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For some reason, sibling series *Proletariat Pete* didn't do so hot. Even in Soviet Russia!

Richie Rich, often billed as "The Poor Little Rich Boy" and frequently styled as "Ri¢hie Ri¢h", debuted in 1953 as a backup character in the Little Dot comic book. He soon became Harvey Comics' flagship character, appearing in as many as 32 Harvey titles monthly and often crossing over with Casper the Friendly Ghost (refuting later speculation on The Simpsons that Casper was actually Richie's ghost). His stories usually centered around his attempts to be an ordinary boy having fun with friends despite being screamingly rich and not always knowing how to act when outside of his social stratum.

Adaptations of the comic naturally ensued: two Animated Series (a 1980 production by Hanna-Barbera and a 1996 syndicated show), a 1994 feature film which was followed by the Direct to Video Sequel Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (1998), and a live-action sitcom which has been running on Netflix since 2015.

More information here.

Tropes used in Richie Rich (comics) include:

Agent Scully: Richie tends to dismiss his numerous encounters with Casper as his own overactive imagination.
Alliterative Name: Richie Rich, Gloria Glad. Freckles Friendly. Possibly Jackie Jokers.
Arbitrarily-Large Bank Account: Both the Rich family and Rich Enterprises have an endless supply of money.
Battle Butler: Cadbury. He knew enough fighting skill at times to help Richie in the comics (The Other Wiki notes, "When need demands, however, he becomes a tough, gun-toting man of action").
- Cultured Badass: He also had a lot of other skills which came in handy. The Harvey equivalent of Alfred Pennyworth. One of Richie's uncles, the athletic Olympus Van Sporting, thinks glumly, "With that butler around, who needs me?" To give one example, one of Cadbury's skills involved mountain climbing...without gear, in his butler uniform.
Betty and Veronica: Subverted. Gloria's the sweet, kind, middle-class Betty. Mayda Munny's the vain, selfish, foul-tempered, wealthy Veronica. But Richie only has eyes for Gloria. Awww.
Canine Companion: Dollar, Richie's "dollarmatian", an odd dog with "$" signs on his pelt. Tends to be a Lovable Coward.
Crazy Prepared: Richie seems to have a gadget or gizmo up his sleeve to deal with any contingency, more prevalent in the cartoon adaptation. (Most of them invented by Dr. Keenbean.) In one cartoon, when he and Reggie are held hostage by two thugs who searched and disarmed him, he improvises and uses Reggie's practical joke equipment to subdue them.
Ditzy Genius: Professor Keenbean alternates between this and Absent-Minded Professor.
FemBot: Irona, Richie's robot maid.
Fiction 500: The Rich family.
Fiery Redhead: Gloria Glad
Gem-Encrusted: Richie's mother, in the comic book. She doesn't load herself down with too many jewels, but she collects them -- fully cut, faceted and polished emeralds, diamonds, rubies, aquamarines the size of baseballs -- and displays them on her dresser like Fabergé eggs.
Gentleman Adventurer: Richie, often accompanied by his father, Richard; his butler, Cadbury, or both. Also, Cadbury's former employer Sir Ruddy Blighter, in flashback stories.
Gold Makes Everything Shiny
Grade School CEO: Richie, perhaps.
Hair of Gold: Richie
Happily Married: Mr. and Mrs. Rich
Honest Corporate Executive: Mr. Rich.
The Jeeves: Cadbury, Richie's butler.
Intergenerational Friendship: Richie with Cadbury and Keenbean.
Lucky Charms Title: "Ri¢hie Ri¢h"
Money Fetish: His Aunt Noovo just loves to swim in her wealth, though she mostly does this for show as she is a very charitable person.
Nice to the Waiter: Richie's relationship with Cadbury.
Not with Them for the Money: Gloria Glad is notorious for always turning down the luxurious gifts Richie offers her. In fact, she has blown her temper more than once at Richie's more outrageous stunts with his wealth to attempt to impress and he seems unable to remember how much they annoy her. In one story, when she suddenly starts accepting his gift greedily, it's sets off alarm bells with Richie who investigates and learns he is dealing with an impostor who has kidnapped the real Gloria in order to con him out of money.
- In one story, Mayda Munny secretly gives her rival Gloria Glad gifts that supposedly came from Richie Rich, starting off with an expensive doll, to which she says it's a perfect gift -- not really knowing that all those gifts Gloria received were going to be used for charity.
Official Couple: Richie and Gloria.
