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Two (rarely, more) blood siblings of either gender working together as equal partners. Their business often involves ass-kicking, in which case they are likely to be [[Bash Brothers]] as well. The easiest way to tell that a sibling duo fits this trope is when they are most commonly referred as "the ''Surname'' brothers" or "the ''Surname'' sisters".
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
== Sibling Teams ==
▲=== Anime and Manga ===
* The Elric brothers from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. They are state alchemists. Even if Al is not officially a state alchemist, they are working together as equal partners on both government missions and their personal quest for the Philosopher's Stone.
** Also the homunculi in the manga are all brothers and sisters.
* Xia Yu sisters from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': assassins/spies. Also, [[Creepy Twins]].
* Kouji and Tetsuya from ''[[
** Tetsuya and Jun from ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' are also adoptive siblings. They overlap this trope with [[Battle Couple]].
** Duke and Maria from ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]''.
* The Thompson Sisters ([[Multiple Reference Pun|possibly named]] for both the [
** Recent developments ''might'' see Liz and Patti working together as meister and Weapon, as Kid is currently imprisoned by Noah.
*** Confirmed in the Salvage arc. Patti is shaping up to be a ''menace'' as Liz's meister.
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* N2R from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', a unit made up of four of the {{spoiler|Nakajima}} Sisters, namely {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn|Nove, Wendi, Dieci, and Cinque]]}}.
** Also, the Liese Twins from ''A's'', although they are twin familiars rather than a real family.
* [[The Stoic|Natsumi]] and [[Big Eater|Kurumi]] in the ''[[Ranma
** From the late manga, the sisters Pink and Link, who nearly poisoned the entire town.
** In the anime, Shampoo's childhood friends Rinrin and Ranran.
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* ''[[Oishinbo]]'': The brothers in the Ramen and Gyoza volume.
* The Hitachiin brothers from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' are more or less inseparable twins and often partners in crime. They've also been shown beating up punks together.
* Prowl, Sideswipe, and X-Brawn in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.
* The Frost Brothers of ''[[After War Gundam X
** ''[[Gundam]]'' has more. There's [[Mobile Suit Gundam
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' gives us 'Demon' Mirajane, [[Gentle Giant|Elfman]], and [[Dead Little Sister|Lisanna]], but the team presumably breaks apart with the latter's death and Mirajane's retirement to [[Team Mom]].
** The {{spoiler|[[Summon Magic|Stellar Spirits]] Gemini}} are an example of [[Wonder Twin Powers]].
* Ikki and Shun from ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' at first started off as [[Cain and Abel]]. Finally in the last movie, Tenkai Hen~ Overture, they finally worked together.
** If you go by the manga, you could say that this had been happening for a long time since all the bronze Saints are half brothers with Shun and Ikki being the only full-brothers of the group.
* Panty and Stocking from [[Panty
* The Kongo Twins of [[Eyeshield 21]], though Agon gets far more attention then Unsui. There's also the Gonzales brothers of the Nasa Aliens.
* The Pichu Brothers in the ''[[Pokémon (
* ''[[Magikano]]''
* ''[[Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge|Gedou Otome Tail]]''The Borden Twins i
* The eponymous characters from Chinese anime [[Gourd Brothers]]. Seven brothers born from seven gourds on the same vine, each have one color from the rainbow. Rainbow...
=== Comics ===▼
* [[Spider Girl]] plays with this a
▲== Comics ==
** Crazy Eight and Funny Face, a villainous example. {{spoiler|[[Alas, Poor Villain|Until Crazy Eight's death.]]}}▼
▲* [[Spider Girl]] plays with this a LOT. Fitting for a 'verse made up of [[Legacy Hero|Legacy Heroes]].
▲** Crazy Eight and Funny Face, a villainous example. {{spoiler|[[Alas Poor Villain|Until Crazy Eight's death.]]}}
*** May also teams up with two [[Annoying Younger Sibling|annoying younger kids]] in spider costumes, but she's not really related to either of them.
**** However, there is {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues|her clone April]]}} and {{spoiler|[[Aloof Big Brother|cousin Darkdevil]]}}, both of whom she's worked with.
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* Hawk and Dove, at least the original Hall brothers.
