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Precedes ChildrenRaiseYou, PromotionToParent, and ParentalSubstitute. Often an [[EndingTropes Ending Trope]] but not always. It also works well simply at the end of a StoryArc or in a BackStory. Since this is a DeathTrope, there is of course a '''SPOILER WARNING!'''

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Precedes ChildrenRaiseYou, PromotionToParent, and ParentalSubstitute. Often an [[EndingTropes Ending Trope]] but not always. It also works well simply at the end of a StoryArc or in a BackStory. Since BackStory.

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* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Triela is something of a TeamMom to the cyborg girls. When she's wounded (eventually fatally) during the Turin attack, she tells Rico to look after the others.
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This may even be a twofer, as the disciple in question (John) was [[DownplayedTrope likely]] the TagalongKid among the Twelve (apart form "significantly younger" than his brother James, it's unclear just how old John was at that point), "whom he loved" might mean HappilyAdopted, and Jesus also instructs ''Mary'' to take care of ''John'' as if he were her son.

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This may even be a twofer, as the disciple in question (John) was [[DownplayedTrope likely]] the TagalongKid among the Twelve (apart form from being "significantly younger" than his brother James, it's unclear just how ''how'' old John was at that point), the point where he JumpedAtTheCall), "whom he loved" might mean HappilyAdopted, and Jesus also instructs ''Mary'' to take care of ''John'' as if he were her son.

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* {{Inverted}} in Literature/TheBible; when Jesus was on the cross, he saw his mother, Mary, standing with "the disciple whom he loved" and instructed him to take care of her from now on, which he did. Mary was implied to have been widowed by that point, and in ancient Judean culture would have needed a grown son for financial support. (Whether or not she had others is [[http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201312/did-jesus-have-brothers-and-sisters-28224 open for debate]].)

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* {{Inverted}} in Literature/TheBible; when Jesus was on the cross, he saw his mother, Mary, standing with "the disciple whom he loved" and instructed him to take care of her from now on, which he did. Mary was implied to have been widowed by that point, and in ancient Judean culture would have needed a grown son for financial support. (Whether or not she had others is [[http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201312/did-jesus-have-brothers-and-sisters-28224 open for debate]].)) \\
This may even be a twofer, as the disciple in question (John) was [[DownplayedTrope likely]] the TagalongKid among the Twelve (apart form "significantly younger" than his brother James, it's unclear just how old John was at that point), "whom he loved" might mean HappilyAdopted, and Jesus also instructs ''Mary'' to take care of ''John'' as if he were her son.
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* Subverted in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' when Sousuke's mother hands him off to Kalinin to raise... who then sends him off (albeit inadvertently) to the ''KGB''. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero To be trained as a child assassin.]]

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* Subverted in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' when Sousuke's mother hands him off to Kalinin to raise... who then sends him off (albeit inadvertently) to the ''KGB''. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero To be trained as a child assassin.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheLunarChronicles,'' this is why [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Levana]] keeps her stepdaughter [[Literature/SnowWhite Winter]] around--Winter's father Evret was probably the only person whom Levana ever loved, and his last words were asking her to take care of Winter.
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** Tina Greer LastWords were "Take care of Lana" to Clark.
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* ''Anime/BuddyDaddies'': Miri's mother, Misaki, entrusts Kazuki to take care of her daughter as she slowly dies in his arms after being shot by one of the assassins hired by Kazuki's boss.


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* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Despite hating each other, Nora tells Lynette to take care of her daughter, Kayla, after she got shot during a hostage situation in the supermarket.
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* At the end of ''Frozen River'', [[spoiler:Ray agrees to take the rap for running the smuggling operation, in exchange for Lila raising her kids while she's in jail]].

