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* 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
* In ''[[Black Cat (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.
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* 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 A Baby]]'' (and it's French [[Foreign Remake|original version]], ''Trois Hommes et un Couffin'').
* The movie ''[[Parenthood (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]]'', 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.
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== [[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 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]]''. 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 songs 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]] ==
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