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* Pretty much all of ''[[The Mighty Ducks (film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' films. The third one really plays it up as the Ducks get scholarships for a prestigious school and instantly butt heads with the current students there.
* Inverted in ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'', in which the children of fantastically rich parents are the underdogs, while a militant troop of middle-class jerks are the villains.
* ''[[John Wick: Chapter 4]]'': After three films of well-heeled assassins in stylish armored suits, this instalment introduces Mr Nobody the Tracker, who wears practical hiking attire, a separate bulletproof vest, and according to [[Word of Saint Paul]] needs the bounty money on John's head to help his mother.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Thud!]]'', the werewolf Angua has to team up with a vampire—which she resents. Werewolves hate vampires, because vampires have ''style'', and make werewolves look like low-class mutts. As Carrot points out, she's gorgeous and doesn't have anything to worry about. Nevertheless, it's something that's ingrained into the psyche of the two species.
** The wizards are generally the Snobs to the Slobs of the city watch, adventurers, or ordinary Morporkians. Due to the nature of the books' changing viewpoints, this is seen from both sides. In a wizard-centric book, the Wizards will be fat and goofy, but capable and wise, whereas the citizens and guards will be an ignorant rabble who doesn't know what they're messing with. In a commoner-centric book, the wizards will seem like a load of pompous, out-of-touch bureaucrats while the commoners are the ones holding everything together.
** ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'', which focused evenly on the wizards and their working-class servants, proved there's some truth to both viewpoints.
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