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[[Wonder Child|The super-powered hero is raised by normal human foster parents]], sometimes unaware of his [[Secret Legacy|true heritage]] until his [[Puberty Superpower|abilities manifest]]. This can be used as an open plot device for a [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] later in the series. Though they might not get combat training or magic instruction while hidden, they usually find out [[Upbringing Makes the Hero]].
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** ''[[Mahou Shojo Lalabel]]'' is similarly taken in by her muggle school-friend, Teko, and her grandparents.
** Averted in [[Mahou Tsukai Chappy]]: Chappy's parents actually go fetch their daughter after she leaves the [[Magical Land]], but end up staying at Earth.
** Also averted in [[Sally the Witch]]: Sally's parents do wath over her but they stay in Astoria almost all of the time while she lives ans trains in Earth. Sally's friends and teachers believe that they work abroads.
* ''[[Glass Fleet]]'''s Vetti and Cleo were raised by these. Cleo was raised by his father's right hand man, while Vetti was raised by former subjects of his father's, [[Abusive Parents|who weren't so nice to him]].
* The Arima family for Shiki in ''[[Tsukihime]]''. It actually counts ''twice'' because of his mixed upbringing by the Nanaya (assassins, but good) and Tohno (half demon clan) families. When he finally goes back to the Tohnos, he uses his Nanaya abilities to quell problems related to the Tohnos to some extent depending on the route. Also vampires.
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== Film ==
* Luke and Leia in ''[[Star Wars]]'', though Luke was well aware he was living with his aunt and uncle. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, Luke's caregivers, were about as Muggleish as anyone gets in ''[[Star Wars]]''. Leia's foster parents were ''royalty''.
* In the [[Disneyfication|Disney Version]] of ''[[Hercules (
** Of course, in the Greek gods' origin story, a prediction that one of the children of Kronos would kill him led him to develop the mildly unpleasant habit of swallowing his newborn children whole. To save one of her children, Gaia gives Zeus to be raised by a family of olive farmers until he was 17. At this point, naturally, he goes off to cut up his cannibalistic father and complete the cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy.
*** Though other versions of the myth have him raised by everything from Gaia to... A goat and a troupe of dancers.
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* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]''.
* Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'' has Carrot Ironfoundersson, born human but raised by dwarves; he is in fact the legitimate heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork. He doesn't claim the title, though: he doesn't want the job, and there's a good chance [[Badass|Vimes]] would [[Off with His Head|literally have his head]] if he did. (Only not really. More to the point, Carrot admires Vimes and Vimes doesn't believe in kings, and Carrot is quite sure he can do more for the city in the Watch. He's right.) It's the biggest [[Open Secret]] in the city.
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]],'' Rand is found by Tam al'Thor on a battlefield, and Tam decides to take him home to his wife Kari to raise as their son. Tam isn't completely a muggle however. He is a skilled swordsman and Rand uses basic techniques Tam taught him to survive his first brushes with baddies before he can get [[Took a Level
* ''[[Chronicles of Prydain]]'': Inverted, Taran is a muggle with a Magician for a foster parent.
* Subverted in ''[[Akata Witch]]'' by [[Nnedi Okorafor]]. Sunny has magical abilities, but her parents don't. However her parents are her biological parents, the magic just skipped a generation.
* In ''[[Sword of Truth|The Sword of Truth]]'', Richard Cypher is kind of raised by a muggle foster father in the non-magical land of Westland, and although his mother is his real mother, she's also non-magical. It's only much later that he finds out that {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|the BigBad, who is a powerful wizard, is his father]] and that the [[Cool Old Guy|'friend']] he's known all his life is actually his grandfather and a powerful wizard as well, which is where he gets all his [[God Mode Sue|awesome wizard powers from]]}}.
** Since magic is passed down by familial lines, and Richard is explicitly said to have inherited magic from {{spoiler|both the Rahl and Zorander sides of his family}}, it's very probable that his mother did have magic, but there doesn't appear to be direct evidence either way.
* [[Inverted]] in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'', where Princess Jenna is adopted by a Wizard family.
* In [[Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians]], Alcatraz goes through [[Up to Eleven|27 sets of these]].
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* Agatha from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' was raised by people she knew as Adam and Lilith Clay, who she referred to as her parents, but it was later revealed {{spoiler|that they were the Heterodyne Boys' construct sidekicks, Punch and Judy (not quite Muggles, but pretending to be), and the famous Bill Heterodyne was her real father}}.
** She still treats them like her parents and is enraged when Von Pinn [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] {{spoiler|their destruction.}}
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Molly the
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