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Gene Hunting

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Gene Hunting	comment	The protagonist has been happily living with his or her family until one day, out of the blue, they learn that the people who raised them are not in fact their biological parents, either by adoption or by infidelity. There begins the gene hunt, to find their genetic parents. This may result in lots of Freudian Excuses, You're Not My Father and "are my adoptive parents my real parents" Wangst! or they may still be Happily Adopted and simply curious about their genetic parents. Often the result of Parental Abandonment or Raised by Wolves. There are a few different ways this can play out: Type 1: they find their genetic parents and discover happiness (this only works if the old parents are distant or abusive). Type 2: they can find their genetic parents, only to find they are more distant or jerky than their adoptive ones, or are utterly indifferent to their existence, or outright don't want anything to do with them (expect lots of Prodigal Son-style making up at the end). Type 3: they can locate their biological parents, only to realize that they'd rather not confront them and risk disrupting everyone's lives. Or, they may simply search for their biological parents out of nothing but curiosity, firmly believing that the people who raised them have always been (and will be) their true parents. Type 4: they can fail altogether to find their parents (a real Downer Ending will have the character give up just before they would have found their parents). Can lead to Luke, I Am Your Father, Luke, You Are My Father, Family Relationship Switcheroo, Tell Me About My Father, or Mysterious Parent situations. If this happens in a Sitcom, be wary when Status Quo Is God. If the seeker is horrified or disappointed by their discovered ancestors, see also Disappointing Heritage Reveal. Sub-trope of Searching for the Lost Relative. Named for, but unrelated to, the character of Gene Hunt on Life On Mars. Should not be confused with Stalker with a Test Tube, an entirely different form of gene hunting. Or with using someone's DNA to find them, as is done in the CSI franchise. Has nothing to do with the Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique (or so we hope), nor hunting guys named Gene (which is generally frowned upon).
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Gene Hunting / int_11ac43b4	comment	Spider-Ninja: In Chapter 29, Petra decides to ask SHIELD to help her learn about her human parents. She's a Type 3 version of this trope, as she's known all her life that they're dead and was Happily Adopted when she was four. She's merely curious about who they were. This is how she learns that they were SHIELD Agents Richard and Mary Parker, coworkers of Nick Fury and friends of Logan/Wolverine.
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Gene Hunting / int_11d0af1	comment	Lyra Belacqua in His Dark Materials was always told that her parents were the Count and Countess Belacqua, who had died in an airship accident; she later discovers that they were actually her aunt and uncle, and her real parents are (this is despoilered halfway through the first book) Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter. Lyra reacts both ways to the news: while her mother's identity comes as a nasty shock, she couldn't be happier to learn of her father and delights in hearing how he murdered her mother's legal spouse when Lyra was a newborn in order to protect her when the husband decided to try and off the baby.
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Gene Hunting / int_145d9b29	comment	The heroine of Star Ocean: The Second Story has this as her main motivation to journey with the hero. She's known for some time that she was adopted, and retains a close relationship with her adopted mother, but she still wants to know where she came from and why she was abandoned.
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Gene Hunting / int_18348248	comment	In Down in the Delta, Earl tells Loretta the story of Sinclair ancestor Jesse, who was born into slavery, and whose father was auctioned off when he was six years old. After the Civil War, he tried to track down his father, but failed to find so much as a clue. Eventually he gave up, started a new family, and dedicated himself to keeping that one together.
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Gene Hunting / int_1b9c5ad3	comment	Dragon Swamp: This wuxia film has the heroine who seeks her birth mother, having being told she was an orphan as a child, until she realized her mother was exiled to the titular swamp 17 years ago.
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Gene Hunting / int_1e703d1f	comment	Gilmore Girls has a girl come into Luke's diner saying that she's doing a DNA test for her science fair to find out who her father is.
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Gene Hunting / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Disney's Hercules learns that his mom and pop found him as a baby and sets off to find out where he truly came from. He thus learns that he's the son of the god Zeus, was Brought Down to Badass during a botched kidnapping/infanticide, and has to prove himself a true hero to regain his godhood and return to Olympus.
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Gene Hunting / int_1f7eae8	comment	In God Told Me To, Pete goes to the Catholic orphanage where he lived as an infant so he can find his birth mother's name.
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Gene Hunting / int_21d240fd	comment	Mermaid Moon is about the half-mermaid Sanna searching for her human mother, with nothing to go on but the name Lisabet.
