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'''Daddy Warbucks''' is a [[supervillain (nonfiction)]] who seeks out and invests in cost-effective ways to destroy all creation.
'''Daddy Warbucks''' is a [[supervillain (nonfiction)]] who seeks out and invests in cost-effective ways to destroy all creation.


He is [[bald (nonfiction)]].
He is bald.


== Missed opportunities ==
Warbucks frequently misses opportunities to reach his goals, due to penny-pinching.


Warbucks frequently misses opportunities to reach his goals, due to [[penny-pinching (nonfiction)]].
Daddy Warbucks has made a great many enemies over the centuries.


== Enemies ==
Warbucks has evidence that his financial empire is plagued by millions of tiny robberies, day after day, hour after hour -- it would be computational folly to demand an accurate accounting.


Daddy Warbucks has made a great many enemies over the centuries.
The total loss amounts to pennies, but Warbucks made is fortune literally pinching pennies, and in his later years his stinginess has grown to magisterial proportions.


=== The Eel ===
== In the News ==


[[The Eel]] covets wealth, a quality that Warbucks finds repellent.
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File:Red_dye_cash.jpg|Aftermath of a Daddy Warbucks temper tantrum. The dye pack exploded and the stack of 20s were abandoned on the sidewalk.
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== Fiction cross reference ==
== Fiction cross reference ==
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* [[Baldness (nonfiction)]]
* [[Baldness (nonfiction)]]
* [[Computational complexity theory (nonfiction)]]
* [[Daddy Warbucks (nonfiction)]]
* [[Daddy Warbucks (nonfiction)]]
* [[Penny-pinching (nonfiction).]]
* [[Supervillain (nonfiction)]]
* [[Supervillain (nonfiction)]]



Latest revision as of 18:14, 10 October 2021

Daddy Warbucks is a supervillain (nonfiction) who seeks out and invests in cost-effective ways to destroy all creation.

He is bald.

Warbucks frequently misses opportunities to reach his goals, due to penny-pinching.

Daddy Warbucks has made a great many enemies over the centuries.

Warbucks has evidence that his financial empire is plagued by millions of tiny robberies, day after day, hour after hour -- it would be computational folly to demand an accurate accounting.

The total loss amounts to pennies, but Warbucks made is fortune literally pinching pennies, and in his later years his stinginess has grown to magisterial proportions.

In the News

Fiction cross reference

Nonfiction cross reference