Line #18 PlayingWith/InterclassFriendship


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character is friends with another character of a different social/monetary status.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Lady Alice is friends with Bob, the farmer down the road.
4	** Alice, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is friends with Bob, the custodian.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** [[TheHighQueen Queen]] Alice becomes friends with Bob, a beggar who came to her gate looking for food and shelter.
7	** Alice the CEO is friends with the unemployed and homeless Bob.
8	* '''Downplayed''':
9	** Queen Alice is friends with Lord Robert, a lower-ranking nobleman.
10	** Alice the CEO is friends with Bob, one of the up-and-coming junior executives.
11	** Alice, a pizza delivery worker has just received a promotion. She still maintains her friendship with her former co-worker Bob.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** Bob is the only person Alice can be herself with.
14	** Bob helped Alice when she was in trouble, and she became friends with him out of gratitude.
15	** Bob has known [[RagsToRiches AgriTech CEO Alice since they were five-year-old neighboring farmer's children]].
16	** Bob is a good source of information about how things are for ordinary people.
17	* '''Inverted''': AliceAndBob come from the upper- and lowermost classes respectively and view each other as their ArchEnemy or at least [[TheRival foremost rival]].
18	* '''Subverted''':
19	** Lady Alice becomes friends with Bob the farmer ... only for him to reveal afterwards that he is [[KingIncognito the King of nearby Troperia in disguise]].
20	** Alice the CEO is friends with the custodian Bob ... only for him to get a big inheritance from a rich uncle.
21	* '''Double Subverted''':
22	** However, the Troperians don't like Lady Alice, and dethrone Bob for befriending her, leaving him a farmer once again.
23	** However, [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted Bob loses his inheritance in a bad stock investment]] and returns to being the custodian.
24	* '''Parodied''': AliceAndBob are friends ''because'' they're from different social classes. [[BoomerangBigot Bob hates other poor people because they're poor, while Alice hates other rich people because they're rich.]]
25	* '''Zig-Zagged''': AliceAndBob go from being friends, enemies, indifferent to each other, and back.
26	* '''Averted''': No one has friends of a different social/monetary class to their own.
27	* '''Enforced''': The executives want to send a message about the importance of [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]] and open-mindedness.
28	* '''Lampshaded''': "You're friends? But you're her gardener!"
29	* '''Invoked''': Lord Charles, Lady Alice's brother, notices she and Bob have a lot in common and hires Bob to take care of the estate's gardens so they can have time together.
30	* '''Exploited''': Carol, Bob's sister, begs him to marry her to [[GoldDigger get access to her wealth]].
31	* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob refuse to associate with each other, or a third party keeps them from doing so.
32	* '''Discussed''': ???
33	* '''Conversed''': ???
34	* '''Implied''': Bob and Alice are respectively dressed in rags and finery but are seen talking to each other very happily.
35	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob's friendship is very blatantly still an unequal, and even toxic one. Class differences still exist between the two, which causes them to relate a lot less to each other. Money itself is also an issue, Bob still being below the poverty line & Alice having more than she'll ever need. This tends to cause arguments between the two until eventually, they stop being friends altogether.
36	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice [[ImpoverishedPatrician temporarily loses her wealth]] and is helped out by Bob. This rekindles their friendship and gives Alice increased understanding of Bob's struggles, reducing the impetus for them to fight.
37	* '''Played for Laughs''': While she is a kind, generous woman, Lady Alice is still a UpperClassTwit who comically lacks understanding of Bob's lifestyle.
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