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Character of poor or even modest economic standing becomes wealthy and successful. Can be the gimmick of an entire series, or the plot of a single episode. Could also be the backstory of a wealthy character- explaining why he acts the way he does. Such as explaining why a wealthy man is so frugal (i.e. cheap), or explaining why he feels more at home among the poorer class. Originating in the 18th and 19th centuries, it had been a Forgotten Trope, but the advent of the lottery and prominent Real Life examples have breathed life back into this. The classic "Horatio Alger" version of the trope is that the protagonist lifts himself (or rarely herself) up to economic success by a combination of hard work and virtuous behavior. And a walloping dose of luck, which comes to the protagonist because of their work and virtue. It fell out of favor around The Great Depression and has never quite recovered. More modern uses of the trope are more cynical, and may feature the character getting their wealth through unethical or illegal means, and discovering that wealth doesn't make them happy, (e.g. The Great Gatsby) and might include an Anvilicious statement on why sudden wealth leads to corruption. If the plot for a single episode, will usually feature the character becoming haughty and vain and eventually losing his or her money and returning to normal, showing that they never needed money in the first place. Occasionally played, is the Aesop of preferring personal freedom over the trappings of success, especially when that success comes at the cost of compromising your pride and dignity. In such cases, the person who goes from rags to riches realizes that they are virtually owned by those to whom they owe their success; something that frequently happens in the entertainment industry. The darkest and edgiest versions of this trope sometimes overlap with From Nobody to Nightmare. In the "Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc, the first half of the story will use this trope for the protagonist, and the second half will depict them losing everything, often including their life. This trope is also popular with telenovelas, many of which star a dirt-poor Naïve Everygirl from the slums who is swept into the world of the super-wealthy, either through an interclass romance, finding out she's the long-lost daughter of a millionaire, switching places with a lookalike so the latter can run away with her secret lover, or other such shenanigans. In this case, the heroine is meant as an Audience Surrogate for viewers from the same humble origins. As such, these shows are often a form of Wish-Fulfillment and the girl usually keeps her fortune at the end of the series. See also Prince and Pauper and Self-Made Man. When someone goes all the way from poverty to the throne it is Rags to Royalty. An Epic Warrior Prince who, by military conquest, goes from somewhat minor status to ruling an Empire is likely the Young Conqueror. A less noble example is the Nouveau Riche. Other variations can probably be thought of. One is for this to be done by focusing on a group (say a family, a nation, or a sports team) rather than an individual that does this. When a character just as suddenly loses their fame and fortune, that might be the Fallen Princess, Princess in Rags, or Riches to Rags. Not to be confused with the chestnut filly who won the 2007 Belmont Stakes. |
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Ningguang from Genshin Impact is an example of this trope as she was born to a poor family, which she eventually moved away from to start her own business. She retains some of her tastes from that time, such as a taste for simple grilled fish, and one of the branches of her Hangout Event has her and the Traveler reenacting her rise from nothing for fun. Zhongli, another character, even says he remembers her walking barefoot through a beach selling her wares. | |
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: The events of the film are precisely this to Benny, and the trope even gets name-dropped at one point: | |
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Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!: The first episode, "Shags to Riches," had Shaggy inheriting his missing Uncle Albert's estate. | |
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Trading Places: Both Billy Ray Valentine and Ophelia leave their rather humble Philadelphia roots to become absurdly wealthy by the film's end. Winthorpe's former butler Coleman ends up being able to afford a butler of his own. The most notable case is Winthorpe, who begins the movie rich, then is driven to homelessness and nearly suicide, and ends the movie having bankrupted the people responsible for his temporary destitution and it is implied he's far more wealthy than he was at the movie's beginning. | |
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Mayonaka ni Kiss: Widow Natori and her children when she marries a billionaire. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), this was mentioned to be Breezie the Hedgehog's backstory, with a little bit of backstabbing Sonic that's not mentioned. | |
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Memoirs of a Geisha: poor girl eventually becomes a successful geisha. | |
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Will in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air starts out a streetwise young man from Philadelphia but is forced to move in with his rich relatives in Bel-Air, California after pissing off some gangsters. | |
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In Alger's first book, Ragged Dick, Dick is able to elevate himself from homeless bootblack to... entry-level Clerk. While the "riches" part may seem a bit underwhelming, there's no doubt he's better off at the end than at the beginning. | |
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Dragon Age: This can happen in Dragon Age: Origins for a Dwarven Commoner Warden, who was born casteless (the absolute bottom-wrung of dwarven society) and was thus looked upon as less than a person before becoming a Grey Warden. In the time between the Warden leaving and then returning to Orzammar, their sister Rica moves up in society when she becomes the mother of a prince's son and becomes a royal concubine. After defeating the archdemon, the Warden becomes uplifted to a Paragon, a living legend among dwarves. It can also happen to a City Elf Warden who becomes the Bann of the Alienage, granting the elves a voice in Ferelden for the first time in history. In Dragon Age II, the main quest line of Act 1 centers around Hawke, a refugee in the slums of Kirkwall, attempting to gather enough resources to become a partner in a Deep Roads treasure hunting expedition, which eventually earns them enough money to bring their family back into high society. It can go even further in the endgame, where a pro-Templar Hawke is appointed Kirkwall's new Viscount, although this is temporary. Dragon Age: Inquisition: This can be the case for the Inquisitor. A human Inquisitor is already nobility (being the youngest child of a minor noble from the Free Marches), but the other three are a smuggling dwarf, a mercenary Qunari, or a nomadic elf who lives in the woods. Any of the four possibilities end up as a significant historical figure with a castle, a pile of gold, and their own personal army of devoted followers. This is also Vivienne's backstory. She was the daughter of itinerant merchants who was taken to the Circle as a child when her magic manifested and went from that humble background to First Enchanter of Monstimmard and personal court mage to the Empress of Orlais. She can even end the game by being elected Divine. |
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Robert Ford goes through this in I Shot Jesse James, becoming a prospector who uncovers a fair amount of silver. He does this in a ploy to win the hand of Cynthy, but she leaves him for someone else. | |
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McLintock! in the movie of the same name. When his daughter was a baby, his wife Katherine walked miles through the snow and traded her father's war medal for a case of condensed milk. | |
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Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach. From a Street Urchin who barely managed to survive to adolescence with her friend Renji, to the adoptive sister of the leader of the very noble and filthy rich Kuchiki clan. | |
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The cutscenes in Rock Band 3 give off this vibe (something that wasn't present before, by the way): your band starts off playing for enough money to share a single pizza, and along the way they become festival headliners, make a tour to Japan, and then one day they get sick of all the fame and Loony Fans harassing them, and so they vanish from the scene in a fake plane crash. | |
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Also used in Haou Airen, where a girl who has to struggle with a part-time job, her high school studies, and taking care of her sickly widow mother and her cute little siblings... until she is suddenly thrown into a world of fabulous riches and luxury in Hong Kong when it turns out that the handsome stranger whose life she saved is actually a high-ranked Triad leader who wants her as his mistress (and he also promises to send money to her family in Tokyo, so the girl's mom can have adequate treatment and she won't have to worry - and as far as we know, he keeps that part). Too bad this also brings HORRIBLE misfortune to the poor girl, as the dude is a massive Fetishized Abuser and the people in their surroundings are corrupted to the core. | |
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Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Louise was a peasant girl that didn't have much aside from her archery skills, her kind heart, and her incredible beauty. However, after she told a local rich bachelor (Lord Pent) that she'd protect him with her bow and arrows, he chose her as his wife over many more graceful and prettier girls. Now they're very Happily Married. Same goes for Louise's best friend and distant cousin Queen Hellene from Bern. It didn't work half as well in her case. Also sorta happens to Serra, who grew up poor and lonely in a St. Elimine convent located in the Etruria/Ostia border before she was employed in the local court thanks to her healing abilities. She covers this up by acting like a Rich Bitch to hide her abandonment issues. Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: Deirdre was a young girl living in seclusion and feeling that she was trapped in her forest village, then fell in love and married a local lord, and after her heritage as the long lost child of an imperial prince is discovered, she becomes an Empress. Too bad she had to be mind-wiped first and then have her first husband horribly killed by the second, though. A much darker example is King Gangrel from Fire Emblem: Awakening, as a former Street Urchin who rose to the top of Plegian aristocracy and finally got the crown. And became The Caligula. And lost everything. And if you recruit him via Spot-Pass, he turns into The Atoner. Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a few examples of street urchins finding a better life through wealthy benefactors: Dorothea was a homeless little girl until her natural talent for song and dance attracted the attention of a wealthy patron, who went on to make her the star of the Imperial opera house, then paying her way through the Officers' Academy. Now, she's on the hunt for someone wealthy to marry, so she won't have to fear returning to a life of poverty. Ashe and his siblings were orphaned after their parents succumbed to illness, leaving them poor and forcing Ashe to commit thievery to survive. He was eventually found and adopted, along with his siblings, by the Kingdom noble Lonato. So thankful is Ashe to Lonato for rescuing him and his siblings from poverty that it secured his Undying Loyalty. Such that, in any story rout but the Blue Lions', Rhea's execution of Lonato for dissent following the death of Lonato's biological son is what drives Ashe, in turn, to rebel. |
