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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* Jolyne Kujo from Part 6 of ''[[ |
* Jolyne Kujo from Part 6 of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' resents her father, Jotaro Kujo, for being absent for most of her childhood. Although partly due to work reasons, Jotaro also didn't want her getting mixed up in the supernatural troubles that he's frequently a part of. |
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* Ranma's mother in ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]''. Here the excuse seems to be "your dad insisted I not be around to be nice to you since it would make you less tough". |
* Ranma's mother in ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]''. Here the excuse seems to be "your dad insisted I not be around to be nice to you since it would make you less tough". |
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** Somewhat justified in that Nodoka [[Take Our Word for It|claims]] to have received constant letters from Genma all throughout Ranma's childhood, which stopped just about the time he and Ranma headed for China --and their absence is why she went personally to the Tendo home. So while she can be excused for not contacting Ranma personally earlier, [[Fridge Logic|readers realize]] that this makes Genma ''an even bigger bastard'' because he deliberately kept Ranma unaware of his own mother despite writing to her regularly. |
** Somewhat justified in that Nodoka [[Take Our Word for It|claims]] to have received constant letters from Genma all throughout Ranma's childhood, which stopped just about the time he and Ranma headed for China --and their absence is why she went personally to the Tendo home. So while she can be excused for not contacting Ranma personally earlier, [[Fridge Logic|readers realize]] that this makes Genma ''an even bigger bastard'' because he deliberately kept Ranma unaware of his own mother despite writing to her regularly. |
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== Fanfiction == |
== Fanfiction == |
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* In ''[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers_in_the_Dark Whispers in the Dark]'', a popular [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] fanfiction, Taylor is told that her father is dead only to find out that all this time, he's been alive and on Kronos' side. Somewhat justified in the fact that Luke didn't even know that he had a daughter until he saw Taylor and noticed that she had his [[Blue Eyes]]. |
* In ''[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers_in_the_Dark Whispers in the Dark]'', a popular [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] fanfiction, Taylor is told that her father is dead only to find out that all this time, he's been alive and on Kronos' side. Somewhat justified in the fact that Luke didn't even know that he had a daughter until he saw Taylor and noticed that she had his [[Blue Eyes]]. |
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* ''[[Nobody Dies]]'' Mommy had a good reason for abandoning Shinji...a basement full of Eldritch Abominations out to kill him (although why she didn't [[Mundane Solution|kill them]] instead of abandoning her son and possibly endangering the planet is a question unasked). |
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** That would require a mother of a young child to murder several children the same age as her kid. |
** That would require a mother of a young child to murder several children the same age as her kid. |
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* All too often handwaved in the "Adopted Hermione" subgenre of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic: Hermione learns that she's not only adopted, but "really" a Pureblood. In roughly nine such stories out of ten, no reason is ever given for her birthparents' relinquishing her -- except possibly a vague assertion that it was "for her own protection". |
* All too often handwaved in the "Adopted Hermione" subgenre of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic: Hermione learns that she's not only adopted, but "really" a Pureblood. In roughly nine such stories out of ten, no reason is ever given for her birthparents' relinquishing her -- except possibly a vague assertion that it was "for her own protection". |
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