History Main / LonelyRichKid

** {{Justified|Trope}} with [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugChloeBourgeois Chloé Bourgeois]], since she's a self-absorbed {{Jerkass}} who treats everyone poorly -- even her supposed best friend Sabrina (so far, the only known exception is Adrien, and [[TheDogBitesBack even he has his limits]]). She's seemingly unaware of this, though, as she firmly believes everyone loves her... until [[spoiler:"[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E22Malediktator Malediktator]]" reveals that Chloé is aware that everyone hates her, and that's one of the reasons she wants to leave Paris with her mother]].
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugLilaRossi Lila Rossi]], whose mother is busy at the embassy, but she's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-liked at school]] due to her elaborate {{Celebrity Lie}}s, managing to [[BitchInSheepsClothing mask her true nature]] from everyone but Marinette and Adrien.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': This was actively enforced on Warren Worthington III. He had developed angel-like wings as his mutations, a very visible one that could not be concealed. To prevent public outrage, his rich parents had him closed under lock and key until Charles Xavier offered to adopt him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': Shockingly, Wolverine (yes '''that''' Wolverine) was as ''Origin'' reveals this as a boy -- back when he was James Howlett. A cold and distant mother and an asshole grandfather along with a seemingly [[DelicateAndSickly chronic illness]] all made Logan quite the sad little boy despite the best efforts of his warm father John (later revealed not to be his biological father) and his life only improved when Rose showed up at the estate and he had some ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''-esque playtime with her and groundskeeper Thomas's son Dog. Life went drastically downhill for him soon after though [[spoiler: with Dog becoming a scumbag who sexually harasses Rose and kills James's dog Callie after James had reported Dog's misdeed to his father -- all cumulating in Thomas and Dog storming the manor and killing John in cold blood leading to Wolvie popping his claws for the first time.]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]] was this as a child. Not helped by the fact his stepfather Kurt was an alcoholic abusive scientist and his stepbrother Cain was a BigBrotherBully. While his life did improve (to a degree) there's no doubt Charles has kept some of that bitterness and trauma with him into adulthood.

* ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'': Season 1's Quinn Mossbacher is a the PhoneaholicTeenager soon of the Mossbacher family. His addiction to technology is used to identify him as lonely and distant from friends and family alike. His mother is a HighPoweredCareerWoman more interested in work than family, his father wants to connect with him but is very awkward about it, and his siter is an outright bully to him; he also has no friends as the only friend his family knows of moved back to Japan two years ago. Over the course of the series, he starts leaving his shell and finding some peace in connecting with nature and other people he meets.

* Creator/PeterFHamilton: [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]] in the Greg Mandel trilogy, who inherits [[MegaCorp Event Horizon]] while still a teenager. Her UpgradeArtifact only increases her sense of isolation from her peers, though by the second novel she doesn't have any qualms about playing up this trope to gain the attention of handsome potential boyfriends. She eventually marries master hacker Royan, the only person she identifies with, only to find that as her power, wealth, and reputation grows, he also drifts away from her, regarding himself as a "prince consort" rather than an equal.

