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Baby is orphaned. Loving parents find baby. Parents raise baby as their own. This is a standard set-up in stories. But sometimes, as the baby grows up, they find out that they're a little... different from the rest of their family. Really different. Sometimes they notice this, and start angsting. And sometimes, they don't notice anything at all and are perfectly content with living their lives with their families, no matter how obvious it is that the family isn't their "real" family. This is taken to extreme measures in Funny Animal cartoons, where the species is very different but the adoptee doesn't notice. Usually played for laughs rather than straight these days, due to the dying out of the Changeling myth and parents these days avoiding keeping adoption a secret from their kids. For the "humans raised by animals" version, see Raised by Wolves. See also No Social Skills, the inevitable behavioral problems that come with such an adoption, and Happily Adopted, which is what they tend to be. Compare/contrast Chocolate Baby, which generally involves something other than adoption. Compare Red-Headed Stepchild. |
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In The Elements of Friendship, Butter-and-Eggs is an Earth Pony raised by a Stag named Cobnut, who comes complete with a set of sticks he wears as antlers. Turns out he put them on himself at a young age and forgot they were fake. He gets over being told pretty quickly. | |
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Star Ocean: The Second Story is kinda silly about this, as her pointed ears make it kinda obvious Rena is not only adopted but a different species from the rest of her village. The Town Elder doesn't want to bring it up. The third game justified this in the in-game encyclopedia; because expellians are a hybrid race, they have a much wider variety of physical features than other humans. So while Rena's ears were a bit unusual even by their standards, they didn't actually stand out that much. Also, Rena isn't oblivious to her adoption. Everyone only thinks she is. She was, but overheard her adoptive mother and the town elder talking about it after her adoptive dad died. (Mom wants to tell Rena she's adopted, the elder somehow talks her out of it.) By the time the game begins, she's known for a few years. Though she doesn't find out she's a different species until Disc 2. | |
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Digimon: In Digimon Data Squad, Ikuto is raised by Digimon. He completely fails to notice a lack of evolving, the whole "gradual growth" thing he has going, the lack of special abilities, the fact that his name doesn't end in "-mon", and the fact that he bleeds. The fact that he was raised by a living female snowman from quite an early age and really should have frozen to death upon being rocked to sleep one too many times is never even addressed. It is at least implied that he and his loved ones were in denial or trying to enforce the facade due to the fact "humans" were synonymous with "genocidal maniacs" as far as Digimon were concerned, especially for Ikuto himself who despised the entire human race for killing his foster mother; as soon as the cat is out of the bag, everything goes to hell for him. In Digimon Adventure, Koushirou (English dub name Izzy) was adopted before the series started by a cousin of his father; they'd gladly taken him in since they'd recently lost their own biological son in infancy, but they'd intended to keep the fact he was adopted until he was ready to handle it (since at the time of the series he was only ten years old). Unfortunately, Koushirou had already overheard them talking about it one night, leading to an emotional rift between them and him developing a severe identity crisis. His parents do make good on their intent to tell him the truth of their own accord in the middle of the series, and given his status as The Smart Guy are not particularly surprised to learn that he'd figured it out already, but after he confirms that they love him like their real son anyway, he's able to reconcile with them and move on. |
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Disney's Hercules has this trope in full force, with the accidentally-exiled baby god being taken in by childless mortals, only to grow up feeling weird and ostracized because of his excessive strength. | |
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SongBird Symphony: Birb at the very beginning of the game. The realisation that Uncle Pea is probably not his biological family is what prompts him to go looking for answers about his origins. | |
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An episode of Tom and Jerry had a duckling imprint on Tom and remain oblivious to Tom's attempts to eat him (despite Jerry repeatedly saving him and trying to illustrate the difference between cats and ducks). When the duckling finally figures things out, he decides to let Tom eat him anyway, though of course Tom can't bring himself to do it and, at the end of the episode, actually takes the duckling in. | |
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Dumb and Dumber To: When Harry (who’s white) learns that he needs a new kidney, he visits his parents (who live just down the street) to ask them for one. He is astounded that his Asian-American mother and father aren't his blood relatives. Keep in mind that Harry is in his late '50s/early '60s at this point. | |
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Haven: Nathan finds out in season one that he was adopted by the Chief as a small child, after his mother left his physically abusive biological father. He only finds out by accident, when his biological father returns to Haven following his release from prison for murdering an entire family. They have the same Feel No Pain Trouble, and Nathan works out that they're related, since Troubles are hereditary. However, he is blindsided when Garland reveals just how they're related. Nathan doesn't really have any Adoption Angst, though, he's just upset he wasn't told and feels that Garland keeping something like that from him is emblematic of their strained relationship. | |
