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* ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'': Peter towards all three of his siblings, but especially Lucy. He vehemently rebukes Edmund for humiliating her in the beginning of the series, up to the point that he looks like he's about to deck his younger brother in the movie. Later, despite having never wielded a sword before, he kills the monstrous wolf Maugrim in defense of his other sister Susan.
** The movie version of ''Prince Caspian'' portrays Susan [[PromotedToLoveInterest falling in love with Caspian]]. Peter definitely seems to oppose Caspian in every matter, getting to the point where they almost battle each other. It's almost as if Peter is destined, from the beginning, to hate the guy and bash him, while his little sister is instantly swept off her feet by him.
** The movie version of ''Prince Caspian'' portrays Susan [[PromotedToLoveInterest falling in love with Caspian]]. Peter definitely seems to oppose Caspian in every matter, getting to the point where they almost battle each other. It's almost as if Peter is destined, from the beginning, to hate the guy and bash him, while his little sister is instantly swept off her feet by him.
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* ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'': ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Peter towards all three of his siblings, but especially Lucy. He vehemently rebukes Edmund for humiliating her in the beginning of the series, up to the point that he looks like he's about to deck his younger brother in the movie. Later, despite having never wielded a sword before, he kills the monstrous wolf Maugrim in defense of his other sister Susan.
** The movie version of''Prince Caspian'' ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' portrays Susan [[PromotedToLoveInterest falling in love with Caspian]]. Peter definitely seems to oppose Caspian in every matter, getting to the point where they almost battle each other. It's almost as if Peter is destined, from the beginning, to hate the guy and bash him, while his little sister is instantly swept off her feet by him.
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* Carl Dalisay to Noel Dalisay in ''Mars Evacuees'', by Sophia McDougall. Not only does he physically protect his younger brother, Carl goes to great lengths to make sure Noel doesn't realize how dire things are.
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* In ''EndersGame'', the reason that Ender was willing to go to Battle School and join the International Fleet was to protect his sister Valentine, although he was actually her little brother.
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* {{Dragonlance}} Chronicles: Critical to Raistlin Majere's backstory. He spent his youth under the overprotective influence of his twin brother, Caramon. [[PolarOppositeTwins While Caramon grew up tall, handsome, muscular, and a bit dense, Raistlin was intelligent,]] but [[LonersAreFreaks sickly and alienated, with no friends but his brother.]] Seeking to prove his worth to his smothering "big brother" and the world at large, Raistlin [[AGodAmI seeks the power to topple Gods, and gets it.]] Deprived of a little brother to protect, Caramon falls into alcoholic depression.
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* {{Dragonlance}} Chronicles: ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Chronicles'': Critical to Raistlin Majere's backstory. He spent his youth under the overprotective influence of his twin brother, Caramon. [[PolarOppositeTwins While Caramon grew up tall, handsome, muscular, and a bit dense, Raistlin was intelligent,]] but [[LonersAreFreaks sickly and alienated, with no friends but his brother.]] Seeking to prove his worth to his smothering "big brother" and the world at large, Raistlin [[AGodAmI seeks the power to topple Gods, and gets it.]] Deprived of a little brother to protect, Caramon falls into alcoholic depression.
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** [[DeadpanSnarker Edmund]] develops this for [[PluckyGirl Lucy]], after his HeelFaceTurn.
** Peter has this pretty strongly toward Lucy as well. He vehemently rebukes Edmund for humiliating her in the beginning of the series, up to the point that he looks like he's about to deck his younger brother in the movie.
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** Peter has this pretty strongly toward Lucy as well. He vehemently rebukes Edmund for humiliating her in the beginning of the series, up to the point that he looks like he's about to deck his younger brother in the movie.
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* ''Literature/OneNationUnderJupiter'': Despite being her ''younger'' brother, Diagoras acts this way towards Relicta.
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** Series/TerryBrooks ''loves'' this trope. The vast majority of [[TheHero heroes]] in the very [[LongRunner long running]] ''Shannara'' series have that sort of sibling relationship, starting with the very first book. It reaches its logical conclusion in the final series, ''Literature/TheDefendersOfShannara''. Its first book, ''The High Druid's Blade'', is basically Big Brother Instinct: The Book.
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** Series/TerryBrooks Creator/TerryBrooks ''loves'' this trope. The vast majority of [[TheHero heroes]] in the very [[LongRunner long running]] ''Shannara'' series have that sort of sibling relationship, starting with the very first book. It reaches its logical conclusion in the final series, ''Literature/TheDefendersOfShannara''. Its first book, ''The High Druid's Blade'', is basically Big Brother Instinct: The Book.
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** TerryBrooks Series/TerryBrooks ''loves'' this trope. The vast majority of [[TheHero heroes]] in the very [[LongRunner long running]] ''Shannara'' series have that sort of sibling relationship, starting with the very first book. It reaches its logical conclusion in the final series, ''Literature/TheDefendersOfShannara''. Its first book, ''The High Druid's Blade'', is basically Big Brother Instinct: The Book.
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* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Adrian Ivashkov acts as a protective big brother to Jill Mastrano. She is 15-years-old, kind of timid. He is an adult, several years older than her, and takes an interest in her well-being.
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* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Adrian Ivashkov acts as a protective big brother to Jill Mastrano. She is 15-years-old, fifteen-years-old, and kind of timid. He is an adult, several years older than her, and takes an interest in her well-being.
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** An inverted case for Oberyn Martell with his dead older sister, Elia. He clearly wants justice from the Lannisters and wants Ser Gregor Clegane dead for killing her and her children [[spoiler:which got him brutally killed]]. His eldest brother, Doran, seemed to be an aversion at first when he remained passive for not doing anything for his siblings' deaths much to the contention of his nieces and daughter. [[spoiler:But it's straight example when it's revealed that he and Oberyn had been planning to destroy the Lannisters for Elia's death all along. Though since Oberyn managed to kill Gregor at the cost of his life, Doran became bitter that he didn't get the chance to kill Tywin because Tywin's son got to him first. But he's glad that the guy is dead and still continues his revenge plans aganst the remaining Lannisters. Before that, he's also angry at Rhaegar for putting Elia on the bad light after he abducted Lyanna Stark]].
