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* ''[[Oliver Twist]]''—Nearly all adults and most of the children Oliver lives with during the story are despicable. Oliver remains pure and good however. In the end, it turns out his parents indeed were upper class. When the story was first published, [[Values Dissonance|the general view was that poor people were incapable of being good and noble, while the "better people" were that by their very nature]].
* 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 [[Exclusively Evil]], is basically this trope from the opposite perspective.
* Duncan, in the ''[[Stardoc]]'' series, was raised by [[Lizard Folk|Hsktskt]].
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== [[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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== [[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 by Natives]] in practice. He still fits under this trope as well, however, as a key part of his character is feeling out of place no matter where he goes. Though the orcs took him in, he was never really fully accepted by them because of his physical differences (humans can't eat Orc vegetables which are as tough as bark).
* 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]] ==
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