* During the rare periods when they're both alive, sane and in the same reality, Northstar and Aurora of [[Alpha Flight]] serve as a sibling team.
* Cyclops and Havok of the ''[[
* Joe, William, Jack and Averell Dalton in ''[[Lucky Luke]]''.
* The Double Dare sisters from ''[[Nightwing]]''
* ''[[Power Pack]]'': Four
* ''[[
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* Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues AKA ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''.▼
▲* [[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy (Fanfic)|Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]: Chloe/Cure Rosa and Chiarra/Cure Vanilla are sisters.
▲== Film ==
▲* Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues AKA [[The Blues Brothers]].
* The creepy albino twins from ''[[The Matrix]]'' sequels.
* The clone army from ''[[Star Wars]]'' could be an example. All the clones grow up together, at any rate, and individual troopers have other troopers that they are especially close to. If not, the four-man commando squads, as in [[Republic Commando]], definitely count.
* Trinity and Bambino, the "right and left hand of [[The Devil]]", respectively, in the ''[[Trinity (
* {{spoiler|The Borden Twins}} in ''[[The Prestige]]'', who live their lives as one person for the sake of their magic act.
* From ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'', we got the sisters Arcee, Chromia and Elita-1.
** Skids and Mudflap count too. Two twins who help each other and the Autobots to fight the Deceptions, Simmons against Devastator and help Sam to revile the Matrix...when they don't argue with each other.
* The Bagrov brothers from ''[[Brother]]'', but especially the second movie.
* [[Four Brothers|The Mercer brothers, full stop.]]
* Turk and Virgil Malloy from ''[[
* The Stabbington brothers in ''[[Tangled]]''.
* Connor and Murphy McManus, ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''.
=== Literature ===▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[Hardy Boys]]''.
* The Weasley Twins and their joke shop from ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
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** Dennis and Colin Creevey.
* The Geste brothers in ''[[Beau Geste]]''.
* If clones count, the so-called [[Hand of Thrawn|Devist family]], that [[Deep
** In [[Young Jedi Knights]], the Solo Twins Jacen and Jaina. Once they're out of their teens they quickly stop being together all the time, and, well, we know [[Legacy of the Force|how it ended]].
* The Pevensies, the main characters of the first series of books of the ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' are brothers and sisters, until Susan and Peter opt out and cousin Eustace comes in.
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* The Brothers Majere in ''[[Dragonlance]]'', at least, to start with.
* The sons of Fëanor from ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.
** And Elrond's twin sons, who get very little mention in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' main trilogy.
* Rory and Coco in ''Little League Family.'' Rory catches and Coco pitches. As pitcher-catcher are almost a subteam in baseball, that makes them a literal as well as metaphorical team.
* The ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' series is mostly about multiple
* Most [[Enid Blyton]] protagonist groups are at least partially family-based. The Famous Five consist of three siblings, their cousin and her dog, the 'Adventure' group are two pairs of a brother and a sister, etc.
* Teucer and Greater Axaj in ''[[
* Georgia and Shaun Mason in Mira Grant's ''[[Feed]]'' are adopted, but every bit as close as blood siblings (they don't like to be apart, ever). They work together on their blog network and watch each other's backs when they go into infected zones.
* Monza and Benna in Joe Abercrombie's ''Best Served Cold'' make a very efficient
* Half-brothers Harry Dresden and Thomas Raith in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', wizard and vampire respective.
* Niko and ''[[Cal Leandros]]''. They even have a monster hunting agency.
* From ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'', there's Meg and Charles Wallace Murry. Plus Calvin O'Keefe, who just gets pulled along for the ride and isn't related to the Murrys. {{spoiler|Yet, anyway.}}
** Same goes for Sandy and Dennys, the Murry twins in "Many Waters."
* Sabrina and Daphne, the eponymous heroines of ''[[
=== Live-Action TV ===▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* Brothers A.J. and Rick from [[Simon and Simon]].
* The Winchester brothers from ''[[Supernatural]]''.
* ''[[Green Acres]]'' had the Monroe Brothers (Alf & Ralph): general contractors. Alf was a man, Ralph was a woman.
* The Halliwell sisters (a trio) from ''[[
* Don and Charlie Eppes work together to pursue evildoers on ''[[Numb3rs]]''. Don is an FBI agent and Charlie is a [[Smart Guy]] math consultant.
