Basic Trope: Parents who lead a dangerous and troubled life give their child up for the child's own safety.
- Straight: Mighty Wizard Bob and Badass Fighter Alice send their son Charlie to be Raised by Grandparents.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob the Greatest Wizard of All Dimensions and Alice the Field Marshal of the Omniverse give their son up for adoption without even naming him.
- Every Battle Couple in the universe does it.
- Downplayed: Bob and Alice send Charlie to his grandparents whenever danger is near.
- Either Bob or Alice retires from world-saving to raise Charlie normally.
- Mighty Wizard Bob and his estranged wife Girl Next Door Alice want to keep Charlie safe, so Charlie stays with Alice and she tells him his father's dead.
- Justified: Due to Bob and Alice constantly battling powerful villains, their household is always at risk.
- Bob and Alice fear the Big Bad can kidnap Charlie to blackmail them.
- Inverted: Bob and Alice raise Charlie to be as badass as them.
- Superhero Charlie leaves his parents to keep them away from danger.
- Muggles Bob and Alice send Charlie to a wizarding school to provide him with a more exciting life.
- Subverted: World-Saving Heroes Bob and Alice send Charlie to his grandparents... who happen to be Multiverse-Saving Heroes Don and Emma.
- Double Subverted: But they are now fully retired and live peacefully.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob and Alice are unable to decide how they should raise Charlie: with them and in danger or with other people and in safety.
- Averted: Bob and Alice don't lead a dangerous life. Or they don't have children.
- Enforced: "Charlie has to suffer Parental Abandonment, but we can't turn Bob and Alice into outright villains. I know – let's make them leave him for his own safety!"
- Lampshaded: "If we ever have kids, let's spare them all this madness."
- Defied: Charlie refuses to leave his parents.
- Discussed: "And where's your son?" "He's with my sister's family in Peacelands Village, thank goodness."
- Conversed: "I'll bet you Charlie's parents will turn out to be superheroes who left him for his own good."
- Implied: On their desk, Bob and Alice keep a photograph of a smiling boy and an elderly couple in pleasant rural surroundings.
- Played For Laughs: Grandpa makes Charlie take piano lessons and Grandma tells him to wash dishes and brush his teeth. Charlie would very much prefer fighting dragons.
- Played For Drama: Charlie detests his parents for abandoning him.
