Line #4 BigLittleBrother/LiveActionTV


1	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Played straight at first with Laurel and Sara Lance, as Jacqueline [=MacInnes=] Wood (Sara) is taller than Creator/KatieCassidy (Laurel). However, Wood was replaced by Creator/CaityLotz after the pilot, averting this as Lotz is shorter than Cassidy.
2	* One episode of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' had Mr. Drysdale be informed that the little brother of one of his secretaries wanted to have a talk with him. His reaction was "Send the little fellow in! I'll give him a piggy bank!" The "little fellow" was built like a linebacker.
3	* ''Series/BobHeartsAbishola'' Bob's younger brother Douglas is several inches taller than he is.
4	* Genderflipped in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', where by the Season 6 episode [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain "Normal Again"]], Buffy notices that her younger sister Dawn has become taller than she is. When she was introduced in Season 5, Dawn was shorter although she shoots up over the course of the episodes, already visibly taller by 'Crush'. In this case, Buffy takes it as another sign of her Sunnydale "delusion" coming apart.
5	* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'' has Chris's younger brother, Drew, being both taller [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter and]] [[BigManOnCampus much]] [[{{Kidanova}} cooler]]. Chris is quite aware of it. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in later seasons when Chris' actor hit puberty, which resulted in Chris and Drew being about the same height.
6	-->'''Narrator''': Instead of Drew wearing my old clothes, ''I'' wore ''his'' old clothes. I think I was the first kid to get hand-me-ups.
7	* {{Lampshaded}} on ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'': Clarissa calls Ferguson a "little twerp" and Sam points out that he's taller than she is. (He wasn't originally, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot but the actor grew]].)
8	* ''Series/FullerHouse'' takes place twenty years after ''Series/FullHouse''. It's quite noticeable that Stephanie is several inches taller than her older sister DJ.
9	** Even in ''Series/FullHouse'' during the final seasons, Stephanie had reached the same height as DJ who was five years older than her.
10	* ''[[Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire Game of Thrones]]'' universe:
11	** ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
12	*** Ser Loras Tyrell is several inches taller than his sister Margaery, and book readers (and probably most viewers) naturally assumed that he is the older sibling. However, WordOfGod has established that Margaery is the eldest Tyrell child on the show.
13	*** Dickon Tarly, as played by Freddie Stroma, is dramatically taller than his older brother Samwell, played by John Bradley. Taken even further in Season 7, when 6'5 Tom Hopper was recast and who is not only taller but way bulkier than Stroma. This makes sense in-story, as the reason Sam is their father's [[TheUnfavorite Unfavorite]] is that he's much less athletic than Dickon, which is why [[AbusiveParents Randyll Tarly]] forced Sam to join the Night's Watch in the first place, so Dickon would be his heir.
14	*** It's less noticeable given that Bran's legs are paralyzed so he doesn't stand, but Creator/IsaacHempsteadWright, who plays Bran Stark, is ''much'' taller than Creator/MaisieWilliams, who plays his older sister Arya. In fact, by Season 6, he grows up considerably (his actor is now 5'11) and is now the tallest of his siblings. In an interview for Season 6, Creator/RichardMadden (Robb's actor) says he feels bad for Kristian Nairn (Hodor's actor) for having to carry Isaac Hempstead-Wright around because he is so big now.
15	*** Lyanna's notably taller than her older brother Ned back when they were kids. Many actually thought she was the older sibling in this version because of that, but she calls Ned "big brother" in the next flashback.
16	*** Euron is both taller and bulkier than Balon.
17	** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Adult Aemond is taller than his older brother Aegon. This AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance denotes that he is the more serious, dangerous, and competent of the two brothers, regardless of what primogeniture says.
18	* On ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', Aphrodite often refers to Herc as her "big brother," even though she's older than he is by centuries.
19	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'' has the [[MiddleChildSyndrome middle child Randy]] turn out to be much shorter than his older brother Brad and younger brother Mark, which happened incidentally as the actors grew up. When he complains about that to his mom all she can say is that he can't obsess over it because you don't know where life will take you and Randy may have just had a delayed growth spurt (he never did became taller, though).
20	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Louis is the eldest of the de Pointe du Lac siblings, but his younger brother Paul is slightly taller than him. The following exchange is from "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]".
21	-->'''Paul''': You remember the day I got taller than you?\
22	'''Louis''': Always bringin' that up.\
23	'''Paul''': Shot up like a Nuttall oak. Daddy said I was gonna look down on you for the rest of days.\
24	'''Louis''': Yeah, yeah. Half an inch.\
25	'''Paul''': That was a good month, that month.
26	* ''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'''s protagonist, Phil/Tandy Miller, has a younger brother named Mike who stands a good few inches taller and is much better built. He's also far more mature, competent, and successful, being an astronaut and scientist who excelled in math and basketball back in high school and committed local acts of heroism, such as saving a woman and her cats from a burning car, before the apocalypse.
