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Moses in the Bulrushes

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Moses in the Bulrushes	comment	An infant is saved from some calamity by being cast into the hands of Fate by his parents, whose lives are sometimes claimed by the same calamity. Fate promptly deposits the young hero with a family (usually poor and humble) who will raise him up to be good, just, noble and strong. He remains ignorant of his true heritage, except perhaps for some trinket — a ring or maybe a pendant, or sometimes even a distinctive birthmark — which can identify him to someone who knew his parents. Sometimes the infant is abandoned in the wilderness by the villain, who doesn't want to murder the child directly, and instead wants it to die from exposure. This never works out as planned. Alternatively, the antagonist, asserting that murdering a baby is a line they will not cross, intentionally sends them away, as whatever awaits for them is surely a better alternative than facing death, in turn knowing that the child will eventually return to face them one day. Often the hero is an aristocrat or even a prince(ss), whose nurture by a humble family gives him a refreshingly egalitarian view on things when he finally discovers his heritage and takes his rightful position. Conversely, as in the tale of Moses, the hero can be a child of commoners who gets adopted and raised in privilege by upper-class parents, only later to discover the plight of their oppressed people. A vital stage in the Genocide Backfire plot. Also known as a Foundling Tale. Contrast with Cinderella Plot, Changeling Tale (which is the inverse of this trope). See also Changeling Fantasy. Compare Doorstop Baby, Switched at Birth, Separated at Birth, Moses Archetype, Muggle Foster Parents, Wonder Child, Wild Child, Noble Fugitive. See also Parental Abandonment, Fling a Light into the Future, and The Ark which is another ancient motif. Results from a Nice Job Breaking It, Herod.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_11b7db91	comment	This is revealed to be the origin of Finn the Human in Adventure Time. As a baby, he was (accidentally) placed on a raft in the ocean with nothing but a teddy bear and an infinite-breadstick generator. He somehow made it to another continent and was adopted by caring parents who turned the teddy bear into a hat.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_13665790	comment	It's all but admitted out loud that Carrot Ironfoundersson is the long-lost heir to the long-empty throne of Ankh-Morpork. He was found in the wild and raised by dwarfs (and still considers himself an unusually tall dwarf,note which by dwarven law and custom he really is, having gone through all the appropriate cultural and spiritual rites expected of an adult dwarf, which becomes a plot point when the Watch come into conflict with dwarven ethno-nationalists in Thud!. and he has both a crown-shaped birthmark and a sword (which, while not enchanted, is far from ordinary). Carrot, however, is happy with his position as a captain in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, has no intention of reclaiming the throne, and even goes out of his way to obfuscate any more evidence he's the lost king of Ankh.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_14074ec7	comment	The Legend of Rah and the Muggles: The main characters are set adrift on a raft for eight days before meeting the titular Muggles. They survive despite being infants and having no access for food or water for eight days.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1657af79	comment	The Mermaid Chronicles: The human girl Maya's parents were killed at sea by the hound of the ocean. Maya, who was just a few days old, was on the boat with them. She couldn't survive in the ocean, so a mermaid carried her to shore and left her on the beach to be found by humans.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_170b09a7	comment	The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning: In the opening cinematic, when the Apes attack the Dragon Temple, Ignitus flees with Spyro's egg and sends it down a river, riding on a mushroom cap, in an attempt to save him.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1a8119af	comment	Dragon Quest VIII: As explained in the Extended Gameplay, the Hero is the son of the wayward prince of Argonia and a Dragovian princess. His pet mouse is actually his grandfather in disguise, who protected him when his Dragovian brethren sealed The Hero's memories (which conveniently immunized him from all curses) and sent him away. His Argonia heritage paves the way for him to marry Medea rather than Prince Charmles.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In the backstory, the first Archon of Tevinter was set adrift in a basket with an Orphan's Plot Trinket just after birth to protect him from his usurping uncle. He would go on to found The Empire.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1bc41f2d	comment	In Hayy ibn Yaqzan, one possible explanation for how Hayy came to be a Wild Child on a Deserted Island is that he was a Child of Forbidden Love whose mother put him in an ark and set him adrift until he washed up on the island.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Nightcrawler was thrown over a waterfall by his mother; later he is rescued and adopted.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1d1c7e55	comment	I Am Mordred: Mordred is found by a fisherman when he's cast adrift to die at sea in a coracle.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Hercules rewrites the hero's origins to make him an originally fully divine son of Zeus and Hera, who was then merely raised among humans, rather than a half-divine hero.