Apply for Care Taker of a Disabled Family Member

"Some people volition ever need help. But that doesn't mean they are not worth helping."

The Caretaker is a parent, spouse, sibling or kid of a Cloudcuckoolander, Ill Daughter, Ophelia, or Squishy Wizard who takes intendance of them. They put their lives on concord to brand certain their loved one is well taken intendance of and hopefully happy, ofttimes when the remainder of the family actively passes the brawl or abandons their relative entirely.

Most of the time they're defined more by their ward than every bit a grapheme themselves. Since well-nigh stories middle on their ill relative, they're often relegated to beingness the overprotective guardian who actively discourages their loved one from any and all cocky realization, love, and risky activity in general. And that's if they're circumspect; a negligent or resentful Caretaker volition put the Dursleys' cruelty to shame. Only rarely is there middle ground for a "dynamic" caretaker who encourages their ward while not completely losing the power to have a life of their own.

What happens next is even more of a downer. Once their loved 1 is cured/finds true love/dies, (One of these iii always happens, there is no Status Quo Is God where The Littlest Cancer Patient and his ilk are involved) they stop upwardly... stuck. They take no life to go back to, equally care for their loved 1 was priority number 1, and get stuck on what to do side by side with their lives. This oftentimes leads would exist suitors or the loved one calling them out that they demand their sick loved one more than than the loved 1 needs them.

When the Flagman is allowed to have center stage, they oft have to deal with metric tons of Angst, both from honey, resentment, frustration, sheer sadness, wishing their loved one were dead and guilt at the concluding four. Honestly, they rarely go the kudos they deserve.

Unless, of course, they become what might be chosen an "activist" caretaker, in which instance they not but intendance for their relative, they practically quest for a cure or better treatment on the role of order. Activists normally manage a happier ending, either partially or fully healing their ward, etching out a niche for them in lodge, rehabilitating them, or at to the lowest degree helping others practise the above.

Not to exist confused with Crusty Caretaker. Or caretakers in full general, if you're British. See also Living Emotional Crutch. Has stiff overlap with The Champion, indeed is likely to be the aforementioned person. The Cloudcuckoolander's Minder is more "babysitting a weirdo" than "caring for an invalid" and thus more than comical, though they could overlap, if the invalid in question is well....weird. Compare Protectorate.

Not to Be Dislocated with the musician The Flagman, or the eponymous entity from the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

