History Main / DoorStopBaby

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': While trying to knock the ComicBook/{{Huntress}} off his child selling tail the "Earthworm" leaves one of the infants he's selling on the doorstep of the two people who have been campaining to make costumed heroes' lives miserable since said heroes are not fully legal.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'': Popeye's son Swee' Pea wasn't left on a doorstop- he was delivered to him in the mail. In fact, due to being in a box when delivered, Popeye thought the sound of his rattle meant there was a snake in the package, and was prepared to shoot the thing until he heard crying. However, some versions of this event have the former occur. Here, Swee' Pea is the son of the King and Queen of Demonia.

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermt'', Russo was dropped off at the church by his parents when he was a baby, and Sister Socellia immediately took him in. Russo resents them for abandoning him in the first place, but is happy to have Socellia as his guardian.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' loves this trope:
** Tai Lung is left on the doorstep of the Jade Palace in perfectly beautiful weather, and we never see or are told who the parents were or why they abandoned him. And far from growing up to [[MosesInTheBulrushes discover his secret special heritage]] or [[MuggleFosterParents be raised by someone who does not understand his uniqueness]], the snow leopard finds his glory and power right there in training to be a kung fu warrior, something his adoptive father Shifu embraces wholeheartedly (and apparently [[ArrogantKungFuGuy a bit too well]]) when he discovers the cub's aptitude for it.
** Also done in [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 the sequel]]. Po's father tells the story of how he found him in a radish box from the vegetable order delivered to him. He waited for someone to come by, but when no one came, he adopted Po.
** This is also part of Master Tigress's backstory, as revealed in the short ''Secrets of the Furious Five'', being left at an orphanage until she was eventually adopted by Shifu.

* In the ''WebAnimation/GridironHeights'' Season 3 finale, a baby Kyler Murray (ItMakesSenseInContext) is dropped on Eli Manning's/the Giants' doorstep by "Baseball". [[note]]At the time, the Giants were expected to be the first team to draft a quarterback.[[/note]]

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* ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'': Viceroy was left on the doorstep of an orphanage, in the rain, by his mother.
* In ''WebVideo/CommodoreHustle'', a baby is found in their trash filled basement, with no one sure where she came from. They decide to keep her as a prop. The baby in question is Kathleen and Graham's real life daughter, and is later seen as a toddler, standing in a [[BrickJoke box labelled "Prop Baby".]]

** One state, [[FlyoverCountry Nebraska,]] created a safe haven law that originally lacked age restrictions. After people started dropping off ''teenagers'', they realized they wrote the law more sweepingly than they intended and readjusted it to infants only.

* In the ''Literature/{{Mermaids}}'' trilogy, Rani was found as a baby in a clam-shell at the edge of Tingle Reef. She was adopted by a local family of merfolk and brought up in the reef. [[spoiler:Her biological parents put her and her twin brother Peri in different shells to protect them during a sea-quake. Her parents were both killed in the quake, and Peri was found by servants of the Mer-King and brought back to his birthplace, but Rani is presumed dead by her surviving family until she grows old enough to go GeneHunting.]]

* The title character of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books follows this trope, left by Albus Dumbledore (with some help from Rubeus Hagrid, and the reluctant approval of Minerva [=McGonagall=]) on his aunt's doorstep, with a letter. The book makes it clear they knew the Dursleys were home when they left him, but unlike many versions of this trope, the Dursleys didn't exactly welcome Baby Harry into their homes with open arms.

* ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'': In the short story "Born to Endless Night", a warlock baby is left on the steps of the academy and found by Simon and his friends. Warlock babies being abandoned isn't uncommon. Warlocks are the result of a demon and human breeding and sometimes the human parent is not willing to raise a magical, visibly non-human child (that they may not have even wanted in the fist place). Coincidentally, warlock Magnus Bane is visiting the academy with his boyfriend Alec as a guest lecturer. [[spoiler:Magnus and Alec end up adopting the baby warlock.]]

** In the [[VideoGame/SilentHill1 first game]], Harry Mason's daughter, Cheryl, was left by the side of the road in a manner like this. Henry and his wife took her in and soon officially adopted her. Seven years later, he probably ends up wondering whether that was a good idea.

* ''[[https://tapas.io/series/BrokenintheLight Broken in the Light]]'' begins with the protagonist, Kane, being left on the doorstep of an OrphanageOfLove[[note]]though the writer calls it a "foster home" for some reason[[/note]], along with [[OrphansPlotTrinket some dog tags]] with his name. It [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday turns out]] that he's a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] and his mother was apparently captured by the villain shortly after leaving him.

* Many states in the USA have laws, called "safe haven" laws, which say a newborn child may be dropped off at a hospital emergency room or other spot (fire stations are popular) anonymously, no questions asked. There are some restrictions, in that the child must be under a certain age and can't just be left out in the cold (that is, someone working there must be aware there is a baby that needs care). In fact, these laws were written specifically to keep babies from being left out in the cold.