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1ec2edf1	comment	The Perfect Castlevania Timeline: Simon Belmont is depicted this way, losing both his father and aunts in his childhood and growing up under the care of a barbarian tribe.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1f140feb	comment	Averted in The Silmarillion, where the young half-elven princes ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn (the sons of Dior and the brothers of Elwing) are abandoned in the wilderness... and never seen again.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_2354d12c	comment	Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest VIII: As explained in the Extended Gameplay, the Hero is the son of the wayward prince of Argonia and a Dragovian princess. His pet mouse is actually his grandfather in disguise, who protected him when his Dragovian brethren sealed The Hero's memories (which conveniently immunized him from all curses) and sent him away. His Argonia heritage paves the way for him to marry Medea rather than Prince Charmles. Dragon Quest XI: After the fall of Dundrasil, the infant Luminary's basket fell into a river while the survivors were escaping from monsters. He's found later by an old gentleman known as Chalky, who would adopt him as his own grandson.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_2372359	comment	(King Bel)garion (of Riva) in The Belgariad is a slightly further-removed example — he's the descendant of the original Moses In The Bulrushes, a few hundred years down the line — strange birthmark and all, although the heirloom sword would be an immediate giveaway apart from the fact that it stayed in the throne room — he claims it when he finds out his station.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_23b4119a	comment	Dragon Sanctuary has Dean, one of the last Kiatas, found by Ellen Conin and raised by her, though Lieutenant Merno always kept an eye on him and formed a friendship with the boy. Later on Dean's told that he was never truly abandoned, as Ellen raised him at Merno's request (since he's also Merno's nephew). Ellen and Dean's sister Meale always knew the truth.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_28508de	comment	In Winx Club, Bloom is your average sixteen year old. Until she stumbles upon an altercation between a fairy and a troll and accidentally unlocks magic powers that she was unaware of, leading to the reveal that she herself is also a fairy. She later learns from her parents that her father, a fire fighter, found the infant Bloom abandoned inside a burning building, and mysteriously unharmed. Eventually, Bloom learns that she is the lost princess of Domino, a planet that was destroyed by the Ancestral Witches.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_29b50f9c	comment	Castle of the Winds: The Big Bad kills your parents in an attempt to kill you, the Chosen One. Your parents knew it was coming, however, and left little baby Player in the hands of an elderly farmer couple.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_2b2195d5	comment	An interesting variation occurs in The Pillars of the Earth. Tom's wife dies in childbirth, so he decides to leave the child in the forest because he has a hard time feeding his other sons too, so the child would surely die if Tom kept him. Later the child is found and is raised by monks. Then Tom gets to build a cathedral for the same monks, so the child grows up being near his father without even knowing about it. His true identity is only revealed to Philip and him at the end of the story, long after Tom's death.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_2e6be66a	comment	Arika in My-Otome appears to be the infant princess set adrift to escape invaders in the very first scenes of the series. Then again, so does Nina, and the official story was that it was Mashiro. The series plays with the ambiguity for a while before The Reveal (heated fan debates and inevitable Epileptic Trees continued all the way until episode 23 aired). As it turns out That was Arika as an infant in the first scene but that wasn't actually the princess but instead the daughter of the King's retainer being set adrift. The actual princess was Nina, who was snuck out in a different fashion off-screen. Mashiro was a fake, but is allowed to continue to reign anyway.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_2e79ce7a	comment	Odin Sphere: Oswald wasn't abandoned, but was adopted by Lord Melvin of Ringford who found him after his parents had been murdered by assassins sent by Oswald's grandfather- King Gallon of Titania. Possibly a subversion as Melvin DIDN'T raise Oswald with care and love to be a noble and good man but raised him distantly to be a cold, emotionless killing machine.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl's parents sent her to Earth to save her life, but the details differ from one origin story to another: In The Supergirl From Krypton (1959), she was rocketed from Argo City when she was fifteen, nearly three decades after Krypton's destruction, and Zor-El and Allura expected her cousin to look after her (and he did so by putting her in an orphanage where she lived until she was adopted by the Danvers in The Unknown Supergirl). In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) and Last Daughter of Krypton she was fifteen when she was blasted off into space right before Krypton fell apart, and her parents asked her to find and take care of her baby cousin. In Supergirl: Being Super, her rocket is found by a kindly couple of Midvale town and she does not learn about her heritage until she is sixteen...
