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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)]].
 
== Enemies ==


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


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.
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.
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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 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.


Warbucks can't ''prove'' that [[The Eel]] is behind the robberies. 
== In the News ==
 
But he ''knows'' it, much in the same way that he ''knows'' that the Kentucky Bluegrass on his mighty Lawn will wither and die if he fails to keep a close eye on it by night.
 
Furthermore, [[The Eel]] covets wealth, a quality that Warbucks finds repellent:  to acquire is good, to possess is good, but to covet wastes [[Computational complexity (nonfiction)|computational resources (nonfiction)]].
 
=== Euphoriolanus ===
 
[[Euphoriolanus]] dissipates himself in extreme pleasures at any price.  "Repellent" is too kind a word, according to Warbucks (source needed).


Sadly, he is Warbucks' nephew, and so cannot be killed out of hand, but must be accepted as one of those family burdens which a family man must bear.
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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 ==

Latest revision as of 19:14, 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

  • Aftermath of a Daddy Warbucks temper tantrum. The dye pack exploded and the stack of 20s were abandoned on the sidewalk.

    Aftermath of a Daddy Warbucks temper tantrum. The dye pack exploded and the stack of 20s were abandoned on the sidewalk.

Fiction cross reference

Nonfiction cross reference

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