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* Sunny of the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'' has felt let down by her older brother Dale since he started [[DrugsAreBad using drugs and drinking]], and her feelings about him, his actions, and his absence are complex, deep, and PlayedForDrama, especially because she [[BigBrotherWorship looked up to him]]. He starts to improve after he adapts to the changes including a stint in MilitarySchool, [[RecoveredAddict gets off drugs and drinking]], and enrolls in the Navy.
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* Usagi from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' gets no respect from her little brother Shingo because she's such a crybaby, a klutz, and a terrible student. After she gets locked out of the house for failing a test, he says he wishes he had a smarter sister.

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* Usagi from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' gets no respect from her little brother Shingo because she's such a crybaby, a klutz, and a terrible student. After she gets locked out of the house by their mother for failing a test, he says he wishes he had a smarter sister.

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* ''Literature/FullDive'': Main character Hiroshi Yuuki was the star runner of his school's track team, which earned him his younger sister Kaede's admiration. However, after quitting the team [[BringMyBrownPants due to pissing himself in public]] and becoming a [=VRMMO=]-playing {{NEET}}, she constantly [[BrokenPedestal looks at him with scorn and disparages him when she gets the chance]]. This clearly frustrates him, though his mother points out that [[{{Tsundere}} she]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre simply wants him to be her "cool big brother" again]].


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* ''Literature/FullDive'': Main character Hiroshi Yuuki was the star runner of his school's track team, which earned him his younger sister Kaede's admiration. However, after quitting the team [[BringMyBrownPants due to pissing himself in public]] and becoming a [=VRMMO=]-playing {{NEET}}, she constantly [[BrokenPedestal looks at him with scorn and disparages him when she gets the chance]]. This clearly frustrates him, though his mother points out that [[{{Tsundere}} she]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre simply wants him to be her "cool big brother" again]].
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* Terry from ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' is the Earth Elemental big brother among four elemental siblings, and a total disappointment to his brother and sisters. They're not afraid to ''say it aloud'' to his face, too - Water Elemental Wanda and Fire Elemental Fiona immediately tries to drown and incinerate Terry, respectively, when he tries an audience with them, and the only one who shows some minor degree of respect at Terry is Wind Elemental Brent, but even then Brent is obviously trolling Terry at every turn.

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* Despite having qualities of TheAce, Connie & Lonnie from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' are seen as this by their little sister Bonnie due to them being [[BigBrotherBully bullies]] towards her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Despite having qualities of TheAce, Connie & Lonnie from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' are seen as this by their little sister Bonnie due to them being [[BigBrotherBully bullies]] towards her.her.
* ''WesternAnimation/ParadisePD'': Kevin is this to Baby Kevin in season 4; his parents give the latter far more attention and respect than him due to his LoserProtagonist status.



* {{Downplayed}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}.'' [[LovableJock Sporty]] Vince begins one episode [[BigBrotherWorship talking about how cool]] his older brother Chad is when he's actually a huge nerd, something Vince apparently hadn't realized until his friends point it out and Chad himself confirms it. He spends the rest of the episode trying to reconcile this information with the way that he's always thought of Chad before, but ends it happily idolizing his brother once again when he successfully threatens a bully and makes them back down.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Lisa Simpson sees her older brother Bart as an immature and poorly behaved underachiever, not helped by the constant pranks he pulls on her. Marge and Homer agree and even put her in charge of babysitting him one evening (which, unsurprisingly, does not go well).

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* {{Downplayed}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}.'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''. [[LovableJock Sporty]] Vince begins one episode [[BigBrotherWorship talking about how cool]] his older brother Chad is when he's actually a huge nerd, something Vince apparently hadn't realized until his friends point it out and Chad himself confirms it. He spends the rest of the episode trying to reconcile this information with the way that he's always thought of Chad before, but ends it happily idolizing his brother once again when he successfully threatens a bully and makes them back down.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Rigby is generally compared to Don by his parents (mainly his dad) for his laziness, immaturity, and incompetence. However, Don himself actually looks up to Rigby; he even admitted to have tried to emulate the latter to look cool.
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Lisa Simpson sees her older brother Bart as an immature and poorly behaved underachiever, not helped by the constant pranks he pulls on her. Marge and Homer agree and even put her in charge of babysitting him one evening (which, unsurprisingly, does not go well).

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* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamonAndPearl'' with Paul's attitude towards his older brother, Reggie. While Paul doesn't hate his older brother Reggie, he sees Reggie’s "kindness to his Pokémon" part of his training style as a disappointment. However, Paul respects Reggie enough to leave his Pokémon with the latter for breeding.

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* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamonAndPearl'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'' with Paul's attitude towards his older brother, Reggie. While Paul doesn't hate his older brother Reggie, he sees Reggie’s "kindness to his Pokémon" part of his training style as a disappointment. However, Paul respects Reggie enough to leave his Pokémon with the latter for breeding.


