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Middle Child Syndrome

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Middle Child Syndrome	comment	Everyone loves the oldest child because the parents can rely on them, they watch out for their siblings, and they're so confidently attractive. The Youngest Child Wins because they're the "baby". But what does that leave the one in the middle with? That is essentially the definition of Middle Child Syndrome, in which a child automatically may become The Unfavorite or the rebellious Black Sheep, specifically because they are the easiest child to overlook. They're not old enough to be given the responsibilities and privileges of the oldest, and the youngest child took their spot as the spoiled and doted-on "baby" of the family. This tends to be more of an issue when there are three children rather than four or more. Oftentimes in media, the middle child ends up becoming more of the Deadpan Snarker or the quirky one for this reason. That, or they end up the best-adjusted between the overly-responsible elder sibling and overly-privileged younger. Can be somewhat avoided, but not always, if the middle child is special by being of the opposite gender than their siblings, which can give them a unique dynamic with the rest of the family. Truth in Television, to varying degrees note As Carl Jung puts it everyone is an exception to the rule. It's common to blame or demonize the parents, but in most cases, they do not realize the situation and need it brought up to them. There are also times when the parents do see there is a problem but do not know how to handle it. Contrast Only Child Syndrome, which tends to have the opposite effect of too much attention rather than too little. For the trilogy variant of this trope, it's Sophomore Slump.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_151de869	comment	Kamen Rider Revice: Ikki and Sakura get the most attention and expectations placed on them both by the plot and their parents as the oldest and youngest, leaving Daiji mostly as a second thought. He is overshadowed from both sides, gets treated as the The Baby of the Bunch even by people outside of the family and has an inferiority complex a mile wide. It doesn't help that Ikki and Sakura are much better at holding back their feelings and putting on a tough facade.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_18c0192b	comment	Stamped all over the royal family's sons in The Farseer trilogy. Eldest prince Chivalry was raised to rule, while youngest prince Regal is a Royal Brat whose mother (the king's second wife) considers him the "true" heir because her family was higher-ranking than the first queen's and so he's "more royal" than his brothers. Chivalry's untimely death in a hunting accident sets the events of the trilogy in motion, and puts middle son Verity on the spot - nobody has expected anything of him except maybe to watch the borders for his older brother, and after being neglected so long he was fine with that.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_1c2cc04a	comment	In One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes, a woman had three daughters, each of which had one more eye than the one before. The middle daughter is therefore the one with two eyes and gets abused. Of course, that means she gets to marry the king in the end.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_1d1591e8	comment	Amusingly referenced in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_1f2b93e7	comment	The Buzz on Maggie: Maggie Pesky is the tween middle child to a Jerk Jock Big Brother Bully, an annoying younger brother, and an attention-hogging baby sister. Maggie as a result is a rebellious girl with dreams of becoming a famous rockstar.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2323d1a9	comment	Space Chickens In Space: Inverted with Starley, in the intro, she is shown to hatch after Finley and before Chuck. However she is the most popular and likeable of her siblings, even earning the approval of the bitter principal Glargg quite a few times.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2477688c	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_2477688c	comment	The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy has a bit of this: too young to hang out with Sam and Charlie, too old to play with David Michael, Karen, and Andrew.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_24a62796	comment	Gary Ewing on Dallas was this in spades. Oldest J.R. is the most like their father and inherited Ewing Oil, Bobby is the most beloved by the family and inherited family ranch Southfork. Gary, who was considered weak by his father, is routinely ignored and when his alcoholism gets bad enough in the backstory, is effectively cast out of the family. His parents later make amends but he still never plays any role in the family dynasty. When Jock Ewing died, and the sons met up for the will-reading, J.R. and Bobby each effectively got 50% of the estate while Gary and Jock's illegitimate son Ray just got a lump sum of some money (admittedly millions), but Gary wasn't even allowed access to it unless he could prove he wouldn't squander it.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Lampshaded by Lisa: "Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday overlooked middle child, happy birthday to me." Which is strange because a lot of episodes show she's a likely candidate as Homer's favorite (He takes her places she likes that he finds boring, helped out with her soccer team, stuff like that). For him, Maggie is more this trope, since there are times he even forgets she exists. In general, however, Lisa has to deal with the fact that Bart and Maggie both require closer parenting than her, Bart because he's constantly causing trouble and Maggie because she's a baby, meaning that she's the one most likely to get left to her own devices.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2705e27b	comment	Andre from Empire gets this despite being the eldest, because he comes from a family of musicians: dad Lucious is a rap legend, mom Cookie is a producer, middle brother Jamal is an R&B singer, youngest brother Hakeem is another rapper, and Andre... is an accountant. Granted, he's the CFO of his family's record company, but he's often overlooked in favor of his more musically-inclined brothers. Even the Jacob and Esau nature of his parents' relationship with his brothers lends itself to this trope; Lucious is grooming Hakeem to be his successor while at odds with Jamal for being gay, while Cookie is Jamal's manager and supports his endeavors but has a rocky relationship with Hakeem, who resents her for being in prison when he was growing up. Andre, meanwhile, despite his professional accomplishments, is just "meh" in both his parents' eyes, which is quite literally driving him insane.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2858b08a	comment	Stephanie in Full House even had an episode dedicated to her fear that she'd never be as good or loved as her sisters. She has an Imagine Spot where both DJ and Michelle upstage her at everything. (She became an astronaut, went to Mars, and learned to fly. She gets upstaged when DJ went to get the mail and Michelle blinked.) She basically becomes the snarky one in later years to deal with it, like Darlene below.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_28c161e4	comment	ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks actually retcons Simon into being the oldest while Alvin is now the middle kid, leading to a straighter example of this trope where Simon and Theodore pull more favor with Dave due to being mature/innocent while Alvin is stained with a reputation for causing trouble at home and in school.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2a4c791e	comment	Downplayed in Ah! My Goddess. Belldandy hardly suffers from being a black sheep or unloved, but she does seem to be somewhat left out, as her nature, elegant and refined, is very different from that of Urd and Skuld, who have much more in common with each other than with her. As a result, she's always on the outside of their antics, so much so that she feels jealous.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2a929dfc	comment	Better Things: Frankie starts to show this during Season 2 as a rebellious Black Sheep Deadpan Snarker (who's possibly trans but at the very least is very gender nonconforming) and this is taken up a notch in Season 3 when her frustration at Sam's refusal to explain why she left Xander and raised the girls alone prompts her to run away.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2d944503	comment	The entire Young Justice generation is currently suffering from this trope. They've been kid sidekicks for over twenty years, with no graduation in sight. Tim and Bart are among the few sidekicks with failed gradutions under their belts, and Kon and Cassie have never even made the attempt. Despite this, writers have begun introducing a new generation of young heroes like Jonathan Kent, Damian Wayne, Wallace West, and Yara Flor to take their places. As a result, the members of the Young Justice generation are being forced from their roles before establishing a new status quo - unlike their older siblings, all of whom left their sidekick roles on their own terms and were played as cool mentors to their successors. This makes the Young Justice characters feel like the middle children of the entire DCU: not old enough to have their own adventures, but too old to tag along with their mentors anymore.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2db80641	comment	The Sisters Club played this perfectly straight with the middle sister, Stevie. Her older sister is the actress, and her younger sister is, of course, the cute one.