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Uptown Girl
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You know the story. It's a love story. Our lovers are from different worlds — one wealthy, one not. The poor girl has fallen in love with the Gentleman Snarker, or the stable boy secretly courts the princess. And she loves him too. Maybe it was Love at First Sight. Maybe she has a habit of slipping out to the seedier side of town for a night of fun. Maybe they've been friends their whole lives and the difference in status never really mattered. Will their love be enough to let them be happy together? |
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Haruka Nogizaka's Secret centers around this. The titular Nogizaka Haruka is the daughter of a ludicrously wealthy and powerful family, and the lower-middle-class Ayase Yuuto initially winds up as her confidant when he accidentally discovers her deep, dark secret... that she's an anime & manga otaku! As they spend time together, however, a relationship blooms - initially a type-1, but as Yuuto realizes just HOW wealthy her family is, and what kind of powerful people she usually rubs elbows with (not to mention what kind of men are actively pursuing marriage with her), he slips into a type-3 as he starts to feel 'unworthy' of her. Her father agrees, but who knows? Maybe there's a way for him to gain their respect... | |
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The Invitation (2022): Emmaline Alexander, Evie's great-grandmother, ran off with the footman, which had scandalized her aristocratic family. Having a baby with him too, and the fact he was black, made this all the more a scandal. | |
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Terry and the Pirates: Normandie Drake is an heiress and Pat's true love. They grew close when he worked for her father. Her high society aunt refused to see her marry a "commoner" and forced her into an Arranged Marriage to the weak-willed Tony Sandhurst. | |
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In Maurice, after a failed platonic romance with Clive, Maurice has sex with the under-gamekeeper at Clive's estate. Their class difference even more than their homosexuality is what nearly stops them from pursuing a real relationship. | |
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In A Bug's Life, Flik the unconventional worker ant and Princess Atta, daughter of the Queen | |
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Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians: Astrid Leong, a rich, fashionable, and beautiful heiress coming from two extremely wealthy and powerful Singaporean Old Money families and her husband Michael Teo, a middle class who owns a start-up. Subverted in the sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, when his start-up becomes so successful, (after unknowingly bought by Astrid's ex, a tech billionaire, in order to make her and Michael equal after they almost split up due to their contrasting social status) he ends up being a billionaire. Astrid's cousin Nick is a male version. He's second in line (after his father) to their family's fortune while his girlfriend (and later wife) Rachel is a middle-class Asian American whose mother is from mainland China, which doesn't endear her to Nick's family. |
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Nikolai Dante: Inverted. Galya is a poor peasant girl, while Viktor is a member of the aristocratic Romanov family. Dmitri doesn't take it well. | |
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In The Notebook Allie's parents think that Noah isn't good enough for her because he works at the lumber mill. | |
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One of Us is Lying: After they get together in Season 2, Nate worries that he and Bronwyn are too different because of their very different economic backgrounds. He is working class, while her family has lots of money. Addy assures Nate they can work out regardless. Unusually for this trope, he's white and she's a Latina. | |
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Deconstructed in Bojack Horseman: Beatrice Horseman is a wealthy debutante and the heir to Sugarman Sugar while Butterscotch is a poor Starving Artist writer. The marriage falls apart however due to Unequal Pairing. Beatrice is used to a very wealthy and privileged lifestyle and Butterscotch can't provide that making her bitterly miss her former life. Beatrice can't adapt to a lower-middle class lifestyle and is unused to the work she has to put in making her a poor mother and partner. It's implied that everyone would have been happier had Beatrice married her wealthy suitor Corbin Creamerman. | |
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In The Mister, Maxim is a gender-flipped example to Alessia; he's an immensely wealthy earl while Alessia is his housemaid (and an undocumented immigrant). She's actually briefly scared off when she learns about his title, thinking they could never be together. Similarly, in A Room with a View, Lucy has a choice between Cecil, who is of her own class, and George Emerson, who is of a lower class (and particularly prone to behaviour inappropriate for Lucy's class). |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Geoffrey fell in love with a woman who moved next to the Banks' mansion. Everything was right until he learned she's rich instead of a servant. What really troubled him wasn't her money but her social class. | |
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Beatrice and Alan in The Dreamer. Beatrice is a daughter of a wealthy Tory in Boston; Alan is a dirt poor apple farmer in Roxbury. | |
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X-23, of all people: She's a Human Weapon born in a lab, and who was (in)famously introduced in the comics as a homeless and penniless Streetwalker under the control of a brutal and sadistic pimp. Her two main love interests are Hellion and the time-displaced teenaged Angel, both of whom are from privileged and wealthy upbringings (although they didn't meet until after her days as a hooker were over). | |
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In Mystery Case Files: The Revenant's Hunt, the wealthy heiress Frances Boyle was in a relationship with Avondel's reject Alvin Croaker. Unfortunately, things ended very badly. | |
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In The Choice, both are rich, but the boy fears (incorrectly) that the girl is rebuffing him because she comes from Old Money whereas he grew up poor. | |
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Disgaea loves this trope. In the third game, Almaz is an extremely Unlucky Every Dude Chew Toy guardsman. Sapphire is an Ax-Crazy princess. There's also Rozalin (fake overlord's daughter), Adell (peasant hero). Laharl's dad (overlord) and his mom (unknown social status mage). | |
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The Aristocats has pampered pet cat Duchess and laid-back alley cat Thomas O'Malley. | |
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Zigzagged in Maiden Rose. Taki is second-in-line to the throne in his own country. When Taki and Klaus first meet Klaus is of the nobility. Eventually, Klaus' family loses that status because the monarchy is dissolved when the country falls to the Western Alliance, placing him in the wealthy middle class. Later, when Klaus becomes Taki's knight, he has to renounce his country, name, and status, and becomes the lowest of the low in Taki's country. Their romance has been developing through all of this, but really comes into force after Klaus has lost his upper-class status. | |
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In Maus, Vladek Speigleman was working class, albeit very resourceful. He ended up marrying Anya, the daughter of a millionaire. | |
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Bleach: Byakuya Kuchiki and Hisana. Hisana was a commoner from one of the worst Rukongai districts while Byakuya was a noble from one of the four most powerful and highly ranked noble houses in Soul Society. The social inequality between them didn't bother Byakuya and Hisana, but the Kuchiki clan was appalled. Byakuya eventually won the fight to have Hisana as his wife, but she fell sick and died five years after they were married. Ryuuken Ishida and Kanae Katagiri. As an Echt, Ryuuken was a Quincy Blue Blood from one of the most powerful families alive and expected to marry another Echt. As a Gemischt, Kanae was Ryuuken's servant and bodyguard. Only when the Arranged Marriage plan falls through are Ryuuken's relatives willing to let him and Kanae Marry for Love. Kanae dies six years before the main story begins, targeted for her commoner status. |
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Phryne Fisher looks to be this to Jack Robinson, and indeed by the time the show starts she's a baron's daughter (and very wealthy) whereas he's a working-class (if respectable) detective inspector. But Phryne's family only inherited the barony after most of her relatives were killed in the Great War, and the two actually grew up a stone's throw away from each other in the poor Melbourne suburbs of Collingwood and Richmond, respectively. It's made fairly clear throughout the series that the reason Jack holds Phryne's interest when no one else can is that he understands — and loves — the Collingwood girl she was as much as the glamorous aristocrat she's become. | |
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Gilmore Girls: Lorelai and Luke. Even though Lorelai has run away from her wealthy background, her parents are shown to be mistreating working-class people and don't consider them their equal. Blue-collar Luke is not enough for their daughter, and they even manage to break them up for a while. (And they had other problems, too.) Dean struggles with Rory and her falling into the high society lifestyle. Rory comes from old money, goes to prep school, and heads to Harvard while Dean comes from a relatively poor-to-middle-class family. Rory's grandparents Richard and Emily highlight this, try to split them up, and succeed better than with their Luke/Lorelai attempt. Class issues are one of the (many) obstacles Rory and Jess face, as she's headed for a bright Ivy League future, while he doesn't even graduate high school and basically becomes a bum in Seasons 4 and 5. Even when he comes back as a successful Self-Made Man, she's completely entrenched in Logan's upper-class world of the Idle Rich, much to his distaste. |
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Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus: Annika is a princess; Aidan is a common blacksmith's son (his backstory hinges on his shame over losing his father's hard-earned money to gambling and avoiding going home because of it). | |
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Due to each game having tons of characters from a variety of different class backgrounds, this comes up frequently in Fire Emblem. The backstory behind Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is built on this trope, which is also found in the posterior games. Anri, the Hero who defeated Medeus and founder of the Kingdom of Altea, was a commoner. His love interest Artemis was the Princess of Archanea. They couldn't get together. Artemis married Duke Cartas and went the Death by Childbirth way, cursing the Fire Emblem itself as she perished. The heartbroken Anri never married, and his bloodline (where Marth, Elice, Chrom and Lucina, and others come from) was continued by his brother Marcelus instead. In regards to The Binding Blade: Eliwood's son Roy can marry either the travelling dancer Larum (though her stepdad is an Etrurian general), the Ilian mercenary Shanna, the Arcadia villager Sophia (who is actually a half-dragon girl so this goes into Interspecies Romance as well) or the Tomboy Princess Sue who, like Lyn, is a plainswoman from Sacae (and might be Lyn's daughter with Rath). Averted with Black Magician Girl Lilina, who is Hector's daughter, and Badass Teacher Cecilia, who hailed from a wealthy, aristocratic family before becoming the Mage General of Etruria. There's also Clarine, the daughter of Pent and Louise, with either Lance (a knight under Pherae) or Rutger (a Sacaean myrmidon with ancestry to Bern). This showed up in The Blazing Blade: If Eliwood marries Fiora, he will be questioned for it since she's a mercenary from Ilia; and if he marries Lyndis instead, her half-Sacaean blood will be an issue, too (though she downplays this by virtue of her also being heir to Caelin before ceding it to Ostia after the events of the game). There is no comment on the reactions if he marries Ninian, but as she's only an ordinary dancer from Ilia (or rather seemingly ordinary, as she's actually a half-Ice Dragon, thus crossing over into Interspecies Romance as well), the trope still applies. Curiously, Hector can marry Lyn or either of Fiora's sisters, but no one will bat an eyelid... likely because Hector is already a Rebel Prince to start. Also Priscilla and any of her prospect boyfriends: the travelling swordsman Guy, the mercenary Heath, the mage Erk (and for some, the cavalier Sain - they have no shared ending, but their supports are decidedly romantic). Only Erk manages to bypass the trope's Star-Crossed Lovers aspect, since his teacher Pent is a very high-ranked nobleman... who once was an uptown boy since his wife and partner Louise was minor nobility. In The Sacred Stones: Three of Princess Eirika's four love interests (Prince Innes of Frelia is the exception) are men of lower class than her: Seth, a knight who doubles as her retainer in everything but name; Forde, another knight in Renais' employ; and Saleh, a hermit from the secluded Caer Pelyn. Seth even outright declares that she shouldn't get very close to him due to their different stations in their A-support, and the Japanese version of their paired ending notes that while he does have feelings for her, he felt it out of his place to marry royalty; he does come to accept his feelings and marry her, however, with Ephraim's blessing and the approval of the other knights. A surprise gender inversion comes with Joshua, who is revealed in Eirika's route to be the long missing Prince of Jehanna, with Natasha, a common-born cleric who hailed from Grado. In Awakening, most of the male Shepherds (barring Prince Chrom, Virion, and Ricken) are at least implied to be middle to low class, while the female Shepherds (except Nowi) are said to have higher standings note (Olivia is the adopted daughter of Khan Basilio, Sully comes from a long line of knights, Tharja's past isn't clear but she's implied to come from a long line of dark mages, etc.). so this trope tends to come up many times: Donnel is a villager-turned-soldier in Chrom's army, while Lissa is a Tomboy Princess, and Maribelle is the daughter of a duke, and Donnel even shows interest in her before the S-rank. There's Laurent and Lucina aka Chrom's daughter and Lissa's niece — who can potentially be Maribelle's daughter. He actually refers to her heritage as one of the reasons why they shouldn't be together in the first place, even when he can be fathered by either Virion or Ricken. Not to mention, there's Vaike and either Lissa or Maribelle. As said above, they're both noblewomen and he's a former Street Urchin. Kellam and either Lissa or Maribelle, too. In his and Maribelle's A support he specifically says he's a Country Mouse, and in the S one he mentions the "beneath one station" deal as he proposes to her. Gaius and either Lissa or Maribelle, since he is a Lovable Rogue and ex Street Urchin. He also has similar dynamics with Sumia, a minor noble who is also a member of the Shepherds, and whom he sometimes calls "that crazy noblewoman". Lampshaded when a Male Avatar proposes to Sumia in their S support: Fire Emblem Fates features two different royal houses, so it has this trope up the wazoo as well: The Player Character is either a Prince or Princess. Almost everyone the Avatar can marry is of lower social standing than he or she is, and more than one of the prospect brides/grooms will mention the deal. The royal siblings of either Hoshido or Nohr also face this trope if they develop romantic ties with other characters. Beruka and Charlotte lampshade it if Xander shows a romantic interest in either of them since the first is is a former Street Urchin now Professional Killer, the latter is a slum-girl-turned-border guard... and he is the heir to the Nohrian throne, who admires either girl because of her physical might rather than her origins. The Avatar's best friend, Princess Azura, is both the stepdaughter of the Nohrian King Garon and the ward/niece of the Hoshidan Queen Mikoto. And later it turns out she's the daughter of the long-dead King of Valla. Naturally, if she marries a guy who isn't royalty, this trope will take place too. In Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Dimitri (crown prince of Faerghus) can end up marrying Mercedes (a former member of House Bartels with no current noble status to her name) or Hapi (a commoner turned vagrant). In the former case, it does raise some eyebrows, until the people of Faerghus see how genuinely happy they are. Claude (a high-ranking noble of Leicester and prince of Almyra) can end up marrying Leonie (a commoner mercenary). Their paired ending notes how shocked her fellow villagers were to see her in the garb of a queen. |
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Arrow: Laurel Lance came from a middle-class family (she works in a legal office, her father is a detective, and her mother is a professor). She has dated Oliver Queen and Tommy Merlyn, both of whom are sons of billionaires. Ollie's sister Thea falls in love with Roy Harper, a street kid who lives alone in the Glades, the poorest neighborhood of Starling City. Oliver's relationship with Felicity Smoak is this, as she started out being employed at Queen Consolidated as an IT specialist. |
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In The Grimborn Sister, Fishlegs feels that Hiccup has fallen victim to this as he mentions that Astrid was introduced to him as a lady, but Hiccup argues that it technically doesn’t apply due to his own status as heir of Berk making him the equivalent of a 'prince', even if he doesn’t usually place that much emphasis on his title. | |
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Hyde and Jackie from That '70s Show (while they were a couple). Jackie is a rich girl and cheerleader while Hyde is a poor delinquent with a messed-up family who lives with Eric's family because he has nowhere else to go. Initially, Hyde stated their differences in social status as a reason they shouldn't go out since they had nothing in common. | |
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Ryan and Marissa. This is the primary storyline for the first half of The O.C.. | |
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Cheers: The relationship between Woody the bartender and the millionaire's daughter Kelly Gaines. Sam and Diane were the series's first example, despite the fact that Diane only acts like an uptown girl. Rebecca, both as the corporate Iron Lady, and then later as the simpering Yuppie Butt-Monkey, managed to subvert this trope. |
