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The direct opposite of the Gold Digger: the spouse or lover of a wealthy person who is adamantly uninterested in their wealth. They turn the most luxurious offers down flat without hesitation. The wealthy partner might love to shower them with money and treasures. However, the one thing they will not compromise on is that they are absolutely uninterested in any of that. They might be doing this on principle, or they are accustomed to a life where pinching pennies was important but will say something like "I'm flattered, but I don't want your money. I just want you." In fact, if the wealthy partner persists, they might get offended and threaten to walk out, leaving the wealthy partner alarmed at this bizarre situation. The wealthy partner can react with frustration, considering they dearly want to display love beyond simple company. This attitude can soften to charm once they realize the ungreedy partner is quite serious. Put another way, the wealthy partner is reassured that they are leaving the inheritance in good and competent hands and the widow(er) will use it like an Honest Corporate Executive. Compare Power is Sexy: often, it is the power and status that often accompany money that someone is attracted to. What attracts them is that their partner has it, not that it's spent on them. Compare also Screw the Money, I Have Rules! and Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love. |
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Shuurei of The Story of Saiunkoku is a bit of an odd example. Being somewhat of a Tsundere, she'll never admit to caring for Emperor Shi Ryuuki (who is completely head-over-heels for her) - but if there's one thing she is absolutely clear about, it is that she doesn't want any valuable presents from him. An Impoverished Patrician who watched many people starve to death during a previous civil war, she hates waste and extravagance, and meets his early attempts to shower her with valuable gifts with an outright rant on the subject. She's willing to compromise a little only when the gift serves a practical purpose (such as a block of ice he sent her during the heat of summer, which she promptly shared with the neighborhood), but even then he has to be careful. Shuurei's easygoing father Shouka, meanwhile, allowed his salary as palace archivist to be gradually reduced far below what he can live on, even though he's been a surrogate father figure to Ryuuki since long before Ryuuki took the throne and could easily have his full pay reinstated through Ryuuki's influence as Emperor, if he cared about money in the slightest. |
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One of many conflicts between the Bad Teacher and her rival is that while the former is truly a Gold Digger with no interest in the cute new teacher aside from the fact that he's rich, the other woman genuinely likes him for other reasons. | |
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Gabriel from The Fear Index was perfectly happy marrying oddball genius Alex before he became rich. And he didn't care about money either, but since her miscarriage, Alex has attempted to fill the gap by buying expensive things nobody needs, which Gabby dislikes. She puts up with it, but this all blows up in his face later in the book. | |
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In the Fire Emblem Jugdral games, Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, Lady Ishtar is the girlfriend and Battle Couple partner to Prince Julius. However, Ishtar is not in it for Julius' money and power: they're in a Childhood Friend Romance and she loves him for himself, despite him being The Dragon. (Plus, Julius loves her back as much as him being evil allows.) On the other hand, Ishtar's mother Queen Hilda wants her to be a Gold Digger and openly tells that to her very face. | |
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Arrow: Laurel Lance was involved with Oliver Queen (and hoping to get married to him), and later with Tommy Merlyn - both scions of billionaire families. In both cases, she is decidedly not interested in their money. At one point in Season 1, she even tells Tommy that "billionaire isn't one of your charming qualities"' when he frets about how he's been cut off by his dad. | |
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This is indicated to be the case with Angela and Hodgins on Bones. Although nothing's been verbalized, it's made fairly clear once they get past their hang-ups that she loves him for him and not the money. And now it's a moot point since he lost it all. Then when he gets rich again, she seems to care a little more about it, so who knows? | |
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The O.C. had Uptown Girl Marissa and her boy of the week, yard guy D.J. Her mother, Julie offers him money in exchange for him ending the relationship. He takes the money, but in a lovely subversion of Every Man Has His Price, gives it to Marissa, so she can have a nice shopping spree with it. Marissa had a knack for relationships with men (and women) of lesser financial means. All of them (Ryan, D.J, Alex and Volchok), as well as most of the other men who expressed interest in her (Johnny Harper and Trey Atwood were all in it (from some reason) for her looks or her endearing personality. |
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On White Collar a banker dies in a diving accident shortly before being indicted for running a multi-million dollar investment scam. The FBI suspects that his widow killed him for his life insurance money. However, Neil and Peter discover that she is innocent and was actually going to donate all the money to charity. She really loved her husband and did not want his money. | |