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_2f427f2d	comment	Inverted in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — Harry's middle son Albus is the protagonist.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Subverted with Kankuro of Naruto. While, overall, not as powerful as his older sister or younger brother, he's still formidable. It's also implied that none of them really got on well with their father, and Kankuro seems pleased with the opportunity to finally act like a big brother to Gaara after Gaara's Heelâ€“Face Turn. He and Temari are likewise shown to be close. However he is all-but ignored by a lot of the fanbase.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_32318e9a	comment	Darlene from Roseanne was overshadowed by both of her siblings: beautiful and smart Becky, and DJ who was both the baby and the only boy. This largely led to her gothy and cynical demeanor. What subverts this trope, however, is that of the three Connor children, she was the most popular with viewers and had ample screentime as a result. However, this became averted in later seasons. When both Becky and Darlene were in those "Awkward Teenage Years" that sitcoms are so fond of, D.J. was the one who went out of focus, since he was the quiet Good Child and the parents were working so hard they could only afford to give the squeaky wheels the grease. At the end of one episode, he told his parents to their surprise that he hadn't spoken a single word in two days, and no one noticed. Sadly, we only caught a glimpse of DJ entering puberty, since the series ended when he was 14.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3294f686	comment	Kozue in Wagnaria!! suffers from this, being the third child of the five Takanashi siblings. This is compounded by the fact that her younger brother Souta is the only son of the family and thus receives a disproportionate amount of attention such that she is often forgotten. As a result, she grew up to be a Hard-Drinking Party Girl who simply wanted more attention.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_35e05f2a	comment	Weiss from RWBY was revealed to be a middle child in the fourth season, though previously her younger brother was never mentioned. Weiss is the heir of her family but is still stuck between her two siblings. The oldest sibling, Winter, doesn't have Parental Favoritism (her father essentially disowned her due to disagreeing with her career path) however she is a strong, successful woman and a Cool Big Sis to Weiss. Weiss' Bitch in Sheep's Clothing younger brother Whitley is the favorite child and inherits her title as heir. This leaves Weiss stuck in an awkward position as the teenager who's trying to make a name for herself besides being a Schnee.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_366a284d	comment	Jagi, the third of the four Hokuto Shinken brothers in Fist of the North Star is the Black Sheep, the weakest brother and is the only one never shown in a sympathetic light in the original manga/anime. Raoh is the strongest, Toki is the most talented, Kenshiro is the true successor and better than all of them. He's often Demoted to Extra in other media and even in the main series is never mentioned again after his death.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Percy Weasley is the third brother in the Weasley clan. He's sort of the Butt-Monkey in earlier books before he turns into a full Jerkass, especially where Fred and George are involved. Everybody admires Bill and Charlie, everybody finds Fred and George fun to be around, Ginny is respected for her ability as a witch (plus she's both the youngest and the only girl of the family) and Ron does get some respect as Harry's best friend and for his later heroics. Percy, on the other hand, doesn't get much attention. It's mostly his older brothers that he comes off poorly in comparison to; since even though his academic achievements are impressive, Bill did just as well while being cooler and more likeable and Charlie did almost as well and was a sports star on top of it. Even his boss, Barty Crouch, Sr., calls him by the wrong name to his face! Percy is actually set up to be the favourite in book one but only because he was a prefect. He appears to be Molly's favourite, however the rest of his family don't seem to prefer him. Fred and George allude to this trope in the fifth book, where Molly coos over "everyone in the family" becoming prefects after Ron gets made one. The twins remind Molly that she ignored them when she said this. Ron also gets a hefty dose of this trope. As the sixth of seven children, he often gets overlooked, and the Weasley family's perpetual poverty means he normally gets saddled with hand-me-downs from his brothers instead of anything new. It's rather telling that what he sees in the Mirror of Erised is himself finally standing out and getting attention. Aberforth Dumbledore also shows shades of this. While no means dumb or a bad wizard, he is the best wizard in the world's little brother and there's just no way he could have ever outshone him. In Albus's obituary, his oldest friend Elphias admits that being outshone as someone's best friend for a century doesn't hold a candle to being that person's brother. Meanwhile, their younger sister Ariana was mentally ill from her Power Incontinence and their mother had to care for her at all times, meaning she also outshone him. A lot of people say that Aberforth was quite wild as a teenager due to this and still resents his brother (albeit for some other, very understandable reasons as well) while they're both in their 110s.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3b72d0a5	comment	In The Weaver Option Nostradomus Vandire is revealed as this after his death. His two older siblings are sycophantically loyal to their father, which earned them his favor and assistance in acquiring high-ranking positions. His two younger siblings are not as blindly loyal but are competent enough that they earned their positions. Nostradomus by contrast failed to endear himself to his father or to prove he could stand on his own, ultimately getting banished to the Nyx sector.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	In For Better or for Worse, Elizabeth feared this after April was born. Ironically, however, it was April who ultimately suffered the most from this, becoming neglected and overlooked because her parents felt ready to 'retire' from being parents — and resented any reminder that they had a daughter who was still dependent on them. There actually is one special in which Elizabeth gets this in spades, from being brushed off to being blamed for April (who was still a toddler at the time) breaking Elly's favorite ornament. When Elizabeth goes sledding and gets lost; a woman named Grace actually inverts this trope by telling her that sometimes, the middle child gets the best because they don't bear the responsibility and aren't always treated as a baby. The two older Patterson kids were based directly on Lynn Johnston's actual children. April is an entirely fictional character.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3ca84d57	comment	Aya in Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note is stuck between Yuki, her honour-student elder brother, and Nako, her Ditzy Genius little sister, and thus sees herself as plain. As she says it in episode 3 of the Animated Adaptation:
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3cc61f13	comment	Averted in We Bare Bears with Panda being The Baby of the Bunch as he's constantly being coddled or protected by his older brother Grizz or younger brother Ice Bear.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_3defe34c	comment	Also discussed in an episode. Sheldon had hired an actor to pose as his drug-addict cousin to whose intervention he and Leonard had supposedly attended, in order to have an excuse so as not to go to Penny's concert. When discussing "the cousin's" backstory, Sheldon wants him to blame his addiction on being the middle child and not having gotten enough attention. The actor (also a scientist), however, doesn't think this is a valid reason because of the lack of research.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_406a5fff	comment	Jacky Ha Ha: Being a middle child is part of the reason Jacky constantly seeks attention.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_41c629e2	comment	Hammie in Baby Blues. See here and here.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: Yakko is the oldest and is often The Leader of the siblings (it's him who becomes King of Anvilania). Dot likewise is the only girl and gets a lot of attention as The Cutie. Wakko meanwhile is the Cloudcuckoolander, with an inexplicable British accent (which his brother and sister don't have), who usually just goes along with what his brother and sister do — although it's he who is the instigator of the Big Damn Movie (named "Wakko's Wish" too). The trope is alluded to in one episode when Wakko tries to walk down an upward-moving escalator.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_444f7f18	comment	In Kushiel's Dart, Joscelin admits that this is the case of noble families who end up pledging a son to the Cassilines (think a cross of priests and bodyguards). The eldest stay because they are the heir to the domain. The youngest stay to comfort their mothers. It's then a middle son who ends up being pledged to the order.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, wizard Ponder Stibbons and Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes have three daughters. Bekki the eldest is a good-natured trainee Witch. Ruth the youngest is a shy, serious, creatively minded intellectual. In between there is Famke. Student Assassin. One of the vanishingly small number of people who would dare go up against her mother in a stand-off shouting row. The youngest person ever sent on the Vimes Run by Miss Band. Not delinquent or misbehaving as such - just strong-minded and something of a Tyke-Bomb.