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In The Belgariad, Polgara is an ageless sorceress who has shaped the course of world history for three thousand years, has lost track of all the noble titles she's been given and is the daughter of, for all intents and purposes, a demigod. Durnik is a simple blacksmith working on a remote country farm where Polgara has been hiding out with The Chosen One for a couple of decades. He falls hopelessly in love with her, but can't believe he might ever have a chance with her. Then Polgara's Belated Love Epiphany and memory of his love for her gives her the strength to hold fast against an evil God trying to take over her mind, and more or less saves the universe in the process... When all is said and done, they get married and he's now also an ageless sorcerer. Still no noble titles, though. | |
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Disney: Cinderella (a servant girl-turned princess) and Prince Charming (guess). Lady and the Tramp: She's the pedigreed pet of a well-to-do family, he's a streetwise stray mutt. The Aristocats has pampered pet cat Duchess and laid-back alley cat Thomas O'Malley. Robin Hood (1973): "An outlaw for an in-law!" The Rescuers has Miss Bianca, a lady of high social standing, and Bernard, a janitor. Aladdin (a "street rat") and Princess Jasmine (the daughter of the local Sultan). In Disney's Tarzan, Jane is a London girl. Tarzan literally lives with gorillas. She ends up loving life in the jungle far more than life in the city. The Emperor's New School has Kuzco, a cocky young South American emperor, and Malina, a beautiful peasant girl. The Princess and the Frog: Tiana's a relatively poor woman who dreams of carrying on her father's dreams and owning her own restaurant, whilst Naveen is the rich prince of a made-up country with a league of fangirls and media attention. Something of an inversion, as it's the upper-class Naveen who has to "win" the lower-class Tiana, and he's been cut off from the family fortune in any case. Tangled has Rapunzel, the lost princess, and Flynn Rider a.k.a. Eugene Fitzherbert, an orphan turned thief. Neither of them knows she's the princess for quite some time, though. Subverted in Tangled The Series where Flynn realize that his long lost father was a king, making him a prince as well. Frozen has Princess Anna of Arendelle and Kristoff, a simple ice harvester. |
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Jeeves and Wooster plays around with the trope. One of Bertie's friends wants to marry a waitress. To convince his uncle that it's a good idea, he makes him read romance novels where chambermaids end up marrying their masters. | |
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In the Honor Harrington series, the monarch of Manticore is required by law to marry a commoner. | |
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Ship Breaker seems to be setting this up between light crew ship breaker, Nailer, and Nita, whose father is one of the richest men in the world. Nothing's happened yet, but there's been lots of Ship Tease and one kiss so we'll see... | |
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In Some Kind of Wonderful, the poor guy pursues the rich girl, but eventually ends up with his best friend. | |
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Henry's parents, Arthur Fox and Catherine Mountchristen-Windsor. The late Arthur was an extremely famous and wealthy stage and film actor, best known for his role as James Bond in the 80s. He'd be a perfectly acceptable to outright spectacular suitor to just about anyone — anyone but Catherine, who is the Crown Princess of the United Kingdom. As a result, Catherine's mother Queen Mary tried to forbid their marriage, but the two were too in love to relent and got married anyway. | |
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From Umineko: When They Cry, George, a member of the obscenely wealthy Ushiromiya family, is in a secret relationship with Shannon, one of the servants at the main house. Similarly, Jessica Ushiromiya is in love with a male servant, Kanon. Subverted since it turns out that Shannon and Kanon are actually the same person, Sayo Yasuda, who is an illegitimate child of Kinzo Ushiromiya and the true head of the family, having been granted the headship by Kinzo before he died. | |
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Maid-Sama!: Misaki (poor girl working at a maid cafe) and Usui (rich boy attending the same school she does). Previously, Usui's parents. | |
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In The Rise of Kyoshi and its sequel we see that Rangi is a member of a not-particularly-exalted Fire Nation noble clannote (although her mother having been the incumbent Firelord's instructor makes for disproportionally impressive contacts), whereas her lover is the orphaned child of Earth Kingdom bandits that spent her childhood as a Street Urchin before lucking onto a servant's job... who just happens to be the Avatar. | |
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Ojojojo: Haru is the heiress to the Jigokumeguri zaibatsu. Tsurezure is middle class. People comment on how weird it is, but nobody seems to have a problem with it (Haru's father is even a Shipper on Deck). Gender-Inverted with Akane (same social status as Tsurezure) and Chris (British noble). |
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Winx Club: This trope is both played straight and gender-swapped when Bloom and Stella find out that their respective boyfriends, Brandon and Sky, actually swapped identities when they came to school, so wealthy Solarian princess Stella is really dating lowly squire Brandon, and Prince Sky of Eraklyon is dating Bloom, at a time when Bloom was just a girl from Earth who had to shop for a formal dress in the clearance section. While Brandon is somewhat intimidated by her status and at times worries he can't compete as a commoner, Stella soon doesn't care and doesn't face much opposition from others, while Sky's parents don't approve of Bloom not being a princess although they still don't think much of her after she becomes one. |
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Titanic (1997): Rose DeWitt Bukater is, in Jack's words, a spoiled brat and an indoor girl, while he sleeps under bridges and goes where he pleases. That said, Rose is an Impoverished Patrician, so she is not as rich as she seems to be. | |
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In Roadside Assistance, Weiss is the multi-billionaire head of her family's dust company. She falls for Yang, who runs an auto-shop with her sister. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: Middle-class Marinette Dupain-Cheng has a crush on Spoiled Sweet fashion model and heir Adrien Agreste. Equally rich Chloe Bourgeois has the hots for Adrien too, but he is clearly not into her. | |
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In The Grimnoir Chronicles, we have Faye, a poorer-than-dirt Okie girl falling for Francis, who is heir to one of the wealthiest companies in the world, and he with her. Neither is exactly sure what the other sees in them. | |
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There's a gender-reversed element of this in the developing relationship between millionaire playboy mystery writer Richard Castle and working-stiff police officer Kate Beckett. Interestingly, they both were on equal footing during their childhoods. Castle went to boarding school, and his family was only moderately wealthy; Beckett attended a prestigious high school and probably would have had even more opportunities had her lawyer mother not been murdered. |
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''It Happened on 5th Avenue": The rich Trudy meets the poor, handsome veteran Bullock, who happens to be squatting in her father's mansion for the winter. Holiday romance ensues. | |
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Barbie of Swan Lake: Odette is a humble baker's daughter, while Daniel is a prince. | |
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Toradora!: Male lead Ryuuji lives in a tiny, run-down apartment with his mother, while his frenemy and eventual love interest Taiga has an appartment that takes up an entire floor of an upscale appartment building. | |
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Naruto: Played With for Hinata and Naruto. She's an heiress of the illustrious and powerful Hyuga clan and the closest Konoha has to a princess after Tsunade left, while he starts off as the village pariah. However, by the time they become an Official Couple during the Canon movie The Last: Naruto the Movie, he had already become the hometown hero who had saved the world, along with being revealed as the son of the Fourth Hokage. It's ultimately Zig-Zagged because, despite Naruto's credentials and achievements, Hinata is still a member of the Hyuga clan's main family and she becomes the Byakugan Princess in The Last, so she's still considered royalty by the time they get together. Of course with all that in mind, she fell in love with him when he was still the village pariah because of who he was and continued to be. Also Played With for Sasuke and Sakura. He's the heir to the famous and powerful Uchiha clan, while she comes from a well-off but non-clan, non-canon family. However, by the time they become an Official Couple in the penultimate chapter, the situation is reversed—Sasuke is a rogue ninja with almost everyone hating him, while Sakura is the Fifth Hokage's apprentice and becomes the best medical ninja in Konoha after Tsunade retires. |
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Yukito and Emiri in Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger. | |
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The tragic quandary of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" arises when the princess falls for a handsome young man in her father's court. (The narrative tells us this was pretty much the Ur-Example, at least in that kingdom, so everyone is shocked when the affair comes to light). He is sent to the king's arena, where the princess must decide which of the titular fates he should meet — death by tiger or marriage to a lady the princess despises. | |
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Sweet Valley High had a few examples, such as one book where a visiting European prince falls for blue-collar Dana. There's also the spin-off Elizabeth series where Elizabeth goes to London and falls in love with an aristocrat while working as a servant at his manor house. | |
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Til Debt Do Us Part: Subin, who is from a working-class background, marries into the very wealthy Ji family as she is indebted to the eldest son, Yejun. The financial disparity between them stops becoming an issue as they develop true feelings for one another. | |
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Pete and Trudy Campbell on Mad Men are an example of this trope. Trudy's parents are actually quite wealthy, but they are new money, in contrast to Pete's being a WASP. However, this is never shown as a conflict, and not even really explored. There are a few other examples: a gender-swapped one with Pete and working-class Peggy Olson in the 1st and 2nd seasons (though this is never pointed out), and Don and Betty were this trope during their marriage since Don was raised on a farm in contrast to Betty who was raised in Pennsylvania Main Line high society. |
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Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre, a penniless governess with no friends and family, falls in love with Edward Rochester, a rich gentleman and landowner. However, Jane comes from a respectable family (she's a daughter of a rich woman who married a clergyman). She also becomes rich through Unexpected Inheritance and finds her long-lost family of best cousins ever. At the end of the book, they're truly equal in everything. | |
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The Princess and the Frog: Tiana's a relatively poor woman who dreams of carrying on her father's dreams and owning her own restaurant, whilst Naveen is the rich prince of a made-up country with a league of fangirls and media attention. Something of an inversion, as it's the upper-class Naveen who has to "win" the lower-class Tiana, and he's been cut off from the family fortune in any case. | |
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RaButa has Kurume (who is noted in another series by the same author to come from a rather prominent family) fall in love with and eventually marry Harundo (the son of a butcher). | |
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Tromeo and Juliet: Juliet is involved with the family servant Ness here. | |
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All My Children: Supercouple Angie and Jesse are constantly kept apart by the former's disapproving father who felt that street kid Jesse was going to ruin his daughter's life. Beta couple Greg and Jenny are frequently tripped up by his snobby mother. |
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Emma: A Victorian Romance is an example where the gender is switched. Emma, an orphan maid, is pursued by and falls in mutual love with William Jones, a wealthy member of the upper-class gentry. In this case, it's a matter of the third version of this trope, with Emma thinking that her lack of refinement and rank will only hurt William's station and cause trouble for him if they were to marry. The Parental Marriage Veto doesn't help matters. They get married anyway. It's played straight with William and Eleanor, the daughter of a broke viscount who wants her to marry into the Nouveau Riche Joneses to restore their fortune. William's father wants him to marry Eleanor to improve their social status. | |
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The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: In "Danny and Starfire," Starfire being an alien princess is one of the reasons Danny is briefly afraid things won't work between them. | |
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Dragon Ball: Goku and Chichi could count as an example because Goku was a practitioner of martial arts who lived in the mountains and he made the promise to marry Chichi, the daughter of the Ox-King, who had a castle full of treasures. However, the difference in social status was not an impediment because Chichi's father and Goku's grandfather were friends before, and Goku had saved the earth several times. Vegeta and Bulma play with this trope after they got together in Dragon Ball Z. While Vegeta is the prince of Saiyans, his home planet was destroyed, and he had spent the majority of his life working under Frieza. Bulma, on the other hand, is the heiress to Capsule Corporation, one of the biggest companies on Earth, and has never been stripped of her wealth like Vegeta was. Videl, Gohan's girlfriend is the daughter of the "savior of the world" Mr. Satan/Hercule who is a celebrity, millionaire, and even had a whole village named in his honor, while Gohan's family is running out of money, so the marriage between Gohan with Videl was something beneficial for his family. Likewise, Valese (Goten's girlfriend) from Dragon Ball GT is implied by the latter to be quite wealthy herself. That being said, she doesn't appear to really mind Goten's low-class status, with her genuinely enjoying the time she spends with him. |
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In Harry Potter: Harry isn't obscenely upper class, but he's very well-off and, by his sixth year, is pretty popular. He ultimately marries Ginny Weasley, who is from a poor "blood traitor" family. Hermione Granger, whom Word of God says is from a well-to-do Oxford family, and her marriage to Ginny's brother Ron. To the haughty purebloods like the Malfoys, Blacks, and Yaxley it would be the other way around. While Ron might be from a dirt poor and ridiculed family he is still a pureblood and Hermione is a muggleborn, the lowest of the low to them, except for muggles. In the case of the Love Triangle of Snape, Lily and James Potter. Snape is a poor half-blood but a pureblood supremacist, Lily Evans is a Muggleborn from a humble middle-class family, while James Potter is the spoiled rich kid pureblood who's also a blood traitor. Albus Dumbledore was raised by a poor single mother for most his childhood but his ex Gellert Grindelwald is wealthy enough to own a freaking castle and not have a day job. |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: Tinya Wazzo (Phantom Girl) is the daughter of a rich, high-society family. Jo Nah (Ultra Boy) is a former gang member who lived on the streets. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has Saji Crossroad, a poor Unlucky Everydude, fall for Louise Halevy, a Spoiled Sweet tsundere, whose family is implied to be extremely wealthy and influential. The series seems to subvert the expectation that Louise's family would be hostile to Saji, as Louise's mother quickly takes to him, especially after hearing that he's an orphan, and basically treats him like a second child (which actually makes Louise jealous, a reaction played for comedy). Unfortunately, the series has a large dose of Break the Cutie for both of them. Starting with the massacre of Louise's entire family, at which point this trope becomes the least of their problems. | |
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Robbie Turner and Cecelia Tallis from Atonement definitely fall into the "friends their whole lives" category. He's the son of a servant and she's the daughter of the wealthy family. | |
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Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper: Anneliese is a princess. Julian comes from a family so poor they could only pay the rent for one room. Erika is an indentured servant. Dominick is a king, and so wealthy that the queen decides Anneliese should marry him just for his money. Serafina is a pampered cat who lives in a palace. Wolfie is a street-smart cat...dog...sort of guy. | |
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In You're Under Arrest!, two girls in the cast get marriage proposals from uptown guys: Yoriko gets one from Rebel Prince Saki Abdusha) and Aoi is given another by Idol Singer Gorou. In a subversion, each girl rejects her beau's affections — Yoriko, because Saki is a foreign prince who might die since his Qurac-like nation is torn by civil war; Aoi, because she simply isn't interested in Gorou beyond friendship. | |
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Wild at Heart has Lula Fortune, with her lover Sailor Ripley being from a much poorer background and recently released from jail as the film begins. | |
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Engine Sentai Go-onger hinted at a romance between impoverished Sousuke and wealthy Defrosting Ice Queen Miu. Would also apply to the popular fan-pairing of Saki with Miu's brother Hiroto. | |
