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** In the 10th novel after {{spoiler|Yuki is incapacitated by the Sky Canopy Domain}} Kyon completely loses it and runs out to track down Kuyo Suou and personally make her fix it. To reiterate, he actually went out of his way to get into a confrontation with an alien interface who he ''knows'' has god-like powers. Naturally, he's totally out-classed but it's the thought that counts.
** In the fanfic [[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]], this gets [[Up to Eleven|turned up to eleven]]. Kyon will get violent if you threaten any <s>of the weaker</s> brigade members.
* Mai Tokiha from ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' has a Big '''Sister''' Instinct towards her kid brother Takumi.
* ''[[Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora|Shattered Angels]]'': Kyoshiro and Kazuya. It's a bad one too; people die. Quite a few people, actually.
** A much straighter example would be Tsubasa and Souma in ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'': the entire conflict between them stems from Tsubasa's desire to protect Souma as effectively as possible, which unfortunately involves pulling him to [[The Dark Side]] and killing his love interest. {{spoiler|Towards the end, however, Tsubasa recognizes that Souma has wishes, too, and helps him to reach ''his'' goals.}} Also, Tsubasa killed their father who beaten up Souma when were very young, which is why they were separated.
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** And he keeps on un-subverting it for the rest of the 100+ episodes, to the point where the [[Reluctant Warrior]] younger brother getting hurt in a fight became a sure-fire way to summon Ikki from his lone wolf brooding cave, screaming bloody murder and mind rape (in anything not drawn straight from the original manga).
* ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Haré+ Guu]]'': Haré has a big brother instinct towards his frequently irresponsible ''mother''. Guu teases him about his "Mazacon" (mother complex) from time to time.
* Averted and subverted ([[Mind Screw|naturally]]) in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' with Nanami and her brother Touga. Whereas Nanami's big brother complex is extreme to the point that she is [[Brother-Sister Incest|in love with him]], Touga couldn't care less about her well being. Enter Mitsuru, a fourth grader, who she uses as a whipping boy after he saves her. She sees him as her servant, and he is fond of her-in fact, Utena and the others suspect that Mitsuru has a crush on Nanami, but he reveals that he wants to protect her like a brother would, unlike Touga. During his [[Day in The Limelight|Black Rose duel episode]], this is mentioned in the form of him being sexually and emotionally confused. It's shown that his interactions with the teenage Nanami piqued his curiosity about being grown-up, so he reads books about "adult"-related topics.
** Subverted again (and to [[Squick|a twisted level]]) with {{spoiler|Akio and Anthy. The former needs the latter to be the Rose Bride and forces her to suffer emotional and physical hardships such as [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|being impaled with a million swords]] every time Akio tries to open the Rose Gate, the end goal of the duels, and forcing her into sex on a weekly basis. By the end of the series, though, she decides to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|leave him at last]] after God knows how long, yet despite his protests, he doesn't pursue her.}}
** Subverted ([[Overly Long Gag|again]]) and then played straight with Miki and Kozue. While he does protect his sister and genuinely care for her (unlike Touga), he projects the image of his [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid|sister when she was younger]] onto [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Anthy]], whereas because of a childhood incident, Kozue becomes something of an [[Attention Whore]] to annoy Miki ([[Brother-Sister Incest|and there is possibly another reason]]). Miki is oblivious of her reasoning until Kozue's Black Rose duel. Compared to the [[Dysfunction Junction|rest of the student council (and the other duelists for that matter),]] though, Miki is more level-headed, and he realizes his mistake early enough to both move on and become the resident [[Nice Guy]] among the cast.
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** Seto Kaiba is a total jerk to the main characters but will go to outrageous lengths to save his brother Mokuba. Mokuba is kidnapped a ''lot'', though. Probably because Kaiba is such a jerk.
** Jounouchi Katsuya is very protective of his little sister Shizuka. When she sends him a video message telling him about how she is slowly going blind, he sneaks into the Duelist Kingdom tournament that Yuugi was invited to so he could win the prize money and pay for an operation to save her eyesight. He also becomes extremely protective over her when Honda and Otogi begin flirting with her and competing openly for her attention.
** Ishizu is completely willing to die if it means saving her little brother, Malik, from his psychotic ''[[Split Personality]]''.
* ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'': Nobue is a female version, serving the protective role towards her 12 year old sister and her friends. She also feels a near sensual pleasure watching them act cute, making her an easy victim of their manipulations.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'':
** For a short while, Kagura seemed to develop a big ''sister'' instinct toward Kohaku, until she {{spoiler|died for him.}}
** Sesshoumaru has a complex, evolving relationship with his brother [[The Hero|Inuyasha]] {{spoiler|due to feeling like the [[The Unfavourite|victim]] of [[Parental Favouritism]]}}. Prior to the story's start, it appears Sesshoumaru [[Big Brother Bully|bullied]] and [[Aloof Big Brother|ignored]] Inuyasha for not being [[Half-Human Hybrid|pure-blooded]] [[Youkai]], and his first few story arcs revolve around Sesshoumaru's efforts to obtain the [[Cool Sword]] that their father left for Inuyasha - by [[Cain and Abel|murdering Inuyasha]] if necessary. As the story progresses and Sesshoumaru's [[Character Development|character develops]], however, Sesshoumaru's motives become more ambiguous, taking on more of a flavor of "[[I Was Just Passing Through]]" and "[[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|Nobody kills my brother but me]]." The conflict between them is eventually resolved {{spoiler|when Sesshoumaru finally understands what their [[Sink or Swim Mentor|father]] was [[Tough Love|trying]] to [[Cruel to Be Kind|teach]] him: no matter how strong Tessaiga makes Inuyasha, his half-human nature means he'll always need Sesshoumaru's [[Big Brother Instinct|strength]] and [[Big Brother Mentor|support]].}}
*** Although the exact nature of Sesshoumaru's protective instincts can be debated in one-or-two cases (notably Jaken {{spoiler|and Kagura}}), his instinct to protect expands throughout the series more-or-less as follows: [[The Igor|Jaken]] (who really doesn't [[Bumbling Sidekick|feel the love]] most of the time), [[Morality Pet|Rin]], [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|Inuyasha]], [[I Was Just Passing Through|Kagome]], {{spoiler|[[Implied Love Interest|Kagura]], [[Designated Victim|Kohaku]], until he's eventually openly [[Big Brother Instinct|protecting]] [[Protectorate|both his group and Inuyasha's group together]].}} Sesshoumaru's development is finally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the final chapter {{spoiler|when Kagome openly calls him ''onii-san'' (using the kanji for 'brother-in-law') and notices the [[Not So Different|disturbed expressions on both brothers' faces are identical]].}}
* ''[[Digimon]]'': This is a continuous theme throughout nearly every season. Some have this problem with actual siblings, and others tend to apply it to their Digimon.
** In the first season there was Yamato towards his brother and the youngest Digidestined [[Cheerful Child|Takeru]]. Hikari spends a good bit of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' trying to live up to her big brother Taichi's reputation as a leader. And let's not even get started on Ken Ichijoji, who's desire to live up to his dead brother's memory in his parents eyes was the start of his whole [[Start of Darkness|descent into darkness]].
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** In ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'', pretty much everyone was like this towards Tomoki/Tommy, but he seemed to especially look up to (and be stuck with) Takuya and Junpei/JP.
*** Kouji and Kouichi, of course. It went both ways, but especially Kouji towards Kouichi.
** Daisuke/Davis seemed to behave like this towards his Digimon partner, Veemon.
** In ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', Masaru/Marcus and his Agumon were like that (Masaru even admitted that he thought of Agumon like his brother). Masaru also was very protective of his little sister.
*** Ikuto/Keenan and his Digimon partner, Falcomon, were raised to believe they were brothers, and treat each other accordingly.
*** Then there's Touma/Thomas, who has a little sister whom he acts quite the same towards as Tai.
** Another example from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' -- Sora acts extremely protective of her partner Biyomon, eventually spurring her Digivolution into Garudamon.
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* ''[[The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'': The relationship between Ken and Chiko becomes this very quickly. It's so blatant that several characters, including Ken himself, [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on the fact.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': The main plot revolves around Ed scouring the earth for a way to restore his younger brother Al's body to normal. On the other hand, considering Al is inhabiting an animated suit of armor much larger than Ed, there's a quite unusual dynamic going on there. Especially considering how Ed reacts to [[Berserk Button|anyone calling him short]].
** Ed sacrificed his arm to keep his brothers soul in existence. {{spoiler|and later his use of alchemy all together}} If that's not [[Big Brother Instinct]], what is?
** The Elrics both have this dynamic towards each other. Edward was more than once willing to die for Al (until he realized that if he died no one else would be able to put Al back to normal) -- and Al did NOT approve of Edward's plan to let himself killed by Scar so latter one would leave Al alone. Later in the first anime Al {{spoiler|sacrifices his recently Philosopher's Stoned self to revive his brother. Edward answers this with sacrificing himself to bring Al back}}. And at the ultimate end of the first anime, in the movie, they spend much time, stress and tears to find each other again, succeed, {{spoiler|Edward decides to leave his brother for good by sealing the Gate in order to protect him and Amestris - and Al replies with following him.}} -- that's FMA for you...
** The first anime and one of the novels also feature the Tringham brothers Russell and Fletcher. Russell is very protective of his brother, though it takes him a while to realize that otherwise he's been neglecting him. He gets better.
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* ''[[Narutaru]]'': Female-female example: {{spoiler|[[Action Girl]] Shiina has a [[Mysterious Protector]] in the form of one of the "Otohime" or "Virgin Princesses". It turns out that said protector is actually her dead older sister, Mishou, who was transformed and reincarnated into an Otohime after her death.}}
* ''[[Trigun]]'': Knives is this way about Vash, but it's a ''really'' dark version, since Knives thinks that Vash's [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|idealism]] and [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|pacifism]] aren't doing him any good, and need to be beaten out of him.