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An odd case was referenced in one episode of Cheers. To account for Coach's absence towards the end of season 3 (his actor had died before the end of the season), he would be explained away as being somewhere. One of these cases was being at a family reunion- and everybody aside from him in the photo is African-American. Turns out, he was mailed an invite to one of their gatherings by accident and felt it would be rude not to go. Hence, he showed up at more of their family functions and was considering holding the reunion at his house that year (the family called him "Uncle Whitey"). | |
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In Murderess, Déaspor reveals to Hallwad and Aucasis that they are actually Killers. Of course, being Déaspor, she does this incredibly insensitively. | |
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Bloom of Winx Club was sent to Earth and adopted by Mike and Vanessa when her home planet was under attack; in the process of such, she lost her memory and thought they were her parents. After having a dream of the time she was rescued and Mike reveals it's her, she learns the shocking truth. | |
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In Project ARMS, Ryo, Hayato, and Takeshi were all taken in at birth by agents of the Blue Men organization. Ryo and Hayato don't realize this until the Egrigori come after them. Takeshi accidentally finds out sooner and goes on an angst-trip until he gets over it and saves his sister from danger. All of them pretty much continue to accept their parents as their own. | |
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In some productions of Evil Dead: The Musical Ash's sister Cheryl is played by a black actress. If this is the case, her last words will be to tell Ash that he's adopted. | |
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Lain doesn't look much like her family in Serial Experiments Lain. This is because she's adopted. Lain's an Artificial Human whose "family" is an experiment. They were forced to take care of her. This explains why they're so distant, and sometimes distasteful, towards her. | |
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In Hungry Heart: Wild Striker, protagonist Kyosuke Kanou was this during his early childhood, as his biological parents died in a car crash when he was a baby. His discovery of this, coupled with the fact that people constantly put him in the shadow of his Big Brother Mentor Seisuke, led him to become heavily estranged from his family, and to quit soccer altogether. He eventually gets better. | |
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I Shall Wear Midnight reveals, not too surprisingly, that Wee Mad Arthur is a Nac Mac Feegle raised by gnomes. | |
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Ozy from Ozy and Millie, a fox, knows he's adopted but still sees the Llewellyns (dragons) as his "real" family. However, he does seem to have odd ideas about what normal family activities actually are, given his loopy relatives. And the Llewellyn family curse seems to regard him as one of the family; in fact, he's the only family member it has any noticeable effect on since he's the only "dragon" with fur. Ozy did meet the person who was quite probably his biological father once. Upon learning this, Ozy decided to spend the day with the father who raised him, rather than the father he had never met before (and as far as we know, never saw again). | |
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In Rave Master Yuma reveals at the end of the Blue Guardian arc that the baby Hardner's wife was expecting when she died survived the crash that killed their mother. Yuma has been raising Nagisa ever since. He forbids anyone from mentioning this again, particularly to the adopted child. | |
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Dragaera series by Steven Brust: The Dragaeran Morrolan never questions why he's about a foot and a half taller than his adoptive human village, nor why he's still young at more than 100 years of age. It takes another Dragaeran to seek him out and explain things. In a less conspicuous example, Zerika IV was raised by Dragonlords, and eventually deduced that she was an orphan of that House whom they'd adopted. It's only when Sethra Lavode summons her for training that she learns she's the last Phoenix, which explains her blonde hair and un-Dragonish personality traits. |
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In the Foghorn Leghorn short "Mother Was a Rooster", Barnyard Dawg, as a joke, hides an egg under Foghorn, making him think he'd laid the egg, even though he is male. It turns out to be an ostrich egg, but Foghorn still thinks he gave birth to the ostrich, without question. | |
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One gag in the German comic Nicht Lustig has a penguin mother tell her adopted giraffe son the harsh, yet so very obvious, truth. In the background, a naked human man can be seen thinking, "Wow, poor guy." | |
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In Arrested Development, Lindsey Bluth was adopted, and her parents claimed she was Michael's twin sister... in spite of her being three years older than him. When Lindsey obviously started going through puberty before Michael, Lucille hand waved Lindey's growth away by simply claiming she was getting fat. | |
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ElvenQuest: Vidar was adopted by Elven royalty, who figured it was best to wait for him to figure out that there were certain disparities between his intelligence and those of his brothers, or the way his father talks like he's from Oop North while Vidar doesn't. Vidar never did, and eventually had to be outright told. | |
