History Main / AdoptionDiss

* This is how Rinne was bullied in ''Anime/VividStrike''. Naturally in a franchise where many characters are HappilyAdopted, these particular bullies are particularly cruel both in and out of universe, a cruelty that eventually [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pushes Rinne to a breaking point]].

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In the [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2002/06/25 June 26th, 2002]] strip Jon reads in a book that cats and lions are in the same family, takes a long look at Garfield, and decides that the latter must be adopted:

'''Gardfield:''' Hey!

* In his "Baby J" special, Creator/JohnMulaney says his older siblings convinced him he was not only adopted, but that his mother was murdered by Miss America. Complicating things is at the time thought Miss America was the Statue of Liberty.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', the fact that Tsubasa Hanekawa isn't actually related to either of her legal guardians (who are, respectively, her stepfather's second wife and the man she in turn married when her first stepfather died) is a huge part of why they're so abusive to her, including [[BadBedroomBadLife not allowing her to have her own room]] so she has to keep all of her belongings and her bed in the hallway and at least one occasion where her stepfather punched her in the face until she bled. And it turns out that her step-parents don't even like each other, and are planning to divorce once she reaches the legal age to avoid the scandal of abandoning an orphan. They're also implied to verbally abuse her because of [[SonOfAWhore her biological mother's promiscuity]], which means she has no idea who her biological father is.

* In the premiere of ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', Princess Leia (biologically the daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala before being [[AdoptedIntoRoyalty adopted by Senator Bail Organa and Queen Breha Organa]]) gets slammed by her haughty older cousin for not being a real Organa. Bail quickly assures her that she is his daughter.

* Inverted with ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Kendall Hart. Despite all evidence that she was dearly loved by her adoptive parents, it's she who ran away from them to seek out Erica Kane, her birth mother, feeling robbed of the glamorous life Erica has and being determined to ruin it as punishment for giving her up.
* An identical scenario played out on ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Carly Benson.

** [=GLaDOS=] insults Chell by saying she's adopted during the {{Boss Battle}} (right after saying she's loved by nobody, too). By ''VideoGame/Portal2'', it becomes one of her favorite ways to insult Chell (along with [[YouAreFat passive aggressive comments about her weight]]).

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': An Easter egg in the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "hiding" features an argument between two different RobotMe versions of Strong Bad, the Back-Sassing Animatronic Strong Bad introduced in this episode and the Grape Nuts Robot from "personal favorites", where the Grape Nuts Robot plays this card.
-->'''Animatronic Strong Bad:''' Dad loves ''me'' more!\\

* A minor case occurs in ''Film/TheGodfather'', when Tom Hagen, TheConsigliere and adopted son of TheDon, and elder son Sonny are discussing how to approach the proposal of a drug dealer [[spoiler: who had ordered a hit on TheDon]].
--> '''Tom:''' [[spoiler: If your father dies]]... you make the deal, Sonny.
--> '''Sonny:''' Y'know? That's easy for you to say, Tom. He's not your father.
--> '''Tom:''' I'm as much a son to him as you or Mike.
* In ''Animation/LeafieAHenIntoTheWild,'' Greenie was teased as a duckling for being adopted by a hen.

* In ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003'', Mark is nicknamed "[=FedEx=]" by his siblings, who say that the Fed Ex truck dropped him off at the house to imply this trope (with no evidence that he actually ''was'' adopted, mind you). It's this nickname getting used one too many times after a TraumaCongaLine that ultimately causes Mark to try and run away.
* The Bollywood movie ''Film/KabhiKushiKabhieGham'' has this as the catalyst of the story. Rahul breaks off his engagement with a woman his adopted father, Yash, [[ArrangedMarriage arranged]] for him to marry Anjali, who [[UptownGirl came from a lower class background]]. In a fit of rage, Yash disowns him by explicitly bringing up his background as an adopted child.
* ''Film/{{Ambulance}}'': Papi refers to Will as Danny's "fake brother". Both let it slide at the time since [[spoiler:they're in the middle of a standoff. But after defeating Papi's mooks, it comes back as a PreMortemOneLiner:]]
-->'''Danny:''' "He's not my fake brother. He's my REAL brother."

* This was a big part of the reason Azura in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' had such a DarkAndTroubledPast prior to the game. She and her mother Arete were taken in by King Garon in Nohr after the death of his first wife Queen Katerina and both faced severe verbal abuse from Garon's concubines due to her mother being seen as a [[SketchySuccessor a subpar replacement for the beloved deceased queen]] and Azura not being a blood-related member of the family. While Garon himself always treated her well, her Nohrian step-siblings were told by their mothers to avoid interacting with Azura because of her adoption (though they weren't happy about that). This left such scars on her that she seems to ''expect'' this trope from her Hoshidan adopted siblings, telling Ryoma and Hinoka that they don't have to pretend to love her anymore now that their "real" sibling, the Avatar, is back, and she apologizes to the Avatar in their Hoshidan supports for "stealing" their birthright from them. However, Ryoma and Hinoka tell her their familial love for her was never fake, and the Avatar assures her that they don't blame her at all.

** Also happens in ''WesternAnimation/WeBabyBears'', where a photographer is skeptical when the Bears say they're brothers and, while photographing another family, calls the Bears' family situation strange and notes they don't look alike. He apologizes later on, though.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Dandelion}}, [[spoiler:Jiwoo]] found out how unloved he was by his mother when she passed him up as the family successor, citing his never matching up to her standards and his being adopted as a reason. This hits especially hard as that was the way he found out that he was adopted to begin with.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Dandelion}}, it turns out that [[spoiler:Jiwoo]] was on the receiving end of this. And it was an especially hard hit for him because that's how he found out he was adopted and not blood-related to his mother to begin with.

* In ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'' Mark is nicknamed "[=FedEx=]" by his siblings, who say that the Fed Ex truck dropped him off at the house to imply this trope (with no evidence that he actually ''was'' adopted, mind you). It's this nickname getting used one too many times after a TraumaCongaLine that ultimately causes Mark to try and run away.

* In WesternAnimation/WeBareBearsTheMovie, Agent Trout, when told the Bears are brothers and shouldn't be separating, snarkily replies that they don't look alike.

* ''Film/Ambulance'': Papi refers to Will as Danny's "fake brother". Both let it slide at the time since [[spoiler:they're in the middle of a standoff. But after defeating Papi's mooks, it comes back as a PreMortemOneLiner:]]