History Main / LonelyRichKid

** 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 a brother who abandoned the family business, leaving him to be TheDutifulSon. This is [[FreudianExcuse assumed to be the cause of his inability to develop lasting relationships]].

** However, there's a rich kid who's even ''more'' lonely in the group: Vicomtesse Iris Chateaubriand. Her parents were so scared of her enormous PsychicPowers that they locked her in her fancy bedroom and her only constant company were her dolls and teddies. The anime episode where her backstory is revealed is one of the biggest {{Tear Jerker}}s in the SakuraTaisen series.
* In ''CaptainTsubasa'', El Si Pierre is the son of a French nobleman and tycoon who is ''not'' willing to have others treating him like a [[TheWhitePrince a frail White Prince]]. So, to prove to others that he's just like them and doesn't want any privileges, he starts practising soccer.
** Similarly, Mark Owairan is a ''real'' Arabian prince who spent several years in the palace and discovered soccer only when he went out of his gilded cage with his bodyguards and saw a bunch of children playing in the streets. He's so fascinated that he begins training and playing, rising to the top thanks to his own merits and not to his family's influences.

* In 'Hating Alison Ashley' Erica, already dissatisfied with her middle-class family, is very jealous of the rich new girl, Alison Ashley. It takes her the whole book to realise that maybe having parents that bother to turn up to the school play you are staring in is more important than a fancy house and your own room.

** [[spoiler: Athena Tellos]] is another, ''specially'' in her backstory [[spoiler: More exactly, when she kicks Hayate out after their fight, but almost immediately falls into despair.]]

* ''SouthPark'' gives a variant with [[TokenMinority Token]], who went through one episode feeling lonely because he lacked any <strike>black</strike> rich friends he could relate to. He eventually realized that the other South Park kids still liked him anyway.

* In the movie ''Arthur'', Arthur Bach is a LonelyRichKid despite not ''physically'' being a kid.

* A noticeable shortage of close friends. Reasons for this vary wildly: they either mistake you for a RichBitch or JerkJock, are scared of you, or will try to take advantage of your wealth. Maybe you don't have time for them because you're too busy becoming [[EmotionlessGirl icily perfect]] in order to [[WellDoneSonGuy win your parents' approval]]. You may be tired of people trying to befriend you or date you for your money, so you don't trust anyone. Then again, your parents [[GildedCage may not let you leave home at all,]] especially if you're [=~The President's Daughter~=].
* Some form of ParentalAbandonment. Mom and Dad will be either a) dead, b) never around, c) inattentive and uncaring, d) inhumanly demanding to the exclusion of actual ''parenting'', or e) some combination of these. You will have no siblings to be [[PromotionToParent Promoted To Parent]], either. Your BigFancyHouse's population: you. (Well, you do probably have one or more servants; the OldRetainer may even act as a ParentalSubstitute of sorts, but it's -- not the same.)

* ''Mobile Suit GundamSEED'''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 these.

* Relena Darlian from ''MobileSuitGundamWing'' is quite popular at her high school but doesn't seem to have any real friends at first, just admirers and would-be suitors. She seems to be aware of their 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. At first, her only friend seems to be her grandfatherly butler/chauffeur Pagan... until she meets TheStoic HitmanWithAHeart protagonist and her life starts changing.
* The truth is that most to all of the cousins from ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' probably could qualify for this - they all (except for George, [[spoiler:and even he runs into some issues when he wants to marry [[{{Meido}} Shannon]]]]) seem to have rather strained relationships with their parents, who in turn have issues with their ''own'' father. However, as far as outright ParentalAbandonment is concerned, Ange probably gets the truckload - by the time we meet her, her entire family [[spoiler:save one]] is dead.

* Takiko Okuda from ''FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden''.

* TeenGenius VillainProtagonist ArtemisFowl fits this quite well, though his lack of friends seems to be by choice, and his ParentalAbandonment is actually remedied as the series goes on.

* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''{{Narutaru}}'' is 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. 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.]]

* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''{{Narutaru}}'' is 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. 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.]]

