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Changeling Fantasy

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Changeling Fantasy	comment	This trope takes an Ordinary High-School Student (or elementary school student) and whisks them off to meet their real family, whose lives are always more glamorous, dangerous, and full of adventure than the dull foster family they have been living with, and delighted to meet this stranger who happens to be a blood relative. This may involve going Down the Rabbit Hole if not hopping cities or countries. Or, more rarely, they have been living with the unusual parents all along, who are pulling off an elaborate Masquerade to keep the truth from them until the time is right. If the two families are not the same, the foster family is usually an abusive and unloving bunch. They tell the hero that they'll never amount to anything, and they had better not think about royalty or magic. Most shows won't even bother revisiting the foster family after the first episode, except (maybe) to have them show up as minor dupes of the Big Bad later. The plot has obvious appeal for any teen who has ever felt unloved. (Piling on the Glurge is optional.) They may even have an Orphan's Plot Trinket to signify their heritage. Compare Cinderella Plot, where the main difference is that the heroine is always worse off and doesn't have to be switched, if the parent fell on hard times and remarried. In both television and other media, this is an increasingly Subverted Trope. The most common subversion is for the adventures to be so dangerous that the hero decides I Just Want to Be Normal. The second most common is for the real family to be unpleasant people, possibly even the Big Bad. Perhaps this is due to the greater acceptance of adoption today. It used to be extremely taboo and "shameful" to discover that one was adopted. Nowadays the Changeling Fantasy is evolving into dualism, with the main character having one foot in both worlds. Yes, they have a fantastic lineage; but it's their down-to-earth family that ultimately shaped their values. Compare Escapist Character, Ascended Fanboy, Really Royalty Reveal, Rags to Riches and Rags to Royalty. Often overlaps with Moses in the Bulrushes and/or Switched at Birth and very often I Just Want to Be Special. A subversion may involve a Disappointing Heritage Reveal. Related to Doorstop Baby and Separated at Birth. Muggle Foster Parents is a specific subtrope, as is Human Alien Discovery. You may be looking for the Darker and Edgier version known as Changeling Tale, which is the source of the name. A changeling is an elf/troll/gremlin/etc. baby that gets swapped for a human baby and ends up being raised by humans (or the baby is merely abducted and raised by elves). It's very common in medieval folklore. Examples of fairy abduction should go there, not here. It's also a component of The Hero's Journey, especially when a farmboy is involved.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_14be77f0	comment	Plays an important part of the storyline in Tara Sheppard, when Tara McClay of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is visited by her half-brother John Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis, and subsequently taken to meet their shared father and her other half-brother Dave; after the McClays were outright abusive to her for years, Patrick Sheppard gives his daughter a warm hug on their first meeting while Dave does his best to give Tara a role in his wedding, and Tara affirms that sheâ€™d be glad to take Patrickâ€™s last name.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_18d09d4f	comment	A Chorus of Dragons: Deconstructed. Kihrin is an orphan boy who turns out to be a long-lost scion of one of the empire's powerful noble houses, and is taken in by it fairly early in the narrative. However, his birth father is a sadistic monster, the nobility is squabbling, corrupt and power-hungry, and his adoptive family is brutally murdered by his birth family's agents in the same event that brings him to their attention.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_1a8119af	comment	Flipped around around and inverted in Dragon Quest VIII. When Angelo's family died, he went off to the Abbey in hopes of having a place to live and at having a future, not having anything left to his name cept for a small sack, thanks to his dad being a bit reckless. The first person he meets at the Abbey who kindly greets him tells him it'd be his home from then on turns out to be his half brother, who was cast out and disinherited by said father because of Angelo's birth... and immediately tears into him, telling him to leave the abbey, accusing him of attempting to destroy his life there, and from then on, was never kind to him in the least bit.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_1bd53ae0	comment	Subverted in Bone by Gran'ma Ben being a member of the young Thorn's real family as well. Thorn wasn't so much adopted as she was sent away with her grandmother for her safety, who's just as much a hidden royal as Thorn is. As Thorn goes through the story and returns to her rightful position, Gran'ma Ben is right alongside her (for the most part), returning to her royal position also. Also deconstructed in that Thorn is upset and angered by the reveal that her own grandmother has been lying to her for years, and it takes a while for Thorn to forgive her.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach has the protagonist grow up in a relatively normal, if somewhat wacky, household. Except for that whole "ability to perceive ghosts" thing. What Kurosaki Ichigo doesn't know is that his father is also a shinigami himself and has been so from the beginning. That raises a lot of questions about his true purpose and origins.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_1e7ca85f	comment	In Hercules, instead of being a Zeus bastard like in the original myth, the title protagonist turn out to be his legitimate son, found later by his farmers foster parents.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_21e321da	comment	Played oddly in Dragon Quest VII. The protagonist's foster mother actually did give birth to the him; he was conceived hundreds of years ago and gestated for seven months, at which point his real mother turned into a mermaid (thus lacking a womb) and the Spirit of Water teleported him into a random woman's womb at a random point in the future.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_2212773a	comment	Connor, from Angel. The son of two vampires, he was abducted as a baby and raised in a Hell Dimension by a fanatical demon hunter, eventually returning to Earth as a teenager. His memories are later replaced with an elaborate web of fake ones, allowing him to live an ordinary teenage life, at least until a demon tied to his past comes looking for him. Thankfully, he gets to keep his elaborate web of fake memories, so as not to go Ax-Crazy.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_227431b6	comment	Ditto with the comic book Runaways, with the added punch that the evil parents committed all their crimes to help their children.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_2354d12c	comment	Dragon Quest: Played oddly in Dragon Quest VII. The protagonist's foster mother actually did give birth to the him; he was conceived hundreds of years ago and gestated for seven months, at which point his real mother turned into a mermaid (thus lacking a womb) and the Spirit of Water teleported him into a random woman's womb at a random point in the future. Flipped around around and inverted in Dragon Quest VIII. When Angelo's family died, he went off to the Abbey in hopes of having a place to live and at having a future, not having anything left to his name cept for a small sack, thanks to his dad being a bit reckless. The first person he meets at the Abbey who kindly greets him tells him it'd be his home from then on turns out to be his half brother, who was cast out and disinherited by said father because of Angelo's birth... and immediately tears into him, telling him to leave the abbey, accusing him of attempting to destroy his life there, and from then on, was never kind to him in the least bit.