This troper knows two sisters that fit this perfectly. You see, they're both pretty and smart, but the older sister is a short brunette with brown eyes, who is studying ALL THE TIME, gets good grades in college and was the most intelligent of her high school, and is always treated like The Smart One. The younger sister is a tall blonde with green eyes, is more fun, is a model, is popular at school, and she's as smart as her older sister and is also the smarter of her class, but is always treated as if she was dumb compared to the other, and you all got that she's the Pretty One. Surpringly, they get along VERY WELL. Specially considering the age difference: 21 and 14.

This troper's life is a bit of a gender flip of the trope; I never quite got along with my brother. I no longer have any illusions about who'd win the fight (the little bugger's gone and joined the Marines), which isn't likely to stop me trying anyway.

Tropers/DesertDragon is another GenderFlip. When we were kids, my older brother was the popular, handsome, JerkJock while I was the smart but cynical geek who couldn't get laid to save his life. Our mother loved to watch ''{{Daria}}'' because it was all so familiar. Now that we're in our 20's, things shifted a bit. Around the time I came out as gay I started taking care of my appearance and had little trouble getting dates, though my nerdy interests are still the same. So now it's more like he's the "normal" one while I'm the "strange" one.

This troper's school has twin blonde girls that are exactly like this. (And yes, the obvious ''has'' occurred to me.)

My sister and I are this trope to the letter (I am not the popular, pretty one). Now that I've moved out, our younger third sister seems to have taken my place.

This troper knows two sisters who sort of squiggle this around. Both pretty and smart, but the oldest is a DeadpanSnarker who ReallyGetsAround and the younger one is the sweet and virginal one, who is a hard worker instead of BrilliantButLazy. They despise each other.

This troper and her sister loosely fit the trope; I at least like to think I'm reasonably good-looking, and she isn't ''especially'' popular and at least gets good grades even if she doesn't display intelligence in any ''other'' field (she's rather ditzy and naïve), but I'm TheSnarkKnight and a TeenGenius, whereas she's your typical hyperemotional, immature, and fashion-conscious teenage girl. As may be deducted from the tone in which I describe her, we don't get along. Attention from one's sex of choice hasn't really come into it, though, since I'm asexual and she just doesn't seem to have started dating yet.

Good god. You just described my middle sister and me ''exactly.'' Spooky.

This troper and her sister. This troper is the elder of the two, bookish, geeky, a musician and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. Her sister is the "normal" one: obsessed with her looks, popular, joined a soroity so she could go to parties, not actually stupid but a bit ditzy. We're pretty much on the same level looks-wise, but until a few years ago the sister put much more care into her appearance. After a trip to Japan, this troper realized that clothing can be unique and flattering without following silly trends, and now both sisters are praised for their outfits. Whenever the two sisters are in the same house for more than a week, though, they end up annoying each other greatly. A bit of a twist though: since this troper hangs out with a lot of wonderfully nerdy guys, she generally has happy relationships that last a while, while her sister has trouble with {{Jerk Jock}}s who just want to be "friends with benefits."

This troper's brother is the normal one, while he himself is a huge geek. This occasionally leads to heated argumets that sometimes come close to an all-out brawl. On the other hand, most of the time we're very good friends.

This troper's friend and her sister were like this, kinda. While they looked very similar, her sister was kind of a jerk sometimes, especially to her (not that it was completely unjustified, as this troper'd friend did occasionally do stuff that seriously pissed her sister off, usually by accident). The was a lot of rivalry between them and occasionally it broke out in physical violence (which the guys in the class referred as catfights).

This troper has had their sibling relationship described as less "rivalry" and more "homicide," though without any serious attempts along those lines. On the plus side, the scars on my arm are mostly invisible, the door was eventually repaired (though the frame is still weak - much longer screws were required to get around the bits that were completely torn out in the charge), and the hole in the wall was fairly easily pasted over. Noteworthy in that it played into the popular/smart dichotomy straight as can be, with both sides equally guilty of provocation. With time, however, has come forbearance, peace, and separate residences.

This (female) troper has this with her younger brother. Guess which one's the smart one and who's the popular one.

This troper wishes his sister would get hitched and move out of his life.

This troper and her brother actively lampshaded this trope. We've almost always gotten along very well, but used to make threats about the lawnmower and cans of gasoline Dad keeps in the garage among other things, just because siblings are supposed to fight.

This troper's DeadpanSnarker aunt and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} mother, while generally being quite close and fond of each other, get in to epic, screaming arguments every few years. And then there's the "Who's the Mallow Fairy?!" battle from their youth. For some reason, a flower fairy book caused great conflict over just which one of them was worthy of being their favorite fairy.

