History Main / ChildOfTwoWorlds

** [[spoiler:Prince Harlin, upon arriving to Earth, was adopted by a kindly human and forgot that he was a [[HumanAliens Heliosian]]. He lived life as an ordinary Japanese boy, and was more in-tune with his Japanese side because his adoptive dad was a traditional Japanese kite painter. He didn't find out about his alien heritage until he was lost at sea and rescued by a group of fellow Heliosians, who told them that he was their Prince and the son of Emperor Palmillion. After being rescued by Kento & Co., Harlin devotes all his time into becoming a just ruler for his people, even choosing to stay in the Galactic Federal Republic and rebuild the Empire rather than stay in Earth with his son in Japan.[[note]]The anime does imply that since Kento pilots the titular SuperRobot, they can visit each other whenever they want.[[/note]]]]

Those split between SingleSpeciesNations often struggle, often being either ostracized or outcast from both nations due to their similarities with "the enemy". Cases of total rejection are a common origin of a HunterOfHisOwnKind, especially when one half is AlwaysChaoticEvil or there are [[IHateYouVampireDad deeper issues with one parent]], but isn't exclusive to this situation. For instance, a ProudScholarRaceGuy character raised by adoptive ProudWarriorRace parents may seek to prove themselves by becoming the most ruthless and violent warrior of the tribe.

* This is pretty much the main theme of ''Film/{{Mowgli}}''. As a human child raised by jungle wolves, Mowgli has to find out who he really is and where he belongs. This being TruerToTheText, this used to be the same case for Bagheera as well who grew up among men, while truly belonging to the jungle.

* ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'':
** [[spoiler: Prince Harlin, upon arriving to Earth, was adopted by a kindly human and forgot that he was a [[HumanAliens Heliosian]]. He lived life as an ordinary Japanese boy, and was more in-tune with his Japanese side because his adoptive dad was a traditional Japanese kite painter. He didn't find out about his alien heritage until he was lost at sea and rescued by a group of fellow Heliosians, who told them that he was their Prince and the son of Emperor Palmillion. After being rescued by Kento & Co., Harlin devotes all his time into becoming a just ruler for his people, even choosing to stay in the Galactic Federal Republic and rebuild the Empire rather than stay in Earth with his son in Japan[[note]]The anime does imply that since Kento pilots the titular SuperRobot, they can visit each other whenever they want[[/note]].]]
** And then there's Kento Tate, who is part-human and part-Heliosian. [[spoiler: His father is actually Prince Harlin, or, as he was known on Earth, "Hayato Tate".]] He rejects his Heliosian heritage and proudly calls himself a human, and reprimands Earl for acting like him being part-alien means he's better than everyone. He has no interest in Heliosian culture or politics, despite Earl's constant attempts to pigeonhole him into them, and openly calls it stupid and ridiculous. Part of the reason he takes his human heritage so seriously is because after his father's disappearance, he was raised by his grandfather Kazuto Tate, who was a traditional painter from Edo and always gave him sagely advice.

* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Lynn Russel is biracial. She has a Japanese mother, Misuzu Midorikawa, and an English father, Sir George Russell. She was raised in Japan until she was five years old and was in for a culture shock when she came to Britain. By the end of the series she's fully assimilated into British culture and disconnected from her Japanese roots. The sequel manga has her retain her Japanese heritage by bringing her ([[spoiler: 1/4th-Japanese) kids to the part of Japan where she grew up]].

** Harry, who is half-Asgardian, half-human (or to be more accurate, half-Asgardian, half-magical human/mutant), and is occasionally presented as being caught between the two worlds - while there's been no indication that he'll be forced to choose any time soon, his priorities and values derive heavily from Earth. Complicating things further, a lot of his Earth-based life is in New York with the Avengers, and he starts picking up aspects of their mentality, changing (sometimes not for the better) in ways which jar with the Wizarding world.

* ''Fanfic/ScarredSurvivors'' has Urd - half Goddess, half demon; born in Niflheim, moved to Asgard in her youth.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'': Eggs is one of these, according to [[spoiler: his biological father]] at any rate: he was born a human, but raised by the boxtrolls after [[spoiler: an attempt on his birth father's life]].

* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'': As a princess, Aurora is the rightful heir to the human kingdom's throne. However, she is raised in the woods and grows to love the fairy kingdom, and the revelation that she is a princess leaves her conflicted over which home she belongs in. In the end, [[spoiler: she chooses both realms, and Maleficent crowns her Queen of both humans and TheFairFolk.]]
* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'':
** Pretty much the main theme in the movie. As a human child raised by jungle wolves, Mowgli has to find out who he really is and where he belongs.
** Being Truer to the Text, this used to be the same case for Bagheera as well who grew up among men, while truly belonging to the jungle.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':

** In the prequel series ''Dawn of the Clans'', Thunder is the son of Clear Sky, the leader of the group of cats living in the forest, but when Clear Sky refuses to raise him, Thunder's uncle Gray Wing takes him in and raises him in the moor group. As Thunder grows he feels loyalty to the group he was raised in and views Gray Wing as a father, but also wants to [[WellDoneSonGuy earn Clear Sky's approval]] and feels more at home in the forest itself than on the moor, so he tries living in each group. Ultimately his relationship with Clear Sky remains rocky and he forms his own group in another part of the forest.

*** Doctor Soji Asha is a brilliant young woman from Earth working with Hugh on the Borg Reclamation Project. [[spoiler: Except that she is actually an advanced Soong-type android programmed with false memories, sent out along with her sister to investigate a plot that threatens their kind. As the story develops, she grows increasingly unsure if she can trust anyone from any side.]]
*** Picard himself, being both a famous retired Starfleet admiral and well-respected historian, as well as an xB haunted by his brief time in the Collective and the things he was forced to do against his will. While Seven and Hugh are mostly known for being former drones of the Collective, many in the Federation seem to overlook Picard's relatively brief time, despite how heavily it weighs on him personally. [[spoiler: Except, of course, when he runs into a survivor of The Battle of Wolf 359, such as Captain Shaw, who remembers him for being [[TheDreaded the only Borg dangerous enough]] to [[RedBaron have his own name]]: Locutus.]]

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has Junior, who is the product of [[MisterSeahorse Tucker]] (human) and "Crunchbite" (alien). [[spoiler: Later on in ''Recreation'', Tucker mentions that he and Junior have been working as negotiators of a sort.]]
-->'''Tucker''': [[spoiler: We're like the ambassadors here or something. Humans and aliens seem more comfortable with us, since we're kind of, you know, in between.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': Season 8 reveals that [[spoiler: the First Spinjitzu Master is one of these, being [[OurDragonsAreDifferent half-Dragon]] and half-{{Oni}}. This also means that [[TheMentor Wu]], [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Garmadon]], (the First Spinjitzu Master's sons) and [[TheChosenOne Lloyd]] (Garmadon's son) are also part Oni and Dragon.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': Prince Lotor is introduced to whispers of his half-Galra, half-Altean nature. His hand-picked female generals are also half-Galra. We find out during Season 6 that [[spoiler: Lotor considers himself Altean and actually hates the Galra.]] Though how much of the latter reveal was spurred on by [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Quintessence exposure]] is unknown.

* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Lynn Russel is biracial. She has a Japanese mother, Misuzu Midorikawa, and an English father, Sir George Russell. She was raised in Japan until she was five years old and was in for a culture shock when she came to Britain. By the end of the series she's fully assimilated into British culture and disconnected from her Japanese roots. The sequel manga has her retain her Japanese heritage by bringing her ([[spoiler: 1/4th-Japanese) kids to the part of Japan where she grew up]].

** Not as emphasized, but Ship's Counselor Deanna Troi is also this, as the daughter of a Betazoid mother and a human father. She inherited her mother's empathic abilities, but also several Terran customs from her father, including a love of Wild West stories and (in one comics arc) killer skills at billiards.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Chopper was once a normal reindeer [[UpliftedAnimal until he gained sentience and human intelligence after eating the Hito Hito no Mi]]. Because he was no longer just a deer and he could never be a normal human, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer he was largely ostracized by both]] to the point that [[IAmAMonster he came to see himself as a monster]]. When he meets [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Luffy and the Straw Hat crew]], however, [[SeenItAll they think nothing of it]] and invite him to join them as [[TheMedic the crew's doctor]]. After the TimeSkip, [[IAmWhatIAm Chopper comes to embrace his duality]] and is happy to be a monster that [[BadassCrew the rest of the crew]] can rely on.

