Uncle Pennybags: Difference between revisions

* On the [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]], specifically in ''[[Raising Steam]]'', Sir Harry King is revealed to be this. He [[Self-Made Man|worked his way up from the gutter]] and hasn't forgotten what it was like. He'd punch you in the mouth (and he's still got a '''hard''' punch) if you called him a philanthropist, but his employees get pensions when they retire, and their significant medical expenses tend to be taken care of once Sir Harry learns about them.

** When two fellows who '''weren't''' his employees — they were in fact trying to become his competitors — accidentally blew themselves up, Harry thought about their widowed and now childless old mother ... and arranged a pension for '''her'''.

* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler Triple H was implied to be an Uncle Pennybags to his friends in one storyline. As the story goes, Shawn Michaels lost his life savings in the stock market crash of October 2008, and so was forced to work for JBL as a "bodyguard" and interfere in matches on his behalf. Triple H approached Shawn and asked him why he didn't just come to him for the money; he certainly had enough, and he'd be willing to give Shawn as much as he needed, no strings attached. Shawn replied that he didn't want to take money from HHH, for fear of it ruining their friendship.

* Ted DiBiase Jr's current gimmick in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] is Uncle Pennybags. He's been given a massive trust fund from his father, [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|"The Million Dollar Man"]] [[Ted DiBiase]], and he mostly uses it to give gifts to the fans, have massive tailgate parties in the parking lot of [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] events with his Twitter followers, and donate to charity.