Me and my sister, despite our so-called mature age, regularly fight. I'm not talking little sissy fights, I'm talking knock-down, drag-out brawls. Holes are made in walls, knives are pulled, things are broken and blood is spilled. One memorable occasion included a sword fight with actual short swords.

This troper's grandmother and her two sisters. While all of them were married, only she had any kids, which may have been one reason.

Subverted by this troper and her sister, who are as different as night and day - within the confines of shared geekhood. She's smart, studious, and and a textbook InsufferableGenius, while this troper is mildly artistic and has various geeky hobbies, but is otherwise the epitome of BookDumb.

Subverted by this troper and her two younger sisters, who have always been excessively different but lived together fairly harmoniously. Impressive, considering she and the next-eldest went through puberty at close to the same time.

This troper's sister, who's a little over a year older seems to try to evoke this trope between us, although I just want some peace and quiet and I'm not interested. However, I seem to accidentally provoke her sometime, like when I confessed I had gotten my period... she was incredibly jealous about this, although I'm sure all you females reading this know that getting your period is not something to be jealous about. Slight subversion in that she's the pretty and smart one, wheras I'm the overweight one who always has at least one terrible grade per semester.

Five girls, six years, all {{Determinator}}s. Use your imagination.

Wait, you're five sisters??

Yes, I have a massive case of multiple personality disorder.

I'm one of her personalities, a fat guy who lives in Newfoundland! couldn't resist.)

This troper has the same hair and eye colour as her two-and-a-half years older sister. Dark brown, blue-grey. That's about all we have in common. I'm introverted, she's sociable. I'm almost TheStoic, she's loudly emotional. I spend most of my time exploring imaginary worlds, she's more grounded in reality. You get the idea.

Gender flip and slight subversion. This troper and his brother only really get along during video games, and even then my sibling throws the controller at me when we lose.

I'm the elder sister. My sister is the violent, bratty, ''loud'' three-years-younger one who bullies me like nobody's business. I'm the quiet, somewhat unfriendly one who ''hates'' being disturbed. Only due to a timely intervention do we no longer share a room. Only due to that are we both still alive today.

Holy shit, are you me? (Down to the age differences, even!)

This just might be the story of this troper's life. She and her twin argue constantly, and when they were younger they fought over friends, wallspace, and toys. It doesn't help that this troper is the dorky comic book/video game/literature/sci-fi lover, while her twin is the side-banged band-lover who enjoys mocking her twin's lack of fashion sense. Their differing tastes in men, however, have thankfully allowed them to avoid fighting over boys, though said twin enjoys pointing out that, if the trend continues, this troper is going to fall in love with an eccentric man twice her age.

Like that's a bad thing...necessarily...

I know, right?

So you're going to marry Terry Pratchett?

This troper is convinced that one day when neither nor this mother is looking; his two older sisters will brutally maime each other in a fight to the death.

This troper grew up in the middle of a three-way rivalry with her sisters. The troper, the middle child, was the quiet and intellectual one, the older sister was an *extremely* competitive and hot-headed athlete, especially in basketball, and the younger sister was outgoing and a budding chessmaster. MeleeATrois was an apt description when we were younger, though we've cooled off considerably since my older sister and I have gone to college.

This troper is pretty much a text-book case of this trope. Once she and her sister were around ten, they despised each other, although there were occasional alliances to try and get back at our younger brother, who was blatantly TheFavorite (which neither this troper, nor this troper's sister would have minded quite as much if their parents hadn't started punishing them for things their brother had obviously done). This often devolved into MeleeATrois, although we've since grown enough that we can co-exist without trying to kill each other.

This troper and her younger sister used to hate each other when they were kids - I mean, seriously hate each other, to the point of attempting to cause serious physical harm. Strangling, biting, hitting, throwing heavy/sharp objects, etc. Oddly, now that we're both teenagers, we get along fine. My sister is more popular and talented than me, but I don't begrudge her for it.

At this troper's school, there are a set of triplets(2 girls, 1 boy), that fit this trope and MeleeATrois to a T. All three are basketball players, all three look eerily alike, and that's all they share. The girls are the main perpetrators, with their brother mostly a confused onlooker.

This troper and her sister are averting this trope. We rarely fight, just the occasional punchout. But otherwise, we get along just fine.