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The central couple of Gran Hotel from Bambú Producciones are a classic example: Alicia is the upper-class daughter of the hotel owner and she's having a love affair with Julio, a poor waiter. | |
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Akiko Hashou from Kasei Yakyoku is very attracted to Taka, a young man affiliated to the Yakuza, and thus she's the uptown girl to him. | |
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Claire and Bender from The Breakfast Club play it straight. | |
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Ana, a working-class seamstress, and Alberto, heir to a fashion empire, from Velvet (another series from Bambú Producciones) had been in love since they were children, but their class differences kept them apart for years. Beta Couple Clara and Mateo have elements of this—she's from a small rural village, and he's from the same class as Alberto. |
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Haven (2020): Yu is the daughter (or son) of the president of ExaNova, the Apiary's premier scientific corporation, and has spent most her life on the upper-class planet Top, while Kay grew up without parents on the commoner planet Truth. Class differences are the least of their worries, however, since the Apiary forbids relationships outside of the pairs decided by its Matchmaker system. | |
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Whateley Universe: There's a few, but the first one that appears is Vox, a girl from a working-class family, and Phase, a boy from one of the richest families in America. | |
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Captain Sam Vimes and Lady Sybil Ramkin (subsequently Sir Samuel and Lady Sybil Vimes) in Discworld, although older than the usual examples of the trope. The resultant class dynamics lead to Vimes being seen as "a jumped-up copper to the nobs, and a nob to the rest". | |
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In Porphy no Nagai Tabi, Porphy and Mina's mother Anek was from a high-class family, while their father Christophore was of humble origins. | |
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Marry Me (2022): Being an internationally famous pop star, Kat is much wealthier than ordinary teacher Charlie, and her high-flying and heavily-curated lifestyle gives him pause at first. | |
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Pretty in Pink is another gender-reversed example. | |
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In Wed Locked, Marinette's mother Sabine turns out to be a runaway princess married to humble baker Tom. | |
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Hayate the Combat Butler: A little one-sided, at least at the start, as Nagi (the rich girl) has become infatuated with the extremely-poor Hayate after he saves her from kidnappers. She saves him from his (parents') debt, and he ends up serving her as a Battle Butler to pay her back. For her, it seems to be mostly just an excuse to keep him around. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, Kokomo the daughter of a merchant so rich that he can afford to have Redolent Rose, the guildmaster of the Weavers' Guild and lead fashion designer for the famed Sunsilk Tapestries, personally design and sow dresses for her. Meanwhile, Wawarukka is a working-class miner with no sense of fashion and is constantly covered in dirt. He is head-over-heels for her and the feeling is mutual, but Wawarukka is afraid that she'd never notice a guy like him while Kokomo believes that her father would never accept Wawarukka. | |
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In Final Fantasy XVI, Dion Lesage is the crown prince of the Holy Empire of Sanbreque and has a secret relationship with his closest attendant, Terence, who both love each other dearly. However, their relationship is complicated by their difference in status, as an enormous scandal would break out if they were ever discovered embracing one another. Dion himself wishes that Terence were his master instead, while Terence insists that he will always be Dion's loyal servant. | |
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Boys over Flowers (although it's a bit more complicated than that, obviously). To elaborate: Tsukasa Domiyouji is a rich bully who falls in love with the poor-as-dirt Tsukushi Makino. Depending on where you are in the series, she either loves his rich friend Rui Hanazawa, and it's difficult to tell what goes on in his head. Later in the series it revolves around the problems associated with Tsukasa and Tsukushi being together since he's the heir to a super-rich corporation and she's just a Japanese commoner. The Beta Couple of Soujiro and Yuuki also counts, still with the guy as the Uptown Girl and the girl as the pauper. |
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"Nine Bags Of Gold": One of the workers of Hans's mill is fancied by Hans' daughter Marie, who is certainly more affluent that her lover. | |
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Jessica Day George's Dragonskin Slippers has a dressmaker fall for the second-born Prince of her kingdom. After they save the kingdom, the King offers to marry her to his son. His OLDER son. Creel rejects the offer. | |
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Maiden Crown has a two-fold example. Tove is a peasant woman and the lover of King Valdemar; Stig Halvarsen is a common court messenger who falls for Princess Sophie. It's deconstructed in that it's precisely because of this social status gap that neither Tove nor Stig can marry the royals they love, and are forced aside when Valdemar and Sophie marry. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Robin Hood (1973): "An outlaw for an in-law!" | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Robin: Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown. Her father is a criminal in prison and when they first meet her mother addicted to prescription drugs. His parents are the jet-setting owners of Drake Industries an international company. The difference is downplayed in that they start dating in costume, not in their civilian lives. There's even more of a gap after he's adopted by Bruce Wayne, one of the richest men in the world. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Maddie falls for a rich guy and attempts to look and act rich so he will like her. London Tipton, the wealthy heiress to the Tipton Hotel, dated her hotel's lifeguard, and also once pretended to be poor to impress a guy who dislikes rich people. |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In the Beka Cooper books of the Tortall Universe, Guardsman Mattes Tunstall gets together with Lady Sabine of Macayhill She's much happier in the company of Dogs than her fellow nobles. It eats at him enough that he turns traitor for the sake of a title in Mastiff. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Of Fire and Stars: Mare (a princess) was formerly involved with Nils, a commoner, before they turned into best friends. Ellaeni, who's a noblewoman, was seeing the chief cook on the ship which took her to Lyrra. |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Although most adaptations gloss over or ignore the fact, the aristocratic Raoul pursuing marriage with opera singer Christine in The Phantom of the Opera is rather unorthodox and a source of major contention between Raoul and his older brother Philippe. The public, unaware that there's a criminally insane Stalker with a Crush in the mix, assume the mystery surrounding the young couple's fate has something to do with the brothers' falling out. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Claudine: A gender-inverted variant between Claude and Maura: Claude is the youngest son of the rich de Montesse family, while Maura is a poor maid who enters the de Montesse home in order to earn money for her sick father. Maura becomes Claude's first love and they wind up sharing a kiss. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5108cda5 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Whispered Words: Tomoe's wealthy family objects not only to the fact she's dating a servant's child but also to the fact Tomoe and her loved one are both girls. However, they cannot do anything about it because of the reward Tomoe's grandfather gave as thanks for saving the family's finances. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Belgravia: Young up-and-coming businessman Charles Pope falls for Maria Grey, daughter of the late Earl of Templemore; however, Maria is engaged to Charles's first cousin once removed John Bellasis, and her mother dislikes Charles for his status as a businessman and presumably illegitimate birth. Charles' mother Sophia Trenchard had a secret marriage with Viscount Edmund Bellasis, the son and heir of the Earl of Brockenhurst. However, the parson who married them was also a soldier and Edmund was unable to rectify his status as both soldier and minister with Sophia before being killed in the Battle of Waterloo. Charles' aunt by marriage Susan Trenchard has an affair with John Bellasis, looking to gain a position as his mistress and looking for a way out of her miserable marriage to her husband Oliver. That one goes down the tubes when John rejects Susan's offer of marriage when he learns she's pregnant and that Charles is legitimate; Susan takes revenge by stealing everything he has on Charles and giving it to her in-laws to ruin John. |
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Uptown Girl / int_52f56bfa | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Welkin and Alicia in Valkyria Chronicles. Welkin is the son of a general, grew up in a big house, went to university where he received officer training and is a lieutenant in the militia. Alicia grew up in an orphanage, was an apprentice baker before she was called up, and is a sergeant in the militia. They make it work. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_53b30902 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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The heroine of Snow White with the Red Hair is a pharmacist commoner whose rare hair color and beauty make one prince try to force her to become his concubine, and she later falls in love with and starts dating the prince who rescued her from the first. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_53fdef82 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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A Dog of Flanders (1975): Alois Cogez is the daughter of the richest man in their small town in Belgium, but she loves Nello Daas and considers him her best friend. Alois' father Baas believes she is staining their name and tries everything he can to stop Alois from seeing him (even sending her to a boarding school in England), but no matter what, they always find a way past it. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_54913b79 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Extremely Naughty is about Agreste heir Adrien Agreste falling in love with middle-class Marinette. | |
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1.0 | |
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Uptown Girl / int_554fb220 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: Beren and Lúthien: Lúthien, the only daughter of the oldest and most powerful Elven king of Beleriand, falls in love with Beren, a homeless Human warrior with no direct family left who has led a lonely outlaw life for seven years. The Fall of Gondolin: Idril, Princess of Gondolin and daughter of the High King of the Noldor Elves, falls in love with Tuor, a warrior human who has led a live of lonely wandering outlaw during years. |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In ATL, poor aspiring artist Rashad meets mysterious girl New-New at a skating rink. He doesn't know much about her background but eventually finds out that New-New is filthy rich and her real name is Erin. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_585e30df | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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One of the main themes of Extracurricular is the difference in economic status between Ji-soo and Gyu-ri which repeatedly gets pointed out by Ji-soo. Gyu-ri comes from a wealthy family, wears fancy dresses, frequents fancy cafes where she pays with a credit card, and solves everything with money, whereas Ji-soo wears the same worn-out clothes, is totally unfamiliar with those fancy cafes (he pays with cash), and has to take up odd, illegal jobs to make money. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_58bb65dd | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Bravelands: Baboons have a system made up of four main ranks ranging from Deeproot to Highleaf. Inter-class romance is strictly forbidden. This is due to Sunrise Crownleaf (The Leader of the troop) and Moonlight Deeproot (a member of the lowest rank that is subservient to the others) falling in love. Their romance led to a war in the troop. Sunrise was killed by the council while her mate Moonlight died of a broken heart. Since then, inter-rank matings have been forbidden. Thorn and Berry have this issue. Thorn starts out as a Deeproot while Berry inherited her father's Highleaf status. Even after Thorn goes through the Feats, he gives up his only chance at being a Highleaf in order to let his best friend become a Lowleaf. As a result, Thorn is stuck a Middleleaf and his relationship with Berry must remain a secret. The only way they can become mates is if the Crownleaf decided to allow inter-rank couples. |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Mitsuru Kirijo, an heir to the Kirijo Group which is one of the largest corporations in Japan and the world, is a potential love interest for the Male Protagonist in Persona 3. This does cause trouble as she is betrothed to another in order to solidify the Kirijo Group. Though once the protagonist gets insulted by her unwanted fiance, she flat out dumps said fiance without any negative repercussions. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5921531a | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In Persona 5, Ren Amamiya (middle class) can romance Haru Okumura, daughter of the president of a large food manufacturer. Like Mitsuru, she's also stuck with an Arranged Marriage. Once she gets to talk to a Parental Substitute about her feelings on the matter, he helps her drop the betrothal, leaving the protagonist free to romance her. | |
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1.0 | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5921531c | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In Daddy-Long-Legs, the orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott falls in love with Jervis Pendleton, a relative of her rich snobby college roommate. One of the obstacles to their relationship is that she's self-conscious about her lower social status, which (she thinks) he's not aware of the full extent of. | |
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1.0 | |
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Uptown Girl / int_59697650 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Vanilla from No Kidding wants a common man, dreaming of them at night. Will is just what she's looking for and so she tries to seduce him: | |
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1.0 | |
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| No Kidding | hasFeature |
Uptown Girl / int_59b80589 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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It Takes Two: Diane believed rich guys like Roger would never marry people like her. They got together at the end. | |
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1.0 | |
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| It Takes Two (1995) | hasFeature |
Uptown Girl / int_5bcf93e9 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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"The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": Despite her father's disapproval, the princess is rather fond of her husband and does not mind being married to a miller's son. | |
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1.0 | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5cb7cb01 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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"Maid Maleen": The prince gets married to Maleen, a fallen princess who was working as a scullery maid after her kingdom was destroyed. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5d09dfd2 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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The Barrier had several couples dating across class lines: Iván, a minister's son and Manuela, one of his family's maids, are established to be in a relationship as early as the first episode. One of the single-episode plotlines happens because a deceased resident of Sector 1 (the enclave for elites) had a mistress in Sector 2 (the rest of the city, basically). Daniela (Iván's sister) and �lex (from the Sector 2 protagonist family) are together by the end of the series, and the epilogue implies this is going to last. Approval seems to be the baseline response to the relationship. |
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Uptown Girl / int_5d2be66d | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Black Clover: Asta, from the poor village of Hage in the Forsaken Region and is a peasant with no magic before getting his Grimoire, is who Noelle Silva, being royalty, in love with but is a Tsundere toward him for being Oblivious to Love. Her kinder and polite cousin, Mimosa Vermillion who is also royalty, is also smitten with Asta. Charlotte Roselei, noblewoman of the House Roselei who becomes Captain of the Blue Rose squad, had fallen for Yami Sukehiro, a foreigner from another nation who went on to become Captain of Black Bulls, who saved her from her curse by a witch that required her to fall in love to break it much to her dismay. Played With between Finral Roulacase and Finesse Calmreich. Finral was to be heir to the noble house of Vaude and to be engaged with Finesse who is the Clover King's grandniece until his younger brother Langris replaced him by his parents for having stronger magic. Finesse, however, likes Finral better for being kinder regardless if he doesn't become next head of his family. |
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Uptown Girl / int_5e16d550 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Lady and the Tramp: She's the pedigreed pet of a well-to-do family, he's a streetwise stray mutt. | |
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1.0 | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5e629cf6 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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India Sweets And Spices: Alia comes from a wealthy family, while Varun's own a grocery store (he works there with his sister and parents). Though she doesn't mind, everyone else in her circle is disparaging toward them. He wrongly thinks Alia is the same, and breaks up with her. It's implied the pair may get back together though at the end. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5e87e3dc | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Zero (2021): Omar falls for Anna. She's a very rich girl, while he comes from a poor neighborhood named the Barrio in Milan. | |
