History Main / HatesRichPeople

* Molly Novak is on the receiving end of this in "Loot". She's a millionaire who goes through a tough divorce and focuses on a charity she (discovers) she owns that is trying to make LA more affordable. During a meeting with the city council to pass a new zoning development and the public is allowed to ask questions they all just use it as an excuse to verbally assault Molly, calling her disgusting and accusing her of CondescendingCompassion at best and being a RichSnob at worst. Its really out of resentment for her being a millionaire while they can barely afford their living spaces. It escalates to some of them attacking her with pies and [[KickTheDog insinuating that her husband (who is also rich) was justified to cheat on her]].

This is basically when a character hates well-off folks for having lots of money regardless of whether they are rich or poor themselves. There are also the firm believers in the idea that [[CapitalismIsBad capitalism, in general, is bad]].

This character might take their hatred to extreme levels and endorse [[EatTheRich eating the rich]] or stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor JustLikeRobinHood. However, the character might learn AnAesop about how not all wealthy people are the same or are deserving of hatred, and/or may be a TragicBigot with backstories involving capitalists ruining their life.

This is, of course, TruthInTelevision, as a lot of real-life people, fairly or not, feel distaste towards the wealthy for having significantly more money than everyone else whiles many people cannot afford food medicine and housing, a percieved unwillingness to help with global issues such as global warming or famine, not paying taxes proportionate to their wealth, and engaging in exploitative business practise that negatively effect society, among other reasons.

That said, a inconvenient truth it may be, a lot of it can also be put down to [[GreenEyedMonster simple jealousy]]; "They have it, I do not, and therefore I hate them for it."

-->'''Hector''': "You may be rich bobos, but you're good rich bobos.

* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': Jim Baxford is an ex-Army veteran blue-collar worker for a security company who becomes a victim of the 2008 financial crash, losing both his life savings and saddling him a $60,000 debt with his investment company. While initially he tries to hide this from his (seriously ill) wife, [[spoiler:she commits suicide when she finds out]]. Jim becomes a VigilanteMan targeting everyone he holds responsible for the crash, from investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and [=ADAs=] who gave the aforementioned a "slap on the wrist" fine, culminating in an attack on a bank where he shoots every stockbroker he sees.

* Judge Alvin Valkenheiser from ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' harbors a furious hatred of bankers and anyone else involved in the financial industry. His family were the victims of a MorallyBankruptBanker who got them to allow their land to be strip-mined for coal and turned into a desolate wasteland in exchange for stock that later turned out to be worthless. Since Valkenheiser is a powerful HangingJudge in his own right, just being a "banker" is enough reason for him to [[DisproportionateRetribution levy a death sentence]].

** While multiple characters hate [[AlphaBitch Pacifica Northwest]] throughout the series (pre-CharacterDevelopment), Dipper in particular seems to have beef with the Northwests because of their obscene wealth. In "The Golf War", he justifies Mabel cheating against Pacifica because Pacifica's riches means "She's cheating at life", while in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", he implies he would have been okay with a vengeful spirit taking his rage out on a party of ultra-rich people if his sister hadn't also been in there. This is shown to be justified in part since their wealth was based on lies and cruel deeds, but Dipper warms up to Pacifica by the end of the latter episode when she is shown to have a FreudianExcuse for her behavior and becomes TheAtoner.

This is, of course, TruthInTelevision, as a lot of real-life people, fairly or not, feel distaste towards the wealthy for having significantly more money than everyone else whiles many people cannot afford food medicine and housing , a percieved unwillingness to help with global issues such as global warming or famine, , not paying taxes proportionate to their wealth, and engaging in exploitative business practise that negatively effect society, among other reasons.

* It's a RunningGag in ''WebVideo/BuzzFeedUnsolved'' that Ryan really hates rich people, and will cheer on any crimes that target them specifically. If the target is a corporation instead of a specific person, even better. Ryan even says he has "a Robin Hood complex."

This is, of course, TruthInTelevision, as a lot of real-life people, fairly or not, feel distaste towards the wealthy for having significantly more money than everyone else whiles many people cannot afford food medicine and housing , a percieved unwillingness to help with global issues such as global warming or famine, , not paying taxes proportionate to their wealth, and engaging in exploitative business practise that negatively effect society, specifically poor people the working class and people in developing countries, among other reasons.

This is, of course, TruthInTelevision, as a lot of real-life people, fairly or not, feel distaste towards the wealthy for hoarding lots of money that can easily end global issues, not paying taxes, and exploiting other people from the working class, among other reasons.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Given the kind of people they are, it's no surprise then that the World Nobles are pretty much reviled by anyone who isn't a World Noble or lesser Noble themselves. It's to the point where, when one family of World Nobles willingly cast off their status and went to live among the common folk, they weren't even there a week before the people were breaking down their door, dragging them out onto the streets, and crucifying them with the intent to burn them alive. The rest of the time, commoners are forced to simply bow and accept the continued presence of both kinds of nobility, especially the former since they have the ability to ''commit murder in broad daylight and not face punishment for it'' due to their high status.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Yukari is overall a very envious figure, but she gets particularly irate whenever she sees someone displaying a higher level of affluence than her. Among other incidents, When Nyamo gets a memory foam pillow, Yukari hits her and calls her "damn bourgeois," and when Chiyo gleefully states that she's had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsusaka_beef matsusaka beef]] (which is both highly-prized and highly-priced) before, Yukari smacks her in the face.

