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Ding ding ding! UPS hither! Yeah, can I get you to sign off on this infant, sir?

"I went out to the back, where my vegetables had just been delivered. There were cabbages, turnips, radishes...only in that location were no radishes. Just a very hungry baby panda."

You know the scene. It's raining, and a mother is conveying a infant in a basket. The baby is wrapped up in a blanket, just is obviously a main character. The mother may or may not be kept anonymous past a cloak.

So the female parent goes up to a doorstep, puts the babe down, may or may not add a letter and/or an Orphan's Plot Trinket, rings the doorbell and slips quietly into the dark. The door is opened by the child'southward adoptive parents, who are always fully accepting of the baby and their new roles as parents instead of contacting the regime (and information technology simply so happens that someone is always home and awake to answer the door, thus sparing the baby from dying of exposure). Cutting to several years afterward.

This title is a pun on Doorstep Baby, and is not to be confused using a babe as a doorstop. For that, y'all're looking for Hilariously Abusive Childhood.

As well known as a Foundling. Often causes Changeling Fantasy. See also Parental Abandonment, Missing Mom.

Lead-in to Moses in the Bulrushes and Muggle Foster Parents.

Examples of Door Step Baby include:

Contents

• 1 Anime & Manga
• ii Comics
• three Films — Blitheness
• 4 Films — Alive Activeness
• 5 Live Activity TV
• 6 Literature
• seven Music
• 8 Video Games
• 9 Web Comics
• ten Theater
• xi Western Animation
• 12 Real Life
  • 12.1 Subversions
• xiii Films — Live Action
• 14 Literature
• 15 Live Action TV
• 16 Web Comics
• 17 Video Games
• 18 Existent Life

Anime & Manga

• An episode of the original Mazinger Z Television receiver series has Kouji and Sayaka finding a baby boy named Shinichi on the doorstep of the Constitute. They take intendance of him as much equally possible, and Kouji sets out to find the female parent. It turns out her name is Risa, and she left Shinichi at that place because not merely she's a widow, merely an Ill Girl who may not live for likewise long.
• The eponymous Candy from Candy Candy was left on the doorstep of the orphanage "Pony Abode" when she was a infant. The circumstances vary: in the manga simply Candy was found like this and the local nun saw her thanks to some ducklings' noises, while in the anime information technology was both her and her eventual best friend Annie and they were spotted thanks to another orphan, a boy named Tom, noticing their presence and alerting the nun.
• Kaito Doumoto in Mermaid Tune Pichi Pichi Pitch has his outset Heroic BSOD upon discovering a note from his parents explaining that they plant him like this and took him in.
• There is a variety in Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran, where Meow finds a baby in a basket outside of a eating house. She's at a complete loss at first, but soon gets very attached, leading to her being heartbroken when she has to return the baby to its family.
• A brusque story arc in Gintama starts with this. The baby, yet, looks very similar to Gintoki, and the note that came with the infant seems to implicate him in an affair, which anybody assumes is the truth despite his protestations.
  • Sadaharu might also count, fifty-fifty though he's a behemothic dog.
• Maria was found at the step of a church in Hayate the Combat Butler, hence her proper name.
• The primal plot device in Satoshi Kon'south Tokyo Godfathers. The heroes, three homeless bums of Tokyo (a runaway teenage daughter, an trans woman who used to work as a Drag Queen and a Wiggle with a Heart of Golden boozer), are rummaging through a trash heap on Christmas Eve when they find a newborn baby in the trash, forth with a key to a locker.The trans lady, who once was an abandoned child, promptly adopts her and names her "Kiyoko" every bit they gear up off to find her parents (and give them a severe scolding). It turns out the babe girl was kidnapped from the hospital she was born in past a mentally sick woman named Sachiko, who had lost her own baby. And when the iii manage to find Kiyoko's parents and give the baby dorsum to them... it turns out that the police inspector who was investigating the kidnapping is Miyuki'southward actual male parent.
• In Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken, the titular Dear was plant by nuns in the middle of a flower patch and surrounded by friendly bees.
• One episode of Pumpkin Scissors has the eponymous unit of measurement searching for the mother of one such baby later on everybody except Corporal Oland fails to pacify it.
• In the Cyborg 009 2001 serial, a Catholic priest found a dying single mother and her healthy baby male child in the doorsteps of his church building. The infant grew upwardly and became Joe Shimamura aka 009.
• Berserk: Has a rather dark version of this trope. A newborn Guts was establish nether the hung corpse of his mother, umbilical cord nonetheless attached. For a moment his discoverers (a band of mercenaries) thought he was a stillbirth... until their leader knocked him out of the artillery of his girlfriend who went and picked him up, knocking babe Guts into a puddle and making him cry. It only gets worse for him afterward that. (It'southward believed that the fashion of his nascence left him cursed.)
• Happens in one episode of Best Pupil Council, prompting the girls to go out in search of the baby'due south mother.
• Carlos Santana from Captain Tsubasa. As a little baby, his teenage single mother left him in a soccer field, and the caretakers of said sport place took him in. When his adoptive parents died, much misfortune followed. In a subversion, he finds his genuinely remorseful mother when he'southward an adult, and they get reconciled. Earn Your Happy Ending, indeed.
• Flute, from Violinist of Hameln, was left in some villager's doorstep on a snowy day past, supposedly, a dying soldier of her country, Sforzando. Subverted in that the firm'due south owner refused to open the door, and the villagers who passed by the screaming baby in a handbasket purposefully averted their eyes; it was the Elder of Staccato who finally picked her upwardly and took her domicile.
• Sort-of used in Black Jack, where a girl delinquent steals a adult female'south locker key... only to open the locker and find a baby boy within. A baby male child who'due south severely malnourished and ill, so she takes him to Blackness Jack to see what to do as she tries not to get too attached to him... Fifty-fifty more: the original manga affiliate was manifestly Based on a True Story that had taken place in Tokyo few before. . .

