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The child isn't so much [[Raised
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Tagg in ''[[Redwall|The Taggerung]]'' is a textbook example: he's an otter whose father was killed by [[
** They didn't kick him out, he ran off. The main reasons that they chase after him are a) he stole the chieftain Sawney's knife, and b) they think he killed Sawney.
* {{spoiler|Inverted by Mr. Nutt}} in [[Discworld|Unseen Academicals]]. {{spoiler|He ''is'' an [[Our Orcs Are Different|orc]], and possibly one of the very few left; raids by humans killed off most of the orcs. Mr. Nutt}} was then raised by humans and [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]] before being sent off to Ankh-Morpork. And he definitely proves orcs aren't [[
* ''[[Oliver Twist]]''
* The Ilse Witch, aka {{spoiler|Grianne Ohmsford}} of ''[[The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara]]'' was raised by [[Complete Monster|The Morgawr]] and his [[Lizard Folk|Mwellrets]] following the deaths of her parents. She grows up hating everyone, including the Mwellrets; The Morgawr is the only person she respects, and even than it's just barely.
* Played with in many ways with the character Tahiri Veila, a Jedi Apprentice (and later Jedi Knight) from the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], particularly the [[New Jedi Order]]. She actually ''was'' raised by Tusken Raiders, but this was closer to Raised by Natives since the Tuskens, their outings in the movies notwithstanding, aren't all bad. ''Then'' the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Yuuzhan Vong]] show up, kidnap Tahiri, and attempt to brainwash her into believing she's one of them (in order to create a Force-using Vong warrior)- so she ends up with two sets of memories, in one of which she was raised by, essentially, space orcs crossed with space dark elves, as one of their own. Further complicating matters, the Vong [[Mad Scientist|Shapers]] tell her that she was one of them captured and raised ''by humans'' before beginning said brainwashing, which considering the Vong see themselves as the good guys and their enemies as [[
* Duncan, in the ''[[Stardoc]]'' series, was raised by [[Lizard Folk|Hsktskt]].
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Scorpius on ''[[
** This did not qualify as a [[Heel Face Turn]] as the main Sebacean culture, the Peacekeepers, are just barely [[Black and Grey Morality|the lesser of two evils]] compared to the Scarran Empire (the Scarrans want to [[Omnicidal Maniac|kill everyone]] while the Peacekeepers just want to [[A Nazi
* Connor from ''[[Angel]]'' was kidnapped by [[Knight Templar]] villain Holtz. Who is actually human, and he would otherwise have been raised by a (good) vampire. Still, being raised by a fanatical vampire hunter in a demon dimension had a pretty clear negative effect on his stability.
* ''[[
* Inverted on ''[[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'', a young Ryan Mitchell is taken by the demon Diabolico, and raised to hate his human father.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Exalted]]'' features a few examples, but one of the standouts is Harmonious Jade, the signature Night Caste. She was raised in a cult devoted to the demon Sondok, and spent her days as an assassin who struck at enemies of the cult. And then she was chosen by the Unconquered Sun to be one of the Solar Exalted. As demons have... ''issues'' with the Unconquered Sun, Jade quickly became a target of the cult.
== [[Theatre]] ==
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** This can easily be taken to a ridiculous extent in world-gen as kidnapped children will eventually have their own children, thus "goblin" civilizations will often have their entire populations replaced by the descendants of the kidnapped other races. This isn't noticeable in Fortress Mode, because sieges only consist of goblins and possibly some dwarf squad leaders, but in Adventure mode you can often find Dark Fortresses completely devoid of goblins and the player characters themselves (who can't normally be goblins) will often be from such civilizations.
* Culcha (a human) in ''[[Spectral Force]] 3'' was raised by Goblins. However, being a [[Good All Along|good but misunderstood race]] they were actually good parents. She views and is looked on by other goblins as a "big sister" and her [[Mama Bear]] is truly bearlike.
* ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'' had Starkiller, the son of a Jedi, raised as a Sith by Darth Vader. He's got the scars to prove it. {{spoiler|Has the mother of all [[Heel Face Turn
* ''[[
** This is arguably an ''[[Inverted Trope|inversion]]'': Magus never loses sight of who he is or what his goals are: namely, avenging himself upon Lavos, the [[Eldritch Abomination|planet-eating parasite]] responsible for casting him adrift in time, destroying his homeland and, as it turns out, {{spoiler|assimilating his sister}}. The monsters worship Magus as their Fiendlord, but in reality Magus sees them as only a means to an end.
* In the [[Skyrim]] mod [[
* There is a quite literal inversion of this trope in the ''[[
** And after Thrall did liberate each and every Orc, his first action as Warchief of the new Horde was to [[Hoist
*** For ''several'' very good reasons.
* After his defense attorney father dies, [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Miles Edgeworth]] is adopted by prosecutor Manfred von Karma and raised to be one of the most vicious and effective prosecutors his district has ever known. {{spoiler|Of course this was all part of von Karma's extended revenge against Gregory Edgeworth. He murdered him and then plotted to turn his son into a twisted mirror of everything Gregory Edgeworth stood for, and without Phoenix Wright to confuse matters he probably would have succeeded.}}
* One of the possible character backgrounds in ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire'' has the character Kharnak, who fits the ''letter'' of the trope, but since in this strip orcs are a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] of Native Americans he's closer to [[Raised
* Unusually inverted in the webcomic ''[[Goblins|Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes]]'', which briefly shows a group of various monsters, which includes an orc that had been part of a raid on a dwarf settlement the previous winter. During the raid he encounters the very young son of a dwarf he killed, and because he couldn't leave the child to die the orc has been taking care of him ever since. Obviously the orc isn't exactly the normal [[Chaotic Evil]] brute orcs are generally presented as. However, the hideout gets raided by a dwarf paladin named Kore, who wipes out all the monsters, including the orc as the orc begs for Kore to spare the child. Because Kore is a crazed [[Knight Templar]], he believes that because of this trope the child will be tainted by evil and likely to sympathize with monsters, so in a major [[Kick the Dog]] moment, he kills the kid too.
** It's not just [[Kick the Dog]], it's an all-out [[Moral Event Horizon]]. This is [[Knight Templar|Ko]][[Complete Monster|re]] we're talking about.
* Inverted in [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Adora from ''[[She
* ''[[
== Real Life ==
* While the
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