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_330d93	comment	Violinist of Hameln has Princess Flute, who was slipped out of her kingdom during a war (in which her older brother had already tragically died). She was eventually left on a doorstep in a small village far, far to the south of her home country, with only a letter saying "take me" and a crucifix - but in a Subversion of the trope, was ignored by the house's inhabitants and the passersby tried to act like she didn't exist. She would have died had not the visiting elder of a nearby village taken pity on her.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck's origin story. When he was a baby, his parents sent him to Earth in a space cradle.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_36bd	comment	Subverted in Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the 31st century, two members of a dying planet launch their son to Earth, hoping Earth will make him as great as Superman. Unfortunately, the alien child is immediately shot and killed by the couple who find it.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: The nameless Namekian, who would later split himself into God and the Great Demon King Piccolo, was sent to Earth from Namek to escape a disaster that killed nearly every other Namekian.note Except the Grand Elder and the anime-only, then exiled Lord Slug. Luckily, Namekians reproduce asexually, so unlike the Saiyans, they recovered from the near extinction of their race. Unlike most examples of this trope, the nameless Namekian had no parental figures to raise him, so he spent his entire childhood alone, in a frozen wasteland, waiting for someone to come looking for him. Eventually, after years of waiting, he leaves to explore Earth. A parodic twist of the concept: In Dragon Ball Z, it was revealed that Goku was a Saiyan, sent to Earth as a newborn to conquer it for Freeza's planet trade organization.note The combination of Earth's inhabitants being incredibly weak compared to other races and the planet having full moons far more frequently than other planets (Saiyans can use the full moon to turn into Oozaru, incredibly powerful giant weremonkeys) would mean even a single Saiyan infant could conquer the planet. In a twist, this saved him from the near-genocide of his race caused by Freeza himself, and he was raised into a good person by a succession of quirky father-figures (it also helped that he received a blow to the head as a child that gave him Easy Amnesia). Dragon Ball Minus (and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which adapts some elements of Minus) retcons / revisions Goku's origin into a more traditional example. Goku's parents were suspicious of Freeza's decision to recall all the Saiyans to their home planet at once and sent Goku to Earth for his own protection. They neglected to explain this to Raditz, who assumed his brother had been sent on a standard mission (they mentioned to tell Raditz, but somehow they didn't). Also in the aforementioned DBS Broly movie, Broly was banished to the planet Vampa because of his great power he had as an infant. Unusual for this trope. Broly's father Paragus followed right after him in order to retrieve him, since it happened against his will. Unfortunately, both, father and son end up stuck on Planet Vampa for several decades, without knowing that their home planet got blown up by Freeza. Broly was raised by his strict father who also had to restrain him because of Broly's tendency to go berserk. Ironically, it's two of Freeza's henchmen who find the two of them and get them out of the planet, bring them to Freeza who subsequently recruits the two Saiyans without telling the truth that he destroyed Planet Vegeta.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_3d675ac1	comment	The Dark Lords of Nerima: It looks like the story is setting for the Amazons to be given a Moon Kingdom origin story with a folktale of their founding based on a set of baby twins sent to Earth in a lifepod along with the records of the Fall of the Kingdom so that they will be safe, but this is subverted when it's revealed that the two most holy relics are tiny infant skeletons.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_46b77e18	comment	Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: Parodied. The baby Chosen One, having narrowly escaped the thugs that killed his parents, ends up rolling down a steep hill. He is found by a peasant woman, who picks him up, hugs him... and sends him rolling down the hill again. Chosen One also has an identifying mark of destiny — his tongue is a living creature.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_4c65895d	comment	Dinosaur: The film starts with the protagonist's egg making an epic journey from his original nest far, far away from his homeland, eventually ending up on an island inhabited by lemurs, who adopt him when he hatches.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_4f9064f6	comment	Kung Fu Panda 2: reveals Po to be this, finally explaining how a panda can have a goose as a father. The ending reveals that Po's father is still alive along with a number of other pandas who managed to escape Lord Shen's slaughter.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_5b8afa32	comment	Mamoru in GaoGaiGar, although in this case, the "basket" is a giant mecha-lion that hand- or rather, mouth-delivers him to his Muggle Foster Parents. Notable that for most of the series, the parents still have a lingering fear that one day, the lion will return and take him back. He does, sort of. And it's heartbreakingly inverted in the ending of FINAL; the heroes can only open a couple of tiny, ephemeral wormholes back to Earth, and they choose to send Mamoru and Kaidou back to their foster parents, entrusting the future and their story to the children.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_5df03c36	comment	Treasure of Swamp Castle: Princess Szaffi is lost in a flood and adopted by a Romani woman.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_6723753c	comment	Superman: Red Son has Kal-El land one hemisphere away, in the middle of the Soviet Union.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_6a568ee6	comment	In Spartan, the protagonist is abandoned by his father to Mount Taygetus to die from exposure. Luckily, he is rescued by an old helot and he is raised with love. At the end, he frees his nation.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville distinguishes itself from the standard Superman back story. Superman deciphers a message from his father and it ends with an instruction to "rule [Earth] with wisdom".
