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** In the first series, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang wakes up from his nap as a HumanPopsicle to discover that he is the LastOfHisKind due to a genocide [[NiceJobBreakingItHero aimed at him]]. When he discovers the body of his ParentalSubstitute, he goes into an UnstoppableRage and is only calmed down -- into an ordinary grief-stricken child -- when [[TeamMom Katara]] tells him she and Sokka are now his [[TrueCompanions family]].
** In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', brothers Mako and Bolin had to live on the streets and eventually joined a gang to survive after their parents were killed in a mugging when they were eight and six, respectively.

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** In the first series, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Aang]] wakes up from his nap as a HumanPopsicle to discover that he is the LastOfHisKind due to a genocide [[NiceJobBreakingItHero aimed at him]]. When he discovers the body of his ParentalSubstitute, he goes into an UnstoppableRage and is only calmed down -- into an ordinary grief-stricken child -- when [[TeamMom Katara]] tells him she and Sokka are now his [[TrueCompanions family]].
** In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', brothers Mako [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraMako Mako]] and Bolin [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraBolin Bolin]] had to live on the streets and eventually joined a gang to survive after their parents were killed in a mugging when they were eight and six, respectively.respectively.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Losing his mother and stepfather badly traumatized [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceCallum Callum]]. He wistfully draws his mother's image from memory, and expresses hatred at Avizandum for taking her away from him. He breaks down when he finds out his stepfather was killed, and he visibly carries that grief. However, this experience has made him want to live up to his adopted father's moral lessons on love and forgiveness, and his losses have made him extremely protective of his family and loved ones.



* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' has Ezra, a street rat turned Jedi who lost his parents at age seven when they were seized by the Empire, and then had to grow up alone until the ''Ghost'' crew found him at fourteen. This left him with severe abandonment issues and a deep fear of losing his new family, which for good and ill forms the basis of his CharacterArc.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' has Ezra, [[Characters/StarWarsEzraBridger Ezra Bridger]], a street rat turned Jedi who lost his parents at age seven when they were seized by the Empire, and then had to grow up alone until the ''Ghost'' crew found him at fourteen. This left him with severe abandonment issues and a deep fear of losing his new family, which for good and ill forms the basis of his CharacterArc.



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** In the first series, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang wakes up from his nap as a HumanPopsicle to discover that he is the LastOfHisKind due to a genocide [[NiceJobBreakingItHero aimed at him]]. When he discovers the body of his ParentalSubstitute he goes into an UnstoppableRage and is only calmed down -- into an ordinary grief-stricken child -- when [[TeamMom Katara]] tells him she and Sokka are now his [[TrueCompanions family]].
** In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', brothers Mako and Bolin had to live on the streets and eventually joined a gang to survive after their parents were killed in a mugging when they were eight and six respectively.

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** In the first series, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang wakes up from his nap as a HumanPopsicle to discover that he is the LastOfHisKind due to a genocide [[NiceJobBreakingItHero aimed at him]]. When he discovers the body of his ParentalSubstitute ParentalSubstitute, he goes into an UnstoppableRage and is only calmed down -- into an ordinary grief-stricken child -- when [[TeamMom Katara]] tells him she and Sokka are now his [[TrueCompanions family]].
** In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', brothers Mako and Bolin had to live on the streets and eventually joined a gang to survive after their parents were killed in a mugging when they were eight and six six, respectively.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Although Marceline's father isn't dead, he's pretty evil and not exactly a great parent. [[spoiler:Marceline's mom is also implied to have died in the [[WorldWarIII great Mushroom War]], leaving Marceline without much of a family. Wandering the nuclear wasteland, her only real father figure, [[WasOnceAMan Simon Petrikov]]/[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain The Ice King]] slowly went insane due to the power of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Crown]].]] Overall, her life just wasn't great.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Aang wakes up from his nap as a HumanPopsicle to discover that he is the LastOfHisKind due to a genocide [[NiceJobBreakingItHero aimed at him]]. When he discovers the body of his ParentalSubstitute he goes into an UnstoppableRage and is only calmed down -- into an ordinary grief-stricken child -- when [[TeamMom Katara]] tells him she and Sokka are now his [[TrueCompanions family]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Although Marceline's father isn't dead, he's pretty evil and not exactly a great parent. [[spoiler:Marceline's mom is also implied to have died in the [[WorldWarIII great Mushroom War]], leaving Marceline without much of a family. Wandering the nuclear wasteland, her only real father figure, [[WasOnceAMan Simon Petrikov]]/[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain The Ice King]] slowly went insane due to the power of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Crown]].]] Overall, her life just wasn't great.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** In the first series, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'',
Aang wakes up from his nap as a HumanPopsicle to discover that he is the LastOfHisKind due to a genocide [[NiceJobBreakingItHero aimed at him]]. When he discovers the body of his ParentalSubstitute he goes into an UnstoppableRage and is only calmed down -- into an ordinary grief-stricken child -- when [[TeamMom Katara]] tells him she and Sokka are now his [[TrueCompanions family]].
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* Robin from the ''[[WebVideo/DreamSMP Tales from the SMP]]'' episode "The Village That Went Mad" fits the trope. He lost his parents in a GreatOffscreenWar and is looked down upon by most of the village for being an orphan child; while he does have a surrogate father-figure in the form of Catboy, he ends up executed for supposedly murdering someone. Ultimately, Robin is heavily implied to become a DeathSeeker as a result of his trauma, not defending himself when the townsfolk turn their accusations on him and have him killed.

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* Robin from the ''[[WebVideo/DreamSMP Tales from the SMP]]'' SMP]]'': Robin from the episode "The Village That Went Mad" fits the trope. He lost his parents in a GreatOffscreenWar and is looked down upon by most of the village for being an orphan child; while he does have a surrogate father-figure in the form of Catboy, he ends up executed for supposedly murdering someone. Ultimately, Robin is heavily implied to become a DeathSeeker as a result of his trauma, not defending himself when the townsfolk turn their accusations on him and have him killed.



* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Although Marceline's father isn't dead, he's pretty evil and not exactly a great parent. [[spoiler:Marceline's mom is also implied to have died in the [[WorldWarIII great Mushroom War]], leaving Marceline without much of a family. Wandering the nuclear wasteland, her only real father figure, [[WasOnceAMan Simon Petrikov]]/[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain The Ice King]] slowly went insane due to the power of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Crown.]]]] Overall, her life just wasn't great.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Although Marceline's father isn't dead, he's pretty evil and not exactly a great parent. [[spoiler:Marceline's mom is also implied to have died in the [[WorldWarIII great Mushroom War]], leaving Marceline without much of a family. Wandering the nuclear wasteland, her only real father figure, [[WasOnceAMan Simon Petrikov]]/[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain The Ice King]] slowly went insane due to the power of [[ArtifactOfDoom the Crown.]]]] Crown]].]] Overall, her life just wasn't great.
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*''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Emily's beloved father is dead and she copes by writing poems to his spirit. She also lost her mother when she was young, and barely has any memories of her.

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