History Main / ChildOfTwoWorlds

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei is a Chinese child, raised by Chinese parents, growing up in the West (specifically, Canada).[[note]]The similarity to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' is not a coincedence; both films are by the same director.[[/note]]

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Asgardians have a thing to end wars with these. For example:
** ComicBook/{{Angela|AsgardsAssassin}} 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.
** Adopting Loki as a symbol of their victory over the Frost Giants. Let's quote him how he feels about this:
--->'''Loki''': I may have been born in Jotunheim, but I was raised in Asgard. And yet I am neither Jotun nor God. Not truly. So what exactly does that make me? For many years I pondered that question before finally realizing the answer: [[IAmWhatIAm I am...]] '''[[IAmWhatIAm Loki]]'''.
** Thor himself is ''literally'' this trope as his birth mother is none other than Mother Earth herself, Gaea.
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'': Kamala Khan, the [[LegacyCharacter second]] 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...
* In ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'', Hulkling is a half-Kree half-Skrull child of an affair between ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} 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.

* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is the son of the Atlantian Queen Atlanna and the human Joseph Curry. While he is the ruler of Atlantis he was also raised on the surface world.
* ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'': 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.
* ''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.
** In ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 New 52]]'' and ''[[ComicBook/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/{{Persepolis}}'': Marjane was born and raised in pre-Islamic Revolution Iran, but then grew up in Austria during her teens. She feels conflicted over not properly fitting in with either Western or Iranian culture (too "provocative" for Islamists, too "savage" for Europeans).

* Empath of ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is born a Smurf but raised as a Psyche from infancy, and thus struggles with who he wishes to identify himself as when he finds out the truth of his actual parentage.
* Edward and Alphonse are half Ishvalan and half Amestrian [[spoiler: actually Xerxian]] in ''FanFic/SonOfTheDesert'' but fully identify with their Ishvalan heritage and are proud of it despite fearing that they will killed for it and going against cultural taboos by practicing alchemy.

* In Jacqueline Lichtenberg's ''[[http://www.simegen.com/fandom/startrek/kraith/ Kraith]]'' stories about Spock finding his place in traditional Vulcan culture, his name means "communicates a blended tradition". It also implies "a founder of dynasties" because the ancestor for whom he is named was that.

* A running theme for the "Junior Trinity" in the ComicBook/TeenTitans ''Our Own League'' novels is they are each the children of ''three'' worlds. Robin is an Al Ghul, a Wayne and (by adoption) a Kyle, Superboy is an El, a Kent, and a Luthor, and Wonder Girl is three-way hybrid of human, Amazon and [[spoiler:Titan]]. Aqualad is a more traditional case, as a half-Atlantean raised as a human.
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': Haku was born in and spent his early years in the Land of Water but grew up in the Land of Fire. He was specifically appointed as Kiri's ambassador in Konoha for this reason, since he would have a vested interest in maintaining peace between the two nations.
* ''Fanfic/{{Talespinner}}'': A large part of the story revolves around exactly how Sarah embodies this.

* In ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', it's been five centuries since two Kryptonian heroes arrived in Earth, but their descendants can't forget about their alien heritage due to their powers. Co-protagonist Katherine describes living in Earth like "trying to run through a room carpeted with eggs, and trying not to break anything". On Rokyn, another world inhabited by people of Kryptonian descent, they have no powers so they don't need to hold back, but it isn't their home either because they haven't been raised there.
* In crossover ''Fanfic/{{Portalborn}}'', it's mentioned the Dragonborn, who's a human woman -and werewolf- with the soul of the dragon, lives among two worlds.

* ''Fanfic/ScarredSurvivors'' has Urd - half Goddess, half demon; born in Niflheim, moved to Asgard in her youth.

* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Kara had been born and raised in a Kryptonian city, but she moved to Earth when she was fifteen. Now she's almost thirty, but she hasn't yet managed to adapt to her new home.

* As a Dunmer who lives in Morrowind but was born outside of it, Jane falls into this category in the crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/DariaInMorrowind''.