** In relation to the Martells, the three oldest of Oberyn's bastard daughters learned from their uncle Doran about Cersei's FalseFlagOperation [[spoiler:to kill their younger cousin, Trystane, en route to King's Landing in order to end the engagement with her daughter]] by a group claiming to be Tyrion. This revelation made them horrified that the eldest, Obara, wanted give the queen a bag of heads.
** In relation to the Martells, the three oldest of Oberyn's bastard daughters learned from their uncle Doran about Cersei's FalseFlagOperation [[spoiler:to kill their younger cousin, Trystane, en route to King's Landing in order to end the engagement with her daughter]] by a group claiming to be Tyrion. This revelation made them horrified that the eldest, Obara, wanted give the queen a bag of heads.
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* ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' and its spinoffs has Lord John Grey's older brother, Hal, who really cared about him and it's implied that he knew his sexual orientation of being homosexual which at that time could get someone executed. John realized this when he learned that Hal reassigned to be the warden of the Adsmiur prison in ''Voyager'' just to protect from the scandal of being associated with a serial killer. In the eight ''Outlander'' novel, he demands Claire Fraser regarding the whereabouts of his brother.
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** Bianca to Nico, before [[spoiler: her death]]. It's explained that she joins the Hunters of Artemis because for once in her life she wants to do a living that doesn't involve Nico, whom she had to take care of for pretty much her entire life. And even after that, she takes a stray figurine for Nico (who was an avid collector), which directly results to [[spoiler: her death]].
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** Reyna also develops this for Nico, at one point forcing herself not to tuck him and try to make him comfortable as he sleeps, because he is her comrade, not her little brother, and he wouldn't appreciate it. It goes out the window by the end of the book, where she goes out of her way to make sure he knows he has a home at both camps and promises herself that he ''will'' be recognized for his bravery.
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** While Nico never really gets a chance to pull a BigDamnHeroes for Hazel's sake, he's still Hazel's big brother. He seems to go out of his way to cheer her on at Camp Jupiter.
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* In ''TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Jason develops this for Nico in ''The House of Hades'' after he finds out about [[spoiler:Nico's crush on Percy.]]
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** Luke and Thalia were this to Annabeth before the trio arrived at Camp Half-Blood. Keep in mind that the two were just 12 years old by then, yet they had to essentially take the role of [[PromotionToParent parents]] in front of the 7-year-old Annabeth and at the same time protect themselves from monsters who hunted them.
** Bianca to Nico, before [[spoiler: her death]]. It's explained that she joins the Hunters of Artemis because for once in her life she wants to do a living that doesn't involve Nico, whom she had to take care of for pretty much her entire life. And even after that, she takes a stray figurine for Nicoin ''The House of Hades'' after he finds out about [[spoiler:Nico's crush on Percy.]](who was an avid collector), which directly results to [[spoiler: her death]].
** Luke and Thalia were this to Annabeth before the trio arrived at Camp Half-Blood. Keep in mind that the two were just 12 years old by then, yet they had to essentially take the role of [[PromotionToParent parents]] in front of the 7-year-old Annabeth and at the same time protect themselves from monsters who hunted them.
** Bianca to Nico, before [[spoiler: her death]]. It's explained that she joins the Hunters of Artemis because for once in her life she wants to do a living that doesn't involve Nico, whom she had to take care of for pretty much her entire life. And even after that, she takes a stray figurine for Nico
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** It's revealed in the first book that the reason Thalia didn't escape home sooner than she would was because she's afraid her mother would endanger her little brother, Jason. When she thought that he was killed (actually presented to Hera), she ''flipped out'' and wasted no time to leave her mother. It's apparent that she still has the trauma of losing him as she didn't bother to tell anyone except Chiron about him.
** Hylla to Reyna. She protected her when [[spoiler: their father locked them up in his fits of PTSD]] and accompanied her during their overseas travels [[spoiler: after killing their father's insane spirit]]. And at the end of the second novel, Hylla leads her company of Amazons to assist Camp Jupiter (led by Reyna), which are being attacked by the Giants. Hazel mentions that Hylla is possibly "the best sister anyone could have".
** It's revealed in the first book that the reason Thalia didn't escape home sooner than she would was because she's afraid her mother would endanger her little brother, Jason. When she thought that he was killed (actually presented to Hera), she ''flipped out'' and wasted no time to leave her mother. It's apparent that she still has the trauma of losing him as she didn't bother to tell anyone except Chiron about him.
** Hylla to Reyna. She protected her when [[spoiler: their father locked them up in his fits of PTSD]] and accompanied her during their overseas travels [[spoiler: after killing their father's insane spirit]]. And at the end of the second novel, Hylla leads her company of Amazons to assist Camp Jupiter (led by Reyna), which are being attacked by the Giants. Hazel mentions that Hylla is possibly "the best sister anyone could have".
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** Jason develops this for Nico in ''The House of Hades'' after he finds out about [[spoiler:Nico's crush on Percy.]]
* In ''TheKaneChronicles'', Carter and Sadie are this to each other. Sure, they bicker a lot, and their ideals and personality clash many times due to their estrangement, but beneath those are a strong familial bond of that of [[BadassFamily the Kanes]].
* In ''TheKaneChronicles'', Carter and Sadie are this to each other. Sure, they bicker a lot, and their ideals and personality clash many times due to their estrangement, but beneath those are a strong familial bond of that of [[BadassFamily the Kanes]].
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* In ''TheOutsiders'', everyone was this towards Johnny since his abusive parents could care less about him. Also, Ponyboy's two older brothers Sodapop and Darry, especially after their parents' death.
* Brandon Stark was this for his sister Lyanna in the backstory to ASongOfIceAndFire. When Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen abducted and raped her, Brandon rode off to King's Landing with a few companions to kill Rhaegar and rescue his sister. It didn't go well....
* Brandon Stark was this for his sister Lyanna in the backstory to ASongOfIceAndFire. When Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen abducted and raped her, Brandon rode off to King's Landing with a few companions to kill Rhaegar and rescue his sister. It didn't go well....