* Justin, Alex and Max in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''.
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** The Gouraigers (Ikkou and Isshu Kasumi) from ''[[Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger]]'' and the Thunder Rangers (Blake and Hunter Bradley) from ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]''. (The latter two were both ''adopted'' by the Bradleys, but that doesn't matter in the slightest.)
** GekiBlue and GekiViolet (Retsu and Gou Fukami) from ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]''. Not carried over to ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]'' because Theo and RJ as siblings...?
** Subverted in ''[[Power Rangers
** The Hoshikawas of ''[[Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman]]'' were the first five-sibling team, before either ''GoGoFive'' or ''Magiranger''.
* ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' has one or two of these per season.
* ''Minutemen'' The [[Made for TV Movie]] features a team of just brothers.
* DG and Azkadelia in ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]''
* The 1985 Tokusatsu series, ''Kyodai Ken Byclosser''. The eponymous heroes are sibling team consisting of two brothers, Ken and Gin.
* Half-sisters Morgana and Morgause from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. An [[Aversion]] with Morgana and Arthur, as by the time they realize they are half-siblings, they are estranged.
* Gunther and Tinka from ''[[Shake It Up]]''.
* The three Twist kids in ''[[Round the Twist]]'' frequently team up to solve the secret to the latest supernatural event in [[Quirky Town|Port Niranda]], although in some stories only one character is caught up in the weird goings-on.
=== Music ===▼
▲== Music ==
Musical siblings are common in rock bands and vocal/R&B groups. Family-based groups are more common in country and older vocal groups. Some examples:
* [[Van Halen]]
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* [[Sepultura]] (the Cavalera brothers, who went on to form The Cavalera Conspiracy)
* [[Veruca Salt]] (original members Nina Gordon and Jim Shapiro were sister and brother)
* [[
* [[Hanson]]
* Kings of Leon
* [[Evile]]
* [[Lamb of God]]
* [[
* Gentle Giant
* [[The Everly Brothers]]
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* [[Remedy Drive]] is made up of four brothers: Daniel, David, Philip, and Paul Zach.
* Los Lonely Boys are three brothers.
* Mary Mary (
* Tom and Bill Kaulitz of the German band Tokio Hotel form two of the four members.
* Gerard and Mikey Way of [[My Chemical Romance]] are brothers.
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* Another set of identical twins are Benji and Joel Madden from [[Good Charlotte]].
* [[Nickelback]]
* [[The White Stripes]] once claimed they were this, but she was actually his wife.
=== Professional Wrestling ===▼
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
* The gimmick of identical twins who can win matches because they look so much alike they can [[Twin Switch|switch places in the ring without their opponent realizing it]] is a very common one.
** Ron and Don Harris, who worked both in WCW and WWF under various gimmicks including The Blu Brothers, the Disciples of Apocalypse, and Creative Control.
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* Harlem Heat ([[Booker T]] and Stevie Ray)
=== Religion and Mythology ===▼
▲== Religion and Mythology ==
* A common trope in pre-Columbian America involves twins doing this.
=== Tabletop Games ===▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* Naestra and Arahan, the twin Wood Elf sisters in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' who shoot people with their longbows from dragonback.
=== Video Games ===▼
▲== Video Games ==
* The McCall brothers from ''[[Call of Juarez]]'': adventurers and robbers.
* The Chang brothers from ''[[Vampire Bloodlines]]'': guardians of Ankaran Sarcophagus.
* The Kasuga Family of ''[[
* Mario and Luigi, the [[Super Mario Bros.]]!
** Who may, or may not be twins.
*** They are, just dizygotic.
* [[Spirited Competitor|Terry]] and [[McNinja|Andy]], the [[Fatal Fury|Bogard]] [[King of Fighters|Brothers]].
* The Komodo Brothers from the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series, though they only appeared together in ''Crash 2'' and ''Crash Bash'', while Joe went it alone in ''Crash Team Racing''. Neither has been seen since.
* From ''[[
* J.C. and Paul Denton in ''[[
* Billy and Jimmy Lee, [[Double Dragon|the Double Dragons]].
