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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]]/[[Manhwa]] ==

* A ''[[Naruto]]'' mission used this trope, where a country's princess took her assassinated brother's place to keep the assassination secret.

** The entirety of the {{spoiler|Sasuke/Itachi}} conflict in was caused by this trope. {{spoiler|Everything Sasuke went through up until Itachi's death was his brother's doing, so that after Sasuke killed him Sasuke would fulfill Itachi's objective.}}

* Creepily and cruelly played with in ''[[Sakura Gari]]''. {{spoiler|As a child, young Youya Saiki saw how his half-brother Souma was forced by his evil tutor Katsuragi into murdering Youya's mother Sakurako, as revenge for her abusing and raping Souma. Poor Youya fell into insanity, took up his mother's name and started calling himself Sakurako, wearing his mom's kimonos and tricking everyone outside the family into believing he was a girl. He ended up locked in an old warehouse for nine years, then only got out when a fire broke in.}}

* Subverted in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' with {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy; when he becomes the second Lockon Stratos, he deliberately acts like a lech towards Feldt and a [[Brilliant but Lazy]] jerk to everyone else to make it clear that he is ''not'' the same as his deceased twin older brother Neil, the original Lockon.}}

* A textbook example in the hentai comic ''Secret Plot Deep'', Imada's sister died in a car crash, which devastated his parents. After a few weeks, they convinced themselves that Imada was his sister, and that Imada had been the one to die. Imada began dressing as his sister at that point because to not would deepen his parent's misery (and because his parents had thrown out all of his clothes).

* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', this is part of the reason {{spoiler|Fai}} is so messed up. [[Eye Scream|As]] [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|well]] [[Deus Angst Machina|as]] [[Angsty Surviving Twin|other]] [[Stepford Smiler|things]].

* The real reason {{spoiler|Ringo Oginome}} from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'' is so obsessed {{spoiler|with the teacher Keiju Tabuki}}, because {{spoiler|her sister Momoka died the same day Ringo was born, and her death tore the Oginome family apart; young Ringo then started to aim to "become Momoka" in a heartfelt yet misguided attempt to bring her parents back together. Tabuki is also the person who taught Ringo about "destiny" as well as what Momoka meant to him and the Oginomes, so she started to follow the instructions written in Momoka's diary to further her "transformation" into her dead older sister.}}

* In the [[Magic Knight Rayearth]] anime, {{spoiler|Sierra}} does this for her sister, {{spoiler|Presea}}.

* A variant is invoked in ''[[Black Jack]]''. When the son of the head of a major corporation is killed in a fire, the father forces his last living child to pose as said son (if his son, and only his son, doesn't inherit the company, it will be absorbed by a rival company). The trouble is, said last living child is a girl (albeit one who looks uncannily like the dead son), and the poor girl is pressured into agreeing to a sex-change operation and identity switch. {{spoiler|It turns out that the son is still alive, but was hiding because he didn't want to be his father's pawn. He helps his sister until their father dies, at which point Black Jack (the surgeon hired to do the sex-change operation) reveals that he never actually performed the operation. He just hypnotized the daughter into ''thinking'' she'd been turned into a boy. Erm...yeah.}}

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Inverted, then played straight in the DCU by the Crimson Fox.

** Played straight: When Vivian was actually killed in action, Constance assumed both roles.

* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' has a brief example; when Lightning Lad was killed, his previously unmentioned twin sister with the same powers showed up at Legion headquarters and pretended to be her brother, back from the dead, until the deception was exposed and she joined the Legion under her own identity. Exactly why she thought this was a good idea was not very clear.

* ''[[Tootsie]]'': Michael Dorsey (as Dorothy Michaels) reveals to his castmates that he is actually his character's twin-brother out to honor his sister's memory.

* ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'': Turns out {{spoiler|Sid only wanted to be a naval officer to live for his brother who died in Vietnam.}}

* The Masked Bandit in ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'' indirectly does this by adopting the mask of his dead brother, the Blue Bandit.

* ''[[The House of Yes]]'' has a dark example. {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy]] Jackie kills her brother Marty and implies that he'll live through her.}}

* ''[[Wind on Fire]]'' in ''Firesong'' when {{spoiler|Kestrel}} dies and {{spoiler|Bowman}} is still seeing her in his head 8 years later, living the life she would want.

** Furthermore {{spoiler|Kestrel}} bids little sister Pinto to {{spoiler|love Mumpo for both of them. Pinto already loves Mumpo, but he has always been in love with Kestrel. In the [[Distant Epilogue]] Mumpo and Pinto are betrothed}}

* Played rather literally in ''The Constant Princess'' by Philippa Gregory, in which Prince Arthur, on his deathbed, made his wife Katherine of Aragon promise to marry [[Henry VIII|his brother]] and have their children and become queen. [[Hollywood History|May or may not have actually happened this way.]]

* This is the premise of a series of [[V. C. Andrews]] novels. The main character Celeste has a brother named Noble, who is the favorite of her New Agey, spirit-obsessed mother. When Noble drowns to death, the mom forces Celeste to dress like and act like Noble, in the hopes of having Noble's spirit live on through her. She even dresses up Noble's corpse like Celeste and tells the whole town that it was Celeste who died, not Noble. Needless to say, the whole thing comes off as [[Nightmare Fuel|downright creepy]]

* In the ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'' books, would-be [[Non-Action Guy]] Neal starts training for his knighthood at fifteen (a late age) because his older brothers have all died, and his family/house is a pillar of the kingdom that's supposed to always have at least one knight serving the crown.

* The [[Wheel of Time]] has Vandene, who starts wearing the clothes that used to belong to her sister Adealas after Adealas is murdered.

* Author [[Peter Pan|James M. Barrie]] was one of ten children. His older brother David was their mother's favorite, and after David was killed in a skating accident, six-year-old James began trying to ease his mother's grief by taking on David's mannerisms and dressing in his clothes.

** That explains...so much.

* [[Peter Sellers]] had an older, deceased brother named Peter. Which is what his parents always called him. Eventually the boy molded himself after his dead brother, and Sellers's infamous lack of a true identity began to rear its head.

* After [[Katharine Hepburn]] found her older brother dead of an apparent suicide (Miss Hepburn always maintained it was an accident), she swore, "I pledged to Tom and myself that he would live in my heart and mind as long as I lived . . . The real date of his death would not be until the day I died." She told people that his birthday was her own for years.

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