History HappilyAdopted / ComicBooks

* Huey, Dewey, and Louie seem rather content to live with their maternal uncle instead of their parents... despite the fact that he is very much a {{jerkass}} with a horrible temper who cannot hold down a job. They also seem to develop into far more functional citizens than him, so it seems to work. Writers who care tend to emphasize that WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, though one DarkerAndEdgier interpretation is that their mother and father actually are that much worse than Donald -- which actually is TruthInTelevision for some [[FridgeBrilliance real adoptees]].

* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Brittany Diggers is an orphaned were-cheetah, taken in as an infant by Theodore and Julia Diggers, and raised as a sister to their own daughter Gina. They see her as nothing less than family, and the feeling is mutual. Eventually the comic makes "family isn't just blood" go UpToEleven when a sorceress tries to kill Brit, Stryyp and their daughter Tiffany, and even if the spell explicitly says that only people from the same bloodline are effected by it, ''the whole Diggers family'' ends up in it and pull a BigDamnHeroes moment.

* As in the cartoons, all of ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' members are sisters. Aja and Shana aren't adopted, they were foster children, but are still explicitly refer to as Jerrica's and Kimber's sisters. Compared to the cartoon everyone generally acts ''much'' more familial and affectionate.

!!DC comics
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': Jenny Quantum [[HasTwoMommies loves her daddies]]. And [[AChildShallLeadThem leads them, too]].
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Sort-of present with Barbara Gordon, the original ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} and later ComicBook/{{Oracle}}. She and James Gordon always ('''''always''''') have a deep and emotional father/daughter bond that has even been seen to help her [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu knock out Brainiac]], but over the years the different writers [[DependingOnTheWriter can never seem to remember]] whether she is his biological daughter, his niece who he has raised since childhood, or an adopted daughter. Their relationship is largely the same no matter which way it is written, but sometimes it fits with the trope and sometimes it has nothing to do with the trope at all.
** The Barbara/Jim relationship confusion is played with a bit: at one point, Barbara discovers that Jim may have had an affair with her mother (his brother's wife) around the time that she was conceived. When she has the chance to find out whether or not she's his biological daughter, she turns it down--not because she's ashamed of him for cheating, but because she ''wants it to be true.''
** More consistent is both Bruce's "sons" relationship with him, and Bruce's own relationship with Alfred (which results in some truly touching moments as Alfred hears Bruce call him dad in Bruce's farewell message when he's believed to be dead). [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]], [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick]], and Jason may often have problems with Bruce, but they consider each other brothers and are proud to officially be his sons, except Jason after his return from the dead. [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra]] too, as the one ''daughter'' of the group, even though she doesn't hang out with her bros too much.
*** [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Damian]], however, is Bruce's biological son and not half as well-functioning as the other Robins, largely due to being raised by crazy ninjas. It's quite clear where on the side of nature vs. nurture Batman falls.
* Another case was Gar Logan (Beast Boy). His parents died in a tragic accident, and his uncle turned out to be a nasty sort just using him to get at the money his parents left behind. He ran away and found the Comicbook/DoomPatrol. At the end of the arc, Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl) and Steve Dayton (Mento) adopted him. While Steve turned out to be too mentally unstable to be a decent parent, Gar and Rita adored one another, to the point where Gar even went into acting to follow in her footsteps.
* A somewhat weird variant of this happens in ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic,'' in that Tim's true parentage is extremely convoluted and at times blatantly self-contradicting, but the trope is played fairly straight in the early issues of the book, after the first time he discovers that the people he thought were his parents may not have been: He laments it for a bit, but in the end he still acknowledges that "they did make me brush my teeth and wear clean socks all those years. Never once called me a changeling. They may not have been my parents but -- ''bloody hell,'' they were my parents."
** It's later revealed that his father was never really sure whether Tim was really his (Tim's mother was pregnant when the two married), but never thought it mattered if he was or not.
* Creator/DCComics has the ''[[ComicBook/NewGods Fourth World]]'' title, which features Orion, the biological son of {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}, who was traded to the Highfather of New Genesis as part of a peace treaty. Despite his parentage, Orion grew up a good warrior ferociously dedicated to defending the ideals of his adopted family.
* ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'': Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane took his cousin Kara in when she arrived on Earth, and they treated her like their daughter.
-->'''Power Girl:''' [tearfully] You took me in! You treated me like I was your daughter!\\
'''Earth 2 Lois Lane:''' Oh, honey... as far as we were concerned, you ''were'' our daughter.
* ComicBook/RedTornado's adopted daughter, Traya, a Middle Eastern war orphan, seems very happy with him, even knowing he's an [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot android]].
* ''ComicBook/RelativeHeroes'': Cameron and Tyson were loved and very happy with their adoptive parents and siblings and when their parents died they joined with the Weinberg's biological children on a trip across the US to prevent Social Services from splitting up what remained of their family while seeking a moral way to revive their parents.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}},'' Billy is sent to (depending on the version) an EvilUncle or at least one abusive foster home, only to get kicked out/run away and wind up living alone on the streets. However, he eventually meets his [[LongLostRelative long-lost twin sister]], Mary, who was adopted by the kindly Bromfield family, and gets taken in as well.
** In the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, Billy gets taken in by a different kindly family, the Vasquezes, who already have five happy children (Mary, Freddy Freeman and three new characters)...except that [[SameCharacterButDifferent in this version]] it's [[TookALevelInJerkass Billy who's a jerkass]] before eventually warming up to them.
* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'': Superman's cousin's foster parents usually have a good relationship with their adopted alien daughter.
** Pre-Crisis Kara was adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers. They loved her and she them, even after [[spoiler:she found out that her biological parents were still alive]]. When she revealed she was Superman's cousin they took it in stride. And they [[spoiler:got heart-broken when she died during the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'']].
** Pa and Ma Kent also kind of adopted Post-Crisis Kara. They were the only parental figures she established a rapport with, and she regarded them as family.
** New 52 Kara's foster parents are Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers who first appeared in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' # 1. Although they are technically her DEO-appointed handlers, they established a strong rapport after a few weeks.
--->'''Jeremiah:''' What did I miss?\\
'''Eliza:''' Just the launch, Jeremiah. But the new uniform sure fits.\\
'''Cameron:''' Years since I let you two get married and you still find ways to help me question that decision.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Comms are live. I can hear you two.\\
'''Eliza:''' We're your parents, Kara. We're not dead.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''
** Possibly the ur-example: Clark loves Ma and Pa Kent, and they him.
** Also ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Connor Kent, who knows his biological parents are Superman [[FoeYay and]] ComicBook/LexLuthor, but ''also'' is quite happy with Ma and Pa Kent as his parental figures.
** Post-Crisis Superman and Lois Lane adopted Lor-Zod -Superman's enemies Zod and Ursa's biological son-, renamed him Chris Kent and raised him. He loved them more than he ever loved Zod. Moreover, he [[spoiler:fought Zod to protect Superman]] in the ''Comicbook/NewKrypton''.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'': Bruce Wayne Jr. marries the widowed Mei-Lai Kent and adopts her son Clark as his own, in order to spare him the turmoil that his birth father Joel Kent suffered from being ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s powerless son. Clark eventually figures it out ([[BilingualBackfire by learning Vietnamese so he can understand his parents' "secret" conversations]]), but when he reveals this to Bruce he makes it very clear that "you've been all the father I could ever have wished for", and keeps the Wayne name even in later storylines when he takes up the mantle of Superman.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy is quite happy with her adoptive family with the Amazons, though she was still curious about where she came from before she and Dick managed to track down her past in ''ComicBook/WhoIsDonnaTroy''. This history was erased by ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', but may be back in play as of ComicBook/DCRebirth as it's the history that matches up with Wally's memories of Donna and his memories are some of the only unaltered and known to be true ones in the 'verse. [[note]]''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' at first confirms this history, and then refutes it meaning Donna's past remains in its perpetual post-Infinite Crisis [[ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy Continuity Snarl]].[[/note]]
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In "Who'll Adopt Teasy?" the titular trouble making orphan ends up very happy with the ridiculously easy going family that adopts him. Wonder Woman pointed him out to his soon to be mother as she, correctly, felt that they'd be a good fit.