* ''Film/Underworld2003'': Eve is the child of ''three'' worlds as she's born as a Vampire-Lycan-Inmortal hybrid.

* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': Oliver has no memory of his parents, and later discovers their identities while searching for his destiny. [[spoiler: His father was a reformed warlock whilst his mother was the White Mage daughter of Brownlow, and much of Oliver's qualms with being a warlock was that warlocks are evil, until he learns his father was a reformed one.]]

* The title character of the ''Jani Kilian'' series was born human, but went through an ''idomeni'' religious school as part of a cultural exchange and later [[WeCanRebuildHim was rebuilt]] using ''idomeni'' genetic material. One of Kilian's jobs is serving as an intermediary between human and ''idomeni'' communities, and she's involved in troubleshooting problems affecting both sides.
* Talos, the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Spartan}}'', was actually a child from a noble Spartan family, but the city-state neglected him due to his malformed foot (and according to this law, every child who cannot seve as a warrior must be left to die from exposure). Luckilly, he was rescued and he was raised as a [[MadeASlave Helot]].
* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': Tharkay is the child of a 19[[superscript:th]]-Century English officer and a Nepalese woman, leaving him experienced with but a stranger to both cultures, who becomes a cynical and independent NativeGuide in Central Asia. In a candid moment, he admits how British racism has alienated him, and the British protagonist [[TroubledSympatheticBigot apologizes for his own prejudice]] and honestly asks for Tharkay's friendship.
* ''Literature/UnderThePendulumSun'': [[ArtificialHuman Changelings]] spend their early lives truly believing that they're the humans they [[CaptureAndReplicate replaced]], then get [[TomatoInTheMirror exposed]] and recalled to Arcadia by TheFairFolk. Neither human nor truly Fae, they're out of place in both worlds, which causes Ariel a fair bit of SupernaturalAngst.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/JanetAsimov's ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles'': Norby is a robot built by a [[HumansByAnyOtherName Terran spacer]] from his scraps and the wrecked computer of a Jamyn spacecraft. The process has left him [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup quite mixed up]], and he initially is uncertain exactly where he belongs, but chooses to stay with Jeff because of their [[RobotBuddy friendship]].

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': The Half-elven. By default they are mortal, but very much belong to the elven world as well.
** Those in the lineage of Lúthien get to choose whether they will be mortal or immortal: but this only changes their ''fate'', not their powers while alive. They are actually children of ''three'' worlds, since Lúthien was half-[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maia]].
** Elrond and Elros in particular have a bad case of this since they are not only half-human and half-elf, but also belong to both of the two major types of elves (who do not like each other). Plus, they were raised by the Sons of Fëanor: a third faction of elves that the other two despise for different reasons. In the end though, it makes Elros the perfect candidate to unite all the human tribes into a single nation: and Elrond the perfect person to coordinate the fight against Sauron. But it's never easy being the guy everyone is related to in Middle Earth.

* ''Creator/JRRTolkien'': The Half-elven. By default they are mortal, but very much belong to the elven world as well.

* The Half-elven of ''Creator/JRRTolkien'''s legendarium, obviously. By default they are mortal, but very much belong to the elven world as well. Those in the lineage of Lúthien get to choose whether they will be mortal or immortal: but this only changes their ''fate'', not their powers while alive. They are actually children of ''three'' worlds, since Lúthien was half-[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maia]].
** Elrond and Elros in particular have a bad case of this: since they are not only half-human and half-elf, but also belong to both of the two major types of elves (who do not like each other). Plus, they were raised by the Sons of Fëanor: a third faction of elves that the other two despise for different reasons. In the end though, it makes Elros the perfect candidate to unite all the human tribes into a single nation: and Elrond the perfect person to coordinate the fight against Sauron. But it's never easy being the guy everyone is related to in Middle Earth.