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In The Sign of the Four, Watson falls madly in love with Holmes' latest client, Mary Morstan. She seems to like him, too, but there's a complication — she stands to gain a lot of money if the mystery is successfully solved. Watson is so determined not to be thought of as a Gold Digger that he heroically resolves not to woo her at all. In the end, the box with the treasure is found—but it is empty. Since this means that Watson can finally pour out his feelings to Mary, they both agree that they are happier without the money. | |
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The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries: The Bellefleur family are well-off and have a famous, beautiful mansion. Andy Bellefleur's wife, Halleigh would rather they just lived in a small house together. | |
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In That Touch of Mink, Miss Timberlake (Doris Day) is this to the very rich and very charming Philip Shane (Cary Grant). | |
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Jane Eyre: When Jane agrees to marry Rochester the first time, he tries to lavish expensive gifts on her, which the independent Jane is decidedly uncomfortable with. (She never really gets over it, either — by the time they actually do marry, she's come into money and he's lost nearly everything, so it's a non-issue.) | |
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The protagonist of Double Homework becomes this in the Amy ending, when he’s fully aware of her status. | |
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While Harry Potter has often expressed that he would gladly share some of his fortune (after all, he has more gold than he needs for himself) with the Weasleys, they always refuse. This sometimes makes him feel guilty since they're always kind to him and treat him as part of their family despite being quite poor. | |
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Sam Vimes in the Discworld novels is also less than interested in high finance, although he's made exceptions when it was something very important — like getting emergency medical care for his wife who is giving birth. Usually he prefers looking like a grubby cop. Because Lady Sybil is old-fashioned, everything became his upon their marriage. He tries not to think about this if at all possible and, if he has to, views it as a technicality. In Men at Arms, he finds out he technically owns the Assassins' Guild's building. He uses this very effectively. By responding to "who are you to come in here like you own the place" with "actually, I do own the place." By the time of Going Postal, he appears to have decided to make the best of it and used his newfound wealth to build the Lady Sybil Free Hospital, administrated by the physician who saved his wife and son. |
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In Richie Rich, Richie's girlfriend, Gloria Glad, is notorious at always turning down the luxurious gifts he has offered. In fact, she has blown her temper more than once at Richie's more outrageous stunts with his wealth to attempt to impress and he can't seem to remember how much they annoy her. In one story, when she all of a sudden starts accepting his gifts greedily, it sets off alarm bells with Richie who investigates and learns he is dealing with an impostor who has kidnapped the real Gloria in order to con him out of money. In one story, he did try to be frugal but a series of coincidences forced him to buy expensive stuff. In another story, Gloria's Aunt was visiting and Richie, trying to impress said Aunt, decided to give Gloria expensive gifts as usual despite (this time) understanding Gloria usually turns them down. However, some accidents forced him to restrain himself to cheap stuff. Gloria liked the gifts but her Aunt was given the impression Richie was stingy. |
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I, Claudius: After his second unhappy Arranged Marriage falls apart, Claudius gets an official mistress, Calpurnia, rather than re-marrying. Calpurnia is a common-born prostitute and while she does benefit financially from the agreement, she isn't shown to get any more benefit out of it than any other mistress to a member of the imperial family could reasonably get, and genuinely cares for Claudius as a person (she even saves his life and position at one point). During the early days of Caligula's emperorship Claudius even ends up happily co-habiting with her in her house rather than living in the imperial palace, and when she dies in Claudius' twilight years he has her interred with a personally written epitaph. | |
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Columbo: In "Last Salute to the Commodore" the victim of the week has a mistress who's young enough to be his granddaughter. She eventually reveals she only agreed to marry him on the condition he leave her out of his will. | |
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In the In Death novels, Eve's relationship with Roarke occurs in spite of his obscene wealth rather than because of it. She is horrified when he presents her with an enormous diamond as a souvenir from a trip to Australia, and after their marriage, she not only refuses to think of his assets as hers, she gets mad at him when she realizes he's been putting funds into an account in her name and demands that he take it back.note He doesn't, but he's a ninth-degree black belt in Politeness Judo, so he gets her to drop it. | |
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The protagonist of Melody with Amy, especially in the Cool Aunt Ending. When he meets her, Amy is already a successful businesswoman, and she eventually becomes a wealthy fashion designer. The protagonist, however, likes/loves Amy for her. | |
