Big Brother Instinct / Fan Works

Big Brother Instinct in Fan Works.

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Crossovers

• The members of the Justice League see Ben Tennyson as a little brother in Ben 10: Unlimited, and for good reason: they find out early on that an enemy of Ben's (later revealed to be Vilgax) murdered Ben's entire family and team, leading him to try to kill himself, but it was bungled and he ended up in the midst of the Thanagarian invasion with barely any time to grieve his loss before being thrust into another fight. As such, they do what they can to deal with his trauma and end up becoming a surrogate family for him.
  • This is strongly demonstrated in two major examples:
    • When Ben ends up afflicted by the Black Mercy, he sees all his family alive again, and being forced to acknowledge they're gone leads to him breaking down. Even despite her injuries, Wonder Woman quickly moves to try to comfort him.
    • They become especially infuriated when Amanda Waller attempts to recruit Ben into Project Cadmus. This is when the story explicitly states that Ben is like a little brother to them. They would be mad if any member of the Justice League was given such an offer, but it's more infuriating that they would try to recruit Ben into their ranks.
  • In the sequel, Ben and Kara's son Ken holds a massive protective instinct of his little sister Jen and develops a similar instinct to Secret, becoming absolutely furious when he learns Harm killed her to become pure evil and wield the Sword of Beowulf. When Harm insinuates that Ken could be like him if he killed Jen, it pushes the normally soft-spoken half-Kryptonian into an Unstoppable Rage, brutally beating him so badly that Raven and Artemis are left in complete shock. Afterwards, Ken works to specifically assure Jen and himself that he will never hurt her.
• BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
  • Ragna had this regarding his younger siblings, Jin and Saya, growing up. He'd often get into fights with the bullies at the orphanage they lived in for picking on them. He also develops this towards Jaune and Ruby, regarding them like a younger brother and sister. In the former's case, his first instinct was to find and threaten Team CRDL into submission when he heard they stole Jaune's book.
  • Yang is shown to be very protective of her younger sister, Ruby. She gets incredibly pissed when Weiss starts being rude to her and immediately rushes her to the nurse's office when she accidentally goes too far in their sparring match. She also completely freaks out with worry when she learns that Ruby went to confront the Black Beast by herself.
  • In the past, at least, Raven Branwen had this towards her younger twin brother, Qrow. He recounts times when she stood up for him against the tribe's abuse, even when she got the crap kicked out of her in the process. However, as she'd long since abandoned her family to return to the tribe in present day, this is no longer the case.
• The Bridge (MLP):
  • Xenilla has an odd relationship with his "little brother" Godzilla Junior. They might be enemies and Junior hates Xenilla's guts, but if anyone except Xenilla threatens or tries to kill Junior, Xenilla will do everything he can to utterly destroy them. King Sombra learned this the hard way. ^note Xenilla considers them siblings on the grounds he was created through alteration of Godzilla Senior's cells, making him Senior's son. And since Senior had adopted Junior, Xenilla sees himself as Junior's older brother.
  • The Sirens, for all their faults, deeply care about one another. They and the Dark Hunters go apeshit on Princess Twilight and the Rainbooms when they think she's responsible for attacking Sonata and stealing her gem. Aria later beats Human Twilight to an inch of her life after catching her.
  • Anti-Villain Gigan might act very aloof towards his little brother Megalon's antics. Technically, they're not siblings on account of being completely different species, Megalon just being made as a new cyborg model by the same creators Gigan utterly detested. However, when Megalon and fellow teammate Irys were in the path of danger by a rampaging Kaizer Ghidorah, Gigan threw everything he had at the dragon kaiju despite being utterly outclassed. His familial love was strong enough that he even unwittingly manifested the Equestrian magic based on The Power of Love and The Power of Friendship.
• Child of the Storm:
  • Lex Luthor doesn't tolerate anyone harassing Carol, being her self-appointed Knight Templar Big Brother, even though she can handle herself better in a fight than he can (especially by the sequel). The last person who refused to take no for an answer was put on a one-way flight to Guantanamo Bay, which only turned around once he swore on his life never to go near Carol again. The trope ends up being deconstructed when Carol points out how this had a negative impact on her life, and it becomes Once Done, Never Forgotten for Lex.
  • Harry tends to take this attitude to anyone he feels needs protecting, such as Luna Lovegood, Bobby Drake, and in the sequel, Clark Kent. Since he can pass for Clark's brother for a number of reasons, and looks older thanks to his more traumatic experiences, he even fits the visual archetype. Since he qualifies as a Person of Mass Destruction by the end of the first book, becomes a fully-fledged Apocalypse Maiden in the sequel, and has a nasty temper combined with a creatively ruthless streak, this makes him dangerously effective.
  • Carol develops this towards Diana, who, though tiny by comparison, could probably tear her in half, whereas Carol is a Badass Normal (later an Empowered Badass Normal, as a Super-Soldier). She's also very protective of her little brothers, who don't have powers, to the point of telling a vampire who implicitly threatens one of them that she'll kill him if he even touches her brother. She later does exactly that. Later in the sequel, Harry notes this as a consistent character trait of hers, particularly towards younger girls, and in the spinoff she develops this attitude towards Peter Parker.
  • Jean Grey is described as being 'big sister to the world', and is particularly protective of Harry and later, Maddie, the latter of whom she says that she'd take on the entire universe for. Since she is with the exception of her twin, Maddie Pryor, the most powerful mortal psychic ever born, embracing her full potential by the end of the first book, and she has the family temper, this is not something to be taken lightly. In Ghosts of the Past, she makes it clear to Coulson that she does not trust SHIELD, and that if they even breathe the wrong way towards Harry or Maddie, she will personally bring the entire organisation down around his ears.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron
  • Above all else, Lelouch wants to protect his sister, Nunnally. Charles exploits this after Schneizel finds Nunnally by allowing her to give an international broadcast begging the Black Knights to cease hostility, knowing Lelouch will come to save her. It still backfires, though, because Lelouch was able to out-think Schneizel.
  • Rai was willing to totally destroy his sister's trust in him by attacking her just so that the Galra would choose him over her to fight in their gladiator arena, allowing her to be assigned to the comparatively safer forced labor groups.
• Code Prime:
  • As is the case with most Code Geass-related fics, Lelouch's first priority is the safety of his sister Nunnally, even starting a war against Britannia and the Decepticons to create a better world for her. He can also be protective of Euphie as well. Notably, Lelouch was pissed when Euphie was kidnapped so the Decepticons could massacre the SAZ.
  • Arcee and Cliffjumper are both protective of Kallen. When Kallen is taken hostage by Makeshift, Cliffjumper, who's easily one of the most laid-back and easygoing Autobots, looks ready to blow Makeshift's head off if Kallen is harmed.
  • Bulkhead develops this for Rai, becoming protective of him at times.
  • Nonette also has this for Rai, being an older sister figure for him, as well as his former personal knight.
  • Xingke is as protective of Empress Tianzi as Lelouch is of Nunnally.
  • Cornelia still dotes on Euphemia even in adulthood. When the Decepticons kidnap Euphie and replace her with a Pretender to commit the SAZ Massacre, she fights Megatron himself to get revenge.
    • In addition to Euphie, Cornelia had this attitude toward Lelouch and Nunnally back when they were part of the royal family. Even after Lelouch and Nunnally were exiled, her love for them never wavered. After learning they are still alive, and Lelouch is Zero, Cornelia defects to the Autobots and Black Knights so she can atone for her past sins, and for failing them.
• In Cross Cases, Crowley warns Harry to not even seem like he's gotten between Dean Winchester and his little brother. Sure enough, during the fight with Patterson's demons, Dean gets transformed back into himself early and sees Lucifer-as-Sam burning alive from flaming holy oil on the other side of a horde of demons, then starts mowing them down in a Mark of Cain-fueled rage with Amoracchius. But when Lucifer whisks Sam away to repair his burned body, all Dean can think of is to go after Harry, the one who took his Sam from him. And it's implied that if Lucifer had brought Sam back even a moment later, Dean would have set Amoracchius to Harry and destroyed the Sword of Love in the process.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly: The most fatal mistake a Viking can make is trying to harm a member of the Madrigal family in front of their sibling. Especially if said sibling is Luisa or Isabella.
• Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship
  • Rainbow has this for Scootaloo.
  • Sunset is developing one toward Timmy, seeing him as a little brother, as are the other Rainbooms who are becoming protective of him as they see him deal with bullies and unfair teachers.
• Fairy May Cry:
  • Everybody in Fairy Tail is protective of Wendy, given her status as the youngest member of the guild, but her fellow Dragon Slayer Natsu stands out, calling her his little sister and always ready to pound someone in the dirt if they so much as make her cry. He even takes a swing from Vergil's Yamato to the chest meant for her.
  • Dante grows to be protective of Lucy, and this ends up growing more when they later learn that they're cousins. After meeting Patty and protecting her from demons, both Dante and Lucy end up looking out for her.
  • All of the Strauss siblings look out for each other and greatly worry whenever one of them is in danger.
  • Trish develops this for Lucy, and is later made her adopted older sister.
  • Nero has this in the sequel story Devil's Retribution towards Coco, having known her since childhood.
• In the One Piece/Naruto crossover Growth through Chaos, this trope is simultaneously gender-inverted and age-inverted between Nami and Naruto after she learns his Dark and Troubled Past of being an outcast thanks to being a Jinchūriki, with Nami becoming Naruto's Cool Big Sis. On the one hand, do not harm or insult Naruto around Nami, or she will be furious, as when he is denied ramen for being a pirate, she actually goes swinging, surprising since she's normally the Only Sane Man of the Straw Hats (Money Fetish aside). Even before then, she attacks both Zoro and Sanji when a fight between them ends with Naruto getting knocked unconscious and attacks Luffy because he stole Naruto's ramen from him. On the other hand, do not insult or hurt Nami in front of Naruto, or he will get mad, as when Buggy calls Nami a "treasure-stealing she-bitch", he doesn't take it well, and when Alvida nearly hits her, Naruto gives her "the same face a certain Mizuki witnessed" and uses Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu.
  • Additionally, Sanji develops a similar bond to Naruto, but mixes this with Big Brother Mentor. This starts back on the Baratie, where Naruto was inspired by Sanji's ideals of chivalry (for context, this is the Naruto at the start, who holds a torch for Sakura) and begins to look up to him. He even turns to him for training in both the culinary and martial arts, and his Big Brother Worship increases when Sanji convinces a starving Gin to eat. When Naruto undergoes a mental breakdown from his past of ostracization and the mostly positive treatment he has received throughout his time in the new world, Sanji immediately picks up on Naruto's horrid past from his own abusive experiences at the hands of his father and brothers, and demands answers from Kakashi as to what happened to him, grabbing the Jonin by the neck and raising fists against him.^*As a reminder, Sanji was taught to solely use his legs in combat, as using his hands puts them at risk, and losing one would be devastating to his career as a chef.
• Hanging Ten Saga: In the Stōked/Ben 10 fic Hanging Ten, Ty is Not Happy when he learns Kelly tried to pour Hot. Cooking. Oil on his younger sister Lo as part of her initiation. He's also grateful to Ben for intervening and stopping her that he personally threatens to go to his father and have him blackball Kelly if she tries to get him fired.
