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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 (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]]'' the protagonist has these, ala Superman. In this version the reason Hercules is a Demi-God is because he was Zeus and Hera's son but was fed a 'mortal potion' as a baby but didn't complete it allowing him to retain his strength. In the original tale, it was because Zeus had sex with a mortal woman—and for this main reason, Herc's main nemesis in the original myths was ''Hera'', not Hades.
** 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 Inin 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.
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