History Main / InterclassFriendship

* [[The Cheetah Girls Film/TheCheetahGirls]] consist of 4 friends, where Aqua, Chanel, and Galleria come from more well-off families, while Dorinda is a foster child who works as a janitor at the community center.

* ''{{Anime/Doraemon}}'': Rich kid Suneo is friends with middle-class Gian, Shizuka, and (while not bragging about his family's wealth, teasing, and playing pranks on him) Nobita.

* ''Anime/Doraemon'': Rich kid Suneo is friends with middle-class Gian, Shizuka, and (while not bragging about his family's wealth, teasing, and playing pranks on him) Nobita.

** This also happens between London and Bailey, a small town farm girl, in The Suite Life On Deck.

* The basic plot of ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''. Max Black is a diner waitress and high school dropout. She doesn't know who her father is and frequently references her broken childhood. Whereas Caroline Channing is a socialite daughter with a horse named Chestnut who ends up broke. She tells everyone about her college experiences at Wharton.

* The basic plot of Series/TwoBrokeGirls. Max Black is a diner waitress and high school dropout. She doesn't know who her father is and frequently references her broken childhood. Whereas Caroline Channing is a socialite daughter with a horse named Chestnut who ends up broke. She tells everyone about her college experiences at Wharton.

* Princess Vivi from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is an HonoraryTrueCompanion of the Straw Hat pirates, most of whom come from lower class backgrounds.

Often times the friendship will be [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic]] in nature due to the difference in upbringing. Expect the rich friend to be insensitive to the commoner's living and the commoner believing the rich to be snobbish.

Another common plot is having the rich friend [[BrokeEpisode lose all their money]] and move in with their poorer friend. HilarityEnsues as they learn what it's like to be "poor".

* VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics had Ramza Beoulve, a noble, and Delita Heiral, a commoner, whose friendship was akin to brotherhood. It's Deconstructed as the nobility and high class like Argath looked down on the friendship and Delita was conscious of the prejudice. Also, the friendship didn't last as the game progress.
* in ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster'', Yayoi Takatsuki who became an idol to help her large and poor family is best friends with Iori Minase who comes from a wealthy family and became an idol to be acknowledged.

* In ''Videogame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series, there's the second FriendlyRivalry after Ryu and Ken: Sakura Kasugano, who is a common schoolgirl who wants to emulate her idol Ryu, and Karin Kanzuki, a heiress of a rich family who practices an exclusive martial arts.
* Franchise/StreetFighter has Ryu, a [[WalkingTheEarth wandering]] martial artist and Ken, a martial artist born rich. The two trained under Gouken and became both {{Friendly Rival}}s and HeterosexualLifePartners.
* Asuka Kazuma and Emilie De Rochefort from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' plays with this trope. The two are rivals with the latter wanting to constantly fight the former to her utter annoyance. However, one ending implies that Lili wants to be friends with Asuka but doesn't know how to express it except by fighting her. And then there's Asuka's 7 ending of [[spoiler:Lili buying her family's struggling dojo and moving in with her house]].

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** Working class Patti Mayonnaise is best friends Beebe Bluff whose family are rich and the founder of Bluffington.

* Poor orphan Asuna from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has been VitriolicBestBuds with the [[Fiction500 ridiculously wealthy]] Ayaka ever since preschool.

** Token Black and his family are the only rich people in South Park. Feeling he didn't fit in with his poorer friends, Token tried and succeeded in bringing more rich people and their kids. Unfortunately, he even has less in common with them. [[ItMakesSenseInContext After spending times with some lions]], he realize that he did belong with his poorer friends.

** Stan, Kyle, Eric and Kenny are also this. Stan and Kyle comes from a working middle class family while Kenny and Eric are the poorest kids in town. Though, calling Eric a [[TheFriendNobodyLikes friend]] might be stretching it

* During the early days of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' there was Peter Parker, living with his widow aunt May Parker, and Harry Osborn, son of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil business man]] Norman Osborn. Sadly, the friendship falls apart thanks to learning Osborn was the Green Goblin and Peter was Spider-Man and thinking he killed him. Indeed, in Peter's circle in college, the only one of his friends who shared his working-class background was ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Something like this happened in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E6AFishfulOfDollars A Fishful of Dollars]]". Normally, Bender the bending robot and Fry the delivery man are at about the same social standing, but the seventy-five cents Fry had on his bank account when he was [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] in the year 2000 had become a 4.3 billion dollar balance after 1,000 years of interest.

** DependingOnTheWriter and continuity, Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}} are this. Clark Kent is a refugee space alien raised by the Kents on a farm and who is a reporter and Bruce Wayne is from the wealthy Wayne family and one of the riches man in the DC Universe. The relationship tends to fall in the VitriolicBestBuds because of their own world views. Though, they do respect each other.

