History Main / InterclassFriendship

** Token Black and his family are the only rich people in South Park. Feeling he didn't fit in with his poorer friends, Token tried and succeeded in bringing more rich people and their kids. Unfortunately, he even has less in common with them. [[ItMakesSenseInContext After spending some time with a pride of lions]], he realizes that he did belong with his poorer friends.

* Maddie Fitzpatrick and London Tipton in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' are close friends, despite London being a spoiled InnocentlyInsensitive ValleyGirl hotel heiress and Maddie being a [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands multi-employed]] sarcastic counter girl from a poor family.
** This also happens between London and Bailey, a small-town farm girl, in ''The Suite Life On Deck''.

* The ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' has Samuel Guthrie, a working-class lad who grew up in rural Kentucky, and [[ComicBook/{{Sunspot}} Roberto da Costa]], a multi-billionaire from Brazil. The huge wealth gap between them was negated by being on the same superhero team, and the two have steadily grown into HeterosexualLifePartners.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Molly comes from the upper-middle class, being the daughter of two doctors (a dentist and a speech therapist, respectively.) Her best friend Klara is a poor immigrant from Switzerland. And the early 1900s.
* During the early days of ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', there was Peter Parker, living with his widow aunt May Parker, and Harry Osborn, son of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil multimillionaire CEO]] Norman Osborn. Sadly, the friendship falls apart thanks to learning Osborn was the Green Goblin and Peter was Spider-Man, and thinking he killed him. Indeed, in Peter's circle in college, the only one of his friends who shared his working-class background was ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson.

* In ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', Queen Elyon is quite friendly with her maid/personal assistant Nagadir, to the point where they're quite comfortable talking informally to each other.

* ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'' has one between the housekeeper Eve and the Anderson family, even if their friendship is firmly on the [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic]] side.

* ''Series/PartOfMe'': Despite their vast difference between their social class, Mónica (a rich and classy musician) and Adriana (a spunky working class waitress) quickly become friends shortly after a CrashIntoHello meeting, showing Mónica's non-judgemental personality and Adriana's natural charisma.

* [[Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt Kimmy Schmidt]] and her boss, Jacqueline, the socialite wife of a New York billionaire.

* Zigzagged in ''Literature/TheNecklace'': The two women start out as friends of similar social class, but after the poorer one loses the first's expensive necklace, they stop appearing in society as they start taking on more work to pay the debt. Years later, they reunite, and the richer woman doesn't recognize the now dirt-poor and obviously-working class one at first. [[spoiler:Then comes the CruelTwistEnding that the original lost necklace wasn't made of real pearls in the first place.]]

-->'''Caroline:''' When I was 15, I paid the security system guys extra to not wire the skylight, and then I snuck out and went to Illiano Schapiro's sweet sixteen.
-->'''Max:''' Cute.
-->'''Caroline:''' In Greece.
-->'''Max:''' Hardcore. I used to sneak out of the house and huff spray paint with an ex-marine.

* Marta from ''Film/KnivesOut'' is a working-class nurse who was hired by the extremely wealthy Thrombley family to care for the aging patriarch, Harlan. Of the Thrombleys, she's genuinely close to Harlan himself, and Meg, one of his grandchildren. [[spoiler:Harlan's friendship was [[PlatonicLifePartners very genuine]], to the extent that he leaves Marta his entire fortune after he dies. Meg, unfortunately, turns out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing like the rest of her family and betrays Marta's confidence by telling the others that Marta's mom is [[TheIllegal undocumented]]. That said, she does seem to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone genuinely regret this]], and Marta forgives her.]]

* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a setting with a FantasticCasteSystem based [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever on English nobility]] with a dose of LadyLand, where the stigma around this is emphasized. Angelica, a duke’s daughter, is hardly willing to speak to commoner Olivia at first, thinking commoners are disgusting until impressed with her manners (which Olivia needed to have taught to her beforehand); she [[IHatePastMe comes to regret this attitude later]]. The two only become friends after Angelica becomes somewhat of a FallenPrincess (although retaining her wealth and privileges) and Olivia comforts her after her engagement to Prince Julius gets broken.
** Also counts as a case of OddFriendship from Leons' perspective: since Angelica was the DesignatedVillain to Olivia as the PlayerCharacter from the game he played before death.

* ''LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected'': [[RepetitiveName Yukino Yukinoshita and Hayato Hayama]] are children from wealthy families and are good friends with other students who are in middle-class families. Yukino’s older sister [[GenkiGirl Haruno]] also fits, as she easily befriends characters who are much less wealthy than she is.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a setting with a FantasticCasteSystem based [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever on English nobility]] with a dose of LadyLand, where the stigma around this is emphasized. Angelica, a duke’s daughter, is hardly willing to speak to commoner Olivia at first, thinking commoners are disgusting until impressed with her manners (which Olivia needed to have taught to her beforehand); she [[IHatePastMe comes to regret this attitude later]]. The two only become friends after Angelica becomes somewhat of a FallenPrincess (although retaining her wealth and privileges) and Olivia comforts her after her engagement to Prince Julius gets broken.

* On ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', the Earl of Grantham is good friends with his valet Bates -- in fact, their friendship is one of the reasons he wanted to hire Bates in the first place. Of course, they had jointly experienced one of the great levellers of class consciousness--they were [[BandOfBrothers comrades-in-arms]] during UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar. While on the surface this respected their class difference--Bates served as Lord Grantham's batman[[note]]That is, military valet-cum-bodyguard[[/note]]--there's a strong implication that Bates had either saved Grantham's life or done something very close to that during the war, giving the earl a much closer relationship to Bates than was normal even for an officer and his batman. (It helps here that Grantham and Bates were members of the [[BritishRoyalGuards Grenadier Guards]], an [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous elite unit]] noted for both esprit de corps and being sent to very dangerous situations.)
** If you called Lady Violet and Carson the butler "friends", they would both strenuously deny it; they are both far too class-conscious for that. However, they see eye-to-eye on most matters concerning tradition and propriety, and frequently support each other in whatever hijinks are going on at the moment.
** Lady Violet and Isobel are a textbook VitriolicBestBuds example. Conservative aristocrat Violet and liberal upper-middle-class Isobel start hurling snark at each other the second they meet. However, they soon find common ground in their status as [[IronLady formidable, headstrong, extremely intelligent women]] who try to do what's best for their mutual family, and both seem to relish having a sparring partner who can keep up. By the end of the series, various intrigues have left them FireForgedFriends, and Violet openly weeps when Isobel leaves Downton to marry Lord Merton. Not that the snark lets up for a single minute, mind, though it does become significantly less catty.