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In a particularly heartwarming example, in the film, Losing Isaiah the African-American child is adopted by a white family from birth and doesn't seem to suspect anything. So when his white older sister tries to call attention to it when he is 4 years old, she asks him "Isaiah look at our hands, what is different about them?" He responds, "My hand's smaller!" and then goes back to playing. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life has Heffer being surprised he's adopted after Rocko brings it up at a dinner visit to his family. Rocko, at least, found it obvious, as Heffer is a steer and his family are wolves. Who originally raised Heffer so that they could eat him, incidentally. They came to love him and changed their plans, of course. Heffer didn't take it well at first, but he eventually settled into Happily Adopted. | |
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In the Made-for-TV Movie Knight Rider 2010 Jake, the lead character, was adopted at a very young age by a black man. As an adult, the man tells Jake he's not his real father. "I know... I have no sense of rhythm." | |
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Garfield: One series of comics involved Garfield being stuck up a tree and encountering a cat who was adopted by squirrels. A week of strips in 1982 involved a baby chick thinking Garfield was its "mommy" (and later "daddy" when it was corrected). The last strip has Garfield finally getting the chick to go away. The chick forlornly says, "Goodbye, daddy." In the last panel, Garfield sheds a tear. |
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Discworld: Captain Carrot fails to realize he's not actually a dwarf, despite being over six feet tall (his dwarf name means "headbanger"). In later books, he says that being a dwarf is more about culture and mindset than actually, you know, being a dwarf. He isn't wrong, either. On the Discworld, being a dwarf is a great deal more than mere species. Most dwarfs accept (if not always happily) that Carrot is a very, very, very tall dwarf. There are also people who are biologically dwarfs but have done away with the cultural trappings, and probably wouldn't be considered dwarfs even by Carrot — people such as Count Casanunda or Hwel. Going Postal features the eccentric young postal assistant Stanley Howler, who was raised by peas. Not on peas. By peas. The mechanics are left to the reader's imagination. I Shall Wear Midnight reveals, not too surprisingly, that Wee Mad Arthur is a Nac Mac Feegle raised by gnomes. In Snuff, children's book author Miss Beedle relates how her mother was reared by goblins and was quite happy being one until some humans decided to "rescue" her from the only family she'd ever known. |
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Inverted in Changeling, where it's the mother who finds out the child is different. In this case, though, the mother knew immediately the kid wasn't hers. And it's revealed pretty much everyone else, including the boy, involved knew as well, the corrupt police department just wanted to say that the case of the boy's disappearance had been solved. | |
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A particularly bizarre example of this occurs in Pokemon: Shadow of Time; after Sabrina is purged of the psychic parasite that controlled her since she was 12, although she's physically in her mid-twenties she's mentally regressed back to the girl she was when she was originally possessed, with the result that she has somehow 'imprinted' on Ash and Misty as her 'parents' even though they're only in their teens, continuing to consider Ash her father even after she's mentally 'aged up' back to adulthood. | |
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Splitting Heirs plays this for laughs with its protagonist Tommy Patel, who was adopted by an Indian family living in London as an infant and grows up to be blond, blue-eyed Eric Idle; he's stunned when his family breaks the news to him. | |
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In the first movie it's unclear whether Po the Panda is meant to be the biological son of Mr. Ping the goose or adopted. On the one hand Mr. Ping shows pictures of his father and grandfather, who are also geese, implying adoption, but then he also says "We are noodle folk. Broth runs through our veins!", suggesting Po is his own. It's humorously lampshaded at one point, and an adoption reveal subverted: | |
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Snegurochka from Ayakashi Triangle is a strange example who thinks her adopted family are her biological family (as much as she understands the concept) even though they didn't raise her. Rather, she is a tulpa from a picture book who comes to believe Matsuri's grandfather Seigen is also her grandfather, Ded Moroz, and then later on moves in with them. | |
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Disney's The Ugly Dachshund concerns a Great Dane who was adopted into a family of Dachshunds. The Great Dane grows up thinking he is a dachshund. Hilarity Ensues. (This has happened in Real Life.) | |
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Elf: Despite Buddy growing up to be so much taller and deeper-voiced than his elf peers, he never suspected that his real parents weren't elves, but humans. Before he learns the truth, he assumes he's just a defective elf who can't do anything right. | |
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Played with in The Face on the Milk Carton. Janie has no doubts about her parentage until she sees a child that looks startlingly similar to her kid self on a milk carton, labeled as a missing person. When she goes to see the missing girl's family, she notices that they all have red hair similar to hers. This revelation strikes her adoptive parents, too, who had raised her believing that she was their grandchild. | |
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In Snuff, children's book author Miss Beedle relates how her mother was reared by goblins and was quite happy being one until some humans decided to "rescue" her from the only family she'd ever known. | |
