History ParentalAbandonment / Film

* ''Film/BloodRayne'': Sebastian's parents both became vampires. He was going to be slaughtered when Vladimir arrived, killing them both and saving him.

** Edmond from ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' also has both parents but they only appear in the live-action segments in the beginning and end. He asks where they are a couple of times during the animated section [[UnfortunateImplications but never gets a response]]. (They're fine though.)

* ''Film/MirrorMirror'': Snow White's mother died when she was little. Her father disappeared in the woods when she was a child. [[spoiler:It turns out he was [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into the Beast]]. The curse is later broken, and he's reunited with her.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'', Samson confesses that he is not actually from the wild, but instead a circus, where as a cub, he was shunned by his overly-strict father because he, like his son Ryan, was unable to roar. One day, when Samson was pushed to roar at a mechanical wildebeest to entertain the audience, he failed and [[spoiler: his ashamed father coldly deemed him a misfit, before allowing him to be shipped to the zoo]], where he kept his true past obscure to avoid shame.

** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper'': Anneliese's father is briefly seen in the prologue but disappears after that, and is all but outright stated to have died. Erika's parents are deceased, and their debts from taking loans from Madam Carp are why she's forced to work for her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'', Samson confesses that he is not actually from the wild, but instead a circus, where as a cub, he was shunned by his overly-strict father because he, like his son Ryan, was unable to roar. One day, when Samson was pushed to roar at a mechanical wildebeest to entertain the audience, he failed and [[spoiler: his ashamed father coldly allowed him to be shipped to the zoo]], where he kept his true past obscure to avoid the shame.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'', Samson confesses that he is not actually from the wild, but instead a circus, where as a cub, he was shunned by his overly-strict father because he, like his son Ryan, was unable to roar. One day, when Samson was pushed to roar at a mechanical wildebeest to entertain the audience, he failed and [[spoiler: his ashamed father coldly allowed him to be shipped to the zoo,]] where he kept his true past obscure to avoid the shame.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' is an orphan; his parents were killed by a leopard.

* The Japanese film ''[[http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Homeless_Student The Homeless Student]]'' delivers a one-two punch: first the mother dies, then the children come home from school to find all their belongings outside the apartment. The shiftless, frigid father rides up on his bicycle to explain he has gambled away all the family's money and hasn't paid the rent. Then he rides off again, leaving his three children to fend for themselves. [[FlatWhat What]].

* In ''Literature/GeorgyGirl'' the protagonist deals with her [[AlphaBitch room]][[WithFriendsLikeThese mate's]] ShotgunWedding to a handsome rake, roommate's pregnancy, all before the roommate leaves her husband, Georgy, and the baby for a wealthy man; By the time the rake (who was Georgy's lover for a while) leaves them, Georgy has been caring for their baby like she was her own.

* In ''Georgy Girl'' the protagonist deals with her [[AlphaBitch room]][[WithFriendsLikeThese mate's]] ShotgunWedding to a handsome rake, roommate's pregnancy, all before the roommate leaves her husband, Georgy, and the baby for a wealthy man; By the time the rake (who was Georgy's lover for a while) leaves them, Georgy has been caring for their baby like she was her own.

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'': Credence was an orphan, adopted in New York City. It's revealed he'd been born out of wedlock to Aberforth Dumbledore and an unnamed woman. He was sent off with her by his family. As a baby, he and his aunt were traveling on a ship to the US, a BabySwap and shipwreck ensued, and he was believed to have drowned with her so no one knew to go looking for him.

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'': Credence was an orphan, adopted in New York City. It's revealed he'd been born out of wedlock to Aberforth Dumbledore and an unnamed woman. He was sent off with her by his family, and she presumably drowned when the ship they were sailing on sank. Aberforth didn't learn about Credence until well into his adulthood.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}}'' movies have a fair few examples:

* Cher in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' is a half orphan; her mom died due to a freak accident during a routine liposuction, although she still likes to pretend she's watching over her. Josh even ribs her about her desire to makeover Tai being a manifestation of her having no mother and treating her as a Barbie doll. Later (in one of the few played straight scenes), when she is insecure that she isn't enough of a 'do-gooder', her father tells her that he hasn't seen such good-doing since her mother.