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Dishonored 2 has a much more classical example in Aramis Stilton, who started off as an immigrant miner, but his people skills and tech know-how got him so rich that he was eventually able to buy out the very mines he worked in. Despite his attempts to fit in with the rich and powerful of Karnaca, however, the high society has never accepted him (except for the late Duke Theodanis, who was his secret lover). | |
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The Adventures of Strong Vanya: The titular character is a farmer's lazy son, born in a remote Russian village, who becomes Tsar. | |
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CSI: NY: Sid Hammerback, the coroner, is pretty much a working-class guy, managing okay but by no means wealthy — until his new pillow design is sold to a Japanese group for $27M. | |
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Jones in the Fast Lane plays like this, especially if you choose a high money goal. | |
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Mrs. Winterbourne: Connie is a young unwed mother, but after a train accident, she is mistaken for the wife of a man from a well-off family. The family takes Connie in and she continues the ruse. | |
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Ryan from The O.C. is a poor kid who is taken in by the very wealthy Cohen family. Sandy Cohen has this as his back story, as he was poor before he married Kirsten. | |
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: The Kharadron Overlords' society, as a sort of plutocratic meritocracy, enforces this: No one is born rich, not even if your parents are admirals. Everyone must start from the bottom and claw their way up. But, if they're good, everyone can climb another step. Every admiral you see among them (which, as the "plutocratic" part explains, are filthy rich) was a simple crewman with a pistol, a sword, and a paltry couple of coins once. And they will kick you back down if you mess up too often. | |
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The 2014 revival of Cosmos features two examples from history. Tyson is sure to point out how luck and open-minded policy allowed these geniuses to make their discoveries. Joseph Fraunhofer was an orphan and indentured servant in the Bavarian royal glassmaker's factory and house. Ironically, he got his break when the house collapsed and Prince Maximilian led the rescue efforts, subsequently giving Joseph money and an education. Fraunhofer eventually became the head of the Optical Institute because his genius with optical glass turned Bavaria into an economic powerhouse, and he also discovered Fraunhofer lines. (However, he died at the young age of 39; many glassmakers of the time met a similar fate due to the toxic fumes.) Michael Faraday was a poor boy and a tradesman who never finished his schooling, but he impressed Royal Institute scientist Humphry Davy with a book of scientific notes on Davy's demonstrations. Faraday went on to make all sorts of discoveries in electricity and electromagnetism and wound up running the Royal Institution himself. |
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Like a Dragon: Shun Akiyama, from Yakuza 4, was a hobo living on the streets of Kamurocho. Then an explosion broke out from Millennium Tower one night (at the end of the events of the first Yakuza) and money rained down upon the people. Akiyama snatched up all the money he could carry and used it to start his own successful money-lending business, Sky Finance. Ichiban Kasuga starts Yakuza: Like a Dragon as a homeless ex-con dumped into Ijincho whose first goals are simply to find a place to sleep and a steady job. Then through circumstance, he becomes the President of the coincidentally-named Ichiban Confections which he can turn from a snack shop to a multi-million dollar holdings corporation through aggressive venture capitalism. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth sees Kasuga go from Riches to Rags, losing a gainful job due to a smear campaign by an unscupulous Virtual Youtuber. Then through circumstance, he becomes a manager for a resort called Dondoko Island, which he can turn from a polluted dumping ground to the vacation destination for Hawaiians and Japanese tourists. |
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In Empire, a major part of the Lyon family's backstory is going from rags to riches. Lucious and Cookie were selling drugs in the streets of Philadelphia to fund the titular record label, which eventually leads to Cookie spending 17 years in prison. Meanwhile, Lucious manages to make Empire into a multi-million-dollar business, and the Lyons are obscenely rich by the time the show starts. | |
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Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures: Irina Kafka, once it was revealed one of her ancestors was the real author of the sonata stolen by Franz Duntcheck. | |
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Cross Road has the violinist Niccolo Paganini, whose family struggled to pay for his violin lessons when he was young, and who becomes successful, traveling throughout Europe and performing for royalty, for fees that only royalty can afford. He is miserly, from knowing what it's like to not have enough, but he can also be generous. He gives a large sum of money to another composer who's struggling, in the end. (There's also the fact that his Deal with the Devil is running out of time, and he knows he can't take it with him...) | |
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Anita Rachvelishvili, a mezzo-soprano from Georgia, had grown up in a poor family in Tbilisi during the violent War for Independence in the 1990s and often had no food, water, or electricity. After making her breakthrough as the title role of Bizet's Carmen in 2009 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan alongside Jonas Kaufmann, she has become a widely-acclaimed mezzo-soprano and has performed with various leading opera houses including the Met Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, and the Royal Opera House. In addition, she has also become very well-regarded in her home country, and frequently performs charity concerts on TV. | |
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They did have Franklin in Grand Theft Auto V who pretty much goes from Rags to Riches like CJ as well, but that game had multiple protagonists and they (along with various other characters) were all Deconstructions of how GTA protagonists were portrayed. | |
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Naruto: The titular character grew up an orphan who was living on his own well before he was ten. As a result, Naruto was poor throughout much of his youth. Come several years later in Boruto and Naruto now lives in a lavish house with his wife and children. He is the leader of his village, after all. | |
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The final season of Roseanne has the Conners win a multimillion-dollar lottery jackpot. Only to be retconned at the last episode where it's revealed Roseanne's just writing all of the season as a way to deal with the loss of Dan. | |
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Sweet Valley High book #16 is literally titled Rags To Riches. Roger Barrett was living with his poor, sick, single mother in a shabby house. She dies and it's revealed that he is actually Bruce Patman's cousin. He moves into the Patman mansion and changes his name to Roger Barrett Patman for the remainder of the original series. He dies in the earthquake. | |
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The Aeneid is this in a sense as a small band of refugees is destined to be The Empire. | |
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The Rocky movies are about a poor Philadelphian finding success and the attendant riches. It's particularly noticeable in the second and third movies. A bit of Life Imitates Art, Sylvester Stallone was a former struggling actor who slept in bus terminals and did softcore porn. Rocky vacated the need for such desperate measures. |
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Implied with A-Train in The Boys (2019) when he gets into an argument with Starlight for exposing Compound V to the world and threatening their employers, by claiming the only people who believe money doesn't buy happiness are people who had privileged upbringings like she did: | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: This can be the case for the Inquisitor. A human Inquisitor is already nobility (being the youngest child of a minor noble from the Free Marches), but the other three are a smuggling dwarf, a mercenary Qunari, or a nomadic elf who lives in the woods. Any of the four possibilities end up as a significant historical figure with a castle, a pile of gold, and their own personal army of devoted followers. This is also Vivienne's backstory. She was the daughter of itinerant merchants who was taken to the Circle as a child when her magic manifested and went from that humble background to First Enchanter of Monstimmard and personal court mage to the Empress of Orlais. She can even end the game by being elected Divine. |
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Due to the phenomenal success of Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling went from living on state benefits to being one of the richest women in the world. | |
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SimCity: This is literally a name of one of the scenarios in SimCity 3000, where you have to fix up a Crapsack Madrid. SimCity 4: Give your newly founded city some water, build an elementary school, a clinic, a small police station, a small fire station and a park or two (you know, things that pretty much every normal small city has) and watch as several luxurious mansions grow in your town, since having basic services apparently makes a town some sort of utopia that the rich will flock to. |
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In Sakura Gari, Dr. Katsuragi is implied to come from a low-middle-class family since as a teenager he lived and worked as a servant in the very rich Saiki clan's Big Fancy House while going through his studies. Now he both works in a famous hospital and is the personal doctor of his former protectors. Souma Saiki, too. His Missing Mom was an Impoverished Patrician and his Princess in Rags maternal grandma made him work in the streets. Then he was found by the Saikis clan, and, since he was the most qualified to be the prospective heir (Youya was much younger and from an unhappy marriage), they took him in. |
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After failing in the NFL, Bob Sapp skirted the poverty line until the promoters of All Japan, K1 and Pride Fighting Championships saw his matches from NWA Wildside and decided they wanted him. He wound up being a decently paid pro wrestler, better-paid kickboxer, and the highest-paid mixed martial artist. | |
