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{{trope}}
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▲[[File:rsz_rsz_pb_gata_h_kei_22_1902.jpg|link=B Gata H Kei|frame|She just can't resist.]]
{{quote|''"You gave up everything to find me. You found me broken."''
My big brother is the best and I refuse to believe he has any flaws.
Or the same applied to a big sister. Sometimes a younger sibling just adores their elder brother or sister. And it makes sense. After all they are more mature, and usually physically taller too, and able to do a lot of cool things like adults, but are also closer to your age and willing to do fun things with you and play with you. They [[Big Brother Instinct|protect you too]]. Why wouldn't you just agree with everything they tell you? Often will also happen when said older sibling [[Promotion to Parent|takes the place of the parent.]]
Most commonly occurs with siblings of the same gender, but it can happen the other way around too.
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Compare with [[Big Brother Attraction]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' has Sara, who idolizes her older brother Ralph and joins the military to see him. By the end of the first episode, he's [[Face Heel Turn|gone evil]] and killed her friends, and she has to come to terms with her [[Big Brother Attraction]] before she can defeat him. {{spoiler|The same goes for the living Emily, in some respects Ralph's replacement sister, who ends up choosing Sara over her "onii-chan" when she sees what he has done}}.
* Played straight (in a non-romantic sense) in ''[[
** And in the manga version, Alyssa displays Big Sister Worship towards Natsuki, desperately wanting her attention from basically the moment they meet. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|her Mother Complex is even bigger, and when Natsuki turns on their shared mom, Alyssa goes ''berserk''}}.
** Taken even further in the ''[[Mai-Otome (
* Asami from ''[[High School Debut]]'' has a huge [[Big Brother Attraction]] to her brother Yoh that really becomes apparent in the last few chapters. She says he's her ideal guy and tells his girlfriend she loves him more and actually cries when it's pointed out she can't be his girlfriend because she's his sister. She does all of this despite having a boyfriend (who she started going out with because her brother wasn't paying enough attention to her).
* ''[[
* Ren Uesugi, from ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'', thinks his sister Mihato is the best there is.
* In the [[Ouran High School Host Club]] manga, this trope is played straight with Satoshi Morinozuka's adoration of his older brother Takashi.
* [[Death Note
* Hikari in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', to the point that she nearly dies ''twice'' not wanting to make Taichi worry about her.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Mokuba has a ''serious'' case of hero worship over his older brother [[Big Brother Instinct|Se]][[Jerk
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', [[Ill Girl|Nunnally Lamperouge]] seems to hold this opinion in regards to her ''Onii-sama'' [[My Hero Zero|Lelouch]], who was [[Promotion to Parent|her only family after being attacked and exiled]]. She does '''not''' take it well when she discovers his role in the Rebellion and what he did (initially) in her name. Notable in that he also holds her on a sort of pedestal, along with his mother, and seems to regain his former status in her heart {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit|in the most tragic way possible]]}}.
* [[Token
* [[Hatsukoi Limited]], being something that explores all kinds of [[Brother-Sister Incest|first loves]] does this with Koyoi Bessho, so much so that her brother Yoshihiko is literally a [[The Glomp|glomp]] on site target.
* Even if he gets [[Dope Slap|punched in the head]] as many as [[Rule of Three|three times]], and gets scared of her, [[Infinite Stratos|Ichika]] highly respects his big sister Chifuyu. Fanon plays this up with [[Incest Subtext]].
** The manga takes it a step further, and puts subtle hints and "arbitrary" blushing (for Chifuyu), here and there.
* [[Naruto Uchiha|Sasuke]] and Itachi had this relationship until Itachi killed the entire Uchiha Clan. {{spoiler|After Sasuke killed Itachi Madara revealed that Itachi loved Sasuke more than everything and why the clan was killed, Sasuke turned to Post-mortem
* Alphonse Elric from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' '''IS''' this trope.
** It must depend on the series. The Alphonse I know may love his brother, he's his brother after all. But readily admits he has faults and outright says he is taller than Ed and a better fighter.
* Elsie of ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' is mocked in-universe for this.
