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* In ''Literature/EveryBreathYouTake'', Virginia's late husband Bob Wakeling had a falling-out with his brother Kenneth "Ken" Wakeling over the [[FamilyBusiness family real estate business]], Wakeling Development; Bob and Ken both founded the business, but within five years Ken left to pursue his own career in architecture because the business wasn't making money, with Bob buying his brother out. However, eventually Wakeling Development began thriving, with Bob becoming a multi-millionaire and entering New York's high society. Ken tried to get a slice of the pie but Bob refused to let him back in, saying that Ken had given up on their dream and left him to do all the work himself; Ken saw his brother as greedy and selfish for refusing to share. The brothers' estrangement extended to the next generation, with Ken's son Tom resenting his cousins for excluding and looking down on him when all they'd done was be born into wealth, while Virginia and her children saw Tom as a lazy freeloader who felt entitled to his uncle's fortune despite not putting in the work to earn it. Tom and his cousins have since reconciled and work for Wakeling Development together, though it's implied there's still some tension beneath the surface.
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* ''Series/GilmoreGirls:'' This is basically the B plot, with middle-class Lorelai having to deal with her OldMoney parents after CrossingTheBurntBridge to give her daughter the shot at the Ivy League school she wants to go to. Her parents agree to pay Rory's prep school tuition, if Lorelai and Rory come weekly for dinner and keep Emily and Richard involved in Rory's life. The next seven seasons are a long tug-of-war between Lorelai and Emily about class values, with Emily determined to give Rory the upper-class advantage she wanted to give Lorelai, and Lorelai resistant to bringing Rory into that world.
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* ''Film/VeraDrake'': Vera's sister-in-law, Joyce, is much more [[SocialClimber aspirational]] than the rest of her husband's very modest working-class family, which creates a strained undercurrent in their relationship.
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* In variants of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index tale types ATU 314, "Goldener" or "The Youth Transformed to a Horse", and [=AaTh=] 532, "I Don't Know", the princess (or the youngest princess of [[RuleOfThree three]] or [[RuleOfSeven seven]]) chooses to marry her father's lowly gardener (who is [[KingIncognito a prince is disguise]], though only the princess suspects that), to her father's consternation and sisters' disgust. In retaliation, the king agrees to his daughter's marriage, but banishes her from the palace and has her move out to the gardener's shabby hut, though she couldn't be happier.
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** The three Ward sisters each marry into a different class as adults: one becomes Lady Bertram, wealthy but sluggish mother of four; one becomes Mrs. Norris, a lower-middle-class parson's widow with who helps out the Bertrams; and one becomes Mrs. Price, a poor sailor's wife with many children to care for. Mrs. Price is shunned by the rest of the family for many years for her unsanctioned marriage, until she askes her sisters for help after her husband becomes unable to provide for 10 children.
** The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny as lesser, and never let her forget it until near the end of the novel.
* From the ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series, ''Fatal Legacy'' (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she ''thinks'' is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with his grand-daughter about to enter a good marriage, a lot depends on this. Albia discovers exactly how much money and property is in doubt and who would stand to benefit if its current owner never stopped being a slave and has no title to any of it. And the case, suddenly, becomes a lot less straightforward.
** The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny as lesser, and never let her forget it until near the end of the novel.
* From the ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series, ''Fatal Legacy'' (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she ''thinks'' is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with his grand-daughter about to enter a good marriage, a lot depends on this. Albia discovers exactly how much money and property is in doubt and who would stand to benefit if its current owner never stopped being a slave and has no title to any of it. And the case, suddenly, becomes a lot less straightforward.
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** The three Ward sisters each marry into a different class as adults: one becomes Lady Bertram, a wealthy but sluggish mother of four; one becomes Mrs. Norris, a lower-middle-class parson's widow with who helps out the Bertrams; and one becomes Mrs. Price, a poor sailor's wife with many children to care for. Mrs. Price is shunned by the rest of the family for many years for her unsanctioned marriage, marriage until she askes asks her sisters for help after her husband becomes unable to provide for 10 children.
** The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny aslesser, lesser and never let her forget it until near the end of the novel.
* From the ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series, ''Fatal Legacy'' (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she ''thinks'' is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with hisgrand-daughter granddaughter about to enter a good marriage, a lot depends on this. Albia discovers exactly how much money and property is in doubt and who would stand to benefit if its current owner never stopped being a slave and has no title to any of it. And the case, suddenly, becomes a lot less straightforward.
