Take Care of the Kids: Difference between revisions

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A [[Last Request]] where the "MacGuffin" in [[I Am Dying Please Take My Macguffin]] happens to be human. Someone dying asks someone to please take care of their kids/family. Often implies a strong level of trust and respect between the two parties.

Precedes [[Children Raise You]], [[Promotion to Parent]], and [[Parental Substitute]]. Often an [[Ending Tropes|Ending Trope]] but not always. It also works well simply at the end of a [[Story Arc]] or in a [[Backstory]].

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** After their Duel, a dying Bommer asked Crow to look after his younger siblings before crumbling to dust. However Crow didn't have to since Bommer was resurrected at the end of that story arc.

* Aiolos Sagittarius in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' gave the baby Saori to Mitsumasa Kido. It wasn't his kid though, he was trying to protect her from the evil Pope who wanted to kill her because she was Athena's reincarnation, and got killed in the effort.

* Subverted in [[Full Metal Panic!]]! when Sousuke's mother hands him off to Kalinin to raise... who then sends him off (albeit inadvertently) to the ''KGB''. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|To be trained as a child assassin.]]

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', one of the dying Zest's last requests to Signum was for her to take care of his charges.

* As revealed in a flashback, this was the dying request of Roy's alchemy teacher in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]].'' Granted, "take care of my daughter" ''probably'' didn't mean "make her your personal assistant and bodyguard," but hey, the woman is damn good at what she does.

* In ''[[Noir]]'', in a [[Flash Back]], Mireille Bouquet's mother's request to {{spoiler|a 5-year old Kirika; who just killed Mireille's father and is about to kill her; is to take care of Mireille.}}

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== Film ==

* At the end of ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'', a dying Kerchak tells Tarzan to "take care of them," meaning the rest of their clan.

* In ''[[Toy Story]]'', when Woody is grabbed by Sid's dog Scud, he tells Buzz to "take care of Andy for me." Buzz rescues him instead.

* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', when Woody is grabbed by Sid's dog Scud, he tells Buzz to "take care of Andy for me." Buzz rescues him instead.

* A tweaked example in ''[[The Towering Inferno]]'': An explosion knocked the scenic elevator off its track. Lisolette (Who had gone to lengths to save two children, a boy and a girl, in the tower) was holding the girl. She shoves her into someone else's arms before [[Tear Jerker|Lisolette falls from the glass elevator]] to her death.

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* Happens no less than twice between Melly and Scarlett in ''[[Gone with the Wind]]''. The first time Melly believes she's going to die while giving birth to Beau and she asks Scarlett to raise him. The second time she really is dying and asks the same thing, saying "''I gave him to you once before, remember''?"

* Averted in the novel of ''[[Les Misérables]]''—M. Madeleine, once he takes the sick Fantine into his care, tries to bring her daughter Cosette to her, hoping that the joy of seeing Cosette again would restore her to full health. However, Javert intervenes, reveals that Madeleine is an ex-convict, and Fantine dies of shock. After her death, however, Valjean promises her he will raise Cosette like his own—and he does.

* This happens in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' with the [[Parental Substitute|Beaudelaire kids]] promising to raise Kit Snicket's [[Dead Guy, Junior|daughter]] before Kit [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition|dies giving birth]].

** A variation is mentioned in Book the 1st, when Violet remembers her parents charging her to always take care of Klaus and Sunny when each younger sibling was born, but this, of course, was years before the parents actually died. However, as they were both part of a secret organization combating vicious criminals and had already lost several comrades, they probably knew even then that there was a good chance that they might be killed and Violet would have to [[Promotion to Parent|take over]].

* In Tolkien's ''[[Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth|Unfinished Talesof Numenor and Middleearth]]'', Rian asks Annael to look after the newborn Tuor before she goes to [[Death by Despair|die at her husbands grave]].

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== Theater ==

* In the theatrical version of ''[[Les Misérables]],'' Fantine (as she is dying) hallucinates that she sees her daughter playing. Depending on the writer, she might not be aware of her impending death—however, Valjean is, and he assures her before she dies that he will raise Cosette and take care of her.

{{quote|'''Fantine''': Take my hand, the night grows ever colder; Take my child, I give her to your keeping... [[Tear Jerker|And tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake]]...}}

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'': The original [[Black Canary]]'s final speech exhorts Wildcat and the Justice Society to take care of her "little angel" ([[Legacy Character|who then grows up to be the next Black Canary]]). They train her, but also tend to act overprotective of her even when she's an adult.

* ''[[Gargoyles]]'': Right before allowing the Magus to put him under the same indefinite sleep spell as the rest of his clan, Goliath asks the Magus and the Princess to protect his clan's eggs. {{spoiler|They do}}

* Implied in ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' "Psychocrypt" when Zach decides to make his suicide run. He asks his home AI to "take care of everything." Gee-Vee doesn't quite get it, but the audience does.

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