History Main / InterspeciesAdoption

* ''Franchise/{{Doraemon}}'' movies:

** Master Shifu, a red panda, also adopted Tai Lung the snow leopard and later Tigress the tigress. The rest of the Furious Five might qualify as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'':

* ''ComicBook/{{Empyre}}'' ends with Ben Grimm and Alicia recieving custody of Jo-Venn and N'Kalla, Kree and Skrull children the Fantastic Four rescued.

It may also overlap with MosesInTheBulrushes and (especially in comic settings) ObliviousAdoption. Contrast RandomSpeciesOffspring when the child isn't just adopted - it's ''biological''. In works where both the species are sapient, such adoptions are frequently [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything allegories]] for real life interracial adoption, as in both situations the adopted characters will have to deal with the physical and often cultural differences between them and the rest of their family. May result in SmallParentHugeChild as well as BigLittleBrother (for those cases where there are also biological kids in the family). In the cases where the adoption closely parallels real-life interracial adoption, see also InterracialAdoptionStruggles.

* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Green Lantern Corps member Bynai Bruun is a Zymian who ended up adopting the newborn son of her Glazzonian predecessor Ahtier, who died shortly after giving birth.

* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Green Lantern Corps member Bynai Bruun ended up adopting the newborn son of her predecessor, who died shortly after giving birth and was of a different alien species.

* ''ComicBok/GreenLantern'': Green Lantern Corps member Bynai Bruun ended up adopting the newborn son of her predecessor, who died shortly after giving birth and was of a different alien species.

Even in settings where {{talking|Animal}}, {{civilized|Animal}}, or {{funny|Animal}} animals exist, adoptions will still happen between parents and children. Some parents are caring enough to take in a child, regardless of their species. They may be [[RaisedByWolves animals raising a human child]], [[RaisedByHumans humans raising an animal child]], animals raising animals of a different species, or any combination of the three. It doesn't matter, [[HappilyAdopted as adoption is still adoption]], and [[GoodParents parents will always be parents]]. The subject of the adoption may or may not even be an issue among society.

** Master Shifu, a red panda, also adopted Tai Lung the snow leopard and Tigress the tigress. The rest of the Furious Five might qualify as well.

* ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem'': While Floyd and Animal have played in a band together since the 1970s, it's only in this series that the true depth of their relationship is revealed: Floyd found a baby Animal left on his doorstep. He immediately took Animal in and has looked out for him ever since. While they're both Muppets, Floyd is more human-looking while Animal is...Animal.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'', [[TheReveal a big deal is made out of]] [[spoiler:Lucia being [[ArtificialHuman a flawed demonic construct]] of [[BigBad Arius]] instead of Matier's biological daughter. After going through a HeroicBSOD and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman struggling with the ramifications of her true nature for a bit]], Matier comforts Lucia and outright tells her, "You are my daughter." This gives Lucia the strength to carry on and break out of her CloningBlues complex.]]

-->'''Armorer:''' A Foundling is in your care. By Creed, until it is of age or reunited with its own kind -- you are as its father. [[CatchPhrase This is the way]].

* ''Manga'{{Doraemon}}'' movies:
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'' is set in Birdopia, a world populated by BirdPeople, with an eagle boy named Gusuke befriending the main characters after accidentally stranding himself in Tokyo. Doraemon and friends later made it to Birdopia and meets Gusuke's family, and are surprised to see that Gusuke's mother and sister are both ducks.
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'' have the gang visiting Wan-Nyan country, a world populated by andromorphic cats and dogs. Their new ally, Hachi the andromorphic dog, is notably a DoorstopBaby adopted by cats.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''
** In the ''Sun and Moon'' anime, Litten has a parental figure in a very old Stoutland. [[spoiler:The Stoutland later passes away, leading to Litten to choose Ash as its trainer.]]

** In the first episode of ''Journeys'', it's shown through a flashback that Ash's Pikachu himself was adopted by a Kangaskhan when he was a very young Pichu, and stayed with her until shortly before he evolved into Pikachu.

* In the old print furry comic ''ComicBook/HavocInc'' Chester (ringtail cat) and Deck (canid) adopted a mouse girl.
* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} is a demon who was adopted by a human parent named Dr. Bruttenholm and raised under the watch of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. He was raised to appreciate humanity, even if he constantly has to deal with the fact that he's frighteningly different from them anyway.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:

** And in ''ComicBook/LastSon'', ComicBook/LoisLane and Clark would become the foster parents of Chris, another Kryptonian child.