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Naomi Judd struggled to make ends meet and raise two daughters while harboring dreams of making it in country music. Then she managed to convince one record producer whose daughter she cared for as a nurse to give the duo she formed with one daughter a chance, and The Judds became a smash hit, with said daughter, Wynonna Judd, saying "I literally went from the outhouse to the White House". The other daughter, Ashley Judd, also made it big as an actress. | |
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Phase of the Whateley Universe pulls a Riches to Rags to Riches move, getting kicked out of a fabulously wealthy family for having the gall to turn into a mutant. By the middle of the first novel, he's living in a basement room with almost nothing to his name, and having to eat his sister-in-law's 'cooking'. By the end of the eighth novel, he's a billionaire (again). In that particular example, much is made of the fact that he's got next to no poverty-level survival skills, having been trained nearly from birth to be a megabusinessman. It's only after his parents are forced to cough up three hundred million dollars in the first story that he's able to apply his elite financial skills and connections to once again climbing the billionaires' ladder. It's lampshaded by other students at Whateley on his first arrival that while he may have lost his family and 98% of his inheritance, he's still wealthier than almost all of the rest of the campus put together. |
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Discworld Samuel Vimes stumbled his way into this and has managed to constantly stumble his way into more wealth, titles, and fame since the whole thing with the dragon. He's somewhat reluctant about the whole thing. Harry King started as a street urchin who lived off other people's garbage. He realized that what is garbage to some people is actually valuable to others so he started a garbage collection and recycling business, dealing in everything from scraps to night soil. (It helps that for many things he's paid twice- once to cart it away, and once to deliver it to people that can use whatever it is.) By the time of Going Postal he is one of the richest men in the city. Then he decides to invest in the newly invented steam railway and becomes the Disc's first rail baron. |
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Richie Rich: Zig-zagged in at least one story which has a Riches to Rags at the beginning and uses the rest of the story to describe the Rags To Riches result. | |
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Shiro Okuda from Shining Song Starnova was born into poverty and joined the entertainment industry at a young age to keep her family from starving. In the years since then, she has become the leader of Quasar, Japan’s most popular idol unit, making her the wealthiest Idol Singer (if not the wealthiest woman, period) in the country. | |
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Slumdog Millionaire has a call-center worker (and former orphan from the slums) win the grand prize of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Though the money isn't his real goal, he only goes on the show in the hopes that it will help him find his childhood crush Latika. | |
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"Little Master Misery": After finding a buried treasury and getting rid of Misery, Ivan -who was living in squalor and whose family had nothing more than the clothes on their backs- becomes very rich. | |
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NBA Ballers: The original game has a "Rags To Riches" mode, where you take part in an In-Universe Reality Show where you, a no-name baller from the streets, wins a special tournament at Rucker Park and set up to play in special tournaments against big-name NBA players. As you win tournaments, you get bling, like cars, a new house, your own personal basketball court... but the challenge is that to keep it all, you have to win it all. And the producers of the show are biased against you because if you lose, they get everything that would have been yours. The sequel, NBA Ballers: Phenom, has a similar plot. You start as a no-name baller living out of his car. Depending on your decisions and performance, you can either end up becoming a hip-hop mogul or a professional basketball player. |
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In "The Nix in the Mill-Pond", a poor miller becomes wealthy after making a deal with a water spirit. | |
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Test Drive Unlimited 2 had the player character start off as a chauffeur who got fired sleeping on the job then after being offered a spot in a racing competition is given some money to buy a mobile home with a two-car garage and a cheap starting car. By the time the main story is finished, that same character has four mansions scattered on two islands, two yachts, 63 cars (most of them million-dollar hypercars), and a bank account of around seven figures. | |
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Mad TV (1991): Real estate agent H. G. Higwig starts off as a bearded hobo. If you keep giving him profit by buying and selling studios, he'll get richer and richer until he's a smug businessman. | |
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The plot of pretty much every Grand Theft Auto game involves a small-time criminal going to the top. The worst example is definitely San Andreas, where CJ starts off as a gangbanger in a small ghetto with nothing but the clothes on his back and a bicycle, and within less than a year (In game time. In real time, people have completed the game in a day or less.) becomes a millionaire, manager to one of the greatest rappers in the world, owner of various properties, including an airfield and a share in a casino, and literally controls the entire state of San Andreas. Rockstar has stated that they were tired of the implausibility of these plots, hence their decision to not rehash them in Grand Theft Auto IV. They did have Franklin in Grand Theft Auto V who pretty much goes from Rags to Riches like CJ as well, but that game had multiple protagonists and they (along with various other characters) were all Deconstructions of how GTA protagonists were portrayed. |
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Eve Dallas of the In Death series goes from underpaid police lieutenant to beloved wife of Roarke, the richest man both on and off the planet. She tries desperately to ignore the millions that Roarke quietly keeps slipping into her bank account. | |
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Beyond the Lights: Noni grew up poor in Brixton, London (an impoverished area), raised by her single mother. She wound up rich and owns a huge mansion in LA after becoming a music star. | |
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ViVid Strike!: This is part of Rinne Berlinetta's backstory, as an orphan who was adopted by fashion moguls. | |
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The Order of the Stick: While they don't actually become richer in a monetary sense, Kazumi and Daigo are granted a title of nobility at their wedding (having formerly been run-of-the-mill infantrymen turned Mauve Shirts). | |
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SimCity 4: Give your newly founded city some water, build an elementary school, a clinic, a small police station, a small fire station and a park or two (you know, things that pretty much every normal small city has) and watch as several luxurious mansions grow in your town, since having basic services apparently makes a town some sort of utopia that the rich will flock to. | |
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A major premise in Stepping on Roses (Hadashi de Bara wo Fume), in which the poor and uneducated protagonist Sumi Kitamura is offered the chance to live a life of wealth and extravagance... but only if she is willing to leave her family behind to enter into a marriage of convenience with Princely Young Man Soichirou Ashida. Later we see that there's also a Rags to Royalty deal... since Sumi turns out to be Aiko Iijuin, the long-lost daughter of another rich family. |
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In Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly, Lucas grew up in an impoverished family, with his late father struggling to make ends meet. After his father's death, Lucas refused to sell the family house to his older siblings and fled to Los Angeles. Desperate for money, he joined a production house, even if he was mistreated as a content creator, but he eventually rose to fame and became the successful influencer he is in the present. | |
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Wolf Hall opens with the boy Thomas Cromwell having to flee from his abusive father, an improvident brewer and smith. After a spell as a soldier in Europe, he becomes a cloth merchant in Holland, then returns to England, takes up the law, and enters the service of Thomas Wolsey, which opens the way for him to become one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the land. Cromwell raises the fortunes of his family in the process, raising his son to be a gentleman and paving the way for his wards, Rafe Sadler and Richard Cromwell (formerly Williams) to become powerful figures in their own right. From the standpoint of Cromwell's enemies, he goes From Nobody to Nightmare. | |
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MAD: Subject of a gag in one Don Martin cartoon: a scruffy-looking panhandler hits up a man in a business suit. The suit-wearer snaps "Get a job!" as he stalks past. Cut to the panhandler, still sporting the same ratty outfit and hairdo, sitting behind a large desk in an office high up in a skyscraper. | |
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Jem: Jetta is from a modest background and Roxy is apparently from a poor one; however, they're currently in one of the most popular rock bands in America. Roxy tried to invoke this further in "Roxy Rumbles" when she wins the lottery and goes to her hometown of Philadelphia to brag but ends up losing the money. One of their song montages shows The Stingers were like this when they first became a band. They played on the streets for pennies and lived on the streets because no one would let a new group play at their establishment. Eventually, The Stingers became more popular, eventually becoming rivals to Jem and the Holograms and The Misfits. Averted with Jem and the Holograms themselves. Jerrica and Kimber's parents were decently well off; however, Jem is shown multiple times to be hard on cash despite being a world-famous pop icon. There's a good reason for this, though - Jem and her bandmates are foster mothers who run a home for orphaned and disadvantaged girls, and the bulk of their income goes toward supporting the kids. |
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This can happen in Dragon Age: Origins for a Dwarven Commoner Warden, who was born casteless (the absolute bottom-wrung of dwarven society) and was thus looked upon as less than a person before becoming a Grey Warden. In the time between the Warden leaving and then returning to Orzammar, their sister Rica moves up in society when she becomes the mother of a prince's son and becomes a royal concubine. After defeating the archdemon, the Warden becomes uplifted to a Paragon, a living legend among dwarves. It can also happen to a City Elf Warden who becomes the Bann of the Alienage, granting the elves a voice in Ferelden for the first time in history. | |
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Dragon Quest V: Harry goes from a spoiled obnoxious prince to a slave. Then back to royalty after ten years of slavery. Similarly, his wife Maria was a slave before meeting him. | |