Both averted ''and'' played straight with this troper and her sister. The two of us have similar taste in clothes, music, friends, look nearly identical except for hair-styles, and even have the exact same traits in our personalities - however we're both extremely different because of ''how'' we express these identical sides to our personalities. For example, this troper has a nasty temper but since she has never truly expressed it, people don't believe she has one, while her sister has gone into rages so terrible she's actually made this troper genuinely terrified of the safety of herself and her mother. Sadly, the sisterly rivalry is thus taken to real proportions - my sister is convinced that this troper is just a pathetic, spineless pawn of her mother (who in her view is an EvilMatriarch), while this troper has practically disowned her sister for being a selfish, psychotic, dangerous and outright abusive person. Proof that this trope really can be taken to the extreme.

Gender-flipped; this troper is very violent toward his bratty brother. He deserves it, though.

This seems to be happening between my two younger siblings, older sister and younger brother. They don't really split into "Popular" and "Smart" (one may have some kind of learning/attention disability that causes the ''appearance'' of BookDumb, though this condition doesn't actually exist). In their case it's probably ''due'' to their similarities that they fight so much. As for us two sisters, the rivalry only lasted until the younger one hit junior high and stopped being so annoying.

This troper and his brother used to fight a lot as kids, occasionally rather violently. Nowdays we've grown out of it. Well, mostly. One of his friends also had this kind of relationship with her yonger sister. She occasioanlly mentioned them having arguments over various things, and once she came to school with a nasty looking scratch on her cheek. This troper asked it it was made by her cat, but she said it was a result of a fight between her sister.

Describes this troper and her sister to a T. 19 months between us, I'm the elder, dark hair dark clothes and an introvert(Likened to Daria even by my parents). My Sister is your typical GenkiGirl/ ManicPixieDreamGirl. While we are both nerdy it's in opposite ends of the spectrum (e.g.Anime: I like Giant Robots, she likes angsty romances. Comics: I like your typical Super Teams, she exclusively reads TheSandman). Boy can we fight when we are in a bad mood.

Oh, lordy. This troper and her sister to a t. This troper's sister is sixteen years older. She is also skinnier (to the point of being unhealthy), though this troper is taller. This troper really doesn't like her, as she is rather annoying, we have different politics, and she obviously got to do everything first (married, kids, etc...)

This troper has the mega family version of this going on. Basicly, her sister is the only family member who is not a full on n3rd. I speak l33t, watch ''StarTrek'', read comics, and am a PerkyGoth of sorts. My brother likes his ds and ''StarWars'', my dad is a physicist and reads Discworld, and my mum is an ex-fangirl. My sister is the one who goes out shopping with friends and worries about her appearance.

I'm the oldest of four, three are girls. The next one down from me is nearly my polar opposite. I am a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, read the encyclopedia for fun, way too much anime/manga, tend to burn/liquify/explode most of the food I try to prepare, can't sew a straight line to save my life, have some rather interesting mental quirks, and, perhaps because of that last one, I don't embarrass easily. My sister on the other hand could care less about sci-fi-fantasy, preferring such things as the works of Jane Austin. She's also an almost textbook YamatoNadeshiko, including having the household skills that I don't have. One of the few things we have in common is a rather LimitedSocialCircle. In my case mainly because of my rather odd personality, in her case mainly because she gets embarrassed by the concept of ''asking a stockboy where the lemon juice is.''

My sister and I are an interesting version of this trope. My sister was the pretty, popular, prom queen of a basketball player, whilst at the ages there, I was considered by the males to be more attractive, though I was unpopular (in her opinion), and...okay, I'm a full out nerd, down to playing Sonic the Hedgehog while noting the differences to the comic, playing Dungeons and Dragons, World of Darkness, and Shadowrun while writing fanfiction for my flavor of the month anime, fangasming at Tom Baker, and spending lots of time on forums. My elder sister, though, ''hates'' that somehow, I am prettier than her and my relationships are more stable than hers, and she does make sure I'm the one who gets her kids while she goes out partying, which leaves me effectively with no life. Needless to say, I'll be truly, deeply loathing her my whole life long.

A male and weird version of this trope: My brother and I are very smart (At least, over the average: my IQ is around 145, and his, "only" 135), we are both geeks, but the conflict comes from the fact of what we study: He's more of a natural and hard sciences man (He studied Biology) and I'm more of a Social Studies guy (I'm studied sociology); He's the mom's favorite (My mother studied Chemistry and she always wanted a son who studied something similar) and I'm more the "father heir" (Seriously, a couple of times my dad has told me how I'm need to lead and be strong if something happens to him). Good balance of strength and qualities, I've got to tell...

Happened to This Troper, who though five years younger looks VERY much like her older sister. The older sister is the popular one, though she's no ditz.

