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[[File:kents01_3785.png|link=Superman|frame|Do not underestimate the little old couple. They're the reason he's [[The Cape]] rather than an [[Evil Overlord]].]]

[[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]].

[[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]].

This is a frequent trope in mythology. If the foster parents are not called the child's mother and father, they are frequently their aunt and/or uncle. This is a throwback to older times, where children whose parents died were often adopted by the parent's brother.

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See [[Tell Me About My Father]], can be [[Happily Adopted]]. Contrast [[Raised By Orcs]], [[Turn Out Like His Father]]. See also [[Changeling Fantasy]] and [[Raised By Natives]].

== Anime and Manga ==

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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 In Badass|more training]]. Also subverted in that it appeared Tam was going to be a [[Death By Origin Story]], but he survives and becomes an active member of his hometown's resistance fighters and {{spoiler|has a heated confrontation with Rand in book 12 that leads to Rand having a [[My God What Have I Done]] / [[Epiphany Therapy]] moment}}.

* 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 In Badass|more training]]. Also subverted in that it appeared Tam was going to be a [[Death By Origin Story]], but he survives and becomes an active member of his hometown's resistance fighters and {{spoiler|has a heated confrontation with Rand in book 12 that leads to Rand having a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] / [[Epiphany Therapy]] moment}}.

* ''[[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]]}}.

* 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 (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'', where Princess Jenna is adopted by a Wizard family.

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* In ''[[Charmed]]'', Paige Matthews was given to normal parents after her birth and didn't know her true heritage until her powers started manifesting thanks to a spell Piper had cast to bring Prue back.

* In ''[[Tin Man (TV)|Tin Man]]'', DG believes her parents are her real parents. Later it is revealed that they are robots with nurturing chips.

* In ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]''., this applies to the Uther and Morgana relationship, until season 3. Then we find out [[Luke I Am Your Father|he IS her father.]]

* In ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]''., this applies to the Uther and Morgana relationship, until season 3. Then we find out [[Luke, I Am Your Father|he IS her father.]]