Editing Wilkins Micawber (section)

==Popular culture==
[[File:Fred Barnard08.jpg|250px|thumb|As illustrated by [[Fred Barnard]] in an 1870s edition]]

Micawber is known for asserting his faith that "something will turn up."<ref name="Ramchandani1992">{{cite journal|last1=Ramchandani|first1=Dilip|title=The hypomanic personality of Wilkins Micawber: A Dickensian case study|journal=Psychiatric Quarterly|volume=63|issue=3|year=1992|pages=245–249|issn=0033-2720|doi=10.1007/BF01065295|pmid=1488464|s2cid=19585049}}</ref> His name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation.  This has formed the basis for the Micawber Principle,{{according to whom|date=March 2023}} based upon his observation in Chapter 12:

{{Quote|Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.}}

Written in full, the expenditure amounts are nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence (£19/19/6) and £20/0/6, the pre-decimal equivalents of £19.97{{Frac|1|2}} and £20.02{{Frac|1|2}} in modern British currency.

The character was played by [[W.C. Fields]] in the 1935 screen classic, ''[[Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger]]''.  [[Bob Hoskins]] took the role in a 1999 [[David Copperfield (1999 film)|BBC serial]]. [[Peter Capaldi]] played Micawber in the 2019 [[Armando Iannucci]] film ''[[The Personal History of David Copperfield]]''.

[[Keith Richards]] of the [[Rolling Stones]] named one of his guitars (an early 1950s [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] [[Telecaster]] with a [[Gibson Guitar Corporation|Gibson]] [[PAF (pickup)|PAF]] [[Humbucker|humbucking]] [[Pickup (music technology)|pickup]] installed in the neck position) "Micawber"; Richards is known to be a fan of Dickens. "There's no reason for my guitar being called Micawber, apart from the fact that it's such an unlikely name. There's no one around me called Micawber, so when I scream for Micawber everyone knows what I'm talking about."{{cn|date=March 2023}}

The character formed the basis of ''[[Micawber (television)|Micawber]]'', a 2001 ITV drama series written by [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]] and starring [[David Jason]] in the title leading role. In the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of ''[[Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly]]'', 550 U.S. 544, 562 (2007), Justice [[David Souter|Souter]] criticized the court for an approach to pleading that "would dispense with any showing of a reasonably founded hope that a plaintiff would be able to make a case; Mr. Micawber's optimism would be enough.<ref>[https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-1126.ZO.html SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES BELL ATLANTIC CORPORATION, et al., PETI-TIONERS v. WILLIAM TWOMBLY et al.]</ref>"