** The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny as
* From the ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series, ''Fatal Legacy'' (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she ''thinks'' is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with his
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* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': This proves to be a recurring theme throughout the show, with Mary, Edith and Sybil's romantic partners all being sized up in terms of where they might fit in relative to the Crawleys' own wealth and social status.
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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Much of the first season revolves around Tommy trying to convince his sister Ada to rejoin the rest of the family in their family enterprise, while Ada wants nothing to do with the Shelby's illegal operations and would much rather live a working class life with her union organizer husband.
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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Much of the first season revolves around Tommy trying to convince his sister Ada to rejoin the rest of the family in their family enterprise, while Ada wants nothing to do with the Shelby's Shelbys' illegal operations and would much rather live a working class working-class life with her union organizer husband.
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* ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': Played for BlackComedy. Monty Navarro spent his life in poverty, until he learns after his mother's death that she was an heiress of the incredibly wealthy [[PunnyName D'Ysquith]] family, disinherited for marrying his working-class father. Monty, as eighth in line for the Earl of Highhurst position, decides to improve his station and take revenge for his mother's disgrace by [[AssholeVictim killing off everyone ahead of him in succession]]. Downplayed since he never tells his victims he is related to them, so it's more of a one-sided conflict.
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* ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': Played for BlackComedy. Monty Navarro spent his life in poverty, poverty until he learns after his mother's death that she was an heiress of the incredibly wealthy [[PunnyName D'Ysquith]] family, disinherited for marrying his working-class father. Monty, as eighth in line for the Earl of Highhurst position, decides to improve his station and take revenge for his mother's disgrace by [[AssholeVictim killing off everyone ahead of him in succession]]. Downplayed since he never tells his victims he is related to them, so it's more of a one-sided conflict.
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** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted apart (making this a downplayed example), Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
** Also between Donald and his cousin Gladstone, who has never had to work a day in his life due to his insanely good luck. Gladstone often finds $20 bills out of nowhere and gets things like cars and boats for free, while Donald, insanely ''un''-lucky, struggles to keep a job and keep his houseboat in order. Donald sees Gladstone as "the worst" and never visits him, while Gladstone is horrified when a spell turns him into Donald.
** Comes up in "Last Crash of the Sunchaser" when [[spoiler: Scrooge's great-nephew Louie, who grew up with Donald, is most angry at Scrooge for having so much money and not spending enough to find his mother when she went missing. Meanwhile, a flashback shows [[DramaticIrony Scrooge nearly drained his entire fortune trying to find her]] -- he had to be stopped by his Board of Directors. When Louie later learns this in "The Shadow War: Part 1", he forgives Scrooge.]]
** Also between Donald and his cousin Gladstone, who has never had to work a day in his life due to his insanely good luck. Gladstone often finds $20 bills out of nowhere and gets things like cars and boats for free, while Donald, insanely ''un''-lucky, struggles to keep a job and keep his houseboat in order. Donald sees Gladstone as "the worst" and never visits him, while Gladstone is horrified when a spell turns him into Donald.
** Comes up in "Last Crash of the Sunchaser" when [[spoiler: Scrooge's great-nephew Louie, who grew up with Donald, is most angry at Scrooge for having so much money and not spending enough to find his mother when she went missing. Meanwhile, a flashback shows [[DramaticIrony Scrooge nearly drained his entire fortune trying to find her]] -- he had to be stopped by his Board of Directors. When Louie later learns this in "The Shadow War: Part 1", he forgives Scrooge.]]
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** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, nephew Donald ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted apart (making this a downplayed example), Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
** Also between Donald and his cousin Gladstone, who has never had to work a day in his life due to his insanely good luck. Gladstone often finds $20 bills out of nowhere and gets things like cars and boats for free, while Donald, insanely''un''-lucky, ''un''lucky, struggles to keep a job and keep his houseboat in order. Donald sees Gladstone as "the worst" and never visits him, while Gladstone is horrified when a spell turns him into Donald.
** Comes up in "Last Crash of the Sunchaser" when[[spoiler: Scrooge's [[spoiler:Scrooge's great-nephew Louie, who grew up with Donald, is most angry at Scrooge for having so much money and not spending enough to find his mother when she went missing. Meanwhile, a flashback shows [[DramaticIrony Scrooge nearly drained his entire fortune trying to find her]] -- he had to be stopped by his Board of Directors. When Louie later learns this in "The Shadow War: Part 1", he forgives Scrooge.]]