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_4a3437ef	comment	Donald in Magical Diary has this as his major issue. Depending on how the game goes he may decide he's sick of being a screw-up and seek a new identity of his own.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_4a90c60b	comment	The White Queen: Although George of Clarence is Duchess Cecily's favourite among her children, he nonetheless believes that his brothers never appreciated or loved him enough. Based on the following line of dialogue, Edward IV (the eldest) and Richard of Gloucester (the youngest) have always been closer to each other than they ever were with him. This one is rather complicated by two factors: First, Cecily had eight sons note she outlived all of them, of whom George was the sixth, as well as four daughters. Second, George's oppression is largely in his own head. In the series, he is shown receiving and acquiring giant helpings of land and money even after betraying his family twice (the second time re-opening the succession war and killing several thousand people), yet still complains that he doesn't get even more! By the end of his life, he seemingly goes completely insane, suspecting his brothers and the Woodvilles of plotting against him, even though they've really been extremely forgiving.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_4ce4d500	comment	The Brothers GarcÃa: Carlos the eldest is The Charmer and ladies' man, the twins Lorena and Larry are the youngest and have status as the babies of the family (plus Lorena is the only girl). George is the middle son, in Carlos' shadow and usually follows him around. A couple of episodes show him trying to outdo Carlos.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Leonard. While his mother refuses to recognize she's proud of the accomplishments of ANY of her children (after all, they're not her accomplishments), Leonard gets it the worst. His older sister is close to curing diabetes, his brother is a successful lawyer that's engaged to an Olympian, while everyone harps on poor Leonard for "only" being a theoretical physicist and not doing "original research" but instead designing experiments for and validating the results of the work of others. He makes a point of not talking about his siblings much. Also discussed in an episode. Sheldon had hired an actor to pose as his drug-addict cousin to whose intervention he and Leonard had supposedly attended, in order to have an excuse so as not to go to Penny's concert. When discussing "the cousin's" backstory, Sheldon wants him to blame his addiction on being the middle child and not having gotten enough attention. The actor (also a scientist), however, doesn't think this is a valid reason because of the lack of research.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_52aaae6e	comment	Hope & Faith: Hayley is the middle child in between Sydney and Justin. In one episode, she counts the number of photos each child has in the family albums — and she has twenty less than the oldest and youngest siblings. When she brings this up to her parents, they try to make it up to her in a very heartwarming scene where they take lots of pictures of her at once, showing that they do love her very much. With the revelation in Season 3 that they have a brother, Hope and Faith themselves invert the trope. Faith is the middle child now but is the central character of the show.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): With Huey being the responsible and reliable oldest brother, and Louie being the youngest brother who always needs to have someone keeping an eye on him to keep him out of trouble, that leaves Dewey being mostly indistinguishable from his siblings. That results in him being the most outgoing, the most willing to make new friends, and the most boldly adventurous of the triplets.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_57f80079	comment	Isabelle from The Mortal Instruments, is always raring to go into fights, not to mention she consistently dates boys her parents would hate. Jace says she does it to get attention, as she is not only the only girl but also the middle child.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_5841681f	comment	Sue in The Middle. And not just because she has a rather generic name while her siblings are named "Axel" and "Brick", but because, as she puts it in an episode, she's not a successful athlete like Axl nor "supersmart" like Brick. Both of her brothers tend to stand out for sports or intellectual abilities respectively. She calls Frankie out on this when she tries to get Sue to stop running for her cross country met so she could go to Axel's football game, though this argument is completely ineffective because absolutely everyone else had finished the run and went home hours ago and she was lost. Frankie then admits that she does care more for being there for Axels moments than Sues, but because she knows Sue will always show her love while Axel is a lazy teenager with an attitude who wants as little to do with his parents as possible and she just wants to be there for when he's most likely to let her be his mother again.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_58a4fb26	comment	The eponymous character of the Fudge series develops this after his and big brother Peter's little sister Tootsie is born. Whereas Peter quickly bonds with Tootsie, Fudge feels resentful of how he's no longer the "baby" of the family anymore, especially since this is also around the same time their parents start disciplining his Bratty Half-Pint antics more firmly.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_58c0e207	comment	In Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni, Nobuteru is implied to have been The Unfavorite among the three Tadamura brothers (according to himself at least) and he ended up as the most rebellious among them, their birth village's stiffening rules not helping. The eldest broth Masashi, on the other hand, is a serious man who seems to still follow the village's customs faithfully, while the youngest one Tsunemasa is more candid and optimistic — and said by Nobuteru to have been their mother's favorite, although he objects to that.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_58f28be1	comment	Fredo Corleone of The Godfather has this in spades. Sonny has the brawn, Michael has the brains, and Tom Hagen plays the traditional middle child role of mediating between them. While introducing Kay to his family during the novel's opening sections, Michael acknowledges that Fredo serves almost no purpose in the Corleone family. In the book he's described as being the quintessential Italian Momma's Boy, and he was essentially useless to the family business. In the Mark Winegartener sequel novels, it is implied that a severe case of pneumonia when Fredo was an infant was partially responsible for his behavior issues and/or mild retardation. In addition, he was also a heavily closeted homosexual, which is something of a no-no in Old World Italian values, and compensated by cultivating a reputation as a swinging ladies' man, which also went against his family's conservative upbringing. Following on from this, his "betrayal" in Part II came about because he wanted to start a racket of his own (described in the novels as owning his own cemetery in New Jersey, giving him a piece of all the stonemasonry, flowers, landscaping, etc., that came through, not to mention the obvious benefits of a mobster owning a place to legally hide dead bodies) in order to prove his independence and show that he could be successful and not reliant on his younger brother's largesse. It's also shown that Michael considers Fredo to be the unfavorite of his brothers; Nick Geraci, a Corleone capo and primary antagonist in the novels, thinks to himself that Fredo's idea has plenty of merit, but that Michael wouldn't give it any consideration just because it was Fredo's. Others outside the immediate Corleone family, though, consider Fredo to be the most likable. While Sonny had a hair-trigger temper and one always had to be on guard with Tom and Michael for subtle nuances and double meanings, Fredo had the distinction of being both friendly and harmless, the most easily approachable of the Corleones for a drink and casual conversation.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_59bdd803	comment	Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas is even worse. The only Silver Saint we know is Yuzuriha, nobody else is mentioned or play any important role. It doesn't help that this series focuses a LOT on the Golds (given that they were Ensemble Dark Horse in the classic series), and gives what other spotlight to Tenma and Yato. It's hard not to feel sorry for the Silvers.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_5bb5ff95	comment	The entire premise of Jorel's Brother is an inversion to this trope. Jorel, the second of Mrs. Danuza and Mr. Edson's three children, is the most pampered, spoiled and loved by his parents as well as by everybody else. By contrast, his older brother Nico is a lazy slob, and his youngest sibling (the titular character) is the most neglected and forgotten. This was even more played up in the earlier episodes, where Jorel would always hog all the attention to him on purpose, and in one episode, Edson mentions that when Nico was a baby, he forgot him on a pile of clothes for several days, while the main plot of the episode focuses on how little the family gives priority to Jorel's brother.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	Justified in that it explains why Alex from Wizards of Waverly Place does what she does (she's not only the middle child but a daughter), and inverted/lampshaded in the episode where Aunt Megan is introduced. (Jerry/Megan/Kelbo = Justin/Alex/Max.)