* Haruhi from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a working-class student who often expresses her dislike for wealthy people whenever they are being InnocentlyInsensitive towards her by pitying her and indirectly flaunting their rich.
--> '''Haruhi:''' Damn these rich people...

* ''Fanfic/WindowsOfTheSoul'': There's a lot of friction between Natsuki and Shizuru's father, Shinri. She sees him as self-important and cold, with her making quips about him needing to spend his money to keep the Japanese economy running, while Shinri initially thinks of Natsuki as a useless SocialClimber. He revises his opinion of her after she saves Shizuru's life while taking a serious injury in the process. And Natsuki begins to have grudging respect for him when she realizes that he works hard and holds himself to very rigorous standards.

* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': Jim Baxford is an ex-Army veteran blue-collar worker for a security company who becomes a victim of the 2008 financial crash, losing both his life savings and saddling him a 60,000 dollar debt with his investment company. While initially he tries to hide this from his (seriously ill) wife, [[spoiler:she commits suicide when she finds out]]. Jim becomes a VigilanteMan targeting everyone he holds responsible for the crash, from investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and [=ADAs=] who gave the aforementioned a "slap on the wrist" fine, culminating in an attack on a bank where he shoots every stockbroker he sees.

* Dr. Lu Delgado of ''Series/StrongMedicine'' hated wealthy people, believing many of them to be snobs and that they [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buy their way to better health/medical care over working-class and poor patients.]] This is somewhat [[FreudianExcuse justified]] as she grew up poor, was a single mother and put herself through medical school and started up a walk-in clinic in hoping the latter classes of people get help and despised whenever big pharma and the like tried to cut her off financially.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales1987'' episode "Duckman Of Aquatraz" after Scrooge is framed for stealing a artpiece, he is thrown in jail with a burly convict who vocally hates rich ducks. He makes his reasons quite clear.
-->'''Mad Dog:''' Wanna know why I hate rich ducks? Because they're rich, ''and I'm NOT!''

* Pretty much the entire adult population of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' in the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E12HereComesTheNeighborhood Here Comes the Neighborhood]]". An influx of rich people suddenly move into the town much to residents' chagrin, which prompts them to begin discriminating against the wealthy in a variety of ways. These include forcing them to sit in the ''front'' of the bus where the first-class seats are, prohibiting them service in the working class bars, calling them slurs like "richer" and "cash chucker," and burning big lower-case Ts on their lawns (for "Time to leave"). The fact that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything all of these behaviors resemble racist practices against black people in the past]] ''and'' all the rich people are coincidentally black never enters anyone's head.

* Judge Alvin Valkenheiser from ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' harbors a furious hatred of bankers and anyone else involved in the financial industry. His family were the victims of a MorallyBankruptBanker who got them to make several bad investments back during the First World War. Since Valkenheiser is a powerful HangingJudge in his own right, just being a "banker" is enough reason for him to [[DisproportionateRetribution levy a death sentence]].

This character might take their hatred to extreme levels and endorse [[EatTheRich eating the rich]] or stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor JustLikeRobinHood. However, the character might learn AnAesop about how not all wealthy people are the same or are deserving of hatred.

* ''Series/{{ER}{'''s Dr. Anna [=DelAmico=] had this attitude, prompting her would-be love interest Carter to hide the fact that he was incredibly wealthy. She found out anyway and basically confirmed his fears by immediately deciding that he'd deceived her in order to ridicule her about her poverty, rather than consider that it was her nasty attitude that made him keep his mouth shut.

* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel'': Machias Regnitz is shown to have an extreme distaste for the Erebonian noble class. However, even though he knows that two of his other classmates are nobles as well, one of whom he only has a brief one-sided altercation with despite knowing they were AdoptedIntoRoyalty, he takes all of his resentment out on his classmate [[EnemyToOne Jusis Alberea]] the most. Ironically his family is pretty well-off itself, as his father is a Governor of Heimdallr and Jusis points out his rarefied air for a commoner.

* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel'': Machias Regnitz seems to have an extreme distaste for the Erebonian noble class, but despite knowing that there are two other classmates who are nobles as well, one of whom he only has a brief one-sided altercation with despite knowing they were AdoptedIntoRoyalty, he takes all of his resentment out on his classmate Jusis Alberea the most. Ironically his family is pretty well-off itself, as his father is a Governor of Heimdallr and Jusis points out his rarefied air for a commoner.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': While multiple characters hate [[AlphaBitch Pacifica Northwest]] throughout the series (pre-CharacterDevelopment), Dipper in particular seems to have beef with the Northwests because of their obscene wealth. In "The Golf War", he justifies Mabel cheating against Pacifica because Pacifica's riches means "She's cheating at life", while in "Northwest Mansion Mystery", he implies he would have been okay with a vengeful spirit taking his rage out on a party of ultra-rich people if his sister hadn't also been in there. This is shown to be justified in part since their wealth was based on lies and cruel deeds, but Dipper warms up to Pacifica by the end of the latter episode when she is shown to have a FreudianExcuse for her behavior and becomes TheAtoner.

-> ''"I hate these damn rich people."''
-->--'''Haruhi''''s {{catchphrase}}, ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''

This character might take their hatred to extreme levels and endorse [[EatTheRich eating the rich]] or stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor JustLikeRobinHood. However, the character might learn AnAesop about how not all wealthy people are the same or are deserved of hatred.

* Haruhi from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a working class student who often expresses her dislike for wealthy people whenever they are being InnocentlyInsensitive towards her by pitying her and indirectly flaunting their rich.

* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': Jim Baxford is an ex-Army veteran blue collar worker for a security company who becomes a victim of the 2008 financial crash, losing both his life savings and saddling him a 60,000 dollar debt with his investment company. While initially he tries to hide this from his (seriously ill) wife, [[spoiler:she commits suicide when she finds out]]. Jim becomes a VigilanteMan targeting everyone he holds responsible for the crash, from investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and [=ADAs=] who gave the aforementioned a "slap on the wrist" fine, culminating in an attack on a bank where he shoots every stockbroker he sees.

* ''Film/ReturnToNukeEmHighVolumeOne'': Chrissy [[IrrationalHatred immediately hates]] Lauren because of her wealthy background and tries to make her life in school miserable. Later on, she goes from a [[TheBully bully]] to a romantic love interest after slowly learning that Lauren isn’t the rich snob she thinks she is.
* Rose from ''Film/Titanic1997'' apparently comes from an old money background but has clear contempt for high society, which is evident by how she forms a quick attachment to StarvingArtist Jack, and prefers spending time with the poor folks in steerage.

* Dr. Lu Delgado of ''Series/StrongMedicine'' hated wealthy people, believing many of them to be snobs and that they [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buy their way to better health/medical care over working class and poor patients.]] This is somewhat [[FreudianExcuse justified]] as she grew up poor, was a single mother and put herself through medical school and started up a walk-in clinic in hoping the latter classes of people get help and despised whenever big pharma and the like tried to cut her off financially.

* ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'': Volk has a murderous hatred for anybody with wealth and power and seeks to slaughter everybody in that category. His beast form's dragon story reveals this hatred to stem from pettiness of a wealthy person showing him kindness which he interpreted as the man looking down on him.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Everyone in Zaun despises the inhabitants of the advanced and shining city of Piltover above, understandable, considering it is run by a Council of greedy merchants and aristocrats who see Zaunites as dirt and send brutal Enforcers down to bully them whenever they do something that harms them rather than anything that would improve things. While Silco works to separate Zaun from Piltover, and Jinx performs acts of terrorism, even the heroic Zaunites like Vi distrust Pilties. Though in Vi's case, she does meet one who she grows to like.

* Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1: Chrissy [[IrrationalHatred immediately hates]] Lauren because of her wealthy background and tries to make her life in school miserable. Later on, she goes from a [[TheBully bully]] to [[GirlOnGirlIsHot romantic love interest]] after slowly learning that Lauren isn’t the rich snob she thinks she is.

* Dr. Lu Delgado of ''Series/StrongMedicine'' hated wealthy people, believing many of them to be snobs and that they [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buy their way to better health/medical care over working class and poor patients.]] This is somewhat [[FreudianExcuse justified][ as she grew up poor, was a single mother and put herself through medical school and started up a walk-in clinic in hoping the latter classes of people get help and despised whenever big pharma and the like tried to cut her off financially.

This character might take their hatred to extreme levels and endorse [[EatTheRich eating the rich]] or stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor JustLikeRobinHood. However, the character might learn an {{aesop}} about how not all wealthy people are the same or are deserved of hatred.

-->'''Herb:''' Why did I ever hire you Harvard dead-heads?
-->'''Executive:''' Because ''you'' went there.
-->'''Herb:''' Yeah, but Mommy and Daddy didn't pay my way. I had to work my way through, washing your dishes and scrubbing toilets!
-->'''Executive:''' Oh yeah, I remember you.

* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel'': Machias Regnitz seems to have an extreme distaste for the Erebonian noble class, but despite knowing that there are two other classmates who are nobles as well, one of them being AdoptedIntoRoyalty, he takes all of his resentment out on his classmate Jusis Alberea the most. Ironically his family is pretty well-off itself, as his father is a Governor of Heimdallr and Jusis points out his rarefied air for a commoner.