History Main / DoesHeHaveABrother

** In the following ''A Civil Campaign'', Miles's cousin Ivan asks the same of Ekaterin, who is now either in mourning for her late husband or involved with Miles, or both.

* Inverted in ''AvenueQ:'' Rod never actually asks Nicky if he has a brother, given that he's an ArmoredClosetGay (the fact that it's a TransparentCloset is irrelevant), but it turns out he does. Ricky looks exactly like Nicky, except is much more muscular, and avoids the IncompatibleOrientation problem.

* Parodied in ''TheCritic''. Jay Sherman and his best friend's twin sister are in a planetarium, before Creator/WoodyAllen interrupts them:

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit is on the topic of why women find assholes so alluring, when an audience member bolts up and starts acting as the world's premiere assholes. The women on the panel swoon; Nora Dunn, playing a man-hating lesbian sociologist leans in and asks "Do you have a sister?"

* OlderThanPrint: A cross-gender example in ''Literature/TaleOfGenji'' occurs when Genji finds himself shot down by Utsusemi and more or less decides that her younger brother looks enough like her to... well, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre you can guess]]. Back then, [[EveryoneIsBi this wasn't that rare]] with the nobles.

* Inverted in AvenueQ: Rod never actually asks Nicky if he has a brother, given that he's an ArmoredClosetGay, (the fact that it's a TransparentCloset is irrelevant,) but it turns out he does. Ricky looks exactly like Nicky, except is much more muscular, and avoids the IncompatibleOrientation problem.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Leela says this about a dummy (as in a wire model) used by a romance corporation to test pickup lines. The line it used was "My two favorite things are commitment and [[ICanChangeMyBeloved changing myself]]."

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', when Harvey Dent asks Bruce Wayne what he thinks of his girlfriend Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy), Bruce responds, "Does she have a sister?"

* Parodied in ''TheCritic''. Jay Sherman and his best friend's twin sister are in a planetarium, before WoodyAllen interrupts them:

* Parodied in ''TheCritic''. Jay Sherman and his best friends twin sister are in a planetarium, before WoodyAllen interrupts them:

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* From ''Film/ManOnFire'':

* ''Black Widow'' (1987). The female undercover agent discovers that FemmeFatale Catherine's next potential victim is handsome and incredibly rich.

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* [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Talon Karrde]] keeps quipping about just how handsomely Han Solo was rewarded for showing his altruist side. When the subject comes to Han eventually marrying Leia as "his biggest reward" :

* ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' has a weird example, in which Steerforth asks ''David'' if he has a sister.

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-->'''Carter:''' Does he have a gay brother?

--->'''Garcia''': He’s not fictional. He’s the online alter-ego of a real person.
--->'''JJ''': Hmmm, you don’t even know anything about him, even if it is…him.

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* An interesting use of the line occurs in {{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' when Beatrice (who has a WillTheyOrWontThey relationship with Benedick) is flirting with Prince Don Pedro. After indirectly implying that she's interested in him, Beatrice adds, "Hath Your Grace ne'er a brother like you?" While this can be played as straight flirtation, the implication is generally along the lines of [[JustFriends "I didn't mean you!"]]

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* In ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', when Harvey Dent asks Bruce Wayne what he thinks of his girlfriend Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy), Bruce responds, "Does she have a sister?"

* DavidCopperfield has a weird example, in which Steerforth asks ''David'' if he has a sister.

* In "BatmanTheAnimatedSeries," when Harvey Dent asks Bruce Wayne what he thinks of his girlfriend Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy), Bruce responds, "Does she have a sister?"
* Parodied in TheCritic. Jay Sherman and his best friends twin sister are in a planetarium, before WoodyAllen interrupts them

* Jared, a chain of jewelry stores runs commercials featuring two young women reading text/photo messages from a friend while she's on a date. Their reactions: "Aw, he bought her flowers." "They went to Chez Francois!", and the last one, following a photo of a piece of diamond jewelry, "He went to JARED!" The ad cuts to the couple in the restaurant with the woman showing her date a photo on her phone of the two friends with the message "Does he have brothers?"

* In LoisMcMasterBujold's ''[[VorkosiganSaga Komarr]]'', Miles Vorkosigan meets the married Ekaterin Vorsoisson, and falls for her; he tells himself to ask if she has a sister.

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One of the romantic StockPhrases. Often spoken by a character to indicate that she finds someone attractive, but doesn't want to actually pursue him because he's already in a relationship, usually with one of the character's friends. Of course, this question assumes that [[DifferentAsNightAndDay the siblings are exactly]] [[CainAndAbel the same]]. Can also be [[GenderFlip gender reversed]], and if spoken by men about a woman, it's often ThoseTwoGuys saying it. These days it's also likely to be spoken by the CampGay in reaction to a straight man he finds attractive.