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* This is [[RichBitch Mayu Miyuki]]'s FreudianExcuse in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. Her parents are ''never'' around and she only gets to see them counted times, and she met Kaoru when she ran away from her own birthday party ''because her parents didn't come to visit her even then''.
* ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'': Back when Hermann was a kid, his father made him spend so much time training to inherit the Preminger Dukedom he never had a chance to make friends back then.
* Aversion: Mihama Chiyo out of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' is shown as by far the richest of the girls, and has other reasons that she'd be isolated ... and is, of course, one of the happiest and most well-liked of her class. Not insanely happy, but generally {{cheerful|Child}}. Granted, the audience never sees her parents, but they're never implied to be ''gone'', just offscreen. Her dad seems to enjoy his life as an extradimensional talking cat secret agent who may or may not be [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s_true_identity.jpg Santa Claus.]]
* ''Anime/BattleSpiritsShonenToppaBashin'':
** J is extremely wealthy and a borderline celebrity. Despite this [[spoiler:he's on poor terms with both his parents at the start of the series]] and didn't seem to have a single friend before meeting [[MagneticHero Bashin]].
** Suiren as well is popular and wealthy and didn't have any friends to speak of. Nor are her parents mentioned ever.
* Himekawa from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}''. [[spoiler:This is due to the fact that his best friend since kindergarten had betrayed him, and thus he hasn't been able to trust anyone else ever since. He does, however, seem to be healing now that he has FireForgedFriends with the fellow members of the Tohoshinki, Oga, and their respective subordinates. However, he is also most likely more screwed up as well considering the fact that said best friend that betrayed him lied to him about ''her'' gender and is apparently in love with him. It also doesn't help that they have an agreement between their families for an ArrangedMarriage]].
* Farnese from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. Her older siblings were generations apart, her father was always away on business, and her mother took no role in parenting since she was always out partying. Thus, Farnese developed some, [[PyroManiac problems]] (and urges) due to a sense of ParentalAbandonment, and would terrorize her servants and kill pets that didn't reach her expectations. This wasn't made any better when she was given a military position whose [[KnightTemplar purpose was to]] [[KillItWithFire burn people at the stake...]] Princess Charlotte and Theresia count as well, though Princess Charlotte has fared a bit better since [[OnlyFriend she had one friend in her maid Anna]] and Theresia was at least okay when Puck came around and cheered her up, [[BreakTheCutie until her whole childhood was destroyed]]. Basically, if you're an aristocratic female in ''Berserk'', your life is going to be an emotional mess.
* Yukari Fujioka from ''Manga/BillionaireGirl'' is a self-made example. She's an 18-year-old day trader who has successfully amassed a 170 billion yen fortune, but feels ashamed of her Otaku passion for the business and pretends to be a normal university student, as well as having difficulty making friends because of her wealth.
%%* Kunugi-tan from ''Anime/BinchouTan''.
* Yukio Hans Voralberna from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. [[spoiler:Doubling as a CuteAndPsycho.]]
* Takami "Komo" Komoda from ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', especially in the manga. Her father is a high-ranked military man, so in grade school, Komo either was ignored or ostracized by the other kids until [[OnlyFriend Maki Anou]] came along. As a result, she grew very aloof and slightly emotionally detached from the world.
* The [=F4=] boys from ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'' display this trope in ''very'' different ways.
** Domyoji Tsukasa's parents live in New York where their Corporate Empire is headquartered and at the beginning of the plot, he states that he hasn't seen them in years. His [[CoolBigSis older sister]] Tsubaki, [[PromotionToParent who had been largely responsible for his upbringing]], leaves Japan to get married sometime before we meet him, leaving him alone in his BigFancyHouse, besides the legions of servants whom he regularly abuses. His ParentalAbandonment is cited by other characters as his FreudianExcuse for bullying/[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney complete lack of respect for anyone]]/borderline psychopathic fits of rage. And once we meet his EvilMatriarch mother, well...
** Hanazawa Rui is referred to as having an ''extremely'' strict childhood that left him prone to fits of [[HeroicBSOD near-catatonia]] as a child. This was eventually "cured" by ThePowerOfFriendship in the form of his old friend and later girlfriend, CoolBigSis Shizuka Todou, but it left him emotionally dependent on her.
** Nishikado Sohjirou seems at first to be immune from this, but as more of his home life is revealed, he is shown to have parents who are highly emotionally distant and an older brother who abandoned the family business, leaving him to be TheDutifulSon. This is [[FreudianExcuse assumed to be the cause of his inability]] [[TheCasanova to develop lasting relationships]].
** Mimasaka Akira seems to be the only member immune from this despite that, at least in the j-Drama, his father is a {{Yakuza}} boss. In all incarnations, having a childish mother seems to be why he LikesOlderWomen.
* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' has some of these:
** El Si Pierre is the son of a French nobleman and tycoon who used to be either bullied or sucked up to for his family's riches and prestige. He began practising soccer to avert this problem since, in his view, soccer rules are the same for everyone, and this let him forge real friendships with time.
** Mark Owairan is a ''real'' Arabian prince who spent several years locked inside his father's palace and discovered soccer only when he went out of his GildedCage with his bodyguards and saw a bunch of children playing in the streets. He was so fascinated that he started training and playing, rising to the top thanks to his own merits and not to his family's influences.
** The first anime strongly implies that Genzo Wakabayashi is one. He lives in a BigFancyHouse but his family is nowhere in sight, the only adult he interacts regularly with is his coach and BigBrotherMentor Mikami, and a later episode states that his parents are in London (probably due to his father's work) so one of Wakabayashi's reasons to move to Germany is being closer to them.
* Syaoran from ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. While he's more or less well-regarded in his school class, he has very few close friends (barring Meiling from the anime). Tomoyo apparently had some shares of this until Sakura befriended her.
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':
** An episode of the first season brings up the kidnapping and murder of a high school girl named Naoko Takei, who happened to be Shinichi and Ran's classmate. She was [[ShrinkingViolet the shy and quiet daughter]] of a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and in one of the dubs Shinichi/Conan ''literally'' refers to her as "that poor little rich girl". [[spoiler:It turns out Naoko is alive; her captor was her dad's SexySecretary Akiko Hanai, who never intended to kill her... but wanted to punish Mr. Takei, who [[PaterFamilicide drove her dad to kill himself, her mother, and her little brother Masahito]] after causing the family's monetary ruin. Takei was actually such a JerkAss that he didn't really care for poor Naoko's safety, having given a ransom money ''that was all fake''... which Akiko brutally calls him out on when she tries to kill him ''and'' herself as revenge. She even states that she probably would've abandoned the whole plan if he had cared enough to use real money. And in a glorious payback moment, as soon as she was released Naoko ignored her father calling out to her, ran to Akiko ''and forgave her'' for everything, leaving Takei with his hands empty.]]
** Shinichi himself counts to a degree. His parents do love him, but they spend much more time in the USA than in Japan and, until he got shrunk and went to live with the Mouris, they left him alone in their BigFancyHouse. Interestingly, this does ''not'' induce IJustWantToHaveFriends but rather enforced his {{otaku}} image; his not-girlfriend Ran Mouri is pretty much Shinichi's OnlyFriend until he gets shrunk.
* ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'': Richard's parents abandoned him after their divorce at an early age, leaving him to be raised by his aunt and uncle--wealthy English nobles, but ones that kept him homeschooled until he was shipped off to boarding school and discovered that his attempts at overtures of friendship were always taken romantically and barely had anyone he could call a friend.
* Tianzi from ''Anime/CodeGeass''. Being the figurehead Empress of China meant that she was like a bird in a GildedCage, except the cage was the Imperial Palace and she couldn't properly rule over her country, which was oppressed by her {{Evil Chancellor}}s (who also wanted to either [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off to a much older man]] or get her killed and replaced. Still, she had a devoted protector in TheAce of the series [[IOweYouMyLife whom she once saved from execution]], so...
