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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has Obi-Wan's infamous [[Jedi Truth]], leading to [[Luke, I Am Your Father|the big reveal]]. But [[Disappeared Dad|Anakin]] had no choice but to "abandon" [[Separated at Birth|Luke and Leia]], because ''[[Muggle Foster Parents|he didn't even know that they were still alive]]''! As soon as he learned otherwise, [[We Can Rule Together|he planned a nice family bonding experience so that they could get to know each other]].
** And of course we can't forget Leia, whose [[Happily Adopted|other daddy]] had an equally good reason for "[[Earthshattering Kaboom|abandoning]]" her...
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* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has an unusual variation, where someone else makes this excuse on the [[Disappeared Dad]]'s behalf: No one besides Anthony Carver knows why he disappeared, but his daughter Antimony says that he [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=95 "must have his reasons"].
** Except in the last panel of the same comic, she says "Perhaps I did something to displease him... or he wants nothing more to do with me." Both of which are definitely ''not'' valid excuses for basically orphaning your only daughter, [[Missing Mom|soon after her mother died in a hospital.]]
** Chapter 31 reveals that {{spoiler|Antimony's mother literally gave her "fire" (A.K.A. life force) to her, and wasted away after the birth, ever so slowly, while Annie grew up. Reynardine implies even her soul "
** Chapter 37 also reveals that he remembers and expects her to hang out with the few people he trusts. Also, a glimpse into his teen years shows Anthony always was detached and uncomfortable in situations he cannot understand or do anything about - and e.g. it's hard to imagine him engaging in white lies, so being a crappy father may simply be a downside of the qualities making him a good surgeon. For that matter, it would be quite in character for him to set his daughter up with people who would care about her better than he ever could and move on to the people he ''can'' help - he's smart enough to see he isn't good at this and may think that if you cannot do it right, you must not try. Anthony always was ''awful'' at communicating with people, so he may well be incapable of realizing how Annie could see this, and she won't say.
* In the webcomic ''Bizarre Uprising'', Mitsu's father (secretly a vampire) abandons him and his mother when he was young. He did this beause He's the vampire Messiah and if the other vamps found out he was still alive, they'd try and drag him back, almost certainly killing Mistu and Biana in the process. He stayed in Mitsu's life as "The Pig", the school mascot, turned Mitsu's mentor in the ways of vampireness.
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', Ariel comes to see her mother [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask|Quain'tana]] as this. She is quite aloof towards her children, leaving them for months or even years at a time at boarding schools or under the care of a slave or older sibling. [[The Obi-Wan|Quil'yate]] explains to Ariel that this is not because the drow are evil, but because the clan believes that it is best for young nobles to learn to prove themselves, so that they can be strong leaders. This however [[Unreliable Narrator|should be taken with a grain of salt]], since it also turns out that {{spoiler|Quain isn't really Ariel's mother, but rather her grandmother; Ariel is the daughter of her 'crazy sister' Mel'arnach, and Zhor, an elf magically turned into a spider; Quain forced the unlikely couple to give up Ariel (including an apparent attempt to kill Zhor while they were at it), thinking the two could not provide a proper environment for a future clan matriarch and wanting to take the credit for herself. Quain is also unable to have children, and it's strongly implied that the desire to have a [[Heir Club for Men|suitable heir]] is part of her motivation as well.}}
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