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_60546bd7	comment	In Myth: A Promise, Poseidon felt quite dull in comparison with Hades (his father's favorite) and Zeus (the new baby); his concern over not looking like his parents like Hades and Zeus do is a good way to demonstrate it. Rhea calms him down over it saying that because of his brothers' differences, he needs to be the mediator between them and then indirectly reveals that he's her favorite.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_61e4b8a5	comment	Crabgrass: The trope is discussed by Kevin when Miles asks how he is going to hide the fact that he broke his arm.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_650641c2	comment	In The Darwin Awards movie, the protagonist cites this as being a possible motivating factor for many peoples' Darwin Award moments... including himself.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_67789427	comment	Dawn Wiener in Welcome to the Dollhouse. Shunned by her peers and ignored by her family, Dawn pretty much has to fend for herself.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates: Takumi has severe self-esteem issues due to feeling overshadowed by his perfect older siblings and being unable to ask for affection like his younger sister. In the Birthright and Revelation routes, he gets better. In the Conquest route, he gets far, far worse, and then he gets dead. Strongly inverted with the Avatar. While they are the third eldest child out of five in both his or her Hoshidan and Nohrian families, both families care deeply for them to the point of being willing to go to war for them. Being kidnapped as a toddler probably helped.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_690a9367	comment	The eponymous Eve from Eve's Bayou felt like The Unfavorite compared to her older sister and younger brother. This is probably why she developed such a close bond with her aunt Mozelle.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_6d02517d	comment	Kerry in 8 Simple Rules. She feels left out because a)her older sister is popular at school and has more responsibilities that their parents would like her to focus on more, and b) her only younger sibling is also the only son for their parents (their father in particular bonded with him more). Kerry isn't an entirely straight example of the trope, however. Most of the Season 1 episodes involve her father desperately trying to bond with her — while she Wangsts about being the Middle Child.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_70baf96e	comment	Prince Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter. His father prefers younger brother John to inherit the throne; his mother prefers elder brother Richard. Somewhat understandably, he develops Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_721ebbf	comment	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: This is one of Edmund's many issues in the first half of the film. Peter and Susan are the grown-up "older ones" who are given all the responsibility and Lucy is the adored baby of the family who everyone looks after. Edmund is just the awkward, rebellious sibling — too old to be coddled but too young to keep up with his older brother and sister. This resentment is what eventually leads to him betraying his siblings, although Jadis and her evil magic were involved, and he makes up for it in the end.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_72de4d65	comment	Barber Black Sheep: Protagonist Oliver Winslow has an intense case of this, exacerbated by his kleptomania and the fact that he's the only one of his siblings still grieving their dead younger sister decades after she died as an infant.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons: The focus of the issue "Lisa in the Middle." Lisa gets an actual formal diagnosis of "Middle Child Syndrome," and Homer's solution is to make sure he no longer has an odd number of kids. After the idea of having another baby or getting rid of one of their current kids is shot down, Homer does the next best thing and adopts class bully Nelson. The same issue also claims that the Biblical figure Seth, the middle son of Adam and Eve, suffered from such a bad case of Middle Child Syndrome that he snapped, murdered his younger brother Abel, and successfully framed his other brother Cain for it.note In the actual Biblical text, Seth is Adam and Eve's third son, and is born after Abel's murder.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_7ea0e723	comment	Kay Bennett on Passions is one. In the shows early years she was always given the shaft by her parents in favor of her newly-discovered cousin Charity Standish and her younger sister Jessica (Noah, the oldest, was away in college.) At one point, her mom uses money Kay saved up for a car and gives it to Charity. She eventually moves out of the house and lives with resident witch Tabitha (who hates the Bennett/Standish family.)
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_7fcbd3e	comment	In the Mystara setting's Karameikos, the royal family is an example. King Stephan favors his tomboyish daughter as heir to the throne, while his wife dotes on her youngest son and wants him to inherit. Their middle child — the eldest son, hence the one most players would expect to be heir — isn't favored by either parent and indeed is more interested in business than government.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_805343cd	comment	Edith in the Despicable Me films got hit with this, particularly in the second film, where she gets the least development of her sisters (fighting the mutated Kevin) at the climax is interrupted by Dr. Nefario using the PX-41 antidote on Kevin at the very last second. She even gets ignored by the marketing team, as the theatrical trailers for the three films don't show any of her speaking parts, instead focusing on Margo and Agnes in the first two, and Agnes in the third.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: Jason Todd was the second Robin and since coming Back from the Dead certainly seems to live certain aspects of this trope. Specifically, he resents Batman for replacing him with another Robin and because he thinks he was The Unfavorite compared to Dick, the first Robin. Lampshaded by Tim, when he refers to Jason as the "Jan Brady" of the BatFamily: Since Jason's being 'disowned' on account of being crazy, Tim has since been put into the middle child role between Dick and Damian Wayne and it only got worse when Bruce died, leaving Dick Grayson as the new Batman and Tim getting replaced by Damian. He's handling it better than Jason, but most of the DCU is of the consensus that Tim needs to get some therapy.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_81f8721b	comment	Four Sisters and a Wedding focuses on a five siblings. Third sibling Alex is the Black Sheep of the family. When the family all hashes it out later, it's outright stated that Bobbie (second oldest) and Gabbie (second youngest) get this too since their mother Grace focused more on Teddie (the eldest) and CJ (the youngest) while they were growing up.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_829b2f67	comment	The Sound of Music develops all seven Von Trapp children quite well — except for Marta. She's the second youngest, but since Gretel gets to be the baby, Marta has none of that focus. Her most defining characteristic is saying that pink is her favorite colour.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_8c23bed9	comment	Played straight elsewhere in the Austenverse; in Pride and Prejudice, there are five sisters. Everyone loves Jane, the eldest, who has the sweetest disposition and prettiest face. Elizabeth, second-eldest, is her father's favorite; Lydia, the youngest, is her mother's. Mary and Kitty, the third and fourth daughters respectively, enjoy no favoritism at all.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_8d840f59	comment	Reba presents for this trope Kyra, who's stuck between her older, more popular sister (who has a child of her own, most likely warranting more attention from their parents) and her only younger sibling — the adorable one and only son. Needless to say, she's not happy about this. The last season more or less averts this, though, as Jake, the youngest child, falls out of focus and rarely appears while Kyra still makes a few more appearances before disappearing as well.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_8e193f0b	comment	Cory suffers from this every now and then in Boy Meets World. More so early on, before Eric is cemented as the family screw-up and Morgan stops having any story or relevance whatsoever (at one point disappearing entirely for a season or two before showing up again being played by a new, preteen actress).
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House focuses on Lincoln, who's not only the only boy out of eleven siblings, but smack-dab in the middle to boot, with five older and five younger sisters.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_93acba01	comment	In Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Catria hypothesizes that this may be part of the reason she seems so closed off from others in one of her base conversations. She tells Celica that both of her sisters always speak up first and therefore get more attention than she does, and then wonders if this is common for middle siblings.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_949410d5	comment	In A Mango-Shaped Space, a psychiatrist chalks Mia's claims of hearing colors (a real disorder) up to this.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_957922a4	comment	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Simon, despite being the tallest, smartest, and most mature of the Chipmunks, is the middle child. Even though Alvin is shorter and the most rambunctious, he is actually the oldest. One episode of the '80s series has Simon feeling he doesn't get as much attention because Alvin is a troublemaker and Theodore is a crybaby; eventually David tells him that he loves them equally but Simon doesn't need as much attention because he's the most mature of them and knows better than they do. ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks actually retcons Simon into being the oldest while Alvin is now the middle kid, leading to a straighter example of this trope where Simon and Theodore pull more favor with Dave due to being mature/innocent while Alvin is stained with a reputation for causing trouble at home and in school.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_95b14beb	comment	Lynn. Sr thought he subverted this in Syngenesophobia. He had thought he was close to his middle child and only son due to being the only men in the house, only to be upset when he realizes he actually plays it quite straight as he and Lincoln have virtually nothing in common compared to his daughters who he shares interests with. It's actually Rita, Lincoln's mother that subverts this. While she pays the closest amount of attention to Lily (because she is a baby) and her two eldest Lori and Leni (because they nearly adults and she needs to help them prepare for that). She specifically says she holds Lincoln close to her heart. Referring to having a son as a nice change from so many daughters, along with the implication that the whole reason she had so many kids after him was that she was trying to give him a little brother.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_977ad148	comment	Rosebuds: Maria often finds herself envious of both her older sister Rosa and her younger sister Maricela. The former because of how she often has authority due to being the oldest and most responsible. The latter because of her intelligence to where she ends up getting into high school at a young age and the fact that she people think highly of her.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_9888f901	comment	On Daria: The title character's mom Helen was the middle child, with older sister Rita being the beautiful outgoing one and younger sister Amy being the rebellious one, which led to Helen becoming the over-achieving academic one to get attention. Deconstructed, however, when her sisters reveal that they think of her as the favorite, since she was always off winning awards "to make us look lazy." A tie-in book shows Jodie's family. She's the "super-student" that her parents want, she has a new brother named Evan whom her dad's always wanted...and then there's ten-year-old Rachel, a "so-so student" who seems very bitter at Evan for taking her status as the "baby" of the family.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: Tina and Louise will occasionally chalk up their brother Gene's eccentric behavior to him being the middle child (like his obsession with his new Sasquatch mask in "Beefsquatch").
