Basic Trope: Someone is adopted, but isn't aware of it, even though it's quite obvious that they were adopted.
- Straight: Bob is the Token Human in a family of humanoid tigers, but isn't aware that he's actually a human who was adopted by them. He's very surprised when he finds out.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is adopted by a race of completely incomprehensible monsters and is extremely surprised when he finds out he isn't one, despite all of the magic abilities that he should realistically have if he were an eldritch being.
- All of the Beast Men in town have adopted humans, and they all get very shocked when they learn that they aren't part of the family.
- Downplayed:
- Bob has some suspicions that he may not be related to his family by blood, but doesn't dwell on it much.
- Bob has actually been raised by other relatives besides his parents for all of his life; he just doesn't know.
- Justified:
- Inverted: Bob believes that his blood parents aren't actually related to him.
- Subverted:
- Bob is told that he's adopted, but he isn't surprised because he had already figured it out.
- It's assumed that Bob is adopted, because his father is a tiger-person, and he's a human. However, it turns out that he's a case of Either/Or Offspring.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody is adopted.
- Bob knows he's adopted from the start.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: Bob's adopted older brother Archer tells him, "It really took you that long to figure out you're not a tiger? You don't even have stripes!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob's parents inform him he was adopted right away.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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