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In Digimon Adventure, Koushirou (English dub name Izzy) was adopted before the series started by a cousin of his father; they'd gladly taken him in since they'd recently lost their own biological son in infancy, but they'd intended to keep the fact he was adopted until he was ready to handle it (since at the time of the series he was only ten years old). Unfortunately, Koushirou had already overheard them talking about it one night, leading to an emotional rift between them and him developing a severe identity crisis. His parents do make good on their intent to tell him the truth of their own accord in the middle of the series, and given his status as The Smart Guy are not particularly surprised to learn that he'd figured it out already, but after he confirms that they love him like their real son anyway, he's able to reconcile with them and move on. | |
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Wizards of Waverly Place plays with this. First, we meet a kid who claims to be the runt of his giant family when he was about the same size as a normal human. Then later it turns out he's adopted. Which he knew, but he'd always assumed he'd been adopted from other giants. Despite the fact he was a wizard. | |
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Done in The Angry Beavers with the (mostly) inanimate character Stump, in the episode "Stump Looks for His Roots". After showing off slides of his family, Norbert points out that Stump must be adopted (or a "transplant", as he puts it), since Stump is an elm, and his parents are oaks. | |
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Happens in W.I.T.C.H., where, during the New Power story arc, Taranee finds out she's adopted, as her parents had to give her up when she was a baby when magic summoned a meteor from the sky to burn evil vines trying to kill her, burning up the home in the process. Her adoptive parents had planned to tell her later and kept track of where her birth parents are so she could meet them, but she made clear she considers them her real parents. | |
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A Peck on the Cheek: Amudha had no idea she was adopted until her 9th birthday. Indira had even said that she and Amudha looked very alike despite Amudha having noticeably darker skin than her adoptive family (she was adopted from Sri Lanka, while her adoptive family live in Tamil Nadu). Amudha's maternal grandfather, D. Ganesan, asks why she was told at all given how upset she was to find out; when told that she needed to know eventually, Ganesan sarcastically and bitterly suggests that they should have waited until her 80th birthday. | |
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In Macross Frontier: Ranka is at first unaware that she's the adopted younger sister of Ozma Lee. When she eventually does find out, there's minimal denial or angst over it, as Ozma has always loved her as though she were his sister. The reasons why she was adopted, on the other hand... | |
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A Brother's Price: This is invoked with Neddie at the end of the novel. She is actually the child of a family executed for treason, and a toddler at the time she is adopted. The Whistlers do everything to help her fit in, from dyeing her hair to giving her the same tattoos her "sisters" have. They seem to hope that she will forget about her birth family, and not want revenge once they tell her the truth when she comes of age. Wanting to keep the adoption under wraps is justified by the cultural norms of the setting — the major religion frowns on adoption. The main character speculates that this is because the skewed birthrate makes boys so much more valuable than girls, and abandonment of excessive female children might be more prevalent if other families could be convinced to take them in. An oblivious adoption is the only option to avoid scorn. | |
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Greenie from Leafie, a Hen into the Wild is a duck while his mother is a chicken. He doesn't realize that he's adopted until his preteens when he's teased by other ducklings. | |
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In Digimon Data Squad, Ikuto is raised by Digimon. He completely fails to notice a lack of evolving, the whole "gradual growth" thing he has going, the lack of special abilities, the fact that his name doesn't end in "-mon", and the fact that he bleeds. The fact that he was raised by a living female snowman from quite an early age and really should have frozen to death upon being rocked to sleep one too many times is never even addressed. It is at least implied that he and his loved ones were in denial or trying to enforce the facade due to the fact "humans" were synonymous with "genocidal maniacs" as far as Digimon were concerned, especially for Ikuto himself who despised the entire human race for killing his foster mother; as soon as the cat is out of the bag, everything goes to hell for him. | |
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The Flut Flut in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy very briefly adopts Daxter as its mother, despite being approximately 50 times the little orange rodent's size (they milk one joke out of this, and then it turns into a steed — but never again chirps "Mama" in Daxter's direction). | |
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Going Postal features the eccentric young postal assistant Stanley Howler, who was raised by peas. Not on peas. By peas. The mechanics are left to the reader's imagination. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: In the first movie it's unclear whether Po the Panda is meant to be the biological son of Mr. Ping the goose or adopted. On the one hand Mr. Ping shows pictures of his father and grandfather, who are also geese, implying adoption, but then he also says "We are noodle folk. Broth runs through our veins!", suggesting Po is his own. It's humorously lampshaded at one point, and an adoption reveal subverted: Dealt with in the sequel. It turns out that no-one bothered to talk about it despite it being so obvious because Mr. Ping is afraid of Po leaving him to find his true parents. Ultimately, Mr. Ping should have had more faith in his adopted son's love. Inverted in the third film; Po meets his biological father who was revealed at the end of the second movie and doesn't recognize him. At all. Even after his father says the only reason he's in town was that he was looking for his son. Instead of realizing the obvious, Po just wishes him good luck and the two part ways. Everyone else around them facepalms. When the Furious Five meet Li-Shen, they immediately guess that he's Po's father. |