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_262de01c	comment	Elisha of Gloria Union. Her real parents are Gariored and Enryetta, both of whom have great political and physical power. How exactly Zazarland came to raise her is unexplained.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_26eb8bf3	comment	Ceres, Celestial Legend has the real parents using the Masquerade — and utterly evil.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_27f4c7fb	comment	The protagonist wishing for this is what drives the entire plot of Coraline.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_28508de	comment	Happens to Bloom, the protagonist of Winx Club: First she learns that she's a fairy, and then is revealed that her parents aren't her real parents, and that she's a princess of another world. It's averted, since Mike and Vanessa (Bloom's foster parents) are very loving, caring and supportive.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe's Peter Bishop was kidnapped by an alternate reality version of his father when he was seven. This (combined with the fact that crossing over permanently damaged the fabric of reality) kicked off Walternate's Start of Darkness and attempts to destroy the other world. Needless to say, Peter had some issues with Walter after finding out.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_2bb84c17	comment	Casteel Series: Heaven, who grew up in extreme poverty in the country backwoods to a neglectful father and a stepmother who runs her ragged, learns that her birth mother actually came from a wealthy family and from then on frequently dreams about one day escaping her miserable life in the backwoods and finding her wealthy relatives. When she gets to do just that in later books, she learns that her fantasy isn't all it's cracked up to be — while she does get to live a more comfortable, luxurious life and have access to the higher education she never would've had in the Willies, she's still scorned by the upper-class students at her school and her mother's family turns out to be even more screwed-up than her adoptive one.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_2be435fb	comment	In Chronicles of Nick and The Dark Hunters, this is usually a bad thing. Your absent parent is usually a demon or a jerkass god, so you will probably have a long, but emotionally and mentally tiring life that will make you bitter against those stupid humans.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_2d39f34e	comment	Winterhouse: Elizabeth Somers, whose parents died when she was four, and who was living with her uncaring uncle and aunt since, discovers that she is the granddaughter of Northbridge Falls, owner of the eponymous Winterhouse Hotel.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_31ea2c8f	comment	Subverted in Kyle XY at the end of the first season where the main character supposedly found his real parents. In fact, Kyle was grown in a lab, the parents are actors, and Kyle goes along with the plan to protect his adoptive family, a situation which lasts a whole episode and then requires Kyle to make up another story for why he's returned.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_34023dcd	comment	In Suburban Glamour, the teenage protagonist learns that she's a literal changeling, and is the daughter of Fae royalty. She's initially elated to have the chance to get out of her dull, miserable life in a small middle-of-nowhere English village, but soon comes to realize that her Fae family are controlling and distant, and that they did abandon her for seventeen years without any explanation and as such have no right to barge into her life and start making demands of her. She decides to remain with her human parents, who at least love and respect her even if they don't always understand her.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_3b11f047	comment	In the sixth book of L. J. Smith's Nightworld series, Soulmate, Hannah learns that she is an old soul, and emotionally related to Thierry.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Harry is orphaned and raised within an abusive household, but discovers early in the first book that he's a wizard, extremely well-off thanks to his parents' inheritance, and a celebrity within the wizarding world. However, most of the parental figures he acquires either abuse or betray him, or are killed, and the Dursleys who raised him get slightly sympathetic by the end. (Well, his aunt and cousin do anyways. The uncle stays a jerkass.)
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Changeling Fantasy / int_3bc91429	comment	The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip companion Izzy was adopted, and — having tension with her adoptive parents — often indulged in these kind of fantasies (which were often alluded to in the strip). By the end of her time with the Doctor, however, she'd adjusted to who she was and returned to her adoptive parents. The identity of her true parents was never revealed.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_400469e	comment	One Calvin and Hobbes strip has Calvin find a strange pushbutton device in the house. He pushes it and is whisked away to a secret high-tech underground base where his parents are preparing to go out and fight crime as superheroes! Of course, he's just daydreaming, and the last panel shows the real world, where his parents are as ordinary as ever.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_4064e1e8	comment	Tin Man: DG is a waitress and part-time college student with little direction in life. She's plagued by a vague, unsettling feeling she doesn't belong in Kansas and strange, recurring dreams. Turns out she's princess of the O.Z., descended from and named for her ancestor Dorothy Gale, and the people she thinks are her parents are a pair of robots.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_4522fd1	comment	Inverted by Nacht in Whateley Universe: she was raised by the Bell Witch to be both a supervillain and her personal cat's paw. She resists throughout her life, but is twisted into a Snark Knight as a result, as she magically bound to obey her mother and cannot avoid her call when she shows up. Marzena's power over her is only broken when the locket which she is bound with breaks open, revealing the face of Kate's real mother, something Nacht never suspected.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_47f0eac3	comment	Skwisgaar Skwigelf convinces himself he's a god (or half-god; being very into Viking mythology to the point of swearing on the names of Odin, it may not make much difference) because he doesn't know who his mortal father is, and because his mother's neglect and promiscuity was what drove him into the snow, only to discover and subsequently learn to play the guitar he found in a cave. This may or may not be true; there's a theory amongst the fans that Dimneld Selftcark, Toki's guitar teacher, was Skwisgaar's biological father.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_4afdbfb7	comment	Her Father's Daughter: Linda knows her father is her father, but she seriously doubts that her sister is her sister. When she turns eighteen, she learns that her mother's Death by Childbirth, and when her father remarried, he and his new wife had agreed to raise their children like actual sisters. (But it couldn't be hidden because it was In the Blood.)
