A comparison of Wall Street Movie Villians

Who:  Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) in the Great Gatsby
Age: 26
Source of wealth:  bootlegging and racketeering
Estimated wealth (2013 dollars):  $1 million
Location of Mansion:  Kings Point, NY
Sidekick: Nick Carraway (Toby Maguire)
Mistress: Daisy Buchanan
Arch-nemesis: Tom Buchanan
Downfall:  Passenger in hit-and-run accident, killing Myrtle, for which he takes the blame. He is shot and killed by the husband of the victim
Epic Quote: "The rich get richer and the poor get children".

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Who: Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Wall Street
Age: 44
Source of wealth: Wall Street Raider
Estimated wealth (2013 dollars):  $650 million
Location of Mansion:  Southhampton, Long Island
Sidekick: Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)
Mistress: Darien Taylor (Daryl Hannah)
Arch-Nemesis:  Sir Lawrence Wildman
Downfall:  betrayed by Bud Fox and arrested by SEC for insider trading
Epic Quote: "Greed is good."
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Who:  Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) in The Bonfire of the Vanities
Age:  30
Source of Wealth: bond trader
Estimated wealth:  $50 million
Location of Mansion: Park Avenue co-op
Sidekick:  none
Mistress: Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith)
Arch-Nemesis:  Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), reporter
Downfall:  Hit-and-run injuring a black boy, with Maria driving.  He is ostracized by his social set, and his wife leaves him.  Assets frozen because he lost a civil trial.  At the end of the book, he is penniless and awaiting a trial for vehicular manslaughter.
Epic Quote: "A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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Who: Jim Young (Ben Affleck) in Boiler Room
Age: 27
Source of wealth:  stockbroker
Estimated wealth:  $8 million
Location of Mansion: Commack, New York
Sidekick:  Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi)
Mistress:  none
Downfall:  Arrested by the FBI for securities violations
Epic Quote: "Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't fucking have any."
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Who: Lawrence "Larry the Liquidator" Garfield (Danny DeVito) in Other People's Money
Age: 49
Source of wealth: corporate raider
Estimated wealth: $200 million
Mistress: Kate Sullivan (Penelope Ann Miller)
Arch-Nemesis: Andrew Jorgenson (Gregory Peck)
Downfall:  none, has happy ending
Epic Quote:I love money. I love money more than the things it can buy. There's only one thing I love more than money. You know what that is? OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY."

See also: http://www.businessinsider.com/13-awesome-wall-street-movies-2013-1