Basic Trope: Characters knowing skills not typical of their gender is ascribed to growing up with siblings of the opposite sex.
- Straight:
- Kathy knows martial arts because she has two older brothers who taught her.
- Ken says he knows so much about fashion because he grew up with three sisters.
- Exaggerated: ???
- Downplayed: Being raised with two older brothers gives Kathy a slight advantage in taekwondo class, but everyone else is able to catch up to her.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Tomboy Kathy says her two older brothers...taught her how to cook. She got her martial arts from her mom.
- Double Subverted: Tomboy Kathy says her two older brothers taught her how to cook, but they also taught her martial arts. The mom taught her martial arts, but she also taught her how to cook.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Kathy and Ken came by their respective skills another way.
- Neither Kathy nor Ken grew up with any siblings.
- Enforced: The producers want to stunt cast a famous martial artist/fashion personality, so they are written in as Kathy's/Ken's sibling who taught them the ropes.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Secret agent Kathy is undercover as a Tomboy Princess; when asked why such a feminine figure would require martial arts training, she quickly lies and says that the princess' older brothers taught her.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Kathy and Ken scoff at the notion that they needed external sibling influence to like something outside of their assigned gender roles. Kathy was interested because of martial arts films, and Ken was interested because of fashion magazines.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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