** Spike is a dragon who was raised by ponies. Although he still has some draconic instincts, notably {{Greed}}, he's culturally an upper-class pony, treats Twilight Sparkle as kin, and has a [[InterspeciesRomance serious and long-lasting romantic attraction to Rarity]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': While Luz may have been born and grown up on Earth, she feels far more at home on the Boiling Isles due to people being far more accepting of her quirks. That said, she never once even considers abandoning Earth or her mother, and it's made clear that having to give up either world would come at the cost of her mental well-being. [[spoiler:As a result, the series ends with her having access to a working portal door and being able to freely travel between the two worlds. She even amends Azura's "Warrior of Peace" boast that she had quoted several times in the series to include that she is both "child of the human realm [and] student of the demon realm" during the final battle.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The eponymous hero is a HalfHumanHybrid born from a Gem mother and a human father. He lives on Earth and interacts with the local human community and his father and is raised by his late mother's friends and comrades, the Crystal Gems. This has given him the unique advantage of being able to empathize with and befriend people from both races.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Chopper was once a normal reindeer [[UpliftedAnimal until he gained sentience and human intelligence after eating the Hito Hito no Mi]]. Because he was no longer just a deer and he could never be a normal human, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer he was largely ostracized by both]] to the point that [[IAmAMonster he came to see himself as a monster]]. When he meets [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Luffy and the Straw Hat crew]], [[SeenitAll they think nothing of it]] and invite him to join them as [[TheMedic the crew's doctor]]. After the TimeSkip, [[IAmWhatIAm Chopper comes to embrace his duality]] and is happy to be a monster along with [[BadassCrew the rest of the crew]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Chopper was once a normal reindeer until he gained sentience and human intelligence after eating the Hito Hito no Mi. Because he was no longer just a deer and he could never be a normal human, he was largely ostracized by both to the point that [[IAmAMonster he came to see himself as a monster]]. When he meets [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Luffy and the Straw Hat crew]], [[SeenitAll they think nothing of it]] and invite him to join them as [[TheMedic the crew's doctor]]. After the TimeSkip, [[IAmWhatIAm Chopper comes to embrace his duality]] and is happy to be a monster along with [[BadassCrew the rest of the crew]].

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* Creator/GeorgeTakei's father had a unique position in the Japanese internment camp he was sent to along with his family after the Pearl Harbor attack. At the time, Japanese immigrants were divided into "Issei" -- the first generation who'd grown up in Japan and emigrated to the USA as adults -- and the "Nisei" -- the second generation who'd been born and grown up in the USA never having lived in Japan. George's father was unique in that he straddled the two generations as he'd lived in Japan until he was twelve before he emigrated to the USA and spent his teenage years in the USA. This gave him the ability to see things from both generations' perspectives and enabled him to act as a mediator between them in the stressful conditions of the camp.
* Creator/RicardoMontalban was proud of his Mexican heritage but also grateful for the opportunities that the USA gave him though not blind to the stereotyping Latino actors were often subject to. He established the Nosotros Foundation to promote the cause of Latinos in the entertainment industry and gave this memorable address on stage at the Ricardo Montalbán theater about the goals of the organization:
-->''"Mexico is my mother; the United States the best friend I will ever have. And so I dream of the day when my mother will say, 'Ricardo, you have chosen a wonderful friend.' And the day when the friend will say, 'Ricardo, you have a sensational mother.' That is why it is very important to bring us together. Brothers and sisters, love thy neighbor as thyself. And this theatre, I think, can be a little grain of sand towards that end. Here we have opened the doors not only for the opportunity of young talent to develop writers, directors, actors but also in coming together as a group in this society in which we live. Let's open a hand of friendship and love and brotherhood. That is my dream. I'll never see it complete while I'm still alive, but I think this is the beginning, and that is what makes me so happy to see this come to fruition."''
* Children of immigrants, whether they were born in the country their parents moved to or were born in the old country but moved to their new home at such a young age they don't really have any memories of their former residence, are frequently children of multiple worlds. In contemporary America, those of Chinese or Indian descent are so common they have their own acronyms -- [=ABCs=] (American-born Chinese) and [=ABCDs=] (American-born Confused Desis) -- chiefly because their largest waves of mass migration have come relatively recently after the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished race-based quotas and made it much easier for those other than Western Europeans to immigrate. An [=ABCD's=] upbringing becomes even more complicated when you consider that India is an amalgam of hundreds of extremely different cultures, religions, languages, and creeds. It is entirely possible for an ABCD to be a child of ''three or more'' cultures at once if their parents were both from different Indian states, different religions, or both.
* A tragic case of this was the actor Freddie Prinze, father of Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr. He struggled with cultural alienation due to his mixed (half-Hispanic and half-German) ethnic heritage for years before dying of suicide in 1977 at just 22 years old. He effectively summed up his struggles in a 1975 interview:
-->''"I wasn't a true spic, a true Jew, a true anything. I was a miserable fat schmuck with glasses and asthma."''
* The entire nation of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} traces its roots back to the French and British settlers that arrived in the 16th-19th centuries, which significantly influenced its culture and identity which is reflected in the coat of arms and the old Red Ensign flag that contain the royal symbols of England, France, Scotland and Ireland representing the four groups that created the modern Canadian nation.
* Children of diplomats face similar issues as children of immigrants. While they grow up more open-minded about other cultures and countries, they also feel alienated and lack a sense of personal identity due to moving so frequently in their formative years, leaving behind friends, education, any sense of patriotism, and the like.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_orphans_in_China "zanryu koji"]], Japanese children in Japan's Chinese colonies who were orphaned after the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar and adopted by Chinese families. When they started returning to Japan in the 1980s, they faced discrimination because they were viewed as more Chinese than Japanese.
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* ''Manga/AoNoFuuin'': Soko is the Queen of the Oni, but more identifies herself as human and [[IJustWantToBeNormal wants to be just that]]. But the Oni depend on her as their leader, so she often isn't sure which side of Humans VS Oni she should be on, as both sides are not right and she is important to both of them.
* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'': Okumura Rin is the half breed bastard [[AntiAntiChrist Son]] of {{Satan}} who was raised by an exorcist and chooses to be one himself, while struggling with both sides of his heritage and accepting both sides. The fact that a lot of people want him dead just for existing does not help.

