This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
- Agatha from Girl Genius was raised by people she knew as Adam and Lilith Clay, who she believed to be her parents
That's a no. She tells people that they're her parents, but the flashbacks
make it clear that she knows they aren't.
Erica MZDM: Changed it to 'referred to as her parents'.
Shire Nomad: Pulled Spiderman as an example. Peter Parker has no hidden heritage: the powers come from an accident that could have just as easily happened if his parents had been alive.
Air Of Mystery: Don't do that! I looked at the page just after I edited it and went "What?!"
Shire Nomad: MWAHAHA!
Looney Toons: How is this significantly different from Moses in the Bullrushes?
Kilyle: I'm not entirely certain I could explain it, but I do feel there's a difference. Let's see... the emphasis in MITB is on the kid, with the parents as prop, while this trope speaks to the parents as being more than a prop... hrm... and I think this is more the magical variant (the parents aren't in on the Masquerade), whereas MITB is more the non-magical variant (raising a prince or the like, but no powers or supernatural things to speak of... well, at least, setting aside the whole Heroic Destiny and Hand of Fate as being possible even when there are no "supernatural" elements).
Someone help! I think there's a distinction here but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Haven: Agreed with Shire Nomad above, pulling Spider-Man, as his "family legacy" really doesn't have anything to do with his powers or anything. He's just a superhero who was raised by people who weren't his biological parents or superheroes, it's not this trope. Especially since his real parents were also powerless.
- Spiderman 's Uncle Ben and Aunt May follow the "aunt and uncle" side (although Aunt May did gain powers at one point).
- Oddly, Spiderman's biological parents were bad-ass spies...this really didn't affect his superheroing much.
- The difference here is, Spider-Man's true heritage was to be normal; his powers were created by a lab accident, not birth.