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1.0 | |
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Uptown Girl / int_5efe69cc | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Always Visible: This is the main reason why Jerome does not reciprocate Delia's feelings. The broker's son believes that the pharmaceutist's daughter does not deserve anything other than hypocritical treatment. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Always Visible (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Uptown Girl / int_600454b2 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In Eskimo Day, Neil from a family of modest means meets Pippa from a wealthy family, when they have interviews at the university of Cambridge. This difference does not bother them, but it matters to their parents. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_601f8154 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair: Julia is from a wealthy, influential family and falls for Steven, an ordinary boy from Lawrenceville. He doesn't like her back because he likes Jeanie. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_6133497d | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: Sakura (princess) and Syaoran (middle class). | |
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Uptown Girl / int_61b1bd67 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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This becomes an issue for players whose female character romanced Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins. He is a royal bastard who can become King. If you are playing as a human noble, you may marry him and become his Queen Consort, but if you are playing an elf (who are an underclass or nomadic wanderers), a dwarf (either poor or exiled royalty) or a mage (despite the human mage coming from a noble family, mages are forbidden from inheriting) then you may romance Alistair until he becomes King, at which point he either dumps you (if unhardened) or will agree to you being his mistress (if hardened). On the other hand, you have the human noble or dwarf noble romancing Morrigan (apostate who lives in the wilds), Zevran (elven assassin slave), and Leliana (fugitive spy). In the sequel, this is how the player character's parents met - Malcolm Hawke was an apostate mercenary with a mysterious past, Leandra Amell was a Kirkwall aristocrat with an arranged marriage on the horizon. Hawke later regains their family's titles and becomes a wealthy noble, while the potential love interests include Fenris (an elven former slave), Isabela (a shipless pirate), Merrill (a nomadic elf mage) or Anders (an apostate operating out of the slums). At a push, you could reverse it for Sebastian (a prince), due to Hawke's original status as peasant when they first meet (which also happens to be when Hawke takes on work from Sebastian as she's trying to scrape together some money). |
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Uptown Girl / int_629cd094 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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In The King and the Clown, the King's fixation with a male street clown is a major point of contention in the court and used to help justify their coup. The King's Hot Consort Nok-su is implied to also have caused friction for being lower class, but Nok-su is better at court intrigue than Gong-gil is. | |
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Uptown Girl / int_62ec93b5 | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Sofia the First: Miranda (a shoemaker) and Roland the Second (a King). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Sofia the First | hasFeature |
Uptown Girl / int_63409895 | |
| Uptown Girl / int_640d9be1 | type |
Uptown Girl | |
| Uptown Girl / int_640d9be1 | comment |
In regards to The Binding Blade: Eliwood's son Roy can marry either the travelling dancer Larum (though her stepdad is an Etrurian general), the Ilian mercenary Shanna, the Arcadia villager Sophia (who is actually a half-dragon girl so this goes into Interspecies Romance as well) or the Tomboy Princess Sue who, like Lyn, is a plainswoman from Sacae (and might be Lyn's daughter with Rath). Averted with Black Magician Girl Lilina, who is Hector's daughter, and Badass Teacher Cecilia, who hailed from a wealthy, aristocratic family before becoming the Mage General of Etruria. There's also Clarine, the daughter of Pent and Louise, with either Lance (a knight under Pherae) or Rutger (a Sacaean myrmidon with ancestry to Bern). |
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Uptown Girl / int_640d9be1 | |
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At one point in Infinity, a princess named Amnestra was mentioned who was in love with a guard. She herself has very little to do with the plot (and had been dead for tens of thousands of years) but Nanoha brought her up as a method of psychological warfare while fighting Tsukuyomi (and proof that Amaterasu hadn't been captured but rather willingly come to her for help). | |
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The Owl House: Luz Noceda's single mother works as a veterinarian and she herself is apprenticed to public enemy #1. Her eventual girlfriend Amity Blight is the daughter to two Blue-blooded arms dealers. Amity's mother vocally disapproves of the relationship due to Luz being a wanted criminal by the time she finds out (though considering that she previously tried to have Luz killed, it's unlikely that a lack of a criminal status would have changed her mind much). | |
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Fire Emblem Fates features two different royal houses, so it has this trope up the wazoo as well: The Player Character is either a Prince or Princess. Almost everyone the Avatar can marry is of lower social standing than he or she is, and more than one of the prospect brides/grooms will mention the deal. The royal siblings of either Hoshido or Nohr also face this trope if they develop romantic ties with other characters. Beruka and Charlotte lampshade it if Xander shows a romantic interest in either of them since the first is is a former Street Urchin now Professional Killer, the latter is a slum-girl-turned-border guard... and he is the heir to the Nohrian throne, who admires either girl because of her physical might rather than her origins. The Avatar's best friend, Princess Azura, is both the stepdaughter of the Nohrian King Garon and the ward/niece of the Hoshidan Queen Mikoto. And later it turns out she's the daughter of the long-dead King of Valla. Naturally, if she marries a guy who isn't royalty, this trope will take place too. |
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In Jumping the Broom, while Jason is not poor, he came from a poor background and made his money by himself. His fiance Sabrina comes from old money, however, and this is the basis of the plot. | |
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The backstory behind Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is built on this trope, which is also found in the posterior games. Anri, the Hero who defeated Medeus and founder of the Kingdom of Altea, was a commoner. His love interest Artemis was the Princess of Archanea. They couldn't get together. Artemis married Duke Cartas and went the Death by Childbirth way, cursing the Fire Emblem itself as she perished. The heartbroken Anri never married, and his bloodline (where Marth, Elice, Chrom and Lucina, and others come from) was continued by his brother Marcelus instead. | |
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Two couples in Crazy Rich Asians: The main plot focuses Rachel Chu, a New York State University economics professor, meeting her boyfriend Nick's family, the Youngs. They also happen to run a real estate empire worth billions in Singapore. The Beta Couple focuses on the relationship tension between the equally rich Astrid and her husband Michael, who is from a much humber background and is uncomfortable with the flaunting of wealth. |
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In Spy High, wealthy Ben is initially drawn to the equally privileged Lori; but his true love turns out to be wrong-side-of-the-tracks Cally. | |
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Digimon Data Squad: Tohma's father, Franz was an uptown guy, being a wealthy, Austrian aristocrat while Touma's mother was an ordinary Japanese exchange student when they met. Tohma's snobby grandmother was less than thrilled about the relationship, both because of the class difference and the fact that they never married and made it very clear she considered Tohma to be only partially a Norstein. | |
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In The Princess Bride, Buttercup gets made princess of a tiny area so that Prince Humperdinck can marry her. This also puts her socially above Westley who used to work as her farmhand before becoming a pirate captain. | |
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Mr Warren's Profession is a gay romance novel about a baronet who falls in love with a clerk in Victorian England. | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Kaguya was born into one of the richest families in Japan while Shirogane is working class (both he and his little sister have to work part-time jobs due to their father being unemployed). It's because of this class difference that they choose to have a Secret Relationship when they start dating since they don't want Kaguya's family to find out. It's also played with a bit in that Shirogane's family was a lot wealthier when he was younger... until his father's company was stolen by Kaguya's older brother. Kaguya's parents were also this, having been an Elite Man–Courtesan Romance. That said, it's never made clear if Nayotake actually loved Gan'an or if she was just using him for his wealth (complicated by the fact that Gan'an never took a DNA test to see if she was lying about Kaguya being his child). To a lesser extent, there's Erika (whose parents run the country's largest miso producer) and Kazamatsuri (a Scholarship Student like Shirogane whose financial situation is never specified). Due to her being absolutely hopeless in recognizing anything related to love, she has no idea that he has a crush on her, though Chapter 192 of the Spin-Off implies that she eventually figures it out and marries him at some point in the future. |
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There's a one-sided version on The Cry of Mann. The wealthy corporation-founder Tank Mann fell in love with the lower-class and struggling Courtney for the ambition and spark she had in spite of her misfortune. Unfortunately, his kids didn't see it the same way and treated Courtney as an outsider, and for Courtney's part, it was more of a Marriage of Convenience. | |
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Itinerant Daigo and multi-million-dollar heiress Amy in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. | |
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Arcane: Caitlyn is heir to the very wealthy and politically powerful House Kiramman which has a seat on the ruling Council. Her Implied Love Interest Vi is from the Undercity, and a penniless prisoner Caitlyn recruited out of prison to help her investigation. Caitlyn's mother clearly does not approve. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Link (an orphan of unspecified social standing) from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ends getting a Childhood Marriage Promise from Princess Ruto. Both Mipha and Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are princesses who are confirmed to be in love with Link. Link himself — while coming from a family of knights — is specified to not be of noble birth, and at least one person (a rival suitor of Zelda) disapproved of his relationship with Zelda because of his commoner background. |
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The Heirs: Cha Eun-sang is a working-class girl while her boyfriend Kim Tan is heir to the richest conglomerate in South Korea. Eun-sang's relationship with Tan is revealed to be a repeat of what happened to Tan's older brother, Kim Won, who is in a relationship with the similarly working-class Jeon Hyun-joo. Eun-sang's childhood friend, Yoon Chan-young, is not poor, but he is considered a "social care" student because he is not in the position to inherit something from his parents. He is dating Lee Bo-na, who is set to inherit an entertainment company. |
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An aversion of sorts can happen in the sequel for a male Shepard romancing Miranda. While Miranda is the genetically enhanced daughter of the richest human in the galaxy, she is actually not that wealthy, having run away from her controlling “creator� years ago. That said, she does have the more refined tastes of a wealthy girl. | |
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The Nanny: Rich Broadway producer Maxwell and working-class Fran (the titular nanny). In the last season, Rich Bitch C.C. Babcock and Niles the butler get together romantically. |
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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses: Royal Cobbler Derek loves Princess Genevieve, but doesn't believe he has any chances with her. "She's a princess." | |
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Cinderella (a servant girl-turned princess) and Prince Charming (guess). | |
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Steven Universe reveals that Ruby and Sapphire had this kind of relationship when they first met, with Ruby being a lowly soldier assigned to bodyguard the aristocratic Sapphire. | |
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Adrian Mole: The working-class main character and his aristocratic first wife Jo Jo. Adrian's most consistent love interest, Pandora Braithwaite, also counts as this, as do his exes Daisy Flowers and Pamela Pigg. Adrian himself was once an Uptown Guy to Sharon Bott (described by him as "lower-working/underclass"). | |
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This showed up in The Blazing Blade: If Eliwood marries Fiora, he will be questioned for it since she's a mercenary from Ilia; and if he marries Lyndis instead, her half-Sacaean blood will be an issue, too (though she downplays this by virtue of her also being heir to Caelin before ceding it to Ostia after the events of the game). There is no comment on the reactions if he marries Ninian, but as she's only an ordinary dancer from Ilia (or rather seemingly ordinary, as she's actually a half-Ice Dragon, thus crossing over into Interspecies Romance as well), the trope still applies. Curiously, Hector can marry Lyn or either of Fiora's sisters, but no one will bat an eyelid... likely because Hector is already a Rebel Prince to start. Also Priscilla and any of her prospect boyfriends: the travelling swordsman Guy, the mercenary Heath, the mage Erk (and for some, the cavalier Sain - they have no shared ending, but their supports are decidedly romantic). Only Erk manages to bypass the trope's Star-Crossed Lovers aspect, since his teacher Pent is a very high-ranked nobleman... who once was an uptown boy since his wife and partner Louise was minor nobility. |
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Blondie (1930): The original strip was about the well-to-do Dagwood marrying the distinctly lower-class Blondie against his parent's wishes. He was cut off and had to get a real job, and the strip gradually morphed into the Dom Com it has been for most of its run. | |
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In The Gentlemen's Alliance, Haine is poor and Shizumasa is rich. Slightly inverted in that Haine is not poor in any real sense; she's just significantly less wealthy than Shizumasa. Still, it plays just as the trope is described. | |
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In the Mass Effect games, this trope can apply depending on the chosen background of your Commander Shepard and your choice of romance options. If you're playing an Earth-born Shepard, and romance Liara, you've got the former-street-kid-done-good romancing the only daughter of one of Thessia's most influential families. An aversion of sorts can happen in the sequel for a male Shepard romancing Miranda. While Miranda is the genetically enhanced daughter of the richest human in the galaxy, she is actually not that wealthy, having run away from her controlling “creator� years ago. That said, she does have the more refined tastes of a wealthy girl. |
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The Afterward: Olsa, a Street Urchin and thief, became lovers with Kalanthe, a noblewoman who's an apprentice knight. They didn't work out in the past since Kalanthe had to marry someone rich so her debt for knighthood could be paid off. By the end though they're back together for good. | |
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The Batman and Catwoman romance in the Post-Crisis era. He's Gotham's richest man, she's a poor orphan street kid turned criminal. In the original comics, Catwoman and Selina Kyle were Classy Cat-Burglar who stole for the thrill and Selina in civilian life had the identity of a prominent socialite. In modern comics, she was made poor to give her a Just Like Robin Hood motivation, to add spice in her dynamic with Bats. She's the only major Love Interest for Bruce who comes from a poor background (most of his Girl of the Week being rich heiresses, models, and so on, while Talia Al Ghul is basically a Princess) and their dynamic often invites Batman realizing how privileged he really is from his more street-smart and grounded girlfriend. In The Dark Knight Rises, the class differences become part of their Slap-Slap-Kiss dynamic while in the Batman: Arkham Series, Selina often expresses angst that Batman and Bruce are out of her league (and not just because he's a hero and she's a thief). | |
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"Follow Me, Jodel!": After being transformed back to normal, the rich maiden gets married to the kind farmer who broke her curse. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "An American Tragedy", Miss Brooks relates that Love Interest Mr. Boynton had been dating a society girl. On Miss Brooks giving him an ultimatum to choose the society girl or Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton chooses Miss Brooks. | |
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The Flintstones: When Fred and Barney first met Wilma and Betty, the four of them were holding summer jobs at a hotel but a series of misunderstandings caused Fred and Barney to think the girls were wealthy guests and the girls to think the boys were wealthy guests. | |