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Changeling Fantasy / int_4c467f43	comment	Oliver Twist is a low-rent version, where the missing parent turns out to be middle-class — but given that the title character was thoroughly poverty-stricken, it's a major leg up.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_4e9aa9f9	comment	There's a scene in Twins (1988) where Vincent mocks the idea of his origins.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_529ee66	comment	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog had Tails adopted by a loving fox family who later turned out to be robots created by Dr. Robotnik to capture him. Sonic is completely unaware of the ruse, and spends most of the episode debating whether or not letting Tails go was the right thing to do.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_544333c5	comment	The Shadow Over Innsmouth features a young man who travels to New England to explore his genealogy and who ultimately learns that his great-grandmother was the queen of a race of amphibious fish-people, and that he is destined to eventually metamorphosize into a fish-person himself. But once you actually are a fish-person, you think it's awesome. Tales of Innsmouth is a collection of stories by various authors, one of which raises the point that said fish-people will be Very Vengeful about their city being torpedoed thanks to his running to the authorities—the protagonist finds the perfectly preserved flayed skin of the original character. He is still alive as a skinless fish-man though.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_56cb92c3	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill spends the first movie wondering who his real father was and in the second movie he turns out to be a small-time god who is immortal and has the ability to control the molecules around him both of which are passed on to Peter. He is revealed to be an Omnicidal Maniac who killed Peter's mother and has no qualms using his son as a battery to help further his goals. Peter has no problem killing Ego, despite that he would become a normal human for doing so.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_5861074c	comment	The last arc of Aztec introduces us to Malintzin. When Mixtli meets her, she is an orphan brat with delusions of grandeur. Aztec custom names the child by their day of birth (hers is One Grass) and they're given a full name on their seventh birthday, but because she's an orphan, her name remains One Grass (Ce Malinali). By the time he meets her later, she's become Cortez' interpreter and consort to one of Cortez' men. She's also made up a back story for herself: that she was formerly royalty, but her family sold her when they fell on hard times. The "tzin" suffix (which means lord/lady and is assigned to nobility) is entirely fabricated.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_5bd0554b	comment	In the backstory of Warcraft III the orc Thrall was raised by the abusive Lord Blackmoore, who intended to use him as the general controlling a new Orc army. Thrall eventually escaped and discovered his heritage as heir to the Frostwolf Clan and the shamanic traditions of his people, ultimately become Warchief of the new Horde.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_5cb3196f	comment	Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age is an interesting subversion. Nell is actually the biological child of Brad and Tequila, but over the course of the novel she comes to believe that her true mother is the woman who she can feel speaking to her through her Primer. And to some extent, she is correct: Miranda does behave far more like a parent to Nell than either Brad or Tequila, notably by sacrificing her own career and freedom to make sure Nell will be safe.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_5e9ea81e	comment	Black Panther: Erik "Killmonger" Stevens is an example of an evil changeling. A seemingly ordinary boy from Oakland, is actually a prince of the secretly wealthy African Nation of Wakanda. He acts as black ops soldier and then mercenary to gain the skills and connections, and then goes to Wakanda to claim his birthright. After taking the throne from Prince T'Challa by Trial by Combat, Erik attempts to send out weapons to terrorist groups only to be stopped by T'Challa taking back the throne.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_5f29da1d	comment	Kaye from Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales is a literal changeling, swapped as an infant for a human baby. She later meets the child she was switched with, who has aged only a few years in the Seelie Court.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_5f746491	comment	Alois Trancy from the second season of Black Butler (2008) claims this is what happened to him, since he went missing as an infant (which caused his mother kill herself from despair) and reappeared years later after living with a foster family in an ordinary village and was taken back in by his father, the late Earl Trancy. In the first episode it's mentioned that he claims fairies abducted him, which his uncle is incredibly suspicious about and intends to prove he's a fraud. The uncle's right, Alois is actually Jim Macken, an ordinary boy who was only posing as the Earl's son... and was actually his Sex Slave until he snapped and killed the Earl by making a contract with a demon.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Subverted heavily in The Warrior's Apprentice, when Elena Bothari finally meets her mother. Turns out her mother wants nothing to do with her, because Elena is the product of rape. Then Elena's mother kills her father in revenge. In the Bharaputra clone creche where Mark Vorkosigan grew up, the staff encourage their charges' changeling fantasies so that the clones don't try to fight or run when "Mummy" or "Daddy" comes to pick up his or her healthy new body.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_60425b68	comment	Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters thoroughly deconstructs the W.I.T.C.H. example below. Elyon is called out on how she so quickly chose to abandon her friends and Happily Adopted family on Earth in order to join Phobos on Meridian, with her being accused of being selfish for doing this without a second thought just so she can become a princess.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_615a3895	comment	In the My Little Pony Tales episode "Princess Problems", Patch is suspected of being a long-lost princess, but the tomboyish Patch does not look forward to having to leave her friends and family behind for the life of royalty. Fortunately, it turns out Patch isn't the princess they were looking for.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_629cd094	comment	Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins, although he is well aware that he is actually a blood heir to the throne, he doesn't want it in the least bit, and actually treats this like this isn't really impressive. However he does know that he has a half-sister in Denerim, and when he meets her, she is almost enraged to see him (or even find out he still lives), and asks for money because she's not very wealthy (and has plenty of children) and Alistair is kinda... saddened more by finding out his half sister is incredibly rude than that he could actually become King of Ferelden. He can, however, Be persuaded to marry Anora, his half-brother's wife, as a political marriage, that way people supporting Anora ''and'' him for the Throne would be glad. Course, good luck persuading him to do that unless you said the right options to him when you met his sister. The truth is even weirder: his supposed half-sister's baby brother DID die. Alistair's real mother is a Dalish Grey Warden Mage legendary heroine, leaving him even MORE of a controversy to Ferelden politics than being the bastard child of a scullery maid, hence the excessive deception that even Alistair doesn't know about. Bonus points for Alistair unintentionally denouncing his own mother for the subjugation of Redcliffe. Potentially a dangling plot thread when you consider that the father of Morrigan's baby can either be a male grey warden, meaning anyone from a city elf to a teyrn's son, Teyrn Loghain, or Alistair, who may potentially be king of Ferelden.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates downplays this trope, as the main character's foster family is Nohr royalty, but their 'father' is an insane tyrant held together by conquest and the survivors of his family's brutal infighting. The MC's birth family, the Hoshido clan, are peace-loving but honor-bound racists. The main decision tree depends on which family the MC choosesnote Birthright for Hoshido, Conquest for Nohr, and Revelation for "I'm siding with neither until they realize how pointless this conflict is".
