History Main / PrivilegedRival

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are clearly this to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Besides the Crusaders' lack of cutie marks, the two [[SpoiledBrat spoiled brats]] also seem to look down on them for supposedly being lower class; Apple Bloom comes from farmers, Sweetie Belle's parents look less successful than Tiara's dad and we don't even know if Scootaloo has a family.

* ''VeronicaMars'': Most of the villains are villainous because they have the money to bribe, cheat, and scam their way through the court system which effectively kneecaps the only thing Veronica can do (sleuth, get evidence, get them in court).
* ''ParksAndRecreation'' gives us Leslie's opponent to the City Council seat, uber-privileged and oblivious Bobby Newport, heir to the Sweetums empire.

* In ''RoundTheTwist'', the Twist kids' nemesis is the rich kid James Gribble, whose dad eventually ends up mayor of their town.

* FairlyOddParents : Timmy's only rival that also has a Fairy God Parent is named Remy Buxaplenty for obvious reasons.
* WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender: Zuko, prince of the Fire Nation is this to Aang, an otherwise anonymous monk before it's revealed that he's the Avatar.

* PowerPuffGirls: Princess Morbucks fashions herself as the [[ColorCodedCharacters yellow PowerPuff Girl]] and is closest recurring villain the girls can classify as a [[TheRival rival]]. Also rich.
* Penelope to AtomicBetty in civilian mode.
* The Smythe-Higgins family from HeyArnold, Arnold's family's intergenerational rivals, are shown to be of the upper-class.
* SpongebobSquarepants: Squidwards's rival is Squilliam who 'got rich doing everything Squidward wanted to do' while Squidward is just a cashier at a fastfood joint.
* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are clearly this to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Besides the Crusaders' lack of cutie marks, the two [[SpoiledBrat spoiled brats]] also seem to look down on them for supposedly being lower class; Apple Bloom comes from farmers, Sweetie Belle's parents look less successful than Tiara's dad and we don't even know if Scootaloo has a family.

* Ryu and Ken of ''StreetFighter'' fame. Ryu is an orphan adopted by Gouken, Ken is the son of a rich hotel tycoon. In order to make sure Ken didn't become a SpoiledBrat and learned discipline, Mr. Masters sent a young Ken (approx. twelve years old) to Japan to study under the watchful eye of his best friend. [[HeterosexualLifePartners Ryu and Ken grew up together, and remain best friends and friendly rivals to this day.]]

* ''{{Tekken}}'' has Asuka Kazama and Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort, who can be seen as {{Alternate Company Equivalent}}s of the aforementioned Sakura and Karin. Asuka is a scrappy street fighter and ordinary schoolgirl; Lili is the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate from Monaco. Lili loses to Asuka in ''5: Dark Resurrection'' and, driven by revenge, spends the next tournament trying to challenge Asuka to a rematch. In her ending, Lili's butler Sebastian comments that fighting is how Lili makes friends, so make of that what you will.
* The {{Pokemon}} Series had this in every generation until Gen V
** Blue/Green/Gary is grandson of Professor Oak, leading researcher worldwide
** Silver is son of Giovanni Boss of Team Rocket
** May/Brendan is the daughter/son of Prof Birch, leading local researcher. Inverted later when the player is the son/daughter of Norman the Gym leader and the humble Wally becomes the real rival.
** Pearl/Barry is the son of Palmer a Frontier Brain

* Creator/JohnHughes' ''PrettyInPink'' and ''SomeKindOfWonderful'' were both movies where there was one rich kid and one poor kid vying for the heroine's affections.
* ''{{Gattaca}}'': Since the film takes place in a world where people where having good genes means success, Anton is this to Vincent despite them being raised by the same family.

* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are clearly this to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Besides the Crusaders' lack of cutie marks, the two [[SpoiledBrat spoiled brats]] also seem to look down on them for supposedly being lower class; Apple Bloom comes from farmers, Sweetie Belle's parents look less successful than Tiara's dad and we don't even know if Scootaloo has a family.

* HarryPotter: Harry's rival Draco Malfoy is from another powerful magic family. His father is shown to have the ear of the Minster for Magic Cornelius Fudge.

* RyuAndKen of ''StreetFighter'' fame. Ryu is an orphan adopted by Gouken, Ken is the son of a rich hotel tycoon. In order to make sure Ken didn't become a SpoiledBrat and learned discipline, Mr. Masters sent a young Ken (approx. twelve years old) to Japan to study under the watchful eye of his best friend. [[HeterosexualLifePartners Ryu and Ken grew up together, and remain best friends and friendly rivals to this day.]]

* SpongebobSquarepants: Squidwards's rival is Squilliam who 'got rich doing everything Squidward wanted to do' while Squidward is just a cashier at a fastfood joint.

* The Smythe-Higgins family from HeyArnold, Arnold's family's intergenerational rivals, are shown to be of the upper-class.

* WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender: Zuko, prince of the Fire Nation is this to Aang, an orphan raised by monks.
** Amusingly, Zuko also has Azula as his PrivilegedRival. Azula has all the ove from their father that Zuko never did, and in Season 2 we have the contrast of penniless, hunted, surviving in a kingdom of his enemies Zuko vs Azula, who has all the wealth, resources, and influence of the Fire Nation behind her.