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In Neuromancer, the protagonist undergoes this, going from a broke former console jockey to living the high life while on a mission. | |
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In Deewaar, Vijay goes from shining shoes to being able to buy an apartment building as a gift to his mother out of spite (she had worked on its construction, but was fired for breaking a couple of bricks). | |
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Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier was a homeless Street Urchin after her parents were assassinated until she was picked up by Grace O'Connor, who became her manager on the road to stardom. Ten years of hard work (and Grace's manipulations) later, Sheryl is the most popular (and probably the richest) Idol Singer in the galaxy with a credit rating high enough to hire an entire high-tech mercenary unit complete with their carrier flagship and Super Prototype fighters for a high-risk rescue mission with just her credit card. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe has Scrooge McDuck. Born to a very poor family, he became the richest duck in the world through hard work and smarts. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Kaladin is a darkeyed peasant, and while he is theoretically high-ranked in his town, the fact that his father refuses to charge money for surgery keeps their funds sharply limited. Then Kaladin goes to the army, gets made a slave, and gets made an even worse slave. When he saves Highprince Dalinar and his army, he is promoted to captain, a rank darkeyes aren't even supposed to have—and he's paid like a battallionlord. In the second book, he earns more in his first few weeks than he did in the entire rest of his life combined. It says a lot about Kaladin's depression that he spends most of the book wondering how this new fortune will be taken from him. | |
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Overwatch has Lucio, who started off as a poor kid from a Brazilian ghetto before becoming an international music celebrity who also moonlights as a freedom fighter. In the same series, there's also Lucio's rival, Symmetra. She also started off very poor until the Vishkar corporation recognized her light-bending talent. They proceeded to take her off from home and proceeded to groom her talent into their ace as she became proficient in constructing structures with Hard Light enough that she brought Vishkar into the top corporates in the world and making her rich in her attempt to help people... though it's only lately that she thinks that maybe Vishkar wasn't so benevolent in helping the people as she thought to be. (Answer: They really aren't that benevolent. Lucio's freedom fighter shenanigans started because of Vishkar oppressing his ghetto) |
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You Houki from Fushigi Yuugi comes from a very poor country family, and she is taken by the Royal Court due to her incredible beauty. She is then made into a membress of Hotohori's harem, and she eventually becomes his legal wife, the mother of his child, and the Empress Dowager. | |
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Shun Akiyama, from Yakuza 4, was a hobo living on the streets of Kamurocho. Then an explosion broke out from Millennium Tower one night (at the end of the events of the first Yakuza) and money rained down upon the people. Akiyama snatched up all the money he could carry and used it to start his own successful money-lending business, Sky Finance. | |
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In Farscape, the crew of Moya starts off as a penniless band of escaped prisoners. They even come close to starving. However, after robbing the alien equivalent of Fort Knox, they're more or less flush with cash for the rest of the series. It doesn't hurt that half the time the traders they come in contact with don't survive to collect their fees. | |
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Game of Thrones universe: Game of Thrones: Davos grew up in Flea Bottom as the son of a crabber, worked his way up to smuggler captain, became a knight for smuggling Stannis food, and is now King Stannis' Consigliere and was even made his Hand. Stannis even tells him, "You'll be the first crabber's son to ever be the hand of the King." All this before he even learns how to read. Littlefinger worked his way up from the very lowest of the nobility to Lord of Harrenhal and consort to the Lady of the Vale through his skill at moneymaking and Xanatos Speed Chess. Xaro Xhoan Daxos rose from a penniless immigrant to one of the foremost men in Qarth. Bronn begins the series as a grubby sellsword in the Riverlands and successively becomes Lord Commander of the City Watch, a knight, and finally is set to marry into a lesser noble house. The marriage deal is reneged upon by Cersei, although Jaime promises Bronn a better marriage when they return from Dorne. By the end, he's Lord of Highgarden, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and King Bran's Master of Coin. Janos Slynt, a butcher's son, rose to Lord Commander of the City Watch and then Lord of Harrenhal until Tyrion banished him to the Wall. A famed Westerlands story tells of how Lann the Clever, patriarch of House Lannister, managed to swindle the ruling House Casterly out of their castle of Casterly Rock. The Cleganes' grandfather was the kennelmaster serving Lord Tytos, who knighted him for saving his life from a lioness. House of the Dragon: Mysaria went from a youth as a Sex Slave to Prince Daemon Targaryen's courtesan, and years later she has worked herself up to a wealthy and influential figure within the King's Landing underworld, wearing fine threads, living in a large house and operating a massive network of spies. |
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In Elite Beat Agents, you cheer on a pirate who has been left with practically nothing but his trusty bird, and he struggles to find lots and lots of treasures. If you succeed, the bird drops the trope title. In another mission, you cheer on an ex-oil tycoon who gets thrown out by his gold-digging wife after his oil wells run dry and is determined to dig his way back back to riches. | |
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"The Enchanted Quill": The main character, who comes from a poor background, becomes married to a prince and moves to a magnificent castle. | |
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In Smallville it is revealed that Lionel Luthor's parents were drunken, abusive, and poor. He himself is one of the richest men on the planet thanks to a large number of not quite legal dealings. | |
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Smallville | hasFeature |
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The Oggy and the Cockroaches episode "Saturday Black Fever" has Oggy striking oil and becoming this, well, until Joey decides to do the same thing. | |
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Martok in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was a Klingon peasant who became ruler by being tougher than any Klingon in existence. | |
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Ichiban Kasuga starts Yakuza: Like a Dragon as a homeless ex-con dumped into Ijincho whose first goals are simply to find a place to sleep and a steady job. Then through circumstance, he becomes the President of the coincidentally-named Ichiban Confections which he can turn from a snack shop to a multi-million dollar holdings corporation through aggressive venture capitalism. | |
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Harry King started as a street urchin who lived off other people's garbage. He realized that what is garbage to some people is actually valuable to others so he started a garbage collection and recycling business, dealing in everything from scraps to night soil. (It helps that for many things he's paid twice- once to cart it away, and once to deliver it to people that can use whatever it is.) By the time of Going Postal he is one of the richest men in the city. Then he decides to invest in the newly invented steam railway and becomes the Disc's first rail baron. | |
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Steven Universe: Greg Universe was given $10 million for royalties when his old manager sold one of his songs as to a burger company for use as a jingle. Aside from a few indulgences here and there, and promising to set aside some for Steven's college fund, he remains a multi-millionaire, and chooses to continue living in his van because he's perfectly content with his life as it is. | |
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Love Lucky: Fuuta goes from living in a small room paid for with his modest wages to Ippongi Hills, the most high-class, glamorous set of apartments in Tokyo so that he and his new pop-star wife Kirari can have easier access to each other in her off time. | |
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Sun-ah The Devil Judge was a maid at Yo-han's mansion when she was a child. She somehow rose from poverty to become the chairwoman of a Foundation and now lives in luxury compared to how she used to live before. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Louise was a peasant girl that didn't have much aside from her archery skills, her kind heart, and her incredible beauty. However, after she told a local rich bachelor (Lord Pent) that she'd protect him with her bow and arrows, he chose her as his wife over many more graceful and prettier girls. Now they're very Happily Married. Same goes for Louise's best friend and distant cousin Queen Hellene from Bern. It didn't work half as well in her case. Also sorta happens to Serra, who grew up poor and lonely in a St. Elimine convent located in the Etruria/Ostia border before she was employed in the local court thanks to her healing abilities. She covers this up by acting like a Rich Bitch to hide her abandonment issues. |
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Rebuild World: Akira and Sheryl. Akira started as a Street Urchin who would be astonished by small amounts of money until Mysterious Backer Alpha took him in and started training him as a hunter, and Sheryl was a shunned outcast in the slums until Akira took her in. As a Brains and Brawn duo, both end up slowly clawing their way up to living in a palatial fortress with an entire The Syndicate mixed with Private Military Company built around them. | |
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Saints Row 2 does this with both the Boss and the Third Street Saints. At the beginning of the game, the Boss is a prison escapee with no possessions besides a handgun and the clothes on their back who lives in a run-down studio in the basement of a run-down building while the Saints consist of them, Gatt, and a handful of other people. By the end of the game, the Boss owns multiple lavish condos with a fleet of vehicles, boats, airplanes, and helicopters while the Saints have become the effective rulers of Stilwater. | |
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The Beverly Hillbillies has an example of this trope summarized in its Expository Theme Tune: Jed strikes oil on his property while hunting for game and becomes rich. | |
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"Follow Me, Jodel!": The titular character, a simple farmer's son, becomes lord of a castle after uncursing a princess. | |
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Izzy from Ennui GO! came from a very poor background (compounded by the fact that her mother was a drug addict who attempted to murder her and her twin sister), but she ended up becoming unbelievably wealthy as an adult when a video game she made became world-famous. But she's still not rich enough to afford Warhammer 40k figurines. | |
