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** 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>

** 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.

** In one Don Rosa story it's shown that Scrooge has every federal and state organization, including the U.S. Armed Forces, at his beck and call because his taxes comprise about 90% of their income. When you put together all Carl Barks and Don Rosa stories, Scrooge could probably buy out every other person mentioned on this page. And yet he still figured he didn't have enough wealth to buy even a tenth of a solid gold moon, when engaged in a trade with the wealthiest man from Venus for it. And then he traded it for a handful of dirt.

[[Category:Money Tropes]]

[[Category:Rich People]]