** In the arcade version of ''Double Dragon 3'', this trope is invoked literally by having the playable characters divided into four groups of different sibling teams (the Lee Bros., the Oyama Bros., the Urquidez Bros., and the Chin Bros.), essentially an excuse to [[Color
** Billy and Jimmy's counterpart in ''[[River City Ransom]]'' were named Randy and Andy. Their [[Dub Name Change|counterparts]] in the [[Kunio
* Oscar and Emile Bielert from ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', both [[Friendly Sniper|snipers]].
* Yun and Yang from ''[[
* The [[Great Giana Sisters]].
* The [[Fan Nickname|Blue Bomber]] and his red brother from the ''[[Mega Man (
* Faylen and Faylon from ''[[Suikoden V]]''.
* Kat and Ana from the ''[[
* The Finito brothers from ''[[Max Payne (
* Jao and Mao, the twin co-leaders of the Tenkou Pirates in ''[[
* Dante and Vergil from ''[[
* Palom and Porum are two little twins who team up with the hero in ''[[
* Sisters Faris and Lenna from ''[[
* Edgar and Sabin Figaro from ''[[
* [[Tales of Graces
* [[Dragon Age 2|Hawke]] and his or her twin siblings are quite capable in battle, and the surviving twin will always have a class that compliments Hawke's, also making them [[Sword and Sorcerer]].
=== Web Original ===▼
▲== Web Original ==
* Hamper and Damper are twin brothers with different psychic powers in the [[Whateley Universe]]. One can cloud minds, the other can suppress powers.
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has the Freelancers North- and South-Dakota, who are twins and, according to South, always put together in a team.
** {{spoiler|Until South [[Face Heel Turn|kills]] [[Sibling Rivalry|her brother]].}}
* Doug and Rob Walker of [[That Guy With
* John and Hank of ''[[Vlog Brothers]]'', who are a real-life sibling team.
* ''[[My Brother, My Brother and Me]]'' with Justin, Griffin, and Travis McElroy
* ''[[Epic Rap Battles of History]]'' has featured the Wright Brothers vs. the Mario Brothers.
=== Web Comic ===▼
▲== Web Comic ==
* The siblings, Fudge, Batter and Mix Cakea of ''[[CAKE]]'' are this.
* Kavra and Khevresh from ''[[
* The eponymous heroes of ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'' are implied to be this, especially [https://web.archive.org/web/20120528125751/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00258.html here.]
* Bill and Barry Heterodyne from the backstory of ''[[Girl Genius]]''.
=== Western Animation ===▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* The new ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' has the Daughters of Zim.
* ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' had the Platypus Brothers: general contractors.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Underground]]'' had a version of Sonic who had a sister and a brother, all on a quest to find their mother.
* Sunstreaker and Sideswipe of ''[[Transformers Generation
* Twins Jetfire and Jetstorm in ''[[Transformers Animated]].''
* Lifty and Shifty from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.
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* ''Team Go'' was a five-sibling team in [[Kim Possible]]. At least until [[Face Heel Turn|Shego became a villain]]
* The Trix in ''[[Winx Club]]'' are a villainous version.
* XJ-9 and her robotic "sisters", XJ Mark 1 through 8, on ''[[My Life
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Sokka and Katara.
** Zuko and Azula during the season 2 finale, but this one is… [[Cain and Abel|unstable]].
* ''[[
* The eponymous four [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] display their siblinghood [[Turtle Power]].
* Más y Menos of ''[[Teen Titans (
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Bart and Lisa whenever they fight Sideshow Bob, or help Krusty.
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* ''[[Wild Kratts]]'' has the Kratt Brothers Martin and Chris.
** Real life example too as they both worked together on nature shows ''[[Kratts' Creatures]]'' and ''[[Zoboomafoo]]''.
=== Real Life ===▼
* The [[
▲== Real Life ==
▲* [[Strugatsky Brothers (Creator)|Strugatsky Brothers]]: the most popular Soviet sci-fi authors.
* Wachowski siblings: the people who brought you ''[[The Matrix]]''... and a couple other movies.
* [[The Coen Brothers]].
* [[The Wayans Bros.|The Wayans Brothers]].
