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* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], despite usually having Tony Stark's funds, once had to work for a millionaire to pay the bills. When they found the millionaire was dishonest, [[Honor Before Reason|they refused to be paid by him]].
* Likewise, the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] get most of their money from a) licensing and merchandise or b) Reed's patents. When either of these get negatively impacted by bad PR, lawsuits, massive destruction, or whatever other crap gets thrown at them this year, they usually have a huge scramble, since they pour all their money into scientific research and building interdimensional stardrives/soul jars made of pocket universes/robotic toasters, not to mention a ridiculous amount of defense mechanisms; and repossession, etc, of their junk is as catastrophic as any supervillain attack.
* A few Italian [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Uncle Scrooge]] stories suggests that Scrooge would be flat broke if the Beagle Boys successfully managed to steal all of his cash money. For this to sound plausible, [[Fridge Logic|you have to ignore the fact that he'd still own thousands of shops, factories, and mines]]: He usually only claims of being broke when that happens, in order to guilt-trip Donald into helping him (and offering him some free meals). When his business doesn't go ''perfectly'' right (temporary decrase of ''0,01% in proficts'', for example) he even claims he's going to become broke... ''in a few centuries time''. It's more about his personality than about being broke at all.
* The comic version of ''[[Clinton Cash]]'' starts with [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] claiming this as they leave the White House, then proceeding to become obscenely rich through their [[Fake Charity]].
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