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** In ''Two Memories'', Ashley's father Richard faked his death, leaving Ashley to be raised by his younger sister Jessica for over a decade, in order to complete work on ANOTHER, a memory research project that is his and his wife Sayoko's lifelong project.
** In ''R - A Journey Into Lost Memories'', Rich ended up leaving ''again'' during the two year TimeSkip, with the start of the game being their first conversation in over six months. By this point, Ashely has written him off as a deadbeat dad, and she's only mollified when he reveals that this second round of abandonment was because [[spoiler:he was trying to investigate the circumstances that led to his wife being murdered by one of their best friends.]]
** In ''R - A Journey Into Lost Memories'', Rich ended up leaving ''again'' during the two year TimeSkip, with the start of the game being their first conversation in over six months. By this point, Ashely has written him off as a deadbeat dad, and she's only mollified when he reveals that this second round of abandonment was because [[spoiler:he was trying to investigate the circumstances that led to his wife being murdered by one of their best friends.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives us [[ColdSniper Thane Krios]] who left his son [[HotBlooded Kolyat]], Thane didn't want Kolyat to be influenced by his fathers job as an assassin, either by becoming one himself or being connected to him for his enemies to find. [[spoiler:Also, he found everyone involved in his wife's murder and killed them. Slowly.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Takeda’s father, Kenshi, left him to be trained by Hanzo Hasashi and the Shirai Ryu after his mother’s death when he was eight years old. Kenshi asked Hanzo to tell Takeda that his mother died in an accident, while in reality she was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Red Dragon clan, and Kenshi left to hunt down her killers.
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Takeda’s father, Kenshi, left him to be trained by Hanzo Hasashi and the Shirai Ryu after his mother’s death when he was eight years old. Kenshi asked Hanzo to tell Takeda that his mother died in an accident, while in reality she was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Red Dragon clan, and Kenshi left to hunt down her killers.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives us [[ColdSniper Thane Krios]] who left his son [[HotBlooded Kolyat]], Thane didn't want Kolyat to be influenced by his fathers father's job as an assassin, either by becoming one himself or being connected to him for his enemies to find. [[spoiler:Also, he found everyone involved in his wife's murder and killed them. Slowly.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'',Takeda’s Takeda's father, Kenshi, Kenshi Takahashi, left him to be trained by Hanzo Hasashi and the Shirai Ryu after his mother’s mother's death when he was eight years old. Kenshi asked Hanzo to tell Takeda that his mother died in an accident, accident while in reality reality, she was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Red Dragon clan, clan and Kenshi left to hunt down her killers.
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* ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' and ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', where your father is only seen at the other end of the phone providing you with money and gifts the entire adventure. ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', on the other hand, has a father who is present throughout the story and is even the main protagonist of the first part of the game. Unfortunately, what he goes through completely breaks him, forcing his son to mature and strengthen himself on his own.
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'' has Miku Hinasaki tell her daughter why she left her to be raised by a friend at the age of three. [[spoiler:Miu is a Shadowborn -- a child of a human mother and ghost father. Since giving birth to a Shadowborn puts huge strains on the mother and [[YourDaysAreNumbered reduce her lifespan drastically]], Miku realized that her time was going to run out soon. She wanted to spare her daughter the sight of watching her mother die, since Miku had to see her mother's corpse herself years ago, and ran off to perform the Yuukon, a ghost marriage, with her spirited away brother and was put into a Black Box. Said Black Box sustained Miku over the years, allowing her and her grown daughter to reunite and explain things.]]
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'' has Miku Hinasaki tell her daughter why she left her to be raised by a friend at the age of three. [[spoiler:Miu is a Shadowborn -- a child of a human mother and ghost father. Since giving birth to a Shadowborn puts huge strains on the mother and [[YourDaysAreNumbered reduce her lifespan drastically]], Miku realized that her time was going to run out soon. She wanted to spare her daughter the sight of watching her mother die, since Miku had to see her mother's corpse herself years ago, and ran off to perform the Yuukon, a ghost marriage, with her spirited away brother and was put into a Black Box. Said Black Box sustained Miku over the years, allowing her and her grown daughter to reunite and explain things.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' and ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', where your father is only seen at the other end of the phone providing you with money and gifts the entire adventure. ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''VideoGame/Mother3'', on the other hand, has a father who is present throughout the story and is even the main protagonist of the first part of the game. Unfortunately, what he goes through completely breaks him, forcing his son to mature and strengthen himself on his own.