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Changeling Fantasy / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill spends the first movie wondering who his real father was and in the second movie he turns out to be a small-time god who is immortal and has the ability to control the molecules around him both of which are passed on to Peter. He is revealed to be an Omnicidal Maniac who killed Peter's mother and has no qualms using his son as a battery to help further his goals. Peter has no problem killing Ego, despite that he would become a normal human for doing so. Black Panther: Erik "Killmonger" Stevens is an example of an evil changeling. A seemingly ordinary boy from Oakland, is actually a prince of the secretly wealthy African Nation of Wakanda. He acts as black ops soldier and then mercenary to gain the skills and connections, and then goes to Wakanda to claim his birthright. After taking the throne from Prince T'Challa by Trial by Combat, Erik attempts to send out weapons to terrorist groups only to be stopped by T'Challa taking back the throne. Inverted in SHAZAM! (2019). Billy (secretly) becomes an extraordinary superhero while his biological mother is living a mundane, less-than-stellar life and wants nothing to do with her son.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_6cb2d709	comment	Many Harry Potter fics of a particular subgenre follow a subverted form of this. Harry is still raised by his aunt and uncle, but his parents (and twin brother, it's nearly always a twin brother) survived the attack on Halloween. The brother was declared the Boy Who Lived, Lily and James left the fame go to their heads, had more children (usually) and lived perfectly happy lives with Harry being forgotten. They will inevitably be complete jerks and function as a perfect Hate Sink when he returns to the magical world.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_6ef8862b	comment	In The 13 Clocks, at the end, the Wicked Duke reveals that the Princess Saralinda is not his niece; he had kidnapped her.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_6fb3c581	comment	Zigzagged in The Books of Magic with Timothy Hunter. Initially, it seems to be played straight, with Timothy Hunter learning he isn't actually the son of the perfectly ordinary Hunters, but rather a child of Auberon and Titania, the rulers of The Fair Folk. Then he learns that, actually, he's the son of Titania and a human sorcerer named Tamlin. Then Auberon informs Timothy that, whilst he probably is Tamlin's son, he can't possibly be Titania's son, because he's purely human. Then the tie-in mini-series "The Books of Faerie" reveals that Titania is actually a Deity of Human Origin who did have a boy-child by Tamlin, so Timothy could be hers and Tamlin's son after all. Speaking of Titania, she herself is revealed to be a case of this trope: she was originally an ordinary English peasant girl named Maryrose in the eleventh century, who was lured into the Land of Faerie by a bunch of Flitlings and subsequently adopted as a lady's maid by a fey queen named Dymphna, renaming herself "Rosebud" to guard her true name. Dymphna's husband Obrey grew tired of Dymphna and disposed of her, then married "Rosebud", who took on the new name Titania and used a glamor to disguise herself as being a pureblooded fairy. Then Auberon would kill Obrey and take "Titania" as his wife in turn, and the former peasant girl became the queen of all faeries and one of the most powerful sorceresses in the multiverse.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_6fc71581	comment	In Blackbird (2018), Nina Rodriquez discovers that magic is real and that her long-dead mother is actually both alive and a major leader of a secret society of invisible wizards known as paragons. Nina's efforts to retrieve her kidnapped sister from her mother — and get a satisfactory explanation for why her mother abandoned her family and is trying to erase her memory of finding her (and of her sister's very existence) constitutes the first arc of the story. Eventually, Nina discovers that her sister was forcibly inducted as a paragon despite her mother's wishes in what was basically a version of Sophie's Choice; in fact, Nina herself had died in an earthquake years before and was partially initiated as a paragon in order to restore her to life — and her mother is desperate to prevent her from following her and her sister into a life that she considers to be tantamount to damnation.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, we meet a little girl named Rosine, a bright, imaginative child with a terrible home life. Her favorite fairy tale was about an a boy by the name of Pirkaf, who while loved by his parents never fit in amongst humans and eventually came to believe he was a elf (due to being in similar appearance) and ran off to live with them. Believing the same about herself Rosine runs off as well but she obviously ignored the ending of the fairy tale. Pirkaf meets the Elves and learns that he is indeed human; his appearance was caused by the magic used to save him as an infant thanks to his parents' begging request for help. Upon hearing this Pirkaf runs back home only to find a mysterious forest had sprung up overnight, caused by the Elves' anger over no one mentioning how they saved the boy's life, and Pirkaf — now completely alone — wept and wept. In the end Rosline finds no Elves and falls into despair only made worse by being found by her abusive father. He then starts beating the crap out of her, and at that moment her deepest despair activates a certain little egg. The summoned Godhand grants her wish to become an elf by transforming her into a fairy-like Apostle in exchange for both of her parents' lives. She has since taken to creating a "fairyland" where the children that she kidnaps are turned into her creepy little pseudo-elves in a very twisted version of the Changeling Tale, one that eventually comes crashing down when Guts comes calling.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_73d7930f	comment	Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine discovered that he was actually a member of a dangerous race of shapeshifters who were also the leaders of The Dominion, the Big Bad of the series. Bonus points here, because his species was (due to their powers) actually called "changelings", just as the changelings in legends did. This is a variation in that it's evident from the beginning that Odo is from another species (its more the revelation of what place his species occupy in the Dominion that comes as the shock), although he has no clue who they are and longs for their discovery just as in the trope. Subverted by the fact that Odo's adoptive culture is friendlier then his home culture.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_7f82753b	comment	In Naruto Gaiden Chouchou becomes convinced that her parents aren't her biological parents. The problem is she looks very much like them. Everyone but her seems to notice the resemblance.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Relena Darlian from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing learns early on that her birth parents were the rulers of a pacifist European nation, but it comes with a lot of "howevers". She didn't find out about this until her adoptive father was assassinated. Her adoptive family is very warm and loving, and they weren't boring by any stretch of the imagination (her father being an important diplomat who took her on business trips all over the planet). Also, her adoptive father was her birth father's right-hand man, and he was specifically asked to take Relena to safety as The Federation attacked their homeland. On top of all this, the "adoption" happened when Relena was 2-years-old, meaning that while she loves her birth parents, she didn't really know them. As a result, while she reveres her birth parents as important people, she seems to love the Darlians more, and takes up their name once more in Endless Waltz.