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If the hero isn't aware of the relation until late in the series, it's also a Luke, I Am Your Father. Sometimes the siblings will become The Only One Allowed to Defeat You. Of course, this would partially also depend on the sibling's attitude in all this. In cases where the Cain turns out to be The Un-Favourite, he's likely to be viewed from a more sympathetic angle. Note that they are traditionally always of the same sex: brothers or sisters (though there are exceptions). It's not always siblings - Childhood Friends get to experience all the same woes from beating up someone they grew up with - but there's a certain poetry when they're actually related. The major exception is the case of The Evil Prince, who is usually the younger of two princes, and who will do anything to make sure he succeeds their father instead of his brother (or in the case of the prince being the king's brother, to take the throne for himself directly). And because the Aloof Big Brother always looks eviler. Probably because being younger and less experienced makes the younger sibling the underdog, whom we are supposed to root for. Commence the angst.įor whatever reason, the older sibling is almost always the villainous one. Whatever the case may be, now one's the hero and one's the villain, and they must do battle.
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Maybe one who Missed the Call gets overly jealous that the other has become The Chosen One, maybe grand powers or knighthood run in the family and one just happens to have been tempted to The Dark Side, maybe one of them betrayed their master or father and the other has to stop him, or maybe it's just Because Destiny Says So, dammit. Sometimes Sibling Rivalry can get a little intense.