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* ''[[Temptation Island]]'' has bitchy contestant Suzanne (Serafina in the remake), and the pageant coordinator Joshua.
* ''[[The Swan]]'' with Grace Kelly is a take on this that makes twittiness its own punishment. An absurdly proud family of royal pretensions uses servants as toys and tools and thinks kin politics is relevant long after it has been made meaningless by bureaucracy, thus breaking a potentially healthy romance needlessly. The result is the chief villain pines for power, the antiheroine loses her chance for happiness, and all because of their absurd devotion to irrelevant snobbery. The description sounds harsh but the characters are not really unlikable, just pitiable, and even the chief villain is not really evil and her cruelties are petty and the results of frustrations. If they had been happy with the comfort they had and not made a fuss of it they would have been nicer to themselves and nicer to other people. Instead they are a group of rather tragic Upper Class Twits.
* In ''[[Wonka]]'', the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive| Chocolate Cartel]] is this - their gripe with Wonka is not simply that he's making better chocolate, but that he is making it ''affordable'' to the lower class. {{spoiler| It is even revealed that Slugworth - Wonka's most notorious competitor - gained his fortune by cheating his neice out of her inheritance.}}
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