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Even in settings where [[Talking Animal]], [[Civilized Animal]], or [[Funny Animal]] animals exist, adoptions will still happen between parents and children. Some parents are caring enough to take in a child, regardless of their species. They may be [[Raised Byby Wolves|animals raising a human child]], [[Raised Byby Humans|humans raising an animal child]], animals raising animals of a different species, or any combonation of the three. It doesn't matter, [[Happily Adopted|as adoption is still adoption]], and [[Good Parents|parents will always be parents]]. The subject of the adoption may or may not even be an issue among society.
 
This is a supertrope of [[Raised Byby Wolves]] and [[Raised Byby Humans]], as well as cases that aren't covered by either trope. It may also overlap with [[Moses in Thethe Bulrushes]] and (especially in comic settings) [[Oblivious Adoption]].
 
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== Comics ==
 
* [[Hellboy (Comic Bookcomics)|Hellboy]] is a demon who was adopted by a human parent named Dr. Bruttenholm and raised under the watch of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. He was raised to appreciate humanity, even if he constantly has to deal with the fact that he's frighteningly different from them anyway.
* [[Superman]] is probably the most famous example of this trope. He's an alien sent to Earth as a baby, and he grew up on a farm by the Kent family.
* [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]: four adorable baby turtles fall into a sewer and are adopted by an ordinary rat (other than the whole "[[Taught Byby Television|knows ninjutsu]]" thing). Only later do the five mutate and become intelligent.
 
== Film ==
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* The ''[[Stuart Little]]'' movie did this to remove the [[Fridge Logic]] from the original book (where the titular character just had human parents for no apparent reason).
* Giant panda Po's father in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' is a duck; this goes unmentioned in the first movie, but becomes a minor plot element in the sequel.
* In ''[[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]]'', {{spoiler|Loki}} turns out to be an Ice Giant adopted by Odin and raised as his own under a glamor.
* ''[[Elf]]'': Buddy is a human adopted by [[Santa Claus]], and raised among elves.
* [[Disney]]'s ''The Ugly Dachshund''. A Great Dane thinks he's a dachshund because he was raised by a dachshund mother.
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== Literature ==
 
* In the ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'', Carrot is a human adopted by dwarves. He is completely oblivious to this, even when his adoptive father tries to explain that there's a reason he was always too tall to fit in dwarf passages correctly. Notable in that even after it's been explained to him and he's accepted that he is biologically a human, Carrot still considers himself a dwarf, albeit a very tall one.
* "[[The Ugly Duckling (Literature)|The Ugly Duckling]]" is a classic example of this trope. A swan raised by a duck.
* ''[[Runescape]]: Betrayal at Falador'', Kara was adopted and raised by dwarfs.
* The children's book ''Tyranosaurus Drip'' by Julia Donaldson is about a duckbill dinosaur "adopted" by tyranosaurs. (Mother Tyranosaur can't count, and doesn't realise there's one more egg than there should be.)
* ''The Sheep-Pig'' by [[Dick King -Smith]], the book ''[[Babe]]'' was based on, likewise has Babe raised by Fly the sheepdog.
 
== Live Action TV ==
 
* [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|Worf]] was adopted by the Rozhenko family, a human couple from Russia. In turn, Worf's son Alexander Rozhenko was also raised by Worf's adoptive parents.
 
== Video Games ==
 
* Mallow from ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]'', originally from Nimbus Land, was adopted by Frogfucius in Frog Pond, and grew up largely believing he was a frog "who can't jump".
* {{spoiler|Adell}} in ''[[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories (Video Game)|Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]]'' is a demon adopted by humans as a result of his biological parents leaving to fight fake Zenon. They fail.
* Penn in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' is adopted by the Nereids. This is part of a breeding plan when he turns 18.
* ''[[F-Zero]]'''s Leon, [[Retcon|depending on the game]] (although both examples still fit). In ''X'', he's adopted by Mrs. Arrow and her husband Super Arrow, a [[They Fight Crime|crime-fighting]] [[Superhero]] [[Battle Couple|couple]]. According to ''GX'', however, he was instead adopted by Fable, a soldier belonging to the race that attacked Leon's homeworld twelve years ago (which led to the poor kid [[Parental Abandonment|losing his parents]] and [[Eye Scream|his left eye]], [[War Is Hell|as well as Zou becoming an economical dump]]) who [[Heel Face Turn|rebelled]] [[Defector From Decadence|when he became disgusted by their tactics]]. Leon's a bipedal cat-like alien, the Arrows are human, and Fable is another species of extraterrestrial being.
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* Lindesfarne in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''.
* The trolls in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''. It's societal norm for them to be raised by another species. However, these guardians may or may not be totally sentient, and not all of them are good parents, so it also delves a bit into [[Raised Byby Wolves]].
* [[Selkie]] is about an amphibious young girl, and the man who adopts her.
* Buwaro, Sakido and Iratu, all demons, are adopted by the angel Darius in [[Slightly Damned]].
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* [[Rocko's Modern Life|Heffer]] was raised by wolves. The Wolfe family to be specific. They ''were'' just going to eat him, and started fattening him up, but grew to love him and raised him as their own. The "birthmark" on his rump is where the wolves were going to divide him up.
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob]] and Patrick adopted a baby scallop in one episode. It left other citizens quite confused when they thought about the biology involved.
* ''[[Dinosaur Train]]'': Buddy the T-Rex is adopted by a pteranodon family.
* [[Cat Dog]] continually brought up one particular issue over the course of the series: Where did CatDog actually come from? For as long as they can remember, they'd always lived on their own. The series ended with CatDog going on a long journey to find their parents. It was never revealed ''how'' CatDog came to be, but for a brief time after they were born, they had been raised by a frog for a father and a sasquatch for a mother. They were all separated in a storm.
* Darwin from [[The Amazing World of Gumball]] used to just be the Waterson family's pet fish, but he developed intelligence, grew legs, became Gumball's best friend, and the family adopted him as one of their own.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Twilight Sparkle (a unicorn) had to induce a dragon egg to hatch as part of her entrance exam in magic school. She ends up being a [[Cool Big Sis]]/[[Parental Substitute]] to him, who serves as her underling and assistant.
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' probably topped this concept beyond most other examples by having a human girl being adopted by two robots.
 
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