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#4: Dec 31st 2023 at 4:21:50 AM
The trope isn't just about dutiful sons or daughters though. It's about the the conflict between a dutiful offspring who stays to look after their parents and one who doesn't (often because they have some sort of other responsibility like being a superhero or involved with something else like the military or a hidden magical destiny that the other sibling may not even know about).
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#11: Jan 5th 2024 at 8:20:26 PM
Yeah, it's 1.1 for me. I wanted to try to find something for the Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Gospel of Luke, but there wasn't anything that made it obvious who the Dutiful Son was.
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Multiple images were suggested on the main thread
1.1. from Green Lantern
1.2. from The Sopranos
But I have a suggestion of my own
1.3. from Ramayana (It's Sravana Kumar, a young man and doting son who King Dritharasthra - father of our protagonist - accidentally killed while on a hunting trip. His parents cursed him, his punishment being that he too would lose his own son - The king is later arm-twisted into banishing Prince Rama (leading to the events of the story), and dies of grief before he can return home)
Edited by Paperfly on Dec 31st 2023 at 12:18:22 PM
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