** Goku has this as a key element of his backstory. ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' establishes that he was born to a savage warrior race called the Saiyans before being sent from his home planet Vegeta to conquer Earth, and that as a baby he possessed the violent temperament common to most Saiyans before a head injury turned him into the AllLovingHero we all know and love. While he places his allegiances firmly with Earth and fights to defend it against a Saiyan invasion that includes his long-lost brother Raditz, he nonetheless makes peace with his heritage during the Namek arc, and unlocks the Super Saiyan transformation that defines the rest of the series.

* ''Anime/WickedCity'': [[spoiler:Taki (human) and Makie (Black Worlder)]] were intentionally paired up in hopes of conceiving a child that would fulfill the terms of a peace treaty. That the conception of said child turned [[spoiler:Makie]] into a PregnantBadass was an bonus.
* ''Anime/WolfChildren'': Played with. Yuki and Ame are both wolf and human; at the beginnings of their life, Yuki was the more wolfish and Ame rejected it, but by the end of the story Yuki and Ame identified themselves solely as human and wolf, respectively, and are upset by their sibling seeing things otherwise.

** Supporting character Garrison Kane (aka the second Weapon X) from the ComicBook/{{Cable}} and ''ComicBook/XForce'' books. Much like Lady Deathstrike, he's a {{Cyborg}} who has fought for both sides of the human/mutant conflict, first mutants as an ally of Cable and the X-Men, and then humans as an enforcer of a particularly brutal incarnation of the Weapon X program. He saw the error of his ways, but tragically succumbed to RedemptionEqualsDeath attempting to make things right.

** Vying with Lady Deathstrike above for the most extreme case of this is Graydon Creed, the human son of ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} and ComicBook/{{Mystique}}. Being born to two of the most evil mutants in history filled Graydon with hatred for mutants, and as an adult he became a politician who campaigned to Fantastic Racists all across the country. Despite overtures by his two heroic half-siblings ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} and ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, Graydon refused to turn away from his anti-mutant crusade, leading his mother to eventually assassinate him as revenge for the murder of her lover Destiny (which Graydon wasn't even involved in).

* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': Asuka is half American, one quarter German and one quarter Japanese. She chose a Western name for her child and she gave Shinji chocolates in Valentine's Day because it's the tradition in Japan.

* Subverted in ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn''. After spending about fifteen years living as a Kryptonian immigrant in Earth, and failing to fit among Earth people, Kara pays a visit to Rokyn, a world settled by other Kryptonian survivors, and decides to move there permanently because she feels she belongs among them.

* A running theme for the "Junior Trinity" in the ComicBook/TeenTitans ''Our Own League'' novels is they are each the children of ''three'' worlds. Robin is an Al Ghul, a Wayne and (by adoption) a Kyle, Superboy is an El, a Kent, and a Luthor, and Wonder Girl is three-way hybrid of human, Amazon and [[spoiler:Titan]]. Aqualad is a more traditional case, as a half-Atlantean raised as a human.

* Edward and Alphonse are half Ishvalan and half Amestrian [[spoiler:actually Xerxian]] in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'' but fully identify with their Ishvalan heritage and are proud of it despite fearing that they will killed for it and going against cultural taboos by practicing alchemy.

