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* The Cullen family of ''[[Twilight]]'' takes this to ''ridiculous'' levels, owing to Alice using her ability to predict the future to play the stock market successfully. Over the course of the series, we see that they purchase a vast number of extremely expensive cars, a large house, an x-ray machine, and an ''island''.
* In ''[[The Merchant of Venice]],'' Portia has an inheritance like this. While the rest of the cast is falling over themselves trying to pay back Antonio's bond to Shylock, when Bassanio tells Portia about the bond, her reaction is "Six thousand ducats? Is that ''all''? Here, give Antonio the money. No, have twice as much. You know what? Just to be on the safe side, let's ''triple'' it."
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