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[[You Know the One]]. Stays to [[The Caretaker|take care]] of the farm when [[Troubled but Cute]] up and leaves. Their attitude at the protagonist's return (it's rare they get the spotlight) varies between uppity, jealous, and happy. Even if happy, expect them to lay the moral smackdown on the hero for leaving.
Sometimes irritated that the Prodigal seems to be the favorite, while he's [[The Unfavorite]]. But they'll eventually forgive the (usually) younger sibling before the film ends.
Sometimes
Compare and contrast [[The Reliable One]], [[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Sojiroh Nichikado of ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'' serves this purpose in his family; his oldest brother left to become a doctor and is considered the black sheep of the family, while Sojiroh stayed behind to train to take charge of his family's tea ceremony enterprise. However, while he's not the protagonist, he's a far more important character than his never-seen brother, and is a flagrant hedonist and womanizer.
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* Illumi of ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', the perfect emotion-impaired first son of an assassin family, is quite baffled by his little brother running away from home and talking nonsense about making friends and not wanting to murder people for money anymore. However, he remains convinced that it's just a phase and Killua will calmly return to the family business eventually.
** Milluki, Killua's other older brother, fits the other part of this trope. He doesn't understand why his father and grandfather still favor Killua (the unofficial heir, despite being a rebellious middle child) over Illumi and him, and heavily resents his younger brother for this. Of course, he eagerly accepts the responsibility of disciplining Killua [[Fetish Fuel|with chains and whips]]. Ironically, Milluki himself is a failure of an assassin (essentially a [[Fat Bastard]] otaku geek) according to the rest of the family ([[Ted Baxter|though he obviously thinks otherwise]]).
* Witz Su from ''[[
* Yukifumi "Yuki" Todou from ''[[
* Muramasa Kaburagi, Kotetsu's older brother, from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', who runs the family liquor store and occasionally takes care of Kaede while Kotetsu is out being a [[Superhero]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* One subplot in ''[[The Good, the Bad
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: Return of the Jedi'', Luke seems to think that Leia is this.
** Early drafts and one printing of the ''RotJ'' novel indicate that originally [[Determined Homesteader|Owen Lars]] was supposed to be this for [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] with his brother: Obi-Wan Kenobi.
* ''[[
* George VI is
** Likewise in ''[[
* In the [[Steve Martin]] vehicle ''[[Parenthood (
* In ''[[East Is East]]'', only one of the children in the [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] takes a serious interest in Islam and obeying their father. That Maneer ultimately sides with the family against George [[OOC Is Serious Business|seems to be what shocks him the most]].
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*** The basic idea of the parable was that the father was representative of God, willing to forgive and take back anyone who comes back in genuine repentance, and at the same time criticizing those who considered themselves "above sinners" or basically holier-than-thou.
*** The Dutiful Son is one of the Prodigal Sons in the parable. The father reaches out to him even more than the son who traveled.
* [[
** In ''Death Comes as the End'', the eldest son Yahmose makes a plodding, responsible, henpecked contrast to his womanizing, hard-drinking brother Sobek and their spoiled little brother Ipy. {{spoiler|Yahmose snaps after repeated taunting by his father's new concubine, committing several murders, beginning with the concubine.}}
** In ''A Pocketful of Rye'', Percival Fortescue makes a dull, respectable showing against his dashing younger brother Lance, the family [[Black Sheep]] who was kicked out of the family business years ago.
** Richard Abernathie, whose funeral begins ''After the Funeral,'' maintained the family business and raised six younger brothers and sisters after his [[Promotion to Parent]].
* [[Lindsey Davis]]' Marcus Didius Falco; his older brother was a [[Loveable Rogue]] who got himself killed in battle by being too dashing to wear his helmet properly, after which Falco cleaned up the messes his brother left behind (see especially ''Poseidon's Gold'').
* Granny Weatherwax in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** Important note: She probably would have been the good one anyway, but what she really wanted was the opportunity to ''choose'', which Lily took from her.
* In [[
** Regulus Black as recalled by his brother in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (
** Aberforth Dumbledore in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (
** Percy Weasley {{spoiler|in the first four books}}: prefect in his fifth year (''[[Harry Potter and
* Sostratos in ''[[Over the Wine Dark Sea]]'' by [[Harry Turtledove]]. He is a respectable young man who gets along well with his father and younger sister. When he goes to sea as supercargo in the Ancient Hellenic merchant galley Aphrodite, he is always beside himself trying to keep the captain, his cousin Menedemos, from getting into trouble and hurting the family business.
* Danny Saunders in ''[[The Chosen]]'' is like this. He does not follow this plot and feels no jealousy toward his brother. But he is a very dutiful son especially considering his rather "rigorous" upbringing.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Picard's brother Robert in the ''[[Star Trek:
* Feel like guessing who in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''? In a twist, Dean is just as capable of being a [[Big Brother Instinct|dutiful brother]] and as shown by "What Is and What Should Never Be", tends to idolize Sam. But it was revealed by the shifter in "Skin" that he/Dean does resent Sam for getting to leave. Dean also manages to combine this with [[Troubled but Cute]].
* A variation happens in the [[
* On [[General Hospital]] the extremely rich and equally screwed up Quartermaine family had Ned Ashton who was constantly trying to appease his grandfather and cover his cousin's screw-ups. He eventually left town simply because he got tired of it
* Cesare [[The Borgias|Borgia]] goes above and beyond. He starts off by helping Daddy Rodrigo become [[Sinister Minister|pope]], saves his life within the first two episodes, and refuses to leave his side even when {{spoiler|the French are invading}}. All of this despite the fact that his father is basically forcing him to [[Sexy Priest|become a cardinal]] while giving his [[Too Dumb to Live]] brother the military position Cesare has always wanted and would most likely excel at.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Zalanna of ''[[
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