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Gene Hunting / int_2221ecbd	comment	On CSI: NY, the son Mac's late wife gave up for adoption when she was a teenager comes searching for her, only to learn that she'd died on 9/11. Although his Gene Hunting was a failure, Mac sympathizes with his could-have-been-stepson, and strikes up a friendship to tell him about his late mother.
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Gene Hunting / int_2247a14a	comment	Taran's search for his father in Taran Wanderer, the penultimate book of The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. He never finds out, and realizes that it's not that important anyway.
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Gene Hunting / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons episode "Homer's Paternity Coot", where Homer tries to track down a man who he suspects of being his real father.
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Gene Hunting / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Skye got involved with Rising Tide (and agreed to join SHIELD) partly so she could search various databases for clues about her parents. She knows only that she was dropped off at an orphanage by a SHIELD agent. The episode "Seeds" answers some questions about her origin, but raises a lot of new ones. In the second season, she finds out about her father, and quickly wishes she hadn't. She then finds out later in the second season about her mother, and then it turns out she's worse then her father.
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Gene Hunting / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: Bloom was sent to Earth as a baby by her birth parents Oritel and Marion, and upon learning she was adopted by Mike and Vanessa, this begins her series goal to find Oritel and Marion and learn what happened to them.
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Gene Hunting / int_2ae015b6	comment	Polissena Del Porcello: The story is about Polissena, who wants to find her biological parents after she discovers that the Gentileschi family adopted her when she was just one year old.
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Gene Hunting / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Claire Bennet from Heroes. Toyed with, in that she does this not out of any sense of insecurity or Wangst, but because she wants an explanation for her immortality. Eventually she finds her biological parents: her mom is Meredith Gordon, a petty crook and powerful pyrokinetic, and her dad turns out to a be congressman and Aloof Big Brother to the man who saved her life: Nathan Petrelli, destined to become President. Nice.
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Gene Hunting / int_31617f7a	comment	Half Past Adventure has the orphan version of this as a subplot in the first chapter, where the main character thinks the Duke of Nuts could be her father.
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Gene Hunting / int_341a1fd2	comment	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: During the finale of season 1, Fred Jones learns that he's really the child of Brad and Judy from the original Mystery Incorporated and was kidnapped as a child. During the brief time skip between seasons he blindly searches for them. Unfortunately, when they do appear, they're not that great and as time goes by they're increasingly influenced by the curse of the treasure.
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Gene Hunting / int_35c6063a	comment	Earth and...: In Earth and Air, Jarra is accosted twice by a "baby hunter," a woman searching for the Handicapped child she gave up. This is illegal, as the woman gave up all right to initiate contact when she gave up her baby and clearly her daughter hasn't chosen to contact her, but she's apparently badgered enough girls not to recognise Jarra the second time around. Jarra notes sourly that Hospital Earth (staffed by Norms) are unlikely to take a Handicapped person's side against a fellow Norm. Jarra's teacher points out to the woman that her method of hanging around a portal centre and badgering any girl she sees with a passing resemblance to herself is unlikely to work, but the woman is undeterred.
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Gene Hunting / int_3bc91429	comment	This is the backstory of Izzy Sinclair, from the Doctor Who Magazine comic. In the end, she doesn't find her birth parents, but she does reconcile with her adoptive parents (making this a Type 3 with a happy ending).
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Gene Hunting / int_3f029847	comment	Anne with an E: In a diversion from the source material, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert searches for information about her birth family after she turns 16, since, even though she was told by the orphanage that they died when she was a baby, she starts having doubts that this was the truth. This makes her adoptive mother Marilla fear that Anne could find her family still alive and want to go off with them. While Anne's search reveals that what she was told was true, but she also learns her family hails from Scotland and receives a book of her mother's, which shows she was a teacher with red hair like Anne's.
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Gene Hunting / int_3fe0a130	comment	Ugly Betty: After finding out Fey Sommers was her mother, Amanda starts searching for her father. Thanks to a Phony Psychic, she becomes convinced it's Gene Simmons (so she's literally hunting for Gene).
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Gene Hunting / int_42804a6	comment	My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: In "Family Trees", Misty searches for her birth parents after getting nightmares of her fillyhood, where she gets stranded from them after wandering into the forest. When she gets her memories back, she remembers that Alphabittle is her father after seeing him in one of Zipp and Pipp's photos, and she tearfully reunites with him after her visit to the Breezie Night Market.
