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Line 15: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', Daikichi, despite being a bachelor, adopts his grandfather's illegitimate 6-year old daughter (yes, that makes her his aunt), when no one else in his family would take on the responsibility. It could be a subversion in that he has to ask for advice and goes through a lot of crap at work trying to make time to be able to pick her up from preschool, but all in all he does a really good job. * ''[[Otaku no Musume ~~San~~-san]]'' is about an otaku who gets his formerly unknown daughter dumped on him by his high school sweetheart. {{spoiler\|Furthermore, the climax of the story is what happens when the mother comes back and intends to take the daughter back.}} * In ''[[Black Cat (~~Manga~~manga)\|Black Cat]]'', Sven adopts Eve after rescuing her from a weapons dealer. Do clones who came out of a test tube and technically never had a biological mother or father count? Yes, there doesn't have to be a blood relationship as long as [[Promotion to Parent]] takes place. Later on, the gang does discover {{spoiler\|Eve's creator and biological genitor (that is, the scientist who cloned Eve from herself)}}; both feel a sort of filial connection and there's talk about Eve staying with her {{spoiler\|but they commonly decide not to}}. * ''[[Sakende Yaruze]]'' features a type two, where the father, unaware that he had a kid, has his seventeen year old son show up on his doorstep one day after his mother's death. Though they do manage to build something of a relationship in spite of their conflict, they ultimately can't make it work and the son moves back in with his maternal grandmother at the end. * This happens in the backstory of ''~[[Yotsuba&!~]]''. Koiwai adopts [[Cheerful Child\|Yotsuba]] without having any prior parenting experience. * In ''[[My Girl (manga)\|My Girl]]'' by Mizu Sahara, the hero gets his formerly unknown five-year-old daughter dropped in his lap when his high-school sweetheart dies. The story is played for the heart-warming drama. ** In subversion, he got a lot of help from his own parents and his dead lover mom. == [[~~Fanfic~~Fan Works]] == * Dante as ten-year-old Nero's father in the [[Alternate Universe Fic\|AU]] ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' fic "''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6822576/1/Like_Father_Like_Son Like Father, Like Son]"'', fully demonstrated in chapter 6. Trish also lampshades it in the same chapter, chastising Dante that he has to "grow up, at least a little bit" and "shape up". Patty doesn't quite count as Dante's kid, as she visits the shop instead of permanently living there. == [[Film]] == Line 38 ⟶ 37: * Buddy's biological dad in ''[[Elf]]'' is this, although the focus of the film is elsewhere. * In ''[[Breakfast With Scot]]'', the titular Scot's mother dies of a drug overdose, and custody is supposed to go to her ex-boyfriend (who isn't Scot's biological father). Said boyfriend being a jerkass off in Brazil, Scot ends up with the jerkass's brother and his partner. * In ''[[Big Daddy]]'' this happens to the main character's roommate but the roommate is out of town when the kid arrives so the main character tells child services he's the kid's father. Eventually child services finds out the main character was lying {{spoiler\|and a trial ensues where the child's real dad saves the day.}} * ''[[Three Men ~~And~~and Aa Baby]]'' (and it's French [[Foreign Remake\|original version]], ''Trois Hommes et un Couffin''). * The movie ''[[Parenthood (~~Film~~film)\|Parenthood]]'' has Larry, whose response to having his newly discovered son dumped on him is to in turn dump the kid on his parents. * Gender-flipped in ''[[~~Raising Helen (Film)\|~~Raising Helen]]'', where high-living Helen ends up as a single mom to her newly orphaned nieces and nephews. Her new love interest, the [[Saintly Church\|local pastor]], adjusts far more easily to the kids. * ''[[Old Dogs]]'': Robin Williams' character discovers that his short marriage resulted in twins when his ex-wife dumps them on his doorstep and asks to take care of them while she faces jail time for an environmental protest. == [[Literature]] == * In ''[[The ~~Hitchhikers~~Hitchhiker's Guide to ~~The~~the Galaxy\|Mostly Harmless]]'', Trillian leaves her daughter in Arthur's care, saying that she is his daughter, too. However, it's only true in biological sense: her pregnancy was via artificial insemination and Arthur just happened to be the only human sperm donor left in the universe after the destruction of Earth. * In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' novel ''Changes'', {{spoiler\|Harry}} learns that he has a daughter with {{spoiler\|his ex-girlfriend Susan}}, who has been kidnapped by {{spoiler\|vampires}} and needs to be rescued. While not exactly an exact example of this, he does {{spoiler\|remain Maggie's only parent after Susan's death}} at the end of the novel. * The ''[[Suvi Kinos]]'' series begins with the titular character being orphaned in a car accident. She ends up in the care of her uncles. Her five hulking, academical doctor uncles. They are varying mixes of caveman and nerd, so hilarity ensues. For example, when little Suvi cries to not be pacified by default maintenance, they look up a childcare book, and end up desperate because there's no index entry for "vocal alarm". The entire first book, dealing with Suvi's years 0 to 6, is a big zigzagging of this trope. Line 51 ⟶ 50: == [[Live Action TV]] == * ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' somehow managed to reverse this trope an have a sink or swim mother. * ''[[My Two Dads]]'' is made from this. Woman dies, wills that the father of her daughter should raise her - but it could be one of two guys (it started before genetic testing was mainstream, though this was addressed in a later episode). So they both raise her. Neither one knew of the child until the death of the mother. * Happens to Worf ''twice'' on ''[[Star Trek: ~~the~~The Next Generation]]'': the first time, he learns about his son Alexander shortly before Alexander's mother is killed, and about a season later, Worf's parents (who have been looking after him) send Alexander to the Enterprise to live with his father. * Happens in ''[[~~Badger (TV)\|~~Badger]]''. Much of the domestic plot is driven by Wilf, the teenaged daughter Tom McCabe never knew he had, who rocks up on his doorstep. == [[Video Games]] == * In the backstory of ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ~~Sweet~~～sweet ~~Songs~~songs ~~Forever~~forever～]]'' (and thus, presumably, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''), Shiro Takamachi in his youth had an affair with a woman named Kaori, who left him, then returned a year later with their baby son Kyoya and ran away again, leaving him to raise the boy alone. == [[Western Animation]] == Line 66 ⟶ 65: [[Category:Adopt an Index]] [[Category:Plots]] [[Category:~~Sink Or Swim Fatherhood~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Example as a Thesis]]