** Also between Donald and his cousin Gladstone, who has never had to work a day in his life due to his insanely good luck. Gladstone often finds $20 bills out of nowhere and gets things like cars and boats for free, while Donald, insanely
** Comes up in "Last Crash of the Sunchaser" when
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** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted apart, Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted apart, Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
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** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they driftedapart, apart (making this a downplayed example), Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted
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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{FamilyGuy}} Family Guy]]'', the main characters are the Griffin family, a suburban middle class family that lives in Quahog, Rhode Island. The father, Peter Griffin, works a blue-collar job, and his wife Lois comes from the wealthy Pewterschmidt family. Some of the episodes focus on the antagonism between middle class Peter Griffin and his rich father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt.
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* In variants of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index tale types ATU 314, "Goldener" or "The Youth Transformed to a Horse", and [=AaTh=] 532, "I Don't Know", the princess (or the youngest princess of [[RuleOfThree three]] or [[RuleOfSeven seven]]) chooses to marry her father's lowly gardener (which is [[KingIncognito a prince is disguise]], though only the princess suspects that), to her father's consternation and sisters' disgust. In retaliation, the king agrees to his daughter's marriage, but banishes her from the palace and has her move out to the gardener's shabby hut, though she couldn't be happier.
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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Much of the first season revolves around Tommy trying to convince his sister Ada to rejoin the rest of the family in their family enterprise, while Ada wants nothing to do with the Shelby's illegal operations and would much rather live a working class life with her a union organizer husband.
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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Much of the first season revolves around Tommy trying to convince his sister Ada to rejoin the rest of the family in their family enterprise, while Ada wants nothing to do with the Shelby's illegal operations and would much rather live a working class life with her a union organizer husband.
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SuperTrope to RichSiblingPoorSibling and HumbleParentSpoiledKids, since class conflict is a game the whole family can enjoy. Any number of familial relationships can be strained or even irretrievably destroyed when it comes to issues of money or social status. Families can also work well as a way for writers to create a microcosm of broader class trends within society coming into direct conflict with one another.
This is common between {{Big Screwed Up|Family}} and {{Dysfunctional Famil|y}}ies. It may lead to fights and [[DinnerAndAShow tension over dinner]] when they're all gathered, where the rich family member would throw snide remarks about the less fortunate members.
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* ''Creator/IDWPublishing'''s ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' original continuity: It's eventually shown that the Autobot Tracks and Decepticon Needlenose are brothers and had previously been in business together, becoming reasonably wealthy and successful. However, Needlenose sympathized with the Decepticon goal of equality (the original Decepticon goal was to do away with the FantasticCasteSystem where a Cybertronian's alt-mode affected their social status) and gave up his own wealth and status in the process. Post-war, Tracks still looks down his nose at Needlenose and especially despises his lover Horri-bull, feeling that Horri-bull led Needlenose into a dead-end future.
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* In ''Film/TheDescendants'', on top of everything else protagonist Matt is forced to deal with (like his wife's impending death, his estrangement from his kids, and the revelation that his wife was cheating on him), Matt has to decide what to do with land that he inherited from his family, as it's been held in a trust for years, but the trust is about to expire. Matt, who has been a successful lawyer and has lived within his means, wants to keep the land undeveloped, as it's some of the last pristine wilderness on Kauai. His cousins, on the other hand, who are mostly working class and have not been living so frugally, want him to sell the land and split the money with them.
* ''Film/LaBamba'': as Ritchie Valens' career begins to take off, it generates a degree of resentment with his older brother Bob. During a Christmas party, Ritchie asks Bob if he bought a gift for their mother, to which Bob explodes at him saying that he should have bought it since he had money.
* ''Film/VeraDrake'': Vera's sister-in-law, Joyce, is much more [[SocialClimber aspirational]] than the rest of her husband's very modest working-class family, which creates a strained undercurrent in their relationship.
* ''Literature/TWitches'': The Disney Channel Original Movie adaptation has SeparatedAtBirth twins Cameron and Alex, reunited at 21, clash over their very different upbringings. Cameron grew up wealthy with a stable family, while Alex was raised by a single mom who she lost a year before the film, currently crashing with her friend's family and trying to find work. Cameron is InnocentlyInsensitive to Alex's struggles until seeing her home, while Alex initially sees Cameron as shallow and her neighborhood as snooty. However, they eventually bond and bring their respective families, plus their birth family, together.