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Ronald Singh was an impoverished, juvenile delinquent who went on to become Kade Merek, the most popular player in The Splinter; an enormous, ever-changing, labyrinthine world that's used for gladiatorial combat and dungeon crawls. It has made him fabulously wealthy. | |
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Nightmare Time: The episode "Yellow Jacket" has the Fosters coming into money after Hannah wins a fight in an underground fighting ring. Ethan and Hannah immediately spend a large chunk of the money on flat screen TVs, go-karts, and pizza. | |
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Ed Wood is a subversion. Ed and crew are in poverty and Ed always expects riches to come out of his movies, but anyone who has watched his terrible (albeit amusing) movies knows that riches would never come. That doesn't stop Ed from being perpetually hopeful and upbeat throughout the movie. | |
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Gargoyles: David Xanatos once received an ancient coin from an Anonymous Benefactor (twenty years later revealed to be a future version of Xanatos himself), sold the coin and used the money to start his empire, eventually making himself a billionaire. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: Bebe Braddock and her sister Anna from Murder Gets a Makeover came to the US from Bosnia with their parents and just the clothes on her back. | |
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Dishonored: Corvo Attano, the protagonist of the first game and, conditionally, of the sequel, was born in a lower-class family but has proven himself badass enough to eventually become the Royal Protector (personal bodyguard and advisor) of two Empresses of the Isles, Jessamine and Emily Kaldwin, as well as the secret consort of the former and the father of the latter. In the non-canon High Chaos ending of Dishonored 2, he even takes the throne of the Isles for himself. Dishonored 2 has a much more classical example in Aramis Stilton, who started off as an immigrant miner, but his people skills and tech know-how got him so rich that he was eventually able to buy out the very mines he worked in. Despite his attempts to fit in with the rich and powerful of Karnaca, however, the high society has never accepted him (except for the late Duke Theodanis, who was his secret lover). |
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The Young Rebel: The titular rebel comes from a poor family and is forced to work a minimum wage job as a delivery boy after his father's death to provide for his mother and younger sister. But then he joins a mob, becomes a hitman, and starts making millions. Again, in typical Shaw Brothers fashion, it all goes to hell at the end. | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the titular hero, a boy from a very poor family (they don't even have enough to eat!), becomes heir to Wonka's, well, chocolate factory. | |
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Journey to Chaos: After living on the streets, Zettai is adopted by Basilard Bladi, the chief of the Bladi Clan. This means she now has servants making custom-fitted clothes for her. | |
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Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane: Celeste and Tyrion start out as a mercenary and a lawyer and become the queen and king of Wyverngarde by the end of the game. | |
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The Secret Garden: Max was once Mr. Craven's accountant, but fired after being falsely accused of theft. Max then immigrated to the city and his business flourished, becoming even wealthier than Mr. Craven himself. He eventually seizes most of Craven's property as Revenge for all the abuse he suffered under him. | |
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A villainous example from Angels with Dirty Faces. William Sullivan starts out life as a dirty delinquent, but after he becomes a gangster, he's wealthy enough to spend weekends drinking with glamorous women in fabulous casinos and eventually steals one hundred grand. | |
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Midnight (1939): From a penniless showgirl in Paris to a Baroness of Hungary. Of course, not a real Baroness... | |
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Mickey and her adoptive father Joe in Mickey, when Joe's gold mine finally pays off after 20 years. | |
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The Loud House: In "There Will Be Mud" the Hunnicuts strike oil on their farm and move into a mansion in a rich neighborhood. When they don't fit in, they take etiquette lessons from the McBrides, but by the end of the episode, they decide to move back to their farm. | |
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The nation of Cuba in World War Z, due to the onset of the Zombie Apocalypse and the (rather ironic) influx of North American refugees, along with a fortuitous change of heart from Castro. The United States' devastated economy is trying to invoke this trope following the war. |
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One episode of Kim Possible sees Ron Stoppable pick up a cheque for $99 million of fast food royalties as a Continuity Nod. It doesn't last. | |
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In Longitude, John Harrison befriends an ordinary seaman named John Campbell while testing his first marine chronometer on a navy ship. Many years later, feeling disheartened and ready to give up on his efforts, Harrison opens his front door to John Campbell, now in a powdered wig and an officer's uniform—a promotion won in part due to the loss of officers on his ship thanks to poor navigation. Campbell convinces Harrison to keep going and becomes a staunch ally against the skeptics on the Longitude Board while rising to the rank of captain. (Campbell would later attain the rank of admiral and then became Governor of Newfoundland after his retirement.) | |
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth sees Kasuga go from Riches to Rags, losing a gainful job due to a smear campaign by an unscupulous Virtual Youtuber. Then through circumstance, he becomes a manager for a resort called Dondoko Island, which he can turn from a polluted dumping ground to the vacation destination for Hawaiians and Japanese tourists. | |
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The Elder Scrolls series Player Characters almost universally start off as penniless prisoners (or in one case, a penniless shipwreck survivor). As you progress through the games, you usually find enough Money for Nothing and more legendary artifacts than you can possible use, making you quite possibly one of the wealthiest individuals in all of Tamriel. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish's story is similar to The Great Gatsby. He was born into the poorest noble family in Westeros, but thanks to his financial talents and a severe Break the Cutie process in his childhood that inspired him to get back at the nobility, he is now possibly the richest man in Westeros besides the Lannisters. And Bronn, who by his own badassery alone goes from sellsword to lord. The Frey family made their fortunes through business, yet the other Great Houses see them as wannabe upstarts. Ser Davos Seaworth grew up in Flea Bottom as the son of a crabber and was a smuggler. However, Stannis knighted him as a reward for smuggling food into Storm's End, then later gave him other titles like Hand of the King. In the TV series, Stannis tells him, "You'll be the first crabber's son to ever be the Hand of the King." All this before he even learns how to read. |
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In Count Zero, Marly Krushkova is raised to wealth to perform a task by the incredibly wealthy recluse Joseph Virek. | |
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A villainous example from One Piece: Coming from a family who's been persecuted for years, Kurozumi Orochi was originally picked up off the streets by Yasuie and was appropriately poor. Some years later, to kickstart his revenge upon the Kozuki clan, Orochi takes over Wano with the help of Kaido and some of his kin. | |
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Cinderella Man showcased the Real Life rags-to-riches story of boxer Jim Braddock. Happened against the backdrop of The Great Depression, making it all the more heartening that the man climbed out of absolute poverty on mostly guts and perseverance. | |
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In the Rugrats episode "Chuckie is Rich," Chuckie's dad wins the lottery and they briefly become very wealthy. Of course, thanks to the poor investment choices of Corrupt Corporate Executive Drew, who handles the money, the status quo is restored in the end. | |
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My Little Pony Micro Series: In issue #3, Hayseed Turnip Truck grinds himself up until he becomes a successful businessstallion. | |
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Lonesome Rhodes of A Face in the Crowd, went from a drifter with only one spare shirt and a guitar to his name to having the top two floors of a New York hotel. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Fish Full of Dollars," Philip J. Fry becomes extremely wealthy after discovering that his old bank account is still active and has been accruing interest for 1,000 years. The status quo is restored after Fry spends it all on anchovies. The main cast also briefly became millionaires in the episode "Future Stock." They return to rags, of course. |
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The Lord of Bembibre: Don �lvaro decides to give up his lordship and leave Spain after his wife's death. Before going away, though, he divides his possessions and lands between his servants, who become very rich despite being commoners thanks to his largesse. | |
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Played straight and inverted in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. There's a town called Windfall Island which contains a rich man and a poor man, both of whose daughters have been kidnapped by the Big Bad. You rescue the girls about halfway through the game, and their fathers switch wealth (the rich man spends his fortune trying to rescue his daughter, while the poor man makes his fortune overnight by selling rare necklaces his daughter brought back home after being rescued. They even move in to the rich family's old home). The formerly poor man even says that he's dreamed his entire life of taking part in this trope, while the formerly rich man doesn't seem upset about losing all of his money because his daughter has returned and that's everything that matters to him. | |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge: Michael Henchard starts out as an itinerant hay-trusser, walking from town to town in search of work and lodgings, with no more than a few shillings in his pocket. Eighteen years later, he has become a successful grain merchant and mayor of his hometown, with a fine house and furniture to match. Unfortunately, he goes from riches back to rags after a series of bad decisions, and by the end of the novel, he has had to go back to being an itinerant hay-trusser. | |
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Yukiji from Kamisama Kiss used to be an ordinary farm girl before being adopted into nobility. The heroine Nanami also counts, though with her it is more of a case of Rags to Godhood. | |