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo was discovered in the Denorios Belt in the Bajoran system as an infant. As an adult, he discovered that he was one of one hundred infant Changelings sent out to explore the Alpha Quadrant by his people, the Changeling Founders. He was less than pleased to discover that the Founders were also the leaders of the tyrannical Dominion.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_7441e239	comment	The Ten Commandments (1956): After hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses' recently widowed daughter, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_792239e5	comment	Tales of Symphonia: Lloyd was abandoned by his birth father (who thought he had died) and raised by a dwarf.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_7be30333	comment	While it's pretty clear that Tygra from ThunderCats (2011) is adopted (considering how he's a Tiger in a royal family of Lions), it was never brought up in the show itself until the episode "Native Son". His father Javan sent him away in a hot air balloon when he was unable to sacrifice him to the Ancient Spirits in order to save their clan from a deadly disease. The balloon eventually found its way to the city of Thundera, where he was raised by King Claudus and his queen and would later gain an adoptive brother, Lion-O.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_7c50d3d9	comment	In Super Mario Bros. (1993), Princess Daisy's mother dies smuggling her to our world, leaving her on the doorsteps of a church to be raised by nuns.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_7de1376e	comment	Pratchett also subverted this in Wyrd Sisters. After the true heir to the throne of Lancre is revealed, everyone discovers he doesn't want to be king, and would rather be an actor, like his adopted father. Fortunately, an alternative heir is found when Magrat realizes he has a half-brother, who turns out to be the court jester. In a further subversion, Magrat later discovers that the half-blood was not because the king disported with the jester's wife; it was because while the king was out disporting himself with the peasants, the queen got lonely.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_7ff36fa4	comment	Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga reveals the true parentage of the series' protagonist, Kengo Manaka, the human form of the titular Ultra and reincarnation of its light. As it turns out, 21 years ago, Kengo as a baby was found by his mother, then an archeologist, who was excavating the statue of Ultraman Trigger, and adopted him on the spot, and as Kengo grew to adulthood, he became The Chosen One inheriting Ultraman Trigger's light.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_81692f99	comment	Inverted in the Star Trek novel The IDIC Epidemic, in which a young woman thought to have been the sole survivor of a destroyed Vulcan colony is discovered to be Romulan instead. The likely explanation is that she was kidnapped in infancy by a Romulan noble family's rivals, then left to be adopted by Vulcans, so her presence among the Romulan Empire's hated enemies could later be revealed, bringing shame upon her biological parents' name. Ironically, she still winds up becoming a savior of sorts, as her Romulan blood turns out to be the key to stopping a plague within the Federation.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_836f3c1d	comment	Shaolin Prince: The titular character is a prince who barely survives when an evil warlord intending to usurp the throne massacres the palace, killing everyone save for a loyal bodyguard carrying the baby, who then deposits him in the steps of the local Shaolin Temple. The monks promptly adopts the baby prince and raises him to be a warrior, and decades later the prince decide to travel to the city and seek his true lineage.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_847f5422	comment	Downplayed in the Child Ballad Fause Foodrage, where both Wise William and the queen, having exchanged her son for his daughter, know where the child is, and even have a code phrase where they can let the other know that the child is doing well. Both children remain in ignorance until nearly grown.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV: A variation occurs, but it was never really elaborated on until the DS version: as a baby, Cecil's father, the Lunarian KluYa, was murdered, and his mother Cecilia died in childbirth. Cecil's brother Theodore (later known as Golbez), abandons the baby Cecil at the edge of Baron's woods since the evil influence of Zemus led him to believe that Cecil's birth was the direct cause of his parents' deaths. Cecil is taken in and raised by the King of Baron.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: Princess Garnet is revealed to be one of the last Summoners, who survived a great catastrophe by going away with her mother on a boat. Her mother, though, had died as soon as they got to Alexandria. Also, Zidane qualifies once the full scope of his origin is revealed
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_86c3beca	comment	Agatha Heterodyne, the main character of Girl Genius, was raised as Agatha Clay by constructs serving her family after her family's ancestral home was all but destroyed and her father and uncle disappeared fighting the forces of The Other. It's not until she's well into young adulthood and the events of the story kick off that she or anybody not in the loop even suspect that she is fact the lost (and possible last) heir of the infamous and powerful House of Heterodyne.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_8c22af8f	comment	Dragon Ball Minus (and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which adapts some elements of Minus) retcons / revisions Goku's origin into a more traditional example. Goku's parents were suspicious of Freeza's decision to recall all the Saiyans to their home planet at once and sent Goku to Earth for his own protection. They neglected to explain this to Raditz, who assumed his brother had been sent on a standard mission (they mentioned to tell Raditz, but somehow they didn't).
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_8d318bad	comment	In Super Mario RPG, Frogfucius/the Frog Sage adopted Mallow when he found a basket with the baby cloud being going down the river.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Kal-El's parents sent him off to Earth to escape the destruction of Krypton. Supergirl's parents sent her to Earth to save her life, but the details differ from one origin story to another: In The Supergirl From Krypton (1959), she was rocketed from Argo City when she was fifteen, nearly three decades after Krypton's destruction, and Zor-El and Allura expected her cousin to look after her (and he did so by putting her in an orphanage where she lived until she was adopted by the Danvers in The Unknown Supergirl). In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) and Last Daughter of Krypton she was fifteen when she was blasted off into space right before Krypton fell apart, and her parents asked her to find and take care of her baby cousin. In Supergirl: Being Super, her rocket is found by a kindly couple of Midvale town and she does not learn about her heritage until she is sixteen... Superman: Red Son has Kal-El land one hemisphere away, in the middle of the Soviet Union. Last Son: Subverted in the case of Superman's foster son, Chris Kent/Lor-Zod. At first it looks, and Superman believes, this trope has happened, but in reality Lor-Zod was sent to Earth by his father, the villain General Zod, to provide a link that he can use to escape the Phantom Zone Subverted in Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the 31st century, two members of a dying planet launch their son to Earth, hoping Earth will make him as great as Superman. Unfortunately, the alien child is immediately shot and killed by the couple who find it.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time series, Rand learns that his father found him as a baby on the slopes of Dragonmount after his mother died in battle. This is a key part of the Prophecies of the Dragon, which requires that he be raised by the blood of Manetheren.