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Zillion-Dollar Bill
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A MacGuffin of great monetary value (though normally never specifically stated), so great that it could make anyone or any community rich and prosperous, and will never go hungry again. Naturally, it's almost always destroyed, lost, or otherwise gotten rid of at the end of the plot. The monetary value may be an example of Eleventy Zillion. Not to be confused with Ridiculous Exchange Rates. Compare Impossibly Cool Wealth. In the future, such a bill would be worth nothing thanks to Ridiculous Future Inflation. An example of Artistic License – Economics on the few occasions it can actually be used in the story, as it would immediately destroy any economy it was introduced to in a realistic setting — if anyone would actually take it, which smarter writers will often use as a plot point. Compare to A MacGuffin Full of Money. At the opposite end of the scale from Worthless Currency. |
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The Million Pound Note, adapted from the Mark Twain short story mentioned below, features... well, just look at the title. | |
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The low-budget version appears in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In 1920s Chicago, an unemployed stockyard worker is given a hundred-dollar bill by a rich drunk. (This is about as much money as the hero could make in a year.) But he has no other money with him, and he'll freeze to death if he tries to walk home. In desperation, he goes into a bar to stay warm until the banks open in the morning. They won't let him stay without buying something, so he uses the bill to buy a 5-cent beer. The bartender gives him 95 cents in change, and everyone else enjoys a big laugh when he tries to convince them that he's been cheated. | |
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Gold coins in Wurm Online. It's almost impossible to actually spend a whole one in-gamenote Wurm uses the usual Gold–Silver–Copper Standard, and one silver coin is worth 1 Euro (about US$1.30) so the few players who actually own one keep them around as status symbols. | |
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During the 2008 financial crisis, Mitsubishi agreed to bail out Morgan Stanley with a capital infusion of $9 billion; such an amount would ordinarily have been wire-transferred, but banks were closed on Columbus Day and Morgan Stanley was literally hours away from collapse, so Mitsubishi sent a courier with a physical check for the amount. According to Andrew Sorkin's Too Big to Fail, the Morgan Stanley executive who accepted the check nearly had a nervous breakdown (despite being fully briefed in advance on what he was receiving), and had to walk very carefully into the firm's Wall Street offices to deposit the check in the firm's secure vault. This example might have been listed under Giant Novelty Check, except that the check was neither oversized nor a gag. | |
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One-Eyed Willy's treasure in the movie The Goonies. Most of the treasure is lost completely, but the handful of gems that Mikey manages to hold onto is enough to save the kids' neighborhood from being turned into a country club. The Novelization reveals that due to US and International Maritime salvage law applying when Mikey took the gems off of One-Eyed Willy's ship, he's now the legal owner of it and all the treasure still on it when it was rescued later, putting this trope into effect when the proceeds from the recovery helped develop the neighbourhood immensely. | |
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This gets mentioned in The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters, and slaughtering unfortunate centaurs, who have a high chance of dropping gems of such value, is how the titular characters become disgusting. It doesn't help that in this edition you also gain experience proportional to the money you receive... | |
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The Simpsons had "The Trouble with Trillions", where Homer finds out that Montgomery Burns had a trillion-dollar bill in his possession. It was originally printed by the American Government to give to the governments of Europe to pay for damages from WWII, but Monty stole it. It's not quite a zillion dollars, but it's enough, at least as Lisa said for some dune buggies. In the episode "Mr. Plow", Homer gets rival plowman Barney Gumble to spend the day dragging his plow up a mountain with the promise of a ten thousand dollar bill. When asked which president is on it, he claims, "All of them. They're having a party. Jimmy Carter has passed out on the couch." note The actual ten-thousand dollar bill features Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, and hasn't been in circulation for decades.Barney is so impressed that he leaves immediately, abandoning his hot tub with Linda Ronstadt. Downplayed or arguably parodied in "The Regina Monologues", where a $1,000 bill was enough to be a spectacle among the town, raising $3,000 itself just from admissions. |
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In the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, the turtles dread the thought of an alien turtle race moving to Earth: they are a benevolent race, but they also have the technology to create gold effortlessly (in fact, they use it mostly as a building material). | |
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The "zillion-chip piece" (poker chips are the universal currency) in Twilight Heroes only drops on April Fool's Day and sells for... 1 chip. | |
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In Trigun the astronomical bounty on Vash the Stampede's head makes him a walking Zillion-Dollar Bill. As a result, even well-intentioned people try to kill him. | |
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Done more subtly and realistically on Corner Gas. Brent Leroy receives a hundred dollar bill he suspects may be counterfeit (and doesn't know how to check) from a customer, and for the rest of the episode tries to pay for things, knowing that no one will go to the trouble of changing a hundred dollar (possibly fake) bill for a two-dollar cup of coffee. The "Sorry I only have this hundred" free ride ends when someone at his table happens to have five twenties to trade him and the bartender gladly accepts one of them as payment faster than Brent can invent an excuse for not breaking his hundred. "It was good while it lasted." | |
