History Main / HatesRichPeople

* A variation of this trope is used in ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''. The Matthews family agrees to go to Shawn Hunter's trailer park for Thanksgiving since they don't have the money to afford a nice celebration. Once there, despite trying to be civil, they get caught in a class war with the other residents. The denizens take offense at innocuous mistakes like Alan thinking the Unter residence was Shawn's place and the H was knocked off in [[NoodleIncident a recent goat attack]] and view the Matthews as [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]]. What makes this unusual is how the Matthews' are not rich, just middle class, and the narrative of the episode acknowledges this, but it still causes tensions.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'': Dr. Anna [=DelAmico=] had this attitude, prompting her would-be love interest Carter to hide the fact that he was incredibly wealthy. She found out anyway and basically confirmed his fears by immediately deciding that he'd deceived her in order to ridicule her about her poverty, rather than consider that it was her nasty attitude that made him keep his mouth shut.

** Milan grew up watching his fellow Parisians starve and suffer from poverty, a desire to wipe France of it's arisotcrats so he can start a new society where everyone is equal. Eventually, he lets go of this mindset after finding out that not all nobles are bad and some share his ideals.

This is, of course, TruthInTelevision, as a lot of real-life people, fairly or not, feel distaste towards the wealthy for having significantly more money than everyone else while many people cannot afford food, medicine and housing, a perceived unwillingness to help with global issues such as global warming or famine, not paying taxes proportionate to their wealth, and engaging in exploitative business practice that negatively affects society, among other reasons. Of course, sometimes it can also be put down to [[GreenEyedMonster simple jealousy]]; "They have it, I do not, and therefore I hate them for it."

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': In the episode, "New Age Magic", Akko, who is participating in a workers' strike, goes on to attack the wealthy Diana Cavendish and accuses her of being a blind, cold aristocrat who can't relate to other people's problems due to her higher social status.

* ''Manga/UQHolder'': Santa Sasaki doesn't like most people, but has a pointed hatred of rich people. [[spoiler:It's probably because he was bullied by and later murdered by rich students]].

** Edward Nashton, alias The Riddler, despises the wealthy elite for helping to screw orphans like himself out of the help they need to survive. Part of this stems from, [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne setting up a public fund to help out the unfortunate of Gotham, only for Carmine Falcone and other corrupt officials to swipe the money for themselves.]] Even more ironically, [[spoiler:he hates Bruce Wayne and tries to have him killed (seeing him as a {{Hypocrite}} who's an orphan who lives comfortably while regular orphans like him suffer), but he thinks Batman is his ally.]]

* Downplayed in ''Series/TheDevilJudge''. When Ga-on, who comes from a middle-class background, is taken to a Social Responsibility Foundation event, he meets all kinds of wealthy people there. At a dinner table some of them were gathered at Ga-on watches with disgust and shock as [[PrivilegeMakesYouEvil the most powerful people in the nation bask in their own corruption]], entirely absorbed in self-interest while laughing like insane people in a dramatic scene.

* Dr. Lu Delgado of ''Series/StrongMedicine'' hated wealthy people, believing many of them to be snobs and that they [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney buy their way to better health/medical care over working-class and poor patients.]] This is somewhat [[FreudianExcuse justified]] as she grew up poor, was a single mother and put herself through medical school, and started up a walk-in clinic in hoping the latter classes of people get help and despised whenever big pharma and the like tried to cut her off financially.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Zara loudly and vehemently hates rich people and goes out of her way to be antagonistic towards them. She eventually tells Lana that this stems from having attended a high-class boarding school on a scholarship as a child and being mocked for it by all of her rich classmates.

* In the world of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', "rich" is synonymous with "popular". Sam Manson hates the popular/rich kids, but is revealed to be from a fantastically wealthy family, making her something of a BoomerangBigot.

* Herb Powell, Homer's estranged half-brother in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a Deconstruction as he himself is the rich and successful owner of Power Motors, but is a SelfMadeMan who made his way to the top. His company consists of pretentious wealthy know-it-alls who he wears his contempt for on his sleeve. His downfall in fact comes from deciding to have his next car designed by Homer, a common man he believes is more in touch with his consumers, [[AntiAdvice intentionally ignoring any concerns by his staff that this might fail]]. The project bombs, Powell Motors goes bankrupt, and Herb's second appearance revolves around him trying to work his way back to success again.