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* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': Hari Vallalkozo(the series initial BigBad) is the richest man in the world, and Douglas Zemeckis (who takes over the BigBad role later) the second richest. Their exact fortunes are never given, but in the final album (while deciding if she still wants to Marry Zemeckis or not) [[GoldDigger Ursula]] mentions the fourth richest person has ''only'' 30 billion dollars.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': Hari Vallalkozo(the Vallalkozo (the series initial BigBad) is the richest man in the world, and Douglas Zemeckis (who takes over the BigBad role later) the second richest. Their exact fortunes are never given, but in the final album (while deciding if she still wants to Marry Zemeckis or not) [[GoldDigger Ursula]] mentions the fourth richest person has ''only'' 30 billion dollars.
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* ''Series/TheWestWing'': In the penultimate episode C.J. Cregg is approached by a technology mogul named Franklin Hollis who's said to have bought a private island and "most of" Montana, but apparently still has enough money left over to offer C.J. ''$10 billion'' to start a relief foundation.
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** Dragons are known for their massive treasure hoards, a trait inspired by ''Literature/TheHobbit.'' They're also known for their ability to slaughter the many, many adventurers who try to kill them and take their stuff.
** Abbathor, the dwarven god of greed and wealth, is the TokenEvilTeammate of the dwarven pantheon. He's so rich that he manifests as a dwarf made of precious metals and stones, and his temples often contain vast hoards of wealth.
** Abbathor, the dwarven god of greed and wealth, is the TokenEvilTeammate of the dwarven pantheon. He's so rich that he manifests as a dwarf made of precious metals and stones, and his temples often contain vast hoards of wealth.
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* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', the Yozakuras are wealthy enough to have a mansion, ridiculously advanced spy tools, and have their estate guarded by a massive array of booby traps and drones. None of these things seem to dent their bottom line and their living room is filled with bags of cash from payments and missions. Sound drama clips specify that in addition to mission pay, the Yozakuras maintain a vast network of investments that Mutsumi manages to ensure the Yozakuras' continued financial stability. In the same conversation, Mutsumi mentions buying ''planes'' for the family with the same tone as someone listing stuff for their grocery list.
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** This was later {{retconned}} to exclude one company (later two): Mann Co. and Gray Gravel. Mann Co. is the arms dealer for both teams, which has the largest stockpile of Australium [[note]][[GreenRocks gold that makes you super-intelligent and super-masculine]][[/note]] in the world. Gray Gravel, on the other hand, has an army of robot mercenaries that are [[MoneySpider powered by money]].
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** This was later {{retconned}} to exclude one company (later two): Mann Co. and Gray Gravel. Mann Co. is the arms dealer for both teams, which has the largest stockpile of Australium [[note]][[GreenRocks gold that makes you super-intelligent and super-masculine]][[/note]] [[GreenRocks Australium]] in the world. Gray Gravel, on the other hand, has an army of robot mercenaries that are [[MoneySpider powered by money]].
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* Tatsuya Himekawa of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' may be a delinquent, but he still comes from a wealthy banking family, allowing him to finance some of the group's wilder plans if needed. Apparently his monthly allowance is in the hundred-thousands and he considers spending millions pocket change. To date he has: owned the top seven floors of an expensive high rise apartment complex, converted several apartments on one floor into a giant gaming center, bought an entire gaming company on a whim so he and his pals could win against magically-cheating opponents, and spent several million on [[spoiler: a demon-sealer]] that he always planned to destroy in the end. He also has access to what is assumed to be a ''very'' expensive penthouse in a resort location. And his family owns an island shaped like a pompadour whose sole purpose is to produce Himekawa's hair gel.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Byakuya Kuchiki is apparently ridiculously wealthy. His pre-time skip scarf alone is worth the price of ten mansions... and in Japan, mansions are fantastically expensive. And that's just an item of clothing he wears every day and is willing to wear into battle. After the time skip, he gets a custom captain's haori made, and the gold piping down the edges is apparently insanely expensive, costing as much as three sheets of expensive silk cloth. He wears that into battle, too. Byakuya really does have money to burn.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Byakuya Kuchiki is apparently ridiculously wealthy. His pre-time skip scarf alone is worth the price of ten mansions... and in Japan, mansions are fantastically expensive. And that's just an item of clothing he wears every day and is willing to wear into battle. After the time skip, he gets a custom captain's haori made, and the gold piping down the edges is apparently insanely expensive, costing as much as three sheets of expensive silk cloth. He wears that into battle, too. Byakuya really does have money to burn.
* In ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'', LonelyRichKid Antonia has an army of maids and a personal aircraft carrier. In Episode 11, though, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she really shows how this trope is done]].
-->'''Antonia:''' [[spoiler: It's shopping time! I want a rocket! And I want it NOW!]]
* Claire Kokonoe from ''Manga/ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub''. In the first episode, it's stated that she has as little chance of running out of money as a tap left on does of running out of water. For example, if she needs an eraser, her immediate reaction is to buy a stationery store.
-->'''Antonia:''' [[spoiler: It's shopping time! I want a rocket! And I want it NOW!]]
* Claire Kokonoe from ''Manga/ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub''. In the first episode, it's stated that she has as little chance of running out of money as a tap left on does of running out of water. For example, if she needs an eraser, her immediate reaction is to buy a stationery store.
* In ''Anime/CTheMoneyAndSoulOfPossibility'', Mikuni has enough money to single-handedly shoulder Japan's national debt. Note that due to the show's premise, a lot of characters can fall into this trope (the protagonist went from a college student struggling to make ends meet to having a bank account of several hundred million overnight), but Mikuni still stands out.
* In ''Anime/DanceInTheVampireBund'', Mina Tepes pays off Japan's entire national debt, which is around 40 TRILLION dollars and does not seem financially hurt in the slightest by it.
