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* Jake Long, a.k.a the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long American Dragon]]'' has a very perky, know-it-all sister that grates on his nerves more often than not, but his brotherly instincts kick in if there are any signs of danger towards her.
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* Jake Long, a.k.a a. the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long ''[[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong American Dragon]]'' has a very perky, know-it-all sister that grates on his nerves more often than not, but his brotherly instincts kick in if there are any signs of danger towards her.
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** In "Moe'N'Lisa," Bart is shocked when he finds out that Moe won't give Lisa credit for his success as a poet and teams up with Homer to get revenge on him.
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** In "Moe'N'Lisa," "Moe'N'a Lisa," Bart is shocked when he finds out that Moe won't give Lisa credit for his success as a poet and teams up with Homer to get revenge on him.
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** In "Moe'N'Lisa," Bart is shocked when he finds out that Moe won't give Lisa credit for his success as a poet and teams up with Homer to get revenge on him.
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* A huge part of Wirt's character arc in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''. He plays the babysitter role for his half-brother Greg as they journey through the Unknown, but it's a long time before he really takes his job seriously.
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* A huge part of Wirt's character arc in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''. He plays the babysitter role for his half-brother [[spoiler:half-]]brother Greg as they journey through the Unknown, but it's a long time before he really takes his job seriously.
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* A huge part of Wirt's character arc in ''OverTheGardenWall''. He plays the babysitter role for his half-brother Greg as they journey through the Unknown, but it's a long time before he really takes his job seriously.
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* A huge part of Wirt's character arc in ''OverTheGardenWall''.''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''. He plays the babysitter role for his half-brother Greg as they journey through the Unknown, but it's a long time before he really takes his job seriously.
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Removed the spoiler tag around \"half\" in the \"Over the Garden Wall\" example because I don\'t see how that\'s really a spoiler.
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* A huge part of Wirt's character arc in ''OverTheGardenWall''. He plays the babysitter role for his [[spoiler:half-]]brother half-brother Greg as they journey through the Unknown, but it's a long time before he really takes his job seriously.
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* Big Binky from one episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' will go out of his way to protect his little sister Emma from harm (even if he won't take his binky out of his mouth).
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* Big Binky from one episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' will go out of his way to protect his little sister Emma from harm (even if he won't take his binky out of his mouth).
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, what's the big idea? That's my sister, man! [...] So give her back those cupcakes before I knock your block off!"]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, what's the big idea? That's my sister, man! [...] So give her back those cupcakes before I knock your block off!"]]
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* A huge part of Wirt's character arc in ''OverTheGardenWall''. He plays the babysitter role for his [[spoiler:half-]]brother Greg as they journey through the Unknown, but it's a long time before he really takes his job seriously.
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** [[BadassBookworm Twilight Sparkle]] was responsible for hatching her dragon assistant, Spike, when she was little. Since then, Twilight has been a surrogate big sister to him, and always caring for him. When Nightmare Moon takes over Equestria, the first thing she does is put an exausted Spike to bed before she starts searching for the Elements of Harmony, and Twilight was also willing to hurt the teenage dragons if they laid a claw on him.
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* In ''{{Kim Possible}}'', sidekick Ron Stoppable quite suddenly gets the news that his family has adopted a baby girl named Hana. He is, at first, disgusted by the "intruder" and wants little to do with her. He slowly starts to soften up, and when it's later revealed that Hana is the target of a villain's scheme, his brotherly instincts kick in with a vengeance. In a later episode where this story arc continues, he even cries when he believes that Hana's life is in danger.
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*** The second time, we see Lin shielding Su with her body from the combustion-bender P'Li's attacks, before quite literally [[MoreExpendableThanYou throwing herself]] into the path of P'Li's attacks, in order to give Su an opening. Luckily, Su made the shot.
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*** The second time, we see Lin shielding Su with her body from the combustion-bender P'Li's attacks, before quite literally [[MoreExpendableThanYou throwing herself]] into the path of P'Li's attacks, line of sight, in order to give Su an opening. Luckily, Su made the shot.
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*** The ''fourth'' time, Su had been knocked unconscious [[spoiler:when the BigBad Kuvira yanked off the giant mech-suit's arm -- of which Lin and Su were inside, wrecking the mechanism -- and Lin made a makeshift ''metal seatbelt'' to strap Su to the wall (Lin's own 'seatbelt' was only half the size of Su's), right before the giant arm got thrown ''all the way across the city''. Before this, Lin took on the guard attacking them and told Su to go ahead.]]
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*** The ''fourth'' time, Su had been knocked unconscious [[spoiler:when the BigBad Kuvira yanked off the giant mech-suit's arm -- of which Lin and Su were inside, wrecking the mechanism -- and Lin made a makeshift ''metal seatbelt'' to strap Su to the wall (Lin's own 'seatbelt' was only half the size of Su's), right before the giant arm got thrown ''all the way across the city''. Before Oh, and before this, Lin took on the guard attacking them and told Su to go ahead.]]