  • When Gwen finds out Lo broke up with Ben because he kept his superhero life a secret, she is pissed and proceeds to rip Lo a new one.
• Harry Potter and the Boiling Isles: Luz develops this for Harry after befriending him, coming to treat him like a little brother and being very protective of him.
• In Harry and the Shipgirls, the destroyers at Yokosuka Naval Base view Harry Potter as their younger brother and will do grievous bodily harm to anyone who even thinks of hurting him.
• Harry Tano: Because they meet so much earlier, Harry, the Weasely kids, Hermione, and Luna Lovegood become as close as siblings...to the point that, if one of them even thinks that one of their friends is being hurt, they're ready and willing to fight.
• How the Light Gets In: The entire concept is mused on by Laurel Lance, as she reflects on the responsibilities of an older sibling, and the things she, Oliver, and Dean have done for their younger siblings.
• If Wishes Were Ponies: While Twilight is Harry Potter's adoptive mother (hence Mama Bear instead of this trope), he has the rest of the Mane 6 looking out for him. Seeing as how Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom are Rarity's and Applejack's sisters respectively (and Scootaloo is the honorary little sister of Rainbow Dash), the Mane 6 looks out for them, too.
• I'm Nobody: Shepard, Ashley, and Axel take a "protective older sibling" role towards Roxas and Xion, though Axel is more of an enabler than a protector at times. Though Axel is quite embarrassed and in disbelief when Yen Sid points out that the other Nobodies consider him an older brother figure. At another point, Ashley bluffs that she's Roxas' older sister to get a crowd of rather lustful women to lay off him.
• An Impractical Guide to Godhood: When Jackson makes it clear that he's going to conscript someone from the Aphrodite Cabin for his quest, Sileena repeatedly tries to volunteer to protect her half-siblings.
• Chloe Cerise in Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail cares for her little brother and was pissed when her bullies not only drenched her in red paint but also attacked her brother with the same paintcan. While she does try to be the bigger man and walk off, she snaps when Sara mocks how their dad never cares for Chloe. This makes Chloe snap and wail on her bully before threatening to kill her and all her students if they ever play a horrible prank like that again, call her "Monster Lover" or hurt her brother ever again.
  • Age-inverted with Parker when he, Ash, and Trip set up an Engineered Public Confession against Chloe's classmates. When they started to insult Chloe and say that she deserves her disappearance, Parker grabs a baseball bat and prepares to beat one of them down with it, only for Ash to stop him, since he didn't want to have any injuries on the younger boy's instincts, even if the bully did deserve it.
• Do not threaten Kanae in front of Kyon in Kyon: Big Damn Hero. Do not try and kill Kyon once he's done teaching you why you shouldn't attack Kanae. She may not be his little sister, but he treats her like one.
• Ladybug in a Half Shell: Having a younger sister himself, Casey has zero tolerance for ass-grabbing, having beaten up Johnny Smith (also known as "Johnny the Perv") every time he catches him trying it (especially on April).
• The Last Seidr: While SHIELD is highly suspicious of Harry Potter and where he (along with Fawkes) came from (except for Coulson, whose life was saved by the kid), the Avengers quickly become protective of twelve-year-old Harry, with Tony, Bruce, and Thor quickly forming strong bonds with him. Clint, Natasha, and Cap, while not as immediate, also have their moments of this trope with Harry, and actively take steps to make sure SHIELD doesn't get their hands on him.
• Lighting Candles: Tadashi ultimately agrees to join the Guardians of Childhood, but on one condition: Hiro is always his top priority. Callaghan learns the consequences of messing with a Guardian's little brother very quickly.
• A Loud Among Demons
  • Loona becomes increasingly defensive of Lincoln. While Loona ignores Blitzo's attempt to call her in "Harvest Moon Festival" like in canon, as soon as she hears Lincoln in pain, she quickly comes to his aid. When they get lost in a monster-infested forest and he gets nervous, she tries to calm him down by complimenting him on his marksmanship.
  • Vortex feels this way about Lincoln, promising to hurt anyone who tries to hurt him.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
  • Danny defends the KND from Cree, being reminded of how protective he is to Danielle.
  • Jazz's Big Sister Instinct kicks in when she notices how much Danny wants to avoid Katie from Animaniacs.
• In many Maribat AU fics, all of the older Robins have this for Marinette, most often (and most violently) Jason.
• Mike Pines: Mike will go to any length to keep those younger than him safe, which usually means protecting Dipper and Mabel. His first meeting with them is him hearing them screaming in fear and rushing to their aid.
• Nanosuits And Soul Magic: Alcatraz has this towards Team RWBY, especially towards Ruby, who reminds him of his little sister. His response to the White Fang kidnapping them and planning to broadcast their execution? Sneak into the facility, stealth-killing every White Fang member he comes across, and break Yang's chains. The sheer cold-bloodedness of how he acted upsets Ruby a lot.
• While they're shown to protect all of their adoptive siblings in canon ^note  Well, Jason depends on the writer, in Peter Parker Needs A Hug, Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Jason Todd/Red Hood are this trope in full force. Even when they aren't helping their adoptive siblings fight crime lords and supervillains, they are there for their younger siblings emotionally. Jason Todd actually forms a very sweet bond with Peter Parker/Spider-Man even before he becomes a member of the Bat family.
• A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: When asked to visit Middleton by his current crush Kim Possible, Danny is first ecstatic. Then she sends a picture of someone he knows, that being Danielle. He quickly gets serious and becomes angry when he learned Skulker and Shego attacked her.
• The Megamind & Rise of the Guardians crossover story Protectors has Rikki, the elder sister of Roxanne, who is not only protective over her sister but the other kids as well, especially Teal (Megamind). During the story, it's realized that Wayne's (Metro Man) father and her mother have been conspiring to turn poor Teal into a villain with Wayne as the hero. When Rikki comes face to face with them both, she's not happy.
  Rikki: "Despicable villain?! He's just a child! He may look different, but that doesn't make him a monster! You're the monster, you racist, bigoted bastard!" [punches him, hard enough to knock over]
  • She then yells at her mother but refrains from hitting her. That is, until her mother goes for Roxanne. Then she's on the floor with Wayne's father.
  • Jack Frost is this as well in the story, although he doesn't get quite so... violent.
• Jaune's eldest sister, Sky Knight General Carolina Arc, from the^note RWBY/The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings and Red vs. Blue, for some characters Fusion Fic Rise of a Star Knight, and its sequel Knights of Remnant: The Ring of Darkness. Glynda nervously tells team RWBY that she is quite protective of her family, especially Jaune, and when Yang asks why that is a problem, Glynda simply tells her to imagine what she would do if she were in Carolina's place and Ruby was in Jaune's^spoilers...Specifically, Jaune is hold up in Beacon, with General Ironwood threatening to storm the place with the Atlesian Army if he doesn't hand over the Arkenstone. Due to the influence of Felix, whose soul resides in the Arkenstone, Jaune is refusing. Jaune is the Star Knight of Vale. As the Star Knight of Vale, the Sky Knights of Vale answer to him, and to Carolina. Carolina has just shown up outside of Vale with the Sky Knights. She isn't a fan of the Atlesian Army being there, or of them threatening her brother. Yang concludes that they're in trouble.
• Roller Brawl: The Mega Cyborg has Blues showcase this after Sergeant Night hacks off Roller Brawl's right arm and readies to strike her down. He proceeds to overload his unstable core to use a Blues Strike to send the madman flying, and confirms to Dr. Light that he sees Mega Man and Roller Brawl as his little siblings and that it's his job as their big brother to protect them.
• Seven Days Survivor has Midori develop one towards Nanako, thanks to shared personal experiences (both had their mothers die at a young age), and Midori resolved to help out Nanako as best she could. How this will affect Yu's canonical feelings has yet to be seen.
• Spider-Ninja: The Turtles are only a year older than Petra, and know that she's as capable of defending herself as they are. That doesn't mean that they won't be there to fight for her or back her up whenever she needs them. For example, when Casey Jones accidentally broke Spider-Ninja's ribs, Raph promptly beat him up, and might have killed him if his sister hadn't intervened. A chapter earlier, Leo punched out Baxter Stockman after he injured Raph, Mikey, and Petra.
• In Thieves Can Be Heroes!, Makoto Niijima is this for her Childhood Friend, Izuku Midoriya, who is two years younger than her. When they were kids, she would protect him "like a lioness would her cubs" from bullies who wanted to poke fun at him for his Quirkless status. While he's more independent as a teenager, she still tries her best to help him through his troubled situation at Shujin but is frustrated at the fact that he keeps her Locked Out of the Loop to keep her safe from the potential fallout if he fails to steal Kamoshida's heart.
• This And That: Their time together has made Angela very attached and protective of Powder. Despite having no reason to and couldn't have easily sent her away to live on the streets of the City, Angela has gone out of her way to make Powder's stay in the Library as comfortable and safe as possible after taking her in.
• Turnabout Storm: Cruise Control, who has so far been a total doof, turns dead serious for a few seconds to tell Apple Bloom that big brothers always care for their siblings, perplexing Twilight. It turns out he follows this to a T, as he was perfectly willing to go through with Ace Swift's blackmailing and become a loser if it meant his little comatose sister getting the medical care she needed.
• The Ultimate Big Brother: Even though he's not connected by blood to any of the class, Charlotte Katakuri retains this instinct to them, but holds it in particular to Makoto and Himiko. Messing with Makoto is an easy way to find yourself on his bad side as Mondo finds out, and he is more than willing to play along with Himiko and let her call him her big brother.
  • Aoi's hostage to try and get her to commit murder is her little brother Yuta. However, because Katakuri told them it would be better to not give in to fear and paranoia, she feels that she's weak for letting it get to her. However, Big Mom's second son counters that as long as she doesn't let it twist her into a Knight Templar Big Brother and drives her to become someone she's not, she's not weak for worrying about him.
• In the Ben 10 and Elfen Lied crossover Ultimate Lied, Ben first develops this towards Mayu, becoming her big brother in all but blood, brutally beating up her incestuous stepfather as Four Arms when he learns what he did to her. Later, he develops a similar bond with Nana, but at the end of the story, Ben's parents end up adopting Mayu when the main characters return to Bellwood, thus officiating their bond, while Nana ends up with Shirakawa and Dr. Kurama, with both being spared and Abled in the Adaptation.
• Invoked in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse, where Nabiki Tendo gets very angry on her little sister Akane's behalf when she learns that Akane's beloved pet pig P-chan was actually Ryoga Hibiki in a Jusenkyo cursed form all along. Despite, as the other crew pointed out, the fact Nabiki has a history of exploiting Akane for profit herself, such as routinely selling pictures of her to Casanova Wannabe Tatewaki Kuno.
• In Weight of the World, Yang is this to Ruby, America and Canada are this to each other, and England and France are to Canada and America. Throughout the series, each sibling goes to great lengths to keep the other safe. One example is when England goes so far as to threaten Russia when Russia manipulates America into unlocking his Aura, claiming he will destroy Ivan if he hurts England's family again.
• The Wizard in the Shadows:
  • Boromir and Aragorn see Harry as a little brother, Aragorn in particular. In the sequel, Boromir outright refers to Harry as a little brother, and spectacularly tears into a guardsman who mocks Harry. As he tells Aragorn, that is something he will not let pass.
  • Harry sort of has this with Emrys.