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Gene Hunting / int_42c05590	comment	Rocko's Modern Life once parodied this in the episode where Heffer found out he was adopted. Heffer is a steer who was raised by wolves. Ultimately, Heffer has a dream where his father informs him that he was abandoned at birth for being too much of a sissy. And that his mother's a car seat somewhere.
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Gene Hunting / int_434ba0d	comment	Inverted in Fingersmith: Mrs. Sucksby tries to exchange her adoptive daughter for her biological daughter who's been raised by a rich family (she thinks the girl will love her just by virtue of being her biological daughter — she's wrong).
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Gene Hunting / int_46229517	comment	Bud, Not Buddy is about an orphan looking for his Disappeared Dad, who he thinks is a famous jazz musician named Herman E. Calloway. Calloway turns out to be his grandfather, not his father.
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Gene Hunting / int_466179fe	comment	Leo from You Have a Match was adopted from the Philippines with his sister Carla when he was one and she was a baby. Leo takes a DNA test in the hopes of learning something about his biological family, but the test doesn't turn up anything. His friend Abby also takes the test, and learns to her shock that she has a sister she never knew about.
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Gene Hunting / int_4a1cb56c	comment	Meg Langslow Mysteries: In a variant focusing on earlier generations than parents, a Posthumous Character in Lord of the Wings mysteriously died while tracking down her distant cousins. She got interested in this after a historian contacted her about her great-grandparents (a pair of bootleggers who survived a Bonnie and Clyde-style ambush). Her search caused her to discover that her great-grandfather was the Black Sheep of a rich family who faked his death to avoid fighting in World War I, causing the family fortune to go to his younger brothers. Unfortunately, the first descendant of said brothers she tracks down had already committed two Inheritance Murders, and killed her out of paranoia that she and her family would ask for a share of his fortune.
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Gene Hunting / int_4c5e0447	comment	My Child Lebensborn: Since the Player Character adopted the titular child, the child is an Abandoned War Child and the child is seven years old, this trope happens by proxy via the Player Character. The fact that the game also happens in a time and place where Lebensborn children have undergone a major Persecution Flip is a good indicator of the reaction of the child's biological relatives to being tracked down by the child's current guardian.
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Gene Hunting / int_4d70297	comment	Chico and the Man has a Japanese young man come and claim Ed Brown as his father, stemming from a tryst after WW2, and how he elaborates on how he and his mother plan to move to LA to spend their lives with him. Turns out Ed's not the bio-father, it had been an Army buddy of his. Chico saves the day by falsely claiming that Ed's also his father and had been caring for him as well, letting the Japanese decide it's wiser for them to go back to Japan.
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Gene Hunting / int_4e9aa9f9	comment	The driving plot of the movie Twins (1988) has the main character leaving his island to search for his family, finding a brother, maybe a father, and finally a mother in the process.
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Gene Hunting / int_4f9064f6	comment	Po's arc in Kung Fu Panda 2 is driven in part by this, especially since he has faint memories of his original parents abandoning him. But he eventually comes to terms with both the fact that they loved him so much they died for him, and that his adoptive father loves him no less.
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Gene Hunting / int_547f6bce	comment	Family Ties: In one episode Alex's friend Skippy goes through this, and is hurt when he goes to meet his birth mother and discovers she doesn't want to have a relationship. Alex finally says, essentially, "Look, the people who changed your diapers and have raised you all this time? Those are your real parents," and Skippy decides he's right.
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Gene Hunting / int_55f41ce9	comment	Rather amusingly done in Curb Your Enthusiasm, where Larry finds his apparent birth parents who are Christian (he is Jewish). After getting over the initial shock, he decides that he likes them, and consequentially loses all of his stereotypically "Jewish" tendencies (as well as becoming a nice person). After he finds out that they weren't his parents, and the people who raised him were, he reverts back to his old personality.
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Gene Hunting / int_55f45fb8	comment	"Paternally Yours" revolves around Sweetie Belle trying to find her biological father. Word of God is that it was to a degree wish fulfillment for the author, who came from similar circumstances.
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Gene Hunting / int_58d46786	comment	The young adult novel The Girl on the Milk Carton is about a teen girl that sees a picture of a missing girl on her milk carton and realizes it's her. She spends the rest of the book wrestling with the knowledge that her parents aren't her true parents, that she might have even been kidnapped by them, and that she has another set of parents that are looking for her desperately.
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Gene Hunting / int_59c27061	comment	A Death in the Family is kickstarted when Jason Todd learns that his now-deceased mother was actually his stepmother. He manages to find his birth mother, who sells him out to The Joker and is killed along with Jason.