* In ''Fanfic/SummerAndWinter'', Ace becomes this after his resurrection. He is a Whitebeard, but also the Spirit of Summer, the latter duty of which will force him to go to Earth one day. The thought of having to leave his old life behind tears him up inside, and makes him feel guilty for having to choose one world over the other.
* In ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', it's been five centuries since two Kryptonian heroes arrived in Earth, but their descendants can't forget about their alien heritage due to their powers. Co-protagonist Katherine describes living in Earth like "trying to run through a room carpeted with eggs, and trying not to break anything". On Rokyn, another world inhabited by people of Kryptonian descent, they have no powers so they don't need to hold back, but it isn't their home either because they haven't been raised there.

* ''Film/BloodInBloodOut'': Miklo is a man of mixed Mexican and Anglo ethnicity, living in a Latino community but having white skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Due to this, when he joins the Mexican gang inside the prison, he convinces the gang leader to make him an infiltrator because he can blend in with the rival Aryan Brotherhood gang and go to places that are off limits to Latino and black inmates.

** Harold Abrahams was Jewish and the son of a Lithuanian immigrant to the UK, which alienated him in many ways from the predominantly Christian English culture. Nonetheless, he loved England deeply, and sought to become an ideal Englishman. The film addresses his struggle to be seen as such.

* ''Film/{{Tamahine}}'': Tamahine has a British father and Polynesian mother, and spent her childhood in the latter's culture. Then in her early adulthood, she is brought to England and struggles to understand its customs, particularly BritishStuffiness as compared to the more open Polynesian way of being.

* ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': Leyna is a biracial girl who was born to a white German mother and black French African father in Germany. As a result though she was born and raised German, Lenya can never fit in due to the pervasive racism against biracial people at the time, which only gets worse when the Nazis take power. Lenya does all that she can to conform, even adopting Nazism. It does no good though because of her ancestry forever being a barrier.

* Tobias from ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' struggles at times with his dual identity as a human boy trapped in the body of a red tailed hawk. The most prominent book dealing with it is “The Encounter”. Tobias struggles with his human mindset and need to kill to survive as a wild hawk while also feeling annoyed at taking food from his friends. He starts feeling detached from his human self but it does get better. Later, he sometimes struggles with the fact that he can become human once he regains his morphing power, but only for two hours at a time. He thinks he’ll have to make a choice between staying hawk and becoming a non morphing human, but the “cousin” saying she’ll adopt him is actually Visser Three and it’s a trick. Also, there’s the aspect of dating Rachel and wondering if it’s right since he can’t stay human permanently.
* John the Savage from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' is the son of the Director and a Beta named Linda who was stranded in the Savage Reservation. At the Reservation, John is ostracized from his Native American peers due to being white, and when he comes to the World State, he is only ostracized even further. Why? Well, other than having grown up reading Shakespeare's works, he was also ''naturally born'', and possesses a sense of humanity and morality much like the reader's, in contrast to the World State, a society [[BlueAndOrangeMorality with a morality based on "happiness" and "unhappiness"]], [[BreadAndCircuses going out of its way to pacify and satisfy its people]] if it means making them incapable of living anything but a crude shell of a life.

* Maia of ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'' is half elf, half goblin, born from a loveless political marriage. While the goblins of this world are not an AlwaysChaoticEvil race, and rather similar to elves except for their skin colour (black opposed to the elves' white), there is some racist prejudice, and the cultures are different in some aspects. His parents' marriage failed as an attempt at diplomacy, however, Maia himself is very interested in building bridges.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/JanetAsimov's ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles'': Norby is a robot built by a [[HumansByAnyOtherName Terran spacer]] from his scraps and the wrecked computer of a Jamyn spacecraft. The process has left him [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup quite mixed up]], and he initially is uncertain exactly where he belongs, but chooses to stay with Jeff because of their [[RobotBuddy friendship]].

* ''Literature/ShatterTheSky'': Maren is the child of a Zefedi father and Verran mother. The Zefedi conquered the Verrans, while ruling their land still. While her parents love each other and have a good marriage, it's something that puts her in the middle between the two peoples. Maren too stands out from her Verran neighbors, as she inherited Zefedi looks from her father. Nonetheless, she considers herself fully a Verran due to being raised among them. She's glad while being in the midst of Zefedi however that her height and skin color (unusual among Verrans) don't stand out, as they had before all her life, which lets her blend with them.

