History Main / WealthyEverAfter

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Compare IfIWereARichMan.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time": The Doctor's wedding present to Donna is [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit a lottery ticket]].

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* Inverted in the classic ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' story, "[[Comicbook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]" where Matt Murdock is ruined by the Kingpin when he learns his enemy's SecretIdentity. The Kingpin is eventually defeated and disgraced, but feels he at least made Murdock miserable by impoverishing him while he plans to strike at him again. However, when you see the final panel of Matt and Karen being happy in their situation, you know the Kingpin has truly lost.

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* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', former companion Anji turns out to have become one of the richest women in Britain because Trix, while traveling with the Doctor, managed to send her financial information from the future. Since Fitz and Trix have decided (for the time being, anyway) that they want to settle down together, she cuts them in on it.
* ''The Warlock O' Glenwarlock'' by George Mac Donald (alternative title: ''The Laird's Inheritance'') ends with Cosmo Warlock discovering a great treasure within the walls of the family keep. After, of course, learning that money doesn't really matter if you have faith in God and a good heart.
* Sara Crewe from ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'', after Mr Carrisford finds her and adopts her and the investment that her father had put into was actually worth much, much more than they thought.
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'' inherits £20000 (which back then was a ''lot'' of money) from her long-lost uncle close to the end of the story. Being [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules the kind of person that she is]], she shares it with her cousins, dividing the money equally between four people; yet even after that she's left quite wealthy.
* By the end of ''Literature/MaraDaughterOfTheNile'', Mara has realized that there are things that are far more important to her then freedom and gold, her motivations at the beginning. However, she ends up receiving both of them anyway, one through a boon of the new king, and the other through marrying her love, Count Sheftu.
* At the end of the final book in Creator/DeanKoontz' ''Frankenstein'' series, [[spoiler:Mr. Lyss]] wins the lottery.
* Marius and Cosette at the end of ''Literature/LesMiserables'' when Jean Valjean gives them all the money he earned while he was mayor of Montreuil-sur-mer. Marius' aunt and grandfather are very pleased; Marius and Cosette themselves are too absorbed in their love to take any notice.
* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Holes}}'': the treasure that Stanley and Zero dug up does bring their families money... but the narrative mentions that it was worth less than a million dollars altogether (while certainly a significant amount, probably not enough to set them for life). The movie plays it straight and ends with the main characters hanging out in a mansion.

* ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' has [[spoiler:Wade Watts]] become a quarter of a ''trillion'' dollars richer by winning Halliday's contest. [[spoiler:He ends up sharing it with his surviving friends for working with him.]]
* ''Literature/TheHobbit'' has Bilbo returning to Hobbiton rich, although he could take home much more treasure if he felt it worth the bother.
* OlderThanDirt: The {{Ancient Egypt}}ian tale "The Eloquent Peasant" apparently ends with the protagonist Hunanup richly compensated for his troubles and rewarded for his eloquence with numerous goods confiscated from the household of Djehuty-nekht, the man who had wronged him.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', the Capitol awards the winner of the Games more money than they can spend in a lifetime. [[spoiler:The ending to the actual book series doesn't reveal if Katniss and Peeta get to keep that wealth, however.]]

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* ''Series/OutrageousFortune''
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode ''The End of Time'', [[spoiler:the Doctor's present to Donna outside her wedding is [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit a lottery ticket]]]].
* The last season of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. [[spoiler: Until the last few minutes of the final episode reveal that it's AllJustADream, anyway.]]
* ''Series/{{Wings}}'' ended with Joe and Brian finding money left to them by their father (the money they were searching for in the very first episode), then having to decide how best to use it.
* Played straight in the ''Series/AmazingStories'' episode "Gather Ye Acorns". A small elf tells a kid to forget about studying to be a doctor and that hard work is not a virtue. "There's doctors aplenty is this world," he says, "What we could truly do with is a few more dreamers." We switch from 1932 to 1938 and he winds up spending all his hard-earned money on a fancy car. His dad is a little peeved, to say the least, and boots him out of the house. Years go by and the boy is now old, broke, friendless, homeless and trying to beg for enough money to gas up his car to commit suicide with it. But a wealthy lady notices some collector's piece in his collection of junk and offers him $10,000 for it. Cut to him now wealthy from selling all his childhood collectables. It turns out that all his artifacts are worth millions. This is treated as a happy ending.

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* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was,]]'' staying the house three nights wins him treasure as well as the king's reward.

-->''Bluebeard had no heirs, and so his wife became mistress of all his estate. She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Bluebeard.''

* In the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse novel ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', former companion Anji turns out to have become one of the richest women in Britain because Trix, while traveling with the Doctor, managed to send her financial information from the future. Since Fitz and Trix have decided (for the time being, anyway) that they want to settle down together, she cuts them in on it.

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* Win the [[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]] and the Capitol awards you more money than you can spend in a lifetime. [[spoiler:The ending to the actual book series doesn't reveal if Katniss and Peeta got to keep that wealth, however.]]

