History Main / ChildOfTwoWorlds

* This is the source for much of the angst of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' hero Kira Yamato. Being a resident of the Heliopolis colony that was attacked by ZAFT tied him to the Earth Alliance, which he initially fought for. But being a [[GATTACABabies Coordinator]] tied him to the antagonist faction ZAFT, as did his friendship with ZAFT soldier Athrun Zala. The late-series revelation that [[spoiler:Kira wasn't just any Coordinator, but was in fact the flawless Ultimate Coordinator, the one and only result of Ulen Hibiki's experiment to perfect the Coordinator process]] particularly tormented him, as it meant that [[spoiler:he represented the worst of what each side saw in the other and represented an unachievable ideal that one side feared and the other strived for]].

* ''ComicBook/LesAiglesDeRome'': Ermanamer was born in the Cherusci land across the Rhine, but spent his teenage years in Rome as Arminius. Similarly, Marcus is the son of a Roman war commander and a German princess.

* Mowgli in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' is a human boy raised by wolves at a very young age. He winds up being cast out of the wolf pack and a human village, leading him to live by himself in the jungle. The song he sings after his victory over Shere Khan describes his [[LiminalBeing liminal]] nature and the conflicting emotions it brings him.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}: The Presence of Justice'', Loren realises that they need ''feshlath'', children of two herds, to talk the Andalites out of [[spoiler:blowing up Earth]]. [[InterspeciesRomance She]] and Tobias can act as go-betweens for the humans and Andalites; the Hamees for the Hork-Bajir; and [[ShapeshifterModeLock Arbron]] for the Taxxons.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}: The Presence of Justice'', Loren realises that they need ''feshlath'', children of two herds, to talk the Andalites out of [[spoiler:blowing up Earth]]. [[InterspeciesRomance She]] and Tobias can act as go-betweens between humans and Andalites; the Hamees for the Hork-Bajir; and [[ShapeshifterModeLock Arbron]] for the Taxxons.

* ''Series/TheLWord:
** Bette is biracial, having a black father and white mother. She always identifies this way to honor them both, although white people often don't realize she's biracial, thinking her olive skin tone and dark slightly curly hair just means Bette's Italian descent or something. Bette resists the demand to identify solely as black by a black woman she meets too, remarking how that's based on the racist OneDropRule, but points out she ''never'' tries to [[HidingYourHeritage pass as white either]], as noted above.

* ''Series/TheLWord: Generation Q'': Dani Nùñez, who's of half Latino and half Iranian heritage. Although she has a Latin American name, she's fluent in Farsi along with Spanish and knowledgeable about Iranian culture, bonding due to this with Gigi, an Iranian-American.

-->-- '''Sarek to Spock''', ''Film/StarTrek2009''

'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''': On ''ComicBook/NewKrypton''? It's... different. Our people are happy there. The planet itself is beautiful, too, but... It's weird, but being around other Kryptonians like my mother, I'm really starting to feel... well...\\

** Superman's son [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan Samuel Kent]] is also one, being a half-Kryptonian, half-human child.

** Josh Foley (aka Elixir) of the ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' was introduced as a JerkJock and mild FantasticRacist who joined up with Donald Pierce's Reavers, only to unexpectedly discover he was in fact a mutant himself and join the X-Men after a HumiliationConga of being disowned by his family and attacked by his friends. He's since become a firm part of the mutant community and even joined Magneto's latest (as of 2019) incarnation of the [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Brotherhood of Mutants]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'s'' Mellka is a literal one as her human father was born on Penarch while her Aelfrin mother was from Eshteni, both worlds of which were tragically darkened. Mellka's background and upbringing also makes her a child of two worlds in character. She chooses to both embrace aspects which are more nature attuned such as Eldrid beliefs of things like the fabled Old Sentinel, and her bio-gauntlet; and aspects which are less nature attuned such her clothes, gun, and hairstyle.

* UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, an entire nation example traces its roots back to the French and British settlers that arrived here in the 16th-19th centuries which significantly influenced its culture and identity which is reflected in the coat of arms and the old Red Ensign flag that contain the royal symbols of England, France, Scotland and Ireland representing the four groups that created the modern Canadian nation.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_orphans_in_China "zanryu koji"]], Japanese children in Japan's Chinese colonies who were orphaned after the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar and adopted by Chinese families. When they started returning to Japan in the 1980's, they faced discrimination because they were viewed as more Chinese than Japanese.

* [[RaisedByNatives They were born in one community but raised in the other one]].

