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An ending trope, where the protagonists become rich.
Usually, the writers want to avoid the [[Family
It might be an example of [[Sweet and Sour Grapes]], if the characters just learned the [[Aesop]] that there are more important things than money, but they get rich anyways.
Compare [[If I Were a Rich Man]].
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== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Run Lola Run (Film)|Run Lola Run]]''. Lola wins a ton of cash from a casino to help her boyfriend, who had a bag of money that he was supposed to deliver to a mob boss stolen by a homeless man. But before she can give him the money, her boyfriend runs into the homeless man and takes back the money, so they end up with more money than they need.
* ''[[Paycheck]]'' ended with the protagonists winning $90 million lottery. By seeing the future.
* ''[[It Could Happen To You]]'': In a beautiful twist, they were destitute, but took in a homeless man to give him soup when they could ill afford to share anything. That homeless man was a reporter for the NY Times who described them as kind, gentle people who were not bitter they'd been made destitute. And then the donations came pouring in, making them rich again. Meanwhile, the selfish harpy that took all their money [[Laser
** Though they seem to just use the money to keep helping people and both of them go back to their menial but rewarding jobs.
* ''[[National Treasure]]'' had the museums paying 1% of the treasure's value to the protagonists. It was stated a few times the treasure was worth about $10 billion US dollars, so even 1% set them for life.
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