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*** The ''fourth'' time, Su had been knocked unconscious [[spoiler:when the BigBad Kuvira yanked off the giant mech-suit's arm -- of which Lin and Su were inside, wrecking the mechanism -- and Lin made a makeshift ''metal seatbelt'' to strap Su to the wall (Lin's own 'seatbelt' was only half the size of Su's), right before the giant arm got thrown ''all the way across the city''.]]
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*** The ''fourth'' time, Su had been knocked unconscious [[spoiler:when the BigBad Kuvira yanked off the giant mech-suit's arm -- of which Lin and Su were inside, wrecking the mechanism -- and Lin made a makeshift ''metal seatbelt'' to strap Su to the wall (Lin's own 'seatbelt' was only half the size of Su's), right before the giant arm got thrown ''all the way across the city''. Before this, Lin took on the guard attacking them and told Su to go ahead.]]
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*** The second time, Lin quite literally [[MoreExpendableThanYou threw herself]] into the path of the combustion-bender P'Li, in order to give Su an opening. [[spoiler: Luckily, Su made the shot.]]
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*** The second time, we see Lin shielding Su with her body from the combustion-bender P'Li's attacks, before quite literally [[MoreExpendableThanYou threw throwing herself]] into the path of the combustion-bender P'Li, P'Li's attacks, in order to give Su an opening. [[spoiler: Luckily, Su made the shot.]]
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*** The third time, Lin shoved Su out of the path of a huge incoming fire blast (and very nearly got burned herself), [[spoiler: on the top of recusing Su from the prison -- one that Su had landed''herself'' in, nonetheless.]]
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*** The third time, Lin shoved Su out of the path of a huge incoming fire blast (and very nearly got burned herself), [[spoiler: on the top of recusing Su from the prison -- one that Su had landed''herself'' landed ''herself'' in, nonetheless.]]
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*** The first time we see Lin's BigSisterInstinct, it was in a flashback, in which Lin was trying to warn Su against her no-good ''triad member'' friends.
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*** The third time, Lin shoved Su out of the path of a huge incoming fire blast (and very nearly got burned herself), on the top of recusing Su from the prison -- that Su landed ''herself'' in.
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*** The third time, Lin shoved Su out of the path of a huge incoming fire blast (and very nearly got burned herself), [[spoiler: on the top of recusing Su from the prison -- one that Su landed ''herself'' in.had landed''herself'' in, nonetheless.]]
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** [[IronLady Lin Beifong]], the elder daughter of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Toph]], is ''incredibly'' protective of her baby sister, Suyin ("Su"). In case there's any lingering doubts, just see those:
*** The first time we see Lin's BigSisterInstinct, it was in a flashback, in which Lin was trying to warn Su against her no-good ''triad member'' friends.
*** The second time, Lin quite literally [[MoreExpendableThanYou threw herself]] into the path of the combustion-bender P'Li, in order to give Su an opening. [[spoiler: Luckily, Su made the shot.]]
*** The third time, Lin shoved Su out of the path of a huge incoming fire blast (and very nearly got burned herself), on the top of recusing Su from the prison -- that Su landed ''herself'' in.
*** The ''fourth'' time, Su had been knocked unconscious [[spoiler:when the BigBad Kuvira yanked off the giant mech-suit's arm -- of which Lin and Su were inside, wrecking the mechanism -- and Lin made a makeshift ''metal seatbelt'' to strap Su to the wall (Lin's own 'seatbelt' was only half the size of Su's), right before the giant arm got thrown ''all the way across the city''.]]
*** The first time we see Lin's BigSisterInstinct, it was in a flashback, in which Lin was trying to warn Su against her no-good ''triad member'' friends.
*** The second time, Lin quite literally [[MoreExpendableThanYou threw herself]] into the path of the combustion-bender P'Li, in order to give Su an opening. [[spoiler: Luckily, Su made the shot.]]
*** The third time, Lin shoved Su out of the path of a huge incoming fire blast (and very nearly got burned herself), on the top of recusing Su from the prison -- that Su landed ''herself'' in.
*** The ''fourth'' time, Su had been knocked unconscious [[spoiler:when the BigBad Kuvira yanked off the giant mech-suit's arm -- of which Lin and Su were inside, wrecking the mechanism -- and Lin made a makeshift ''metal seatbelt'' to strap Su to the wall (Lin's own 'seatbelt' was only half the size of Su's), right before the giant arm got thrown ''all the way across the city''.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', Susan is this to Johnny. One of the most notable examples is "Recap/TrialByFire."
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', Susan is this to Johnny. One of the most notable examples is "Recap/TrialByFire."[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesTrialByFire Trial By Fire]]."
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* Loopy's older brother Larry on ''KaBlam'''s ''Life with Loopy'' shorts is like that towards her.
