Sam's three things about this silly list:

1. Santa is the richest fictional character ever? COP OUT.

2. No way is Cruella DeVille richer than Lucius Malfoy. I'm just saying. Plus, he could give her tips on styling and conditioning.

3. I kind of want to do a list of wealthiest fictional characters that's a little, just a little, bit less BLATANTLY POP CULTURE.

3a. Still, kinda cool that Lucius is on there at all.

Comment Conservation:

[info]almightyhat
Hey, give Cruella a break! It was the sixties, wasn't it? Or seventies? Not a Good Hair Decade, in any case.

Okay, in no way is anyone else on that list richer than Scrooge McDuck. I'm just saying. And Ebeneezer Scrooge doesn't even belong on there. He wasn't rich, just miserly.

Thurston Howell doesn't belong on there, either.

And no, I don't know better who does, but I know there are people who should be on there who aren't, and nobody's richer than Uncle Scrooge. He's got three cubic acres of money in liquid assets, and must have more invested just based on his corporation.

[info]grasshopper
Okay, in no way is anyone else on that list richer than Scrooge McDuck.

Well, they could possibly richer, but they certainly don't put on old-fashioned bathing costumes and go swimming in their own money, so therefore they can clearly never win.

[info]cleversimon
It's also just occurred to me that Xanatos could afford to transport an entire fucking castle from Scotland to New York and didn't make this list, either.

[info]megaloo13
Heh, I know. The list is kind of more pop-culture than really investigating wealth in fiction. Xanatos totally trumps Cruella in both wealth and awesome villian status. :)

[info]almightyhat
And good hair.

[info]bluejeans07
AHAHAHAA sudden flashback of the episode where Fox and Xanatos got married and his father gave him a penny. xD

[info]grasshopper
At first I didn't catch that that was a link to the Forbes list, so I thought you were commenting on your own list. Y'know, writing a "Three things about this list of three things" list. And I thought, "Oh, how postmodern".

[info]copperbadge
You win forever. That is FABULOUS. Like that painting of a flag which reads "This is not a flag"!

[info]rabidfangurl
"This is not an LJ comment!"

[info]aura218
Where do you *find* this stuff? And *why* do you get me involved in it?

Is that Daddy Warbucks' fortune in 1933? Cuz he was only rich compared to orphans. And I betcha anything his companies were busted up under a series of anti-trust lawsuits.

[info]copperbadge
Femme, the mod of my roleplay, linked me after informing us all that Lucius Malfoy is worth $900 mil (which we worked out is about 200 million galleons). :D I wonder if they adjusted for inflation. And did you notice how many men on the list are bald?

[info]aura218
How do you figure $200,000 mill galleons?

[info]copperbadge
Oh, there's a dollars to galleons currency converter.

[info]aura218
Based on canon, or what? Just curious.

[info]copperbadge
I've no clue, actually. I blindly trust :D

[info]arclevel
And did you notice how many men on the list are bald?

Of course. Save money on hair-care products. Scrooge would have been, of course, but then he would have needed to buy a razor or, worse, visit a barber. Better to just leave it be. Any idea where they came up with their numbers? Lucius's in particular?

[info]copperbadge
No clue. I think someone pulled a lot of information out of their ass on that one.

[info]fujinsama
Pshhh... Richie Rich could buy and sell them all.

[info]primroseburrows
Santa isn't fictional, y0.

[info]lirren
Is Santa really rich? I mean, what kind of wages does he actually pay the elves? Do they have dental? I was always under the impression that they sort of worked for Santa just because they liked him, not for any actual monetary gain. Also, where the hell is his income coming from? It's not like the kids pay for their presents. And he can hardly sell all those stale cookies and warm milk.

[info]copperbadge
I think maybe Santa is rich "intrinsically". You know, you are never poor when you got love, that kind of thing.

[info]gershwhen
Of COURSE they have dental -- Herbie the Elf wanted to be one. He was setting up appointments at the end of the story. Their medical is all inclusive!!

[info]copperbadge
I feel inclined to say we ought to make separate lists -- wealthiest cartoon/comics figure, wealthiest television figure, wealthiest literary figure...

[info]almightyhat
Wealthiest Action Figure!

[info]copperbadge
....Barbie. Hands down.

[info]almightyhat
Which makes it okay for little boys to play with her, too. You're all kinds of win this morning, Sam.