History Main / RaisedByOrcs

* The alien ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' is raised by convicts in a prison and taught right from wrong (more specifically, that [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad right]] ''[[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad is]]'' [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad wrong]]). He seems to have had a happy and emotionally healthy childhood, despite having a very limited understanding of social skills. His education is also lacking, as reflected by occasional mispronunciations of English words, the most common one being "school" (which he pronounces as "shool").

* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Zigzagged by Greldinard. He's a HalfHumanHybrid who was created when a human baby was adopted by an orc shamaness, but realizing that the other orcs would kill a human boy, she magically fused him with her dead orc baby. Greldinard's skin is patches of green and beige, and he's also [[HybridPower unnaturally clever for an orc]].

* When he was young, Threader from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' was kidnapped and raised as a slave by some barbarians who were more than willing to kill him if he ever stepped out of line.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
** The fancharacter Blue is a Tau girl (a race of idealistic space-communists) raised by Orks. Which is strange because Orks have no concept of child-rearing, being animate fungi who grow from spores and emerge fully formed from the ground. That said, Orks are entirely in it for the fun of warfare, so if the girl can fight, she's more or less okay with the Orks. They don't care so much what species you are, has much as they do if you can swing a Choppa and beat the piss out of people (Including the Orks themselves. Their economics, such as they are, are based on Ork teeth knocked out of your enemies heads)

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* The UrExample of this trope comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant slave-making ants]]. These ant species raid other ant colonies and kidnap their brood, imprinting their colony's scent on them. These brood grow into adult ants believing their kidnappers are their home colony and unwittingly work for them as slaves their whole life.
* The Ottoman Empire levied a tribute of male children from their Christian subjects, in a practice called ''devshirme''. These boys were made slaves of the Sultan, converted to Islam, and raised as Janissaries -- the elite soldiers of the Ottoman Empire -- or as senior civil servants. They enjoyed much more prestigious, luxurious, and exciting lives than they would have in their home villages, so modern historians tend to be very sympathetic to devshirme; but the practice was horrifying to the Balkan Christians and was in blatant violation of Islamic law, which specifies that ''dhimmah'' (singular ''dhimmi'') -- "protected people", i.e., conquered "Peoples of the Book" -- may not be enslaved. The practice was abolished by the 1730s, but the damage was done; memories of "the Turkish yoke" were one of the reasons the Russians enthusiastically supported the South Slavic independence movements.
* Both sides of the European conquest of North America were guilty of this trope.
** Native Americans [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jemison sometimes]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ann_Parker captured]] white European settlers' children during raids on early colonial settlements, raising them as their own; their birth parents, who viewed the natives as enemies of civilization in general as well as their own settlements (and who feared for their children's souls, since the settlers were typically staunch Protestants while the natives were mostly pagan or Roman Catholic), were eager to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Duston rescue]] them. However, many children did not take their birth parents up on that offer, as the Native Americans had raised them as their own children and they now felt closer to their "adopted" culture. This topic is the subject of many examples of TheCaptivityNarrative.
** Later in the 1800s, in Canada and especially the USA, governments and social reformers set up special [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_boarding_schools boarding schools]] in an effort to "civilize" and thereby assimilate the natives' children into their own culture. The schools were little to no better than open warfare, as they were often extremely abusive, using harsh physical and psychological punishments on Native American or First Nations children who refused to give up traditional dress/grooming, abandon their native religious beliefs, or stop speaking their native languages. It didn't serve to "increase goodwill" between the cultures, as some of the "social reformers" may have hoped, so much as forcibly erase many Native American cultural practices altogether. Though the boarding schools have since ceased to exist, the damage was done.
** Similarly, Aboriginal Australian children would often be kidnapped by the Aussies to raise them as "white"; oftentimes they were snatched out from the hospitals and their mothers told they didn't survive childbirth. This still happens in some places, even though it was technically made illegal... in the 1990s.
* As a child, while fleeing Norway with his mother after his father was killed during a war for the throne, Olaf Trygvasson was taken captive by Estonian pirates. His foster father was killed, and he was raised by the pirates as a slave and sold or traded several times. Six years later, his uncle finds him there while collecting taxes, buys him, and takes him to Gardriki (that is Kievan Rus), where he was originally fleeing to, where he serves in the court of King Valdemar (that is Saint Vladimir the Great). Despite (or perhaps because of) his unusual upbringing, he becomes a competent and well-liked (but deeply sadistic) military commander, and avenges his foster father by killing his murderer, eventually becoming King of Norway before dying fighting his rival to the throne.
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* Much like the ComicBook/{{Superman}} example below, [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] is viewed as this trope by his fellow Saiyans, especially his brother Raditz, who is horrified to find that his baby brother is living happily among the very beings he was supposed to murder. Vegeta also shows some shades of this with Goku early on, constantly disgusted whenever Goku display human values such as mercy and honor. Both tried to make Goku recover his true nature. Raditz [[IHaveYourWife kidnapped his son to blackmail him into killing people]], which outright failed. Vegeta did instill some of the pride of being a Saiyan, although he could never make Goku act as brutal or as cold-hearted as a typical Saiyan.