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According to the The Histories of Herodotus, the famous courtesan Rhodopis of Naucratis was originally a Thracian slave sold into Egypt, where she was bought and set free by the merchant Charaxus on account of her beauty. She then becomes a 'hetaira' (courtesan), a business that makes her rich and so famous "that every Greek knew the name of Rhodopis". Some even say she was so fantastically wealthy that she had a pyramid built for herself, but Herodotus rejects this as a ludicrous exaggeration. | |
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Code Geass: Suzaku Kururugi becomes one of the most respected men in Japan through his martial prowess, in contrast to Lelouch who is ex-royalty. | |
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Liechtenstein in Hetalia: Axis Powers; her backstory shows her as a Heartwarming Orphan dying on the streets because the Great Depression has crippled her country. She is rescued by Switzerland and adopted as his little sister, and is now one of the richest countries in the world. For that matter, Swiss himself. Liechtenstein mentions that his own economic situation was not the best when he took her in due to the war and the GD, but some decades later he's living in a Big Fancy House with her and is a quite more wealthy nation. (Not that he spends a lot, though.) Also the Netherlands. He's seen as a rather poor and struggling teenage nation (while his younger sister Belgium is a Child Prodigy businesswoman), then he's seen under Spain's wing (that he's not too happy about), and later he has become quite the overseas empire... and a stoic, penny-pinching Non-Idle Rich. Luxembourg, Netherlands' younger brother, is a case of this; at first his status as a Non-Action Guy meant he was often bullied and pushed around by stronger countries, but his admiration of the Netherlands meant that he decided to emulate his ways, and he then captured all of Europe's finances. |
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In "Cinderella", the titular character is the daughter of a rich widower, who remarried and then died, leaving her daughter to the care of her new wife and her own daughters. They did not care for her at all and had her do all the chores and generally being totally evil. Things turned around for Cinderella upon meeting her Fairy Godmother, falling in love with the prince, losing her glass slipper, and finding it again. | |
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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: Deirdre was a young girl living in seclusion and feeling that she was trapped in her forest village, then fell in love and married a local lord, and after her heritage as the long lost child of an imperial prince is discovered, she becomes an Empress. Too bad she had to be mind-wiped first and then have her first husband horribly killed by the second, though. | |
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House Flipper starts the player out with barely any money, and living in a tiny shack. Through hard work, however, you'll end up flipping houses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and being worth millions yourself. | |
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The titular character of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town isn't exactly poor at the beginning; in fact he co-owns a tallow factory and rents property. But he certainly isn't prepared to have twenty million dollars (over $360 million in 2018 dollars) dropped in his lap. | |
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Pular Singe, from the Garrett, P.I. series, goes from browbeaten indentured servitude to a gang boss among TunFaire's lowest-of-the-low minority (ratpeople), to a junior partner in Garrett's investigations and up-and-coming investor in Amalgamated. Not rich by human standards, but an unprecedented success story by those of her own kind. And she's still young. | |
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Pretty much every Final Fantasy game does this. At the beginning, you may have a few hundred Gil which can buy a Potion or two and perhaps slightly improved armor. By the end, you have hundreds of thousands of Gil and a full inventory of healing potions and equipment. | |
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The SML Movie "Chef Pee Pee's Lottery Ticket" has Chef PeePee winning the lottery for a while. | |
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen series contains a highly ironic instance of this trope. Tehol Beddict came from a very prominent but impoverished family and worked his way up to become one of the richest men in the country due to his business genius. He then gave up his fortune because he was disgusted with the debt-slavery system the country runs on, but not without causing an economic crash that saw many moneylenders kill themselves. He then does it again during the course of Midnight Tides and Reaper's Gale, becoming insanely rich through fake companies while living in a hovel, then letting the economy crash to undermine Lether's new, even more oppressive regime. This time around, though, this leads to him being hailed as a hero by the common people, who make him king. | |
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Independent Minnesota author Amanda Hocking was penniless while living in a sparse apartment. Then she started self-publishing her own books and selling them on Amazon, making 2.5 million dollars within twenty months. | |
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I Love Yoo: Rand is shown to have been an orphan before eventually becoming a wealthy chairman. | |
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Robert E.O. Speedwagon, from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, was a destitute street thug when Jonathan Joestar first met him. After changing his ways, he went on to accidentally strike oil and become rich in the time between Parts 1 and 2, using his newfound fortune to found the Speedwagon Foundation, which funded medical and scientific breakthroughs and would assist the Joestar bloodline even after Speedwagon, himself, passes away. | |
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Forrest Gump: In addition to shaping mid to late 20th-century pop culture and history, Forrest along with Lieutenant Dan become rich seemingly overnight in the shrimping business following Hurricane Carmen destroying every boat but theirs. As Forrest puts it: Forrest gives what would've been Bubba's share of the money to his family. Bubba's mother faints from seeing how much her check is worth. The very next scene shows her in a much nicer house and much nicer clothing, complimenting food cooked by her housekeeper. |
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Game of Thrones: Davos grew up in Flea Bottom as the son of a crabber, worked his way up to smuggler captain, became a knight for smuggling Stannis food, and is now King Stannis' Consigliere and was even made his Hand. Stannis even tells him, "You'll be the first crabber's son to ever be the hand of the King." All this before he even learns how to read. Littlefinger worked his way up from the very lowest of the nobility to Lord of Harrenhal and consort to the Lady of the Vale through his skill at moneymaking and Xanatos Speed Chess. Xaro Xhoan Daxos rose from a penniless immigrant to one of the foremost men in Qarth. Bronn begins the series as a grubby sellsword in the Riverlands and successively becomes Lord Commander of the City Watch, a knight, and finally is set to marry into a lesser noble house. The marriage deal is reneged upon by Cersei, although Jaime promises Bronn a better marriage when they return from Dorne. By the end, he's Lord of Highgarden, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and King Bran's Master of Coin. Janos Slynt, a butcher's son, rose to Lord Commander of the City Watch and then Lord of Harrenhal until Tyrion banished him to the Wall. A famed Westerlands story tells of how Lann the Clever, patriarch of House Lannister, managed to swindle the ruling House Casterly out of their castle of Casterly Rock. The Cleganes' grandfather was the kennelmaster serving Lord Tytos, who knighted him for saving his life from a lioness. |
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Acapulco: Maximo goes from working-class pool boy to an extremely wealthy businessman who owns several beautiful homes. His nephew even calls it a rags-to-riches story in the first episode. | |
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Envy: Nick Vanderpark (Jack Black) made himself a wealthy man by financing the development of a spray that vaporizes dog poop (hence the name "Vapoorize"). Tim Dingman (Ben Stiller), Nick's friend, best friend, and former co-worker, also becomes wealthy when Nick offers him partnership in exchange for Tim helping Vapoorize to be marketed in Italy. It seemed they'd no longer be wealthy when Vapoorize was recalled from the market but then Tim thought about inventing Pocket Flan. How much they made from the idea is never revealed. | |
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FoxTrot: Parodied when Jason gets $10.00 - combined with his previous savings, he becomes a millionaire in Turkish Lira - 77,000 to the dollar. Sadly, his opulent lifestyle comes crashing down when he loses his entire fortune buying five comic books. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Reynard started life as a street urchin, but has become fantastically wealthy due to his superior mind. The money doesn't satisfy him, though. By the end of the third book, this is starting to become a case of From Nobody to Nightmare. | |
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Candace White aka Candy♡Candy is a Heartwarming Orphan brought into the Legan family to work as a maid and a companion to Spoiled Brat Eliza, but at some point, she catches the eye of the Andrees (a very high-class clan of which the Legans are a branch family). She first befriends the three boys of the Andree clan (Anthony, Stear, and Archie), and later she's adopted into the Andrees per the orders of one of the leaders, Great-Uncle William. (Actually the identity of the fourth young man of the clan, Albert, the uncle of the three mentioned boys.) However, Candy becomes the Rebellious Princess of the clan, refusing to bend over to the aristocrats and then deciding to become a nurse without their support. A more straightforward case would be Annie, Candy's "adopted sister". She was adopted by the rich Brighton family several years before, and the Brightons keep this as a secret since they're afraid that the already pathologically shy and insecure Annie will be ostracized and bullied. (This turns out to be true, unfortunately). It takes Annie several years to fully develop into a stronger, more self-assured person. |