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    Anime & Manga

• Farnese ends upward taking up this function for Casca in Berserk when she joins Guts' group. She has something of an inferiority circuitous most it seemingly beingness the only matter she does; she's ordinarily just as helpless every bit Casca in a fight. It prompts her to starting time learning magic so she can contribute (and gratefully, she takes her beginning real lesson right when Casca gets cured).
• Exaggerated in A Channel. Run is so ditzy that she pretty much would have gotten herself killed if non for Tooru, and Tooru is so protective of her that she threatens Run's male classmates with a baseball bat for just talking to her.
• The backstory of Chrono Crusade reveals that Rosette well-nigh took on this role for her piddling blood brother Joshua. After they became orphaned, Joshua adult holy powers which also caused him to be constantly sick. Rosette tells Chrono that she wants to become a medico to cure him (giving upward on her dream of being an explorer), but Joshua overhears her and attempts to defy the trope past agreeing to become a member of the Magdalan Club. Even so, Aion gets to him beginning and promises him the take a chance to proceeds enough power to control his illness...and kidnaps him, which sets off the events of the main storyline.
  • The manga also has the minor character Beth, one of Rosette's old friends from the Order that later grows up to be her doctor.
  • Later Joshua also gets Fiore as his flagman — not because he's sick, but because the power Aion promised him drove him completely insane. She seems to be around to protect other people from Joshua as much as she's around to have intendance of Joshua himself.
• Lelouch of Code Geass takes on the The Empire, and eventually the entire world with well-nigh no qualms well-nigh the sacrifices it would take specifically to build a world where his piddling sister tin alive peacefully, though he realizes that he has been using his sis as an excuse for his existent motive: to make a ameliorate world.
• In Eureka 7, Volition B. Baxter tends to his catatonic married woman Martha'due south every need without complaint or despair. She's probably not aware of the state of affairs, and hasn't been able to motion, at all, in years. At least, until she gets up to see Volition immediately earlier they both dice.
• Played With in Fruits Basket. Akito ofttimes either pretends to be sick or conveniently gets sick (whether it's intentional or non, the root is clearly psychological) in an attempt to invoke this response. It works on Hatori, at any rate (Hatori'southward the family unit doctor, and Akito's the head of the family, so he doesn't actually take a choice). Kureno besides seems to think of himself every bit Akito'due south caretaker (looking more toward Akito'south emotional needs), although his attempts to help really just brand things worse for both of them. In the end, Akito ends up getting amend both emotionally and physically thanks to Tohru, and after she lets go of both Kureno and Hatori equally well as the rest.
• Played for Laughs in One thousand-On! with Yui and Ui. Ui is often shown taking care of Yui, and has go hyper-competent equally a effect (which is thoroughly lampshaded by the rest of the cast). Nevertheless, she has no idea what to practise with herself when Yui isn't around. Late in the second season, their positions are briefly reversed, which leads to Yui writing the song "U&I" as a heartfelt gesture for everything Ui has washed for her.
• In Madlax, Elenore Baker is the caretaker of Margaret Burton — an amnesiac, infantile, and slightly insane final descendant of a rich family. Of class, Elenore is also a Ninja Maid who gets paid for her service, but her Undying Loyalty to Margaret clearly goes beyond professional duty.
• Reigen is a mixed bag of this for Mob in Mob Psycho 100. It'south obvious that he cares a lot nigh Mob and has no trouble rushing into dangerous situations to salve him, chewing people out for "stressing out" his "mentally weak" student. Unfortunately, he can also be a possessive and selfish jerk who tries to dispense Mob and keep him from hanging out with friends. He eventually gets his comeuppance when he takes things too far and Mob leaves him, and he's humiliated on national television. It'southward just subsequently this that he realizes he's become more reliant on Mob than helpful to him and that he'due south lost sight of his ain goals and on what's really important (namely, Mob's happiness, and trust in him). He gets better, and becomes more of a Chivalrous Boss and friend — although he still runs into dangerous situations, and occasionally lies in society to spare Mob's feelings.
• My-HiME's main grapheme, Mai Tokiha, completely defines her life around taking care of her equally selfless Ill Boy younger brother. This was brought on by an accident in which their mother saves Takumi but later dies. Before she died, she made Mai promise to always await after Takumi and she took it to heart. He eventually calls her out to notice a reason to live besides him, or else he won't concord to his treatment. This tin can be seen in how she naturally falls into taking care of Mikoto as her roommate.
• Cornelia, for Juliet in Romeo X Juliet.
• Shannon and Raquel are both caretaker and protector to their sis not really Pacifica in Scrapped Princess. Though Pacifica isn't really ill, she is hunted past agents of the state and religious authorities.
• Sakura from Zombie Country Saga straddles the line between this and Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder. Her subject field of care after the first episode is Tae, who happens to be a literally mindless zombie. Sakura is the ane who keeps her from eating markers, dresses her upwardly before performances, and gives her the commands necessary to be function of the Idol Singer group the zombies compose. She'south also the just one to consistently talk to Tae like an actual person, albeit a very naive person. Unusually for this trope, this is portrayed with few if any negative implications; Sakura is living her (un)life to the fullest she can, and does non announced to be dependant on or manipulative of Tae in any manner. It probably helps that she is The Heart of the group as a whole.

    Comic Books

• Superman is peradventure an example of this trope, as odd as that may audio; as he is ordinarily depicted every bit leaping into a state of affairs based on his own assumption that he is doing what other people desire, by and large without bothering to actually stop and ask first. Information technology's also implied that being a Caretaker for humanity is Supes' but existent reason to exist.

    Fan Works

• In The Feel of Feelings , Hermione assumed this role for a partially crazy Harry after his release from 2 years unjustly spent in Azkaban, simply to be chided by a common friend that treating Harry like a child wouldn't exactly foster his ability to take care of himself.
• Flag Flight High has Harry bold the burden of existence Mo Xuanyu'due south only positive back up, as his abusive family would rather tend to worsen his mental state. Still, Harry mentally acknowledges how tiring it is for a teenager to watch over a mentally sick grown up human liable to self-impairment or to make sexual advances on his friend, leading Harry to grow some resentment.

