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* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', the Horde ''regularly'' raise orphaned young children of invaded territories to be soldiers. Adora is the just odd defector, as she had long remained oblivious to how destructive the Horde was in "bringing order" to Etheria.

** [[Creator/TerryPratchett PTerry]] seems to like inverting this trope. It's also present in ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}''; [[spoiler:Felicity Beedle's mother]] was raised by goblins, and they treated her more humanely than the humans who eventually "rescued" her.

* Much like the Franchise/{{Superman}} example below, [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] is viewed as this trope by his fellow Saiyans, especially his brother Raditz, who is horrified to find that his baby brother is living happily among the very beings he was suppose to murder. Vegeta also shows some shades of this with Goku early on, constantly disgusted whenever Goku display human values such as mercy and honor. Both tried to make Goku recover his true nature with Raditz outright failing and Vegeta installing the pride of being a Saiyan although he could never make Goku act as brutal or as cold-hearted as a real Saiyan.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', it seems ''most'' of the Horde's military are orphans of their invaded territories raised to be soldiers. Adora is the just odd defector, as she had long remained oblivious to how destructive the Horde was in "bringing order" to Etheria.

* Adora from ''WesternAnimation/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 since for some bizarre reason Hordak didn't try to instill his AlwaysChaoticEvil values on his de-facto daughter, instead raising her to believe in crazy stuff like justice and honor, and lying to her that he was a just ruler and that the rebels were misguided troublemakers.
** Though he threw in some MindControl courtesy of Shadow Weaver for good measure.

* This was done, in a manner of speaking, by both sides in North America. Native Americans captured and raised the "paleface" European settlers' children as their own; their birth parents, who viewed the natives as enemies of civilization in general as well as their own settlements (and who feared for their children's souls, since the settlers were typically staunch Protestants while the natives were mostly pagan or Roman Catholic), were eager to rescue them, although there were definitely cases of children not taking their parents up on that offer, because the Native Americans had raised them as their own children, and women/girls in particular experienced far more freedom than they would have under 17th-18th century colonial American society. Later in the 1800s, in Canada and especially the USA, governments and social reformers set up special [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_boarding_schools boarding schools]] in an effort to "civilize" and thereby assimilate the natives' children into their own culture. The schools were little to no better than open warfare, as they were often extremely abusive, using harsh physical and psychological punishments on Native American or First Nations children who refused to give up traditional dress/grooming, abandon their native religious beliefs, or stop speaking their native languages. It didn't serve to "increase goodwill" between the cultures, as some of the "social reformers" may have hoped, so much as forcibly erase many Native American cultural practices altogether. Though the boarding schools have since ceased to exist, the damage was done.

* This was done, in a manner of speaking, by both sides in North America. Native Americans captured and raised the "paleface" European settlers' children as their own; their birth parents, who viewed the natives as enemies of civilization in general as well as their own settlements (and who feared for their children's souls, since the settlers were typically staunch Protestants while the natives were mostly pagan or Roman Catholic), were eager to rescue them, although there were definitely cases of children not taking their parents up on that offer. Later, in Canada and especially the USA, WellIntentionedExtremist types set up special [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_boarding_schools boarding schools]] in an effort to "civilize" and thereby assimilate the natives' children into their own culture. The schools were little to no better than open warfare, as they were often abusive, always morally problematic, and not nearly as good at cultural assimilation or improving goodwill between the cultures as their founders had expected them to be. At this point the boarding schools are pretty much extinct, and both sides are free to educate their own children.

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' is that two major characters are different examples of this. [[spoiler: The two protagonists, in fact. Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue was raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised as the wealthy heiress Maud Lilly, which means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly "educated" in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]]. Park Chan-wook's film adaptation ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', which transfers the story to 1930s South Korea, kept a lot of the novel's other major twists but eliminated the baby-switch.

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' is that two major characters are different examples of this. [[spoiler: The two protagonists, in fact. Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised to believe she is a member of the gentry, which in her case, means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly 'educated' in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]]. Park Chan-wook's film adaptation ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', which transfers the story to 1930s South Korea, kept a lot of the novel's other major twists but eliminated the baby-switch.

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' is that two major characters are different examples of this. [[spoiler: The two protagonists, in fact. Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised to believe she is a member of the gentry, which in her case, means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly 'educated' in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]]. The adaptation ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', which transfers the story to 1930s South Korea, kept a lot of the novel's other major twists but eliminated the baby-switch.

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' is that two major characters are different examples of this. [[spoiler: Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised to believe she is a member of the gentry, which in her case, means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly 'educated' in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]].

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' is that [[spoiler: both main characters]] are different examples of this. [[spoiler: Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised to believe she is a member of the gentry, which in her case, means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly 'educated' in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]].