* Akoya of ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' has been rich all his life but due to some unpleasant puns regarding his surname and his ability to act like an UpperClassTwit (assumed to be self-protection against the aforementioned puns) he's been short on friends. He did get better after entering his high school's student council, though.
* Tomoko Saeki's FreudianExcuse in ''Manga/DNA2'' is how she's the richest girl at school, but is also desperately lonely. Not helped by how her mother died when she was a child, her dad works abroad, and her boyfriend Ryuuji is a {{Jerkass}}.
* Occurs in the backstory of Lucy Heartfilia in ''Manga/FairyTail''. After her mother Layla's death, she was raised by the staff of her family's manor, as her father Jude, being the {{workaholic}} executive he is, [[ParentalNeglect had no time for her]]. This eventually led to her becoming TheRunaway after pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and joining the eponymous guild after [[WalkingTheEarth living on the road for a year]].
* Takiko Okuda aka Genbu no Miko from ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden''. Also Hotohori, as the son of the former Emperor of Konan and his mistress/the local GoldDigger. He later is orphaned and becomes TheEmperor himself, which makes him ''even lonelier'' - so he latches on the legend of the Suzaku No Miko and falls for Miaka when she treats him as a person and not as the leader of the country.
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', Miho had difficulty making friends as a child because no one else shared her interest in tankery.
* Ayumi Himekawa from ''Manga/GlassMask'' is the rich daughter of two successful actors and is set on the path to follow in their footsteps. She has a lot of peers around telling her how great she is, but no real true friends. It's revealed later on that she was jealous of ordinary Maya Kitajima, not only because of her being naturally good at acting but because she had true friends by her side encouraging her, while Ayumi had nothing but pressure to live up to her family's legacy, which made her feel alone.
* Extra points for ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
** Nanako's parents started out poor and nice and became less pleasant as they got rich. The protagonist solves the family problem without bankrupting them, however. With a sledgehammer.
** A number of characters including Urumi and Miyabi fit the bill as well. While their parents aren't gone [[spoiler:except Urumi, who doesn't know her father as anything more than a sperm donor]], they're emotionally detached from them to the point they act out. Granted they have more issues than just this trope, but ''GTO'' prefers a cornucopia of issues for its characters.
** Another one of the minor characters that Onizuka helps is the son of a Yakuza boss who has become a HikkikoMori because he didn't want to be ostracized by his peers because of his dad. (Later, he gets over it, and uses the fact that Daddy is in the Yakuza as a leverage point against bullies.)
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** Relena Darlian from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' is quite popular at her high-class school but doesn't seem to have any real friends at first, just admirers and would-be suitors. She seems to be aware of her condition, too, and while she's polite to the other kids she doesn't approach them either. Even her beloved father is (unwillingly) distant due to his ''extremely'' demanding job, and while Relena herself understands it she can't help being depressed. At first, her only friend seems to be her grandfatherly butler/chauffeur Pagan... until she meets TheStoic HitmanWithAHeart protagonist and her life starts changing.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'''s AcePilot and BigBrotherMentor Mu La Flaga was one of these as a child, courtesy of being rejected and disowned by his father, [[spoiler:who had himself cloned in order to produce a more worthy heir]]. Also, Flay Alster starts as one of them, as her father George is an important politician whom she barely gets to see and her mother died when she was a little girl.
* Nagi Sanzennin from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' pretty much gets hit full force by all aspects of this trope. Her parents are mentioned sometimes, but are practically nonexistent (both of them died when she was little). She's hesitant to even go outside her own house because every time she does, somebody tries to kidnap her for her wealth. Pretty much her only friends are fellow Lonely Rich Kids, the servants she keeps around (including Hayate), and her pet tiger Tama. [[spoiler:Athena Tennos]] is another, ''especially'' in her backstory [[spoiler:More exactly, when she kicks Hayate out after their fight but almost immediately falls into despair due to being magically locked in a GildedCage-like mansion.]]
* Ai Shinozaki, the Ojou from ''Manga/HellTeacherNube''. Lampshaded when she reveals her loneliness [[spoiler:that led her to be possessed by a demon]] to Makoto and Nuubee and says it's one of the reasons is how she can't make true friends.
* Mayo Ojosa in ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'' is lonely with her parents overseas. Then she befriends Bocchi and the others.
%%* Tatsuki Iizuka from ''Manga/{{Hyakko}}''.
* Amy from ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'', although later her parents manage to make time for her.
* Usami from ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'', until meeting Hiroki. His mother is shown as highly distant, his father is more or less not present, and his half-brother is constantly jealous of him. Misaki says to him "You've got the typical rich boy complex. Am I right? You grew up with a father who was never home and abandoned his parental responsibilities, while your mother indulged herself in her own hobbies. Thus, in your loneliness, you found companionship in my older brother who was in the same boat. You lived life without ever finding true understanding, and hence you strayed from the right path but found nothing but more loneliness. And on top of that, you own a red sports car and a longhaired dog named Alexander!" To which Usagi replies, "How did you know?"
* Kaguya from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. She lives in a BigFancyHouse separate from the rest of her family [[spoiler:due to being an illegitimate child]] and is isolated from most of her peers with only two real friends to speak of at the beginning of the series. It also doesn't help that her family actively encourages her to become a cold-hearted manipulator.
* Serge Battour in ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'', who is also a HeartwarmingOrphan. His [[BoysLove love interest]] Gilbert is also one of these, but that's [[BreakTheCutie the least of his problems]].
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' exaggerates this into parody. The Mankanshoku family is happy despite their poverty, and their HorribleHousing means they share every meal and are crowded snugly together. Once-lonely Ryuko enjoys the closeness of her new family. However, Mako's success as a club president catapults her family up the social ladder. Within one episode they go from RagsToRiches and live in a vast mansion. They are also leading lives of luxury and hedonism, too busy to share meals. Ryuko sadly eats dinner by herself at a huge table, lonely again and missing poverty. She is even disappointed that the [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe boys are not around to play Peeping Tom]] as she changes. Once Mako realizes how miserable they have become she renounces her high status, thereby hitting the ResetButton that sends her family back to their impoverished (but happy) life.
* ''Manga/KotouraSan'' has Haruka, whose family apparently came from a landed gentry family. Although the reason for her loneliness was her own {{telepath|y}}ic powers, which among others made her friendless and caused both of her parents to disown her.
* Prince Ludwig from ''Manga/LudwigRevolution'', if his friend and servant Wilhelm is to be believed. Wilhelm first met Ludwig in his room, surrounded by a ton of toys but nobody to play with him, which fits the image of this trope. But Ludwig himself is rather abrasive and behaves vitriolic to his servant.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'': Victoria Dahlgrun, resident {{Ojou}} and the descendant of a different Ancient Belka royal family, is shown to only live with her butler like several rich characters. That said, she also has quite a few good friends in the tournament scene and frequently tries to reach out to the loner champion.
** ''Anime/VividStrike'': If the scene of her being alone in her room and sadly calling out to Fuka in episode 1 is any indication, Rinne became this after her adoption to the Berlinetta family. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's wasn't this in the beginning, since she was close to her adoptive grandfather before he passed away. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown What she did to her bullies]] who prevented her from [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye being at her grandfather's deathbed]] also may have something to do with her current loner status in school; everyone is cordial to Rinne, but nobody actually is friends with her because they are afraid of her.]]
%%* Usui from ''Manga/MaidSama''.
