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Our favorite [[Heartwarming Orphan]] has recently lost his [[Parental Abandonment|beloved parents]] and is in danger of being sent to an [[Orphanage of Fear]]. But what's this? [[Evil Uncle|That uncle we've never heard of has agreed to be our legal guardian!]] The family fortune is saved! We just have to wait until we're 18 and... what's uncle doing with that axe?
This is the [[Illegal Guardian]], who may be an [[Evil Uncle]] or [[Wicked Stepmother]] or no relative at all with an [[Evil Plan]] to get all the money from those darn ''cough, cough'' beloved children.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Michiko to Hatchin|Hana]] is adopted by a priest after her mother is arrested. The entire family is abusive, and the priest's main motivation for keeping Hana around is for the welfare payments.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The abusive foster parents in the ''[[Sandman]]'' volume ''The Doll's House''.
* Beast Boy's legal guardian; from the original ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' series and referenced in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* Mr. Koerner from The ''[[Perils Of Pauline]]''
* The premise of the thriller movie ''The Glass House''
* Mother Gothel from ''[[
* Prince Edgar from ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''
* Babydoll's stepfather in ''[[Sucker Punch]]''
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* [[A Series of Unfortunate Events|Count Olaf]]
* Sheridan LeFanu's ''Uncle Silas''. Played with a bit, as the dying father intentionally leaves his daughter in his brother's care to clear his name, as he thinks Silas was wrongfully accused of murder years ago.
* [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[Matilda (
* The main character of ''[[
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Richard III... maybe.▼
== [[Theater]] ==
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** Claudius, in ''[[Hamlet]]''. He wouldn't need to abuse his position as Hamlet's stepfather, since he's also the ''king,'' but he finds it politically advantageous to do so rather than ordering the technical-rightful-king around.
* Mime from [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen|Siegfried]]''. A [[Dirty Coward]] who tends to be (wrongly) made into The Woobie in modern productions.
* Rooster Hannigan and Lily St. Regis, from ''[[
* Uncle Barnaby in ''[[Babes in Toyland]]'' (though not the 1934 or 1961 film adaptations).
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* Sylvester Sneekly from ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]''
* A movie for ''The Littles'' focused on Tom and Lucy befriending an orphan boy who's abused and locked up by his uncle, who only took him in for the access to boy's inheritance. Later the boy finds a letter from his father saying that his uncle was ''never'' meant to adopt him, someone else was.
* [[
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Richard III... maybe.
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