Basic Trope: A character is an adoptee and possesses no neuroses or hang-ups about it.
- Straight: The Hero John is adopted by Alice and Bob; he has a great relationship with them and doesn't have any baggage about it.
- Exaggerated: John was The Eeyore before adoption. When he is adopted, he turns into The Pollyanna.
- Downplayed: John is adopted into a Dysfunctional Family that often neglects or resents him, having only taken him in simply because it was the right thing to do. Nonetheless, John knows that he is better off living with his current family than at the previous Orphanage of Fear he used to live at.
- Justified: Alice and Bob are good and loving people who care about John.
- Inverted: The Big Bad has abusive adoptive parents as part of his Freudian Excuse or Start of Darkness.
- Subverted: John appears this way, but it's all an act; deep down, he does have issues.
- The Reveal is that John was adopted into a Big, Screwed-Up Family.
- 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.
- Double Subverted: Fortunately, Alice and Bob help him resolve these issues and find happiness.
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- 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.
- Enforced: The executives didn't want too much drama surrounding the adopted Cousin Oliver.
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- Invoked: The adoption agencies and orphanages try to bring their children to the best homes possible.
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- 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 Abusive Parents who often neglected and ridiculed him.
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