Ace Combat

• In Three Strikes the second it's even suggested that Torres could find out that Trigger is related to him, Roland (that is, Mobius 1,) has an Oh, Crap! look and immediately tells his father that can’t happen, or Torres might just put everything he has in to killing his little sister out of revenge.

All of Us Are Dead

• This Is A Wild Game Of Survival Ha-ri towards Woo-jin. To the point that she cannot even pretend to care about any of the other Class 2-5 kids, which causes some resentment from Gyeong-su after he discovers I-sak has died. Na-yeon also notes that most siblings likely would not go to the lengths she goes to rescue him. It's shown that she was this way even when they were toddlers. When she thinks she's going to die her last thoughts go to Woo-jin, begging him to stay safe and to forgive her for not finding him.

Animaniacs

• A Horrible World of Plot Holes and Spelling Errors: If you harm any of the Warner siblings, the other two will come down on you hard. The fic especially highlights this aspect with Yakko, who also serves as the Parental Substitute for Wakko and Dot.

Animorphs

• In Eleutherophobia, Tom is extremely protective of Jake. After Tom falls out of the sky and saves himself at the start of The Day the Earth Stood Still, his first concern is that his little brother and younger cousin are risking their lives on a couple of spaceships in low orbit, while he's still figuring out how to walk on his own. Played for Drama in Ghost in the Shell, where he remembers screaming internally while Essa gave Jake a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• In "What if Tom was never a Controller?", after watching Temrash die of Kandrona starvation and crawl out of Jake's ear, Tom insists to the Animorphs that he's going to help them fight this war however he can.
• In What Tomorrow Brings, Rachel goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after a Controller shoots her sister Jordan.

Arrow

• Blackbird (Arrow): Very darkly invoked. Dinah gives Laurel to the League of Assassins to secure Sara's freedom under the "rationale" that as Sara's big sister, Laurel knows it is her responsibility to protect Sara.
  • In the end, Laurel sees the toll things have taken on Sara, finds it hard to hate her sister, and sincerely wishes she'll get better; but knows that she cannot be the one to help her recover.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• In Field of Innocence, Lu Ten has this for his little cousins Zuko and Azula, who both see him as an older brother. When he finds out that Ozai has been abusing them during training, the normally sweet and kind prince gets scary.
  Lu Ten: [after slamming Ozai against a wall] Now you listen to me, Uncle, and listen good. If you hurt either one of those kids again, if you say anything to make them feel bad, if you so much as look at them wrong, I will face you in an Agni Kai and I will break and humiliate you in front of the entire court. I don't care who you are. I don't care if our family is watching. I'll hold nothing back, I will destroy you!

Azur Lane

• Chronicles of the Siren War
  • Upon learning of Arizona's death, Pennsylvania unloads everything she has against the Sakura Empire albeit at the cost of his crew abandoning her ship. Even after Arizona was revived, Pennsylvania is initially reluctant to let Arizona return to battle until her sister convinces her otherwise.
  • Enterprise faces off against an Eldritch Abomination and pummels it to submission when it gets in the way of Hornet's resurrection.

Beast Wars/Transformers

• In Beast Wars Fan Series, Cheetor starts off having this towards Victoria, saying during the first movie that she's like a little sister to him.

Big Hero 6

• Fanon holds Tadashi Hamada for the perfect Nice Guy until someone breathes wrong in Hiro's general direction. Then Tadashi switches into "gonna commit MURDER with extreme prejudice and won't regret anything" mode.

Bridge to Terabithia

• Bridge to Terabithia 2: The Last Time, being set five years after the original, has Jess becoming this as part of his Character Development, being extremely protective towards his younger sisters, Maybelle and Joyce-Ann. Notably in the Thanksgiving chapter, in which Jess beats up his obnoxious douchebag cousin, Nicholas — who is a few years older and taller than Jess — for shouting at Joyce-Ann and making her cry.

Code Geass

• Code Geass: Reverse
  • In this Role Swap AU, the older sister Nunnally is the gender-inverted trope for her younger brother Lelouch. Not just because he is blind and crippled, but also because she wants to atone for being a Big Sister Bully prior to their mother's death.
  • Cornelia is the age-inverted example to her now older sister Euphemia. Cornelia fears Euphie's compassionate nature, especially to Numbers, would make her vulnerable to assassination or even disinheritance. It is why she became a ruthless embodiment of Britannian's conqueror policy, and why she followed Euphie to Area 11.

Codename: Kids Next Door

• The Candygirl: One of the fastest ways to end up on the receiving end of Cree's fighting skills is to mess with Abby. Notable examples include:
  • After Chad's stunt results in Abby, along with the rest of Sector V, getting wrongly decommissioned, Cree spends an hour beating the snot out of him. One of the watching Teens Next Door members even lampshades how the fastest way to piss Cree off is to mess with Abby.
  • During the events of Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E., Cree, upon learning what the weredogs did to Abby, Cree suits up and decides to take on the weredogs herself. Cue an utterly brutal Mook Horror Show that ends with the weredogs scattered across the floor and even Ms. Thompson left whimpering in terror at Cree's wrath.
• In Reunited, during the confrontation between Cree and her Evil Counterpart Eerc, Cree goes from confused about what exactly is going on to ready to commit murder the second Eerc threatens her younger sister Abby.
  Cree: YOU STAY AWAY FROM ABBY! If you go near her, I swear to God I'll kill you!

