History Main / NouveauRiche

* WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} is described as such by the Muses in "Zero to Hero", shortly after defeating the Hydra.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands'', Jodio, who is a self-interested individual that would resort to thieving and drug dealing to get money, explains [[ThisIsMyStory this is his story]] of becoming 'filthy rich' by ways of his Mechanism that'll make wealth flow straight to him.

* Kazuya and his family in ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'', though Kazuya himself is a more sympathetic example.
* Haruka Suzushiro's family in ''Anime/MyHime'', apparently. Her best friend Yukino, in her special, reflects on a time when her family was not nearly as wealthy.
* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', Emma ends up working for the Malders, a new money family. It explores in some detail the upheaval and class conflict created by England's industrial revolution. Flashback chapters show that Richard Jones was considered "New Money" as a young man, especially by established aristocrats. In the present, Viscount Campbell is the only person shown to still think of him that way.

* Also implied with Countess Madeleine from ''Manga/{{Lady}}'', and her SpoiledBrat children Thomas and Mary. It would certainly explain why she acts like she is the mistress of Marble Mansion, the BigFancyHouse belonging to Lynn's father, ''before even being engaged to him''.
* Alois Trancy from the ''Manga/BlackButler'' anime series. He flaunts his money and doesn't really seem to care, as seen by the first episode when he tosses bills and bills of money down to his "uncle". Not to mention he is a massive case of CreepyChild. [[spoiler:[[DarkandTroubledPast It's]] [[OrphansOrdeal much]] [[SexSlave more]] [[StepfordSmiler complicated]] [[DealWithTheDevil than]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds that]].]]
* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Madeleine is only a minor noble, but she wants to marry George to become a full-blooded noblewoman, even if he's an ImpoverishedPatrician. This is implied to be why she offers to pay off his debts if he becomes her husband. [[spoiler: They eventually do marry in the manga, but in the anime, he rejects her because of how cruel she is to his daughters Lynn and Sarah.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode "Rent A Butler" has the Count lease his staff to a well-off couple literally called Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Riche. They (or their names) get referenced briefly in a few more episodes too.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Ed Crosswire and family got rich this way.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': When Chuckie's father wins a sweepstake, he enrolled Chuckie into a pre-school for rich kids. The other kids didn't want to become friends with him because he was "new money". [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted It doesn't last.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': The Pidgeon Kingdom is described as being relatively recent compared to the others, but already very wealthy.

* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' tie-in book summarizes Andrew Landon ([[ExtracurricularEnthusiast Jodie]]'s [[EducationMama dad]]) as "nouveau riche and proud of it." His attitude can be seen in some contrast to the OldMoney Sloane family, who are kind of cheapskates. (Just look at [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]]'s [[TheAllegedCar car]].)
* In ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'', the Kaan family rose up through the ranks because of their magic skills, and the traditionally rich folks of Neo Yokio have never let them forget it. In their case, the term used is "Neo Riche".

* ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'': This is what Lucy's family hopes to achieve by coming to Australia from England, but they instead spend years in poverty, while their ArchEnemy [[FatBastard Mr. Pettywell]] has no issue with wealth.

How they made the money depends where they come from and when the particular work is set. If British, expect them to be from either OopNorth (with wealth made from industry) or more recently, UsefulNotes/{{London}}[=/=]Essex (with new wealth from the financial sector). If American, expect them to be HollywoodCalifornia people with bleach-blonde ValleyGirl daughters, [[LowerClassLout slovenly white trash]] who won either the lottery or a [[FrivolousLawsuit big-time settlement]], [[FatBastard obese]] DeepSouth oil barons, cattle tycoons, contractors (especially [[SmallTownTyrant in small-town settings]]), (if set in [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica pre-Civil War times]]) a cotton-pickin', slave-whippin' FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit, or Silicon Valley nerds from the dot-com or the mobile services boom era [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense compensating poor social skills with tons of money]]. If black, expect a flashy character from a GlamRap video or an athlete (usually football, basketball, or boxing). If Japanese, expect them to be TheIdiotFromOsaka to act as the negative contrast to the OldMoney ([[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse usually from the Kanto region]]). Especially unsympathetic depictions may give them [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections ties]] to [[TheMafia organized crime]] -- or otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} all-round jerkassery]] and [[TheSocialDarwinist contempt towards the social class]] [[BoomerangBigot they used to belong to]].

* ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'': Rajan is a former street rat who made it big by becoming a drug-runner, and eventually a major drug distributor. By the time of the games, he's trying to buy his way into respectability. The first of the two chapters concerning him takes place at his "newly purchased ancestral home". [[spoiler:He ironically becomes rich [[CutLexLuthorACheque fair and square]]: the WhereAreTheyNow ending reveals that after serving his prison sentence he pulled a HeelFaceTurn and started a highly successful carpet franchise.]]

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' has a VictimOfTheWeek who became this after winning the lottery, though he mostly just spent money on anything that caught his eye and was a decent guy otherwise. Castle actually sympathizes with the guy since he was still in college when his first book became a bestseller and he also spent his new fortune on all kinds of stuff without a second thought.

* In the Gilded Age-set ''Series/TheBuccaneers2023'', The St. Georges and the Elmsworths are from Saratoga and recently made their money in trade, so they're considered too gauche to be invited to the old-money New York parties.

* ''VisualNovel/QueenB'': Bea came into her money from a dead aunt which allows her to enroll into Belvoire. Zoey is nouveau riche as well, which helps her bond with Bea.
* ''VisualNovel/TheUnexpectedHeiress'': The protagonist's father is a wealthy business magnate, but the upper class will look down on them because they lack titles.
* ''VisualNovel/VeilOfSecrets'': The Sterlings look down on the Emersons because they consider their kind of wealthy to be tacky.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', Tad Spencer, one of the Preps, is new money. He is ashamed of this fact and tries to mask it by speaking with a stuck-up UsefulNotes/{{British Accent|s}}.
* ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' has [[ProudMerchantRace Merchant]] [[MerchantPrince Republics]] like [[UsefulNotes/{{Venice}} Venice]], Pisa, Genoa and Amalfi. Anyone from these houses is regarded as lowborn because they make their power through wealth, not through war or through {{blue blood}}.

* In ''VideoGame/MitsumeteKnight'', the Zakroid family became aristocrats of this type thanks to a boom in the diamond and rock phosphate markets. [[AlphaBitch Linda]], the heiress of the family, [[BerserkButton doesn't like at all]] being called "Nouveau Riche" though, because [[spoiler:[[LovableAlphaBitch she worked hard to become an aristocrat and wants to prove to all she's worthy of this rank]].]] However, to get her Ending, she'll have to [[spoiler:[[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted witness the family's business go to bankruptcy]], so she can see the people who really care for her (i.e. the protagonist)]].

** Ai Ebihara's family in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. They were extremely poor, but Mr. Ebihara's businesses suddenly flourished as he hit the right spot, and now they're loaded. [[spoiler:Ai herself, a FormerlyFat girl who was bullied due to her poverty and excessive weight, uses said riches to reinvent herself [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful into a beautiful]] AlphaBitch [[IJustWantToBeLoved in order to be admired and loved]].]]

* Edgar Oinkie from ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' amassed a fortune from black market dealings. He's described as the worst type of "new money" -- rude, loud, uncouth, short-tempered, violent, and gluttonous.
* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', Queen Ellemaria of Misthalin is rude to anyone she perceives as being lower-class than herself. In the "Garden of Tranquility" quest, she sends you to the Wise Old Man for a lesson in etiquette, and he tells you that Ellemaria was a barmaid who married into royalty and really shouldn't be talking. (King Roald, her husband, is typically shirty to you for the opposite reason -- [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething you've interrupted him at work.]])