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Bodies Bodies Bodies: Sophie, a rich girl, is dating working-class Bee. Unusually, Sophie is black and Bee white. Although they stay together and Sophie confesses her love for Bee at the very beginning, the relationship has difficulties. Bee finds it hard to fit in with Sophie's rich friends (some treat her very badly). | |
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Howl's Moving Castle: Sophie (middle-class) and Howl (famous wizard). | |
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Frozen has Princess Anna of Arendelle and Kristoff, a simple ice harvester. | |
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Barbie movies: Barbie of Swan Lake: Odette is a humble baker's daughter, while Daniel is a prince. Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper: Anneliese is a princess. Julian comes from a family so poor they could only pay the rent for one room. Erika is an indentured servant. Dominick is a king, and so wealthy that the queen decides Anneliese should marry him just for his money. Serafina is a pampered cat who lives in a palace. Wolfie is a street-smart cat...dog...sort of guy. Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus: Annika is a princess; Aidan is a common blacksmith's son (his backstory hinges on his shame over losing his father's hard-earned money to gambling and avoiding going home because of it). Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses: Royal Cobbler Derek loves Princess Genevieve, but doesn't believe he has any chances with her. "She's a princess." |
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Super Mario Bros.: Princess Peach is this to Mario. She's royalty, and even if he does rescue her all the time, the players are led to believe he's little more than a plumber. This may be the case with Mario's younger brother Luigi and Princess Daisy too. | |
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The Howards of Virginia is an example from colonial Virginia, played straight. | |
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Kaiten Mutenmaru: Gender inverted. Sick was a young aristocratic boy in love with Anne, a kind-hearted commoner his age. | |
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In Princess Academy series, this is enforced, as the Prince must marry a girl from the poor mountain village where Miri grew up, according to a vision from the seers. All the girls train to be proper ladies, and Miri spends some time hoping to be the princess. In the end, the Prince chooses another girl, Britta, who turns out to have been his childhood best friend sent by her lesser-noble parents to the village. In the second book, Miri is elevated to a noblewoman, and becomes engaged to her childhood friend who remains a commoner. Britta, after her parent's treason is discovered, is stripped of her title and so marries the Prince as a commoner. | |
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Final Fantasy IX: The relationship between Zidane, a common thief, and Princess Garnet plays out like this. | |
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In the Iron Man series, while Pepper Potts is not exactly poor, she is nowhere near the social circles her multi-billionaire playboy boss Tony Stark is in. By the end of the second movie, they're going steady. | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Nadeshiko Amamiya and Fujitaka Kinomoto, a relationship which results in Nadeshiko being disowned by her wealthy family; she doesn't mind that much as Fujitaka was no Gold Digger, and she works as a model while he continues teaching and they live in a tiny but cozy apartment with their children. Also, arguably, Sakura herself. Though Fujikata's finances seemed to have improved somewhat given that he and his family live in a large, spacious house, Sakura's potential love interests are both very much wealthier than her. Syaoran's family is Old Money, from one of China's most prestigious magical families. And Tomoyo (if your shipping preferences run that way) is Sakura's second cousin on her mother's side and lives in a seriously Big Fancy House and her mother Sonomi's company is implied to be just one branch of very large family fortune. |
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The trope is key to the premise of Be My Princess, a Romance Game in which an ordinary young woman falls in love with any one of six princes and inevitably faces opposition from her love interest's royal family and others around them who don't approve of the relationship. | |
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In Murdoch Mysteries (set in late Victorian/early Edwardian times in Canada), constable George Crabtree perceives Dr. Emily Grace like someone grand who wouldn't look twice at him as a romantic prospect, despite the fact that she is friends with him and absolutely not a classist. He starts courting her, and they're a couple for a while. Interestingly, it's revealed that her cad of an ex-fiancé and other Rich Bitch-y women in a prestigious social club consider Emily a lowly working-class girl ( even though she's a respected doctor working in the city morgue and must come from a rich, privileged and open-minded family). | |
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Journey to Chaos: Annala's family is pretty high status in Dnnac Ledo (her mom is an R&D company CEO, her dad's an ambassador, and her aunt is the police chief) while Eric is a Blue-Collar Warlock whose only family is his guild. Little attention is brought to this fact because it's overshadowed by other factors. Her family encourages it because of his devotion to her; the only one to object is her twin, who wouldn't accept anyone on principle. Nolien and Tiza; he's the heir to one of Ataidar's Four Pillars and she is an "alley cat" orphan. Any objections to their not-quite-there-yet relationship were cancelled when Tiza demonstrated that she was only one with enough Power of Love to restore Nolien's sanity after he mana mutated. |
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Pride and Prejudice. Lady Catherine throws a hissy fit over someone as (relatively) low-class and poor as Elizabeth marrying Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth wins this by exposing Lady Catherine not as a snob, but an idiot: "He is a gentleman. I am a gentleman's daughter. So far, we are equal." Which is absolutely true. Mr. Bennett is a landowner, an esquire, just like Darcy (he just owns less, or less profitable land); they are of exactly the same social class. That some modern readers fail to understand that 'class' in the 1790s was defined by where your money came from, not how much you made, is understandable, but for Lady Catherine to forget it (or at least expect Elizabeth not to realize it) makes her a complete ass as well as a bully. Lady Catherine's other objections are Elizabeth's middle-class relatives (merchants and country lawyers) and the fact that she wants him to marry her daughter (they would be a super-noble, super-wealthy power-couple of kissing cousins). | |
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In the Song of the Lioness quartet, this technically happens with Alanna (a knight who's from one of the oldest noble families in Tortall) and George (a commoner who became the King of Thieves), though by the time they get married, George has been given the title of baron and an estate for his services to the Crown (and to make things easier when he has to function as the Crown Spymaster). | |
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This also comes up in Superman and Wonder Woman's relationship in the now-defunct New 52 era. Clark Kent was raised on the farm and despite being a Physical God still sees himself as one of the commons, while Diana of Themyscira is the Princess and heir of her island, and is aristocratic in bearing and culture. As with Spider-Man, Diana is the shining example of Clark dating someone from outside his background, since his main romantic love interest, Lois Lane is middle-class (albeit a Military Brat in modern versions). | |
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Persona: Mitsuru Kirijo, an heir to the Kirijo Group which is one of the largest corporations in Japan and the world, is a potential love interest for the Male Protagonist in Persona 3. This does cause trouble as she is betrothed to another in order to solidify the Kirijo Group. Though once the protagonist gets insulted by her unwanted fiance, she flat out dumps said fiance without any negative repercussions. Yu Narukami (middle class) with Yukiko Amagi (Ojou), Rise Kujikawa (famous Idol Singer), or Ai Ebihara (Nouveau Riche) are possible pairings in Persona 4. In Persona 5, Ren Amamiya (middle class) can romance Haru Okumura, daughter of the president of a large food manufacturer. Like Mitsuru, she's also stuck with an Arranged Marriage. Once she gets to talk to a Parental Substitute about her feelings on the matter, he helps her drop the betrothal, leaving the protagonist free to romance her. |
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The Burning Kingdoms: Priya is the maidservant of Princess Malini starting out, and they slowly fall in love. Bhumika, daughter of Ahiranyi nobles and wife of the governor, and Jeevan, a commoner. |
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In Weathering With You, Hodaka Morishima is, as far as the novelization is concerned, a middle class boy, while Hina is a poor weather girl who lives alone with her brother. | |
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In Tsukigasa, Azuma's family is loaded, whereas Kuroe is of a slightly more modest background. | |
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Wheel Squad: Bob and Emilie. Bob's Dad gives private music lessons for a living and Emilie's stepfather is a wealthy businessman. | |
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Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva: Shiva is a poor orphan; his love interest Isha is a rich Londoner. | |
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Shrek and Fiona. He's an ogre, she's a princess. At the end of the film, Fiona too becomes an ogre so that she can remain with Shrek forever. | |
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In City Heat, Private Detective Mike Murphy has a new romantic interest, a rich socialite named Caroline Howley, but finds himself unable to commit. | |
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In Disney's Tarzan, Jane is a London girl. Tarzan literally lives with gorillas. She ends up loving life in the jungle far more than life in the city. | |
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Elly and Tom from The Water Babies (1978). She's the niece of a lord and he's a street urchin so they couldn't be further apart socially. | |
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Ouran High School Host Club: Tamaki (rich boy attending a private school) and Haruhi (a commoner Scholarship Student). Also Tamaki's parents with his father Yuzuru as the rich one, and his mother Anne-Sophie being poor due to her family's business failure and debt. Arguably Haruhi's parents, as her mom Kotoko was a lawyer and her dad Ryouji/Ranka was a bartender/host. |
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Robin and Kate in season three of Robin Hood. | |
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A deconstruction occurs in Helluva Boss. Blitzo, a lowly imp, is in a homosexual relationship of sorts with Stolas, one of the Princes of Hell. The massive societal gap between them creates a divide in their relationship, as Blitzo's Inferiority Superiority Complex causes him to avoid accepting genuine emotional attachment to him. In the Season 1 finale, when they're being publicly humiliated by Asmodeus, Stolas has trouble making eye contact with him and Blitzo is heartbroken by this perceived rejection, as he wanted to believe Stolas thought of him as an equal but instead had all of his doubts validated. Played straight with Beelzebub and Vortex, the former being one of the Seven Deadly Sins and rulers of Hell with the latter being a lowly hellhound bodyguard. |
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Likewise, Valese (Goten's girlfriend) from Dragon Ball GT is implied by the latter to be quite wealthy herself. That being said, she doesn't appear to really mind Goten's low-class status, with her genuinely enjoying the time she spends with him. | |
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The Winter's Tale features Prince Florizel falling in love with Perdita, a lowly sheperd girl, much to the disapproval of his father. This issue is conveniently sidestepped when they learn Perdita is secretly the long-lost princess of another kingdom. | |
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Nancy Drew (2019): Ryan Hudson and Lucy Sable were this prior to the series. Unfortunately, his parents disapproved and had the influence to utterly ruin Lucy's life, driving her to the point of suicide. | |
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The musical version of Les Misérables has the revolutionary student Marius in love with Cosette (who, although technically an illegitimate child, is known only as the daughter of a rich philanthropist). Not an entirely straight example, though, since Marius comes from a rich background and returns to that wealth after the students' uprising fails. Meanwhile, in a gender-flipped example, Eponine is in love with Marius, but he never realizes it until the end. | |
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Archie and Veronica from Archie Comics. (But not Archie and Betty, because Betty is a Girl Next Door). | |
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Little Women: One of the March sisters is expected to marry their rich neighbor Laurie by the locals since the four girls are good friends to him. (In fact, they openly wonder if Marmee is training Meg and Jo to be gold diggers, which disgusts them greatly since they like Laurie as a person). In the sequel, Laurie marries the youngest of the sisters, Amy. (Who had already refused to marry another rich guy.) Discussed by the end of the first book, too. When Aunt March finds out that Meg's being courted by Laurie's tutor John Brooke, she thinks he's a Gold Digger who wants to marry Meg solely because she's got rich relatives and attempts a marriage veto. This causes Meg's Love Epiphany, and she refuses the Aunt's words. |
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In Incarnation of Legends, Haruhime is this for Bell, a beautiful girl his age of noble status who falls in love with him after he rescues her from a grim fate as a slave to be sold to the highest bidder. In fact, her desire to one day stand by his side is so great that she renounces her noble title and gets disowned so she can become an adventurer. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle: Hal comes from a very rich family that openly hate Lois. | |
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Zigzagged in A Song of Ice and Fire: Ser Jorah Mormont may be the son and heir-apparent of a lord, but his father's the lord of a remote, barren island in the Grim Up North. Nonetheless, he sets his sights on the daughter of a wealthy house from the cosmopolitan south. He catches her eye after winning a major tournament and successfully negotiates the Standard Hero Reward from her father, and she happily marries this dashing young knight. A fairy tale ending, right? Not quite. Used to the culture of one of the oldest and largest cities in the world, she quickly finds herself bored out of her skull in his remote castle. He bankrupts himself on lavish entertainments to try to keep her happy and winds up on the wrong side of the law. They flee across the sea and he becomes a sellsword and is now even poorer, and she ultimately leaves him and becomes a high-priced prostitute. Things go From Bad to Worse for poor Jorah when he sets his sights even higher: on Daenerys "Stormborn" Targaryen, the Unburnt, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, many other titles to follow. Then there's Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish. Even poorer than Mormont, a lordling only by courtesy, heir to a rundown keep, a flock of sheep, a couple dozen peasants and some rocks, he's sent as a boy to be fostered by Hoster Tully, Lord Paramount of the Riverlands and becomes childhood friends, and eventually falls in love, with his eldest daughter. Unfortunately, she's slated for an Arranged Marriage to a Jerk Jock from one of the Great Houses. Petyr, head full of stories of plucky young heroes winning the hearts of fair maidens against all odds, challenges him to a duel. He barely makes it out with his life, and the girl he feels entitled to winds up in a Perfectly Arranged Marriage with another man. He does later marry her equally Uptown Girl sister, but it's a loveless charade and he ends up pushing her out a window. A Puppy Love variety with little Arya Stark, the Princess of the North and Gendry, a bastard child from the underbelly of Kings Landing, who befriend each other and grow very close during their experiences across wartorn Westeros. Played with, in that they became friends when Arya was on the run disguised as a commoner, Gendry had no idea who she was initially, and even after she trusted him with her identity, still treated her the same as nobody else could know. It's implied several times that he's uncomfortable with her true status and worried about what will happen between them once she returns to her proper position. They later get separated for different reasons, so time will tell if they end any better than the other examples. In the past, there was the controversial marriage between Aegon V Targaryen's heir, Prince Duncan, and Jenny of Oldstones, a commoner from the Riverlands, which inspired a popular Westerosi folk song. Duncan loved her so much that he chose to relinquish his right as heir so he could be with her. Unfortunately, he was already betrothed to a Baratheon lady, and her father, pissed off, started a brief rebellion against the Iron Throne. |
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The Lover (or L'Amant) is a 1992 French film based on the novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras. Set in French Indo-China in 1929, it depicts the illicit affair between a fifteen-year-old French girl from an impoverished family and her wealthy Chinese lover — as a result, the trope applies to both parties due to the racial/social divide. | |
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Ojamajo Doremi: This was played with Hazuki and Masaru. Hazuki is the only daughter of a very wealthy family and her childhood friend Masaru is apparently a middle-class boy. | |
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Partners in Crime: The first client at Blunt's Brilliant Detectives is an Upper-Class Twit called Lawrence St Vincent, who is in love with a girl who works in a hat shop and wants them to investigate her mysterious disappearance. It turns out to all be a Zany Scheme to get him to notice her, hatched by Tuppence without Tommy's knowledge. Later stories establish that they got married. | |