** Incidentally, they're ''twins'', and no one was there to see them born. When Vash explains who Knives is in the anime, at least, he uses the absolutely-ambiguous word 'kyoudai,' 'sibling,' which carries neither gender nor age, because Japanese doesn't have a birth-order-ambiguous version of 'brother.' (The same word is applied to all their 'sister' bulb-plants in the manga. Confusingly, it's supposed to be an English-speaking planet.) Knives basically appointed himself big brother after becoming evil and deciding Vash was a wimp.
** Anime Knives always had Big Brother tendencies, but in the manga back when they were still cute ''Knives'' was the sensitive one, and Vash actually looked after him slightly more than the reverse.
*** I.e., pointing out that even if Knives is right and "there's no real difference between people's hearts and ours," it's going to take a lot of work, and comforting him when Knives starts crying after William Conrad, the first human they ever met besides Rem, accepted them.
*** Anime Vash interpreted Rem's last words, "Knives o--" [mouth forming three inaudible syllables] as "Take care of Knives," though the meaning of this appears to have shifted in his head to mean 'beat the shit out of Knives' by the time they meet in July.
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** In one of the [[PlayStation 2]] arcs, implied to be the way that Minagoroshi-hen could have gone, {{spoiler|Shion goes exactly the same way as Keiichi}}.
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', Battler behaves this way both towards his actual younger sister, Ange, and to his little cousin Maria. He bonds with Maria early on in most of the arcs despite not having seen her in six years, and is very protective of Ange. After Ange {{spoiler|reveals her identity to him and performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}, Battler snaps out of his funk and goes up several levels in badass and sets his mind back on track to defeating Beatrice and making it back home to her.
* In ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'', [[Tsundere|Tomari]]'s [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|crush]] on her [[Gender Bender|formerly male]] best friend, Hazumu, comes out of her sisterly instinct to protect her. In the anime that protective side gets a bit less attention, though, and her feelings for Hazumu are presented more as a straightforward crush.
* ''[[Vocaloid]]''- although technically all the canon Vocaloids are supposed to be siblings- has Len Kagamine, who in vids is protective or over-protective of his sister, Rin, although Rin is supposed to be the older one.
* In ''[[Getter Robo]]: Armageddon'', Go immediately adopts this attitude towards Kei upon encountering her. It's eventually revealed that the reason for this is that {{spoiler|he ''is'' her older brother -- or rather a ([[Opposite Sex Clone|male]]) memory-retaining clone of her older ''sister'', Michiru, who died when Kei was a little girl... known as Genki Saotome. Sort of}}. It's complicated.
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** Actually, according to the story we're told, his goal was to make Sasuke a hero of Konoha. The only way he'd be allowed to continue to live there after {{spoiler|the entire Uchiha Clan planned a rebellion. Itachi was supposed to kill all of them, but he couldn't make himself kill Sasuke. That's one for the "Nice Job Breaking Your Little Brother, Hero" category.}}
** Kankuro is a more positive example. Although he and Gaara have a poor relationship at first, the brothers become much closer after Gaara's [[Heel Face Turn]], and Kankuro willingly risks his life to go after Gaara when the latter is kidnapped by Sasori and Deidara - although it doesn't end well for either of them - and stands up for Gaara when an elder badmouths him. Considering how terrified he was of Gaara in Part 1 (and with good reason!) this is quite a change and shows just how much Gaara's change in circumstances has affected the family dynamic.
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* Of the few redeeming traits of Ryo Narushima in ''Shamo'' is his protectiveness towards his younger sister.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has Tamahome (towards his siblings, and [[Relationship Upgrade|initially, Miaka]], after she told him she missed her actual brother Keisuke) and Tasuki (towards Chiriko).
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* In ''[[Akira]]'', Kaneda feels this way towards Tetsuo, because they were friends since childhood. Even though he teases him, he still feels the need to protect him and shows affection for him as a younger brother.
* Seto from ''Heavens Will'' has one of the weirdest Big Brother Complexes ever. {{spoiler|Basically, his younger twin sister died protecting him from a malicious spirit and her soul was sealed in a fan which Seto now uses to perform exorcisms himself. He then grew out his hair, [[Wholesome Crossdresser|began wearing woman's clothing]], and is saving his money to ''get a sex change operation''. After he gets it, he plans to kill himself so his sister's soul to inhabit his body and live again, and he does it all because he believes that he should have died instead of her. 'Seto' isn't even his real name, it's his sister's.}}
* ''[[Baccano!]]'' has two examples: Maiza, who serves as a sort of [[Big Brother Mentor]] to the young gangster Firo (who is supposedly somewhat similar to his biological younger brother, who {{spoiler|was murdered in a conflict over the Elixir of Life}}), and Dallas, an unrepentant [[Jerkass]] whose one redeeming trait is his kindness towards his little sister. The three Gandor brothers are also very protective of one another.