* During the early days of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' there was Peter Parker, living with his widow aunt May Parker, and Harry Osborn, son of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil business man]] Norman Osborn. Sadly, the friendship falls apart thanks to learning Osborn was the Green Goblin and Peter was Spider-Man and thinking he killed him

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Harry is implied to be somewhere between very and ''obscenely'' rich. Ron, his best friend, is a member of the poorest family depicted in the novels.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Arya, a member of the most powerful noble house in the North, has such a friendship with Mycah, a butcher's son, at the beginning of the first book. It ends poorly when [[RoyalBrat Prince]] [[EnfantTerrible Joffrey]] has Mycah killed over a minor offence.

Interclass Friendship is when people are friends regardless of their vastly different social status. This is usually represented by a rich person being chummy with a commoner. Though, a master-servant or employer and employee relationship is just as common.

Often times the friendship will be [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic]] in nature because of how they were raise. Expect the rich to be insensitive to the commoner's living and commoner believing the rich to be snobbish.

A common plot that may happen is that the poorer friend would need money badly. Logic would indicate that it be an easy solution for the richer friend to give them money. However, the poorer friend would have too much pride to accept the offer and instead earn their keep.

Another common plot is having the rich friend [[BrokeEpisode lose all their money]] and move in with their poorer friend. HilarityEnsues as they learn the "commoners" way of living.

The romantic variant of this is UptownGirl. Might also be seen as the mundane version of PalsWithJesus. See OddCouple which can overlap with this trope.

* Every single troll in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', given their FantasticCasteSystem, is essentially this trope to another troll. Notable examples include Feferi, [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething the next in line to rule the planet]], and Sollux, a [[FantasticRacism lowblood]] (although the exact nature of their relationship is unclear); the [[AlienBlood literal]] BlueBlood [[NobleBigot Equius]]' [[PlatonicLifePartners moirallegiance]] with Nepeta, who's low- to middle-class; and the [[AristocratsAreEvil seadweller]] Eridan's friendship with Karkat, a mutant.

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* The four lead characters in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. Ruby and Yang are both from a middle class background, Weiss is the heiress to the largest [[AppliedPhlebotinum Dust]] supplier in the world, and Blake is a runaway [[spoiler:[[SecretlyWealthy who also happens to be the daughter of Menagerie's chieftain]]]].
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* Franchise/TheDCU

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* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''.

* ''VideoGame/SenranKagura''

* The four lead characters in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. Ruby and Yang are both from a middle class background, Weiss is the heiress to the largest [[AppliedPhlebotinum Dust]] supplier in the world, and Blake is a runaway [[spoiler:[[SecretlyWealthy who also happens to be the daughter of Menagerie's chieftain]].]]

* Every single troll in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', given their FantasticCasteSystem, is essentially this trope with each other. Notable examples include Feferi, [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething the next in line to rule the planet]] and Sollux, a [[FantasticRacism lowblood]] (although the exact nature of their relationship is unclear); [[AlienBlood literal]] BlueBlood [[NobleBigot Equius']] [[PlatonicLifePartners moirallegiance]] with Nepeta, who's low- to middle-class; and [[AristocratsAreEvil seadweller]] Eridan's friendship with Karkat, a mutant.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Ayla, a kid from the richest family in America, is friends with Generator, the orphaned child of a street level thug, and Aqurena, a from "low-income family in Zanesville, Ohio".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Something like this happened in one of the first episodes of the series, in which Bender is a bending robot that likes to steal and Fry was once a pizza deliver, but the few saved money he had in the bank became millions (and probably billions) because of 1.000 years of interests.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Asami, a rich heiress, [[AmicableExes remains friends]] with former [[StreetUrchin Street Urchins]] Mako and Bolin after [[UptownGirl her relationship with Mako]] ends. Same goes for Korra who is both TheChiefsDaughter and the Avatar.

* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' has a twofer as its set in the 1920's UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. There's Tiana, a poor, working black cook who dreams of owning a restaurant and Charlotte, a wealthy white debutante who dreams of marrying a prince. Despite not only a economical standing and a racial one, the two are ChildhoodFriends who are very supportive to one another. Charlotte even helped out Tiana by hiring her to cater her party for the visiting Prince Naveen.

* The basic plot of Series/TwoBrokeGirls. Max Black is a diner waitress and high school dropout. She doesn't know who her father is and frequently references her broken childhood. Whereas Caroline Channing is a socialite daughter with a horse named Chestnut. She tells everyone about her college experiences at Wharton.

** There's also Cory's brother Eric Matthews being friends with Shawn's brother
Jack Hunter whose family is more well off.

** Series/BoyMeetsWorld.
Cory Matthews and Shawn Hunter. Cory comes from a middle-class, two-parent family. Shawn lives in the Pink Flamingo Trailer Park with both a MissingMom and [[WhenYouComingHomeDad a barely there dad]].