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** Maud Pie will ''[[SuperStrength literally]]'' move mountains if Pinkie Pie is in danger.
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** Soos has also developed this for both the twins. He even goes as far as to go against [[spoiler:Stan]] in order to protect them.
---> Soos: Sorry [[spoiler:Mr. Pines]], but I have a new mission to protect these kids!
---> Soos: Sorry [[spoiler:Mr. Pines]], but I have a new mission to protect these kids!
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* The titular turtles in most ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' incarnations are this for each other. Raphael in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' in particular doesn't like it when anybody or anything threatens or hurts his brothers, especially his two younger brothers, Donnie and Mikey. More than once, he has jumped in-between their attackers to defend them.
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** In the movie ''[[PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the Second Dimension]]'', Candace-2 from the alternate dimension is fiercely protective of her brothers Phineas and Ferb. [[spoiler: To the point she is willing to abandon the alternate Phineas and Ferb to protect her own. Though she eventually came back for them.]]
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** In the movie ''[[PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the Second Dimension]]'', Candace-2 from the alternate dimension is fiercely protective of her brothers Phineas and Ferb. [[spoiler: To the point she is willing to abandon the alternate Phineas and Ferb to protect her own. Though she eventually came back for them.]]
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show so that she can impress her [[GirlOfTheWeek crush of the week]] (even though it means devoting less time to his own important project), and he encourages her to cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival. The season one finale even has him [[spoiler:ItMakesSenseInContext jumping off a cliff into a giant robot]] to save Mabel.
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show so that she can impress her [[GirlOfTheWeek crush of the week]] (even though it means devoting less time to his own important project), and he encourages her to cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival. The season one finale even has him [[spoiler:ItMakesSenseInContext jumping [[spoiler:jumping off a cliff into a giant robot]] to save Mabel.
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show so that she can impress her [[GirlOfTheWeek crush of the week]] (even though it means devoting less time to his own important project), and he encourages her cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival. Mabel comes clean about it later though.
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show so that she can impress her [[GirlOfTheWeek crush of the week]] (even though it means devoting less time to his own important project), and he encourages her to cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival. Mabel comes clean about it later though.The season one finale even has him [[spoiler:ItMakesSenseInContext jumping off a cliff into a giant robot]] to save Mabel.
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show (at the expense of devoting time to his own project) so that she can impress her latest crush, and he encourages her cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival.
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show (at the expense of devoting time to his own project) so that she can impress her latest crush, [[GirlOfTheWeek crush of the week]] (even though it means devoting less time to his own important project), and he encourages her cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival.rival. Mabel comes clean about it later though.
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** Dipper's protectiveness over Mabel becomes even more obvious as the series goes on. He is willing to do just about anything for his sister, such as breaking up with a boy when she can't bring herself to do it, help her put together a puppet show (at the expense of devoting time to his own project) so that she can impress her latest crush, and he encourages her cheat in mini golf so that she can beat her rival.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Sokka and Katara switch off in who's taking care of who when it comes to [[FiveManBand the group.]]
** In the comic ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderRebound Rebound]]'', Mai takes down a room of Ozai loyalists to save her little brother from being indoctrinated into their father's radical group.
** After he joins the group, [[TheAtoner Zuko]] appears to quickly develop this with the rest of the gang, especially towards [[BigBrotherMentor Aang]] and [[LikeBrotherAndSister Katara]].
* Mako from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' spent his childhood watching over his brother Bolin and he still is in his adulthood. When Bolin was kidnapped by the Equalists, he ''threw one of his captors across the screen'' Hulk-style, or in this universe, Korra-style.
** Mako also deconstructs this trope: He's sheltered his brother from the harsh realities and darker nature of their environment to such a degree that it's partially led to Bolin's current naiveté and dependency.
** Bolin himself counts, too. When Korra receives gifts from [[ManipulativeBastard Tarrlok]] in front of him, Bolin offers to "have a word with the guy," as he thinks she's being harassed by a StalkerWithACrush.
** Mako also seemed to have such an instinct for Korra between episodes five and nine.
** Noatak, [[spoiler: better known as Amon]] shows a pretty dark take on this. He'll bloodbend his brother [[spoiler:Tarrlok]], but when their [[AbusiveParents father]] goes a little too far, he starts bloodbending ''him''.
--> '''Noatak/[[spoiler:Amon]]''': Stay away from him.
* The ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' character {{Wolverine}} often acts as a mentor to one of the younger heroines on the team: Kitty Pryde (comics), Jubilee (comics''/''[[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} animated series]]), or Rogue (film''/''[[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution second animated series]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': The Titans have this towards each other. Particularly, [[BadassBookworm Raven]] has this towards all of the Titans, [[PluckyComicRelief Beast Boy]] towards the Titans, [[OfficialCouple Starfire and Robin]] towards their friends, and [[TheLancer Cyborg]] towards his.