*''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'' ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'' has Miku Hinasaki tell her daughter why she left her to be raised by a friend at the age of three. [[spoiler:Miu is a Shadowborn -- a child of a human mother and ghost father. Since giving birth to a Shadowborn puts huge strains on the mother and [[YourDaysAreNumbered reduce her lifespan drastically]], Miku realized that her time was going to run out soon. She wanted to spare her daughter the sight of watching her mother die, since Miku had to see her mother's corpse herself years ago, and ran off to perform the Yuukon, a ghost marriage, with her spirited away brother and was put into a Black Box. Said Black Box sustained Miku over the years, allowing her and her grown daughter to reunite and explain things.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'', Ashley's father left her with her aunt to pursue research on memory to find out about his wife's death.
* In ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'', Arc's father had a good reason to leave his wife and son for more than ten years [[spoiler: He tried to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong after the elemental spirits granted him the ability to time travel]]. But, because ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' is... well, [[PlayerPunch Arc The Lad]], [[spoiler:he failed to save the world and only came back to die in front of his son and let him angsting]].
* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', Cernd left his wife and unborn son to pursue his calling as a druid. ''He'' thinks his commitment to maintaining the balance of nature is a good reason for abandoning his family. Nobody else does. Even the evil wizard who is about to sacrifice the baby to a lich calls him out on it, asking if Cernd even knows the kid's name. To be fair, he didn't know his wife was pregnant at the time.
** Really bites Cernd in the ass: in Cernd's epilogue, his constant favoring of his druidic calling over his son leads to his son becoming an evil wizard, leading an army, and eventually forcing a showdown that results in a MutualKill.
* Airi's father in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' had a ''very'' good reason -- his investigations had ferreted out a highly dangerous AncientConspiracy (JP's), and it's implied that had he not faked his death and disappeared, JP's ''would'' have killed him. Airi never learns this, though, and [[spoiler:her father dies for real during a failed demon summoning. He asks the protagonist not tell his daughter about his 'second death']].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' with Adell's parents. They left to defeat fake Overlord Zenon and failed. The subversion is in how they intended to return (assuming they won).
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'' has Miku Hinasaki tell her daughter why she left her to be raised by a friend at the age of three. [[spoiler:Miu is a Shadowborn -- a child of a human mother and ghost father. Since giving birth to a Shadowborn puts huge strains on the mother and [[YourDaysAreNumbered reduce her lifespan drastically]], Miku realized that her time was going to run out soon. She wanted to spare her daughter the sight of watching her mother die, since Miku had to see her mother's corpse herself years ago, and ran off to perform the Yuukon, a ghost marriage, with her spirited away brother and was put into a Black Box. Said Black Box sustained Miku over the years, allowing her and her grown daughter to reunite and explain things.]]
* James in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' had what he thought was a pretty good reason for abandoning the main character. However, it turns out he made a grave miscalculation: his disappearance sends the Vault into anarchy and gets his son/daughter marked for death by the Overseer. Of course, James makes a fairly impressive series of well-meaning miscalculations as the game goes on...
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has Jecht, who spends most of the game a distant and apparently horribly abusive father to Tidus, who's reasonably pissed off that his father abandoned him and his mother. Turns out that [[spoiler: Jecht was swept to another world and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed]] himself for the hope of peace]]. Since Tidus is, at the time, in a similar situation... [[spoiler: They reconciled (sort of) and Tidus {{Mercy Kill}}ed him because he was in a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesEchoesOfTime'' has an unusual case, in that they actually DIDN'T have a good reason, as far as we know. However it's pointed out multiple times that, had you not been abandoned, it would certainly mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendII'' opens with a scene where your father is last seen leaving through your bedroom window. Throughout the game, you wind up bumping into him repeatedly, finding out he's trying to save the universe just like you are. (And you try to convince him to come home more often.)
