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'''WARNING:''' This may require you to become a [[Fallen Princess]]. Even if you are [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]], you will probably be treated sympathetically.

 

 

 

If you'd prefer a more proactive method of escaping this situation, you could always try becoming the [[Alpha Bitch]], although this has been known to fail.

* Christopher "Chris" Thorndyke in ''[[Sonic X]]'', even though his grandfather is around most of the time and he has several friends at school.

* Aversion: Mihama Chiyo out of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' is shown as by far the richest of the girls, and has other reasons that she'd be isolated ... and is of course one of the happiest and most well-liked of her class. Not insanely happy, but generally [[Cheerful Child|cheerful]]. Granted, the audience never sees her parents, but they're never implied to be ''gone'', just offscreen.

* Extra points for ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''. Nanako's parents started out poor and nice and became less pleasant as they got rich. The protagonist solves the family problem without bankrupting them, however. With a sledgehammer.

** A number of characters including Urumi and Miyabi fit the bill as well. While their parents aren't gone {{spoiler|except Urumi, who doesn't know her father as anything more than a sperm donor}}, they're emotionally detached from them to the point they act out. Granted they have more issues than just this trope, but ''GTO'' prefers a cornucopia of issues for its characters.

* Kaito Doumoto of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' is popular at school and has an [[Instant Fanclub]], and hides his lonely brooding behind the mask of a carefree joker instead of a standoffish loner like most of these examples. His parents died in a storm at sea, leaving him with a vast amount of money, and he doesn't like to talk about it. It's only Lucia's perseverance and [[Loves My Alter Ego|his growing suspicion that she might be the mermaid he's looking for]] that allows him to eventually open up to her.

** You think he's bad? Check out Michal Amagi, an [[Ill Girl]] whose [[Big Brother Instinct|older brother Rihito]] is pretty much the only person she talks to. Although he pours his riches into making her happy, she's so desperate and depressed that [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|she thinks that he's wasting his energy on her]]. When Kaito shows her genuine kindness, she goes all-out [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], throwing herself at him, practically chaining him to her mansion, and [[Amnesia Danger|ready and willing to do anything to keep him from remembering Lucia.]] Her [[Freak-Out]] when he decides to move back home is ''both'' profoundly creepy and heartbreaking.

* Both Ami Mizuno and Rei Hino in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (specially the manga), until they join the Senshi.

* The entire main cast of the anime ''[[Special A]]'' qualifies thanks to various relationship traumas during their childhood.

** But averted with Onpu Segawa, who, when confronted with an empty house and a cold plate of plastic-wrapped food(on Christmas!) just went out to have fun with the other girls.

* Eri Sawachika from ''[[School Rumble]]'' is an archetypical example (as well as an archetypical [[Tsundere]], and [[The Ojou]].)

** {{spoiler|Athena Tennos}} is another, ''specially'' in her backstory {{spoiler|More exactly, when she kicks Hayate out after their fight, but almost immediately falls into despair due to being magically locked in a [[Gilded Cage]]-like mansion.}}

* Amy from ''[[IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix|IGPX]]'', although later her parents manage to make time for her.

** Mimasaka Akira seems to be the only member immune from this despite that, at least in the j-Drama, his father is a [[Yakuza]] boss. In all incarnations, having a mother who acts like an [[Adult Child]] seems to be why he [[Likes Older Women]].

* Sumire Kanzaki in ''[[Sakura Taisen]]''. Her father and grandfather were so absorbed into work that she was left emotionally scarred and doubtful about their love for her. {{spoiler|Reversed later, when her dad appears and is revealed to be a rather decent guy otherwise and even apologizes to Sumire for not being able to spend more time with her. She forgives him.}}.

* In ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', El Si Pierre is the son of a French nobleman and tycoon who is ''not'' willing to have others treating him like a [[The White Prince|a frail White Prince]], like it happened in his early years (some manga panels show young Pierre sitting with his books while the kids around him seem too scared to get close). So, to prove to others that he's just like them and he doesn't want any privileges, Pierre starts practising soccer.