* Kougyoku in ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' is a lonely princess most of the time, with her older brothers busy with affairs of the country, her older sisters married off to foreign countries and she is too timid to talk with the approachable Hakuryuu or Hakuei. Not to mention her status as [[spoiler:a bastard child]], making many people avoid her.
* Kaito Doumoto of ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is popular at school and has an InstantFanclub, and hides his lonely brooding behind the mask of a carefree joker instead of a standoffish loner like most of these examples. His parents died in a storm at sea, leaving him with a vast amount of money, and he doesn't like to talk about it. It's only Lucia's perseverance and [[LovesMyAlterEgo his growing suspicion that she might be the mermaid he's looking for]] that allows him to eventually open up to her.
** Also Michal Amagi, a sickly girl whose [[BigBrotherInstinct older brother Rihito]] is pretty much the only person she talks to. Although he pours his riches into making her happy, she's so desperate and depressed that [[HeroicSelfDeprecation she thinks that he's wasting his energy on her]]. When Kaito shows her genuine kindness, she goes all-out ClingyJealousGirl, throwing herself at him, practically chaining him to her mansion, and [[AmnesiaDanger ready and willing to do anything to keep him from remembering Lucia]] because if he knows he has a ''real'' girlfriend, he won't want ''her'' anymore. Her FreakOut when he decides to move back home is both profoundly creepy and heartbreaking.
* The protagonist of ''Manga/{{Mouse}}'' was one for two reasons: one, his ''very'' old-fashioned family didn't have servants, it had slaves, and even when young [[NiceGuy Sorata]] was freaked out by that, and two; Sorata's...[[PhantomThief hobby]]...and meek personality (as, obviously, he never had to assert himself for any reason) made befriending 'normal' people difficult. Sorata's social skills improved after he became a teacher.
%%* Mikawa Kai of ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''.
* The AlphaBitch Miyuki from ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' is rich and has a lot of friends but is shown to feel lonely because her father [[WhenYouComingHomeDad is distant due to work and rarely has time for her]].
* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'':
** Hazuki Fujiwara's father was a famous movie director and her mother is a popular fashion designer, but as much as they ''do'' genuinely care for her, they're so absorbed in their work that Hazuki's more usual companions are her landlady and the other Ojamajos.
** The local AlphaBitch, Reika Tamaki, also hits this trope to some degree. Her dad spoils her because he doesn't want to make her cry, but that shapes her into a spoiled Alpha Bitch [[HeroicBSOD who has a complete emotional meltdown]] when she starts doubting if her dad ''really'' loves her.
** Averted with [[DarkMagicalGirl Onpu Segawa]], who, when confronted with an empty house and a cold plate of plastic-wrapped food (on Christmas!) just went out to have fun with the other girls.
* Haru Jigokumeguri from ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'' was like this for most of her life [[spoiler:due to her original friends shunning her for her social status]]. It played a major role in why she acts [[RichBitch the way she does]]. The story starts off with her meeting Tsurezure, who goes on to be her first friend [[spoiler:and eventual boyfriend.]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Kaya is stated by her butler Merry to be an awfully lonely girl, not helped by her DelicateAndSickly nature after her parents died. This is why Usopp became the biggest joy in her life when he knocked on her window to cheer her up with tall tales.
** Sabo is a partial case. He grew up in a rich noble family and states to his orphan friends that even though he had parents, he felt more lonely than them. However, it was not as much that he was lonely as that he just didn't have someone who cared about him. This changed when he met Ace and Luffy.
** [[spoiler:Sanji’s only friends as a prince were mice and the only the family who gave a damn about him were his mother and sister (the former of whom died). Thankfully this changed when he found his way to East Blue and picked up some TrueCompanions there.]]
** Vivi similar to Kaya was inferred to be this with her sneaking out of the palace to join Kohza’s StreetUrchin gang the Suna Suna Clan. Vivi’s father Cobra notes how good this is for her, not only as a future ruler but as a lonely little girl growing up with no children her age in a palace.
* Tamaki Suoh from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', who has few friends outside the Club. Double because he's [[spoiler:a HeroicBastard as well]]. Because of this, his EvilMatriarch of a grandmother makes him live in a smaller manor funded by but separate from her and his father, with an army of servants and a nanny, but no real family.
* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has a lot of these:
** The most notable example is, of course, the protagonist [[BrokenHero Oz Vessalius]], who starts out this way. His mother is dead, he has an emotionally abusive father who avoids visiting him because he hates him, and he's a StepfordSmiler. In the beginning, his only friend is his valet Gilbert. Things get ''a lot worse'' involving Oz's father, but anything more would include massive spoilers.
** Gilbert himself also counts once he joins the Nightray dukedom. His entire family is abusive towards him aside from his blood brother Vincent and his younger adoptive brother Elliot. Duke Nightray (Gilbert's adoptive father) is [[ParentalAbandonment barely ever around]] and lets his vicious and power-hungry oldest children run the household while Duchess Nightray (Gilbert's adoptive mother) goes from just barely ever being around like her husband to [[spoiler:joining a cult and spending all her time with them.]]
** Ada Vessalius, Oz's younger sister, counts as this as well. Her father actually loves her on the inside while he despises Oz, but he still hardly ever sees her and, of course, her mother is still dead. She didn't really have any friends and spent most of her time cooped up in the Vessalius manor until she went away to Lutwidge Academy.
* Isabella from ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'' was raised by her butler, and also had the issues you'd expect from a little {{Ojou}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trapped in a little rich boy's body]].
* James in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has this as part of his {{backstory}} -- he grew up in the lap of luxury, but only had a Growlithe for a friend. He eventually ran away to escape an ArrangedMarriage.
%%* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': Played straight with Platinum.
%%* Himeko Shirogane/Princess from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ''.
* Mawata Awayuki from the anime ''Anime/{{Pretear}}'' is a subversion of sorts, in that at first she seems to be lonely for no particular reason: her family is with her, but she distances herself from them; she is popular at school, but doesn't seem to have close friends. It's only later in the series that the ''real'' reasons for her loneliness are revealed -- not only she was quite affected by her father's demise when she was a little girl, she just doesn't think people can understand her true feelings, and so is unwilling to open up to anyone. [[spoiler:Of course, her issues remain unnoticed long enough to turn into a real problem, when the BigBad seizes her and turns her into a DarkMagicalGirl]].
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** Karen of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''. Her parents are always traveling abroad, and she doesn't even get to see them in the ChristmasEpisode, despite that being the only time they come home. She does have one friend, Komachi, but manages to isolate herself anyway by being resolutely determined not to open up to her or anyone else.
** Karen's ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' [[{{Expy}} predecessor]], Honoka, has a nearly identical backstory, but it takes long enough for the series to get into her head that it's hard to say whether she actually fits the trope.
** While Hibiki from ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' is not really rich, she is a lot wealthier than her teammates. Her father is a busy musician, while her mother is a world-travelling pianist. On top of having no siblings, she gets lonely very easily.
* Kuno from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' could be considered a bizarre variation even though he's rarely sympathetic. He lives in a mansion occupied by no one but his sister Kodachi and only has one unpaid servant (and only in the anime). He's estranged from his dad, behaves in an outdated fashion, and appears to have no real friends.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' had three Sailor Senshi in this situation:
** Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury was not only the smartest girl in all of Japan but the daughter of a very rich doctor. However, she was [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation believed to be haughty]] for her grades and riches, when in reality [[ShyBlueHairedGirl she was too shy to approach others.]]
** Rei Hino/Sailor Mars was the Golden Girl of her all-girls school, plus (in the manga and the live-action) the daughter of one of the most important politicians in the country. However, despite her beauty and high social rank, she was also seen as a freak for her PsychicPowers.
** Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn was the daughter of a famous and rich professor (and MadScientist), but her classmates rejected her for her [[HealingHands healing powers]] and her quiet nature.
** [[spoiler:Queen Nehelenia in the '90s anime despite being a Queen with her subjects loving her beauty, the didn't love her as a real person and due to her childhood of having no real friends or loved ones, Nehelenia learned to love herself which led to her vanity and along with her Magic Mirror slowly corrupting her and showing what her not only her ugly future self but how everyone would abandon her when she lost her beauty she... doesn't take it well.]]Thankfully she gets better thanks to Sailor Moon.
* ''Manga/SakuraNoIchiban'': Before meeting Asami and Misao, Tsukiko was not allowed to go outside and was very sheltered. The "friends" she had then only wanted her wealth.
* ''Anime/SakuraWars2000'':
** Sumire Kanzaki's father and grandfather were so absorbed into work that she was left emotionally scarred and doubtful about their love for her. [[spoiler:Reversed later, when her dad appears and is revealed to be a rather decent guy otherwise and even apologizes to Sumire for not being able to spend more time with her. She forgives him.]]
** Vicomtesse Iris Chateaubriand's parents were so scared of her enormous PsychicPowers that they locked her away in her fancy bedroom, and her only company were her dolls and teddies until Ayame Fujieda recruited her; Iris became [[ShrinkingViolet extremely withdrawn and scared of everyone]] as a consequence, holding on her teddybear Jean-Claude as a SecurityBlanket. There's [[ADayInTheLimelight a whole episode dedicated to her]], where Iris' backstory is revealed and the troupe struggles to give her her first birthday party ever.
* Sanka Rea of ''Manga/{{Sankarea}}'' has a ''massive'' list of problems. It says a lot that dying and coming back as a zombie is an '''''improvement'''''.
* Eri Sawachika from ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' is an archetypical example (as well as an archetypical {{Tsundere}}, and {{Ojou}}.)
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'':
** 9-year-old Mary Lennox was neglected by her parents and never received proper love and care from them, leading her to become a SpoiledBrat. She was raised by servants and the closest thing to a friend she had was her cat, Paddy. After she moved to England, she became a more open and friendly person.
** Colin Craven is a DelicateAndSickly boy who's been confined to his bed since he was born. His only interactions are with his nurse and Mrs. Medlock, but he becomes inspired to become more outgoing thanks to Mary's influence.
* Mikogami Hayato from ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' was this before becoming an Ashikabi, combining IntelligenceEqualsIsolation with a huge dose of ParentalAbandonment. That he's also a {{Jerkass}} doesn't help matters, so he [[TheCollector collects]] a harem of {{Magical Girlfriend}}s (and boyfriend) to make up for his lack of family or friends.
* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' is particularly a tragic case. Her [[AbusiveParents parents]] cared more for her grades in school than her emotional well-being (although her bullies wanted to lower her learning curve) and her father cut ties with her only friends when said grades didn't get better. So it's no wonder the [[BewareTheNiceOnes girl]] [[{{Yandere}} snapped]] once they and her bullies [[BreakTheCutie broke her]] and she [[spoiler:went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and kills [[SelfMadeOrphan both her parents]] ''and'' her bullies.]]
* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' has Kana Bismarch, a membress of the ''Hanagumi'' Team, who used to be this in the past. The poor girl was isolated in her family's BigFancyCastle until her parents died and her greedy relatives appeared and took everything away, leaving Kanna destitute. Hao arrived and killed them all and invited her to join his team.
* Christopher "Chris" Thorndyke in ''Anime/SonicX'' - or at least, the show's writers try to play him like this, but it doesn't really hit home when he does actually have some genuine human friends and his grandfather is almost always at home even if his parents (who definitely love him) aren't. His parents are both horribly neglectful and smothering in the first two seasons; rarely seeing their son for more than a few hours at a time before having to disappear for some reason, but at the same time demanding to know where Chris is at all times and conducting a world search if he's missing for more than any period of time. They do apparently get better at the end of the second season.
* The entire main cast of the anime ''Manga/SpecialA'' qualifies thanks to various relationship traumas during their childhood.
* ''Manga/SPYxFamily'':
** Damian Desmond is the second son of a high-ranking politician, but he hardly ever sees his father, and [[WellDoneSonGuy desperately craves his approval]]. He doesn't seem to have many friends aside from [[ThoseTwoGuys Ewen and Emile]], who serve as the GirlPosse to his male LovableAlphaBitch.
** Becky Blackbell is a SpoiledSweet LovableAlphaBitch, but she and Anya are each other's OnlyFriend at the school. She seems to have a better relationship with her parents than Damian.
* Minto Aizawa from ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' lives at a BigFancyHouse where her pet dog and ([[CanonForeigner only in the anime]]) nanny are her only constant company. Her parents are usually out in business trips and her older brother is too busy studying to spend time with her. After joining an animal MagicalGirl team, she becomes friends with her teammates and they help her reconnect with her brother a little.
* Carol Olston from ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'' is this underneath her [[TheDitz fluffy]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity exterior]]. Growing up she was continually snubbed when she tried to socialize (at least in part, it is implied, due to her ethnicity) to the point where her favorite game was watching other kids play from a distance and pretending she was among them. Tomo and Misuzu are, aside from the cousin [[KissingCousins she is crushing on]], the very first friends the high-school freshman has had in her life.
* In ''Manga/TonaGura'', Nina Isokawa is a sweet but annoying example, and as a result is very devoted to her friends, the Arisakas and Kaguras. Her extreme early-bloomer bustiness freaks Yuuji out, but at no time does he try and exploit her obvious crush on him. Her GenkiGirl nature always freaks Marie out.
* Marika from ''Manga/TwinSpica'' is one of these, at least towards the start of the series; she is always cooped up in her mansion on orders from her father. [[spoiler: The original Marika had it far worse, dying young after having made only one friend her own age]].
* Eddie from ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' is a rich kid, whose parents work a little too much and often leave him alone on his birthday, along with the presents they give him and celebrates his birthday with his friends alone. He [[StepfordSmiler claims that he doesn't mind his parents missing]], but deep down, he misses them and wishes they could spend more time with him.
* The lonely part is justified with the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold less than pleasant]] personality of Seto Kaiba in ''Franchise/YuGiOh''. Granted, the guy doesn't act or appear friendly, but then again, who would when he had to endure the type of pain Gozaburo inflicted on him as a child? He doesn't have any friends, but he spends more time with his Yugi, his band of misfits, and his kid brother than anyone else.
* In ''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'', Shizuka's father isolated her from her peers to force her to do nothing but follow his wishes. She wasn't allowed to hang out with her classmates, find love aside from those her father approved in advance, or even have any hobbies that he didn't like.
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** [[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary information]] indicates that not only was [[CuteBruiser Toph Beifong]] kept hidden from the world and [[GildedCage confined to her parent's estate]], but her parents left the bulk of her actual care/interaction to servants. No wonder she sneaked out enough to become defending champion at the local pit fights.
** Zuko in a nutshell. WellDoneSonGuy, check. MissingMom, check. TheUnfavorite, check. CosmicPlaything, check. TheWoobie, check. Enough said. It's this trope that Zuko and Mai fell for each other.
** In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Asami Sato. Though never brought up specifically, it's clear she has no friends besides Korra, Mako, and Bolin, and it's implied to some extent that she suffers a bit from it. It also makes her similar to Korra herself, who also had no friends growing up beside her polar bear dog.
** Korra herself wasn't rich in her own right or her family's right, but since the Order of the White Lotus provided for her every need, complete with a GildedCage that served as her home and training center, she still qualifies because she was sufficiently sheltered and well-provided-for. She wasn't allowed outside the complex without permission, and the only people she ever interacted with in the complex were her bending masters and sparring partners.