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'': Due to their conditioning, the titular girls are very focused on their grownup "handlers" - who all happen to be male. On occasion this even turns into a form of puppy love, with the difference that [[Small Girl, Big Gun|the "puppies" know how to handle dangerous weapons]]... And, in the case of {{spoiler|Elsa}}, blow your brains out as well as theirs in a murder/suicide if you [[Woman Scorned|ignore them too much]].
== [[Film]] ==
* Taken to a very disturbing level in ''[[The House of Yes]]''.
== [[Live
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'': River Tam
** There is an inversion at the beginning when Simon essentially makes a [[Badass Boast]] about how smart ''he'' is, then says "She makes me look like an idiot child".
** In ''The River Tam Sessions'', we see River being interviewed by someone at the Academy before all the brain-cutting starts, and they talk about how her brother's studying to be a surgeon. With utter fondness and affection, River smiles and says "Simon's a genius. I could never do what he does." Coming from a girl to whom everything from dancing to painting to theoretical science comes as easy as breathing, that's saying something. The Academy official's reply to that is "Actually, I believe that if you put your mind to it, you could do whatever you wanted."
* On ''[[Malcolm in
* In ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'' Miu does this. She even refers to Hiroto as "the shiniest Ani in the world". (This might very well be true; he certainly has one of the shiniest suits in the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series thus far.)
* The classic kid's boasting song about ''My great big brother Sylvest, with a row of forty medals on his chest''.▼
** Thankfully, most modern performances no longer include the [[Unfortunate Implications|line]] "He killed a thousand injuns in the west".▼
* There is another one about "My cousin Joe" with the [[Twist Ending]] that Joe is a girl.▼
== [[Theater]] ==
* Electra adores and idolizes Orestes in ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ventus in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' has a massive case of this going on for [[Team Dad]]/[[Big Brother Mentor]] [[Anti-Hero|Terra]]. Edges into tragic as it blinds Ven to the fact Terra is starting to fall to the Darkness. {{spoiler|Eventually Terra ends up slipping into [[Knight Templar Big Brother]] territory.}}
* In ''[[Fatal Frame]]'', Miku's primary motivation for entering the [[Haunted Mansion]] is due to the bond she has with her older brother Mafuyu, who is the latest to disappear into the old house.
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* Emilia of ''[[Yggdra Union]]'' feels this way towards her big brother Gulcasa; ''[[Blaze Union]]'' goes to show that she'd already started to adore him like this before they knew that they were related. (Granted, this may just be because Gulcasa is [[The Paragon|Gulcasa]].) In one of the alternate routes of ''[[Blaze Union]]'', Yggdra manages to develop a complex over her [[Long-Lost Relative]] {{spoiler|Aegina}} in record time.
* Bethany of [[Dragon Age II]] starts off the game with her [[Relationship Values|relationship meter]] heavily tilted to "friendship" to her older sibling Hawke. Her Codex entry states that she nearly idolizes her eldest sibling either for their skill with magic or protective attitude towards her.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Dave from ''[[
* Both second Prince Gideon of the Empire of Soleil and Montan de Alvere from the [[Reincarnation Fantasy|Isekai]] web novel ''[[Tori Transmigrated]]'' by "Aila Aurie" are blatant in their worship of their older brothers, First Prince Piers and his personal knight Sir Axton Alvere respectively. At one point main character Tori even refers to Gideon in her private thoughts as a "bro-con".
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Strange case in ''[[
* [[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan|Scooter Chan]] has this for his brother Flip; Flip is the only one he'll take orders from and he's constantly trying to emulate him.
* Apple Bloom and and Sweetie Belle adore their big sisters in ''[[My Little Pony:
** As revealed in the season 2 finale, Twilight Sparkle had this attitude towards her brother Shining Armor; she admits that when they were growing up, he was pretty much her only friend, and she's worried about them growing apart.
▲== Song ==
▲* The classic kid's boasting song about ''My great big brother Sylvest, with a row of forty medals on his chest''.
▲** Thankfully, most modern performances no longer include the [[Unfortunate Implications|line]] "He killed a thousand injuns in the west".
▲* There is another one about "My cousin Joe" with the [[Twist Ending]] that Joe is a girl.
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[[Category:Sibling Tropes]]
[[Category:Admiration Tropes]]
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