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[[File:raised-by-natives_3417.png|link=Star Trek the Next Generation|frame|And after these heartwarming scenes, everyone had some of Mrs. Rozhenko's delicious Klingon Blood Pie.]]

[[Raised By Wolves]] often functions as a subtrope. Compare with [[Oblivious Adoption]], [[Jungle Princess]] and [[Upbringing Makes the Hero]]. Contrast [[Raised By Orcs]] and [[Muggle Foster Parents]].

* ''[[Dragonball]]'' has Goku, who ends up being sent to Earth from his home planet as a baby in a similar fashion to [[Superman]].

* [[Tom Strong (Comic Book)|Tom Strong]], from Alan Moore's comic of the same name.

* The [[Love Interest]] from ''[[Dances With Wolves]]'' was rescued by a tribe of native Americans after her village was destroyed by another tribe. Because he like couldn't ''possibly'' have a ''native'' love interest, Ick.

* Natty Bumppo, raised to be the ''[[Last of the Mohicans (Film)|Last of the Mohicans]]'' (though it doesn't quite count, [[Heir Club for Men|because he's not able to continue the line in the strict biological sense.]])

* Jim West from the ''[[Wild Wild West (Film)|Wild Wild West]]'' movie was raised by Indians.

* [[Moses in The Bulrushes|Moses]] from [[The Bible]] was raised by Egyptians.

* ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] has Michael, a human raised by Martians after the first crewed exploration mission all died, and returned to Earth by the second. The Martians teach him their language-philosophy, how to use his puny human brain to use amazing powers, and to {{spoiler|spy on humanity to [[Humanity On Trial|determine whether they should or shouldn't blow us up]], like they did to the intelligent race on the "fifth" planet between Mars and Jupiter. You know, the ''asteroid belt?''}} He starts out as an [[Idiot Savant]], and ends as {{spoiler|[[The Messiah]].}}

* Not exactly orphaned (his mother was marooned with him), but The Savage from ''[[Brave New World (Literature)|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.

* M.M. Kaye's ''The Far Pavilions'' has the [[Mighty Whitey]] [[Raised By Natives]] variant, who even ends up with an exotic Far East [[Everything's Better With Princesses|princess]].

** 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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' and ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thud|Thud]]''. <ref>The similarity to Judaism is quite deliberate; Discworld dwarves are basically the [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|nigh-universal]] [[Culture Chop Suey]] of [[Scotireland|Celtic]], [[Norse By Northwest|Nordic]] and [[Greedy Jew|stereotypical Jewish]] traits by someone familiar with more than [[The Theme Park Version]] of the three constituent cultures.</ref>

** From ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'' we have Stanley, who was abandoned on a farm and raised by peas (yes, not ''on'' peas, but ''by'' peas) and so tends to turn gently to face the sun. manages to be rather better-adjusted to non-vegetable society than one might expect.

* In a rare female example, Ayla was raised by Neanderthals in the ''[[Earths Children]]'' series when her parents were killed in an earthquake. ''The Clan Of The Cave Bear'' and its sequels devote extensive time comparing the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal cultures, and following the interactions and occasional clashes between the two races, with Ayla often serving as an interpreter.

* In [[CJ Cherryh]]'s [[Alliance Union (Literature)|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]].

* Nobody "Bod" Owens, hero of ''[[The Graveyard Book (Literature)|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 (Literature)|The Jungle Book]]'' into the new setting, so this case wavers between [[Raised By Natives]] and [[Raised By Wolves]].

* Bria in ''[[The Last Dove (Literature)|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 {{spoiler|turn into both a dove and a wolf.}}

* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', Leela says she was trained to strike at the heart a certain way. To keep them both out of Colney Hatch or Broadmoor, the Doctor concocts a line about being raised by South American natives.

* 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.

* Ilox in ''[[The Wild Boy]]''. He was raised by wild 'wolf' humans after the Lindauzi kicked him out. So it's also [[Raised By Wolves]] in a sense, but not literal wolves like that trope means. They accepted him after a while, but he did get regarded nervously because he was Lindauzi-bred. The 'wolves' he, Phlarx and Caleb take up with later do the same thing to a point.

* [[War Craft|Thrall]] was raised by humans.

* In a variation on this, [[The Hero|Lloyd Irving]] of ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'', while not raised entirely immersed in a separate culture, was raised by a dwarf living in human lands, and it's clear right from the start that he considers his adoptive father's culture to be his own, right down to reciting Dwarven Vows. This is occasionally speculated by the other characters as being the reason for his willingness to fight against the social tide - he was never a part of it anyway.

* The main character from ''[[Beneath a Steel Sky (Video Game)|Beneath a Steel Sky]]''.

* Ivan of ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'' was entrusted by his Adept family to (soon-to-be) Lord Hammet and Lady Layana of Kalay, along with some business advice to ensure that he grew up comfortably and [[Gambit Roulette|in the right place at the right time]] to join and help Isaac & Co. Ivan doesn't even bother referring to Hammet or Layana as family, but anyone who thinks he doesn't care about them is [[Beware the Nice Ones|in for a nasty surprise]].

* ''[[Dragon Quest VII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VII]]'' has Firia, a [[Heartwarming Orphan]] who was adopted by the Pendragon, leader of the [[Winged Humanoid]] Lefa tribe. As the only person in Gorges without wings, she has difficulty getting around, and is constantly bullied by the other kids. Her own little sister treats her like a personal slave! Yet she endures it all with a smile, until {{spoiler|her grandmother reveals she's Lefan by blood. She was just born without wings, and her cowardly father decided it'd be better to pretend he merely adopted her than admit she was his own flesh and blood, for fear he'd be ousted as leader if anyone knew he's fathered a 'flawed child'}}.

* Little Patch in ''[[Elf Quest]]: Hidden Years #3'' ([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 (Literature)|The Jungle Book]]''.

* ''[[Digger (Webcomic)|Digger]]'' has Shadowchild, who is speculated by the characters to be a demon growing up around mortals.

* Even though [[Tarzan]] is typically more of an example of [[Raised By Wolves]], the [[Disney Animated Canon]] version stuck closer to [[Raised By Natives]], including Tarzan angsting over the fact that he's "different" than his friends. (Of course, this being a Disney movie, the apes were sapient.)