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* ''Film/GrownUps'': Creator/AdamSandler's character is a wealthy Hollywood talent agent who came from a small New England town. Worried that his kids have become too spoiled, he brings his family back to his hometown to hang out at a lake house with his old friends and their families and teach them how to have fun like normal kids.

* In the J.A. Johnstone novel ''Literature/SavageCountry'', Pamela Tarleton is a SpoiledBrat heavily indulged (yet ignored) for most of her life after her mother died. Her father Clark is a SelfMadeMan whose comfortable talking with lower-class people and acknowledging his daughter's snottiness. Ultimately though, Clark is a CorruptCorporateExecutive trying to slaughter the local Native American tribe and is acting nice to [[BitchInSheepsClothing try to throw off suspicion]].

** While not exactly wealthy, Dr. Jocelyn Laird in ''School for Scandal'' is a humble, respected academic while her daughter Daphne is a somewhat flippant author of steamy sex novels who seems to like Trolling people. [[spoiler:Subverted with the reveal that this an act; Jocelyn is the actual author of the books while Daphne is the figurehead and they pretend to be estranged to keep people from suspecting the truth, as it would damage Jocelyn's academic reputation]].

** In the two-parter, "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" Hank Shipton is a generally pleasant, even-tempered guy despite his marriage to a wealthy mystery writer and prefers a simpler lifestyle, while his son by a previous marriage is a troublemaker who loves riding the gravy train.
** In "Curse of the Daanav", Seth's SelfMadeMan brother Robert Hazlitt is ultimately shown to be unashamed of his modest beginnings as he and Seth fondly reminisce about old times. His daughter Alice is a more acid-tongued person who is $32,000 in debt over clothes shopping and is openly resentful of her new stepmother for threatening her inheritance (although her brother seems nicer and dutiful, except when his sports performance is critiqued).

** A ParentalSubstitute version in "For Whom the Balls Toll". Real estate man Walter Gilrich is a NiceGuy who opposes the idea of demolishing a historical landmark and is very approachable and down to earth, while his kid brother and business partner Eugene (who he raised and put through school after their parents died) is a reckless guy whose racked up a bunch of debts and wants to just demolish away while showing no sympathy or approachability towards people who want to debate this with him.
** Pete Grimaldi from "Crimson Harvest" is a retrospective example (given that he's killed early on and his flaws are described by others). While not without some better qualities, he apparently wanted to take some easy money by selling the winery, urging his hard-working mother to do so when according to a family friend this wasn't what she really wanted, while also being an A-hole to his adoptive brother. Said adoptive brother and Paul's biological sister are better, wanting to keep the winery open and working hard to this (although they're still at each other's throats a lot).

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' quest "The Deadlock Protocol", the incredibly narcissistic Corpus kleptocrat Nef Anyo tries to take total control of the Corpus board of directors by claiming direct genetic lineage to the very founder of the Corpus itself, Parvos Granum. Regardless of the veracity of his claims, when Nef manages to find Parvos trapped in the Void, he gets promptly chewed out by his supposed father for taking the movement which Parvos Granum --a son of peasant farmers-- founded to undermine the rigid, obsessive hierarchy of the [[AbusivePrecursors Orokin empire]], and twist it into an exploitative MegaCorp that creates the same injustices Parvos and his family had to endure.

So you've got a RagsToRiches character who grew up poor or even modest economic standing and wound up becoming wealthy and successful as an adult. Even better, their wealth hasn't done much to change them and they still remember where they came from.

On the flip side, you have their children. Unlike mom or dad, they've reaped the benefits of their parental wealth and have grown up in a life of luxury. They are ignorant of what it means to be poor or middle-class and take all of their material wealth for granted. They might be utterly unpleasant {{Spoiled Brat}}s, or SpoiledSweet and just not know any better at first.

* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'': A post-apocalyptic version in the ''Wish You Were Here'' arc. Skip is one of the most important and at times pampered people in the group of survivors, largely due to being able to drive and maintain their only motorized boat, but is fairly laidback and helpful, while his son Lance is considered to be a SpoiledBrat often sneering at people and trying to "copy his dad's cool" according to the narrator (although he also speculates that this is Lance's way of trying to cope with the trauma and that he's more SourOutsideSadInside).