*** Picard himself, being both a famous retired Starfleet admiral and well-respected historian, as well as an xB haunted by his brief time in the Collective and the things he was forced to do against his will. While Seven and Hugh are mostly known for being former drones of the Collective, many in the Federation seem to overlook Picard's relatively brief time, despite how heavily it weighs on him personally.

The case of total rejection is a common origin of a HunterOfHisOwnKind, especially when one half is AlwaysChaoticEvil or there are [[IHateYouVampireDad deeper issues with one parent]], but isn't exclusive to this situation. For instance, a ProudScholarRaceGuy character raised by adoptive ProudWarriorRace parents may seek to prove themselves by becoming the most ruthless and violent warrior of the tribe.

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* They belong racially to one community but culturally to the other.

* Tina Foster from ''Anime/AiYoriAoshi'' was born in America, but has lived most of her life in Japan, to the point that she actually has trouble remembering how to speak English. She tried attending high school in America, only to find out that she didn't fit in. But returning to Japan for college, she realized that her [[PhenotypeStereotype Caucasian features]] meant that she stood out and wasn't at home in Japan, either.
* Soko from ''Manga/AoNoFuuin'' is the Queen of the Oni, but more identifies herself as human and [[IJustWantToBeNormal wants to be just that]]. But the Oni depend on her as their leader, so she often isn't sure which side of Humans VS Oni she should be on, as both sides are not right and she is important to both of them.

* 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 [[DesignerBabies 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]].

* ''Anime/MokkuOfTheOakTree'': The world of nature recognises Mokku as one of their own due to his mother being a tree, but he keeps seeking acceptance from humans.

* In ''Manga/MarineCorpsYumi'', the main character is unknowingly a dual citizen of Nippon and Amerigo due to the latter's citizenship by birth policy. She had to give up her Nipponian citizenship in order to join the Marines, though.
* ''Manga/HouseOfTheSun'': Daiki considers himself fortunate of being a person with two places to call home: one, at his late parents' house, and one with his aunt's family at Kobe.

* Eggs from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'' is one of these, according to [[spoiler: his biological father]] at any rate: he was born a human, but raised by the boxtrolls after [[spoiler: an attempt on his birth father's life]].
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea''. While Melody is half-mermaid and half-human ('Never been seen, never before!'/'A child is born of sea and shore!') and ultimately brings the human and mermaid communities together at the end of the film, the reason Ariel cut ties with Atlantica was because she thought keeping Melody ignorant of her mermaid heritage was the only way to save her from Morgana.

* In ''Film/TheGodfather'', Tom Hagen was born into a German-Irish family but raised by Sicilians. As an adult, he often acts as a buffer between the Corleones and their WASP colleagues.
* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Odin ''hopes'' Loki will [[WrongGenreSavvy become a bridge between Asgard and Jotunheim]]. Instead, Loki utterly repudiates his Jotun heritage, going so far as to attempt genocide against his birth people. The fact that Odin kept it a complete secret and let Loki believe Frost Giants were monsters didn't help matters. [[spoiler:It takes Loki several years until he can accept his heritage, portraying his adoption in a positive light in a [[Film/ThorRagnarok stage play]] or [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar calling himself the Prince of Asgard and the rightful King of Jotunheim]] in the same sentence.]]
* In ''Blood In Blood Out'', Miklo is a man of mixed Mexican and Anglo ethnicity, living in a Latino community but having white skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Due to this, when he joins the Mexican gang inside the prison, he convinces the gang leader to make him an infiltrator because he can blend in with the rival Aryan Brotherhood gang and go to places that are off limits to Latino and black inmates.
* Aurora in ''Film/{{Maleficent}}''. As a princess, she is the rightful heir to the human kingdom's throne. However, she is raised in the woods and grows to love the fairy kingdom, and the revelation that she is a princess leaves her conflicted over which home she belongs in. In the end, [[spoiler: she chooses both realms, and Maleficent crowns her Queen of both humans and TheFairFolk.]]
* In ''The Namesake'', Nikhil/Gogol has a complex about this that goes right down to his name. He is a Bengali born and raised in the U.S., although with strong Bengali family and cultural ties. Confusing things still further, his name Gogol is a gift from his father, a huge fan of Russian author Nikolai Gogol. His entire story reflects aspects of the experiences of young [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-Born_Confused_Desi ABCD]] people.