    Films — Live-Activeness

• Jenny, the sister to blind Virgil in At First Sight. She was incredibly overprotective, but got to justify her reactions as years of disappointment of quack doctors, every bit well as receiving a Promotion to Parent for her brother at a young age. Though she was called out on her faults, she got a run a risk to see them and mend her means while her brother was temporarily cured of his blindness.
• Benny from Benny & Joon. An important subplot throughout the pic is his struggle with the realization that Joon, his mentally sick sister, can take intendance of herself meliorate than he thinks and that he uses her reliance on him every bit an alibi to not live his ain life. By the terminate of the moving-picture show he understands this, and is able to enter a real romantic relationship for the first time, while Joon is allowed to get her own flat.
• In Eternals, Gilgamesh has been taking care of Thena since she started going insane from having more than memories than her mind tin concur. Partially because her mindwipe after their concluding mission didn't fully take, and she's remembering the devastation of the last world they were sent to.
• Nell in the remake of The Haunting (1999) was the caretaker and daughter of an calumniating bedridden mother. She had no life savings from taking care of her female parent, and her sister was taking possession of their mother's house. Oh, and she dies at the stop while taking downwardly the evil ghost of the mansions possessor. I believe the term "martyr" had people like her in mind.
  • In the original film, and the book it's based on, information technology's Eleanor that was the flagman, even to living every bit a recluse — the haunting took advantage of her feeling of isolation and resentment.
• Lorenzo's Oil has a startling two parents piece of work equally Caretakers for Lorenzo, all while being Activists and independently researching a possible cure for his slow mental shutdown and helping dozens of others as the catastrophe Montage advertises. Needless to say they were able to pull it off considering they could rely on each other to care for Lorenzo, but they (especially Michaela) did get overprotective on his behalf. You lot also go an case of how not to exist a Caretaker past watching Nancy (Jennifer Dundas) who assumes Lorenzo has no listen left whatever and treats him similar an inanimate object.
• In Molly (1999), Buck finds himself the caretaker of his autistic and intellectually impaired sister, Molly, after her institution shuts down. He is not happy about this.
• In Repo! The Genetic Opera, Nathan Wallace's wife Marni dies, leaving him to raise their newborn daughter, Shilo. He ends up keeping her locked in her bedchamber for seventeen years to protect her from the outside world. And so it turns out he takes the "co-dependent" and "overprotective" parts of this trope Upwards to Eleven by administering a toxicant for those same 17 years to keep her bedridden and dependent, so she will never exit him. And this after he killed Marni trying to cure her! (Well, that's what he thought anyway.)
• Mrs. Medlock in The Secret Garden. She watched over the young lord'due south "ill" son Colin assiduously, and scolded Mary for existence reckless when she worsened his condition. Mrs. Medlock goes so far as to lock Mary in her bedroom and force Colin to take baths in freezing water, while he screams that he'south fine. When it turns out it was years of overprotective care that left Colin unable to walk, which Mary cured, Medlock was reduced to a near friendless crying heap.
• In The Whales of August, elderly Sarah has devoted herself to caring for her similarly elderly, merely as well blind and much more frail, sister Libby. Sarah wonders if peradventure Libby isn't too much of a burden in Sarah's own quondam historic period.
• 10-Men Moving-picture show Series:
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past has Hank, who stays with Charles and looks after him for ten years of drunken misery.
  • Logan begins with Logan and Caliban looking after Charles, who is becoming senile and unable to control his powers in his old historic period.

