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** This one is debatable because it was a matter of how much time they had available for training. Offshore oil drilling is an extremely specialized technical field, and the only real "astronaut-y" task the drillers have to learn is how to operate in a space-suit, something that wouldn't take too long, since they're supervised the whole time anyway. It's not that the astronauts are incapable of learning, it's that there isn't time to teach them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'': Two of Korra's friends are Mako and Bolin, introduced as two rookie pro-athletes, rising stars in the pro-bending circuit... who live in the attic of the pro-bending arena, but previously lived on the street as homeless orphans, struggling to survive and working with local organized crime rings. And being professional athletes in this universe doesn't bring in the big money, as they are still seen struggling to make ends meet (their payment for one match is immediately used up to pay for rent, new equipment, and a loan they took out from the manager for groceries), with Mako having to take an extra job at the power plant and Bolin panhandling for cash. In comparison, the other half of Team Avatar consists of Korra, who has had all her material needs taken care of by the Order of the White Lotus, and Asami, a rich heiress. This trope applies less as the series moves on to the wider world beyond Republic City, and also as Mako gets a better-paying job as a police officer.
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* The Soviet sculpture ''Art/WorkerAndKolkhozWoman'' depicts a male industrial worker and a female collective farm (kolkhoz) worker in a heroic pose. It is typical of SocialistRealism.
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%%* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (Steve Rogers) is a notable Superhero of this trope due to his background Irish immigrant family. %%Example needs more context to make sense on its own.
* Don Martin's ''Captain Klutz'' (from a Mad magazine paperback book) was impoverished nobody who tried to commit suicide from a high-rise tenement, wound up getting wrapped up in some clothing from a series of laundry lines, and inadvertently thwarts a robbery. The burglar calls him a "klutz" before getting arrested. The policeman asks what his name was and dazed he says "I'm a klutz, Captain." So he became Captain Klutz.
* ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} when portrayed as a hero is shown to be highly conscious of being a girl from Gotham's poor district and often acts as a Robin Hood-type hero who hasn't forgotten her old neighbourhood even after becoming TheOneWhoMadeItOut.
* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse has a few examples:
* Don Martin's ''Captain Klutz'' (from a Mad magazine paperback book) was impoverished nobody who tried to commit suicide from a high-rise tenement, wound up getting wrapped up in some clothing from a series of laundry lines, and inadvertently thwarts a robbery. The burglar calls him a "klutz" before getting arrested. The policeman asks what his name was and dazed he says "I'm a klutz, Captain." So he became Captain Klutz.
* ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} when portrayed as a hero is shown to be highly conscious of being a girl from Gotham's poor district and often acts as a Robin Hood-type hero who hasn't forgotten her old neighbourhood even after becoming TheOneWhoMadeItOut.
* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse has a few examples:
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%%* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (Steve Rogers) ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Steve Rogers is a notable Superhero of this trope due to his background Irish immigrant family. %%Example needs more context to make sense on its own.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainKlutz'': The character by DonMartin's ''Captain Klutz'' Martin (from a Mad magazine paperback book) was impoverished nobody who tried to commit suicide from a high-rise tenement, wound up getting wrapped up in some clothing from a series of laundry lines, and inadvertently thwarts a robbery. The burglar calls him a "klutz" before getting arrested. The policeman asks what his name was and dazed he says "I'm a klutz, Captain." So he became Captain Klutz.
*ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'': Catwoman, when portrayed as a hero hero, is shown to be highly conscious of being a girl from Gotham's poor district and often acts as a Robin Hood-type hero who hasn't forgotten her old neighbourhood even after becoming TheOneWhoMadeItOut.
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* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Savage}} Invasion!]]'', Bill Savage was a lorry driver before the Volgans attacked, and his working-class common sense is frequently what allows him to succeed where the top military see no chance of victory.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Savage}}'': In ''[[ComicBook/{{Savage}} Invasion!]]'', ''Invasion!'', Bill Savage was a lorry driver before the Volgans attacked, and his working-class common sense is frequently what allows him to succeed where the top military see no chance of victory.
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** Spider-Man and Peter Parker very believably comes across as a poor scholarship boy whose daily pressures (education, being an orphan, having elderly guardians) was already a strain before his superpowers. It's also there in his identity as a "Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man" and a SmallStepsHero. This aspect tends to be toned down some adaptations (with the exception of WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan) and more recent stories, especially when he became CEO of Parker Industries. Realistically, to continue living in New York, Peter ''would'' have to move up the income bracket and persist in the 21st Century.
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** Spider-Man and Peter Parker very believably comes across as a poor scholarship boy whose daily pressures (education, being an orphan, having elderly guardians) was already a strain before his superpowers. It's also there in his identity as a "Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man" and a SmallStepsHero. This aspect tends to be toned down some adaptations (with the exception of WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan) ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'') and more recent stories, especially when he became CEO of Parker Industries.Industries in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2015''. Realistically, to continue living in New York, Peter ''would'' have to move up the income bracket and persist in the 21st Century.