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* In variants of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index tale types ATU 314, "Goldener" or "The Youth Transformed to a Horse", and [=AaTh=] 532, "I Don't Know", the princess (or the youngest princess of [[RuleOfThree three]] or [[RuleOfSeven seven]]) chooses to marry her father's lowly gardener (which is [[KingIncognito a prince is disguise]], though only the princess suspects that), to her father's consternation and sisters' disgust. In retaliation, the king agrees to his daughter's marriage, but banishes her from the palace and has her move out to the gardener's shabby hut, though she couldn't be happier.
* ''Literature/MansfieldPark'':
** The three Ward sisters each marry into a different class as adults: one becomes Lady Bertram, wealthy but sluggish mother of four; one becomes Mrs. Norris, a lower-middle-class parson's widow with who helps out the Bertrams; and one becomes Mrs. Price, a poor sailor's wife with many children to care for. Mrs. Price is shunned by the rest of the family for many years for her unsanctioned marriage, until she askes her sisters for help after her husband becomes unable to provide for 10 children.
** The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny as lesser, and never let her forget it until near the end of the novel.
* From the ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series, ''Fatal Legacy'' (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she ''thinks'' is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with his grand-daughter about to enter a good marriage, a lot depends on this. Albia discovers exactly how much money and property is in doubt and who would stand to benefit if its current owner never stopped being a slave and has no title to any of it. And the case, suddenly, becomes a lot less straightforward.
* This is part of Mary's backstory in ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''. After Marquis Hart's first wife died, he married his second wife--a woman noted to be of significantly lower status than him--in a controversial marriage. This causes Mary, his only daughter with the second wife, to be [[AllTheOtherReindeer looked down upon]] by her half-sisters, all borne out of the first wife. The latter even call Mary a RedHeadedStepchild mainly out of this.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "[[Recap/CSINYS09E06 The Lady in the Lake]]," a wealthy young man falls in love with a poor young woman who also happens to be a recovering drug addict. His mother is so against their relationship that she tries to buy the girlfriend off by forging her son's name on a $50,000 check to her. When that doesn't work, she kills the girl and dumps her body in a lake in Central Park.
* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': This proves to be a recurring theme throughout the show, with Mary, Edith and Sybil's romantic partners all being sized up in terms of where they might fit in relative to the Crawleys' own wealth and social status.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Main character Elizabeth [=McCord=] came from a wealthy background, but her husband Henry is the son of a steelworker and went to college on the GI Bill. After his father dies, his less-than-affluent relatives get a little grumpy when she's able to cover the bill for the funeral on her credit card.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': PlayedForLaughs with the [[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E2 playwright]] sketch, where a young coal-miner returns home to visit his father, who doesn't approve of him working as a miner rather than an artist:
-->'''Father:''' There's nowt wrong wi' gala luncheons, lad! '''AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!'''.
-->'''Son:''' There's more to life than culture! There's smoke and dirt and good honest work!
-->'''Father:''' Get out! Get out, you '''labourer!'''
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Much of the first season revolves around Tommy trying to convince his sister Ada to rejoin the rest of the family in their family enterprise, while Ada wants nothing to do with the Shelby's illegal operations and would much rather live a working class life with her a union organizer husband.
* ''Series/TheScotts'': Class tensions ripple throughout the family and are largely PlayedForLaughs, from Henry and Vincent's RichSiblingPoorSibling dynamic to Colette roasting Laura's [[RichLanguagePoorLanguage prim and proper manner of speaking]].
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* ''Theatre/BloodBrothers'': Twin brothers Micky and Eddie are SeparatedAtBirth but later become best friends [[DramaticIrony without realising that they are related]], with the contrast between their respective working-class and middle-class upbringings being the main source of conflict in the narrative.
* ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': Played for BlackComedy. Monty Navarro spent his life in poverty, until he learns after his mother's death that she was an heiress of the incredibly wealthy [[PunnyName D'Ysquith]] family, disinherited for marrying his working-class father. Monty, as eighth in line for the Earl of Highhurst position, decides to improve his station and take revenge for his mother's disgrace by [[AssholeVictim killing off everyone ahead of him in succession]]. Downplayed since he never tells his victims he is related to them, so it's more of a one-sided conflict.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Downplayed.
** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted apart, Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
** Also between Donald and his cousin Gladstone, who has never had to work a day in his life due to his insanely good luck. Gladstone often finds $20 bills out of nowhere and gets things like cars and boats for free, while Donald, insanely ''un''-lucky, struggles to keep a job and keep his houseboat in order. Donald sees Gladstone as "the worst" and never visits him, while Gladstone is horrified when a spell turns him into Donald.