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Captain Flint's treasure in Treasure Island. When the bulk of the treasure is finally found, it takes several days to sort out the coins and gold bars and load all them onto the ship. | |
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Parodied in the Animaniacs direct-to-video movie Wakko's Wish, where a ha' penny gets this role. However, the town of Acme Falls has fallen on such hard times, all it takes is two of them to save the town from soul crushing poverty and restore it to "as close to perfect as possible". It would be perfect, but... the mime. THE MIME. It really was just one coin of low value, but the stimulus this generated in the local economy created a snowball effect, restoring consumer confidence - all according to real life economic principles! | |
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At the beginning of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by R.A. Heinlein, Mike gave a janitor a paycheck for $10,000,000,000,000,185.15 as a joke. It was determined to be a "computer error" and the check was declared invalid. | |
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In Terry Pratchett's proto-Discworld book Strata, money is defined as time - each bill is worth extra years of life. The biggest bill is the Methuselah (named after the longest-lived Biblical personality) which few people have ever seen. The book also features a bottomless purse, which continually spits out bills which are not technically counterfeit, but which have serial numbers that haven't been used yet. | |
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In a Richie Rich story, the kid tries a different kind of monetary security as he arranges for a literal million dollar bank note. Sure enough, some crooks steal it, but find they can't break it since no one takes the item seriously and they chase away the crooks continually. Eventually, they give up in despair, mail the bank note back to Richie with a note saying "If there is a reward for this, please send it in nickels, dimes and quarters." | |
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An episode of the original 1960s Spider-Man had the Vulture ransoming the city for two million dollars in the form of two one million dollar bills. | |
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In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, due to Ridiculous Future Inflation, trillion-dollar bills (depicting Ronald Reagan) are considered small change, and billion-dollar bills (depicting Ed Meese) are occasionally used as toilet paper, although the FBI discourages this as the bills clog the plumbing. To circumvent the utter insanity of operating with those kinds of numbers, various corporate nation-states introduced non-inflated currency such as Kongbucks, and the Japanese yen is occasionally used as it has not been subjected to hyperinflation. | |
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In EarthBound (1994), you are at one point given ten thousand dollars in cash and later an extremely valuable diamond, both of which you must use shortly afterwards to get the band known as the Runaway Five out of a bum contract. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson the first time. At least they return the favor during a Hopeless Boss Fight. IF you didn't get killed during the fight... |
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In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, you start with, well, not an actual bill, but so much gold, diamonds and treasure you are extremely wealthy and prosperous. Of course, it gets stolen the next minute... | |
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The gold bars found near the end of the Fallout: New Vegas expansion Dead Money are worth a ridiculous amount of money - more than any merchant has available. note There are some merchants who will let you buy and sell at cost under certain circumstances, such as the Great Khans' armory, so you could exchange a bar for a ton of guns and ammo instead, and sell those later. You're also not supposed to take the bars - the whole point of DM is to "let go" of your greed and desires, and the bars are so heavy that you can't escape the vault before it explodes. Unless you're a very clever player. | |
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The Twenty One Balloons takes place in a balloon-mad society located on an island containing a large number of sizable diamonds. They sell the smaller ones in limited numbers to fund everything without collapsing the market. Too bad the island in question is Krakatoa and it's right before the eruption... (In the introduction Dubois mentions several similarities between the book and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and his conclusion that there are very few sensible things to do with a very large diamond.) | |
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In The People Under the Stairs, the handful of gold coins Fool steals from Man and Woman is apparently enough to pay for his mother's operation, and pay their rent "till the year 2000". This is 1991, by the way... | |
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Less extreme than most, but still noteworthy; the talent, the largest denomination of Jade currency in Exalted is enough to pay the wages of a large army all on its own. This may not seem like much, but considering the general financial and communication capabilities of the setting, it's pretty major. Portrayed fairly realistically; the talent is so valuable that it is hardly ever used in transactions, mostly appearing just in accounts ledgers and resting in bank or personal vaults securing somebody's finances (although the fact that a single talent is several square feet large and weighs almost 70 pounds helps). | |