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Technobear from Harvey Beaks was reared by turtles, and he thought he was one as well until the end of "Terrybear". | |
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Birds of a Feather: Whilst looking for potential antiques for the Antiques Roadshow in "Someone Else's Baby", Sharon and Tracey find evidence that one or the other are actually adopted. They later find out that they're both adopted (although they're still biologically related), having been picked up from an orphanage when they were very young. | |
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Reversed in Murder by Death. It apparently took Lionel Twain more than a decade to realize that his adopted son Sydney Wang was Asian. | |
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In Upper Middle Bogan, Margaret kept Bess's adoption from her for over thirty years, and there's no suggestion she would have told her if she hadn't suddenly found out their blood types were incompatible. | |
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Eggs from The Boxtrolls is convinced he's one of the eponymous boxtrolls until Winnie convinces him otherwise. It just never seemed to occur to him that there was a reason he looked nothing like his adoptive father or the rest of the family for that matter. He just figured he was "long-boned," and had some sort of skin condition and a "speech impediment". | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: It turns out that Yuya and Yuzu were adopted by their respective parents they were living with and they had no real birth parents to begin with. The two and their respective counterparts are split fragments of Zarc and Ray, a result of the Original Dimension being divided into four others. This would also explain why Yugo and Rin are orphans. Curiously, this seems to be a rare double example, as their parents weren't completely aware that they were adopted either. They don't remember ever adopting the kids, but apparently a Perception Filter kept them from thinking about it too much until one of the villains specifically brought attention to it. | |
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Not Completely, Altogether Here: Rora never knew she was adopted. Her mother is a short Munchkinlander while she's Gilikin tall (as in, her mother barely reaches her elbow), but it was thought just to be genetics. Turns out that she's the heir to the Ozian throne, the next Ozma. | |
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One episode of 30 Rock had the characters' mothers appearing on the show. Danny (who is white) reveals he has an Asian mother, which someone comments on and thus him realizing he was adopted. | |
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In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Mallow is first encountered as an oblivious adoptee (he is a Cloudy/Marshmallow being and his family are frogs). His reason for joining the party thus ends up being to search for his birth family. The game does play his obliviousness (and most of the other tadpole's) for laughs. | |
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In NCIS, Abby discovered she had a biological brother named Kyle whom she never met after undergoing a blood test in order to donate a kidney. She later compared her own DNA to that of a strand of her mother's hair she kept in a locket and discovered that the two samples didn't match. | |
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In The Wheel of Time series, Rand al'Thor is eighteen years old before he discovers that farmers Tam and Kari al'Thor are not his birth parents. This revelation doesn't change the fact that Rand still loves them just the same and resolutely refers to them as his real parents, even after uncovering the identities of his biological parents (an Aiel chieftain and the former crown princess of Andor who Went Native). Justified somewhat despite his flaming red hair being a common trait of his biological father's people, the Aiel, which along with his height is often remarked on by others as making him look like an Aielman. There are no other redheads in the Two Rivers, but it's not exclusive to Aiel and his deceased adoptive mother was born elsewhere and had red hair herself despite no known Aiel ancestry. | |
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In Disney's Tarzan, Tarzan believes himself to be an oddly hairless and skinny gorilla, until Jane and the other humans show up. In the original book, he comes across the jungle hut his shipwrecked parents built for themselves before dying, and from the picture books inside figures out that he's not an ape. He also teaches himself to read. | |
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Tales of the City: Shawna doesn't know she's not Brian and Mary Ann's biological daughter until she finds her birth certificate in a box of documents, which lists Connie Bradshaw as the mother. | |
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Lambert the Sheepish Lion: Only Lambert himself is out of the loop; all of the other sheep know and (aside from his loving mother) mock him for not acting like his actual species, though eventually Lambert does discover his inner bestial nature when a wolf imperils his mother. | |
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In one episode of NewsRadio, Matthew doesn't figure out that he's adopted until his "identical twin" brother points it out to him. This despite the fact that the two look absolutely nothing alike; Matthew is played by gangly, blond Andy Dick, while his twin brother is played by Jon Stewart. Turns out at the end of the episode that Matthew knew he and his brother weren't really twins but kept pretending he did so that his brother wouldn't catch that HE was the adopted one (an unseen photo of their parents confirms Matthew is their biological child by nature of a startling resemblance). One wonders why their parents didn't tell them they were fraternal twins. There's also a line suggesting they're not the same age, making it unclear why they were called twins at all. Then again, Matthew's parents could be as strange as he is. | |