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* At the end of ''Frozen River'', ''Film/FrozenRiver'', [[spoiler:Ray agrees to take the rap for running the smuggling operation, in exchange for Lila raising her kids while she's in jail]].
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* During the Holocaust, many Jewish parents turned their children over to Christian orphanages, secret helpers, or even just other Jews who had a better chance of escape for one reason or another.
* Many parents in London, England, put their children on trains to more remote parts of the country during the Blitz in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII so that they could escape the frequent bombings in the city. The parents had no way of knowing if they would ever see their children again; they had to trust that the distant strangers who were opening their homes would take good care of them.
* For a more recent example, there were the events of September 11, 2001. As many parents trapped in the doomed towers and on the planes could contact their spouse/loved ones, they often made this their dying request.

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* During the Holocaust, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, many Jewish parents turned their children over to Christian orphanages, secret helpers, or even just other Jews who had a better chance of escape for one reason or another.
* The BlitzEvacuees: Many parents in London, England, UsefulNotes/{{London}} put their children on trains to more remote parts of the country during the German Blitz in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII so that they could escape the frequent bombings in the city. The parents who didn't have relatives to send their children to had no way of knowing if they would ever see their children them again; they had to trust that the distant strangers who were opening their homes would take good care of them.
* For a more recent example, there were the events of September 11, 2001. As many parents trapped in the doomed towers and on the planes could contact their spouse/loved ones, ones with cellphones, they often made this their dying request.
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* A tweaked example in ''Film/TheToweringInferno'': An explosion knocked the scenic elevator off its track. Lisolette (who had gone to great lengths to save two children, a boy and a girl, in the tower) was holding the girl. She shoves her into someone else's arms before [[TearJerker falling from the glass elevator]] to her death.



* In ''Film/TheLoneRanger,'' Dan, after being fatally shot, asks his brother to take care of his family.
* At the end of ''Frozen River'', [[spoiler:Ray agrees to take the rap for running the smuggling operation, in exchange for Lila raising her kids while she's in jail]].
* At the end of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', as Danny is dying, Rafe encourages him stay alive, revealing that he's going to be a father. Danny replies, "No, you are." The final scene is of Rafe and Evelyn, married and happily raising 'their' son.



* Much like the example in RealLife, below, this is shown in the beginning of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarniaTheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The Pevensie children's mother and many other London parents are shown putting their children onto trains that will take them into the English countryside, where they will hopefully escape the devastation which is the Blitz in World War II.



* In ''Film/TrainToBusan'', Sang-hwa's LastRequest to Seok-woo is to take care of his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong and their unborn child. [[spoiler:Seok-woo eventually gets Seong-kyeong and his own daughter Su-an to Busan at the cost of his own life.]]

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* At the end of ''Frozen River'', [[spoiler:Ray agrees to take the rap for running the smuggling operation, in exchange for Lila raising her kids while she's in jail]].
* ''Film/Godzilla2014'': When Joe's wife and Ford's mother [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Sandra]] is dying of radiation poisoning, she pleads with Joe [[WindowLove through the window]] to be a good father for Ford before she perishes.
* In ''Film/TrainToBusan'', Sang-hwa's LastRequest to Seok-woo is ''Film/TheLoneRanger,'' Dan, after being fatally shot, asks his brother to take care of his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong and their unborn child. [[spoiler:Seok-woo eventually gets Seong-kyeong and his own daughter Su-an to Busan at the cost of his own life.]]family.



* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'', have the protagonist Luo's close friend, Lei getting mortally wounded in an ambush against the villainess' group of thugs. After every one of those mooks are taken down, Lei begs for Luo to pull a MercyKill on him and take care of his young daughter, Charmaine, a little girl suffering from kidney failure.



* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'', have the protagonist Luo's close friend, Lei getting mortally wounded in an ambush against the villainess' group of thugs. After every one of those mooks are taken down, Lei begs for Luo to pull a MercyKill on him and take care of his young daughter, Charmaine, a little girl suffering from kidney failure.
* Much like the example in RealLife, below, this is shown in the beginning of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarniaTheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The Pevensie children's mother and many other London parents are shown putting their children onto trains that will take them into the English countryside, where they will hopefully escape the devastation which is the Blitz in World War II.

