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** This is a very clever move if you realize that Barrayarans can only vote with their feet. Her actions resulted in her district getting a young highly educated population, it will make the Vorkosigans long term winners in the demographics game.
** This happens all the time in 'The Paid Companion' by Amanda Quick.
* [[Harry Potter]] ''himself'' has shown an inclination to be this, especially to
* In ''[[Myth Adventures|M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link]]'', Tananda is sent to collect on a debt owed by a fellow who turns out to be one of these.
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* In the short lived TV series ''Three Moons Over Milford'', one episode focused on a happy wealthy old man willing to pass around ''outlandish'' amounts of money to random people in exchange for them doing childish dares, such as asking a waiter to do a headstand in the middle of work. He does this solely because the world could end any minute and he wants to give people gifts while getting a few people to smile at the same time.
* Faith in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], believe it or not. Throughout the series she is more the [[Perpetual Poverty]] type, however in the comics she works with Giles. After {{spoiler|his death}} she discovers that she had been left a fortune. As well as being really fun to be around, Faith uses the money to help, such as using it to bail out a Slayer from a beating.
* In [[Smallville]], Clark and his friends benefited vastly from a series of sugar daddies. First, from Seasons 1-4, [[Lex Luthor]] often bailed Clark & friends out of their money troubles, as he was still essentially [[Lonely Rich Kid|trying to buy Clark's friendship.]] After Lex gets caught using armed and superpowered thugs to hold Clark's parents hostage (and thus force him to reveal his secret if it had gone as he'd planned) in Season 5, Clark distances himself from Lex. However, Lex's [[Archnemesis Dad]] Lionel steps in and starts eagerly playing the role of
== Newspaper Comics ==
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** This could have been a rare shout out to Triple H's original gimmick in the WWF - Hunter Hearst Helmsley, ultra-wealthy American blue-blood. Although at the time Helmsley was much more of a Mr. Burns than an Uncle Pennybags.
*** Or, it could be because he IS filthy rich now, being married to the boss's daughter and all.
* Ted DiBiase Jr's current gimmick in [[WWE]] is
== Video Games ==
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* Llewellyn from ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' fits in here, too. He cites gold as stuff he and his family throw at people when they want them to go away, and in one collection, tries to make gold into cookies. (It works, sort'a.)
* Stasia from [http://marryme.keenspot.com/ Marry Me], who is a wealthy celebrity sensation, who also donates a large amount of all her money regularly to various charitable organizations, and visits needy places in Africa on a whim.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''
== Web Original ==
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* The cats from ''[[Catscratch]]''.
* Sunny and Eddie from ''[[Class of 3000]]''.
* Hiroshi Sato from ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' is a [[Rags to Riches]] [[Self-Made Man]] who gave Republic City the [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Satomobile]], the affordable common man's motor car. He runs a huge factory, and shows up at the most important social occasions. But he is a very easygoing man who is sympathetic to Mako, whom he sees as someone like his younger self; motivation but no means. Hiroshi honors his own
== Real Life ==
* Millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie held himself up as an exemplar of this trope (though the reality of the matter differs depending on who you ask). He certainly did give away mountains of moolah to charity and public works, in any case.
** Similarly, whatever else you say about Andrew Mellon, you have to admit that he dumped his
*** As the linked website should suggest (all Smithsonian sites are si.edu), the National Gallery of Art is NOT part of the Smithsonian. (Just try and use a member or employee discount in their gift shop.) That's right, Mellon gave them so much money and art they created a whole new museum organization instead of just sticking it in the one they already had. (James Smithson himself probably qualifies as
* Similarly, other huge-scale philanthropists like Alfred Nobel (who combines this with [[The Atoner]], as he had gotten rich as an arms merchant) or Bill Gates.
** Nobel's an interesting case, because his invention of dynamite was itself a philanthropic effort that saved many lives by putting the explosive nitroglycerine into a form that could be handled safely. It's said he became [[The Atoner]] after journalists began painting him as a merchant of death after others started using it for more nefarious martial purposes.
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