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_9a6791aa	comment	King Lear has three daughters. Goneril has some status as the oldest, while Cordelia is the youngest and is Lear's favourite. Middle sister Regan is constantly trying to outdo Goneril and get some status for herself.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle: The eponymous Malcolm has this trope in spades. Though it's downplayed in that Lois mistreats all her children - Malcolm got it the worst because she cares the most about his future, due to his high IQ. Also played with, as of Jamie's birth, as Reese and Dewey are middle children too, but only Malcolm gets this treatment.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Stannis Baratheon, the middle child of the Baratheon brothers and the only unpopular, humorless Knight Templar of the bunch — both his older brother Robert and his younger brother Renly are instead charming Boisterous Bruisers. Renly was happy looking up to Robert, but Stannis wanted to move out of his shadow. Lysa Arryn is implied to contend with this, being in the middle between Catelyn and Edmure. Jaime Lannister, when he was younger, found Catelyn more interesting than Lysa, whom he might have been betrothed to. Not so apparent with Arya because she's a Daddy's Girl but she's still the third child of Ned and Catelyn Stark's five children and the fourth child of Ned's six children (Arya has an older half-brother, Jon Snow, who is Ned's illegitimate son and raised alongside his siblings) so it's still somewhat there. Two of her older siblings, Robb and Sansa, both easily fit into the responsibilities and expectations assigned to them; her older brothers Robb and Jon are raised side by side, mentored together by Ned, and are best friends, while her younger brothers Bran and Rickon are doted upon because they are the babies of the family. It doesn't help that she's a misfit herself as her tomboyish nature clashes with societal expectations while Sansa exemplifies societal expectations as a lady to near perfection. She's also the only one out of Catelyn's children who doesn't look like a Tully but looks all Stark — which is part of why she's so close with her half-brother Jon, also somewhat of an outsider like her, because she and Jon are the only two of Ned's kids to inherit the Stark look. This trope (and her being nine years old) is suggested to be why she acts out so much, especially in the first book. Viserys is the second(surviving) child of Aerys Targaryen. When compared to his older brother Rhaegar and younger sister Daenerys, Viserys is unremarkable and pretty much a weakling. Whilst Rhaegar and Dany inherit much of the positive traits of the Targaryen bloodline, Viserys has nothing but his father's madness. Jaime is a subversion. He's the middle Lannister child but also Tywin's favorite for whatever that's worth. Tywin discounts the eldest child, Cersei, because she's a girl, and considers the youngest, Tyrion, a walking disappointment because he's a hedonistic dwarf. However, Jaime is the "middle Child" only the strictest possible definition, he's barely a minute younger than Cersei.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch: Jan Brady is probably the Trope Codifier. Peter also has moments where he suffers a little ("Cyrano de Brady", for one), though of the boys, Bobby, while being the youngest, not middle boy, has him beat with all his insecurities. It's revealed that Alice suffered from this as well when she was growing up, allowing her to sympathize with Jan.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a209c9c4	comment	John Shelby in Peaky Blinders is the third of five siblings and it's often implied he feels overlooked because he doesn't have an outstanding personality trait like his siblings - Arthur is the oldest, Tommy is both the smartest and The Leader of the family, Ada is the only girl and Finn is The Baby of the Bunch. His resentment becomes even more pronounced in Season 3, when their cousin Michael is placed in the role of The Consigliere due to his superior education, making John feel even less valued than he already did.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a32b6a64	comment	President Bartlet's middle daughter Ellie clearly suffers something like this in The West Wing; she and her father have a difficult relationship, but when pressed Bartlet will angrily deny that he loves one of his children less than the others. Interestingly, he also says that "she's always belonged to Abbey," implying that from his point of view, he's The Unfavorite parent. (They end up having a nice moment at the end of the episode, of course.) Yeah, it seems to depend sort of who you're looking at. Zoey is Jed's favorite, but Ellie is Abbey's. Oldest daughter Liz, married to a guy the family can't stand and a bit of a Stepford Smiler, may in fact be the most neglected by the family. If you take the True Companions of The West Wing to the full nuclear family extent, with President Bartlet and Leo as the parents, Josh is this trope â€” Toby is the oldest, the best adviser, the only one who's close to being Leo's equal. CJ is the only daughter, whom everyone depends on. Sam is the kind little brother who's always helpful. Charlie is the baby whom every one protects and adores. Set between CJ and Sam, Josh is very much the rambunctious troublemaker who is always being made fun of and scolded. Slightly subverted, however, by the fact that he's actually Leo's favorite.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a34863aa	comment	The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series saw fit to bring this part of "cool but rude" Raphael into the mainstream. Putting up with "Splinter, Jr." is his least favorite part of being a turtle. And he doesn't even have a utility like being smart, unlike the other middle child, Donny.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a4dd75d9	comment	Quizzical: In Quizzical's first chapter as noted by Cheerilee:
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a5549ed0	comment	The same issue also claims that the Biblical figure Seth, the middle son of Adam and Eve, suffered from such a bad case of Middle Child Syndrome that he snapped, murdered his younger brother Abel, and successfully framed his other brother Cain for it.note In the actual Biblical text, Seth is Adam and Eve's third son, and is born after Abel's murder.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a5ca5c39	comment	Played completely straight in If There Be Thorns. Cathy clearly favours handsome ballet star Jory and cute toddler Cindy (both are also blonde) over middle child Bart.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a6f6448c	comment	Forbidden: Kit, of the Whitely children. They're aged 17, 16, 13, 8, 5. His eldest two siblings have been Promoted to Parents, while the little two are just children. As a result of his middle child syndrome by acting out. As his sister said:
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Meta-example of a forgotten middle child: Every Ravenloft fan in the world remembers Strahd von Zarovich and his youngest brother Sergei, as their Cain and Abel story is responsible for the setting's very existence. Mention their other brother Sturm, progenitor of the modern Von Zarovich bloodline, and most gamers assume you're talking about Dragonlance.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_ac2026ad	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_ac2026ad	comment	Gals!: Inverted with Ran; out of her siblings, she seems to have the most interactions with her parents (especially her father). However, this has less to do with her being a middle child, and more because of her rebellious tendencies.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_adcd98d2	comment	Venus Envy has a variation mentioned in the scene where Zoe's brother is forced to talk to her psychiatrist. The psychiatrist theorises that Alex's coming out as Transgender and becoming Zoe has made her brother feel like he now has a younger sibling instead of an older one, as Zoe now needs more parental care and attention, and her brother can no longer look up to her as an older brother and mentor. The brother vehemently denies this, as "I never looked up to that freak".
