Line #28 ParentalAbandonment/WebComics


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9	* Gordito from ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' was raised by his single father after his mother's death. After his father's death, he was raised by his paleontologist uncle. Now, he's the [[{{Sidekick}} Robin]] to Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Batman. By the end of the comic, Doc's parents are considering formally adopting Gordito.
10	* ''[[http://aiacrowd.com/ Alone In A Crowd]]'' has a particularly outrageous example. Hope's super-wealthy impulsive-gambler parents [[spoiler: literally and callously abandoned her, although only after finishing all the legal paperwork to allow her adoption by anyone who wanted her.]] This event drives much of the early plot in the comic.
11	* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': Alex's parents are mentioned but never seen, we see Riley's father but not her mother, and Tristan's mother but not her stepfather.
12	* ''Webcomic/{{Annarasumanara}}'': Yun Ai and her sister's father abandoned them because he fell into debt. He returns later, but leaves them once again. It's later revealed [[spoiler: that their mom left them, too.]]
13	* In ''Webcomic/BlueYonder'', [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1025805/blue-yonder-prologue-page-1/ Jared and his sister are alone at the beginning, their parents having already fallen to those chasing them.]]
14	* ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson'' runs [[LonelyRichKid Miranda]] through multiple flavors of this. As a child, she has [[spoiler: a [[WhenYouComingHomeDad workaholic mother]] and a DisappearedDad]]; as a teenager, she has a MissingMom and an ArchnemesisDad.
15	* All of the children in ''Webcomic/CampWeedonwantcha'' have been simply abandoned at the titular camp, with no plans to return for them. The kids are all left to their own devices without any adults, and more than a few of them have repressed their memories of their arrivals.
16	* ''Webcomic/CaptainBroadband'' has an unnamed sidekick whose parents seem to have no trouble leaving him home alone for long periods of time to go on holiday. They pay a [[DisproportionateRetribution rather unnecessary price]] when they get home to find an eight foot, three hundred pound man having moved himself in without permission.
17	* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' Zeno's parents abandoned him in the monster filled Kellwood forest and Menulis was told he was left in the trash.
18	* Another ''Webcomic/TheWotch''-related example is Alex King from ''Webcomic/{{Cheer}}''. Her wealthy parents are still alive, they just don't seem to care. Early on it's revealed that she even receives her allowance by direct deposit, and a Christmas comic depicting the cheerleaders with their families shows her strumming her guitar by herself.
19	* In ''Webcomic/ComplicatedNess'' No one knows the fate of Ness' parents. Ness has no idea weather his parents are alive or not.
20	* The web comic ''Webcomic/CwensQuest'' starts off with the main character's father [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=314161 throwing them off a cliff]] so they won't eventually fight with their new sibling. The main character's mother is never mentioned in the series.
21	* Mostly subverted in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan''. The title character's family is pretty solid; the only estranged child is Jacob, the oldest of the three, and that's because he used the youngest, Gregory, as part of a necromantic experiment which almost killed Greg and got him thrown out. Mr. and Mrs. Deegan are in their sixties and still very much in love with one another. The only borderline case is the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Travoria family]]. They started out as a whole family, but Mr. Travoria was killed by Mrs. Travoria, Mrs. Travoria was killed by a royal knight she picked a fight with (as she tried to [[OffingTheOffspring drive Luna to suicide]]), and the oldest sister, Amelia, was killed by a thief who tried to use his friend/partner as a pawn in a scheme to kill ''her'' husband and claim his vast riches.
22	* Alexander Hamilton in ''Webcomic/TheDreamer''. His dad left his family when he was ten or eight years old, and two years later his mom died of yellow fever.
23	* Nastajia in ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles''
24	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', two main characters have divorced parents, one is technically an orphan and one hates her overbearing, borderline-oppressive EducationMama so much we might as well throw her in too. Two have had their fathers show up, though not on-screen (one in a one-sided phone conversation, the other from outside a room). Oh, and of the remaining main characters, one is an OppositeSexClone of the other, and was hence adopted by the same [[OpenMindedParent Open-Minded Parents]], [[UnfazedEveryman who seem a quite a bit less concerned about the weirdness going on than they should be]].
25	* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', after Jon tricks their daughter into helping him, Kyri rescues her and hands her off to her friends so that she can go fight Jon. When they are trapped in time, the daughter grows up without either of them.