** Of course, she already controls enough of the world's resources that the odds are pretty good that she was already indirectly Japan's largest ''creditor'', and being able to openly sponsor the current government is likely a fair trade for canceling a bad debt. Given the amount of shifting goods and companies around this would have entailed, and the justification it would have provided for a thorough corporate housecleaning, she might even have come out ahead on the deal.
* In ''Anime/DanceInTheVampireBund'', Mina Tepes pays off Japan's entire national debt, which is around 40 TRILLION dollars and does not seem financially hurt in the slightest by it.
** Of course, she already controls enough of the world's resources that the odds are pretty good that she was already indirectly Japan's largest ''creditor'', and being able to openly sponsor the current government is likely a fair trade for canceling a bad debt. Given the amount of shifting goods and companies around this would have entailed, and the justification it would have provided for a thorough corporate housecleaning, she might even have come out ahead on the deal.
* In ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', the Count of Monte Cristo's wealth is measured in trillions of francs. It's suggested he might be able to buy and sell less important planets!
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* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'': According to Usami Akihiko, one billion yen is cheap change.
* Hanaukyo Taro of ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam'', in addition to his mansion and army of maids, has enough budget to create a weather-altering machine and a computer that can manipulate all the world's markets when it's completed.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** To say nothing of the ever helpful [[BadassNormal Speedwagon]], who, in between parts ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' and ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', makes it big as an oil tycoon in America. He becomes so successful that he establishes the Speedwagon Foundation, which while primarily having a focus on medical research and wild animal and plant protection, also has a "supernatural research department" which looks into, among other things, Stand users and Vampires; the foundation provides the entire Joestar lineage with all the information and supplies they need for the better part of the next ''century'', meaning Speedwagon's legacy as a supporting character lives on all the way until the end of part 6. The Speedwagon Foundation created portable, weaponized UV-lamps in the 1930's, has provided [[spoiler:submarines]] for the Joestar descendants ''twice'', and looked after [[spoiler:Holly]] with some of the finest doctors in the world, at no expense to the Joestars.
** Rohan Kishibe from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]] earned enough money from writing his hit manga "Pink Dark Boy" that he could buy things like Gucci, Armani and even ''entire mountain ranges'' like a kid buys candy.
* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'': The Hekmatyar family running [[MegaCorp H&C Logistics International]] are fantastically wealthy as their company is essentially an NGOSuperpower. They have their own private army, private satellites and Koko Hekmatyar has the funds necessary to pursue bleeding edge technology in the fulfilment of her secret plan [[TitleDrop "Jormungand"]] which involves [[spoiler: putting over 126 satellites in the sky to prevent aircraft from ever taking off the ground. A massive undertaking to the point where every global player is scared shitless of it, the sanity of doing something like this is questioned in-universe.]]
* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'': According to Usami Akihiko, one billion yen is cheap change.
* [[TheFashionista Kiryuin Ragyo]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' probably qualifies. Literally 100% of ALL clothing on the planet is manufactured by her company, REVOCS [[spoiler:(which is a bad thing, since this clothing is made of parasitic aliens)]]. Ragyo is rich and influential enough that even ''her teenage daughter'' pretty much owns an entire city and a personal army of superpowered students powerful enough to take over other cities, and nobody can do squat about it.
** Also [[EnsembleDarkhorse Kaneo Takarada]] from the same anime even more so, who pretty much owns the whole city of Osaka and whose family is the main rival of the Kiryuins. His troops have weapons that fire money, and his personal mecha seems to be made of (or at least plated with) [[BlingBlingBang gold]]. [[spoiler:This is eventually subverted, as the Takaradas are implied to have lost most of their fortune -- but they did so investing into a CoolShip that proves instrumental to defeating the aforementioned Ragyo and saving the Earth.]]
** To say nothing of the ever helpful [[BadassNormal Speedwagon]], who, in between parts ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' and ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', makes it big as an oil tycoon in America. He becomes so successful that he establishes the Speedwagon Foundation, which while primarily having a focus on medical research and wild animal and plant protection, also has a "supernatural research department" which looks into, among other things, Stand users and Vampires; the foundation provides the entire Joestar lineage with all the information and supplies they need for the better part of the next ''century'', meaning Speedwagon's legacy as a supporting character lives on all the way until the end of part 6. The Speedwagon Foundation created portable, weaponized UV-lamps in the 1930's, has provided [[spoiler:submarines]] for the Joestar descendants ''twice'', and looked after [[spoiler:Holly]] with some of the finest doctors in the world, at no expense to the Joestars.
** Rohan Kishibe from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]] earned enough money from writing his hit manga "Pink Dark Boy" that he could buy things like Gucci, Armani and even ''entire mountain ranges'' like a kid buys candy.
* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'': The Hekmatyar family running [[MegaCorp H&C Logistics International]] are fantastically wealthy as their company is essentially an NGOSuperpower. They have their own private army, private satellites and Koko Hekmatyar has the funds necessary to pursue bleeding edge technology in the fulfilment of her secret plan [[TitleDrop "Jormungand"]] which involves [[spoiler: putting over 126 satellites in the sky to prevent aircraft from ever taking off the ground. A massive undertaking to the point where every global player is scared shitless of it, the sanity of doing something like this is questioned in-universe.]]
* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'': According to Usami Akihiko, one billion yen is cheap change.
* [[TheFashionista Kiryuin Ragyo]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' probably qualifies. Literally 100% of ALL clothing on the planet is manufactured by her company, REVOCS [[spoiler:(which is a bad thing, since this clothing is made of parasitic aliens)]]. Ragyo is rich and influential enough that even ''her teenage daughter'' pretty much owns an entire city and a personal army of superpowered students powerful enough to take over other cities, and nobody can do squat about it.