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Wolves: After seemingly killing his parents and going on the run, Cayden sees a news report where his old girlfriend is asked about Cayden being adopted. She blinks and says she didn't know. It's a shock for Cayden as well. See, this is why you need to tell your kids these things, so they don't find out from a news report when they're on the run for killing you. | |
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In the incomprehensible Atlanta Nights, Bruce Lucent doesn't notice he's black and both of his "parents" are white until adulthood. As with most of the book's plotlines, this lasts for exactly one chapter and is never spoken of again. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: In "Rosalina's Parents!", we find out that Rosalina was Happily Adopted by two Space Aliens; she doesn't believe what Mario says about the two not being her real parents until the Aliens tell her themselves. | |
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Looming Gaia: Balthazaar's niece Azadora was abused by her parents, leading to her being replaced by a changeling and taken away to be raised by the divine Allmother. When Balthazaar takes the changeling back to Allmother, she is impressed by his passion for this child and gives Azadora for him to raise, wiping all her memories of both her and Azadora's biological parents, leading her to believe that Balthazaar is her real father. Given how abusive her biological parents were, Balthazaar believes it's best to keep her that way. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Hey, Link, guess what? You're not a Kokiri! However, until Link becomes an adult, there is no reason to believe that he wasn't a Kokiri. The only difference was that he had no fairy until very recently as all Kokiri's were the same age as him. He never saw any other people while living in the forest and it wasn't until he returned to the forest as an adult that it became obvious. Even then, all the other Kokiri's thought he was also a Kokiri and, with the exception of Saria, still think he is after meeting adult Link as they refer to young Link as another person. |
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Medicated: Unlike the other two former-humans, Sasha had no idea she was adopted until she overheard her adoptive parents talking about it with Grime because she looks like them. | |
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Tidelands (Netflix): Carl learns she isn't the biological child of her parents, nor the sister to Augie by blood. | |
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The eighth ASDF Movie has a bit where an owner surprises his dog by telling it it's adopted. | |
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In Game of Thrones Jon Snow hasn't the slightest clue of being adopted by his biological uncle Ned Stark, whom he believes to be his biological father. His biological parents are actually the deceased Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, who have been dead for all of his life. As Lyanna knew she was dying, she manages to pass her infant son (Jon) into the care of her brother, Ned, and asks him to protect her son from Robert Baratheon before she dies. Ned brings Jon home with him, raises and loves Jon as his own son alongside his other children, and spends the rest of his life protecting his sister's son by hiding Jon's biological parentage by claiming Jon as his own illegitimate son via an affair with a woman named Wylla, since the current-reigning regime, the Baratheons (and certainly their Lannister allies, who already killed Rhaegar's other wife Elia Martell and their two children Rhaenys and Aegon), would kill Jon if they ever found out he was the hidden son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Jon's obliviousness to the adoption is justified, since he strongly takes after his mother in appearance and not his biological father, so can easily pass for his maternal uncle's son; in fact, in the books it's noted that Jon is ironically the only one of Ned's sons who strongly resembles him physically, while his legitimate sons look more like their mother, Catelyn Tully. Jon's "stepmother" and "half-siblings" (actually cousins) are unaware of the deception as well. | |
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It's sort of noticeable in Thor that Loki doesn't quite look like his parents or his brother, and doesn't question it even though it's assumed that he's lived for over a thousand years. And even when he discovers his true heritage, he kills his true father and tries to annihilate his own race. The reveal of an older, non-adopted sister that looks very similar to Loki in Thor: Ragnarok provides a partial explanation about why. Perhaps they inherited their looks from a grandparent? | |
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In The Jungle Bunch, Maurice is a penguin who was raised by a tiger, and now thinks he is one. The same applies to his adopted son, who's a fish. | |
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In The Jerk (1979), the title character (who is white) is raised the son of poor black sharecroppers. When his adoptive parents reveal "You're not our natural-born child," he responds with "I'm not? You mean I'm gonna STAY this color?" Later in the film, the character is shown to STILL consider himself black. When one of his business advisers uses a racial slur in passing while discussing keeping "niggers" away from the business, he responds "You, sir, happen to be talking to a NIGGER!" He then proceeds to kick the guy's ass with some previously unseen martial arts expertise. | |
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Inverted in The Omen: Damian seems to implicitly understand his true heritage from when he is very young. He also has agents to guide him to his destiny and he accepts their roles without reservation. | |
