History ParentalAbandonment / Film

** What happened to Miguel's parents isn't stated and he later leaves Maggie's care to stay in a different foster home.
** Roger's mother is dead and his father gave up custody of him to the state.
** JP's father is dead while his mother's current whereabouts are unknown (though he mentions that he lived in a car with her for a time); he bonds with Roger over their similar experiences.

** In the remake, Roger, JP, and Miguel are all being fostered by Maggie. What happened to Miguel's parents isn't revealed. Roger's mother is dead and his father gave up custody of him to the state. JP's father is dead while his mother's current whereabouts are unknown (though he did live with her in a car for a time) and he bonds with Roger over their similar experiences.

** In the remake, Roger, JP, and Miguel are all being fostered by Maggie. What happened to Miguel's parents isn't revealed. Roger's mother is dead and his father gave up custody of him to the state. JP's father is dead while his mother's fate is not mentioned and he bonds with Roger over their similar experiences.

** In the remake, Roger, JP, and Miguel are all being fostered by Maggie. What happened to Miguel's parents isn't revealed. Roger's mother is dead and his father gave up custody of him to the state. Both of JP's parents are dead and he bonds with Roger over their similar experiences.

** In the remake, Roger, JP, and Miguel are all being fostered by Maggie. What happened to Miguel's parents isn't revealed. Roger's mother is dead and his father gave up custody of him to the state while both of JP's parents are deceased.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInZambezia'' has Zoe whose biological parents are never seen, but it's implied that they were killed by [[BigBad Budzo]], leaving her in the care of Sekhuru.

* In ''Fiilm/thePhantomOfTheOpera1998'', the Phantom was abandoned by his mother into the sewers. We never learn the reason why, as he was [[Adaptationalattarctiveness not his hideously disfigured like his book counterpart]].

* ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'': Elvira was [[DoorstepBaby left at a convent]] by her mother as a baby so she could [[GiveHimANormalLife have a normal life]], unlike her (it didn't work). What became of her isn't said. Elvira's father meanwhile is not mentioned at all.

** ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'': Akane lost her parents at a young age and grew up believing herself to be a mistake that should not exist.

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':

** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': Dr. Andrews mentions that both Jia's parents died with the rest of the Iwi when the PerpetualStorm overtook Skull Island, leading to Andrews becoming Jia's guardian and Kong in his own way doing likewise.

* 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, no matter how hard he tried, 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 embarrassment.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' is an orphan; his parents were killed by a savage leopard named Sabor.
** He gets a [[HappilyAdopted loving mom]] in Kala. Though his adoptive dad Kerchak doesn't accept Tarzan as his son until he (Kerchak) is on his death bed.

* 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, no matter how hard he tried, 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.

* ''{{Film/Belle}}'': Dido's mother dies of unknown causes in her childhood. Then her father, who she'd never seen before, delivers Dido to his family in England. He never appears again; she is raised solely by them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}},'' [[spoiler: Maui]]'s situation is a doozy. [[spoiler: He was born human. He was tossed in the ocean shortly after birth and left to die, only surviving (and eventually gaining demigod status) because he was 'chosen' by the ocean.]]

* Creator/DonBluth is similarly in love with this trope. Fievel spends ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' trying to locate his parents, and there is a deeply depressing scene with some orphans in an alley toward the end.

** 2: Ellie was separated from her herd, and her adopted opossum mother is presumed to be deceased.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':

** Robert [=McDreamy=] (sorry) and his daughter were abandoned by their wife/mother, respectively, and to top that off he's a ''divorce lawyer''.
** Giselle has no parents to speak of, and it's not made clear why she's living alone in a cottage in the woods, if one could call having a forest full of friends "alone".