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** In ''[[Superman]]'', [[Lex Luthor]], since [[The Eighties]]. At the time, writers finally decided to literally [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]] and made him incredibly rich through making money off his genius. He can also budget in plans to defeat [[Superman]].

** The Most Excellent Superbat (no name given) states that his power is being rich enough to do anything, backed up in story by having his own private island made for him (complete with secret base), inventing an automatic mental Twitter, and in his definite [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], buying {{spoiler|Japan - yes, the entire country - to rebuild it, again with his own money.}} Do anything indeed.

** [[The Legion of Super Heroes]] gets its funding from a man named R.J. Brande, father of Chameleon Boy. The head of a company that builds artificial suns, he's pretty much the 30th Century's equivalent of Bruce Wayne.

* They're no stranger to [[Marvel Comics]], either:

** In ''[[Incredible Hercules]]'', the title character is shown being able to purchase entire bars with gold he had in his pocket, and his diverse portfolio required two superheroes a full week to even gather, let alone settle, in wake of his demise. One example alone that would qualify for this list was that he was one of the initial investors to Stark Enterprises, [[Iron Man|whose founder]] is listed below. When the size of the investment was calculated, a ''second line of zeroes'' was required - assuming a standard 1.25 inch margin on each side of the page and a 12-point font, the bare minimum amount of this investment alone would come out to be 10 novemdecillion (10^61) dollars. Though after the fourth novemdecillion dollars, who's really counting?

** From ''[[Iron Man]]'', Anthony (Tony) Edward Stark. Even without any funds, he's a gadgeteer genius who built the Iron Man suit in a cave...[[Memetic Mutation|with a box of scraps.]] That said, having loads of ''spare'' suits, many built in a lab in his own house most definitely counts. As does having a fully automated production facility in his garage that can build him another one in 5 hours. Case in point: [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] thinks they should all get armor. [http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c166/Ennead13x/Western%20Comic/Picture1-1.png Tony's response?] And in ''Mini-Marvels'' Tony ''does'' give everyone power armour just to prove how awesome he is. He also keeps fully working versions of previous armors in a trophy room, has destroyed them to keep them out of enemy hands, and apparently rebuilt them for the unlikely occasions where they'd come in useful in the future.

** In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' Charles Xavier's inherited fortune made him able to turn the basement of a mansion into an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] with an absurdly advanced holodeck room, as well as affording/building various vehicles, including helicopters and [[Cool Plane|a really advanced jet]]. Plus the Cerebro. Those can't come cheap.<ref>Although, with Magneto's help, all labor costs would pretty much become zero, meaning he's only really paying for parts.</ref>

** T'Challa, a.k.a. the [[Black Panther]], was an example until recently. As king of Wakanda, he legally controls the trade and distribution of [[Unobtainium| Vibranium]] (as in, the stuff [[Captain America]]'s shield is made of, plus Adamantium), and according to the comics, Vibranium costs $10,000 ''per gram''. And according to ''Doomwar #1'', the Wakandan vaults have 10,000 tons of it. Do the math: it's all worth ''$9.7 trillion'', more than the GPA of the nonfictional world. Unfortunately, a plot by [[Doctor Doom]] to loot the Vibranium forced T'Challa to use a failsafe that rendered the stockpile inert and potentially worthless, but that doesn't mean it will always be. While not quite as loose with his money as Iron Man or Angel, he's also used his wealth to make a few pretty significant contributions over the years. Case in point: he provided [[The Avengers| the Avengers]] with their first Quinjet, and continued to provide more advanced versions of the craft for a number of years.

* From ''[[Disney Mouse and Duck Comics]]'', ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' and elsewhere, Scrooge [[Carl Barks|McDuck]]'s wealth is a [[Running Gag]].

** He is the owner of a windowless concrete block, affectionately called The Money Bin, filled with so much cold, hard cash that the bottom layer probably collapsed into electron-degeneracy sometime in the early 1990s. [[Don Rosa]] makes a point that the money in the bin is what Scrooge earned before he became the world's richest duck. He has dozens of times more, in bank accounts and in investments, but the money in the bin is there because every coin and bill is a mark of victory to its owner; he can actually tell how he earned each one by looking at them, and would never part with one unless the story behind it is not worth remembering.