!!Marvel comics
* ComicBook/{{Cable}} is the son of ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and Madelyne Pryor, but nonetheless considers his ''real'' mother to be ComicBook/JeanGrey, since she's married to his father and was the woman who raised him. She also technically counts as his biological mother, since Maddie was a clone of Jean.
** ComicBook/JeanGrey also has [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], Cable's alternate (and half-brother, since he was created from Jean and Scott's DNA) from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse. So, Jean is technically his biological mother, but also the alternate counterpart of his biological mother. Despite this, and the fact that Nate's relationship with the X-Men is often difficult and strained at best, he has always - ''always'' - treated her as his mother, and she has treated him as her son. She's also just about the only person he's consistently listened to: Mystique in disguise as Jean is able to talk him down from frying Dark Beast during ''Dark Reign'' (finding out she was dead left him very, very angry) and she convinced him to briefly join the X-Men. His failed attempt to give her the GlorifiedSpermDonor line in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'' was the first sign that he wasn't so detached as he was pretending to be, and shortly after, he revealed his [[WellIntentionedExtremist attempt to unite and forcibly fix the world]] was done as part of him trying to make her proud.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s daughter, Ellie, is this. For the first 8 or so years of her life, she was living with her foster father -the brother of Deadpool's worst enemy. She loved him dearly, and was heartbroken when he was killed. Deadpool came to save her, and it's revealed to her that she's his daughter. After Deadpool fights off all the enemies and scares Flagsmasher away from his daughter, he asks his friend, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Emily Preston, to take his daughter in and raise her for the time being. Later when Deadpool is visiting her, he asks if she's happy. Ellie says that the Prestons are cool, and Deadpool is glad because she's safe with them.
** Recent chapters show Ellie would rather be with the Prestons than with Deadpool. He takes her away from them, to protect her. She yells that she doesn't want to go. At one point, he picks her up to carry her away and she yells for him to let go. While living with him, he comments that she wants to go back to the Prestons and cries.
* Subverted, but also played surprisingly straight with ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'s adoptive parents Mystique and Destiny. By all evidence, Rogue had a happy childhood with them, which is all the more surprising considering the kind of mother Mystique has been to her biological children Nightcrawler and Graydon Creed and that Rogue was raised to become a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Still, Mystique and Destiny must have taught Rogue to think for herself and respected her choice to reform and join the ComicBook/XMen even though that brought a painful separation. Rogue continued to feel an emotional attachment to her adoptive parents that lasted until Destiny's death (and beyond, vide her brief resurrection in ''Necrosha''), and if she eventually fell out with Mystique, it was because of horrific acts Mystique perpetrated after the separation, not because of a reassessment of her upbringing. By the time of Rogue's wedding (in 2018), she still loves Mystique enough to address her as "Mom" and let her watch the wedding from a distance.
* The ComicBook/{{Runaways}} are one big happy adoptive family, albeit one whose adoptions are not initially legally recognized. Attempts to break them up and send them to different foster homes have never worked out, and have sometimes led to fighting. However, when the team took Molly away from her evil grandma, they realized that if they wanted to send her back to school (which she loves), then there has to be a legal guardian of some sort. What to do? Nico took her magic staff and said "[[AWizardDidIt Legal adoption]]", and that was it. Nico and Chase are now the legal guardians of Molly.
** This turns out to have been the fate of Klara after the group split up; since she didn't have the accidental death of a parent or a long history of breaking out of foster care on her record, she got taken in by a nice gay couple and has thus declined to go back to being a Runaway.
* ComicBook/SpiderMan was raised by [[{{Nephewism}} his aunt and uncle]] from very early childhood and is just fine with that.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'' of all people, by the Cosmic Ghost Rider. The Rider raised Frank after not being able to follow through with his plan of killing baby Thanos in his sleep, and while turned out much worse for his new upbringing, he shows nothing but love and respect for his adoptive father.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}}'': After [[spoiler:Eric Masterson sacrifices himself to stop the Bloodaxe]], Kevin is adopted by his mother's new husband.
* Towards the end of ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus'', Chang Chong-chen is adopted by Wang Chen-Yee. He's overjoyed to learn that he's going to have a family.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Peter Parker's parents died years ago, so he was adopted by his aunt and uncle, Ben and May; and then just May when a burglar killed Ben. ''He'' is happy and fine with May. May is happy with Peter, too, but she is greatly troubled by the memory of all those people she has lost. So she also adopted Gwen Stacy (a teenager whose father was killed and her mother run away). And, after the worldwide disaster of ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', she also allowed Johnny Storm and Bobby Drake to stay in the house. And add Mary Jane, who was not legally part of the family but spent a lot of time with Peter anyway, and you get a full house.
** Jimmy Hudson was conceived by Wolverine and Magda, but Wolverine gave him to the Hudson family. He thought that, if he took him, he could either be a victim of some villain, or turn out just like him. As seen in the ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverine'' miniseries, Jimmy thinks that Wolverine is his biological dad, but his adjetiveless dad is James Hudson.
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{X 23}} are both quite aware that she's his clone (sort of), and he has no real obligation to do anything for her. He adopted her anyway, and the relationship is about as happy as Laura gets. His Relationship with his son {{ComicBook/Daken}}...Isn't as healthy.'* Wiccan and Speed from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' are adopted by MuggleFosterParents, but still love them even after discovering their heritage. Sort of. It's complicated.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s daughter, Ellie, is this. For the first 8 or so years of her life, she was living with her foster father -the brother of Deadpool's worst enemy. She loved him dearly, and was heartbroken when he was killed. Deadpool came to save her, and it's revealed to her that she's his daughter. After Deadpool fights off all the enemies and scares Flagmasher away from his daughter, he asks his friend, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Emily Preston, to take his daughter in and raise her for the time being. Later when Deadpool is visiting her, he asks if she's happy. Ellie says that the Prestons are cool, and Deadpool is glad because she's safe with them.

