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== Anime and Manga ==
* The same for a method to artificially create diamonds in an episode of ''[[Lupin III]]'' so that the ones they already have stolen are worthless, that is except Fujiko who betrays the group (for the twentieth-odd time) to get it for herself.
* In ''[[Trigun]]'' the astronomical bounty on Vash the Stampede's head makes him a walking [[Zillion
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== Film ==
* The eponymous treasure from ''[[National Treasure (Film)|National Treasure]]''. {{spoiler|True to the trope, the people who find it decide that it's too big for any one nation and end up donating/selling everything to museums around the world. The one percent finders fee they received was still enough to make them all incredibly wealthy, though.}}
** Lampshaded when they find one of the first [[Linked
* One-Eyed Willy's treasure in the movie ''[[The Goonies (Film)|The Goonies]]''. Most of the treasure is lost completely, but the handful of gems that Mikey manages to hold onto is enough to save the kids' neighborhood from being turned into a country club.
* In ''[[The People Under the Stairs (Film)|The People Under the Stairs]]'', the handful of gold coins Fool steals from Man and Woman is apparently enough to pay for his mother's operation, ''and'' pay their rent "till the year 2000". This is 1991, by the way...
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* Done more subtly and realistically on ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]''. Brent Leroy receives a hundred dollar bill he suspects may be counterfeit (and doesn't know how to check) from a customer, and for the rest of the episode tries to pay for things, knowing that no one will go to the trouble of changing a hundred dollar (possibly fake) bill for a two-dollar cup of coffee.
** {{spoiler|The "Sorry I only have this hundred" free ride ends when someone at his table happens to have five twenties to trade him and the bartender gladly accepts one of them as payment faster than Brent can invent an excuse for not breaking his hundred. "It was good while it lasted."}}
* In a futuristic episode of ''[[
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== Mythology ==
* In ''[[The Kalevala]]'' -- which is a book filled with Finnish myths -- the skillful blacksmith Ilmarinen forges a device that gives its owner three things to guarantee wealth and health in one's family: Salt and grains so that food will never run out and gold so that there will always be money. When it's ready, he offers it to Pohjan Akka (who is an evil witch) for exchange of her beautiful daughter he has fallen in love with. This device -- called the Sampo -- later becomes the [[MacGuffin]] that everyone wants. {{spoiler|And as every [[Zillion
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** Exchange it for permanent credit. Or find a really, really good gemcutter. Or possibly trade it with a dragon, who might be able to make change.
** Gems of ludicrous value are most useful when incorporated into magical items.
* The Star of Africa from [
* The Milton-Bradley board game called "Life" has currency denominations going up to $100,000. The $20,000 bill features a portrait of "G. I. Lovemoney".
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** $100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) in Canadian trillion dollar notes (they've even got Celine Dion on them!)
*** Subverted in ''Reality 2.0''. Sam and Max are prepared to hear the ridiculous price for a wooden sword, and are surprised when Virtual Bosco is willing to sell it for the reasonable price of five gold coins.
* In ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'', the Vault is literally said to contain ''infinite'' wealth (along with advanced alien technology, fame, power, and ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|women]]''), so the Vault Keys serve as a [[Zillion
* In ''[[Metal Gear|Metal Gear Solid 3]]'' the [[MacGuffin|Philosopher's Legacy]] is a microfilm containing bank information for $100 billion US, more than the real-world US budget at the time. {{spoiler|The Legacy is recovered and distributed between three world powers; most of it eventually falls into the hands of the Patriots}}.
* In the ''[[Destroy All Humans]]!'' series, DNA/Cortexes serve as this. The Furon race literally depends on their own DNA for survival. They eat it, drink it, and trade it for money. And in DAH!3, your DNA collection can go up into the billions. Since Pox and Crypto are the ones responsible for collecting it, they are the wealthiest, most important people of their race. [[You Have Failed Me|Until they screw it up]].
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* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had "The Trouble with Trillions", where Homer finds out that Montgomery Burns had a trillion-dollar bill in his possession that he stole and was originally printed to pay for damages from WWII in Europe. It's not quite a ''zillion'' dollars, but that's enough. At least ([[Out-of-Character Moment|as Lisa said]]) for some dune buggies.
** In the episode ''Mr. Plow'', Homer gets rival plowman Barney Gumble to spend the day dragging his plow up a mountain with the promise of a ten thousand dollar bill. When asked which president is on it, he claims, "''All of them. They're having a party. Jimmy Carter has passed out on the couch.''". [[The Ditz|Barney]] is so impressed that he leaves immediately, abandoning his hot tub with Linda Ronstadt.
* Parodied in the ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' [[OVA|direct-to-video movie]] ''[[
* Referred to in an episode of ''[[Jonny Quest]]'': [[Yellow Peril]] Zinn has found a way to create gold; the heroes have to destroy the method not only to keep him from using his ill-gotten gains to fund his evil network, but also to prevent the collapse of the global economy should the secret become open knowledge.
** A similar idea was part of an episode of the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, where the turtles dread the thought of an alien turtle race moving to Earth: they are a benevolent race, but they also have the technology to create gold effortlessly (in fact, they use it mostly as a building material).
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* The British treasury printed nine £1 million banknotes after WWII. They served as aid payments to Europe after the war.
** According to [[Old Money]] (and [[The Other Wiki]]), they still do print notes of values £1 million (giants) and £100 million (titans) - but these serve to guarantee the Scottish national banks and never enter consumer circulation.
* Between 1929 and 1945, the American government printed paper money in denominations going up to $10,000 bills that were actually released into circulation, and $100,000 bills used for interbank transfers. See [
** They still do print large bills like that. Mostly they're used by banks and the government to transfer large amounts of money.
** The U.S. Treasury stopped producing large bills to make it difficult for criminals to move large sums of cash. $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs about 20 lbs. and takes up over 600 cubic inches of space - not something you can easily hide when passing through security.
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