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* Train's group in ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' are almost always strapped for money, constantly having to take on new sweeps despite managing to catch several bounties worth millions. Apparently their debt tends to be caused by Train breaking things or [[Big Eater|eating too much]].
* Ryo-san, the main character of ''[[Kochikame]]'', spends all of his money on video games, models, and gambling and is in debt to most of Katsushika (in stark contrast to his two companions at the police station who each have [[Blasphemous Boast|more money than God]]).
* This is one of Ukraine's biggest woes (other than her [[
** Also Greece. In the CD drama ''Hetalia Phantasia'', he says he suffers from trade deficit and can't play online games because of that.
* Claire in ''[[Red Garden]]'' has trouble with her job and rent, even to the point of her phone line and gas getting shut off, but still manages to make it through.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' is the premier example of this. Despite being a super genius inventor who created a revolutionary new super strong bio-degradable adhesive, friends with several billionaires, married to a model/actress, and being a member of the world's greatest superhero team (the Avengers), he still seems to be utterly broke in most storylines, to the point where he just put up with a dislocated shoulder until it healed to avoid paying the medical bills.
* This is part of José Carioca's character in his Brazilian comic series. He's avoided paying for things so much, his debt collectors have formed their own group known as the [http://coa.inducks.org/character.php?c=Anacozeca A.N.A.C.O.Z.E.C.A.] He is not above [https://web.archive.org/web/20150206202803/http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/06/br_zc20_0001f_001.jpg bathing in a public fountain, or pulling a dine and dash]. Some of his earlier stories have him balancing this out while also trying to put on the appearance that he's rich (mostly to justify the suit he wore; José wasn't designed with Perpetual Poverty in mind).
* Andy Capp lives off his wife's wages and is usually behind on the rent. He is occasionally evicted, but always gets his home back so that the neighbours (Chalky and Ruby) and rent collector (Percy) are always the same.
* In John Kovalic's ''[[Dork Tower]]'', Matt and his friends are always short on funds for their hobbies and toys (not to mention the rent), yet somehow manage to stay in the same apartment and drive a car for years.
* [[Donald Duck]] in any of the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' comics is an even older example than [[The Simpsons]]. Somehow, circumstances always conspire to keep him from any riches he may find in the course of the stories.
** A running joke, at least in Italian stories, is that Donald puts everything on the tab, and now has an enormous debt to every grocer, tailor, repairman, etc. in Duckburg. Paying off all his debt seems to be a case of [[Failure Is the Only Option]], and his debtors can get downright brutal. Yet he's hardly ever evicted from his big suburbia house. ... Because his landlord is Scrooge. Donald pays the rent by doing any chore Scrooge has in mind for him, from being recruited to life-threatening adventures to polishing every coin in the Money Bin.
* This seems to be status quo for ''Old Master Q,'' where the protagonist of the same name is often seen living on less than meager means. This is doubly true of the first animated film, where he lives in a tiny wooden shack on top of a high rise and running water appears to be his only amenity.
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