Ok, there is no educational reason for this post. But if you ever wondered who was richer Bruce Wayne or Thurston Howell III, the financial writers at Forbes worked it out a few years back. I suspect with the real estate boom, you can up these numbers. If the links work, you can see how they arrived at the estimates. Where's Donald Trump on that list -- no way that character is a real person.

Rank
Name
Net Worth
1.
Santa Claus
$ ∞
2.
Richie Rich
24.7 billion
3.
Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks
10 billion
4.
Scrooge McDuck
8.2 billion
5.
Thurston Howell III
8 billion
6.
Willie Wonka
8 billion
7.
Bruce Wayne
6.3 billion
8.
Lex Luthor
4.7 billion
9.
J.R. Ewing
2.8 billion
10.
Auric Goldfinger
1.2 billion
11.
C. Montgomery Burns
1 billion
12.
Charles Foster Kane
1 billion
13.
Cruella De Vil
875 million
14.
Gordon Gekko
650 million
15.
Jay Gatsby
600 million