** Also [[EnsembleDarkhorse Kaneo Takarada]] from the same anime even more so, who pretty much owns the whole city of Osaka and whose family is the main rival of the Kiryuins. His troops have weapons that fire money, and his personal mecha seems to be made of (or at least plated with) [[BlingBlingBang gold]]. [[spoiler:This is eventually subverted, as the Takaradas are implied to have lost most of their fortune -- but they did so investing into a CoolShip that proves instrumental to defeating the aforementioned Ragyo and saving the Earth.]]
* ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'': Astelia is introduced as the granddaughter of the chairman of Novomundos. [[spoiler: She's actually [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] and likely the owner herself]]. Novomundos is powerful enough that she can force the President of the United States into compliance by threatening to have him replaced.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', there's rarely any mention of currency whatsoever, but even by that standard, James's parents are loaded. When they're introduced, their butler brings Ash, Misty, and Brock to their mansion. The property is so large, it takes them hours to get down the driveway. The trio is in awe of the stupendous mansion when they finally arrive, only to be told it's a ''dog house'' (for ''one'' Growlthe) and the real house dwarfs it. A few seasons later, we find out it's not the only property they own, and while the others are modest in comparison, they're still extremely lavish.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Yukishiro Enishi is an arms dealer so ludicrously wealthy that not only did he sell the ''Rengoku'', a battleship powerful enough to blow Meiji-era Tokyo to ruins by itself, to Shishio Makoto, but he owns an ''entire fleet'' of identical battleships.
* In ''Anime/SacredSeven'', Ruri. "We didn't want to go to any trouble, so we just bought the school."
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Yukishiro Enishi is an arms dealer so ludicrously wealthy that not only did he sell the ''Rengoku'', a battleship powerful enough to blow Meiji-era Tokyo to ruins by itself, to Shishio Makoto, but he owns an ''entire fleet'' of identical battleships.
* In ''Anime/SacredSeven'', Ruri. "We didn't want to go to any trouble, so we just bought the school."
* ''Manga/SketDance'': Exaggerated. The Unyuu family is so wealthy that they have an entire city built underneath their already vast mansion, because there's not enough space on the surface. Furthermore, their house is practically self-sufficient, and has its own synthetic weather system, farms, malls, etc. Mimori claims that her family's assets are worth 5 quadrillion yen (approximately 47 trillion USD, or almost ''10 times'' the entire nation of Japan's annual GDP).
* In ''Manga/SpecialA'', almost every single character aside from the Hanazono family is ridiculously and obscenely wealthy, to the point where Kei Takishima slams down a blank check and tells Yahiro to fill in any amount he wants for the house they are currently standing in -- and all he wants is his girlfriend back. In another scene, the Takishima Group Headquarters are portrayed as being several square MILES wide. (This is the fourth positively massive mansion to be shown to be owned by the Takishima's -- and we're not even counting the manga, here.)
* In ''Manga/SpecialA'', almost every single character aside from the Hanazono family is ridiculously and obscenely wealthy, to the point where Kei Takishima slams down a blank check and tells Yahiro to fill in any amount he wants for the house they are currently standing in -- and all he wants is his girlfriend back. In another scene, the Takishima Group Headquarters are portrayed as being several square MILES wide. (This is the fourth positively massive mansion to be shown to be owned by the Takishima's -- and we're not even counting the manga, here.)
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* In ''Anime/CTheMoneyAndSoulOfPossibility'', Mikuni has enough money to single-handedly shoulder Japan's national debt. Note that due to the show's premise, a lot of characters can fall into this trope (the protagonist went from a college student struggling to make ends meet to having a bank account of several hundred million overnight), but Mikuni still stands out.
* In ''Anime/DanceInTheVampireBund'', Mina Tepes pays off Japan's entire national debt, which is around 40 TRILLION dollars and does not seem financially hurt in the slightest by it.
** Of course, she already controls enough of the world's resources that the odds are pretty good that she was already indirectly Japan's largest ''creditor'', and being able to openly sponsor the current government is likely a fair trade for canceling a bad debt. Given the amount of shifting goods and companies around this would have entailed, and the justification it would have provided for a thorough corporate housecleaning, she might even have come out ahead on the deal.
* In ''Manga/SpecialA'', almost every single character aside from the Hanazono family is ridiculously and obscenely wealthy, to the point where Kei Takishima slams down a blank check and tells Yahiro to fill in any amount he wants for the house they are currently standing in -- and all he wants is his girlfriend back. In another scene, the Takishima Group Headquarters are portrayed as being several square MILES wide. (This is the fourth positively massive mansion to be shown to be owned by the Takishima's -- and we're not even counting the manga, here.)
* Hanaukyo Taro of ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam'', in addition to his mansion and army of maids, has enough budget to create a weather-altering machine and a computer that can manipulate all the world's markets when it's completed.
* In ''Anime/SacredSeven'', Ruri. "We didn't want to go to any trouble, so we just bought the school."
* In ''Anime/DanceInTheVampireBund'', Mina Tepes pays off Japan's entire national debt, which is around 40 TRILLION dollars and does not seem financially hurt in the slightest by it.
** Of course, she already controls enough of the world's resources that the odds are pretty good that she was already indirectly Japan's largest ''creditor'', and being able to openly sponsor the current government is likely a fair trade for canceling a bad debt. Given the amount of shifting goods and companies around this would have entailed, and the justification it would have provided for a thorough corporate housecleaning, she might even have come out ahead on the deal.
* In ''Manga/SpecialA'', almost every single character aside from the Hanazono family is ridiculously and obscenely wealthy, to the point where Kei Takishima slams down a blank check and tells Yahiro to fill in any amount he wants for the house they are currently standing in -- and all he wants is his girlfriend back. In another scene, the Takishima Group Headquarters are portrayed as being several square MILES wide. (This is the fourth positively massive mansion to be shown to be owned by the Takishima's -- and we're not even counting the manga, here.)
