form of jewelry and weaponry). Gondolin, the city founded by King Turgon, was said to be the largest and most beautiful city in Middle Earth, although "a pale reflection of Elven Tirion in the Undying Lands"(where, of course, you don't need money to have cool stuff). Given the size of Minas Tirith, Gondolin must have been eye-poppingly huge. Ost-in-Edhil, aka Moria, was apparently also a very wealthy city and some of it's wealth can be seen in Lothlorien.

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Willy Wonka owns the world's largest chocolate factory (so big it has an entire subterranean river system made from liquid chocolate) and develops things like teleportation just to boost his advertising revenues. At one time he had a huge human workforce that he spontaneously sacked in its entirety due to industrial espionage issues (severance pay, anyone?); he then imported ''an entire unknown nation of people IN SECRET'' just to staff his factory, and had ''enough cash stockpiled to allow him to do this while the factory was closed and he was receiving no income''. Better yet, he pays the Oompa-Loompas wages not in money but in leftover cacao beans, so every penny spent on a Wonka bar goes straight to him! While Wonka tends to laugh a lot, he laughs ''really'' hard in [[Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator the sequel]] when Charlie's family is concerned about money, telling them he "has ''plenty'' of ''that!''"
** In the [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2013 stage musical adaptation]], Sir Robert Salt -- SpoiledBrat Veruca's dad and a billionaire himself -- questions Wonka as to the "point" of the elaborate Chocolate Room, as only its waterfall (which mixes the chocolate river's contents) seems to have a practical, money-making application. As it turns out, the rest of the room was created ''solely as a personal, private work of art''; Wonka is a firm believer in the concept of DoingItForTheArt and prefers to use his fortune in the service of creating new things (if only for himself) rather than conventional ConspicuousConsumption.

* ''Fanfic/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'': Kasumi Lee is acknowledged InUniverse as the richest woman in New York, and it shows. She owns a BigFancyHouse with its own backyard pool and an ''onsen'', and in the chapter Adventures in Babysitting, [[spoiler:she's able to pay off a man's $20,000 debt to Hun.]]
* In the ''Manga/LoveHina'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ContractLabor'', it's revealed that, as a princess of Molmol, Su is so ludicrously wealthy that she's able to help produce {{hentai}} ''{{doujinshi}}'' manga and finance a vanilla (romantic non-violent) hentai translation group to post said ''doujinshi'' online with nothing more than her ''lunch money''.
* It's generally held as fanon that [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Weiss Schnee]] is ''loaded''. Hey, when your family is the leading source of the AppliedPhlebotinum, and said Phlebotinum is needed to fight the endless armies of Grimm, and is implied to be the ''only'' fuel source for everything, you'd have a lot of cash.
* There are [[FandomSpecificPlot numerous]] ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fics out there where, in addition to his already sizeable inheritence, Harry inherits even more money from Sirius Black (and often several fortunes from other ancestors such as Merlin and Gryffindor that weren't included in his original inheritance for some reason). It's not uncommon for him to have more gold in his vault than exists on planet Earth, mined or still in the ground (Though that's probably more because fanfic writers [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale don't know how few gold atoms actually exist on Earth]], rather than to invoke this trope.) Some stories also have 'Potter family investments', which tend to be very long-term investments in very profitable companies. Though it's also common for fics to have the Potter wealth to be not nearly as large as it ought to be, on the premise that James Potter personally bankrolled the entire war against Voldemort until his murder.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10487060/12/Ben-10-Omniharem-10 Ben 10: Omniharem 10]]'', Ben [[SecretlyWealthy reveals]] that when he was ten years old, he used [[ImprobablyHighIq Grey Matter]] to file a high successful, multi-million dollar cease and desist lawsuit against the creators of [[ShowWithinAShow Super Alien Hero Buddies]] for illegally using the likeness of [[PlayingWithFire Heatblast]], [[SuperStrength Four Arms]], and [[AngryGuardDog Wildmutt]]. Add in the fact that Ben still regularly uses Grey Matter to handle and increase his fortune, and you have Ben Tennyson as one of the most (if not ''the most'') wealthiest people on the planet.
* Jonathan Long in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12333092/1/American-Loaded-Dragon-Jake-Long American Loaded Dragon: Jake Long]]'' is the owner of Long Enterprises, a billion dollar company that specializes in, well, just about everything, which makes Jonathan one of the wealthiest men in the country, maybe even the world. A minor example of how rich the family is is that Jake's "allowance" allows him to replace a broken vase worth several hundred dollars.
* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': The human version of resident BigGood Celesto is a retired billionaire astronaut who owns part of the island the protagonists live on (including the school they attend), has adopted the human counterparts of Starfleet, and owns a limousine that can turn into a rocket.
* Corporations and their owners practically embody this trope in ''Fanfic/BoopTheSnootForCriticalDamage'' given how ludicrous their investments and overall stocks are. Handsome Jack, as the owner of Hyperion, makes 80 '''''quadrillion''''' on a quarterly basis. The Schnee family used to own their own planet and the garden of their mansion had its own mini-mansion according to Weiss. Angel, despite no longer being with Hyperion, siphoned a few hundred billion dollars in seed money to start her own business. Oh, and she also legally owns the '''entire planet of Pandora'''.
* ''Fanfic/MyDriverAcademia'': In the sequel ''Decimo Either Way'', the Midoriyas are obscenely wealthy. In addition to the wealth Momo brings in, several of the other parents have successful and highly-profitable companies. There's also all the royalties that comes in.

