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[[File:Chosen_Family.jpg|300px|right|You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends!|thumb|link=One Piece]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[One Piece]]'': As '''pictured above''', the Straw Hats are a crew of pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy where he refers to them as his ''[[True Companions|nakama]]''. Each of them had lost a family member early in life while also carrying a dream they wanted to accomplish. Yet, despite their diverse backgrounds, they come together in an intimate way that they can work as a team in many situations.
* ''[[Romantic Killer (anime)|Romantic Killer]]'': It's revealed that Riri, rather than creating an [[Unwanted Harem]] for Anzu as was his directive, established this. Kazuki needed {{spoiler|friends to help him recover from his trauma with a violent stalker named Yukasa, who went as far as to drug and dox him. While his father showed [[No Sympathy]], his mother and sister decided to send him away for his safety, with Anissa regularly checking in on him. Anzu is the first girl that didn't trigger Kazuki's trauma, and he finds himself happy for the first time when living with her and Junta}}. Junta doesn't have any
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''
** Each season shows numerous times that the Inner Senshi, along with Mamoru and the cats, have become a true family. Mamoru and Makoto are orphans, Ami rarely sees her mother due to the latter being a busy doctor, Minako ran away from home in the manga to become a Senshi on realizing she had to fulfill her duties while in the anime they ''never'' show up, and Rei is estranged from her father and she keeps her grandfather at an arm's length in the manga due to her trauma while being overprotective of him in the anime. Usagi is the only one whose [[Good Parents]] are together and alive, but it's confirmed she needs her friends as her trauma accumulates over the seasons. Indeed, it's {{spoiler|her friends nearly dying again that causes her to have her R upgrade, as it snaps her out of her [[Heroic BSOD]] about being forcibly reawakened.}}
** The Outer Senshi also become this in the manga and the anime when they adopt Hotaru, who has reverted to baby form. Haruka and Michiru have taken over raising her, as it's unexplained in the anime what happened to {{spoiler|Professor Tomoe who survived the events of the story and was confirmed to be brainwashed by the ''real'' Big Bads, Pharaoh 90 and Mistress Nine.}} What makes this an eventual tearjerker is that in ''Stars'', {{spoiler|Haruka and Michiru attempt to become [[Fake Defector]]s in an attempt to stop Galaxia, and "prove" their loyalty by killing Setsuna and Hotaru.}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The Kamen Rider Club are teenagers from different high school groups to help Gentaro Kisaragi, aka ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'', fight the Zodiarts. While each member had some conflict, they joined the group, overcame their
* Technically, the main characters in ''[[Angel]]'' run a business called Angel Investigations, which is Cordelia's idea so they can pay rent while she waits for her big acting break. Seasons one and two, however, make it very clear that Angel needs them to stay grounded and tethered to his humanity, no matter what Los Angeles as well as
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the Scoobies have become this, to the point where two of them become a [[Parental Substitute]] duo to Dawn, who is the only minor left in the group by season six. While Buffy started hanging with Willow and Xander after they learned about vampires and decided to do what they could to help, Cordelia joined the group under protest after supernatural forces killed one of her boyfriends and started targeting her on a regular basis.
* The Nine-Nine are this in ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]''. While they were close-knit before Holt joins the team, Holt does help shape Jake up and admit that his team is the best family he has. Out of the characters, Terry is the only one that has a stable home life with a wife and losing daughters; Rosa doesn't get along with the cheerful side of her family, Amy constantly competes with her brothers to get her mother's affection, Gina is only close with her dramatic mother, Boyle loves his extended brood but suffers a lot of angst when it comes to his ex-wife and later pursuits of women, and Hitchcock and Scully only have each other, with the Nine-Nine unsure if someone named Kelly is Scully's wife or dog. (Scully reveals in season seven that his wife ''and'' dog are both named Kelly.) Holt and his husband Kevin also become mellower after he joins the Nine-Nine, especially when they surprise the couple with an anniversary dinner.
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
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* In ''[[Sesame Street]]'', it's shown that the whole neighborhood can become your family if you let them. The adults comfort Big Bird and promise to take care of him after he finds out that Mr. Hooper died.
** The film ''[[Follow That Bird]]'' has a social worker convinced that Big Bird should live with an actual bird family. Big Bird is so miserable that he runs away, and the movie is about the Sesame Street gang coming to rescue him.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Phantom Thieves of Hearts from ''[[Persona 5]]'' are a group that rebels against the adults who deceive, hypocrisies, and corrupt society by stealing their hearts. Each member consists of teens who have been wronged by adults throughout their life and awakened to Persona. Most of their peers see each of them as misfits, but they find solace with each other and become great friends.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In ''[[Voltron: Legendary Defender]]'', the Paladins and Allura start as a borderline [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] and end up becoming this through [[Character Development]].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has this for the Gaang: we have an orphan Airbender that realizes he lost his family a hundred years ago, two Water tribe members that lost their mother while having a father at war, a runaway Earth Kingdom noble that hates her family limiting her, and later on, a Kyoshi Warrior leader with her fellow Warriors imprisoned and separated.
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