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In Coming to America, Akeem (who is not only extremely wealthy but is also royalty) travels to America disguised as an ordinary student in order to meet an educated woman with a mind of her own who would love him for who he is, not for his wealth or titles. The woman that he does end up with isn't poor, however; in fact, she comes from a quite successful upper-middle-class background. | |
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Gender flipped in Titanic: The Legend Goes On: Angelica is the poor girl who ends up in a relationship with wealthy William. | |
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Goodbye, My Rose Garden is the story of Alice, a British noblewoman, and Hanako, a working class woman she hires to be her maid. Over the course of the manga their relationship evolves from an Interclass Friendship to something more. | |
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Prince Chen from The Legend of Su-Ling is a male variety. Su-Ling had no idea that he's the son of the infamous emperor until she's almost forced to marry him. | |
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"Cinderella" and all its clones. In the Brothers Grimms' tale, Cinderella is a girl from a respectable family but reduced to a position of servant. Prince falls in love with her and they get their happily ever after. | |
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Lucifer: The titular character's relationship with Chloe Decker. Chloe is an ordinary detective who raises her daughter in a modest apartment. Lucifer is, well, Lucifer, the Fallen Angel par excellence and (ex)-supreme ruler of Hell, who not only owns a luxurious high rise with a beautiful penthouse but has a seemingly limitless number of connections he accumulated throughout centuries of making deals with humans. | |
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Similarly, in A Room with a View, Lucy has a choice between Cecil, who is of her own class, and George Emerson, who is of a lower class (and particularly prone to behaviour inappropriate for Lucy's class). | |
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Bridgerton: In the first season, Anthony Bridgerton (the eldest son of a reputable high society family) is in a relationship with Siena Rosso (a working-class opera singer). It's especially painful on her part because it means they can never be seen together in public. However, Siena eventually gets fed up with being treated like a dirty secret, thus she breaks up with Anthony. On the second season, Anthony meets and falls in love with Kate Sharma, who is later revealed to be not a noble born. However, she is proven to be a perfect match for him in every ways that matters, thus he is adamant to marry her. In the second season, Eloise Bridgerton meets working class printer's apprentice Theo Sharpe. A secret budding relationship and drama ensues, with the ultimate outcome TBD. |
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"Aladdin": Aladdin goes to enormous lengths to get the rich princess. | |
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In Book of a Thousand Days, a commoner/"Mucker" named Dashti falls in love with her mistress's betrothed, Kahn Tegus, while he thinks she is her mistress, the Lady Saren. Lady Saren never loved him, and he never loved her, so Saren exacts her right to the betrothal for her "sister" Dashti. | |
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Endless: Riley is the child of wealthy lawyers. Chris comes from a humble background with a single mom. There's friction as she gets accepted into a top college, while he clearly isn't going anywhere. Aside from this however it isn't an issue, and Riley's determined for them to be together. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel: This is the case for Alan, a commoner, and Bridget, a baron's daughter, two NPCs who are also Childhood Friends. This trope gets deconstructed with Machias and serves as his Freudian Excuse for his hatred of the nobility. His cousin, a commoner, fell in love with the heir to a count, but she ended up facing harassment from his family who wanted him to marry for political power, and it got to the point where she was Driven to Suicide. |
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Lady!!: George Russell, an English noble, falls in love with an ordinary Japanese woman who works as his interpreter. They have a daughter, Lynn, but when she's five her mother dies and Lynn is forced to live in England, being an outsider to a country she's never known. | |
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In Hatoful Boyfriend, the heroine is a hunter-gatherer barbarian who lives in a cave and dates pigeons. One of said pigeons is the snobby Upper-Class Twit fantail Shirogane Le Bel Sakuya, and if she pursues him, they can end up a gender-inverted Type A version (Sakuya's family isn't too thrilled with his artistic aspirations, let alone his interest in a shabby human girl). | |
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Your Name has Taki Tachibana, a city boy, falling for Mitsuha Miyamizu, the daughter of a politician. | |
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Lina from Heroman comes from a rich-looking family while Joey looks really poor, although this fact isn't brought up at all, although it was hinted at by Lina's dad. | |
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Link (an orphan of unspecified social standing) from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ends getting a Childhood Marriage Promise from Princess Ruto. | |
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The Princess Diaries: It is absolutely no secret that Joe, the head of security for the Genovian Royal Family, is in love with Clarisse Renaldi — the Queen of Genovia herself, who returns his affections wholeheartedly. Admittedly, Clarisse is only royal by marriage, but this would still be the case regardless, as her marriage to the late King Rupert was an Arranged Marriage, meaning that her family was already noble and/or well-off. Unusually for this trope, this is also a December–December Romance, though it's implied that they've been in love with each other for years, long before Mia entered the picture. Mia's primary love interest in the first film, Michael, Lilly's brother, is a keyboardist in a garage band. She's the princess of Genovia. |
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Episode 2 of the third season of Ashes to Ashes (2008) has rich girl Alex and downtown boy Gene replace Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley in the music video for "Uptown Girl" itself (with Ray, Chris, and Background Cop #3 filling in as backup singers). Despite Alex and Gene's obvious Belligerent Sexual Tension, things never got past a kiss. | |
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The Noughts & Crosses series is based on this, though the books have their own class system where the dark-skinned Crosses dominate the fair-skinned Noughts. | |
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Gender-reversed in Drag Me to Hell. Christine is clearly from humbler roots than wealthy Clay and the whole plot is caused in part because she wants a promotion to measure up to his family. | |
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In Brief Moment, working-girl Abby meets Rod, a millionaire with no day job. And it doesn’t work out well for them. | |
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Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood is a Chinese silent film about a tenant farmer's daughter falling in love with the son of the wealthy woman who owns the land the tenant farmer works. The wealthy mom categorically refuses to allow the match, and tragedy ensues. | |
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Game of Thrones: Gendry, a bastard armorer's apprentice and Arya Stark. In Season 3's "Kissed By Fire," Gendry decides to remain with the outlaw group The Brotherhood Without Banners, instead of continuing on to Riverrun where Arya's highborn family rule. Tyrion and Shae. Deconstructed when Shae points out the complications of a lord and a prostitute having a long-term relationship. When Tyrion is forced to marry a woman closer to his social status, Shae becomes increasingly jealous. After Tyrion finally decides to send her away, she betrays him at his trial. Oberyn and Ellaria are one of the happier couples on the show but can't get married because he's a prince and she's a bastard. Queen Daenerys and slave-turned-mercenary Daario. Samwell Tarly (coming from the noble Tarlys, despite being rejected by his father) and Gilly (a wildling). Jon Snow (coming from the noble Starks, from his father's side, despite being a bastard) and Ygritte (a wildling). |
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In For Heaven's Sake, Harold Lloyd plays an Eccentric Millionaire who ends up with a woman from a more humble background. In the opening cast list, his character is actually called "The Uptown Boy" while his love interest is called "The Downtown Girl." | |
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Acapulco: Julia (working-class receptionist) is dating Chad (the rich resort's owner's son). Diane isn't above exploiting her son's relationship with a member of the staff to rich patrons and investors as proof of how they've "embraced the Latin American community". | |
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Ryuko and Mako in Natural Selection are a same-sex example. Ryuko is scion to the wealthiest, most powerful family in the world, while Mako (prior to becoming a Three-Star) lived her life in the slums. | |
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Spider-Man: Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. He's a poor kid from Queens trying to help his Aunt May pay the bills and make rent. She's a well-to-do high society girl whose father, a retired NYPD captain, hangs around media tycoon J. Jonah Jameson and industrialist Norman Osborn. This is always forgotten with everyone remembering Gwen as the Girl Next Door, simple straight Betty as opposed to Mary-Jane Watson, an upwardly mobile working-class girl from the same neighborhood as Peter. Even after years of continuity, Gwen Stacy still stands out as the only girl from a higher social background that Peter dated. The class aspects of the Peter/Gwen/MJ Love Triangle finally come to the surface in Marvel Fairy Tales series, in Spider-Man Fairy Tales #4 which makes it into a kind of Cinderella-esque Chivalric Romance where Peter is an Impoverished Patrician, MJ is a peasant serving girl and Gwen is a princess. Peter and MJ are friends when he is in rags, and MJ openly loves him but because of the class background, they can't be together. As a knight, Peter fails to save Gwen, and he doesn't get together with MJ either albeit Peter ends up restoring his fortune and MJ stays a servant pining for her knight. |
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Beren and Lúthien: Lúthien, the only daughter of the oldest and most powerful Elven king of Beleriand, falls in love with Beren, a homeless Human warrior with no direct family left who has led a lonely outlaw life for seven years. | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Discussed when The bandit mentioned to Tohru that part of her dream of becoming a maid involved falling in love with her master. Whether or not she actually did is never specified. This is implied to be the case regarding Tohru's one-sided crush on Kobayashi. It's suggested that Tohru might be a princess since her father is called the Emperor of Demise, but the series never goes deep enough into the minutiae of dragon politics to make it clear. |
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The Emperor's New School has Kuzco, a cocky young South American emperor, and Malina, a beautiful peasant girl. | |
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Super Sentai: Yukito and Emiri in Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger. Engine Sentai Go-onger hinted at a romance between impoverished Sousuke and wealthy Defrosting Ice Queen Miu. Would also apply to the popular fan-pairing of Saki with Miu's brother Hiroto. Hikaru and Urara in Mahou Sentai Magiranger would count, since Urara is a middle-class human girl whereas Hikaru is the future ruler of Magitopia. Although not canon, a lot of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger fans were rooting for the pairing of samurai princess Kaoru with poor sushi seller Genta. Itinerant Daigo and multi-million-dollar heiress Amy in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. |
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Carol: Carol is a wealthy housewife and Therese is a department store employee living in a dingy apartment. They fall in love. | |
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Allegra Cole from Hitch, which is part of the reason why Albert hires Hitch to help him break the ice with her. Exacerbated by the fact that he works for her as one of her many accountants. | |
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The main romance in Hamilton is between the titular founding father and his wife Eliza Schuyler. It's brought up often in the first act how Hamilton is a penniless immigrant who has yet to make a name for himself, while Eliza is one of three daughters of a wealthy New York senator. Eliza constantly reassures Alexander that she doesn't care for his background and that she loves him for the man he is. Played with in regards to Eliza's sister Angelica, who also falls for Hamilton; her insight also reveals some truths about Hamilton's interest in her sister that the much more naively optimistic Eliza may not have initially noticed. As detailed in Angelica's "I Want" Song "Satisfied", it was actually Angelica who Hamilton first approached, realising a woman with a wit and intellect that could match his. Angelica fell for him instantly, but quickly pawned him off to Elisa. The main reason is because she realised Eliza was also smitten and it would break her heart if Angelica didn't cede, but Angelica realised Hamilton was likely interested in her for her wealth and status, rather than just her intellect. Combined with the pressure to marry into a higher station as the eldest of the sisters, Angelica saw it as the right thing to do to in the moment, but as detailed in the song she still has feelings for him, and deeply regrets 'sizing him up so quickly.' |
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Earth's Children: Fralie is considered this to Frebec in her society. She's from a higher-ranking family and brought children from a previous relationship into the marriage (which is considered prestigious in Mamutoi society), greatly raising her status and bride price. Fralie's mother frequently reminds Frebec of this fact, which inflames Frebec's insecurities. Fralie for her part chose to mate Frebec out of genuine affection. | |
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Danny and Sam (though it's less poor/rich than middle class/incredibly rich) in Danny Phantom, though Sam doesn't really care much about her family's comically vast fortune, rarely tells anyone about it, and the series itself only occasionally draws attention to it. Despite that, it's pretty clear that Sam's parents don't exactly like her friends, and the various unexplainable ghost-related hijinks that happen over the course of the series don't help much. | |
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The first three Pirates of the Caribbean films have Elizabeth Swann (the Governor's daughter) and Will Turner (blacksmith's apprentice). | |
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The Judgement of the World (5Ds): It's noted by many that Aki is the daughter of a wealthy senator while Yusei, despite becoming the Turbo Duel King, is a marked criminal and former gang member who grew up in the Satellite. Yusei himself insists that it would never work between him and Aki due to this, though it's heavily implied that he's at least partly using this as an excuse to try to get Martha to stop being a Shipper on Deck for the two of them. This was apparently also the case in their past lives, with Aki being a high priestess who grew up being showered with praise and given anything she wanted without question due to her connection to the gods and Yusei a warrior from a rival tribe who was considered unworthy of her (though it's implied that this was at least partially because Aki's tribe wasn't aware of all of Yusei's accomplishments). | |
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In Codex Equus, this is how Midnight Bell was born - her mother, Diamond Bell who came from a rich unicorn family, fell in love with a "common" stallion (who keeps his name private to maintain his privacy) and eloped with him against her family's wishes. Because most of her family are pro-unicorn tribalists, Diamond Bell secretly transferred her young daughter to the Grittish Isles and into the care of great-aunt Scarlet Bell to protect her. As it turns out, Diamond Bell's decisions would have a profound effect, as Midnight Bell would play a role in exposing two criminals masquerading as teachers, and the Ascension of a young unicorn colt. | |
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Son of the Sannin: Downplayed with Shizune and Shisui. She's the surrogate eldest daughter of the Fifth Hokage and he is one of the few remaning members of a clan that launched a failed coup, leaving him and the other two suriviors as pariahs in the village. Very little attention is drawn to this difference in social status while they're dating or after they get married. Matsuri feels that Gaara is out of her league and at one point asks Hinata how to approach the son of a Kage after learning that she's dating Naruto. |
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Brian McNeill wrote "Bring the Lassie Hame" about his mother and father, respectively an upper-class Austrian woman who worked as an interpreter for the Allies in World War II, and a Scots baker's son from Falkirk serving in a British Army Highlander regiment. They met in Styria during the post-war occupation in a courtship that included the amusing image of him teaching her to drive in a three-ton army truck. | |
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Splendor in the Grass is a gender-swapped example, where true love eventually doesn't overcome the obstacles. | |
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Hikaru and Urara in Mahou Sentai Magiranger would count, since Urara is a middle-class human girl whereas Hikaru is the future ruler of Magitopia. | |
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Shatter the Sky: Maren, a commoner, becomes attracted to Sev, who it turns out is a prince. It's mutual, and they later become lovers. | |
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Love Story is another gender-swapped example. | |