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* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'', have At the protagonist Luo's close friend, Lei getting mortally wounded in an ambush against the villainess' group end of thugs. After every one of those mooks are taken down, Lei begs for Luo to pull a MercyKill on ''Film/PearlHarbor'', as Danny is dying, Rafe encourages him and take care of his young daughter, Charmaine, a little girl suffering from kidney failure.
* Much like the example in RealLife, below, this is shown in the beginning of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarniaTheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The Pevensie children's mother and many other London parents are shown putting their children onto trains
stay alive, revealing that will take them into the English countryside, where they will hopefully escape the devastation which he's going to be a father. Danny replies, "No, you are." The final scene is the Blitz in World War II.of Rafe and Evelyn, married and happily raising 'their' son.


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* A tweaked example in ''Film/TheToweringInferno'': An explosion knocked the scenic elevator off its track. Lisolette (who had gone to great lengths to save two children, a boy and a girl, in the tower) was holding the girl. She shoves her into someone else's arms before [[TearJerker falling from the glass elevator]] to her death.
* In ''Film/TrainToBusan'', Sang-hwa's LastRequest to Seok-woo is to take care of his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong and their unborn child. [[spoiler:Seok-woo eventually gets Seong-kyeong and his own daughter Su-an to Busan at the cost of his own life.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS4E1And2MineIsTerribleToWaste A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste]]", the team begins swapping backstories while trying to get out of the old mine Plunder used to imprison them. When it's Ma-Ti's turn, he talks about his parents participating in a protest against clear-cutting the Amazon. Ma-Ti's parents insisted that he stay with his grandfather because the upcoming confrontation with the clear-cutting advocates could be dangerous. Given that the flashback shows that his parents began crying once he was out of sight, it's clear that they knew they would probably die and were making sure their son had a home.
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* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'', have the protagonist Luo's close friend, Lei getting mortally wounded in an ambush against the villainess' group of thugs. After every one of those mooks are taken down, Lei begs for Luo to pull a MercyKill on him and take care of his young daughter, Charmaine, a little IllGirl suffering from kidney failure.

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* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'', have the protagonist Luo's close friend, Lei getting mortally wounded in an ambush against the villainess' group of thugs. After every one of those mooks are taken down, Lei begs for Luo to pull a MercyKill on him and take care of his young daughter, Charmaine, a little IllGirl girl suffering from kidney failure.

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* PlayedWith in ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure''--part one ends with [[BigBad Dio]] massacring [[TheHeroDies Jonathan]] and everyone else on a ship, leaving Erina and a baby girl as the {{Sole Survivor}}s. Erina wanted to stay and die with Jonathan, but he noted how the baby's mother [[MamaBear died protecting her]], and urged Erina to take the child and escape. The episode/storyline ends with Erina floating with the baby alone in the wreckage, with the narrator informing us that [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Erina was pregnant herself]]. [[spoiler:The baby girl, Lisa Lisa, was raised by their companion Straizo, marries Erina's son George, and becomes the mother of the next protagonist, Joseph Joestar.]]

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* PlayedWith in ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure''--part one ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood''. It ends with [[BigBad Dio]] massacring [[TheHeroDies Jonathan]] and everyone else on a ship, leaving Erina and a baby girl as the {{Sole Survivor}}s. Erina wanted to stay and die with Jonathan, but he noted how the baby's mother [[MamaBear died protecting her]], and urged Erina to take the child and escape. The episode/storyline ends with Erina floating with the baby alone in the wreckage, with the narrator informing us that [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Erina was pregnant herself]]. [[spoiler:The baby girl, Lisa Lisa, was raised by their companion Straizo, marries Erina's son George, and becomes the mother of the next protagonist, [[Manga/BattleTendency Joseph Joestar.]]]]]]






* In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney2Resolve'', [[spoiler:Klint van Zieks]]'s last request to [[spoiler:Genshin Asogi]] was to take care of his unborn child. When [[spoiler:Genshin]] found himself on death row, he passed the request along to [[spoiler:Yujin Mikotoba]]. However, the mother died in childbirth, and [[spoiler:Yujin]] was recalled from Britain shortly thereafter. Not allowed to take an unknown baby with him overseas, he left the child in the care of [[spoiler:Herlock Sholmes]] who's raised [[spoiler:Iris]] ever since.