** Seriously, don't [[BerserkButton mess with them]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny does this with his OppositeSexClone, Danielle. In the first episode they meet, he goes from suspicious to protective, keeping her safe from Vlad with his Ghostly Wail, the second time he was willing to be Valerie's captive if it meant saving her from being dissolved. Interestingly, he develops this instinct even with his ''older'' sister, becoming overprotective when she's in trouble or in the rare moments when she does something irrational.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KidVSKat'', Coop Burtonburger thinks his younger sister Millie is annoying, but he is able to put his life at risk to protect her.
** On one occasion, when Millie is sad because she wants Coop to play with her, the boy agrees to spend time with her.
** Even when Mr. Kat is lost, Coop finally decides to reunite Millie and Mr. Kat to make her happy.
* ''TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson usually couldn't give a damn what happens to Lisa on a mundane basis, and the two have an intense sibling rivalry, but his instinct does kick in every time something serious happens.
** In "Bart the General", Bart has been insulting Lisa all morning. Upon getting to school, one of Nelson's cronies takes a batch of muffins Lisa had baked earlier. That's all it takes for Bart to attack the cronie and he winds up punching Nelson in the face and is challenged to fight. It's the first sign in the series that Bart isn't a total jerk towards his sister.
** In "Separate Vocations", an Aptitude Test tells Lisa that her suitable career is housewife. In response she becomes a delinquent, and eventually steals the teacher's guides, an expulsion-worthy offense. When Bart finds out what Lisa did, he takes the blame, staying in school due to his work as hall monitor. When she asked why, Bart tells Lisa that test or no test, she's the one with the makings to be a success.
** In "'Round Springfield" when Lisa is absolutely crushed that she can't get the last copy of Bleeding Gums' album for a tribute after his death, Bart spends all the remaining money from his recent legal settlement involving Krusty the Clown's cereal to get it for her. He was thanking because she was the only one who believed him when he said his stomach hurt.
** In "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", Bart helps Lisa when they're at military school.
** In "Gone Abie Gone", Bart helps Lisa keep her college fund through poker because he secretly cares about her.
** In "Black-Eyed, Please," Homer asks Ms. Krabappel to get rid of Lisa's bully subsitute teacher. You know what she does? She gets Bart to play a transfer student in the woman's class, and he then proceeds to cause absolute havoc during a ''two-minute bathroom break'' and makes the woman quit her job. While it isn't shown, the fact that Bart agreed to do this at all shows that he does care about Lisa.
** To a lesser extent, Lisa is this to Bart. The best examples are the episode "Bart's Girlfriend" where she protects Bart from Jessica Lovejoy and the episode "Lisa on Ice" where Bart is attacked by a group of boys and Lisa beats up the bullies to protect him.
* Loopy's older brother Larry on ''KaBlam'''s ''Life with Loopy'' shorts is like that towards her.
* Perry the platypus from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' seems to be like this to the title characters, judging by how much more viciously he attacks his [[FriendlyEnemies nemesis]] Doofenshmirtz when his current scheme would put Phineas and Ferb into danger.
** In the movie ''[[PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the Second Dimension]]'', Candace-2 from the alternate dimension is fiercely protective of her brothers Phineas and Ferb. [[spoiler: To the point she is willing to abandon the alternate Phineas and Ferb to protect her own. Though she eventually came back for them.]]
--> '''Candace-2:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming I'll do anything to protect the ones I love.]]
** Though not nearly to the same extreme, this also applies to regular-dimension Candace herself. Despite having a morbid fear of heights, she once ''rode a [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying bicycle]]'' into ''space'' when her brothers got captured by an alien poacher.
* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Ed is this to [[BrattyHalfPint Sarah]].
** Sarah herself is this to Jimmy, she maybe is a SpoiledBrat but this is arguably one of her redeeming qualities.
** [[spoiler: Subverted with Eddy and his brother.]]
* Skipper and Kowalski of ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' display this toward Private occasionally, covering his eyes or ears to protect him from "inappropriate" content.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' and ''Ben10UltimateAlien'': Despite their differences Kevin acts this way towards Ben.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', Susan is this to Johnny. One of the most notable examples is "Recap/TrialByFire."
* {{Franklin}} Turtle, without a doubt, seen in the third season in "Big Brother Franklin" when Franklin took to looking after a little kid named Squirrel. He also became a "best friend big brother" to Bear's little sister, Beatrice. Eventually, Paulette Bourgeois finally made him a big brother for real in the book "Franklin's Baby Sister" and the film ''Franklin and the Green Knight'' soon followed.
* WildKratts has the Kratt Brothers, who both play it straight and invert it. Most obvious in episode 32, when Chris goes missing after getting stuck to a bee, Martin is upset that he wasn't able to keep Chris from going missing and keep him safe, and he keeps setting out to find him.
* In GeneratorRex, Rex's older brother Cesar instantly goes into protective mode after their reunion and tries to 'rescue' Rex, even though Rex isn't in any danger. He later knocks out a bunch of Providence agents and jumps down from a ship to help Rex fight an Evo.