26	* Most of the main characters in ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' suffer from ParentalAbandonment. Jon and Sara's father was killed by assassins before their mother died of an illness, Meji's Elven father had a fling with her mother on a diplomatic visit [[spoiler: and later tried to have her killed upon learning he had fathered a Half-Elf]], and Ian's mother was apathetic and neglectful towards her children [[spoiler: until she killed herself and Evelyn in a fire]].
27	* In ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'', [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/allfur-05/#.T2_A7tm6SuI All Fur describes her plight as this.]] It's a euphemism.
28	* In ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', when it is learned that Alisin has an unknown blood disease which appears to be slowly killing her, the Worthingtons decide to give her whatever she wished for, including, when she rebelled against their over-protection, her freedom. While it seems that they continued to give her any money she asked for and poured vast sums of money into finding a cure, they otherwise had no part in her life afterwards. This is entirely in Alisin's BackStory; the only appearance which Senator Worthington makes at the time of the main story is on television, and Mrs. Worthington is seen only in flashbacks.
29	* Conan of ''Webcomic/{{Galebound}}'' is missing both parents, his mother having passed away of unknown causes some years after his [[DisappearedDad father left]]. There's hints that Din might also be an orphan.
30	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''
31	** Agatha’s birth parents disappeared shortly after the attack that left Castle Heterodyne crippled. Her uncle stuck around a little longer, but he too left eleven years prior to the events of the comic. Although her mother has recently come back, it’s bad news [[spoiler: since Lucrezia is also [[BigBad the Other]].]]
32	** Gil grew up without knowing anything about his parents. Even now we still know nothing about his mother. [[spoiler: It's strongly suggested that his mother is Zantabraxus, the Warrior Queen of Skifander.]]
33	** Tarvek’s father was murdered (by his own daughter) and like in Gil’s case his mother is nowhere to be seen. It's suggested in the second novelisation that she was killed by Anevka.
34	* Jae Gu and his siblings in ''Webcomic/GirlsOfTheWild'' [[DisappearedDad lost their father]] to an illness at a young age. A few years later, their [[MissingMom mother abandoned]] them out of the stress of the situation, leaving Jae Gu to [[PromotionToParent raise his younger siblings]] and also forming a deep hatred for women.
35	* Alluded to by Lance in ''Webcomic/GoldCoinComics''.
36	* In ''Webcomic/GoodbyeToHalos'', Fenic's father abandoned ''on another world''. In the {{Gayborhood}} she lives in, she's not alone; many of the kids there were implied to have been abandoned by homophobic or transphobic parents.
37	* ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'':
38	** Mica's mother and father divorced due to their constant fighting. Her father fought to keep her, but perhaps more out of spite for the mother than affection for Mica. Her constant getting into trouble prompts him to threaten to cut her off when she's kicked out of yet another high school, a threat he makes good on when [[spoiler:Avery frames her for arson]].
39	** Avery's mother is never seen or mentioned. [[spoiler:And her father is both physically and verbally abusive]].
40	** Liv's parents are presumably both still alive; she's just independent now that she's in college, and we never see them or hear from them. Though [[spoiler:she might have gotten a little isolated from her family when she accidentally lost all the memories of her dead brother, resulting in a very different trauma from the rest of the family]], which may play a role in their lack of appearance.
41	* ''Webcomic/TheGuideToAHealthyRelationship'': In a rare sober and sincere moment, Apollo admits close to tears that his parents disowned him and cut off all contact after he came out as gay.
42	* Antimony Carver from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Her mother, Surma, dies just before the start of the story from an unspecified ailment that had hospitalized her since about the time of Annie's birth.[[spoiler: It turns out that [[HeroicSacrifice her life force was being drained into Annie]] as Annie grew up.]] And Annie's father, Anthony, is one of the most mysterious characters in the comic. Only seen in flashbacks and greatly obscured, he disappeared soon after his daughter started at the Court. He's easily the biggest speculation-bait in a series filled with EpilepticTrees, his current situation, personality and feelings towards his daughter as mysterious as when the comic started.
43	** Recently, Anthony has turned up and it's been revealed that [[spoiler:having failed to save his wife, he's been frantically trying to find either a way to get her back or a way to save his daughter from the same fate]]. But he's still wavering between being a jerkass and being sympathetic.
44	* ''Webcomic/{{Guttersnipe}}'' is a comic about an orphan girl that parodies "Little Rascal" style films.