* Shura Kirigakure from ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' was rasied by a demon until she was rescued by Shiro Fujimoto.

* In Franchise/TheDCU, Granny Goodness raises any children under her "care" to serve ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} loyally. Most conformed but out of the following:
** [[ComicBook/NewGods Scott Free/Mr. Miracle]] refused to be corrupted or break and ran off, followed by his future wife Big Barda. Unfortunately, this was what Darkseid ''wanted'', since Scott doing so meant Darkseid could claim the peace treaty with New Genesis was now void.
** Knockout, while never good, also fled from them.
* Several surviving Kryptonian influences and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens floating around the DCU seem to think ComicBook/{{Superman}} is this trope, and that they should help him [[VillainousLineage recover his "true nature"]] rather than abandon him among the unworthy, inferior, savage human race. Clark Kent has a few issues with this interpretation.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'' spin-off ''Trolls of Troy'' is an entire comic series following the exploits of Waha, an human female adopted by a troll. He kept her as a fresh snack but grew fond of her before the time to eat her came. He raises her as his own, eventually leading to a "what do you mean, adopted?" moment. She's the best of her class.
* Gunna Sijurvald of the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', imaginatively codenamed "Troll", is a half-Asgardian half-Troll girl who was raised among a pack of Trolls. Attempts to integrate Gunna into Asgardian society have failed since she sees herself as a Troll.

* In the Arabic folktale of The Ghul's Daughter, a girl comes home to find her family murdered. A ghul arrives to feast on their flesh, but doesn't harm the living girl, deciding instead to raise her and transfer some of his magic powers to her.
* Literature/VasilissaTheBeautiful spent time living with and working for Literature/BabaYaga the witch, rather than her abusive stepfamily. In most versions of the tale she learns courage and self-sufficiency, but in a few she also learns magic.

* Steven Universe in ''Fanfic/GiftOfADiamond'' - son of Rose Quartz, enemy to Homeworld - ends up being raised by Blue Diamond, one of Homeworld's grand matriarchs. He becomes one of her best Quartz soldiers and her most influential court member. He reunites with his Earth family, but only after the Crystal Gems ambush his adoptive older sister Carnelian, thinking she was sent to spy on them.

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* Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 shows Conan being raised as a slave after his family is murdered in a raid. As befits a hero, he not only survives, he thrives and grows into the man who will destroy the one responsible for the deaths of his family.