* ''ComicBook/AngelCatbird'': The orphan cat-boy the group finds on the way to Castle Catula is adopted by the Russian cat-lady.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s daughter, Ellie, is this. For the first 8 or so years of her life, she was living with her foster father -the brother of Deadpool's worst enemy. She loved him dearly, and was heartbroken when he was killed. Deadpool came to save her, and it's revealed to her that she's his daughter. After Deadpool fights off all the enemies and scares Flagmasher away from his daughter, he asks his friend, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Emily Preston, to take his daughter in and raise her for the time being. Later when Deadpool is visiting her, he asks if she's happy. Ellie says that the Prestons are cool, and Deadpool is glad because she's safe with them.
** Recent chapters show Ellie would rather be with the Prestons than with Deadpool. He takes her away from them, to protect her. She yells that she doesn't want to go. At one point, he picks her up to carry her away and she yells for him to let go. While living with him, he comments that she wants to go back to the Prestons and cries.

* A strip on the back page of a ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' comic featured an elephant sitting on a tree branch eating a banana next to two monkeys. One of the monkeys says to the other "I think the time has come to tell Junior he was adopted".

* Huey, Dewey, and Louie seem rather content to live with their maternal uncle instead of their parents... despite the fact that he is very much a {{jerkass}} with a horrible temper who cannot hold down a job. They also seem to develop into far more functional citizens than him, so it seems to work. Writers who care tend to emphasize that WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, though one DarkerAndEdgier interpretation is that their mother and father actually are that much worse than Donald -- which actually is TruthInTelevision for some [[FridgeBrilliance real adoptees]].
** {{Lampshaded}} in several comic stories, where Huey, Dewey, and Louie lament their uncle's many shortcomings, only to realize that when it comes down to it, he actually ''is'' a pretty good legal guardian.
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Brittany Diggers is an orphaned were-cheetah, taken in as an infant by Theodore and Julia Diggers, and raised as a sister to their own daughter Gina. They see her as nothing less than family, and the feeling is mutual. Eventually the comic makes "family isn't just blood" go UpToEleven when a sorceress tries to kill Brit, Stryyp and their daughter Tiffany, and even if the spell explicitly says that only people from the same bloodline are effected by it, ''the whole Diggers family'' ends up in it and pull a BigDamnHeroes moment.
* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} knows perfectly well that he was adopted (being a huge red demon with a RightHandOfDoom is kind of a giveaway), but he has a genuinely loving relationship with his father, Professor Bruttenholm.
* As in the cartoons, all of ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' members are sisters. Aja and Shana aren't adopted, they were foster children, but are still explicitly refer to as Jerrica's and Kimber's sisters. Compared to the cartoon everyone generally acts ''much'' more familial and affectionate.
* Alex and Freddy of ''ComicBook/MegaRoboBros'' are robots who were adopted by a human couple when their creator disappeared. They couldn't be happier.