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_916ba165	comment	Cadance, according to Twilight Sparkle and the Crystal Heart Spell, making her reveal as the Crystal Princess even more Troperiffic.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_945b7a4f	comment	In Tangled: The Series, baby chameleon Pascal is sent down the river on a water lily leaf by its mother chased by cobra, eventually finding Rapunzel's tower and becoming her close pet friend.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_94a340d8	comment	Moses the Lawgiver: To keep the Israelite slave population to a controllable number, Pharaoh has ordered all male Israelite infants to be drowned in the Nile River. Yokebed secretly gives birth to a son. Her daughter Miriam has a plan to save the baby. She makes a basket, puts her brother inside it, and heads to the Nile, where an Egyptian ceremony is taking place. The Princess Bithia is undergoing a fertility ritual to bless her with a child. Knowing this, Miriam casts the basket adrift, where it is soon spotted by the Princess. Discovering the baby inside, Bithia takes this as a sign and adopts the child, naming him Moses.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_959e88d	comment	Dragon Quest XI: After the fall of Dundrasil, the infant Luminary's basket fell into a river while the survivors were escaping from monsters. He's found later by an old gentleman known as Chalky, who would adopt him as his own grandson.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_97a7fc69	comment	Happens in Complicated Ness. In the novel version, Ozzie finds a baby Ness in his bag at the airport when he first lands in the USA. This was to protect him from the color war.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_99c93cb	comment	In the Medieval French Suite du Merlin (and works which followed its story, including Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur), King Arthur, on finding out that he has fathered a son on his own half-sister who is prophesied to kill him, orders all the boys born around the right time to be put out to sea in a ship, which is then wrecked. Naturally, the only survivor is the son in question, Mordred, who is found and fostered by a shepherd and brought to court at fourteen years old, where his true lineage is recognized. Something of a subversion in that this is usually a heroic-origin trope, and Mordred is about as unheroic as you get. And, in Lord Tennyson's version Idylls of the King Arthur himself is found this way, and is not necessarily the son of Uther so much as the God-sent King.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9ba3174f	comment	A weird version of this trope occurs in The Quest of the Unaligned. In order to ensure his elemental impartiality, Crown Prince Alaric of Caederan is sent to be raised by foster parents in magicless Tonzimmiel, ignorant of his true heritage. While the plan was to retrieve him around his tenth birthday, this fails when his foster parents die and he disappears into Tonzimmiel's orphanage system. He is located mere weeks before he must be crowned in order to avert a civil war.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Part of the mythology in the fourth season of Sliders. Quinn was the infant son of the greatest living physicist on a parallel Earth, who placed his children with his childless alternate selves to shelter them from a war on his homeworld. By the same token, Colin, Quinn's brother, who was likewise given to their alternates on a technologically backward world.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Valyrian-looking princeling Tyrion meets in Essos is claimed to be Aegon VI Targaryen, who was supposedly killed as an infant by his family's usurpers during the Sack of King's Landing. According to Jon Connington, Aegon was switched at birth and is now being raised to reclaim the throne.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9dab421d	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Will Turner was rescued by the British navy from the wreck of a pirate ship he was in. Elizabeth hid the evidence that he is related to pirates.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	The Boys: Subverted by the Homelander, whose public origin story is the same as Superman's. In reality, he was raised in a lab near an atomic bomb that was set to explode if his powers got out of control.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9e84c324	comment	Batman Returns: The Penguin is a villainous version of this trope; the Penguin even plans to kill the firstborn of every family in Gotham as revenge for his upbringing.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_9fdbe934	comment	Willow: Elora Danan was born with a birthmark that destined her to bring about Bavmorda's downfall. Her mother sends her away with a benevolent nursemaid and is then is killed by Bavmorda's enforcers. Willow finds her floating down a river, having been sent away to safety by the nursemaid moments before said nursemaid was tracked down and murdered.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_a183d57f	comment	For much of the series, Leela in Futurama is believed (by herself, the rest of the main cast, and the viewers) to be an alien abandoned on Earth. It is later discovered, however, that she was born to a pair of mutants living in the sewers of New New York. As mutants are rejected by society and forbidden to leave the sewers, they placed her on the doorstep of an orphanage with a note written in an alien language, so that people would think she was an alien rather than a mutant. In a heartwarming twist, her parents did watch over her for her entire life as they best could and as soon as Leela discovers them she tries as hard as she can to have a close, normal parental relationship with them (while still living above ground where mutants are banned).
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_a496594e	comment	Herodotus reports in The Histories that Cyrus the Great fit this. According to Herodotus, Cyrus' maternal grandfather Astyages, King of the Medes, had a prophetic dream that his advisors interpreted as meaning daughter Mandane (whom he had married off to King Cambyses I of Persia and was then pregnant with Cyrus) would give birth to a son who would overthrow him. Astyages, therefore, called his daughter to live at his capital so that she could give birth under his court's supervision, and then ordered one of his generals, Harpagus, to kill the child. Harpagus didn't have the heart and passed the job on to a shepherd. The shepherd didn't have the heart either, and (as it happened) his wife had just given birth to a stillborn son. So the shepherd passed off the stillborn baby off as the "murdered" royal child and raised Cyrus as his own. Eventually, Cyrus' royal ancestry is recognized, etc., etc., and he goes on to overthrow his grandfather (as prophesied), but there's a lot of interesting stuff before then we really don't have space for now. Almost needless to say, there's basically no evidence to support this except the word of Herodotus, and even he probably got the story from somewhere else.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_a54e58d1	comment	Ice Age: In the first movie, the human mother just manages to deposit her young son with the protagonist animals before dying. Counts, because how could she know that they would take care of him?