Danganronpa

• This trope is discussed in Class 78th Watches the Future in the aftermath of Class 78 watching the second case of their future in the Deadly Game they're stuck in. Specifically, Makoto Naegi discusses this trope with Badass Biker Mondo Owada. The reason he killed Chihiro Fujisaki was out of jealousy, as while he couldn't admit to the fact that he was responsible for the death of his older brother Daiya^note Trying to prove himself stronger than Daiya, he found himself about to be run over by a truck, but Daiya pushed him out of the way at the cost of his life and made him promise to keep the Crazy Diamonds together, Chihiro was willing to overcome his fear of how people would react to his true gender being revealed. Makoto works to not only help Mondo overcome his guilty feelings of killing Chihiro but being responsible for Daiya's death. While Mondo points out that he was partially responsible due to being too hot-headed, Makoto points out that it was Daiya's choice to save him, leading to the quote below. Makoto himself also shows this, thinking that if his little sister Komaru was in trouble, he would give his life to save her.
  It was his choice to save you, Mondo. It was his choice to give his life for yours. That's what any older sibling would do.
• In Fractured Fates, Kaneki demonstrates Big Sister Instinct towards Asuna, doing whatever she can to protect her, despite the two being the same age and not actually related. She's even willing to risk being killed in order to prevent a murder plot against Asuna.
  • The end of Chapter 2 reveals Kaneki is actually a deconstruction of this trope. Kaneki had this towards her biological younger sister, Yuna, believing protecting a younger sibling was the biggest responsibility of an elder sibling. However, failing to live up to this belief come Yuna's death devastated Kaneki, leaving her in a state of deep remorse and grief. She would attempt to atone for her past failure by being a big sister figure towards Asuna, but Kaneki later discovered someone was plotting to murder the girl. Determined to live up to her belief and to prevent history from repeating itself, Kaneki confronted Asuna's would-be killer by herself, ultimately leading to her own murder.

Danny Phantom

• In Danny Phantom: Stranded: Danny fires a blaster at Vlad for calling Danielle a "mistake".
• Facing the Future Series, he's even more protective of Danielle, as she is Happily Adopted by the Fentons and goes from self-proclaimed cousin to his actual little sister.
• In The Return Of Dani Phantom, Danny and Danielle are very close, and not even his girlfriend is spared from saying anything that offends her.

Dark Moon: The Blood Altar

• My Deepest, Darkest Secret: The vampires' negative qualities might be more apparent in this story, but it's hard to deny that they aren't extremely protective of Solon, be it he stays out at night for too long or if someone gets romantically interested in him. This trait is what, despite them hating the mere idea of it, ultimately makes them agree to the alliance with the werewolves.
  • The werewolves are no slouch in the department, if anything, they're even more protective of Solon. Upon meeting him, they've been nothing but kind and gentle to him and immediately came to love Solon as a brother, up to the point where he's all but officially a member of their pack. When Enzy sensed Solon was in trouble, their first instinct was to look for him. While they willingly allied with the vampires to save him, Najak (who's implied to be the second most protective of Solon after Enzy) was more hostile to the vampires than usual. He's completely justified because they called Solon a "mutt" and drove him to tears.
  • Solon is just as protective of his loved ones himself. Played for Drama as Richard used this trait against him to force Solon to submit to his desires, threatening to kill the people he considers his brothers and his beloved in the most painful ways possible if Solon refuses.

The DCU

• In Batman story The Choice of Family, it was inverted when Tim and Damian angrily called out Jason for putting Dick in danger and having him end up at the hospital. But it was played straight in the sequel Antidote for the Poison where Jason was furious when he found out Tim was injected with a dangerous amount of heroin by some drug dealers. When he cornered said drug dealer, who knows what he might have done if Damian wasn't there.
  "You took my little brother, tied him up, pumped him full of heroin, and left him to die in this shit hole. Now I ask you: do you think I have the slightest bit of remorse about cutting you open and letting your guts decorate the floor?"
  • Jason also openly acknowledges Tim and Damian as his younger brothers and brings Damian safely home after he and Damian go out to get the drug dealers.
• A Force of Four: Whatever else you may say about them, Mala and Kizo are very protective of their little brother U-Ban, and they're not pleased when Power Girl beats him to the ground.
• In Supergirl fanfic Hellsister Trilogy, Clark Kent is incredibly protective of his younger cousin, to the point of getting into a fight with a not-good-enough-for-her suitor.
• Kara of Rokyn: In his own words, there're few things that would induce Superman to forget about his oath about not harming or killing anybody...but the mere act of hurting his little cousin is one of them.
• In Arrow sequel Legacy Series, Oliver and Felicity's son is fiercely protective of his little sister. "I’d do a lot for that kid," he says. "Anything that was right and a lot of things that were wrong."
• In To Hell and Back (Arrowverse), Barry, Kara and her baby cousin Kal-El arrive at Lian Yu shortly after Oliver. He becomes their big brother of sorts and he is extremely protective, to the point that he is willing to let himself be killed if it would guarantee his surrogate family's survival.

Digimon

• A Captive Light has Tai and Matt. Matt lays the smackdown on Ken after T.K. is attacked, and earlier Tai charges Ken, despite the fact that he is "13 feet above the ground, riding an 8-ton monster."

Discworld

• Rebecka Smith-Rhodes is the oldest of three daughters. Her younger sisters are, respectively, an extrovert student Assassin and a socially awkward Child Prodigy. She is devoted to both and would go a long way for either. She also realises, with mixed feelings about it, that at least two thirteen-year-old girls who have no female siblings of their own have come to regard her as a surrogate big sister. Wondering if "BIG SISTER" is written on a billboard held over her head in six-foot-high letters, Bekki sighs resignedly and gets on with being a Witch. Read more in the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal.

Doctor Who

• In Time and Space, Zanna Sterling is just about ready to drop everything and go after Garrett when he goes into a cemetery where a couple of guys have gone missing. Why did those guys go missing? Because a Weeping Angel was living there.

Dragon Age

• Raonar, the Guile Hero dwarven prince in Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns develops some advanced protective tendencies towards the dwarven commoner, Faren, as evident when the former finds the latter trapped in his worst nightmare during the Broken Circle questline in the Fade. The resolution with the sloth demon can be seen as a partial subversion, however, because it's Faren himself who, ultimately, curbstomps the demon before the protagonist sends him over to Justice to be dealt with properly.
• Much as in canon, Hawke is extremely protective of Bethany in the Skyhold Academy Yearbook series. This even extends to In-Universe fictional portrayals of her, such as in the noir story written by two of Varric's students, where her price for agreeing to help the detectives with their case is that they have to provide her sister with protection. Dorian behaves the same way toward Evvy, who is "the sister I never had."
• In the Dragon Age: Inquisition AU fic series Twice Upon an Age, this is how Mahanon behaves toward Victoria. His da'vhenan ("little heart") is arguably the most important person in the world to him, and there are repeated instances of his determination to protect her. (Dorian treats her very similarly, though a little less intensely because they haven't been through as much together as Mahanon and Victoria have.)

Encanto

• Getting Mirabel back after ten years missing has made Isabela in Guiding Light (AuroraRose2081) more tender and protective of her sister in comparison to the original movie. She's the first to realize that the orphanage where Mirabel and the kids lived was a horrible place just by noticing her stocking up on food.

The Fairly OddParents!

• In Never Had a Friend Like Me , Timmy develops this towards Amanda Adams. He starts thinking of horrible things to do to her parents.

Fairy Tail

• Ultear in One Word to Change the World doesn't take well to Juvia's obsession with her younger brother Gray, and pulls her aside to tell her to keep away from him since it is obviously bothering him.

Final Fantasy

• In A New Hope, Leon has one of these for his sister Aerith. It's so strong that he filed a restraining order against Zack, and threatened to kill him if he ever does anything to Aerith. Of course, it doesn't stop him from trying a second time.

Fire Emblem

• Fell Horizon: Veyle is the one person (after Lumera dies) whom Alear is capable of opening up to and treating with unconditional love. And if you do anything to hurt or threaten Veyle, start praying.
• In Golden Threads Tie Us, one of the Severa's regrets is that she was unable to protect her little sister Morgan. Severa even goes so far as to compare herself unfavorably with Lucina, who has always been able to keep her own little sister Cynthia safe.
  Lucina peered at her for a moment, then turned away. It seemed like she decided not to press the issue – Lucina would understand her, Severa realized, because she was a big sister, too. I wonder what Lucina would do if something happened to Cynthia. No, Lucina never would let Cynthia come to harm. Not like Severa, who had let her own younger sister go right before her eyes, and now she was – it was all Severa's fault -

Firefly

• Forward (Peptuck) has a very plausible version of this develop between Jayne and River, after they end up relying on one another to survive and escape being tortured by Niska.

Five Nights at Freddy's

• Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls
  • Freddy is very protective towards the other animatronics and does whatever he can to keep them safe. He also develops this towards Bridget and Cody after warming up to them.
  • Cody adores his little sister Bridget and does his best to care for her and make her smile.
  • Inverted with Bridget. While she might be the younger sibling, she's just as much looking out for Cody as he is looking out for her. A lot of times she gets on his case about neglecting his school work and reacts shocked when he reveals to her just how bad he is failing at some of his subjects.

Free!

• Free! fanon usually has Rin, who's normally an Aloof Big Brother, secretly be very protective of his little sister Gou.

