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| 10 | [[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raised_by_wolves.jpg]]]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:350:"[[Music/PhilCollins Two worlds]], one family."]] |
| 12 | ->''"Well, yet ''another'' backstory, that... Basically, my parents disowned me; I was being raised by ocelots."'' |
| 13 | -->-- '''[[Characters/PhineasAndFerbHeinzDoofenshmirtz Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]]''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheChroniclesOfMeap The Chronicles of Meap]]" |
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| 15 | A character who lost their human parents and was raised by animals. |
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| 17 | Animals in fiction range from the [[FunnyAnimal almost human]] to the bestial, but since MostWritersAreHuman, animals tend to think, feel and talk like we do. Thus a literal MamaBear might be an ordinary parent -- or a wildly offbeat role model. This trope ranges from a purely cosmetic touch of exoticism to a comedy trope to a full-blown ''otherness'' trope that drives drama. |
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| 19 | A character raised by animals will seem unusual to ordinary folk. They may speak crudely or just strangely. They are a FunnyForeigner -- but without the risk of offending an audience member. In more extreme cases they have NoSocialSkills, and it is common for them to be BetterWithNonHumanCompany. |
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| 21 | Expect to see at least some discrimination. His adoptive siblings might get over him being funny-lookin', human society might get over them scratching their head with their foot, but he may ultimately be seen as a HalfHumanHybrid. |
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| 23 | It can be an extreme case of the longing for the GoodOldWays -- a vision of the good life before any of the corrupting influences of civilization, the NobleSavage being InHarmonyWithNature. They may be a NatureHero or a JunglePrincess. Sometimes they pick up powers from their family. LamarckWasRight: MysteriousAnimalSenses abound and having birds for family teaches flight. |
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| 25 | Expect a character of this type to have a NameFromAnotherSpecies as a result of being raised by animals. |
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| 27 | In their original setting expect to see {{Loin Cloth}}s, pelts, {{Fur Bikini}}s and WildHair. The character sometimes PrefersGoingBarefoot. A quick route to {{Fanservice}} is having no [[InnocentFanserviceGirl nudity]] [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl taboo]]. |
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| 29 | Even if things are not that bad, expect a tougher, rougher, childhood. But the UpbringingMakesTheHero, so these early trials pay off later. At a minimum, someone who was Raised by Wolves will be a bit wild; impulsive, aggressive or just more in touch with base human drives. |
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| 31 | Can be a case of NurtureOverNature, if the character chooses the nurturing of the wild over the nature of humanity - or NatureVersusNurture, choosing the nature of humanity over the nurture of civilized society, depending on the writer's viewpoint. |
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| 33 | For the most realistic take where lack of human contact makes kids feral and mute, see WildChild. For a more intelligent AlwaysChaoticEvil variation, see RaisedByOrcs. Frequently overlaps with NatureLover and NatureHero. |
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| 35 | A SubTrope of InterspeciesAdoption, which doesn't require that the parents be "uncivilized beasts". Contrast to RaisedByHumans. Not to be confused with the 2020 HBO Max series ''Series/{{Raised by Wolves|2020}}'', which actually deals with an example of RaisedByRobots. |
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| 38 | !!Examples: |
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| 40 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 42 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 43 | * In one of the "Behold the Power of Cheese" ads, three guys at a party eye the last piece of cheese on a platter. The first guy starts to take it and his mother appears on his shoulder telling him to let someone else have it. The second guy starts to take it when his mother appears saying "Don't be greedy, you weren't raised by wolves!". The third guy looks at the cheese and a howling wolf appears. After the third guy takes the cheese, the two Mothers shout "Animal!" at him. Then as a tag the third guy sticks his face in a punchbowl to lap up a drink. |
| 44 | * An infamous Quizno's ad featured two men sitting on a bench with subway sandwiches. The man with the Quizno's sub says "Untoasted? What, were you raised by wolves?" Cue the second guy [[note]]Hey, it's [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon]]![[/note]] having a flashback of himself, still adult and in a three-piece suit, nursing from a mother wolf with her pups. He then responds back in the present [[BluntYes "Why yes. Yes, I was."]] Enough people were put off by this ad that it was taken off the air, then put back on with the nursing scene cut out. |
| 45 | * A GEICO commercial about a newly wed couple having dinner with family. Turns out, Chad the groom really was raised by wolves. He even invited them to the wedding! |
| 46 | [[/folder]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 49 | * In a literal take on the trope, Byrne of ''Animation/{{Dreamkix}}'' is the adopted son of a wolf couple who seem to switch between being civilized and being feral. It definitely explains parts of his personality. |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 53 | * Ran Komatsuzaki from ''Akai Kiba Blue Sonnet'' was raised by wolves until she was five, yet she has a normal personality and skills. She was simply a normal school girl in her primary personality with a secondary personality who had a more aggressive personality and phenomenal cosmic power for reasons that had nothing to do with her wolf parents. |
| 54 | * In ''Manga/AnimalLand'', Tarouza and other human children were each raised by different animals. |
| 55 | * Yamato from ''Anime/BattleBDaman'' was raised by cats. Not tigers or anything, normal stray cats. Later he is adopted by a relative -- possibly his birth mother. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheBeast'': Well, a humanoid bear with some help from a pig and a monkey, but still. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ichirouhiko is actually a human that Iouzen found abandoned as a baby and raised as his own.]] |
| 57 | * UsefulNotes/SarutobiSasuke from ''Manga/Brave10'' was abandoned in the forest as a boy. Therefore, he became more [[NoSocialSkills antisocial]] with humans but [[SpeaksFluentAnimal gets along better with animals]]. |
| 58 | * ''Anime/SpiderRiders'': Aqune was raised by Insectors. Insectors act like human beings, so she does. |
| 59 | * Mana from ''Manga/MermaidSaga'', having been raised by [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]], suffers quite a bit of this. |
| 60 | * Umi and Sora from ''Manga/ChildrenOfTheSea'' were raised by dugongs after being lost at sea as toddlers. |
| 61 | * In the ''Franchise/OnePiece'' film ''Anime/ChoppersKingdomOnTheIslandOfStrangeAnimals'', Mobambi was raised by a giant lion-quill hybrid. |
| 62 | * Wang Hu from ''Anime/CrushGearTurbo'' was raised by a white tiger. |
| 63 | * Inosuke Hashibira from ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' was raised by a wild sow, hence his [[AnimalMotifs boar motif]]. It's later revealed that this happened after [[spoiler:his mother threw him off a cliff in an attempt to save him before she was killed by the demon Doma]]. |
| 64 | * Ikuto/Keenan from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' was raised by a Frigimon for most of his life after being taken away from his parents via a Digital Gate. He eventually came to terms that he was human after spending some time in the real world, but continued to have the brave heart of a Digimon (at one time getting Ninjamon recruits for his new friends in the Kurata arc, cementing his HeelFaceTurn). For some reason he uses HulkSpeak despite the fact that nearly every Digimon can speak fluent English/Japanese (his Digimon partner/brother even had a British accent). |
| 65 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'': Son Goku accidentally killed his adoptive grandpa while under the influence of the moon as a small child. For an uncertain number of years, he lived on his own in the wilderness, his only interactions being 'killing animals' and occasionally 'not killing animals'. Then he killed Bulma's car, and the rest is history. |
| 66 | ** His ''major'' Raised By Wolves thing is not being able to tell the difference between boys and girls, and considering 'pat-pat'-ing [[RefugeInAudacity the groin area]] to be a sane method of differentiation. ''[[AccidentalMarriage This is how he wound up engaged to Chi-Chi.]]'' |
| 67 | ** He also mistook Bulma's breasts for an extra butt, along with thinking that her, um, [[UnusualEuphemism mystical orbs]] were "gone". Not because he was perverted, far from it, but rather because of a combination of this trope. |
| 68 | * Natsu of ''Manga/FairyTail'' was raised by the Fire Dragon Igneel. While Igneel taught him things like Fire Dragon Slayer magic and speech, he clearly wasn't able to teach Natsu typical human social customs. Then Igneel vanished when Natsu was still little. Natsu was then taken in and raised by the mages of Fairy Tail, and all of ''them'' are to some degree crazy. |
| 69 | ** This is actually a rather common occurrence among Dragonslayers: [[ExtraOreDinary Gajeel]], [[BlowYouAway Wendy]], [[LightEmUp Sting]], and [[CastingAShadow Rogue]] were all raised from a young age by dragons before events forced them apart. The former two by a similar manner to Natsu, and the latter because they [[SelfMadeOrphan killed]] them, though they [[DeathSeeker had]] [[MercyKill reasons]]. [[spoiler:[[FakingTheDead Except not really]].]] |