** [[TheLancer Adrien Agreste]] (who is pictured above) was homeschooled for most of his life, and his [[AbusiveParents father]], even after letting him go to school, is an obsessive ControlFreak who micromanages his life. Consequently, before he went to public school, he did not have any friends other than [[AlphaBitch Chloé]]. This causes a bad first impression to everyone in the class since they all hate Chloé. When he finally manages to explain his friendless background to Nino and Marinette, both are moved and befriend him (well, Marinette falls for him). While he makes more friends as the series goes on, his primary social circle is still fairly small.
** {{Justified|Trope}} with [[AlphaBitch Chloé Bourgeois]], since she's a self-absorbed {{Jerkass}} who treats everyone poorly -- even her supposed best friend Sabrina (so far, the only known exception is Adrien, and [[TheDogBitesBack even he has his limits]]). She's seemingly unaware of this, though, as she firmly believes everyone loves her... until [[spoiler:"[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E22Malediktator Malediktator]]" reveals that Chloé is aware that everyone hates her, and that's one of the reasons she wants to leave Paris with her mother]].
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with [[NewTransferStudent Lila Rossi]], whose mother is busy at the embassy, but she's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-liked at school]] due to her elaborate {{Celebrity Lie}}s, managing to [[BitchInSheepsClothing mask her true nature]] from everyone but Marinette and Adrien.