* ''Series/GinnyAndGeorgia'': Ginny, being biracial, has felt caught in between at times. She says to Hunter (who's also biracial with East Asian/white heritage), that she's had no friends in the past as for white kids she'd been not white enough and black kids too white. She cries on seeing one comment which calls her "the whitest black girl" and self-harms by burning herself with a candle over it. Later she also speaks with Hunter about how annoying being asked "what are you?" is, and being stereotyped given their backgrounds (he notes that he's half Taiwanese, though “Asian” is all even his friends know. In a slam poem given for her class later she also mentions her annoyance at being put into a box with regards to her identity too, refusing that pigeonholing. She and Hunter talk heatedly of what their own experiences given this have been, which devolves into insults (this was highly criticized due to relying on stereotypes, plus the “Oppression Olympics” of them one-upping about who's experienced worse).

* In the MiniSeries ''[[https://youtu.be/FfjqzXxl5LM Queen]]'' (the story of Alex Haley's paternal grandmother), the title character is the result of her slave mother's consensual affair with the plantation owner. Adding to her dichotomy, she's taken to be a lady's maid to the child her father has with his white wife (her half-sister) and therefore grows up with the same advantages as her, meaning that genuinely identifies more with the white side of her family. She gets a harsh awakening when she's tossed out after the Civil War.

** [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] himself is ''literally'' this trope as his birth mother is none other than Mother Earth herself, Gaea.
* Kamala Khan, the [[LegacyCharacter second]] [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]], was conceived in Karachi and born in New Jersey. Her Pakistani heritage and customs make her an outsider in America, but in an issue where she goes to Pakistan, she stands out by being too American. And then there's her latent Inhuman heritage...

** Ronall is the son of a Valdan man and Silerian woman. Valdens have also ruled Sileria for centuries, with violent antagonism between most members of both peoples. He gets [[HalfBreedDiscrimination prejudice from both sides]] as a result.

* Terra in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is the daughter of an [[WitchSpecies Esper]] father and a human mother.

* ''Series/TheLWord: Generation Q'': Dani Nùñez, who's of half Latino and half Iranian heritage. Although he has a Latin American name, she's fluent in Farsi along with Spanish and knowledgeable about Iranian culture, bonding due to this with Gigi, an Iranian-American.

** In ''[[WonderWoman2011 New 52]]'' and ''[[WonderWomanRebirth Rebirth]]'', Diana herself and her twin brother Jason are children of Zeus, the leader of the Olympian gods and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In her original and [[ContinuitySnarl less convoluted backstory]], Donna Troy was a girl from man's world who was rescued from a fire that killed her parents and raised on Themyscira as Diana's adopted sister.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** Superman's son ComicBook/JonathanSamuelKent is also one, being a half-Kryptonian, half-human child.

* Most of the characters from the ''Franchise/XMen'' books are firmly tied to either the human or mutant communities, with a strong culture of FantasticRacism on both sides and years of hostilities dividing the two. But a handful of characters straddle the line between the two groups, including:

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': In her original and [[ContinuitySnarl less convoluted backstory]], Donna Troy was a girl from man's world who was rescued from a fire that killed her parents and raised on Themyscira as Diana's adopted sister.

** ComicBook/{{Angela|MarvelComics}} and later Laussa daughters of Odin (Aesir) and Frigga (Vanir) were born to symbolize the unity of the Aesir (people of Asgard) and Vanir (people of Vanaheim) after the Vanir wars. Angela also got abducted and raised by an Angels of Heven making her a child of ''three'' worlds resulting in a lot of issues as when her true heritage comes out and the Angels unceremoniously exile her. While the Asgardians take her in gladly the ideals and thinking she brings from the Angel society clash with theirs so badly she cannot integrate herself.

* In ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'', Hulkling is a half-Kree half-Skrull child of an affair between [[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]] and a Skrull princess. Both the Kree and Skrulls want him to lead their faction. For extra fun, the Kree and Skrull despise each other and have been trying to wipe each other out for thousands of years.

* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Anders is half Sami, half Swede. He has mostly lived as a Swede, though he's very sympathetic to the Sami. This puts him at odds toward both sometimes, as the Sami are suspicious about Swedes, who often mistreat them. Conversely, some Swedes dislike Sami and thus him too.

* ''Anime/WolfChildrenAmeAndYuki'': Played with. Yuki and Ame are both wolf and human; at the beginnings of their life, Yuki was the more wolfish and Ame rejected it, but by the end of the story Yuki and Ame identified themselves solely as human and wolf, respectively, and are upset by their sibling seeing things otherwise.