| 70 | * Rebecca from ''Anime/HareGuu'' was raised by pokute -- small, weird, sort-of-rabbit-like animals. |
| 71 | * One character in ''Hikkatsu'' not only was raised by pigeons, but learned martial arts from them as well. |
| 72 | * A futuristic, and more intentional, approach to the trope was the development of the Trinity siblings from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', although this was never explained in the actual anime itself. The side materials explained that they were created by Dr. Clay Lihichyte, who used Ribbons Almark's blood samples. All three spent most of their life either in stasis or under the close supervision of lab technicians who were teaching them how to be Gundam Meisters. Because their role was to be part of Ribbons's master plan, however, they were not taught morality, not given full training, and were given antiquated, impostor Gundam. That way, once their task (unbeknownst to themselves) was completed, they were to be terminated. This is a valid explanation in pointing out why Michael is AxCrazy and Nena is a PsychopathicManchild. |
| 73 | * ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy'': Persia grew up in the Serengeti plains of Africa alongside many of the wild animals, and as a result she's more inclined to beasts than humans. |
| 74 | * ''Anime/PrimitiveBoyRyu'': Ryu was subject to abandonment by the tribe he was born in because of his white skin, but luckily he was rescued by an ape named Kitty. This prompts some other cavesmen to look down on him for being "an ape's child". |
| 75 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 76 | ** In the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS1E34TheKangaskhanKid The Kangaskhan Kid]]", set in the Kanto Safari Zone, we meet Tommy, a little boy who was raised by kangaroo-oid Kangaskhan. He's been in the park since he was accidentally dropped from a helicopter by his birth parents into the park while an infant. |
| 77 | ** ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'': The main character was raised by wild Pokémon. The kid was being looked after by Professor Rowan when the good professor decided that the boy should go live with the wild Pokémon because he had the beginnings of communication with them! [[spoiler:Hareta's dad is actually alive. He's just on the run right now... although he really DID leave Hareta with Professor Rowan for no good reason the first time. ParentalAbandonment...]] |
| 78 | ** In ''Anime/PokemonSecretsOfTheJungle'', Ash and Pikachu meet the WildChild named Koko, who was raised by the mythical Pokémon Zarude, which is nicknamed Dada. Koko had to be taught on what is like to be human by Ash. [[spoiler:However, it is revealed that Koko's real name is Al, who is sent down the nearby river away from the car by his parents, Dr. Chrom and Dr. Phossa Molybdenum, who were indirectly killed in the car explosion by [[MadScientist Dr. Zed]], who wanted to destroy the Forest of Okoya in order to gain access to the secrets of the healing springs from the great tree to boost his ego. Dada Zerude found Al and raised him as his own for years after discovering the ruins of the car and a photo near the labratory.]] |
| 79 | * San from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' was literally raised by wolves after her birth parents encountered a huge wolf in the forest when she was very young and [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her]] in an attempt to get away safely. Indeed, it's implied that [[DirtyCoward her parents literally threw her at the wolves to get away]]. The wolves were offended enough by this behavior to take care of her, instead. Of course, it helps somewhat that these wolves are ''gods'' who are perfectly capable of speech. |
| 80 | * The dark side of life in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is that a lot of people easily die in [[DeathWorld a world where even some of the weakest animals can only subdued by professional hunters]]. And '''that's''' in the Human world, let alone the Gourmet World. As such, [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan there're almost no named characters with living parents]]. But some people are exceptional as beasts actually raised them: |
| 81 | ** Played with [[BigBad Midora]]'s backstory, who in his infancy was [[spoiler:given to carnivorous pigs as food]]. He tamed them and suckled at a female beast to survive. |
| 82 | ** Played straight by [[spoiler:Knocking Master Jirou]]. He was raised by a battle wolf, [[spoiler:and not your average battle wolf, but ''THE'' Wolf King Guinness, one of the 8 Kings]]. Well, that explains his AnimalMotif. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
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| 85 | [[folder:Audio Play]] |
| 86 | * The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTDADU2E1CycleOfDestruction Cycle of Destruction]]" reveals an interesting variation on this theme mixed in with AmnesiaLoop. The ALARC research facility keeps its android prototypes contained by a security system that will wipe the android's minds if they leave the base and an automated recall signal that will eventually draw the androids back to the base if they do get out. Unfortunately, since these androids are programmed to learn from whatever they meet, at least one such android was essentially "adopted" by the Caru, a bear-like species that lives on the planet. As a result, when the Caru-android's recall signal was triggered, once in the base the feral android lashed out and caused serious damage while trying to escape, eventually leaving the base, suffering another mind-wipe and starting the titular cycle of destruction all over again. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
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| 89 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 90 | * ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' -- Pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' the backstory of Aquaman himself is that he was raised by dolphins until he was twelve years old, and the entire time earnestly believed he was one of them. |
| 91 | * ''ComicBook/{{Arawn}}'': Downplayed. Arawn was initially left out in the freezing cold to die by his mother Siahm, but he was nursed back to health by a she-wolf who becomes a surrogate mother to him. However, he spends his youth living with both his human and wolf relatives. |
| 92 | * ''[[ComicBook/FreedomFightersDCComics Black Condor]]'' -- Golden Age superhero Black Condor, who first appeared in ''Crack Comics'' #1, was raised by Condors who taught him to fly. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Pilou was raised by a female dragon who took him to her cave for food, but decided to save him for her offspring when he happened to burst from his egg at that exact moment. The young dragon and the young elf then bonded and the three became a family. |
| 94 | * In the ComicBook/GreenLantern books, Sinestro Corpsman Karu-Sil was raised by native predators of her homeworld after her parents were murdered by her neighbors for their food. Karu-Sil grew to love and care for them deeply -- to the point that she ''mutilated her own face'' so she would look more like them. They were eventually killed by a Green Lantern who thought she needed to be "rescued" from them. Once she was recruited into the Sinestro Corps and obtained a power ring, she used it to create energy construct duplicates of her pack and treats them as if they really were her lost family. |
| 95 | * In "The Hoax" in ''Weird Western Tales'' #18, ComicBook/JonahHex gets mixed up with a pair of conmen who are attempting to pass off one of them as the lost heir to a fortune who has been raised by coyotes. |
| 96 | * ''ComicBook/KaZar'': Kevin Plunder was found and raised by the sabertooth tiger Zabu, who possesses near-human intelligence thanks to a mutation caused by radioactive mists |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/{{Pyrenee}}'': The titular character is raised by a bear and an old blind eagle. |
| 98 | * Catman of the ComicBook/SecretSix. |
| 99 | ** The Golden Age Cat-Man (who is unrelated to DC's Catman but wears an oddly similar costume) was raised by tigers. Like the Black Condor above, his upbringing somehow gave him superpowers -- he could see in the dark, leap like a cat, scale any wall, and had nine lives. |
| 100 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman''. The original version of the Creator/MarvelComics Jessica Drew had her raised among the [[MadScientist High Evolutionary's]] menagerie of {{Beast M|an}}en. In fact, she was one of them herself, being a hyper-evolved spider, although that was retconned away very quickly. Meaning that she had no idea how to interact with humans when she finally entered the outside world, and tended to creep out everyone she met, although that was at least as much due to her pheromone powers. The recent {{Retcon}} version of her origin [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks eliminates this, though]]. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 104 | * The parody strip ''ComicStrip/CaptainBiceps'''s version of Tarzan was raised by just about every animal there is: apes (hence his strength), eagles (hence his piercing sight), lions (hence his MightyRoar), parrots ([[RealMenWearPink hence his dress sense]]). |
| 105 | * Cartoonstock.com has a number of single-panel cartoons on the subject, including one about the guy who was raised by a pack of wolves, and the cleaning lady who came in twice a month. That's right, in an ''apartment''. |
| 106 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': |
| 107 | ** In 1990, Jon briefly ended up dating a woman named Kimmy, who revealed she was raised by wolves. Although she appeared to be a normal woman most of the time, her upbringing by wild animals still showed in that she loved to howl at the moon, could be extremely loud and obnoxious, trying to bite off her foot when her shoe was too tight, and ate with her bare hands. She was one of the very few woman who actually liked Jon. |