** King Benedict Justman was born from parents of House Blackwood and Bracken, two houses which share one of the most intense rivalries in all of Westeros. Both houses initially despised him, but he eventually won them over and they became his first supporters.
** Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers, the bastard son of Aegon IV Targaryen and Melissa Blackwood, is a child of Valyrian and First Men ancestry, where said relationships are allegedly a rarity in Westeros, and he's so far the only one who shows how powerful a child of Valyrian and First Men heritage may turn out, being an immensely powerful [[{{Seers}} greenseer]] and skinchanger.[[note]]The Blackwoods would legitimately marry into the Targaryens two generations after Bloodraven, when Betha Blackwood married Aegon V, but their children were just normal humans, and among their descendants, only Daenerys has shown herself to be tied to magic, when she breeds her three dragons. Bloodraven himself had two full siblings who were [[OutOfFocus seldom mentioned]], and did not seem to possess magical abilities.[[/note]] One could wonder how it'd be if Targaryens ever bred with Starks, and it's a ''very'' good question.

** Daenerys Targaryen was born on Westeros, but was forced to flee as a newborn to the East since her family had recently been dethroned and Robert Baratheon, to secure his position on the Throne, had ordered to kill all the remaining Targaryens. Dany grows up a witness to the many cultures inhabiting Essos while also learning second-hand about Westeros by Viserys. In turn, she turns into a polyglot once grown and adapts well to Dothraki culture once married to Khal Drogo (oiling her hair in the style of the horselords and wearing painted vests, in contrast to his brother's stained silks).
* Talos, the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Spartan}}'', was actually a child from a noble Spartan family, but the city-state neglected him due to his malformed foot (and according to this law, every child who cannot seve as a warrior must be left to die from exposure). Luckilly, he was rescued and he was raised as a [[MadeASlave Helot]].

** Elrond and Elros in particular have a bad case of this since they are not only half-human and half-elf, but also belong to both of the two major types of elves (who do not like each other). Plus, they were raised by the Sons of Fëanor: a third faction of elves that the other two despise for different reasons. In the end though, it makes Elros the perfect candidate to unite all the human tribes into a single nation: and Elrond the perfect person to coordinate the fight against Sauron. But it's never easy being the guy everyone is related to in Middle Earth.

* Like in the musical, Elphaba from ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' is the daughter of an Ozian woman and a man from Earth. Of course, she never discovers it, but it's foreshadowed throughout, and are the hints to the origin of her green skin and her ability to read the Grimmerie. Elphaba also as a child travelled through Squadling country alongside her family, which lead to being more savvy and open-minded to other cultures later on.

* ''Series/{{Cleverman}}'': Koen was born to an Aboriginal father and white mother. She died before he was born (Koen was delivered by emergency C-section) and Koen got bullied for being her son by Aboriginal boys who called her a whore. His half-brother Warru is among those who's held her against him, and so unsurprisingly when grown up he's estranged from the Aboriginal community, with only white friends. He slowly embraces his Aboriginal side on learning he's the titular Cleverman, a heroic savior in Aboriginal culture, abiding by their customs more.

* On ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'', [[ExtraParentConception two of Liam Kincaid's parents are human]] and one is a Kimera, an alien race connected to the Taelons. Being part alien makes Liam more sympathetic to the Taelons and helps him to win Da'an's trust. He brings Da'an and the human resistance together, and tries to encourage co-operation between the two species.

* ''Series/GinnyAndGeorgia'': Ginny, being biracial, has felt caught in between at times. She says to Hunter (who's also biracial with East Asian/white heritage), that she's had no friends in the past as for white kids she'd been not white enough and black kids too white. She cries on seeing one comment which calls her "the whitest black girl" and self-harms by burning herself with a candle over it. Later she also speaks with Hunter about how annoying being asked "what are you?" is, and being stereotyped given their backgrounds (he notes that he's half Taiwanese, though "Asian" is all even his friends know). In a slam poem given for her class later she also mentions her annoyance at being put into a box with regards to her identity too, refusing that pigeonholing. She and Hunter talk heatedly of what their own experiences given this have been, which devolves into insults (this was highly criticized due to relying on stereotypes, plus the "Oppression Olympics" of them one-upping about who's experienced worse).

** Bette is biracial, having a black father and white mother. She always identifies this way to honor them both, although white people often don't realize she's biracial, thinking her olive skin tone and dark slightly curly hair just means Bette's of Italian descent or something. Bette resists the demand to identify solely as black by a black woman she meets too, remarking how that's based on the racist OneDropRule, but points out she ''never'' tries to [[HidingYourHeritage pass as white either]], as noted above. Further, she requests that her wife Tina conceive their daughter with a black donor, which is agreed to, thus continuing her mixed heritage.

* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Anders is half Sami, half Swede. He has mostly lived as a Swede, though he's very sympathetic to the Sami. This puts him at odds toward both sometimes, as the Sami are suspicious about Swedes, who often mistreat them. Conversely, some Swedes dislike Sami and thus him too.
* ''Series/MohawkGirls'': Anna, who has a white mother and Mohawk father, struggles with this at length. She won't be accepted by many Mohawk unless she's disclaimed more "white" attributes, but still isn't eligible for citizenship in the band due to having too much white ancestry. However, conforming means she steadily becomes meaner as its the rudest Mohawks demanding this, and in the series finale refuses to anymore, saying she's both-Mohawk, but also white.

* ''Series/QuePasaUSA'': Cuban-American Joe and Carmen's parents and grandparents pressure them to cling to traditions and values from a country they can't remember (Joe) or never experienced (Carmen). At the same time, outside the home they both experience pressure to assimilate to America and set aside their traditions.

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' has B'Elanna Torres. She's alienated from her Klingon heritage because her human father left her and she suffered discrimination at a time when relations were poor with the Klingon Empire. She's also a {{tsundere}} who (rightly or wrongly) blames her personality issues on being half-Klingon. There's also Seven of Nine, a human [[RaisedByOrcs assimilated by the Borg]] but forcibly severed from the Collective by the crew of Voyager. Her Borg pride and BlueAndOrangeMorality clashes with Captain Janeway's Starfleet values in the first couple of years, but while she eventually becomes used to being human again, her character in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' indicates she has trouble assimilating into human society as well.

*** Seven of Nine is an xB (ex-Borg), a freed Borg drone, who famously served with Starfleet for several years under the command of Captain Janeway. She's implied to have since become rather disenchanted of both the Borg and the Federation for their various failings, and serves with the Fenris Rangers, a militia force that attempts to keep the peace in the former Romulan territories.

* ''Series/StrangeEmpire'': Kat and Caleb are Métis (First Nations/White ancestry). Both navigate between these two different, frequently antagonistic worlds with varying degrees of difficulty, and bond over the fact.

** It's not uncommon for plane-touched races, such as the half-celestial aasimar, half-fiend tieflings and half-elemental genasi, to end up as this. They're too closely tied to their supernatural ancestry to pass as regular mortals, and their precise ancestry will often see them treated with uncomfortable reverence or vicious prejudice. They're however fully children of the material world, and their extraplanar ancestors rarely see them as more than another strain of mortals.
** Half-dragons often find themselves uncomfortably placed between their parent species' society. Dragons rarely respect half-dragons and never consider them peers, while humanoids view them with fear and suspicion and often cast them out as monsters. As such, most half-dragons find themselves forced on the fringes of the world, unable to fit into either humanoid or draconic society and too few to form their own.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': This is frequently the lot of the God-Blooded, the children of mortals and supernatural beings, who are frequently torn between the worlds of their human and spirit parents. At best, mortals will view them with superstitious reverence and spirits with condescending benevolence. At worst, mortals will treat them as abominations and spirits as embarrassing or repulsive mistakes. Even with the best treatment, they're often too magical in nature to be comfortably part of mortal society but too human, and too tied to human needs and nature to live among spirits. Many are left with no place where they can fit in as a result, and resort to suppressing one half or the other of their heritage to live with either parent's people, slavishly following their supernatural sires to find some purpose in their lives, or becoming wanderers and drifters. The Ghost-Blooded are hit particularly hard by this. They're too alive to fit among the dead, but the shadow of death follows them among the living; mortals view them as abominations, the dead as useful tools but not as peers or parts of their society. Even metaphysically, they have no actual world to dwell in -- they're neither truly dead nor alive, and do not belong in either the Underworld or Creation. The dead and the living were not meant to mingle, and the natural order has no place for things that should never actually have existed.

* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}''[='s=] Mellka is a literal one as her human father was born on Penarch while her Aelfrin mother was from Eshteni, both worlds of which were tragically darkened. Mellka's background and upbringing also makes her a child of two worlds in character. She chooses to both embrace aspects which are more nature attuned such as Eldrid beliefs of things like the fabled Old Sentinel, and her bio-gauntlet; and aspects which are less nature attuned such her clothes, gun, and hairstyle.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', the main character Corrin was born into the royal family of [[{{Wutai}} Hoshido]], but was raised in the court of [[TheEmpire Nohr]] as a member of its royal family as well, leading to the decision of which side they fight for in two of the three campaigns. [[spoiler:Corrin is in fact the heir of a ''third'' kingdom ruled by his/her (now evil and insane) dragon god king father.]] Azura is in a similar position as someone born into the royal family of Nohr but raised by the Hoshidan royal family after being abducted in retaliation for Corrin's kidnapping.

