History Main / WorkingClassWerewolves

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Film/{{Underworld}}'', where Lycans were once slaves to the vampires, living in squalor and wearing rags. After their rebellion their conditions improved slightly, but they still seem to be stuck living in abandoned buildings or even sewers and have far fewer resources than the vampires, who tend to live in mansions and throw swanky parties. A notable aversion is ''Film/UnderworldAwakening'', where it's revealed that Lycans control [[spoiler: Antigen, a wealthy pharmaceutical company]].

* Inverted in ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', where the titular character [[spoiler: (and his werewolf dad too, as it turns out)]] lives on a fancy country estate.

* A {{justified}} example in ''Literature/HarryPotter''; werewolves often have trouble finding work due to FantasticRacism from other WitchesAndWizards. Case in point, Remus Lupin often wears very shabby robes, looks constantly ill, lives in a half-derelict cottage and only got the job as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher because of Dumbledore's generosity. As if that weren't bad enough, there's a recently developed potion that allows werewolves to safely manage their condition, making them less dangerous to other people and themselves, but it's so expensive few of them can even afford it.

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* The [[WolfMan werewolf father]] in ''Anime/WolfChildrenAmeAndYuki'' was a truck driver- he meets his future wife in a college class when she offers to share her book because he can't afford one. Later his children, also werewolves, grow up poor, living far out in the country because of the difficulties their mother faces raising two wolf-kids in the city.

* A {{justified}} example in ''Literature/HarryPotter''; wizards and witches who are werewolves often have trouble finding work due to the [[FantasticRacism social stigma]] against them. Case in point, Remus Lupin often wears very shabby robes, looks constantly ill, lives in a half-derelict cottage and only got the job as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher because of Dumbledore's generosity. As if that weren't bad enough, there's a recently developed potion that allows werewolves to safely manage their condition, making them less dangerous to other people and themselves, but it's so expensive few of them can even afford it.

* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''The Werewolf of Fever Swamp'', protagonist Grady suspects that the swamp hermit, a weird old guy who lives alone in a shack in the middle of the swamp, is the werewolf. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as it turns out that [[spoiler: Grady's friend Will is actually the werewolf]], although given that the house he says he lives in is revealed to have been empty for months, it's suggested he himself may live in the swamp.

* In ''Literature/KittyNorville'', Kitty is a werewolf who works as a late night DJ. She struggles with her finances until she accidentally starts a talk show about the supernatural, which becomes a huge hit.
* Zigzagged in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', where different ''kinds'' of werewolf are depicted as having different socioeconomic status. Of the four types introduced in ''Fool Moon'', the spell-changing Alphas are college kids who mostly go on to have successful middle to upper-middle class lives and careers. The Hexenwulfen are professionals [[spoiler: with the FBI]] and dress well, apart from their wolf-transformation belts. The loup garou is a wealthy and powerful man, heir to a ''very'' old and influential family through which his were-curse has been passed down. Only the lycanthropes, human-looking but bestially-vicious criminal bikers who operate out of a garage, really live up to this trope's expectations.

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* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' the Bone Gnawers tribe are required to live on the fringes of human society, often as homeless people. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Silver Fangs, who are all European royalty to some extent, and many corporate-minded Glass Walkers.
* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and subsequent vampire source books all portray the Garou vampires as working class, as they are the most bestial of vampires.

Compare and contrast with VampiresAreRich. See also OurWerewolvesAreDifferent.

* In ''Series/HemlockGrove'', werewolf Peter Rumancek lives in a dilapidated trailer and tends to wear the same outfit every day (partly justified in that his family are gypsies, so not having a steady job and moving around a lot comes with the lifestyle). He's contrasted with upir (a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent type of vampire]]) Roman Godfrey, who's absolutely rolling in dough (to the point where his mother once casually rented out an entire theme park for him and his cousin for a night).

* In ''Series/HemlockGrove'', werewolf Peter Rumancek lives in a dilapidated trailer and tends to wear the same outfit every day (partly justified in that his family are gypsies, so not having a steady job and moving around a lot comes with the lifestyle). He's contrasted with upir (a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent type of vampire]]) Roman Godfrey, who's absolutely rolling in it (to the point where his mother once casually rented out an entire theme park for him and his cousin for a night).

* In ''Literature/KittyAndTheMidnightHour'', Kitty is a werewolf who works as a late night DJ. She struggles with her finances until she accidentally starts a talk show about the supernatural, which becomes a huge hit.

* One German folktale revolves around a woman named Trine who, despite being a poor widow, is always able to provide her guests with fresh meat to dine on (meat being quite expensive). One day, a male relative came visiting and asked her where she had got the mutton she served him from. She told him to climb up to the roof of the house and she would show him. Whilst up on the roof, the man saw a wolf attacking a nearby flock of sheep. No prizes for guessing who the wolf really is. The man, being GenreSavvy, figures this out, and when a shepherd attacks Trine, he calls out her name in a panic. Unfortunately, this [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent causes Trine to turn back into a human]] and the shepherd promptly [[CurbStompBattle kicks her ass]], with Trine barely escaping with her life. The source for this story is dated at 1896, making it at least OlderThanTelevision.

* Menu of ''WebComic/CharbyTheVampirate'' was homeless even before being inflicted with lycanthropy and seeing as it takes rare potions to temporarily turn him human again at any time and he spends the night of the full moon frothing at the mouth, he won't be gainfully employed anytime soon. He does currently "own" a cabin, by virtue of accidentally eating it's previous inhabitants.

* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'': Werewolf George Sands had a roughly middle class background, growing up in the suburbs, but after being bitten, he quit his job, became a hospital porter and lives in a cheap house he rents with another guy. This is justified as his condition - involving painful transformations into a dangerous creature every month - make it too difficult to hold down a more steady job. Said roommate is also a vampire (and they live with a ghost who haunts the house too) and so understands what he's going through.

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