* A variant: In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage,'' [[spoiler:Baron Reinhold asks this of whoever manages to solve the mystery of the golden apple. The "golden apple" in question is his daughter, Flora; upon resolving the matter, Layton adopts her.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', [[TheBeastmaster Takkar]] discovers that his erstwhile enemy, Warchief Ull of the [[CannibalTribe Udam tribe]], has a daughter and a [[spoiler:baby]], right after lethally injuring him in their confrontation. Ull, who can't bring himself to [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring take his baby]] with him]], instead asks Takkar to adopt [[spoiler:both]] his children into the Wenja tribe to make sure [[spoiler:they]] don't die of "skull fire", [[spoiler:like all the grown-up Udam have been.]] Takkar [[PetTheDog grants Ull's last request]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': Shortly before the final battle, Velvet asks Eleanor to look after Laphicet if something should happen to her. Part of this is because they're going up against a god so survival is unlikely, but Velvet has also begun to suspect that her life is tied to the BigBad, so if he dies she might too. [[spoiler:Velvet ends up [[SealedEvilInADuel sealing him in a duel]], while Laphicet becomes a god and takes his place. Eleanor decides the best way to fulfill her promise to Velvet is to turn the Abbey into a force of good that will support their new god]].

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* A variant: In variant in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage,'' [[spoiler:Baron Reinhold asks this of whoever manages to solve the mystery of the golden apple. The "golden apple" in question is his daughter, Flora; upon resolving the matter, Layton adopts her.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', [[TheBeastmaster Takkar]] discovers that his erstwhile enemy, Warchief Ull of the [[CannibalTribe Udam tribe]], has a daughter and a [[spoiler:baby]], right after lethally injuring him in their confrontation. Ull, who can't bring himself to [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring take his baby]] with him]], instead asks Takkar to adopt [[spoiler:both]] his children into the Wenja tribe to make sure [[spoiler:they]] don't die of "skull fire", [[spoiler:like all the grown-up Udam have been.]] Takkar [[PetTheDog grants Ull's last request]].
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** ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'': If you refuse to let go of Fractured Milla when she is being sucked into the summoning portal, and her RelationshipValues with Ludger are high enough, then she tells Ludger to let her go so he can save Elle. If Ludger continues to hold on, she lets go herself and her last words plead to him to take care of Elle.
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''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': Shortly before the final battle, Velvet asks Eleanor to look after Laphicet if something should happen to her. Part of this is because they're going up against a god so survival is unlikely, but Velvet has also begun to suspect that her life is tied to the BigBad, so if he dies she might too. [[spoiler:Velvet ends up [[SealedEvilInADuel sealing him in a duel]], while Laphicet becomes a god and takes his place. Eleanor decides the best way to fulfill her promise to Velvet is to turn the Abbey into a force of good that will support their new god]].



* In ''WesternAnimation/ArcaneLeagueOfLegends'', Vander is fatally wounded by an explosion and asks Vi to look after Powder before dying. [[spoiler:However, Vi immediately learns Powder was indirectly responsible for Vander's death and by extension, Mylo's and Claggor's. In a rage, Vi assaults Powder and walks away from her, which led to her getting captured and Powder being taken in by Silco]].



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Right before allowing the Magus to put him under the same indefinite sleep spell as the rest of his clan, Goliath asks the Magus and Princess Catherine to protect his clan's eggs. [[spoiler: They do.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Right before allowing the Magus to put him under the same indefinite sleep spell as the rest of his clan, Goliath asks the Magus and Princess Catherine to protect his clan's eggs. [[spoiler: They [[spoiler:They do.]]
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* Nod's father in ''WesternAnimation/{{EPIC}}'' asks Ronin to do this.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', when Woody is grabbed by Sid's dog Scud, he tells Buzz to "take care of Andy for me." Buzz [[WhatYouAreInTheDark rescues him]] instead.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', when Woody is grabbed by Sid's dog Scud, he tells Buzz to "take care of Andy for me." Buzz [[WhatYouAreInTheDark rescues him]] instead.
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* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'', have the protagonist Luo's close friend, Lei getting mortally wounded in an ambush against the villainess' group of thugs. After every one of those mooks are taken down, Lei begs for Luo to pull a MercyKill on him and take care of his young daughter, Charmaine, a little IllGirl suffering from kidney failure.