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Fifty Shades of Grey: At first Ana has a serious problem accepting any lavish gifts from Christian, often trying to return them. She eventually gives in when it becomes clear that he won't stop spending as much money on her as he likes. She retains some of her simpler tastes, though. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: Laisa Toscane is in love with Gregor Vorbarra. The Emperor of Barrayar bit is just a side issue. It goes the other way too; Gregor is head over heels smitten with the brilliant, gorgeous and charming Laisa. The fact that it will be an alliance with a politically powerful family of one of his empire's most strategically important colony worlds barely registers. In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Tej is rather annoyed at hints by her family members that Ivan Vorpatrilnote a.k.a. the guy who the man with the best claim to the crown after Emperor Gregor's immediate offspring would put on the camp stool if things went south is a useful person to manipulate. |
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Cruelly played with in one case on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The Asshole Victim blatantly cheated on his wife and constantly abused her by comparing her to her drug-addicted prostitute mother. Even worse, he hired a male model to seduce her so he could leave her with nothing when he divorced her thanks to a fidelity clause in their prenup. She stayed faithful, but still murdered her husband anyway, just days before the prenup would expire on their tenth anniversary. When the detectives ask her why she didn't just wait and then divorce the bastard and take his money, she bitterly reminds them that the money was never what she was after. | |
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Queer as Folk (US): A rare male example; Emmett genuinely falls in love with a wealthy older man who dies and leaves his fortune to him, but includes the clause that he is not to be publicly outed as a gay man. Emmett struggles with the idea of being rich or being honest and eventually decides it's more important to tell the world who George was and that they loved each other than to have money. | |
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In the film version of Crazy Rich Asians, this was invoked with Nick and Rachel. Nick kept his family's wealth secret while he was in New York so he could form genuine connections with people who are not in it for his money. Even after Rachel finds out, while she is still in love with Nick, she quickly grows disillusioned with the Singaporean upper class's standards and attitudes. | |
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The Disney Ducks Comic Universe has Brigitta McBridge, who is openly in love with Scrooge for his personality and doesn't care that he never gives her any gift-in fact it's usually her giving him something in the vain attempt at getting his attention. She hadn't always been like that, her early stories being ambiguous on her being in love with Scrooge, his money, or both, and the story telling their first encounter shows her trying to outright steal from him (at least until he saved her from her own scheme backfiring), but in time she became this trope. | |
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Prétear: Kaoru Awayuki used to be poor until he married a rich widow and moved into her mansion. He genuinely loves her, however, and she loves him back just as much. | |
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There's an example of this in the platonic partnership between Roadhog and Junkrat in Overwatch. Junkrat hired Roadhog to be his bodyguard for 50% of the spoils from their crime sprees. While Roadhog uses the money, his real motivation is causing pain and havoc to the world after his homeland Australia became a radioactive wasteland. | |
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The murder case in Legally Blonde features a woman named Brooke Taylor-Windam as the prime suspect—she's been accused of murdering her husband (a guy who's practically old enough to be her dad and who also has a daughter from a previous marriage who's around the same age as Brooke) to get his money. But that doesn't make sense, at least partially because of how Brooke was actually already fairly wealthy before she and her husband got married (Brooke's a health-and-fitness guru who had made a bunch of money off stuff like exercise videos), so it's not like she really needed his money. Brooke explains that, despite the age difference, she genuinely loved her husband and adds that he had other "qualities" about himself besides his massive wealth. The actual culprit ultimately turns out to be Brooke's stepdaughter, who greatly resented her because of how her dad (Brooke's husband) married someone who's practically young enough to be his daughter. The stepdaughter, after being given an aggressive cross-examination from Elle Woods, confesses that she never meant to kill her father—in reality, she was trying to kill her stepmother, but was mistaken as to who was about to come through the door. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Lord Peter's courtship of Harriet Vane is, if anything, impeded by his vast wealth clashing with her strong desire to stand on her own feet. Shortly after They Finally Do, Lord Peter expresses the suspicion that if he'd had nothing more than the clothes on his back, she'd probably have married him years earlier, and Harriet admits that this is quite plausible. | |
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By the time of Going Postal, he appears to have decided to make the best of it and used his newfound wealth to build the Lady Sybil Free Hospital, administrated by the physician who saved his wife and son. | |