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b0ff5776	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_b0ff5776	comment	Young Sheldon: In "A Research Study and Czechoslovakian Wedding Pastries", when asked if she's always been so perceptive, Missy attributes her skill to not being on a "team", with George Sr. and Georgie connected through football, while both Mary and Meemaw are always focused on Sheldon's upbringing. Upon watching this in the study's recordings, Mary tries to help Missy feel more included by asking her what restaurant she wants the family to go to for dinner.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Stannis Baratheon resents the fact that people in general have a much more favourable view of his older and younger brother. Robert gets most of the credit for winning the rebellion against the Mad King, while Stannis' contribution is hardly acknowledged. When the War of Five Kings begins, all of the Stormlands bannermen side with Renly even though Stannis is the lawful successor to the Iron Throne. With the Sand Snakes focused on the three eldest while the ones that are still children are kept offscreen, Obara (the oldest) and Tyene (the youngest) get more attention. Obara is the most aggressive and gets some exposition on her backstory, and Tyene has some Ship Tease with Bronn and appears to be her mother's favorite. Nymeria mostly rolls her eyes whenever one of the others does something.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b3933a70	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_b3933a70	comment	Randy Taylor on Home Improvement was the middle child which led to his deadpan humor. His father Tim Taylor was also a middle child (though not the only one in the Taylor family) which may partially explain his constant attempts to impress others with MORE POWER. Because of this, one episode featured Tim and Randy having a talk where Tim acknowledges their similar personalities and reactions to things (such as the death of a loved one in that episode), as opposed to Tim and Brad's having similar interests.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b42263b4	comment	Ryuko Kiryuin inverts this trope in Natural Selection. She's the middle child of the three Kiryuin sisters, but she was given the most Parental Favoritism by Ragyo thanks to being the perfect human/Life Fiber hybrid. Comparatively, Satsuki was The Unfavorite and subjected to horrid neglect and abuse while Nui was also favored, though not to the same degree as Ryuko given how her elder sister can easily get away with things she's not allowed to.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b82de784	comment	Bridge to Terabithia: Protagonist Jess Aarons, being the third out of five and the only boy with four sisters, two elder and two younger than him.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b8fd85	comment	Inverted in Sense and Sensibility, where the middle child Marianne is her mother's favorite.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b9bfa557	comment	C.R.A.Z.Y.: Zac, the protagonist, suffers from this. His 3 older brothers distinguish themselves one way or the other (the eldest is a straight-A student, the second son is quite a ladies man, the third is a great athlete), and the youngest brother is The Baby of the Bunch. Plus, his conservative father doesn't accept his homosexuality.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_b9dc08f3	comment	The Thundermans: Nora starts suffering from this after Chloe is born. While she doesn't see her brothers as competition (Max is The Unfavorite and Billy is The Ditz), she starts trying to out-cute Chloe and snaps at Phoebe if she starts showing off. Billy later explains to her that he was once the baby of the family until Nora herself was born, leaving him as the middle child, which hurt him emotionally until he bonded with the infant Nora.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_bdcd318c	comment	Son of the Sannin plays a bit more this aspect on Kankuro than in canon. At the beginning of the Shippuuden timeframe, he confides to Naruto that he was the least notable among his siblings, which led him to become a puppeteer ninja to stand out on his own.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_c02ce5b4	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Lucerys Velaryon, while being loved as much as his brothers by his mother Rhaenyra, feels in an odd place as heir to House Velaryon since he's seasick and they're the biggest fleet in Westeros. And there's his Bastard Angst.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_c0369f1b	comment	While The Powerpuff Girls are triplets and, thus, the same age, Buttercup still falls right into Middle Child Syndrome by being noticeably more cynical and snarky than Blossom and Bubbles, who in turn behave like an Oldest and Youngest Child respectively. According to the DVD Commentary for The Movie, this is because while Blossom and Bubbles got Meaningful Names, Buttercup got saddled with her name just for the sake of Alliterative Family.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_c3d9e7c2	comment	Subverted in The Outsiders where Sodapop is well-liked by his brothers and within their little group. However, this status causes him stress because he is the only mediator between his younger brother Ponyboy and his older brother Darry, who tend to have opposite personality traits and end up in arguments while Sodapop is laid-back and even-tempered. The book lampshades this trope; since most of the story is about Ponyboy's misadventures while eldest brother Darry is the breadwinner of the family who frequently clashes with Ponyboy, Sodapop is Out of Focus for most of the novel and it's not revealed until somewhat late that he 1) had a steady girlfriend, 2) knocked her up, and 3) was heartbroken when she broke up with him to move with her grandmother in Florida. When Ponyboy and Darry cease their fighting to tend to him, Ponyboy admits that they always assumed Sodapop had no problems of his own.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who downplays this with Martha (one of the few companions who didn't suffer from Only Child Syndrome). While she's not The Unfavorite in the family, she seems to have been stuck as the go-between for everyone else's issues; her first scene has her being bombarded with calls while on the way to work. She also, oddly enough, seems to have become stuck with a meta-version of this, as the middle companion of the Russel T. Davies era. Both fans and official media often seem to ignore her in favour of Rose and Donna, with only the occasional mention of her being the show's "first black companion" (which ignores Mickey). She has her fans of course, but they're not nearly as outspoken. Some of this is probably due to Martha being more of an original series type companion. She travels with The Doctor for a time and moves on when the time comes. Most of the other female companions of the new series have had some sort of special destiny in some way (Bad Wolf, Doctor Donna, The Girl Who Waited, The Impossible Girl, The First Cyberman).
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_c93e12f5	comment	Lucy of 7th Heaven says that it's because she's the middle child that she's always left out.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, Grouchy was the middle child of his family that consisted of his older twin brothers Hefty and Handy and his younger sister Sassette, and doesn't like that his Papa Smurf cared more about them than he did about him.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter: Inverted with Killua, the Deuteragonist of Hunter Ã— Hunter. He is the White Sheep, but he's the favorite of his psychotic mother Kikyo, and his father Silva is sure that Killua will become like himself. Killua is also beloved by three of his four siblings. Illumi is an overprotective and extreme older brother, Kalluto joins the Phantom Troupe in the hope of bringing his brother home, and Alluka can't not love Killua, the only one of the family who loves her. Even Milluki admits that Killua has the most potential in the family. Considering that the Chimera Ant Royal Guards are siblings, Shaiapouf is the weakest of the three and a Crazy Jealous Guy. The latter part is the reason why he is so hated by the fandom because he's the only one who acts against the king: trying to kill Komugi.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_cf7739d0	comment	In Ramona Forever, Ramona has misgivings about gaining a new baby sibling, because it means she'll lose her attention-getting status as The Baby of the Bunch and become the middle child. She especially feels this way when, after baby Roberta is born, she has to sit in the waiting room while her father and Beezus go to see the baby because children under 12 aren't allowed in the maternity ward.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_d26874b6	comment	Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid is this trope. How many times do you see Rodrick or Manny (usually Manny) getting the advantage over Greg? Because Rodrick is about 4 years older than Greg (and constantly getting in trouble) and Manny is a baby, they constantly get more attention. Debatably, this is one of the main premises of entire the series, especially the second and third books and movies.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_d5fdd74f	comment	Abby from The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes has this. Her older twin sisters Eva and Isabel constantly fight and excel in their chosen fields (sport and study, respectively), while her younger brother Alex excels in technological fields, meaning that Abby only gets attention if she goes out of her way to do so — something she doesn't like doing. Not to mention, nobody actually takes any notice of Abby's skill with creative writing. It also turns up in the second book — Eva and Isabel get to go to the school fair by themselves, while Abby has to take Alex with her. Finally, she gets fed up enough to demand that rather than being used as the automatic solution for anything concerning Alex, she gets to ride to the fair with her friends instead. Everyone is very surprised at her demand. She also complains about it while writing about her wish for new rollerblades- Eva and Isabel, as the oldest siblings, get brand new rollerblades, and Alex, as the youngest, also gets new ones as the old ones won't fit. Abby, as the middle child, has to deal with the really shit castoffs.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_d63b19b1	comment	Minami-ke: Kana Minami is the dumb and lazy sister among the three, is usually the Butt-Monkey towards her younger sister, but also occasionally to her older sister, too. While Haruka is very popular in her school and Chiaki is respected by her classmates, Kana is not, though, she's not unpopular either and is even the first one to get a Love Interest, to whom she is oblivious... Whenever the three brothers of the other Minami family have a discussion (mostly about their younger sister Touma), Akira Minami is often ignored by his two older brothers due to the age gap, despite that most of his statements are actually right. Not only that, he gets the short stick in the Love Dodecahedron between Kana, Fujioka, Riko, and himself.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_d6fcfe6c	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_d6fcfe6c	comment	Sing Street's protagonist is the youngest son Conor. The eldest Brendan functions as a mentor to him. The middle child — their sister Anne — gets barely any lines and is ignored by the narrative. She disappears halfway through the film and doesn't even appear in Conor's Imagine Spots.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_d888c467	comment	Tailchaser's Song: Grizraz Hearteater is the middle child between Viror Whitewind and Tangaloor Firefoot. He wasn't as agile as his older brother or as smart as his younger brother, so he became bitter and envious. His jealousy caused him to try and kill his siblings. After being banished underground for killing Whitewind and attempting to kill Firefoot, Hearteater's rage and jealousy grew over time until he became an Animalistic Abomination. Centuries later he burns in the sunlight and is bent on destroying the sun.
