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{{quote|"...And then they made me their chief."|'''Jack Sparrow'''- ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The Curse of the Black Pearl''}}
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▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' has Goku, who ends up being sent to Earth from his home planet as a baby in a similar fashion to [[Superman]].
** The similarities between Superman and Goku are briefly pointed out in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]''; when Grandpa Gohan finds Goku for the first time, he decides to name him Clark, only to immediately change his mind afterwards.
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* [[Moses in the Bulrushes|Moses]] from [[The Bible]] was raised by Egyptians.
* In Conrad Richter's Light in the Forest, a young white boy is captured by Native Americans in a raid. They raise him as their own, renaming him True Son. Eleven years later, he thinks of himself as completely Indian and does not remember his life with his real family. He is forced to leave his Indian family and return to his white family after a treaty is signed and all white "prisoners" were given up. When he returns to his white family he is unable to reconnect with them and runs away. However, when he returns his Indian father tells him he must return and accept his heritage.
* ''[[Stranger in
* G. A. Henty's ''By Right of Conquest'' features an interesting twist on this. Roger Hawkshaw is the sole survivor of a shipwreck of the Yucatan coast and finds himself taken in by a village on the outskirts of the Aztec empire; everything else wobbles about this trope up through when Hernan Cortez arrives. Unfortunately, by this time most of the Aztecs don't particularly like him much, and the reason Roger was shipwrecked in the first place was part of a British attempt to break the international (Pope-mandated) division of the New World between the Spanish and Portuguese. [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] ensues.
* Not exactly orphaned (his mother was marooned with him), but The Savage from ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]''. Curiously, he isn't really a "[[Noble Savage]]" even though you would think the Indians would be portrayed a little nicer considering they're the only cultures left that aren't a dystopian baby factory. Still just the usual "hey, we smoke Peyote" and "random death-inducing ritual for no reason" stuff that was common in period Western works.
** Actually, an alternate reading is that their culture has decayed, with nobody remembering why they perform certain rituals anymore (or why they might not) -- and they ''are'' nicer by comparison to the rest. Remember, it ''is'' a [[Crapsack World]].
* M.M. Kaye's ''The Far Pavilions'' has the [[Mighty Whitey]]
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''Kim''. The title character is raised by a Hindu (Hindoo) attorney from Bengal, a Muslim warrior (specifically a Pashtun/Pathan tribesman from the foothills of Afghanistan), a Buddhist monk from Tibet, and a British colonel. The product: Kimball O'Hara: Friend of the Stars/Friend of All the World, the perfect warrior for the Great Game.
* From ''[[Discworld]]'' Captain Carrot (City Watch books) was raised by dwarves. Despite bordering on 7 foot and being the only dwarf who keeps bumping his head on the ceiling in mineshafts. (His dwarven name is literally translated as 'Head Banger'.)
** Unusually for this trope, Carrot wasn't merely raised by dwarves but actually ''is'' a dwarf, in every sense that matters to all but the most ultra-conservative elements of dwarven society (and even they merely call his dwarfishness "debatable". This becomes a plot point in both ''[[
** From ''[[
** There's a much more serious example in ''[[Snuff]]'', where one of the characters was raised by goblins. When humans kill the goblins and take this character home, they mistreat her in order to make her act like a human. She runs the first chance she gets.
* In a rare female example, Ayla was raised by Neanderthals in the ''[[Earth's Children]]'' series when her parents were killed in an earthquake. ''[[The Clan
* In [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s [[Alliance Union]] novel ''Finity's End'' a merchant spacewoman's orphan is raised on a space station by the local humans and also the [[Innocent Aliens|Downers]] from the planet below. Just as he is getting settled into that society, his mother's ship returns and forces him back into their very different society. Drama ensues.
* The protagonist of ''The Hound and the Falcon'' is an elf who was raised by monks. Among other things, he's the only elvish character who's [[Shapeshifters Do It for a Change|uncomfortable with the idea of]] [[Gender Bender|changing gender]].
* Nefret Forth, in the [[Amelia Peabody]] series, fits this trope morally if not factually. Her parents were 19th-century explorers who discovered a remnant of ancient Egyptian civilization in a lost oasis and spent the rest of their lives there, [[Going Native]] in varying degrees. When Amelia and her family arrive, they find the 13-year-old Nefret being high priestess of Isis. Her parents being dead by the end of the book, Nefret goes back to Western civilization with the Emersons, where she has a realistically rough time fitting in.
* Nobody "Bod" Owens, hero of ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'', was orphaned just before the book starts, as a toddler, and wanders into a graveyard, where he is taken in and raised by ghosts. The whole book is a translation of ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]'' into the new setting, so this case wavers between
* Bria in ''[[The Last Dove]]'' is often mocked in the village of bird people where she was raised because she hasn't yet been able to change into a bird. She later turns out to be able to
* Etl in Raymund Gallun's ''Stamped Caution'' starts as something like an egg found in a wrecked Martian ship. Human scientists manage to raise "him", providing a good enough diet and conditions based on their knowledge of Mars and samples from the wreckage. Etl grows into an intelligent [[Starfish Alien]], who eventually accompanies the first manned mission to Mars.
== [[Television]] ==▼
* Johnny Reach, the sidekick in the CBS Western action series ''Bearcats!'', was raised by Indians.
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* Worf of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' is a Klingon raised by humans. Done interestingly because his foster parents wanted him to get the Klingon cultural side of his heritage and raised him accordingly, but the result is that Worf is often stricter about holding to Klingon customs and laws than ordinary Klingons.
** Some of the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novels invert this, with human siblings raised by Klingons.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Little Patch in ''[[Elf Quest]]: Hidden Years #3'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090729062432/http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/HY/HY03/DisplayHY03.html Link]) is abandoned by his human parents and raised by wolf...rider elves. Eventually he returns to a human tribe and becomes chief, teaching his tribe some of the elves' wisdom. The story has some obvious similarities to ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]''.
* ''[[Digger]]'' has Shadowchild, who is speculated by the characters to be a demon growing up around mortals.
** Later confirmed after Shadowchild {{spoiler|defeats Sweetgrass Voice}} he explains that most demons are raised evil or grow up feral, he is the only demon child raised by good.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Shandala in ''[[Broken Saints]].''
* [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Sandwich_Stoutaxe Sandwich Stoutaxe], the drow (normally an [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Even though [[Tarzan]] is typically more of an example of [[Raised by Wolves]], the [[Disney Animated Canon]] version stuck closer to
** In the original novel, the apes (specifically stated as being different from Gorillas) were borderline sapient themselves, complete with a limited though functional language.
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