* [
* [
* James Brothers: Jesse and Frank James, famous American outlaws and leaders of the [
** The James brothers seem to have made a habit out of working with sets of brothers as well. The James-Younger gang included the four Younger brothers: Cole, Jim, John, and Bob. Later the James brothers worked with the Ford brothers: Charlie and Robert/Bob. That didn't work out so well for Jesse though (or, for that matter, the Fords).
** The Youngers were also cousins to the Dalton brothers, Bob, Gratton and Emmett.
* [
* [
* The [[Marx Brothers]].
* Diector [[Sam Raimi]], who often casts his brother Ted Raimi in his films. Ivan Raimi, also Sam's brother, was one of the screenwriters on ''[[Spider
* [[Christopher Nolan]]'s brother Jonathan is sometimes his screenwriting partner.
* The [
* [[The Brothers Grimm (
* [
* Manfred (the Red Baron) and Lothar von Richthofen. Both served in the same squadron, and were amongst the highest scoring aces of WWI.
* Andrew and Allen Cunningham in [[World War II]] . Andrew in the Royal Navy and Allen in the British Army. Andrew was a genuine [[Four
* The Sedin twins, Henrik and Daniel, of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks. They are decent players on their own, but when they're on the ice together, look the fuck out.
** Before the Sedins, there were the Sutters, ''six'' brothers who all played in the NHL. Brent and Duane were teammates on the New York Islanders, while twins Rich and Ron played together for the Philadelphia Flyers ''and'' St. Louis Blues.
* [[Sandra Bullock]], wearing her producer hat, is sometimes partnered with her sister Gesine Bullock-Prado.
* German director Fatih Akin usually manages to include a part for his brother Cem in his movies.
* German football legend Uwe Seeler and his brother Dieter frequently played together for the Hamburger SV and a few times in the West German national team. It was said that any player who fouled Uwe in a bad way could expect to be tackled by protective big brother Dieter later in the game.
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* The Nicholas Brothers, tap-dancing legends.
* Fred and Adele Astaire.
* King [[Frederick the Great]] and his middle brother Henry (Heinrich), commanders of the two main Prussian field armies in the [[Seven Years' War]] (and also the War of Bavarian Succession, 1778-1779).
* General Charles Mann, Lord Brome, Marquess and Earl of Cornwallis (best remembered for being forced to capitulate at Yorktown) and his brother, Admiral William Mann, Earl of Cornwallis.
* Harold, Gyrth and Leofwine Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, Gyrth and Leofwine even died together. Harold and Gyrth had formerly teamed up against their other brother Tostig at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, and before Tostig's defection Tostig and Gyrth were a close team.
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* The legends of [[Western Animation]], Max and Dave Fleischer of [[Fleischer Studios]]!
== Other relative teams ==
===
* [[The Hulk]] and [[She Hulk]], cousins.
=== Literature ===▼
* Sostratos and Menedamos, cousins, in ''[[Over the Wine Dark Sea]]'' and its sequels. The pair of them are [[Intrepid Merchant
▲== Literature ==
▲* Sostratos and Menedamos, cousins, in ''[[Over the Wine Dark Sea]]'' and its sequels. The pair of them are [[Intrepid Merchant|Intrepid Merchants]] from Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age, and have to deal with nature, pirates, warlords, strange cargo (like peacocks), and, worst of all, each other.
* ''[[Nancy Drew|Nancy Drew's]]'' sidekicks George and Bess are cousins (though unrelated to Nancy herself).
* Merry and Pippin, cousins, from ''[[
* Hunter and Sky, cousins, from Cate Tiernan's ''[[Sweep]]'' series.
* More than one in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', including the main protagonists.
* Ivan and Miles are cousins and [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] in the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]''.
=== Live Action TV ===▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'', cousins.
* Kate, Sarah, and Nicholas Redding, the heroes of ''[[Pirate Islands]]''.
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[
* Though only posing as siblings, Illana and Lance from ''[[Sym
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* Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and his cousin Prince Frederick Charles commanded two main armies in the wars of 1866 and [[Franco
▲* ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' has cousins who certainly act like, and to an extent are treated like, siblings.
▲* Though only posing as siblings, Illana and Lance from ''[[Sym Bionic Titan]]'' could count as they are not romantically involved, but care strongly with each other.
▲* Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and his cousin Prince Frederick Charles commanded two main armies in the wars of 1866 and [[Franco Prussian War|1870-1871]].
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