Comics

• Superman is arguably an instance of this trope. Of course, in this case, the doorstep is Kansas, and the note'due south either missing or undecipherable. In some versions it'southward more the Moses affair, with Kal-El beingness shot "to wherever", only, in virtually versions, Kal-El was deliberately sent to Earth specifically, which makes it a deliberate placing, only with an added multi-million low-cal year shot-put event in between (rather than laid on the doorstep, he was chucked there). There is fifty-fifty at least 1 incarnation where Jor-El sends Kal-El specifically to Kansas.
• The Silver Age Wink was published for more than a decade before the Flash and his wife Iris discovered that Iris had actually been born in the far future to time-traveling parents who abandoned her equally an infant on the doorstep of a 20th-century couple. Iris's 20th-century parents had never told her that she was a foundling, and they never suspected that she was from the time to come. Somewhen, Iris was reunited with her next-millennium parents. This plot development was followed for a while, then dropped, and about readers either forgot near it or causeless that it had been retconned out of beingness. When Iris was murdered in the 1980s, no mention was made of her far-future origins. A couple of years after, when the Flash comic book was due to be cancelled, Flash was obviously killed ... but a twist ending revealed that he and Iris were both still live in the distant time to come with Iris's parents.
• Skeezix Wallet, in Frank King'south Gasoline Alley , was left on Walt Wallet's doorstep equally an infant. More than than a decade later, Walt Wallet caused a girl named Judy in the same manner.
• Asterix finds a baby on his doorstep at the showtime of Asterix and Son. It turns out he's Caesarion (full proper noun Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar), son of Cleopatra and Caesar.
• Each Abode Wanted By A Baby! strip begins with the same infant being plant on a doorstep and ends with the babe leaving because he does not like his new home.
• Swee' Pea wasn't left on a doorstop- he was delivered to Popeye in the mail. In fact, due to being in a box when delivered, Popeye thought the audio of his rattle meant at that place was a serpent in the package, and was prepared to shoot the matter until he heard crying.

Films — Animation

• A version of this is the beginning of Quasimodo's life in Disney'due south The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Frollo is and so disgusted by the child's advent that he is most to drop him down a well... but the Archdeacon of Notre Dame Cathedral informs him that killing an innocent child, even a deformed 1, will certainly lead to damnation. (And even more, he had only accidentally killed Quasi'south Roma female parent via pushing her down a small-scale flight of stairs). In the face up of that, Frollo has no choice. Interestingly, in the book Frollo was the archdeacon of Notre Dame, as well as existence not quite such a bastard. So information technology's kind of like he got split apart and his better three-eighths popped out of the cathedral to restrain him from infanticide.
• Variation: in Kung Fu Panda, Tai Lung is left on the doorstep of the Jade Palace in perfectly beautiful weather condition, and nosotros never see or are told who the mother was or why she abandoned him. And far from growing up to discover his secret special heritage or be raised by someone who does not understand his uniqueness, the snow leopard finds his glory and power right there in training to exist a kung fu warrior, something his adoptive male parent Shifu embraces wholeheartedly (and apparently a chip also well) when he discovers the cub's aptitude for it.
  • As well done in the sequel. Po'southward father tells the story of how he found him in a radish box from the vegetable club delivered to him. He waited for someone to come up by, but when no i came, he adopted Po.
• The opening scene in Meet the Robinsons.
• This happens to Kris in Santa Claus Is Coming To Town . The Burgermeister's guard is taking him to an orphanage, merely he blows abroad in a snowstorm. He is then left with the Kringle Elves to avert the Winter Warlock.
• At the very get-go of Dinosaur, Aladar's egg is delivered to Lemur Isle by a Pterodactyl who apparently found said egg floating in a river just right after an Oviraptor dropped it, who apparantly stole the egg while his mother was trying to protect her nest from the moving picture's Big Bad, Carnotaurus.

