Because You Can Cope: Difference between revisions

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* Katie, the mother in ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'', pays for her son Neely's education and not her academic daughter Francie's. She justifies this by saying that Francie will fight to achieve her dreams, whereas Neely won't. Francie doesn't buy it, and it cements Neely's position as his mother's favourite (which she made no secret of earlier in the book). Francie sums it up:

** Would be a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], if Francie wasn't immediately made to feel guilty about asserting herself and promptly apologise to her mother.

* [[Jodi Picoult]] uses this trope as justification for her [[Knight Templar]] mothers. Amelia of ''[[Handle with Care]]'', gets lectured about all the things she can do that her fragile little sister, Willow, can't do whenever the girl complains about the restrictions placed on her and neglect she suffers. Anna of ''[[My Sister's Keeper]]'' gets [[No Sympathy]] for all the painful operations she gets put through, because her mum is too busy making sure that her cancer-stricken big sister, Kate, is all right, and Theo of ''House Rules'' is expected to put up with Jacob's abuse, and held to higher standards than his sibling, because Theo is capable of normal social interaction and autistic Jacob is not.

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* In ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Malcolm spends an episode teaching Reese the value of hard work and studying and helps him write a passing paper for a class. When the paper gets an "F" the boys, who do not see how they can get Reese to perform any better, cheat and have Malcolm take one of Reese's tests for him. This one gets an "F" as well and this is when they realize that [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|Reese's teacher really is out to get him and is deliberately failing him]]. When Lois threatens to use this information to force the teacher to pass Reese he points out this will get Malcolm in trouble. Lois cites this trope as her justification, to Malcolm's own shock:

* In the last episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' {{spoiler|after being trapped in a time freeze for 60 years, Teal'c stays to press the [[Reset Button]], thus being the only one not to get those years back. He does this because he has a much longer lifespan than the rest, so the loss of six decades is less drastic for him. He is also the only one to retain the memories of what happened, which is shown to be much more difficult than the getting older.}}

** It was also brought up that he's the only one still in good enough physical shape to actually perform the necessary tasks quickly enough once he's back in the past.