Frozen

• Frozen Wight: Elsa is hiding from a mob with torches, which has already set half the castle on fire. She's so terrified of the fire that she can't even stand up, much less use her limitless ice powers to fight back. Then she overhears them mentioning that they'll kill her sister if they find her. Every flame in the castle instantly dies.
  On one end of the bedchamber hallway, a mob of dozens of hulking, muscular men. On the other, a waifish young girl. The mob collectively took a few steps back.
  "You came into my home." Elsa's voice was neither timid nor angry. It was tranquil. "And set it on fire. In front of children." She held out an arm. "You have one chance to surrender."

Fruits Basket

• Red Butterfly: Akane is fiercely protective of Tohru. In chapter 2, she, believing Tohru was in the tent when it was buried in the landslide, doesn't hesitate to try to dig her out with her bare hands.

Fullmetal Alchemist

• build your wings on the way down: Edward is very protective of Nina and Al. He tries to spend as much time with her as possible to keep her away from her father. To Hughes' surprise, Ed is very patient and understanding with Nina. He beats the crap out of her horrible father and faces the Gate just for the chance to save her.
• In My Master Ed, after finding him in the past, Edward becomes highly protective of Hohenheim of all people, taking him under his wing and giving him food, shelter, and an education.

Godzilla

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): This runs both ways with Monster X's two heads, San and Vivienne Graham, who consider each-other siblings due to Multiple Head Case being Ghidorah's definition of siblinghood and due to bonding closely with each other, respectively. Anyone who actively and seriously messes with one of the two beings who compose Monster X is in for a world of agony and likely death from the other half. Eventually, Vivienne somewhat extends her protectiveness of her San to his separate clone, San-2/Youngest Brother.
  • Abraxas: Empty Fullness: The minds of Ghidorah's middle and right heads used to be fiercely protective of each-other and San before they snapped and turned into the monsters they are now; protecting each-other and getting enraged when the Makers hurt or tortured one of the brothers.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed

• In The Beast Of Gusu, Lan Xichen is particularly protective of his little brother, Lan Wangji. He goes to great lengths to make sure Lan Wangji doesn’t have to suffer like he did. Later, he also treats Wei Wuxian the same way, considering him as another younger brother (since Wei Wuxian marries Lan Wangji).
• The Concubine Mo Chronicles has the Emperor, who is very defensive of his younger brother's happiness. He harshly punishes a eunuch for badmouthing Lan Wangji choosing a male lover and covers any trace of Concubine Mo practicing demonic cultivation to not have to execute him.
• Forget-me-not (don't leave me behind) inverts this with Nie Huaisang, who has grown up very close to Lan Xichen, as he grew up alone. It's clear from dialogue that he's picked it up from his older brother. Huaisang warns Yue Zhan to be gentle to the brother that he (unintentionally) and his mother (intentionally) abandoned.
• If You Only Knew Then (The Things I Only Know Now):
  • After getting a hint of the brewing war with Qishan Wen, Wei Wuxian needs no prompting to swear he will safeguard Jiang Cheng.
  • Inverted with Jiang Cheng, who is overprotective of his older brother. In spite of being mightily upset by Wei Ying dabbling into demonic cultivation, Jiang Cheng nonetheless assures anyone wanting to hurt the youth for practising The Dark Arts will have to go through him first.
  • Similarly inverted with Nie Huaisang, who is driven to improve his cultivation and fighting abilities after getting a hint that the brother he adores will die in the Bad Future.
• And I Will Burn For You has Wei Wuxian's protective instincts towards Jiang Cheng activate with a vengeance once he's back in Jiang Cheng's life. Case in point, he attempts to transport whatever it is that everyone thinks is possessing Jiang Cheng over to himself. Not that Jiang Cheng lets him.
• In The Lost Cause, Nie Huaisang also inverts this (sense a pattern here?), and is fiercely protective of Nie Mingjue. One of the few times he drops his mask around Mingjue is when Mingjue goes to Nightless City without him.
• The Red Earth: Wen Mingjue is very protective of his younger brothers and his cousins. This includes instructing them on behavior, taking Wen Qing and especially Wen Ning under his wing after they are orphaned, and protecting the younger children from a poisoning attempt.
• Second Chance Mo Dao Zu Shi has a gender-flipped one with Jiang Yanli, who is determined not to let her brothers' relationship deteriorate to the point that it did and is desperate to protect Wei Wuxian in particular from his canon fate.
• Tortoiseshell: Nie Mingjue is very protective of his younger brother and hates that he's suffering from his oracular abilities. By the end, he's determined to assassinate another sect leader himself to both avert a war and keep Huaisang from hurting.
• In Twelve Moons and a Fortnight, Jiang Cheng is protective of Wei Wuxian after their reconciliation, traveling hundreds of miles in a single night to provide spiritual energy after his (Wei Wuxian’s) qi deviation and later going through life-threatening surgery for a chance to save his brother.
• Nie Mingjue's protectiveness of Nie Huaisang kicks off the plot of "A Well-Intentioned Blocking". When Mingjue thinks that Huaisang is in trouble, he immediately runs into action to protect his brother.

Gravity Falls

• In Home Is Where the Haunt Is, Dipper takes it upon himself to confront Mr. Mason when he thinks the latter may be harming his sister. Mr. Mason doesn't miss the opportunity to tease him for it.

Harry Potter

• In And The Unethical Binding Contract, where a first year Harry is chosen to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, the other champions Cedric, Krum, and Fleur all worry for him and try to subtly and not-so-subtly give him advice to make sure he stays alive throughout the tournament. Especially in the second and third tasks, they decide to team up to protect Harry from the various beasts and traps.
• In Harry's New Home, the normally law-abiding Percy snaps when he finds out that someone tried to use the Cruciatus Curse on Ron.
• In "My Brother", where Harry tolerated the Dursleys' abuse in canon, he only stays with them from the end of second year onwards because the protection provided by the blood wards also protects his younger sister Emma, and even that was only after Dumbledore modified the wards to protect the Potters from the Dursleys' further abuse.

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• In Hetalia: Axis Powers's Fanon, it's a known fact that America is protective of his twin brother Canada. Sometimes, he's portrayed as an over-protective brother whenever another nation is interested in Canada.
  • There was this one story (based on Vocaloid's "Servant of Evil" series), where Russia had killed Canada, mistaking him for America. Bad move, as America promptly declares war on Russia.
  • It also works the other way around. In a lot of fics, if America is hurt or captured, Canada is the one to rush to his rescue, in the most badass ways possible.
  • It goes the same way with Russia and his two sisters Ukraine and Belarus. There was this one story where Ukraine had mysteriously vanished, Russia believing that America was the one doing it ( He didn't) grabbed him by the throat and for all measures, was perfectly willing to rip America's head if it would bring his sister back.
  • In the fanfiction Awakening, America and Canada both act as big brother figures and protectors to the children being kept by Joseph Mengle. Given how history went, itreally ends badly. Until the end, when it's revealed that they did inspire at least two of the surviving kids to keep going until their lives got better. Aw!
  • If they're not shipped together, it's possible that England may take this role for America instead.
  • If Scotland isn't portrayed as an abusive bastard, it's possible he's portrayed as this for England, Same goes for North Korea, towards South Korea. The latter is to be especially expected in fan-fics about their childhood.

The Hunger Games

• In fernwithy's The End of the World series, Peeta's brothers get this treatment, in a downplayed fashion, with one of them working to send him sponsor gifts during the 3rd Quarter Quell and the other having been in a pillory when the District was firebombed for angrily picking a fight with a peacekeeper.
• In Some Semblance of Meaning, Vale exhibits a Big Sister Instinct for not only her four younger siblings but for her district partner Kit, as well. Typically, Vale is a Shrinking Violet, but if someone tries to hurt Kit, it's a good reminder of why one ought to Beware the Nice Ones.
• The Victors Project has several examples of this: During the 2nd Quarter Quell, a boy named Watts Jafowsky volunteers for his thirteen-year-old brother (and is noted as the last sibling to do so before Katniss), while Charlie Perez-Hooley promises his sister and fellow tribute that if the Careers corner them, he'll Mercy Kill her. This also applies to various victors, such as Cotton Rivers (who was reaped at the age of sixteen due to taking a lot of tesserae to feed her four sisters), and twin victors Gloss and Cashmere towards each other.

Invader Zim

• Becoming a True Invader: Despite the fact that Gaz is immensely tougher than he is, Dib still feels a strong protective drive towards her, which is demonstrated throughout the story.
• Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends:
  • In Chapter 7, what snaps Dib out of his pure terror of Aldrich preparing to kill him and makes him start fighting back? Seeing that Gaz's life is at risk.
  • This comes up again in Chapter 19, when Dib insists on accompanying Gaz during a mission to confront Aldrich instead of splitting up, because he doesn't want to leave her alone around him. He specifically cites being the big brother and needing to protect her as his reasoning, which she is uncharacteristically touched by.
• Ruby Pair: When Gaz gets talked into helping Zim and Tenn's plot in "Frosting the 13th", Dib immediately jumps to the conclusion that she's been kidnapped and rushes after them to "rescue" her, much to her annoyance.
• The Violet Demon: Lampshaded. When Zim dramatically announces that they must head to Gaz's rescue once they realize that she hasn't returned home, Dib protests that, as her brother, he's the one "who's supposed to jump to overprotective conclusions". And when they learn about her being enslaved and sold by the Fornaxians, he demonstrates uncharacteristic anger when dealing with everyone involved.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• In The Ultimate Evil and its sequel, The Stronger Evil, one of the quickest ways to push the bookworm Valerie Payne into action is Jade being endangered. She will face everyday crooks and the Demon Sorcerers, ally with Shendu (who desires her) and/or Shendu's (and her) son Drago, and even offer herself to Shendu against the other heroes' wishes in order to guarantee Jade's safety.