* Tagg in ''[[Literature/{{Redwall}} The Taggerung]]'' is a textbook example: he's an otter whose father was killed by [[AlwaysChaoticEvil vermin]], and is later raised by them. He grows to be the biggest, toughest, fastest, strongest of them all, and this being Redwall, he can't bring himself to kill an unarmed creature and he runs off. The tribe end up chasing him because a) he stole the chieftain Sawney's knife, and b) they think he killed Sawney.
* [[spoiler: Inverted by Mr. Nutt]] in [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Unseen Academicals]]. [[spoiler: He ''is'' an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc]], and possibly one of the very few left; raids by humans killed off most of the orcs. Mr. Nutt]] was then raised by humans and FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires before being sent off to Ankh-Morpork. And he definitely proves orcs aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil.
** [[Creator/TerryPratchett PTerry]] seems to like inverting this trope. It's also present in ''Literature/{{Snuff}}''; [[spoiler:Felicity Beedle's mother]] was raised by goblins, and they treated her more humanely than the humans who eventually "rescued" her.

* In another Victorian class-switch example, one of the big reveals of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' is that two major characters are different examples of this. [[spoiler: The two protagonists, in fact. Susan was actually born into the gentry, by the woman whom Maud thinks is ''her'' biological mother, but Sue was raised by Mrs. Sucksby's band of working-class petty thieves to be one of them, an expert at stealing but uneducated to the point of illiteracy. Meanwhile, Maud is actually Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter, raised as the wealthy heiress Maud Lilly, which means being abused by her (or rather, Sue's) uncle throughout her adolescence to be his perfect reader of pornographic literature. She's mostly "educated" in that she's an expert in books about men's sexual fantasies, and not a lot else, with how isolated she is in her "uncle's" sprawling and gloomy country estate]]. Park Chan-wook's film adaptation ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', which transfers the story to 1930s Korea, kept a lot of the novel's other major twists but eliminated the baby-switch.
* The Ilse Witch, aka [[spoiler:Grianne Ohmsford]] of ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'' was raised by The Morgawr and his [[LizardFolk Mwellrets]] following the deaths of her parents. She grows up hating everyone, including the Mwellrets; The Morgawr is the only person she respects, and it's just barely.
* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:

* Duncan, in the ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'' series, was raised by [[LizardFolk Hsktskt]].
* Alinadar from ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' was raised by SpacePirates after they murdered her family.

* Scorpius on ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. He's the product of Scarran scientific study that involved raping Sebacean women in order to determine if any potential mixed-species offspring could be of use to the Scarran Empire. He was the lone hybrid who survived. His upbringing after this point was not exactly very nice, to put it mildly. This made him join with the Sebaceans to destroy the Scarrans.
** This did not qualify as a HeelFaceTurn as the main Sebacean culture, the Peacekeepers, are just barely [[BlackAndGreyMorality the lesser of two evils]] compared to the Scarran Empire (the Scarrans want to utterly conquer and subjugate everyone forever in a species dictatorship, while the Peacekeepers do at least sometimes allow their conquered species to maintain their own societies and get recruited). There's a reason that for most of the series, Scorpius was the BigBad.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had Seven of Nine (formerly Annika Hansen), the child of a human couple who were exploring the Delta quadrant and anthropologically studying [[YouWillBeAssimilated the Borg.]] Their cloak against detection failed, and the Borg assimilated them all. Later, Seven was separated from the collective and Janeway freed and "deprogrammed" her.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Inverted with regular character Worf, who is a Klingon who was raised by humans. Granted, Klingons aren't the enemy of humanity anymore (mostly), but the principle is the same. This was played with quite effectively, with Worf often being truer to Klingon principles than most Klingons we meet (from having learned about them while surrounded by humans), who are often sloppy and dishonourable from lacking this incentive to be true to their culture.
** Subverted in the episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman "Suddenly Human"]], in which the ''Enterprise'' discovers, and attempts to "rescue", a human teenager who was adopted as a small child by a military officer of an alien species, after his human parents were killed by them during a past war between them and the Federation. Signs of old injuries that were interpreted as abuse turn out to be due to the usual hazards of an adventurous boyhood as part of a ProudWarriorRace, and Picard and the crew finally accept the genuine love between the boy and his adoptive father, and his desire to return to the culture he was brought up in.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', a young Ryan Mitchell was taken by the demon Diabolico, and raised to hate his human father, Captain William Mitchell.