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On SpongeBob SquarePants, Mr. Krabs, a crab, is the proud father of Pearl, a whale. The show treats this as an Elephant in the Living Room/Unusually Uninteresting Sight. Up in the air whether she’s actually this or if she just takes after her Missing Mom. | |
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Diane in El Goonish Shive didn't realize she and her sister were adopted despite them being different races. Justified in that she was only six at the time so was too young to understand ethnicity and presumably just assumed that sisters generally had different skin colors. Word of God said he originally was going to have Diane always know about her adoption but realized he was looking at it from an informed adult perspective. | |
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Gensokyo 20XX: Later on in the series, we seem to have this with Marisa, who, according to Ren, doesn't seem to know or care that she was adopted by two kitsune. In Foundling (branch off), Reimu doesn't seem to notice or think much about being taken in by youkai. However, she was too young to understand otherwise. |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku is completely unaware of the fact that he's adopted until his Kryptonian abilities manifest at the age of four. More specifically, his Super-Hearing lets him overhear the police talking about how different his abilities are from his parents and that medically speaking, he shouldn't have powers. This allows him to put two-and-two together and confronts his parents about it, who are forced to tell him soon afterward, though he ends up hating what he hears. | |
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Doctor Who: "Night Terrors" inverts it in a frightening way. The Doctor visits a little boy that's scared of everything with a mysterious cupboard giving him off-the-scale readings on his sonic screwdriver. When asked about his birth, the father reveals his wife can't have kids. The Doctor reveals the kid is an alien and is using a perception filter to make it seem like they always had him. This is how his species normally reproduces. They find a childless couple who have an unfulfilled desire for children and leave them with one of their young. They're pretty much alien cuckoos, albeit less malicious than cuckoos (who find parents that already have eggs and displace them). | |
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Child of the Storm has Hermione, who has no reason to believe that she's adopted, not even when she starts manifesting chaos magic, an ability largely confined to her magically famous biological mother, Wanda Maximoff. It helps that her Muggle Foster Parents were chosen at least partly for a passing physical resemblance to her biological parents. She figures it out in chapter 66 of the sequel, after she also manifests an Omega class mutation. A combination of not liking the former ability at all, recent traumas, and a lifetime of being lied to mean that saying that she's "unhappy" would be a truly epic understatement. | |
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"The Ugly Duckling" is really a swan adopted by ducks. Though cygnets do resemble ducklings, but with a dull pearly gray color. | |
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In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, Empath among the Psyches during his early years, before he found out that he was really a Smurf. He and the other Psyches were led to believing that he was merely a "prototype Psyche". | |
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Barry in The Country Bears was reared by humans since he was a cub, though his human brother seems to be the only one who finds having a bear in the family ridiculous. Also invoked by this exchange: | |
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Greg's father from Yes, Dear spent much of his life without knowing he was adopted. | |
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The Rise of Phoenixes: Zhi Wei isn't Ming Ying's daughter. She's the last princess of Dacheng. Ming Ying did give birth to twins, but one of them died and she was given Zhi Wei to raise instead. | |
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The Bird Feeder: Inverted with Darryl and Edna, two cardinals, and their adopted children, who, in the very first strip are revealed to be an adopted bluejay and titmouse, and were only adopted because Edna is colorblind. Done more traditionally with Tina, a hummingbird. In #163, "Bunnies," she tries to find her real parents, as she herself was raised by rabbits, and accidentally adopts a rabbit. |
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Ike on South Park is an interesting example: while Ike himself is just a baby, his older brother Kyle was apparently unaware that Ike was really adopted from Canada, though Canadians on South Park are animated differently than Americans. Subverted somewhat in that the viewer couldn't be sure of this, either; this episode is basically what established that rule, though Canadians had been shown animated differently before (on a Show Within a Show, which could have been another explanation for the style difference). | |
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Ugly Americans: Lionel, Leonard's apprentice, "son" and heir to the title of Wizard of Social Services (also a Harry Potter Expy, second in the series), was abandoned at a Chinese restaurant. He speaks English with a British accent, despite being raised by Chinese immigrants. He's also 50 years old despite being a child, physically. | |
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Warrior Cats: Fireheart's sister Princess gave her firstborn kit to ThunderClan because she wanted to choose the destiny of one of her children. Cloudkit was too young to remember what happened. He didn't learn that Brindleface was his adopted mother until Fireheart told him when he was nearly six moons old. Bluestar, then Bluefur, had her kits raised in RiverClan by Graypool. Stonefur and Mistyfoot didn't learn their heritage until adulthood. It probably helped that their adoptive and biological mothers looked rather like each other and that the whole litter looked almost exactly like their mother. |
