History Main / SiblingSenioritySquabble

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* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', ''The Horse and His Boy''. King Loon explains that Prince Cor, rather than his twin brother Prince Corin is first in line to succession, because he's the elder by 20 minutes. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] because Corin is quite happy about this while Cor is not.

* ''DragonQuestVIII'': Twins Cash and Carrie try to use this on each other. The problem is, since they were both adopted, neither knows who the older sibling is.

* Scooter and his sister Skeeter arguing above, over who gets filmed by a camera the kids are playing with in ''MuppetBabies''.

* In ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', Blossom always takes charges and generally acts older than her sisters, Buttercup has typically the behaviour of the somewhat overlooked middle-child, and Bubbles acts like the baby of the three. In spite of the fact that there is no age-gap between them at all.

* A rather curious example with the Soda Poppers from Telltale's ''SamAndMax'' games. Whizzer is mad at Peepers for forgetting his birthday in one episode...even though the brothers are triplets and should theoretically have the same birthday (They don't, actually. Whizzer and Specs are 35...Peepers is 3''4''. It was a looooooooooooooong labor).

* Liza and Tate from the ''{{Pokemon}}'' anime have this dynamic, with Tate suffering a bit of an inferiority complex considering how Liza holds her seniority (and the fact that she continuously pummels him in battles) over him.

* ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' "The Malicious Mr. Mind!" Mary Marvel argues that Billy Batson is only older than her in superhero form, otherwise she's older than him by three seconds.

* Widget and Sludge in the ''AstroBoy'' film.

* In '''''ThePowerpuffGirls''''', Blossom always takes charges and generally acts older than her sisters, Buttercup has typically the behaviour of the somewhat overlooked middle-child, and Bubbles acts like the baby of the three. In spite of the fact that there is no age-gap between them at all.

* Dante and Vergil in ''DevilMayCry''. Vergil is the slightly older twin brother, and acts like it (AloofOlderBrother).

* Vash and Knives' screwed-up relationship in {{Trigun}} contains shades of this. Since no one was actually watching when they were born and their mother couldn't talk even if she hadn't apparently suffered DeathByChildbirth, they don't know who's older. They're also theoretically speaking English, even though they're actually speaking Japanese, and since the normal words for brother require knowledge of birth order use the vague and slightly standoffish term 'kyoudai,' or 'sibling' most of the time. Knives appears to have appointed himself older in a lot of their interactions, but when they were kids this role (in the manga) very slightly defaulted to Vash, and he has the responsibility to 'take care of Knives.'
** Their arguments about whether to kill off the human race etc. all boil down partly to a debate about which twin has more authority over the other. Being psychotic and incapable of self-doubt has given Knives [[KnightTemplarBigBrother the more forceful personality]], but Vash is at bottom tougher. It never actually is settled; [[spoiler: even after Vash wins the clash of philosophies and Knives accepts his loss, he takes up a 'watching over you' role while he waits to die that [[BigBrotherInstinct suits an elder brother better]].

* In ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the Numbers cyborgs type numbers do not represent their actual birth order; Sette (Type VII), is the youngest of them, while Dieci (Type X) is older than several others. As a result, Quattro (Type IV) is annoyed that Cinque (Type V) being technically older due to being born first, and refers to her as she would a younger sibling. In Sound Stage X and ViVid, [[spoiler:Nove]] is somewhat unwilling to accept that she's [[spoiler:Subaru's]] ''younger'' sister after her adoption.

* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', ''The Horse and His Boy''. King Loon explains that Prince Cor, rather than his twin brother Prince Corin is first in line to succession, because he's the elder by 20 minutes.

* In MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, the Numbers cyborgs type numbers do not represent their actual birth order; Sette (Type VII), is the youngest of them, while Dieci (Type X) is older than several others. As a result, Quattro (Type IV) is annoyed that Cinque (Type V) being technically older due to being born first, and refers to her as she would a younger sibling. In Sound Stage X and ViVid, [[spoiler:Nove]] is somewhat unwilling to accept that she's [[spoiler:Subaru's]] ''younger'' sister after her adoption.

