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** The Taxxons in are a race of [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant centipedes]] who, if they so much as get a paper cut, they will be devoured alive by other Taxxons. Taxxon reproduction is not mentioned in the series, but given their habits one could probably make a pretty good assumption at [[FridgeHorror the leading cause of death among Taxxon babies]]. ''The Andalite Chronicles'' mentions Taxxons naturally having (sentient!) hives, so maybe they have a queen or something?

** This is nothing compared to Feferi's lusus, an EldritchAbomination at least seven miles long that requiures other lusus to feed, and [[spoiler:kills all the trolls in the entire galaxy except the twelve protagonists.]] At least she's [[TheMentor nice to Feferi]].

See also NoBloodTies.

** PlayedWith in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]". A human kid is adopted by the ProudWarriorRaceGuy Talarians and his biological grandmother wants to get him back cause she suspects this trope. The truth turns out to be somewhere in the middle; the Talarians might be {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is TheSpartanWay, but Captain Endar truly loves his adopted son.

*** [=DS9=] also played with this trope in ''Cardassians''; where some Cardassian orphans on Bajor had been adopted into Bajoran families who cared for them, while others were left to overwhelmed orphanages.

** The Illithid mind flayers begin their lives as tadpole like larvae living in the pool containing the Illithit Elder Brain. The Brain excretes material that the larvae eat, but will also attempt to catch and eat any larvae it can. Only a very small percentage of the larvae reach the stage where they can become full-grown Illithids. And if the full-grown Illithid avoids getting itself killed by an adventurer or something, its brain will be eaten by the Elder Brain anyway. It gets them coming ''and'' going.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Morgoth created the Race of Orcs, while Sauron continued his work and made sure Orcs will multiply even after losing the War of Wrath. Both of them mistreated the Orcs greatly, and as AlwaysChaoticEvil as the may be, the Orcs mostly served their masters out of fear. Inverted with Adar, who is {{A Father To His| Men}}Orcs, and never mistreats them.

* The Technarchs, ladies and gentlemen. Best known as the race of ''[[Characters/NewMutants Warlock]]'' of the ''Comicbook/NewMutants'', every child of this creche-raised techno-organic species has to face their parent in ''single combat to the death''. This really sucks for Warlock because his "mutation" means he has a conscience. He is the ''only'' member of his race that thinks this is messed up. Oh, and his father is the Technarch leader the Magus, the most powerful Technarch alive who is big enough to ''rip apart stars''. ''And Warlock was supposed to fight this guy by himself.'' No wonder he ran. FridgeLogic sets in when you consider how many other species hate the Technarchs and try to kill them, since there's no way they ought to be able to sustain themselves as a species.

* ''Webcomic/DriveDaveKellett'': r-selecting species with lethal rights of passage seem common.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The AlwaysChaoticEvil harmsters are born well developed and mature quickly, after about a month the mother stops taking care of them and starts treating them [[BadBoss as subordinates]], pups that prove especially troublesome are mauled by their own mothers in front of their siblings [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as a warning]]. It's also mentioned that the maniacal rippero (the vicious predators the harmsters evolved from) would encourage their pups to use their weaker siblings as hunting practice, it's unknown if the harmsters continue this behavior but it wouldn't be surprising if they did.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': The solitary Gravedigger people are a [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zagged]] example. It's mentioned that they have a tendency to give birth to litters of multiple chicks at a time but the mothers have a custom of killing all but the strongest of their offspring at birth but after that they are very loving parents who do their best to teach the chick how to survive. However, [[spoiler: there's a population of socialized Gravediggeres who no longer practice this due to it's founding members being [[InterspeciesAdoption raised]] by the highly social and empathetic Woodcrafters]].

* Before the events of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', the Saiyans send their infants/toddlers off to fend for themselves... and destroy planets. Without Freeza's influence, the last Saiyans left alive [[AvertedTrope do care about their young]], although this caring generally takes the form of TrainingFromHell to ready their offspring to better handle combat as opposed to trying to keep them ''out'' of danger. According to WordOfGod, Saiyans don't have much of a nesting instinct. Saiyans thrive on challenge and harsh environments, becoming stronger upon recovering from fatal injuries. This may also explain Goku and Vegeta's parental styles as while they do care for their children, their way of raising would be different (not to mention Goku being raised in the near-wilderness).

*** DS9 also played with this trope in ''Cardassians''; where some Cardassian orphans on Bajor had been adopted into Bajoran families who cared for them, while others were left to overwhelmed orphanages.

** Inverted in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E22ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Friend", when an alien took the form of a girl's imaginary friend to observe the Enterprise. Since the alien didn't understand that children need to be protected because they don't fully comprehend the dangers of the world, the rules and restrictions placed on children led the alien to believe that children were an oppressed minority and that humans were cruel and uncaring.

** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' a reptilian Delta Quadrant race seems to abandon its young on a planet with no apparent caretakers. While the parent does come to check up on it, it was still left unguarded in a cave (though to be fair, the planet was hostile to virtually all other forms of life). Subversion: another race seems to do something similar, but in reality [[spoiler:the children are actually the elderly, who turn into children again before finally disappearing forever]].

** The Slitheen are also hinted to have this style of parenting in some episodes; with Blon Fel-Fotch being threatened with death if she didn't continue the family tradition. It should be noted that the Slitheen are not a species, but a family. We have no idea how the average Raxacoricofallapatorian parent treats their kids.

* ''Webcomic/DriveDaveKellet'': r-selecting species with lethal rights of passage seem common.

* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' a reptilian Delta Quadrant race seems to abandon its young on a planet with no apparent caretakers. While the parent does come to check up on it, it was still left unguarded in a cave (though to be fair, the planet was hostile to virtually all other forms of life). Subversion: another race seems to do something similar, but in reality [[spoiler:the children are actually the elderly, who turn into children again before finally disappearing forever]].
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the Changelings sent Odo and many others like him out into space as new-made infants, without much if any concern over what might happen to them. Although this was supposedly done as an experiment to see what cultural values the group of infants would absorb in being raised by alien species, as a way of learning about these species before making official contact. However, Odo stated that a secondary objective was to assess potential enemies by seeing how they treat the weak and helpless.
* PlayedWith in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Suddenly Human". A human kid is adopted by the ProudWarriorRaceGuy Talarians and his biological grandmother wants to get him back cause she suspects this trope. The truth turns out to be somewhere in the middle; the Talarians might be {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is TheSpartanWay, but Captain Endar truly loves his adopted son.
** Inverted when an alien took the form of a girl's imaginary friend to observe the Enterprise. Since the alien didn't understand that children need to be protected because they don't fully comprehend the dangers of the world, the rules and restrictions placed on children led the alien to believe that children were an oppressed minority and that humans were cruel and uncaring.