History Main / OrphanageOfLove

* The orphanage where Tim lives in {{Nocturna}} doesn't really feature too much in the movie, but it appears to be more or less this trope; children are given the run of the place during the daylight hours and there are plenty of toys to keep them amused. The only hitch is that Tim tends to be given rather a rough time by the other children because of his noisy bedtime ritual.

* The orphanage in Tigress's story in ''KungFuPanda: Secrets of the Furious Five'' qualifies. They may fear her and she was left alone and ashamed, but at least they took the effort of getting Master Shifu to come and help her.

* Jade from ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'' operates her Lighthouse Shelter, specifically for war orphans. They run a little low on cash sometimes, but there's warm beds, plenty of food, a BigFriendlyDog, and, you know--lighthouses are inherently [[RuleOfCool cool]].

* In MiraiNikki rhe orphanage that the 8th runs seems to be one of these, considering how far her kids go to protect her. And she seems willing to fight for the sake of their kids.

It's tough being an orphan. No parents, no home and a large chance you'll be placed in the horrible OrphanageOfFear. But some fictional orphans get lucky, and go to the Orphanage of Love instead.

At the Orphanage of Love, there's enough food for all, and it tastes good. The rooms are spacious and well lit, the beds are soft and laundry is done frequently. The staff genuinely care about their charges and competently take care of them until [[HappilyAdopted good foster homes]] can be found for their precious angels. (Because no matter how wonderful the Orphanage of Love is, actual parents are even better.)

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* The Belgium comic book series ''{{Orphanimo}}!'' is all about an orphanage of love. The last 5 orphans living there love the place and it's owner so much, they sabotage every attempt of the owner to find them adoptive parents. A rich and powerfull industrial however wants to buy the orphanage to use the ground for his latest building. The orphans, of course, try to prevent this in every way possible.
* While it was pretty dickish of {{Superman}} to put his cousin {{Supergirl}} in an orphanage after her arrival in the SilverAge, at least he cared enough to make sure it was a really nice one.

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* Plumfield Estate School, the orphanage/school that Jo and her husband run in Louisa May Alcott's ''[[LittleWomen Little Men]]''.
* In ''JaneEyre'', Jane gets sent off to Lowood - a boarding school that is basically for orphans and poor children - which goes from an Orphanage of Fear to Orphanage of Love over time.

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* In the ''{{Champions}}'' supplement ''Allies'', the {{tokusatsu}}-inspired Zen Team operates out of such an orphanage as part of their cover. The children weren't fooled for long.

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* [[TheHero Rosette]] and [[IllBoy Joshua]] from ''ChronoCrusade'' grew up in an OrphanageOfLove named Seventh Bell after their parent's deaths. It's very understaffed (seeming to only have a single aging woman watching the kids) so the orphans seem to end up doing a lot of the chores, but they're well taken care of and seem to be spoiled rotten. It seemed like the ideal place for them to live, until [[ComesGreatInsanity Joshua went insane]] [[DealWithTheDevil when he put a pair of demon's horns on his head]] and [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed destroyed the orphanage]] and [[TakenForGranite froze all of the orphans and Ms. Jean in stone]]. [[spoiler:They eventually [[IGotBetter get better]], and in the manga Rosette moves in and becomes a caretaker at the orphanage until her death.]]

* "In an old house in Paris, all covered in vines, lived twelve little girls, in two straight lines". The smallest one was ''{{Madeline}}''.
** It's actually a BoardingSchool (Madeline's parents get mentioned in the first book), but it might as well stay here since there's no BoardingSchoolOfLove trope. (Or is there?)
*** Actually, both the live action film and the cartoon specify that although the other girls are indeed in a boarding school Madeline is a ward of the state (an orphan). Some mention is made at some point that she has a lot of money held in trust, hence why she lives in an expensive school and is two years younger then the other girls.

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Epsilon]] of ''Pluto'' runs one of these for human war orphans.

* While it was pretty dickish of {{Superman}} to put his cousin {{Supergirl}} in an orphanage after her arrival in the SilverAge, at least he cared enough to make sure it was a really nice one.

* Mother Karen's home in ''Spellbent'' and ''Shotgun Sorceress'' by LucySnyder is one of these. Mother Karen herself rivals FredRogers in the "Friend to all children" category and is unfailingly kind even when monumentally stressed out. What she can't do, she relies on the teenage orphans (raised under her sterling example, of course) to do.

* The [[spoiler:entire playable party (plus Seifer, minus Rinoa)]] in ''FinalFantasyVIII'' grew up in one. [[spoiler: GF-induced amnesia made everyone except Irvine forget]].
* Milla Vodello in ''{{Psychonauts}}'' has a backstory where she worked in one of these. Until [[spoiler: the orphans tragically died in a fire, an event that haunts her subconscious to this day]] (and [[NightmareFuel it can haunt you too]], if you find the secret room that houses her memories of the event).

* The third world in ''Mystic Ark'' could essentially be summed up as this ([[spoiler: Even though they never had parents to begin with and Cecile, the caretaker created everything from the ground up with the help of the Wisdom Ark]]), though for a good half of the time you spend in that world, Chimera, influencing Cecile, turns it into the opposite, especially during the final part of your visit there when the orphanage is overrun by monsters.

* The one Candy of CandyCandy grew up in is one.