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{{quote| '''Francie''': "You fix everything for him and tell me I can find a way myself." }}
** Would be a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], if Francie wasn't immediately made to feel guilty about asserting herself and promptly apologise to her mother.
* [[Jodi Picoult]] uses this trope as justification for her [[Knight Templar]] mothers. Amelia of ''[[Handle Withwith Care]]'', gets lectured about all the things she can do that her fragile little sister, Willow, can't do whenever the girl complains about the restrictions placed on her and neglect she suffers. Anna of ''[[My SistersSister's Keeper]]'' gets [[No Sympathy|no sympathy]] for all the painful operations she gets put through, because her mum is too busy making sure that her cancer-stricken big sister, Kate, is all right, and Theo of ''House Rules'' is expected to put up with Jacob's abuse, and held to higher standards than his sibling, because Theo is capable of normal social interaction and autistic Jacob is not.
** YMMV on whether [[Jodi Picoult]] is agreeing with this as she shows how destructive this kind of parenting is and that it not only ruins the mother and ill child's life but destroys their family and everyone who gets too close.
* Kate Cann's ''Leaving Poppy'' uses the "sibling who fakes illness" plot - the titular Poppy controls her mother and sister's lives through tantrums and passive-aggression. Her mother claims that Poppy is "fragile" and guilt trips her other daughter, Amber, into bowing to her younger sister's demands. For example, when Amber is due to go on holiday, Poppy throws a fit, and their mother pleads with Amber to cancel, claiming that she'll have plenty of other opportunities to go on holiday while Poppy will not - and that while cancelling her holiday will be tough on Amber, Poppy (and their mother) will be even worse off if she doesn't, so Amber should be the one to make the sacrifice.
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'''{{smallcaps|Live Action}}'''
* In ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'', Malcolm spends an episode teaching Reese the value of hard work and studying and helps him write a passing paper for a class. When the paper gets an "F" the boys, who do not see how they can get Reese to perform any better, cheat and have Malcolm take one of Reese's tests for him. This one gets an "F" as well and this is when they realize that [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|Reese's teacher really is out to get him and is deliberately failing him]]. When Lois threatens to use this information to force the teacher to pass Reese he points out this will get Malcolm in trouble. Lois cites this trope as her justification, to Malcolm's own shock:
{{quote| '''Lois:''' You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you. I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.}}
* In the last episode of ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' {{spoiler|after being trapped in a time freeze for 60 years, Teal'c stays to press the [[Reset Button]], thus being the only one not to get those years back. He does this because he has a much longer lifespan than the rest, so the loss of six decades is less drastic for him. He is also the only one to retain the memories of what happened, which is shown to be much more difficult than the getting older.}}
** It was also brought up that he's the only one still in good enough physical shape to actually perform the necessary tasks quickly enough once he's back in the past.
* Appears in ''[[Firefly]]'' when Zoe can either [[Sadistic Choice|rescue her husband or her captain and good friend]]. She chooses her husband without an instant's hesitation, probably because he couldn't survive the torture. Mal didn't seem to mind.
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* On ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]],'' Francine is hurt when she discovers that her parents are leaving all their money to her sister. At first she assumes that it's because she was adopted, when really it's because her sister is a [[The Ditz|ditzy]] [[Asian Airhead]] whom they feel needs it more.
* As seen below in the [[Real Life]] section, in ''[[Daria]]'', Quinn gets a cash reward from her father for getting an A on ''one'' major homework project. Daria, the much smarter of the two, ''immediately'' calls him out on it for it being a [[Double Standard]], even implying that it would demotivate her since her consistent high grades garner no such rewards.
 
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