* ''{{Naruto}}'': Sasuke, while also an orphan, is from the Uchiha Clan, and is noteworthy for his bloodline. Naruto on the other hand knows nothing of his parentage and is looked down upon by everyone.
** This relationship gets a lot more complicated in Shippudden however. Sasuke has pulled a FaceHeelTurn and become a criminal, to say it politely, whereas Naruto has slowly but surely gained the appreciation of the Konoha villagers. [[spoiler: (And it turned out his parents were actually heroes of the village.)]]

* ''[[EarthseaTrilogy A Wizard of Earthsea]]''. When Ged arrives at Roke Island, he gains a rival named Jasper, who's the son of the Lord of the Domain of Eolg on the Isle of Havnor. Ged is just the son of a smith, and is rubbed the wrong way by Jasper's extremely polite but condescending manners.

** This relationship gets a lot more complicated in Shippudden however

* Kentaro Sakata from ''LoveHina'' starts as this in contrast with the poor Keitaro, however he rapidily lost all of his money on her pursuit of Naru and ended becoming just a background character.

* ''AshitaNoJoe'' : Toru Rikiishi is this to protagonist [[JapaneseDelinquents Joe Yabuki]]. The former is more collected and cultured and a better-functioning member of society, with much more experience in professional boxing. Joe is an orphan who has spent his entire life in the streets, is an absolute [[JerkAss jerk]] and his bratty and impulsive behavior induces fear and irritation whereas Rikiishi's induces admiration and respect. Besides, Joe trains in a hovel under a bridge while Rikiishi has a gym built just for him by a rich family.

* Played with in CaptainTsubasa. Tsubasa's fist rival Genzo Wakabayashi is a PrincelyYoungMan who plays for a private school's team full of talented rich kids, so he plays it straight. Tsubasa's second rival, however, is Kojiro Hyuuga, who is ''very'' underprivileged since he comes from a very poor family. (He tries to shame Tsubasa for being from a middle-to-high class family, [[InsultBackfire but fails.]]) Later it's zigzagged with Jun Misugi, another PrincelyYoungMan... but he's actually an IllBoy.
** Genzo ends up having his own PrivilegedRival in Karl-Heinz Schneider, while his and Tsubasa's friend Misaki also has one in El-Si Pierre.

* ''ParksAndRecreation'' just gave us Leslie's opponent to the City Council seat, uber-privileged and oblivious Bobby Newport, heir to the Sweetums empire.

* ''GirlsUndPanzer'' (which [[CounterpartComparison can be dubbed]] as ''Saki'' on tanks) has a school that is without Tankery up until the last year, and is expected to go against: St. Gloriana, who is proud of their history in Tankery; Saunders, who deploys lots and lots of tanks; and Black Peak, who has the legendary Nishizumi Maho and her elite panzerkorps.

* The Smythe-Higgins family from HeyArnold, Arnold's family's intergenerational rivals, are shown to be of the upper-class.

* Naruto: Sasuke, while also an orphan, is from the Uchiha Clan, and is noteworthy for his bloodline. Naruto on the other hand knows nothing of his parentage and is looked down upon by everyone.

* Anime/YuGiOh : Kaiba is the CEO of Kaiba Corp and is self-made.
* DragonballZ : Vegeta Prince of all Saiyans to Goku a low class soldier, or a circus clown.
* GundamWing : Zechs is later revealed to be the missing heir of the Peacecraft name.
* Kentaro Sakata from LoveHina starts as this in contrast with the poor Keitaro, however he rapidily lost all of his money on her pursuit of Naru and ended becoming just a background character.

* AshitaNoJoe : Toru Rikiishi is this to protagonist [[JapaneseDelinquents Joe Yabuki]]. The former is more collected and cultured and a better-functioning member of society, with much more experience in professional boxing. Joe is an orphan who has spent his entire life in the streets, is an absolute [[JerkAss jerk]] and his bratty and impulsive behavior induces fear and irritation whereas Rikiishi's induces admiration and respect. Besides, Joe trains in a hovel under a bridge while Rikiishi has a gym built just for him by a rich family.

* ''Parks and Recreation'' just gave us Leslie's opponent to the City Council seat, uber-privileged and oblivious Bobby Newport, heir to the Sweetums empire.

* JohnHughes' ''PrettyInPink'' and ''SomeKindOfWonderful'' were both movies where there was one rich kid and one poor kid vying for the heroine's affections.

* YuGiOh : Kaiba is the CEO of Kaiba Corp and is self-made.

* AshitaNoJoe : Toru Rikiishi is this to protagonist [[JapaneseDelinquents Joe Yabuki]]. The former is more collected and cultured and a better-functioning member of society, with much more experience in professional boxing. Joe is an orphan who has spent his entire life in the streets, is an absolute [[Jerkass jerk]] and his agressive behavior induces fear and irritation whereas Rikiishi's induces admiration and respect. Joe trains in a hovel under a bridge while Rikiishi has a gym built just for him by a rich family.

* The Pokemon Series had this in every generation until Gen V
** Blue/Green/Gary is grandson of Professor Oak, leading researcher worldwide
** Silver is son of Giovanni Boss of Team Rocket
** May/Brendan is the daughter/son of Prof Birch, leading local researcher. Inverted later when the player is the son/daughter of Norman the Gym leader and the humble Wally becomes the real rival.
** Pearl/Barry is the son of Palmer a Frontier Brain
* Naruto: Sasuke while also an orphan is from the Uchiha Clan, and is noteworthy for his bloodline.

* DragonballZ : Vegeta Prince of all Saiyans

* Avatar The Last Airbender : Zuko prince of the Fire Nation.

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