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Gene Hunting / int_5a63b046	comment	Leia, Princess of Alderaan is not concerned about the identities of her biological parents. If her birth parents were alive she would want to know and have some kind of relationship with them, but she was told that both of them died in the Clone Wars and is completely uninterested in learning more. She's very Happily Adopted and feels her family is complete as it is. When an Imperial Moff who, unbenownst to her, worked closely with her mother, sees the resemblance and starts probing her and asking questions about where she comes from, Leia becomes really uncomfortable with his insistence.
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Gene Hunting / int_5dfc7572	comment	The Angry Beavers: In "Stump Looks for His Roots", Norb points out in a "family photo" of the grove of trees where he met Stump that Stump is an elm and his "family" are spruce trees, which means Stump is a transplant (i.e. adopted). When Stump hastily leaves to look for his biological parents, Norbert and Dagget have to track him down.
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Gene Hunting / int_5f786455	comment	Tales of an Ancient Empire: Tanis was raised a princess, believing her father was the king. She learned that her father was really a mercenary whom her mother had an affair with however, and set out to find him.
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Gene Hunting / int_60f02ddb	comment	Fran was adopted by a Chinese couple in American Dad!. After Stan gets annoyed by their lack of assimilation, insistence on tradition, and refusal to treat him as "the man of the house" in his own home (they were pretty obnoxious and rude to him), he goes on a search for her real parents who it turns out gave up their baby rather than downgrade to Coach seats on a flight.
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Gene Hunting / int_68579d2b	comment	The Voyage of MÃ¡el DÃºin: MÃ¡el DÃºin, who is the son of a nun and the nobleman Ailill who raped her, is raised by a local king and queen as their son. When MÃ¡el DÃºin is a young adult, he learns that he is adopted, and insists on learning the truth about his birth parents. When his birth mother, the nun, tells him who his father was, and also that he has been killed in a pirate raid many years ago, MÃ¡el DÃºin travels to meet Ailill's family (who live in another kingdom), and is welcomed with open arms. MÃ¡el DÃºin lives with them happily for a while, until it occurs to him that it is his duty to avenge his father, and he gathers a warband to track down the pirates who killed Ailill.
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Gene Hunting / int_6927720f	comment	In The Fallout, Lexie has an interest in finding her biological parents.
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Gene Hunting / int_6b40eec8	comment	Arlo the Alligator Boy: The main plot is Arlo heading to New York City to find his biological father Ansel and reunite with him.
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Gene Hunting / int_72c49d3b	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_72c49d3b	comment	Solarbabies: Darstar tries to track down the village he was taken away from when he was two months old to reunite with his people.
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Gene Hunting / int_76e1ae72	comment	CatDog went looking for their parents, and believed they found their relatives in a little town in the mountains where cats and dogs get along. They're wrong, and also discover that the peace between cats and dogs is apparently really, really fragile. They eventually find out their real parents were a female yeti and a frog with a very long nose. Considering this probably isn't the strangest thing they've ever seen, they're very accepting. They weren't even their biological parents either. They were found outside their cave as babies and they took them in. Cat and Dog are annoyed that they still don't know where they came from, but they knew who cared for them when they were young and that was good enough for them.
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Gene Hunting / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman villain Bane is conceived during a failed revolution in a BanannaRepublic. He and his pregnant mother are sentenced to life in prison in place of his father, who escapes from the SecretPolice. Decades later, Bane spends several years worth of sporadic appearances trying to find his father to seek closure (and to kill him if it turns out that he abandoned his lover and unborn child deliberately). There are no remaining records about who his father is, but only four men who knew his mother and escaped after the failed revolution were important enough that their child would have received their sentence: a guerrilla leader, a mercenary soldier, a mysterious financier, and a doctor who treated rebel soldiers. The doctor is Batman's father, causing Bane to think they may be half-brothers before a DNA test proves otherwise. Ultimately, it turns out that his father is the mercenary, who has since become known as the super villain King Snake.
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Gene Hunting / int_7b6880d2	comment	Unidentified Suburban Object: Chloe Cho's parents never want to talk about their lives in South Korea before they came to America and Change the Uncomfortable Subject whenever Chloe asks them about it, so she submits a sample of her DNA to GeneGenie in the hopes of finding relatives in Korea she can talk to. When her parents tell her that they're actually aliens who were the only known survivors of a solar event that destroyed their home planet, Chloe thinks she doesn't have any relatives in the world besides her parents. But then she gets a letter from GeneGenie saying she has a match in South Korea, meaning someone besides her parents escaped the planet and made it to Earth.