* Baskerville has this towards Mingchao in ''Et Cetera.'' Partially because he's dealing with {{spoiler|his own little sister's death.}}
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Portgas D. Ace is very protective of his {{spoiler|adoptive}} little brother Luffy. This goes from {{spoiler|taking on Blackbeard to sacrificing his life against Akainu.}}
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* In [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]], Cinque of the Numbers is quite protective of her younger sisters, staying behind to fight Subaru and getting badly injured in the process to allow Nove and Wendi to escape. Even though her crimes are more severe than the other Numbers and she does not expect to ever be completely free, she decides to atone for them and cooperate with the investigation so she can help her younger sisters.
* In ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' Kawachi does this to Azuma, due to Azuma having to worry about Kawachi. When Kawachi lost the battle with Kanmuri in the Pantasia Newcomer's Battle
* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. Any person willing to injure Kyoko or Tsuna, answers to Ryohei's fists and Tsuna's family.
* [[Durarara!!]]'s Shizuo Heiwajima is rather protective of his little brother Kasuka (aka [[Teen Idol]] Yuuhei Hanejima). The mere act of namedropping Kasuka is enough to make him suspicious of your intentions, while insulting him or attempting to poke into his personal life results in an instant [[Unstoppable Rage]]. In the [[Light Novels]], he eventually goes on to develop another Big Brother Instinct towards a young [[The Runaway|runaway]] [[Mafia Princess|Yakuza Princess]].
* In ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]'', Kyou has this toward her younger sister Asu, which is justified since [[Parental Abandonment|they live by themselves]] and she has taken on a parental role. Since Kyou is still very much a child herself this doesn't always come easy for her, but luckily Asu compensates by often acting very mature for her age.
* Fujimiya Ran in ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' goes so far as to take his little sister Aya's name after she's rendered comatose; he becomes an assassin primarily to pay her hospital bills, and not only is he fiercely devoted to her welfare, he displays knee-jerk protectiveness toward anyone who reminds him of her. This is most evident in his interaction with [[Identical Stranger]] Tomoe Sakura, but it also flavors his behavior toward several other young women and makes him a [[Big Brother Mentor]] toward Sena in ''Gluhen'' and Yuki in ''Side B''.
* Toki from [[Code Breaker]] is part of the Code Breaker group in order to keep his sister Nenene safe (though she's apparently older than him, and doesn't remember who he is).
* Ozma Lee from ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is '''extremely''' protective of his little sister Ranka, even though she's adopted. He even manages to break the [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|pineapple cake curse]] because he promised not to die so long as Ranka still needed him. Also played straight with {{spoiler|Brera Stern, Ranka's real brother}}.
* Shannon Casull plays this trope straight in [[Scrapped Princess]] {{spoiler|even if Pacifica isn't his biological sister.}} In fact most of his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|best moments]] this trope.
* Grumpy, cynical Sanzo in [[Saiyuki]] is this towards Goku, despite voicing his annoyance about Goku constantly. Hurting Goku is a [[Papa Wolf|whole different matter.]]
** Demon prince Kougaji cares deeply about his half-sister Lirin and would do anything for her.
** Gojyo's half-brother is this, despite being on opposite sides with Gojyo and feels tremendous guilt for not being able to protect him from the abuse of his mother. His extreme protectiveness over Kougaji is motivated by how he couldn't keep his biological half-brother safe and a way to gain redemption for not being able to. His complete psychological breakdown when he thinks he couldn't keep Kougaji safe reflects this.
* In [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]], Kamina has this towards Simon. Expressed elegantly with this line:
{{quote|'''Kamina:''' Don't call me Kamina, call me bro!}}
* Inverted in ''[[Rave Master]]'' where younger brother Haru is fiercely protective of his older sister Cattleya. He had once beaten up a guy who broke her heart and would have done it again when he ran into the guy later on in the series.
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]''. After Ralph Werec has his [[Freak-Out]] in the backstory (brought about by {{spoiler|unknowingly brutally killing a bunch of aliens who look and act like little girls}}) he views the only survivor of the aliens as a substitute little sister, and is more than willing [[Knight Templar|to do anything to avenge her race]], and I mean ''[[Kill All Humans|anything]]'', to the point of wanting to kill his actual younger sister when she stands in his way.
* In the ''[[Wild Series]]'', Kiri has a strong caring instinct for his little brother, Mao. Granted, it doesn't stop him from immediately trying to kill Mao when Mao [[Shapeshifter Identity Crisis|loses control of his beast side]], but he probably considered that a favour.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' Crow shows this attitude towards; Leo, Luna, Yusei, Akiza, Jack and even his younger siblings. To the point where he'd become the ''[[Idiot Hero]]''
* Guache of [[Tegami Bachi]] has this for his little sister, Sylvette. {{spoiler|Until he looses all of his memories, anyway.}}
* Maho from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' may be a bully to her little brother, but don't you dare mess with him.
* Kanba Takakura from [[Mawaru Penguindrum]] has such a strong one towards his and Shoma's little sister Himari -- that it borders on [[Brother-Sister Incest]].
