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** Seto Kaiba is pretty much the trading card game equivalent of [[Walt Disney]] (yes, ironic comparison but accurate) and has so much money he can [[Trope Namer|screw]] [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|the rules]] on a regular basis. He managed to become owner and CEO of an entertainment company (that until he took over, was a military firm) and became his brother's legal guardian without graduating high school. At one point in season 4, he needs a car, so he and an Mokuba find one and get in ([[Fridge Logic|never mind how they got the keys]]). As the car comes on, a salesman rushes over, frantic and demanding to know what they're doing. Even as the man rants, Kaiba ''whips'' out a checkbook ''extremely dramatically'', scrawls something, and tells the man to keep the change as they drive away. The distraught salesman frets that he's ruined, RUINED... until he looks down at the $500,000 check. Among his other belongings are a jet plane shaped like Blue-Eyes White Dragon (his signature card), a zeppelin with a dueling arena and the KC logo on the side, and a computer with an AI in a bomb shelter. He was also pretty much able to ''rent out all of Domino City'' for the Battle City tournament. While not ''quite'' so large a number as this trope normally deals with, the sheer attitude with which this example was done makes it rather noteworthy.

** While Datz (the main antagonist of the Doma Arc) doesn't flaunt his wealth as much as Kaiba (given his need for secrecy) he clearly fits the Trope, being CEO of Paradius, a [[Mega Corp]] that is said to own stock in ''every'' major company in the world. He was, in fact, able to acquire both Kaibacorp ''and'' Industrial Illusions via hostile takeover during the arc. Add to that a likely [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]] account held for [[Really 700 Years Old| 10,000 years]] and he's pretty financially well-off.

* In ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'', Mina Tepes pays of Japan's entire national debt, which is around 40 TRILLION dollars and does not seem financially hurt in the slighest by it.

* In ''[[Special A]]'', almost every single character aside from the Hanazono family is ridiculously and obscenely wealthy, to the point where Kei Takishima slams down a blank check and tells Yahiro to fill in any amount he wants for the house they are currently standing in - and all he wants is his girlfriend back. In another scene, the Takishima Group Headquarters are portrayed as being several square MILES wide. (This is the fourth positively massive mansion to be shown to be owned by the Takishima's - and we're not even counting the manga, here.