* Hanaukyo Taro of ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam'', in addition to his mansion and army of maids, has enough budget to create a weather-altering machine and a computer that can manipulate all the world's markets when it's completed.
* In ''Anime/SacredSeven'', Ruri. "We didn't want to go to any trouble, so we just bought the school."
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Byakuya Kuchiki is apparently ridiculously wealthy. His pre-time skip scarf alone is worth the price of ten mansions... and in Japan, mansions are fantastically expensive. And that's just an item of clothing he wears every day and is willing to wear into battle. After the time skip, he gets a custom captain's haori made, and the gold piping down the edges is apparently insanely expensive, costing as much as three sheets of expensive silk cloth. He wears that into battle, too. Byakuya really does have money to burn.
* Claire Kokonoe from ''Manga/ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub''. In the first episode, it's stated that she has as little chance of running out of money as a tap left on does of running out of water. For example, if she needs an eraser, her immediate reaction is to buy a stationery store.
* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'': The Hekmatyar family running [[MegaCorp H&C Logistics International]] are fantastically wealthy as their company is essentially an NGOSuperpower. They have their own private army, private satellites and Koko Hekmatyar has the funds necessary to pursue bleeding edge technology in the fulfilment of her secret plan [[TitleDrop "Jormungand"]] which involves [[spoiler: putting over 126 satellites in the sky to prevent aircraft from ever taking off the ground. A massive undertaking to the point where every global player is scared shitless of it, the sanity of doing something like this is questioned in-universe.]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** To say nothing of the ever helpful [[BadassNormal Speedwagon]], who, in between parts ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' and ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', makes it big as an oil tycoon in America. He becomes so successful that he establishes the Speedwagon Foundation, which while primarily having a focus on medical research and wild animal and plant protection, also has a "supernatural research department" which looks into, among other things, Stand users and Vampires; the foundation provides the entire Joestar lineage with all the information and supplies they need for the better part of the next ''century'', meaning Speedwagon's legacy as a supporting character lives on all the way until the end of part 6. The Speedwagon Foundation created portable, weaponized UV-lamps in the 1930's, has provided [[spoiler:submarines]] for the Joestar descendants ''twice'', and looked after [[spoiler:Holly]] with some of the finest doctors in the world, at no expense to the Joestars.
** Rohan Kishibe from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]] earned enough money from writing his hit manga "Pink Dark Boy" that he could buy things like Gucci, Armani and even ''entire mountain ranges'' like a kid buys candy.
* Tatsuya Himekawa of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' may be a delinquent, but he still comes from a wealthy banking family, allowing him to finance some of the group's wilder plans if needed. Apparently his monthly allowance is in the hundred-thousands and he considers spending millions pocket change. To date he has: owned the top seven floors of an expensive high rise apartment complex, converted several apartments on one floor into a giant gaming center, bought an entire gaming company on a whim so he and his pals could win against magically-cheating opponents, and spent several million on [[spoiler: a demon-sealer]] that he always planned to destroy in the end. He also has access to what is assumed to be a ''very'' expensive penthouse in a resort location. And his family owns an island shaped like a pompadour whose sole purpose is to produce Himekawa's hair gel.
* [[TheFashionista Kiryuin Ragyo]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' probably qualifies. Literally 100% of ALL clothing on the planet is manufactured by her company, REVOCS [[spoiler:(which is a bad thing, since this clothing is made of parasitic aliens)]]. Ragyo is rich and influential enough that even ''her teenage daughter'' pretty much owns an entire city and a personal army of superpowered students powerful enough to take over other cities, and nobody can do squat about it.
** Also [[EnsembleDarkhorse Kaneo Takarada]] from the same anime even more so, who pretty much owns the whole city of Osaka and whose family is the main rival of the Kiryuins. His troops have weapons that fire money, and his personal mecha seems to be made of (or at least plated with) [[BlingBlingBang gold]]. [[spoiler:This is eventually subverted, as the Takaradas are implied to have lost most of their fortune -- but they did so investing into a CoolShip that proves instrumental to defeating the aforementioned Ragyo and saving the Earth.]]
* In ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'', LonelyRichKid Antonia has an army of maids and a personal aircraft carrier. In Episode 11, though, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she really shows how this trope is done]].
-->'''Antonia:''' [[spoiler: It's shopping time! I want a rocket! And I want it NOW!]]
* ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'': Astelia is introduced as the granddaughter of the chairman of Novomundos. [[spoiler: She's actually [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] and likely the owner herself]]. Novomundos is powerful enough that she can force the President of the United States into compliance by threatening to have him replaced.
* In ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', the Count of Monte Cristo's wealth is measured in trillions of francs. It's suggested he might be able to buy and sell less important planets!
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Yukishiro Enishi is an arms dealer so ludicrously wealthy that not only did he sell the ''Rengoku'', a battleship powerful enough to blow Meiji-era Tokyo to ruins by itself, to Shishio Makoto, but he owns an ''entire fleet'' of identical battleships.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', there's rarely any mention of currency whatsoever, but even by that standard, James's parents are loaded. When they're introduced, their butler brings Ash, Misty, and Brock to their mansion. The property is so large, it takes them hours to get down the driveway. The trio is in awe of the stupendous mansion when they finally arrive, only to be told it's a ''dog house'' (for ''one'' Growlthe) and the real house dwarfs it. A few seasons later, we find out it's not the only property they own, and while the others are modest in comparison, they're still extremely lavish.
* ''Manga/SketDance'': Exaggerated. The Unyuu family is so wealthy that they have an entire city built underneath their already vast mansion, because there's not enough space on the surface. Furthermore, their house is practically self-sufficient, and has its own synthetic weather system, farms, malls, etc. Mimori claims that her family's assets are worth 5 quadrillion yen (approximately 47 trillion USD, or almost ''10 times'' the entire nation of Japan's annual GDP).