    Literature

• The Old Man in Being There, with his maids, was this to the mentally challenged Chance the Gardener. The story proper begins when the Sometime Homo dies and the now-center-aged Chance is forced to venture out into the earth for the first time, as the Old Man forbade him to get out their townhouse, with the threat of institutionalization if he did. What'southward specially sad most this is the possibility that Chance is his (unknowing) son. In the picture show version, the black maid Louise is a kindly flagman and was likely closer to Adventure than the Old Homo... just she resents his later success as "Chauncey Gardiner" because she knows he'due south an idiot; as she sees information technology, he gained ability solely because he's white.
• In the Dragonlance books, Caramon Majere takes on this role for his Squishy Sorcerer brother, Raistlin, who greatly resents needing the help. Made especially toe-curling by the fact that Raistlin is perfectly capable of murdering his caretaking blood brother, a fact which Caramon is well aware of — and yet, he stays. True to the trope, when Raistlin overcomes his sickness and achieves godlike power, Caramon is left as a drunken wreck without a management in life...
  • Until Tika comes forth...
• Will Parry in His Dark Materials starts out as a caretaker for his mother who suffers from mental illness and having to leave her for a time weighs heavily on him.
• In Ivanhoe Rebecca the beautiful Jewish maiden cares for the Knight Ivanhoe when he is wounded.
• Jeeves and Wooster: In-universe, a lot of people recall that Jeeves is this to Bertie. It's not far from the truth.
• Jo, towards Beth in the 2nd half of Niggling Women. When poor Beth dies... Sniff.
• George to Lennie in Of Mice & Men, with a bit of Cloudcuckoolander's Minder thrown in for good measure. This results in a serious Tear Jerker when George has to Shoot the Dog.
• In The Overstory, Dorothy ends up caring for her husband, Ray, afterward he suffers a stroke that leaves him with severe brain damage, despite how she was about to divorce him when he was healthy.
• Many of Jodi Picoult's novels have this, though usually the caretaker is somewhat egotistic. The caretaker is always a mother taking care of her child, who has a chronic, ordinarily life-threatening illness. They often will ignore anyone else and focus solely on the child. Sara in My Sis'south Keeper cares about her girl Kate to the point of having a child specifically to donate blood and tissue to Kate and ignoring the other child. Charlotte in Handle with Care actually sues her all-time friend and then she can get money to take care of the kid.
• Nadine Cross in The Stand to an orphan she calls "Joe" who had been rendered mute and feral due to the trauma of seeing his family die of the plague. True to the trope, she ultimately needed him much more than than he needed her. Things go downhill fast the moment he recovers from his trauma and he doesn't need her to such an extent anymore.
• Princess Marya in State of war and Peace acts as The Caretaker for her one-time begetter until his expiry, then becomes the primary caretaker of her nephew, whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is off to war.

    Live-Action Idiot box

• Admittedly Fabulous: Saffron Monsoon could fit this trope. She is the nearly sane and mature grapheme in the show, constantly existence the Voice of Sanity to her female parent (who is a middle-aged adult female with a teenager'southward beliefs and a toddler's emotions). Later episodes upset the balance past having her do things like spying on a "normal" family by hiding in their cupboard.
• Arrested Development: On the contrary side of the coin, in that location is the highly dysfunctional relationship of Lucille Bluth and her son Buster. She switches back and forth from coddling to abusive based apparently on what will cause her son the most psychological harm. Information technology's funnier than y'all'd retrieve.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow briefly became this afterward Tara was driven insane by Celebrity.
  • Spike started out as substantially an evil version of this, taking intendance of a weakened Drusilla.
• Firefly: Simon Tam frequently takes on this role when information technology comes to his sister River. He is genuinely caring toward her and constantly strives to find out what was done to her at the hands of the Alliance so he tin find a manner to "cure" her, putting him squarely in the Activist role. Non to mention that he gave up a rich, comfortable life and a very promising medical career for a dangerous life on the run to exercise the above mentioned.
  He suppresses whatever irrational arraign for River and is never as well smothering, though very affectionate. He is very protective and those who might impairment her observe that he is likewise a Papa Wolf when necessary. And to height it all off, he manages to have characteristics across flagman ones — the show and The Movie make him a Deadpan Snarker with a somewhat bumbling approach to love. He does admit that he's been ignoring what he wanted for himself by the finish, though.
  • And River inverts it in The Film, past saving him and the entire crew past willingly locking herself in a room with an regular army of Reavers. Needless to say, those stupid Reavers get their asses kicked.
• Fringe: Peter Bishop reluctantly takes this function to become his Mad Scientist father, Walter, out of the mental establishment where he's been held for the last 20 years, since Walter can just be released into the care of a blood-relative. Over time however, Peter comes to meet that it was the establishment itself that mentally damaged his father, to the point where when a example requires Walter to readmit himself to speak to another patient who holds vital information, Peter is furious at the suggestion.
• Kamen Passenger Ex-Aid has the duo of Taiga Hanaya and his patient, Nico Saiba. Their relationship is complicated past Taiga's load of issues, Nico's habit of endangering herself ^annotation It'due south a trait they share leading to them driving each other mad at times. and their mutual intendance.
• Mother and Son: This trope was the premise of this sitcom, with the son both the caretaker and The Un Favourite of a senile mother.
• Revolution: Charlie is this to Danny, hence why she's so set up on getting him back.
• Seinfeld: Played for Laughs several times, where Elaine'southward boyfriends take a tendency to wind up horribly injured, suffering a heart attack, or going through heroin withdrawal just equally she's about to dump them.
• Star Trek: Voyager: There's a literal "the caretaker". He's taking intendance of the Ocampa later accidentally frying their planet to a barely inhabitable mess.
• Supernatural:
  • Dean Winchester, especially in regards to his Sammy. Dean is naturally nurturing and protective by nature. Notwithstanding, Dean has made it his purpose to take care of Sam his entire life.
  • In Season vii, after Castiel absorbs Sam's madness, Million gets a job as a nurse at the mental hospital to protect him.

