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* The version of [[The Penguin]] in ''[[Batman Returns]]'' suffers this trope in the worst way possible. Born horribly disfigured, his parents, the rich and ritzy Cobblepots saw him as a shame to their family. As such, they took him to the park and actually threw his stroller into the river which took him into the sewer where he was found and raised by the zoo penguins. It's no wonder he hated surface-dwellers and attempted to destroy Gotham.
** This tropes always thought he was actually raised by members of the freak circus.
* The Japanese film ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120121123400/http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Homeless_Student The Homeless Student]'' delivers a one-two punch: first the mother dies, then the children come home from school to find all their belongings outside the apartment. The shiftless, frigid father rides up on his bicycle to explain he has gambled away all the family's money and hasn't paid the rent. Then he rides off again, leaving his three children to fend for themselves. [[Flat What|What]].
* [[Leonardo DiCaprio|Dom]]'s children in ''[[Inception]]''. Their mother, Mal, is dead, and Dom has been framed for her death and can't enter the U.S. or any country that has an extradition treaty with it. He agrees to get involved in the film's plot because it will let him see his kids again.
* Sam Flynn in ''[[Tron: Legacy]]''. His mother was killed in a car accident shortly after he was born. His father disappeared without a trace. Fortunately, he did have a [[Parental Substitute]] in his father's friend Alan.
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