* Amity Blight from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a lonely rich kid who is LonelyAmongPeople. [[BigBrotherBully Her siblings constantly bully and tease her]], her parents are abusive {{Control Freak}}s [[spoiler:who forced her to end her friendship with Willow simply because the latter was a late bloomer]] and her GirlPosse was handpicked for her and she doesn't like any of them.

** Mr. Burns is shown in flashbacks to have been offered the choice between warm, loving parents or a heartless billionaire. He chose the billionaire, making him a Lonely Rich Kid by ''choice''. Though the only thing he regretted is leaving his teddy Bobo behind.
** In the episode "Burns' Heir," Bart went through the temporary version.

* Grace Monroe from ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' is shown to be raised by very wealthy parents who never spend time with her, and require her to have private ballet tuition, meaning she struggles to mae friends with the other girls. Eventually Grace ends up turning the other girls on each other, and stealing from a store, just to get attention.

* TeenGenius VillainProtagonist ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' fits this quite well, though his lack of friends seems to be by choice, and [[spoiler:his ParentalAbandonment is actually remedied as the series goes on.]] This is played straight at the beginning of the ''Artemis Fowl'' series but increasingly averted as the series progresses. Oh yes, and the reason he was hunting fairies in the first place was to rebuild the lost family fortune, for the expressed purpose of locating his missing father. [[spoiler:Which he finally succeeds at in the Arctic Incident.]]
* Shouko Kirishima from ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts''. The reason why she's such a strong {{Yandere}} for Yuuji is because [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he's the only person who treated her like a normal girl]], whereas everyone was scared to death by her ultra-high social status.
* Chance the Gardener in ''Literature/BeingThere'' is a variation. He was raised by a wealthy man but was forcibly confined to the townhouse ''all his life'' due to his mental retardation. So as the story opens, Chance is middle-aged but otherwise, he fits the trope: he's attended to by a maid; he spends his days eating, sleeping, tending to a garden, and watching television; and he has no friends. Perhaps luckily, he doesn't ''know'' he's not living a normal life. When he's forced to leave the house after the master's death, he winds up befriending and enriching the lives of Eve and Ben Rand, a married couple who also serve as adult versions of this trope.

* Eldie Porter of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice''. She's five years old and her family is prestigious, but [[spoiler:preoccupied with treason]]; the siblings/aunts closest in age to her are in their teens and not interested. Sometimes she gets to play with her "aunt" Ren's little sisters, but not as often as she'd like. [[spoiler:When she's HappilyAdopted by the Whistlers she gets to be part of a larger family with more kids around her age, and she's content with it.]]

* Danny Saunders in ''Literature/TheChosen'' isn't rich but he does have a prestigious father and he is the ultimate in loneliness.
* Sandry from Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series starts this way, as her parents' globetrotting ensured that she would have no permanent friends and very few of the people they met could get past the gulf in class to ''let'' their kids befriend a clehame.[[note]]countess[[/note]] She finds TrueCompanions at Winding Circle, but she feels lonely and isolated again in ''The Will of the Empress'' because the trip to Namorn is all ''about'' her status. That, along with the things that happened in their travels, partly alienates her friends.
* In ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', during Jake's original life in New York, his rich parents don't pay much attention to him. They leave him with their employees, like the housekeeper Ms. Shaw, who's the only person he has a real connection with. It's mentioned that Jake has no real friends at school and that girls find him good-looking but are driven away by his "professional" way of talking (inherited from his parents).
* Defied in ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Paul's official biographer points out that a lot of people assume Paul was this. Said biographer points out that while Paul had no friends of the same age because of the security risks involved, he had [[IntergenerationalFriendship close and warm relationships with his tutors]] [[TheChessmaster Thufir Hawat]], [[MasterSwordsman Duncan Idaho]] and [[WarriorPoet Gurney Halleck]]. It is also clearly shown that while Leto and Jessica were not as present as they could have been (they were the ruling couple of a planet, after all), they were very much loving and supportive parents.

* [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]] in the Greg Mandel trilogy by Creator/PeterFHamilton, who inherits [[MegaCorp Event Horizon]] while still a teenager. Her UpgradeArtifact only increases her sense of isolation from her peers, though by the second novel she doesn't have any qualms about playing up this trope to gain the attention of handsome potential boyfriends. She eventually marries master hacker Royan, the only person she identifies with, only to find that as her power, wealth, and reputation grows, he also drifts away from her, regarding himself as a "prince consort" rather than an equal.
* Sena Kashiwazaki from ''Literature/{{Haganai}}''. A large part of her loneliness is due to the other girls at school being jealous of her due to her good looks, grades, athleticism, and ample cleavage. As a result, she was often shunned by other girls in group activities, to the point that she had no real friends prior to joining the Neighbors Club.
* This trope is used a lot in Literature/HarryPotter.
** Harry himself qualifies, but in a largely subversive way. He's very wealthy and an orphan, but until he turns 11 and gets his magical reveal, he's completely friendless. This is not due to his wealth - which he never knew about until that point, anyway - but because his cousin Dudley is the school bully and hates Harry, all the other kids would rather not find themselves on the business end of Dudley's fists. Once Harry ends up among his own kind (wizards), he's a bit confused by how popular he is, but does find very good friends fairly soon.
** Sirius Black -- also from a very wealthy family, but clearly had a terrible home life and ended up running away at the age of 16. His HeterosexualLifePartner is murdered when they're still very young. He spends almost his entire adult life in prison for the murder of Peter Pettigrew, [[spoiler:even though he didn't commit it. And then he dies.]] Judging from the memories Harry sees, he had a cruel streak and helped his best friend bully other students, and apparently, his popularity was primarily based on shallowness and his friendship with James.
** Draco Malfoy -- despite being a racist bully, it can't be denied that he gets most of that smugness battered out of him in the later books. Parental abandonment in the form of imprisonment, and he never seems to have any close friends that he considers his equal. In ''The Cursed Child'' Draco reveals to Harry that he always was jealous of Harry's frienship with Ron and Hermione while he has, well, [[DumbMuscle Crabbe and Goyle]].

** Harry himself -- he's very wealthy and an orphan, but until he turns 11 and gets his magical reveal, he's pretty much friendless. His lack of friends is not due to his wealth but because his cousin Dudley is the school bully and hates Harry, all the other kids would rather not find themselves on the business end of Dudley's fists. Once Harry ends up among his own kind (wizards) and away from the Dursleys, he's a bit confused by how popular he is and does find very good friends fairly soon.

** Draco Malfoy -- despite being a racist bully, it can't be denied that he gets most of that smugness battered out of him in the later books. Parental abandonment in the form of imprisonment, and he never seems to have any close friends that he considers his equal.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E156TheBewitchinPool The Bewitchin' Pool]]", Jeb and Sport Sharewood are continually ignored and neglected by their wealthy parents Gil and Gloria, who are too concerned with their own lives and sniping at each other to even notice the children except when they scold them.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': In an old rare story, Veronica invites Betty over for a sleepover and flaunts all her wealth to intimidate Betty into giving up trying to compete with her for Archie. It works at first… until Veronica overhears Betty calling her mom and dad to say goodnight with love. Veronica breaks down into tears because her own parents are never home, as they are so constantly traveling Veronica usually doesn’t even know where they are, so she can’t even call them.

