Being a collection of tropes about those refined upper-class people, whether noble or old money.
Characters
Related:
- Blue Blood: Someone who comes from a noble or aristocratic family.
- Chevalier vs. Rogue
- The Dandy: A normally high status or wealthy man that takes pleasure in caring for his physical appearance.
- Decadent Court: A royal court that is selfish and abuses their power for their own benefit.
- English Rose: An English lady who's beautiful, modest, and upper class
- Fake Aristocrat: A person who passes themselves as being of higher status than they really are.
- Gentleman Adventurer: An independently wealthy man who desires adventure because they refuse to be idly rich. Their original motives can be heroic/patriotic or not.
- Gentleman and a Scholar: A man who manages to be both highly intelligent and a well adjusted, socially engaging and charming person.
- Gentleman Detective: A sleuth or detective who's high class or status and has been raised in a privileged environment and always shows it.
- Gentleman Snarker: A type of Deadpan Snarker that can say ungentlemanly things that only a man who's a gentleman can. Not only limited to men and can be used for women as well.
- Gentleman Thief: A gentleman who is good-looking, good-mannered, and, well, a thief.
- Gentleman Wizard: A posh and well-cultured spellcaster.
- Grande Dame: An elegant older woman who is of high standing, very posh, humorless, and uptight.
- Iron Lady: She's not royalty, but man does she have power, and the tough-as-nails attitude to go with it.
- Lady of Adventure: A woman who has a high standing in society, elegant and composed, but prefers a high-stakes adventure over a game of bridge.
- Lady of Black Magic: A female spellcaster of Black Magic, beautiful and mysterious.
- Lady of War: A lady who is as graceful as she is deadly.
- Lessons in Sophistication: Someone is so out-of-the-know when it comes to proper etiquette and high-society norms that they have to be trained for them.
- Lord Country: When the ruler of land has the same name as the land.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: He's a villain, but he's also incredibly rich and has quite the taste in fashion.
- Millionaire Playboy: A man whose extremely wealthy and quite a stud with the ladies.
- Nazi Nobleman: A wealthy and influential man who is part of the Nazi Party, usually an officer in the Wehrmacht or SS.
- Noble Male, Roguish Male
- Officer and a Gentleman: A man with a military title who is gentlemanly and refined.
- Ojou: She's treated like royalty, she acts like royalty, she dresses like royalty...but she's not royalty.
- Peerless Love Interest: When someone loves another so much that their image of them becomes so perfect and flawless...that they're afraid of actually acting on said love.
- Proper Lady: As ladylike as a lady can get.
- Princely Young Man: A young man who acts like and is given the treatment of a prince, whether or not he really has Blue Blood.
- Quintessential British Gentleman: The most stereotypical depiction of a British man—posh, monocled, chipper, and always open to a nice cuppa tea, jolly good!
- Rich Bitch: A girl who is very wealthy...and very mean.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: An aristocrat that has spent so long—probably since childhood—being around nothing but other aristocrats and their luxuries that they don't know how life really works.
- Socialite: A woman who is rich, elegant, and attends every high-class social event there is, but that doesn't necessarily make her rude.
- Southern Belle: Upper-class lady from down South.
- Southern Gentleman: Upper-class gentleman from down South.
- Spirited Young Lady: A young woman in the upper class who is witty, educated, honest, and cultured, but is also frank, a bit loud, and doesn't care too much about the rules.
- Upper-Class Equestrian
- Upper-Class Twit: As dumb as they are rich.
- Uptown Girl: She's rich, he's poor, and they're both very much in love.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: The ideal image of a traditional Japanese woman is one who is elegant, kind, and submissive without being a total pushover.
Tropes Associated With Them
- Cultured Badass: A badass who is also very gentlemanly.
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: The pipe that only the most esteemed of gentlemen smoke.
- High-Class Glass: Monocles are a sure sign of sophistication.
- Hime Cut: A haircut, usually worn by Japanese girls of upper standing—long, straight, with long bangs cut blunt and straight.
- Ladies and Germs: When the typical "Ladies and gentlemen..." opening is given a comedic twist.
- Lady and Knight: A skilled and courageous knight is sworn to defend a lady (usually younger) of high class.
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Before two characters brawl it out, they lay down some fair ground rules.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: The standard laugh for snobby noblewomen—back of the hand raised to the mouth, smiling widely, laughing "OOOOHHHH-HO-HO-HO!"
- Ojou Ringlets: Corkscrew curls are worn—maybe only worn—by ladies of high society.
- Old-School Chivalry: It doesn't matter what year it is for this guy; he's always going to treat ladies with the most traditional of respect.
- Prim and Proper Bun
- Puddle-Covering Chivalry: Putting one's own clothing down on a puddle of water so someone else can walk over it.
- Regal Ringlets
- Sharp-Dressed Man
- Silk Hiding Steel: Delicate and ladylike on the outside, vicious and ready to kill on the inside.
- Silver Spoon Troublemaker
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Uptight aristocrats vs. other uptight aristocrats.
- Wicked Cultured: Villain who is educated and classy.