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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: Catarina is the Spoiled Brat daughter of a duke until one day when she hits her head and wakes up to the memories of her past life, a middle-class Japanese tomboy, which becomes the dominant influence on her. Unable to take herself so seriously anymore, she stops acting so ladylike and bitchy and starts plowing fields for fun, climbing trees, making friends with lower-ranked nobles and commoners, and so on, much to the exasperation of several nobles around her, especially her mother. While she may call herself Catarina and recognize Catarina's parents as her own, she's still basically that middle-class tomboy called the "Monkey Girl". Her adoptive younger brother Keith is a distant relative from the Claes branch family whose bastardry and his uncontrolled magic end up as a source of pain in his formative years. And should the events of the game have unfolded, his time when he is adopted to the main branch in which he is also treated like crap by Catarina and her mother. His strong earth magic allows him to be adopted by Duke Claes to become the duchy's next heir after Catarina is engaged with Geordo, risking the Claes house of losing its heir. It's heavily implied that Maria Campbell, a commoner unlike the two examples above, will end up having higher status and fortune due to her genius intellect, pleasant personality, and her rare light magic. It's even noted by Sirius/Raphael, who like Maria is a commoner who wields magic and is also an example of this trope, of how foolish nobles are for abusing their power and throwing their weight on her when she's slated to elevate to a status that is equal to the ruling house of Sorcier by working at the Ministry of Magic in a few years. Even in the unaltered timeline, she will end up in this trope by marrying her chosen Love Interest (who are all members of the nobility) if she achieves the Good Ending route. |
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The Sword of Saint Ferdinand: In reward for serving him well and giving excellent advice, King Ferdinand III leaves the municipality of Alcalá de Guadaira to his court's jester and old soldier Fortún Paja. | |
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In "The Three Snake Leaves", the main character leaves his home because his father is too poor to support him. Afterwards, he joins the army, rises quickly in the ranks, earns the king's favor, and gets married to the princess. | |
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In The Jerk, Navin Johnson becomes fabulously wealthy thanks to inventing the Opti-Grab but returns to rags thanks to a class action lawsuit. The tagline is even "A rags to riches to rags story". | |
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In Binbou Shimai Monogatari, Asu and Kyou briefly move in with their rich aunt, but choose to return to their normal lifestyle shortly afterwards. | |
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Having been born in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé grew up in a family that couldn't afford to send her to school, so they made a deal with a wealthy family to have them finance her studies in exchange for her appearing at the Barcelona opera house every season. Her big breakthrough came in 1965 when she replaced Marilyn Horne in a production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in New York, which earned her a 25-minute standing ovation. Since then, she became an internationally-acclaimed soprano who has performed with prominent opera companies such as the Met Opera, received several international awards, and collaborated with Freddie Mercury. | |
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One episode of Tiny Toon Adventures suggests that this is Montana Max's backstory, and he became the wealthy Spoiled Brat he is today when his impoverished parents won the lottery. However, the episode in question is a Whole-Plot Reference to Citizen Kane, so it's unclear how much of it is actually canon for the character. | |
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Animal Crossing: Tom Nook is a more somber example. He left to go to the city to earn money, promising to never lose his way but came back the Tom Nook we're most familiar with. In a sense, the player character starts off with virtually nothing but the clothes on his or her back. As you continue to play though, you'll make a lot of bells. Some of it will go to Tom Nook, but you'll eventually end up with a mansion full of stuff if you keep up with the payments. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has this for the game's entire setting. You start off on a Deserted Island occupied only by yourself, Nook and his two employees, an airport run by two dodos, and two other residents, with nearly everyone roughing it in tents. As you progress through the game and tame the island, the community grows, permanent homes are built, infrastructure is put in place, and the formerly-deserted island grows into a community just like in previous games. |
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House of the Dragon: Mysaria went from a youth as a Sex Slave to Prince Daemon Targaryen's courtesan, and years later she has worked herself up to a wealthy and influential figure within the King's Landing underworld, wearing fine threads, living in a large house and operating a massive network of spies. | |
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25m Distance Between Us: Pauline is depicted this way. From growing up in a poor Italian immigrant family and working as a showgirl when she was older, she eventually ended up the affluent mayor of New Donk City. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Spyfall", Daniel Barton, one of the villains, is said to have gone from growing up on a council estate in Britain to the head of one of the world's largest mega-corps. It turns out that still isn't enough for him. | |
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Lori starts Aunt Dimity's Death working as a temp and having lived in a succession of cheap apartments after her divorce. Most of her things are in boxes, and she sleeps on a mattress on the floor. She describes her feelings on seeing the Boston office of Dimity's American attorneys for the first time: "Great, I thought, Willis & Willis Meets the Little Match Girl." After coming into her inheritance, she at first displays a certain reluctance to spend money, but eventually is found consigning her old wardrobe to Oxfam in favour of items like silk-lined custom trousers, handmade Italian boots, and a sumptuous black cashmere swing coat. "I'd never been a clotheshorse, but I was learning fast." | |
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Lasting Fame: Harvey, Pizzazz's father, grew up poor but as an adult, he became a multimillionaire. | |
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Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish's story is similar to The Great Gatsby. He was born into the poorest noble family in Westeros, but thanks to his financial talents and a severe Break the Cutie process in his childhood that inspired him to get back at the nobility, he is now possibly the richest man in Westeros besides the Lannisters. | |
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Mariko Shinobu's family in Dear Brother. According to their child, Hikawa and Hisako Shinobu were very poor when they got married, then got progressively richer as Hikawa's novelist career flourished. (Though at the very high cost of them growing apart, as well as Hikawa having to stick to his successful erotica rather than the more meaningful (and genuinely good) literature he was fond of. Growing Up Sucks, indeed.) | |
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Pretty Woman: Vivian goes from Hooker with a Heart of Gold to a life of luxury with Edward, her sugar daddy and white knight. | |
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Limitless: Having gained Super-Intelligence thanks to a pill, middle-class Eddie Morra invokes this trope. Sadly, it takes much more time than he wants to spend, so he asks for a loan from The Mafiya and takes a credit from the Corrupt Corporate Executive. | |
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Rags to Riches was a two-season musical show about five orphan girls adopted by a millionaire. Think Kids Incorporated meets Fresh Prince. | |
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French tenor Roberto Alagna is the son of Sicilian immigrants who moved to Paris in the 1950s, and he often busked and sang in Parisian cabarets when he was a teenager. Even when he switched to opera, he was mostly self-taught. After winning the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition in 1988, Alagna made his professional debut as Alfredo Germont in Verdi's La traviata with the Glyndebourne touring company, which led him to sing with various European companies. His breakthrough, however, came in 1994, when he sang the role of Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in Covent Garden. Since then, he has sung with numerous prominent opera companies, has become an advocate for restoring neglected French operas, and has been awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2008. | |
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Dusty Rhodes claimed to be "the son of a plumber" and bragged that he "wined and dined with kings and queens, and slept in alleys chewin' on pork-n-beans." | |
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has this for the game's entire setting. You start off on a Deserted Island occupied only by yourself, Nook and his two employees, an airport run by two dodos, and two other residents, with nearly everyone roughing it in tents. As you progress through the game and tame the island, the community grows, permanent homes are built, infrastructure is put in place, and the formerly-deserted island grows into a community just like in previous games. | |
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In Napoléon (1927), Napoléon Bonaparte goes from being forced to fashion boots out of cardboard at his lowest point to being a war hero revered in all of France by the end. | |
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Napoleon (2023) uses "He came from nothing. He conquered everything." as tagline. | |
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GF Serendipity: Fiddleford McGucket and Stanley Pines, who, when they first met, were an attempted inventor and an unemployed drifter respectively, became wealthy entrepreneurs thanks to the former's inventions and the latter's salesmanship. | |
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Sharpe uses this as part of General Calvet's Back Story. Calvet proves to be no different from Sharpe, who also rose from humble beginnings, and even collaborates with him on occasion. | |
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Don Genie, the wealthy businessman from the F-Zero franchise will state during an interview that "I've taken every chance that came my way, and clawed my way out of the slums." | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kanao Tsuyuri came from an extremely poor and abusive family, so much her parents literally sold her as a slave; however, she got rescued by Kanae and Shinobu Kocho before her life as a slave could actually begin. The Kocho sisters came from a well-off family, and even after being orphaned they became Demon Slayers under the very wealthy Ubuyashiki estate, so with that the Kocho Mansion was kept well maintained by the fee earned through demon-slaying; Kanao is registered as the youngest sister of both Kocho girls, enjoying a resourceful life as a member of the Kocho family. | |
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The Glenn Miller Story is a biopic of the titular character, who goes from poor musical arranger and trombonist selling his instrument at the pawn shop every week to making millions in record sales. | |
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In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes takes such a journey. Betrayed by three people he thought he could trust, partially due to his own naivete, Dantes winds up a prisoner in Château d'If on charges of treason. Another prisoner, Abbe Faria, makes Dantes his heir, if he can ever manage to escape; as a "forgotten prisoner" from the time of Napoleon's attempt to retake the throne of France, parole is impossible. But Dantes does escape, and he finds the hidden treasure Faria had directed him to. The sale of six of the diamonds, at a somewhat reduced price to avoid too many questions, is enough to buy him a small yacht-type ship. And that's just the beginning. | |