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_80b01c30	comment	Hanaukyō Maid Team. At the beginning of the series Taro discovers that he belongs to a fabulously wealthy and powerful family.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_84b60840	comment	Played with in The Secret of Platform 13. The heroes are looking for a missing prince kidnapped by Rich Bitch Mrs. Trottle. They meet Ben, a very kind and intelligent servant boy, who's ecstatic to hear this...before they all realize that they're actually looking for Raymond, a Spoiled Brat being raised as Mrs. Trottle's son. Raymond, while quite happy to hear that he's even more special than he thought, is reluctant to leave his family unless the heroes can bribe him with more than he's already getting. Double Subverted at the end, when a letter from Ben's (supposed) grandmother reveals that he was the kidnapped prince all along.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_86814cd0	comment	Cecil in Final Fantasy IV is adopted by the King of Baron. His mother was a normal human, of whom blissfully little is said, his dad was an alien from the moon. In a subversion. we later learn that his adoptive father-figure, the King of Baron, was not a human either, but the Eidolon Odin. A similar tune with Terra in Final Fantasy VI except her dad was an Esper. She also wasn't so much adopted as "brainwashed" and mind controlled. For someone who spent most of her life that way, she takes it surprisingly well.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_86814e56	comment	A similar tune with Terra in Final Fantasy VI except her dad was an Esper. She also wasn't so much adopted as "brainwashed" and mind controlled. For someone who spent most of her life that way, she takes it surprisingly well.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Agatha doesn't know that she's sole surviving heir to a dynasty of Mad Scientists, that her dad and uncle were a the legendary heroes she grew up hearing stories about, or that her adoptive parents are their iconic assistants Punch and Judy (although she did know they were Frankenstein-esque "constructs"). She preferred her normal life. In a ZigZagged case of sorts, her mother is evil and she has tried to possess Agatha. Gilgamesh believed himself to be an orphan taken into the Baron's care, and spent the first years of his life at the bottom of the pecking order established by the other kids on Castle Wulfenbach. He used to imagine who his parents might have been (maybe even a lost Heterodyne!). After a couple of red herrings, he finally found out he was the heir to the Wulfenbach empire, raised in secret for his own protection. Unfortunately that revelation (and the need to keep it secret) drove a wedge between him and his friends, especially his former best friend Tarvek, a situation not helped by someone intercepting all of their attempted correspondence. Actually, Gil has a second dose he has yet to receive since his mother is the amazonian Queen of the fabled hidden Lady Land of Skifander, as shown by his ability to throw an entire titan-class clank (though he did sprain his shoulder doing it) and his father believes Gil had to be kept hidden from his mother's people as well, for reasons he has yet to explain.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_8756f1a5	comment	The Twelve Kingdoms: The heroine of The Twelve Kingdoms. There's a tinge of deconstruction, however, as Youko has to massively adjust to her new circumstances and seriously dislikes having people bow to her. Yet ultimately, massive political headaches and frequent coups are still preferable to her old life. Subverted with Yuka (in the anime, at least), who is convinced this is the case for her. It's not.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_89465e75	comment	Percy from Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. Percy and about ninety percent of his friends. Demi-gods are generally unaware of their divine parent's identity until they go to Camp Half-Blood, and even then they don't usually find out from their parent personally. Finding out the other parent is often a bad thing. For starters some parents were kind of absent. One can understand not telling a kid since they'd brag (Hey, it didn't turn out so well for poor Phaethon!) but when they need to know and they aren't there... well... Things are improving in the new saga. (Demigods were claimed instantly, and they actually talk to their children.)
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Changeling Fantasy / int_8d817ccb	comment	Inverted by Lost: Alex learns she's not really the daughter of the leader of the Others, but that of a crazy woman who lives in the jungle. She's still happy about it, though.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs, Tobias admits that he spent his childhood hoping that his absentee parents had abandoned him because they were secretly spies or in the Witness Protection Program or something. In fact, his father was a shapeshifting alien who left to fight a war, while his mother was unable to care for him due to medical problems.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_90e2f673	comment	In the BattleTech animated series, Franklin Sakamoto is kidnapped by his second-in-command, who had been secretly watching over him the whole time. It is revealed that Sakamoto was the illegitimate son of the Coordinator of the Draconis Combine. With the legitimate heir captured by the Clans, a group of hard-liners decide to use him as a figurehead, so they could remove the aging Takashi Kurita. Franklin escapes them, and in front of both the hardliners and the Combine agents sent to kill him, renounces his claim on the throne. Double-subverted in the game itself, as, after the events of the series, the Coordinator and his family accept him anyway.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_93aaa684	comment	The Accursed Kings is a novelisation of the history of France in the 1300's. A secondary plot involves the substitution of the genine newborn prince with an expendable commoner double — this is so that a suspected assassination attempt, if successful, would not kill the real heir. But when the double is indeed murdered and it is falsely believed the real Heir is dead, the actual royal baby is packed off to rural France to be brought up by the kind of barely-there nobility who only just squeak onto the scale. Only one or two people — including the Pope — know there is indeed a surviving and legitimate royal heir. Scroll forwards by twenty years when that child, now an adult, learns his real story. Alas for him, the people who grabbed the French throne have no interest in surrendering it, and he discovers it really doesn't matter a damn that he's the real deal. He doesn't have the power to do anything about it, and dies, held incommunicado in a prison, the last Capet heir to the throne of France.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_93acba01	comment	Fire Emblem Gaiden has both protagonists being this. Alm, actually Prince Alpine Rudolf of Rigel, was raised by a retired Zofian General. Meanwhile, Celica is the princess of Zofia, but was raised in a monastery as priestess. The reason for their upbringing was a massive Xanatos Gambit by King Rudolf in order to end the reign of local deities of life and death Mila and Duma
