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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Usagi has this relationship with both Ami and Rei. Ami is an honors student who takes her studying very seriously and Rei is a {{Workaholic}}, while Usagi herself is often lazy and tends to not take things seriously. Same goes with her brother Shingo who gets good grades and does what he's told, in contrast to his sister who is BookDumb and whiny.

* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', Germany (all work) vs. Italy (all play).

* ''VideoGame/{{Fatal Fury}}'': Terry is all play, spending most of his time on playing arcade machines and eating cheeseburgers. His brother Andy, however, is all work, spending most of his time in Japan honing his skills. Despite this, Terry was always ahead of Andy because of his greater fighting skills and natural talent.

* Sonic and Princess Sally in ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatam''. While Sonic is one of the most active Freedom Fighters, he tends to treat missions like a game and fool around, while Sally is a humorless workaholic who constantly berates him for being reckless. A lot of the time Sonic's careless attitude gives an opening for the villains, though he has occasional moments of brilliance.

* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Tiana is All Work, Naveen is All Play. [[CharacterDevelopment They adapt and rub off on each other over the course of the movie]].

* ''Webcomic/TrippingOverYou'': Milo's father Eli is a stern, work-focused disciplinarian, while his mother Riva was "silly" and prone to sneaking around behind her own father's back. Despite this, they were HappilyMarried and Eli misses Riva deeply after her death.

* Subverted in a ''Lupo Alberto'' strip: [[Literature/TheGrasshopperAndTheAnts a grasshopper knocks at the anthill's door, the ant tells him he should have worked during summer and to scram]]... And the grasshopper tells him to shut up, because he's there to bring the tickets for his next concert that the queen has bought, and he should hurry in bringing them to the queen before she rips his antenna's.

** Although both of them are definitely All Play to Ross's All Work.

* Combined with TechnicianVsPerformer in ''[[{{Rush2013}} Rush]]''. James Hunt is a playboy, arriving at the track with last night's conquest on his arm and his eyes peeled for tonight's. Niki Lauda will have been there for several hours already, working on his car's setup.

->''"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy."''

* ''Disney/ThreeLittlePigs'': The first two pigs are All Play, while the third is All Work.

* From ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the Pines brothers. As they grew up from childhood, Ford became all work, and Stan remained all play. This drove a wedge between the twins to the point that Ford was willing to abandon Stan for an (admittedly serious) honest mistake. While Stan has become a little better about this in his adult years, Ford largely remains at his extreme. Averted with their nephew and niece, Dipper and Mabel Pines. While Dipper is the more serious, mature twin, he certainly knows when to loosen up and have fun, and Mabel is playful and fun-loving, but knows when to be serious. [[CaptainObvious They get along a lot better than their uncles.]]

* ''{{Catherine}}'': Vincent's two love interests, Katherine and Catherine. [[ProperLady Katherine]] is all work - a strong-willed, mature career woman who wants Vincent to be the best he can be. [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Catherine]], meanwhile, is all play - an impulsive, sexy girl who wants to have fun regardless of the consequences. Vincent starts out as a LazyBum who doesn't really play ''or'' work as much as he should, [[MultipleEndings but he can choose either woman by the end--or neither, and pursue his own dreams]].

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* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Tiana is All Work, Naveen is All Play. [[CharacterDevelopment They adapt and rub off on each other over the course of the movie]].

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* ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally''.

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* The UrExample is in one of the ''Literature/AesopsFables'', "The Grasshopper and the Ant", though that one supports the Ant's philosophy (work first, because winter is coming).

* H. G. Wells ''TheTimeMachine'' has the Morlocks (All Work) and the Eloi (All Play), and is actually an Aesop of the "If This Goes On" variety about the class differences of Victorian England.

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* Averted in Highlights' ''Literature/GoofusAndGallant'' where you are meant to always root for Gallant, the All Work.

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* ''{{Catherine}}'': Vincent's two love interests, Katherine and Catherine. [[ProperLady Katherine]] is all work - a strong-willed, mature career woman who wants Vincent to be the best he can be. [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Catherine]], meanwhile, is all play - an impulsive, sexy girl who wants to have fun regardless of the consequences. Vincent starts out as a LazyBum who doesn't really play ''or'' work as much as he should, [[MultipleEndings but he can choose either woman by the end--or neither, and pursue his own dreams]].
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Nowi is all play, despite being around 1,000 years old. Her daughter winds up being all work, in an unusual example of this trope.

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* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': Haruka, a mischevious GenkiGirl always causing trouble, versus Kanata, a strict stickler for the rules and straight A student. [[spoiler:This is because they're [[PolarOppositeTwins twins]], and while Kanata was always played up as the 'good' twin and expected to do well and forced to act in line with the family, Haruka was constantly told that she was inferior and essentially disowned by them.]]
* ''{{VisualNovel/Nameless}} - The One Thing You Must Recall -'': This is one of the main personality conflicts between roommates/former dolls Lance and Red.

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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': The red team has Simmons (All Work) and Grif (All Play). It's played for laughs.
* Done in ''Machinima/SteveAndCarlos'' with the title characters, Steve being all play and Carlos being all work. Played for laughs much like the inspiration Red vs Blue.
* Deconstructed with Percy and Ava from ''{{Webcomic/Superego}}'' - their extreme stances on the work-play spectrum are symptomatic of their deep issues. [[spoiler: Percy is a perfectionist who suffers from constant anxiety about doing things methodically, while Ava is an attention seeker due to being ignored in favor of her older, "perfect" sister during childhood.]]

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** Applejack is a solid and reliable hard worker, who will faithfully help her friends even at the risk of overextending herself. Rainbow Dash is BrilliantButLazy and would rather nap and save her work for the last moment. Some episodes display a FriendlyRivalry between the two.
** Subverted, however, when Rainbow Dash is pursuing her dreams of a Wonderbolt. She DOES try hard. She's also an example of HardWorkHardlyWorks.
** Twilight Sparkle is the studious pupil of Princess Celestia herself, who can always be found studying or using her powers of SuperOCD to organize an event. Pinkie Pie is a CloudcuckooLander who doesn't always pay close attention to whatever's going on and whose answer to any problem is to throw a party at it. Literally ''at it''; she has a '''party cannon'''.
** This is highlighted in the episode "Magical Mystery Cure", where Twilight accidentally swaps the destinies/lives of her friends. The playful Pinkie Pie is now an apple-farmer. This goes as well as can be expected.
--> ''I ain't much for picking fruit, and ploughing fields ain't such a hoot''
--> ''No matter what I try I cannot fix this busted water chute!''
--> ''I've got so many chores to do, its no fun being me...''
--> ''[[BecauseDestinySaysSo But it's got to be mah destiny, 'cause it's what my cutie mark is telling me!]]''

* Sonic and Princess Sally in ''SonicSatam''. While Sonic is one of the most active Freedom Fighters, he tends to treat missions like a game and fool around, while Sally is a humorless workaholic who constantly berates him for being reckless. A lot of the time Sonic's careless attitude gives an opening for the villains, though he has occasional moments of brilliance.

** Played with with Dexter and [=DeeDee=] (respectively All Work and All Play), where there would be episodes where Dexter would be more relaxed like [=DeeDee=] or [=DeeDee=] more work-minded like Dexter only to turn back at the end. StatusQuoIsGod or an aesop of being yourself?

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* ''DrakeAndJosh'': Josh is All Work and Drake is All Play