Money makes the world go round. (Offer not valid in the United Federation Of Planets.) After years of nearly everyone being independently wealthy (Did you know that Doctor Strange was a millionaire? Or Ben Grimm? Or Jimmy Olsen?), writers in recent years have made great hay of characters not being able to make ends meet. Would Han Solo make the same bad decisions if he didn’t have a Hutt price tag on his head? Would Peter Parker have dealt with J. Jonah Jameson’s unpleasantness if he didn’t need the paycheck? Would the adventures of the Serenity crew have been as exciting if they didn’t have to do dumb things to alleviate their money trouble? That’s not even counting the likes of Jonah Hex, whose adventures as a bounty hunter are all about making a little scratch (and whose movie was nearly as blatant a money grab) leading us to today’s filthy lucrative query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still thinks that Luke Cage pursuing Doctor Doom all the way to Latveria over $200 bucks probably gives him the crown, which will be hard to wear over his tiara, asking: Which pop-culture character had the worst money trouble of all?
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Walter White. Money was nothing but trouble for him.
Scrooge McDuck. He’s got more than anyone in the world, but is still obsessed by getting more and neurotic about losing the first penny.