* [[Ouran High School Host Club]] plays with this with a few of its members, most notably in the episode where Nekozawa's little sister Kirimi wanders up to the high school, putting both Nekozawa and Tamaki in the big-brother spotlight in turn.
** In addition, Hunny and Mori have this relationship with their brothers Yasuchika and Satoshi (manga-only), though Hunny's way of showing it is admittedly...weird, to the point that the anime completely overlooked it.
** And Hikaru and Kaoru, being twins with a lot of identity issues to work out, go back and forth on treating each other this way. Usually Kaoru takes up this role while guiding Hikaru to maturity, but when he gets too self-sacrificing for his own good Hikaru will press his big-brother advantage to set him straight.
* Lin from ''[[Spirited Away]]'' becomes quite protective over protagonist Chihiro over the course of the film.
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* A female example in ''[[The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn|The Legend of Spyro a New Dawn]]'' is Cynder towards Ember. Ember is ''slightly'' younger than her, but is very childish and naive. Despite the fact Ember has her characteristic crush on Spyro (though in this case, it's due to being to socially naive to realize Cynder and Spyro are mates), Cynder ends up having this mentality towards her, even describing her as being like "an annoying little sister" at one point. This makes hurting Ember in front of Cynder one of her [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]], which [[Evil Diva|Cyros]] finds out the hard way when she {{spoiler|performs a [[Break the Cutie]] on Ember and gets her kidnapped.}} Cynder [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|reacts]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side|violently]].
* Fanon often have Gaara and Kankuro of Naruto threatening Shikamaru in Shika/Tema Fanfics or any other Fics that involve Temari getting hooked up with someone. They're technically little brothers as Temari is the Eldest Sibling.
** It also doesn't help that Gaara is in fact the Kazekage, which means he has ''some'' authority over Temari. To which he abuses or at least attempts to abuse said authority.
* In the [[Death Note]] fanfic ''Xanatos'', Matt shows this toward Linda, most notably in chapter 3.
* In ''[[Harry's New Home]]'', the normally law-abiding Percy snapped when he found out someone tried to Crucio Ron.
* In [[For Good]], [[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command|Buzz]] has a very serious [[Berserk Button]] in his adopted little sis.
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* Ron Weasley reveals this in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter]]'' while nearly cursing Malfoy (with a broken wand that has already backfired once on him) for being mean to Ginny. Basically, the two best ways to get Ron angry are to insult either Ginny or Hermione.
** Ron gets a bit of this from Percy after the Second Task in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]''. Percy, who's supposed to be acting as an impartial judge give Harry full marks for rescuing Ron and hovers over Ron until Madam Pomfrey drags Ron off for treatment.
* ''[[Eclipse Hunter]]'': Devon falls under this trope very easily, and fills many different archetypes. He's willing to {{spoiler|shoot his own father}} if it means protecting Daren.
* In ''[[The Thief Lord]]'', Prosper's protectiveness of Bo is the main motivation behind his character. He runs away from his aunt with Bo to prevent their separation, joins a gang of urchins and even steals to make sure his brother is well fed and sheltered, and goes into a major [[Heroic BSOD]] when Bo is finally taken away.
* The [[Darkest Powers]] series gives us Derek. He has a [[Big Brother Instinct]] that's [[Up to Eleven]] when it comes to his foster brother, Simon. Derek is also a werewolf. So on top of the fact that he is, personality-wise, very protective of Simon (and anyone else he cares about), he also has the wolf's "protect my pack" instinct to deal with. Assaulting one of his "pack" is his [[Berserk Button]]. Unfortunately for Derek, since he can't usually control his reaction when his brother is in danger no matter how much he's tried to coach himself, his supercharged [[Big Brother Instinct]] has led to at least one [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment.
* [[Chalet School|Len Maynard]]. Oh, ''Len Maynard''. Practically ever since she is a baby, she is pigeonholed as the 'responsible one' and as the oldest Maynard child, she is often put in charge of the other Maynard children. She has a major one where Margot is concerned, protecting her from Jack's wrath and even ''lying'' to cover up for her in ''Triplets of the Chalet School'' after the bookend incident. Miss Annersley even calls her on it.
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* Although Damon Salvatore of [[The Vampire Diaries]] likes to make his brother's life hell, he does go out of his way to save or protect Stefan.
* Katniss Everdeen of [[The Hunger Games]] will go to any lengths to protect her younger sister Primrose, including volunteering for the titular [[Deadly Game]] in her sister's place, a seemingly suicidal gesture.
* Prince Jonathan and his group of friends in ''[[Tortall Universe|Song of the Lioness]]'' developed this for [[Wholesome Crossdresser|the new page Alan]]. Even before Ralon started bullying Alanna, they regularly helped and kept an eye out for her. And when Ralon first beat up Alanna, Raoul pulled him aside and roughed him up as a warning. When Ralon later broke Alanna's arm in retaliation, they all thrashed him thoroughly. Despite continuing to harrass Alanna, Ralon didn't lay a hand on her again.