* In ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'', Anna Feeple (previously Anna Ichinohei), Jeremy's mother, was brought into the Ichinohei clan after her mother was killed while helping Kudasai during the second World War.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': After crashing on Earth, Everett Ducklair lost his memory and, due to being OlderThanHeLooks, was adopted by a couple of very loving humans. Unfortunately, discovering his true past created a strain on their relationship.

* Subverted, but also played surprisingly straight with ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'s adoptive parents Mystique and Destiny. By all evidence, Rogue had a happy childhood with them, which is all the more surprising considering the kind of mother Mystique has been to her biological children Nightcrawler and Graydon Creed and that Rogue was raised to become a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Still, Mystique and Destiny must have taught Rogue to think for herself and respected her choice to reform and join the ComicBook/XMen even though that brought a painful separation. Rogue continued to feel an emotional attachment to her adoptive parents that lasted until Destiny's death (and beyond, vide her brief resurrection in ''Necrosha''), and if she eventually fell out with Mystique, it was because of horrific acts Mystique perpetrated after the separation, not because of a reassessment of her upbringing. By the time of Rogue's wedding (in 2018), she still loves Mystique enough to address her as "Mom" and let her watch the wedding from a distance.

* The ComicBook/{{Runaways}} are one big happy adoptive family, albeit one whose adoptions are not initially legally recognized. Attempts to break them up and send them to different foster homes have never worked out, and have sometimes led to fighting. However, when the team took Molly away from her evil grandma, they realized that if they wanted to send her back to school (which she loves), then there has to be a legal guardian of some sort. What to do? Nico took her magic staff and said "[[AWizardDidIt Legal adoption]]", and that was it. Nico and Chase are now the legal guardians of Molly.
** This turns out to have been the fate of Klara after the group split up; since she didn't have the accidental death of a parent or a long history of breaking out of foster care on her record, she got taken in by a nice gay couple and has thus declined to go back to being a Runaway.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan was raised by his aunt and uncle from very early childhood and is just fine with that.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{X 23}} are both quite aware that she's his clone (sort of), and he has no real obligation to do anything for her. He adopted her anyway, and the relationship is about as happy as Laura gets. His Relationship with his son {{ComicBook/Daken}}...Isn't as healthy.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy is quite happy with her adoptive family with the Amazons, though she was still curious about where she came from before she and Dick managed to track down her past in ''ComicBook/WhoIsDonnaTroy''. This history was erased by ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', but may be back in play as of ComicBook/DCRebirth as it's the history that matches up with Wally's memories of Donna and his memories are some of the only unaltered and known to be true ones in the 'verse. [[note]]''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' at first confirms this history, and then refutes it meaning Donna's past remains in its perpetual post-Infinite Crisis [[ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy Continuity Snarl]].[[/note]]
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In "Who'll Adopt Teasy?" the titular trouble making orphan ends up very happy with the ridiculously easy going family that adopts him. Wonder Woman pointed him out to his soon to be mother as she, correctly, felt that they'd be a good fit.
* Wiccan and Speed from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' are adopted by MuggleFosterParents, but still love them even after discovering their heritage. Sort of. It's complicated.

* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}}'': After [[spoiler:Eric Masterson sacrifices himself to stop the Bloodaxe]], Kevin is adopted by his mother's new husband.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'' of all people, by the Cosmic Ghost Rider. The Rider raised Frank after not being able to follow through with his plan of killing baby Thanos in his sleep, and while turned out much worse for his new upbringing, he shows nothing but love and respect for his adoptive father.
* In ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'', Anna Feeple (previously Anna Ichinohei), Jeremy's mother, was brought into the Ichinohei clan after her mother was killed while helping Kudasai during the second World War.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy is quite happy with her adoptive family with the Amazons, though she was still curious about where she came from before she and Dick managed to track down her past in ''ComicBook/WhoIsDonnaTroy''. This history was erased by ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', but may be back in play as of ComicBook/DCRebirth as it's the history that matches up with Wally's memories of Donna and his memories are some of the only unaltered and known to be true ones in the 'verse. [[note]]''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' at first confirms this history, and then refutes it meaning Donna's past remains in its perpetual post-Infinite Crisis [[ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy Continuity Snarl]].[[/note]]