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Name is based on the [[wikipedia:Fortune 500|top 500 grossing companies annually compiled by "Fortune" Magazine]].
Now despite the name, there can be any number of characters here. And there is almost no way to objectively rank them, although Forbes tries with their [https://web.archive.org/web/20190603033958/http://www.forbes.com/lists/fictional15/2011/forbes-fictional-15.html "Fictional 15"] list.
Compare [[Conspicuous Consumption]], [[Undisclosed Funds]], [[Organization with Unlimited Funding]], and [[NGO Superpower]].
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** Seto Kaiba is pretty much the trading card game equivalent of [[Walt Disney]] (yes, ironic comparison but accurate) and has so much money he can [[Trope Namer|screw]] [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|the rules]] on a regular basis. He managed to become owner and CEO of an entertainment company (that until he took over, was a military firm) and became his brother's legal guardian without graduating high school. At one point in season 4, he needs a car, so he and an Mokuba find one and get in ([[Fridge Logic|never mind how they got the keys]]). As the car comes on, a salesman rushes over, frantic and demanding to know what they're doing. Even as the man rants, Kaiba ''whips'' out a checkbook ''extremely dramatically'', scrawls something, and tells the man to keep the change as they drive away. The distraught salesman frets that he's ruined, RUINED... until he looks down at the $500,000 check. Among his other belongings are a jet plane shaped like Blue-Eyes White Dragon (his signature card), a zeppelin with a dueling arena and the KC logo on the side, and a computer with an AI in a bomb shelter. He was also pretty much able to ''rent out all of Domino City'' for the Battle City tournament. While not ''quite'' so large a number as this trope normally deals with, the sheer attitude with which this example was done makes it rather noteworthy.
** While Datz (the main antagonist of the Doma Arc) doesn't flaunt his wealth as much as Kaiba (given his need for secrecy) he clearly fits the Trope, being CEO of Paradius, a [[Mega Corp]] that is said to own stock in ''every'' major company in the world. He was, in fact, able to acquire both Kaibacorp ''and'' Industrial Illusions via hostile takeover during the arc. Add to that a likely [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]] account held for [[Really 700 Years Old| 10,000 years]] and he's pretty financially well-off.
* In ''[[C (TV series)|C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control]]'', Mikuni has enough money to single-handedly shoulder Japan's national debt. Note that due to the show's premise, a lot of characters can fall into this trope (the protagonist went from a college student struggling to make ends meet to having a bank account of several hundred million overnight), but Mikuni still stands out.
* In ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'', Mina Tepes pays of Japan's entire national debt, which is around 40 TRILLION dollars and does not seem financially hurt in the slighest by it.
* In ''[[Special A]]'', almost every single character aside from the Hanazono family is ridiculously and obscenely wealthy, to the point where Kei Takishima slams down a blank check and tells Yahiro to fill in any amount he wants for the house they are currently standing in - and all he wants is his girlfriend back. In another scene, the Takishima Group Headquarters are portrayed as being several square MILES wide. (This is the fourth positively massive mansion to be shown to be owned by the Takishima's - and we're not even counting the manga, here.
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* In [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'', several vampires are mentioned to be unimaginably wealthy with no indication where that wealth came from. Both Lestat and Armand started poor (even though Lestat was a nobleman). Lestat gained a small fortune from his maker, who committed suicide shortly after turning Lestat. By modern days, Lestat has no idea how much money he has. He has accountants for that. All he does is tell them when he needs money, and they wire it. It's implied they invest the rest. Given that he's a vampire, he doesn't actually need that much, especially after gaining the ability to fly. In ''Tale of the Body Thief'', a man asks for $20 million for one day of swapping bodies with him. While for Lestat this is pocket change, he's still reluctant to just give the money to a potential charlatan.
** Armand owns an island. And not a small one.
** Lestat's latest protege, Quinn Blackwood, comes from an insanely wealthy Louisiana patrician family. His great-great-grandfather Manfred owned a large plantation and won the services of an exclusive law/investment firm in a poker game, letting him invest the family wealth for the kind of returns Wall Street executives have wet dreams over. Most of the Blackwood family is fairly low-key; for instance, Quinn's grandfather "Pops" attends cock fights and enjoys doing landscaping, while the plantation house itself serves as a bed-and-breakfast. [[Cool Old Lady|Aunt Queen]], on the other hand, has spent most of her life jet-setting across the globe, visiting wondrous sites and staying in five-star hotels. When Quinn comes into his inheritance, his first thoughts are of Pops and how
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Myra Rutledge is the owner of a Fortune 500 candy company (almost like a reference to this trope!), and is at least a billionaire. Her friend Countess Anne "Annie" de Silva owns more money than [[Bill Gates]], as Myra likes to point out.
* The Baudelaire Fortune in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' (acquiring which is [[Big Bad|Count Olaf's]] overall goal) might qualify, at least for the setting. If ''[[The Puzzling Puzzle]]'' is considered canon to the series, the fortune consists of 130 shoeboxes full of golf ball-sized diamonds (whether this is literally the case - which likely means the Baudelaires liquidated their holdings - or a comparison is not stated), which given the real-world value of diamonds at the time, would be just under $18 billion.
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