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* Cereza from ''Bayonetta''. [[Spoiler: She's a self-made one, though.]]

* Anne Shirley from ''AnneOfGreenGables'' improves the lives of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert by being a vivacious handful.

* Little Timmy from ''{{Lassie}}'' is an orphan who ends up adopted with the best dog in the world, ([[spoiler: at least until the New Lassie TV series, which revealed that when his adoptive parents moved to Australia, they hadn't properly adopted him after all and ''left him behind'']]). [[WallBanger <bang>]]

* This, complete with HairOfGold, was inverted all to hell in {{Monster}}. All. To. Hell.

** After hearing all of that, I wonder why.

* As with the Japanese drama version of ALittlePrincess, ShokojoSera has Seira who lost her mother at a young age and her father to a mining incident. Yet, her [[{{Determinator}} determination]] to not let things get to her, even when she is mercilessly bullied and treated horribly by her previous classmates and the director of the school, is what shines the most.

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* Little Robin Starling is ''such'' a heartwarming orphan that ''TomAndJerry The Movie'' abandons its lead characters and gives the movie over to her.

* Subverted big-time in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]''. Kaiba, the orphan with the horrible past (his parents die, ''none of his relatives want to take him in,'' he gets continually bullied during his time at the {{Orphanage of Fear}}, he finally gets adopted by [[spoiler:a megalomaniacal jackass who abuses him regularly and discarded his own son by blood for being too weak,]]) ends up being one of the series' biggest {{Jerk Ass}}es.

* Lewis from ''{{Meet the Robinsons}}'' manages to win the hearts of the titular family, and even gets invited to join them, within a few scant hours of meeting them by...having low self esteem and wearing funny hats?
* In DespicableMe, we have the three girls Margo, Edith and Agnes being adopted Gru.

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* LittleOrphanAnnie makes Daddy Warbucks' life much better through song and dance.

The exact opposite of the EvilOrphan.

* Nadja Applefield from AshitaNoNadja, who travels around the world searching for her mother and helping others.

* Subverted big-time in ''YuGiOh''. Kaiba, the orphan with the horrible past (his parents die, ''none of his relatives want to take him in,'' he gets continually bullied during his time at the {{Orphanage of Fear}}, he finally gets adopted by [[spoiler:a megalomanaical jackass who abuses him regularily and discarded his own son by blood for being too weak,]]) ends up being one of the series' biggest {{Jerk Ass}}es.

Of course, if they do ''[[KickTheDog certain]]'' things, they can lose the "heartwarming" part and end up with a somewhat [[ButtMonkey less appealing]] role.

* As with the Japanese drama version of ALittlePrincess, ShojokoSera has Seira who lost her mother at a young age and her father to a mining incident. Yet, her [[{{Determinator}} determination]] to not let things get to her, even when she is mercilessly bullied and treated horribly by her previous classmates and the director of the school, is what shines the most.