** This is discussed during one cutscene in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasyOperaOmnia''. Laguna and Galuf argue that they had to do it to keep their loved ones safe, and Laguna used the thought of his waiting family to get himself through many deadly situations. Krile and Yuri take the opposite view because it's denying them to chance to help and making them sick with worry.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' brings this up a few times with [[spoiler: the children from the future. Cynthia laments that her mom Sumia broke her promise to finish the spear that they were making together due to future Sumia getting killed in battle, and Yarne fears that his father will break his marriage vows to Panne similar to when Yarne's father in the future broke his promise to return when Yarne's father was killed in battle. Similarly, all the other children's parents were killed in some way.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', Zagreus's motivation for leaving the Underworld is to find his mother Persephone and learn why she abandoned him. The first time he reaches the surface and finally meets her, he learns she had a very good reason: [[spoiler:Zagreus was [[TragicStillbirth stillborn]], and Persephone left Hades and the Underworld in her grief. It wasn't until much later that Nyx was able to revive Zagreus, but by then Persephone was long gone.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Growlanser}} III'', one of your party members had a father who disappeared one day; being half human and half Featherian, this lead to some FantasticRacism among her relatives. (You eventually learn that the BigBad killed him.)
* In ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon'', Ricketz leaves his family and abandons his position as Cocoon Master of his village, because staying on would cause his wife to eventually die of a magically-induced cancerous disease, as the wives of all Cocoon Masters are women of the Nagi tribe who have a sacred duty to purify the demon-capturing cocoons their husbands inevitably accumulate in their role as magical protectors of their villages. [[spoiler:He also tries to discover a cure, in the process becoming the catalyst for the entire plot of the story.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'': one would think that being possessed by the spirit of a near-12,000 year old megalomaniacal Wingly dictator and forced to set off a series of events that would lead to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is a good reason for ParentalAbandonment.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'', [[SequelHook though the reason why he was abandoned at the snowy field]] was never brought up, [[TheHero Rean]] manages to finally confront his dad. Said dad [[spoiler: turns out to be the EvilChancellor, Giliath Osborne]] although in the flashback, he was very reluctant to abandon Rean, even asking for the goddess Aidios to take care of him.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives us [[ColdSniper Thane Krios]] who left his son [[HotBlooded Kolyat]], Thane didn't want Kolyat to be influenced by his fathers job as an assassin, either by becoming one himself or being connected to him for his enemies to find. [[spoiler:Also, he found everyone involved in his wife's murder and killed them. Slowly.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Takeda’s father, Kenshi, left him to be trained by Hanzo Hasashi and the Shirai Ryu after his mother’s death when he was eight years old. Kenshi asked Hanzo to tell Takeda that his mother died in an accident, while in reality she was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Red Dragon clan, and Kenshi left to hunt down her killers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 1}}'' and ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', where your father is only seen at the other end of the phone providing you with money and gifts the entire adventure. ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', on the other hand, has a father who is present throughout the story and is even the main protagonist of the first part of the game. Unfortunately, what he goes through completely breaks him, forcing his son to mature and strengthen himself on his own.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''/''Emerald'', the player's dad seems to ''live'' in his gym (he never comes out, does he?)
** And don't forget Palmer, the Tower Tycoon from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''/''Platinum''. He is the rival's father and while he claims to remember you as his son's friend, he is never once seen outside of Battle Tower.
** In the Celebi event in [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver]] we're [[InformedAttribute informed]] that Giovanni ''supposedly'' had a good reason for abandoning [[TheRival Silver]] after disbanding Team Rocket, but we never find out what it is.
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', the Burgomeister's grandfather disappeared shortly before he was to marry the Burgomeister's grandmother, leaving her alone and pregnant. This resulted in the child and grandchild becoming rather bitter individuals. When playing as a paladin, you end up finding the grandfather's sword in a wraith's barrow, proving that his abandonment was not intentional -- Piotyr had been killed before the wedding.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries:''
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'': [[spoiler:Hugo Gilchrist]] knew he was hearing voices and going mad, and after killing his wife he sends Rutee away to Cresta, where she's raised in an orphanage. Before he could send [[spoiler:Leon]] away as well, he went completely insane and instead tried to raise [[spoiler:him]] as a TykeBomb.