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: Named for the Book of Exodus's example: Moses was set adrift in a basket of reeds to escape the slaying of all newborn male Hebrew slaves; he was found and raised by the daughter of Pharaoh. (In this example, however, the baby is born to peasants and raised among royalty instead of the other way 'round.) (Exodus 2:3-6) That, and, since his biological mother was his nursemaid, he was familiar with his background from an early age.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	Legend of the Five Rings has Daigotsu, the hidden heir to the throne. Subverted in that rather than being raised by an upright peasant family he is raised by evil cultists and becomes the new Big Bad.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy IV: A variation occurs, but it was never really elaborated on until the DS version: as a baby, Cecil's father, the Lunarian KluYa, was murdered, and his mother Cecilia died in childbirth. Cecil's brother Theodore (later known as Golbez), abandons the baby Cecil at the edge of Baron's woods since the evil influence of Zemus led him to believe that Cecil's birth was the direct cause of his parents' deaths. Cecil is taken in and raised by the King of Baron. Final Fantasy IX: Princess Garnet is revealed to be one of the last Summoners, who survived a great catastrophe by going away with her mother on a boat. Her mother, though, had died as soon as they got to Alexandria. Also, Zidane qualifies once the full scope of his origin is revealed
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: It's revealed that Link is a Hylian, left in Kokiri Forest by his mother as she died at the feet (roots?) of the Great Deku Tree.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_afad78e4	comment	A version occurs in The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon: In Oath of Gold, the third book of the trilogy, Paks takes up the task of locating the rightful king of Lyonya, a man with elven blood and specific birthright powers that make him the only one the elves will accept as ruler. He was stolen by evil forces as a child, and, it turns out, enslaved for some years and forced to endure some terrible things that the book doesn't go into great detail on. A visitor contrived to give him a chance to escape, and he found his way to some distant relatives who didn't realize who he was but raised him well. He went on to make his own life, and it isn't until Paks figures out who he is that his true purpose and powers are revealed - but it turns out that half a dozen people actually knew where he was, but feared to bring the truth to light, because 1) his time in the hands of the evil ones could have damaged him beyond help (specifically, making him an unstable ruler or making him unable to wield the powers needed to perform his duties as king), and 2) until shortly before the story begins, his sister was alive and showed great promise as a ruler.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Jade Empire: The Player Character was a baby Spirit Monk taken from the destruction of Dirge and raised by Master Li to reclaim his/her heritage.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_b370ddd1	comment	Thor: Loki was abandoned by his father Laufey as an infant for being too small for his race and left to die of exposure before Odin found and adopted him. Odin did not tell him the truth until Loki found out the hard way.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_b3bd4ed4	comment	In Zelfia, Mayy's birth mother attempts to invoke this when she leaves her infant daughter on the doorstep of a human florist. The florist promptly calls Child Protective Services and puts the child into the foster care system.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Mortarion, Primarch of the Death guard from Warhammer 40,000. He was discovered by the inhabitants of Barbarus, a planet with a toxic atmosphere poisonous to normal humans. But he was found having survived the poisonous air as an infant. Leman Russ was found and raised by a she wolf before being retrieved by the people of Fenris.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_bdbcdadf	comment	Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: Izuku is Kal-El/Superman, giving him this backstory. The narration describing his rocket leaving Krypton even refers to him as "precious cargo", referencing the lyrics of "Deliver Us" as Moses' mother lays him in the river.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Grey Mann was captured and raised by an eagle soon after his birth. He eventually kills the other chicks, eats them, and then climbs down the mountain. He ultimately kills his brothers, Redmond and Blutarch.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_c1b44782	comment	Aquaman: In some versions of his origins, Aquaman was cast away from Atlantis at birth and raised by a lighthouse keeper who named him Arthur Curry.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_c29f1036	comment	The Prince of Egypt: opens with Pharaoh Seti ordering the mass infanticide of all newborn Hebrew boys. Yocheved and her other two children, Miriam and Aaron, rushes to the Nile River, where she places her infant son in a basket on the water. Miriam follows the basket as it sails to the Pharaoh's palace and witnesses her baby brother safely adopted by Seti's wife, Queen Tuya.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Used in a throwaway line by the Doctor in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" to explain why Nubile Savage Leela has No Social Skills: he tells Professor Litefoot that she was found floating down the Amazon in a hatbox.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: In Ghosts of the Past, it's revealed that Gwion Bach (better known as Doctor Strange) was set adrift by his desperate mother as the forces of Uther Pendragon slaughtered their people. He was found by a fisherman and raised as Taliesin (in Camelot, ironically enough), and as he notes, he didn't know anything about where he came from, even that he was adopted, until his teens. There's also Clark Kent, who knows there's something different about him, but takes a while to discover his true origins.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_c9fd01d4	comment	In Vagabond Sasaki Kojiro is found by his foster parent this way after being sent by his samurai father from a besieged castle on the brink of falling. Kojiro wasn't actually alone on the boat from the start, but the adults accompanying him had been swept overboard and killed by the time he reached his destination.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ca876243	comment	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: Uther sends Arthur off down the river in a boat while he fights Vortigern. He's found and then adopted by some kindly prostitutes when it drifts past Londinium. Unlike in most examples, here Arthur is not an infant but a young boy when this happens.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_d2bb929d	comment	Soul Series: In Soulcalibur V, Xiba is the biological son of Kilik and Xianghua. Unfortunately, because of that, he inherited his father's Evil Seed. And so, after consulting Edge Master for advice, Kilik puts him in the care of Kong Xiuqiang. 17 years later, does he look Malfested to you?
