Forbes rank the 15 riches FICTIONAL Character!


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Dark Jezter said:
No mention of Emperor Palpatine?

Think about it: He's the absolute dictator of an empire that spans thousands of inhabited worlds. He's probably got wealth and property beyond imagination.
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but yet he can't find a good wrinkle cream.
 

DM_Matt said:
Those are from old US TV shows and a musical. Its not surprising that they have little international recognition.
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Well, I'll understand that for Jed Clampett, Daddy Warbucks or Arthur Bach, but Thurston Howell III? Has no one on any other continent watched "Gilligan's Island"? I'm only 19, and I've watched it.
 

Jed Clampett is richer than Bruce Wayne? Hmm...which version of Wayne they going off of?

....but Richie Rich does indeed belong up there in the top 3. Used to read the comics when I was younger and that guys is silly wealthy.
 

mojo1701 said:
Has no one on any other continent watched "Gilligan's Island"? I'm only 19, and I've watched it.
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I had to google for it, and none of the people I asked irl had seen it (though a cousin knew of it).
 

Chain Lightning said:
Jed Clampett is richer than Bruce Wayne? Hmm...which version of Wayne they going off of?

....but Richie Rich does indeed belong up there in the top 3. Used to read the comics when I was younger and that guys is silly wealthy.
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Ok, here's my theory on this. Jed Clampett made his family fortune in oil, and has a lot of land to boot. He's owned this oil and property for at least 20 to 40 years. Whereas Wayne is still portrayed as in his early 30s in the comics ( because its on going) and all his money comes from family fortunes and his investments in techs and various businesses. However, he spends a great deal of money whereas Jed still has a clothesline hanging in his house.
 

jonesy said:
I had to google for it, and none of the people I asked irl had seen it (though a cousin knew of it).
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Well, it DID premiere in 1964, but Gilligan (the Skipper, too/ The Millionaire and his wife/ The movie star/ the Professor and Mary Ann) IS part of the pop culture lexicon (Here on Gilligan's Island).
 

mojo1701 said:
...but Gilligan IS part of the pop culture lexicon...
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That's what I heard said about MASH too, but it was equally off the radar for me up until 2002 (or maybe it was 2003) when SubTV started showing it here.
 


Viking Bastard said:
Really, McDuck should be on the top.

Really.
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Yeah. (Except for Santa Claus perhaps.) They've completely neglected that he owns about half the world's businesses, in addition to having a big pile of gold to swim around in. That's just the coins he feels sentimental about :D

(Although, they can be excused for thinking otherwise. The source, the stories by Carl Barks, alternate between him having owning lots and having cash in banks all over the world, and being ruined every time someone empties the bin.)
 
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