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* A non-fatal variant appears in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' after Jessie's mother remarries and she gains a stepbrother. The relationship is a little awkward, and the stepbrother makes plans to move back to New Jersey to live with his mother. His parting injunction to Slater, Jessie's boyfriend, is "Take care of my sister."



* A non-fatal variant appears in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' after Jessie's mother remarries and she gains a stepbrother. The relationship is a little awkward, and the stepbrother makes plans to move back to New Jersey to live with his mother. His parting injunction to Slater, Jessie's boyfriend, is "Take care of my sister."

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* A non-fatal variant appears in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' after Jessie's mother remarries and she gains a stepbrother. The relationship is a little awkward, and the stepbrother makes plans to move back to New Jersey to live with his mother. His parting injunction to Slater, Jessie's boyfriend, is "Take care of my sister."

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* Part of Crow's BackStory in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': His father figure Robert Pearson, while trapped in a burning building, told Crow to escape, take his bike and deck, and watch over the rest of the kids he'd taken in.
** After their Duel, a dying Bommer asked Crow to look after his younger siblings before crumbling to dust. However Crow didn't have to since Bommer was resurrected at the end of that story arc.
* Aiolos Sagittarius in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' gave the baby Saori to Mitsumasa Kido. She wasn't his kid, though; he was trying to protect her from the evil Pope, who wanted to kill her because she was Athena's reincarnation, and got killed in the effort.



* In ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'', this trope is why [[spoiler: Rita Rossi, Cream and Chocolate]] are members of the Dandelion Troupe. [[spoiler: Rita's parents owned another circus, which burned down one night; before they tried to save the rest of their animals, they went up to the Troupe, handed them little Rita and the baby lions, and asked them to take care of the little girl and the cubs. Few minutes after this, the circus tent collapsed and the Rossis died, so the Troupe fulfilled the Rossis' LastRequest and took the three in as a part of the crew.]]
* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', [[spoiler:Aguri Yukimura's last request to [[PersonOfMassDestruction Koro-sensei]] before dying is for him to devote the last year of his life to taking care of her students. Despite his insistence that he could never care for someone else as much as he does her, in his year as Class 3-E's teacher he grows to genuinely love his students]].



* A flashback towards the end of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' reveals that this was the intent of Kyoko Honda's last words to [[spoiler:Kyo Sohma]]. Upon seeing the now-teenage boy she'd befriended when he was a child, she attempted to remind him of the promise he'd made to her as a child to look after her daughter, Tohru. Unfortunately, because of her injuries, her words didn't all come out, causing [[spoiler:Kyo]] to mistake her words for a DyingDeclarationOfHate for his failure to save her. This causes trouble for his relationship with Tohru later on, [[spoiler:but [[OfficialCouple he keeps]] [[HappilyMarried the promise]] [[GrowOldWithMe nevertheless]].]]
* As revealed in a flashback, this was the dying request of Roy's alchemy teacher/Riza's father in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist.'' Granted, "take care of my daughter" ''probably'' didn't mean "make her your personal assistant and bodyguard," but hey, the woman is damn good at what she does.
* PlayedWith in ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure''--part one ends with [[BigBad Dio]] massacring [[TheHeroDies Jonathan]] and everyone else on a ship, leaving Erina and a baby girl as the {{Sole Survivor}}s. Erina wanted to stay and die with Jonathan, but he noted how the baby's mother [[MamaBear died protecting her]], and urged Erina to take the child and escape. The episode/storyline ends with Erina floating with the baby alone in the wreckage, with the narrator informing us that [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Erina was pregnant herself]]. [[spoiler:The baby girl, Lisa Lisa, was raised by their companion Straizo, marries Erina's son George, and becomes the mother of the next protagonist, Joseph Joestar.]]