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Gene Hunting / int_844e6a90	comment	In Born Behind Bars, Rani and Kabir travel from Chennai to Bengaluru, where Kabir's Disappeared Dad was born, in the hopes of finding him. He turns out to be dead, but Kabir does find his grandparents.
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Gene Hunting / int_84ae7619	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_84ae7619	comment	Secrets & Lies is all about Hortense looking for her birth mother, though she knew she was adopted all along. The death of her adoptive mother triggers the search.
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Gene Hunting / int_85eced19	comment	In Love & Pies, Amelia has always wondered who her father is since she was a kid, and inspired by The Mysteries of Miguel, one of her first investigations involved finding him. She's overjoyed when Sebastian finally drops by her cafÃ© to tell her that he's her father, despite her family and friends' suspicions that he's behind all the attacks on the cafÃ©.
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Gene Hunting / int_86814cd0	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_86814cd0	comment	Inverted, somewhat, in Final Fantasy IV: Orphan hero Cecil knows he's adopted, after a fashion, but his concern about his real parents is quite low-key. However, though he's not hunting genes, the genes are hunting him.
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Gene Hunting / int_8d318bad	comment	In Super Mario RPG, Mallow's primary motivation for joining the party is to find his real parents after finding out that he (a living cloud creature) is not a tadpole.
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Gene Hunting / int_8d7f29ec	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Rachel Berry from Glee tries to find her birth mother near the end of the first season. It turns out, said mom is Shelby, coach of rival show choir Vocal Adrenaline, who sent her star performer Jesse to seduce Rachel in order to orchestrate a chance meeting and allow her to meet Rachel before she turned eighteen.
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Gene Hunting / int_8d81bb26	comment	In one episode of NCIS, Abby learns that she's adopted - and that her biological family lives within easy travel distance of the Navy Yard. She meets the brother she never knew she had, but doesn't tell him they're related for a while, almost half a season.
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Gene Hunting / int_8e193f0b	comment	On Boy Meets World, Shawn gets a letter from his Missing Mom in which she reveals that she is not his real mother. He proceeds to try to track his real mother, and is unsuccessful in doing so. His dead father later appears to him in a vision and says that his biological mom was a stripper who took off after giving birth to him, though it's unclear if this vision was real or all in Shawn's head.
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Gene Hunting / int_8f794c68	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_8f794c68	comment	The main characters of the first arc of Wings of Fire were kidnapped as eggs and spend a lot of time trying to find their biological families, with varying success (Clay finds that parents in his tribe don't even care for their children but has a bunch of siblings who do care, Tsunami's mother cares for her and has admirable qualities but also turns out to be a Knight Templar Parent with a cruel streak, Glory's tribe turns out to not really have families but she is able to identify a brother and an older relative who she becomes close to, Starflight's family turns out to be all villainous or dead, and Sunny ends up meeting actually caring parents). In the third arc, Cricket discovers that the dragons she thought were her parents actually aren't. She thinks she was adopted and tries to find her biological parents, but instead finds out that her father is imprisoned, while her mother is the dragon she thought was her older sister. Her 'parents' are thus also revealed to be her biological grandparents.
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Gene Hunting / int_90ace25a	comment	Made in America: The plot is sparked by Zora discovering that her mother's late husband wasn't actually her father, and then looking for him. She finds out that he's a sperm donor who her mother used, then goes to meet the guy.
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Gene Hunting / int_93395d58	comment	Storks: Tulip felt that knowing her intended family was nearly impossible thanks to her beacon being destroyed, but she still hoped she might be able to find them. She gives that up to deliver the baby. Little did she know that Jasper had been taking pains to repair the beacon, and is only missing one piece of it â€” the one currently in her possession.
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Gene Hunting / int_957922a4	comment	The plot of the Alvin and the Chipmunks special A Chipmunk Reunion revolves around the triplets looking for their mother. The brothers want to know what their birthday is so they run away to look for their mother. When they meet their mom Alvin is upset, not believing that he loved her since he abandoned her, until she explains that it was a terrible winter when they were born. They couldn't survive the journey so she left them with David. She was gonna take them back in the spring but they were happy with Dave so she left them.
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Gene Hunting / int_a03824e8	comment	DC Comics: Damage. Thanks to genetic engineering, he was genetically the child of the entire JSA. His birth father was the Atom (Al Pratt).
