Here we go again: Top 15 Richest Fictional Characters

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Forbes wants to make it an annual deal.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/11/fi...oks-fict1507-cx_de_mn_1211fictionalintro.html

Scrooge McDuck hit the top of the list this time; YAHOO!



What happened to Daddy Warbucks, last year's richest imaginary man? According to Forbes he died during a visit to Iraq, meaning he can never be on the list again. They claim Scarface has been shot and Lara is currently missing in the jungle (are they going to kill several people per year? That's not really fair. If they kill Scrooge McDuck next year they all die).

#1 Scrooge McDuck
#2 Ming the Merciless
#3 Richie Rich
#4 Mom
#5 Jed Clampett
#6 C. Montgomery Burns
#7 Carter Pewterschmidt
#8 Bruce Wayne
#9 Thurston Howell III
#10 Tony Stark
#11 Fake Steve Jobs (what?? You decide)
#12 Gomez Addams
#13 Willy Wonka
#14 Lucius Malfoy
#15 Princess Peach

One thing's for sure; this list is going to be a lot more controversial than the previous one was.

Ming the Merciless? Seriously?
Jed Clampett richer than Bruce Wayne?
If Lara can't count just because she's stranded somewhere, then Thurston Howell is definitely out!
And it says Princess Peach divorced Mario...what?? They're not even married! Just because no one here is real doesn't mean they can't do a little research into what is canon and what isn't.

Last year's talkback:
http://forums.rabroad.net/showthread.php?t=181807
 
Least they came to their senses and made Scrooge #1 (even despite that the mere billions they cited are a drop in the bucket for him).

Meanwhile, their other choices seem, well, odd (and as noted above, somewhat out of touch pop-culturally) as usual---Ming the Merciless #2? Fake Steve Jobs? Though at least they kept Richie Rich reasonably high up...

-B.
 
Can't argue with their #1, but the rest is crap. Ming? We don't know what they use for the currency standard on Mongo; it could be sand, or aluminum of the blood of virgins. Depends on what's rare enough to have scarcity-value. Could be Ming's private treasure vault is loaded with the dried-out turds of an animal that was hunted to extinction centuries ago. The thing about aliens is...they're alien, and we can't expect them to adhere to the same value system as us. The same hold true for Princess Peach. Last I saw, the only marketable commodity her kingdom seems to possess is a single cash crop...mushrooms. And we don't know how many of them are edible. Some of them have weird colors to them, and I wouldn't touch 'em with a stick.

Tony Stark's net worth has undoubtedly plummeted after Marvel's World War Hulk mini-series. "Mom" hasn't even been born yet. And I have long suspected that Bruce Wayne's wealth is vastly overrated. When you stop and consider all the stuff he's paid for to finance Batman's war on crime (I mean, how many Batmobiles has he had to replace over the years?), not to mention the Justice League, that's a serious outlay of cash, none of which he can claim as material assets without attracting the wrong kind of curiosity.

Who the hell is Carter Pewterschmidt?
 
This guy

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Well, considering that Peach is royalty, it's a given that she's also rich. According to the original Super Mario Bros. game, Peach left all those gold coins in the game as a trail for Mario and Luigi to follow. And that's a lot of coins!


Carter is Lois Pewterschmidt Griffin's father and Peter Griffin's father-in-law on Family Guy.
 
AGREED.

Ming shouldn't be on that list AT ALL.:shrug: Richie Rich 3rd? Then where's Mayda Money? She was supposed to be equally as rich as Richie and his family. Bruce Wayne should be closer to the top and I doubt Jed Clampett belongs on the top 10.
 
If Forbes is going to put Johnny-come-lately rich characters like Mom and Carter Pewterschmidt on the list, then they might as well have put Eddie Lawrence (or Edward Phillip James Lawrence III, to give his full name) from Class of 3000 on there. He has as much business being listed as Ming the Merciless.
 
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Um... I tend to think Xanatos is richer than most of the people on that list. Definitely richer than Lucius Malfoy and Jed Clampett
 
I knew Lucius' father was famous or something but I didn't know his family was wealthy.

And how did he come across Peach? I mean, how is her wealth different than any other princess?
 
Besides, Richie Rich is a minor, and that makes him a legal non-person in the financial world. His functional net worth is zero; it's his parents who have the money. You'd think a writer for flippin' FORBES would know that.



Damn straight. I'd also put Doc Savage on the list, but the nimrod who wrote the article probably wouldn't know who I'm talking about.
 
Aye, Good ol' Scrooge McDuck makes the list, and his archnemisis, Flintheart Glomgold didn't even place.

That Princess Toadstool (I refuse to call her peach) bit makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

But I digress. Great to see Monty Burns makes the cut too.
 
Wow, I have to second GregX on this one. I was going to say this was a good list until I got to the end and observed the inexcusable lack of Xanatos. He's not only rich but an intelligent, cunning character that commands attention.

There is just no way Peach and Pewterschmidt deserve to be on this list more than Xanatos. Especially Pewterschmidt, who's a stereotypical high-class idiot that only made it because Family Guy happens to be popular at the moment.

I do have to defend the inclusion of Bruce Wayne. He has the resources to fund Batman's activities and run a massive corporate empire. Not only that, he's good enough to fight crime as Batman and run Wayne Enterprises at the same time. That's no small feat. At any given point, Wayne is just impressive. As for the idea that his Batman activites somehow set him back, don't forget Justice League. He funded the Watchtower in secret and he flat out told Superman that it was just one line item in the budget for him.
 
Yeah, and I can't BELIEVE that there's even a DEBATE about SANTA CLAUS in this series of articles!!!! ;)

I actually think this year's edition is more fun than the earlier ones. They have an entire company profile of the Acme Corporation, and they definitely selected the One True Willy Wonka rather than that IMPOSTER in the Tim Burton movie. And I think the potshots they take at some of the more recent stories in the news are pretty funny, myself.

That's not going to stop me from playing it entirely straight when I report it on Toon Zone News, though. Not that there isn't any reason why I WOULDN'T play it straight. I mean, it's in Forbes. It's on the Intertubes. That means it all must be true, right?

-- Ed
 
'zat the guy from Gargoyls? I mean, he's pretty obscure. If Montana max doesn't make the list, I doubt he would. I'd say that Mr. Pewterschidt is the most obscure character they could think of.
 
The word 'rich' has more then one meaning.How about someone who is rich in family or rich in culture?Why must rich always,continuously mean dollar bills?:shrug:
 
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