Basic Trope: One sibling is much wealthier than the other.
- Straight: Alice lives in luxury while her brother Bob struggles to pay rent.
- Exaggerated: Alice is one of the wealthiest people on Earth while Bob is penniless and homeless.
- Downplayed: Alice is upper middle class while Bob is lower middle class.
- Justified:
- Alice has a better paying job and is more responsible with money while Bob is a Money Dumb minimum wage employee.
- Alice and Bob are half-siblings or step-siblings and Alice's side of the family is much wealthier than Bob's.
- Alice won the lottery.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob have the exact same income and net worth, down to the penny.
- Subverted: Either Alice goes broke or Bob suddenly gains a windfall, making them equal in terms of wealth.
- Double Subverted: This change of fortune doesn't last long because Status Quo Is God.
- Parodied: ??
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob are constantly stealing money from each other. Whenever Alice is rich, Bob isn't (and vice versa).
- Averted: Alice and Bob's financial statuses are never brought up.
- Enforced: The writers want to emphasize Alice and Bob's Sibling Yin-Yang by giving them vastly different financial statuses.
- Lampshaded:
- "Do you feel weird about the fact that you have so much money, but your brother is totally broke?"
- "Wow, you never mentioned that your sister was rolling in cash!"
- Invoked: Alice and Bob's parents left all their money solely to Alice before passing away because they thought Alice deserved it more than Bob.
- Exploited: Carol stokes Bob's envy and resentment against Alice to manipulate him.
- Defied: Alice gives half her money to Bob so they can be equal.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice's clothes look more expensive than Bob's.
- Deconstructed: Alice is smug and conceited because of her wealth and Bob deeply resents her for flaunting her cash while he struggles to make end's meet.
- Reconstructed: Alice apologizes for her behavior and Bob lets go of his resentment because he still loves her.
- Played for Laughs: Alice casually tosses Bob a huge wad of cash when he asks her for a few dollars.
- Played for Drama: Bob kills Alice because he's her only living relative and would inherit her enormous estate.
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