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Retsupurae did this during the later parts of their 4-part Earnest Goes To Anime videos with the bitcoin gag. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe In one comic, Scrooge arranges for a coin to be worth skyrillions of dollars (by purchasing every other coin for the double of its value and dumping them in the ocean). He then finds that the only one who has enough money to pay for it is himself. In another story, Scrooge's fortune becomes so astronomically large that all the money in the country is located in his money bin. The government confiscates all of it, and hands him a zillion dollar check, which he quickly discovers is completely worthless due to no one being able to make change. Since Scrooge owns roughly every store in the country, the money shortly comes trucking back, and Scrooge ends up using the check to repair a draft. In several other stories Scrooge comes upon some kind of incredibly valuable object (such as a giant jeweled Mayan calendar). As usual, the treasure is virtually always lost forever, even though the status quo wouldn't have been changed in the slightest if Scrooge had kept it for his museum. Usually he loses the treasure because it actually belongs to the local government or some obscure tribe whose ancestors made it. One story has him compete with Rockerduck for such a bill at an auction. Things get heated, with Rockerduck placing a final Whammy Bid, and Scrooge taking the loss remarkably well... until he reminds everyone that the bids passed the bill's actual value long ago (Rockerduck's final bid was double the bill's value). |
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In 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, where the value of gemstones was determined at random, a tiny but genuine chance existed for the DM to roll up gems worth many millions of gold pieces. Just how an adventurer is supposed to sell off such incredible gems in your average medieval village was not addressed. note Possibilities include: exchange it for permanent credit, find a really, really good gemcutter, trade it with a dragon, who might be able to make change or incorporate it into magical items. This gets mentioned in The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters, and slaughtering unfortunate centaurs, who have a high chance of dropping gems of such value, is how the titular characters become disgusting. It doesn't help that in this edition you also gain experience proportional to the money you receive... Some old modules had massive jewel-encrusted gold statues that showed up as decoration in various dungeons. Due to their size and mass they couldn't be removed by ordinary means, but there are a few stories of creative parties figuring out how to successfully carry one out and suddenly being wealthy enough to buy a modest-sized kingdom. |
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In Fallout 2 and part of Fallout 3, the player has to look for a device called a G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) - a briefcase-like object containing a computer, seeds and chemicals - with the ability to make any earth magically sprout life. | |
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Gilligan's Island: In "The Sweepstakes", Gilligan wins a million-dollar sweepstakes and is invited to the Howell's country club. After feeling lonely he issues IOUs to the others so they may also attend. He quickly misplaces the wining ticket and they all get evicted. | |
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In Borderlands, the Vault is literally said to contain infinite wealth (along with advanced alien technology, fame, power, and women), so the Vault Keys serve as a Zillion-Dollar Bill. And you can even sell them, although the fact that the Vault really contains Sealed Evil in a Can significantly devalues them by the time you do so. | |
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In one of the stages in Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness the main enemy is the incredibly wealthy. As such, the smallest denomination of money they drop is a twenty thousand dollar bill. They also rob an ATM of quite a large sum of money, which, given that Tycho interrupts the machine as it is giving an exact figure of the account they are attempting to rob, is more or less a drop in the bucket. | |
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One of the items you need to find in Zork Zero is a million zorkmid bill. | |
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In the Destroy All Humans! series, DNA/Cortexes serve as this. The Furon race literally depends on their own DNA for survival. They eat it, drink it, and trade it for money. And in DAH!3, your DNA collection can go up into the billions. Since Pox and Crypto are the ones responsible for collecting it, they are the wealthiest, most important people of their race. Until they screw it up. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo's mithril coat is said to be more valuable than "the whole Shire and everything in it." That's probably because the only mine in the world where mithril can be found has a bit of a Balrog problem, is infested with goblins, and has a giant man-eating octopus-monster-thing at the gates. | |
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In Day of the Tentacle you manage to make the Edisons fabulously wealthy by obtaining the back royalties Lucasarts owes them for Maniac Mansion. Naturally, the money must immediately be spent to buy a giant diamond to repair your time machine. | |
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The million-year capsule in In Time. | |
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In the game Evil Genius, one of the loot items you can steal is a million dollar bill (The game is set in the '60s). Since it's too big to actually spend, it sits in your base, cheering up your minions. This makes more sense than the in-game explanation that the bill isn't actually real money, but some odd PR stunt by the US President. Maybe the designers thought the players wouldn't understand. |
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In Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places), you win an actual million-dollar bill in the lottery. After some troubles converting it, you do indeed carry an indefinitely large amount of cash for the rest of the game. | |