* Rajan in ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' is a former street rat who made it big by becoming a drug-runner, and eventually a major drug distributor. By the time of the games, he's trying to buy his way into respectability. The first of the two chapters concerning him takes place at his "newly purchased ancestral home". [[spoiler:He ironically becomes rich [[CutLexLuthorACheque fair and square]]: the WhereAreTheyNow ending reveals that after serving his prison sentence he pulled a HeelFaceTurn and started a highly successful carpet franchise.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Michael was a bank robber who managed to get his family into WitnessProtection where they live off of his ill-earned gains in the setting's equivalent of Beverly Hills. Being GTA characters, they are all caricatures of shallow, self-absorbed rich people despite their origins as Mid-Western white trash.
* Nouveau Riche are {{Pinata Enem|y}}ies in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series. You can easily recognize them by their distinct golden suits, and they drop several times the amount of money normal enemies carry despite being significantly easier to fight against.
* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'': Tori's father is the founder of a very successful toy company that has made them very rich, and Tori is both a RoyalBrat and LonelyRichKid as a result. However, [[BlueBlood noble-born]] Tsukasa Suou looks down on the Himemiyas for only being new money and lacking the supposed social graces that he himself was brought up with. (And of course, Tsukasa's family might be noble but [[ImpoverishedPatrician they are starting to run very low on cash.]]) The two are each other's SitcomArchNemesis and constantly bicker over which of them is actually 'superior'.
* This is literally the concept name of Aladdin from ''VideoGame/{{SINoALICE}}''. He started out as a poor boy before he found the magic lamp that made him rich and even married a princess whom he loved. [[spoiler:When she fell sick with a disease that was very expensive to treat, he went out of his way to get the lamp back from the sorcerer who stole it, only for her to have passed away when he got back.]] His regret led him to his obsession with money, believing it to be the solution to everything.
* The man who initially tried to buy the protagonist in the prologue of ''VisualNovel/KissedByTheBaddestBidder'': shows up again in Baba's route. He's described as the kind of person who likes to flaunt his money in the most ostentatious way possible, and his supposed peers are laughing behind his back. [[spoiler:During a spot of burglary, Baba and the protagonist make note of his gaudy possessions and share a laugh at his (lack of) taste]].
* ''VisualNovel/QueenB'': Bea came into her money from a dead aunt which allows her to enroll into Belvoire. Zoey is nouveau riche as well, which helps her bond with Bea.
* ''VisualNovel/TheUnexpectedHeiress'': The protagonist's father is a wealthy business magnate, but the upper class will look down on them because they lack titles.
* ''VisualNovel/VeilOfSecrets'': The Sterlings look down on the Emersons because they consider their kind of wealthy to be tacky.

* A television spot for Creator/{{MTV}} satirizes the idea of Nouveau Riche hip hop artists (which see in Real Life folder); a music video location scout notes that the ideal location for a rap video is a dingy street in a run-down part of town, reflecting the artist's poor childhood and underprivileged roots... but must also be wide enough to accommodate said artist's [[PimpedOutCar brand new Mercedes]].

A typical trait of the Nouveau Riche is the need to float their newfound money through ConspicuousConsumption: Common accessories for this class include [[FurAndLoathing fur coats]], gaudy jewelry, [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes obnoxiously color-coordinated suits]], and gold teeth, as well as a love of equally flashy and gaudy vehicles (usually either European performance cars or [[PimpedOutCar blinged-out]] [[HummerDinger SUVs]]). They also tend to love throwing debauched, drug-fueled parties, and spending ludicrous amounts of money [[InDaClub at similarly overpriced nightclubs or strip clubs]] is their idea of a night out on the town.

A typical trait of the Nouveau Riche is the need to float their newfound money through ConspicuousConsumption: Common accessories for this class include [[FurAndLoathing fur coats]], gaudy jewelry, [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes obnoxiously color-coordinated suits]], and gold teeth, as well as a love of equally flashy and gaudy vehicles (usually either European performance cars or [[PimpedOutCar blinged-out SUVs]]). They also tend to love throwing debauched, drug-fueled parties, and spending ludicrous amounts of money [[InDaClub at similarly overpriced nightclubs or strip clubs]] is their idea of a night out on the town.

** This trope comes up frequently even among wealthy and powerful noble families whose lineage stretches back only a few centuries rather than thousands of years. For example, the Freys are still seen as an up-jumped minor house in spite of commanding quite a lot of wealth and influence due to the strategic position of their twin castles. It doesn't help that the current Lord Walder Frey is notoriously unpleasant and disloyal and a lot of his very large family behave in a similar way. [[spoiler:The Red Wedding elevates them in status, with his second son being made Lord of Riverrun and marriages being arranged for various descendants of his, but it hugely diminishes his already low standing as now the majority of people in Westeros despise the Freys for the treachery.]]

* Creator/SteveMartin's character in ''Film/TheJerk'', along with his girlfriend, complete with looking like idiots in a fancy restaurant, AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted and ConspicuousConsumption, though not in that order.