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* ''EclipseHunter'': Devon falls under this trope very easily, and fills many different archetypes. He's willing to [[spoiler: shoot his own father]] if it means protecting Daren.
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* ''EclipseHunter'': ''Literature/EclipseHunter'': Devon falls under this trope very easily, and fills many different archetypes. He's willing to [[spoiler: shoot his own father]] if it means protecting Daren.
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* In ''[[Literature/PenrynAndTheEndOfDays Angelfall]]'', Penryn's whole motivation to infiltrate the aerie is to get her little sister back by any means necessary.
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* In ''[[Literature/PenrynAndTheEndOfDays Angelfall]]'', ''Literature/{{Angelfall}}'', Penryn's whole motivation to infiltrate the aerie is to get her little sister back by any means necessary.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'' series, Michael takes it upon himself to protect his sister Sara from any potential boyfriends he doesn't approve of. Since she's an adult and can take care of herself, she's not happy about this.
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* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric and Kasile develop this sort of friendship in ''Literature/AMagesPower'' due to a MindLinkMates event. By the end of ''Literature/LoomingShadow'' he explictly refers to her as "my little sister" complete with BigBrotherInstinct when it comes to her suitors.
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* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric thinks of his teammates and Kasile develop this sort as his younger siblings and is thusly protective of friendship in ''Literature/AMagesPower'' due to a MindLinkMates event. By them. This is especially the end of ''Literature/LoomingShadow'' he explictly refers to her as "my little sister" complete case with BigBrotherInstinct when it comes Kasile because she is a queen and a target for {{Evil Prince}}s. [[spoiler: You don't want to her suitors.get between an angry grendel and his siblings.]]
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* In David Baldacci's novel ''Literature/WishYouWell,'' when the protagonist, 12-year-old [[{{Tomboy}} Lou Cardinal]], is confronted by a schoolyard bully, she is content to endure his harassments...until he makes the mistake of [[BerserkButton pushing down her eight-year-old brother.]] She then rather handily mops the floor with him.
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* In Jeramey Kraatz's ''Literature/TheCloakSociety'', Alex and Misty, despite her annoying traits.
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** The feeling is mutual. Althought he usually comes off as [[TheStoic calm and composed,]] Holmes [[BewaretheQuietOnes does not take kindly]] to people trying to hurt [[HeterosexualLifePartners Watson]]. In the story "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", a criminal they are trying to apprehend shoots Watson in the leg. After having a [[NotSoStoic minor panic attack]] and ascertaining that it is [[OnlyAFleshWound only a flesh wound]], Holmes lets the criminal know in ''no uncertain terms'' that if he had killed Watson, he would not have [[BewaretheQuietOnes gotten out of the room alive.
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* In K.A. Applegate's ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Tom does everything he can, which isn't much, to keep his brother from being infested and goes nuts at the thought of the Yeerks getting to Jake. Jake displays a similar protectiveness towards Tom besides being younger. Also, Elfangor towards Ax.
** At one point in the series, when Jake and Controller Tom are talking (which they do often, being brothers, obviously), "Tom" lies to Jake to cover his status as a Controller, and, if only for a second, Jake notices Tom's face twitch strangely. Jake suspects that Tom is trying so hard to fight against his Yeerk that he momentarily wrestled control of his body away from the Yeerk, which is established as impossible.
* John Steinbeck's ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' has a western example of this trope in which George Milton, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, cares for Lenny Small, a mentally retarded GentleGiant.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Harry becomes this to Molly when [[spoiler: her magical talents manifest.]] It becomes quickly obvious that both [[spoiler: are suppressing sexual feelings for each other, and Molly breaks first. Harry makes sure to keep their relationship as platonic as possible.]]
** He does it to [[spoiler: his half-brother Thomas]] despite the fact that [[spoiler: Thomas is the older brother]].
** [[spoiler: Thomas]] also has a brother instinct. He has followed Harry around town without Harry's knowledge, and in several books the only time [[spoiler: Thomas]] hasn't come to Harry's aid was when the White Council was directly involved. He is also very protective of his little sister, [[spoiler: Inari.]]
** Kincaid and The Archive have a similar relationship. [[spoiler: He knew her grandmother, which explain his [[HitmanWithAHeart more-than-professional devotion]] to Ivy.]]
* ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'': Peter towards his siblings.
** The movie version of ''Prince Caspian'' portrays Susan [[PromotedToLoveInterest falling in love with Caspian]]. Peter definitely seems to oppose Caspian in every matter, getting to the point where they almost battle each other. It's almost as if Peter is destined, from the beginning, to hate the guy and bash him, while his little sister is instantly swept off her feet by him.
** [[DeadpanSnarker Edmund]] develops this for [[PluckyGirl Lucy]], after his HeelFaceTurn.
** Peter has this pretty strongly toward Lucy as well. He vehemently rebukes Edmund for humiliating her in the beginning of the series, up to the point that he looks like he's about to deck his younger brother in the movie.
* {{Dragonlance}} Chronicles: Critical to Raistlin Majere's backstory. He spent his youth under the overprotective influence of his twin brother, Caramon. [[PolarOppositeTwins While Caramon grew up tall, handsome, muscular, and a bit dense, Raistlin was intelligent,]] but [[LonersAreFreaks sickly and alienated, with no friends but his brother.]] Seeking to prove his worth to his smothering "big brother" and the world at large, Raistlin [[AGodAmI seeks the power to topple Gods, and gets it.]] Deprived of a little brother to protect, Caramon falls into alcoholic depression.
* Ron Weasley reveals this in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' while nearly cursing Malfoy (with a broken wand that has already backfired once on him) for being mean to Ginny. The two best ways to get Ron angry are to insult either Ginny or Hermione.
** Ron gets a bit of this from Percy after the Second Task in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]''. Percy, who's supposed to be acting as an impartial judge give Harry full marks for rescuing Ron and hovers over Ron until Madam Pomfrey drags Ron off for treatment.
* ''EclipseHunter'': Devon falls under this trope very easily, and fills many different archetypes. He's willing to [[spoiler: shoot his own father]] if it means protecting Daren.