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'', Aston Lhant sends his son Hubert off to another country to be raised by the military-based Oswell family. Aston does so in order to avoid a messy SuccessionCrisis between Hubert and his older brother, Asbel. It's ultimately deconstructed when Hubert returns to Lhant years down the road. [[spoiler:Not only did Aston's attempts to avoid a succession crisis only delay the inevitable, they actually made it far worse than if he'd done nothing. Hubert now has [[TookALevelInBadass taken multiple levels in badass]] [[TookALevelInJerkass and in jerkass]], [[CurbStompBattle promptly curb-stomping Asbel]] and exiling him from Lhant, then telling off their mother when she tries to intervene.]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has a couple.
*** [[spoiler:The reason Kratos abandoned Lloyd was because he saw him, Noishe, and the monster version of his wife fall over a cliff, and after fending off the nearby Desians, found nothing but half-eaten corpses at the bottom. He thought they had died.]]
*** Genis and Raine got abandoned because [[spoiler:Raine was so intelligent, the Imperial Research Academy wanted to kidnap her and keep her imprisoned with other half-elves to work on science projects for them. Their parents sent them through a magical portal to the "mythical land" of Sylvarant, where they hoped the children would be safe from FantasticRacism. They had no way of knowing that Sylvarant was poor and mana-starved, and suffered from just as much racism as Tethe'alla...]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheTempest'': Due to Leimenorean persecution, [[spoiler: Caius]] was sent off to the Leimen capital with his mother, the Leimen Queen, while [[spoiler: Lukius]] lived with his father, the Pope. Unfortunately the capital was attacked and razed a year later. Both the Pope and [[spoiler: Lukius]] thought [[spoiler: Caius]] was dead, and so didn't try to reclaim him from his adoptive father.
* In the case of Kyle and Julian Brennan in the ''VideoGame/{{X}}-Universe'' series, it's because Mom took Julian halfway across the galaxy after the divorce and never told Kyle where they went.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', Jessie claims to have a justifiable reason for abandoning his wife and children. In the game itself, the trope is subverted, as the explanation is not very thorough and the player is left with the impression that he's making excuses. After reading the explanation given in [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]], though, it becomes clear that he had to leave in order to protect them and the trope is played straight.
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* In ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'', Ashley's father left her with her aunt to pursue research on memory to find out about his wife's death.
* In ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'', Arc's father had a good reason to leave his wife and son for more than ten years [[spoiler: He tried to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong after the elemental spirits granted him the ability to time travel]]. But, because ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' is... well, [[PlayerPunch Arc The Lad]], [[spoiler:he failed to save the world and only came back to die in front of his son and let him angsting]].
* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', Cernd left his wife and unborn son to pursue his calling as a druid. ''He'' thinks his commitment to maintaining the balance of nature is a good reason for abandoning his family. Nobody else does. Even the evil wizard who is about to sacrifice the baby to a lich calls him out on it, asking if Cernd even knows the kid's name. To be fair, he didn't know his wife was pregnant at the time.
** Really bites Cernd in the ass: in Cernd's epilogue, his constant favoring of his druidic calling over his son leads to his son becoming an evil wizard, leading an army, and eventually forcing a showdown that results in a MutualKill.
* Airi's father in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' had a ''very'' good reason -- his investigations had ferreted out a highly dangerous AncientConspiracy (JP's), and it's implied that had he not faked his death and disappeared, JP's ''would'' have killed him. Airi never learns this, though, and [[spoiler:her father dies for real during a failed demon summoning. He asks the protagonist not tell his daughter about his 'second death']].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' with Adell's parents. They left to defeat fake Overlord Zenon and failed. The subversion is in how they intended to return (assuming they won).