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Gene Hunting / int_a05d9236	comment	Accused (2023): In "Jessie's Story" Jessie is determined find out about her birth father, in spite of her mom opposing this. Her effort sparks the plot, since she burglarizes the clinic which provided the sperm donation for conceiving her. It turns out the sperm donation was a lie, while she'd really been fathered by the next door neighbor.
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Gene Hunting / int_a183d57f	comment	Leela's personal plot in early Futurama episodes is this, though played with. As she believes she's an alien, she's looking for her entire race, not just her parents, and she doesn't have adoptive parents, she was raised in the orphanarium from childhood. She believes she finds the only other cyclops, but he turns out to be a shape shifting alien who only wants her to take care of one of his castles. She eventually discovers that she's not an alien, but a sewer mutant who looks mostly normal. Her parents left her on the orphanarium's doorstep because they wanted her to have a normal life and watched over her from the shadows her entire life. She visits them often in later episodes and tries to go back and have a life with them after being returned to a teen, but returns to normal.
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Gene Hunting / int_a1a1c5d9	comment	Almost Family: Dozens of young adults come to look for Leon Beckley after learning he's their real birth father. Conversely, after learning he's not hers Julia looks for her real one.
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Gene Hunting / int_a5549ed0	comment	He knew full well where he came from in The Bible. He killed an Egyptian out of ethnic/nationalistic pride due to not wanting to see his own attacked by an Egyptian wrongly. The Prince of Egypt merely tidies the story up for young viewers, by making that whole murder thing an accident. The idea that he didn't know who he was actually comes from the film The Ten Commandments (1956).
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Gene Hunting / int_a7aeb689	comment	The Tigger Movie: The whole plot of the movie revolves around Tigger looking for his biological family and any vestiges of it... only for him to discover that he doesn't actually have a biological family, and that his real family are his friends who have vowed to always be there for him.
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Gene Hunting / int_a85955ce	comment	The first Parascientific Escape game begins when the first protagonist, Hitomi, receives a mysterious letter promising her information on her biological family. Notably, Hitomi is very Happily Adopted and is in fact still reeling from the sudden death of her adoptive father. While she is curious about her biological parents, what she's really hoping to find is information on her biological sister, whom she was separated from at a very young age.
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Gene Hunting / int_aba2f083	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_aba2f083	comment	This is Alice's character arc in season 3 of Kiratto Pri☆Chan. She was raised in a circus and has chosen to go to Japan to find her parents. She later joins PriChan in hopes that they might see her shows.
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Gene Hunting / int_b149f4d2	comment	The Partridge Family: In "A Partridge by Any Other Name," Danny becomes convinced he's adopted because he can't find his birth certificate or any childhood photos. He goes to the hospital, finds that a boy was born on his birthday to Mrs. M. Young, and proceeds to track down every M. Young in the phone book.
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Gene Hunting / int_b5b864ad	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_b5b864ad	comment	The entire premise of Joe Dirt, minus the part where he was adopted. Result: his blood relatives are jackasses, but the friends he's collected along his search become a loving family for him.
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Gene Hunting / int_b61e3f03	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_b61e3f03	comment	Wicked Good is about an adopted teen with Asperger's and bipolar disorder running away to the town where he was born in the hopes that he'll get along better with his biological parents than his adopted ones.
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Gene Hunting / int_c1a0f861	comment	Mamma Mia!: Sophie, who has lived fatherless her whole life, finds an old journal of her mother's detailing three lovers she had around the time of Sophie's conception. So she invites the three men over, and instantly develops a rapport with one of them. Which one is her father? No one ever knows. The creators have stated that Bill is the father.
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Gene Hunting / int_c29f1036	comment	Moses in the movie The Prince of Egypt is shocked to find out he's not really a prince, but a Jew. He knew full well where he came from in The Bible. He killed an Egyptian out of ethnic/nationalistic pride due to not wanting to see his own attacked by an Egyptian wrongly. The Prince of Egypt merely tidies the story up for young viewers, by making that whole murder thing an accident. The idea that he didn't know who he was actually comes from the film The Ten Commandments (1956).
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Gene Hunting / int_c2fcda	comment	SHAZAM! (2019): Billy refuses to adapt to foster care since he still holds hope he will find his mother who lost him at a fair. She actually willingly dumped her child with the police, since she couldn't bring herself to care for him anymore. A heartbroken Billy respects her decision and returns to his foster siblings, proclaiming them his true family.
