Big Brother Instinct: Difference between revisions

Line 286:

* ''[[Simon and Simon]]'': Brothers Rick and A.J. both exhibit this trope. Although Rick is older, he and A.J. are both protective of each other, as shown in almost any episode.

* ''[[iCarly]]'' Spencer in regards to Carly and Gibby to his little brother Guppy.

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'': Stephen Colbert has admitted he sees [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] as something of an older brother figure in [[Real Life]]. It's one of the few [[Real Life]] traits that bleed through into the characters' lives, most recently in the [[Melee a Trois]] crossover with Conan O'Brien, which Stewart only got involved in because he was protecting Colbert.

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'': Stephen Colbert has admitted he sees [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] as something of an older brother figure in [[Real Life]]. It's one of the few [[Real Life]] traits that bleed through into the characters' lives, most recently{{when}} in the [[Melee a Trois]] crossover with Conan O'Brien, which Stewart only got involved in because he was protecting Colbert.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Spike takes pains to keep Dawn from harm in a few episodes, when Buffy or the Scoobies are unavailable to do so.

* [[The A-Team|Face and Murdock]] show this for each other quite a bit. Murdock is older than Face, but they both have their share of 'big brother' moments when it comes to looking out for each other.

Line 472:

** LBJ was no slouch either. He was a master at cajoling Congress into doing whatever he wanted because, damn it, he was LBJ. The fact that Bobby could match him and actually make him back down is pretty amazing.

* James Mc Neil, age 17 saw his autistic ten year old brother climbing to the top of an 120 foot electrical tower. Though fearful of heights he climbed after him and held him in place until a rescue crew arrived. The story is described in the November 1997 Reader's Digest.

* [http://news.aol.com/article/9-year-old-malik-medford-foils/759223 9 year old Malik Medford recently rescued his brothers from a car thief.]

* [http://news.aol.com/article/9-year-old-malik-medford-foils/759223 9 year old Malik Medford recently rescued his brothers from a car thief.]{{when}}

* Another inversion, an 8 year old boy [https://web.archive.org/web/20100301032529/http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-02-06/Boy_who_died_saving_sister_from_rapist_awarded.html was killed after wounding a burglar who was attempting to rape his older sister].

* A real-life inversion: in 2002 Christopher Vince, aged 12, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2369463.stm died after pushing his 16-year-old brother Ben out of the way of a falling branch].