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* Astronomer Carl Sagan's book "Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors", sets this up as [[Book Ends]], the idea of ''humanity'' as a doorstop baby, an orphan raised by the laws of the universe and growing up to [[Ontological Mystery|wonder about its origins and how it got there]]. Only fragments of a note remain - the fossil record.
* Astronomer Carl Sagan's book "Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors", sets this up as [[Book Ends]], the idea of ''humanity'' as a doorstop baby, an orphan raised by the laws of the universe and growing up to [[Ontological Mystery|wonder about its origins and how it got there]]. Only fragments of a note remain - the fossil record.
* Annabeth Chase from [[Percy Jackson]] is one.
* Annabeth Chase from [[Percy Jackson]] is one.
* This is Otto's backstory in the [[HIVE Series]], being left outside an orphanage. The narrative mentions the staff are used to dealing with this kind of situation.
* This is Otto's backstory in the [[H.I.V.E. Series]], being left outside an orphanage. The narrative mentions the staff are used to dealing with this kind of situation.
* Twig in [[The Edge Chronicles]] was abandoned in a woodtroll village. His parents {{spoiler|had no choice; if they hadn't left him they would have had to walk back home through the Deepwoods, where all three would likely have perished}}.
* Twig in [[The Edge Chronicles]] was abandoned in a woodtroll village. His parents {{spoiler|had no choice; if they hadn't left him they would have had to walk back home through the Deepwoods, where all three would likely have perished}}.
* The title character of the [[Cat Royal]] series was left on the steps of the Theatre Royal as a toddler. She mentions that the theatre owner, Mr Sheridan, probably only took her in because he was a bit drunk at the time.
* The title character of the [[Cat Royal]] series was left on the steps of the Theatre Royal as a toddler. She mentions that the theatre owner, Mr Sheridan, probably only took her in because he was a bit drunk at the time.
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=== Web Comics ===
=== Web Comics ===
* In ''[[Blind Spot]]'' (now regrettably defunct), Dr. Dorian Mitchell is instructed to destroy the clone EUM061 he'd been raising at the laboratory. Harboring somewhat fatherly feelings toward the [[Designer Babies|Designer Baby]], he elects to drug him and smuggle him out of the lab instead; however, while driving down the highway, he panics and ends up leaving the child by the road unconscious.
* In ''[[Blind Spot]]'' (now regrettably defunct), Dr. Dorian Mitchell is instructed to destroy the clone EUM061 he'd been raising at the laboratory. Harboring somewhat fatherly feelings toward the [[Designer Babies|Designer Baby]], he elects to drug him and smuggle him out of the lab instead; however, while driving down the highway, he panics and ends up leaving the child by the road unconscious.
* ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1035/ #1035] shows an egg hatching into a "freak" (i.e. a human), and the mommy and daddy [[Delivery Stork|stork]] decide to "leave it on someone's doorstep."
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1035/ #1035] shows an egg hatching into a "freak" (i.e. a human), and the mommy and daddy [[Delivery Stork|stork]] decide to "leave it on someone's doorstep."
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'': Silver and other black, white and silver fox cubs. It helps that the parents are protecting them from a killer ruler who ordered the death of all of the black, silver and white foxes to eliminate the previous ruling caste.
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'': Silver and other black, white and silver fox cubs. It helps that the parents are protecting them from a killer ruler who ordered the death of all of the black, silver and white foxes to eliminate the previous ruling caste.
** Thankfully, the fox ruling cast gets better.
** Thankfully, the fox ruling cast gets better.
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=== Literature ===
=== Literature ===
* In ''[[The Devils Storybook]]'' (forget if I or II), a priest finds a baby thus on the doorstep of the church. Only it turns out to be an imp, a baby demon—there's a sulfurous smell and red skin and horns and everything. And a sooty spot that won't rub off the spot where the kid was left on the steps. The priest is all for caring for the kid, thinking it's God's will, but the townsfolk get so upset that a mob ends up setting fire to the church, telling the priest to leave the imp there and come out. Only the priest refuses to abandon a baby, and stands there ready to burn. The church burns down around him, and he remains utterly unharmed—the imp now gone. Afterwards, he wonders which power it was that saved him.
* In ''[[The Devils Storybook]]'' (forget if I or II), a priest finds a baby thus on the doorstep of the church. Only it turns out to be an imp, a baby demon—there's a sulfurous smell and red skin and horns and everything. And a sooty spot that won't rub off the spot where the kid was left on the steps. The priest is all for caring for the kid, thinking it's God's will, but the townsfolk get so upset that a mob ends up setting fire to the church, telling the priest to leave the imp there and come out. Only the priest refuses to abandon a baby, and stands there ready to burn. The church burns down around him, and he remains utterly unharmed—the imp now gone. Afterwards, he wonders which power it was that saved him.
* Parodied in the children's book ''[[Bunnicula]]'', about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables. The family finds him in a shoebox under a seat in a movie theater where they're watching a Dracula film, along with a note in an obscure [[Uberwald]] dialect which the family cat translates as, "Take good care of my baby."
* Parodied in the children's book ''[[Bunnicula]]'', about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables. The family finds him in a shoebox under a seat in a movie theater where they're watching a Dracula film, along with a note in an obscure [[Überwald]] dialect which the family cat translates as, "Take good care of my baby."




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=== Web Comics ===
=== Web Comics ===
* Horribly subverted in [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2381/ this] [[Cyanide and Happiness]] strip.
* Horribly subverted in [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2381/ this] [[Cyanide & Happiness]] strip.




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