Oscorp was taken over by Allan Chemical, and they merged to form Alchemax. So Norman is no longer an industrialist.
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Oscorp was taken over by Allan Chemical, and they merged to form Alchemax. So Norman is no longer an industrialist.
The problem of estimating the wealth of heads of state is that people tend to conflate the wealth of the nation, its resources and its GDP, with the personal wealth of the ruler. That's a very slippery and dodgy thing to do, especially when you consider that T'Challa, Namor, and Doom's regimes are so different.
T'Challa for instance rules Wakanda, which for the long time is a kind of federalized kingdom where different tribes have some autonomy and independence (at least in the case of Don McGregor's Panther's Rage), and in more recent times, a constitutional monarchy with a devolved monarchy. In that situation, I don't think it's the case that T'Challa himself owns Vibranium. Vibranium is clearly owned by the state, and Vibranium mines are nationalized but you can't necessarily say that that Vibranium is the personal property of the line of King T'Challa and King T'Chaka.
Namor is likewise a ruler of Atlantis which has multiple royal families jockeying for power. So is the wealth of power the wealth of Namor?
In the case of an absolute dictator like Doom, the wealth of the state tends to be equated with the wealth of the monarch. And since Doom created a centralized dictatorship where he's basically not answerable to anyone, that's more understandable since Doom is very much an "I am the state" kind of guy. But at the same time, Doom is an active monarch who devotes a lot of money and time to public works, defense and so on. So is that his own money he's spending or the state's?
[QUOTE=Digifiend;4570866]Oscorp was taken over by Allan Chemical, and they merged to form Alchemax. So Norman is no longer an industrialist.[/QUOTE]
Won't last long...
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Namor is likewise a ruler of Atlantis which has multiple royal families jockeying for power. So is the wealth of power the wealth of Namor?
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O_o
Again, since he was supposed to be DEAD, Namor wasn't accessing his kingdom's wealth, nor whatever established "personal" wealth he had, when he created Oracle, a Wall Street company capable of taking over Rand Meachum, and facing off against Roxxon. Hence, he can draw an immense amount of wealth from THE OCEAN, not from Atlantis.
[QUOTE=Reviresco;4571014]Again, since he was supposed to be DEAD, Namor wasn't accessing his kingdom's wealth, nor whatever established "personal" wealth he had, when he created Oracle, a Wall Street company capable of taking over Rand Meachum, and facing off against Roxxon. Hence, he can draw an immense amount of wealth from THE OCEAN, not from Atlantis.[/QUOTE]
Okay now that's some hard data. But from what you say, Namor's wealth derives from his American citizenship and his assets are typical of American capitalism. So that makes him rich and wealthy certainly and among the Marvel billionaries. But I don't know if that puts him in Stark territory.
I'd say Namor's Oracle (which I haven't heard about lately) is a Fortune 500 company in the top list but would be say in the top 300 or 200, depending on how Danny Rand's company is valued.
[QUOTE=Revolutionary_Jack;4571048]Okay now that's some hard data. But from what you say, [B]Namor's wealth derives from his American citizenship and his assets are typical of American capitalism[/B]. So that makes him rich and wealthy certainly and among the Marvel billionaries. But I don't know if that puts him in Stark territory.
I'd say Namor's Oracle (which I haven't heard about lately) is a Fortune 500 company in the top list but would be say in the top 300 or 200, depending on how Danny Rand's company is valued.[/QUOTE]
No. I never said that. I only brought up Oracle to show that Namor has enough wealth laying around in the ocean, he can easily create a top corporation. And Namor isn't an American citizen. Nor is the wealth of the oceans based on American capitalism. For a few years, in the 1990s, Namor did attempt to use his corporation (Oracle) to clean up the environment. He also used Oracle to fund Heroes For Hire. But he sold Oracle in the late 1990s to Stark Fujiwara at the end of Ostrander's Heroes for Hire.
Again, Namor's wealth is from the oceans. If he wants something, he can easily gather enough from the oceans to buy whatever he wants. Like a movie studio. I'd forgotten he'd bought one back in FF 9.
Marc Spector is also a billionaire, I believe. He finances his gadgets and vehicles through Spectorcorp, which deals in the industry of fine art.
[QUOTE=Reviresco;4571134]Nor is the wealth of the oceans based on American capitalism. [/QUOTE]
Actually it is. US is entitled to claim a certain percentage of waters surrounding it beyond which is International Waters. This is agreed upon by the UN. And since Atlantis is a member of the UN, Namor is tacitly agreed to it as well.
Dwayne Taylor made reference to his billion dollar company in that last contest of champions book. even after being presumed dead, he's loaded.
[QUOTE=Panic;4570004]Xavier shouldn't be on the list, unless his finances have had an upturn since the eighties (entirely possible, my X-Men knowledge is pretty scrappy from the nineties onward), when he was having to ask Warren Worthington for cash (Warren was very rich since inheriting money in [I]The Champions[/I] - don't know about now).[/QUOTE]
Xavier was always megarich, coming from old colonial era money (that's how he got all his toys). The latest value is $3 billion (per Fantomex), but I would put it higher, tbh.
Not that it proves much, but back in the 80s Marvel RPG, Xavier and Angel had higher resources than Tony Stark.
Keep in mind that in the 80s, there were only about a dozen billionaires in the US. Today, there are hundreds.
[QUOTE=MichelleDiMera;4570830]Osborn is a billionaire? I thought him and Sebastian Shaw were multi millionaire industrialists.[/QUOTE]
It's canon that Shaw made his first billion by the time he turned 40.
[QUOTE=Revolutionary_Jack;4571383]Actually it is. US is entitled to claim a certain percentage of waters surrounding it beyond which is International Waters. This is agreed upon by the UN. And since Atlantis is a member of the UN, Namor is tacitly agreed to it as well.[/QUOTE]
Tell that to China.
It's 12 freaking miles. So no. American capitalism doesn't extend to the 75% of the world that Namor rules. Plus, there's some debate as to whether Atlantis joined the UN or not.
[QUOTE=Michael Watkins;4571506]Dwayne Taylor made reference to his billion dollar company in that last contest of champions book. even after being presumed dead, he's loaded.[/QUOTE]He has his brother to thank for that. Did the authorities even know that was a new Night Thrasher working with those depowered X-Men? He actually used an image inducer to make sure the truth about his identity didn't get out.
How much is a guy like Sinister worth? Or does he just take everything for his experiments and technology??
[QUOTE=Reviresco;4571134] And Namor isn't an American citizen.[/QUOTE]Yes he is, by virtue of being the son of US citizen Leonard Mackenzie. Its complicated, but he is.
[QUOTE=davew128;4572226]Yes he is, by virtue of being the son of US citizen Leonard Mackenzie. Its complicated, but he is.[/QUOTE]
I don't think so.
1) His parents marriage probably was not recognized by the US, which would be mean he was illegitimate in the US and would fall under different requirements.
2) Namor was born before the repeal of residency requirements for US Citizenship at birth.