* In ''Literature/TheThiefLord'', Prosper's protectiveness of Bo is the main motivation behind his character. He runs away from his aunt with Bo to prevent their separation, joins a gang of urchins and steals to make sure his brother is well fed and sheltered, and goes into a major HeroicBSOD when Bo is finally taken away.
* The Literature/DarkestPowers series gives us Derek. He has a Big Brother Instinct that's UpToEleven when it comes to his foster brother, Simon. Derek is also a werewolf. So on top of the fact that he is, personality-wise, very protective of Simon (and anyone else he cares about), he also has the wolf's "protect my pack" instinct to deal with. Assaulting one of his "pack" is his BerserkButton. Unfortunately for Derek, since he can't usually control his reaction when his brother is in danger no matter how much he's tried to coach himself, his supercharged Big Brother Instinct has led to at least one MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.
* Len Maynard of ''ChaletSchool'' Practically ever since she is a baby, she is pigeonholed as the 'responsible one' and as the oldest Maynard child, she is often put in charge of the other Maynard children. She has a major one where Margot is concerned, protecting her from Jack's wrath and ''lying'' to cover up for her in ''Triplets of the Chalet School'' after the bookend incident. Miss Annersley even calls her on it.
* In ''WatershipDown'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes Hazel is usually calm and collected]], but god help you if you mistreat Fiver or Pipkin.
* Kaladin from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' develops one of these for ''every'' relatively (around 14) young male he comes across in the course of the story. This stems from his feelings of guilt over failing to protect his actual younger brother in the course of a minor border dispute between rival lords of his nation. [[spoiler: Every one of these individuals ends up dead.]]
* The CalLeandros series gives us Niko, who loses his characteristic cool when someone so much as implies that his brother is a monster, and goes berserk with rage when he thinks Cal is dead. Cal is no better, going to extreme lengths to protect his brother.
* Although Damon Salvatore of TheVampireDiaries likes to make his brother's life hell, he does go out of his way to save or protect Stefan.
* Katniss Everdeen of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' will go to any lengths to protect her younger sister Primrose, including volunteering for the titular DeadlyGame in her sister's place, a seemingly suicidal gesture.
** Also Rue to her siblings, and Thresh to Rue. See their character page for how.
** To a degree, Finnick Odair to Katniss, especially in ''Mockingjay''. Katniss is enduring a TraumaCongaLine, and she is trying to take care of her little sister, and [[spoiler: she is a symbol for a rebellion]]. Her "friend" Gale is wishy-washy and is usually either off doing suspicious work with Beetee or making passive-aggressive comments. [[spoiler: Peeta is captured for the first half of the book, and psycho in the second]]. Her mother, while better than she was in the first book, is not necessarily helpful. Finnick, on the other hand, who is himself prone to trauma and currently enduring a seemingly endless case of PTSD, does all he can to make Katniss feel safe and comfortable, despite his own issues. [[spoiler: Until he dies.]] Boggs is this too. [[spoiler: Until he dies as well]].
* Ward of ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' is very protective of his siblings, which is sorely needed because of his father's abusiveness.
* Prince Jonathan and his group of friends in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' developed this for [[WholesomeCrossdresser the new page Alan]]. Even before Ralon started bullying Alanna, they regularly helped and kept an eye out for her. And when Ralon first beat up Alanna, Raoul pulled him aside and roughed him up as a warning. When Ralon later broke Alanna's arm in retaliation, they all thrashed him thoroughly. Despite continuing to harass Alanna, Ralon didn't lay a hand on her again.
* Alan and Nick Ryves in ''TheDemonsLexicon''.
* Lynn Flewelling of ''{{Nightrunner}}'' is fond of this:
** Before their RelationshipUpgrade to the OfficialCouple level Seregil had this to Alec, though there had been subtones early on.
** And both Alec and Seregil are always and at any time rather protective towards Beka (in Seregil's case it is also a rather paternal feeling; he states himself she's as close for a daughter to him as it will ever get) -- including being suspicious about her lover, checking him up, threatening him not to harm her... Beka is not impressed.
** ''Tamir Triad'': You better not insult Tobin when his squire/best friend Ki is around. (and in fact thanks to plot this brother-friendship later gets rather difficult)
** An even creepier example might be the ghost Brother. Tobin's older twin who died after birth and turned into an angry spirit. After Tobin learned how to keep him in check Brother actually got extremely protective -- despite the claims of some characters this troper never could shake the feeling that Brother DOES feel affection and brotherly love towards his sibling. Albeit in a twisted way.
* In ''TheOutsiders'', everyone was this towards Johnny since his abusive parents could care less about him. Also, Ponyboy's two older brothers Sodapop and Darry, especially after their parents' death.
* Brandon Stark was this for his sister Lyanna in the backstory to ASongOfIceAndFire. When Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen abducted and raped her, Brandon rode off to King's Landing with a few companions to kill Rhaegar and rescue his sister. It didn't go well....
** Jaime Lannister is this for both of his siblings. Technically, his sister is a minute or two older than he is, but that's [[BrotherSisterIncest hardly the most complicated thing about their relationship]]. For the first few books, at least, he'll do anything to protect them -- and if it involves killing someone, so much the better. Notably, he is also the only person to show nothing but love to his brother Tyrion, who is subject to a great deal of hate for being a dwarf. His sister and father also hate Tyrion for being a part of their mother's DeathByChildbirth. Jaime never shows any resentment or disgust with Tyrion and is willing to start a war to protect him, [[PragmaticVillainy not for political reasons like his father]], but because he genuinely loves his little brother.
** All the Stark siblings are (usually) close and would fight for the others, but Jon Snow particularly is this for Arya. And later, after a rocky start, fills a similar role towards some of his Night's Watch brothers.
** In a gender-reversal, the tough and practical Meera Reed acts as a protector to her much frailer younger brother Jojen.
** It's not all happy families in this series, though: this trope is averted ''[[BigBrotherBully heavily]]'' in several cases, most dramatically by Gregor Clegane.
** Genna Frey (nee Lannister) mentions that when her weak father agreed to betroth her as a seven year old to Emmon Frey (a second son, and thus a somewhat insulting match for a girl of her rank,) Tywin (himself only 10 years old at the time,) publicly called out their father and Lord Frey for it being a poor match. While she says she did not approve of everything he did as an adult (or even enjoy his company that much) she couldn't help but love him as a protective big brother.