One of the Boys
Or Was It a Dream? Any Crossover with Casper the Friendly Ghost ends this way from Richie's point of view.
Panty Shot: This is Harvey Comics, it tends to happen to Gloria a lot.
Porky Pig Pronunciation: Richie has trouble pronouncing "ventriloquist".
Punny Name: Mayda Munny.
Repetitive Name
Revival: The Movie sorts of counts, but the new Richie Rich comic definitely counts, and Needs More Love.
Road Sign Reversal
Robot Maid: Irona
- Do-Anything Robot
- Super Powered Robot Maids
Screw the Money, I Have Rules: The Rich family are the wealthiest people on the planet, yet they also seem to have the greatest moral compass when it comes to being overall decent.
Speech-Impaired Animal: Dollar.
Spoiled Brat: Richie's cousin Reggie.
Spoiled Sweet: Richie is incredibly kind and generous.
Supreme Chef: Chef Pierre, the Rich family's cook, also a French Chef.
Techno Wizard: Professor Keenbean
Tomboy
Uncle Pennybags: Richie and his parents.
Undying Loyalty: Try to bribe Cadbury and you're entering Bullying a Dragon territory. Emphasized in one story where a foreign government did it to test him because they wanted to offer him a position as Prime Minister; he turned down the offer because he felt the test only showed he was needed in his current job.
Uptown Girl: Richie and Gloria invert the genders; he has more money than the mint, Gloria is just a middle-class kid.
The White Prince: Richie

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 [[File:RichieRich.jpg|frame|For some reason, sibling series ''Proletariat Pete'' didn't do so hot. [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Even in Soviet Russia!]]]]
-Richie Rich, often billed as "The Poor Little Rich Boy", debuted in 1953 as a backup character in ''Little Dot''. He soon became Harvey Comics' flagship character, appearing in as many as 32 Harvey titles monthly and often [[Crossover|crossing over]] with [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]].
+'''''Richie Rich''''', often billed as "The Poor Little Rich Boy" and frequently styled as "Ri¢hie Ri¢h", debuted in 1953 as a backup character in the ''[[Little Dot]]'' comic book. He soon became Harvey Comics' flagship character, appearing in as many as ''32'' Harvey titles monthly and often [[Crossover|crossing over]] with [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]] (refuting later speculation on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' that Casper was actually Richie's ghost).  His stories usually centered around his attempts to be an ordinary boy having fun with friends despite being screamingly rich and not always knowing how to act when outside of his social stratum.
+Adaptations of the comic naturally ensued:  two [[Animated Series]] (a [[Richie Rich (1980 cartoon)|1980 production]] by [[Hanna-Barbera]] and a [[Richie Rich (1996 cartoon)|1996 syndicated show]]), a [[Richie Rich (film)|1994 feature film]] which was followed by the [[Direct to Video]] [[Sequel]] ''Richie Rich's Christmas Wish'' (1998), and a [[Live Action Adaptation|live-action]] [[Richie Rich (series)|sitcom]] which has been running on [[Netflix]] since 2015.
-Derivative works include two [[Animated Series]], the first of which, produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]], had better character designs and marked the voice acting debut of [[Nancy Cartwright]] as [http://www.thenancyshow.com/html/spotlight/gloria_spotlight.html Gloria Glad], and a 1994 feature film. The film cast Macaulay Culkin as Richie and Stephi Lineburg as Gloria. The film only earned $38,087,756 in the United States market. It was the 37th most successful film of its year, but just barely covering its budget. After the movie was released, the ''Richie Rich'' comics [[Franchise Killer|just stopped being published]].
+[https://web.archive.org/web/20080530034947/http://thft.home.att.net/richie.htm More information here.]
-A direct-to-video sequel to the movie was later released, ''Richie Rich's Christmas Wish'' (1998). It cast David Gallagher as Richie and Michelle Trachtenberg as Gloria.
-[http://thft.home.att.net/richie.htm More information here.]
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+{{tropelist}}
-=== ''Richie Rich'' contains the following tropes: ===
+* [[Agent Scully]]: Richie tends to dismiss his numerous encounters with Casper as his own overactive imagination.
 * [[Alliterative Name]]: Richie Rich, Gloria Glad. Freckles Friendly. Possibly Jackie Jokers.
 * [[Arbitrarily-Large Bank Account]]: Both the Rich family and Rich Enterprises have an endless supply of money.