* Franchise/WinnieThePooh isn't particularly smart to say the least, though he will constantly aid and comfort Piglet as much as his hapless self allows. Similarly Tigger is something of a {{Keet}}, though cares a lot about Roo. With a fair helping of BigBrotherWorship in there from the latter, both even refer to each other as brothers. Both of these are seen in the [[Literature/WinnieThePooh original novels]], though it is the Disney [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh incarnations]] where this trope is most evident.
-->'''Tigger:''' Only the best...for my bestest little brother...
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** Kenny [=McCormick=] cares a great deal about his younger sister, Karen. So much so that [[spoiler: he dresses up as his superhero persona, Mysterion, and acts as her GuardianAngel.]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awww.]]
** Alternatively and less immediate, Kyle and Ike's relationship has varied throughout the course of the show; originally, Ike was more of an AnnoyingYoungerSibling who idolized Kyle, following him to school and copying his mannerisms, while Kyle held a more superficial malice towards his brother (when he learned Ike was adopted, he completely shunned him for a while). Nowadays, Kyle goes to great lengths to keep his little brother safe, from stopping him from running off to Somalia, to dragging his friends to Canada on Christmas Eve to get Ike back from his biological parents. Ike has now become one of Kyle's greatest drives (seconded only to Kyle's antagonism towards Cartman.)
*** Not even that. Kyle was perfectly willing to let Cartman kill himself in Somalia, even the thought of other classmates following him did not budge him from his celebrations. Realizing ''Ike'' had joined Cartman however [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone completely reversed his feelings.]]
** Female version -- Let it be understood that only Shelley has the right to torture little brother Stan.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' Tygra often struggles with his deep [[TheResenter resentment]] of his younger brother Lion-O, but when Lion-O is protecting some [[StockPunishment stockaded]] prisoners from an AngryMob and has challenged them to GoThroughMe, Tygra immediately comes to his aid informing the crowd "You better be sure you want to do this because ''I've'' [[IAmYourOpponent got his back]]."
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Obi-Wan has this towards Anakin, who in turn has it towards Ahsoka.
* On ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim,'' [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] has this for [[CreepyChild Gaz]]...[[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]]. "Gaz, Eater of Pork" is one example, when he's willing to take a punishment for Gaz, protesting that she's "just a little girl." In reality Gaz wasn't about to get ''any'' punishment, [[JerkSue but she lets him take it for her anyway]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls,'' [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Dipper]] seems to have this for [[CloudCuckooLander Mabel]], even though they're [[PolarOppositeTwins twins]] and he's the younger one at that. For example, in one episode they work together to get back at [[TheLibby Pacifica]] for hurting Mabel's feelings, only for Mabel to learn that she has nothing to prove to her. Dipper, however, says that [[SpoofAesop he's learned nothing]] and gets revenge on Pacifica anyway.
** And to an only slightly lesser extent, she protects him right back.
** Wendy develops this for Dipper and shields him from the Shapeshifter.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' is this to some of the other engines, especially Percy. This is especially prominant in later seasons, where he is more matured and experienced so often charged with keeping an eye on newcomers. Also inverted since he is sometimes this to older engines such as Toby as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': Mega Man is this to his sister Roll to the point that in the pilot episode he is crush by a monorail train protecting her. In the same episode he tells a lie, something that robots are supposedly incapable of doing, to save Roll from reprogramming.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'': Dutch is this towards his younger brother Dar, refusing to let him [[spoiler: join the Burners after Dar realizes becoming a Kane Co soldier was a mistake]].
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mystery Martin Mystery]]'' is a huge man-child that doesn't take anything seriously in life, except when any danger that comes to his slightly older stepsister, Diana. Examples of this are shown in every episode where she calls out for help and he comes straight to her rescue.
* Jake Long, a.k.a the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long American Dragon]]'' has a very perky, know-it-all sister that grates on his nerves more often than not, but his brotherly instincts kick in if there are any signs of danger towards her.
* Nightwing is this to the current Robin, Tim Drake in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' after the TimeSkip.
** Given how the quarrel between him and Batman (leading to him quitting Robin to become Nightwing) never happened in this universe, he must have been close to Jason Todd as well; and after Jason's death, understandably he is more protective of Tim than ever.
*** Confirmed on [[WordOfGod Ask Greg]].
---> Q: Were Dick and Jason close before Jason died?
---> A: Yes.
** Nightwing has this for all the younger team members. When the Reach kidnaps Lagoon Boy, Beast Boy, Impulse, and Blue Beetle, he orders the rescue squads to proceed despite the probability of discovery, only saying "Get our boys."
** Other examples include Cheshire, who was ready and willing to murder to Aqualad when she believed he'd murdered her little sister; Miss Martian, who is scary protective of Superboy and Lagoon Boy (her boyfriends) and Beast Boy (her surrogate little brother); and Aqualad, who hates being the leader of the team but continues to, believing that Robin is too young.