* Keisaku Satou in ShakuganNoShana. He's not a totally straight example (as he does have a friend in Eita), but otherwise he fits. He's rich as hell, bored and slightly depressed with it, and feels like he has no purpose. Then [[MsFanservice Margery]] [[ActionGirl Daw]] enters his life, and he falls for her, and unlike Eita, who eventually decides to gracefully decline further service to her mission as a Flame Haze, he still helps her for no benefit to himself, mostly because her presence in his life is removing the "Lonely" from the trope title. In fact, even after she catches on and tries to tell him her DarkAndTroubledPast to keep him at arms length, it only draws him closer to her.

* Christopher "Chris" Thorndyke in ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic X]]'', even though his grandfather is around most of the time and he has several friends at school.

* Tianzi from CodeGeass. Being the figurehead Empress of China meant that she was like a bird in a gilded cage, 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...

* The entire main cast of the anime ''Special A'' qualifies thanks to various relationship traumas during their childhood.

* The [=F4=] boys from HanaYoriDango display this trope in ''very'' different ways.

* Kuno from ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]] could be considered a bizarre variation even though he's rarely sympathetic. He lives in a mansion occupied by no one but his sister and only has one unpaid servent. He's estranged from his dad, behaves in a Outdated fashion, and appears to have no real friends.
* Isabella from ParadiseKiss was raised by her butler, and also had the issues you'd expect from a little {{Ojou}} [[{{Transsexual}} trapped in a little rich boy's body]].
* Relena Darlian from ''GundamWing'' is quite popular at her high school but doesn't seem to have any real friends at first, just admirers and would-be suitors. She seems to be aware of their 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. At first, her only friend seems to be her grandfatherly butler/chauffeur Pagan... until she meets TheStoic HitmanWithAHeart protagonist and her life starts changing.
* The truth is that most to all of the cousins from UminekoNoNakuKoroNi probably could qualify for this - they all (except for George, [[spoiler:and even he runs into some issues when he wants to marry [[{{Meido}} Shannon]]]]) seem to have rather strained relationships with their parents, who in turn have issues with their ''own'' father. However, as far as outright ParentalAbandonment is concerned, Ange probably gets the truckload - by the time we meet her, her entire family [[spoiler:save one]] is dead.

* Serge Battour in KazeToKiNoUta, who is also a HeartwarmingOrphan. His [[BoysLove love interest]] [[YaoiGuys Gilbert]] is also one of these, but that's [[BreakTheCutie the least of his problems]].
* In 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.

** PokemonSpecial: Played straight with Platinum, averted with Gold.

* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''{{Narutaru}}''. Her [[AbusiveParents parents]] cared more for her grades in school than her emotional well-being and her father cut ties with her only friends. It's no wonder the 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.]]

* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''{{Narutaru}}''. Her [[AbusiveParents parents]] cared more for her grades in school than her emotional well-being and her father cut ties with her only friends. It's no wonder the girl [[{{Yandere}} snapped]] once they [[BreakTheCutie broke her]] and she [[spoiler:went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and kills [[SelfMadeOrphan both her parents and her bullies.]]

* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''{{Narutaru}}''. Her [[AbusiveParents parents]] cared more for her grades in school than her emotional well-being. It's no wonder [[BreakTheCutie she]] [[{{Yandere}} snapped]] when she when on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* Takiko Okuda from ''FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden''

So, I feel all alone''\\

-->--''Tony Stark regarding Whitney Stane, IronManArmoredAdventures''


->'''Cecilia''': ''"It's my parents."''
->'''Louie''': ''"What about your parents? Do they beat you?"''
->'''Cecilia''': ''"No! They're just... never around."''
->-- ''[=~We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story~=]''

* In CaptainTsubasa, El Si Pierre is the son of a French nobleman and tycoon who is ''not'' willing to have others treating him like a [[TheWhitePrince a frail White Prince]]. So, to prove to others that he's just like them and doesn't want any privileges, he starts practising soccer.

* This is RichBitch Mayu Miyuki's FreudianExcuse in AiYoriAoshi.

* Kuno from 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 and only has one unpaid servent. He's estranged from his dad, behaves in a Outdated fashion, and appears to have no real friends.