* In ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', Kitana is a princess of the realm of Edenia, but was raised as the daughter of Outworld's warlord emperor Shao Kahn. In her tower ending in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Kitana uses the power of Kronika's Hourglass to restore her home realm of Edenia, only to find it and its culture completely foreign to her, and realizes that while she may be an Edenian by nature, she's an Outworlder by upbringing. Kitana decides to [[spoiler:return to ruling Outworld, but using Edenian ideals to do so]].

** Jaina Proudmoore also. She is originally from Kul Tiras, but has spent so much time in Lordaeron and with people from Lordaeron that she has absorbed a lot of their culture. She is also considered family by the Wrynn dynasty of Stormwind, despite not technically being a relative at all. And now she has a dragon boyfriend.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Diamanta was born to an Aldish couple that managed to escape to Sharteshane, and who were then captured and traded back to Alderode to curry favor. She was then raised in Sharteshanian orphanages but always held animosity towards both governments. Due to her appearance she was constantly mistaken for Crescian which she gave up correcting people on as her heratige, upbringing and eventual [[HiredGuns career]] left her funtionally stateless.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': While Luz may have been born and grown up on Earth, she feels far more at home on the Boiling Isles due to people being far more accepting of her quirks. That said, she never once even considers abandoning Earth or her mother, and it's made clear that having to give up either world would come at the cost of her mental wellbeing. [[spoiler:As a result, the series ends with her having access to a working portal door and being able to freely travel between the two worlds. She even amends Azura's "Warrior of Peace" boast that she had quoted several times in the series to include that she is both "child of the human realm [and] student of the demon realm" during the final battle.]]

* Children of immigrants, whether they were born in the country their parents moved to or were born in the old country but moved to their new home at such a young age they don't really have any memories of their former residence, are frequently children of multiple worlds. In contemporary America those of Chinese or Indian descent are so common they have their own acronyms -- [=ABCs=] (American-born Chinese) and [=ABCDs=] (American-born Confused Desis) -- chiefly because their largest waves of mass migration have come relatively recently after the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished race-based quotas and made it much easier for those other than Western Europeans to immigrate. An [=ABCD's=] upbringing becomes even more complicated when you consider that India is an amalgam of hundreds of extremely different cultures, religions, languages, and creeds. It is entirely possible for an ABCD to be a child of ''three or more'' cultures at once if their parents were both from different Indian states, different religions, or both.
* A tragic case of this was the actor Freddie Prinze, father of Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr. He struggled with cultural alienation due to his mixed (half-Hispanic and half-German) ethnic heritage for years before committing suicide at just 22 years old. He effectively summed up his struggles in a 1975 interview:

* Children of diplomats face similar issues as children of immigrants. While they grow up more open-minded of other cultures and countries, they also feel alienated and lack a sense of personal identity due to moving so frequently in their formative years, leaving behind friends, education, any sense of patriotism, and the like.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': While Luz may have been born and grown up on Earth, she feels far more at home on the Boiling Isles due to people being far more accepting of her quirks. That said, she never once even considers abandoning Earth or her mother, and it's made clear that having to give up either world would come at the cost of her mental wellbeing. [[spoiler:As a result, the series ends with her having access to a working portal door and being able to freely travel between the two worlds. She even amends Azura's "Warrior of Peace" boast that she had quoted several times in the series to include that she is both "child of the human realm [and] student of the demon realm" during the final battle.

* ''Blood In Blood Out'': Miklo is a man of mixed Mexican and Anglo ethnicity, living in a Latino community but having white skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Due to this, when he joins the Mexican gang inside the prison, he convinces the gang leader to make him an infiltrator because he can blend in with the rival Aryan Brotherhood gang and go to places that are off limits to Latino and black inmates.

* ''Series/MohawkGirls'': Anna, who has a white mother and Mohawk father, struggles with this at length. She won't accepted by many Mohawk unless she's disclaimed more "white" attributes, but still isn't eligible for citizenship in the band due to having too much white ancestry. However, conforming means she steadily becomes meaner as its the rudest Mohawks demanind this, and in the series finale refuses to anymore, saying she's both-Mohawk, but also white.