| 108 | --->'''Jon:''' So, when were you brought back to civilization?\ |
| 109 | '''Kimmy:''' (after scarfing down her plate's contents) [[RuleOfFunny Last Friday.]] |
| 110 | ** Garfield once met a cat named Ed who was raised by squirrels. Before they met, Ed didn't know the meaning of "ground" -- neither did his adopted mother, for that matter. Ed has the habit of storing birds for winter. When the tree branch where Ed and Garfield were sitting on fell, Ed had the first chance to walk sideways. Odie was the first dog Ed ever met and Garfield explained to him cats were supposed to fear dogs albeit Garfield doesn't remember why. |
| 111 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2013/07/21 A later strip]] discussed Jon's cousin Earl who was adopted by wolves after being left at a rest stop. |
| 112 | --->'''Jon:''' We got a postcard.\ |
| 113 | '''Garfield:''' (reading the postcard) "I have acquired a taste for small game." |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 117 | * [[http://humon.deviantart.com/art/Kangaroo-Wife-148578041 There's]] a [[Website/DeviantART deviation]] about a girl raised by kangaroos, who went on to marry the Sniper from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' (this is a joke based on one of [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/8/87/Soldier_DominationSniper04.wav?t=20100625233022 the Soldier's domination lines]]) |
| 118 | * This trope as a whole is a popular genre for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics. It comes in many varieties from humans raised by ponies, ponies raised by non Equestrian species, etc. |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'': |
| 120 | ** In "What if they played Dungeons and Dragons?", Ax plays a tiefling who was raised by cows. He explains that he chose those instead of wolves because: |
| 121 | --->'''Ax:''' Wolves are beautiful animals, but they pale in comparison to cows. Among other things, wolves' meat is not so succulent and does not pair nearly as well with french fries. |
| 122 | ** In "What if they were in Tortall?", Cassie was taken in by wolves after her family died. |
| 123 | * ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6690487/1/ Growing Up Kneazle]]'': Harry discovers his innate Animagus ability when he's two years old and spends the rest of his pre-Hogwarts childhood as part of Arabella Figg's resident family of Kneazles. His more notable quirks before becoming at least partly civilized are running around naked and peeing to mark his territory. |
| 124 | * ''Fanfic/{{Anthropology}}'': The reason why [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Lyra]] is so obsessed with humans is because [[spoiler:Lyra herself is a human: Princess Celestia turned her into a pony when she was very young. Lyra was then raised by the foal-less unicorn couple who found her.]] |
| 125 | * Parodied in ''Fanfic/CalmAndChaos''. When [[FanCreatedOffspring Logan]] gets too annoying during the {{road trip|Plot}}, his father [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lincoln]] will jokingly threaten to "leave him behind to be raised by the squirrels". |
| 126 | -->'''Logan:''' What about wolves?, I'd be a good wolf. |
| 127 | -->'''Lincoln:''' No, they would eat you. In fact, they would eat ''you'' as salad. |
| 128 | * ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndNoire'': Trixx the Kwami happily boasts that he was the one to raise his wielder Wang Fu after the fall of the Order of the Guardians. |
| 129 | * ''Fanfic/{{Symbiosis}}'': Ash is raised by a retired battling Pokémon, a Weedle living in the Viridian Forest named Poison Lance, who took him in to follow Mareep's LastRequest. Mareep's LastRequest was for Poison Lance to protect Ash from the people who killed his family. Poison Lance kept Ash from becoming feral by having him interact with humans in secret. |
| 130 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Iris was raised by a family of dragon-types after her biological parents [[OffingTheOffspring abandoned her in the woods to die]]. While her adopted family taught her how to interact with humans so she could buy things that might be needed (keeping her from becoming feral), her mentality is nevertheless closer to a Pokémon than a human. |
| 131 | * ''[[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37199442/ Soviet Pokemon]]'': A pelipper adopts two human children. By the epilogue, he has them both enrolled in a school for humans. He finds out he didn't need to pretend he was just a Ride Pokémon sent by their real parents since many other "Poké-Parents" are sending their children there. [[spoiler:Also, the teacher is secretly a Zoroark]] |
| 132 | * Tarzan's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' analogue, Tarquin of the Apes, appears in Creator/AAPessimal's tale ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/23/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', where it has amused Lord Vetinari to make him Ankh-Morpork's Consul to a small kingdom in Central Howondaland. Apparently he shows the right sort of face of Ankh-Morpork to the world. In practice, his Jane does all the thinking and talking. As a contemporary of Sybil Ramkin at the Quirm Academy, she is capable of ''anything''. |
| 133 | * ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': Bowser of the Nobody's Fools is an Earth Pony colt who was raised by Diamond Dogs. They had adoption papers and everything. |
| 134 | * ''Fanfic/WildChildAU'' is an alternate take on the Franchise/MonsterVerse where Godzilla found Madison Russell after the battle with the [=MUTOs=] in San Fracisco and took her with him in the belief that her parents had died. Over the next few years, living with Godzilla on his island home, Madison learns his language and experiences various subtle mutations from exposure to his radiation. By the time she's ten, Madison at least considers Godzilla a father even if she only calls him 'G.' as she reflects that she would find it weird to actually ''call'' him 'Dad'. In turn, Godzilla often refers to Madison as his 'pup', and when Mothra awakens she assumes a maternal role for Madison. [[spoiler:Even when Madison learns that her family are still alive, she accepts [[TakeAThirdOption the choice to be legally classified as a Titan]] so that she won't have to abandon Godzilla and Mothra even if she's glad to be back with her biological father and brother]]. |
| 135 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' fanfic, ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13140169/1/ Tarzan: Two Worlds, One Family]]'', Tarzan is raised by the lion pridelanders Mufasa and Sarabi instead of Kala the ape. |
| 136 | * ''Fanfic/CompassOfThySoul'' has the Cat Summons, who tend to help their summoners to raise children and outright assume the primary care in case of the parent dying. There's mention of a Uchiha child flying under the rader until his teammates discovered he had a ''very'' strange worldview and mannerisms, but the most prominent example is Senju Tobirama, who felt so adrift following his mother's demise he heavily leaned upon her snow leopards -- it quite impacted his behaviour. |
| 137 | * ''[[Fanfic/PokemonHarmonyAndChaos Pokémon: Equestrian Champions]]'': Sombra reveals that both of his parents died in a helicopter crash when he was just a baby while they were on a business trip. He survived the crash and was found and taken in by a group of Absol, who sensed the crash but failed to prevent it. They raised him like one of their own, until he was twelve, and a group of humans found him and the Absol. His adoptive family urged him to go with them, so he could be with his own kind again. |
| 138 | * ''Blog/AStudentOutOfTime'': Kinu Hiroshima, the future Ultimate Dog Trainer of Class 78-B, developed her talent thanks to this. When she was a little girl, she ran away from home and ended up in the Outback, where she was taken in by a pack of dingoes. They kept her safe for years, helping her find food while she protected them from poisonous plants and animals, before she was rediscovered by her parents. She developed a deep connection with dogs and began working with them, from saving dogs who would've been put down to helping train them to serve as therapy pets. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 142 | * Anne-Marie from ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' is a Downplayed example. She's an orphaned girl who lives in horrible conditions. By the end of the film, it's implied she's [[spoiler:HappilyAdopted by the "wallet family" who are shown to live in a luxurious house.]] |
| 143 | * ''WesternAnimation/AnAngelForChristmas'': Angela lived in the forest with a pack of wolves before coming to Ironsville. |
| 144 | * According to the Disney direct-to-video film ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisMilosReturn'' (sequel to ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''), the team's geologist [[MoleMen Moliere]] actually got his mole-like characteristics as a result of him being raised by naked mole rats. YouDoNotWantToKnow indeed. |
| 145 | * ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheIslandPrincess'' has Ro, who spent the decade prior to the film raised on an island by a peacock and red panda. |
| 146 | * Eggs from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', is a Cheesebridge orphan raised since infancy by the eponymous Boxtrolls, to the point he considers himself one of them... up until he meets Winnie, that is. |
| 147 | * ''WesternAnimation/Epic1984'' deals with two human children being adopted and raised by dingoes, at the end [[spoiler:they chose to become dingoes themselves and become their King and Queen]]. |
| 148 | * Kristoff in ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' was raised by rock trolls, and yet, he still has a better grasp of human society than sheltered Anna. |
| 149 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' quotes this trope with a VisualPun at the end of the Wolf's story: |
| 150 | -->'''Red Puckett:''' For a reporter, you sure have a strange way of doing your job.\ |
| 151 | '''The Wolf:''' What can I say? I was raised by wolves. ''[cuts to the Wolf's family portrait]'' |
