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Remittance Man
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"That fop with the English Accent." An upper-crust younger son of an English lord with no prospect of inheriting, sent off to the Americas (or Australia, or South Africa, or anywhere on the map that happens to be painted pink during the time period) to get him out of the way. Usually given a small allowance (the "remittance"), which isn't quite sufficient to support him in the way he is accustomed, but is enough to support him— if he'll just pare back his standards a bit (which he usually won't). He also has an ingrained aversion to "working in trade", and he's not used to manual labor. In Westerns, he's often connected somehow to the Cattle Baron; he may be the money-man or at least represent "the money", or be the "manager". Could also be a drunken wastrel with no visible means of support. In Canadian Westerns, he might be the local Mountie or the local criminal. In Genteel Interbellum Setting mysteries, he's usually back from Australia or South Africa (occasionally South America, the US or Canada) and most of the family would prefer that he'd stayed gone. The concept of the remittance man became pretty much obsolete with British entry into World War I, which gave all of the sons of the aristocracy something to do, so this trope probably will not appear in a work set after 1914. (The idea of the "remittance man" was made legally obsolete with the Administration of Estates Act of 1925, which did away with primogeniture aka the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child.) Usually only appears in fairly realistic Westerns, except in Canadian versions where he's a stock character. Permits the inclusion of a different version of the City Slicker type, more "civilized", more condescending, and generally just as incompetent. Sometimes in other settings (like the South Pacific) where any European is likely an outcast, with many of the same tropes still applying. If he's smart, he'll almost certainly overlap with the Gentleman Snarker. Is quite likely to be the Black Sheep of his family. |
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Wild Life (Une vie sauvage): An animated short about a particularly clueless young Remittance Man sent out to fend for himself, all alone on the Canadian prairie. It ends in tragedy. | |
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Shout at the Devil: An Irish-American poacher in turn of the century West Africa forcibly recruits a remittance man by having all of his money stolen, only to have the tables turned when the remittance man falls in love with his daughter. Based on a book by the same name, in which the young man leaves England of his own volition because he's not in line to inherit very much and thinks he can make good money in the Australian wool trade. | |
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In Chassis, Sabotage is the scion of an old, traditional family from Japan. He scandalised his father by becoming thoroughly Westernised. He father paid for him to move to California to get rid of him. Eventually, Sabotage's antics became so extreme that his father disowned him entirely. | |
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English Bob (played by Richard Harris) in Unforgiven may or may not be a real Remittance Man. But he certainly acts like one (possibly as protective coloration, to intimidate people from bushwhacking him). | |
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The planet Surebleak in the Liaden Universe series is a space opera equivalent to the frontier town in a Western, complete with Miss Kitty, a crusading sheriff, etc. In Dragon in Exile, one of the characters who passes through is a similarly updated version of this trope: Vel Ter yo'Bern, a ne'er-do-well younger son of a Liaden clan who's on a perpetual tour through the galaxy, supported by an allowance from his family that's conditional on him never coming home. | |
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In Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Bouc proudly says he's paid large sums to drunkenly carouse with passengers on the titular train on the condition he never sets foot in his family's offices. To explain his presence in the sequel, it turns out that was still too much of a nuisance. | |
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A very bitter remittance man is one of the prisoners masterminding the escape attempt in the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Tumbleweed". | |
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?: The murderer's father explains he was always a criminal type from birth, causing a scandal at Oxford that resulted in him being to sent to the Colonies by his father. | |
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Mym of the Incarnations of Immortality series is a non-European variant of this trope, a prince of India who didn't fit in with the royal court because he can't talk without severe stuttering. He travels around unrecognized with a circus, within the borders of India. Since he is the second son, the royal court's policy is to tolerate his runaway lifestyle - until Mym hears the news that his brother has died in a war, and the court, who has been secretly tracking his whereabouts all along, will begin insisting that Mym shall come back to the palace and live the lifestyle appropriate to the heir to the throne. | |
