History Main / RaisedByOrcs

* Several surviving Kryptonian influences and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens floating around the DCU seem to think {{Superman}} is this trope, and that they should help him [[InTheBlood recover his "true nature"]] rather than abandon him amongthe unworthy, inferior, savage human race. Clark Kent [[{{Understatement}} has a few issues with this interpretation.]]

* Adora from ''SheRaPrincessOfPower'' was kidnapped by Hordak as a baby and raised by the Horde, though it doesn't take much for her to do a HeelFaceTurn.

The child isn't so much [[RaisedByWolves raised by a pack of wolves]] or even [[RaisedByNatives Natives]] (who while foreign or wild, genuinely love the child), but by their AlwaysChaoticEvil equivalents. Usually the orphan is from an orc raid, and his or her adopted parent(s) took them in out of either a rare display of paternal/maternal instinct, or to spite their human foes by twisting their children into cruel mockeries of themselves. Their life will probably consist of TrainingFromHell coupled with nihilistic life lessons, and [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining focus on combat over social interaction]]. They will be taught MightMakesRight, that AsskickingEqualsAuthority, and to worship their GodOfEvil if they have one. {{Does This Remind You Of| Anything}} [[TykeBomb Anything]]?

** This did not qualify as a HeelFaceTurn as the main Sebacean culture, the Peacekeepers, are just barely [[BlackAndGreyMorality the lesser of two evils]] compared to the Scarran Empire (the Scarrans want to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]] while the Peacekeepers just want to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName impose a "pure" order with an iron fist]]. There's a reason that for most of the series, Scorpius was the BigBad.

* Scorpius on ''{{Farscape}}''. He's the product of Scarran scientific study that involved raping Sebacean women in order to determine if any potential mixed-species offspring could be of use to the Scaran Empire. He was the lone hybrid who survived. This upbringing made him go HeelFaceTurn and join with the Sebaceans to destroy the Scarrans.
** Whether it qualifies as a HeelFaceTurn is debatable. The Sebacean Peacekeepers are more [[BlackAndGreyMorality the less of two evils]] compared to the Scaran Empire; there's a reason that for most of the series, Scorpius was the BigBad.

* Inverted on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', where Worf (a Klingon) was raised by humans. Granted Klingons aren't the enemy of humanity anymore (mostly) but the principle is the same. This was played with quite effectively, with Worf often being truer to Klingon principles from having learned about them while surrounded by humans than most Klingons we meet, who are often sloppy and dishonourable from lacking this incentive to be true to their culture.

* While the Always Chaotic Evil part is a matter of perspective, this was basically how the Janissaries were made.

* [[spoiler: Inverted by Mr. Nutt]] in [[{{Discworld}} UnseenAcademicals]]. [[spoiler: He ''is'' an orc, and possibly one of the very few left; raids by humans killed off most of the orcs. Mr. Nutt]] was then raised by humans and FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires before being sent off to Ankh-Morpork. And he definitely proves orcs aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil.

** Scott Free/Miracle Man ran off, followed by his future wife Big Barda.

* The Eradicator program, among a few other Kryptonian influences floating around, seems to think {{Superman}} is this trope, and they should help him [[InTheBlood recover his "true nature".]] Clark Kent [[{{Understatement}} has a few issues with this interpretation.]]

* Unusually inverted in the webcomic ''[[{{Goblins}} Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes]]'', which briefly shows a group of various monsters, of which the orc had been part of a raid on a dwarf settlement the previous winter. Having killed the parents, he couldn't leave the child to die and took him along. However, they weren't exactly ChaoticEvil. In fact, [[spoiler:the slaughter of these monsters and the death of the orc as he begs for the child to be kept safe is played as a KickTheDog moment for a dwarf who comes to wipe them out. Said dwarf thinks that this very trope may have made the child to sympathize with the monsters and promptly kill the little boy, even though they're the same species.]]

* Inverted in TwoKinds: Flora is [[PettingZooPeople an anthropomorphic tigeress]] who was raised by humans.

* The alien {{Megamind}} is raised by convicts in a prison and taught right from wrong (more specifically, that right <i>is</i> wrong). He seems to have had a happy and emotionally healthy childhood, despite having a very limited understanding of social skills.

** In Adventure Mode this is taken to a ridiculous extent, as goblin civilizations will often have their entire populations replaced by the descendants of the kidnapped other races.

* There is a quite literal inversion of this trope in the ''{{Warcraft}}'' universe in the form of Thrall, who is an ''orc'' who is raised by ''humans''. Picked up by Aedelas Blackmoore (the man in charge of the Orc internment camps) Thrall was raised to be a puppet ruler of the orcs that he could control. Thrall did come to lead the orcs, but refused to be a human puppet. Arguably, his unique upbringing gave him a great deal of perspective on the now generations-long conflict between the Alliance and the Horde.

* After his defense attorney father dies, [[PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Miles Edgeworth]] is adopted by prosecutor Manfred von Karma and raised to be one of the most vicious and effective prosecutors his district has ever known. [[spoiler: Of course this was all part of von Karma's extended revenge against Gregory Edgeworth. He murdered him and then plotted to turn his son into a twisted mirror of everything Gregory Edgeworth stood for, and without Phoenix Wright to confuse matters he probably would have succeeded.]] This might not seem like this trope, but in the Ace Attorney universe prosecutors and defense attorneys are practically Bloods and Crips.

** Scott Free/Miracle Man ran off, followed by his future wife Big Barda

* Tagg in ''[[{{Redwall}} The Taggerung]]'' is a textbook example: he's an otter whose father was killed by [[AlwaysChaoticEvil vermin]], and is later raised by them. He grows to be the biggest, toughest, fastest, strongest of them all... and this being Redwall, he can't bring himself to kill an unarmed creature, and is kicked out of the tribe.

* Connor from ''{{Angel}}'' was kidnapped by {{Knight Templar}} villain Holtz.

* Inverted by Mr. Nutt in [[{{Discworld}} UnseenAcademicals]]. He ''is'' an orc, and possibly one of the very few left; raids by humans killed off most of the orcs. Mr. Nutt was then raised by humans and FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires before being sent off to Ankh-Morpork. And he definitely proves orcs aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil.

*Subverted in TwoKinds, Flora is [[PettingZooPeople an anthropomorphic tigeress]] who was raised by humans.