| 152 | * ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'' recounts how cowboy folk hero Pecos Bill was raised by coyotes. |
| 153 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Attempted when Junior and Tulip run into a pack of wolves that want to raise the baby as one of their own. Technically, Tulip counts too, as she was raised by the storks. |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 157 | * In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkBoyAndLavaGirl'', Shark Boy was raised by sharks, causing him to not only be very aggressive, but evolve shark-like superpowers! He has no problem speaking English or interacting with humans, except for his heightened aggression. |
| 158 | * In ''Film/AquamanTheCastOfTheAngler'', young Arthur was raised by dolphins and learned their language, then learned how to apply it to all marine life. |
| 159 | * In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', contrary to popular belief, according to WordOfGod the supervillain the Penguin, after been left abandoned by his birth parents due to his deformity, was not literally raised by penguins. He was found and rescued by penguins but raised in a circus by circus folks. Though according to [[https://youtu.be/-D_kaf85al8 this]] behind the scenes video, he was raised by penguins. |
| 160 | ** Something that is pretty obvious as the movie itself has Bruce Wayne reading about a penguin-like kid shown in a circus as a freak (it's a blink and you miss it kind of thing tho) and the fact that most of Penguin's minions are circus performers. |
| 161 | * ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': Kira was raised by the Podlings and partly grew up in the wilderness, learning how to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to animals]]. |
| 162 | * ''{{Film/Enchanted}}''‘’s sequel, ''Film/Disenchanted2022'', reveals in its opening narration that Giselle was raised by the woodland animals of Andalasia. |
| 163 | * In ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'', Millie was raised by feral cats, explaining her NoSocialSkills. |
| 164 | * ''Film/JungleBoy'': The main character was raised by an elephant and a monkey. Latter, another character gains the ability [[ItMakesSenseInContext by a giant]] [[SpecialEffectFailure badly animated]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext cobra statue.]] |
| 165 | * The protagonist of the film ''Film/LionMan'' is raised by lions. [[CaptainObvious Well, duh!]] |
| 166 | * Serbian movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3059656/ Nicije Dete]]'' (''No One's Child'') is BasedOnATrueStory and it plays this trope straight. The story begins in Yugoslavia a few years prior to the conflict. Near Travnik (Bosnia, in central Yugoslavia), hunters find a child raised by wolves. Lacking the means to treat him, local authorities send the child to an orphanage in Belgrade (Yugoslavian and, at the same time, Serbian capital city) where, under a careful tutorage, he slowly learns how to socialize. But the war is looming and everything abruptly changes. |
| 167 | * ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998'': In 1877 Paris, a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. They raise him in the underground of the Opéra de Paris. This child becomes the Phantom of the Opera, a misanthrope who kills anyone who ventures into his underground chambers, just as rats are killed whenever they venture above ground. |
| 168 | * In ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'', Lurkalot was raised by pigs. |
| 169 | * ''Film/WalkLikeAMan'', in which Howie Mandel played the heir to a fortune who was raised by dogs. |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 173 | * ''Literature/AgeOfFire'': Wolves occasionally take in hominid infants, usually elves and occasionally humans, and raise them as their own. This is eased by the setting's wolves being intelligent enough to have their own language and culture, and these children often return to their parent species after reaching adulthood. In ''Dragon Champion'', the young dragon Auron spends a period of time running with a pack of wolves and learning their way of life. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/ArnoldOfTheDucks'' is a picture book by Mordecai Gerstein (which got adapted into an episode of ''CBS Storybreak'') about a boy who was scooped up by a near-sighted pelican as a baby and dropped off in a swamp where he was raised by ducks. He manages to learn to walk, swim, and even fly (with the help of a suit made from shed duck feathers). When he's accidentally reunited with his human family, he struggles with living life among humans. |
| 175 | * ''Literature/AshASecretHistory'': ParentalAbandonment is so complete in the mercenary camp the titular Ash grows up in that children don't even know who their mothers are, and have to suckle off lactating dogs to survive infancy. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/TheBookOfDragons'': In "Literature/WeContinue", Jacq was found by one of his world's dragon-like aliens after being left orphaned during his colony's collapse, and was afterwards largely raised in the dragon colony by his finder, which he termed "Auntie". This was complicated by the fact that the dragons, while very intelligent, are ultimately little more than animals. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAncientDarkness'': Torak is a partial example, as he was left to suckle from a she-wolf as a baby after his mother died, giving him the ability to understand wolf speech, but his father came back for him after a while. |
| 178 | * ''Literature/TheDeep2019'': The first generation of wajinru, merfolk descended from pregnant women thrown overboard from slave ships, were nursed by whales. |
| 179 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In a comic variation, Stanley from Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/GoingPostal'' was raised by ''peas''. This left him with a fanatically neat disposition ("Very meticulous, peas are") and a tendency to bend slightly towards the sun when standing up straight. |
| 180 | * John from the ''Literature/DolphinTrilogy'' is born with the mutant ability to hold his breath for longer than other people. Then his parents are killed in an explosion, which throws him into the water near a pod of dolphins, one of which is a recently-bereaved and lactating mother. John goes roughly twenty years without human contact, during which he [[SpeaksFluentAnimal learns Dolphinese]] and learns to swim faster than any human. Even after John is discovered and starts to be reintegrated into society, he still understands dolphins better than people and feels safer in the water than on land. In ''Daughters of the Dolphin'', twin girls Vinca and Syn are born with the same adaptations, and after John becomes their legal guardians, he gives them to dolphins to raise. |
| 181 | * Creator/DickKingSmith's novel ''Literature/DragonBoy'' features an eight-year-old boy named John (full name later revealed to be John Little, with hints in the novel suggesting that he will become ''the'' Little John of Robin Hood myth) who is taken in by the dragons Montague and Albertine Bunsen-Burner after the death of his father, with John teaching his new dragon parents (who are able to talk and be understood by John, and vice-versa) how to season their food, quickly reaching a point where the Bunsen-Burners' new daughter, Lucky, comes to consider John her brother. When John returns to a human village to get new clothes for himself, facing other humans for the first time since he starts living with the dragons, he finds that he is far more muscular than most boys of his age due to the exceptional feeding he receives thanks to the dragons, and when Lucky is getting married, John muses that it will be strange living among humans again when he decides that he wants to get married. |
| 182 | * In ''Literature/TheEchoriumSequence'', Shaiala was raised by centaurs. |
| 183 | * Shana, the half-elf protagonist of ''Literature/TheElvenbane'', was raised by dragons. |
| 184 | * Kingsley Ward from ''Literature/TheExtraordinaires''. In-universe he is the child raised by wolves on whom Creator/RudyardKipling based Mowgli in ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. |
| 185 | * In Jane Lindskold's ''Literature/FirekeeperSaga'' novels, the protagonist was raised by wolves, albeit intelligent ones. A rather unusual example in that she isn't naïve at all in many matters; her adjustment problems are mostly shown by the facts that she never manages to fully master elementary grammar, writing, or table manners. Or hierarchies based on blood. |
| 186 | ** Firekeeper actually ''can'' speak properly -- in the first book she does so more than once. She just omits all the words she sees as unnecessary, because the wolf language doesn't have words like "the", "a", "and", etc. |
| 187 | * The appropriately named Hunter in the ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' series. [[spoiler:After accidentally killing a friend with his mutant powers he is brutally hit in the head by Zil, leaving him partially brain damaged. Because of this he slurs his words a lot and doesn't understand some things]]. He is trained by the nearby mutant coyotes who can speak somewhat. They teach him how to hunt: he becomes the primary food bringer for Perdido Beach along with Quinn and his fishermen. |
| 188 | * At least two examples occur in the novels of Creator/HRiderHaggard: |
| 189 | ** Galazi the Wolf in ''Literature/NadaTheLily'' claims to have been raised by jackals , and everything we see in the novel bears out this claim. Creator/RudyardKipling acknowledged Galazi as one his inspirations for creating Mowgli in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' |
| 190 | ** Hendrika the Baboon Woman from ''[[Literature/AllanQuatermain Allan's Wife]]'' is, as might be guessed from her name, a woman who was raised by baboons. She is a servant to Stella's family, but the feral is never far from the surface in her, and is some respects she can be regarded as a WildChild. |
| 191 | * Hayy from Ibn Tufail's 12th-century Arabic novel ''Literature/HayyIbnYaqzan'' (also known as ''Philosophus Autodidactus''), where he is raised by a gazelle on a DesertedIsland. |