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One shows up along with a butler in the Lucky Luke story The Tenderfoot, though he doesn't receive an allowance (he has a ranch he inherited from an uncle, who in turn was a good example of this trope, instead). It turns out that he is quite a bit more badass (and moral) than the Americans that decide to pick on him. At the story's conclusion, he rushes to prevent the townsfolk from giving another newcomer the same treatment he received... but joins right in when he realizes it's an acquaintance who uses the wrong club when golfing. | |
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A character type in the Traveller roleplaying game. (Though it's a science fiction setting, there are plenty of useless nobility around.) Perfect for the player who wants an eclectic skill set, no fixed responsibilities, and a good motivation for adventuring (i.e., get money). | |
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Moriarty's client in The Hound of the D'Urbervilles is Jasper Stokes, who just came back from the Americas after inheriting a large estate. He's not just a wastrel, he's a sadistically cruel man who has hired goons beat his laborers to keep them in line (it's what he took away from reading German economists). | |
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In the Western One Foot in Hell, Dan O'Herlihy plays a Con Man who passes himself off as this trope. | |
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How I Lost My Mother: Cozy Glow's own mother didn't just strip away her status, she completely Un-personed her, leaving her with only her saddlebags and her Voloverlangen as she was cast out into the world. | |
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There are some medieval fantasy equivalents to remittance men in A Song of Ice and Fire, typically second and third sons of Westerosi lords. The Free Cities on the continent of Essos are their usual stomping ground. Particularly, Oberyn Martell is known to spend his younger years as one of these, earning money by serving as a mercenary somewhere in Essos. | |
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In The Crown (2016), Edward VIII was effectively exiled by his family after he abdicated to marry his twice-divorced lover, Wallis Simpson, an event that still casts a shadow decades later. He survives off an allowance from his family and his presence in England is received very coldly by them.note His decidedly chummy relationship with Those Wacky Nazis up until the very eve of the war didn't help. As this is fairly accurately based on historical fact, it can also be taken as a Real Life example and Truth in Television. | |
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Whiplash: In "The Remittance Man", Jimmy Quicksilver, a 'gentleman' bushranger who has been robbing coaches, asks Cobb to conceal knowledge of his activities from two members of his aristocratic family, who have come to Australia to take Quicksilver's son to England to be educated. | |
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In a rare case of the American counterpart to the Mountie version, there is Sheriff John T. Langston, played by John Cleese in the 1985 film Silverado. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tale Fluttershy Is Free, it is implied that Fluttershy is one of these. Her family is a distinguished one, they are ashamed of her, she lives away from them, and she never seems short of money. | |
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The title character of the British/American comedy The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958). Fortunately he is also a gunsmith and Gadgeteer Genius. | |
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A sort of truth-in-television example is Frank Dickens, used in the novel (and Flashman pastiche) Dickens of the Mounted. Frank was the wastrel son of Charles Dickens and became a member of the Mounted Police in Canada. | |
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In The Great Gatsby, the first time Nick goes to one of Gatsby's parties, he notices several young Englishmen among the guests, "all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans." | |
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A couple of Bertie Wooster's friends. In "Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg", he lends his apartment to Bicky Bickersteth (who's of the "wastrel" variety, naturally, living in a boarding house in New York when he's supposed to be farming in Colorado) so he can make his uncle think he's doing well in America. This works too well and the uncle decides to withdraw Bicky's allowance, since he clearly doesn't need it. | |
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In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the two younger brothers of the late Sir Charles both left England to seek their fortunes in America, Sir Henry's father started a farm in Canada, while Jack Stapleton's ended up in Central America after a number of scandals. One or both may have been remittance men. | |
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Lord Crispin Fitzjames-Holles-Clare-Malet, the Duke of Taunton's brother, in the Village Tales novels. A very modern example, he left his wife and children to drink and party his way around the world — and admits, in the end, that he did so because he couldn't or wouldn't change and thought it better the kids not see him make a swine of himself at close range. | |
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