+* [[Battle Butler]]: Cadbury. He knew enough fighting skill at times to help Richie in the comics ([[The Other Wiki]] notes, "When need demands, however, he becomes a tough, gun-toting man of action").
+** [[Cultured Badass]]: He also had a lot of other skills which came in handy. The Harvey equivalent of Alfred Pennyworth. One of Richie's uncles, the athletic Olympus Van Sporting, thinks glumly, "With that butler around, who needs me?" To give one example, one of Cadbury's skills involved mountain climbing...without gear, in his butler uniform.
 * [[Betty and Veronica]]: Subverted. Gloria's the sweet, kind, middle-class Betty. Mayda Munny's the vain, selfish, foul-tempered, wealthy Veronica. But Richie only has eyes for Gloria. [[Studio Audience|Awww]].
+* [[Canine Companion]]: Dollar, Richie's [[A Worldwide Punomenon| "dollarmatian"]], an odd dog with "$" signs on his pelt. Tends to be a [[Lovable Coward]].
+* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Richie seems to have a gadget or gizmo up his sleeve to deal with any contingency, more prevalent in the cartoon adaptation. (Most of them invented by Dr. Keenbean.) In one cartoon, when he and Reggie are held hostage by two thugs who searched and disarmed him, he improvises and uses Reggie's practical joke equipment to subdue them.
+* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Professor Keenbean alternates between this and [[Absent-Minded Professor]].
 * [[FemBot]]: Irona, Richie's robot maid.
 * [[Fiction 500]]: The Rich family.
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 * [[Gentleman Adventurer]]: Richie, often accompanied by his father, Richard; his butler, Cadbury, or both. Also, Cadbury's former employer Sir Ruddy Blighter, in [[Whole-Episode Flashback|flashback]] stories.
 * [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny]]
-* [[Grade School CEO]]: Richie, perhaps. In the film version, at least, he has substantial power within his parents' company.
+* [[Grade School CEO]]: Richie, perhaps.
 * [[Hair of Gold]]: Richie
 * [[Happily Married]]: Mr. and Mrs. Rich
 * [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: Mr. Rich.
-* [[It's All Junk]]: Subverted in the live-action movie. It's not the Rich family who thinks the Vault is full of junk...
 * [[The Jeeves]]: Cadbury, Richie's butler.
 * [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Richie with Cadbury and Keenbean.
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 * [[Not with Them for the Money]]: Gloria Glad is notorious for always turning down the luxurious gifts Richie offers her. In fact, she has blown her temper more than once at Richie's more outrageous stunts with his wealth to attempt to impress and he seems unable to remember how much they annoy her. In one story, when she suddenly starts accepting his gift greedily, it's sets off alarm bells with Richie who investigates and learns he is dealing with an impostor who has kidnapped the real Gloria in order to con him out of money.
 ** In one story, Mayda Munny secretly gives her rival Gloria Glad gifts that supposedly came from Richie Rich, starting off with an expensive doll, to which she says it's a perfect gift -- not really knowing that all those gifts Gloria received were going to be used for charity.
-* [[One of the Boys]]
 * [[Official Couple]]: Richie and Gloria.
+* [[One of the Boys]]
+* [[Or Was It a Dream?]] Any [[Crossover]] with [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]] ends this way from Richie's point of view.
+* [[Panty Shot]]: This is Harvey Comics, it tends to happen to Gloria a lot.
 * [[Porky Pig Pronunciation]]: Richie has trouble pronouncing "ventriloquist".
 * [[Punny Name]]: Mayda Munny.
 * [[Repetitive Name]]
-* [[Revival]]: [[The Movie]] sorts of counts, but the [http://ape-entertainment.com/comics/licensed-properties/richie-rich/ new Richie Rich comic] definitely counts, and [[Needs More Love]].
+* [[Revival]]: [[The Movie]] sorts of counts, but the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329115541/http://ape-entertainment.com/comics/licensed-properties/richie-rich/ new Richie Rich comic] definitely counts, and [[Needs More Love]].
 * [[Road Sign Reversal]]
 * [[Robot Maid]]: Irona
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 * [[Spoiled Brat]]: Richie's cousin Reggie.
 * [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Richie is incredibly kind and generous.
+* [[Supreme Chef]]: Chef Pierre, the Rich family's cook, also a [[French Chef]].
 * [[Techno Wizard]]: Professor Keenbean
 * [[Tomboy]]
 * [[Uncle Pennybags]]: Richie and his parents.
+* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Try to bribe Cadbury and you're entering [[Bullying a Dragon]] territory. Emphasized in one story where a foreign government did it [[Secret Test of Character| to test him]] because they wanted to offer him a position as Prime Minister; he turned down the offer because he felt the test only showed he was needed in his current job.
+* [[Uptown Girl]]: Richie and Gloria invert the genders; he has more money than the mint, Gloria is just a middle-class kid.
 * [[The White Prince]]: Richie
-=== '''The 1994 live-action film contains these tropes:''' ===
-* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Keenbean, to an extent.
-* [[Actor Allusion]]: A sideways one: When Ferguson blasts the nose off of Regina's likeness on Mount Richmore, she reacts be exclaiming, "I look like [[Michael Jackson]]!" You wonder how Macaulay Culkin reacted to that line before it was shot...
-* [[Affably Evil]]: Lawrence Van Dough.
-* [[Agony of the Feet]]: Professor Keenbean suffered from this trope after inadvertently dropping a bowling ball on his foot.
-* [[Bad Boss]]: Van Dough becomes this after he [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|takes the helm]].
-* [[Battle Butler]]: Cadbury, as seen during the scene where he busts out of prison after making quick work of the assassin sent to kill him.
-{{quote|  '''Cadbury: Never''' attack a man [[Call Back|with sensitive teeth]]!}}
-* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Richie's dad refuses to fire any of his employees, neither if they do a terrible job or to make sacrifices. {{spoiler|He makes an exception with the [[Big Bad]], however, due to the fact that he tried to kill him and his family.}}
-* [[Big Eater]]: Professor Keenbean. In fact, one scene even showed him ordering some Quarter Pounders and a bunch of fries from Richie's personal McDonald's, and claims he working on creating secret sauce. Also, Pee-wee to an extent<ref> Read: Pee-wee entirely lacks personality traits aside from his eating habits.</ref>
-* [[Book Ends]]: At the beginning after growing up, Richie is seen playing baseball. At the end of the film, he is playing baseball again, this time, with his new friends and with Cadbury as coach.
-* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: Keenbean's Stain-Away turns Richie's clothes into this.
-** And not only does Richie suffer no pain or even much of a response at all, but Van Dough keeps ''[[What an Idiot!|shooting him in the chest at point-blank range rather than at his unprotected head]]''.
-*** He did try to shoot right on Richie's face, but he was out of bullets.
-* [[The Butler Did It]]: The villains make it appear as if Cadbury bombed the Riches' private jet.
-* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Most of Keenbean's inventions. Which, by extension, makes Keenbean a [[Chekhov's Gunman]].
-* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Yes, [[Recursive Adaptation|a movie based on a comic book was turned into a comic book]]. It was also published by [[Marvel Comics]], for some reason.
-* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: The hopper that feeds Richie's friends into Keenbean's molecular reorganizing machine.
-* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Lawrence van Dough.
-* [[The Dragon]]: Ferguson to Van Dough's [[Big Bad]].
-* [[Fake Brit]]: Brisbane-born Jonathan Hyde plays a very high-British Cadbury.
-* [[Five-Token Band]]: Richie's friends, with Richie filling out the rich kid quota.
-* [[Frame-Up]]: See below.
-* [[Good Parents]]: Richard and Regina make sure they spend time with their son, even as they are working.
-* [[Grade School CEO]]: Richie takes over the company with Cadbury's backing after his parents' plane crash. This lasts one highly successful montage, until Cadbury is framed for the Rich's murder.
-* [[Happily Married]]: Richard and Regina Rich.
-* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Cadbury. But it's likely taken care of by the Riches.
-* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Economist/Actor [[Ben Stein]] in his usual boring monotone ways.
-** Richard Rich gets to play another wealthy [[Gilmore Girls|Richard later down the line]].
-** That's [[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves|Friar Tuck]] as Professor Keenbean.
-** Cadbury [[Jumanji|likes to hunt Robin Williams for sport.]] He also cowardly fled a [[Titanic|certain sinking supership]] with the women and children.
-* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: A rare non-villain example: Keenbean falls into a trap he set for Ferguson involving his super-strength adhesive, with near-disastrous results for Richie and his friends.
-* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Being the [[Benevolent Boss]] he is, Richie's dad is this way at first when it comes to Van Dough.
-** Actually, it seems he's perfectly aware of what Van Dough is like, as his wife pointed it out. Yet he's hesitant at first to fire him.