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Gene Hunting / int_c423806f	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_c423806f	comment	Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: Penelope laFloo is a slightly tweaked variant; she knows her birth parents perished on the slave ship she was born on when it was picked up by a Grand Line hyper-hurricane and thrown clear over the Calm Belt into the East Blue, and she is Happily Adopted. But she still hopes to find the legendary homeland of her race, the mysterious Petting-Zoo People known as the minks, by exploring the Grand Line.
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Gene Hunting / int_c43df4d8	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: From "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances": Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy?" Of course. It's not quite clear why this little boy is looking for his mummy, but the gene hunting does save humanity from zombification. Given the onscreen explanation of why the little boy was zombified by the nanogenes, it seems pretty clear that he was looking for his Mummy because that is what the little boy was doing when he was hit by the bomb.
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Gene Hunting / int_c7cca04f	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_c7cca04f	comment	Chuck does this in season 2 of Pushing Daisies. Inverted with Emerson Codd, who tries to publish a book to lead his lost daughter to him.
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Gene Hunting / int_c9e3cd08	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_c9e3cd08	comment	Keeper of the Lost Cities: Sophie Foster is raised by humans, but it turns out she is a genetically engineered elf hidden to protect her.
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Gene Hunting / int_ce985a8e	comment	By Hook or By Crook: Val, who was adopted by parents who put him in a mental institution for being Transgender, is trying to find his birth mother. His main strategy, at the start, is going to pay phones and dialing everyone with his birth mother's last name in the phone book.
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Gene Hunting / int_cef4be6b	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_cef4be6b	comment	In Single Father, Lucy always knew Dave wasn't her real father but it wasn't until her mother died that she felt compelled to find him. The "hunt" is cut short, however, when Dave discovers that Rita always knew who the father was, having asked him specifically to help her have a baby (she told her family it was a one-night stand) and had kept in contact with him.
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Gene Hunting / int_d12bf211	comment	Fantasy Island (2021): Season 2 introduces Helene, a young woman whose wish is to find her birth father, whom she never met because her mother conceived her with him in a one-time thing (Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex when they survived a hurricane in the rainforest). He turns out to be Javier; Helene decides to stay on the island for a while, wanting to get to know him.
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Gene Hunting / int_d5164c46	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_d5164c46	comment	Zagreus of Hades is prompted into his endless struggle to escape the Underworld by the discovery that Nyx is actually his stepmother rather than birth mother and that his actual birth mother has evidently been Unpersoned. Ironically, this discovery doesn't damage his relationship with Nyx at all (who's an active ally in his endeavor to find out what happened to his Missing Mom, and he is still happy to call Nyx his mother), but is instead the final straw for Zagreus's already bitter relationship with his father, Hades.
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Gene Hunting / int_da861da1	comment	Somewhat subverted on Veronica Mars: after it's hinted that Veronica may not be Keith's child, she gets DNA results and then discards them without reading. Her father also got DNA results, but read his. Congratulations, V, your dad's still your dad! Also done with Trina Echolls. The degree to how well that ended is up for debate.
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Gene Hunting / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf are listening when - after Ashfur tries to kill them out of jealousy that Squirrelflight chose Brambleclaw over him - Squirrelflight tells Ashfur that the three aren't her kits. Hollyleaf thinks Leafpool might know who their real parents are, since she was there at the time of their birth. Leafpool reveals that she is their real mother, which is against the warrior code since she is a medicine cat and medicine cats aren't allowed to have mates.
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Gene Hunting / int_dc217e32	comment	PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines: Belladonna had always known she was conceived in a one-night stand and never met her father, but wasn't interested in knowing about him until she found out she had many siblings (one of them being Ash, of all people). She ends up interrogating a woman named Anna (whose son looks like her and Ash) in Hop-Hop-Hop Town to learn more about him.
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Gene Hunting / int_dc4363c5	comment	On True Blood Sam was adopted and then abandoned when his adoptive family found out that he was a shapeshifter. When he finds his biological parents and his younger brother Tommy, they turn out to be trailer trash who support themselves by having Tommy shapeshift into a dog and fight in illegal dogfights. When his parents abuse his hospitality he throws them out and wants nothing to do with them. He tries to build a relationship with Tommy but the kid is so messed up things quickly take a dark turn.
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Gene Hunting / int_de6659ec	comment	The plot of Once Upon a Time kicks off when Henry seeks and finds his biological mother, Emma.
