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''One fair with lots of money
''I don't know which one to choose
''The flower or the honey''
|'''[[Celtic Woman]]''', "At the Ceili"}}
{{quote|''Marry him, or marry me
''I'm the one who loves you baby, can't you see
''I ain't got no future or family tree
''But I know what a prince and lover ought to be''
|Spin Doctors, "Two Princes"}}
One of the most common complications in the classic [[Love Triangle]] scenario. Two men (in most cases they're men—probably has something to do with a woman needing a man to "provide" for her) are vying for your affection. Who's the right one? It's hard to tell, but there's a good chance that one of them is considerably wealthier than the other, and he can provide security, glamour and the good life, while the other (who has a good chance of being an impoverished artist) can give none of the same. What are you gonna do?
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{{examples}}
== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'': Yusaku Godai is the poor college student, Shun Mitaka is the rich guy who only coaches tennis as a hobby. Kyoko Otonashi spent six years choosing between them, thanks to a rash of [[Status Quo Is God]]. {{spoiler|She chooses the Poor Suitor. The Rich one finds [[The Ojou|a girlfriend of his own]] and they're happy together, tho.}}
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'': Miaka Yuuki is the Suzaku no Miko and main
** Subverted in {{spoiler|Hotohori's character novel and OAV, ''Suzaku Hi Den''. His future wife and empress Houki is in the middle of the [[Love Triangle]]; Hotohori is the rich suitor, while his long-lost brother Tendou Shu is the poor suitor. This time, Hotohori wins. And Shu actually ''dies''... in Houki and Hoto's arms.}}
* With a little bit of [[Shipping Goggles]] applied, ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' can be seen as having this in the form of aristocratic [[Kuudere|Austria]] and rough-and-tumble [[Hot-Blooded|Prussia]] both being interested in [[Hot Amazon|Hungary]]. Atypically, Austria is [[Official Couple|canonly]] the [[Victorious Childhood Friend|victorious one]], but the fanworks that emphasize this trope the most are the ones that believe Hungary would be better off with the "more fun and passionate" [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Prussia.]] And they often apply [[Die for Our Ship]] to Austria to "justify" why Hungary would dump him.
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* Subverted in ''[[The Notebook]]'' as the rich guy is decent and very lovely.
* Played with in ''[[Just Friends (film)|Just Friends]]'' in which Jamie must choose between her former high school best friend who is now a [[Jerkass]], successful [[Casanova]] with a glamorous job in the music intustry and another former friend who has grown up into a nice, down to earth small town paramedic. {{spoiler|Except in turns out the [[Jerkass]] Rich Suitor is really a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] while the supposedly nice Poor Suitor is a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] deliberately looking to break her heart for not noticing his crush on her in high school}}.
* [[Gender
* Given a bit of a twist in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', where Jasmine falls in love with "street rat" Aladdin and doesn't much care for this Prince Ali who comes parading down the streets with an ostentatious display of wealth and possessions. The twist being, of course, that [[Two-Person Love Triangle|"Ali" is]] [[Loves My Alter Ego|actually Aladdin]] who's been turned into a prince by Genie. Jasmine only begins warming up to him when she figures this out and he begins acting more like himself. And it was not like she knew she had a choice between the "two of them", since [[Big Bad|Jafar]] lied to her, claiming Aladdin was executed.
* [[The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas]]: Casino owner Chip Rockfeller and quarry employee Fred Flintstone are rivals for Wilma's affections. The movie twists the trope by having Chip ''needing'' to marry Wilma, who's from a rather affluent family as well, to be able to pay his debts and stay wealthy.
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** He actually doesn't lose. When he and the other guy both manage to bring an identical [[Bride Price]], the girl's father decides to just let her choose which man she wants to marry. However, when she can't decide, it suddenly hits Elya that she doesn't care about him ''at all'' and he surrenders in depression.
** Even Elya faces this choice, sort of. In the old country, the girl he pursued was richer than he was but dumb as a brick. The one he ended up marrying in America, however, was a smart and capable farm girl.
* Deconstructed in James Thurber's fairy-tale parody short story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140922055309/http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/
* In ''[[Many Waters]]'', a sequel to ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]],'' by [[Madeleine L'Engle]], Yalith is pursued both by one of the nephilim, a powerful angelic being who promises her splendor and protection from the oncoming flood, and Sandy and Dennys, the twins from another time, who can't exactly promise a way to save her. However, {{spoiler|she [[Take a Third Option|Takes a Third Option]] when she trusts in the seraphim, [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|who takes her away to be with God.]]}}
* In ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', the backstory had Daisy being torn between common soldier Jay who's away at war and wealthy [[Jerk Jock]] Tom. She chose Tom, but it's implied that she regretted not waiting for Jay and loved him more than she loved Tom. And then this trope is deconstructed every which way when Jay returns even richer than Tom and begins successfully courting Daisy, only for Daisy to be ultimately too weak-willed and shallow to choose him over Tom and {{spoiler|Jay to get shot for trying to cover up a death Daisy accidentally caused}}.
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