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'' has Miku Hinasaki tell her daughter why she left her to be raised by a friend at the age of three. [[spoiler:Miu is a Shadowborn -- a child of a human mother and ghost father. Since giving birth to a Shadowborn puts huge strains on the mother and [[YourDaysAreNumbered reduce her lifespan drastically]], Miku realized that her time was going to run out soon. She wanted to spare her daughter the sight of watching her mother die, since Miku had to see her mother's corpse herself years ago, and ran off to perform the Yuukon, a ghost marriage, with her spirited away brother and was put into a Black Box. Said Black Box sustained Miku over the years, allowing her and her grown daughter to reunite and explain things.]]
* James in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' had what he thought was a pretty good reason for abandoning the main character. However, it turns out he made a grave miscalculation: his disappearance sends the Vault into anarchy and gets his son/daughter marked for death by the Overseer. Of course, James makes a fairly impressive series of well-meaning miscalculations as the game goes on...
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has Jecht, who spends most of the game a distant and apparently horribly abusive father to Tidus, who's reasonably pissed off that his father abandoned him and his mother. Turns out that [[spoiler: Jecht was swept to another world and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed]] himself for the hope of peace]]. Since Tidus is, at the time, in a similar situation... [[spoiler: They reconciled (sort of) and Tidus {{Mercy Kill}}ed him because he was in a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesEchoesOfTime'' has an unusual case, in that they actually DIDN'T have a good reason, as far as we know. However it's pointed out multiple times that, had you not been abandoned, it would certainly mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendII'' opens with a scene where your father is last seen leaving through your bedroom window. Throughout the game, you wind up bumping into him repeatedly, finding out he's trying to save the universe just like you are. (And you try to convince him to come home more often.)
** This is discussed during one cutscene in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasyOperaOmnia''. Laguna and Galuf argue that they had to do it to keep their loved ones safe, and Laguna used the thought of his waiting family to get himself through many deadly situations. Krile and Yuri take the opposite view because it's denying them to chance to help and making them sick with worry.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' brings this up a few times with [[spoiler: the children from the future. Cynthia laments that her mom Sumia broke her promise to finish the spear that they were making together due to future Sumia getting killed in battle, and Yarne fears that his father will break his marriage vows to Panne similar to when Yarne's father in the future broke his promise to return when Yarne's father was killed in battle. Similarly, all the other children's parents were killed in some way.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', Zagreus's motivation for leaving the Underworld is to find his mother Persephone and learn why she abandoned him. The first time he reaches the surface and finally meets her, he learns she had a very good reason: [[spoiler:Zagreus was [[TragicStillbirth stillborn]], and Persephone left Hades and the Underworld in her grief. It wasn't until much later that Nyx was able to revive Zagreus, but by then Persephone was long gone.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Growlanser}} III'', one of your party members had a father who disappeared one day; being half human and half Featherian, this lead to some FantasticRacism among her relatives. (You eventually learn that the BigBad killed him.)
* In ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon'', Ricketz leaves his family and abandons his position as Cocoon Master of his village, because staying on would cause his wife to eventually die of a magically-induced cancerous disease, as the wives of all Cocoon Masters are women of the Nagi tribe who have a sacred duty to purify the demon-capturing cocoons their husbands inevitably accumulate in their role as magical protectors of their villages. [[spoiler:He also tries to discover a cure, in the process becoming the catalyst for the entire plot of the story.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'': one would think that being possessed by the spirit of a near-12,000 year old megalomaniacal Wingly dictator and forced to set off a series of events that would lead to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is a good reason for ParentalAbandonment.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'', [[SequelHook though the reason why he was abandoned at the snowy field]] was never brought up, [[TheHero Rean]] manages to finally confront his dad. Said dad [[spoiler: turns out to be the EvilChancellor, Giliath Osborne]] although in the flashback, he was very reluctant to abandon Rean, even asking for the goddess Aidios to take care of him.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives us [[ColdSniper Thane Krios]] who left his son [[HotBlooded Kolyat]], Thane didn't want Kolyat to be influenced by his fathers job as an assassin, either by becoming one himself or being connected to him for his enemies to find. [[spoiler:Also, he found everyone involved in his wife's murder and killed them. Slowly.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Takeda’s father, Kenshi, left him to be trained by Hanzo Hasashi and the Shirai Ryu after his mother’s death when he was eight years old. Kenshi asked Hanzo to tell Takeda that his mother died in an accident, while in reality she was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Red Dragon clan, and Kenshi left to hunt down her killers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 1}}'' and ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', where your father is only seen at the other end of the phone providing you with money and gifts the entire adventure. ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', on the other hand, has a father who is present throughout the story and is even the main protagonist of the first part of the game. Unfortunately, what he goes through completely breaks him, forcing his son to mature and strengthen himself on his own.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''/''Emerald'', the player's dad seems to ''live'' in his gym (he never comes out, does he?)