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9420ea59	comment	Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception reveals that Nathan Drake is not a descendant of Francis Drake as he claims. As a child he was abandoned by his parents to an orphanage, where he became obsessed with Drake and took his name.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_95124432	comment	In The Bad Seed, Christine Penmark has always had this thought in the back of her mind that she was adopted, though unlike most examples of this trope, the idea fills her with horror. Her parents profusely deny this, and her friends assure her that this is a common childhood fantasy and no more. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that she was right, and her biological mother was a psychopathic serial killer... who may have passed on her murderous nature to Christine's daughter.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9887078c	comment	In SpyBoy, Alex wishes at the beginning for one to escape his crappy school life until he realize how brutal the espionage world really is.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9989595b	comment	W.I.T.C.H. uses the "evil real family" subversion, with a surprising lack of Genre Blindness — the Big Bad is aware of this trope and exploits it. Well... more just an evil older brother. In the comics, we see a vision of Elyon's birth parents, who seem to have been good people before dying.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9b4ea9b5	comment	In Jupiter Ascending, Jupiter Jones is the genetic reincarnation of the Queen of the Universe. There are three groups that are looking for her: the Queen's elder son who wants to kill her so she can't reclaim the inheritance he received, the Queen's younger son who wants to marry her (and then kill her) so he can steal the inheritance, and another group trying to protect her.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9bcc183b	comment	In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo's birth parents are glamourous and exciting gypsies, but they abandoned him on the steps of a church, where Big Bad Archdeacon Claude Frollo — about 16 at the time — took him in out of kindness. Naturally, Disney couldn't cope with all this moral ambiguity, and in their version, Quasi's birth parents were very loving, and Frollo killed them, taking the child in out of guilt, and not even raising him himself. It's implied that Quasi was traded for Esmerelda when she was just a baby and he was about 4 and was then taken by the church. His parents were such nice people, don't you think?
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9d49046	comment	In Freckles, it's inverted; the hero is convinced that his birth is as lowly as it seems, and the other characters set out to persuade him otherwise.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9d963831	comment	In Septimus Heap, Jenna, the only daughter of the Heap family, after ten years of living within the Heap family is revealed to be the daughter of the Queen and heir of the Castle. She had been adopted by the Heaps after the Queen was shot and Marcia Overstrand only barely managed to rescue Jenna from the Assassin sent out to kill them.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9e82c3cb	comment	Also parodied in Mark Millar's comic book mini-series Wanted, where the real family is evil and the "hero" decides he wants to become just like them. They even tease the Comes Great Responsibility aesop at the very end, only for Wesley to admit that he was just joking.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_9f6c32a9	comment	In Wanted, the main character is bored and dissatisfied with his mundane life until he finds out that his father was a bad-ass super assassin and he's inherited his powers.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_a0500a06	comment	Rugrats, "Princess Angelica": Angelica convinces herself she's really a princess, and when the "Home Office King" comes to fix her mother's fax machine, stows away in his truck.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Leela, who only has one eye, believes she's an orphaned or abandoned alien, and dreams of meeting her species; later in the series, she discovers that her parents are mutants. Since mutants are second-class citizens relegated to the sewers, her parents figured their relatively normal-looking daughter would live a better life if everyone believed she was an alien.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_a209c9c4	comment	Peaky Blinders: Deconstructed with Michael. He wants something more exciting than the pretty little village where he grew up, and the Shelbys are certainly that. But he's also visibly taken aback by the grimness of Birmingham. Still, he goes home, and then once he's 18, he chooses to come back.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_a8561ee9	comment	One episode of Young Dracula revolves around Robin theorizing that he and Vlad could have been Switched at Birth (during a rather unlikely Branagh family holiday in Transylvania. Matters aren't helped when Ingrid then fakes a diary of her mother's to prove that this is the case.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_a87a2e5e	comment	In the Tunnels series, Will learns that he was adopted and that his real parents are inhabitants of the Colony, a secret civilization Beneath the Earth. Subverted, however, when his biological parents turn out to be just as unpleasant as his adoptive ones.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_aa0c474	comment	Violine revolves around Violine searching for her missing father, and after finding out her abusive mother is not her real mother, goes in search of her real mother along with her father.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_ae050a9f	comment	The incarnation of Link in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was involved in this. His whole life he thought he was a Kokiri, but after coming back to the Kokiri Village after seven years, he finds out heâ€™s actually a Hylian. How? It turns out Kokiri donâ€™t age, and Link was the only one whoâ€™s a grownup. Then, the Great Deku Tree Sprout tells Link that his Hylian mother gave him to the Great Deku Tree when he was a baby before she died. That baby would later be raised by the tree as a Kokiri for his whole childhood along with the other Kokiri children.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_ae4b411f	comment	Peter Parker from born of hell('s kitchen) was actually born the son of two enhanced humans, but a villain interfering with his mother's life led him to be adopted for seven years. When his adoptive family entirely dies out, Peter is taken back by his loving birth parents who became superheroes in the meantime.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_ae7c4641	comment	The premise of The Princess Diaries. Subverted at first because Mia resists the idea of going from socially awkward, pathless San Francisco high schooler to ruler of a foreign country for most of the movie.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_afeeacf6	comment	In The Force Awakens, Rey was left with a scrap trader and wants nothing more than for her real parents to come back for her. She eventually ends up with Han Solo and clearly latches onto him as a father-figure. In The Last Jedi, she does the same with Luke Skywalker. Kylo Ren forces her to admit that her parents were "nobodies," random scrap traders who sold her for drinking money and died unremarked somewhere. In The Rise of Skywalker, it's revealed it's more complicated than that. While it's true that they abandoned her, it's to keep her safe from her grandfather, Palpatine.