* In the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfic ''[[http://das-mervin.livejournal.com/311470.html The Wedding Crashers]]'' the Cullens and other vampires are depicted as this, expanding on their book characterization, much to Leah, Sam, and Dean's disdain. Of particular note are the facts that despite Renesmee and Jacob's wedding being outdoors, the decorations are absolutely non-natural looking and instead clash with the location in an attempt to make it look fancier, Leah's dress is criticized for only ''probably'' being less than six hundred dollars, Emmett admits he can't work on old cars because his family buys so many fancy new ones there's no room in the garage for him to keep a single project car, and the wedding gift of a ''lost Rembrandt'' is left out in the open by the beach in the humidity.

* The Cullens in ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' live in a huge, fashionably furnished modern mansion, each of the family members has their own ludicrously expensive car, they all wear flashy, high-price clothing and jewelry in the mostly ordinary Forks, Washington, and Alice at one point simply gives a guard a long out-of-print and very rare $1,000 bill as a bribe. This is especially noticeable because they seemed to have been written this way unintentionally. The narrative of the series treats them as a classy, OldMoney family, and gives the impression that this is just what the author thinks wealth means.

* Charlie Crews from ''Series/{{Life|2007}}'' won millions in a wrongful conviction lawsuit and spends it on whimsical purchases like fancy cars, orchards, and an enormous house that he keeps empty because space was a luxury in prison. Unlike most other examples, his spending is addressed and Ted mentions that he's been taking care of Charlie's settlement and that the investment returns are enough that Charlie's purchases don't make much of a dent in the total amount./
* On ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Lionel Luthor goes out of his way to hide the fact that he's a member of the Nouveau Riche, claiming descent from Scottish nobility and even buying and importing a castle to the US. In reality, he's from Metropolis' [[WrongSideOfTheTracks Suicide Slums]] and made his money by killing his parents and investing the insurance money.

* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', Emma ends up working for the Malders, a new money family. It explores in some detail the upheaval and class conflict created by England's industrial revolution.
** Flashback chapters show that Richard Jones was considered "New Money" as a young man, especially by established aristocrats. In the present, Viscount Campbell is the only person shown to still think of him that way.

* In the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Disney Ducks]] and [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse]] Comic Universes, whenever the Beagle Boys or Peg-Leg Pete become rich (usually through illegal means) they will usually become this. Good examples are Creator/CarlBarks' "The Case of the Sticky Money" and Romano Scarpa's "The Lentils of Babylon" in the formers' case. [[StatusQuoIsGod It's always temporary.]]
** John D. Rockerduck is a more permanent example. He's Scrooge's {{Foil}} in this regard, having no compulsions about actually using the money he owns.

* An incidental story from a children's book has a very poor pixie named Pipkin suddenly getting lots of money from a rich uncle, ending up with the Aesop that sharing is better than selfishness.

* As in RealLife, Molly Brown from ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', played by Kathy Bates. Subverted in that the only people who seem to dislike her for being Nouveau Riche are the other upper-class women. The men (and of course Rose) all seem to like her just fine. She is also a much more likable character than the other upper-class women.

* Ai Ebihara's family in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. They were extremely poor, but Mr. Ebihara's businesses suddenly flourished as he hit the right spot, and now they're loaded. [[spoiler:Ai herself, a FormerlyFat girl who was bullied due to her poverty and excessive weight, uses said riches to reinvent herself [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful into a beautiful]] AlphaBitch [[IJustWantToBeLoved in order to be admired and loved]].]]
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'':
** Junya Kaneshiro is a Yakuza boss who exemplifies all the negative tropes of this on top of his criminal activities and serves as the Target who exemplifies the sin of Gluttony in how his money-grubbing ways are all for him to indulge in excesses.
** Kunikazu Okumura, who exemplifies the sin of Greed. He was the son of the owner of a chain of cafes who was often in debt due to loaning money without collateral, which was why he couldn't buy Kunikazu the model he wanted. Kunikazu then takes charge of Okumura Foods and makes it a corporate giant by starting and expanding the Big Bang Burger franchise through highly unethical treatment of his employees and forcing his competitors to have mental shutdowns. Okumura's ultimate goal is to become a politician by marrying his daughter off to the son of a Diet member.

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* One ''{{WesternAnimation/Daria}}'' tie-in book summarizes Andrew Landon ([[ExtracurricularEnthusiast Jodie]]'s [[EducationMama dad]]) as "nouveau riche and proud of it." His attitude can be seen in some contrast to the OldMoney Sloane family, who are kind of cheapskates. (Just look at [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]]'s [[TheAllegedCar car]].)

