Basic Trope: A character's younger sibling is annoying.
- Straight: Alice's little brother, Tommy, steals all her toys, reads through her diary, and embarasses her in front of her boyfriends and friends.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's little brother is pure evil, playing cruel pranks, destroying Alice's property, getting her in trouble with their parents for crimes she did not commit, and harming all of Alice's closest friends. As such, both have become Cain and Abel characters in which Alice considers Tommy a threat.
- Tommy is The Evil Prince.
- Downplayed: Alice's little brother teases Alice at times, but get along most of the time.
- Justified:
- Tormenting Alice is Tommy's way of being a part in her life.
- Tommy was jealous of Alice for having the most attention and belongings and decided to start stealing from her.
- Tommy receives TON of attention and needs from his parents in the way too much more than Alice. He never learns how to be respectful toward other people, including his older sister.
- Inverted:
- Aloof Big Brother
- Big Brother Bully
- Tommy's older sister, Alice always does mean things to Tommy.
- Tommy's older sister Alice doesn't exactly bully him in a malicious way, but rather annoys him much like a small child would.
- Annoying Older Sibling: Tommy's older sister, Alice, embarasses him in front of his friends, posts baby photos of him and treats him like a baby in public.
- Tommy is basically the sweetest kid to whom Alice had the pleasure of being an older sister, and Alice instantly develops a Big Sister Instinct towards the little boy.
- Subverted:
- Tommy acts annoying towards Alice, but it turns out, she finds Tommy's antics amusing and not the least bit annoying.
- Alice turns out to be a Big Sister Bully who Tommy is rightfully frustrated with.
- Double Subverted:
- Until Tommy goes a little too far, then Alice murders Tommy for good measure.
- Tommy may think Alice is a bully, except her "bullying" is yelling at him after he steals and destroys her posesiones unprovoked.
- Parodied:
- Tommy is the Big Bad, and his crimes include putting Alice's diary on the internet, releasing spiders into her bed, and telling on her to her parents.
- Tommy acts like this even though he is older than Alice.
- Zig Zagged:
- Each moment of Tommy's antics ranges differently from being well-intended to outright annoying.
- As a child, Tommy annoyed his big sister Alice. As they grew up, Tommy grows into the more mature one, getting a well paying job. Being rich however causing Tommy's ego to swell and he soon loses his job. As such moves back into Alice's house, quickly becoming The Thing That Would Not Leave.
- Averted: Tommy and Alice get along great and don't annoy each other at all.
- Enforced: "Tommy is Alice's little brother. Fans will expect him to be obnoxious."
- Lampshaded: "Do you really have to bug me all the time just because I was born before you?"
- Invoked: Tommy only acts annoying because he knows its his role as Alice's younger brother.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Tommy acts mature and respectful to Alice, because he believes it's common manners to be polite to your older siblings.
- Discussed: "Tommy, you are so annoying!"
- Conversed: "I'm glad I don't have a brother like Tommy."
- Deconstructed: Alice's irritation toward's Tommy antics only pushes the wedge between them even further. Only when the two are older does Alice realize that she pushed a little too far.
- Played For Drama: Alice's younger brother, Tommy, is The Sociopath who seeks harm to anyone he wishes, and he caused tons of shameful crimes that turned him into Lower-Class Lout and caused some Psychological Horror on his older sister. By the time she found him, it's From Bad to Worse...
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