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* Female version: Himiko Kudo from ''[[Get Backers]]''. Backstory is that Ban killed her brother, Yamato, while they were all theives together.
* Kanae from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is a dead little sister, but a non-example, as while Kouta remembers her fondly, he's gotten (sorta) over her death. Lucy's [[Kill All Humans]] mentality, however, began because of the loss of {{spoiler|her puppy}} at the hands of some [[Kids Are Cruel|very cruel kids]]. Her [[Start of Darkness]] was a lethal [[Unstoppable Rage]] at [[All of the Other Reindeer]] [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|you could almost root for]].
** For the record, he got over it by ''{{spoiler|[[Trauma
*** And Lucy {{spoiler|is the one who killed Kanae and Kouta's father right in front of him!}}
* Dias's motivation in ''[[Star Ocean]] EX'' was literally his dead sister.
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*** In fact, it is so heavily impacted on him that he gets rather overprotective of Kanonno that original characters that they wonder why it is so.
* The main character of ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'' put down his sword after his Bounty Hunter lifestyle led him to accidentally kill his sister's husband (he'd never met him before), causing said sister [[The Ophelia|to mentally revert to a child-like state]] to cope. He picks it back ''up'' after his refusal to fight later resulted in his sister being graphically sliced to pieces. The story deals with his need to balance the two extremes; of course, the whole thing leans more towards violence, but generally it's for a good cause.
* {{spoiler|Nunnally}} in ''[[Code Geass]]'' seemingly towards the end of R2. {{spoiler|She gets better but not in time for Lelouch to stop his [[Zero
** Since Lelouch kinda recognized Rolo as his little brother {{spoiler|in episode 19...now he has a ''dead little brother'' too.}}
** It's also genderflipped in the case of Lelouch's [[Bodyguard Crush|female bodyguard]], [[Action Girl|Kallen Kouzuki]], who has a dead ''older brother'' named Naoto.
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* In ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', Lil' Slugger comes about {{spoiler|and ends up destroying Tokyo because Tsukiko felt guilty about her puppy dying when she was a child.}} Seriously.
* Edward Elric from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has two major [[Dead Little Sister]] events: the failed attempt to revive his mother through human transmutation that resulted in him losing an arm and a leg and his younger brother Alphonse being reduced to a soul attached to a walking suit of armor, and the [[Fate Worse Than Death|horrible]] [[Mercy Kill|fate]] of {{spoiler|Nina Tucker.}}
* ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]'' uses the real-life example below of {{spoiler|Robin and [[George W. Bush]]}}.
* Chōji Suitengu from ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' only maintained sanity throughout his years of {{spoiler|hellish service in the military}} by thinking of finding his little sister again after he got out. When he finally does, {{spoiler|the only thing he can do for her is [[Mercy Kill|end her suffering]]}}, turning him into a callous bastard and the [[Big Bad]] of the series.
* The occurrence of this trope is what starts off ''[[Arago]]''.
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*** Not just double, but ''tripple'' inverted in Metal Gear Solid with {{spoiler|Gray Fox}}. Not only is he the brother of {{spoiler|Naomi}} and older than her, he's also not as dead as everyone had thought. His [[Fighting Your Friend|almost killing by Solid Snake]] and the experiments made on him by the [[Nebulous Evil Organization|Patriots]] are the reason {{spoiler|Naomi joins Ocelot and infiltrates FOXHOUND}}.
* The entire plot of the Japanese visual novel ''Kana: Little Sister'' is based around the possibility of this event due to the title character having a serious illness. {{spoiler|In all but one of the endings, she dies. The other one is awful for other reasons.}}
* In ''[[Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game)|Valkyria Chronicles]]'', {{spoiler|Welkin's little sister Isara is shot down completely out of nowhere, just as she was about to befriend Rosie, who had been racist towards her the entire game.}} In fact, oddly enough, [[Angst? What Angst?|he seems to be the least affected by it all]]. If anything, it's {{spoiler|Rosie}} who was the most devastated, considering {{spoiler|her [[Tear Jerker|tear jerking]] [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|funeral song]], not to mention that she visits her grave yearly, unlike a certain brother}}. At least he {{spoiler|named his daughter after her}}.
* In the back story of [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]], the death of Carl Johnson's little brother Brian is what causes him to run away from home and live in Liberty City. Ironically enough, it's the death of his mother that brings him back to San Andreas to begin the plot.
* Asbel in ''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]'' gets one in the form of {{spoiler|Sophie, the heroine, who later turns out to be [[Never Found the Body|not quite dead]], since she can't die until she completely destroys [[Big Bad|Lambda]].}}
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* Trish Daily has one in ''[[In Famous (Video Game)|In Famous]]'' and her name is Amy. The reason she died? Cole activated the Ray Sphere in the beginning. If you play the game in good alignment, Trish would forgive him for it.
* In the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' connector comic "The Passing" it is revealed that Zoey was forced to shoot her own father. Later, it is revealed that his DNA was responsible for keeping Zoey alive, and he died in vain. Fortunately, she's got too much on her plate right now to be all mopey about it.
* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', depending on how [[Player Character|Hawke]] is played, personality wise, this can be played straight, [[Averted Trope]] or [[Invoked Trope]], both from the beginning what with [[It Was His Sled|Bethany or Carver dying in the prologue]], and the Deep Roads expedition {{spoiler|leading to your other sibling dying, becoming a Grey Warden or joining the Circle/Templars}} and [[Wham! Episode|All That Remains]] in Act II {{spoiler|where your mother dies}}. Even without taking into account the [[Cosmic Plaything|other things that can occur to Hawke and companions]] [[Trauma Conga Line|throughout the game]], is it any wonder an otherwise [[The Paragon|helpful and heroic]], or [[Deadpan Snarker|wisecracking and jovial]] Hawke can become an [[Anti-Hero|angry cynic]] over the course of the game.
** Several of Hawke's companions have their own. Aveline has her husband Wesley, whom either she or Hawke kills in the prologue to save him from the [[The Virus|darkspawn taint]]. Anders has Karl, his ex-lover, who was [[Empty Shell|made Tranquil]] by the Templars. Sebastian has his ''entire family'', who were murdered by hired thugs {{spoiler|and eventually his mentor Grand Cleric Elthina, whose murder reawakens his lust for vengeance}}. Varric {{spoiler|has his older brother Bartrand, who betrays him and whom he's forced to kill.}} Merrill {{spoiler|eventually has her mentor, Keeper Marethari, who dies protecting her, as well as potentially her whole clan}}.
* In ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'', Raul Tejada's little sister Rafaela was killed (and likely worse) by raiders while trying to scavenge for supplies for her brother (then undergoing radiation sickness/ghoulification) centuries ago. Later on in his life he had a [[Replacement Goldfish]] that was also killed. However the player, through talking with him and taking him to see various other NPCs can encourage him to pick up his guns and become a Vaquero once again.
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* {{spoiler|Eric}} is revealed to have one in ''[[Venus Envy]]''.
* {{spoiler|Darby}} has the older brother version in ''[http://www.tru-lifeadventures.com TRU-Life Adventures]''. Watching {{spoiler|how others got hypocritical in response}} had more of an impact than the actual death, though.
* [[Errant Story|Ian]] set off on his quest to find the elven gods because his ''older'' sister was dying and he wanted to find a way to heal her. {{spoiler|When he achieves godlike power and returns home to find that she died while he was away, [[Freak
* In ''[[Misfile]]'' Kamikaze Kate's [[Backstory]] is a textbook example of this trope, except it's a [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Big Sister]] in her case.
* In ''[[Picatrix]]'', Samael is motivated to exact revenge on the angel of death who took the soul of his twin sister.
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== Web Original ==
* In [http://www.takealemon.com Take a Lemon] Marsh seems to regard his little sister Tina as dead, even though she is standing right in front of him, because {{spoiler|:her memories were apparently altered by the experiment}}.
** Later in the story, Marsh finds out that {{spoiler|his favorite cousin is now [[Ret
* In [[Spoilsbury Toast Boy]], {{spoiler|Toast Boy's sister, Liache, is drowned by the beetles because they felt she didn't deserve to breathe. Her mucus told them this}}.
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* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'': An [[Time Travel|alternate timeline]] in "Time and Punishment" showed Darkwing [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] as the "[[Knight Templar|crime fighter]]" Darkwarrior Duck when [[The Heart|Gosalyn]] disappeared.
* ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' has Aquaman getting very depressed over a whale he failed to save.
* ''[[Legion of Super Heroes (TV)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' turns Ayla, aka Lightning Lass, into a literal example: instead of gaining [[Shock and Awe|awesome lightning powers]] when [[Super
* When Scarface murdered Dreamer, the youngest daughter of Fox and Vixen, in [[Animals of Farthing Wood]], this led not just to the feud between the red and blue foxes, but also resulted in Bold, their eldest, attempting to hunt him down when he got old enough.
* A gender-reversed version of this trope appears in [[Shadow Raiders]]. Graveheart's younger brother perished in a raid Graveheart was leading against Planet Fire for energy; this explicitly caused him to renounce his position in the elite Quarriors and become a simple miner instead, and is implied to be the reason why he is so keen on the idea of peaceful trading replacing the former raid-based interactions between the worlds.
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** Something similar in the case of Julius Caesar, who lost [[Daddy's Girl|his beloved daughter Julia]] through [[Death By Childbirth]].
* The death of Oscar Wilde's little sister Isola was reportedly a major catalyst for much of his darker literature, including his poem for her, "Requiescat".
* [[George W. Bush]] has a ''literal'' dead little sister, Robin, who died of leukemia when he was a little kid. [[George HW Bush|His parents]] played golf the next day and her name was never mentioned in the household again. The fact that this may have contributed to his decades of addiction has been brought up.
** Maybe not in the household, but they do sometimes bring her up for the PR. The Barbara Bush library in Texas has a statue of Robin in the entrance with a dedication supposedly written by her older brother.
* John Fitzgerald Kennedy had his dead older brother Joseph, who died in [[World War Two]]. Not to mention, both he and Joseph Jr. were Dead Older Brothers to Bobby and Ted, and sadly, JFK, RFK, and Joe Jr. '''all''' were Dead Older Brothers to Ted, the only one who lived a full life.
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