* In ''EndersGame'', the reason that Ender was willing to go to Battle School and join the International Fleet was to protect his sister Valentine, although he was actually her little brother.
* In the Literature/InDeath series, Roarke tends to harbor protective instincts toward Eve's female colleagues, though they're not particularly weak. This is probably due to his dead little sister.
* In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'', Quentin Leah already has a pretty serious big brother complex towards his cousin Bek. Following his [[FailureKnight failure]] to save a girl he liked, this is magnified a thousand fold, and helps to fuel his change into a badass.
* Bertie of ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' tends to develop this easily. In one story he suddenly decided that he wanted a daughter for precisely this reason: "Something to look after, if you know what I mean."
* [[HiddenHeartOfGold Mr Darcy]] towards his younger sister Georgiana in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'':
** A word of advice: ''don't'' be in the same room with [[CombatMedic Watson]] if you're threatening the Great Detective. You might be threatened [[CombatPragmatist with a chair]].
** The feeling is mutual. Althought he usually comes off as [[TheStoic calm and composed,]] Holmes [[BewaretheQuietOnes does not take kindly]] to people trying to hurt [[HeterosexualLifePartners Watson]]. In the story "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", a criminal they are trying to apprehend shoots Watson in the leg. After having a [[NotSoStoic minor panic attack]] and ascertaining that it is [[OnlyAFleshWound only a flesh wound]], Holmes lets the criminal know in ''no uncertain terms'' that if he had killed Watson, he would not have [[BewaretheQuietOnes gotten out of the room alive.
* Literature/{{Psmith}} seems to feel this way about Mike. They're the same age (they met at BoardingSchool), but Psmith acts much older. Try to fire Mike from his job, and you'll get blackmailed.
* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': Three examples:
*** Daniar sees her little sister Erowin's safety as her personal responsibility. [[spoiler: [[HeroicBSOD she doesn't take it well]] when Erowin is killed.]]
*** Rana's CrowningMomentOfAwesome is a big electric BOOM to save Daniar from wind witches. "LEAVE… MY SISTER… ALONE!"
*** Averted, oddly enough, with the eldest sister. Zarracka can't stand any of them. [[spoiler: In the sequel she develops ''Aunt Instinct'' for her nephew, Benji.]]
** In the sequel, ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'', Ravage is joined Jiahdain's group because his little sister was already part of it and he wanted to keep her safe.
* Eldest Whistler in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' is this way to her whole family, including sisters-in-law -- as she declares, "We Whistlers have an unbreakable rule -- you mess with one of us, [[BigDamnHeroes you mess with us all!]]" -- but particularly her vulnerable brother [[NonActionGuy Jerin]]. When she believes he was raped by the crown princess, she plans to kill the woman but is enough of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to listen to him. Most of Jerin's sisters are like this to some degree. Even [[BigBrotherBully Corelle]] is motivated by the desire to protect him.
* Marcus demonstrates this towards Julia in ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheLion'' trilogy ([[spoiler:at least until her betrayal of Hadassah at the end of book one, after which he declares ThisIsUnforgivable]]), and is the only one who indulges her more headstrong tendencies manifesting from her being SpoiledSweet.
* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'':
** Alec takes his job as the oldest Lightwood sibling very seriously. And he's also the only one of them to be at least eighteen, making him legally an 'adult'.
** Simon's sister Rebecca becomes increasingly concerned about Simon's cutting communications with her over the course of ''City of Lost Souls'', and eventually manages to meet with him. When she briefly believes that their mother has brainwashed or harmed him in some way, the way she reacts indicated it would ''not'' have gone well for their mom if that had been the case. [[spoiler:And when he reveals his vampirism to her, she accepts it almost immediately after getting over the shock, and assures him she'll love him no matter what]].
* Katsa from ''Graceling'' has her moments. She is incredibly protective over [[spoiler:Princess Bitterblue.]] She made it her entire goal to protect the ten year old princess, no matter what it meant for her or anybody else.
* One of the sharp contrasts between Huntingdon and Markham in ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'' is how well Markham handles Arthur. He plays with Arthur, dotes on him without spoiling him, is protective of him, and defers to Helen's parenting choices, all things Huntingdon won't do.
* Bush in ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Lieutenant Hornblower]]''. He quickly picks up on the fact that Hornblower pushes himself far too hard and pulls rank to make sure that he drinks water, eats, and sleeps. He also speaks up for Hornblower's daring plan to take the Spanish fort and insists that he get full credit for it. Later on in their careers, this turns into [[ParentalSubstitute Bush unconsciously thinking of Hornblower like a son]].
* In ''TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Jason develops this for Nico in ''The House of Hades'' after he finds out about [[spoiler:Nico's crush on Percy.]]
** Apollo has this for his sister Artemis in ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Titan's Curse]]'' (though they [[SiblingSenioritySquabble don't agree]] on whether he is actually older than her). He defies Zeus's orders to give Percy information on how to save her.
--> "Nobody messes with my baby sister. ''Nobody''."
** Do not suggest you aren't willing to rescue Nico if Hazel is in the room. She will not like it.
* In ''Literature/{{Coda}}'', Anthem is very protective of his siblings, Alpha and Omega.
* In Literature/TheWindwaterPack Ashtree becomes Zephyr's "spirit sister", acting like his protective elder sister, and he returns the favor when she becomes Sín Nara, despite considering her his big sister.
* This is a feature of the entire [=MudWing=] society in the ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' series. [=MudWings=] live in family clans composed of all the siblings from a particular nest. The first to hatch among them is the "bigwings" and official leader of the family, who lead and protect all of their siblings. Clay, the [=MudWing=] on the main characters' team, is TheHeart for precisely this reason -- he instinctively "bigwings" his teammates.
* In Daniel Woodrell's novel ''Winter's Bone,'' BigSisterInstinct is one of Ree's main concerns. She frequently worries about how to provide for her two younger brothers, who she is essentially raising.