This Troper and her younger brother (We're in high school). I'm the 'smart one', although he's no idiot (just book dumb); respective IQs are 165 and 149 (both tested at age 6). He's the 'popular one'; a huge ham with some trouble paying attention in school and the star of the hockey team. I'm the all-AP nerd gal, president of the anime club and vice prez of history club (although in an aversion, I'm not bad a sports. I play field hockey, too; the arguments over whether ice hockey or field hockey is harder/better/funner/etc are endless). We do not get along- at least on the surface. I'm blue oni to his red oni, the deadpan snarker who mocks his idiotic jock humour. However, we have survived our parent being sent to a different country and us being dragged along, with no one to talk to but each other at first- eight times over. We're doing pretty good.

This troper has a love of learning and has built up an IQ of 175. He is almost socially inept and is moderate(at best) in appearance. His sister, however, is the most popular girl in her school with an astounding IQ of 87.

This troper has always been the "smart one". I preferried books over television (still do, save for some exceptions), I dislike most kinds of music my classmates like and the largest amount of friends I've had at school at a time is three. My slightly-younger sister has bright blue eyes, long hair and a slim figure, doesn't really bother with school and has several friends (more than I bother to remember).

This Troper has two younger sisters. From when the youngest could talk until she was about eleven, this trope was played wonderfully straight, allowing This Troper to sit off to one side enjoying the view. Then, over the course of mere days, these two seemingly-implacable foes realised they had a common enemy, and joined forces in the war against...the Elder Brother! Since then, it's been a straight-up popular/smart rivalry, with them playing the popular part and This Troper as the smart one.

This Troper's the smart one. Her sister's the pretty one. Don't get that confused now, I know we tend to blend it!

This Troper is the youngest of three girls, although since me and the middle child are only 11 months apart, we typically ganged up on the oldest one in order to play this trope straight.

This Troper's family is sort of an extended version of this. She has four stepsisters, and they all fall together pretty well into Spice Girl roles. I (the oldest) am Scary Spice, the next oldest (nine months younger) is Posh Spice, the next oldest is Sporty Spice, the second youngest is Ginger Spice, and the youngest girl is (obviously) Baby Spice. We're all still living at home and at most are two years apart in age, and none of us get along very well. So yes, our house is a war zone.

Yet another gender-flipped example. A friend of mine is a karate addict and very strong. His brother is in the Special Forces. Apparently, their 'friendly sparring' tends to destroy furniture.

This troper and her sister fall into this perfectly. I'm the older one, and I am stereotypically geeky, something of a Cloudcuckoolander, unpopular, and read so much I fall into InsufferableGenius territory. In contrast, my sister is taller, skinner, more muscular, prettier (having somehow escaped acne), and is popular.

This Troper has two brothers and two sisters (as well as an added two stepsisters and a stepbrother, although they dont live with us). There is a lot of fighting between us, as we are all so different. She is the tiny, shy, intelligent one. Her oldest sister is tall, loud, and her friends have absolutely trashed the house on occaisions. Sister often fights with younger brother, who goes between being a bit of a wimp, to picking on the other younger brother, who is whiny and non independant. Littlest sister gets on with all of us, most of the time, although she is the youngest and cutest, although she once made one of her brothers, who is 5 years older than her, cry, while playing a bit rough in a game.

My brother, sister, and I had something of a rivalry. My brother and sister more were the rivals as my brother was the popular well-meaning jock/clown while my sister was the cynical temperamental band geek. Meanwhile I was the CloudCuckoolander with a major inferiority complex because everybody she knew expected her to be like one of them but wasn't like either of them and hated to be treated like either of them.

(same troper) To add, most of the rivalry is between myself and my sister, whom is 2 years older than me (my brother is in the middle) since we fell within the same social circles. She was skinnier, prettier, more sociable, and much snarkier than I was. I was much shyer, pudgier, smarter by default (my sister is BookDumb but has very good common sense), odder, and always struggling to make friends. Plus, my sister stole my friends a lot and always had guys who wanted her while I was merely just "the friend". And yes, she did date one of my friends too!

This Troper and her sister usually fit this trope. When left alone, I am a bookish, talkative, clean freak (my dad often forgets to vacuum my room because he doesn't have to pick up the floor beforehand). My sister leaves lights on and doors open, doesn't respect anyone's privacy, at 13 she still sleeps with the lights and TV on, and she is the reason I can't listen to music without headphones even alone in a room/ house. Despite the fact that even our parents have Lampshaded the fact that I have ample reason, I have only hit her once, and that was a well-deserved slap to the face. We do invert it, however. Both of us are often told we're extremely beautiful.