** In season 2, Superman finally showed at least one sign of this towards Superboy by taking a missile in the chest for him (presumably a missile that would've packed too much punch for Superboy) fired at the younger half by deep cover mole Aqualad.
* Big Binky from one episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' will go out of his way to protect his little sister Emma from harm (even if he won't take his binky out of his mouth).
* In ''StreetSharks'', all of the titular brothers act this way towards each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
** [[TheCaptain Shining Armor]] makes it no secret that he's absolutely ''terrified'' of King [[LivingShadow Sombra]], but he doesn't even hesitate to take Sombra on one-on-one to buy his sister enough time to escape.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush-Off]], [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]] and [[{{Tomboy}} Rainbow Dash]] have fun pranking [[HoldYourHippogriffs everypony]], but Pinkie has a strong instinct to protect [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] from even their most harmless prank.
-->'''Fluttershy''' (to Pinkie Pie): I'm a year older than you.
** Though they are all about the same age, Rainbow Dash can be this to her friends, but especially [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]], [[PluckyGirl Pinkie Pie]], and even [[TagalongKid Spike]]. She's willing to kick the teenage dragon's asses when she finds out what they're going to do to Spike. She also stands up for Fluttershy against some bullies back when they were fillies.
** Applejack to Apple Bloom, of course. She'll jump in front of a Chimera in a heartbeat to protect her little sister.
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** In the comic ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderRebound Rebound]]'', Mai takes down a room of Ozai loyalists to save her little brother from being indoctrinated into their father's radical group.
** After he joins the group, [[TheAtoner Zuko]] appears to quickly develop this with the rest of the gang, especially towards [[BigBrotherMentor Aang]] and [[LikeBrotherAndSister Katara]].
* Mako from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' spent his childhood watching over his brother Bolin and he still is in his adulthood. When Bolin was kidnapped by the Equalists, he ''threw one of his captors across the screen'' Hulk-style, or in this universe, Korra-style.
** Mako also deconstructs this trope: He's sheltered his brother from the harsh realities and darker nature of their environment to such a degree that it's partially led to Bolin's current naiveté and dependency.
** Bolin himself counts, too. When Korra receives gifts from [[ManipulativeBastard Tarrlok]] in front of him, Bolin offers to "have a word with the guy," as he thinks she's being harassed by a StalkerWithACrush.
** Mako also seemed to have such an instinct for Korra between episodes five and nine.
** Noatak, [[spoiler: better known as Amon]] shows a pretty dark take on this. He'll bloodbend his brother [[spoiler:Tarrlok]], but when their [[AbusiveParents father]] goes a little too far, he starts bloodbending ''him''.
--> '''Noatak/[[spoiler:Amon]]''': Stay away from him.
* The ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' character {{Wolverine}} often acts as a mentor to one of the younger heroines on the team: Kitty Pryde (comics), Jubilee (comics''/''[[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} animated series]]), or Rogue (film''/''[[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution second animated series]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': The Titans have this towards each other. Particularly, [[BadassBookworm Raven]] has this towards all of the Titans, [[PluckyComicRelief Beast Boy]] towards the Titans, [[OfficialCouple Starfire and Robin]] towards their friends, and [[TheLancer Cyborg]] towards his.
** Seriously, don't [[BerserkButton mess with them]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny does this with his OppositeSexClone, Danielle. In the first episode they meet, he goes from suspicious to protective, keeping her safe from Vlad with his Ghostly Wail, the second time he was willing to be Valerie's captive if it meant saving her from being dissolved. Interestingly, he develops this instinct even with his ''older'' sister, becoming overprotective when she's in trouble or in the rare moments when she does something irrational.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KidVSKat'', Coop Burtonburger thinks his younger sister Millie is annoying, but he is able to put his life at risk to protect her.
** On one occasion, when Millie is sad because she wants Coop to play with her, the boy agrees to spend time with her.
** Even when Mr. Kat is lost, Coop finally decides to reunite Millie and Mr. Kat to make her happy.
* ''TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson usually couldn't give a damn what happens to Lisa on a mundane basis, and the two have an intense sibling rivalry, but his instinct does kick in every time something serious happens.
** In "Bart the General", Bart has been insulting Lisa all morning. Upon getting to school, one of Nelson's cronies takes a batch of muffins Lisa had baked earlier. That's all it takes for Bart to attack the cronie and he winds up punching Nelson in the face and is challenged to fight. It's the first sign in the series that Bart isn't a total jerk towards his sister.
** In "Separate Vocations", an Aptitude Test tells Lisa that her suitable career is housewife. In response she becomes a delinquent, and eventually steals the teacher's guides, an expulsion-worthy offense. When Bart finds out what Lisa did, he takes the blame, staying in school due to his work as hall monitor. When she asked why, Bart tells Lisa that test or no test, she's the one with the makings to be a success.