Kill la Kill

• Natural Selection:
  • Inverted with Ryuko when she was growing up. She once beat up someone when they made fun of her older sister's eyebrows.
  • Inverted with Nui, both in the past and present. Upon hearing about the above incident, her first instinct was to rip hairs from the boys Ryuko and Satsuki had brawled with and set about making voodoo dolls. In the present, there are no measures she will not take to rescue Ryuko from Nudist capture.
  • Played straight with Satsuki. It's telling that even after everything that happened between them, her immediate instinct upon waking up and seeing Ryuko captured by Nudists is to try and save her.
• Played with in The Outside:
  • This is Justified and deconstructed in the case of Satsuki and Ryuuko. For much of the story, the two only had each other, especially in light of their parents' separation and Soichiro's death. The deconstruction mostly happens because it's not that Satsuki was just protective of Ryuuko, it's that she's overprotective and Motivated by Fear because she's agoraphobic and, since she thinks the outside world is dangerous, she keeps the former isolated and confined indoors. Likewise, because the two had only each other, they're each other's Living Emotional Crutch, as Satsuki's the only family Ryuuko had known and Satsuki was alone otherwise.
  • Later, though they aren't related, we have Shiro playing this role to Ryuuko and Nui, as he protects and guides them, in a Promotion to Parent way.

Kingdom Hearts

• In Instinctively Family, Lea's Big Brother Instinct is strong to the point where the first fic in the series has it as a title. Roxas and Xion are the main recipients of it, but he demonstrates it towards Kairi as well. He also has moments towards Naminé, Ventus, and several of the various Keyblade wielders.
  • Isa is a year older than Lea and they spent enough time together growing up that they had this dynamic.

The Land Before Time

• Land Before Time Retold: Gender-flipped; Aylene develops this to the rest of the gang, especially Littlefoot. In one chapter of Great Valley Adventure Retold, as soon as Littlefoot's head goes under the sinking sand, Aylene personally jumps right into the sand and pulls his head up before having the others pull them out.

The Legend of Zelda

• Dimensional Links:
  • Hearing that Aryll was kidnapped causes the other Links to freak out despite never meeting her before. Wind quickly calms them down by saying he already rescued her.
  • Dusk develops this towards the entire group. Past Ganon found this out the hard way.
• Almost named in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker as one of its chapters (but it uses the word "reflex" instead of "instinct"). Link is rather protective of Medli because she reminds him of his little sister. First, he saves her from falling off the edge of a spiral path in the Aviary, despite her having wings. He claims that he does this a lot because his sister enjoys playing on a lookout. Next, he immediately runs to Medli's aid after the wind causes her to crash into a cliff. Additionally, he bandages her sprained wing, which he got used to after his sister ran into a wall.

The Loud House

• In Mall Rats (TLH), Leni takes Lincoln on a surprisingly enjoyable outing at the mall, when it gets interrupted when a bunch of jocks start bullying Lincoln. Leni, though slow to pick up on the bullying, eventually steps in, but the bullies don't pay her any mind.
  Leni: You guys are bullying him.
  Bully: Careful, it's learning.
  Leni: You three better take your hands off him and leave him alone.
  [the bullies keep ignoring her]
  Leni: I SAID, Leave. Him. ALONE!
  [cue Curbstomp Battle]
• Meeting A Loud: When they learn just how bad Lincoln's last foster home was, all ten of Lincoln's new sisters are ready to throw hands when they meet his ten previous foster brothers. It doesn't end well...for the brothers.
• No Such Luck, No Such Love: In Chapter 14, Lana has a nightmare about Lincoln running away. When she wakes up, she rushes to Lincoln's bedroom to make sure he's still there and then breaks down sobbing while hugging him. Despite his current negative feelings towards his sisters, Lincoln comforts Lana, doesn't probe her about the details of the nightmare, and allows her to share his bed for the rest of the night. Before he leaves early for school the next morning, he leaves the still-sleeping Lana a note telling her she can talk about it when she's ready.
• Requiem for a Loud: Lynn, seeing her brother slowly die, becomes very protective of him. When Ronnie Anne punches Lincoln in a jealous rage, Lynn is not pleased, and gets into a fistfight with Ronnie to get her to leave — a fight that is only stopped by Lincoln's intervention.

Lyrical Nanoha

• Susanoo is very protective of Tsukuyomi in Infinity (though she's technically older than him). Chrono acts the same way for Fate, but he's a lot more low-key about it.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• The Other Side (memoriaeterna) sees Peter get quite a few 'older siblings' after the other half of the universe survives the Snap; while Peter is still acknowledged as the leader of the New Avengers, other heroes have essentially taken it upon themselves to protect him while he works on finding a way to undo the Snap, to the extent that Jane Foster observes that Peter Quill and Wanda Maximoff have a subtle "competition" over their role as Peter Parker's older sibling whenever the three are in the same room.
• In Turning Tables, Peter was adopted by Pepper during the early stages of pregnancy and has been there for them since the moment Morgan was born, having been there for nearly every important stage in her developing young life. This causes him to become equal parts doting older brother and the closest thing to a father she has.

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

• The Warmth of a Sister's Love: Katiya goes to quite a few great lengths to save her little sister Kyla when she is caught by fishermen, beginning with swimming all the way to Japan to get help from Lucia and her friends.

Mega Man

• In Mega Man Reawakened, Robert is protective of Roll and doesn't want her to make the same mistakes he did.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Burning Bridges, Building Confidence: When Nora first learns that her younger sister was in a fight at school, she's furious, and gives Cole, who she believes started it, a Death Glare on sight. However, when she subsequently learns that Alya was the aggressor, having sharpened her fingernails before trying to claw Marinette and Cole's faces, she's understandably horrified, shooting Cole an apologetic glance before taking her side and telling Alya's family what she did. Alya naturally sees this as a huge betrayal on her big sister's part.
• In Scarlet Lady, Nino's little brother Chris gets kidnapped by the Akuma duo Sapotis^note Chris had earlier tattled on Ella and Etta Cesarie, which led the twins to get revenge after they are transformed. This causes the normally calm teen to throw caution to the wind and give chase to rescue him. It's what leads Chat Noir to pick Nino as the Fox Hero Fox Trot.

My Hero Academia

• In Custody Battle, All for One locked his younger brother in a bank vault out of very misguided protectiveness.
• In Forgiveness is the Attribute of the Strong, the eleven-year-old version of All for One is extremely protective of his little brother, due to their abusive childhood.
• Inverted in Juxtapose. Momo tends to treat Tamaki like a little brother despite being two years his junior due to his constant Shrinking Violet tendencies.
• In Karma in Retrograde, Touya Todoroki was always looking after his younger siblings, playing with Fuyumi and Natsuo as much as possible to cheer them up for being neglected by their father. He'd also intentionally piss Endeavor off to deflect his attention from Shouto onto him, allowing Touya to face the brunt of his father's wrath in Shouto's place.
• Think Before You Speak: After Tenya is injured during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise, Aizawa exploits this by falsely telling Tensei that Izuku was responsible for what happened, as part of a scheme to get Izuku Convicted by Public Opinion and ruin his reputation. However, it backfires; public opinion turns against Tensei for slandering an innocent student, and Aizawa finds himself facing intense scrutiny as well.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• In Aftermath of a Fallen Star, Shining Armor borders on Knight Templar Big Brother. During the trial, he looks at the murderers and plotters like he wants to kill them. When two ponies crack a mean joke about Twilight in front of him, he beats them up. And last but not least, it's implied that the, as Flash Sentry put it, "well-deserved justice" he and the guards gave to Blueblood was his idea. In his chapter Shining says that he enjoyed beating him to an inch of his life.
• Aftermath of the Games has several examples:
  • Both Shining Armors are this to their respective Twilights. Puppy Spike even stated that their Shining Armor tried to train him to attack any boy that comes near Twilight. Though, in Pony!Armor's case, it's more to protect jerks from what an enraged Twilight would do to them. In Human Shining Armor's case, he's very protective of his world's Twilight because he and Cadance took custody of her after their parents were killed by a Drunk Driver.
  • Like her pony counterpart, Human Cadence cares deeply for her Twilight. She destroys Cinch's career and reputation for blackmailing her sister-in-law, used her position as Dean of Crystal Prep to protect her from bullies, and guards her with a baseball bat after she was nearly kidnapped by the Changelings.
  • Applejack and Apple Bloom, after a while, develop this for Sunset when she adopted into the Apple family. They decide to spend the night with her when they find out about her post-Fall Formal nightmares.
  • Adagio Dazzle can't live without her sisters. When all three of them get kidnapped by the Changelings for their powers, she's the only one who doesn't fall into Stockholm Syndrome and manages to escape after several months. Afterwards, she heads back to Canterlot and is willing to make a deal with the Rainbooms to get them out.
• The Differentverse: Limestone may be a grouch, but she's very protective of Marble, specifically warning Twilight and Moondancer not to cause any trouble for her when she has to share their train compartment.
• A Diplomatic Visit:
  • In chapter 25, Pharynx shows up outside a hospital room, where his brother Thorax is undergoing metamorphosis into the next leader of their hive, and shows his protective instincts when Twilight and co. arrive, warning Twilight that he'll be watching her after he agrees to let her in.
  • Chapter 6 of the sequel Diplomat at Large has Big Sister Instinct. This is why Maud Pie put her Rocktorate on hold and joined the army - she says that if it's to protect her parents and sisters, it's worth it.
  • In chapter 10 of Diplomacy Through Schooling, when Applejack finds out the truth about Cozy Glow being an adult in a child's body, her immediate reaction is to go find Apple Bloom and warn her to stay away from the other "filly".
• Discord's New Business: When Celestia discovers that Luna was attacked while she was disguised, she goes beyond mad.
• Lord Tydal in The God Squad. He is Celestia and Luna's older brother who raised them when they were fillies. He held Discord off to give the alicorns time to wield the Elements of Harmony, which caused him to turn to stone as well as Discord. When he reawakens 1,500 years later, he picks up right where he left off, despite Celestia and Luna now being adults.
• In Loved and Lost, an extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", Shining Armor — along with the princesses and Twilight's friends — is turned into a pariah and driven out of Equestria by Prince Jewelius for unwittingly letting the Changeling invasion happen. He soon attempts to reunite with Twilight along with the other dishonored heroes, both out of genuine concern and to make up for the way he renounced her at the wedding rehearsal. After the misled Twilight disowns Shining Armor for what he did to her, the revealed Big Bad announces that he shall marry Twilight in order to get powerful offspring. Shining Armor's reaction is to furiously tell him to stay away from Twilight.
  Shining Armor: [to Jewelius] YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY LITTLE SISTER!
• A Moon and World Apart: Cadance is very protective of Sunset, and when she finds out that Sunset is one of the two possibilities for leading the group that will be needed to re-confine Discord after he escapes, she is very unhappy with Celestia for potentially putting Sunset in danger.
• The Powers of Harmony: When Shining Armor sees a weakened Twilight dueling Trixie in Chapter 25, he remembers his training telling him to never charge into a situation without proper understanding of it first... then ignores it, because as he puts it:
  "No one picks on my little sister."
• Weirdly played with in the Reading Rainbowverse. The character that acts this way to Octavia is actually her split personality.
• Through The Well Of Pirene has three counts of this of the female version of this trope. The protagonist Daphne vows to rescue her little sister Amelia, and later in the story, Rarity and Applejack are dead set on saving their own little sisters, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom respectively.