| 192 | * Camp Jupiter of Creator/RickRiordan's ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', specifically by the wolf-goddess Lupa who raised Romulus and Remus. |
| 193 | * Parodied in ''Literature/HowToBeASuperhero'', where the section on being a "Jungle Lord" includes a list of orphans who didn't make it due to a poor choice of adoptive animal: Tomar of the Molluscs (starved to death), Mikki of the Dolphins (drowned), Sven of the Lemmings (jumped off a cliff), and Eric of the Man-Eating Bengal Tigers (guess). |
| 194 | * Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia Incorrigible from Maryrose Wood's series ''Literature/TheIncorrigibleChildrenOfAshtonPlace'' were found in the woods next to the mansion belonging to the wealthy Ashton couple, who quickly saw that they had been raised by wolves. [[PluckyGirl Miss Penelope Lumley]] is hired as their nanny by the Ashtons in an effort to civilize them, but she goes above and beyond and slowly teaches them not only how to eat cooked food and stay indoors, but also names them and teaches them how to speak and understand school subjects such a history and math. |
| 195 | * Mowgli from Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/JungleBooks''. After trying out human civilization for a while, Mowgli returned to the pack that raised him (only to go back to humanity eventually). |
| 196 | * ''Literature/KnowledgeOfAngels'': Amara was raised by a wolf along with her sister after both were abandoned at birth. She's discovered by the people of the island where from years later, then put in a convent. She grows up slowly from being a {{wild child}} but is never fully at home in human society, choosing a semi-solitary job later. |
| 197 | * The ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' has Setoc, a war orphan who was adopted by wolves. Born as Stayandi, she was taken in and raised by a pack of wolves when her parents died during a raid. In ''Literature/ReapersGale'', she is found by the [[ProudWarriorRace Barghast White Faces]], who take her in, but their shamans proclaim her spirit-touched and the "holder of a thousand hearts" and forbid the hunting of wolves, so that her 'first' family can stay close to her. She becomes known as Setoc of the Wolves and never shakes free from the imprint the wild has left on her. She eventually becomes the Destriant[[note]]High Priestess[[/note]] and the voice of the Wolves of Winter, the recently risen [[WarGod Beast Gods of War]], who war against humanity in {{revenge}} for the pollution humans have brought upon nature. Over time, her eyes turn to a wolf's eyes, one silver and one amber, and she becomes perpetually surrounded by thousands of wolf spirits who are willing to fight for her. [[spoiler:Setoc dies when the Wolves of Winter use her to manifest themselves in the mortal plane.]] |
| 198 | * In ''Literature/MoralityForBeautifulGirls'', by Alexander [=McCall=] Smith, a boy is found in the desert who NeverLearnedToTalk. He is sent to the orphan farm run by a friend of the protagonist, who asks her to investigate. Based on the fact that the boy acts more like an animal and hasn't [[WildChild grasped the concept]] of [[NeverLearnedToRead language]], plus the fact that he smelt of lion when he was found, they conclude that he was raised by lions, but they decide to keep him at the farm because he has shown progress in learning how to talk. |
| 199 | * The narrator of Karen Hesse's ''Literature/TheMusicOfDolphins'' was the only survivor of an airplane crash in the Caribbean as a very young child, and was taken in by a pod of dolphins. She's reasonably healthy when she's found by (aside from minor considerations, such as having ''barnacles'' all over her) and, unlike other {{Wild Child}}ren in the center that's taking care of her, she can connect with people and understand language, because [[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin dolphins are that awesome]]. However, the [[HumansAreBastards betrayals and confused feelings from the scientists studying her]] turn her away from them, and eventually she is allowed to return to the sea and her dolphin family. |
| 200 | * Most medieval versions of [[TheFool Parzifal/Percival]] characterized him merely as a bumpkin initially, whose inborn talents eventually get training, and then the excess of politeness and the FisherKing thing. But occasionally he gets scaled all the way to Raised By Wolves. |
| 201 | ** The Gerald Morris version has him appear as part of the finale of an early book, as a naked super-innocent who trained by wrestling lions and who loses to Gawain and decides he wants to be a knight. Later on he gets his own novel, which seems to owe its content mostly to Wolfram von Eschenbach's but omits the whole Herzeloyde bereavement back story and Feirfiz, along with...the Christianity focus, pretty much. Which is pretty impressive in an adaption of a ''Grail quest story''. |
| 202 | * In Book 3 of ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'', there is the story of "The Wolf Girl", a supposed true account of a girl raised by wolves at the Devil's River near the Rio Grande. The last anyone saw her, she was a young woman feeding two wolf cubs. |
| 203 | * In William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ''Literature/TheRoseAndTheRing'', Princess Rosalba is raised (for a time) by lions. |
| 204 | %%* Implied with Wolf Boy in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap''. |
| 205 | * In Creator/RobertHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'', the title referred to one of the protagonists, Michael Valentine Smith. Mike was born during the first mission to Mars, and was the only survivor. He was raised *by Martians*. This might have been a case of RaisedByNatives, save for the fact that the Martians were very non-human. He might have been more normal if he *had* been raised by wolves. |
| 206 | * Literature/{{Tarzan}} famously was raised by apes. He goes on to be quite successfully socialized and a member of human society. It helps that the "apes" in question were a fictional [[note]]Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer begs to differ[[/note]] missing-link species that had a spoken language, and that he found his human parents' house at the age of ten and ''[[ChildProdigy taught himself to read]]'' over a few years. Tarzan's time in civilization rarely makes it out of the original Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs novels: it is typically omitted by the numerous works inspired by the novels. |
| 207 | * In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', Alianora was found and raised by dwarves. While generally socially ept, she avoids human habitations; she doesn't like living among them. |
| 208 | * ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' |
| 209 | ** Daine of ''Literature/TheImmortals'' was literally raised by wolves, at least for a little while. Her family was killed by bandits, and her dormant magical powers of being able to speak to animals came through. She joined a renegade pack, tracked down the bandits on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and nearly lost her human self permanently. |
| 210 | ** Nawat in the ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'' is an unusual case. He ''is'' a crow (they can change into human form if they want) and all of the relevant fallout occurs — he suggests placating an upset girl with a random bit of shiny stone, eats bugs (and offers to feed Aly bugs too), and suggests he and Aly have children to increase their ranks. |
| 211 | * In Creator/WenSpencer's ''Literature/UkiahOregon'' books, the titular protagonist was found running wild with a pack of wolves near the town of Ukiah, Oregon, hence his name. |
| 212 | * Big Alice from Staanley Kiesel's young adult novel ''Literature/TheWarBetweenThePitifulTeachersAndTheSplendidKids'' was raised by hyenas. Her parents were psychologists, and when they found her again, [[ParentalAbandonment they abandoned her]] to the hyenas again after an aborted attempt at rehabilitating her. |
| 213 | * The main character in Pat Murphy's ''Literature/WildAngel'' was raised by wolves. |
| 214 | * In the Creator/RobertRankin novel ''Literature/TheWitchesOfChiswick'', a minor character in the novel is 'local celebrity' Master Makepiece Scribbens, who lost his parents in a freak electric dibber accident on the Brentford allotments when he was a baby and was subsequently raised by snails. He is allegedly renowned for his honesty as snails cannot lie, but is wheeled into rooms- his wheelchair actually leaving snail-like trails- covered in blankets, under which he is described as lumplen and shapeless, eyes barely visible beneath folds of skin and his head completely hairless with a musty odour about him. When called upon to appear in court, he can only swear on a box of salt as he has no concept of religion and the Bible. It initially appears that he can only communicate through whispering sounds, but he is actually capable of speaking full sentences in English. |
| 215 | * Creator/JohnHodgman's ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'' claims that Music/JonathanCoulton was raised by wolves, and that the author had to teach him how to speak and wear clothes. There's also a list of other famous people who were [[LittleKnownFacts allegedly]] raised by wolves, including Rudy Giuliani and Creator/WernerHerzog. |
| 216 | * Referenced in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'' concerning Carrot Ironfounderson. He was actually raised by dwarves, but when a human suggests that he should be raised "further up" as a human, prompts his adoptive father to compare the situation to being raised by wolves. "Look, son, you may be wondering why you're not as hairy as the rest of the family...." |
| 217 | * Sherryl Jordan's young adult novel ''Literature/WolfWoman'' features Tanith, a girl raised by wolves until the age of three. She was then taken in by a human tribe, [[spoiler:but eventually goes back to living with wolves]]. |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 221 | * Parodied in ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll''. As part of his Student President campaign, Ferguson makes a video with some made-up stories about his family to make them more impressive. For Clarissa, he chooses this trope, and she's ''not'' amused. |