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': four adorable baby turtles fall into a sewer and are adopted by an ordinary rat (other than the whole "[[TaughtByTelevision knows ninjutsu]]" thing). Only later do the five mutate and become intelligent. In most adaptations this is PlayedWith, however, as Splinter starts out as a human before mutating into a ratman, and it's his human DNA that the turtles are mutated with, making them biologically related.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic|1984}}'' the two human children get adopted by a couple of dingoes who raise them as their own.

* ''ARG/WelcomeHome'': Barnaby is described as being the adopted son of "the chicken who crossed the road", whose surname was inexplicably "Beagle" for the sake of humor.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' ''Legacy'' series, all three of Nat Skywalker's children count. First of all, [[InterspeciesRomance his wife is a]] [[HumanoidAliens Kiffar]], and Nat adopted her daughter Ahnah; secondly, said wife adopted Skeeto, a human child, along with Nat; and finally, the pair adopted Micah, a [[CatPeople Cathar]].

* InterspeciesAdoption/VideoGames

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration,'' [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Worf]] was adopted by the Rozhenkos, a human couple from Russia. In turn, Worf's son Alexander Rozhenko was also raised by Worf's adoptive parents after the mother died.
** The episode "Suddenly Human" has a human boy whose birth parents were killed in a skirmish with the Talarians, who adopted the boy. While Picard initially believed he would be better back with the Federation, he eventually realizes that the boy wants to stay with his adoptive father.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has "Cardassians," which is very similar to the above except that it's about a Cardassian child named Rugal who had been raised by Bajorans. In this case, however, his still-living Cardassian father got custody, since the boy had actually been illegally given up by an enemy with a grudge.

** Hyperion in ''Comicbook/SupremePower'' was found by a nice farm couple...and then taken in by the U.S. government, who raised him to be blindly obedient. It went badly.

* ''Comicbook/{{Empyre}}'' ends with Ben Grimm and Alicia recieving custody of Jo-Venn and N'Kalla, Kree and Skrull children the Fantastic Four rescued.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Terran Peter Quill was adopted by Centaurian Yondu Udonta. It's revealed that [[spoiler: Yondu was actually hired to take Peter to his dad, but decided Peter would be better off with the Ravagers than Peter's {{Jerkass}} real father.]]

* Webcomic/{{Cloudscratcher}}: Felix (a cat) was adopted by the Captain (a dog).

* ''WebComic/StepMonster'' involves a human sister and brother [[ParentalAbandonment left alone]] by their jailed dad and alcoholic mom who are at risk of getting split up by child services. Matilda, a fluffy dragonlike monster who [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight has lived in the boy's closet scaring him for 5 years]], reluctantly agrees to disguise herself and pretend to be the kids' aunt taking care of them because she would otherwise need to move out of the house too if the kids left.

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', the inhabitants of Betel's Forest all believe that they are Betel's children, despite Betel being a manticore and the rest being a wide variety of different species.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'' have the gang visiting Wan-Nyan country, a world populated by andromorphic cats and dogs. Their new ally, Hachi the andromorphic dog, is notably a DoorstopBaby adopted by cats.

It may also overlap with MosesInTheBulrushes and (especially in comic settings) ObliviousAdoption. Contrast RandomSpeciesOffspring when the child isn't just adopted - it's ''biological''. In works where both the species are sapient, such adoptions are frequently [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything allegories]] for real life interracial adoption, as in both situations the adopted characters will have to deal with the physical and often cultural differences between them and the rest of their family. May result in SmallParentHugeChild. In the cases where the adoption closely parallels real-life interracial adoption, see also InterracialAdoptionStruggles.

* In the fifth season of ''WebVideo/PuppetHistory'', The Professor (a living puppet) is [[FishOutOfTemporalWater stuck in the Cretaceous Period]]. He winds up being taken in by two dinosaurs (who have also been turned into puppets--ItMakesSenseInContext, sort of), who adore him completely and act as DotingParent. The Professor quickly comes to see it as a HappilyAdopted situation; he misses his home and time, but loves his new family and even tells them, "You're all I ever need."

* The tiular character of [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-last-human-in-a-crowded-galaxy/list?title_no=403136 The Last Human]] has been HappilyAdopted by an insectoid alien known only as "Mother"