-{{quote| '''Regina:''' Oh Richard, wake up and smell the seaweed!}}
-* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Both villains get one. Ferguson has a towel superglued to his face, is knocked out, and gets stung in the ass by a robotic bee. Van Dough is left hanging for dear life on a sheer rock face, is fired by a 12-year-old boy, whose [[Benevolent Boss|father]] has never fired anyone in his life, and gets punched in the face by the mother.
-* [[Jerkass]]: Ferguson.
-* [[The Lancer]]: Cadbury.
-* [[Large Ham]]: The villains, [[Evil Is Hammy|obviously]], especially Ferguson.
-* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Richie.
-* [[Lost in Translation]]: A real life positive example. In the French dub, van Dough's line "Thank you, Beavis and Butthead" is replaced with an actually funny line: "Looks like Homer and Marge".
-* [[A Minor Kidroduction]]: The beginning of the film starts with the birth of Richie, all the way up to his current age.
-* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: Well, actually, Cadbury was the one being attacked, but he still ends up with the thug's clothes anyway.
-* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Richie and his parents's relationship with Cadbury and the other Rich staff. Averted greatly with Van Dough.
-* [[Office Golf]]: Ellwood does this in school.
-* [[Oh Crap]]: Both for Keenbean and for Richie and his friends when Keenbean [[What an Idiot!|gets stuck in]] [[Hoist by His Own Petard|his own superglue]] while trying to rescue them from Ferguson.
-** Richie's parents on the plane when they realize what "trinitrotoluine" is.
-* [[Papa Wolf]]: Cadbury when Ferguson manhandles Richie towards the beginning of the movie.
-{{quote| '''Ferguson''': It's my job to protect him.<br />
-'''Cadbury''': Yes very well Mr. Ferguson, but grab him like that again and it is YOU who will need protecting. }}
-* [[Precision F-Strike]]
-{{quote| '''Van Dough''': ''(after his gun jams at a critical moment)'' Shit!}}
-* [[Product Placement]]: "You have your own McDonald's?!"
-* [[Psycho for Hire]] / [[Ax Crazy]]: Ferguson.
-* [[Reality Ensues]]: In the movie, the villain's plan displays this. After hearing about the "Rich Family Vault", he immediately assumes that it's where he'll find the family's fortune. {{spoiler|[[Sarcasm Mode|Astoundingly enough]], the Riches didn't get rich by locking up all their wealth in a private, zero-interest vault (which turns out to be full of family heirlooms of low monetary worth). Their actual money is in banks.}}
-* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Professor Keenbean and the street kids were completely absent during the climatic scene where Richie and his parents are trapped on Mt. Richmore and trying to avoid Van Dough.
-* [[Shout-Out]]: Richie's answer to Van Dough's suggestion.
-{{quote| '''Richie:''' [[Home Alone|I don't think so.]]}}
-* [[Smart People Know Latin]]: Cadbury is seen to be skilled in reading Latin. Richie himself apparently knows enough Latin to send him a secret message in a greeting card. This may also count as a [[Chekhov's Skill]].
-* [[Smug Snake]]: Both of the villains.
-* [[Songs in the Key of Lock]]: "Side by Side" in duet.
-* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Richie is stated to the richest boy in the world but is a nice boy who longs to have friends.
-* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Ferguson's attempt to blast the Rich family with a giant laser cannon, which does plenty of damage to Mount Richmore, but none to the Riches themselves.
-* [[Transformation Ray]]: The molecular reorganizer.
-* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: What Van Dough does with Rich Industries after his assassination attempt on Richie's parents.
-* [[Villainous Breakdown]]:
-{{quote| '''Van Dough''': The money? ''Where is the money?!''<br />
-'''Mr. Rich''': ''(in his best [[What an Idiot!|are-you-fucking-kidding--me?]] voice)'' In banks! ''Where else''? Oh! And the stock market, real estate...<br />
-'''Van Dough''': Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me that there isn't a single gold bar, or emerald, or thousand dollar bill in this ''entire mountain?!''<br />
-'''Mr. Rich''': Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you Lawrence, but that's not what we treasure.<br />
-'''Van Dough''': Shoot them! Shoot them now, please! }}
-* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Lawrence Van Dough after he frames Cadbury for the Riches' disappearance.
-* [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]: "How would you like to spend the rest of your life as a bedpan?"
-* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: The villains are [[Moral Event Horizon|more than willing]] to shoot children, turn them into bedpans, blast them with a laser, etc.
-* [[You Have to Believe Me]]: Van Dough refuses to believe Keenbean doesn't know the vault's location.
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