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** While he is her younger brother, Major Alex Armstrong is still a good head taller than General Olivier. Of course, that doesn't make [[Iron Lady|her]] any less intimidating.
* The Toguro brothers in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Elder Toguro was a short, lanky, immortal trickster. Younger Toguro was a [[Blood Knight]] who lived for fighting and, as such, has honed his already tall and muscular figure to buff up when using his full strength. He was also the stronger of the two by a wide margin.
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', England comes back from a long absence, and is disturbed to find his adopted younger brother America has [[She's All Grown Up|suddenly grown taller than him]]. China's (presumably adopted) younger brother, South Korea, is a head taller than him, though it's never mentioned. Prussia's younger brother Germany is taller than him too, though this is also not mentioned.
** Same goes to Russia, who is ''more'' than [[One Head Taller]] than his beloved older sister Ukraine. Also not quite alluded to.
* Shingo Tsukino in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' isn't taller than his sister Usagi but he is smarter, stronger, and often regarded as more mature than her. Then in the second season he starts catching up to her in the height department, and by the fourth season the kid's almost taller than she is.
* Although not taller then him, the younger Kongo twin in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' beats his older twin in absolutely ''everything'', needless to say the elder brother has a bit of an inferiority complex as a result.
* Yukio is this to Rin in ''[[Blue Exorcist (Manga)|Blue Exorcist]]''. Ironically, because Yukio was weak as a fetus, all of Satan's demonic powers went to Rin.
* Elfman to Mirajane (but not [[Dead Little Sister|Lisanna]], who is actually the youngest sibling) in ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.
* Mitsukuni Haninozuka from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' is much shorter than his younger brother Yasuchika.
* Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' are both taller than their eldest sister, Boa Hancock. And this is considering that Hancock herself [[Statuesque Stunner|is already more than 6 feet tall.]]
** Also {{spoiler|Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi}}, who even ''[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/0/05/Royal_Family.png as a baby]'' was much bigger than her brothers.
* Michio Kawata from ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' is ''way'' taller than his older brother Masashi. Also [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Michio is a [[Gentle Giant]] while Masashi is [[Hot-Blooded]].
* Exaggerated in ''[[Recorder and Randsell (Manga)|Recorder and Randsell]]'': Atsushi Miyagawa is a fifth grader who looks 17. On top of this, his older sister is in high school and looks his age.
* Yuki Aiba of ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]''. Even though his older brother Kouji is the protagonist of the series, Yuki is a bona-fide [[The Ace|Ace]], while Kouji barely squeaks into [[Dogged Nice Guy]] territory. Yuki is taller, stronger, bolder, is better looking, is better a fighter, a better pilot, a better tactician, and has a more active love life than his older brother. Kouji's only saving graces are that he's more responsible and better organized than Yuki.
 
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In The [[Super Sentai]] series ''[[Battle Fever J]]'', many of the Egos Monsters from episode 5 onward have "little brother" giant robot doubles.
** ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' has Younger Brother be an average-sized [[Monster of the Week]]. Elder Brother is the size (and shape) of ''a baseball''.
* ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' has Chris's younger brother, Drew, being both taller [[Always Someone Better|and]] [[Big Man Onon Campus|much]] [[Kidanova|cooler]]. Chris is quite aware of it.
* [[Inverted]] on ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]:'' Moseby's older brother Spencer is a little person. Spencer is [[Always Someone Better|also stronger, more wealthy]] and a grade-A [[Jerkass]].
* Sam Winchester from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', on account of Jared Padalecki being about 6'4 and Jensen Ackles being about 6'1.
* Alcide Herveaux from ''[[True Blood]]'' is a walking mountain of muscle, but his older sister Janice still refers to him as her "baby" brother.
* On ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', Aphrodite often refers to Herc as her "big brother," even though she's older than him by centuries.
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== Video Games ==
* Light example with ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]''. Coco is often slightly taller and significantly [[Wise Beyond Their Years|more intelligent and sane]] than her "big brother" [[Cloudcuckoolander|Crash]] (granted this depends on the [[Depending Onon the Writer|creative]] [[Depending Onon the Artist|team]], in ''Mind Over Mutant'' for example she is shorter than Crash and almost as demented and childish as he is).
* Played with in the ''[[Super Mario]]'' series. Luigi is taller than Mario and has his own moments of impressive heroism, however he is also rather cowardly and frequently lives in his big brother's shadow.
* [[Final Fantasy VIII]] has a [[Summon Magic|Summon]] of two [[A Load of Bull|Minotaur]] brothers which make use of this trope. Of course after you fight the [[Defeat Means Friendship|first one]] and he goes to get his Big Brother, it's alluded to that his Big Brother is literally [[Invoked Trope|bigger than he]].
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== Web Original ==
* Tom in ''[[Echo Chamber (Web Video)|Echo Chamber]]'' was overshadowed by his little brother, which serves as his [[Freudian Excuse]] for being a [[Jerkass]] to [[Cloudcuckoolander|Zack]].
{{quote| '''Dana:''' Everyone has an older brother that overshadows--<br />
'''Tom:''' I... I didn't say he was older.<br />
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