* Frank Hopkins in ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' is half Native American and half white, and has a foot in both cultures.
* The page quote hails from ''Film/StarTrek2009'', with Vulcan Sarek describing his half-human son Spock. Spock's mixed parentage was touched on in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', but is made a much more central element of the character in the reboot films.

* Both of the central figures in ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' were examples, both in the film and in real life:
** Harold Abrahams was Jewish and the son of a Lithuanian immigrant to the UK, which alienated him in many ways from the predominantly Christian English culture. Nonetheless, he loved England deeply, and sought to become an ideal Englishman. The film addresses his struggle to be seen as such.
** Eric Liddell, though ethnically fully Scottish, was born in China as the son of Christian missionaries and spent his early childhood there; in real life, he often described himself as "Oriental". The film depicts how his devout faith alienated him from the British mainstream.

* The eponymous hero of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a HalfHumanHybrid born from a Gem mother and a human father. He lives on Earth and interacts with the local human community and his father and is raised by his late mother's friends and comrades, the Crystal Gems. This has given him the unique advantage of being able to empathize with and befriend people from both races.
* Season 8 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' reveals that [[spoiler: the First Spinjitzu Master is one of these, being [[OurDragonsAreDifferent half-Dragon]] and half-{{Oni}}. This also means that [[TheMentor Wu]], [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Garmadon]], (the First Spinjitzu Master's sons) and [[TheChosenOne Lloyd]] (Garmadon's son) are also part Oni and Dragon.]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has Junior, who is the product of [[MisterSeahorse Tucker]] (human) and "Crunchbite" (alien). [[spoiler: Later on in ''Recreation'', Tucker mentions that he and Junior have been working as negotiators of a sort.]]

** Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers, the bastard son of Aegon IV Targaryen and Melissa Blackwood, is a child of Valyrian and First Men ancestry, where said relationships are an allegedly a rarity in Westeros, and he's so far the only one who shows how powerful a child of Valyrian and First Men heritage may turn out, being an immensely powerful [[{{Seers}} greenseer]] and skinchanger.[[note]]The Blackwoods would legitimately marry into the Targaryens two generations after Bloodraven, when Betha Blackwood married Aegon V, but their children were just normal humans, and among their descendants, only Daenerys has shown herself to be tied to magic, when she breeds her three dragons. Bloodraven himself had two full siblings who were [[OutOfFocus seldom mentioned]], and did not seem to possess magical abilities.[[/note]] One could wonder how it'd be if Targaryens ever bred with Starks, and it's a ''very'' good question.

** Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers, the bastard son of Aegon IV Targaryen and Melissa Blackwood, is a child of Valyrian and First Men ancestry, where said relationships are an allegedly a rarity in Westeros, and he's so far the only one who shows how powerful a child of Valyrian and First Men heritage may turn out, being an immensely powerful [[{{Seers}} greenseer]] and skinchanger.[[note]]The Blackwoods would legitimately marry into the Targaryens two generations after Bloodraven, when Betha Blackwood married Aegon V. However, their children were just normal humans, and among their descendants, only Daenerys has shown herself to be tied to magic, when she breeds her three dragons.[[/note]] One could wonder how it'd be if Targaryens ever bred with Starks, and it's a ''very'' good question.

** Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers is a child of Valyrian and First Men ancestry, where said relationships are a allegedly a rarity in Westeros. And he's the one who shows how powerful a child of Valyrian and First Men heritage may turn out. He's in fact an immensely powerful [[{{Seers}} greenseer]] and skinchanger. One could wonder how it'd be if Targaryens ever bred with Starks, and it's a ''very'' good question.

** 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. Further, she requests that her wife Tina conceive their daughter with a black donor, which is agreed to, thus continuing her mixed heritage.