This Troper and her younger sister are a quite accurate example. We also might qualify as SiblingYinYang. Starting with appearance, I'm a green-eyed brunette with quite striking facial features (huge eyes, crooked nose, quite full lips, strong jaw), she's a brown-eyed blonde (though not naturally as blonde as she is, but she's been dying her hair blonde for a long time now) with much more traditionally "beautiful" face. I, the Smart Sister, am somewhat quirky, with geeky interests, TheSnarkKnight tendencies, and while I love meeting interesting people and spending time with them, I also like being alone a lot and definitely more than being in an annoying or boring company. She, the Popular Sister, is interested in typical teenage girl stuff (fashion, makeup, celebrities, ect., all of which I've never really cared much about, though I do care about my appearance and like to dress nicely, dressing nicely just doesn't mean following trends to me), is much more cheerful and bubbly than me, and hates being alone. I wasn't even moderately popular until the last grades of school; she's always been very popular and had loads of friends. We both need glasses; I wear mine proudly, she hates wearing them and always 'forgets' to wear them. But then there are the fact that we're five years apart, which might explain some things, and the moments when I realize that we're NotSoDifferent after all. (We also have a middle sister, who is not a polar opposite of either of us.)

This troper and her sister, despite not getting on very well, aren't an example so far as the character types go... but said sister is convinced we are. ''Both'' are the smart one, though in different areas, with this troper being a history and sociology nerd and Sister Dear being a psychology student, both are very artistic (though it's an future-profession for this troper and an hobby for her sister), both are total nerds, both are socially awkward, and both are fairly pretty. However, the fact that this troper was cursed with the MostCommonSuperpower and her sister... wasn't has convinced her sister that this troper is the pretty one, with all that entails-- leading to frequent snarks about this troper's many friends, popularity, and non-academic future. Never mind that we're both certifiable geniuses and this troper is despised by most of her peers. Beh?

This troper had this with her younger sister when they were teenagers. She was the pretty, athletic social butterfly and I was the shy nerd. The whole war business was mostly in my head, though; even if we displayed some traits I would make a bigger deal of it than necessary (including not letting her hang out with my friends and I half the time because I was afraid she'd steal them somehow). But slowly I became more rational and accepted that we were simply "different" and that was okay. Today, I'm still a shy nerd, but my sister and I both took on some of our mother's GranolaGirl traits so now we're more on similar wavelengths.

This troper's MOTHER tries to do this with her and her sister. I'm the smart one who can write, read and gets above average grades with certificates and a reseme to prove it despite being 13. She's also a snarker and a Goth. My mother favors my younger sister as the Beautiful One because she encourages her to model, be popular, draw and do artistic things. She's also Book Dumb and hot-headed despite me being tougher and stronger. My mother doesn't care so much about my work and cares more about my sister's well-being.

This Troper and her sister were this while growing up, always arguing,fighting,all exacerbated by sharing a room.She's sporty,popular, extrovert,doesn't like to read,and it's more of a math/science person while I'm nerdy,introvert,hate sports, love to read and I am 100% humanists. I had to read books for her and often do her homework. then we grew up and got separate rooms, and now we're good friends. she does remain the Quinn to my Daria, the Sansa to my Arya,etc, but we've learned to complement each other.

Though this troper is by no means ugly, and my sister is definitely not dumb, we basically fall in to this. I'm the eldest, the nerdy, subdued, smart one with CloudCuckooLander tendencies. She is the vibrant, rebellious, outgoing pretty one who's managed to have five more boyfriends than me (hint: she's had five boyfriends) despite being two years younger. We both skipped a grade, though, and I look okay when I dress up and my makeup is well done. We're also both very nerdy, though I prefer HarryPotter while she likes LordOfTheRings. I have two more younger sisters, and it seems like they might be falling into this as well, though like I said before, neither of them is dumb (in fact, all of us were in our school's Gifted Program).

Good grief. This Troper and her younger sister fit this trope, even as adults. My sister is popular, beautiful, and married with two kids. She attends college online, but does not enjoy it. If she even finishes her BA, that's as far as she wants to go, since she wants to stay and homeschool her kids, rather than getting a career. She's smart and practical, but not as book-smart, and often thinks she's not being taken seriously. I'm the perennially single, self-supporting bookworm, an undergraduate senior, and I intend to complete graduate school up to my Ph.D., hopefully starting with an MFA assistantship within the next two years. I have good relationships with my friends and family, but a very small circle of friends, and I do fear that people find me ugly, boring, or awkward. Me and my sister have leveled plenty of (usually good-natured) insults at each other, believe you me. "Soccer mom." "Idiot savant." "June Cleaver." "Yuppie."