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** Bob is a good source of information about how things are for ordinary people.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': While she is a kind, generous woman, Lady Alice is still a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob who comically lacks understanding of Bob's lifestyle.

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* '''Played for Laughs''': While she is a kind, generous woman, Lady Alice is still a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob UpperClassTwit who comically lacks understanding of Bob's lifestyle.
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** Bob has known [[RagsToRiches AgriTech CEO Alice since they were five-year-old neighboring farmer's children]].

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* '''Justified''': Bob is the only person Alice can be herself with.

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Bob is the only person Alice can be herself with.with.
** Bob helped Alice when she was in trouble, and she became friends with him out of gratitude.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Alice [[ImpoverishedPatrician temporarily loses her wealth]] and is helped out by Bob. This rekindles their friendship and gives Alice increased understanding of Bob's struggles, reducing the impetus for them to fight.
* '''Played for Laughs''': While she is a kind, generous woman, Lady Alice is still a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob who comically lacks understanding of Bob's lifestyle.



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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob's friendship is very blatantly still an unequal, and even toxic one. Class differences still exist between the two, which causes them to relate a lot less to each other. Money itself is also an issue, Bob still being below the poverty line & Alice having more than she'll ever need. This tends to cause arguments between the two until eventually, they stop being friends altogether.



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** Alice, a pizza delivery worker has just received a promotion. She still maintains her friendship with her former co-worker Bob.

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* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''':
** Lady Alice becomes friends with Bob the farmer...only for him to reveal afterwards that he is the King of nearby Troperia in disguise.
** Alice the CEO is friends with the custodian Bob...only for him to get a big inheritance from a rich uncle.

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* '''Inverted''': ???
AliceAndBob come from the upper- and lowermost classes respectively and view each other as their ArchEnemy or at least [[TheRival foremost rival]].
* '''Subverted''':
'''Subverted''':
** Lady Alice becomes friends with Bob the farmer...farmer ... only for him to reveal afterwards that he is [[KingIncognito the King of nearby Troperia in disguise.
disguise]].
** Alice the CEO is friends with the custodian Bob...Bob ... only for him to get a big inheritance from a rich uncle.



** However, then Bob loses his inheritance in a bad stock investment and is back to being the custodian.
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* '''Averted''': No one has friends of a different social/monetary class to their own.
* '''Enforced''': The executives want to send a message about the importance of friendship and open-mindedness.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You're friends? But you're her gardener!"
* '''Invoked''': Lord Charles, Lady Alice's brother, notices she and Bob have a lot in common and hires Bob to take care of the estate's gardens so they can have time together.
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** However, then [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted Bob loses his inheritance in a bad stock investment investment]] and is back returns to being the custodian.
custodian.
* '''Parodied''': ???
AliceAndBob are friends ''because'' they're from different social classes. [[BoomerangBigot Bob hates other poor people because they're poor, while Alice hates other rich people because they're rich.]]
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'''Zig-Zagged''': AliceAndBob go from being friends, enemies, indifferent to each other, and back.
* '''Averted''': No one has friends of a different social/monetary class to their own.
own.
* '''Enforced''': The executives want to send a message about the importance of friendship [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]] and open-mindedness.
open-mindedness.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You're friends? But you're her gardener!"
gardener!"
* '''Invoked''': Lord Charles, Lady Alice's brother, notices she and Bob have a lot in common and hires Bob to take care of the estate's gardens so they can have time together.
together.
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Carol, Bob's sister, begs him to marry her to [[GoldDigger get access to her wealth]].
* '''Defied''': ???Alice and Bob refuse to associate with each other, or a third party keeps them from doing so.



* '''Implied''': Bob and Alice are respectively dressed in rags and finery but are seen talking to each other very happily.




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'''Basic Trope''': A character is friends with another character of a different social/monetary status.
* '''Straight''':
** Lady Alice is friends with Bob, the farmer down the road.
** Alice, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is friends with Bob, the custodian.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** [[TheHighQueen Queen]] Alice becomes friends with Bob, a beggar who came to her gate looking for food and shelter.
** Alice the CEO is friends with the unemployed and homeless Bob.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Queen Alice is friends with Lord Robert, a lower-ranking nobleman.
** Alice the CEO is friends with Bob, one of the up-and-coming junior executives.
* '''Justified''': Bob is the only person Alice can be herself with.
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* '''Subverted''':
** Lady Alice becomes friends with Bob the farmer...only for him to reveal afterwards that he is the King of nearby Troperia in disguise.
** Alice the CEO is friends with the custodian Bob...only for him to get a big inheritance from a rich uncle.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** However, the Troperians don't like Lady Alice, and dethrone Bob for befriending her, leaving him a farmer once again.
** However, then Bob loses his inheritance in a bad stock investment and is back to being the custodian.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No one has friends of a different social/monetary class to their own.
* '''Enforced''': The executives want to send a message about the importance of friendship and open-mindedness.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You're friends? But you're her gardener!"
* '''Invoked''': Lord Charles, Lady Alice's brother, notices she and Bob have a lot in common and hires Bob to take care of the estate's gardens so they can have time together.
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