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'':
** Will says the reason Gabriel hates him so much is because he compromised the latter's sister's virtue. But then again, it's [[ConsummateLiar Will]], so we don't know if that's true or not. As of ''The Clockwork Prince'', it's apparently because Will rejected his little sister's advances (in his defense, she was a lovesick twelve-year-old) and broke Gabriel's arm in public.
** Gideon Lightwood towards his younger brother, Gabriel.
* In ''[[Literature/PenrynAndTheEndOfDays Angelfall]]'', Penryn's whole motivation to infiltrate the aerie is to get her little sister back by any means necessary.
* Jonas towards Gabriel in ''Literature/TheGiver'', [[spoiler:despite his growing disillusionment with his Community, it's not until he learns that Gabe is going to be killed that he decides to leave.]]
* In ''Literature/DeadSpaceCatalyst'', Jensi has spent most of his life taking care of his older brother Istvan who has an AmbigiousDisorder that can sometimes turn violent. Unusually for this trope, Jensi's protectiveness of his ill brother is shown to be a bad thing. Jensi gets in trouble trying to protect Istvan, guilt over failing to protect Istvan from things Jensi could not control causes Kensi to live a depressed and meaningless life, and since this is ''Franchise/DeadSpace'', Jensi extreme desire to keep his brother safe eventually lands him in the middle of space zombie outbreak.
* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Adrian Ivashkov acts as a protective big brother to Jill Mastrano. She is 15-years-old, kind of timid. He is an adult, several years older than her, and takes an interest in her well-being.
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** At one point in the series, when Jake and Controller Tom are talking (which they do often, being brothers, obviously), "Tom" lies to Jake to cover his status as a Controller, and, if only for a second, Jake notices Tom's face twitch strangely. Jake suspects that Tom is trying so hard to fight against his Yeerk that he momentarily wrestled control of his body away from the Yeerk, which is established as impossible.
* John Steinbeck's ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' has a western example of this trope in which George Milton, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, cares for Lenny Small, a mentally retarded GentleGiant.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Harry becomes this to Molly when [[spoiler: her magical talents manifest.]] It becomes quickly obvious that both [[spoiler: are suppressing sexual feelings for each other, and Molly breaks first. Harry makes sure to keep their relationship as platonic as possible.]]
** He does it to [[spoiler: his half-brother Thomas]] despite the fact that [[spoiler: Thomas is the older brother]].
** [[spoiler: Thomas]] also has a brother instinct. He has followed Harry around town without Harry's knowledge, and in several books the only time [[spoiler: Thomas]] hasn't come to Harry's aid was when the White Council was directly involved. He is also very protective of his little sister, [[spoiler: Inari.]]
** Kincaid and The Archive have a similar relationship. [[spoiler: He knew her grandmother, which explain his [[HitmanWithAHeart more-than-professional devotion]] to Ivy.]]
* ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'': Peter towards his siblings.
** The movie version of ''Prince Caspian'' portrays Susan [[PromotedToLoveInterest falling in love with Caspian]]. Peter definitely seems to oppose Caspian in every matter, getting to the point where they almost battle each other. It's almost as if Peter is destined, from the beginning, to hate the guy and bash him, while his little sister is instantly swept off her feet by him.
** [[DeadpanSnarker Edmund]] develops this for [[PluckyGirl Lucy]], after his HeelFaceTurn.
** Peter has this pretty strongly toward Lucy as well. He vehemently rebukes Edmund for humiliating her in the beginning of the series, up to the point that he looks like he's about to deck his younger brother in the movie.
* {{Dragonlance}} Chronicles: Critical to Raistlin Majere's backstory. He spent his youth under the overprotective influence of his twin brother, Caramon. [[PolarOppositeTwins While Caramon grew up tall, handsome, muscular, and a bit dense, Raistlin was intelligent,]] but [[LonersAreFreaks sickly and alienated, with no friends but his brother.]] Seeking to prove his worth to his smothering "big brother" and the world at large, Raistlin [[AGodAmI seeks the power to topple Gods, and gets it.]] Deprived of a little brother to protect, Caramon falls into alcoholic depression.
* Ron Weasley reveals this in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' while nearly cursing Malfoy (with a broken wand that has already backfired once on him) for being mean to Ginny. The two best ways to get Ron angry are to insult either Ginny or Hermione.
** Ron gets a bit of this from Percy after the Second Task in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]''. Percy, who's supposed to be acting as an impartial judge give Harry full marks for rescuing Ron and hovers over Ron until Madam Pomfrey drags Ron off for treatment.
* ''EclipseHunter'': Devon falls under this trope very easily, and fills many different archetypes. He's willing to [[spoiler: shoot his own father]] if it means protecting Daren.
* In ''Literature/TheThiefLord'', Prosper's protectiveness of Bo is the main motivation behind his character. He runs away from his aunt with Bo to prevent their separation, joins a gang of urchins and steals to make sure his brother is well fed and sheltered, and goes into a major HeroicBSOD when Bo is finally taken away.
* The Literature/DarkestPowers series gives us Derek. He has a Big Brother Instinct that's UpToEleven when it comes to his foster brother, Simon. Derek is also a werewolf. So on top of the fact that he is, personality-wise, very protective of Simon (and anyone else he cares about), he also has the wolf's "protect my pack" instinct to deal with. Assaulting one of his "pack" is his BerserkButton. Unfortunately for Derek, since he can't usually control his reaction when his brother is in danger no matter how much he's tried to coach himself, his supercharged Big Brother Instinct has led to at least one MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.
* Len Maynard of ''ChaletSchool'' Practically ever since she is a baby, she is pigeonholed as the 'responsible one' and as the oldest Maynard child, she is often put in charge of the other Maynard children. She has a major one where Margot is concerned, protecting her from Jack's wrath and ''lying'' to cover up for her in ''Triplets of the Chalet School'' after the bookend incident. Miss Annersley even calls her on it.
* In ''WatershipDown'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes Hazel is usually calm and collected]], but god help you if you mistreat Fiver or Pipkin.
* Kaladin from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' develops one of these for ''every'' relatively (around 14) young male he comes across in the course of the story. This stems from his feelings of guilt over failing to protect his actual younger brother in the course of a minor border dispute between rival lords of his nation. [[spoiler: Every one of these individuals ends up dead.]]