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_b1058237	comment	The Temeraire series has an odd take on this. While the titular dragon is considered a valued and unique piece of ordinance in the British Aerial Corps; when he goes to China he finds out that A) dragons in general are treated as large citizens/subjects with wings rather than talking warbeasts and B) he is by rights part of the Imperial Household. While he does return to Britain, it is with plans for reform on his mind.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_b21cd2c3	comment	The shepherd girl Pastorella from The Faerie Queene turns out to be a long-lost princess.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_b5134390	comment	In My Immortal and its Spiritual Sequel Ghost of You (Harry Potter) Herminone and Neville (or "Navel" as these things put it) were actually pureblooded vampires all along whose parents died in a car crash and were adopted by abusive muggle parents.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_b82de784	comment	It's mentioned in Bridge to Terabithia that Jess has these fantasies due to the fact he is considered so unusual compared to the rest of his town (or really, the entire town). Subverted as he's not adopted.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_b8b584cf	comment	In the comic strip Zits, Jeremy's parents eventually revealed that they had been raising him in a dull middle-class existence when they were really dull middle class people.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_ba19eeff	comment	Eragon features the titular Farm Boy becoming a Dragon Rider and leaving the village where he grew up with his adoptive parents. He knew they were not his real parents from the start, however, and didn't find out until much later on who his real father was.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_bb5cd713	comment	In the manga version of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, Lucia has been living with Nikora all along, but hasn't been told she's a princess. Kaito also just happens to be part of the ancient Panthalassa race.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c0f8022c	comment	Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series had the lead's dull foster parents turn up to a parent evening, rather than his divine parents like he expected.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c2fcda	comment	Inverted in SHAZAM! (2019). Billy (secretly) becomes an extraordinary superhero while his biological mother is living a mundane, less-than-stellar life and wants nothing to do with her son.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c381cd95	comment	Harshly deconstructed in The Merchant Princes Series by Charles Stross. All the elements are there: Miriam Beckstein discovers she is the daughter of a powerful noble family with seemingly-magical powers from a medieval kingdom in another world, where she is engaged to marry a prince. But her family turns out to be an amoral organized-crime family that uses their magical powers for drug smuggling; the other world is by modern standards a squalid hellhole, where women have no rights; the prince is mentally disabled, and she is expected to marry him with no argument for the political advantage of her family, regardless of whether she wants to.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c3bbb7f7	comment	Tossed, seemingly at random, into Quinn's backstory for the Sci-Fi Channel seasons of Sliders. Although, originally, this was planned to be a complicated ruse engineered by the Big Bads, that would be revealed at the end of the season.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c4282b71	comment	This commonly appears in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, most often featuring either Twilight Sparkle wishing she were the child of Celestia, or Scootaloo fantasizing being the daughter or sister of Rainbow Dash.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who episode, "Dragonfire", is discussed and subverted. At one point in a moment of vulnerability, Ace confesses to Mel that as an escape from her miserable life back in Perivale she used to dream that she was actually a Changeling from the stars who would one day be whisked off to an alien world. Then, one day, she actually was whisked off to an alien world... only to end up in the same miserable life she'd had back home.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_c7c89a52	comment	The story of the The Ugly Duckling, who in the end turns out to be a young swan.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_cb09ad9	comment	Played very darkly in the King's Quest universe with both Alexander and Edgar. The Kings Quest Companion manages a Deconstruction by stating that Alexander doesn't ever think of himself as a prince. Inwardly, he still thinks of himself as "Gwydion," Mannanan's former slave, and signs his name as Alexander-Gwydion.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_cb339e98	comment	In The Horse and His Boy, Shasta turns out, in the end, to be a prince. An unusual example in that The Reveal comes after the climax; he goes through the entire book believing himself to be a commoner. He does overhear at the beginning, though, that the man he thought was his father really found and adopted him, and he briefly fantasizes that he might be anyone, even royalty. Then he has to run away and seems to forget all about it. Shasta is also an unusual example in that, although he's happy enough to learn that King Lune and Prince Corin are his father and brother, he's considerably less thrilled to discover that this means he'll have to be king someday. (His brother Corin is delighted to be shoved off the throne. "Princes have all the fun!")
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Changeling Fantasy / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: Superman values both his Kryptonian heritage and his foster parents. However, this perception varies from medium to medium or even from writer to writer. His origin doesn't fit this trope very well either way; in the Silver Age, he always knew he was Kryptonian due to super memory of his early years on Krypton. In the Post-Crisis take, Superman didn't know he was Kryptonian until adulthood but it was evident long before then that he wasn't human (or at least, a normal human); he only even learned that he wasn't the Kents' biological child when he'd graduated from Smallville High. In the latter version, he tends to cling to his human values and upbringing (especially in the Smallville series). Superman doesn't have changeling fantasies, he embodies them. He is a vehicle for other people's changeling fantasies. That is basically the foundation of his existence as a fictional entity, embodying fantasy life elements so people can vicariously enjoy them through him. It's why Silver Age Superman pulled so much shit.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_d6eb7846	comment	The Replacements: While Dick Daring and Agent K are not related to Todd and Riley by blood, they're a lot better than the orphanage they were living in before.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_d7c4626a	comment	Rather savagely parodied in The Sandman (1989), in which a dream-avatar cuckoo sums up this trope with the line "Girls' fantasies are much simpler — their families aren't their families, their lives aren't their lives. Little cuckoos."
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Changeling Fantasy / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: Parodied. In the episode "My Mother the Fiend," Veronica finds out who Trina Echolls's real parents are. After the big reveal, Trina confides to Veronica that she had always dreamed that her real parents were movie stars. To which Veronica answers: "Trina, your parents were movie stars..."
