Forbes Fictional 15

Forbes 15 Richest Fictional  Characters

Collectively, we are fascinated by the super-rich. We devour their biographies. We hang on their advice. Maybe we even hope for their downfall. But in our attempts to explain the ultra-rich--and their super-inflated bank accounts--we are often guilty of reducing real people to mere caricatures. There is the monopolist. The oracle. The genius. The thief.

With the Forbes Fictional 15, we have taken the opposite approach--fiction’s caricatures are elevated to the status of real people.

To qualify for the Fictional 15, we insisted that members be both fictional (in the sense that we excluded mythological and folkloric figures) and characters (meaning they are part of a narrative story or series of stories). Great wealth was required to be one of the primary attributes of the characters on this list--in other words, we looked for characters that were known, within their universes, for being rich.

1. Santa Claus

2. Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks

3. Richie Rich

4. Lex Luthor

5. C. Montgomery Burns

6. Scrooge McDuck

7. Jed Clampett

8. Bruce Wayne

9. Thurston Howell III

10. Willy Wonka

11. Arthur Bach

12. Ebenezer Scrooge

13. Lara Croft

14. Cruella De Vil

15. Lucius Malfoy

 

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