History Main / RaisedbyGrandparents

** Saleh and Lute from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' were raised by their respective grandmothers. Saleh is an orphan, while Lute's parents are WalkingTheEarth.
** Subverted with Lyn from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', since she came to live with her grandfather only when she was in her mid-late teens and had been living alone for a bit after her parents (and whole tribe) died. Played straighter with [[spoiler: Canas's son Hugh]] from the prequel; he was raised by his grandmother [[spoiler: Niime]] since his parents died [[spoiler: protecting their village from a snowstorm]].

* On ''Series/PunkyBrewster'', Cherie's parents both died in an auto accident so she's being raised by her grandmother.

* Because he was conceived out of wedlock, Ted Bundy was raised by his maternal grandparents as their son and he grew up thinking his mother was his sister.

* Louis XVI's father died when he was just nine years old, thus putting him in the role of Dauphin of France. His mother died less than two years later, and so his grandfather Louis XV became his parental figure, hunting with him and arranging his marriage to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette.

The child may feature as a HeartwarmingOrphan. When using this trope would interfere with the plot, you often get a WorldOfNoGrandparents.

* [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] was raised by his maternal grandparents from the age of five, due to his parents divorcing and his mother not having the financial means to raise both him and his younger sister (who unlike Trent stayed with their mother).

* [[spoiler: Allanah Solo]] in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse.

* In ''The Sword Bearer'', John is raised by his maternal grandmother after his mother dies in childbirth. His father is missing [[spoiler:until late in the book, and didn't even know he ''had'' a child.]]

* In the book ''Tracker'' by Gary Paulsen, the protagonist is a thirteen-year-old boy and avid hunter named John Borne. John lives with his grandparents, Clay and Abigail Borne, and his real (deceased) parents are mentioned only once in the entire story.

* In Jack Vance's ''Demon Princes'' quintet, young Kirth Gersen is raised by his grandfather Rolf after ''everyone else in their family'' is either enslaved or murdered by the titular villains. Grandpa turns him onto (and trains him for) the path of vengeance.

* In the original version of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus,'' Keesha Franklin appears to be under the guardianship of her grandmother -- but in [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBusRidesAgain the reboot,]] she's retconned into being the daughter of [[HasTwoMommies a lesbian couple.]]

** This is repeated again in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'' with Aguri a.k.a the kid that turns into the Trump Card of Love, Cure Ace.

* Pinako Rockbell of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' raised her granddaughter, Winry, after the murder of the young girl's parents. This was immediately after the death of the mother of two neighborhood boys (prior in the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 adaptation]]), Ed and Al Elric, and she ended up with all three. She seems to have done a good job, as all three are prodigies in their respective scientific fields.

* Link is raised by his grandparents in the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda manga adaptations]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames''.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': In this ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfiction, it's revealed that after [[Characters/TheUltimateEvil Drago]]'s human mother died when he was a child, his [[spoiler:paternal]] grandfather, [[spoiler:the demon Typhon]], apparently stepped in to rear him.

* Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe was raised a large portion of his life by his maternal grandparents. He was shuffled between them and living with his mother, before settling with them permeantly when he was 13. In his book The Heroin Diaries he says he considers his grandparents as Mom and Dad, and cites they are responsible for "all the good things in me. They gave me my soft heart."

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The only person shown at Mitch's home is his grandmother. His parents aren't even mentioned.[[note]]The home is seen in "Getting Twiggy with It".[[/note]]

** In the flashback chapter 387 of the manga [[spoiler: Kageyama Tobio and his older sister Miwa are shown to mainly have been taken care of and mentored by their grandfather Kazuyo. Their [[InvisibleParents parents are mentioned but never seen on screen]] despite the chapter pretty much showing Tobio's entire childhood. Kazuyo and Tobio shared a particularly close bond because of their shared interest in volleyball and the fact that Tobio [[FriendlessBackground had trouble connecting to anyone else.]] Kazuyo's death when Tobio was in middle school affected him greatly, to no one's surprise.]]