45	* [[EruditeStoner Gamzee]] of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' developed his fondness for [[AlienCatnip Sopor Pies]] largely because his [[BizarreAlienBiology Lusus]] was always at sea. Terezi, on the other hand, had to raise herself because her Lusus had yet to hatch.
46	** [[ResetButton Post Scratch]], Jake, Roxy, and Dirk all suffer from an unwitting version of this, [[spoiler: as [[TheDragon The Condesce]] killed all three of their guardians. Roxy and Dirk's guardians would have died of old age long before the two of them arrived on Earth via meteor.]]
47	** Jade was raised entirely by Bec after her [[RaisedByGrandparents grandfather]], who is technically her ectobiological father, died when she was young.
48	** John's mother, [[spoiler:who he believes to be his grandmother, died when the meteor carrying him crashed into her joke shop, leaving him to be raised by his father, who is actually his genetic half-brother.]]
49	* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Galatea grew up in a completely unloving environment and the closest thing she had to a father being a scientist who treated her as a lab animal. When she later spawned another creature like herself, she ended up abandoning her. When they are reunited, Galatea shows deep ''remorse'' at having been just as rotten a parent as as her "father."
50	* Oddly rare to be played straight in ''Webcomic/{{Jack\|DavidHopkins}}'', which deals mainly on death and the afterlife. When present, it's often played with.
51	** The main character Jack never had parents due to [[spoiler: having been created in a scientific experiment; same goes for his love interest Jill]].
52	** Little Megan in a late 2010 arc is stopped in time, thus unable to grow any older, yet lived with her parents until a family friend in the same situation took her away to protect her.
53	** Zigzagged with Fnar, an innocent unborn, who has two dead parents -- who both reside in Hell like he does. He is mainly kept away from them, since Mama's stuck in a dangerous place, and Papa is just dangerous. Later on the trope gets twisted further in the same direction as Fnar is given [[spoiler:another chance at life]].
54	* Five-year-old prodigy Gin in ''Jackie's Fridge'' is for all intents and purposes being raised by Melissa and Ada. Generally played for laughs, this takes a mildly tragic turn: when she gets injured on the playground and has to go to the hospital for stitches, her parents' only reaction is that Melissa [[ParentsAsPeople interrupted their game of disc golf]][[http://jackiesfridge.comicgenesis.com/d/20030711.html]]. It's also then that Melissa learns that they had never given her any gifts -- ever[[http://jackiesfridge.comicgenesis.com/d/20030716.html]].
55	* The title character of "Little Dee" has become lost or separated from her parents. The forest animals who stand in for her family make periodic (and increasingly more half-hearted) attempts to find them.
56	* In ''Webcomic/LucidSpring'', Pacem lives on her own in Repa when she and Viktor meet. Her [[MissingMom mother is dead]], and [[DisappearedDad the status of her father]] is unknown.
57	* All of the Baker Street Irregulars in ''Webcomic/MayonakaDensha'' seem to be missing at least one parent. Tom's mother gave him up at a very young age, Hatsune's dad disappeared when she was five without so much as a goodbye, leaving her alone with a very cold and emotionless mother, and the whereabouts of Jack and Morris's parents are completely unknown.
58	** Jessica Queen's father is also absent, explainable though as her mother is a three time divorcee.
59	* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'''s Miho has no known relatives, and -- in fact -- lives in the back room of a dance club. [[EpilepticTrees Theories]] as to why this is range from "they died from whatever mysterious disease she currently suffers" from to "she ate them". Fred Gallagher has been less then helpful.
60	* Inverted somewhat in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Before the misfile, though he lived with his father, Ash didn't have much of a relationship with him, and had no contact at all with his mother. After the misfile, Ash is shocked to find her father now dotes on his daughter, and that she had reestablished a relationship with her mother.
61	* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', Clare bleakly speaks of how her parents treated her -- and how she now knows she is no better. (She no longer has her baby with her.)
62	** Also, in the [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-29.html same episode]], one parent deliberately abandoned his children in the woods, and others appear to have at least neglected to protect their children from the WickedWitch.
63	* ''Webcomic/TheNoob'' parodies this role-playing cliche, when every role-player in the guild has the same tragic past, of having their family [[RapePillageAndBurn raped and murdered by the evil hordes]]. Cue a cutaway to said evil hordes, who are holding a list of other farms they still have to do today. One of them is so exhausted, he asks if they can at least skip the raping.