| 222 | * There was an InvertedTrope in ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'' that had a dinosaur that was abandoned by her parents and raised by the cavemen. She acts as a translator between dinosaurs and cavemen. |
| 223 | * In ''Series/{{Earth2}}'', Mary, who was the child of exiled human biologists. Her parents were killed by Terrian renegades, and she was raised as a Terrian, with the abilities they have to Dream and move about the rock. When she sides with the humans over the Terrians in a dispute, she is exiled by them, and as she doesn't fit in with either the humans or Terrians, resolves to live on her own. |
| 224 | * Shady Ganly from ''Series/HardyBucks'' is said by the townsfolk to have been raised by ''crows'' |
| 225 | * ''Lucan'' of the TV series of the same name, was literally raised by wolves. His name is a double entendre referring to his wolf family and to the difficulty he had learning English despite being a fast learner. "Lucan" is a mispronunciation of the words "You can." |
| 226 | * Jan Kandou from ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'', raised by pandas and tigers. He calls himself a "tiger boy" and demonstrates incredible strength, such as having a tree fall on him with no effect. It takes him a few episodes to master the concept of things like doors. His defining trait, though, is that, while he can speak proper Japanese, he colours it with made-up babytalk words such as "nikiniki (happy) and "zowazowa" (danger). |
| 227 | * ''Series/LivAndMaddie'': To improve her chances of getting a role in "Space Werewolves", Liv enlists help from a girl who was literally raised by wolves. |
| 228 | * In one episode of ''Series/MadeInCanada'', the actor who plays Damacles (the main character of an in-universe equivalent of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and/or ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'') comes up with a backstory for his character which includes being born of a wolf and raised by bears. |
| 229 | * A 1983 episode of ''Series/{{Manimal}}'' titled "Female of the Species" focused on a girl who was found in the woods of India, raised by wolves. Its eventually discovered that her father, the co-owner of an aviation company, was murdered along with the rest of her family by the other co-owner, who wanted the company all to himself. The situation gets more dangerous once he realizes she's still alive... |
| 230 | ** The writers of this episode, Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz, were apparently very fond of the wolf kid idea...because they [[RecycledScript reused the script almost word-for-word]] in 1986, for an episode of ''Series/TheWizard'' titled "Endangered Species". Then they reused it AGAIN in 1994, for a ''Series/ThunderInParadise'' episode also titled "Endangered Species". |
| 231 | * Parodied in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''. Vince was raised in the forests by [[Music/RoxyMusic Bryan Ferry]], and leopards and snakes used to babysit him. |
| 232 | * In ''Series/OddSquad'', [[spoiler:Agent Otis was raised by a flock of ducks.]] [[spoiler:''Evil'' ducks.]] |
| 233 | * The Huntsman from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' was a creature of the forest, taken in by wolves as a small child. As a result, he believed HumansAreBastards and wanted very little to do with them. |
| 234 | * Tiger from ''Series/{{Sinbad}}'' was raised by, well, tigers. |
| 235 | * In one 2008 ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit with Creator/JamesFranco, Creator/OJSimpson is put on trial for robbery and his lawyer tries to find a jury that has no knowledge of his previous murder charge, including a man who was in a coma for 20 years, a man who was living in a bunker, and an alien. Among them is a woman who was raised by wolves in the Arctic and had no knowledge of human language or culture. However, a professor then said she was able to "smell a murderer." |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 239 | * In "16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford the coal miner claims "I was raised in the canebrake by an old mama lion". |
| 240 | * The Falling in Reverse song "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Raised By Wolves]]". |
| 241 | * Mentioned as one of the reasons [[BadassBoast why the singer is a badass]] in [[Music/WaspBand W.A.S.P.'s]] "Mean Man". |
| 242 | * Big Sean's "Wolves". |
| 243 | * "Raised by Bats" by {{Music/Voltaire}} is a comedic variant, as the narrator, a {{goth}} kid who was tired of getting picked on and rejected by his fellow humans, ran away to live in a cave, and found a happy family with the bats who were living there. Metaphorically, it's a BeYourself song; the singer encourages the listener to stop trying to conform and please people who don't care about them, and instead "get raised by bats", i.e., find the people who accept them as they are and make a life with ''them''. |
| 244 | -->''I've chosen bats over people''\ |
| 245 | '''Cause I never did like the way humans made me feel'' |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 249 | * There are hints that Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh was based on an earlier story that just had Enkidu moving from living with animals to being seduced by a woman into becoming a city dwelling taxpayer. |
| 250 | * There is an American legend about Pecos Bill, a cowboy who was raised by coyotes after he fell off a covered wagon as a baby. |
| 251 | * Twin brothers Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, were left to die in the wilds as infants. They were suckled by a wolf before being found and raised by a shepherd, making this minor version of this trope at least OlderThanFeudalism. Mind you "she-wolf" and "prostitute" are the same word in Latin -- the closest English counterpart would be "bitch", so the story probably had a double meaning that was LostInTranslation. |
| 252 | * [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Atalanta]] was supposedly raised by a she-bear, even considering the other bears her brothers. This led to lots of confusion when she entered the "real world". |
| 253 | * In some stories, the legendary German hero Siegfried was raised by a blacksmith hermit with only wolves for playmates. |
| 254 | * In Tibetan folklore both King Gesar (mythical founder of Tibet) and Milarepa (an important Buddhist teacher) were raised by Snow Lions. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 258 | * In the ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' skit ''Series/TheRealWorld Muppets'', Bobo the Bear claims that Darci was raised by wolves. "Stupid, illiterate, permissive wolves". |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 262 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': |
| 263 | ** There's [[http://magiccards.info/bng/en/135.html an enchantment card]] with this exact name. Not only does it grant benefits for being around wolves, it also puts two of them in play -- presumably the ones that raised the enchanted creature. The artwork depicts a leonin -- a [[CatFolk humanoid panther]] -- running on all fours alongside a pack of wolves. |
| 264 | ** [[https://scryfall.com/card/khm/127/craven-hulk Craven Hulk]] depicts a giant who was raised by a flock of goats, inheriting their skittishness despite his immense size and strength. |
| 265 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': In one adventure, the characters have to stand in as actors for a reality show, but since most Alpha Complex citizens have as much of an interesting personality as a dry toast, they get additional backgrounds they have to roleplay. One of the available ones is the wolfboy, who was raised by a vicious radioactive wolf until he was rescued by Alpha Complex forces. This role is somewhat difficult because with everyone living underground, no one has any idea what a wolf might be. |
| 266 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': |
| 267 | ** A social trait called Beastkin has you pick an animal species (including bears, gorillas and of course wolves) for your character to be raised by, and allows said character to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to the animals]] that raised you. |
| 268 | ** An archetype (variation) of the Druid class available for humans called Feral Child, in addition to letting you talk to the animals that raised you, trades literacy and the ability to shapeshift for some ranger and barbarian abilities. |
| 269 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': One of the [=NPCs=] from one supplement is a caliban (a curse-mutated human) born with the head of a tiger. He was abandoned in the forest of a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Japanese-style]] domain, and found and raised by ''kami'' animal-spirits. |
| 270 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Unsurprisingly, this is far from unheard of among the Space Wolves chapter of the {{Space Marine}}s. |
| 271 | ** The chapter's Primarch, Leman Russ, was raised by [[CanisMajor tank-sized wolves]] and eventually became the leader of their pack. |
| 272 | ** In modern times (that is, the last years of the fourtieth millenium), Canis Wulfborn, the champion of Wolf Lord Harald Deathwolf, was also raised by wolves... and, like Russ, managed to make himself the alpha wolf by the time he was in his teens. And remember, this is ''before'' he had had any of the genetic and surgical augmentation used to turn normal humans into Space Marines. |
| 273 | * ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': |
| 274 | ** The Tilean city of Luccini was founded in ages past when a pair of abandoned human twins were raised by a mutant two-headed leopard. |
