Basic Trope: Someone who has a dislike for wealthy people.
- Straight: Anna hates the rich Charlie for exploiting the poor.
- Exaggerated:
- Anna despises the upper-class to the point of leading a revolution against them.
- Anna had Charlie over for dinner.
- Downplayed: Anna makes some snide remarks about Charlie's wealth here and then, but doesn't outright antagonize him.
- Justified:
- Charlie is evil and commits crimes against the lower class.
- Charlie mocks Anna (and poor people in general) for coming from a poor background.
- Anna is an anarchist/socialist/communist who despises capitalists/aristocrats like Charlie as a matter of principle.
- Anna resents Charlie because he's used his wealth for frivolous amusement and never spends a dime on helping the less fortunate.
- Anna lashes out on Charlie because she finds it unfair that she works her ass off and remains destitute while Charlie lucked his way into obtaining a fortune in spite of having no professional skills to speak of.
- Inverted:
- Charlie hates Anna for being poor.
- Anna loves Charlie for being rich.
- Subverted: Anna seems to hate Charlie because of his excess wealth at first but it's later revealed that she hates him for his terrible sense of humor...
- Double Subverted: ...and also for his wealth.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Anna has a love-hate relationship with Charlie in regards of his money.
- Averted: Anna doesn't feel a particular way about Charlie's social status.
- Enforced: "Part of Anna's character is that she's not willing to trust people she has reason to believe are bad, and we all know how often the wealthy like to screw other people over, so let's make it so she doesn't have the best first impression of Charlie."
- Lampshaded: "Anna really never misses the chance to criticize Charlie's social status."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Deconstruction: Anna's hatred of Charlie for being rich stemmed from envy of his affluence and seeming success in life. No sooner that he was 'gotten rid of', Anna helped herself with his riches and became what she professed to hate.
- Reconstruction: Anna enviously hated Charlie for his affluence and success, but her hatred was actually justified because Charlie was a Corrupt Corporate Executive and/or Upper-Class Twit who never worked a day for his inherited fortune and/or got it from unscrupulous business practices that ruined many lives, while Anna had legitimately worked hard throughout her whole life for undeservingly little gain. All in all, Charlie was a greedy and selfish bastard who do not deserved his prosperity but deserved every bit of hatred legitimate or not that he received from not only Anna but everyone else, and no one would miss or defend him if he was gone or get what he deserves and Anna help herself to his riches.
- Defied:
- Charlie donates all of his wealth to a charity so he wouldn't be taunted by Anna for being well-off.
- Anna makes it her personal principle to never judge people based on their wealth, including the rich.
- Discussed: "I know lots of rich people do unethical things, Anna, but I have no reason to believe your scorn for Charlie is justified."
- Conversed: "Do the main characters of this show think everyone who's wealthy is automatically a scumbag?"
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