* ''Series/TheMagicians'': Fen and Eliot's baby is taken at birth by Fairies. The Fairy Queen later presents a teenager, Fray (short for Frail Human), as their daughter, explaining that time runs differently in the Fairy Realm. Fray makes it clear that her loyalty is to the Fairy Queen. When she reveals to the Queen a scheme of the humans against her, the Queen rejects Fray for betraying her family. Fray, bewildered, then reveals that Fen's baby was stillborn.

* In ''Tomorrow The World'', a 1943 problem play by James Gow and Arnaud d'Usseau, a liberal college professor in the midwestern U.S. adopts his twelve-year-old nephew who has been orphaned in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. The boy is given to clicking his heels, repeating Nazi propaganda lines such as "To be an American is to be a member of a mongrel race" and declaring that his father was a traitor and a coward. Typical EnfanteTerrible-style mischief ensues.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' mod ''VideoGame/InterestingNPCs'' the character Bergrisar is a Nord (Human) raised by Giants, usually hostile to any trespassers on their land.
* One of the possible character backgrounds in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]''.
* The plot of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has this... sort of (it's a bit more complicated). The protagonist Corrin is a child born from the peaceful kingdom of Hoshido, until one fateful night when they was still a little boy/girl, the aggressive kingdom of Nohr under King Garon killed their father and kidnapped them to be his child. They were then put under the care of Garon's children, [[AntiVillain who are still pretty much decent people but carrying the values of Nohr under Garon,]] as he was shown to be a mad tyrant during that time. Even so, Corrin still carried the pacifistic nature that did not go along the line of Garon and the other darker part of Nohr, they refused to go along with Garon no matter which side they took, if they took Hoshido's side, they will decry that Garon is a mad tyrant not worth calling a father, if they took Nohr's side, they still sought peace and reforming the kingdom with their more decent siblings. Both cases, they succeeded despite having the upbringing of being raised by the less 'obvious good' side.

** [[ComicBook/NewGods Scott Free/Mr. Miracle]] refused to be corrupted or break and ran off, followed by his future wife Big Barda.

* As a child, while fleeing Norway with his mother after his father was killed during a war for the throne, Olaf Trygvasson was taken captive by Estonian pirates. His foster-father was killed, and he was raised by the pirates as a slave and sold or traded several times. Six years later, his uncle finds him there while collecting taxes, buys him, and takes him to Gardriki (that is Kievan Rus), where he was originally fleeing to, where he serves in the court of King Valdemar (that is Saint Vladimir the Great). Despite (or perhaps because of) his unusual upbringing, he becomes a competent and well-liked (but deeply sadistic) military commander, and avenges his foster father by killing his murderer, eventually becoming King of Norway before dying fighting his rival to the throne.

* ''Film/IlyaMuromets'', a Russian film about Russian folk hero Ilya Murometz routing of the Mongol hordes. In a twist, his wife is kidnapped and the Mongol Khan raises Ilya's son as his own. The movie very much treats his son's upbringing as this, but his innate heroism from his biological father lets him do a HeelFaceTurn.

** Literal one, where the player character was a runaway orphan, took in and and raised by an orcish family. Even if the character was apparently loved and cared for, it still [[NoSocialSkills robs him/her of conventional social skills]] due to a ''staggering'' -6 penalty to Charisma (standard starting value is 8), while providing decent bonus to Strength, Perception and ''all'' combat skills.

* Helena from ''Series/OrphanBlack'' was raised by the abusive Prolethean cult and trained to hate and kill clones (and misinformed that she wasn't a clone herself). [[spoiler:The Castor clones]] were raised by the military and trained as agents of TheBaroness.
* ''Series/TheMagicians'': Fen's baby is taken at birth by Fairies. The Fairy Queen later presents a teenager, Fray (short for Frail Human), as Fen's daughter, explaining that time runs differently in the Fairy Realm. Fray makes it clear that her loyalty is to the Fairy Queen. When she reveals to the Queen a scheme of the humans against her, the Queen rejects Fray for betraying her family. Fray, bewildered, then reveals that Fen's baby was stillborn.