** Seto Kaiba has so much money he can [[TropeNamer screw]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney the rules]] on a regular basis. He managed to become owner and CEO of an entertainment company (that until he took over also manufactured high-tech ''weapons'') and his brother's legal guardian without graduating high school. He also built a card game-themed amusement park, and pioneered advanced holographic technology (and repeatedly improved up on it) just to improve a card game. Later, he founds an entire school to teach more about the game. At one point in season 4, he needs a car, so he and Mokuba find one and get in ([[FridgeLogic never mind how they got the keys]]). As the car comes on, a salesman rushes over, frantic and demanding to know what they're doing. Even as the man rants, Kaiba ''whips'' out a checkbook ''extremely dramatically'', scrawls something, and tells the man to keep the change as they drive away. The distraught salesman frets that he's ruined, RUINED... until he looks down at the $500,000 check. While not ''quite'' so large a number as this trope normally deals with, the sheer attitude with which this example was done makes it rather noteworthy.
** By the time of ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', Kaiba is pretty much undeniably this; he owns all of the rather large metropolitan area of Domino City and at least one sophisticated space station that exists mostly for personal purposes, suggesting his total wealth to be in the trillions at minimum. This isn't even getting into the tech he's been putting out, including a full-dive massively-online VirtualReality system invented in 1999.

** ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': T'Challa was an example until Doctor Doom pulled some crap. T'Challa is king of Wakanda, meaning he legally controls the trade and distribution of [[{{Unobtainium}} Vibranium]] (Captain America's shield is made of that stuff and Adamantium), and according to the comics, Vibranium costs $10,000 ''per gram''. According to ''Doomwar'' #1, the Wakandan vaults have 10,000 tons of it. Do the math: it's all worth ''$9.7 trillion'', more than the GPA of the nonfictional world. Unfortunately, a plot by Doctor Doom to loot the Vibranium forced T'Challa to use a failsafe that rendered the stockpile inert and potentially worthless, but that doesn't mean it will always be. While not quite as loose with his money as Iron Man or Angel, he's also used his wealth to make a few pretty significant contributions over the years. Case in point: he provided the Avengers with their first Quinjet, and continued to provide more advanced versions of the craft for a number of years.

** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Anthony (Tony) Edward Stark. Even without any funds, he's a gadgeteer genius who managed to build the Iron Man suit out of, basically, tin cans and string. That said, having loads of ''spare'' suits, many built in a lab in his own house most definitely counts. As does having a fully automated production facility in his garage that can build him another one in 5 hours. Case in point: Comicbook/SpiderMan thinks they should all get armor. [[http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c166/Ennead13x/Western%20Comic/Picture1-1.png Tony responds by asking if Spidey has seven billion dollars.]] And in ''Mini-Marvels'' Tony ''does'' give everyone powered armor just to prove how awesome he is. He also keeps fully working versions of previous armors in a trophy room, has destroyed them to keep them out of enemy hands, and apparently rebuilt them for the unlikely occasions when they'd come in useful in the future. Tony's ridiculous fortune is lampshaded in the pages of ''Avengers'' Vol. 4:

** ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': As of The ComicBook/New52, Oliver Queen is one too. While he already had Queen Industries, he was nowhere near the level of Wayne Enterprises or [=LexCorp=]. Now, Q-Core, his current financial endeavor, is Wayne Ent.'s main competition in the technology sector and basically the [=DCU's=] equivalent of [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Apple]].

** ''The Green Team: Boy Millionaires'': The only prerequisite for joining the Green Team is one million dollars. The boys paid fortunes to anyone who could offer them a worthy adventure. In their first and only (at the time) published story, they funded the "Great American Pleasure Machine", a sort of roller coaster ride that brings so much pleasure, it drives the villain of the piece insane. As a [[{{Textplosion}} text page]] in ''1st Issue Special'' #2 (May 1975) explained, their jumpsuit uniforms had many pockets for money, with special locks, and they carried ticker-tape wristwatches, a chain of keys that would unlock any of their many labs and money vaults in far-flung lands, and a quarter-million dollars each that any of them could whip out at any time in the name of adventure.

** ''The Green Team: Boy Millionaires'': The only prerequisite for joining the Green Team is one million dollars. The boys paid fortunes to anyone who could offer them a worthy adventure. In their first and only (at the time) published story, they funded the "Great American Pleasure Machine", a sort of roller coaster ride that brings so much pleasure, it drives the villain of the piece insane. As a text page in ''1st Issue Special'' #2 (May 1975) explained, their jumpsuit uniforms had many pockets for money, with special locks, and they carried ticker-tape wristwatches, a chain of keys that would unlock any of their many labs and money vaults in far-flung lands, and a quarter-million dollars each that any of them could whip out at any time in the name of adventure.

** [[BunnyEarsLawyer Director]] [[WorldsBestWarrior Cyrano]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonScarlettAndViolet''. He remarks that the Blueberry Academy and its famous Terarium cost an immense amount of money to build and maintain, leaving many to wonder how wealthy this man might be.