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Unadoptable Orphan

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We all know what an orphan is, a child with no parents. There's a place for them called an orphanage, where they stay until someone adopts them to be their parents. However, most orphans usually grow up without having been adopted. This comes in many forms, including:
Evil Orphan: The orphan is a sociopathic brat who no one with half-a-brain would be caught dead with.
Weirdo Orphan: The orphan has an unshakeable quirk to them that may cause them to be more trouble than they're worth.
Unlucky Orphan: The orphan is decent, but various circumstances keep them from finding a family.
Uninteresting Orphan: The orphan is, again, decent, but is mostly passed aside due to a lack of interest from potential parents.
Slave Orphan: Where an orphan is under harsh employment somewhere rather than having a family.
Orphan Who Does Not Want To Be Adopted: An orphan doesn't want to be adopted for some reason or another, preferring to live life parentless.
Orphan With Living Relatives: The orphan has a biological relative but is separated from said relative through varying circumstances. Note that this type of orphan isn't necessarily unadoptable, but most of their story arcs often involve finding their biological relative.
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Scorpion: Happy Quinn was placed in foster care after her mother's Death by Childbirth and her father becoming The Alcoholic through grief. Happy was never adopted due to her traditionally unfeminine interests and difficult personality, and has serious issues with rejection because of it.
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Meet the Robinsons:
Lewis is a mixture between a Weirdo Orphan and an Orphan Who Does Not Want To Be Adopted as his inventive personality alienates potential parents since his inventions tend to blow up and he doesn't want to get adopted because he's more focused on finding his biological mother. He would be an Orphan With Living Relatives, but it is unknown if his mother is even alive to this day.
When Goob (the future Bowler Hat Guy) ended up costing his baseball team a game and was beaten up for it, the resulting trauma embittered him to be a Bratty Orphan Unadoptable Orphan, the orphanage was shut down, but he remained in it and grew up to be the Bowler Hat Guy. Averted in the ending when Lewis helps him win the game, saving him from the trauma and allowing him to be adopted.
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Supergirl: In the early days of Supergirl's comics, she often resisted being adopted because she was sure she would not be able to keep potential parents from discovering her secret identity.
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Roswell, New Mexico: Michael Guerin was combination of Unlucky Orphan and Weirdo Orphan (due to his alien powers). Michael was considered a problem child who got passed around the foster care system, often with fosters who were abusive, if not outright criminal. The issues this left him with linger as an adult.
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Earwig and the Witch: The titular Earwig is very much an Orphan Who Does Not Want To Be Adopted and tries to alienate any potential parent who comes her way. That is until she meets Baba Yaga and the Mandrake.
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Harry Potter: Tom Riddle/Voldemort's backstory makes him both a Bratty Orphan and Weirdo Orphan to the extreme. Before Hogwarts, Riddle already showed sociopathic tendencies, stealing from and manipulating the other children, plus showing signs of being a wizard. After getting accepted to Hogwarts he spends most of the year there and doesn't seem to make an effort to get adopted in between, waiting to age out and enter the wizarding world as an adult.
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Time Squad:
A majority of the kids from Otto's old orphanage were both Bratty Orphans and Slave Orphans, though this was mostly due to the place being an Orphanage of Fear and run by a Nun Too Holy matron, Sister Thornly, who took them to various places across America just to commit some petty theft. It's likely that his orphanage doesn't allow the children there to be adopted.
Otto himself is sort of a Slave Orphan mixed with an Unlucky Orphan due to Thornly repeatedly making him do backbreaking labor for reading books. He averts the unlucky part when Tuddrussel and Larry come into his life.
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo is a special case of being multiple variations of this trope. Initially, he's both the Orphan Who Does Not Want To Be Adopted, and the Orphan With Living Relatives, as he and Mac were given special privileges by the owner, Madame Foster, that Bloo can live at Foster's so long as Mac promises to visit every single day. However as the series grew, Bloo also became more of the Bratty Orphan as he himself became more insufferably spoiled and stupid, to the point where Mr. Herriman has attempted to put up Bloo for adoption on a few occasions simply because Mac was running a few minutes late.
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Problem Child: Junior starts off as a decidedly Bratty Orphan, being turned away from one family after another after his antics prove less than endearing. He spends some years at an orphanage with nuns who he also proceeds to drive up the wall. It is only when the Healys adopt him and Ben makes an honest effort to reach out to him that he starts to change for the better. Only a smidge, mind you, since brat antics are what the Problem Child movies are all about.
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Annie:
Annie thinks she's an Orphan with Living Relatives since she has a letter from her parents saying they will come back for her. When Warbucks first offers to adopt her, she sadly refuses because of this. However, her parents actually died years before in an accident, something Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily take advantage of by having Rooster and Lily pose as her parents to get Warbucks's reward. Once the truth comes out, she gets Happily Adopted by Warbucks.
The other kids seem to be a mix of Unlucky Orphan and Slave Orphan since they are stuck with Miss Hannigan making them clean all the time, but otherwise, there is nothing indicating why they have not been adopted. Could be in part because, during the Great Depression, when the show is set, few could afford to take in a child.
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The Soulmate Timeline has Homura, who was a Weirdo Orphan who was passed over from adoption in her catholic orphanage, with the implications it was due to her (undiagnosed) autism that particularly threw potential parents off.
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Oliver Twist: The titular character is both a Slave Orphan and an Unlucky Orphan as he is often under the brutal employment of authority figures and is plagued by many misfortunes.
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Superman: The Animated Series: Toyman's Start of Darkness is that his father got to jail and died there because he was conned by Bruno Mannheim and was constantly moving from one orphanage to another because he was constantly returned as "a doll nobody wanted", making him a Weirdo Orphan.