* Pleakly says this to the Grand Councilwoman in ''LiloAndStitch''
--->Councilwoman: Then WHO, Mr. Pleakly, do you recommend for Experiment 626's capture?!
--->Pleakly: ....Does he have a brother? *Councilwoman rolls her eyes* Close grandmother, perhaps?

* In one episode of ''CriminalMinds'' Garcia is charmed by a person in a online game because of how he 'always shows up for dates on time', Jennifer (JJ) immediately asks if he has a 'Brother, a twin, a cousin, a uncle, whatever'.
** Hotch does have a brother, who is [[DifferentAsNightAndDay very different from him]], much to the girls' surprise. It isn't until they start yelling at each other that JJ comments that she sees the similarities. The brother subsequently [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment is never mentioned again]].
* In ''{{Friends}}'', after Phoebe finds out that the gay man she's been attracted to for years is straight, but taken:

* On ''HowIMetYourMother'' Barney and his brother exploit this to help each other pick up women/gay men respectively.
* A ''SaturdayNightLive'' skit is on the topic of why women find assholes so alluring, when an audience member bolts up and starts acting as the world's premiere assholes. The women on the panel swoon; Nora Dunn, playing a man-hating lesbian sociologist leans in and asks "Do you have a sister?"

* In ''{{Futurama}}'', Leela says this about a dummy (as in a wire model) used by a romance corporation to test pickup lines. The line it used was "My two favorite things are commitment and [[ICanChangeMyBeloved changing myself]]."
* In the ''Film/CorpseBride'', after Victor is dragged down to the afterlife, one of the corpse women asks, "Does he have a dead brother?"

* A rather {{Squick}}y (to [[ValuesDissonance modern audiences]]) cross-gender example in ''Literature/TaleOfGenji'' occurs when Genji finds himself shot down by Utsusemi and more or less decides that her younger brother looks enough like her to... well, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre you can guess]]. Of course, back then, [[EveryoneIsBi this sort of thing wasn't that rare]] with the nobles.

* An interesting use of the line occurs in {{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' when Beatrice (whose WillTheyOrWontThey relationship with Benedick is OlderThanSteam) is flirting with Prince Don Pedro. After indirectly implying that she's interested in him, Beatrice adds, "Hath Your Grace ne'er a brother like you?" While this can be played as straight flirtation, the implication is generally along the lines of [[JustFriends "I didn't mean you!"]]

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* A rather {{Squick}}y (to [[ValuesDissonance modern audiences]]) cross-gender example in ''TaleOfGenji'' occurs when Genji finds himself shot down by Utsusemi and more or less decides that her younger brother looks enough like her to... well, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre you can guess]]. Of course, back then, [[EveryoneIsBi this sort of thing wasn't that rare]] with the nobles.

* An interesting use of the line occurs in {{Shakespeare}}'s ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'' when Beatrice (whose WillTheyOrWontThey relationship with Benedick is OlderThanSteam) is flirting with Prince Don Pedro. After indirectly implying that she's interested in him, Beatrice adds, "Hath Your Grace ne'er a brother like you?" While this can be played as straight flirtation, the implication is generally along the lines of [[JustFriends "I didn't mean you!"]]

* A rather {{Squick}}y cross-gender example in ''TaleOfGenji'' occurs when Genji finds himself shot down by Utsusemi and more or less decides that her younger brother looks enough like her to... well, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre you can guess]]. Of course, back then, [[EveryoneIsBi this sort of thing wasn't that rare]] with the nobles.

* From ''[[Film.ManOnFire Man On Fire]]'':

* A rather {{Squick}}y cross-gender example in ''TaleOfGenji'' occurs when Genji finds himself shot down by Utsusemi and more or less decides that her younger brother looks enough like her to... well, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean you can guess]]. Of course, back then, [[EveryoneIsBi this sort of thing wasn't that rare]] with the nobles.

* In the ''Film/{{Corpse Bride}}'', after Victor is dragged down to the afterlife, one of the corpse women asks, "Does he have a dead brother?"

-->'''Daisy Duck:''' Are you guys here to for the [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Three Candelabras]]' show? In case you didn't know, I'm dating the Third Candelabra. You know it's DonaldDuck, right?\\

* In the ''{{Corpse Bride}}'', after Victor is dragged down to the afterlife, one of the corpse women asks, "Does he have a dead brother?"

->Tell me more, tell me more, could she get me a friend?
->--"Summer Nights" from the movie ''{{Grease}}''

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