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Red, White & Royal Blue: Henry's parents, Arthur Fox and Catherine Mountchristen-Windsor. The late Arthur was an extremely famous and wealthy stage and film actor, best known for his role as James Bond in the 80s. He'd be a perfectly acceptable to outright spectacular suitor to just about anyone — anyone but Catherine, who is the Crown Princess of the United Kingdom. As a result, Catherine's mother Queen Mary tried to forbid their marriage, but the two were too in love to relent and got married anyway. Zigzagged with Alex and Henry's relationship. Alex, as a biracial American from a working class family, is technically way beneath Henry in status. However, as the child of an American President and an American Senator, he could still be considered a perfectly respectable partner for a prince. What actually disqualifies him from being a potential suitor, at least in Mary's eyes, is that he's a man. |
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Sonia Nevermind of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is the princess of a minor (and fictional) European nation. Her main love interest, Gundam Tanaka, was born out of wedlock and is not very well off. Sonia is also a "datable" (no official romance occurs with anyone) character in Island Mode, where the social difference between her and protagonist Hajime Hinata is quickly highlighted. Perhaps an even more obvious example, Kazuichi Soda is absolutely crazy for Sonia, and he's a mechanic whose family runs a bike shop. Unfortunately for him, Sonia isn't interested at all. On the other hand, if you take Gundham's self-ascribed epithet, "The Supreme Overlord of Ice," seriously, then he and Sonia may in fact be quite evenly matched. |
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From the Blackadder episode "Amy and Amiability": | |
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Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man movies are a Happily Married example of this trope: Nick was a working-class detective when he married high-society heiress Nora. Their vastly different backgrounds occasionally impact the plots. | |
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In The Sacred Stones: Three of Princess Eirika's four love interests (Prince Innes of Frelia is the exception) are men of lower class than her: Seth, a knight who doubles as her retainer in everything but name; Forde, another knight in Renais' employ; and Saleh, a hermit from the secluded Caer Pelyn. Seth even outright declares that she shouldn't get very close to him due to their different stations in their A-support, and the Japanese version of their paired ending notes that while he does have feelings for her, he felt it out of his place to marry royalty; he does come to accept his feelings and marry her, however, with Ephraim's blessing and the approval of the other knights. A surprise gender inversion comes with Joshua, who is revealed in Eirika's route to be the long missing Prince of Jehanna, with Natasha, a common-born cleric who hailed from Grado. |
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The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in his youth fell in love with the socialite Ginevra King. Her father told him that "poor boys had no business marrying rich girls." Mr. King then introduced his daughter to his business associates and encouraged her to choose among them. She complied and Fitzgerald later based Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby on her. | |
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Twilight: Bella's working or middle class. The Cullens are wealthy (it's easy to make money if you're immortal and a smart investor). | |
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Pretty Woman has a rich man and a sex worker fall in love. | |
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One Day reverses the genders with wealthy upper-class Dexter and the more modestly brought-up Emma in a Will They or Won't They? situation. | |
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The Horse and His Boy plays with this. At first, Shasta is essentially an orphan slave boy and Aravis is a very high-level noblewoman. It's reversed when Shasta is revealed to be Prince Cor of Archenland and Aravis finds herself essentially a refugee. It ends evened out when she's invited to become a Lady-In-Waiting in the Archenland court, their relationship goes into Belligerent Sexual Tension with time, and they married years later. | |
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In Starburst, on paper, this appears to apply to Angelique and Jamie, considering that Angelique is a world-famous celebrity violinist from France while Jamie’s parents are Lothian farmers. However, Angelique’s father and brothers were all factory workers in France, and Angelique’s mother was a cleaner; Angelique’s rise to fame began with a lucky break when she accompanied her mother to work and her mother’s employer realised Angelique’s natural potential for the violin. | |
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*NSYNC had their 1997 single "For the Girl Who Has Everything", detailing a lonely upper-class girl who has everything but love in her life: | |
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Gender-inverted in A Divine (Romantic) Comedy. Camila Noceda isn't poor by any means, being a suburban mom with a decently paying job, but Lucifer is the king of another dimension and the wealthiest being there, so much so that he can casually pull gold bars out of nowhere. Naturally, as the premise of the story is their romance, this ensues. | |
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Daughter of the Sun: Orsina is a commoner, and had been in a romance with Perlita, the baron's daughter in her home city. She reflects that their very different classes made it impossible for them to marry, as Perlita's family would want her making a match with a noble. Orsina's service as a paladin took them apart, with their relationship dissipating early in the book. | |
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In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, we see that the mother was from a wealthy family and ended up being Happily Married to a farmer. When her brother describes her as having made an "unfortunate marriage", her son is not pleased. | |
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The 1925 version of The Merry Widow features Prince Danilo getting engaged to showgirl Sally O'Hara, but being pressured by the King and Queen into giving up his romance. | |
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Elemental (2023): Ember comes from a middle class family who runs a convenience store, while Wade's family is upper class, lives in a fancy penthouse, and is well-off enough to prioritize hobbies over jobs. | |
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In Knights of Buena Vista, Mary is stated to be from a wealthy family, and she is dating Bill, who is from a middle-class family. | |
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In The Hunger Games, Katniss' mother was part of the merchant class while her father was part of the lower class people living in the Seam. She left her more financially secure home in the merchant district to live poorly in the Seam with him. Eventually her daughter would do the opposite. Katniss, born and raised in the Seam, marries Peeta, a member of the merchant class. | |
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Falling for Christmas: The central romance is between hotel heiress Sierra and Jake, who runs a rustic BNB that is losing money. | |
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Aladdin (a "street rat") and Princess Jasmine (the daughter of the local Sultan). | |
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In League of Legends, Viego, king of a long-forgotten land, fell in love with a beautiful but lowly seamstress called Isolde. It was a fairy-tale romance, with the two of them being inseperable and Viego lavishing her with all of his attention and anything she could want. Unfortunately the story then becomes a deconstruction of this trope, as Viego (already a weak, lazy and apathetic ruler) neglected his kingly duties until both his disgruntled allies and his enemies plotted to assassinate him. An attempt with a poisoned dagger instead mortally wounded Isolde, driving Viego to maddened desperation. When she died, he sought the Water of Life kept at the Blessed Isles, having his army butcher everyone in their path until he reached it, and used it to revive her... as a maddened wraith, who stabbed him with his own magic sword, unleashing the devastating force of the Ruination which turned the Blessed Isles into the cursed Shadow Isles. Viego would eventually return as a mad ruler of the undead, unable to remember the circumstances of his death, unleashing the ghoulish forces of the Harrowing on Runeterra in a mindless attempt to get Isolde back at any cost. And that's why Viego's Champion title is "the Ruined King". | |
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The Han Solo Trilogy: Han learns Bria is from a very wealthy family when they go visit them, to his annoyance (she didn't tell him from unease around her past). Almost at once her mother and brother make their disapproval of him very clear, due to being working class. His criminal past makes this even worse (her father is more understanding, as a Self-Made Man who worked his way up and had a checkered life himself for a while). They run away together after the police get on his tail, but she leaves him due to still struggling over an addiction. When the pair get together again years later, Bria's in the Rebellion, having given up her rich existence, but things still don't work out as she double-crosses Han over money for her cause. | |
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Wicked: Boq has a crush on his classmate Galinda. Galinda doesn't like him back. When turning him down, she also cites their different cultural and social backgrounds. An upper-class Gillikinese woman can't just marry a Munchkinlander farmer. It doesn't help that Boq is too short for Galinda. | |
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H.M.S. Pinafore: A double version; a middle-class woman loves a low-class man but at the same time, an upper-class man is in love with her. The Beta Couple is a middle-class man who loves a poor woman but chooses not to pursue her for his family's sake. |
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"The Valiant Little Tailor", once he gets the Standard Hero Reward. | |
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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas: Upon learning about Wilma's financial status, Fred felt the trope's weight and feared not to be good enough for her. That helped Chip on his plan to get rid of Fred. | |
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In All My Kittens, pampered pet cat Duchess became pregnant from a fling with a stray named Bob. He wanted her to run away with him, but Duchess loved her owner too much to leave her. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has it between Jeanette Fisher, who is the heiress of the most important clan in Crimson City, and A.J, who comes from a middle-class family. Jeanette's parents Kaoruko and Kazuto also had this, although they had to overcome a Parental Marriage Veto from Kaoruko's father, who didn't approve of Kazuto because he came from Gringy City until he exposed the true nature of the criminal who was about to marry Kaoruko. | |
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In Fallen London, this turns out to be the driving plot-behind-the-plot of roughly the entire the game, as the Echo Bazaar itself is in love with the Sun, and as a Judgement, the Sun is very much above the Bazaar's station. The massive tax on exporting love stories, among other things, hints at this, as the Bazaar collects the stories in the hope of proving to the other Judgements that this kind of romance can work out. In matters of the Bazaar, look to love, always. | |
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Madam Secretary's lead couple Elizabeth and Henry McCord. She's strongly implied to come from money (among other things she went to boarding school with the Crown Prince of Bahrain), whereas he's the son of a steelworker who went to college on the US Marine Corps' dime. | |
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This is the major source of dramatic conflict in Lady Chatterley's Lover, where the well-bred lady of the gentry takes up with the gardener. Played with and doubled in that she was a Rags to Riches story herself, having been working-class before marrying her rich husband Lord Chatterley. | |
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Although not canon, a lot of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger fans were rooting for the pairing of samurai princess Kaoru with poor sushi seller Genta. | |
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In A Knight's Tale, William tries to get his Blue Blooded love interest to face the realities of life with him, a destitute fugitive from the law. | |
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Regina and Daniel in Once Upon a Time. This is firmly in the "mutually fall in love, and people around them conspire to interfere with True Love," category. She's the daughter of a wealthy family and he's the stable boy. | |
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The Fall of Gondolin: Idril, Princess of Gondolin and daughter of the High King of the Noldor Elves, falls in love with Tuor, a warrior human who has led a live of lonely wandering outlaw during years. | |
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade: Torahime (high family), Kisuke (common ninja). | |
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The Kit series in American Girl has this as the backstory for her parents, Margaret and Jack Kittredge. Margaret came from some degree of money—her only remaining relative, Hendrick, is a wealthy miser in a large mansion and she has very upper class ways, while Jack was raised in the Kentucky Appalachians by friends of the family after his own parents died and comes from country stock. They've been married for years by the start of the series and have a sixteen year old and a ten year old, but Uncle Hendrick still talks poorly of Jack including in front of his daughter Kit, and laments that if Margaret's mother—and his sister—could see how low she's fallen socially, it would break her heart. Margaret also feels shame when they start growing vegetables and raising chickens in the backyard, worrying it makes them appear lower class and "country." | |
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In Sorry, Wrong Number, Leona is obscenely wealthy and sets her eyes on working class Henry. Henry only married Leona for the financial escape she offered. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Dimitri (crown prince of Faerghus) can end up marrying Mercedes (a former member of House Bartels with no current noble status to her name) or Hapi (a commoner turned vagrant). In the former case, it does raise some eyebrows, until the people of Faerghus see how genuinely happy they are. Claude (a high-ranking noble of Leicester and prince of Almyra) can end up marrying Leonie (a commoner mercenary). Their paired ending notes how shocked her fellow villagers were to see her in the garb of a queen. |
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Frannie, a poor black Jamaican servant who was Born into Slavery, became lovers with her aristocratic white mistress Marguerite. | |
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In the sequel, this is how the player character's parents met - Malcolm Hawke was an apostate mercenary with a mysterious past, Leandra Amell was a Kirkwall aristocrat with an arranged marriage on the horizon. Hawke later regains their family's titles and becomes a wealthy noble, while the potential love interests include Fenris (an elven former slave), Isabela (a shipless pirate), Merrill (a nomadic elf mage) or Anders (an apostate operating out of the slums). At a push, you could reverse it for Sebastian (a prince), due to Hawke's original status as peasant when they first meet (which also happens to be when Hawke takes on work from Sebastian as she's trying to scrape together some money). | |
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Mr Malcolm's List: It doesn't really affect their romance, but Jeremy Malcolm as an independently wealthy second son of an earl is way above his intended bride Selina Dalton in station, as she's "merely" the daughter of a country clergyman. During their Dance of Romance the gossipy ladies declare her a non-entity in the running to marry Mr Malcolm because of her low social class. While Julia's exact social class isn't made clear, her deigning to dance with and eventually marry a military man draws chatter, implying she's also higher in station than Henry is. |
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Due to their supernatural connection, after Mikhail forces Kiri to become his servant, they begin a physical relationship which eventually evolves into a romantic one in Wild Rose. | |
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Anastasia: Dmitri (a kitchen boy-turned conman) and Anastasia (Grand Duchess and daughter of the Tzar). Played with as for most of the film and when they fall in love, they're both penniless orphans and she's unaware of her identity. Then they find out the truth and Dmitri goes into Heroic BSoD knowing his feelings are no longer acceptable and he's not good enough for her. | |
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2 Broke Girls: In season 2, Andy, the owner of a candy store across Max and Caroline's cupcake shop, falls for Caroline, until he learns about Caroline's last name and feels intimidated by her former life as a wealthy socialite, even though Caroline is now actually penniless due to her father's Ponzi Scheme scandal. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this happened between Lovable Alpha Bitch Cordelia and working-class nerd Xander. Downplayed in that money wasn't so much of an issue as high school popularity and clique insularity. After their relationship ended, Cordelia's father got busted for cheating on his taxes, and by graduation she has nothing. | |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: That a respectable gentleman like Louis would marry his sister's governess is completely scandalous to society. | |
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The Quintessential Quintuplets has male lead Futaro Uesugi, whose family is deep in debt, take a job as a tutor to the Nakano quintuplets, who are the stepdaughters of a wealthy doctor. Each of the quintuplets ends up falling in love with Futaro, and one of them ultimately becomes his bride. | |
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Bazil Broketail: In the first book, Lagdalen and Captain Hollein Kesepton fall in love, though she's from a noble family while he is a commoner (although his grandfather is a high-ranking general). Hollein's a bit intimidated given this, but they marry nonetheless. | |
