Youngest Child Wins: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"The LORD said to her, 'Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger.'"''

|''[[The Bible]]''}}

* This trope is rife in adverts for family games, such as board games and multiplayer platforms. The advert will typically display a family of four in which the youngest child (typically a girl, though not always) will win. On the boxes for older board games, the young child will be grinning with clenched fists whilst the father will have head in hands.

 

* Misty from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' doesn't have the model-esque beauty of her older sisters, but she did get all the talent as a trainer. The other three are just content to give badges away.

* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has eldest Kyouya, middle Miyuki, youngest Nanoha. Guess who gets mad magic skillz.

* Lampshaded and subverted in [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', where Sophie, the heroine, is the eldest of three sisters and knows that it's her younger sister who is destined for greatness. {{spoiler|The twist is that Sophie is actually the most magically powerful of them, and the youngest just wants to live a peaceful, happy, and mundane life.}}

* In [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[Narnia]]'' books, Lucy is the first to find Narnia, and the one who has the closest connection to Narnia and Aslan.

* In ''[[The Indian in the Cupboard]]'' series, Omri is the youngest of three, so he's naturally the one all the cool stuff happens to.

* Played with twice by [[Isaac Asimov]] in two separate stories. In the earlier one, a queen has triplets, causing the king a bit of consternation as to which one will have the adventures. (Things take care of themselves, however, as the last one out has the most success.) In the later, the protagonist prince is an only child, and again the king cites this trope (whereupon his wife points out ''he's'' not the one that had to give birth).