** Comes up in "Last Crash of the Sunchaser" when [[spoiler: Scrooge's great-nephew Louie, who grew up with Donald, is most angry at Scrooge for having so much money and not spending enough to find his mother when she went missing. Meanwhile, a flashback shows [[DramaticIrony Scrooge nearly drained his entire fortune trying to find her]] -- he had to be stopped by his Board of Directors. When Louie later learns this in "The Shadow War: Part 1", he forgives Scrooge.]]
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{FamilyGuy}} Family Guy]]'', the main characters are the Griffin family, a suburban middle class family that lives in Quahog, Rhode Island. The father, Peter Griffin, works a blue-collar job, and his wife Lois comes from the wealthy Pewterschmidt family. Some of the episodes focus on the antagonism between middle class Peter Griffin and his rich father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt.
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This is common between {{Big Screwed Up|Family}} and {{Dysfunctional Famil|y}}ies. It may lead to fights and [[DinnerAndAShow tension over dinner]] when they're all gathered, where the rich family member would throw snide remarks about the less fortunate members.
!!Examples:
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* ''Creator/IDWPublishing'''s ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' original continuity: It's eventually shown that the Autobot Tracks and Decepticon Needlenose are brothers and had previously been in business together, becoming reasonably wealthy and successful. However, Needlenose sympathized with the Decepticon goal of equality (the original Decepticon goal was to do away with the FantasticCasteSystem where a Cybertronian's alt-mode affected their social status) and gave up his own wealth and status in the process. Post-war, Tracks still looks down his nose at Needlenose and especially despises his lover Horri-bull, feeling that Horri-bull led Needlenose into a dead-end future.
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* In ''Film/TheDescendants'', on top of everything else protagonist Matt is forced to deal with (like his wife's impending death, his estrangement from his kids, and the revelation that his wife was cheating on him), Matt has to decide what to do with land that he inherited from his family, as it's been held in a trust for years, but the trust is about to expire. Matt, who has been a successful lawyer and has lived within his means, wants to keep the land undeveloped, as it's some of the last pristine wilderness on Kauai. His cousins, on the other hand, who are mostly working class and have not been living so frugally, want him to sell the land and split the money with them.
* ''Film/LaBamba'': as Ritchie Valens' career begins to take off, it generates a degree of resentment with his older brother Bob. During a Christmas party, Ritchie asks Bob if he bought a gift for their mother, to which Bob explodes at him saying that he should have bought it since he had money.
* ''Film/VeraDrake'': Vera's sister-in-law, Joyce, is much more [[SocialClimber aspirational]] than the rest of her husband's very modest working-class family, which creates a strained undercurrent in their relationship.
* ''Literature/TWitches'': The Disney Channel Original Movie adaptation has SeparatedAtBirth twins Cameron and Alex, reunited at 21, clash over their very different upbringings. Cameron grew up wealthy with a stable family, while Alex was raised by a single mom who she lost a year before the film, currently crashing with her friend's family and trying to find work. Cameron is InnocentlyInsensitive to Alex's struggles until seeing her home, while Alex initially sees Cameron as shallow and her neighborhood as snooty. However, they eventually bond and bring their respective families, plus their birth family, together.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In variants of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index tale types ATU 314, "Goldener" or "The Youth Transformed to a Horse", and [=AaTh=] 532, "I Don't Know", the princess (or the youngest princess of [[RuleOfThree three]] or [[RuleOfSeven seven]]) chooses to marry her father's lowly gardener (which is [[KingIncognito a prince is disguise]], though only the princess suspects that), to her father's consternation and sisters' disgust. In retaliation, the king agrees to his daughter's marriage, but banishes her from the palace and has her move out to the gardener's shabby hut, though she couldn't be happier.
* ''Literature/MansfieldPark'':
** The three Ward sisters each marry into a different class as adults: one becomes Lady Bertram, wealthy but sluggish mother of four; one becomes Mrs. Norris, a lower-middle-class parson's widow with who helps out the Bertrams; and one becomes Mrs. Price, a poor sailor's wife with many children to care for. Mrs. Price is shunned by the rest of the family for many years for her unsanctioned marriage, until she askes her sisters for help after her husband becomes unable to provide for 10 children.
** The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny as lesser, and never let her forget it until near the end of the novel.
* From the ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series, ''Fatal Legacy'' (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she ''thinks'' is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with his grand-daughter about to enter a good marriage, a lot depends on this. Albia discovers exactly how much money and property is in doubt and who would stand to benefit if its current owner never stopped being a slave and has no title to any of it. And the case, suddenly, becomes a lot less straightforward.