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a few examples of street urchins finding a better life through wealthy benefactors: Dorothea was a homeless little girl until her natural talent for song and dance attracted the attention of a wealthy patron, who went on to make her the star of the Imperial opera house, then paying her way through the Officers' Academy. Now, she's on the hunt for someone wealthy to marry, so she won't have to fear returning to a life of poverty. Ashe and his siblings were orphaned after their parents succumbed to illness, leaving them poor and forcing Ashe to commit thievery to survive. He was eventually found and adopted, along with his siblings, by the Kingdom noble Lonato. So thankful is Ashe to Lonato for rescuing him and his siblings from poverty that it secured his Undying Loyalty. Such that, in any story rout but the Blue Lions', Rhea's execution of Lonato for dissent following the death of Lonato's biological son is what drives Ashe, in turn, to rebel. |
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Barry Lyndon: Redmond Barry, Irish commoner, ends up a rich English nobleman married to a beautiful woman. Then subverted: Barry dies "poor and childless" as prophesied by the narration. | |
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In Dragon Age II, the main quest line of Act 1 centers around Hawke, a refugee in the slums of Kirkwall, attempting to gather enough resources to become a partner in a Deep Roads treasure hunting expedition, which eventually earns them enough money to bring their family back into high society. It can go even further in the endgame, where a pro-Templar Hawke is appointed Kirkwall's new Viscount, although this is temporary. | |
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Rockstar has stated that they were tired of the implausibility of these plots, hence their decision to not rehash them in Grand Theft Auto IV. | |
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This is Roo Avery's main character development in the Serpentwar Cycle of The Riftwar Cycle. He starts out as a fugitive on the run, then winds up the richest man in the Kingdom of the Isles. Turns out that money was needed to fund the war effort as Duke James confiscates most of it. | |
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In Roll Over and Die, Flum and Milkit start off in literal rags due to being slaves. After Flum manages to free them, she becomes an adventurer to support them. Over the course of the first volume, Flum successfully completes two important jobs. The first job allows them to afford nicer clothing. The second job earns a reward of a house and a significant amount of money. Flum continues to work as an adventurer, so they can live in relative comfort while Milkit takes on the role of a housekeeper to maintain the home. | |
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The Quintessential Quintuplets: During the "Seven Goodbyes" arc, Itsuki explains to Fuutarou that, while she and her sisters are well-off now, before their mother married their stepfather they used to be as poor as him. | |
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Bazil Broketail: By the series finale, Relkin's managed to gather considerable wealth, indicating he is going to be a prospering landlord after his and Bazil's retirement, rather than just a mere struggling farmer. | |
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Every Harvest Moon game begins this way. The standard is to give you a couple of farming tools and a single bag of seeds. By end game, most players would probably have obtained a ranch, upgraded their home to a fairly comfortable living space, and make thousands of bucks a month off crop harvests and animal produce. A specific character for whom this is Inverted for is Lumina from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, if you marry her. She goes from living in a mansion and being one of the richest people in town to living on a measly farm. She's more than happy with it too. |
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Firefly Better Days has the crew getting a big payoff and daydreaming about what they’ll do with it. Jayne wants a ship crewed by pretty girls and named after his mom. Zoe and Wash want to settle down and Book has a hilarious Hookers and Blow prank that shocks his colleagues until they realize he’s kidding. They do get a nice vacation, but alas, the money is soon lost and they’re back to being poor. | |
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A much darker example is King Gangrel from Fire Emblem: Awakening, as a former Street Urchin who rose to the top of Plegian aristocracy and finally got the crown. And became The Caligula. And lost everything. And if you recruit him via Spot-Pass, he turns into The Atoner. | |
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Family Guy has the family win the lottery and Peter Griffin alienates his friends with his newfound snobby attitude because of it. Not only that, but the family foolishly spends their money on trivial things until they go broke. The Griffins then get rich again through the lottery, only to go broke again a week later. Quagmire helps the Griffins out with the profits he made in his investment and the family manages to get back to where they were before the lottery. | |
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Expecting to Fall into Ruin, I Aim to Become a Blacksmith: Teen Genius Toto Gapp is from an impoverished baron family, and after Kururi notices how their academy's biology greenhouses are full of his experiments, he financially backs Toto for a cut of the profits. After a Time Skip, Toto is a medicine mogul with his own large company and private army thanks to this, never ceasing to get his hands dirty in the labs. | |
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Diaries of a Madman: Nav initially starts with nothing, but gains a lot of money after winning a few tournaments, selling human inventions, and plagiarising human art. Not that he has much use for or understanding of just how wealthy he is. | |
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In Doug, Roger was originally ridiculously poor, to the point he had to live in a trailer. However, in the Disney reboot, his family struck big on a real estate deal, causing him to rival Bebe in terms of how rich he is. | |
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While she was a student at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Russian operatic soprano Anna Netrebko was working as a janitor at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg when she was discovered by the prominent conductor Valery Gergiev, who then became her vocal mentor. She then went on to sing many prominent roles with the company, and then made her Met Opera debut as Natasha Rostova in Prokofiev's War and Peace in 2002, right as the Met was introducing their Live in HD series. Today, she has performed with many prominent opera companies like the Met Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Royal Opera House, and has been awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation. | |
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Hidamari Sketch: Shortly after starting her senior year, the brother of the perpetually poor yet very talented Miyako- a cabbage farmer- lands a contract with a major restaurant chain, thus significantly improving her ability to afford to go to college. | |
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A Prince Among Men: Part of Gary Prince's backstory is that he was raised on an estate in the North before his talent in football was discovered. In the series' present day, he is a successful ex-footballer and entrepreneur and lives fairly affluently. Not that this has humbled him in any way. | |
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Hello! Sandybell: Marc's mother is the Countess of Wellington, but his father squandered all their money, leaving them poor. However, his paintings were discovered by the art dealer Roussanne, and he won the Grand Prix at the European New Artist Paintings Exhibition, so he becomes rich and famous again. Alpha Bitch Kitty Shearer's father is this, which makes her Rich Bitch attitude deeply ironic. |
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In Citizen of the Galaxy: The main character, Thorby, goes from literal rags (as a beggar and slave) at the start of the book to infamous riches (when he's returned to his wealthy dead parents' estate) at the end. The wealth ends up being a burden as much as a wish fulfillment: although he still gets to fight slavers, he does so in the most effective way via decisions and investigations behind a desk rather than in the most cathartic way via action and excitement on a ship. | |
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Rimworld: The default "Crashlanded" starting scenario is a collective example if the player does well enough. Three complete strangers (some of whom may be an inversion at first) clamber out of their lifepods in the wilderness with nothing but the clothes they stand up in and some extremely basic survival gear can bootstrap their way from a crude wooden shack and a few vegetable patches to a thriving town with a population of over a hundred and all modern comforts and conveniences. The Naked Brutality start has the character start out with nothing, not even clothing. | |
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Ratatouille: Depending on how much you read into Collette's claim that ratatouille is a "peasant dish". In any case, the flashback to Ego's childhood at the very least strongly implies that he comes from if not an outright poor, then at least a modest background. | |
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The Boundless: In chapter one, Will's father, James Everett, is a poor track layer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In chapter two, it's revealed that James was promoted after an avalanche, and went on to get more promotions until becoming manager of a fleet of steamships for the railway. | |
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Re:Monster: Rou goes from being a mere goblin with nothing but the clothes on his back and a few friends in basically a Barbarian Tribe, to leading and gradually uplifting his civilization through assimilating groups and technology until it's basically a city-state. Officially leading a Private Military Company Parabellum, that takes kingdoms as clients, operating several side ventures like tourism and trade. | |
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Tom Branson of Downton Abbey is introduced as the family chauffeur but eventually marries Sybil, the youngest daughter of Lord Grantham. While they initially leave for a simpler life in Ireland, circumstances force them to return to Downton and Tom is slowly but reluctantly accepted into the family. Cue the initial awkwardness of a noble family having dinner with the man who used to work for them, served by his former co-workers. The series also deconstructs this type of scenario, as Tom was introduced as a highly political socialist who despises nobility, only to reluctantly become part of it himself. | |
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Samuel Vimes stumbled his way into this and has managed to constantly stumble his way into more wealth, titles, and fame since the whole thing with the dragon. He's somewhat reluctant about the whole thing. | |
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