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_d319bcd9	comment	The Night of the Hunter: Rachel Cooper finds the two Harper children washed up on shore in a little boat amid the bullrushes near her farm. Although they're both a bit older than baby Moses, they're still compared to the Biblical event.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_d3c800ed	comment	Sonic X: Dark Chaos: Sonic the Hedgehog was one of these; Maledict launched him into space as an infant in a capsule to euthanize him — he survived and eventually landed on Mobius. Until Episode 53, Maledict has no idea his son was alive.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_d461f757	comment	Was done to Hera in Battlestar Galactica until her parents recovered her.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_d50ee4b7	comment	Beowulf: Scyld Scefing, the legendary ancestor of the Danish royal lineage is described as arriving this way.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_da89c5dd	comment	In the Mahabharata, Karna was the first illegitimate son of Kunthi and the sun god Surya. Since Kunthi is an unmarried princess at that time, she sets him adrift on the river on a basket of reeds with a pair of amulets and chest armor as his inheritance (that incidentally makes him invincible). He gets adopted by the charioteer Atirathanote (who served the house of Kurus — ironically, the same house Kunti married into when she married Pandu) and later joins the evil Duryodhana's side as his most trusted friend and against his (unknown to him) five brothers.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_da9348f	comment	Clash of the Titans (1981): Baby Perseus, being an illegitimate demi-god, is locked into a coffin with his young mother and thrown into the sea, but Zeus has Poseidon make certain the waters will gently take Perseus and his mother to safety. Perseus is then raised on an island paradise. This scene is based on the original Greek myth of Perseus.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_daff6a21	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Yusei Fudo's father evidently borrowed Kal El's spaceship to save his son from Zero Reverse.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_dc217e32	comment	PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines: Iris was abandoned by her birth parents in the woods to die, but she was found and taken in by Dragon-type PokÃ©mon.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_de6659ec	comment	Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time was sent to the non-magical world as a baby so that she may one day be prepared to face the evil queen who was trying to kill her. She was initially supposed to be sent with her mother, Snow White, so that she wouldn't grow up ignorant about her home world and mission, but the plan was averted at the last minute and a humanized Pinnochio was sent in her place. Unfortunately, Pinnochio abandoned Emma in the orphanage that they were sent to and Emma grew up without knowing her real heritage, except for the blanket that Snow White wrapped around her the day she was teleported away.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ded0e62f	comment	The villainous Benedetto ("blessing") from The Count of Monte Cristo is a definite subversion of this trope. He is the product of an adulterous affair and left for dead by his parents. He is raised by criminals and is much worse than his adoptive family. If they manage to impart any values to him, it is an utter hatred of his birth father.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_dfd300a6	comment	In Prickly City, when Carmen coaxes Winslow into talking about his past, he starts with being found in a basket among reeds.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_e11a97c5	comment	In Godmars, the infant Mars is sent to Earth as the vanguard of an alien invasion by the evil Emperor Zule along with a giant robot set to destroy the Earth if he dies (or gives the right order). Two things get in the way of this: first, his non-evil alien father secretly sent another five robots to protect him; and he was found and raised by a good human couple, who name him Takeru Myojin.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_e4d5575	comment	Warcraft (2016): Draka sends her son in his basket on a river to save him from falling into Gul'dan's hands, and The Stinger has him picked up by humans.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge: An expedition from the founders of Equestria discovered two alicorn foals in front of the Tree of Harmony. At that point, alicorns were a purely fictional concept to embody unity between the recently united races so the sisters, Celestia and Luna, were taken in as a good omen. The creation goddess, Harmony, specifically made them to be mortals' protectors by invoking this trope.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_e885c808	comment	Spaceballs: This is one of the few tropes that the movie actually plays straight: Lone Starr was raised in a monastery, with only a medallion to tell him of his past. No one could tell him what it meant until he encountered Yoghurt... who told him in a fortune cookie that he was a prince, with just enough time to sweep Princess Vespa off her feet.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_e9d7acf9	comment	In the Lone Wolf spinoff series World of Lone Wolf, the hero Grey Star was an infant who was stranded on the legendary Shianti's island after an especially violent storm. This was nothing short of miraculous since the island had enchantments specifically meant to prevent anyone from reaching it without the Shianti's permission. The Shianti sensed that destiny had a hand in the child's arrival and raised him as their own. This was especially fortuitous since Shasarak the Wytch-King a rogue Shianti had established an Evil Empire that threatened all of Southern Magnamund. The Shianti were forbidden to interfere directly, but nothing prevented them from sending their adopted human son Grey Star armed with their magical knowledge against Shasarak.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ea1af55b	comment	Evil Roy Slade: In a teaser, the title character was the last survivor of an Indian attack. The Indians looked at him, then walked away. Then wolves found him, sniffed him for a bit, and ran away yelping. As the credits roll, we see Roy as a very angry toddler stalking out of the desert, toward the camera.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ec28245c	comment	A parodic twist of the concept: In Dragon Ball Z, it was revealed that Goku was a Saiyan, sent to Earth as a newborn to conquer it for Freeza's planet trade organization.note The combination of Earth's inhabitants being incredibly weak compared to other races and the planet having full moons far more frequently than other planets (Saiyans can use the full moon to turn into Oozaru, incredibly powerful giant weremonkeys) would mean even a single Saiyan infant could conquer the planet. In a twist, this saved him from the near-genocide of his race caused by Freeza himself, and he was raised into a good person by a succession of quirky father-figures (it also helped that he received a blow to the head as a child that gave him Easy Amnesia).
