A side effect of Parental Abandonment that occurs when the trope applies to siblings. The first born takes over the role of parent—enforcing the rules, setting curfews, delivering lectures, and bringing home the paycheck. They may be doing the parents' job, but they are still a brother or sister to everyone else, and will probably get into conflict with their siblings over how much power they should have and how much respect they deserve, depending on the ages of the younger ones, and the status of the original parents (i.e. missing/dead/villains...). The parents may have even specifically asked their eldest child to Take Care of the Kids.
Fan Casting
Tom Oakley (Goodnight Mister Tom)
Nani Pelekai
Violet Baudelaire
Nellie O'Malley
Buffy Summers
Sam Carpenter
Yakko Warner
Spencer Shay
Steven Crain
Shirley Crain-Harris
Jamie Taylor
Dean Winchester
Brock
Mike Schmidt
Imogene Herdman
Julian Blackthorn
Anthony Bridgerton
Kate Sharma
Fezco
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