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** He gets a [[Happily Adopted|loving mom]] in Kala. Though his adoptive dad Kerchak doesn't accept Tarzan as his son until he (Kerchak) is on his death bed.

* Aladar from ''[[Dinosaur]]'' gets separated from his parents while he's still in his egg, and then gets [[Happily Adopted|taken in by a family of lemurs]]. They likely died in the meteor shower years later, if not sooner.

{{quote| '''Yzma:''' Who does that ungrateful little worm think he is? Does he... have any idea of who he's dealing with? How could he do this to me? Why, I practically raised him!<br />

'''Kronk:''' Yeah, you'd think he would have turned out better.<br />

* [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|Quasimodo's]] mom was [[Death By Falling Over|kicked down a flight of stone stairs and cracked her head open]] while trying to save her baby from Frollo. His dad was arrested with the other gypsies, and is presumably dead.

* Pixar: No father for Andy's family in the ''[[Toy Story (Animation)|Toy Story]]'' films.

* ''[[Finding Nemo (Animation)|Finding Nemo]]'': Mom Coral is seen briefly before {{spoiler|she gets eaten by a barracuda along with the rest of Nemo's siblings}}.

* Remy's mother was written out of the script in ''[[Ratatouille (Animation)|Ratatouille]]''; Linguini's mother is recently deceased and {{spoiler|his [[Disappeared Dad]] is actually the famous Chef}}.

* The live-action Japanese film ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408664/ Nobody Knows]'' is a heart-breakingly realistic treatment of this trope: four children are abandoned by their feckless mother and do their best to cope in her absence.

* Likewise, the French film ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099607/ La Fracture du Myocarde]'' (known in English-speaking countries as ''Cross My Heart'') deals with a boy's attempts to keep the authorities from learning that his mother has died and he's living on his own.

* ''[[Repo the Genetic Opera|Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' has Shilo, whose mother Marni died just after she was born. This is only a borderline case, as her father is still present and taking care of her -- unfortunately Marni's death affected him too, making him desperate to hold onto Shilo and thus ridiculously overprotective.

** And then there are the Largo siblings. All three of them were bailed on by their mothers (whether Rotti had them killed or they simply left is unclear) and, combined with their distant father, they're all rather screwed up. The [[Expanded Universe]] canon material found on Myspace implies that Pavi and Amber would have been okay if their mums had survived their childhoods, but Luigi was born the way he is.

* Cher in ''[[Clueless]]'' is a half orphan; her mom died during a freak accident during a routine liposuction, although she still likes to pretend she's watching over her. Josh even ribs her about her desire to makeover Tai being a manifestation of her having no mother and treating her as a Barbie doll. Later (in one of the few totally played straight scenes), when she is insecure that she isn't enough of a 'do-gooder', her father tells her that he hasn't seen such good-doing since her mother.

** Subverted with Josh, however; despite having divorced his mother and having no blood-relation to Josh, Cher's father makes a point of being a devoted father figure to him. ("You divorce wives, not children.")

* In ''[[Doomsday]]'', Eden's mother managed to get an army helicopter to take her out of a [[The Plague|plague]]-infected Scotland when she was four years old. She had an envelope with her mother's address, so she would know where to go when she's older. A grown up Eden does eventually get to go to that address, and of course, her mother's dead. The [[Disappeared Dad]] is never mentioned.

* Two of each in ''Okuribito'' (Departures): Daigo's father had been a [[Disappeared Dad]] for so long Daigo can't remember his face, while {{spoiler|the encoffiner's secretary reveals she abandoned her young son over a fling. Both parents were from small towns; it's implied that they still care(d) about their children but shame prevents them from returning.}}