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This is a plot point in All Dressed in White, in which a man is suspected of murdering his bride-to-be shortly before their wedding over her money. While the Pierces are an incredibly wealthy family and Amanda Pierce had made her fiance the beneficiary of her substantial trust fund in the event of her death, Jeff insists he wanted to marry Amanda because he loved her and didn't care about her money. He tells Laurie and Alex he wasn't even interested in a lavish destination wedding, going along with it because it's what Amanda and her family wanted, and that it was Amanda who insisted on leaving him her trust fund in her will. Laurie notes that he and his wife live modestly and that he still hasn't made an attempt to have Amanda declared legally dead, so he may be telling the truth. It's confirmed Jeff has never been interested in his former fiancee's fortune, especially as he's furious at his wife for going behind his back to call Amanda's estate lawyer about claiming her trust fund, though he calms down when he realises she only wants the money because she's pregnant. | |
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In Every Breath You Take, many people, including Virginia's family, assume that Ivan was only with the late Virginia Wakeling because she was a multi-millionaire who was extremely generous towards him, especially as he was over twenty years her junior. While Ivan says he appreciated Virginia gifting him $500,000 to help start his own gym (which her family insists he actually stole), he wanted to be with Virginia because he was in love with her and they made each other happy, insisting that their large age-gap never concerned him. Virginia's personal assistant Penny states she thinks that Ivan probably wouldn't have been interested in a woman two decades older if she hadn't had money, but that it doesn't mean that they weren't genuinely in love, noting that lots of people have certain standards about their partners having financial security and she thinks people got hung up on it simply because it was a younger man dating an older woman. Whether or not Ivan was initially just interested in Virginia's money, the other characters are left with no doubt he truly did fall in love with Virginia. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: Very, very, VERY Averted in the case of Graham from Killer Cruise. The wealthy Emily Pritchard fell in love with a man named Graham Palmer III, who worked as a steward on board the cruise ship she was on and was set to marry him. However, Emily's father offered the steward money to break up with her. The man averted this trope by taking the money without a second thought and dumping her without a word. In fact, the money meant so much more to Graham, that when he ended up meeting Emily again when the book's events happen, he didn't recognize her at all, and just saw her as a rich woman he could dig his claws into. But she remembered him and killed him for it. | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Fujitaka Kinomoto liked an Uptown Girl named Nadeshiko. Her family thought he was a Gold Digger and disowned her when she insisted on marrying him. He turned out to be this trope, soon became rather affluent too, and they stayed Happily Married until she died of illness. | |
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In I Heard That Song Before, many people assume Kay married the much-older Peter Carrington after a very brief courtship because he's a millionaire. In actual fact, Kay genuinely loves Peter and though she's hardly complaining about being rich, it's not the reason she married him. She at one point says she'd give away the entire Carrington fortune if it would mean she and Peter could live in peace together. | |
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Another Law & Order episode had the victim's widow being presented as this. Not only did it turn out that she wasn't a gold-digger, but she was also devastated by having had multiple miscarriages and now had nothing to remember him by. | |
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The Fangs of K'aath has Sandhri the bat street storyteller. When she manages to reunite with her love, Prince Raschid, after all that has happened, she is made part of the royal household staff. While after years of living in poverty, she appreciates the tailor-made silken clothing she got in the process of finding Raschid again, then sharing his apartment in the Palace and having all the food she could want, that is as far it goes. Beyond that, she is adamant that Raschid, who would love to literally bury her in treasure to make her happy, should save his money for a possible future emergency when he might need all of it. As she says softly, but firmly, "I already haff my treasure. I didn't come to you because you v'ere rich." | |
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Case Closed's Yumi Miyamoto might be tempted to marry her love interest Haneda after discovering that he is a very famous and wealthy Shogi player but she makes it very clear that she isn't interested in money by tearing up his signed marriage certificate because she wants him to finish in his goal of collecting all 7 Shogi titles and propose to her himself. | |
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In Men at Arms, he finds out he technically owns the Assassins' Guild's building. He uses this very effectively. By responding to "who are you to come in here like you own the place" with "actually, I do own the place." | |
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Amy (impoverished) in Little Women is explicitly worried that Laurie (very rich) will think that she's a gold-digger. He points out that she turned down a much richer man than he. They've been close friends for over a decade by the point that things turn romantic, so her fears are very unfounded. | |