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Tailchaser's Song	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_d888c467
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, main character Hawke has two younger siblings: twins Carver (a warrior) and Bethany (a mage). Carver is technically the older twin and suffers this trope hard. If Hawke is a mage, then their parents (including a mage father) focused more attention on the two magical siblings by necessity, leaving Carver feeling left out at times. If Hawke is a warrior or rogue, then it's implied that Carver was never as good a fighter, and Bethany was Daddy's Girl due to their shared magical sense, and thus Carver was still overshadowed by both siblings. If he's the surviving twin after the prologue, he'll have a massive chip on his shoulder and his approval meter appropriately starts off on the "Rival" side.
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Dragon Age II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e144ba19
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e25322af	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e25322af	comment	Inverted with Strong Bad from Homestar Runner, he is the popular and confident leader to his dumb older brother Strong Mad and his wimpy younger brother Strong Sad.
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e25322af
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e2b7e447	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e2b7e447	comment	Jenna Marbles often jokes that ever since she and Julian got Peach (and later on, Bunny), Kermit is the neglected middle child of the family and his various accidents (falling in the pool, getting bitten by a spider, breaking his tail, eating a bee, etc) are bids to get attention.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_e2d67fdc	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e2d67fdc	comment	In some versions of Beauty and the Beast, Belle is la cadette, the second daughter who (at least in one version of the tale) gets picked on by both her sisters, has a Missing Mom, three absent brothers, and spends her time self-sacrificing for her father who apparently prefers herâ€¦ but agrees, upon her insistence, to let her do all the work while her sisters are pampered. Finally, her father abandons her in a creepy mansion in the woods because she told him to.
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Beauty and the Beast	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e2d67fdc
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e32f00d6	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e32f00d6	comment	The Quintessential Quintuplets: Miku Nakano is (initially) the most shy and withdrawn of the quintuplets.
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e32f00d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e32f00d6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Quintessential Quintuplets (Manga)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e32f00d6
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e4a82515	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e4a82515	comment	Rayne invokes this in Least I Could Do when he and his brother learn they have an older sister their mother gave up for adoption. After one Jerkass comment too many, Rayne points out that Eric is now the middle child and asks how he feels.
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e4a82515	featureApplicability	1.0
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e4a82515	featureConfidence	1.0
Least I Could Do (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e4a82515
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e910c9cd	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e910c9cd	comment	Half Magic is about four siblings in the 1920s (from oldest to youngest, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha) finding a magic nickel that grants wishes by half (like if you wished for an ice-cream sundae, you'd get half an ice-cream sundae, etc.) Since Jane's the oldest, she calls the shots on everything. After Jane, Mark, and Martha have already made wishes, gotten themselves into trouble, and figured out how to use the magic charm correctly, Jane pulls an I-get-to-have-the-first-wish after they get back home, and this is what happens:
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e910c9cd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Half Magic	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e910c9cd
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e9e265b6	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e9e265b6	comment	Averted in Fire Emblem: Awakening as Chrom is the main character alongside the Avatar and while he expresses a desire to live up to Emmeryn's legacy, it's not treated like a massive hindrance for his character. His younger sister Lissa tends to be the one who vocalises the most worry about being unimpressive and a disappointment following Emmeryn and Chrom and even worries that her best friend Maribelle is more "princess-like" than she is.
Middle Child Syndrome / int_e9e265b6	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Fire Emblem Awakening (Video Game)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_e9e265b6
Middle Child Syndrome / int_ec24475f	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_ec24475f	comment	Antz begins with Woody Allen's ant character in a session with his ant therapist, and one of his many issues is "When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. I mean, how is that possible?"
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_ec24475f	featureConfidence	1.0
Antz	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_ec24475f
Middle Child Syndrome / int_eed7f86d	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_eed7f86d	comment	Petrova of Ballet Shoes is the Shrinking Violet of the bunch. Eldest Pauline is the pretty one and gets enough charisma to become an actress. Youngest Posy has enough dance talent to be trained exclusively by an accomplished ballerina. Petrova is the plain one who gets hardly any encouragement. Although in a twist, in the 2007 film adaptation, Petrova gets the most scenes with Garnie and is the one who is told about the family's situation - implying she might be Garnie's preferred daughter. She never gets reprimanded like the other two.
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Ballet Shoes	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_eed7f86d
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f037be0c	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f037be0c	comment	In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, this was initially one of Edmund's many issues. Peter and Susan were "the older ones" and Lucy was babied as the youngest, while Edmund feels like he just gets in the way.
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f037be0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f037be0c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_f037be0c
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f1619fb6	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f1619fb6	comment	In Daddy's Little Girl, Ellie has a case of this when it comes to her father. He had Andrea, his eldest child whom he doted upon and did his best to keep out of trouble, only for her to be violently taken from him. Now he has Teddy, his youngest child and only son, who is still in school and similar to Andrea in many ways. Ellie, the middle child, always felt she could never compete with either her older or younger sibling when it comes to her father's affections, especially as unlike them she's not athletic, popular or conventionally attractive.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f2041376	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f2041376	comment	At the beginning of Charmed, Piper suffers from this because Prue was a hard-working career woman and Phoebe was adventurous. She felt like the peacekeeper and the most normal one. After Prue died, Piper became the oldest and Phoebe became the middle. But, Phoebe still acted like the youngest and Paige acted like the middle child. Averted when their mother visits Piper on her wedding day and says "I always knew you'd be the first to get married. You're the heart of this family, Piper."
