Forbes rank the 15 riches FICTIONAL Character!

[buzzard]

But, you have to think that this money came before sports stars, movie stars, lotteries, tech stocks, and walmart.

Well you got most of those right, but the movie stars were making big bucks even back then. I remember watching one of those "Making Of" things that they stick in DVDs about a John Wayne flick, and the segment talked about how many millions he made for the movie. I suspect there were a lot of filthy rich Hollywood stars even in the 60s.

An amusing one was was Ray Kroc. I remember watcing a History channel show about him. He was the owner of McDonalds. He bought the rights to it from one guy who had built the original stand, and came up with the franchise and standard food model. The funny thing about it was that he never actually got rich when he was the sole owner of McDonalds. Only when he took the company public and sold shares did he become a rich man. Carnegie was rather simmilar. He built up U.S. Steel himself, and of course wasn't poor while he owned it, but he only became fabulously wealthly when he sold it off (to interests controlled by J.P Morgan- a man of commanding financial power, but who was not incredibly rich himself).

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[buzzard]

I don't think Lucius Malfoy should be on the list either. He's wealthy, but I don't get the impression that he's rolling in galleons (fabulously rich in Potter-speak).

One gets the feel that Malfoy is rather like Old Money or Aristocracy. They are certainly not poor, but there are definitely richer people. They just happen to have a lot of prestige. Given that it's England, I'd rather more expect Aristocracy.

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[Morrus]

And the concept that someone hasn't seen a single episode of Gilligan's Island is wild to me! It's one of those things that you know is ture, but still floors you to witness the reality of it, because in this case, for years it was such a common American cultural icon...

Nope, not a one. Not even an ad for one. I've had exactly zero exposure to it!

 

[buzzard]

Nope, not a one. Not even an ad for one. I've had exactly zero exposure to it!

Do we need to start an "Educate Morrus" fund? You know buy him the DVD collection or something? One should not be 'culturally' deprived like this.

Or maybe one should.

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[mojo1701]

Do we need to start an "Educate Morrus" fund? You know buy him the DVD collection or something? One should not be 'culturally' deprived like this.

Or maybe one should.

buzzard

Or perhaps we could just call him "little buddy" and hit him over the head with a hat.

 

[sniffles]

Do we need to start an "Educate Morrus" fund? You know buy him the DVD collection or something? One should not be 'culturally' deprived like this.

Or maybe one should.

buzzard

I like to imagine a world in which there are still some people who have not had their brains fried by the inanity that is Gilligan's Island. Let me keep my delusion!!

 

[Sandain]

I wonder where Artemis Fowl would rank?

 

[Rykion]

Total strangers to me...

Daddy Warbucks originates from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Jed Clampett was from the "Beverly Hillbillies," and Thurston Howell III from "Giligan's Island." Both are old TV shows. Arthur Bach comes from the movie "Arthur" evidently.

 

[Rogue765]

And why isn't the father of Princess Morbucks from the Power Puff Girls not on this list?












What?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Heh. I liked the write up of Bruce Wayne

Wealthy playboy took family business Wayne Enterprises private earlier this year; SEC still investigating; valuable military prototypes said to have "disappeared." Watched parents gunned down, age 8; spent years in hiding. Returned to Gotham, age 25, assumed control of Wayne Enterprise board. Lives in stately Wayne Manor despite municipal worries about giant sinkholes beneath foundation. Short-lived romances with famous faces: photographer Vicki Vale, socialite Silver St. Cloud and heiress Talia Al Ghul. Rumors continue to swirl over long-time habit of keeping teenage boys as wards. Member since 1939.