Posted on 12/10/2005 12:10:12 PM PST by NJRighty
NEW YORK - 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.
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I suppose if Thurston had invested his millions well over the past 40 years, he may have become a billionaire?
Inflation-adjusted dollars?
The conversion factor for 60s to present dollars is something like 6.1.
Lucius Malfoy? What real life evil rich guy does he represent? Soros? Binny?
Sometimes an evil, power-mad wizard is just an evil, power-mad wizard.
LOL! Good point.
Any one want to get up a pool on who will be the first private citizen trillionaire?
:^) Thanks.
Nice list, but John Beresford Tipton must be in the top 15?
Don't forget about Auric Goldfinger.
He loved Gold so much he hatched a scheme to nuke Fort Knox so the value of his Gold would river 400 times.
That is, until James Bond stopped him.
River really means rise...
Auric was in the "people who have dropped off the list" list. Remember he bought gold when it was $800.00/ounce and the dollar was worth twice what it is now.
Good point...I never thought about dat...
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