| 275 | ** Skweel Gnawtooth, a legendary Beastmaster of the Skaven of Clan Moulder, was raised by a colony of wild rats, allowing him to develop a strong rapport with common vermin. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 279 | * Invoked and spoofed in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', when Alistair jokes that his terrible [[JabbaTableManners table manners]] and numerous [[ManChild bad habits]] are the result of having been raised by "a pack of dogs, who were [[GodIsGood devout Andrastians]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hated cheese!]]" He admits that the truth is actually boring in comparison, that he was brought up in Redcliffe by Arl Eamon, before being sent to [[LockedAwayInAMonastery a Chantry]] to begin Templar training. [[spoiler:On the other hand, the Warden can learn he was forced to sleep with the Hounds as a child, so there's some truth to this.]] |
| 280 | * Gau from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' was thrown out of his house by his father at birth; the man went insane when his wife succumbed to DeathByChildbirth. He was raised by monsters on the Veldt, where all monsters come at one time or another. Despite this, he's actually a pleasant and friendly young man; when the party tries to reunite him with his father and the man rejects him, Gau's response is happiness that his father's still alive. |
| 281 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Most of [[WildChild Razor's]] origins are unknown apart from the fact that he was raised by wolves when he was young. |
| 282 | * Chauncey, the protagonist of the obscure sim game ''VideoGame/TheHorde'', was raised by a kind herd of wild cows. |
| 283 | * Mirania of ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' was raised by a Forest Guardian, a sub-deity-like manifestation of nature's power. [[CloudCuckooLander It left her a little off.]] |
| 284 | * In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', Noa is a girl who was raised by a wolf -- albeit an intelligent, talking one. This leads to some occasional embarrassments, such as her inviting a man to take a bath with her, and knocking out whoever appears to be a "bad guy", with no regard for legality. |
| 285 | * In ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'', [[TheHero Vayne]] was raised by his talking cat named Sulphur. [[spoiler:It turns out later in the game that Vayne himself is a manufactured Mana, while Sulphur is just a mere black cat.]] |
| 286 | * In ''VideoGame/MyTimeAtPortia,'' Oaks was raised by a bear--specifically, Papa Bear. However, it's stated that Papa Bear actually moved them closer to the game's titular city when Oaks was still young, because he knew his human son needed human influences. Oaks has some difficulty understanding some aspects of civilization, but is generally cheerful, polite and well-adjusted. |
| 287 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' |
| 288 | ** [[spoiler:N, the leader of Team Plasma]], was raised by Pokémon because [[spoiler:his father, Ghetsis, deliberately neglected him to condition N into a man who would hate humans.]] |
| 289 | ** WordOfGod says that Iris was raised in a forest by dragons. It is unknown how much human interaction she had, but if her anime counterpart is anything to go by, she's definitely [[{{Pun}} wild]] and quite adapted to moving about the forest. |
| 290 | * In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'' we learn that [[FakeUltimateHero Captain Qwark]] was given up for adoption and raised by monkeys. |
| 291 | * There is a challenge for ''VideoGame/TheSims2: Pets'' to have a toddler or child "raised" by pet animals (and one token elder grandparent or teenage sibling, since tots and kids can't pay bills or live alone without social services stepping in). |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/SkateOrDie: Bad 'N Rad'''s manual says the boss of Stage 3, Mister Wart Monger, was raised by a pack of wild sewer frogs. |
| 293 | * In ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'', the Monkey Foundling is a young girl living on an island with semi-intelligent monkeys. Depending how the player reacts to her [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen stealing their clothes]], she can later be discovered as a [[LittleStowaway stowaway]] on your ship, at which point you have the option to either let her stay aboard as a mascot, or send her to an orphanage in Fallen London. |
| 294 | * A ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' update that added Ginger Island includes Leo, who was raised by the island's birds. [[spoiler:He lost both his parents when a storm wrecked the ship carrying them. Eventually, once your relationship with him gets to a certain point, he moves to the mainland near the resident wild man Linus. He'll still visit the island occasionally.]] |
| 295 | * The [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Bros.]] were raised by Yoshis for at least some period of their lifetime, if the gap between ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' and ''VideoGame/YoshisNewIsland'', where we see the baby Bros. get delivered to their actual parents is any indication. |
| 296 | * In ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'', Jay was raised by a ninja, and then hundreds of talking otters. He's an antisocial "information dealer". |
| 297 | * In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', the God General Arietta, a.k.a. "Arietta the Wild" was raised by ligers [[note]]a cross between lions and tigers[[/note]]. Her grudge against Luke and party begins after they kill her mother, the Liger Queen, in the Cheagle Woods. |
| 298 | * Grey Mann of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' was kidnapped at birth by eagles, and then he was raised by those eagles. Then he ate the eagles. |
| 299 | -->'''Saxton Hale:''' That is some preposterous horse@#$% if you ask me. But barely credible backstory aside, he '''means business.''' |
| 300 | * In ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' Kevin explains that being raised by wolves is normal for beast men. |
| 301 | [[/folder]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 304 | * ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': In his introduction, Gonta Gokuhara claims that he got lost in the woods as a child while looking for bugs, and was adopted by a family of wolves. They taught him how to speak to bugs and animals in the ten years he spent with them before being found, and his gratitude is what motivates him to become a true gentleman. [[spoiler:During his Free Time Events, he admits the wolf part was a lie. He was actually raised by [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Reptites]].]] |
| 305 | * In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' sequel ''Holiday Star'', the human girl claims she was adopted by a pack of jackals in the wilderness. In the "Bad Boys Love" route of the original game, however, her parents are clearly mentioned, so she presumably wasn't raised solely by the jackals. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 309 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Brackenwood}}'': Bitey was briefly raised by a pair of Morrugs, a type of Bigfoot-like creatures, until they had a biological child and [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned him]]. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 313 | * ''Webcomic/AmazingSuperPowers'': Parodied in [[http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2011/12/care-package/ this strip]], where one such character receives a care package from his wolf mother -- a bloody rabbit carcass -- after moving to the city. |
| 314 | -->'''Character 1:''' Raised by wolves?\ |
| 315 | '''Character 2:''' Psh. More like smothered by wolves. |
| 316 | * ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'': To [[Franchise/FireEmblem Marth]]'s annoyance, [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] and [[Franchise/StarFox Falco]] [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/instinct share a morning ritual of crowing at the sun]]. Samus ''was'' raised by BirdPeople. |
| 317 | -->'''Marth:''' ''What'', you too?\ |
| 318 | '''Samus:''' I was... I was raised by birds. |
| 319 | * In ''Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder'' [[http://thebirdfeeder.com/comic/162 #162]], "Even more adoption," it's revealed that Tina, a hummingbird, was apparently raised by rabbits. |
| 320 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', there are many wombat stories involving baby wombats being raised by moles. |
| 321 | -->'''Digger:''' Do you humans have stories about babies being abandoned and raised by moles?\ |
| 322 | '''Murai:''' Wolves are more traditional for us. |
| 323 | * In ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'', Ranger's connection with nature and lack of speech are revealed to come from the fact that she was abandoned as an infant and raised by a pack of wolves. |
| 324 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' |
| 325 | ** The [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] of the planet Alternia, once they emerge from the breeding caverns, must find a native monster to become their Lusus, or guardian, as they grow up. Consequently, the troll characters were raised by creatures such as giant lobsters, immense spiders, panthers, eldritch horrors and the like. |
| 326 | ** Jade Harley was raised by her {{reality warp|er}}ing dog Bec after her grandfather was shot in a freak accident involving Jade nearly getting herself killed... via one of the trolls redirecting the bullet after mistaking Bec for her Lusus, and her grandfather for an intruder. |
| 327 | ** Grandpa Harley and Nanna Egbert were nominally raised by Betty Crocker, but the end of Act 4 recap names Halley the family dog (whose name Grandpa mispronounced as Harley due to a speech impediment) as their primary guardian, "with presumably some parental influence from the wicked Crocker". Grandpa ran away from home at the age of thirteen with the dog (who the narration refers to as his "guardian", a term also used to refer to the kids' parents and the trolls' lusii naturae), and eventually took Harley as his surname. |
| 328 | * ''Webcomic/HoverHead'': One [[http://www.bookofpdr.com/hover-head-issue-three/ story]] features a man raised by gorillas who had been raised by wolves. |