* Alan and Nick Ryves in [[The Demon's Lexicon]].
* [[Nightrunner|Lynn Flewelling]] is fond of this:
** Before their [[Relationship Upgrade]] to the [[Official Couple]] level Seregil had this to Alec, though there had been subtones early on.
** And both Alec and Seregil are always and at any time rather protective towards Beka (in Seregil's case it is also a rather paternal feeling; he states himself she's as close for a daughter to him as it will ever get.) - including being suspicious about her lover, checking him up, threatening him not to harm her... Beka is not impressed.
** ''Tamir Triad'': You better not insult Tobin when his squire/best friend Ki is around. (and in fact thanks to plot this brother-friendship later gets rather difficult)
** An even creepier example might be the ghost Brother. Tobin's older twin who died after birth and turned into an angry spirit. After Tobin learned how to keep him in check Brother actually got extremely protective - despite the claims of some characters this troper never could shake the feeling that Brother DOES feel affection and brotherly love towards his sibling. Albeit in a twisted way.
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== Live-Action Film ==
* ''[[The Blind Side]]'': {{spoiler|With only a split second to act, Michael instinctively saved adoptive little brother SJ from being seriously injured or killed during their car accident.}}
** He also will '''not''' tolerate anyone saying something derogatory about his adoptive little sister, Collins.
* ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'': For all [[Wolverine]]'s ([[Blood Knight|many]] [[Ax Crazy|many]]) flaws, Victor "Sabertooth" Creed really does love his little brother Jimmy, ''[[Love Makes You Crazy|very]]'' '''[[Love Makes You Evil|very]]''' much.
** Also, from the same movie, Kayla appears to be willing to do just about anything to keep her sister safe.
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* ''[[The Godfather]]'''s Sonny Corleone, in spades. He launches into one of the most [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|epic]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|No Holds Barred Beatdowns]] in film history against his brother-in-law after he finds his sister with a black eye. {{spoiler|The enemy family Barzini later uses this instinct against Sonny by paying Carlo to deliver a savage beating to his wife in order to easily set up an ambush for Sonny}}.
* Seen in ''[[West Side Story]]'' when Bernardo interferes in his sister Maria's budding romance with Tony. [[Double Subverted]] in that Tony is the only decent member of the Jets, genuinely in love with Maria and with good intentions... but then he ends up killing Bernardo in a fit of rage over the death of his friend.
* Eomer to Eowyn in ''The Lord of the Rings''. He was furious that Wormtongue was [[Stalker with a Crush|following his sister.]] For that matter, Eowyn didn't want Wormtongue anywhere near her either.
* And let's not forget [[Scarface|Tony Montana]]. Just a ''tad'' bit too protective of his little sister Gina, even going as far as {{spoiler|murdering her husband the day after they were married}}.
* Peter Garret in ''[[Vertical Limit]]'' climbs up K2 to rescue his sister Annie
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[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.
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*** And a serious one due to the fact that the fans have started asking the producers if Justin and Alex are going to end up together. It's [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|Disney]] [[Disney Channel|Channel]], ''after all''.
* Brutally subverted in the ''[[Cold Case]]'' episode "Shuffle, Ball Change". The victim's brother was simultaneously protective and fond of his younger brother, yet he derided his ambitions to be a dancer and ultimately murdered him in a fit of jealous rage over his impending success (along with grief over his own failure as a wrestler).
* Dean and Sam Winchester, of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. This is a show that's actually ''about'' being brothers. (The bromance being fashionable this decade.)
** Dean Winchester is absolutely insane on this point. 'Take care of Sammy' has been his entire life motto. He dies for him, he sells his soul to Hell for him, he keeps going back for him no matter how screwed up things get between them and what Sam gets dragged into, he takes him back no matter what...and honestly the way the show is written, the latter two there seem to cost him more than the first. Especially seasons four and six, when Sam was slipping darkside and walking around without his soul, respectively.
** Sam turns it back on Dean pretty hard, himself. Even in Season One he completely flew off the handle when Dean looked to die, and season three was all about saving Dean to him, and he pretty much lost his shit once Dean went to Hell.
*** And he overpowered Satan for Dean in the Season 5 finale. Sure it saved the world, but it wasn't the world he thought about. But he's actually four years younger, and Dean practically raised him.
** The angel Castiel gets adopted as an unofficial third Winchester brother some time in Season 5.<ref>This is codified in dialogue late in Season 6, when he's going darkside on them with the best intentions, like Sam did two seasons previous.</ref> Because he is young to the world and they are young to being and lack power, the 'big brother' role swaps back and forth a lot, and sometimes Dean and Cas are both big-brothering one another in the same scene. Though Dean never turns the Sam-level obsessiveness on Cas.
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* ''[[Numb3rs]]'': Don Eppes was always Charlie's protector and on the few occasions when criminals come after Charlie, Don becomes a [[Papa Wolf]] and decides that [[It's Personal]] . Don also shows concern that Charlie will be affected by the grim aspects of law enforcement and feels a little awkward accepting help that might conflict with Charlie's career as a professor.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'': Michael Weston has this towards his little brother.
