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{{quote|"I just threw away a brand-new top-of-the-line motorcycle in the middle of the street because I didn't feel like pushing it half a block to the garage. I am on an expense account that would blow your mind."|'''Hiro Protagonist, ''[[Snow Crash]]'''''}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Virgin Love|Mens Love]]'', Daigo's father has his [[
* The Senpuuji Corporation from ''[[The Brave Express Might Gaine]]''.
* The Sohma family in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' have absurd amounts of money. Exactly how the money is spread amongst the incredibly large family is never made certain, but most of the Sohmas are able to afford very good schools, expensive vacation outings, and replacing walls that get destroyed during fights. It's justified given that a number of family members own highly successful businesses, and that it's implied that there's some family fortune.
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* Played straight in ''[[Star Wars]]'' with [[The Empire]]. Can you imagine exactly how much it would cost to build not one but two moon-sized, hyperspace capable battle stations?
** "[[Robot Chicken|That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! Do you have any idea what this is going to do to my credit? [...] Oh, oh, ''just rebuild it?'' Really f***ing original! And who's going to give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on your torso Lite-Brite?]]"
** Not to mention the 25,000 1.6
*** Admittedly, they have the wealth of a galaxy-spanning empire. Even a minor developed planet could produce billions of credits (if only in raw materials), and the cost to build a Death Star can be spread across thousands of systems of the more developed systems. Supposedly, the Second Death Star had pretty much available resource of the Empire thrown at it, but there's a difference between building a moon-sized construct in twenty years, and building it in two.
* Parodied in ''[[Small Soldiers]]'': during the aftermath of the toys' rampage, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Bill Mars]] keeps everyone quiet by having his secretary go around printing checks with [[Undisclosed Funds|unspecified ammounts of money]].
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* [[The Addams Family]]. No matter what zany, impossible, or downright idiotic scheme Gomez invests in, he always comes out willing to invest in the next ridiculous idea. Whether or not he actually makes money from these investments is questionable. The Addamses are rich/crazy enough that one year they decided to go to the moon for their family vacation.
** In [[The Movie]], we get a fleeting glimpse of just how much wealth they have. Gordon accidentally activates a rotating section of the vault to reveal a Scrooge [[McDuck]]-caliber money pit, about as wide as an Olympic swimming pool, several swimming pools long, and who knows how deep. And it's most likely filled with gold doubloons, as evidenced by Gomez paying Tully's expenses by shovelling them into his briefcase. For comparison, all the gold ever mined throughout human history in real life wouldn't quite fill a single Olympic swimming pool. Also, consider the construction cost of the vault plus the subterranean canal leading up to it plus the slide system leading down to the canal.
* Whether it was intentional or not, Mulder of ''[[The X-Files]]'' comes off this way. It's implied that he comes from a wealthy family, though never explicity said so. He grew up on Martha's Vineyard, his parents owned a summer house in Rhode Island, he went to Oxford for college, and "rents" a Congressman for his own purposes. Through the series, he's able to do things that are just not feasible on an FBI agent's
* Charlie Crews on ''[[Life]]'' received a [[Undisclosed Funds|settlement of undisclosed size]] due to his wrongful imprisonment. In addition to the standard [[Big Fancy House]] and [[Cool Car
* Mr. Finch on ''[[Person of Interest]]''. Nobody knows precisely how rich he is beyond his billionaire status being known, but it does appear that he has a whopping great amount of money at his disposal.
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