* Claire Kokonoe from ''Manga/ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub''. In the first episode, it's stated that she has as little chance of running out of money as a tap left on does of running out of water. For example, if she needs an eraser, her immediate reaction is to buy a stationery store.
* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'': The Hekmatyar family running [[MegaCorp H&C Logistics International]] are fantastically wealthy as their company is essentially an NGOSuperpower. They have their own private army, private satellites and Koko Hekmatyar has the funds necessary to pursue bleeding edge technology in the fulfilment of her secret plan [[TitleDrop "Jormungand"]] which involves [[spoiler: putting over 126 satellites in the sky to prevent aircraft from ever taking off the ground. A massive undertaking to the point where every global player is scared shitless of it, the sanity of doing something like this is questioned in-universe.]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** To say nothing of the ever helpful [[BadassNormal Speedwagon]], who, in between parts ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' and ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', makes it big as an oil tycoon in America. He becomes so successful that he establishes the Speedwagon Foundation, which while primarily having a focus on medical research and wild animal and plant protection, also has a "supernatural research department" which looks into, among other things, Stand users and Vampires; the foundation provides the entire Joestar lineage with all the information and supplies they need for the better part of the next ''century'', meaning Speedwagon's legacy as a supporting character lives on all the way until the end of part 6. The Speedwagon Foundation created portable, weaponized UV-lamps in the 1930's, has provided [[spoiler:submarines]] for the Joestar descendants ''twice'', and looked after [[spoiler:Holly]] with some of the finest doctors in the world, at no expense to the Joestars.
** Rohan Kishibe from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]] earned enough money from writing his hit manga "Pink Dark Boy" that he could buy things like Gucci, Armani and even ''entire mountain ranges'' like a kid buys candy.
* Tatsuya Himekawa of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' may be a delinquent, but he still comes from a wealthy banking family, allowing him to finance some of the group's wilder plans if needed. Apparently his monthly allowance is in the hundred-thousands and he considers spending millions pocket change. To date he has: owned the top seven floors of an expensive high rise apartment complex, converted several apartments on one floor into a giant gaming center, bought an entire gaming company on a whim so he and his pals could win against magically-cheating opponents, and spent several million on [[spoiler: a demon-sealer]] that he always planned to destroy in the end. He also has access to what is assumed to be a ''very'' expensive penthouse in a resort location. And his family owns an island shaped like a pompadour whose sole purpose is to produce Himekawa's hair gel.
* [[TheFashionista Kiryuin Ragyo]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' probably qualifies. Literally 100% of ALL clothing on the planet is manufactured by her company, REVOCS [[spoiler:(which is a bad thing, since this clothing is made of parasitic aliens)]]. Ragyo is rich and influential enough that even ''her teenage daughter'' pretty much owns an entire city and a personal army of superpowered students powerful enough to take over other cities, and nobody can do squat about it.
** Also [[EnsembleDarkhorse Kaneo Takarada]] from the same anime even more so, who pretty much owns the whole city of Osaka and whose family is the main rival of the Kiryuins. His troops have weapons that fire money, and his personal mecha seems to be made of (or at least plated with) [[BlingBlingBang gold]]. [[spoiler:This is eventually subverted, as the Takaradas are implied to have lost most of their fortune -- but they did so investing into a CoolShip that proves instrumental to defeating the aforementioned Ragyo and saving the Earth.]]
* In ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'', LonelyRichKid Antonia has an army of maids and a personal aircraft carrier. In Episode 11, though, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she really shows how this trope is done]].
-->'''Antonia:''' [[spoiler: It's shopping time! I want a rocket! And I want it NOW!]]
* ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'': Astelia is introduced as the granddaughter of the chairman of Novomundos. [[spoiler: She's actually [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] and likely the owner herself]]. Novomundos is powerful enough that she can force the President of the United States into compliance by threatening to have him replaced.
* In ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', the Count of Monte Cristo's wealth is measured in trillions of francs. It's suggested he might be able to buy and sell less important planets!
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Yukishiro Enishi is an arms dealer so ludicrously wealthy that not only did he sell the ''Rengoku'', a battleship powerful enough to blow Meiji-era Tokyo to ruins by itself, to Shishio Makoto, but he owns an ''entire fleet'' of identical battleships.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', there's rarely any mention of currency whatsoever, but even by that standard, James's parents are loaded. When they're introduced, their butler brings Ash, Misty, and Brock to their mansion. The property is so large, it takes them hours to get down the driveway. The trio is in awe of the stupendous mansion when they finally arrive, only to be told it's a ''dog house'' (for ''one'' Growlthe) and the real house dwarfs it. A few seasons later, we find out it's not the only property they own, and while the others are modest in comparison, they're still extremely lavish.
* ''Manga/SketDance'': Exaggerated. The Unyuu family is so wealthy that they have an entire city built underneath their already vast mansion, because there's not enough space on the surface. Furthermore, their house is practically self-sufficient, and has its own synthetic weather system, farms, malls, etc. Mimori claims that her family's assets are worth 5 quadrillion yen (approximately 47 trillion USD, or almost ''10 times'' the entire nation of Japan's annual GDP).
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** ComicBook/{{Norman Osborn}}[=/=]Green Goblin is so rich and well connected that he can get himself out of any charges as the Goblin, get a political position with ease, and form his own evil SHIELD army, HAMMER.
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** ComicBook/{{Norman Osborn}}[=/=]Green Goblin is so rich and well connected that he can get himself out of any charges as the Goblin, get a political position with ease, and form his own evil SHIELD army, HAMMER. An alternate version of him, the Ghost Goblin, from Creator/JasonAaron's [[ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron Avengers run]] described himself as "the richest man in the multiverse", with enough cash to bribe Elder Gods.