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ec375d80	comment	Last Son: Subverted in the case of Superman's foster son, Chris Kent/Lor-Zod. At first it looks, and Superman believes, this trope has happened, but in reality Lor-Zod was sent to Earth by his father, the villain General Zod, to provide a link that he can use to escape the Phantom Zone
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_ef11c772	comment	Arak: Son of Thunder: As a boy Bright-Sky-After-Storm survived the attack that wiped out his tribe when he was knocked unconscious and fell into a canoe which was then washed out to sea. He was found by a Viking longship and adopted by one of the Vikings who trained him as a warrior. This started him on the path that would eventually see him become a knight of Charlemagne.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f123a7d3	comment	Avencast: Rise of the Mage: As a baby, the player character is found in a basket on a river under a portentously stormy sky, an Orphan's Plot Trinket amulet in his hands. Turns out he's one of two Kyranians who survived the Eldritch Abomination Morgath destroying their people, and The Only One who can defeat Morgath — because he's the missing piece of the Fusion Dance the Kyranians attempted to repel him in the first place.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f1cd7792	comment	Lost Voices: The first mermaids were the Unnamed Twins, who were born to a shepherd's wife 3,000 years ago. They were sickly, and as girls not worth saving, so their father left them on a cliff beside the sea to die. Instead, they were rescued and raised by Proteus, and transformed into mermaids as adolescents. Now they and their kind get revenge on the humans who mistreated and abandoned them by using their enchanted voices to sink ships.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f42befdb	comment	In the fifth Captain Underpants book, George and Harold write an origin story about Captain Underpants. When his home planet is sprayed with starch, Baby Underpants' parents use his waistband as a slingshot and send him flying to earth.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f4857d3	comment	Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai: Dai was found and Happily Adopted by Brass this way, when Dai was washed ashore as an infant on the island where Brass himself resides.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f5db678	comment	''Raideen: Princess Lemuria is a gender-flipped Expy of Moses. When she was young, the Demon Empire destroyed her planet, the ancient continent of Mu, so the rest of her people chose her as the Sole Survivor and her father placed her in a boat so she could get to safety. She managed to escape their wrath, while working on defeating Emperor Barao. Also, she can split the sea.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f89d3c09	comment	Touhou Ibunshu: Sometime before the start of the series, the Moon's Tsukito Academy was assaulted and leveled. The two remaining survivors, Reisen Udongein Inaba and an infant Lunarian, managed to access a teleport pad and escape to Gensokyo. However, after arriving, Reisen was attacked by a very vicious youkai, losing the child. Said youkai was Remilia Scarlet, who raised the child as a servant of her household and gave her the name Sakuya Izayoi.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Seemingly played straight with Pelleas, lost heir to Daein, except that he isn't taken in by a family and grows up in an orphanage. However, it's subverted when after fulfilling a boatload of conditions, you find out in the epilogue that Soren is the true heir. A subversion in that not only does he not become king, but he also doesn't even know. Made particularly ironic when it's revealed that Pelleas' special birthmark that identified him as the heir is actually a Spirit Charmer mark; Soren, who has the genuine Brand, probably owes his survival to being confused for a Spirit Charmer.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_fcb4a02f	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Moses in the Bulrushes / int_fcb4a02f	comment	And, in Lord Tennyson's version Idylls of the King Arthur himself is found this way, and is not necessarily the son of Uther so much as the God-sent King.
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Moses in the Bulrushes / int_fcf43f47	comment	Fighting Fantasy actually have a few villains whose backstories involves this trope. Including Malbordus from Temple of Terror, a human abandoned to the wolves only to be adopted by Dark Elves due to recognizing his potential, and growing up to become the elves' greatest champion to rule over Allansia, and Nazek from Spellbreaker, abandoned as a baby in a basket in the steps of Raissin Abbey and raised by the monks, only to grow up into a power-hungry sorcerer who wants to unleash demons into the world.
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Baahubali / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Batman Returns / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Ten Commandments / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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Thor / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Willow / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
A Witch Shall Be Born / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Age of Steam / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Arabian Nights / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Book of Exodus / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Dragaera / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Gods and Warriors / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Gotrek & Felix / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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Le Morte d'Arthur / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Spartan / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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The Horse and His Boy / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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Six Ages (Video Game) / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
SongBird Symphony (Video Game) / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (Video Game) / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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X-Men: Destiny (Video Game) / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
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