** In "'Round Springfield" when Lisa is absolutely crushed that she can't get the last copy of Bleeding Gums' album for a tribute after his death, Bart spends all the remaining money from his recent legal settlement involving Krusty the Clown's cereal to get it for her. He was thanking because she was the only one who believed him when he said his stomach hurt.
** In "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", Bart helps Lisa when they're at military school.
** In "Gone Abie Gone", Bart helps Lisa keep her college fund through poker because he secretly cares about her.
** In "Black-Eyed, Please," Homer asks Ms. Krabappel to get rid of Lisa's bully subsitute teacher. You know what she does? She gets Bart to play a transfer student in the woman's class, and he then proceeds to cause absolute havoc during a ''two-minute bathroom break'' and makes the woman quit her job. While it isn't shown, the fact that Bart agreed to do this at all shows that he does care about Lisa.
** To a lesser extent, Lisa is this to Bart. The best examples are the episode "Bart's Girlfriend" where she protects Bart from Jessica Lovejoy and the episode "Lisa on Ice" where Bart is attacked by a group of boys and Lisa beats up the bullies to protect him.
* Loopy's older brother Larry on ''KaBlam'''s ''Life with Loopy'' shorts is like that towards her.
* Perry the platypus from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' seems to be like this to the title characters, judging by how much more viciously he attacks his [[FriendlyEnemies nemesis]] Doofenshmirtz when his current scheme would put Phineas and Ferb into danger.
** In the movie ''[[PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the Second Dimension]]'', Candace-2 from the alternate dimension is fiercely protective of her brothers Phineas and Ferb. [[spoiler: To the point she is willing to abandon the alternate Phineas and Ferb to protect her own. Though she eventually came back for them.]]
--> '''Candace-2:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming I'll do anything to protect the ones I love.]]
** Though not nearly to the same extreme, this also applies to regular-dimension Candace herself. Despite having a morbid fear of heights, she once ''rode a [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying bicycle]]'' into ''space'' when her brothers got captured by an alien poacher.
* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Ed is this to [[BrattyHalfPint Sarah]].
** Sarah herself is this to Jimmy, she maybe is a SpoiledBrat but this is arguably one of her redeeming qualities.
** [[spoiler: Subverted with Eddy and his brother.]]
* Skipper and Kowalski of ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' display this toward Private occasionally, covering his eyes or ears to protect him from "inappropriate" content.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' and ''Ben10UltimateAlien'': Despite their differences Kevin acts this way towards Ben.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', Susan is this to Johnny. One of the most notable examples is "Recap/TrialByFire."
* {{Franklin}} Turtle, without a doubt, seen in the third season in "Big Brother Franklin" when Franklin took to looking after a little kid named Squirrel. He also became a "best friend big brother" to Bear's little sister, Beatrice. Eventually, Paulette Bourgeois finally made him a big brother for real in the book "Franklin's Baby Sister" and the film ''Franklin and the Green Knight'' soon followed.
* WildKratts has the Kratt Brothers, who both play it straight and invert it. Most obvious in episode 32, when Chris goes missing after getting stuck to a bee, Martin is upset that he wasn't able to keep Chris from going missing and keep him safe, and he keeps setting out to find him.
* In GeneratorRex, Rex's older brother Cesar instantly goes into protective mode after their reunion and tries to 'rescue' Rex, even though Rex isn't in any danger. He later knocks out a bunch of Providence agents and jumps down from a ship to help Rex fight an Evo.
* Franchise/WinnieThePooh isn't particularly smart to say the least, though he will constantly aid and comfort Piglet as much as his hapless self allows. Similarly Tigger is something of a {{Keet}}, though cares a lot about Roo. With a fair helping of BigBrotherWorship in there from the latter, both even refer to each other as brothers. Both of these are seen in the [[Literature/WinnieThePooh original novels]], though it is the Disney [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh incarnations]] where this trope is most evident.
-->'''Tigger:''' Only the best...for my bestest little brother...
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** Kenny [=McCormick=] cares a great deal about his younger sister, Karen. So much so that [[spoiler: he dresses up as his superhero persona, Mysterion, and acts as her GuardianAngel.]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awww.]]
** Alternatively and less immediate, Kyle and Ike's relationship has varied throughout the course of the show; originally, Ike was more of an AnnoyingYoungerSibling who idolized Kyle, following him to school and copying his mannerisms, while Kyle held a more superficial malice towards his brother (when he learned Ike was adopted, he completely shunned him for a while). Nowadays, Kyle goes to great lengths to keep his little brother safe, from stopping him from running off to Somalia, to dragging his friends to Canada on Christmas Eve to get Ike back from his biological parents. Ike has now become one of Kyle's greatest drives (seconded only to Kyle's antagonism towards Cartman.)
