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== Film - Animated ==
* Played for laughs in Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' by the childish Prince John.
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** Which might possibly have been [[Truth in Television]]; it's been suggested by many historians that Richard was the favorite child of their mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, while John was the favorite of their father, Henry II.
* Nuka from [[The Lion King]] is neglected in favour of the youngest, Kovu, whom Scar chose as his heir.
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* ''[[Walk Hard]]: The Dewey Cox Story'': The fact that Dewey Cox's father is fond of reminding Dewey that "the wrong kid died" when discussing Dewey's deceased older brother is a pretty good indication of where Dewey stands on the pecking order.
* John feels like this in ''[[The Lion in Winter]]'' as well:
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'''Richard''': Let's strike a flint and see! }}
** Geoffrey, in turn, has a bad case of [[Middle Child Syndrome]]:
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* The TV movie ''Sweet Dreams'' (1996) has this trope in a flashback scene near the end between Laura Renault (played by Amy Yasbeck) and Allison Sulivan (played by Tiffany Amber-Thiessen).
** '''Laura Renault''': He didn't draw me because he knew I was bad.
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* In ''[[Ever After (film)|Ever After]]'', Rodmilla de Ghent favours her eldest daughter Marguerite, who is beautiful and behaves the same way as her mother, compared to her stepdaughter Danielle and her younger daughter Jacqueline, who has a much sweeter, kinder personality.
* Ramsey Hogan in [[Desert Heat]] clearly favors one child over the other two.
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'''Ramsey:''' "I love Petey 'cause I loved his mother. She died giving him birth. He's our love child."
'''Matt:''' "What about me and Jess?"
'''Ramsey:''' "You two are the unfortunate results of some recreational fucking back when fucking was fun."
'''Matt:''' "... geez."
'''Ramsey:''' "Get over it." }}
* This is the Red Queen's [[Freudian Excuse]] in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', as she claims (and is partially right) that her parents and the rest of the kingdom favoured her little sister the White Queen more than her.
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* In ''[[Outbound Flight]]'', Jedi Lorana Jinzler is confronted, to her shock, by the brother she never knew, who told her angrily that their parents, who she also never knew, ''loved'' her for being a Jedi, loved her more than their other children, held her up as a shining example of what they should be. She's confused and disturbed and both of them come away from that confrontation worse off; at the end of the book, Lorana tells someone to find her brother and tell him that she was thinking of him, and hoping that he could find a way to let go of his anger - at her, at their parents, at himself.
** Fifty years later, in ''[[Survivors Quest]]'', that person Lorana talked to ''finally'' stops neglecting the promise and arranges for Dean Jinzler to go to the ruins of Outbound Flight, where his sister died. Time has muddled up his anger, and although he still believes that she was unduly favored, he wants to put things to rest and say his goodbyes. During the events of the novel he realizes, in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], that he'd been lying to himself for years. Their parents ''had'' loved the absent Lorana, but they had loved the children they had just as much. All those years when Dean had been pushing himself to excel in his father's fields, they ''had'' been proud. He just hadn't seen it.
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* Manny Heffley, the baby of the Heffley family from [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]. (Manny is three years old, Greg is around eleven to thirteen, while Rodrick is implied to be in between fifteen to seventeen.) Manny is allowed to do all sorts of stuff like bring toys to church, call his brothers names, throw fits to get his way, and crawl out of bed at night and stay up. Greg states that when he was Manny's age, he had none of that. The [[Parental Favoritism]] also spreads to the ''extended family''. (Manny is given far more presents for Christmas and more stuff that he wants, Greg is given stuff like books of Algebra or deodorant.) Especially the only in-focus grandmother who claims to like all of her grandchildren equally but her fridge is practically wallpapered in pictures of Manny.
** The only onscreen grandfather meanwhile actually subverts this. It's also why he is Gregory's favourite grandparent, for obvious reasons...
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* In the ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' series, Jeb clearly favors his foster children (the Flock) over his six-year-old biological son Ari, to the point at which he leaves Ari in an underground lab filled with unethical scientists who unsurprisingly have no problem experimenting on the poor kid. Because of this, Ari understandably resents the Flock for this (especially Max) and tries constantly to gain his father's favor. {{spoiler|Then the parental favoritism becomes literal when it turns out that Max and Ari are half siblings.}}
** Of course, it's a bit blurry as to whether he genuinely loved them or was just another in a long line of people trying to use the Flock to their advantage. The fact that he doesn't shut up about how they have to save the world might be an indicator.
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* A major theme in ''[[East of Eden]]'', due to the running [[Cain and Abel]] parallel. It happens first with Cyrus Trask, his [[The Unfavorite|unfavorite]] eldest son Charles, and the favorite, Adam. Thanks to [[Generation Xerox]], things go pretty much the same way with Adam's twin sons, Cal and Aaron.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''The Song of the Cardinal'', the cardinal got this. His father stuffed him with food in the nest, and his mother, more equitable, gave him only half of what she gathered.
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* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''A Daughter of the Land'', Mary. With Kate singled out as the unfavorite.
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"Mary had exceptional ability," said Mrs. Bates.
"I wonder how she convinced you of it. None of the rest of us can discover it," said Kate. '' }}
* In Stuart Hill's ''[[The Icemark Chronicles]]'', the youngest son Sharley has a crippled leg, so his parents overprotect him and love him more than their other offspring. His sister Medea grows more and more hatred towards him throughtout the second book, until she eventually tries to kill him.
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* In ''[[That 70s Show]]'', Red favors Laurie over Eric, as he's oblivious to the fact that she's the town slut. OTOH, Kitty's love for Eric goes pretty much into [[My Beloved Smother]] territory.
** At one point, after Eric has missed an opportunity to get Laurie in trouble with Red for making out with her professor, this exchange happens:
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'''Kitty''': Well, Eric, You know that I love you and your sister equally. But the next time you get an opportunity like that, for God's sake pull the trigger! }}
** Red also favors Hyde, his pseudo-adopted son, over Eric.
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* Pam Puckett on ''[[iCarly]]''. It's obvious to everyone that out of the twins, she prefers Melanie over Sam. She even outright asks Sam once why she can't be more like Melanie.
* Mostly averted in ''[[Wonderfalls]]'', where they do treat all three of their children well. Nevertheless there was this:
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'''Aaron:''' I thought I was his favorite.
'''Diana:''' We don't have favorites. }}
* In [[Roseanne]], it's pretty clear that Jackie and Roseanne's parents have each chosen a favorite. Jackie's close relationship with their father leads her to excuse a lot of the abuse they suffered and look to excuse his affair. Bev is ridiculously hard on Jackie and dotes on Roseanne. One episode, where their mother's favoritism is glaring, Roseanne worries that she and Dan may act this way to their own girls. She spends the rest of the episode trying to bond with Darlene who is a Daddy's girl, while forcing Dan to do things with Becky (including an excruciating day at the mall). After things mostly backfire, Dan and Roseanne agree to go back to doting on their favorite and decide to toss a coin on who gets to ruin DJ's life when he's old enough.
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* Cotton Hill of [[King of the Hill]] has said that he prefers "Good Hank" an infant over his grown son Hank mainly due to the facts that he was born in Texas and he didn't cry when he shot a gun near him.
* In [[The Simpsons]] episode "Eight Misbehavin'", while Manjula introduces their eight newborn octuplets to Apu, she introduces the last child:
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** Despite claiming that Gheet is her favorite, she needed to check Gheet's shirt tag to confirm his identity when she went to go back for him at Moe's Tavern in "Moe Letter Blues".
** Apu is seen holding Anoop more frequently than the rest of the octuplets.
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