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* In ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', Gentou Nogizaka bought an island, complete with castle and resort, as well as supersonic jets, for the express purpose of celebrating his daughter's birthday. Beyond that, he has his own private army and ninja maid staff, and apparently spends most of his time with world leaders and intelligence agencies. His father-in-law is retired, but remains outrageously influential: according to Website/TheOtherWiki, "If he wants, all great leaders in the world will gather at one place for a high level conference within three hours."
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* In ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', ''Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', Gentou Nogizaka bought an island, complete with castle and resort, as well as supersonic jets, for the express purpose of celebrating his daughter's birthday. Beyond that, he has his own private army and ninja maid staff, and apparently spends most of his time with world leaders and intelligence agencies. His father-in-law is retired, but remains outrageously influential: according to Website/TheOtherWiki, "If he wants, all great leaders in the world will gather at one place for a high level conference within three hours."
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* In ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'', LonelyRichKid Antonia has an army of maids and a personal aircraft carrier. In Episode 11, though, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she really shows how this trope is done]].
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* In ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'', ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'', LonelyRichKid Antonia has an army of maids and a personal aircraft carrier. In Episode 11, though, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she really shows how this trope is done]].
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* Wrestling/TedDiBiase, ProfessionalWrestling's original "Million Dollar Man". So rich, he would flaunt his wealth by cramming $100 bills down the throats of his fallen opponents until they choked on them -- at which point, his manservant, Wrestling/{{Virgil}}, would take the money back. He lived by the motto, "Everybody's got a price!" and he proved it by, at various points, essentially buying Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff, and Wrestling/{{Tatanka}}. The only man he couldn't buy? Hulk Hogan, who turned down his overtures to buy the WWF Championship for obscene amounts of money. Eventually, he just made his own championship belt, the Million Dollar Belt, a creation of solid gold and diamonds that cost over one million dollars, and which served purely as a monument to his incredible wealth.
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* Wrestling/TedDiBiase, ProfessionalWrestling's original "Million Dollar Man". So rich, he would flaunt his wealth by cramming $100 bills down the throats of his fallen opponents until they choked on them -- at which point, his manservant, Wrestling/{{Virgil}}, would take the money back. He lived by the motto, "Everybody's got a price!" and he proved it by, at various points, essentially buying Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff, and Wrestling/{{Tatanka}}. The only man he couldn't buy? Hulk Hogan, Wrestling/HulkHogan, who turned down his overtures to buy the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF Championship Championship]] for obscene amounts of money. Eventually, he just made his own championship belt, the Million Dollar Belt, a creation of solid gold and diamonds that cost over one million dollars, [[BraggingRightsReward and which served purely as a monument to his incredible wealth.wealth]].
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[[CrossesTheLineTwice Shark fin pastries]], summers on Mars!\\
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[[CrossesTheLineTwice Shark fin Shark-fin pastries]], summers on Mars!\\
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-->Money in the motherfucking jar\\
Shark fin pastry, summers on Mars\\
Twenty motherfuckers in a levitating car\\
747 full of women and cigars\\
Shark fin pastry, summers on Mars\\
Twenty motherfuckers in a levitating car\\
747 full of women and cigars\\
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* Creator/StephenFry's modern retelling of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'', give us the more reasonable £324.000.000, rather than 120 million francs.
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* Creator/StephenFry's modern retelling of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'', ''Literature/TheStarsTennisBalls'', give us the more reasonable £324.000.000, rather than 120 million francs.
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* In Creator/DanielKeysMoran's ''Tales of the Continuing Time'' series, Francis Xavier Chandler, who is the wealthiest person in the Solar System, owns an orbital house which is larger than some of the Belt City-States. It is a huge slowly rotating cylinder with three levels of increasing gravity, roughly 800 rooms and a free fall swimming pool and zero G racquetball court in the center. The gym is usually attached directly to the house, but when someone wants to exercise, the gym and a counterweight are extended 800 meters away from the house, and a motor then spins both of them until earth normal gravity is achieved. The process takes roughly an hour.
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* In Creator/DanielKeysMoran's ''Tales of the Continuing Time'' ''Literature/TalesOfTheContinuingTime'' series, Francis Xavier Chandler, who is the wealthiest person in the Solar System, owns an orbital house which is larger than some of the Belt City-States. It is a huge slowly rotating cylinder with three levels of increasing gravity, roughly 800 rooms and a free fall swimming pool and zero G racquetball court in the center. The gym is usually attached directly to the house, but when someone wants to exercise, the gym and a counterweight are extended 800 meters away from the house, and a motor then spins both of them until earth normal gravity is achieved. The process takes roughly an hour.
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* ''Great Space Battles'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority Terran Trade Authority]] 'verse, from Stewart Cowley's short story collection:
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* ''Great Space Battles'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority Terran Trade Authority]] ''Literature/TerranTradeAuthority'' 'verse, from Stewart Cowley's short story collection:
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* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/IsleOftheDead'', Francis Sandow owns at least one planet, and doesn't know how rich he is. He lost count a long time ago and was never that interested. There's just nothing buyable beyond his means.
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* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/IsleOftheDead'', ''Literature/IsleOfTheDead'', Francis Sandow owns at least one planet, and doesn't know how rich he is. He lost count a long time ago and was never that interested. There's just nothing buyable beyond his means.
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* Creator/JohnVarley’s ''Golden Globe'': Sparky spents most of the book as a {{Hobo}} InSpace. In the end he gets acquitted of murdering his father, and gets some 70 years of profits from the equivalent of Disney. He spends a few billions on a starship and offers a huge bounty for a ColonyDrop on Charon (a [[PlanetOfHats planet of]] [[CardCarryingVillain black hats]]).
