Line #4 PlayingWith/HappilyAdopted

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character is an adoptee and possesses no neuroses or hang-ups about it.
2	* '''Straight''': TheHero John is adopted by Alice and Bob; he has a great relationship with them and doesn't have any baggage about it.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': John was TheEeyore before adoption. When he is adopted, he turns into ThePollyanna.
4	* '''Downplayed''': John is adopted into a DysfunctionalFamily that often neglects or [[ResentfulGuardian resents him]], having only taken him in simply because it was the right thing to do. Nonetheless, John knows that [[LesserOfTwoEvils he is better off living with his current family]] than at the previous OrphanageOfFear he used to live at.
5	* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob are good and loving people who care about John.
6	* '''Inverted''': The BigBad has [[AbusiveParents abusive adoptive parents]] as part of his FreudianExcuse or StartOfDarkness.
7	* '''Subverted''': John appears this way, but [[StepfordSmiler it's all an act]]; deep down, he ''does'' have issues.
8	** TheReveal is that John was adopted into a [[BigScrewedUpFamily Big Screwed Up Family]].
9	** John believed himself to be adopted, but the people who adopted him were, in fact, his biological parents, from whom he was separated as an infant.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': Fortunately, Alice and Bob help him resolve these issues and find happiness.
11	* '''Parodied''': ???
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
13	* '''Averted''': John has a smorgasbord of issues as a result of his adoption, and frequently lashes out at Alice and Bob despite their best efforts.
14	* '''Enforced''': [[ExecutiveMeddling The executives didn't want too much drama]] surrounding the adopted CousinOliver.
15	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
16	* '''Invoked''': The adoption agencies and orphanages try to bring their children to the best homes possible.
17	* '''Exploited''': ???
18	* '''Defied''': A shift in societal attitudes causes the government to change policies, so John is taken away from his loving adoptive parents and given back to the AbusiveParents who often neglected and ridiculed him.
19	* '''Discussed''': ???
20	* '''Conversed''': ???
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26	%%* '''Implied''': ???
27	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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29	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / HappilyAdopted