The child isn't so much [[RaisedByWolves raised by a pack of wolves]] or even [[RaisedByNatives natives]] (who while foreign or wild, genuinely love the child), but by their AlwaysChaoticEvil equivalents. Usually the orphan is from an orc raid, and their adopted parent(s) took them in out of either [[PetTheDog a rare display of paternal/maternal instinct]], or to spite their human foes by [[RevengeThroughCorruption twisting their children into cruel mockeries of themselves]]. Their life will probably consist of TrainingFromHell coupled with nihilistic life lessons, and [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining focus on combat over social interaction]]. They will be taught MightMakesRight, that AsskickingEqualsAuthority, and to worship their GodOfEvil if they have one.

Of course, having not come from the Always Chaotic Evil stock, evil is not [[VillainousLineage hereditary]] for them and is "[[UpbringingMakesTheHero all nurture]]", so they're prime HeelFaceTurn material. This can actually escalate if [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes their foster parent(s) do love them]], and the Orc Raised adult manages a community wide turn.

* The heroine of the martial arts film, ''Film/TheJadeFacedAssassin'', was stolen from a martial arts clan by a band of ten murderers and assassins called "The Ten Villains". But EvenEvilHasStandards prevents them from killing a baby, and so the assassins decide to raise her as one of their own, each of them passing their best skills to her into adulthood.

* Culcha (a human) in ''VideoGame/SpectralForce 3'' was raised by Goblins. However, being a [[GoodAllAlong good but misunderstood race]] they were actually good parents. She views and is looked on by other goblins as a "big sister" and her MamaBear is truly bearlike.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s Magus. As a kid, he gets dumped in the middle ages via time portal [[spoiler:only to be discovered by Ozzie. He then proceeds to impress the monsters with his magic so much that he grows up to rule over them]].

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': After his defense attorney father dies, Miles Edgeworth is adopted by prosecutor Manfred von Karma and raised to be one of the most vicious and effective prosecutors his district has ever known. [[spoiler:This was all part of von Karma's extended revenge against Gregory Edgeworth. He murdered him and then plotted to turn his son into a twisted mirror of everything Gregory Edgeworth stood for, and without Phoenix Wright to confuse matters he probably would have succeeded.]]
** This is made more apparent that even if he's raised by von Karma, Edgeworth still didn't turn out as 100% as von Karma is, while he is more than likely to pursue "Guilty" verdicts, he doesn't make it a complete top priority, if there is a chance that he will unveil the truth, he will prioritize it over getting "Guilty" verdict, while von Karma could care less and [[ThePerfectionist only wants a perfect record.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura Arcanum]]'' has two versions of it as a possible character background and both [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zag the trope]]:
** Literal one, where the player character was a runaway orphan, took in and and raised by an orcish family. Even if the character was apparently loved and cared for, it still [[NoSocialSkills robs him/her of conventional social skills]] due to a ''staggering'' -6 penalty to Charisma (standard starting value is 8), while providing decent bonus to Strength, Perception and ''all'' combat skills.
** Being member of a barbarian tribe is combined with an extremely mysterious past. It's not exactly clear if the character was born in, raised by or simply dwelled with said tribe. The (toned) penalties are more related with being out-of-touch with social standards and lacking formal education rather than being rough or grumpy as a person. It also comes with [[DiscOneNuke extremely useful barbarian armour]], combined with Strength, Constitution and Melee bonuses, making it one of the best starting backgrounds for melee-oriented characters.