    Castiel: Will you expect at her? My caretaker. All of that thorny hurting. So beautiful.
    Meg: We've been over this. I don't similar poetry. Put upwards or close upwards.

    Roleplay

• In Dept Heaven Apocrypha, it fell to Milanor to slowly and painstakingly nurse Nessiah back to health later the latter's mind finally shattered. By now Nessiah has by and large snapped out of the catatonic state he was originally in, only is still fairly dependent on Milanor as of chapter ten. They're lovers, and Milanor felt kind of responsible for Nessiah's land, so Nessiah's helplessness wasn't quite as awkward every bit it could have been, merely... Much later, when Nessiah finally gets meliorate, he points out rather bluntly that all of this has nearly destroyed his and Milanor'south human relationship and that they need to showtime over if they desire to actually stay together.

    Theater

• In Keely And Du, a pregnant adult female is kidnapped by a radical anti-abortion group that kidnaps her and tries to force her to have her baby. While there are male characters, the play mostly focuses on the Closer to Earth relationship between the contentious kidnapped mother and the the sweet, elderly nurse taking care of her.
• In Les Misérables, Jean Valjean becomes a cross between this and a Parental Substitute for little Cosette. When she'due south grown upward, she loves him very much but is confused by his secretive behavior (among other things, he doesn't tell her who her mother was).
• Dogged Squeamish Guy Dan spends a couple decades beingness this for his married woman Diana in Next to Normal, bordering on Heroic BSoD himself.
• Annie in The Norman Conquests takes care of her bedridden mother, with just occasional aid from her brother Reg (and no help at all from her sis Ruth).