* In an old rare story of ''Franchise/ArchieComics'', Veronica invites Betty over for a sleepover and flaunts all her wealth to intimidate Betty into giving up trying to compete with her for Archie. It works at first… until Veronica overhears Betty calling her mom and dad to say goodnight with love. Veronica breaks down into tears because her own parents are never home, as they are so constantly traveling Veronica usually doesn’t even know where they are, so she can’t even call them.
* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] is portrayed as being one after his parents' death. Before this he was not, as he was friends with Tommy Elliot, Roman Sionis, Harvey Dent and Zatanna Zatarra, the future supervillains Hush, Black Mask and Two Face; and superheroine Zatanna, respectively. He was also loose acquaintances with Kate Kane, the future Batwoman and his cousin, and Oswald Cobblepot, the future Penguin, due to those two being his age and part of the founding families of Gotham. DependingOnTheWriter the grief and loneliness over Thomas and Maria’s demise was so horrific that little Bruce even considered ''suicide'' and it was only due to Alfred’s love and his desire for justice that he didn’t go through with it.
* Lord Snooty in his first ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' strip - then he slipped away from Bunkerton Castle and made friends with the Ash Can Alley Gang.
* ''ComicBook/GeminiStorm'' has Julia Hamilton, so lonely she doesn't know anyone who attends her birthday parties.
* This was more or less the original premise of the ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' comic books published by Creator/HarveyComics -- the covers even referred to him as "The Poor Little Rich Boy." But over the past half-century, Richie has acquired so many devoted friends that he doesn't really qualify anymore.
* Tim Drake, the third Robin, had exactly this kind of 'rich kid abandoned' childhood, at least up until the part where his father died and Bruce Wayne finally adopted him. But even before that, it took 125 issues of [[ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} his solo title]] before his father finally noticed that his son was leading a double life, and even then he practically had to be handed the revelation on a silver platter by the plot. And that was after their relationship ''improved''. Initially, Tim's parents paid him so little attention that he focused on ''Batman'' (who he had seen exactly once, to boot) as a parental substitute.
* ComicBook/IronMan as revealed in flashbacks was a [[https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1280x1024q90/923/qrWNHj.jpg textbook example]] overlapping with UsedToBeASweetKid. Tony as a boy was quiet, introverted and terribly lonely which was especially not helped by his father Howard’s appalling verbal abusive towards him. In a later comic, adult Tony has a TearJerker JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and finds his child [[https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:auto/h:auto/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IM2020014_Preview-6.jpeg self weeping in the corner of the manor]] “feeling like he doesn’t exist”. Whether Tony is still like this deep down or he’s gotten over it in the years since is up for debate.
* Played with in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' with Alex Wilder. On the one hand, he is genuinely lonely, being a black kid from the notoriously white Brentwood neighborhood in LA who'd have no social life if it wasn't for his MMORPG subscription and his family's yearly get-togethers with their friends. On the other hand, as the series goes on, it becomes increasingly clear why he's so lonely - he's a sociopath who has no compunctions about manipulating his childhood friends into attacking and possibly killing their own parents or each other, all so that his own family will survive a planned apocalypse.
* Harry Osborn from ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' often was shown to have this background before he met Peter Parker.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]], founder of the ComicBook/XMen, was this as a child. Not helped by the fact his stepfather Kurt was an alcoholic abusive scientist and his stepbrother Cain was a BigBrotherBully. While his life did improve (to a degree) there’s no doubt Charles has kept some of that bitterness and trauma with him into adulthood.

* Shockingly ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} (yes '''that''' Wolverine) was as ''Origin'' reveals this as a boy — back when he was James Howlett. A cold and distance mother and an asshole grandfather along with a seemingly [[DelicateAndSickly chronic illness]] all made Logan quite the sad little boy despite the best efforts of his warm father John (later revealed to not to be his biological father) and his life only improved when Rose showed up at the estate and he had some ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''-esque playtime with her and groundskeeper Thomas’s son Dog. Life went drastically down hill for him soon after though [[spoiler: with Dog becoming a scumbag who sexually harasses Rose and kills James’s dog Callie after James had reported Dog’s misdeed to his father — all cumulating in Thomas and Dog storming the manor and killing John in cold blood leading to Wolvie popping his claws for the first time.]]
* Cecilia from ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'', a sheltered and naive Scottish noblewoman who was pretty much locked away in the family castle after the death of her mother.

* ComicBook/IronMan as revealed in flashbacks was a [{https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1280x1024q90/923/qrWNHj.jpg textbook example]] overlapping with UsedToBeASweetKid. Tony as a boy was quiet, introverted and terribly lonely which was especially not helped by his father Howard’s appalling verbal abusive towards him. In a later comic, adult Tony has a TearJerker JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and finds his child [[https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:auto/h:auto/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IM2020014_Preview-6.jpeg self weeping in the corner of the manor]] “feeling like he doesn’t exist”. Whether Tony is still like this deep down or he’s gotten over it in the years since is up for debate.

* ComicBook/IronMan as revealed in flashbacks was a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/17/Anthony_Stark_%28Earth-616%29_from_Iron_Man_Vol_1_288_001.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/840?cb=20160921204711 textbook example]] overlapping with UsedToBeASweetKid. Tony as a boy was quiet, introverted and terribly lonely which was especially not helped by his father Howard’s appalling verbal abusive towards him. In a later comic, adult Tony has a TearJerker JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and finds his child [[https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:auto/h:auto/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IM2020014_Preview-6.jpeg self weeping in the corner of the manor]] “feeling like he doesn’t exist”. Whether Tony is still like this deep down or he’s gotten over it in the years since is up for debate.

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* Tim Drake, the third Robin, had exactly this kind of 'rich kid abandoned' childhood, at least up until the part where his father died and Bruce Wayne finally adopted him. But even before that, it took 125 issues of [[ComicBook/RobinSeries his solo title]] before his father finally noticed that his son was leading a double life, and even then he practically had to be handed the revelation on a silver platter by the plot. And that was after their relationship ''improved''. Initially, Tim's parents paid him so little attention that he focused on ''Batman'' (who he had seen exactly once, to boot) as a parental substitute.

* Amity Blight from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a lonely rich kid who is LonelyAmongPeople. [[BigBrotherBully Her siblings constantly bully and tease her]], her parents are abusive ControlFreak{{s}} [[spoiler:who forced her to end her friendship with Willow simply because the latter was a late bloomer]] and her GirlPosse was handpicked for her and she doesn't like any of them.