** And don't forget Palmer, the Tower Tycoon from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''/''Platinum''. He is the rival's father and while he claims to remember you as his son's friend, he is never once seen outside of Battle Tower.
** In the Celebi event in [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver]] we're [[InformedAttribute informed]] that Giovanni ''supposedly'' had a good reason for abandoning [[TheRival Silver]] after disbanding Team Rocket, but we never find out what it is.
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', the Burgomeister's grandfather disappeared shortly before he was to marry the Burgomeister's grandmother, leaving her alone and pregnant. This resulted in the child and grandchild becoming rather bitter individuals. When playing as a paladin, you end up finding the grandfather's sword in a wraith's barrow, proving that his abandonment was not intentional -- Piotyr had been killed before the wedding.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries:''
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'': [[spoiler:Hugo Gilchrist]] knew he was hearing voices and going mad, and after killing his wife he sends Rutee away to Cresta, where she's raised in an orphanage. Before he could send [[spoiler:Leon]] away as well, he went completely insane and instead tried to raise [[spoiler:him]] as a TykeBomb.
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'', Aston Lhant sends his son Hubert off to another country to be raised by the military-based Oswell family. Aston does so in order to avoid a messy SuccessionCrisis between Hubert and his older brother, Asbel. It's ultimately deconstructed when Hubert returns to Lhant years down the road. [[spoiler:Not only did Aston's attempts to avoid a succession crisis only delay the inevitable, they actually made it far worse than if he'd done nothing. Hubert now has [[TookALevelInBadass taken multiple levels in badass]] [[TookALevelInJerkass and in jerkass]], [[CurbStompBattle promptly curb-stomping Asbel]] and exiling him from Lhant, then telling off their mother when she tries to intervene.]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has a couple.
*** [[spoiler:The reason Kratos abandoned Lloyd was because he saw him, Noishe, and the monster version of his wife fall over a cliff, and after fending off the nearby Desians, found nothing but half-eaten corpses at the bottom. He thought they had died.]]
*** Genis and Raine got abandoned because [[spoiler:Raine was so intelligent, the Imperial Research Academy wanted to kidnap her and keep her imprisoned with other half-elves to work on science projects for them. Their parents sent them through a magical portal to the "mythical land" of Sylvarant, where they hoped the children would be safe from FantasticRacism. They had no way of knowing that Sylvarant was poor and mana-starved, and suffered from just as much racism as Tethe'alla...]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheTempest'': Due to Leimenorean persecution, [[spoiler: Caius]] was sent off to the Leimen capital with his mother, the Leimen Queen, while [[spoiler: Lukius]] lived with his father, the Pope. Unfortunately the capital was attacked and razed a year later. Both the Pope and [[spoiler: Lukius]] thought [[spoiler: Caius]] was dead, and so didn't try to reclaim him from his adoptive father.
* In the case of Kyle and Julian Brennan in the ''VideoGame/{{X}}-Universe'' series, it's because Mom took Julian halfway across the galaxy after the divorce and never told Kyle where they went.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', Jessie claims to have a justifiable reason for abandoning his wife and children. In the game itself, the trope is subverted, as the explanation is not very thorough and the player is left with the impression that he's making excuses. After reading the explanation given in [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]], though, it becomes clear that he had to leave in order to protect them and the trope is played straight.
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