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The [['''Annoying Younger Sibling]]''' is often used by writers as a balance to the "coolness" of the main protagonist. Typically the opposite sex of the main character.

Younger sisters are usually: whiny, cry to get what they want, [[Constantly Curious|too]] [[Curious as a Monkey]], [[Plucky Girl|go headlong into real danger]], [[Spot of Tea|ALWAYS''always'' have tea parties with dolls and one "real" participant]], cheeky, nosy. Likely to be a [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]] if female and slightly older.

== Anime &and Manga ==

* Tsukino Shingo from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''; he was actually quite tolerable and likable, but like many other extras, he vanished over the show's run. The [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] role was taken by Chibi-Usa, who immediately partnered with Shingo to make Usagi's life hell. (posing as the main character's cousin, but actually her [[Kid From the Future]]), whose actual involvement in the plot (so much so that she got her own season) made her a little too annoying.

* Ryouta Misumi from ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' is... Shingo Tsukino reincarnated or something, considering how he acts towards Nagisa. He even mirrors Shingo's feelings towards his sister's smartass friend Ami, with his own feelings towards Honoka.

*** England may or may not be one of these as well, to Scotland, Wales, and (presumably) Northern Ireland.

* Kyoko from ''[[Dennou Coil]]'' is this through and through, giving her older sister Yasako major headaches throughout the series.

* As Karluk from ''[[OtoyomegatariA Bride's Story]]'' lives with his rather large family, this is 19th century Turkey after all, his many nieces and nephews fit this trope strongly.

* ''[[Durarara!!]]'' reveals that {{spoiler|Orihara Izaya}}, of all people, has a pair of teenaged twin sisters named Mairu and Kururi, whom he abhors. Of course, this seems only to concern him because everyone else likes his twin sisters over him: they're [[Cute and Psycho|a little]] [[Creepy Twins|off]] [[Single-Minded Twins|their rockers]], but [[Beware the Nice Ones|as long as you don't upset them]], they're fairly [[Moe]]. Even {{spoiler|[[Intergenerational Friendship|his sworn rival Shizuo]].}}

* In ''[[Tamayura]]'', Fuu's younger brother Kou is generally rather sweet and cute, although he clearly has his more annoying moments. That doesn't prevent Fuu from caring a lot for him, though.

* Tiffany Aching's younger brother, Wentworth in ''[[Discworld/The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]]'' by Terry Pratchett. He gets better as he grows older, though.

** technicallyTechnically she can, because she was born a few minutes before her brother. And immediately midwifed her mother during his birth. ... She was a precocious kid.

* Manny of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'' is practically the human incarnation of this trope. If he lived in any of ''your'' families, chances are he wouldn't survive preschool without being the victim of fratricide.

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': even though Fred and George are older than Ron, they still fill this trope for him. They ''are'' the [[Class Clown|Class Clowns]]s of the entire school, after all. However, they seem to think of Ron as this trope as well. Percy, likewise, thinks the same of every sibling younger than him, with equally mutual feelings.

* During the events of ''The Lost Colony'', [[Artemis Fowl]] gets transported to a different dimension. When he comes back, he finds out what felt like just a few hours for him, was actually three years in our dimension. He comes back to find his family has ''expanded'' in those three years, as he now has two younger twin brothers: Miles and Beckett Fowl. He seems to love them-- asthem—as much as Artemis can show love, at least-- butleast—but they do make him feel a little frustrated when he's trying to instruct the three-year-olds in modern languages, and they seem more interested in worms and calling each other "simple-toon."

** Also [[Cute Bruiser|Juliet]] to [[Badass|Butler]] in the first book, before she [[Took a Level Inin Badass]].

** 1976's "Little Girl Lost": During a butterfly hunting expedition, she pesters her sisters to the point they want her to go away. She does -- almostdoes—almost permanently, when she plummets down a sinkhole that leads into an old mineshaft.

** 1978's "The Godsister," where Carrie -- heartsickCarrie—heartsick for her Pa (after Charles -- alongCharles—along with Jonathan Garvey -- takeGarvey—take jobs on a telephone crew, which will bring service to Walnut Grove) -- begins bothering her sisters and Albert (who by now was part of the cast), and also Nellie and Willie Olesen and Andy Garvey to play with her. When they refuse, Carrie invents a "friend" of her own: a girl named Alyssa. This episode featured both Lindsey and Sidney Greenbush (the identical twins that played Carrie) in the roles of Carrie and Alyssa.

*** It is unknown if other more serious instances where Cindy would be expected to tell the truth -- itruth—i.e., the mailman behaving inappropriately with one of her sisters -- butsisters—but supresses it for fear of being punished by her parents, were considered. This episode was filmed in the fall of 1970 and the network likely would have been nervous about airing such a plotline, hence the seemingly awkward subplot using the by-now nearly forgotten Tiger (in his last appearance, after making sporatic appearances over the previous year or so).

