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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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== 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 (Disney 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
** 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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* 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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