    Video Games

• Big Daddies in BioShock protect the Piddling Sisters from any Splicer that wants to get their hands in the ADAM they produce. And given how they are giant men in diving suits with either: a drill equipped with a grappling hook, a giant riveting gun that doubles as a automobile gun and mines, a giant laser gun, or remotely controlled mini-turrets and a rocket launcher, and on pinnacle of all that, sometimes Plasmids; Splicers rightly consider attacking the Protectors suicide.
• The cease of the A road in Bonfire Union shows Nessiah supporting Gulcasa in a combination of this function and Living Emotional Crutch, equally it falls to him (the only one who knows enough about Brongaa's blood and its effects) to make sure Gulcasa regularly kills something to sate his natural bloodlust (no matter how much Gulcasa himself does not want to) and nurse him dorsum to health should he fall sick from overusing or underusing his powers with his torso still unstable. He too takes Siskier'southward place as Gulcasa's confidante and adviser, as well equally becoming his love interest. In a variation on the trope, Nessiah shows no sign of minding having to do this for three years; later on all, when he's strung out later on using Brongaa's power, Gulcasa is awfully easy to manipulate, then Nessiah has plenty to gain from being devoted.
  • Though at that place are some emotional attachments Nessiah makes in the procedure that cause him issues in the stop.
• Mio from Fatal Frame II towards her twinsister, Mayu. While Mio's the younger of the two, she watches over Mayu and frequently checks up on her. Part of this comes from Mayu being weaker than Mio and more than susceptible to spiritual influence, the other role coming from a certain amount of guilt because Mio blames herself for Mayu having fallen down a cliff and permanently injuring her leg.
• Hotline Miami ii: Wrong Number reveals that Richter, the human who was sent to shoot Jacket in the first game, is actually a pretty decent guy, with his principal redeeming trait being that his mother is stricken with an illness of some sort and he has to help her with her daily activities.
• Axel fulfills this function toward Roxas in Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days later on he is assigned to mentor the younger Nobody who recently joined Organization XIII. After Roxas befriends Xion and starts hanging out with her, Axel also becomes her caretaker as well. Axel eventually turns into a Poisonous Friend when obsessed with keeping Roxas and Xion every bit his friends, he lies to them, does questionable stuff behind their backs, and if they try to get out the Organisation of their own gratuitous will, he attempts to bring them back past strength. Post-obit Xion'southward death, Axel is the only member of the Arrangement to miss Roxas when the latter defects. And in Kingdom Hearts 2, Axel's dying wish was to meet Roxas once more.
• I of Akiha's endings in Tsukihime has Shiki Tohno playing this function toward Akiha herself. Definitely a tragic version, as poor Akiha has been reduced to a more than or less mindless, catatonic, blood sucking monster, and the already anemic Shiki insists on providing that blood himself, due to a sense of responsibleness for her status as well as love for her.
• Lisa Garland, the nurse who who took intendance of Alessa in Silent Hill. In substitution for her care, she was granted a degree of protection from the horrors of the Dark World of Silent Hill, which she couldn't leave because Kaufman had killed her, trapping her there. Fan theories speculate Alessa cared for Lisa, and was using her to manipulate Harry into ceasing his search for Cheryl. In the terminate, she reverts to a claret covered monster when Harry rejects her and she realizes what she is. She does get a comeuppance by killing Kaufman in the Good + ending, though.
  • In the moving-picture show, she was just an ordinary nurse who curiously looked at Alessa while agonizing subsequently being well-nigh burned to death. Alessa responded by "diggings" her optics and upper face with 3rd degree burns that remain on her permanently even in the Night World. Alessa does seem to regret it though... the evil within her admits Lisa wasn't guilty of anything, and while she doesn't (can't?) heal her, she keeps her nearby instead of having Pyramid Head kill her.
• Wildstar has a graphic symbol named Caretaker, who is a sentient program left behind to maintain and monitor the Eldan'due south various experiments and Drusera.

    Visual Novels

• In Air, Haruko takes care of the weak and cursed Misuzu, and her feelings conflict between protecting her from herself and loving her.
• The Bishojo game Kana: Footling Sister practically revolves around this trope, with the main character of the story (Takamichi aka Taka) existence the Littlest Cancer Patient'due south big brother. He manages to escape the curse of being a Satellite Character, for ameliorate for worse, becoming darker and more circuitous (And less sympathetic... and sane) as the story goes on. How he ends up depends on your choices through the game, from publishing a book about Kana and using the funds to train as a doc, saving Kana and and so having her leave him when she realizes he'southward go co-dependent, to transforming into a despairing schizophrenic mess.
• In Nine Hours, Ix Persons, 9 Doors, it turns out that Santa was this to Akane, taking intendance of her afterward she was orphaned, protecting her during the get-go fourth dimension around in the Nonary Game, and helping to arrange for the 2d game, so she could really be rescued.

