Parental Abandonment is a common feature of a Dark and Troubled Past (though children lucky enough to find a Parental Substitute generally avoid such a fate).

Parental Abandonment, by its nature, usually excludes the parent from having much of a role in a character's story. If the backstory involves a child ...

An amazingly large number of children in fiction suffer from Parental Abandonment or parental death. Other children are "lucky enough" to have both parents, ... Anime & Manga · Western Animation · Live-Action Films

Adventure Time: Finn the Human was left in a forest as a baby and spent his first several years of life not knowing who his biological parents were at all.

Single Parent Rule: RPG characters with two living parents are almost unheard of. As a general rule, male characters will only have a mother, ...

Basic Trope: A character is missing one or both parents. Straight: Bob either has no idea what happened to his parents — or they're dead. Exaggerated:.

"Your refusal to face reality, content to watch us from afar. Don't make me laugh! There's only one truth here. You, my own parents, you abandoned us!".

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Animorphs features Tobias, who from the get-go is described as the abandoned child. His mother ran away and he never knew his father.

The lead's mother was killed by the Tooth Fairy when he was ten, and since he became a ward of the state, Parental Abandonment must apply to his father too.