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  • 101 Dalmatian Street: Unlike the original, in which most of the puppies weren't actually Pongo and Perdita's, Doug and Delilah really do have ninety-eight puppies (albeit from previous relationships, so only about half of that each), only eighteen of which have been clearly distinguished from the others.
  • The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan: Four girls note , six boys note . They also have a dog who's treated as an actual family member.
  • Ty Lee from Avatar: The Last Airbender had six sisters. The problem was that they were all nearly identical; Ty Lee ran away from home to avoid becoming part of a "matching set."
  • Bluey: In "Baby Race", a flashback shows that Bluey’s friend Coco is the youngest of nine children.
  • Classic Disney Shorts:
    • Casey Bats Again: Through six different pregnancies, Casey and his wife end up having a total of nine children (enough for an entire baseball team)—and their nine kids include one pair of twins and one set of triplets. But much to Casey's (at least initial) dismay, all nine of his kids are girls.
  • In Code Lyoko, Odd has five older sisters (Louise, Marie, Elizabeth, Pauline, and Adele).
  • According to his Action Figure File Card, the C.O.P.S. character Barricade credits his skill at riot control to growing up in a house with seven kids and only one bathroom.
  • The Cramp Twins: Tony Parson has three brothers and two sisters. Considering the Parsons are the last swamp people alive, being a large family saves them from extinction.
  • Lil-One from The Crumpets, who is the youngest child of the titular family, has 141 siblings including King, Ohoh, Caprice, Pfff, Ditzy, Triceps, Bother, Blister, Fynartz, and Grownboy.
  • On Daria, the Lanes just qualify with five kids (Summer, Wind (a boy), Penny, Trent and Jane). So far Summer is the only one known to have kids of her own, with four.
  • On Dragon Tales, Cassie, one of the main dragon characters, is noted to have a very large family with 72 brothers and sisters, though only three or four of them are seen outside of a brief appearance in a song number featured as an interstitial.
  • In Drawn Together, one Asian boy who's protesting Spanky's use of Ling-Ling to make shoes says it leaves him no way of making a living for his several dozen brothers and single sister.
  • Parodied on Family Guy; a deleted scene features with a Show Within a Show called Dodecatuplets.
  • Four Eyes!: In the episode "Mother's Day," Emma's mother reveals that Emma has a new 278th little brother, and that's only counting the younger brothers instead of a general number of siblings, be it elder or female.
  • The twelve kids from Futurama's Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium become this when they're all adopted by businessman Abner Doubledeal in "Yo Leela Leela".
  • On Gargoyles, a whole generation in each clan refers to each other as "rookery siblings," despite not necessarily being biologically related. Angela, for example, refers to having fifteen sisters.
  • In The Ghost and Molly McGee, Molly's dad Pete has nine older siblings; six brothers and three sisters.
  • Dade from Harvey Beaks have lots of siblings, being a rabbit and all.
  • Kaeloo:
    • Stumpy the squirrel's official bio says that he has 36 sisters. The fifth season show reveals that he actually only has seven, but that's still enough to qualify for this trope.
    • Exaggerated with Kaeloo's family. In one episode, she says that she has 134,667 siblings! The end of the episode suggests that she may have made it up, though it isn't clear whether or not she did.
  • In The Legend of Korra, Suyin Beifong has four sons and one daughter. Her unmarried, childless sister Lin mumbles that this sounds like a "nightmare." Meanwhile, Tenzin and Pema are just under this trope with two sons and two daughters.
    • When Mako and Bolin get lost in Ba Sing Sei, they wind up running into their father's extended family, which seems to be made up of dozens of people sharing one house. More a case of Massive Numbered Cousins, but it doesn't look like any of their relatives stopped at two or three kids.
  • Auriana from LoliRock has (at least) 32 sisters and at least one brother. However, that number may be more, since Auriana is shown evading capture at a young age, while a shot of her family in prison shows her mother with a baby and other girls much younger than Auriana.
  • The Loud House is about the misadventures of Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters. The siblings' early pitch version as Funny Animal rabbits (who were eventually seen in "White Hare") take it further with one brother and 25 sisters (they're rabbits, after all).
  • The Mighty B! — Gwen, right-hand girl and friend of the Alpha Bitch, Portia Gibbons, has five younger brothers.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • The Apple Family is enormous. Based on the number of cousins Applejack has, Granny Smith must've had at least ten foals. Alternatively, the Apple clan might be extending the meaning of "cousin" to include second and possibly even third cousins. Referring to distant cousins as just "cousin" isn't that unheard of in real life.
      Applejack: This here's Apple Fritter, Apple Bumpkin, Red Gala, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Caramel Apple, Apple Strudel, Apple Tart, Baked Apple, Apple Brioche, Apple Cinnamon Crisp... [stops and gasps for breath] ...Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom, aaaaaaaaand Granny Smith.
