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[[File:Chosen_Family.jpg|300px|right|You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends!|thumb|link=One Piece]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[One Piece]]'': As
* ''[[Romantic Killer (anime)|Romantic Killer]]'': It's revealed that Riri, rather than creating an [[Unwanted Harem]] for Anzu as was his directive, established this instead. Kazuki needed {{spoiler|friends to help him recover from his trauma with a violent stalker named Yukasa, who went as far as to drug and dox him. While his father showed [[No Sympathy]], his mother and sister decided to send him away for his safety, with Anissa regularly checking in on him. Anzu is the first girl that didn't trigger Kazuki's trauma, and he finds himself happy for the first time when living with her and Junta}}. Junta doesn't have any
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''
** Each season shows numerous times that the Inner Senshi, along with Mamoru and the cats, have become a true family. Mamoru and Makoto are orphans, Ami rarely sees her mother due to the latter being a busy doctor, Minako ran away from home in the manga to become a Senshi on realizing she had to fulfill her duties while in the anime they ''never'' show up, and Rei is estranged from her father and she keeps her grandfather at an arm's length in the manga due to her trauma while being overprotective of him in the anime. Usagi is the only one whose [[Good Parents]] are together and alive, but it's confirmed she needs her friends as her trauma accumulates over the seasons. Indeed, it's {{spoiler|her friends nearly dying again that causes her to have her R upgrade, as it snaps her out of her [[Heroic BSOD]] about being forcibly reawakened.}}
** The Outer Senshi also become this in the manga and the anime when they adopt Hotaru, who has reverted to baby form. Haruka and Michiru have taken over raising her, as it's unexplained in the anime what happened to {{spoiler|Professor Tomoe who survived the events of the story and was confirmed to be brainwashed by the ''real'' Big Bads, Pharaoh 90 and Mistress Nine.}} What makes this an eventual tearjerker is that in ''Stars'', {{spoiler|Haruka and Michiru attempt to become [[Fake Defector]]s in an attempt to stop Galaxia, and "prove" their loyalty by killing Setsuna and Hotaru.}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Runaways (comics)|Runaways]]'' have the titular group of teenagers realizing their parents are supervillains and running away to oppose their evil lifestyle. They all come together not only as a superhero group but also as a functioning family. {{spoiler|Alex was the exception, using the other kids to save his parents from being stabbed in the back; Nico doesn't take it well, whacking him in the face with her staff when he offers [[We Can Rule Together]]. Molly also hasn't forgiven Alex long after he died for his failure.}} Indeed, the first arc ends with Captain America finding the kids after they escaped their parents and sending them to foster care, but they all run away to reunite, realizing they [[Can't Stay Normal]]. The Rainbow Rowell arc goes as far as to have Molly suggest that Nico use magic {{spoiler|to become the other kids' legal guardians rather than run away from foster care on a regular basis.}}
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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“And Winky gets to be with Master Xander's family?” she asked.
“Forever and a day.”}}
* The Family from the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' crossover fic ''[[Taylor Varga]]''. Whether they're in their lizard guise or not, Taylor Hebert, Amy Dallon and Lisa Wilbourn have effectively formed a family unit without actively thinking about it, mostly as an outgrowth of masquerading as cousins in lizard form.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The regulars from the ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]'' stories. Starting with Tom Hauptman, a preacher who lost his faith when his wife died who found a new family among the bar's regulars, most of the regulars are as close as family by the
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The Kamen Rider Club are teenagers from different high school groups uniting to help Gentaro Kisaragi, aka ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'', fight the Zodiarts. While each member had some conflict, they joined the group, overcame their
* Technically, the main characters in ''[[Angel]]'' run a business called Angel Investigations, which is Cordelia's idea so they can pay rent while she waits for her big acting break. Seasons one and two, however, make it very clear that Angel needs them to stay grounded and tethered to his humanity, no matter what Los Angeles as well as
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the Scoobies have become this, to the point where two of them become a [[Parental Substitute]] duo to Dawn, who is the only minor left in the group by season six. While Buffy started hanging with Willow and Xander after they learned about vampires and decided to do what they could to help, Cordelia joined the group under protest after supernatural forces killed one of her
* The Nine-Nine are this in ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]''. While they were close-knit before Holt joins the team, Holt does help shape Jake up and admit that his team is the best family he has. Out of the characters, Terry is the only one that has a stable home life with a wife and losing daughters; Rosa doesn't get along with the cheerful side of her family, Amy constantly competes with her brothers to get her mother's affection, Gina is only close with her dramatic mother, Boyle loves his extended brood but suffers a lot of angst when it comes to his ex-wife and later pursuits of women, and Hitchcock and Scully only have each other, with the Nine-Nine unsure if someone named Kelly is Scully's wife or dog. (Scully reveals in season seven that his wife ''and'' dog are both named Kelly.) Holt and his husband Kevin also become mellower after he joins the Nine-Nine, especially when they surprise the couple with an anniversary dinner.
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* ''[[The Muppets]]'' franchise is all about this:
** ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' is about Kermit setting off to Hollywood to become rich and famous. Along the way he acquires friends in Fozzie, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, and all the main Muppet cast. As he tells Doc Hopper, he found a family because they share the same dream.
** ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'' has Gonzo and Rizzo tell Jim that they are his family. Even if they don't look like each other and are different species, they are brothers.
* In ''[[Sesame Street]]'', it's shown that the whole neighborhood can become your family if you let them. The adults comfort Big Bird and promise to take care of him after he finds out that Mr. Hooper died.
** The film ''[[Follow That Bird]]'' has a social worker convinced that Big Bird should live with an actual bird family. Big Bird is so miserable that he runs away, and the movie is about the Sesame Street gang coming to rescue him.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Phantom Thieves of Hearts from ''[[Persona 5]]'' are a group that rebels against the adults who deceive, hypocrisies, and corrupt society by stealing their hearts. Each member consists of teens who have been wronged by adults throughout their life and awakened to Persona. Most of their peers see each of them as misfits, but they find solace with each other and become great friends.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[DuckTales (2017)]]'', Clan McDuck consists of not only Scrooge McDuck and the Duck Family but also their friends who became a part of their group. Even though "duck" is in their name, some aren't ducks, such as supernatural creatures, scientists, aliens, robots, etc.
* Luz Noceda becomes part of ''[[The Owl House]]'' by apprenticing to Eda Clawthorne as witch and living with the little king of Demons, King. Thanks to Luz's influence, Eda and King soften to her and even gain a familial bond. Lilith, Eda's sister, even considers herself to be the aunt of their family. Even King is inspired to legally change his name to King Clawthorne.
** {{Spoiler|Vee, a shapeshifting basilisk, took on Luz's identity when she came to the Boiling Isles and was adopted by Camilla Noceda after her identity was revealed. In the season 3 premiere, when Gus, Willow, Hunter, and Amity become stranded in the Human Realm, the witches and Grimwalker become a family over the months. It even made Hunter cry when Luz declared it to him.}}
* The Best Friends Squad in ''[[She-Ra and the Princesses of Power]]''
* ''[[Superman
* In ''[[Voltron: Legendary Defender]]'', the Paladins and Allura start as a borderline [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] and end up becoming this through [[Character Development]].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has this for the Gaang: we have an orphan Airbender that realizes he lost his family a hundred years ago, two Water tribe members that lost their mother while having a father at war, a runaway Earth Kingdom noble that hates her family limiting her, and later on, a Kyoshi Warrior leader with her fellow Warriors imprisoned and separated.
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