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- Aragorn is often Happily Adopted by Elrond when he was a child and is particularly close with his adopted brothers Elladan and Elrohir. This relationship lasts well into his adult years as seen in stories such as An Eye for an Eye
or The Roots of Evil.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: As of this writing nothing of Scootaloo's family has been shown in-show (though she is known to have an aunt Holiday and Holiday's marefriend Lofty in the Ponyville Mysteries book series), so it's very common in MLP fandom for Scootaloo to turn out to be orphaned/abused/etc. and in the end wind up adopted by the cast member of the writer's choice. Surprisingly, it's *not* overwhelmingly Rainbow Dash. (It's her more than any single other character, but it really can be anyone, from mane six members to background ponies to popular background ponies to OCs to one of the princesses. It had been Discord more than once.)
- Zootopia Fanon has Nick and Judy having at least one child in this position, whether or not they can have biological children together.
because Examples Are Not General. (The first "example" does contain actual examples within it, but they're Zero Context like this.)
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and of course it's all broken by the still-ongoing bug with discussion pages, WHATEVER we'll do something about that later
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
I wonder - should examples where characters were happily adopted in a backstory but we never or barely see it onscreen because their adoptive parents get killed early on go on this page? Like Skywalker twins in Star Wars?
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Am I the only one who thinks this trope is like... Uber Idealistic? I demand some rock hard cynicism.
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It's idealistic by its nature. If the adoptee isn't happy, then it's one of the other adoption tropes.
In a way, it could be cynical if the protagonst is the birth parent and they find their child only to find out that they prefer their adopted parents. The Deep End of the Ocean is kind of like that. A three year old boy is kidnapped, his parents finally find him when he's a preteen only to find that he prefers living with the man who raised him (and had nothing to do with the kidnapping).
I don't think this trope is too idealistic. Obviously not all adoptions are like this but a lot of them are.
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Considering a recent lawsuit by the IRL subject of The Blind Side against the people in that photo, it might be time to get a new page image for this.
Wait what?