* The CalLeandros series gives us Niko, who loses his characteristic cool when someone so much as implies that his brother is a monster, and goes berserk with rage when he thinks Cal is dead. Cal is no better, going to extreme lengths to protect his brother.
* Although Damon Salvatore of TheVampireDiaries likes to make his brother's life hell, he does go out of his way to save or protect Stefan.
* Katniss Everdeen of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' will go to any lengths to protect her younger sister Primrose, including volunteering for the titular DeadlyGame in her sister's place, a seemingly suicidal gesture.
** Also Rue to her siblings, and Thresh to Rue. See their character page for how.
** To a degree, Finnick Odair to Katniss, especially in ''Mockingjay''. Katniss is enduring a TraumaCongaLine, and she is trying to take care of her little sister, and [[spoiler: she is a symbol for a rebellion]]. Her "friend" Gale is wishy-washy and is usually either off doing suspicious work with Beetee or making passive-aggressive comments. [[spoiler: Peeta is captured for the first half of the book, and psycho in the second]]. Her mother, while better than she was in the first book, is not necessarily helpful. Finnick, on the other hand, who is himself prone to trauma and currently enduring a seemingly endless case of PTSD, does all he can to make Katniss feel safe and comfortable, despite his own issues. [[spoiler: Until he dies.]] Boggs is this too. [[spoiler: Until he dies as well]].
* Ward of ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' is very protective of his siblings, which is sorely needed because of his father's abusiveness.
* Prince Jonathan and his group of friends in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' developed this for [[WholesomeCrossdresser the new page Alan]]. Even before Ralon started bullying Alanna, they regularly helped and kept an eye out for her. And when Ralon first beat up Alanna, Raoul pulled him aside and roughed him up as a warning. When Ralon later broke Alanna's arm in retaliation, they all thrashed him thoroughly. Despite continuing to harass Alanna, Ralon didn't lay a hand on her again.
* Alan and Nick Ryves in ''TheDemonsLexicon''.
* Lynn Flewelling of ''{{Nightrunner}}'' is fond of this:
** Before their RelationshipUpgrade to the OfficialCouple level Seregil had this to Alec, though there had been subtones early on.
** And both Alec and Seregil are always and at any time rather protective towards Beka (in Seregil's case it is also a rather paternal feeling; he states himself she's as close for a daughter to him as it will ever get) -- including being suspicious about her lover, checking him up, threatening him not to harm her... Beka is not impressed.
** ''Tamir Triad'': You better not insult Tobin when his squire/best friend Ki is around. (and in fact thanks to plot this brother-friendship later gets rather difficult)
** An even creepier example might be the ghost Brother. Tobin's older twin who died after birth and turned into an angry spirit. After Tobin learned how to keep him in check Brother actually got extremely protective -- despite the claims of some characters this troper never could shake the feeling that Brother DOES feel affection and brotherly love towards his sibling. Albeit in a twisted way.
* In ''TheOutsiders'', everyone was this towards Johnny since his abusive parents could care less about him. Also, Ponyboy's two older brothers Sodapop and Darry, especially after their parents' death.
* Brandon Stark was this for his sister Lyanna in the backstory to ASongOfIceAndFire. When Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen abducted and raped her, Brandon rode off to King's Landing with a few companions to kill Rhaegar and rescue his sister. It didn't go well....
** Jaime Lannister is this for both of his siblings. Technically, his sister is a minute or two older than he is, but that's [[BrotherSisterIncest hardly the most complicated thing about their relationship]]. For the first few books, at least, he'll do anything to protect them -- and if it involves killing someone, so much the better. Notably, he is also the only person to show nothing but love to his brother Tyrion, who is subject to a great deal of hate for being a dwarf. His sister and father also hate Tyrion for being a part of their mother's DeathByChildbirth. Jaime never shows any resentment or disgust with Tyrion and is willing to start a war to protect him, [[PragmaticVillainy not for political reasons like his father]], but because he genuinely loves his little brother.
** All the Stark siblings are (usually) close and would fight for the others, but Jon Snow particularly is this for Arya. And later, after a rocky start, fills a similar role towards some of his Night's Watch brothers.
** In a gender-reversal, the tough and practical Meera Reed acts as a protector to her much frailer younger brother Jojen.
** It's not all happy families in this series, though: this trope is averted ''[[BigBrotherBully heavily]]'' in several cases, most dramatically by Gregor Clegane.
** Genna Frey (nee Lannister) mentions that when her weak father agreed to betroth her as a seven year old to Emmon Frey (a second son, and thus a somewhat insulting match for a girl of her rank,) Tywin (himself only 10 years old at the time,) publicly called out their father and Lord Frey for it being a poor match. While she says she did not approve of everything he did as an adult (or even enjoy his company that much) she couldn't help but love him as a protective big brother.
* In ''EndersGame'', the reason that Ender was willing to go to Battle School and join the International Fleet was to protect his sister Valentine, although he was actually her little brother.
* In the Literature/InDeath series, Roarke tends to harbor protective instincts toward Eve's female colleagues, though they're not particularly weak. This is probably due to his dead little sister.
* In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'', Quentin Leah already has a pretty serious big brother complex towards his cousin Bek. Following his [[FailureKnight failure]] to save a girl he liked, this is magnified a thousand fold, and helps to fuel his change into a badass.
* Bertie of ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' tends to develop this easily. In one story he suddenly decided that he wanted a daughter for precisely this reason: "Something to look after, if you know what I mean."
* [[HiddenHeartOfGold Mr Darcy]] towards his younger sister Georgiana in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'':
** A word of advice: ''don't'' be in the same room with [[CombatMedic Watson]] if you're threatening the Great Detective. You might be threatened [[CombatPragmatist with a chair]].
** The feeling is mutual. Althought he usually comes off as [[TheStoic calm and composed,]] Holmes [[BewaretheQuietOnes does not take kindly]] to people trying to hurt [[HeterosexualLifePartners Watson]]. In the story "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", a criminal they are trying to apprehend shoots Watson in the leg. After having a [[NotSoStoic minor panic attack]] and ascertaining that it is [[OnlyAFleshWound only a flesh wound]], Holmes lets the criminal know in ''no uncertain terms'' that if he had killed Watson, he would not have [[BewaretheQuietOnes gotten out of the room alive.