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A Starstruck, Phantasmic Romance: In "Bound Together," Danny tries to make Starfire stop loving him by pointing out she's a Princess and he's basically a peasant with no money to his name other than what he carries in his pockets but she doesn't care about titles, is allowed to marry whomever she wishes regardless of status, and also lacks Earth money and lives off Robin's charity. | |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Konoka and her bodyguard Setsuna. An obstacle in their relationship is that Setsuna feels unworthy of Konoka because she is a commoner while Konoka is a blue-blood. | |
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Thunderbolt Fantasy: Lady Ling Mo Yan, a former princess of the Xi You imperial court, fell in love with a man far beneath her social standing. She wound up pregnant with their child and was even willing to elope with her lover so they could be together, only for him to reveal himself as the demon lord Azibělpher in disguise, who mocks her for her foolishness before blinding her. She's subsequently forced to flee the palace so that her half-demon child will not be killed and later gives birth to and raises him, Lang Wu Yao, in the mountains. | |
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Salli and Alinadar from The Red Vixen Adventures, the former being a noblevixen and the latter a female Commoner with a bad case of Bodyguard Crush | |
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Kindling Ashes: Corran is the son of a noble and Tilda is the daughter of a tutor. He has to disguise himself as a merchant's son just to meet her. | |
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Firefly: Even if it stayed in the realm of UST, it was very obvious that rancher's-son-turned-enlisted soldier-turned-smuggler Mal Reynolds was very much smitten with Inara Serra, a very high-class courtesan that he probably wouldn't have been able to afford a night with if he hocked the ship. There is also an element of this with Simon and Kaylee in that he was a rich surgeon while she was a farm girl mechanical genius. However, in their case, he isn't rich at the time of the series as he gave up everything to save his sister, though his upper-class background is still an element of friction. | |
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In A Knight's Devotion, the heroine is a princess, and all of her potential love interests are knights. Not all of them see her royal status as a reason not to pursue a relationship, but Lute in particular is very conscious of the differences in their status. | |
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Tangled has Rapunzel, the lost princess, and Flynn Rider a.k.a. Eugene Fitzherbert, an orphan turned thief. Neither of them knows she's the princess for quite some time, though. Subverted in Tangled The Series where Flynn realize that his long lost father was a king, making him a prince as well. | |
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One of the most popular sketches of The Fast Show was based around lord of the manor Ralph and his incredibly awkward affections for lower-class handyman Ted. | |
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In Awakening, most of the male Shepherds (barring Prince Chrom, Virion, and Ricken) are at least implied to be middle to low class, while the female Shepherds (except Nowi) are said to have higher standings note (Olivia is the adopted daughter of Khan Basilio, Sully comes from a long line of knights, Tharja's past isn't clear but she's implied to come from a long line of dark mages, etc.). so this trope tends to come up many times: Donnel is a villager-turned-soldier in Chrom's army, while Lissa is a Tomboy Princess, and Maribelle is the daughter of a duke, and Donnel even shows interest in her before the S-rank. There's Laurent and Lucina aka Chrom's daughter and Lissa's niece — who can potentially be Maribelle's daughter. He actually refers to her heritage as one of the reasons why they shouldn't be together in the first place, even when he can be fathered by either Virion or Ricken. Not to mention, there's Vaike and either Lissa or Maribelle. As said above, they're both noblewomen and he's a former Street Urchin. Kellam and either Lissa or Maribelle, too. In his and Maribelle's A support he specifically says he's a Country Mouse, and in the S one he mentions the "beneath one station" deal as he proposes to her. Gaius and either Lissa or Maribelle, since he is a Lovable Rogue and ex Street Urchin. He also has similar dynamics with Sumia, a minor noble who is also a member of the Shepherds, and whom he sometimes calls "that crazy noblewoman". Lampshaded when a Male Avatar proposes to Sumia in their S support: |
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Antz has a lowly worker ant pretending to be a soldier to impress a princess. It's also inverted with a female worker ant who forms a relationship with a member of the soldier caste. | |
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Vegeta and Bulma play with this trope after they got together in Dragon Ball Z. While Vegeta is the prince of Saiyans, his home planet was destroyed, and he had spent the majority of his life working under Frieza. Bulma, on the other hand, is the heiress to Capsule Corporation, one of the biggest companies on Earth, and has never been stripped of her wealth like Vegeta was. | |
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The princess Arabela is the beautiful young daughter of King Hyacint, ruler of the Fairy Tale Kingdom. Her suitor Petr is a normal human student. | |
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Cyberpunk 2077: Alt was a rich and talented corporate netrunner back when she was alive and was in a relationship with Johnny. We don't know his exact wealth at the time, but it's implied multiple times that Samurai didn't make much money, that the members often lived in squats and, after buying all the necessities like strings and guitars, they didn't have much money left. Uptown Guy variant: Kerry is much richer and more famous than V, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for either of them. He's notably the only love interest in the game who's of such high status, with Gadgeteer Genius Judy, By-the-Book Cop River, and Badass Biker Panam being roughly on V's level. This gets mitigated somewhat in the "Path of Glory" ending, where V becomes about as wealthy as Kerry is. |
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Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia has the "rich guy, common girl" romance with the Prince of Bohemia and Miss Irene Adler. Used to show how superior the resourceful and clever Miss Adler is to her 'superior': Then there's Watson and Mary Morstan in The Sign of Four. He thinks she's too far above him because they think she has a huge inheritance coming. After they find out she doesn't, he feels free to court and marry her. |
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In Long Live the Queen, Elodie is the crown princess of the kingdom of Nova, and one of her love interests is a common baker's son named Evrard. If you want to actually go through with marrying him, you will need a very good relationship with the nobility. | |
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In Ruslan and Ludmila, the warrior prince Khan Ratmir ultimately falls in love with a shepherdess. | |
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The Secret Agreement contains examples of both wealth and class differences, with Iori being the only male heir to an increasingly poor but noble family and set to marry into a wealthier but less respectable family for their mutual benefit. Meanwhile, his actual lover is a former Street Urchin and fears if Iori marries he'll never see Iori again because the family won't need him to quietly sell off their possessions anymore (the only reason their friendship was tolerated in the first place). | |
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My Summer of Love: Mona, who's working class (living in a bar with her ex-con brother), gets involved with Tamsin, who's family is very rich (having a nice mansion). | |
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In Tales of the Abyss, Jade's sister Nephry and best friend, Peony, are in love with each other. The problem, of course, is that Peony is the Emperor's son (and, after his brothers are killed, becomes the heir and eventually Emperor himself), and Nephry is a commoner. Further complicating things, is that the Score says that she'll marry someone else. Regardless of Nephry's marriage, Peony remains in love with her and refuses to marry anyone else. | |
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The Camp Half-Blood Series: Percy Jackson was raised by a Struggling Single Mother in a modest New York condo, while his girlfriend Annabeth Chase is the daughter of a wealthy military professor. Jason Grace and Piper McLean. Jason is an orphan raised in Camp Jupiter, whose mother was formerly rich but fell on hard times after her acting career ended. Piper is the daughter of a still-famous Hollywood actor and lives in a huge mansion in Beverly Hills. Frank Zhang formerly lived with his extremely wealthy grandmother in a mansion, while his girlfriend Hazel Levesque is the daughter of a poor voodoo practitioner. |
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In Seduced in the Sleepless City, the heroine is a reporter and writer for a women's magazine who becomes involved with a group of A-list celebrities and falls for one of them. How much of an obstacle the difference in their social class is varies from route to route, but it usually at least complicates matters. | |
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Gwen and Arthur in the BBC show Merlin. He is royalty and she is the blacksmith's daughter who works as a castle maid. | |
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Enola Holmes 2: Enola theorizes that working-class factory girl Sarah Chapman was seeing an upperclass man, who was either responsible for her disappearance or her sweetheart. It turns out to be the latter; she was seeing William Lyon, the son of the man who owned the factory. | |
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The Rescuers has Miss Bianca, a lady of high social standing, and Bernard, a janitor. | |
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Princess Maker: In every game, the Daughter (who tends to be a Happily Adopted orphan raised by a local, who sometimes qualifies as nobility and sometimes not) has at least one Princely Young Man among her prospective suitors. The Daughter can be the Uptown Girl too if her game allows her love interest to be her family's butler. |
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In Katawa Shoujo, Shizune Hakamichi is the deaf-mute Student Council President as well as the eldest daughter of a very rich family from Saitama. If she's the chosen one, then middle-class protagonist Hisao not only will get quite the glimpse of her Big Fancy House but will have to deal with her Large Ham Jerkass CEO of a father Jigoro. To a milder degree, there's Shizune's cousin Lilly Satou, who's also from a quite loaded family. You don't have to deal with her parents since they live in Inverness (Scotland) but with her Cool Big Sis Akira who does take a liking to you. And then the Satous decide that Lilly should go back to Scotland... |
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1632: Given an interesting twist in 1632. On the surface, it's obvious which is which regarding "James Nichols, doctor from Chicago" and "Melissa Mailey, rural West Virginia schoolteacher" — but the doctor from Chicago grew up on the streets in that city's roughest gang and only joined the Marines after being offered a choice between service and prison time, and the West Virginia schoolteacher is actually a scion of the Boston Brahmins. This plays an important role in the plot. Eddie Cantrell, high school kid turned navy lieutenant, with the king's daughter Anne Cathrine of Denmark in 1634: The Baltic War. Another one with an interesting twist: the two's Shotgun Wedding was actually engineered by her father — aka the king of Denmark — because he wanted a son-in-law with knowledge of uptime technology. Sarah Wendell von Uptime from the Barbie Consortium and 1635: The Viennese Waltz short story compilation and novel was engaged to Imperial Prince Karl von Liechtenstein, which had to be a morganatic marriage, even though she was extremely wealthy. Good thing loads of money can earn you favours from the emperor of a broke empire. |
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Say Anything...: The image of Lloyd Dobbler standing across the street from Diane Court's house, holding a boom-box over his head has pretty much become a romantic icon. | |
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Working-class Rodney and well-heeled Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses. Before meeting Cassandra, Rodney also dated earl's daughter Lady Victoria. | |
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Miss Julie has a relationship between servant Jean and the rich Julie, although it's more attraction and lust than love. After they sleep together one night, it does not end well. Some productions change things around and have Julie and Jean be different races in, say, the 1950s or in post-apartheid South Africa, as this trope is less relevant now. | |
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Harry isn't obscenely upper class, but he's very well-off and, by his sixth year, is pretty popular. He ultimately marries Ginny Weasley, who is from a poor "blood traitor" family. | |
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Ginny and Georgia: Georgia and Zion. She came from a poor family, before running away and becoming homeless when they met. Zion comes from a well-off family. His mother was very unhappy that he impregnated a homeless girl. Unusually, he's black and she's white. Their relationship didn't last, but they did have Ginny. | |
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Transformers fics featuring the Megatron/Starscream slash pairing usually portray Starscream as the high-ranking Prince of Vos to Megatron's humble miner/gladiator. | |
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The Witcher: Geralt of Rivia, renowned but ostracized and short of money witcher with the sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg (sorceresses are a group known for its political influence, wealth and status in society). Outside of that long and romantic relationship, Geralt has multiple affairs with other sorceresses, most notably Lytta Neyd or Cora who keeps him in her villa as a lover for a time. Geralt's best friend, Dandelion, being a bard with Anna Henrietta, the ruling duchess of Toussaint. Ciri also: The sole princess of Cintra with the mystic Elder Blood of the elves having multiple suitors of various social classes, although she is a runaway most of the time. Being only reciprocated with the thief, but she also of noble class, Mistle. Being a rare example of Uptown Girl and Poor Girl. |
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Many of the main characters' boyfriends in Hot in Cleveland are this trope. While the ladies aren't crazy rich they are used to the much more upscale lifestyle of Hollywood. In the pilot episode, Melanie can't stop gushing about how the first guy she hooked up with is a plumber and all of the women talk about how they always wanted to date guys who would "actually know how to fix stuff." | |
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Downton Abbey: Lady Sybil, the earl's youngest daughter, falls in love with Tom Branson, the family's Irish republican socialist chauffeur. They get married after much struggling. After WWI, they move to Ireland, where Sybil starts working as a nurse. After they marry and Sybil dies in childbirth, now wealthy and well-connected Branson becomes an Uptown Guy for a local teacher, Miss Sarah Bunting. Lady Mary and Matthew Crawley. Although he's a third cousin of the earl and is the family's only remaining heir, he has lived his life as a middle-class lawyer and son of a middle-class doctor. It's a source of friction in the first series. When Matthew briefly becomes engaged to Lavinia Swire, Mary has a courtship with the self-made newspaperman Sir Richard Carlisle who, although considered a gentleman and is even richer than the Crawley family, he is distinctly not of her class, and everybody is sure to show it to him. Lady Edith has a relationship with a newspaper editor Michael Gregson. It is not a major issue for Edith, who is frequently snubbed in her own family. What's surprising is that her family in turn welcomes Michael as they are happy anybody at all is courting Edith (or at least anybody who has full use of his limbs and is only about 15 years older than her rather than 25). He further earns their gratitude by disposing of a dirty gambler at a house party. Rosamund Painswick's late husband was a very wealthy banker but had no title and was the grandson of a merchant. The Dowager Countess comments that, although not quite a "rough diamond," he was "cut and polished comparatively recently." In series four, Lady Rose MacClare becomes engaged to Jack Ross, an African American jazz singer. Aside from the scandal surrounding such an interclass and interracial relationship, Mary points out that his being a jazz singer is almost equally as shocking to polite society. Lady Rose marries Atticus Aldridge who, like Rosamund's husband, only recently attained "gentleman" status—after his father, a banker, was given a peerage (as Baron Sinderby). The difference in status is only heightened by the fact that Atticus is Jewish, while Lady Rose is Protestant.note It's never made 100% clear whether the MacClares are Church of Scotland Presbyterians or Scottish Episcopalians, but either way they're Establishment Protestants, which is what matters. |
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The Chronicles of Dorsa: Tasia, princess and heir to the Empire (later reigning Empress) becomes involved with her bodyguard Joslyn, a working class soldier who's from a tribe of desert nomads originally (she had also once been a slave). | |
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Dharma & Greg has a lot of similarity to the poor-guy rich-girl story type, but is actually an aversion in that, though Dharma's parents live the hippy lifestyle, they aren't doing that badly for themselves financially. | |
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The Wheel of Time (2021): Moiraine (born into a noble family) and Siuan (born to a fisherman) originally had this dynamic based on their backgrounds. Later however when Siuan became Amerlyn, head of the powerful Aes Sedai, Moiraine was then her inferior inside of the organization, and possibly outside it too. They remained lovers throughout this. | |
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