* The last season of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. [[spoiler: Until the [[AllJustADream last few minutes of the final episode]], anyway.]]

* ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' ends this way.

* Inverted in the classic ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' story, "[[Comicbook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]" where Matt Murdock is ruined by the Kingpin when he learns his enemy's SecretIdentity. The Kingpin is eventually defeated and disgraced, but feels he at least made Murdock miserable by impoverishing him while he plans to strike at him again. However, when you see in the final panel of Matt and Karen being happy in their situation, you'll know the Kingpin has truly lost.

** Though they seem to just use the money to keep helping people and both of them go back to their menial but rewarding jobs.

* In ''Film/TheGoldRush'' Chaplin and Big Jim find the mountain of gold at great personal risk and the story ends with them leaving the Klondike rich.

* When Marty [=McFly=] fixes his parents' past in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', he returns to a present where his father George is a wealthy science fiction author. Interestingly this ending didn't sit right with Crispin Glover (George's actor), who felt it sent the wrong message and didn't return for the sequels.

* The500HatsOfBartholomewCubbins

* Comically subverted in ''TheYoungOnes'' episode "Cash", where a lorry full of money crashes into the Young Ones' house, apparently solving their financial problems forever, until the house and money get blown up.

* The last season of ''{{Roseanne}}''. [[spoiler: Until the [[AllJustADream last few minutes of the final episode]], anyway.]]

* At the end of the final book in DeanKoontz' ''Frankenstein'' series, [[spoiler:Mr. Lyss]] wins the lottery.

* Subverted in ''{{Holes}}'': the treasure that Stanley and Zero dug up does bring their families money... but the narrative mentions that it was worth less than a million dollars altogether (while certainly a significant amount, probably not enough to set them for life). The movie plays it straight and ends with the main characters hanging out in a mansion.
* ''ReadyPlayerOne'' has [[spoiler:Wade Watts]] become a quarter of a ''trillion'' dollars richer by winning Halliday's contest. [[spoiler:He ends up sharing it with his surviving friends for working with him.]]

* Many heist movies (''Film/OceansEleven''[[note]]the remake, not the original, this being a case where the Hays Code arguably resulted in a more satisfying ending anyway[[/note]], ''Film/FastFive'', ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' for example) end with the (surviving) members of the crew reaping the rewards of their heist.

* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/189peasantdevil.html The Peasant and the Devil]]'', the peasant outwits the devil to lay claim to treasure in his field without giving anything for it.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was]]'', staying the house three nights wins him treasure as well as the king's reward.

* ''Film/BrewstersMillions''
* Many heist movies (''OceansEleven''[[note]]the remake, not the original, this being a case where the Hays Code arguably resulted in a more satisfying ending anyway[[/note]], ''[[TheFastAndTheFurious Fast Five]]'', ''TheItalianJob2003'' for example) end with the (surviving) members of the crew reaping the rewards of their heist.

* The surviving protagonists of ''DarwinsSoldiers'' are each offered millions of dollars in hush money by the government.

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* ''{{Paycheck}}'' ended with the protagonists winning $90 million lottery. By seeing the future.
* ''ItCouldHappenToYou'': In a beautiful twist, they were destitute, but took in a homeless man to give him soup when they could ill afford to share anything. That homeless man was a reporter for the NY Times who described them as kind, gentle people who were not bitter they'd been made destitute. And then the donations came pouring in, making them rich again. Meanwhile, the selfish harpy that took all their money [[LaserGuidedKarma gets all of it stolen by a con man and is forced to move back in with her mother and return to her old job in a nail salon]].

* ''NationalTreasure'' had the museums paying 1% of the treasure's value to the protagonists. It was stated a few times the treasure was worth about $10 billion US dollars[[note]]which is an extremely conservative estimate, given what they recovered in gold alone, not to mention the cultural and historical value[[/note]], so even 1% set them for life.
* ''SlumdogMillionaire'' ends with the protagonist, who grew up in poverty, winning the game-show and its enormous prize.
* In ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', the real reason why the explorers went to Atlantis is just so they can help the villain become rich. However, at the end of the film, said explorers turn to the hero to stop said villain and save Atlantis, yet they still end up rich because of this, judging by their clothing the last time we see them.
** It's implied that the Atlanteans are quite wealthy, by normal standards. However, because their city is isolated and in ruins they've come to consider things like food and creature comforts more important than treasure. Given that the explorers saved Atlantis at great personal risk, it makes sense that the city's people would reward them.

* ''BrewstersMillions''

* ''RuthlessPeople'', as the sympathetic kidnappers [[ItMakesSenseInContext and their victim]] make off with the ransom.
* ''BedtimeStories'': Skeeter's best friend who was a hotel waiter marries a hotel heiress and becomes the 9th richest person in the world.

* In the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse novel ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', former companion Anji turns out to have become one of the richest women in Britain because Trix, while traveling with the Doctor, managed to send her financial information from the future. Since Fitz and Trix have decided (for the time being, anyway) that they want to settle down together, she cuts them in on it.