*** Not even that. Kyle was perfectly willing to let Cartman kill himself in Somalia, even the thought of other classmates following him did not budge him from his celebrations. Realizing ''Ike'' had joined Cartman however [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone completely reversed his feelings.]]
** Female version -- Let it be understood that only Shelley has the right to torture little brother Stan.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' Tygra often struggles with his deep [[TheResenter resentment]] of his younger brother Lion-O, but when Lion-O is protecting some [[StockPunishment stockaded]] prisoners from an AngryMob and has challenged them to GoThroughMe, Tygra immediately comes to his aid informing the crowd "You better be sure you want to do this because ''I've'' [[IAmYourOpponent got his back]]."
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Obi-Wan has this towards Anakin, who in turn has it towards Ahsoka.
* On ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim,'' [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] has this for [[CreepyChild Gaz]]...[[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]]. "Gaz, Eater of Pork" is one example, when he's willing to take a punishment for Gaz, protesting that she's "just a little girl." In reality Gaz wasn't about to get ''any'' punishment, [[JerkSue but she lets him take it for her anyway]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls,'' [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Dipper]] seems to have this for [[CloudCuckooLander Mabel]], even though they're [[PolarOppositeTwins twins]] and he's the younger one at that. For example, in one episode they work together to get back at [[TheLibby Pacifica]] for hurting Mabel's feelings, only for Mabel to learn that she has nothing to prove to her. Dipper, however, says that [[SpoofAesop he's learned nothing]] and gets revenge on Pacifica anyway.
** And to an only slightly lesser extent, she protects him right back.
** Wendy develops this for Dipper and shields him from the Shapeshifter.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' is this to some of the other engines, especially Percy. This is especially prominant in later seasons, where he is more matured and experienced so often charged with keeping an eye on newcomers. Also inverted since he is sometimes this to older engines such as Toby as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': Mega Man is this to his sister Roll to the point that in the pilot episode he is crush by a monorail train protecting her. In the same episode he tells a lie, something that robots are supposedly incapable of doing, to save Roll from reprogramming.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'': Dutch is this towards his younger brother Dar, refusing to let him [[spoiler: join the Burners after Dar realizes becoming a Kane Co soldier was a mistake]].
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mystery Martin Mystery]]'' is a huge man-child that doesn't take anything seriously in life, except when any danger that comes to his slightly older stepsister, Diana. Examples of this are shown in every episode where she calls out for help and he comes straight to her rescue.
* Jake Long, a.k.a the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long American Dragon]]'' has a very perky, know-it-all sister that grates on his nerves more often than not, but his brotherly instincts kick in if there are any signs of danger towards her.
* Nightwing is this to the current Robin, Tim Drake in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' after the TimeSkip.
** Given how the quarrel between him and Batman (leading to him quitting Robin to become Nightwing) never happened in this universe, he must have been close to Jason Todd as well; and after Jason's death, understandably he is more protective of Tim than ever.
*** Confirmed on [[WordOfGod Ask Greg]].
---> Q: Were Dick and Jason close before Jason died?
---> A: Yes.
** Nightwing has this for all the younger team members. When the Reach kidnaps Lagoon Boy, Beast Boy, Impulse, and Blue Beetle, he orders the rescue squads to proceed despite the probability of discovery, only saying "Get our boys."
** Other examples include Cheshire, who was ready and willing to murder to Aqualad when she believed he'd murdered her little sister; Miss Martian, who is scary protective of Superboy and Lagoon Boy (her boyfriends) and Beast Boy (her surrogate little brother); and Aqualad, who hates being the leader of the team but continues to, believing that Robin is too young.
** In season 2, Superman finally showed at least one sign of this towards Superboy by taking a missile in the chest for him (presumably a missile that would've packed too much punch for Superboy) fired at the younger half by deep cover mole Aqualad.
* Big Binky from one episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' will go out of his way to protect his little sister Emma from harm (even if he won't take his binky out of his mouth).
* In ''StreetSharks'', all of the titular brothers act this way towards each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
** [[TheCaptain Shining Armor]] makes it no secret that he's absolutely ''terrified'' of King [[LivingShadow Sombra]], but he doesn't even hesitate to take Sombra on one-on-one to buy his sister enough time to escape.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush-Off]], [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]] and [[{{Tomboy}} Rainbow Dash]] have fun pranking [[HoldYourHippogriffs everypony]], but Pinkie has a strong instinct to protect [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] from even their most harmless prank.
-->'''Fluttershy''' (to Pinkie Pie): I'm a year older than you.
** Though they are all about the same age, Rainbow Dash can be this to her friends, but especially [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]], [[PluckyGirl Pinkie Pie]], and even [[TagalongKid Spike]]. She's willing to kick the teenage dragon's asses when she finds out what they're going to do to Spike. She also stands up for Fluttershy against some bullies back when they were fillies.
** Applejack to Apple Bloom, of course. She'll jump in front of a Chimera in a heartbeat to protect her little sister.
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