* This is part of Mary's backstory in ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''. After Marquis Hart's first wife died, he married his second wife--a woman noted to be of significantly lower status than him--in a controversial marriage. This causes Mary, his only daughter with the second wife, to be [[AllTheOtherReindeer looked down upon]] by her half-sisters, all borne out of the first wife. The latter even call Mary a RedHeadedStepchild mainly out of this.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "[[Recap/CSINYS09E06 The Lady in the Lake]]," a wealthy young man falls in love with a poor young woman who also happens to be a recovering drug addict. His mother is so against their relationship that she tries to buy the girlfriend off by forging her son's name on a $50,000 check to her. When that doesn't work, she kills the girl and dumps her body in a lake in Central Park.
* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': This proves to be a recurring theme throughout the show, with Mary, Edith and Sybil's romantic partners all being sized up in terms of where they might fit in relative to the Crawleys' own wealth and social status.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Main character Elizabeth [=McCord=] came from a wealthy background, but her husband Henry is the son of a steelworker and went to college on the GI Bill. After his father dies, his less-than-affluent relatives get a little grumpy when she's able to cover the bill for the funeral on her credit card.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': PlayedForLaughs with the [[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E2 playwright]] sketch, where a young coal-miner returns home to visit his father, who doesn't approve of him working as a miner rather than an artist:
-->'''Father:''' There's nowt wrong wi' gala luncheons, lad! '''AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!'''.
-->'''Son:''' There's more to life than culture! There's smoke and dirt and good honest work!
-->'''Father:''' Get out! Get out, you '''labourer!'''
* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'': Much of the first season revolves around Tommy trying to convince his sister Ada to rejoin the rest of the family in their family enterprise, while Ada wants nothing to do with the Shelby's illegal operations and would much rather live a working class life with her a union organizer husband.
* ''Series/TheScotts'': Class tensions ripple throughout the family and are largely PlayedForLaughs, from Henry and Vincent's RichSiblingPoorSibling dynamic to Colette roasting Laura's [[RichLanguagePoorLanguage prim and proper manner of speaking]].
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[[folder:Theatrical Productions]]
* ''Theatre/BloodBrothers'': Twin brothers Micky and Eddie are SeparatedAtBirth but later become best friends [[DramaticIrony without realising that they are related]], with the contrast between their respective working-class and middle-class upbringings being the main source of conflict in the narrative.
* ''Theatre/AGentlemansGuideToLoveAndMurder'': Played for BlackComedy. Monty Navarro spent his life in poverty, until he learns after his mother's death that she was an heiress of the incredibly wealthy [[PunnyName D'Ysquith]] family, disinherited for marrying his working-class father. Monty, as eighth in line for the Earl of Highhurst position, decides to improve his station and take revenge for his mother's disgrace by [[AssholeVictim killing off everyone ahead of him in succession]]. Downplayed since he never tells his victims he is related to them, so it's more of a one-sided conflict.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Downplayed.
** While Scrooge [=McDuck=] is the richest duck in the world, his nephew, Donald, ended up raising his sister's triplets on his own on a houseboat, drifting in and out of jobs due to his bad temper. While the money wasn't the reason they drifted apart, Scrooge often calls Donald a "deadbeat". In addition, as a preteen first meeting Scrooge, Donald would write emo songs with lyrics like "Gotta EatTheRich Uncle".
** Also between Donald and his cousin Gladstone, who has never had to work a day in his life due to his insanely good luck. Gladstone often finds $20 bills out of nowhere and gets things like cars and boats for free, while Donald, insanely ''un''-lucky, struggles to keep a job and keep his houseboat in order. Donald sees Gladstone as "the worst" and never visits him, while Gladstone is horrified when a spell turns him into Donald.
** Comes up in "Last Crash of the Sunchaser" when [[spoiler: Scrooge's great-nephew Louie, who grew up with Donald, is most angry at Scrooge for having so much money and not spending enough to find his mother when she went missing. Meanwhile, a flashback shows [[DramaticIrony Scrooge nearly drained his entire fortune trying to find her]] -- he had to be stopped by his Board of Directors. When Louie later learns this in "The Shadow War: Part 1", he forgives Scrooge.]]
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{FamilyGuy}} Family Guy]]'', the main characters are the Griffin family, a suburban middle class family that lives in Quahog, Rhode Island. The father, Peter Griffin, works a blue-collar job, and his wife Lois comes from the wealthy Pewterschmidt family. Some of the episodes focus on the antagonism between middle class Peter Griffin and his rich father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt.
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