* ''Literature/EveryBreathYouTake'': Robert "Bob" Wakeling founded his own real estate business and worked hard to make it a success, with his wife Virginia supporting him throughout their decades-long marriage. Virginia understood and appreciated putting in time and effort to earn your fortune rather than just coasting by on inherited wealth. She was also heavily involved in charitable causes, wanting to meaningfully give back to society. Her children, having been born into immense wealth, don't appreciate this as much. While daughter Anna isn't a layabout and is devoted to the family business, she can be snobby towards those she sees as lesser. Son Carter has never had much interest in the business and lives an indulgent lifestyle, with his mother at one point saying he was almost as bad as his cousin Tom with his entitled and blasé attitude towards money. It's rumoured [[spoiler:and confirmed]] that Virginia had intended to change her will to keep her children humble and hard-working; while they'd keep their father's business to run, she would leave her millions to charities.
* In the J.A. Johnstone novel ''SavageCountry'', Pamela Tarleton is a SpoiledBrat heavily indulged (yet ignored) for most of her life after her mother died. Her father Clark is a SelfMadeMan whose comfortable talking with lower-class people and acknowledging his daughter's snottiness. Ultimately subverted though, given that Clark is a CorruptCorporateExecutive trying to slaughter the local Native American tribe and is acting nice to [[BitchInSheepsClothing try to throw off suspicion]].

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Philip and his wife Vivian are down-to-earth and well-adjusted people, who are also very wealthy thanks to their careers as adults, with especially Philip being a SelfMadeMan who overcame the difficulties of the pre-Civil Rights era. Their two oldest children, Hilary and Carlton, are stuck-up and spoiled {{Upper Class Twit}}s who brag about their family's wealth. Averted with their third daughter Ashley who is levelheaded like her parents.

* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Nels Olesen, owner of the Walnut Grove Mercantile, is the humble parent – and we do mean that in the singular. His children, Nellie and Willie, are spoiled rotten ... all thanks to the other parent, one Harriet Olesen (who is co-owner of the Mercantile). Nels, despite the family's wealth, relies on small-town values of hard work and dedication, and humility while the others in the family think of themselves as socially elite.

* A few episodes of ''Series/FullHouse'' explore this trope. Danny has a successful career as a talk show host, but remains humble and rarely indulges in spending excessive money, except when he's freely loaning it to friends and family. His three daughters, however, can be [[BrattyTeenageDaughter bratty]] or [[SpoiledBrat selfish]], and sometimes have to be reminded of their good fortune; in one episode, Danny imagines them growing up to be full-on [[ManChild Women-Children]] who still live at home and mooch off of him. While oldest daughter D.J. and middle child Stephanie gradually grow out of this trope to become level-headed and responsible teenagers, Michelle, TheBabyOfTheBunch, takes longer and needs to learn the most lessons about not being greedy or entitled. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that Danny deliberately coddles her because he is reluctant to allow her to grow up.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Played with in a Thanksgiving episode, "There Will Be Bad Blood". Stan feels his kids are getting too spoiled, so he takes them to his half-Native American brother Rusty's house to show them how good they have it, expecting him to live in some kinda hovel. To the Smiths' shock, Rusty and his family are quite wealthy as the land inheritance he got from their grandfather had a copper deposit in it that he managed to mine. In fact, Rusty tells Stan that he had his family go to Stan's house the previous year to show ''his'' family how good they have it (despite the fact the Smiths live pretty moderately).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' [[DarkActionGirl Fox]]'s father turns out to be HonestCorporateExecutive [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules Halcyon Renard]]. He says that he would gladly give her his company if she turned away from her criminal ways, but she finds the idea of stealing it out from under him more entertaining.
** Her boyfriend/husband, [[XanatosGambit Xanatos]], has a version of this too. He's a WellDoneSonGuy despite the fact that he's a billionaire CorruptCorporateExecutive and his father, Petros, is an immigrant fisherman. The younger Xanatos doesn't seem to understand that Petros would be prouder of him if he cared ''less'' about money.