** Similarly, Mark Owairan is a ''real'' Arabian prince who spent several years locked inside his father's palace and discovered soccer only when he went out of his [[Gilded Cage]] with his bodyguards and saw a bunch of children playing in the streets. He's so fascinated that he begins training and playing, rising to the top thanks to his own merits and not to his family's influences.

** And in ''[[Smallville]]'', Lex Luthor.

** But not [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]], who grew up surrounded by social types and was quite the unrepentant ladies' man once grown to adulthood.

** And that was after their relationship ''improved''. Initially Tim's parents paid him so little attention that he focused on ''Batman'' (who he had seen exactly once, to boot) as a parental substitute.

* Cecilia from ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'', a sheltered and naive Scottish noblewoman who was pretty much locked away in the family castle after the death of her mother.

== Fan Works ==

* Tsuruya's backstory in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' portray her like that. She's afraid to let [[I Just Want to Have Friends|people close to her]] because of [[Yakuza|her family business]].

* Alfred's backstory in [[Part Right, Half Wrong, a Third Crazy]]. His father was incredibly rich, and also emotionally distant/neglectful to the point of pretty much replying to any of Al's attempts to form a relationship between them with "I don't have time for that shit". He's also implied to not have had any real friends until college, and even then they were more people he got high with than people he actually talked to and/or liked.

 

* Jane and Michael Banks in ''Mary Poppins''

* Kiara from [[The Lion King|The Lion King 2]]

* Lucas in the film of the same name paints himself as this, explaining that his parents are "superficial" people who take no interest in him, don't meet with other parents, and don't want him inviting friends over or giving out his phone number. At the end, one of his friends reveals that he lives in a trailer with an alcoholic father.

* In ''[[The Last Emperor]]'', Pu Yi who has the eponymous title cannot leave the Forbidden City despite being curious about the outside world; his tutor R.J. said, "I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on earth."

* Ijuuin Enzan (Eugene Chaud) of ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' gets this treatment in the third game, where his heartfelt, touching moment at the end was... being allowed to eat with his father. Actually, he rarely mentions any angst over it and, normally, is seemingly himself too busy to care that his father is wrapped up being the CEO of the biggest technology corporation ever, and the game makes it perfectly clear that his lack of friends is due more to his being a combination of [[The Rival]], [[Aloof Big Brother]] and [[Serious Business]]. Ayanokouji Yaito aka Yai, likewise, seems to have an army of young maids (and her Navi) as her only company and we never see her parents once in three fairly long-running forms of media. She seems well adjusted enough, if a bit [[The Ojou|bratty and spoiled]], and indeed is one of the original [[True Companions]]. So there's two aversions, "I can eat with you?" notwithstanding.

* For all her academic and Shadow-fighting prowess, Mitsuru Kirijo of ''[[Persona 3]]'' seems to be somewhat cursed socially. She and her father rarely talk, she rarely has any free time whatsoever, she takes the burden of guilt for {{spoiler|her grandfather's creation of the Shadow threat}}, and her sheltered upbringing means she's [[Fish Out of Water|often lost in everyday situations others take for granted]]. It's no wonder she [[Heroic BSOD|collapses]] after {{spoiler|her father is murdered by Ikutsuki}}.

* Flora from the ''[[Professor Layton]]'' series. Both her rich parents died and she lives on top of a tower where no one dares to go.

* Elise in [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)]] less so,but Chris in [[Sonic X]] is a particularly annoying and notable example.

== Western Animation ==

* Remy Buxaplenty from ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' counts. In fact, [[Abusive Parents|his workaholic and billionaire parents's EXTREME neglection of him]] is Remy's [[Freudian Excuse]] as well as the reason why he's got a fairy godfather in the first place.

** In the episode "Burns' Heir," Bart went through the temporary version.

* Whitney Stane from ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]'' fits both main types perfectly. She has a terrible relationship with her busy CEO father (commenting she has to now make appointments just to see him) and being an outcast at the school she goes to. Her only real friend is Tony Stark, who would often brush her off until he found out just how bad her home life was.