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* Creator/JohnVarley’s ''Golden Globe'': ''Literature/GoldenGlobe'': Sparky spents most of the book as a {{Hobo}} InSpace. In the end he gets acquitted of murdering his father, and gets some 70 years of profits from the equivalent of Disney. He spends a few billions on a starship and offers a huge bounty for a ColonyDrop on Charon (a [[PlanetOfHats planet of]] [[CardCarryingVillain black hats]]).
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* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Isle of the Dead'', ''Literature/IsleOftheDead'', Francis Sandow owns at least one planet, and doesn't know how rich he is. He lost count a long time ago and was never that interested. There's just nothing buyable beyond his means.
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* In the German novel ''Eine Billion Dollar'' by Andreas Eschbach, John Salvatore Fontanelli unexpectedly inherits the titular fortune (a trillion dollars in American terms) from a distant ancestor by way of compound interest. Though he tries various things (the East Asian financial crisis of 1997 is ascribed to his failed bid to join the International Monetary Fund), his most impressive feat is to [[spoiler:organize worldwide elections]].
* Laurence E. Dahners likes this. In later books of ''Ell Donsai'' cycle, titular character was characterized to President of USA as USA taxpayer number 1 and she paid all taxes without any attempts to hide them. ((in this case it doesn't really matter if it's her or her company. Origial source of money was from her patent of PGR chips (FTL 2-way communication over any distance [[spoiler:yes, ANY distance. It was tested over insterstellar distances later in series]], ignoring any obstacles). Her main investment was to her new company and new technologies, both by her and (later) by her research team, research team later also gets their share.
* In the novel ''Elliot Allagash'', the titular character comes from a family who own controlling shares in the manufacture of ''paper'', meaning that everything from banknotes to toilet paper gives them an income. Among other huge investments, at one point Elliot sets up an entire youth basketball league just so his friend can join a team.
* Laurence E. Dahners likes this. In later books of ''Ell Donsai'' cycle, titular character was characterized to President of USA as USA taxpayer number 1 and she paid all taxes without any attempts to hide them. ((in this case it doesn't really matter if it's her or her company. Origial source of money was from her patent of PGR chips (FTL 2-way communication over any distance [[spoiler:yes, ANY distance. It was tested over insterstellar distances later in series]], ignoring any obstacles). Her main investment was to her new company and new technologies, both by her and (later) by her research team, research team later also gets their share.
* In the novel ''Elliot Allagash'', the titular character comes from a family who own controlling shares in the manufacture of ''paper'', meaning that everything from banknotes to toilet paper gives them an income. Among other huge investments, at one point Elliot sets up an entire youth basketball league just so his friend can join a team.
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* In the German novel ''Eine Billion Dollar'' ''Literature/EineBillionDollar'' by Andreas Eschbach, John Salvatore Fontanelli unexpectedly inherits the titular fortune (a trillion dollars in American terms) from a distant ancestor by way of compound interest. Though he tries various things (the East Asian financial crisis of 1997 is ascribed to his failed bid to join the International Monetary Fund), his most impressive feat is to [[spoiler:organize worldwide elections]].
* Laurence E. Dahners likes this. In later books of''Ell Donsai'' ''Literature/EllDonsai'' cycle, titular character was characterized to President of USA as USA taxpayer number 1 and she paid all taxes without any attempts to hide them. ((in this case it doesn't really matter if it's her or her company. Origial source of money was from her patent of PGR chips (FTL 2-way communication over any distance [[spoiler:yes, ANY distance. It was tested over insterstellar distances later in series]], ignoring any obstacles). Her main investment was to her new company and new technologies, both by her and (later) by her research team, research team later also gets their share.
* In the novel''Elliot Allagash'', ''Literature/ElliotAllagash'', the titular character comes from a family who own controlling shares in the manufacture of ''paper'', meaning that everything from banknotes to toilet paper gives them an income. Among other huge investments, at one point Elliot sets up an entire youth basketball league just so his friend can join a team.
* Laurence E. Dahners likes this. In later books of
* In the novel
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* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': Hari Vallalkozo(the series initial BigBad) is the richest man in the world, and Douglas Zemeckis (who takes over the BigBad role later) the second richest. Their exact fortunes are never given, but in the final album (while deciding if she still wants to Marry Zemeckis or not) [[GoldDigger Ursula]] mentions the fourth richest person has ''only'' 30 billion dollars.
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* The Unyuu family from ''Manga/SketDance'' is so wealthy that they have an entire city built underneath their already vast mansion, because there's not enough space on the surface. Furthermore, their house is practically self-sufficient, and has its own synthetic weather system, farms, malls, etc. Mimori claims that her family's assets are worth 5 quadrillion yen (approximately 47 trillion USD, or almost ''10 times'' the entire nation of Japan's annual GDP).
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* Daddy Warbucks of ''Comicstrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'', a workaholic who eventually built an industrial complex, first out of making ammunition in World War I. His wealth was estimated at ten billion dollars back when the strip started, an inimaginable amount given it was the 1920s. Was in the top 3 in the first three editions of the ''Forbes'' Fiction 15, topping it all in the last one.
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* In ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'', all twelve of the Seleção are given [[GreenLanternRing magic cell phones]] that they can use to make any request from the "concierge," whether material goods or to cause any event to happen -- essentially a technological GenieInABottle. The cost for these "wishes" are automatically billed against a 10 billion yen limit (that's about $100 million). And all of it was arranged by the mysterious "Mr. Outside", who can apparently just give 12 people 10 billion yen ''each'' without it mattering overly much.
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* In ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'', all twelve of the Seleção are given [[GreenLanternRing [[{{Magitek}} magic cell phones]] that they can use to make any request from the "concierge," whether material goods or to cause any event to happen -- essentially a technological GenieInABottle. The cost for these "wishes" are automatically billed against a 10 billion yen limit (that's about $100 million). And all of it was arranged by the mysterious "Mr. Outside", who can apparently just give 12 people 10 billion yen ''each'' without it mattering overly much.