* The Sub-Zero brothers in ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' were abducted by the assassin clan Lin Kuei when they were still children, due to [[AnIcePerson their inherent ice powers]] as cryomancers, and then raised to be cold-blooded assassins loyal to the clan. Elder brother Bi-Han is too loyal to the clan and adopts most of its negative traits, until eventually he died by the hands of Scorpion, a man who Bi-Han brutally murdered, come back as a spirit to exact vengeance. The little brother Kuai Liang, on the other hand, follows the trope more closely, he showed his conscience by sparing the life of his opponent, giving Scorpion the cue that he's different than his brother. And when Lin Kuei decided to cyborgify every one of its members to increase their effectiveness at assassination, Kuai Liang rejected their philosophies and abandoned the clan, becoming a defender of Earthrealm in process and a bonafide good guy that eventually struck back at the clan and reformed it into a force of good.
* The backstory of Symmetra in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' is that she used to be a very poor girl in Indian slums, only to be 'picked up'/kidnapped by the [[MegaCorp Vishkar Corporation]] and then raised to be their ace architect, never to see her parents again, and indoctrinated her to believe that order is everything, freedom is bad, but what they do is for the greater good (and for the most part they did restore order and make several parts of the world into a place with better living standards)... and then got sent to do corporate espionage to eliminate their rivals. While Symmetra eventually started getting doubtful due to their latest antics including oppression, she still tried to believe about their seemingly noble goal. Tellingly, while Vishkar in general looks more like only interested in profit or gaining dominance without care of other's lives or feelings, Symmetra dislikes killing (especially unnecessary ones), preferring non-lethal takedowns and she is driven by an altruistic goal to improve others' lives, essentially becoming their TokenGoodTeammate. However, the same upbringing and her having autism also caused her personality to [[IceQueen look standoffish and looking down on the poor]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold even if she is trying to help them raise in stature.]]

* Hilda Rhambling from ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'' is born a Half, from a Huma(n) father and Gajuma (beastman) mother. That alone is a pretty serious issue, but her parents loved her anyway. Unfortunately, they ran across Tohma, who proceeds to kill her father and took the infant Hilda to become his personal {{Tykebomb}} and both indoctrinated with how Halves like her are to be outcast of the society and the inherent racism on both races make it even worse, including her having a rough childhood due to her status. She only starts getting out of her dark upbringing when Tohma decided she's useless, revealing her Half status, humiliating her, nearly [[DrivenToSuicide drove her to suicide]] and then only Veigue's team would take her along, not [[DontYouDarePityMe out of pity as she first thought]]. It's also implied that this is the case of Hilda's fellow Half friend Militsa.

** Played with in many ways with the character Tahiri Veila, a Jedi Apprentice (and later Jedi Knight) in the Literature/NewJediOrder. She actually ''was'' raised by Tusken Raiders, but this was closer to Raised by Natives since the Tuskens, their outings in the movies notwithstanding, aren't all bad. ''Then'' the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]] show up, kidnap Tahiri, and attempt to brainwash her into believing she's one of them (in order to create a Force-using Vong warrior)- so she ends up with two sets of memories, in one of which she was raised by, essentially, space orcs crossed with space dark elves, as one of their own. Further complicating matters, the Vong [[MadScientist Shapers]] tell her that she was one of them captured and raised ''by humans'' before beginning said brainwashing, which considering the Vong see themselves as the good guys and their enemies as AlwaysChaoticEvil, is basically this trope from the opposite perspective.
** She's not the only one; an Old Republic Jedi named A'Sharad Hett was also raised by the Tuskens, until he left to become a Jedi [[spoiler: and later, Darth Krayt]]. A lore entry from Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic indicates the Sand People have a habit of this, for reasons unknown to outsiders.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' antagonist {{ComicBook/Bane}} was born and raised in Peno Duro, the worst HellholePrison in Santa Prisca, a small South American country mostly known for it's drug trade. His father was Edmund Dorrance, AKA King Snake, a British mercenary who fled the country after a failed revolution, with the government sentencing his unborn son to serve his sentence. As a result of being raised and trained by the worst murderers, rapists and monsters South America had to offer, Bane grew up into an extremely dangerous and competent arch-criminal, fluent in several languages thanks to the mixed nationality of the prison population, and highly intelligent both due to a natural gift and the education he received from the prisoners and a local Jesuit priest. He is essentially an evil, sociopathic Franchise/DocSavage.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' mod VideoGame/InterestingNPCs the character Bergrisar is a Nord (Human) raised by Giants, usually hostile to any trespassers on their land.