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== <span id="Type_2">Wealthy Benefactor</span> ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', it is eventually revealed that Irie is taking care of Satoko and Rika and the two are technically under the custody of the village chief Kimiyoshi. It is left unexplained for most of the series until then.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', the fourth Hokage's dying request was that the village take care of his son.
** This one might be justifiable: A village whose economy is based on soldiers of both sexes must have some solid program for orphans. If nothing else, orphans are easier to train into [[Tyke Bomb|Tykebombs]], since they have no family attachments. Sai is a great example.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* Obliquely touched on in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. By enrolling his daughter Antimony at the Court prior to his disappearance, Anthony Carver had insured that she would be provided for, since the Court has no tuition fees and provides for all the students' needs. ''[[Infinite Supplies|All of them.]]''▼
** In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', it was established early on that Fate had been providing for Erio and Caro before they enlisted.▼
** {{spoiler|As if the Court would let a descendant of a fire elemental and a potential medium go anywhere else.}}▼
* [[Harry Potter]] has the Dursleys providing a roof over his head, and his parents' money for expenses in the magical world.▼
=== Comic Books ===
* Young [[Ciem Webcomic Series|Candi Flippo]]. However, not having money problems means she has to worry about plenty of other things: like a [[Attempted Rape|psychopath boyfriend]] in grade school or [[Everything Trying to Kill You|aliens that want to carve her like a pumpkin]].▼
* ''[[wikipedia:Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane|The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane]]''. [[The Other Wiki]] article says her father "...made plans to allow Rynn to live alone...", presumably including financial matters.▼
* [[Batman|Bruce Wayne]] is supported by [[Mega Corp|Wayne Enterprises]] (which he will eventually run) when his parents are killed in a mugging, and is given a foster mother as a caretaker. Robin (or at least Dick Grayson) is taken in, in turn, by Bruce.
=== Film ===
▲* ''[[wikipedia:Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane|The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane]]''. [[The Other Wiki]] article says her father "...made plans to allow Rynn to live alone...", presumably including financial matters.
=== Literature ===
▲* [[Harry Potter]] has the Dursleys providing a roof over his head, and his parents' money for expenses in the magical world.
=== Newspaper Comics ===
* [[Little Orphan Annie]], the defining example of type 2.
▲* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's '', [[Ill Girl|Hayate Yagami's]] source of funds is brushed off as a wealthy friend of her late parents. {{spoiler|In reality, it is a rogue TSAB Admiral waiting for her to become one with the [[Artifact of Doom|Book of Darkness]] in hopes of trapping it before too much of the world gets lain waste to.}}
▲** In StrikerS, it was established early on that Fate had been providing for Erio and Caro before they enlisted.
* Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' is being taken care of by... well, [[Yakuza|a yakuza head,]] who was a friend of his father. The Yakuza head's sweet granddaughter drops by every now and then to make sure he hasn't got into any trouble as he lives in his dad's giant sweet mansion, but he's still an entirely emancipated minor. Shirou, however, has a streak of independence which makes him keep the ''entire giant mansion'' clean all by himself, with only one of his younger female classmates coming by to help. The sweet granddaughter, despite being sweet, is no help, instead sponging off of him to devour his great homemade meals. Shirou also maintains an income by fixing up the Yakuza head's motorcycle and keeping up with three different part-time jobs. In times of need, however, Shirou can ask for a maid from the Yakuza head to keep his house in order.▼
* In the case of ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'', you wonder about this at first, until you realize that she actually has a whole pile of pirate gold on hand to pay for the things she needs. (And, a lot of the time, she has no idea of the actual value of the gold she's slapping down for trivial things like ice cream.)
=== Video Games ===
▲* Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' is being taken care of by... well, [[Yakuza|a yakuza head,]] who was a friend of his father. The Yakuza head's sweet granddaughter drops by every now and then to make sure he hasn't got into any trouble as he lives in his dad's giant sweet mansion, but he's still an entirely emancipated minor. Shirou, however, has a streak of independence which makes him keep the ''entire giant mansion'' clean all by himself, with only one of his younger female classmates coming by to help. The sweet granddaughter, despite being sweet, is no help, instead sponging off of him to devour his great homemade meals. Shirou also maintains an income by fixing up the Yakuza head's motorcycle and keeping up with three different part-time jobs. In times of need, however, Shirou can ask for a maid from the Yakuza head to keep his house in order.
=== Web Comics ===
▲* Obliquely touched on in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. By enrolling his daughter Antimony at the Court prior to his disappearance, Anthony Carver had insured that she would be provided for, since the Court has no tuition fees and provides for all the students' needs. ''[[Infinite Supplies|All of them.]]''
▲**
▲* Young Candi Flippo in ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series
== <span id="Type_3">Get a Job</span> ==
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