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In The Chronicles of Narnia novel The Horse and His Boy, Shasta, a boy raised in Calormen, learns he was adopted when he eavesdrops on his "father" talking to a nobleman spending the night at their house. The nobleman was quick to realize this because Shasta has the pale skin of the northern nations while Calormenes are noticeably darker. As his "father" is quite willing to sell Shasta to the nobleman, he chooses to run away and find his real family and turns out to be the long-lost prince of Archenland. | |
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In a Jacksfilms YIAY video, Jack tries different ways to tell his dogs that they're adopted. | |
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The Legend of Spyro: Spyro was adopted by dragonflies. While they do tell him that he's not their biological son, they reassure him that they will always be his "real" family nonetheless. The Oblivious comes from the fact he never figured out he wasn't a dragonfly despite the fact he's many times their size, can't fly (yet), and has legs. He'd never seen a dragon before in his entire life and the dragonflies hadn't either, so there's no way he could've known what he really was, but those should have at least been a clue. | |
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Growing Up Creepie: It's rather obvious that Creepie knows that she's adopted, since her parents are bugs, although she never talks about it since she's happy with them. | |
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The Dog from Footrot Flats was raised in a cats' home, by a cat-obsessed old lady, and for many years thought he himself was a cat. He got over it. Similarly, Horse originally thought he was a baby coat. | |
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The film version of Stuart Little plays it kinda straight at the start, but the cute little mouse gets over it quite quickly. His human brother, on the other hand... | |
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Hello! Sandybell: When Sandybell was a baby, she was found in a shipwreck by Leslie Christie and his best friend Kern Longwood. With no parent in sight, Leslie decided to take the baby home and raise her as his own child, being able to keep up the charade that he was her biological dad until he was diagnosed with a fatal illness. He then confessed the truth to her before dying, leaving Sandybell in utter shock. | |
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In a Dragonlance short story, an ogre loses his memory in the Cataclysm... and is adopted by a clan of Gully Dwarves. An adult 9-foot-tall ogre adopted by a bunch of creatures under 4 feet that can't count to 3. Hilarity Ensues. Later he gets his memory back and gets angry... but simply can't bring himself to hurt the little creatures that treated him like family. | |
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In Princess Maker, some of the daughters know that they're adopted, but some don't. Those who don't are Patricia from Princess Maker 4 and Musume from Princess Maker 5. | |
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Friends: In the Season 3 finale, Phoebe Buffay learns her mother, who committed suicide when she was a teenager, was actually her adoptive mother and the old friend she just managed to track down is her birth mother. In season 10, Monica and Chandler want to adopt a baby since the odds of them getting pregnant were minuscule. Phoebe sets them up with a couple who have adopted. During the visit, Chandler accidentally tells the boy that he's adopted, something he hadn't known. |
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Thank goodness for Ice Age: The Meltdown. The directors had a grand old time with their subplot about a woolly mammoth who had been raised by opossums — and who played dead and clambered up trees. Somehow. She spends most of the movie trying to sort out her species identity crisis with fellow mammoth Manny's help. The situation is awkward because Manny had, up 'til then, believed he was the Last of His Kind, and his motives for helping the only female mammoth he knows come to terms with her species aren't exactly altruistic. Made still more awkward when one re-watches the original Ice Age film and realizes that Manny is so conflicted about the whole thing because his wife and son were murdered quite recently. It does explain his extreme over-protectiveness in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, though. Speaking of the third movie, this trope gets played surprisingly straight with Sid and the baby dinos, since he's the first thing they see when they're hatched. | |
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Ie Naki Ko Remi: Anna deliberately hid Remy's adoption from her and raised her with Nana as if she were her own child. When Jérôme comes home and sees her, he becomes enraged and screams at his wife, and this is how Remy finds out that she was a Doorstop Baby that Anna took in out of her own kindness. | |
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Love Me Nice: Carolina was somewhat taken aback to discover that she was a toon. At first, it's not established whether they deliberately didn't tell her because they thought the inevitable conversation would be awkward, or if they assumed she'd take a look in a mirror now and again and figure it out. A later flashback shows Carolina's mother dodging the question of why she had weird ears, and apparently allowing her to believe she was deformed, which strongly suggests the former. | |
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From The Halfblood Chronicles, Lashana was raised by shapeshifting dragons and was convinced that she was one who had somehow got stuck in human form — her adoptive dragon brother thought so too! It helps that neither knew that humans and elves existed except as forms for dragons to shift into, being raised in the middle of a desert. | |
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