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** In ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', Wario has a huge castle with apparent walls of gold, treasure and more gold lying around, a huge throne, and in Shake It, ends up with a gold filled, gold walled garage with its own chandelier. He got a planet in the first game for getting all the treasure. Heck, the Mario Spinoffs alone show him with a personal gold mine, multiple stadiums, a colosseum, multiple whole cities and a lot of other stuff. Oh, and the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' games apparently sell thousands, if not millions in copies in the game stories. [[{{Greed}} And he still wants more.]]
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** In ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', Wario has a huge castle with apparent walls of gold, treasure and more gold lying around, a huge throne, and in ''[[VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt Shake It, It]]'', ends up with a gold filled, gold walled garage with its own chandelier. He got a planet in the first game for getting all the treasure. Heck, the Mario Spinoffs alone show him with a personal gold mine, multiple stadiums, a colosseum, multiple whole cities and a lot of other stuff. Oh, and the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' games apparently sell thousands, if not millions in copies in the game stories. [[{{Greed}} And he still wants more.]]
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* Creator/EWilliamBrown's ''Literature/DanielBlackCycle'' main protagonist sometimes looks like this, starting from book 2. If problem CAN be solved by gold, why not just not do this?. If somebody decid they want Daniel's mithril airship and tried to get it force, why not make it possible for them to buy as much mithril as possible, at very good prices?.[[spoiler: Conjuring gold and aluminum takes a lot of mana but if you can create direct matter to mana conversion devices, it's not a problem anymore]]
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* Creator/EWilliamBrown's ''Literature/DanielBlackCycle'' main protagonist sometimes looks like this, starting from book 2. If problem CAN be solved by gold, why not just not do this?. If somebody decid decide they want Daniel's mithril airship and tried to get it force, why not make it possible for them to buy as much mithril as possible, at very good prices?.[[spoiler: Conjuring gold and aluminum takes a lot of mana but if you can create direct matter to mana conversion devices, it's not a problem anymore]]
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* After the [[EternalRecurrence world resets]] to the 101st loop in ''Manga/UndeadUnluck'' and heroine Fuuko Izumo lands in the 1800s, she uses [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit her knowledge of the future]] and the power of the artifacts she finds to become unfathomably rich. In the early 1970s, she's able to casually write a check for $25 billion to fund a revolutionary scientific research project, and implies that it's a tiny fraction of her wealth. (By comparison, the richest man in the real world at that time, J. Paul Getty, had a net worth of about $6 billion.)
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* 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 alot of cash.
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"The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it." (Psalm 24:1)
:: Of course Psalm 115[=:=]6 does say "The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind," but the preceding examples suggest this should be interpreted as "given as a tenancy" and not "given outright ownership of". See also the parable of the tenants reported in the gospels of Matthew (21[=:=]33-41), Mark (12[=:=]1-9) and Luke (20[=:=]9-16).
:: Of course Psalm 115[=:=]6 does say "The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind," but the preceding examples suggest this should be interpreted as "given as a tenancy" and not "given outright ownership of". See also the parable of the tenants reported in the gospels of Matthew (21[=:=]33-41), Mark (12[=:=]1-9) and Luke (20[=:=]9-16).
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In season 4 we are introduced to William Edgars, owner of one of the largest pharmasuitical and research companies in Earth space. When mentioned to Mr. Garibaldi, the first thing that comes to his mind is "Has more money than God, that William Edgars." Mr. Edgars uses his wealth to fund a variety of philanthropic endeavors and a number of special side projects, such as [[spoiler: a project looking into immortality, eventually leading to a confrontation with the Soul Hunters]], and most significantly [[spoiler: an engineered virus that will infect all telepaths, making them dependant on regular treatment of a specific drug to survive, essentially enslaving them forever. Of course, since Mr. Garibaldi eventually married Edgars' widow, with whom he'd had a long previous relationship with, after his death, Garibaldi then becomes the one with more money than God.]]
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In season 4 we are introduced to William Edgars, owner of one of the largest pharmasuitical pharmaceutical and research companies in Earth space. When mentioned to Mr. Garibaldi, the first thing that comes to his mind is "Has more money than God, that William Edgars." Mr. Edgars uses his wealth to fund a variety of philanthropic endeavors and a number of special side projects, such as [[spoiler: a project looking into immortality, eventually leading to a confrontation with the Soul Hunters]], and most significantly [[spoiler: an engineered virus that will infect all telepaths, making them dependant dependent on regular treatment of a specific drug to survive, essentially enslaving them forever. Of course, since Mr. Garibaldi eventually married Edgars' widow, with whom he'd had a long previous relationship with, after his death, Garibaldi then becomes the one with more money than God.]]
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* Candy from the ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series is a rich schoolgirl who can purchase ''an island'' just with her pocket money.
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* ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan'': Prince Lucio Rimânez, the earthly incarnation of {{Satan}}, is so incredibly wealthy that he considers Geoffrey's five million pounds (over 500 million in today's money) to be a mere trifle. All ill-gotten gains belong to him, and when the original owner dies, Lucio is able to use the money to tempt more people to sin. He tells Geoffrey that he could buy up whole kingdoms, or use financial speculation to destroy whole countries.
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* In Creator/AlfredBester's ''The Computer Connection'', the character nicknamed 'the Greek Syndicate' owns 15% of the whole world. Well, "fourteen point nine one seven percent, but who counts?"
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* In Creator/AlfredBester's ''The Computer Connection'', ''Literature/TheComputerConnection'', the character nicknamed 'the Greek Syndicate' owns 15% of the whole world. Well, "fourteen point nine one seven percent, but who counts?"