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of ''Literature/Fingersmith'' is that [[spoiler: both main characters]] are different examples of this. [[spoiler: Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised to believe she is a member of the gentry, which in her case, means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly 'educated' in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]].

* As a child, while fleeing Norway with his mother after his father was killed during a war for the throne, Olaf Trygvasson was taken captive by Estonian pirates. His foster-father was killed, and he was raised by the pirates as a slave and sold or traded several times. Six years later, his uncle finds him there while collecting taxes, buys him, and takes him to Gardriki, where he was originally fleeing to, where he serves in the court of King Valdemar. Despite his unusual upbringing, he becomes a competent and well-liked military commander, and avenges his foster father by killing his murderer, eventually becoming King of Norway before dying fighting his rival to the throne.

* The plot of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has this... sort of (it's a bit more complicated). The protagonist Corrin is a child born from the peaceful kingdom of Hoshido, until one fateful night when he/she was still a little boy/girl, the aggressive kingdom of Nohr under King Garon killed his father and kidnapped him/her to be his child. He/she was then put under the care of Garon's children, [[AntiVillain who are still pretty much decent people but carrying the values of Nohr under Garon,]] as he was shown to be a mad tyrant during that time. Even so, Corrin still carried the pacifistic nature that did not go along the line of Garon and the other darker part of Nohr, and he/she refused to go along with Garon no matter which side he/she took, if he/she took Hoshido's side, he/she will decry that Garon is a mad tyrant not worth calling a father, if he/she took Nohr's side, he/she still sought peace and reforming the kingdom with his/her more decent siblings. Both cases, he/she succeeded despite having the upbringing of being raised by the less 'obvious good' side.

* Inverted in Webcomic/TwoKinds: Flora is [[PettingZooPeople an anthropomorphic tigress]] who was raised by humans. Same goes for the fox Evals who was born in slavery. And the [[NonhumanHumanoidHybrid canine/feline hybrid]] Catlyn was the result of a breeding program for slaves, ''sex'' slaves [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the humans are the orcs in this verse]].

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* There is a quite literal inversion of this trope in the ''VideoGame/{{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 as a gladiator and trained to be a puppet ruler of the orcs. Ironically, Thrall escaped slavery, and eventually did go on to lead the orcs. Arguably, his unique upbringing gave him a great deal of perspective on the now generations-long conflict between the Alliance and the Horde.
** And after Thrall did liberate each and every Orc, his first action as Warchief of the new Horde was to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard kill Blackmoore and destroy his personal army and estate]].
*** For ''several'' very good reasons.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Spike the Dragon's upbringing is a beat-for-beat ''[[InvertedTrope inversion]]'' of this trope. He was hatched by [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter ponies]], given a focus on social interaction over combat, taught to be a peaceful, generous person, and has a direct connection to their benevolent [[GodEmperor immortal ruler.]] Unfortunately, continuing the inversion, it's strongly implied that a dragon's [[AlwaysChaoticEvil greedy tendencies]] are InTheBlood.

* This was done, in a manner of speaking, by both sides in North America. Native Americans captured and raised the "paleface" European settlers' children as their own; their birth parents, who viewed the natives as enemies of civilization in general as well as their own settlements (and who feared for their children's souls, since the settlers were typically staunch Protestants while the natives were mostly pagan or Roman Catholic), were eager to rescue them, although there were definitely cases of children not taking their parents up on that offer. Later, in Canada and especially the USA, WellIntentionedExtremist types set up special [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_boarding_schools boarding schools]] in an effort to "civilize" and thereby assimilate the natives' children into their own culture. The schools were an improvement over open warfare, but they were often abusive, always morally problematic, and not nearly as good at cultural assimilation or improving goodwill between the cultures as their founders had expected them to be. At this point the boarding schools are pretty much extinct, and both sides are free to educate their own children.

Contrast OrcRaisedByElves. See also TykeBomb.

* In Franchise/TheDCU, Granny Goodness raises any children under her "care" to serve Darkseid loyally. Most conformed but out of the following:

** A BigFinishDoctorWho audio reveals that her 'siblings' (clones created after her escape) were punished by being locked in their sister's old bedroom with her disemboweled teddy bear and other 'toys'.

* Culcha (a human) in ''SpectralForce 3'' was raised by Goblins. However, being a [[GoodAllAlong good but misunderstood race]] they were actually good parents. She views and is looked on by other goblins as a "big sister" and her MamaBear is truly bearlike.

* Flint from ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' was kidnapped by orcs as a child during a raid on his village and raised to be a warrior by them.

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** Inverted with regular character Worf, who is a Klingon who 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.

* 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.]]

* [[spoiler:River Song]] from ''Series/DoctorWho'' was raised by the Church of Silence and trained to kill the Doctor.