    Spider web Comics

• Syphile played this to Ariel in Drowtales. Granted, it was more of a Promotion to Parent than anything else, but Syphile knew Ariel was the production of a Drow-Spider mating, and saw Ariel as a literal monster to be looked afterward rather than a daughter or fifty-fifty sister. Combined with lingering resentment over being rejected by her mother, she took it out on Ariel with brutal "combat training" and impossible tasks every bit part of her studies.
• Daniel in The Guide to a Healthy Human relationship claims to be this for his mentally ill romantic partner Julian, except he abuses and gaslights them all the time. Julian really has a much more caring relationship with their childhood best friend Apollo; the ii of them tend to accept turns in looking out for one another: Apollo for Julian in that they eat enough and stay grounded, Julian for Apollo by being his guide when his bad eyesight is getting the worse of him and he tin can't navigate foreign terrain.
• Suzy in The Sanity Circus not only squees and celebrates over seeing Fletch again after a long time, she also fusses over him and checks things like whether he'south eating enough.

    Web Videos

• The video "Accept Care" is a bitter-sweetness 8-minute documentary about a normal adult female struggling to treat her daughter and ailing grandad while trying to improve her own situation. Information technology'southward heartbreaking and beautiful.
• As in canon, the Emperor of Mankind in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Spoken communication Device is interred on the Gilt Throne, unable to move, and so the job of Caretaker was made to look after him. Kitten by and large keeps him company and informs him virtually the state of the Imperium, simply other duties include sponging down his immobile body and cleaning out the sewers.
  • Kitten later loses his position to his brothers, who are competent enough at the cleaning part. The emotional aspects, not and then much. The emotional void is filled past Rogal Dorn, one of the Emperor's sons.

  Rogal Dorn : "While my siblings are existence lost, I came here to keep our rambling, paraplegic father company. Considering I dearest him more whatever other."

• Benny from The Nostalgia Critic looked after his mentally ill sister, and is Hyper's Only Friend.

    Western Animation

• Avatar: The Terminal Airbender:
  • General 'Uncle' Iroh voluntarily follows his nephew Zuko in exile, and cares for him every bit a son. Unfortunately, he only gets yelled at, insulted, abandoned, betrayed and imprisoned in render. It's not that Zuko doesn't intendance nigh his uncle, because he does; he's just way too obsessed with proving himself to his Evil Overlord father, Burn down Lord Ozai, to have eye for the more of import things in life.
    • Subsequently 51 of 61 episodes, the message finally gets through, and he tells daddy (along with his Heel–Confront Turn) that he volition from now on consider Iroh his father. After 59 of 61 episodes, nosotros finally get to come across his tearful amends, and that Iroh doesn't hold a single flake of grudge on him. Which is not surprising at all when you consider that Iroh was however trying to assistance Zuko while in jail because of him.
    • Iroh'due south affection for Zuko might the result of Iroh's ain son getting killed. But this might be a small part of it, and it may be even irrelevant towards the finish.
  • We see a toxic variant with the lengths Lao Bei Fong will go to proceed his "blind, fragile, and helpless" piffling girl Toph safety from harm.
• The Darkwing Duck episode "Fourth dimension and Punishment" has a non-familial variant; when Darkwing goes catatonic later his daughter Gosalyn disappears, his Heterosexual Life-Partner Launchpad attempts kickoff to help him find her and and then to help him adjust. Neither is very helpful, although not for lack of effort.

    Real Life

• C. Southward. Lewis married (legally) a adult female to protect her from her abusive married man (from a religious wedlock); he later institute out she was going to die of cancer but chose to take care of her.
• Several of the Righteous Gentiles from World State of war II obtained that status, not by nifty and exciting deeds only by taking in Jews and providing the necessities that were difficult or impossible for them to obtain. A long, terrible, and boring job done at tremendous peril.
• According to the U.Southward. Department of Health and Human Services, "more than 50 one thousand thousand people provide care for a chronically sick, disabled or aged family member or friend during any given year" in the United States. The Other Wiki has more than information on caregiving. If the U.S. figures are indicative of the mail-industrial world equally a whole, about 17 out of every 100 people are this trope for a relative or friend. Meaning, if there are one,000 active tropers present on this site (a bourgeois estimate), 170 of the states could potentially exist caretakers in existent life.
• Doug Walker has thanked his wife for going to a work where she gives retention therapy to older patients, and and so coming back habitation to await subsequently him.

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