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Despicable Me: Margo, Edith, and Agnes are a mixture of both Unlucky Orphans and Uninteresting Orphans. Gru does adopt them but for a Secretly Selfish purpose, and when he grows a bond with them, his assistant sees the girls as a diversion and sends them back to their orphanage.
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SPY×FAMILY: Anya was a Weirdo Orphan having been adopted and returned by four foster families in the past, implicitly due to her Telepathy.
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The Willoughbys: After calling Child Services, Tim finds himself, his sister, and his brothers split up and sent to foster homes. While Jane and the Barnabys end up in homes that more-or-less suit their interests, Tim is an Orphan Who Does Not Want to Be Adopted and keeps running away from potential foster homes out of desperation to go back to his old life...and when that fails, he ends up in what's basically a cell at Child Services HQ.
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PJ Sparkles: PJ starts out as an Unlucky Orphan. She's perfectly sweet and just wants to be loved, but she's always passed over for adoption.
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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas: Daffy Duck, of all characters, was revealed to be an Uninteresting Orphan in the Looney Tunes Christmas Carol parody movie, as he grew up in an orphanage but was always passed over when potential adopters arrived. The resulting heartbreak caused him to grow up to be a greedy and family-averse businessman.
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M*A*S*H: Subverted in the episode "Yessir, That's Our Baby", as the baby girl left at the Swamp is mixed-race (Korean and American) and the orphanage would be hellish for her and the only place left for her is at a monastery in the countryside.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Baudelaire Orphans are basically the epitome of Unlucky Orphans. Whenever they are placed in a home, the cruel Count Olaf comes and does away with their guardian to gain their vast fortune. The only reason why Olaf hasn't been properly dealt with in all of the books is due to every other moral adult being too naive, distracted, or unhelpful.
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It Takes Two: Amanda Lemmon has been passed over for adoption for years because everyone assumes that an orphan her age must have something wrong with her, making her an Uninteresting Orphan. She'd really like to be adopted by her loving caseworker Diane (who would also like to adopt her), but Diane doesn't make enough money to be considered a suitable parent, so at the start of the movie, Amanda faces the prospect of being handed off to the Butkises, an abusive foster family.
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The Spectacular Spider-Man: Part of Eddie Brock's jealousy towards Peter is that, after his parents died (in the same accident that killed Eddie's parents, no less), he still had his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Eddie had no family and was put into the foster care system. He was never adopted, and aged out of the system, most likely being an Uninteresting Orphan. While he seems more-or-less okay with his life at the start of the series, his Character Development over the course of the first season shows his pent-up jealousy and anger at Peter for seemingly having everything Eddie wants.
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Helluva Boss: Loona the hellhound was this before for the longest time, going unadopted almost until she was 18, before Blitzo eventually took her in. She's implied to have been a Bratty Orphan, due to the caretaker describing her as a "nightmare" with a "serious attitude problem." While we don't yet have the full details of how much of that is true, it is believable as she threw a child into a wall for trying to start a fight with her.
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Futurama: Tinny Tim is an orphan robot who lives on the streets and is constantly getting abused by other characters and being the butt of gags, so it's safe to say he will never be adopted. Still, he never seems all that upset or depressed about it, being resigned to his lot in life.
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Eight Crazy Nights: Whitey mentions that after his parents died in a tragic accident, Davey was repeatedly sent to many foster homes until he turned 18, which was very much because he Took a Level in Jerkass due to the emotional turmoil he was feeling following his mother and father's death, making him a Bratty Orphan.
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The Three Stooges: The Movie: The titular Stooges were most likely Weirdo Orphans as their clumsy and idiotic nature kept them from finding a decent home. Moe was originally adopted, but he wanted Larry and Curly to come with him but was instead returned to the orphanage while a friend of theirs, Teddy, was adopted in Moe's place.
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Saturday Night Live: Parodied in the Little Orphan Cassidy sketch. After Cassidy (Chloe Troast) is passed over for adoption again, sings a song to Mr. Moon (Timothee Chalamet) where she wonders why no one wants to adopt her. It soon emerges that there are several legitimate reasons why, starting with the fact Cassidy is actually 27 years old, then continuing with the fact that she's a flat-earther, ate the bat in Wuhan that started COVID, and she has a fifty-one-year-old boyfriend with whom she plans to do some unsavory things to the parents who will (most definitely never) adopt her.
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Dustbin Baby: Due to various incidents across her childhood such as the suicide of her first adoptive mother and her pushing a bully down the stairs, April is sent to various foster homes and orphanages until being adopted at 15 by her history teacher.
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Once Upon a Time: This is part of Emma Swan's backstory: she is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming from the Enchanted Forest realm, who is brought to the Land Without Magic to escape the Dark Curse. Baby Emma is found with young Pinocchio near the road in Maine, and both are taken to an orphanage. Emma grows up in the orphanage and watches with sadness as other kids are adopted but not her, making her an Uninteresting Orphan. This leads her to run away from the orphanage when she is but a teenager.
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Anastasia: Anya is an Orphan With Living Relatives of an orphan, as she is the granddaughter to the royal Empress, but most of her family were killed by the movie's villain Rasputin, and she ended up suffering from amnesia. Most of the movie is based around her reuniting with her grandmother.
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Family Guy: In "Boston Stewie", Stewie finds out that he has a Boston-born half-brother who's a Bratty Orphan and can't get adopted due to being a textbook example of a crazy Boston local.
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The Rescuers: Penny is a little girl in an orphanage who wants to be adopted but hasn't been adopted yet. She thinks that it's because the other girls are prettier than her, which the main villain, Madame Medusa, exploits by saying that no one would want a "homely little girl" like her, making her an Uninteresting Orphan. Luckily, a couple does adopt her at the end.
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