* As revealed in a flashback, this was the dying request of Roy's alchemy teacher/Riza's father in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist.'' Granted, "take care of my daughter" ''probably'' didn't mean "make her your personal assistant and bodyguard," but hey, the woman is damn good at what she does.

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* As revealed in a flashback, In ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit,'' this is both the main plot and back story: when the Second Queen of Yogo suspects that her husband is trying to kill their son [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Chagum]], she tasks [[LadyOfWar Balsa]], a warrior-woman who happened to stop the most recent assassination attempt, to run away with him and keep him safe. As the series progresses, we learn that Balsa herself was once the "kid" in this trope, being taken in by a warrior named [[PapaWolf Jigoro]] on her dying request of Roy's alchemy teacher/Riza's father father's request. A WholeEpisodeFlashback later fills in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist.'' Granted, "take care of my daughter" ''probably'' didn't mean "make her your personal assistant and bodyguard," but hey, the woman is damn good at what she does.details.



* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Gol D. Roger allowed himself to be captured by the Marines since he was dying of a terminal illness and wanted to go out in a more spectacular fashion. The night before his execution he confided in Monkey D. Garp, his most persistent foe among the Marines, that he had a pregnant lover. He told Garp that due to their frequent battles against each other, [[WorthyOpponent he knew and trusted Garp as well as he did any of his crew.]] He thus knew he could trust Garp to take care of his unborn child. And Garp does.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': During the Scrambled Eggs arc, Fuutarou tries to get the Nakanos' grandfather to teach him how to tell them apart. Eventually, the old man seems to jugde Fuutarou is trustworthy enough and asks him to take care of his granddaughters, since he's ill and doesn't have much time to live.
* Aiolos Sagittarius in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' gave the baby Saori to Mitsumasa Kido. She wasn't his kid, though; he was trying to protect her from the evil Pope, who wanted to kill her because she was Athena's reincarnation, and got killed in the effort.



* In ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'', this trope is why [[spoiler: Rita Rossi, Cream and Chocolate]] are members of the Dandelion Troupe. [[spoiler: Rita's parents owned another circus, which burned down one night; before they tried to save the rest of their animals, they went up to the Troupe, handed them little Rita and the baby lions, and asked them to take care of the little girl and the cubs. Few minutes after this, the circus tent collapsed and the Rossis died, so the Troupe fulfilled the Rossis' LastRequest and took the three in as a part of the crew.]]
* In ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit,'' this is both the main plot and back story: when the Second Queen of Yogo suspects that her husband is trying to kill their son [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Chagum]], she tasks [[LadyOfWar Balsa]], a warrior-woman who happened to stop the most recent assassination attempt, to run away with him and keep him safe. As the series progresses, we learn that Balsa herself was once the "kid" in this trope, being taken in by a warrior named [[PapaWolf Jigoro]] on her dying father's request. A WholeEpisodeFlashback later fills in the details.
* PlayedWith in ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure''--part one ends with [[BigBad Dio]] massacring [[TheHeroDies Jonathan]] and everyone else on a ship, leaving Erina and a baby girl as the {{Sole Survivor}}s. Erina wanted to stay and die with Jonathan, but he noted how the baby's mother [[MamaBear died protecting her]], and urged Erina to take the child and escape. The episode/storyline ends with Erina floating with the baby alone in the wreckage, with the narrator informing us that [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Erina was pregnant herself]]. [[spoiler:The baby girl, Lisa Lisa, was raised by their companion Straizo, marries Erina's son George, and becomes the mother of the next protagonist, Joseph Joestar.]]
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Gol D. Roger allowed himself to be captured by the Marines since he was dying of a terminal illness and wanted to go out in a more spectacular fashion. The night before his execution he confided in Monkey D. Garp, his most persistent foe among the Marines, that he had a pregnant lover. He told Garp that due to their frequent battles against each other, [[WorthyOpponent he knew and trusted Garp as well as he did any of his crew.]] He thus knew he could trust Garp to take care of his unborn child. And Garp does.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': During the Scrambled Eggs arc, Fuutarou tries to get the Nakanos' grandfather to teach him how to tell them apart. Eventually, the old man seems to jugde Fuutarou is trustworthy enough and asks him to take care of his granddaughters, since he's ill and doesn't have much time to live.
* A flashback towards the end of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' reveals that this was the intent of Kyoko Honda's last words to [[spoiler:Kyo Sohma]]. Upon seeing the now-teenage boy she'd befriended when he was a child, she attempted to remind him of the promise he'd made to her as a child to look after her daughter, Tohru. Unfortunately, because of her injuries, her words didn't all come out, causing [[spoiler:Kyo]] to mistake her words for a DyingDeclarationOfHate for his failure to save her. This causes trouble for his relationship with Tohru later on, [[spoiler:but [[OfficialCouple he keeps]] [[HappilyMarried the promise]] [[GrowOldWithMe nevertheless]].]]

