History Main / HappilyAdopted

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'':
** ''Kung Fu Panda'' starts out with Po being [[ObliviousAdoption Obliviously Adopted]] by Mr. Ping, with their relationship so lovingly strong that the subject of parentage never came up. ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' has Po getting memory flashbacks that drive him to confront Mr. Ping to finally confirm that he is adopted and the panda is feeling rather ambivalent about it. However, by the end of the story, Po comes to realize that despite what he learns about his past, the fact remains he is truly Mr. Ping's son in every meaningful way outside of biology and makes a point of telling him that. [[spoiler: Ironically, his biological father is revealed to be alive immediately afterward.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHpQS5wnLwY Tsutsuji]] gets adopted by her uncle Kuroki and aunt Karin after they found out that she was neglected by the family of Hiiragi, her other uncle. After the couple adopted Tsutsuji, they're met with criticisms and false rumors, despite this, they still care about her. When Hiiragi and his wife Azami mock Tsutsuji for being adopted after Karin gave birth to her child, Karin responds by kicking the couple out by throwing several things at them, which affirms Karin and Kuroki's love to Tsutsuji.

* Despite being the product of [[Franchise/{{Rocky}} Apollo Creed's]] affair with another woman, his widow, Mary Ann, takes in his son Adonis and raises him as her own after his birth mother dies. At the climax of ''Film/{{Creed}}'' she sends him a pair of [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Stars-and-Stripes patterned shorts]], styled after the pair his father wore, to wear at his big match with the Creed name on the front and his birth mother's surname on the back. The present comes with a note from Mary Ann signed "Ma".

* ''Film/BenHur1959'': Judah as a {{galley slave}} saves the Roman Consul, Quintus Arrius during a battle. In gratitude, Arrius takes Judah under his wing and years later, formally adopts him, giving him the name, "Arrius the Younger", and making him heir to the Arrius Household.

* ''Film/TheBlindSide'' ends with the Tuohys adopting Michael Oher, creating a happy ending for all of them (and providing the former page image for this trope). Unfortunately, with the film being BasedOnATrueStory, it turned out [[HappyEndingOverride it wasn't so straightforward]]: in 2023, Oher filed a lawsuit alleging that the Tuohys [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie never legally adopted him]], instead placing him under a conservatorship which allowed them to conduct financial affairs in his name and earn millions in royalties while Oher received nothing from the film. The case is currently ongoing.

* The Tuohys adopt Michael Oher in ''Film/TheBlindSide'' and he's damn happy with them, even with the expected prejudice and problems. Also, the film is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory. In a 2023 lawsuit filed by Oher, it was revealed the Tuohys [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie never legally adopted him]], instead placing him under a conservatorship which allowed them to conduct financial affairs in his name and earn millions in royalties while Oher received nothing from the film.

* ''Film/BenHur1959'': Judah as a {{galley slave}} saves the Roman Consul, Quintus Arrius during a battle. In gratitude, Arrius takes Judah under his wing and years later, formally adopts him, giving him the name, "Arrius the Younger".

* The Tuohys adopt Michael Oher in ''Film/TheBlindSide'' and he's damn happy with them, even with the expected prejudice and problems. Also, the film is BasedOnATrueStory.

* In ''Film/{{Belle}}'', Dido and Elizabeth are cousins adopted by their aunt and uncle, whom they call "Mama" and "Papa." Notably, while Dido is truly an orphan, Elizabeth's father and stepmother are still alive. She vastly prefers her adoptive family to her father, who disinherits her to favor his child by her stepmother.

** Most kids picked up by them are far happier in the Nursery or with whichever agents become their parents than they were with their original families, which were often self-inserts or other fic characters. Self-insert characters usually do not make good parents; among other things, they've been known to cause their own children to be killed or molested just for attention.

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[[caption-width-right:300: The Tuohy Family. Clockwise from bottom: Sean "S.J." Touhy Jr, Sean, Collins, Michael, Leigh Anne]]

!!Examples

** Agent Momoka Shigisawa has no living relatives, her mother [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] and her father passed away from illness later. She thus lives with the wealthy Hazama family through her high school years before the start of her PPC career, which is why she's [[UndyingLoyalty painfully loyal and subservient]] to agent Kaguya Hazama.

* Most kids picked up by the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' are far happier in the Nursery or with whichever agents become their parents than they were with their original families, which were often self-inserts or other fic characters. Self-insert characters do not make good mothers; among other things, they've been known to cause their own children to be killed or molested just for attention.

* Misuzu in ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'' is an interesting case. Her aunt Haruko acts as her adopted mother, but distances herself from her for fear Misuzu will be taken away; but as the series continues, they grow very close.

* In ''Webcomic/APettyNuzlockeChallenge'', after Spuds the Venusaur and Barb the Nidoqueen discuss Barb's sterility, a Pokemon Breeder in the Sevii Islands offers them a Togepi egg to raise. When it hatches, ''Spuds Jr is already a Togetic'', apparently just that happy with his new parents and eager to be a BadassFamily.
* Arthur in ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' is fostered rather than adopted by Ector, even in the contemporary arc, but it's definitely a happy family, with even Kay being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. When his worst fear is manifested in the space arc as being that he's really Ector's bastard and condemned to life as Kay's squire, his reaction is "Well, it could be worse".

* ''Webcomic/DragonSanctuary'': Dean's not a Conin, but he considers Ellen and Meale his mother and sister all the same. [[spoiler: Even after he’s brought into the royal court, he reaffirms to Meale that they're not his real family, just more family.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'' has Jake Noel, a deer/wolf hybrid who was adopted into a family of chameleons at the ripe old age of eight. Despite some of the cultural differences between reptiles and mammals that exist in the world of Forestdale, Jake has adjusted quite well to his new family and loves them like they were his own flesh and blood. It helps that the Noel family is a MASSIVE step up from [[AbusiveParents his biological parents.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'':
** Credenza, ever since she washed ashore as a traumatized ten-year-old and got taken in by the Burilla siblings. [[spoiler: They're willing to sail across the Archipelago to find her when she vanishes]].
** Clair's birth parents are [[DeathByChildbirth dead]] and lost at sea [[spoiler: as it later turns out, also, [[DeathOfPersonality in a way, dead]] ]], but Cassie is her surrogate mother and they have a very loving relationship. After Clair's father's disappearance gets solved, the adoption is treated as official.