* Literature/{{Psmith}} seems to feel this way about Mike. They're the same age (they met at BoardingSchool), but Psmith acts much older. Try to fire Mike from his job, and you'll get blackmailed.
* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': Three examples:
*** Daniar sees her little sister Erowin's safety as her personal responsibility. [[spoiler: [[HeroicBSOD she doesn't take it well]] when Erowin is killed.]]
*** Rana's CrowningMomentOfAwesome is a big electric BOOM to save Daniar from wind witches. "LEAVE… MY SISTER… ALONE!"
*** Averted, oddly enough, with the eldest sister. Zarracka can't stand any of them. [[spoiler: In the sequel she develops ''Aunt Instinct'' for her nephew, Benji.]]
** In the sequel, ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'', Ravage is joined Jiahdain's group because his little sister was already part of it and he wanted to keep her safe.
* Eldest Whistler in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' is this way to her whole family, including sisters-in-law -- as she declares, "We Whistlers have an unbreakable rule -- you mess with one of us, [[BigDamnHeroes you mess with us all!]]" -- but particularly her vulnerable brother [[NonActionGuy Jerin]]. When she believes he was raped by the crown princess, she plans to kill the woman but is enough of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to listen to him. Most of Jerin's sisters are like this to some degree. Even [[BigBrotherBully Corelle]] is motivated by the desire to protect him.
* Marcus demonstrates this towards Julia in ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheLion'' trilogy ([[spoiler:at least until her betrayal of Hadassah at the end of book one, after which he declares ThisIsUnforgivable]]), and is the only one who indulges her more headstrong tendencies manifesting from her being SpoiledSweet.
* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'':
** Alec takes his job as the oldest Lightwood sibling very seriously. And he's also the only one of them to be at least eighteen, making him legally an 'adult'.
** Simon's sister Rebecca becomes increasingly concerned about Simon's cutting communications with her over the course of ''City of Lost Souls'', and eventually manages to meet with him. When she briefly believes that their mother has brainwashed or harmed him in some way, the way she reacts indicated it would ''not'' have gone well for their mom if that had been the case. [[spoiler:And when he reveals his vampirism to her, she accepts it almost immediately after getting over the shock, and assures him she'll love him no matter what]].
* Katsa from ''Graceling'' has her moments. She is incredibly protective over [[spoiler:Princess Bitterblue.]] She made it her entire goal to protect the ten year old princess, no matter what it meant for her or anybody else.
* One of the sharp contrasts between Huntingdon and Markham in ''Literature/TheTenantOfWildfellHall'' is how well Markham handles Arthur. He plays with Arthur, dotes on him without spoiling him, is protective of him, and defers to Helen's parenting choices, all things Huntingdon won't do.
* Bush in ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Lieutenant Hornblower]]''. He quickly picks up on the fact that Hornblower pushes himself far too hard and pulls rank to make sure that he drinks water, eats, and sleeps. He also speaks up for Hornblower's daring plan to take the Spanish fort and insists that he get full credit for it. Later on in their careers, this turns into [[ParentalSubstitute Bush unconsciously thinking of Hornblower like a son]].
* In ''TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Jason develops this for Nico in ''The House of Hades'' after he finds out about [[spoiler:Nico's crush on Percy.]]
** Apollo has this for his sister Artemis in ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Titan's Curse]]'' (though they [[SiblingSenioritySquabble don't agree]] on whether he is actually older than her). He defies Zeus's orders to give Percy information on how to save her.
--> "Nobody messes with my baby sister. ''Nobody''."
** Do not suggest you aren't willing to rescue Nico if Hazel is in the room. She will not like it.
* In ''Literature/{{Coda}}'', Anthem is very protective of his siblings, Alpha and Omega.
* In Literature/TheWindwaterPack Ashtree becomes Zephyr's "spirit sister", acting like his protective elder sister, and he returns the favor when she becomes Sín Nara, despite considering her his big sister.
* This is a feature of the entire [=MudWing=] society in the ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' series. [=MudWings=] live in family clans composed of all the siblings from a particular nest. The first to hatch among them is the "bigwings" and official leader of the family, who lead and protect all of their siblings. Clay, the [=MudWing=] on the main characters' team, is TheHeart for precisely this reason -- he instinctively "bigwings" his teammates.
* In Daniel Woodrell's novel ''Winter's Bone,'' BigSisterInstinct is one of Ree's main concerns. She frequently worries about how to provide for her two younger brothers, who she is essentially raising.
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'':
** Will says the reason Gabriel hates him so much is because he compromised the latter's sister's virtue. But then again, it's [[ConsummateLiar Will]], so we don't know if that's true or not. As of ''The Clockwork Prince'', it's apparently because Will rejected his little sister's advances (in his defense, she was a lovesick twelve-year-old) and broke Gabriel's arm in public.
** Gideon Lightwood towards his younger brother, Gabriel.
* In ''[[Literature/PenrynAndTheEndOfDays Angelfall]]'', Penryn's whole motivation to infiltrate the aerie is to get her little sister back by any means necessary.
* Jonas towards Gabriel in ''Literature/TheGiver'', [[spoiler:despite his growing disillusionment with his Community, it's not until he learns that Gabe is going to be killed that he decides to leave.]]
* In ''Literature/DeadSpaceCatalyst'', Jensi has spent most of his life taking care of his older brother Istvan who has an AmbigiousDisorder that can sometimes turn violent. Unusually for this trope, Jensi's protectiveness of his ill brother is shown to be a bad thing. Jensi gets in trouble trying to protect Istvan, guilt over failing to protect Istvan from things Jensi could not control causes Kensi to live a depressed and meaningless life, and since this is ''Franchise/DeadSpace'', Jensi extreme desire to keep his brother safe eventually lands him in the middle of space zombie outbreak.
* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Adrian Ivashkov acts as a protective big brother to Jill Mastrano. She is 15-years-old, kind of timid. He is an adult, several years older than her, and takes an interest in her well-being.
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