Naruto

• In Catch Your Breath, Keisuke Gekko acts as this for her younger brother Hayate. Since Hayate's role is to be the Sacrificial Lamb for the Chunin Exam Arc, Kei has a tendency to fixate on her brother's safety to the point of risking a partial Tailed Beast transformation when he's kidnapped.
• Dreaming of Sunshine: Shikamaru is quite protective towards his younger twin sister Shikako. So far, he intimidated Sasuke into guilt when the Uchiha harmed her under the Cursed Seal's influence, plans to take down Itachi for mind-raping her, and even stood his ground against a god when it possessed her.
  Gelel: You would fight a god?
  Shikamaru: Yes. Give me back my sister.
• Glass Marionette:
  • Kankuro treats Gaara as his younger brother and goes out of his way to protect him even after Gaara is broken by Yashamaru's betrayal and grows increasingly unstable and bloodthirsty. His insistence on treating Gaara as a person rather than a demon confuses everyone around him, especially Gaara.
  • Temari shows some sisterly instincts towards Kankuro, which start coming out full force after Takara lops off his hand.
• While they’re not siblings by blood, Yugito in The Honoured Guest sees Naruto and Gaara as her younger brothers. As such, she does not take Sasori's intent on taking them well.
• Kakashi's Kid has a notable female example. The older of Kakashi's children, Kana, seems to emit killing intent whenever her younger brother's feelings are hurt.
  • So far, the main examples have stopped a kidnapping attempt and directed unfriendly eyes toward Kana, instead.
• Orochimaru exploits this in Son of the Sannin by kidnapping Naruto's adoptive brother and sister during the pandemonium of his invasion, then making sure that he finds out about it so he'll leave the safety of the village and run right into a trap set by Akatsuki.

Nasuverse

• In In Pursuit of a Single Ideal, this trope is hit with a Decon-Recon Switch. Shirou is naturally protective towards his little sister Illya, but the trauma he suffered from the Class Cards means that when he finds out that she's also hunting them and that he's Locked Out of the Loop, this instinct turns into a very destructive combination of Big Brother Bully and Chronic Hero Syndrome. He literally begs to be used as a Human Shield to keep her away from harm, dismisses all her opinions and bans her from getting involved in the hunt, refuses to have conversations with her while staying right by her side at all hours, and adopts an I Work Alone attitude that he knows will only get him killed. However, this protective instinct also gives him a Heroic Second Wind when he is facing Emiya Alter, as Muramasa uses it as part of his You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech to encourage him.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Advice and Trust: Asuka and Shinji's feelings for Rei are... complicated, but they are incredibly protective of her. Both of them have said that they care about her almost as much as they care about each other, and one of the fastest ways to piss them off is to hurt her.
• Uriel Dolheb Sohryu of Nobody Dies has this towards Asuka Langley Sohryu, given that she's his adopted sister and he feels compelled to protect her and make her happy, even if he has absolutely no idea how to do it beyond giving Shinji the If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... speech. His Big Brother Instinct also extends to Asuka's half-sister Mari Illustrious Makinami, to the point where her attempts to flirt with him fly completely over his head.
• Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Shinji returns to the past knowing Rei is his sister and instantly becomes very protective of her. When someone asks him about it, he tells Rei is like a sister he did not know he had (which is actually accurate).
• In The Second Try, we have -of all people- Rei, who becomes very protective of a young girl named Aki Ikari that got separated from her parents, to the point of trying to keep her safe from armed JSSDF soldiers that mistook her for a second generation EVA pilot. This relationship carries over to the sequel, where she argued with Aki's parents about enrolling her in preschool, fearing that the environment she grew up in might make it difficult for her to get along with the other kids (and on Aki's first day, she waited outside the school, just in case).

NUMB3RS

• In Maybe Then Someday, Don's canon behavior is also shown in this story when he will do what it takes to try to find Charlie, who was kidnapped.

OMORI

• You're back, Mari: Played for drama. Hero wants to protect Sunny and keep him out of danger, but this stems from his guilt over not being able to prevent the death of Sunny's older sister Mari and fear that any harm that comes to him would be letting her down, which his mind processes as flowers clouding his vision and his arms itching until the danger passes. He goes overboard by protecting Sunny over the most minor of dangers, such as switching out his colored pencils for markers in case he pricks himself and carrying him up and down stairs, and even pushes Sunny's mother into traffic to prevent him from going home to a toxic environment. This only increases after Sunny is put under the legal care of Hero and Kel's family and comes at the expense of ignoring his own brother Kel. His overprotectiveness becomes the focus of several conflicts over the story, and at its worst warps into becoming a manipulative Big Brother Bully when he kidnaps Sunny in the Bad ending.

One Piece

• Captive (AbyssCronica): Heat quickly develops this toward Birdie. Booka follows not much later.

''The Owl House

• In There's No One Like You, Luz Noceca and Amity Blight's older sisters Lucia and Amelia certainly have this for their younger siblings. Lucia supports Luz in getting through her trauma from Camp Reality Check and, in the past, joined a gang to help provide for the family. Amelia is investigating the mysterious "business trips" that Odalia Blight takes her on, eventually uncovering Odalia's sexual abuse of Amity.

Persona Franchise

• Hours 'Verse: Yu cares for Nanako a lot, and when she gets thrown into the TV World he does everything he can to rescue her, leading to him overworking his teammates and having to be physically dragged away and lectured by Minato.

The Phantom of the Opera

• Erik in Tenebris Lux is very protective of his adopted younger brother Luc, and is willing to do anything to keep him safe and happy. Luc, for his part, has a raging little brother instinct — so much as look at his beloved older brother wrong and be prepared to duck the sword being swung at your head.

Phineas and Ferb

• In the oneshot Protection, Candace attacks a man who had snatched up Phineas. (That being said, she needn't have worried: the man in question was Doofenshmirtz and he didn't want Phineas stepping into a trap that was meant for Perry.)

Pokémon

• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
  • Iris is portrayed this way towards Axew, whom she considers a little brother. She's more than ready to beat the snot out of anybody who causes him harm in any way.
  • The three older Eevee Brothers, while veering a little into Knight Templar Big Brother territory, are very concerned with the well-being of their younger brother Mikey, and genuinely want him to succeed as a trainer and be happy.
• Sylvia the Sylveon:
  • Moondancer, one of Sylvia's brothers, is this to Sylvia before he leaves and during both of their reunions.
  • After Sylvia nearly dies of hunger, her brother Bolt gives her the food she needs, then allows her to stay with him and his family forever, although she only stays for a week due to wanting to return home before deciding what to do.
  • In an inverted case, Sylvia fits this trope when she saves Alseides and Konoha from being beaten up by their trainers.

Pretty Cure

• In Twinkling in the Dark, Nao snaps out of her Bad Energy daze when Akaoni begins to threaten her baby sister Yui.