| 329 | * ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'': "[[https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/6lz95g/the_hidden_history_of_hungary/ The Hidden History of Hungary]]" depicts Hungary as having been raised by wolves, which apparently explains why his language sounds so different from the Indo-European languages of his neighbors. He also made friends with two other "raised by wolves" countries: Wales, which was raised in the sea by [[{{Pun}} whales]], and the Basque Country, taken in by aliens. |
| 330 | * In ''Webcomic/SirensLament'', Ian the merman doesn't fully understand human customs when he first stays at Lyra's house, sleeping half-naked on her floor and sitting on her counter. |
| 331 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20010506 Parodied]] when Torg suffers a nervous breakdown, disappears inside his own house and is "raised" by (rather sarcastic) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata centipedes]] for a few days. |
| 332 | * ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'': Emily Watson was raised by coyotes. She can function in human society just fine, but she prefers to live as a nomad in the desert. She also says that coyotes are the only creature she feels any kinship towards... which doesn't prevent her from killing and eating them. |
| 333 | * [[ComicBook/AnyasGhost Vera Brosgol's]] wordless comic ''[[http://verabee.com/wolf/ What Were You Raised By Wolves?]]''. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 337 | * Brilliantly parodied in Website/TheOnion with, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJtg_-PtDQ "Girl Raised from Birth by Wolf Blitzer Taken into Protective Custody"]]. The girl in question is a half-human, half-Wolf Blitzer who always wears pressed suits and slicked-back hair, talks in a stilted news-anchor voice, and is calmed by the use of a lint roller. |
| 338 | * ''Blog/HowToHero'' claims that being raised by evil wolves is one of the most common supervillain origins. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 342 | * Little One in ''WebVideo/TalesFromMyDDCampaign'' was raised by his dragon mother, as his human father disappeared before he was born. |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 346 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective'', one of the recurring villains is the Griffin, who was at one point or another in his childhood raised by virtually every animal known to man. |
| 347 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': |
| 348 | ** The episode "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain" reveals Finn was abandoned as a baby and adopted by Jake's parents, who are dogs. But it's okay, they're [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack post-apocalyptic talking dogs]]. |
| 349 | ** Also [[ParodiedTrope parodied]]/PlayedForLaughs in an episode where [[TheRunaway a runaway]] Lumpy Space Princess gets adopted by a wolf pack. |
| 350 | * ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'': Boo-Boom, a young boy separated from his parents during World War II, is looked after by five animals. Although they don't intend to raise him (in fact, they are actively looking for the boys' parents), they do protect him as if he were one of their own. |
| 351 | * ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' parodied this trope in the ''Justice Friends'' segment "Ratman", where the titular character's origin involved being taken in by the rats that scared away his parents when he was old enough to live on his own. |
| 352 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'', it is revealed that the series BigBad Venomous Drool was raised by [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant slugs]] that adopted him as an infant after his birth tribe abandoned him for his green skin. Fangbone even refers to Drool as a "slug-wizard", although he initially believed Drool was created by the slugs rather than adopted by them. |
| 353 | * {{Discussed}} on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls:'' [[CloudCuckooLander Mabel]] is surprised to meet [[EmoTeen Robbie]]'s parents, as she assumed that he was "raised by sad wolves or something." |
| 354 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' plays with this trope. |
| 355 | ** Pud'n: |
| 356 | --->'''Billy:''' Hey Pud'n, what're you doing outside?\ |
| 357 | '''Pud'n:''' Oh, we live outside. I was raised by wolves. *gestures towards a pair of wolves sitting in front of a randomly placed TV*\ |
| 358 | '''Father Wolf''': Hey. *waves to Billy* |
| 359 | ** According to Mandy's father, when Mandy was born, a pack of wolves came by to try and raise her as their own. He sometimes regrets turning them down. |
| 360 | * Creepila Creecher herself from ''WesternAnimation/GrowingUpCreepie'' was raised by insects. |
| 361 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'', Wu Song, a dentist, found out that his long lost twin brother was raised by dogs and became the [[MightyWhitey Dog King]]. The Dog King usually runs around on all fours and wears a dog pelt. |
| 362 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Baby-Sitting" has Mr. Cat tell Kaeloo and the audience a fake backstory in which he was raised by a salmon (an ordinary one, not a FunnyAnimal like him) who saved him after his horribly abusive family tried to drown him. |
| 363 | * ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Wolf turns out to have been raised by a pack of {{Mutant}} wolves, until she discovered they were just going to use her to train their pups how to hunt and planned to eat her. [[NemeanSkinning The wolfskin cloak she wears]] would indicate how that went for them. |
| 364 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus'' applies this trope to freakin' ''SantaClaus'' -- he's found as an abandoned baby and nursed and raised by a lioness, at least until a young wood nymph decides to adopt him. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/MovilleMysteries'' features a vampire who was a human raised by ''mosquitoes'', and serves a giant vampire mosquito queen as his mother figure. |
| 366 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'', the school welcomes a human girl who was raised by possums, and she acts as such. Subverted when she turns out she was faking it so she can get into the school and get closer to Adam (since she doesn't have a silly last name that can result in a clerical error and be transferred to an all-animal school). |
| 367 | * Doctor Doofenshmirtz, the MadScientist from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', has had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood. According to him, at one point, his parents disowned him, so there was a phase in his life where he was raised by ocelots. |
| 368 | ** In a later episode, he uses this fact to join an otherwise animal-only spy organization. [[RuleOfFunny Apparently the ocelots formally adopted him, making Doofenshmirtz "legally an ocelot."]] |
| 369 | * ''Film/PoliceAcademy: [[RecycledTheSeries the Animated Series]]'' had one episode featuring a young man literally raised by wolves. The heroes, being cops, had the duty of finding his parents. [[spoiler:Mission accomplished.]] |
| 370 | * Wild Smurf in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', who the DeliveryStork lost in the forest as an infant and was raised by squirrels. |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'' has Rusty raised by wolves while Early is in prison. We're treated to a montage of wolves doing things like teaching him to ride a bike or reading him a bedtime story... and then mauling him. |
| 372 | * Not only are Franchise/{{Tarzan}} and his animated counterparts examples of this trope, but one of those counterparts once met an [[JunglePrincess Amazon Princess]] who was also raised by animals. |
| 373 | * Why does Ezekiel from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' turn feral during ''World Tour''? While he was in the hold, he was homeschooled by the rats. It's possible to assume if he were to be homeschooled by his parents again, he might start speaking again. |
| 374 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheUnstoppableYellowYeti'': [[spoiler:It's revealed late into the series that Rita's mother/Osmo's aunt Lydia was raised by the monsters of Monster Mountain. More specifically, it turns out her adoptive parents are the grandparents of one of Rita's monster friends, Emmer!]] |
| 375 | * The Monarch from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' was (very briefly) raised by [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a flock of monarch butterflies]] after his parents died in a plane crash, hence his supervillain sobriquet. |
| 376 | * Wat was raised by a pig in ''WesternAnimation/WatsPig''. He turned out surprisingly competent. |
| 377 | * Donnie from ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' was briefly taken in by a mother orangutan after his primatologist parents were killed by poachers. The orangutan later gave him up so the Thornberrys would take him in. |
| 378 | ** In one South American-centered episode, Donnie and Debbie encounter a young girl being raised by jaguars. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 382 | * This may possibly actually happen in theory, but if it does, is very, very incredibly rare as it requires both a child to be abandoned/lost from their parents, and an [[InterspeciesAdoption animal to be willing and able to raise young]] of a entirely different species. Most alleged cases are very dubious and questionable, and at the time of writing, Wikipedia is not a reliable source on this matter. |
| 383 | * The idea of a human being raised by literal wolves is an impossible, heavily romanticized idea because even if these wild predators, which fear and avoid humans, were willing to raise a human child, they have no way of feeding the child. A wolf's milk would dry up well before a human could be safely weaned. The child would also be in danger from other wild animals, and suffer exposure from the cold and heat. |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
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