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In the Murder, She Wrote episode "Curse Of The Daanav", Seth Hazlitt's brother is Happily Married to a beautiful woman 20-30 years his junior. Although his children clearly suspect she's a Golddigger, she isn't—she's visibly uncomfortable when he bestows yet another expensive gift on her, as she fears this will reinforce what his children and others in their social circle think—"I married you for you, not for jewels." Any further doubt is eliminated when she's completely devastated when he becomes the Victim of the Week. | |
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Under Suspicion: This is a plot point in All Dressed in White, in which a man is suspected of murdering his bride-to-be shortly before their wedding over her money. While the Pierces are an incredibly wealthy family and Amanda Pierce had made her fiance the beneficiary of her substantial trust fund in the event of her death, Jeff insists he wanted to marry Amanda because he loved her and didn't care about her money. He tells Laurie and Alex he wasn't even interested in a lavish destination wedding, going along with it because it's what Amanda and her family wanted, and that it was Amanda who insisted on leaving him her trust fund in her will. Laurie notes that he and his wife live modestly and that he still hasn't made an attempt to have Amanda declared legally dead, so he may be telling the truth. It's confirmed Jeff has never been interested in his former fiancee's fortune, especially as he's furious at his wife for going behind his back to call Amanda's estate lawyer about claiming her trust fund, though he calms down when he realises she only wants the money because she's pregnant. In Every Breath You Take, many people, including Virginia's family, assume that Ivan was only with the late Virginia Wakeling because she was a multi-millionaire who was extremely generous towards him, especially as he was over twenty years her junior. While Ivan says he appreciated Virginia gifting him $500,000 to help start his own gym (which her family insists he actually stole), he wanted to be with Virginia because he was in love with her and they made each other happy, insisting that their large age-gap never concerned him. Virginia's personal assistant Penny states she thinks that Ivan probably wouldn't have been interested in a woman two decades older if she hadn't had money, but that it doesn't mean that they weren't genuinely in love, noting that lots of people have certain standards about their partners having financial security and she thinks people got hung up on it simply because it was a younger man dating an older woman. Whether or not Ivan was initially just interested in Virginia's money, the other characters are left with no doubt he truly did fall in love with Virginia. |
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Gloria from Modern Family genuinely loves Jay, and vice versa, despite their many differences. Downplayed in that she does enjoy the money and all of the nice things he can buy for her and makes good use of them. | |
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Hunter × Hunter has an example. The billionaire Battera had a much younger lover who won't accept expensive presents, but only those he makes himself. They were even intending to leave his fortune behind to start a new life together until fate intervened. | |
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Both Goku and Gohan do this in Dragon Ball, to Chi Chi (daughter of the Ox King) and Videl (daughter of Mr. Hercules Satan) respectively. In the second case, Mr. Satan knows Gohan isn't marrying Videl for money because, if Gohan wanted Mr Satan's money, he could have just very easily revealed himself as the one who really defeated Cell and sue Mr Satan for the money that he (Satan) got from falsely taking credit for the deed. | |
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In The Twilight Saga, Bella refuses to accept any of Edward's expensive gifts. For about two seconds. Then she turns up with them in the next scene. One reason she often gives is that she's unworthy of him as it is, and accepting expensive gifts when she can't return the favor would only increase the divide. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Mako isn't interested in Asami for her money. He does appreciate the luxury that comes from being her boyfriend, though. | |
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Family Guy revealed in the early episode "Death Lives" that Peter and Lois fell in love with each other completely remote from how Lois came from a wealthy family. Her father, Carter, absolutely despised Peter and went through enormous lengths to ensure that the two would never get together, and his last resort was to offer him a million dollars in exchange for never seeing Lois again. Peter instantly tore up the check and the two married anyway. | |
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Catwoman was originally a wealthy socialite like Batman who stole because she was bored. However, she’s more recently been a poor street kid who stole to provide for herself and her sister, Maggie. They have only become more of an Official Couple since this change (especially since Batman: Hush in the early 2000s) and it’s a genuine relationship of love and respect. She loves him, not his money. | |
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Frasier: Early on, Frasier asks Niles if he married Maris for her money. Niles explains that he did not... but it was a "delightful bonus". As the show goes on, it becomes pretty clear Niles genuinely did love Maris, but she didn't love him. | |
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Monica towards Pete on Friends. Despite his offers to buy her a restaurant so she can fulfill her dream of being head chef (and escape her horrible job), she turned him down until she developed genuine feelings. This contrasts with former Gold Digger Rachel, who encourages her to date him anyway because he's a billionaire. | |
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