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* In ''[[Guilty Party]]'', Dorian Dickens, head of the world's most effective and famous detective family. Exact wealth unknown, but it's enough to purchase a couple hundred zeppelins—or their approximate worth in [[Trademark Favorite Food|pudding.]]

* From the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series, the [[Mass Effect 2|Illusive Man]]. Cerberus' resources, while not unlimited, are still substantial enough to fund a two-year project to [[We Can Rebuild Him|rebuild someone who is for all intents and purposes dead]], and can replicate - with improvements - the [[Cool Starship|most advanced starship in the galaxy]], with unique, groundbreaking [[Stealth in Space|stealth technology]]. Now, if even that doesn't sound like much, consider how valuable [[Unobtainium|element zero]] is, then consider how much eezo was sunk into the drive cores of both the ''Normandy'' SR-1 and the ''Normandy'' SR-2. Note that late-game, we actually ''do'' find out where Cerberus gets its money from: {{spoiler|Cerberus operates several dozen legitimate Fiction 500 corporations, and receives substantial funding from "private investors" - ultra-wealthy pro-humanity individuals, especially within the Alliance's military-industrial complex.}} They were also able to build the ''Normandy'' SR-2 because {{spoiler|the very companies that Cerberus established to fund themselves were among those who built the original ''Normandy'' SR-1, so Cerberus had access to the blueprints and equipment to build the replacement.}}

* From ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', Colonel Volgin, to the point where the US are willing to sacrifice the greatest soldier the world has ever known to get their hands on his money, and he can personally bankroll his own assembly line of doomsday machines. With $100 Billion in 1964 money, which if adjusted for today's economy would be almost $1 trillion dollars, it's easy to see why.

* In ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'', Nwabudike Morgan, richest man on any planet, who is wealthy enough to help fund a significant part of the cost of a spaceship large enough to take a decent fraction of humanity to another star system, after alliances of major countries (like the EU and Russia) have been forced to cut down their share after finding it too costly. Better yet, one victory condition requires you to be rich enough to buy the planet outright, so any player can easily join the Fiction 500.