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f2041376	featureConfidence	1.0
Charmed (1998)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_f2041376
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f3c3ca42	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f3c3ca42	comment	Lampshaded in The Tick: Wannabe-superhero Baby Boomerangutan is a man dressed as an orangutan who carries three baby dolls he can throw at evildoers. The middle child (which he explicitly calls as such) is only employed in dire emergencies because it's stuffed with explosives.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f3c3ca42	featureConfidence	1.0
The Tick	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_f3c3ca42
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f4ba5f60	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f4ba5f60	comment	Blazblue: This was likely one of the key factors for Deuteragonist Jin Kisaragi's issues with his siblings. When Jin was a child, he admired and loved his older brother Ragna, but when their youngest sister Saya grew sick, Ragna started to neglect him, both to take care of her and because he found Jin excessively needy. Needless to say, Jin grew to resent both of his siblings as a result and while he hides it beneath a stoic facade, he has carried that grudge into adulthood. It took him the entire series to finally get over it.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f4ba5f60	featureConfidence	1.0
BlazBlue (Franchise)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_f4ba5f60
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f6e5bd7f	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f6e5bd7f	comment	Repo! The Genetic Opera. This is a possible contributing factor in Pavi Largo's descent into psychotic narcissism. His elder brother Luigi almost certainly got more attention than him on account of being an angry, murderous psychopath since birth, and his younger sister Amber is the biggest Attention Whore imaginable. The Extended Universe info suggests that Pavi, by contrast, was relatively unremarkable while growing up (aside from having a severe speech impediment, which he eventually learned to cover up by adopting a ridiculous Italian accent) and it was only later that he turned into a deranged, womanizing rapist who enjoys cutting women's faces off and grafting them onto his own (horribly scarred) face.
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f6e5bd7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f6e5bd7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Repo! The Genetic Opera	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_f6e5bd7f
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f93d99aa	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f93d99aa	comment	Samantha in All-American Girl (Meg Cabot). The younger sister of a beautiful, popular cheerleader and the older sister of a child prodigy genius, she has become the Black Sheep of the family, an artistic loner. Then she becomes the person to get the most attention when she saves the president from an assassination attempt (long story).
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f93d99aa	featureConfidence	1.0
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f94b09c3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f94b09c3	comment	Present in High and Tight where the middle child is the protagonist. Scott Olsen is sandwiched between oldest brother Shane — who is a Parental Substitute and breadwinner — and youngest brother Seth — who is implied to be a Child Prodigy. Scott is shown to be The Heart of the family, however.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_f970288c	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_f970288c	comment	Appropriately, "Middle Child" by Daniel Romano.
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Daniel Romano (Music)	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_f970288c
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fa3c4a72	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fa3c4a72	comment	Tommy on Brothers & Sisters. Extra angst in that while he is the oldest Walker son, he is the middle of five (legitimate) children. His father William seemed to open hold his older sister Sarah's business skills in higher regard, bringing her in to run the family fruit company even though Tommy had worked there for years. He also showed varying degrees of resentment towards his other siblings, especially his troubled youngest brother Justin who he feels his parents coddled.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_fda9c8b	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fda9c8b	comment	Edith Crawley on Downton Abbey, has a pronounced case of this. With Mary being the glamorous daughter that everyone adores and Sybil being the kind-hearted baby of the family, Edith is left as the odd one out. In Season 2, she manages to break out of it somewhat when she becomes the favourite among the soldiers staying in the estate.
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Downton Abbey	hasFeature	Middle Child Syndrome / int_fda9c8b
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fe83990a	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fe83990a	comment	Saint Seiya: The Bronze Saints are our five protagonists who keep winning battle against people much stronger than them, and the Gold Saints are said much stronger people, who are greatly respected, extremely dangerous, and are focused on just as much as the Bronzes. But... what about the Silver Saints...? They are pretty much just there to either be the Bronzes' mentors, or the obnoxious one-off enemies. Aside from Marin, Shaina, Misty and Lyra Orphee, nobody cares about the other Silvers. Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas is even worse. The only Silver Saint we know is Yuzuriha, nobody else is mentioned or play any important role. It doesn't help that this series focuses a LOT on the Golds (given that they were Ensemble Dark Horse in the classic series), and gives what other spotlight to Tenma and Yato. It's hard not to feel sorry for the Silvers.
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fe83990a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_fefcaa1f	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_fefcaa1f	comment	See You At Harry's has Fern, who is often glossed over by her parents in favor of issues regarding her older siblings, Sara and Holden, and her younger brother, Charlie. However, she's only this for the first half of the book; after Charlie's passing she becomes the youngest again.
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Middle Child Syndrome / int_ffc6ca91	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome / int_ffc6ca91	comment	Barry on The Goldbergs, although he does his best to hide it with his extreme overconfidence. It's a major driving force of the plot in one Season 6 episode.
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Middle Child Syndrome	processingCategory2	Dysfunctional Family Index
Middle Child Syndrome	processingCategory2	Index Syndrome
Middle Child Syndrome	processingCategory2	Psychology Tropes
Middle Child Syndrome	processingCategory2	Sibling Tropes
Sisters (Raina Telgemeier) (Comic Book) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Baby Blues (Comic Strip) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Crabgrass (Comic Strip) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
JustGoWithIt	seeAlso	Middle Child Syndrome
Phylactery / Fan Fic / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Deadly Nightshade (Fanfic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Gray Whirlpool Series (Fanfic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Here Comes The New Boss (Fanfic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
SOSchip (Fanfic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Blinded by the Light / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Cheaper by the Dozen / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Enola Holmes / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Eve's Bayou / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Happiest Season / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Lemonade Mouth / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Remember Me / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Brady Bunch / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Godfather / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Man in the Moon / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
A Brother's Price / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
A Mango-Shaped Space / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
All-American Girl (Meg Cabot) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
American Girls Collection / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Ballet Shoes / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Barber Black Sheep / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Bridge to Terabithia / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Cavendon Hall / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Daddy's Little Girl / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Evensong / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Everything I Never Told You / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Forbidden (2010) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Goosebumps HorrorLand / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Grunvale / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Half Magic / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
If There Be Thorns / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Jacky Ha Ha / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Kafka on the Shore / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Keys to the Kingdom / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Kushiel's Legacy / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Lady: My Life as a Bitch / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Missing Since Monday / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
My Sister's Keeper / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Night of the Living Dummy II / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Pride and Prejudice / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Raven of the Inner Palace / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Angel Club / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Outsiders / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Prince and the Pauper / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Stanley Family / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
We Have Always Lived in the Castle / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Hikikotaku	seeAlso	Middle Child Syndrome
NoondayJackals	seeAlso	Middle Child Syndrome
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (Manga) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Happy Happy Clover (Manga) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Slam Dunk (Manga) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Better Things / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Boy Meets World / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Designing Women / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
8 Simple Rules / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Empire / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Enlisted / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Family Law (2021) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Full House / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Good Luck Charlie / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Hannibal / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
La Esclava Blanca / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Maddigan's Quest / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Malcolm in the Middle / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
My Family and Me / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
My Love From Another Star / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
19 Kids and Counting / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Oshin / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Produce 101 / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Reba / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
7th Heaven / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Some Girls / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Sweet Magnolias / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Tall Hopes / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Thanks / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Brady Bunch / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Kids Are Alright (2018) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Middle / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Real O'Neals / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Righteous Gemstones / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The White Queen / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
King Lear (Theatre) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Lion in Winter (Theatre) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Zniw Adventure (Video Game) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Ristorante Amore (Visual Novel) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Jenna Marbles (Web Video) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
A Stepmother's Marchen (Webcomic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Least I Could Do (Webcomic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Skin Deep (Webcomic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Strange Planet (Webcomic) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Braceface / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Brother Bear / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
F is for Family / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Jorel's Brother / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Rolie Polie Olie / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Jackson 5ive / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Willoughbys / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Magical Diary (Visual Novel) / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome

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