How they made the money depends where they come from and when the particular work is set. If British, expect them to be from either OopNorth (with wealth made from industry) or more recently, UsefulNotes/{{London}}[=/=]Essex (with new wealth from the financial sector). If American, expect them to be HollywoodCalifornia people with bleach-blonde ValleyGirl daughters, [[LowerClassLout slovenly white trash]] who won either the lottery or a [[FrivolousLawsuit big-time settlement]], [[FatBastard obese]] DeepSouth oil barons, cattle tycoons, contractors (especially [[SmallTownTyrant in small-town settings]]), (if set in [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica pre-Civil War times]]) a cotton-pickin', slave-whippin' FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit, or Silicon Valley nerds from the dot-com or the mobile services boom era [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense compensating poor social skills with tons of money]]. If black, expect a flashy character from a GlamRap video or an athlete (usually football, basketball, or boxing). If Japanese, expect them to be TheIdiotFromOsaka to act as the negative contrast to the OldMoney ([[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse usually from the Kanto region]]). Especially unsympathetic depictions may give them [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections ties]] to [[TheMafia organized crime]] -- or otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} all-round jerkassery]] and [[TheSocialDarwinist contempt towards the social class]] [[BoomerangBigot they used to belong to]]. Common accessories for this class include [[FurAndLoathing fur coats]], gaudy jewelry, [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes obnoxiously color-coordinated suits]], and gold teeth, as well as a love of equally flashy and gaudy vehicles (usually either European performance cars or [[PimpedOutCar blinged-out SUVs]]). They also tend to love throwing debauched, drug-fueled parties, and spending ludicrous amounts of money [[InDaClub at similarly overpriced nightclubs or strip clubs]] is their idea of a night out on the town.

Often paired with ConspicuousConsumption and AcquiredSituationalNarcissism, and can lead to AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted. OldMoney, in contrast, are usually much more restrained in both taste and spending, as they have no need to flaunt the wealth they've always had and no wish to throw away the family fortune on trivial pursuits.

How they made the money depends where they come from and when the particular work is set. If British, expect them to be from either OopNorth (with wealth made from industry) or more recently, UsefulNotes/{{London}}[=/=]Essex (with new wealth from the financial sector). If American, expect them to be HollywoodCalifornia people with bleach-blonde ValleyGirl daughters, [[LowerClassLout slovenly white trash]] who won either the lottery or a [[FrivolousLawsuit big-time settlement]], [[FatBastard obese]] DeepSouth oil barons, cattle tycoons, contractors (especially [[SmallTownTyrant in small-town settings]]), (if set in [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica pre-Civil War times]]) a cotton-pickin', slave-whippin' FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit, or Silicon Valley nerds from the dot-com or the mobile services boom era [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense compensating poor social skills with tons of money]]. If black, expect a flashy character from a GlamRap video or an athlete (usually football, basketball, or boxing). If Japanese, expect them to be TheIdiotFromOsaka to act as the negative contrast to the OldMoney ([[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse usually from the Kanto region]]). Especially unsympathetic depictions may give them [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections ties]] to [[TheMafia organized crime]] - or otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} all-round jerkassery]] and [[TheSocialDarwinist contempt towards the social class]] [[BoomerangBigot they used to belong to]]. Common accessories for this class include [[FurAndLoathing fur coats]], gaudy jewelry, [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes obnoxiously color-coordinated suits]], and gold teeth, as well as a love of equally flashy and gaudy vehicles (usually either European performance cars or [[PimpedOutCar blinged-out SUVs]]). They also tend to love throwing debauched, drug-fueled parties, and spending ludicrous amounts of money [[InDaClub at similarly overpriced nightclubs or strip clubs]] is their idea of a night out on the town.

* Implied in regards to [[spoiler: Michel Toulonchamp]] from ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose''. [[spoiler: The reason why he squeezes [[ImpoverishedPatrician the Durants]] is their good social position..]]

* Alois Trancy from the ''Manga/BlackButler'' anime series. He flaunts his money and doesn't really seem to care, as seen by the first episode when he tosses bills and bills of money down to his "uncle". Not to mention he is a massive case of CreepyChild. [[spoiler: [[DarkandTroubledPast It's]] [[OrphansOrdeal much]] [[SexSlave more]] [[StepfordSmiler complicated]] [[DealWithTheDevil than]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds that]].]]

* Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}''. Despite being borish and crude, he's decidedly more likeable than the uptight [[OldMoney Judge Elihu Smails]].
* Jack Hartounian in ''Film/CaddyshackII'', a self-made millionaire of Jewish-Armenian descent who still retains his salt-of-the-earth mentality and enjoys a close friendship with his construction workers. he deliberately folds in a poker game against a Hispanic worker with a large family despite his winning hand in order to avoid taking money from him. He makes his money by building low-income housing in wealthy neighborhoods. Naturally, the country club {{Blue Blood}}s don't much like this idea and make efforts to shut down his construction project. As in the first film, this leads to a golf match. Meanwhile, his daughter desperately wants to be thought of as a BlueBlood and is frequently embarrassed by her father's antics, while one of the {{Blue Blood}}s finds Jack's personality a refreshing change from the stuck-up snobs at the club and starts dating him.

* Jim the broker from ''Film/BoilerRoom'' has a multi-room [=McMansion=] in an exclusive neighborhood, complete with a tanning bed in the dining room and an expensive home theater setup in the living room - and almost no other furniture. The protagonist's narration lampshades this, noting that the brokerage is full of guys like Jim who have no idea how to spend the millions they made.

* In ''Film/DumbAndDumber'', Harry and Lloyd accidentally break open a ransom-filled briefcase they had been trying to return to Lloyd's crush. They become this trope immediately - gaudy designer clothes, opulent hotel suite, freakishly expensive car, and outrageous tips to the staff - which is PlayedForLaughs because it falls perfectly in line with the tone of the movie (because they're both complete idiots.)

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', the Whistlers are accused of being nouveau riche a couple of times. However, their table manners and other behaviour are impeccable, Grandpa Alannon was very strict about that, and he had his wives wrapped around his little finger - after kidnapping him [[spoiler:from a castle under siege, where ''Prince'' Alannon had just been taking a bath]], they had to make amends.

* In ''Literature/{{Overenskommelser}}'' by Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt, Seth Hammerstaal is a [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruction]]. Many people think that he's an irritating upstart, who spends an insane amount of money on women. The OldMoney generally despise him, and it does not help that he can be unnecessarily cocky and proud. But it soon becomes clear to the reader, that there is more depth to him than that, And in the end, [[spoiler: he becomes happily married to Beatrice, the story's female protagonist, who is born into an OldMoney upper-middle-class family]].
* In the novel ''Literature/{{Prep}}'' by Curtis Sittenfeld, about a middle-class girl at an elite prep school, there's a paragraph where the protagonist explains how she learned the difference between [[BlueBlood Blue Bloods]] and the Nouveau Riche: "At the time, it surprised me how openly Martha referred to the Maxwells' money, and later, when I went to Martha's family's house in Vermont the first time, I could see that they, too, clearly were wealthy. But there were different kinds of rich, I eventually realized. There was normal rich, dignified rich, which you didn't talk about, and then there was extreme, comical, unsubtle rich - like having your dorm room professionally decorated, or riding a limousine into Boston to meet your mother - and that was permissible to discuss."

** Played with by Lady Catherine de Burgh, who is a member of the landed gentry and of old money, and fancies herself a classy BlueBlood - and yet is rude, ill-mannered, snobby, and, compared to her (untitled) nephew, completely lacking in class as much as any stereotypically Nouveau Riche character. The point clearly being made is that a fancy title and the length of time someone's family has had their money has no bearing on a person's character.
** The one example that might play it straight are Mrs. Elton (and Mr. Elton, who becomes rich by the marriage) in ''Literature/{{Emma}}''. She is overfamiliar and self-important and constantly brags of how wealthy her sister's family is, which drives Emma- and everyone else in Highbury society - nuts. A pointed hint about her father being a "Bristol merchant, for so he must be called" indicates that her wealth is dirty money (Bristol was an infamous slave port at the time). Given that the rest of her work tends to favor the SelfMadeMan, it's safe to assume that Mrs. Elton would be obnoxious no matter how old the money was.