* Bill Scully Jr. of [[The X-Files]] has a Big Brother Instinct for his youngest sister Dana, though he can be a jerk about it and doesn't always bother to get all the facts before lashing out at people he sees have "wronged" her...like Mulder. Poor Mulder.
* In ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' Derek Morgan definitely acts like this towards Spencer Reid, especially if he's in [[Dude in Distress|danger/threatened with his life]]. "I'm gonna get this guy's head on a pike" says it all.
** Derek's just the most obvious. All of the characters have this towards Reid. Emily in particular joins Morgan in this, with her Older Sister-like relationship with Reid. For evidence, just look at her taking a beating in "Minimal Loss" to save Reid from getting shot, and this line from "Amplification":
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* In ''[[Can You Hear My Heart]]'', Joon Ha goes so far as to abandon his biological family to take care of a boy with a hearing disability.
* We could be sure that Hassan from ''[[Over There]]'' was like this when Colonel Roye threatened him about his sister so he could tell him where the stingers are.
* One from ''[[Power Rangers]]''. Vida, the Pink Mystic Force Ranger, is already a pretty aggressive character. But threaten (or otherwise belittle) her sister Madison, and it doesn't matter whether you're an enemy or a colleague. Vida will tear you in half.
* [[Inspector Lynley|Barbara Havers]] is a cranky, foul-mouthed junk food addict who can't seem to work well with anyone in the police force except her partner Thomas Lynley. On the other hand, she is incredibly good with children and will [[Friend to All Children|go to any lengths to protect them]].
* ''[[Bones]]'': Booth and Brennan toward ''their psychologist,'' Sweets. His old mentor flat-out states in one episode that Sweets - raised in an abusive home, adopted by a loving older couple who then died when Sweets was in his late teens or early 20s - is subconsciously seeking to build a surrogate family with the pair.
** There's also Booth and his younger brother Jared. Booth was willing to give up a massive RICO case which would have given him a promotion, a raise and a trip to Hawaii just to get Jared off on a drunk driving charge. He was also very dubious of Jared's love interest and actually did a background check on her.
* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': The titular couple to Jimmy Olsen.
* ''[[ER]]'': Many of the older staff toward Carter, but particularly Greene and Benton - the latter to the point of being a [[Papa Wolf]].
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* The Hardy brothers, Matt and Jeff. Matt as the older brother, both in story lines and [[Real Life]], often plays this role. (When he's not this, he instead is the [[Jerkass]].)
* A group of GLOW villains [[Invoked Trope|kidnapped Little Fiji]] to lure her older sister Mountain Fiji out of the arena to ensure Mountain Fiji wouldn't get [[The Ace|another victory.]]
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== Video Games ==
* The Big Daddies and Little Sisters in ''[[
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** As a Big Daddy you also have the ability to adopt other Little Sisters and have them harvest ADAM for you. This leaves them vulnerable to attacks from splicers for about a minute during which you crush the skull of anyone who is trying to attack her.
* The main character (whether male or female), Akihiko and Junpei serve as adopted big bros (and sis) to Ken in ''[[Persona 3]]''. Akihiko's issues related to his [[Dead Little Sister]] mean that he also has some protective big brother impulses towards Fuuka and the female protagonist. Shinjiro is similarly protective towards Fuuka and constantly laments what happened in Ken's past. In ''[[Persona 4]]'', the main character acts this way towards Nanako, whcih leads to ''many'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|moments that make you go aaaww]]. In short, Persona loves this trope.
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* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'': Mess with Dana Mercer, and your best bet is most likely being eaten alive by big brother Alex. {{spoiler|Ironically, the character you play, Virus!Mercer, is a lot more caring about Dana than the ''real'' Alex Mercer, who was responsible for the virus to start with and is just a [[Complete Monster]] in general}}.
* One skit in ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' has Emil acting this way towards [[Cute Bruiser]] Presea, much to the consternation of [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] Marta.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' : Leon sure does go to a lot of trouble for Ashley and seems genuinely compassionate towards her, even if it IS part of his job.
** Oh, he's a very straight example of [[Big Brother Instinct]]. Note that Leon is only [[The Stoic]] when ''he's'' the one in danger, but he'll risk himself without hesitation to protect anyone who needs his help.
** Chris Redfield is another example. Not only does he go to Antarctica to rescue his sister in Resident Evil: Code Veronica, but in Resident Evil he watches out for the youngest STARS member Rebecca and saves her from a Hunter.
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* Merrill, the [[Moe|ridiculously cute]] and [[Adorkable|adorably awkward]] [[Blood Magic]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|mage]] of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' seems to have the power to instill this in those around her. Half the party actively looks out for her, especially the [[Pirate Girl|amoral pirate captain]] and the dwarven spymaster, and even Anders starts to look out for her, in his own extremist blood magic-hating way. The only one who truly dislikes her is Fenris, and even then, he tries to get her to change her ways, albeit in the only way [[Brutal Honesty|he knows how]]. Even [[Player Character|Hawke]] can easily turn into this if s/he doesn't romance her.