** "The Teeter-Totter Caper," at the end of 1971, when Bobby and Cindy -- alreadyCindy—already having not been invited to their Aunt Gertrude's wedding -- wantwedding—want to help their older siblings but are told to stay out of the way. (The older siblings telling Bobby and Cindy to go away, they're being annoying isn't seen on camera, but it is referenced by the downbeat pair of youngest siblings.) Mike tells the two that perhaps there are times where their help isn't necessarily needed or wanted and they should find something to do, leading to the main plot of the youngest Brady siblings setting out to prove they aren't annoying younger siblings ... by setting out to break a world teeter-tottering record.

** "Law and Disorder" -- Bobby—Bobby is named Safety Monitor at school, a position which entrusts students with good behavior records in helping enforce school rules (in essence, the students police themselves). The trope comes into play when he carries over his authority to home, where he spies on his siblings and tells them he plans to tell Mom and Dad. (For instance, he sees Greg come home late for a date, refusing to even let him explain that Greg had waited at home with his date until her parents arrived home; or Alice -- aAlice—a non-sibling, but still -- settingstill—setting out aerosol cans with the rest of the garbage, not even letting her explain that the waste collecter had a new policy on how trash should be sorted.)

** "You Can't Win Them All," where Cindy -- havingCindy—having won her way on a local ''College Bowl''-type game show (modeled into a version for older elementary-school students) -- gets an inflated ego and annoys her siblings about being the next big star. Naturally, she gets her comeuppance in the end when she suffers from stage fright.

* Gaby Fernàndez from ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]''.

* It sort of is and isn't subverted in ''[[My Parents Are Aliens]]''. Lucy due to her cleverness and, in particular Josh with his mischievous behaviour, fit the trope quite well for Mel (just as she, with her aggressive and sarcastic attitude, sort of does for them), but there is also Brian, since, despite being their foster-father is able to morph into any one of the siblings at will (though usually only when asked) and can cause "annoying" problems in that sense. Also, since he and Sophie are not from planet Earth, the role of an adult using experience to explain things to a clueless child is generally reversed from the parents to the children throughout.

** Vlad's friend Robin Branaugh, due to his semi-gothic persona and obsession with vampires is something of an annoyance to his elder siblings Ian and Paul (and vice versa) and although his sister Chloe is younger, her brothers tend to fit this trope for her since she is generally more mature and academically bright.

== Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy ==

* Timulty in ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' is Avery's [[Annoying Younger Sibling]], though he's portrayed much more sympathetically than a lot of these examples, perhaps because Avery has a tendency to be a rather unsympathetic character....

* A sort of subversion exists in the form of Monette from ''[[Something *Positive]]''. It's not played quite straight, in that Monette was adopted (as an adult no less) into the MacIntire family and is not so much obnoxious as a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].

* Ben's little brother from ''[[Loserz]]''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110417180618/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/240 See here.]

* Nina in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''. Layla loves her little sister and is [[Big_Brother_InstinctBig Brother Instinct|very protective]], but... no matter how adorable, being [[Genki Girl|overexcited]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander|a little out of it]] most of the time has this effect.

* Abby in ''Dangerously Chloe''. She's helpful, caring and [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/you_kids_like_dolls quite sure] that it's her duty to mock and/or embarrass her brother as often as possible.

'''Abigail''': He's [[Gender_BenderGender Bender|back to being my big brother]] now... ''pfft''... in a dress. <br/>

* Maybe half the main characters in the webfiction ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' have an [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] who ranges from "pretty normal but wishing he had a superpower too" ([[Mary Sue|Chaka's]] little brother) through "bratty behavior that accidentally poisons the protagonist" ([[God Mode Sue|Tennyo's]] younger brother) all the way up to "calling out a heavily-armed squad of anti-mutant soldiers and sicking them on protagonist" ([[Mary Sue|Lancer's]] younger brother).

* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', former Guardian Bandit has an [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] in the "Roger Clinton/Billy Carter" way: Ozcar Vizcairno is an irresponsible adult whose outrageous statements and actions always seem to land him on the front pages of the tabloids... not to mention utterly shredding Bandit's [[Secret Identity]].

* Haley in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]''.

* Matt from ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' is a major thorn in the side to his big brother Terry, but not as bad as most of the other examples on this page. They do get plenty of cool brotherly moments together to offset the times he acts like a little hellraiser.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Azula was this to Zuko when [[Cain and Abel|she wasn't trying to kill him.]]

* Chis to Meg in [[Family Guy]]. Stewie can be to both, although it is usually not as big of a deal because he's a baby. For example, Meg was only mildly annoyed when Stewie stole her gifts at her birthday party.

* [[Phineas and Ferb|Phineas (and to a lesser extend, Ferb)]] were originally meant to be this to Candace. You can see remnants of this in the first episode, where Phineas is a lot snarkier and goes out of his way to antagonize his sister. But [[Characterisation Marches On]], and now they're much more likely to want to help Candace out than annoy her.

** And if you were the oldest, no matter how angelic your younger sibling may have been, you probably at some point felt they belonged in this category.

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