* Richard [=DeVere=] in ''Series/ToTheManorBorn'', in stark contrast to ImpoverishedPatrician Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Where Audrey has the social status and roots at [[BigFancyHouse Grantleigh Manor]], she has no money to keep or maintain the manor. Richard does, and he is ''decidedly'' new money - a self-made grocery tycoon [[spoiler:originally from Czechoslovakia]] who boasts that he will be able to turn Grantleigh into a modern, profitable farm... without really knowing anything about farming.

* In ''VideoGame/MitsumeteKnight'', the Zakroid family became aristocrats of this type thanks to a boom in the diamond and rock phosphate markets. [[AlphaBitch Linda]], the heiress of the family, [[BerserkButton doesn't like at all]] being called "Nouveau Riche" though, because [[spoiler: [[LovableAlphaBitch she worked hard to become an aristocrat and wants to prove to all she's worthy of this rank]].]] However, to get her Ending, she'll have to [[spoiler:[[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted witness the family's business go to bankruptcy]], so she can see the people who really care for her (i.e. the protagonist)]].

* Ai Ebihara's family in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. They were extremely poor, but Mr. Ebihara's businesses suddenly flourished as he hit the right spot, and now they're loaded. [[spoiler: Ai herself, a FormerlyFat girl who was bullied due to her poverty and excessive weight, uses said riches to reinvent herself [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful into a beautiful]] AlphaBitch [[IJustWantToBeLoved in order to be admired and loved]].]]

* Edgar Oinkie from ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' amassed a fortune from black market dealings. He's described as the worst type of "new money" - rude, loud, uncouth, short-tempered, violent, and gluttonous.

* This is literally the concept name of Aladdin from ''VideoGame/{{SINoALICE}}''. He started out as a poor boy before he found the magic lamp that made him rich and even married a princess whom he loved. [[spoiler: When she fell sick with a disease that was very expensive to treat, he went out of his way to get the lamp back from the sorcerer who stole it, only for her to have passed away when he got back.]] His regret led him to his obsession with money, believing it to be the solution to everything.

** In the earlier episode ''A Fishful of Dollars'' Fry finds out that thanks to accrued interest, his bank account now holds $4.3 billion. He spent most of it on 20th-century artifacts, including the MacGuffin of the plot, the last can of anchovies in existence. [[spoiler: After Mom and her minions steal his money, most of it is repossessed and he chooses to eat the anchovies.]]

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How they made the money depends where they come from and when the particular work is set. If British, expect them to be from either OopNorth (with wealth made from industry) or more recently, UsefulNotes/{{London}}[=/=]Essex (with new wealth from the financial sector). If American, expect them to be HollywoodCalifornia people with bleach-blonde ValleyGirl daughters, [[LowerClassLout slovenly white trash]] who won either the lottery or a [[FrivolousLawsuit big-time settlement]], obese DeepSouth oil barons, cattle tycoons, contractors (especially in small-town settings), (if set in [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica pre-Civil War times]]) a cotton-pickin', slave-whippin' FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit, or Silicon Valley nerds from the dot-com or the mobile services boom era compensating poor social skills with tons of money. If black, expect a flashy character from a GlamRap video or an athlete (usually football, basketball, or boxing). Especially unsympathetic depictions may give them [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections ties]] to [[TheMafia organized crime]] - or otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} all-round jerkassery]] and [[TheSocialDarwinist contempt towards the social class]] [[BoomerangBigot they used to belong to]]. Common accessories for this class include [[FurAndLoathing fur coats]], gaudy jewelry, [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes obnoxiously color-coordinated suits]], and gold teeth, as well as a love of equally flashy and gaudy vehicles (usually either European performance cars or [[PimpedOutCar blinged-out SUVs]]). They also tend to love throwing debauched, drug-fueled parties, and spending ludicrous amounts of money [[InDaClub at similarly overpriced nightclubs or strip clubs]] is their idea of a night out on the town.

* Charlie Crews from ''Series/{{Life|2007}}'' won millions in a wrongful conviction lawsuit and spends it on whimsical purchases like fancy cars, orchards, and an enormous house that he keeps empty because space was a luxury in prison. Unlike most other examples, his spending is addressed and Ted mentions that he's been taking care of Charlie's settlement and that the investment returns are enough that Charlie's purchases don't make much of a dent in the total amount.

* The titular heroine of ''Literature/TheReasonWhyRaelianaEndedUpAtTheDukesMansion'' is from a nouveau riche family, in contrast to her (fake) fiancé, who is the king's brother.