Forbes Picks McDuck
Forbes Magazine is out with their fairly annual list of the wealthiest 15 fictional characters, and our pal Scrooge is on top of the list.
Forbes offers complete explanations and profiles of each choice, and they’re a hoot. But I’ll get ahead of you on the #4 choice: Mom isn’t your mom or Dave Letterman’s mom; it’s Mom from Futurama.
The list:1. Scrooge McDuck
2. Ming The Merciless
3. Richie Rich
4. Mom
5. Jed Clampett
6. C. Montgomery Burns
7. Carter Pewterschmidt
8. Bruce Wayne
9. Thurston Howell III
10. Tony Stark
11. Fake Steve Jobs
12. Gomez Addams
13. Willy Wonka
14. Lucius Malfoy
15. Princess Peach
For pragmatic reasons, Santa Claus was eliminated from the list. According to many Forbes readers, Santy ain’t fictional – and our economy is going swell.
Mmmm – what about General Bullmoose and Bet-a-Billion Bashby? According to a government report when they were arguing over which of them was richer (just before the Slobbovian Schtoonk debacle), they each controlled 49% of the world's wealth, and the other 2% was scattered among various inconsequential fortunes like the Hughes, Getty and Kennedy fortunes…
Sadly, Bullmoose got hoisted on that Haliburton scandal. What's good for General Bullmoose wasn't so good for the USA after all.
Not to mention Fu Manchu, or Lex Luthor, Imus Champion, Obadiah Stane, Norman Osborn, Terry Sloane, The Wizard Ham, Daddy Warbucks, Adrian Veidt …
I think Oliver Warbucks got dragged into General Bullmoose's affairs…
Seems to me Superman should be on this list. Ham is very wealthy.
Why encourage the man who can single-handedly — literally — destroy the diamond market?