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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 (trope)]] 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]].
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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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* 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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