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* In ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'', this trope is why [[spoiler: Rita Rossi, Cream Part of Crow's BackStory in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': His father figure Robert Pearson, while trapped in a burning building, told Crow to escape, take his bike and Chocolate]] are members of the Dandelion Troupe. [[spoiler: Rita's parents owned another circus, which burned down one night; before they tried to save deck, and watch over the rest of their animals, they went up to the Troupe, handed them little Rita and the baby lions, and asked them to take care of the little girl and the cubs. Few minutes after this, the circus tent collapsed and the Rossis died, so the Troupe fulfilled the Rossis' LastRequest and took the three in as a part of the crew.]]
* In ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit,'' this is both the main plot and back story: when the Second Queen of Yogo suspects that her husband is trying to kill their son [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Chagum]], she tasks [[LadyOfWar Balsa]], a warrior-woman who happened to stop the most recent assassination attempt, to run away with him and keep him safe. As the series progresses, we learn that Balsa herself was once the "kid" in this trope, being taken in by a warrior named [[PapaWolf Jigoro]] on her dying father's request. A WholeEpisodeFlashback later fills in the details.
* PlayedWith in ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure''--part one ends with [[BigBad Dio]] massacring [[TheHeroDies Jonathan]] and everyone else on a ship, leaving Erina and a baby girl as the {{Sole Survivor}}s. Erina wanted to stay and die with Jonathan, but he noted how the baby's mother [[MamaBear died protecting her]], and urged Erina to take the child and escape. The episode/storyline ends with Erina floating with the baby alone in the wreckage, with the narrator informing us that [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Erina was pregnant herself]]. [[spoiler:The baby girl, Lisa Lisa, was raised by their companion Straizo, marries Erina's son George, and becomes the mother of the next protagonist, Joseph Joestar.]]
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Gol D. Roger allowed himself to be captured by the Marines since he was dying of a terminal illness and wanted to go out in a more spectacular fashion. The night before his execution he confided in Monkey D. Garp, his most persistent foe among the Marines, that he had a pregnant lover. He told Garp that due to their frequent battles against each other, [[WorthyOpponent he knew and trusted Garp as well as he did any of his crew.]] He thus knew he could trust Garp to take care of his unborn child. And Garp does.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': During the Scrambled Eggs arc, Fuutarou tries to get the Nakanos' grandfather to teach him how to tell them apart. Eventually, the old man seems to jugde Fuutarou is trustworthy enough and asks him to take care of his granddaughters, since he's ill and doesn't have much time to live.
* A flashback towards the end of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' reveals that this was the intent of Kyoko Honda's last words to [[spoiler:Kyo Sohma]]. Upon seeing the now-teenage boy she'd befriended when he was a child, she attempted to remind him of the promise
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a child dying Bommer asked Crow to look after her daughter, Tohru. Unfortunately, because of her injuries, her words his younger siblings before crumbling to dust. However Crow didn't all come out, causing [[spoiler:Kyo]] have to mistake her words for a DyingDeclarationOfHate for his failure to save her. This causes trouble for his relationship with Tohru later on, [[spoiler:but [[OfficialCouple he keeps]] [[HappilyMarried since Bommer was resurrected at the promise]] [[GrowOldWithMe nevertheless]].]]end of that story arc.
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* ''Film/MyLifeAsADog'': The illness of Ingemar’s mother’s necessitates that he and Erik temporarily stay with relatives. When the kids are back home in the city and she is in the hospital, Ingemar and Erik are taken in by their Uncle Sandberg, but Sandberg’s wife [[LackOfEmpathy voices displeasure]] at taking in the kids. [[spoiler: After Ingemar’s mom passes away, he is sent back to his Uncle Gunnar in Småland]].

