TOP TWENTY RICHEST VILLAINS

Not so long ago, our pals over at Pay Set decided to figure out which villain, either fictional or real, has been able to accumulate the most money. In order to do this, though, they first had to compile and calculate the reported assets, the sources of income, and the generated wealth for each of these noted fiends. Then once they did that, afterwards, they converted their total wealth into what it's actually worth today and ranked each fiend accordingly.





What now follows is a list that depicts the top twenty richest villains, including all of their names, what franchise/series they're normally associated with, how much money they've obtained, and some of the things they did to obtain it.

20) Calvin Candie (Django Unchained): Earned $71 million through the slave trade and by being a plantation owner.
19) Tony Soprano (The Sopranos): Earned $76 million through tax evasion, mortgage fraud, and extortion.
18) Magneto (X-Men): Earned $500 million through acts of terrorism and investing in science and technology.
17) George Jung (Blow): Earned $593 million through drug smuggling and trafficking.
16) Commodus (Gladiator): Earned $600 million through inherited wealth.

15) Hans Gruber (Die Hard): Earned $640 million through acts of terrorism and theft.
14) Tony Montana (Scarface): Earned $900 million through drug trafficking, money laundering, and tax evasion.
13) Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones): Earned $1.8 billion through war profiteering, mining for gold, and loan interest.
12) Terry Benedict (Ocean's trilogy): Earned $3.3 billion through gambling and owning real estate.
11) Auric Goldfinger (James Bond): Earned $6.5 billion through trading and investing in jewelry and other valuable assets.

10) Meyer Lansky (Lansky): Earned $6.8 billion through money laundering, tax evasion, and investing.
9) Ozymandias (Watchmen): Earned $7 billion through war profiteering, marketing, and investing in science and technology.
8) Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons): Earned $8 billion through investing in science, technology, and music.
7) Norman Osborn (Spider-Man): Earned $10 billion through arms dealing and investing in science and technology.
6) Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán (Narcos: Mexico): Earned $14 billion through drug trafficking.

5) Gordon Gekko (Wall Street): Earned $16.5 billion through insider trading.
4) Al Capone (The Untouchables): Earned $18.6 billion through drug trafficking, racketeering, and tax evasion.
3) Kingpin (Spider-Man): Earned $20 billion through racketeering, investing in technology, and owning real estate.
2) Pablo Escobar (Narcos): Earned $64 billion through drug trafficking.
1) Lex Luthor (Superman): Earned $75 billion through investing in engineering and other endeavors.

In closing, I'd like to thank Pay Set for allowing me to showcase their findings in this article, before encouraging you to check out their official website.