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See [[Children Raise You]] for cases when a kid have to play parent to an "adult" ([[Man Child|using the term loosely enough]]). Compare to [[Big Brother Instinct]]. |
See [[Children Raise You]] for cases when a kid have to play parent to an "adult" ([[Man Child|using the term loosely enough]]). Compare to [[Big Brother Instinct]]. |
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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* The whole premise - played for laughs - of ''[[Beelzebub]]''. That is all. |
* The whole premise - played for laughs - of ''[[Beelzebub]]''. That is all. |
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**** To answer that, they have pictures of him with Dawn. It extends the whole world over, yeah. |
**** To answer that, they have pictures of him with Dawn. It extends the whole world over, yeah. |
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* ''[[Chuck]]'': Ellie Bartowski had to step up from about the of age twelve to raise her brother and run their household since their mother left them with their mentally absent father. Their father left as well a few years later, making the promotion to parent even more official. |
* ''[[Chuck]]'': Ellie Bartowski had to step up from about the of age twelve to raise her brother and run their household since their mother left them with their mentally absent father. Their father left as well a few years later, making the promotion to parent even more official. |
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* In ''Bull'' episode |
* In ''[[Bull]]'' episode "A Girl Without Feelings", the defendant is a diagnosed sociopath who is accused of murdering her brother because of a dispute when he was applying for guardianship. As she says on the witness stand her brother loved her "even when she could not love him back" or in other words her feeling of self interest came out to be a type of love for him -- just not as we know it -- and she was no more likely to murder her brother than anyone else. It was just a family dispute over how much freedom she could actually be trusted with. |
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* Fiz in ''[[Coronation Street]]'' has to act as mother to her younger brother Chesney, after their mum Cilla abandoned them. |
* Fiz in ''[[Coronation Street]]'' has to act as mother to her younger brother Chesney, after their mum Cilla abandoned them. |
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* Sean on ''[[Degrassi]]'' is taken care of by his older brother because he doesn't want to live with his parents after being expelled from his old school for a violent incident. |
* Sean on ''[[Degrassi]]'' is taken care of by his older brother because he doesn't want to live with his parents after being expelled from his old school for a violent incident. |
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