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** [[spoiler: Implied with the end where When [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is on the verge of death after his HeroicSacrifice, he doesn't have enough energy to speak, but is clearly struggling. It is only after his wife Pepper Potts assures him that she and their young daughter will be okay that he is able to relax and peacefully passes away in Pepper's arms.]]
* In ''Film/TheLoneRanger,'' Dan, after being fatally shot, asked his brother to take care of his family.

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* A flashback towards the end of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' reveals that this was the intent of Kyoko Honda's last words to [[spoiler:Kyo Sohma]]. Upon seeing the now-teenage boy she'd befriended when he was a child, she'd attempted to remind him of the promise he'd made to her as a child to look after her daughter, Tohru. Unfortunately, because of her injuries, her words didn't all come out, causing [[spoiler:Kyo]] to mistake her words for a DyingDeclarationOfHate for his failure to save her. This causes trouble for his relationship with Tohru later on, [[spoiler:but [[OfficialCouple he keeps]] [[HappilyMarried the promise]] [[GrowOldWithMe nevertheless]].]]

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* A flashback towards the end of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' reveals that this was the intent of Kyoko Honda's last words to [[spoiler:Kyo Sohma]]. Upon seeing the now-teenage boy she'd befriended when he was a child, she'd she attempted to remind him of the promise he'd made to her as a child to look after her daughter, Tohru. Unfortunately, because of her injuries, her words didn't all come out, causing [[spoiler:Kyo]] to mistake her words for a DyingDeclarationOfHate for his failure to save her. This causes trouble for his relationship with Tohru later on, [[spoiler:but [[OfficialCouple he keeps]] [[HappilyMarried the promise]] [[GrowOldWithMe nevertheless]].]]
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* ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors'': The only memory the main hero Hylas has of his MissingMom is her telling him to take care of his little sister Issi when she left them on Mount Lykas when Hylas was five and Issi two years old. This memory is one of [[IWillFindYou his biggest motivators to find Issi]] when they're separated for most of the series. [[spoiler:It's revealed in ''Eye of the Falcon'' that their mother only left them to search for help, but she succumbed to illness. Her ghost appears briefly in the same book to tell Hylas that Issi's alive and beg him to find her.]]
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* {{Inverted}} in Literature/TheBible; when Jesus was on the cross, he saw his mother, Mary, standing with "the disciple whom he loved" and instructed him to take care of her from now on, which he did. Mary was implied to have been widowed by that point, and in ancient Judean culture would have needed a grown son for financial support. (Whether or not she had others is [[http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201312/did-jesus-have-brothers-a nd-sisters-28224 open for debate]].)

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* Implied with the end of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. [[spoiler:When [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is on the verge of death after his HeroicSacrifice, he doesn't have enough energy to speak, but is clearly struggling. It is only after his wife Pepper Potts assures him that she and their young daughter will be okay that he is able to relax and peacefully passes away in Pepper's arms.]]

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** [[spoiler: Just before he goes to make the sacrifice for the Soul Stone, Clint tells Natasha to "look after my family for me". She's already an HonoraryAunt, so it makes perfect sense to entrust them to her.]]
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