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The eponymous dragon in Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon. In a subversion, the small community benefiting from its advanced technology attempts to hijack a starship to return it to its own kind. In a brilliant sucker punch, the dragon is as valuable to its own kind as a single sperm is to us. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater the Philosopher's Legacy is a microfilm containing bank information for $100 billion US; more than the real-world US budget at the time. Justified, as it is a slush fund created by all the Allies pooling their resources to fight the Axis. The Legacy is recovered and distributed between three world powers; most of it eventually falls into the hands of the Patriots. | |
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In Queen Zixi of Ix, the royal purse-bearer wishes for a bag of money that never runs empty, and it is granted. Interestingly, when the fairies return and revoke the foolishly-made wishes, this is one of the wishes they do not revoke, as it "assured the future prosperity of the kingdom of Noland". | |
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The wrecked plane full of cash in A Simple Plan. Of course, in this case it brings those who find it nothing but misery and ends up being burnt so the police cannot trace any of the serial numbers back. | |
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In The Kalevala — which is a book filled with Finnish myths — the skillful blacksmith Ilmarinen forges a device that gives its owner three things to guarantee wealth and health in one's family: Salt and grain so that food will never run out and gold so that there will always be money. When it's ready, he offers it to Pohjan Akka (who is an evil witch) in exchange for her beautiful daughter he has fallen in love with. This device — called The Sampo — later becomes the MacGuffin that everyone wants. And like every Zillion-Dollar Bill, it is accidentally destroyed, when it falls into the sea and breaks into pieces during the battle for it. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Long Game", the Doctor gets a metallic stick out of a future ATM that he gives to Rose and Adam as spending money. It later turns out to have "unlimited credit" on it. | |
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Monkey Island In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, you start with, well, not an actual bill, but so much gold, diamonds and treasure you are extremely wealthy and prosperous. Of course, it gets stolen the next minute... In The Curse of Monkey Island, early on you can find a bag of wooden nickels...and later on you can cash in your life insurance policy in exchange for a lot of money (virtually all of which will be spent playing poker). The joke here is that the thieves won't accept a "lot" of money for the diamond, saying "We can't give it to you for anything less than an awful lot of money." |
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In The Curse of Monkey Island, early on you can find a bag of wooden nickels...and later on you can cash in your life insurance policy in exchange for a lot of money (virtually all of which will be spent playing poker). The joke here is that the thieves won't accept a "lot" of money for the diamond, saying "We can't give it to you for anything less than an awful lot of money." |
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Referred to in an episode of Jonny Quest: Yellow Peril Zinn has found a way to create gold; the heroes have to destroy the method not only to keep him from using his ill-gotten gains to fund his evil network, but also to prevent the collapse of the global economy should the secret become open knowledge. | |
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The 2017 Ducktales reboot's episode Glomtales! shows Mark Beaks dabbling in cryptoeconomy by creating the "Beakscoin", which is allegedly "worth more than every dollar in the world combined". The Beaks coin does play a part in the plot since it contributes in helping Flintheart Glomgold winning his bet against Scrooge. | |
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Averted in a The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode: throughout the episode, Ted Baxter avoids repaying five dollars to Murray Slaughter by offering to repay Murray IF he can make change for a hundred dollar bill. At episode's end, Murray announces he can make change for the hundred dollar bill — pulling out a heavy bank bag — in pennies! | |
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The eponymous treasure from National Treasure. True to the trope, the people who find it decide that it's too big for any one nation and end up donating/selling everything to museums around the world. The one percent finders fee they received was still enough to make them all incredibly wealthy, though. Lampshaded when they find one of the first clues, a pipe: Riley asks, "Is it a billion-dollar pipe?" |
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At the end of How to Marry a Millionaire, Tom Brookman peels a $1,000 note off an impressively thick bankroll for the purposes of picking up the tab at a cheap restaurant. He tells the waiter to "keep the change". That $1,000 note? Add an extra zero for how much it'd be worth today... and there's lots more where it came from. | |
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In Parasol Stars, a Bubble Bobble sequel/spinoff, one of the special items that can be obtained is a giant 100,000-yen coin. Downplayed in that it's worth much less than the other examples on this page, but it is still worth 10 times as much as the most valuable actual yen banknote and 200 times as much as the most valuable yen coin. Unlike the far more common 100-yen coins that give 100 points and add one arcade-style credit, the giant coin gives 100,000 points and maxes out the number of credits at 99. | |
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Parodied in The Goon Show episode "The Million Pound Penny", in which Neddy Seagoon owns a penny that has been left a million pounds in a relative's will. Not surprisingly this ends in disaster. | |
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Lupin III, "I Left My Mind in San Francisco": The MacGuffin of the episode is a microfilm of a process that can artificially create diamonds, at a very low cost. Lupin wants to destroy it, because the film would make all of the other diamonds people had worked hard for by mining (or just stealing) completely worthless. | |
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