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Changeling Fantasy / int_de32e214	comment	Deconstructed in The Princess Diaries novels. A princess's duties and responsibilities are tough, and poor Mia didn't even want them in the first place. Also, everyone on the royal side of her family is either extremely dysfunctional or a Jerkass. Her ordinary New Yorker mother remains the person that Mia is the most comfortable with.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_de6659ec	comment	Emma's story in Once Upon a Time — she's found on the side of the road as a baby and grows up believing her parents abandoned her. In reality they're Snow White and Prince Charming who sacrificed themselves to send her to the real world and free her from the curse which is keeping them trapped in Storybrooke. The same also applies to Henry, who yearns to be with his birth mother over his adoptive one, who of course is the Evil Queen.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Rocko Sasquatch is shocked to learn he is actually a Sasquatch! (Did that really need a spoiler tag? Oh well.) His tribe abandoned him because he was born bald.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_e214a513	comment	Don Bluth's Princess Anastasia is a long-lost, amnesiac Russian princess. (With an interesting twist: prior to her discovery of her true heritage, she plans to pretend she's the princess and takes appropriate lessons in history and protocol. Then she's in for a surprise when the Big Bad, who swore to destroy the entire royal family, comes after her...)
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Changeling Fantasy / int_e66220af	comment	Pan's Labyrinth. Although Ofelia rather loves her human mother, and seems to have loved her long-dead father, it's presented as an unambiguously better thing to live in the underworld full of magic. Mostly because dad is dead, mom is very weak-willed, and new stepdad is a zealous fascist. Unlike most examples, Guillermo del Toro actually takes into account the implications of such a statement.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_e8595ff9	comment	Tangled: The woman whom Rapunzel calls "Mother," who raised her — and who keeps her cooped up in a tower, makes demands of her, and insults her — isn't her real mother. Her real parents are a kindly king and queen who love her unconditionally and still celebrate her birthday every year as they wait for her to find them again.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_e996c9bb	comment	In Ashita no Nadja, Rosemary likes to think she'll somehow find herself in the middle of this. When her best friend Nadja is revealed to be a lost noblewomanâ€¦ she snaps. Big, BIG time.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_eb6719f6	comment	Squall Leonhart of Final Fantasy VIII turns out to be the son of the president of Esthar, the most technologically advanced and prosperous country on the planet. The game never actually shows Squall acknowledging this fact or expressing any thoughts about it, however; by the time it's possible for him to connect the dots, he's got more important things to worry about. Squall has also become pretty important on his own steam by that time, as the commander of a Magitek special combat force which is the only thing capable of saving the world.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_eeaaec28	comment	Martian Successor Nadesico: Ruri Hoshino, after having lived the bulk of her life as a lab experiment, discovers her real family is the Cloud Cuckoolander royalty of a Theme Park-like Ruritania. She ultimately decides that her biological family is a bunch of useless idiots and returns to the crew of the Nadesico, who she also considers a bunch of idiots but who just happen to be the useful idiots she happens to care about.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_ef48be8b	comment	Barbie: Princess Charm School: Blair Willows was adopted by her poor foster mother, became a waitress, then enter the titular school as a Lady Royal. The ending reveal Blair was Sophia, the lost princess and heir to the throne, all along.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_f0995ac8	comment	In the Evil Genius Trilogy, Cadel Piggott (who knows he's adopted) learns that his father is Dr. Phineas Darkkon, who is, well, an Evil Genius. Subversion occurs when Cadel learns that his adoptive parents are actually in the employ of Darkkon, and deliberately cold so that Cadel would bond with his real father when they meet. Subverted some more when Thaddeus Roth, Cadel's therapist and Darkkon's right hand man, claims that he is Cadel's real father.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_f959f1d8	comment	In the Witch World novel The Jargoon Pard, Kethan was Switched at Birth to ensure his mother had a son. Contrived Coincidence ensures he meets his birth parents and the girl they are raised, and he ends up with them. (This combines with Happily Adopted, though — the girl stays with them, too.)
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Changeling Fantasy / int_fa738078	comment	Sailor Moon meets her mother from a past lifetime (her parents were still her parents in this life) and turns out to be the heir to a magical kingdom. She just wants to be normal.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_fdbe89bf	comment	This trope is invoked in Blackkat's Reverse when Kurama decides to play himself as Naruto's uncle and ends up kidnapping him. Naruto doesn't mind, because Kurama showers him with love, teaches him things about his parents and how to protect himself, and makes him meet other kids like him — who also become Kurama's wards via abduction.
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Changeling Fantasy / int_fe115eec	comment	In a nearly forgotten cartoon series called Wildfire, an 'ordinary American cowgirl' named Sara turns out to be the princess of a realm from which she was removed in infancy for her own safety. Later in the series she discovers that the man she lives with as her 'adopted' father is her true father, the Prince, exiled for his own safety and brainwashed to forget his heritage (presumably to keep him from trying to return).
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Maleficent / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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Aztec / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Bridge to Terabithia / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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Janie / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Modern Faerie Tales / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Once Upon a Marigold / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Our Mutual Friend / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Peter and the Starcatchers / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Shannara / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Tarzan / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Temeraire	seeAlso	Changeling Fantasy
Temeraire / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Anybodies / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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The Bad Seed / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Claidi Journals / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Dark is Rising / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Dolphin Ring / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Faerie Queene / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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The Princess Diaries / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Twelve Kingdoms / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The War of the Flowers / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Wizarding School Mysteries / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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BadassAbnormal	seeAlso	Changeling Fantasy
CoyotesSong	seeAlso	Changeling Fantasy
Moses in the Bullrushes	seeAlso	Changeling Fantasy
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Shannara	seeAlso	Changeling Fantasy
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Hanaukyō Maid Team (Manga) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Naruto Gaiden (Manga) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Monster Hunters (Podcast) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Alias / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Mortified / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Peaky Blinders / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Sliders / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Elephant Princess / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
We Are All Mad Here (Tabletop Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Affected Young Ladies (Theatre) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Bad Seed (Theatre) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Blackthorne (Video Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Diamantalia (Video Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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Legend of Mana (Video Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Confines of the Crown (Visual Novel) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Muted (Webcomic) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Skin Deep (Webcomic) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Britannica's Tales Around the World / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
My Little Pony Tales / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Sleeping Beauty / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Speed Racer: The Next Generation / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Tangled / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Prince of Egypt / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
W.I.T.C.H. (2004) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Ashita no Nadja / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
So Soars The Young Falcon / Fan Fic / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Septimus Heap / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
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Changeling: The Dreaming (Tabletop Game) / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy

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