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== Fairy Tales ==
* In [[The Brothers Grimm (
* In [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/tattercoats.html Tattercoats]'', Tattercoats is ignored by her grandfather and abused by all the servants, except for one faithful nurse, who looks after her all the time she is growing up.
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/116.htm The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen]'', it is an old servant woman who tells the knight that {{spoiler|the thief's last tale is true, and furthermore that the knight is the baby he saved during it}}.
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* Mr. Nakamura, butler of the Daidouji family for at least two generations in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]''.
* In ''Animamundi: Dark Alchemist'', Sebastain is set up to look like a reliable Old Retainer - having helped [[Villain Protagonist|Georik]] raise [[Morality Pet|Lillith]], and the two referring to him as [[Honorary Uncle|Uncle]]... and then immediately [[Subverted Trope|subverts the trope]] by having him immediately sell out Lillith to [[Burn the Witch|Witch Hunters]] and revealed that he's a spiteful little coward.
* Impa appears to be this to Zelda (and, presumably, King Harkinian) in ''[[The
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