Professor Layton

• Bonds Left Unbroken: Desmond is fiercely protective of Hershel, especially concerning Targent.
• In Professor Layton and the Mystery of Stone, Luke's dynamic with Flora is flipped around, with her being the one worrying over his safety (being furious that Luke's being bullied at his new school in America and being willing to pay any price if the villain of the story will stop hurting Luke, for example). Interestingly, the story also features Clive in his Fanon role as protective older brother figure to both Flora and Luke, even being willing to strangle the villain of the story when they hold Luke hostage and only backing off because they pull out a knife.

Rise of the Guardians

• In the story Guardian of Light, the main character, Helen, is this to her two younger siblings, Jamie and Sophie. This quote from the third chapter pretty much sums up how protective she is of them:
  Jamie: "She's our sister! And she'll kick your butt if you go near us! One time, when I was getting picked on by some bullies, she tore a plank of wood off the fence and chased them away with it!"
  Helen: "Jamie, we almost went two years without ever mentioning that."

RWBY

• Yang, of course, has this throughout Ruby and Nora. Though she knows Ruby can take care of herself, and puts all of her faith in her when Ruby is in a dangerous fight, if Ruby is held captive or threatened, the bad guys get hurt...badly.
• My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute!: Even when Ruby and Yang have been turned into half-Grimm monsters and brainwashed into being Salem's minions, Yang's care for her sister still isn't suppressed. She acts amicable around Ruby instead of scorning her for her ability to exude positivity, and she's violently pissed off that Jaune is seemingly ignoring Ruby's clear mating signals toward him, making it clear that he's going to either reciprocate Ruby's advances or let her down ASAP or she's going to have a problem with him.
• Weiss Reacts: Yang and Winter, towards Ruby and Weiss respectively. And the former has it towards Weiss as well. Just ask the poor Grimm who attempted to kill Weiss.
• White Sheep (RWBY):
  • Jaune is quite protective of his little sister Lavender. Lavender is well aware of this, and plays up her cuteness more than a little in order to get what she wants out of him. She does genuinely love him, she just doesn't see that as an impediment to manipulating him. When Team RYBN nearly kills her while she's in Grimm form, Jaune bursts through the wall in an Unstoppable Rage and nearly kills all of them.
  • Jaune's eldest sister, Sapphire, is extremely protective of all her siblings. Not only is she by far the strongest of them all, but she's far more interested in their safety than their wishes. She is perfectly willing to beat Jaune senseless and drag him back to the castle if that's what it takes.

Sanctuary

• The Sanctuary Telepath: John acts like this towards Janine, despite her being the older one by two years. Janine does the same with him and Helen, then there's James, who is older than all of them... It's basically a big mess of everyone being protective.

Scribblenauts

• The Boy with the Magic Notebook: Maxwell and Grue use this common attribute towards their own sisters to start trusting each other.

The Simpsons

• Bart Simpson: Attorney at Law: 17 years into the future, the Simpsons siblings are still close-knit and don't take kindly to those threatening them.
  • Maggie is the younger sister, but she doesn't appreciate Jessica gloating about sleeping with Bart.
  • Lisa is not happy with Bart having anything to do with Jessica Lovejoy and yanked Burns by the collar and yelled at him when he initially refused to make a life-saving blood donation to Bart.
  • Bart was not happy when Jeremy involved Maggie in his blackmailing scheme.

A Song of Ice and Fire

• Jon Snow in The Dragon's Cub is a Friend to All Children who is deeply protective of kids he acts as a big brother towards, but special mention goes to Joy Lannister. When he first meets her, she is only 2 name days (or years) old and crying because she's been left alone by her maid, so Jon proceeds to keep her company by playing with her until her maid returns, upon which he has her reassigned to a different job. And that's not even getting into what Jon did to help her after she got poisoned.
• Safe Anchorage:
  • Asha Greyjoy is very protective of Theon after his year of imprisonment and Cold-Blooded Torture.
  • Theon's desire to protect and care for Jeyne Poole is framed as familial. At one point he comforts her in a way Asha explicitly did to him.

South Park

• Like in canon, Kenny McCormick is incredibly protective of his little sister Karen in The Ballad Of Stoot And Argyle, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. This instinct becomes even stronger when Kenny thinks anyone might be interested in Karen romantically.
  Karen: My brother says the older boys are off-limits. They're not... he says none of them will be interested in relationships, per se.

Space Chickens In Space

• In Our New Sister the normally reserved and comforting Chickpea gets violent with two aliens who threatened to torture Chuck, her only younger brother.

Spyro the Dragon

• A female example in The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn is Cynder towards Ember. Ember is slightly younger than her, but is very childish and naive. Despite the fact Ember has her characteristic crush on Spyro (though in this case, it's due to being too socially naive to realize Cynder and Spyro are mates), Cynder ends up having this mentality towards her, even describing her as being like "an annoying little sister" at one point. This makes hurting Ember in front of Cynder will make her go berserk., which Cyros finds out the hard way when she performs a Break the Cutie on Ember and gets her kidnapped. Cynder reacts violently.

Star Wars

• In The Chaotic Three, while it’s never clearly stated if Rey is the youngest of the ‘Chaotic Three’, Poe and Finn are swiftly established as being so protective of her that both were prepared to shoot Yoda if he had caused Rey permanent harm.
• Han Solo in Between Flight and Longing towards Luke, who is critically ill from an unknown illness. He frequently checks in on Luke and worries as Luke's condition steadily worsens. After their ship is shot down, Han stands between Luke and Darth Vader to protect Luke, despite knowing he was fully outmatched by Vader.

Street Sharks

• Street Sharks Redux has all of the brothers fiercely protective of each other, but they're especially inclined to protect Slammu, the youngest. This is one of the reasons it's especially painful for them when he ends up Brainwashed and Crazy and they have to fight him.

Tangled

• Rapunzel and Varian in The Hide The Moon Saga are both fiercely protective of each other due to being raised together in captivity by Mother Gothel.

Tales Series

• In Tales of the Abyss What If? fic Reflections, Asch becomes this to Luke, from managing to get to Luke in an improbable amount of time after he gets warped to the other side of the world to when he locks Luke up and almost sacrifices himself at the Tower of Rem just so the other could survive.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

• Heroes in the Shadows:
  • While Raphael isn't their biological brother, he is still fiercely protective of his younger brothers.
  • Miwa develops an obsessive training regiment after Donatello gets kidnapped, worried sick over the idea of it happening to any of her other brothers.
• Shards of a Memory: While they annoy each other or fight fairly often, it's shown that Raph actually cares deeply for his brothers, and Shard helps him channel his aggressiveness into this trope.
• In The Ultimate Weapon, Leo, Raph, and Don's protectiveness of Mikey is taken up to eleven when they find out he's the Ultimate Weapon.

Tolkien's Legendarium

• Twins Elladan and Elrohir from The Lord of the Rings are often shown to be this towards their younger adopted brother Aragorn, as seen in fics like The Roots of Evil or Visions of Betrayal. They get infuriated if any harm comes to Aragorn and they are merciless to anyone who dares hurt their little brother.

Transformers

• In Riding a Sunset, it's quickly made clear that the older Autobots (especially Prime) are this trope for the younger Autobots, with Jazz in particular being protective of Bumblebee (and Charlie, once she becomes part of the group). Ironhide becomes a mentor figure for Hot Rod once the latter learns that 'Hide knew his parents.

Turning Red

• In Fragile; Handle with Care, all of the 4*Town boys are shown to be protective over Tae-young, the baby of the band; Jesse most of all, even referring to Tae as a brother in the second chapter.

The Twilight Saga

• Roses in Winter establishes that Emmett has a tendency to do this, to the extent that he swiftly declares himself to be Angela's brother when he realises that she has an abusive home life.

World of Warcraft

• An odd goblin example of this trope (though with the sister being the protective one) can be found in Travels Through Azeroth and Outland.

X-Men

• In Stars from Home, Scott is immediately protective of Alex and has been this way since childhood, and Alex eventually becomes the same way about Scott. Each considers himself the older brother. They both behave this way towards Ororo.
  • They're all protective from exterior threats, but consider each other fair game. Especially Alex and Scott.

Young Justice (2010)

• In Of Monsters and Men, 13-year-old Robin (aka Dick Grayson) is nearly raped by a human trafficker while Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Speedy are tied up hand and foot unable to do anything other than listening helplessly in utter fury. When Dick gets frightened enough to start screaming in fear, Wally manages to literally vibrate his molecules through his restraints, Flash Step to Robin, rip the would-be rapist off him, subject the perp to a Groin Attack, and get his friend the hell out of dodge. Robin is the youngest of his friends and all three of them, especially Wally, are very protective of him.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

• In Chaos Effect Self Insert Edwin Chaos tries VERY hard not to alter canon, understanding this could lead to the end of the world. He lasts until the second chapter after he and Mako save Yugi and Joey from drowning after Weevil threw the Exodia cards into the sea. Edwin storms towards Weevil, every duelist parting to let him pass, then grabs Weevil and threatens to toss HIM overboard unless he gives Yugi and Co his room key.
  • Edwin's second attempt to just let canon happen dies a swift death when he sees Kemo grabbing Mokuba. Edwin goes full Papa Wolf on Kemo. The end result is Mokuba is never recaptured by Pegasus, with Edwin now acting as his guardian and protector, and swearing to burn Duelist Kingdom to the ground for everything that happened.
  • During the Shadow Game between Yami and the Spirit of the Ring Edwin refuses to let Joey send himself to the card graveyard, even though he knows Joey will be fine. Instead he decides to challenge the series' Big Bad purely to protect Yugi and his friends.

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