* In ''NoMoreHeroes'', we find out that [[spoiler:Travis and Henry]], however, it is not discussed until the sequel (in an overly long answering machine message) that [[spoiler:Henry]] is supposedly the older twin, something [[spoiler:Travis]] is quick to make a snarky remark on:

* A rather curious example with the Soda Poppers from Telltale's SamAndMax games. Whizzer is mad at Peepers for forgetting his birthday in one episode...even though the brothers are triplets and should theoretically have the same birthday (They don't, actually. Whizzer and Specs are 35...Peepers is 3''4''. It was a looooooooooooooong labor).

* Hank Venture mentioned that he and Dean were about 4 minutes apart in ''VentureBrothers''.
** Of course, how true this is is debatable, since they're clones and may well have been activated at exactly the same time.

* ''DragonTales'' took this to the extreme, with one head of a two-headed dragon popping out of the egg seconds before the other.
** It was minutes. Wheezie is five minutes older than Zak.

* Variant: the French musical ''Les Demoiselles de Rochefort'' has the younger twin calling the other "old girl", leading the other to reply:
-->'''Solange:''' Just because I was born fifteen minutes earlier doesn't mean you can call me "old girl"!
* The seniority of rank example also occurs in the 1964 film ''Zulu'', between Lieutenant Chard and Lieutenant Bromhead. This [[WildMassGuessing might have been]] the origin for the ''[[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' example.
* Variation: A deleted scene from ''BoondockSaints'' includes the main characters trying to get their mother to tell them which of them is older, presumably so they will then be able to use this trope. Eventually she tells them, "The one with the bigger dick!"

* Despite being twins, Unsui of {{Eyeshield 21}} is referred to as the "elder brother" quite often. Of course, it's partially because he acts the part, often taking responsibility for his "younger brother's" actions, despite the fact that they're the same age. Agon could be seen as an extreme (and violent) version of the {{bratty younger sibling}} trope.

A [[TwinTropes Twin Trope]] in which the twins will be arguing about something and Twin A will attempt to give their side leverage by saying that he/she is oldest, which will cause Twin B to retort "Yeah, by five minutes" and therefore defuse such an argument.

* Despite being twins, Unsui is referred to as the "elder brother" quite often. Of course, it's partially because he acts the part, often taking responsibility for his "younger brother's" actions, despite the fact that they're the same age. Agon could be seen as an extreme (and violent) version of the {{bratty younger sibling}} trope.

* Despite being twins, Unsui is constantly referred to as the "elder brother" quite often. Of course, it's partially because he acts the part, often taking responsibility for his "younger brother's" actions, despite the fact that they're the same age.

** Neither of the above two are petty sibling arguments at all: under primogeniture, the firstborn gets the inheritance. And really, whether it's 20 minutes or 20 years is irrelevant, as there's still no dispute that one was born first.

* Widget and Sludge in the AstroBoy film.

* In ''NoMoreHeroes'', we find out that [[spoiler:Travis and Henry]], however, it is not discussed until the sequel (in an overly long answering machine message) that [[spoiler:Henry]] is supposedly the older twin, something [[spoiler:Travis]] is quick to make a snarky remark on.
* "DragonQuestVIII": Twins Cash and Carrie try to use this on each other. The problem is, since they were both adopted, neither knows who the older sibling is.

* Come on now... if you grew up with twins as siblings, they probably did this at least once. And wasn't it stupid and annoying?
** This younger (fraternal) twin troper and her sister invoke the 7-minute difference not to win fights, but to [[JustifiedTrope justify]] how they both fit into "youngest sibling" and "middle child" roles, respectively. They also use it to point out why they call each other their younger/older sister, especially in foreign languages.
* Heavily averted by this (elder) twin. Everyone ''else'' always asks which one is older when they squabble, and she has yet to figure out why. (Age seems to make a lot less difference than size and/or aggression.)
* This troper had a ''classmate'' who would do it. Even though he was only older than the rest of the class because he was ''held back'' a grade.
* I'm a twin. My twin sister was yanked out a minute before I was. "It's only a minute..."

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