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* Several observers and Creator/GrantMorrison observe that the original appeal of Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster's ComicBook/{{Superman}} was that of a Working-Class Hero (though as a civilian news reporter he's middle-class) who in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early issues]] tackled the CorruptCorporateExecutive, slum lords, strikebreakers and was a WifeBasherBasher. Morrison specifically compared Superman to ComicBook/{{Batman}} as class opposites, the former grew up on a farm and needs to draw a salary while the latter is filthy rich.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Several observers and Creator/GrantMorrison observe that the original appeal of Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster's ComicBook/{{Superman}} Superman was that of a Working-Class Hero (though as a civilian news reporter he's middle-class) who in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early issues]] tackled the CorruptCorporateExecutive, slum lords, strikebreakers and was a WifeBasherBasher. Morrison specifically compared Superman to ComicBook/{{Batman}} as class opposites, the former grew up on a farm and needs to draw a salary while the latter is filthy rich.rich.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': In most stories where Wolverine isn't an active super hero or living as a wild animal, Logan prefers a low-key, blue-collar lifestyle, usually as some kind of manual laborer and hanging out at the local bar. ''ComicBook/{{Origin|2001}}'' revealed him to have worked in a stone quarry for most of his adolescence.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': In most stories where Wolverine isn't an active super hero or living as a wild animal, Logan prefers a low-key, blue-collar lifestyle, usually as some kind of manual laborer and hanging out at the local bar. ''ComicBook/{{Origin|2001}}'' revealed him to have worked in a stone quarry for most of his adolescence.
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** Music/Alabama's "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')," which calls out various blue-collar jobs by name, such as Detroit automakers and Pittsburgh steel workers, and say they want to "thank you for your time."
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** Music/Alabama's Music/{{Alabama}}'s "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')," which calls out various blue-collar jobs by name, such as Detroit automakers and Pittsburgh steel workers, and say they want to "thank you for your time."
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* A frequently seen trope in CountryMusic, particularly in the 80s and 90s, as the genre became associated less with cowboys and more with rural America in general, which is heavily associated with blue-collar work. This trope waned in the 2000s, but made a brief half-resurgence in the 2010s as part of the "bro-country" movement, which exalted all things "redneck" and living in "the sticks." In this case, being working class is a sign of pride, but mostly a way to finance the truck, the SatelliteLoveInterest, and the booze for bonfires that are the staples of songs from that era. Notable songs and artists:
** Music/Alabama's "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')," which calls out various blue-collar jobs by name, such as Detroit automakers and Pittsburgh steel workers, and say they want to "thank you for your time."
** Music/AaronTippin's "Working Man's Ph.D." which all but sneers at people who don't work with their hands for a living, classifying them as people who don't "pull their weight."
** Music/LeeBrice's "Drinking Class," which makes the claim that working class people are tougher and more resilient, and therefore deserve a good drink.
** Music/BrooksAndDunn: "Hard Working Man," about a blue-collar worker proud of all the skills he has and that he works hard to play hard.
** Music/KennyChesney's "Shiftwork," all about the "joys" of working shifts other than a 9-5 ("7-3, 3-11, 11-7," as mentioned in the song).
** Ty Herndon's "Hands of a Working Man" about a factory worker who is the sole breadwinner for his family and is reassured by the routine of his job; his family doesn't have many material possessions and has a lot of worries, but "he gets what they need/from the hands of a working man."
** Gretchen Wilson's "Work Hard, Play Harder" is a RareFemaleExample, about a woman who works days as a waitress at a diner and nights as a bartender, and is proud to forgo the feminine vanities of upper-class women so she can party.
** Music/Alabama's "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')," which calls out various blue-collar jobs by name, such as Detroit automakers and Pittsburgh steel workers, and say they want to "thank you for your time."
** Music/AaronTippin's "Working Man's Ph.D." which all but sneers at people who don't work with their hands for a living, classifying them as people who don't "pull their weight."
** Music/LeeBrice's "Drinking Class," which makes the claim that working class people are tougher and more resilient, and therefore deserve a good drink.
** Music/BrooksAndDunn: "Hard Working Man," about a blue-collar worker proud of all the skills he has and that he works hard to play hard.
** Music/KennyChesney's "Shiftwork," all about the "joys" of working shifts other than a 9-5 ("7-3, 3-11, 11-7," as mentioned in the song).
** Ty Herndon's "Hands of a Working Man" about a factory worker who is the sole breadwinner for his family and is reassured by the routine of his job; his family doesn't have many material possessions and has a lot of worries, but "he gets what they need/from the hands of a working man."
** Gretchen Wilson's "Work Hard, Play Harder" is a RareFemaleExample, about a woman who works days as a waitress at a diner and nights as a bartender, and is proud to forgo the feminine vanities of upper-class women so she can party.
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* ''Film/BlackLightning2009'': Compared to his jerk friend Maxim and an evil businessman Kuptsov, who both have everything, Dima is a relative nobody who lives in a small flat with his family.
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* Anequs of ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'' is quick to inform anyone that thinks too highly of her position as a female nackie dragoneer that she's the daughter of a whaler who grew up working a farm on a island, never intends a high society life, and wants to take her education back to her people rather than integrate into upper Anglish society.
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* In ''Webcomic/JupiterMen'', Arrio works part-time jobs as a BurgerFool to help his little sister and widowed dad make ends meet. He mentions using his magic powers to light his room at night so he doesn't have to switch on the lights and drive up the electric bill. The author also says that Arrio tries to cut Jessie's hair for her instead of going to a hair salon.
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* In ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', ex-Marine vigilante protagonist John Rumford hails from a humble rural background, whereas most of his major enemies are wealthy, liberal Anglophile establishment types.