27	* ''Series/LastManStanding'' at first had all three daughters at about the same height, with [[DawsonCasting Kristin and Mandy both played by adult actors]]. Kristin [[TheOtherDarrin was recast]] in the second season with a slightly taller actress, while Eve eventually grew taller than Mandy and was pointed out when Mandy tried making a short joke. Mandy [[TheOtherDarrin was then recast]] in the seventh season with a very tall actress, towering over both sisters and playfully ignoring the fact that she was supposed to be shorter than the other two.
28	* Notably subverted on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. One would expect Bud to grow taller than his older sister Kelly, but because Creator/DavidFaustino topped out at only 5'3, he maintained the "[[AnnoyingYoungerSibling little brother]]" dynamic with Kelly for the entire series.
29	* ''Series/MoonLovers'': Baek-ah is notably taller than his older brother Wang So.
30	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': In a Season 3 arc, [[spoiler:Peter Pan kidnapped Wendy Darling and kept her trapped on Neverland until her younger brothers John and Michael became adults in order for them to deliver a then-baby Henry to Peter Pan in exchange for their sister, which was further delayed when Regina Mills adopted Henry first. Since no one ages in Neverland, when Team Charming is able to reunite the Darlings in Storybrooke, Wendy's still a young teenage girl while John and Michael are now grown, young adults]].
31	* Rodney to Del in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses''.
32	* In ''Series/RoyalPains'', Evan R. Lawson is taller than his brother, Hank Lawson, by a few good inches.
33	* ''Series/ScarletHeart'': Yin Ti is the youngest of the Aisin Gioro brothers (well, the youngest one who's important to the plot) and is a lot taller than his older brother Yin Zhen.
34	* Matty Levan from ''Series/{{Skins}}'' is notably shorter than his younger brother Nick; before Nick's ADayInTheLimelight episode in Series 5, fans thought Matty was the younger brother because of this.
35	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Worf (6'2" Michael Dorn)'s younger brother, Kurn is played by 6'5" Tony Todd.
36	** Worf himself is younger than his adoptive brother, Nikolai Rozhenko, but, [[InterspeciesAdoption being a Klingon while Nikolai is human]], he's much bigger.
37	* By Season 3 of ''Series/StrangerThings'', 14-year-old Mike has grown several inches taller than Nancy, who is about 3-4 years older than he is. They were about the same height in the first season.
38	* On ''Series/{{Succession}}'', Cousin Greg is a cousin rather than a brother to the Roy children, but otherwise plays the trope straight: he is the [[TheBabyOfTheBunch youngest of the main characters]] and also the tallest, at 6'6" (Connor, the tallest of the Roys, is 5'11").
39	* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', Moseby's taller than his older brother Spencer who is a little person. Spencer though is [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter stronger, more wealthy]] and a grade-A {{Jerkass}}.
40	** He also has a younger half-brother who’s a pro basketball player.
41	* ''Series/{{Supergirl\|2015}}'':
42	** While Kara is chronologically older than Alex, she is physically the younger sister due to having spent time in the Phantom Zone and looks even younger because Kryptonians age more slowly than humans. That said, she is over an inch taller than Alex, as Creator/MelissaBenoist is a StatuesqueStunner.
43	** Kara is 13 years older than her baby cousin Kal-El and was sent to protect him, but because she was suspended in the Phantom Zone, where TimeStandsStill, she hadn't aged when she came out of it 24 years later. By the time Kara crash landed on Earth, Kal-El had become [[Franchise/{{Superman}} an experienced, adult superhero]] who didn't need her help anymore, while Kara was still 13.
44	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam Winchester is very tall (6'4"), while his [[KnightTemplarBigBrother notoriously protective]] [[BigBrotherInstinct big brother]] Dean is several inches shorter (around 6'0"). Sam teases him about it on occasion, even though 6'0'' is pretty tall by normal standards.
45	* In the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the MakeMyMonsterGrow method is for an Egos Monster to call out its "little brother," a giant robot duplicate.
46	** ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' has the Sneak Brothers. Younger Brother is an average-sized MonsterOfTheWeek. Elder Brother is the size (and shape) of ''a baseball''. Later, we meet Sister, who is basically Younger [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics with a little skirt added]].
47	* ''Series/TodaysSpecial'': Sam has two older sisters who only appear in pictures. Both are shorter than him.
48	* Alcide Herveaux from ''Series/TrueBlood'' is a walking mountain of muscle, but his older sister Janice still refers to him as her "baby" brother.
49	* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' Tori (younger sibling) and Trina (older sibling) started off at approximately the same height, but over time, Tori became several inches taller than Trina.

Context BigLittleBrother / LiveActionTV