** Bethany Hawke as well. The first thing Hawke does when they meet Wesley is give the Templar a [[Death Glare]], ''before'' he makes clear his intentions. This is the reason her relationship meter is heavily tilted toward "friend." That, and her baaad case of [[Big Brother Worship]] (not that the two are unconnected).
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II'', the [[Player Character]] gets to be this for Imoen {{spoiler|who has been an ''actual'' half-sister of yours all along, as you discover}}. Granted, you can choose dialogue options that indicate you don't really care, but you still [[But Thou Must!|have to rescue her from Spellhold]]. If you play the game as a good character, though, you are this trope in spades.
* ''[[Corpse Party]]'' has Satoshi Mochida, who has this for his younger sister Yuka. Yuuya Kizami, who Yuka meets after she and Satoshi are separated, is also looking for his younger sister. {{spoiler|Except he doesn't ''have'' a younger sister and is, in fact, a brutal subversion.}}
* Luigi might have a bit of a "Little Brother Instict" when it comes to Mario. [[Mario Is Missing|By that]], he plowed through a planet-scale army by himself, with his bare hands, and [[Beyond the Impossible|didn't get hit once]] because Bowser kidnapped Mario.
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** Arguably {{spoiler|[[Tall Dark and Bishojo|Fang's]] overwhelming desire to save Vanille from [[And Then John Was a Zombie|turning into]] a [[Body Horror|Cie'th]] can be interpreted this way; bonus points for Vanille being visibly much younger and weaker in addition to being the [[Token Mini-Moe|cheeriest]], [[The Cutie|cutest]], and [[The Woobie|most tragic]] character of the cast.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|"I'll tear down the sky if it'll save her."}}}}
** [[Final Fantasy XIII-2]] has a ''very'' dark take on this. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad|main antagonist]] of the game is an immortal guardian, [[Blessed with Suck|imbued with the Heart of Chaos]]. He is sworn to protect the Farseers' Seeress, [[Token Mini-Moe|Yeul]] - who is reincarnated in every generation after the previous one dies ([[Power Degeneration|which happens at a very young age due to the damaging nature of having visions]]). After several centuries of seeing her die and be reborn, Caius snaps, and hatches a plan to [[Time Crash|destroy the timeline]] - [[Alas, Poor Villain|all so Yeul can live without worry or pain]].}}
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** Sarah herself is this to Jimmy, she maybe is a [[Spoiled Brat]] but this is arguably one of her redeeming qualities.
** {{spoiler|'''''BRUTALLY''''' subverted with Eddy and his brother.}}
* Skipper and Kowalski of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' display this toward Private occasionally, covering his eyes or ears to protect him from "inappropriate" content.
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force]]'' and ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'': Despite their differences Kevin acts this way towards Ben.
* [[Franklin]] Turtle, without a doubt, seen in the third season in "Big Brother Franklin" when Franklin took to looking after a little kid named Squirrel. He also became a "best friend big brother" to Bear's little sister, Beatrice. Eventually, Paulette Bourgeois finally made him a big brother for real in the book "Franklin's Baby Sister" and the film ''Franklin and the Green Knight'' soon followed.
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* Kenny McCormick from ''[[South Park]]'' cares a great deal about his younger sister, Karen. So much so that {{spoiler|he dresses up as his superhero persona, Mysterion, and acts as her [[Guardian Angel]].}} [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Awww.]]
** Alternatively and less immediate, Kyle and Ike's relationship has varied throughout the course of the show; originally, Ike was more of an [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] who idolized Kyle, following him to school and copying his mannerisms, while Kyle held a more superficial malice towards his brother (when he learned Ike was adopted, he completely shunned him for a while). Nowadays, Kyle goes to great lengths to keep his little brother safe, from stopping him from running off to Somalia, to dragging his friends to Canada on Christmas Eve to get Ike back from his biological parents. Ike has now become one of Kyle's greatest drives (seconded only to Kyle's antagonism towards Cartman.)
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' Tygra often struggles with his deep [[The Resenter|resentment]] of his younger brother Lion-O, but when Lion-O is protecting some [[Stock Punishment|stockaded]] prisoners from an [[Angry Mob]] and has challenged them to [[Go Through Me]], Tygra immediately comes to his aid informing the crowd "You better be sure you want to do this because ''I've'' [[I Am Your Opponent|got his back]]."
* ''[[The Clone Wars|Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'': Obi-Wan to Anakin, who in turn is to Ahsoka.
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* 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.]
* Another inversion, an 8 year old boy [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].
* In a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|real-life example]] of big ''sister'' instinct [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42228006/ns/today-today_people/?fb_ref=story_header&fb_source=profile_oneline a nine-year-old girl risked her life to push her five-year-old sister out of the way of an oncoming truck.]
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