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* ''Webcomic/TheGreatestEstateDeveloper'' has OG!Lloyd be the complete disgrace that not only publicly ruins the reputation of the Frontera family, but also directly bullies his younger brother Julian. When Suho Kim gets reincarnated as Lloyd, it takes a ConflictKiller in the form of Lloyd taking revenge on Julian's bullies for Julian to decide to give the new Lloyd a chance.
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* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s AJ Quartermaine was this, being a perpetual alcoholic screw-up in contrast to his golden-boy younger brother Jason, a straight-A varsity pre-medical student. Even after Jason abandoned his old life following a head injury that left him with no memory of it (thanks to AJ, no less), the family still had this attitude.
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* LoserProtagonist Ryohei Arisu in ''Series/AliceInBorderland'' had a FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling relationship with his younger brother Hajime. Ryohei was a BrilliantButLazy {{NEET}} who dropped out of college to spend all his time playing video games and goofing off with his friends, while Hajime had a respectable IT job and [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out for not even showing up to the interview he helped him get]] in his first appearance.
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* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'': PlayedForLaughs in the case of Damian Wayne and Tim Drake. Due to Tim being completely overwhelmed by Jason Todd's return, he's unable to speak coherently to anyone for a while, leading Damian to believe he's an idiot.

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* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'': ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeNyame'': PlayedForLaughs in the case of Damian Wayne and Tim Drake. Due to Tim being completely overwhelmed by Jason Todd's return, he's unable to speak coherently to anyone for a while, leading Damian to believe he's an idiot.
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* ''Fanfic/MoralOfTheStoryNyame'': The story deconstructs Oliver's treatment of Thea in the latter half of Season Two, pointing out that Oliver's actions during that season made him into an absolutely terrible brother to her. Between accidentally driving Laurel to suicide and causing Sara to sell herself back to the League just to bring Laurel BackFromTheDead, keeping the danger Slade posed to them all secret from Moira and her (which led to Slade blindsiding them and ''killing Moira''), and blackmailing her boyfriend into lying to her using his condition as an unwilling super soldier, at one point even trying to force Roy to break up with her, Thea understandably has an extremely low opinion of Oliver. When she learns that he ignored Laurel's suspicions about Blood because of the latter's addiction issues (the same issues that he would accidentally drive Laurel to suicide over weeks later), another thing that indirectly contributed to Moira's death, Thea has enough and can't stand to be around Oliver anymore if he's going to act like this, so she goes to Gotham to join [[CoolBigSis Laurel]] instead.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' with Paul's attitude towards his older brother, Reggie. While Paul doesn't hate his older brother Reggie, he sees Reggie’s "kindness to his Pokemon" part of his training style as a disappointment. However, Paul respects Reggie enough to leave his Pokémon with the latter for breeding.

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* Zig-zagged in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamonAndPearl'' with Paul's attitude towards his older brother, Reggie. While Paul doesn't hate his older brother Reggie, he sees Reggie’s "kindness to his Pokemon" Pokémon" part of his training style as a disappointment. However, Paul respects Reggie enough to leave his Pokémon with the latter for breeding.
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* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', the Kirigaya siblings have [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul a much more antagonistic relationship than in canon.]] Suguha constantly mocks and belittles her older brother Kazuto for his interest in computers and video games, leading Kazuto to hate her as a JerkJock who exists solely to make him miserable. [[spoiler:The root of this turns out to be kendo: when they were younger, Suguha [[BigBrotherWorship wanted to be just like her brother]] and followed him into the sport, but then he dropped out and took up computer coding, leaving Suguha to soldier on through her [[StayInTheKitchen sexist grandfather's]] TrainingFromHell in a vain attempt to lure Kazuto back. This not only led Suguha to reject her own femininity as a weakness, she also came to despise her brother for abandoning her to do "stupid nerd shit."]]
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** A big deal is made about Eddy's older brother, though we never see him on screen. He's often treated as a "mythical" figure by the kids of the cul-de-sac. Come the movie, we finally do get to meet him, and he's [[{{Jerkass}} a douchebag bully]], and everyone gets disillusioned by him.

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** A big deal is made about Eddy's older brother, though we never see him on screen. He's often treated as a "mythical" figure by the kids of the cul-de-sac. cul-de-sac, although [[TheDreaded Rolf and Kevin are terrified of him]]. Come the movie, we finally do get to meet him, and but he's [[{{Jerkass}} a douchebag bully]], {{sadist}}ic BigBrotherBully and everyone that didn't already know this gets [[BrokenPedestal disillusioned by him.him]]. It's also implied that Eddy's parents were aware of his antisocial qualities and were [[ToughLove harsh on Eddy to keep him from ending up like him]], as [[{{unperson}} his old room is hidden behind wallpaper]].

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