    • In "Top Bolt" the reason showoff Sky Stinger becomes so attached to Vapor Trail is that his large family — he had at least four sisters — left him starved for attention from his parents. Vapor Trail herself is an inversion of the trope; she was an only child of overly-doting parents who appreciated being with someone who would take attention off her.
  • Phineas and Ferb: Lawrence Fletcher's brother Adrian has six children. There are three boys named Beckham, two boys named Pele, and one girl named Eliza Beckham Fletcher. Just shows how much Adrian loves Association Football.
  • Dijonay from The Proud Family is the oldest of ten.
  • Samurai Jack:
    • The Daughters of Aku are identical septuplets.
    • By Season 5, the Scotsman has had at least 41 daughters with his wife, with named ones being Flora, Maeve, Isla, Bradana, Murdina, Alana, Oban, Ardbey, Fiona, Assie, Bonnie, Lorna, Mawina, Shona, Nora, Piesil, Shanath, Euspeth, Edme, Freya, Gilbartha, Gesha, Grizela, Innes, Dawntha, Cora, Davina, and Kina (he was going to name more before they were cut off). Oddly enough, they're all Amazonian Beauties, unlike their parents.
  • Silly Symphonies: In the 1933 cartoon The Night Before Christmas, the house that Santa Claus visits is home to nine children, all apparently close to the same age, and who all sleep in one big bed too.
  • The Simpsons:
    • Cletus Spuckler, the slack-jawed yokel, has many kids, who are a classic case of Aerith and Bob. The known named ones are:
      Gummy Sue, Tiffany, Andie, Gordon, Lizzie, Jackson, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jacob, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Rubella Scabies, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sasha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q*bert, Condoleezza Marie, Phil, Birthday, Crystal Meth, Dubya, Incest, International Harvester, Jitney, Witney, Mary WrestleMania, Carl, Stabbed In Jail Spuckler, and long-lost son Carl Durant.
    • Apu and his wife became parents of a set of octuplets. "Holidays of Future Past" shows that each of them had a set of octuplets.
  • Sofia the First:
    • Sven the seahorse relates to Oona with not wanting to be babied by Cora because Sven himself as 12 sisters. This becomes a Brick Joke in "The Floating Palace" when he calls his large family over to help rescue Oona, saying that he'll invite his cousins to the search party later.
    • Winter the faun has seven brothers and three sisters.
  • Ripple from Splash and Bubbles is a seahorse with 499 brothers, all of whom are referred to by their numbers.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants Plankton is shown to have lots of cousins, possibly millions of them. The catch is they're all hillbillies.
  • Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
    • Flying Princess Pony Head has twelve younger sisters: Azniss, Angel, Khrysthalle, Jan-Jan, Pamanda, Shonda and Shinda, Hornanne, Teta, Chezna, Whistine, and Prances. Their father was trying for a male heir, but eventually gave up.
    • Ludo is one of fifty children, and claims that he was neglected as a result. The fact that he usurped the family castle has cemented his place as The Unfavorite, though he at least has a positive relationship with one brother, Dennis. Then we find out at least 12 of them still like him.
  • Steven Universe: Due to all being "made" by the same Diamond, Amethyst has many Quartz "sisters" in the form of the Famethyst.
  • Being a rabbit, Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures has dozens of younger brothers and sisters, only one of whom has his name revealed (Mortimer). Averted with Buster, however, whose family is never seen. In Tiny Toons Looniversity, Babs and Buster are now twin siblings and as a result, share the same mother. It is revealed in "Souffle, Girl Hey", where they have a video call from her that they have 86 other brothers and sisters.
  • The titular party from Toad Patrol consists of eight close-knit siblings.
  • Total Drama:
    • Noah from is the youngest of nine siblings, according to his online bio.
    • Rodney from Pahkitew Island mentions having five younger brothers, though his online bio mentions seven brothers (maybe two are older than him?).
  • Rafael Esquivel from Transformers: Prime claims to Ratchet he has a very large family in which he often feels lost. A fuzzy cellphone photo reveals that, even linking two as the parents, he has about five other siblings, all older than him.
  • On Ugly Americans, Grimes has fifteen daughters and, to his displeasure, no sons.
  • Wanda from Wanda and the Alien has twelve siblings. Justified seeing as they are, well, rabbits.
  • Lor of The Weekenders has so many brothers that even she loses track of the exact number ("You can't count them! They keep moving around!"); however, she doesn't have a single sister. To make things worse, their parents seem to have eventually run out of names, since in one episode she mentions that two of her brothers are both named Danny.
  • Wheel Squad: Akim and his several siblings.
  • Raimundo from Xiaolin Showdown mentions in one episode that he's one of eight siblings and has lots of relatives.
  • Young Justice (2010): Miss Martian mentions having 11 sisters, and, according to Word of God, 17 brothers and around 300 cousins. Her uncle J'onn states in Season 4 that such large families are the norm for Martians.

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