Forbes Releases Richest Fictional Character List

With two and a half wars and a government showdown in the news, its good to see that Forbes is tackling the important issues, like which fictional character has the most imaginary wealth? Scrooge McDuck tops the list followed closely by sparkly vampire Carlisle Cullen. "Net worth estimates are based on an analysis of the fictional character's source material, and where possible, valued against known real-world commodity and share price movements," Forbes said. One wonders how many episodes of Duck Tales an economist has to watch to accurately estimate the contents of the money bin.

Question.

[ocean_soul]

Isn't Smaug dead? Why is he still on the list?

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[yxymy]

really, i like it very much

ThunderCats, ho

[tepples]

Didn't Smaug's estate pass on to Snarf [google.com]?

The Forbes Fictional 15 (2005-2008)

[antdude]

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/18/fictional-15-richest-characters-oped-fictional1508_cx_mn_de_1218fict15_land.html [forbes.com] has the previous years.

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[DamienRBlack]

It seems weird to me that there are 400+ people in America alone that have a net worth in the same range as these 15 fictional characters. And the richest have around as much as all 15 of these fictional characters combined. Apparently we can't even imagine the type of wealth the richest of the rich have. It is hard imagining enough money to make $5-10 million a day on interest alone, let alone what to spend it on.

Article seriously underestimates Scrooge McDuck

[dogsbreath]

3 cubic acres of money is trans-dimensional, that is beyond our normal 3 physical dimensions. Even if it were all pennies, SMcD's fortune would easily eclipse the $29 billion mark. I believe that the Tardis was based on the money bin design.

And we are talking about 1951 dollars.

Saying Uncle Sam's resources are infinite is a cop-out. Scrooge McDuck has accumulated wealth where not even the Ferengi have been able to go.

The article is clearly biased against ducks who have manged to acquire wealth and power.

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[Locke2005]

Are we really passionately debating the imaginary wealth of fictional characters? Really, can't we think of anything better to do with our time?

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[dogsbreath]

er... this is just fun, so don't rain on it.

And... no, WE can't think of anything better to do with our time!
Cheers

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[krazytekn0]

Yeah, we can sit around and be depressed about the rest of the news that we're not doing anything to change anyway. I don't know about you but sometimes I pick the fun route. Why'd you even open the article if you think it's a complete waste of time?

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[krazytekn0]

Why'd you even read the summary...

FTFM

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[dogsbreath]

I could not fail to disagree with you less.

Clear lack of research

[jacerie]

Justin Cord from "The Unincorporated Man" has a net worth surpassing that entire list combined. That writer for Forbes seriously needs to get out more, or at least read better material.

Bah! Cord-Schmord...

[denzacar]

Lister owns 98% of all the world's wealth. [youtube.com]
And being fiction within fiction, that makes his worth SQUARED. So he actually owns 9604% of all the world's fictional money!

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

No shit. Where's the Count of Monte Cristo? You know, the famous sandwich entrepreneur?

Duck size

[Whiteox]

Everything is relative (or so I'm told), so if Scrooge was duck size then the value would also diminish. Remember he didn't have too many investments as he was more concerned with NOT spending his money.
I estimate that his $44.1 billion would be more likely around $4.1 billion instead.

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[Whiteox]

http://blogs.forbes.com/davidewalt/2011/04/06/the-forbes-fictional-15/ [forbes.com]

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