64	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Roy's father died of old age a few years before the story starts, and it seems that his mother must have died at some point since he [[spoiler:meets her in the afterlife]]. Haley's father is a famous thief who is currently imprisoned in a faraway country, and her mother died when Haley was very young. Elan's mother was a ChaoticGood barmaid who divorced from her husband,[[spoiler: a [[LawfulEvil Lawful]] Evil Overlord,]] over alignment difference, and she raised Elan while he raised his twin brother Nale. Durkon's parents are unknown, although he seems to have had an uncle who he visited periodically; however, Durkon was banished from the dwarven lands and hasn't seen his uncle since. Vaarsuvius' parents are unknown, and when V hit puberty, V was adopted by a wizard who taught V magic, and then threw V out some time later to see the world. Belkar's parents are unknown, though there IS an aunt mentioned who may be as evil as Belkar.
65	** Redcloak's entire family but for one of his younger siblings were killed in front of him. As for Xykon, well, [[spoiler: he is a SelfMadeOrphan]].
66	** Elan's father has been recently introduced; on meeting his father for the first time, Elan comments: "Growing up without a father was totally worth it ''just for that reveal.''"
67	* Flik's mother in ''Webcomic/ParaTen'' seems to make a habit of this.
68	* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess2012'': The father of Sadie and Claire, the late king, died from unknown causes in the past. It's implied that their mother was already dead from his last words to them.
69	* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'':
70	** Rain's father Marcus abandoned the family for unknown reasons.
71	** Ana's mother abandoned her because she could not accept that [[spoiler: her daughter was not a boy.]]
72	* In ''Webcomic/{{Route148}} '' now elderly Frank tries to make sense of the situation in which he was taken in by the Reed family. Also his grandson Linton, one of the comic's main protagonists, is noticeably lacking in the parental department.
73	* The story in ''Webcomic/{{Selkie}}'' starts at an orphanage, so lots of characters have missing parents.
74	** Selkie's mother left her at the orphanage for reasons that aren't fully explored three years before the story begins. Her biological father didn't even know she existed, so he wasn't in the picture either. Luckily, the story starts when she's HappilyAdopted.
75	** Amanda was given up for adoption at birth by her mother who didn't believe she was ready to raise a kid. Her father, who was actually looking forward to parenthood, was told she was stillborn. She was later adopted, but her new siblings abused her, and the parents ended up returning her to the orphanage, abandoning her a second time. Thankfully her original parents return to her life, her mother deciding that putting her up for adoption was a mistake, and her father immediately agreeing to be a part of her life once he learned she was still alive, but the ordeal left her with some rather understandable issues.
76	** Tony's parents are in prison. He remains in the orphanage until the authorities are able to track down his grandmother.
77	* [[spoiler:Juniper]] in ''Webcomic/ShotgunShuffle'' abandoned her son less than a week after he was born. Forcing [[spoiler:her sister Ginger]] to adopt him. She chews her out for it later after claiming he's still her son.
78	* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' manages to mostly avert this except in the case of Jason's dad. The exact story of what happened is never explained but apparently at some point he ran off and left Mrs. Pratchett to care for Jason and his sister alone.
79	* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'':
80	** Onni, Tuuri and Lalli's parents died eleven years before the beginning of the story, when Onni was a teenager and the two other were children. Lalli is cousins with the two others, so there were two sets of parents.
81	** The entire first story arc went by without giving a clear answer on the present-day status of Emil's parents. His mother's only appearance was made in the family tree, and his father got a couple mentions in regards to past events in his life. They stand out out among the pairs of parents that simply don't appear due to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail due to Emil's uncle and aunt technically being the crew's employers during that story arc.
82	* In ''Webcomic/VirtualPetPlanet'', Benny, the rabbit, is asked about his owner, but avoids the subject entirely.
83	* ''Webcomic/TheWeave'': When Tally was ten, her father loaded her off at her aunt's place and then made off never to be seen again -- immediately after [[MissingMom her mom died]]. [[spoiler:It seems to be a recurring theme with fairy fathers, as also Tally's friend Kitty and her sister are half-human children of a fairy father who left the family.]]
84	* In the first "season" of ''Webcomic/TheWotch,'' the families of the characters are quite absent. The second starts bringing them into scenes, though.
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Context ParentalAbandonment / WebComics