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Gene Hunting / int_e66220af	comment	A common premise for Pan's Labyrinth fanfic.
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Gene Hunting / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge invokes but averts it. Godzilla III a.k.a Junior as well as Princess Luna and Celestia don't have the faintest idea who or where their respective biological families are, or even if they are still alive. Neither express a desire to find them, and consider their respective adoptive families to be their real parents and siblings, with Luna and Celestia not even entirely sure if they are biological sisters but not caring. When pressed about finding his biological family, Junior is mostly apathetic about them entirely.
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Gene Hunting / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Peter goes to Ireland to find his real father, and then Stewie hunts down someone he believes to be his real father who turns out to be himself from the future.
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Family Guy	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_ea4f62db
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Gene Hunting / int_f097fd9	comment	In Father Figures, twin brothers find out that their mother lied about their father's identity, so they set out on "Operation Who's Your Daddy" to find him. Not an easy task, since their mother really got around back in the day.
Gene Hunting / int_f097fd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Gene Hunting / int_f097fd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Figures	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_f097fd9
Gene Hunting / int_f1da3b99	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_f1da3b99	comment	A variation occurs in Inu Baka, where Suguri wants to trace her dog's ancestry/pedigree so that she would have a better chance to find good homes for his puppies, should he have any in the future, as people are less willing to take care of a mutt.
Gene Hunting / int_f1da3b99	featureApplicability	1.0
Gene Hunting / int_f1da3b99	featureConfidence	1.0
Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs (Manga)	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_f1da3b99
Gene Hunting / int_f38b1d2f	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_f38b1d2f	comment	X-Men: Apocalypse: Quicksilver seeks out his estranged father Magneto, but Peter Maximoff chooses not to disclose to Erik Lehnsherr that they're related.
Gene Hunting / int_f38b1d2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Gene Hunting / int_f38b1d2f	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Men: Apocalypse	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_f38b1d2f
Gene Hunting / int_ff4e1b34	type	Gene Hunting
Gene Hunting / int_ff4e1b34	comment	One episode of Dharma & Greg has an old friend of Dharma visit and spend a lot of time with Larry. It turns out that the friend has determined Larry may be her biological father, and though she doesn't want to bring this up and disrupt his life she wants to bond with him just in case. Dharma eventually discovers proof that Larry couldn't be the father, but chooses not to reveal it when the friend says Larry was her favorite out of all the potential candidates.
Gene Hunting / int_ff4e1b34	featureApplicability	1.0
Gene Hunting / int_ff4e1b34	featureConfidence	1.0
Dharma & Greg	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_ff4e1b34

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Kiratto Pri☆Chan / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Batman: A Death in the Family (Comic Book) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Severed (Comic Book) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Boscha Noceda (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Half Past Adventure (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
It Takes a Village (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Shadows Over Hell (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Spider-Ninja (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Blood of the Covenant (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Bridge (MLP) (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Twice Gleeful (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji (Fanfic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
By Hook or By Crook / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Down in the Delta / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Flirting with Disaster / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
My Girl 2 / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
October Baby / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Solarbabies / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Boat That Rocked / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
X-Men: Apocalypse / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Earth and... / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Fingersmith / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Hetty Feather / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Humanx Commonwealth / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
In Conquest Born / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Leia, Princess of Alderaan / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Meg Langslow Mysteries / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Mermaids / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Mermaids (2001) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Fallout / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Rise of Renegade X / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Voyage of Máel Dúin / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Wildflowers / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
You Have a Match / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
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TheInterferenceLegends	seeAlso	Gene Hunting
Kodocha (Manga) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Kodomo no Omocha (Manga) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Within the Wires (Podcast) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Almost Family / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Boy Meets World / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Fantasy Island (2021) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Forever (2014) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Hang Time / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Hetty Feather / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
How I Met Your Father / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Kim's Convenience / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
ScÃ¨nes de mÃ©nages / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Shtisel / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Smart Guy / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Partridge Family / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Secret Life of the American Teenager / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Ugly Betty / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Winter Sonata / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Love & Pies (Video Game) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
My Child Lebensborn (Video Game) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
PAGUI (Video Game) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
High School Story (Visual Novel) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Dhar Mann (Web Video) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Silver Eye (Webcomic) / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Arlo the Alligator Boy / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Blue Eye Samurai / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Foot 2 Rue / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Storks / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Addams Family 2 / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Critic / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
The Chronicles of Prydain / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting

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