Films — Live Activeness

• Oswald Cobblepot — alias The Penguin — in the movie Batman Returns. Not so much left on the doorstep as Mosed to be Raised By Penguins.
• The live-activity picture show Piddling Human has a gangster who is supposed to be able to laissez passer for a babe leave himself at someone'south doorstep.
  • Basically, it'southward a alive-action ripoff of the Bugs Bunny cartoon beneath.
• Happened in the Super Mario Bros movie, in an opening scene. Daisy's mother leaves her (in an egg... yes) at a chapel in Brooklyn, along with a meteorite shard, which Daisy later wears as a necklace. Yes, Samantha Mathis plays a Reptite. Sounds good already, doesn't it?
• This happens in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where a babe is built-in old and ages backwards. The babe's mother died in childbirth, making the male parent swear that he'll have a place in the world. When the father gets a glimpse of his child, he'south horrified and repulsed, and runs out the door with it. He seems to exist nearly to throw the babe into a river when a policeman scares him abroad, so he leaves him on the doorstep of an old people'due south home. Unusually for this trope, not simply do the people running the place — a black couple — not discover until they nearly stride on him, simply later the male parent meets and recognizes his son.
• Swee-Pea in Popeye.
• In Breakfast On Pluto, Patrick/Kitten is left by his mother on the doorstep of his father — the priest. (He's placed with a foster family.)
• John from Charlie Chaplin's The Kid is an interesting case. His female parent left him in the car of a wealthy family unit, complete with a letter. When the criminals who stole the motorcar discovered the baby, they dropped information technology off in an alley next to a trash can, where Charlie finds him.
• Three Men And A Infant (both the original French motion picture and American remake) starts with the baby beingness left on their doorstep.
• In Spaceballs, Lone Starr told Princess Vespa he was placed on a doorstep of a monastery and raised by monks. The only noesis of his parents is a medallion with an unknown bulletin carried with him.
• Kicks off the plot of Willow.
• This also kicks off the plot of The Three Stooges movie where the titular trio aren't then much equally left on the door footstep of the orphanage they grew up at but tossed on to it from a moving car in a duffel bag.
• Freckles in Cistron Stratton Porter's Freckles

Does it seem to you that anyone would take a newborn babe and row over it, until it was bruised black, cut off its hand, and leave it out in a bitter night on the steps of a charity home, to the care of strangers? That's what somebody did to me

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• In the Mash episode "Yessir, That'due south Our Baby", a baby girl fathered by an American G.I. is abandoned past her Korean mother at the 4077th Yard*A*S*H. Afterwards the doctors try, unsuccessfully, to ship the infant to the U.s.a., they follow Father Mulcahy'south communication and deposit her at a nearby monastery via a foundling wheel.
• In an episode of seventh Heaven, Simon helps a friend turn her newborn she can't take intendance of over to a hospital in a didactic script intended to publicize the existence of "rubber haven" laws.
  • Greys Anatomy has had a like episode. Since that bear witness's set in a hospital, that should've been interesting.
  • While not every bit Anvilicious, Joan of Arcadia had an episode dealing with an abandoned baby. A "safe haven" law is referenced during a discussion.
• On The Gold Girls, Rose tells of having been left in a handbasket at an orphanage... along with some beefsticks, cheeses, and "some kind of cracker that didn't go with annihilation." She'due south Minnesotan, for those who find this scenario disruptive.
  • A Minnesotan explains the joke: It's chosen a "cracker barrel", generally used for those occasions where full-blown catering would be as well much but food is still expected. The crackers never seem to be correct for the cheese.
• The terminal episode of Lois and Clark ends with the discovery of such a baby (wrapped in a Superman logo blanket) in L&C's living room. How it got there without Clark (who has super-hearing) hearing something is never explained. Information technology was supposed to be the starting signal for the fifth season, but the show was cancelled.
• Legendarily, each version/remake of Telenovela Cristal has the younger heroine being abandoned at a nunnery every bit a baby, but to grown up and unkowingly get the rival/principal obstacle of her ain mother.
• Dinnerladies' Anita left her babe on the burn down escape. Anybody idea it was Bren's.
• In one episode of MacGyver, Jack Dalton finds a baby, allegedly his son, in the cockpit of his plane.
• In one episode of Bottom, Eddie claims to have been left on a doorstep by his mother with her onetime service revolver and a notation maxim "Please look afterward my baby... I tin can't be bothered."
• The sisters find one in one episode of Charmed. Information technology turns out that the father's family was being tormented by a demon, and he hoped the kid would exist safe if given to another family instead.
• Dawn is an interesting spin on this concept in Buffy the Vampire Slayer- not only is she more of a Doorstop Teenager than anything else, no one remembers the actual doorstopping. Besides, her backstory bears this out: the monks guarded her when she was nothing but pure energy, just once Glory the hellgod got wind of that, they turned the Key into a fourteen-year-old human and packed her off to the Slayer with a handy backstory (read: pile of faux memories for anybody involved), certain that Buffy would protect the Key if she thought it was a sibling. Of grade, Buffy beingness Buffy, she keeps Dawn under her protection even later she finds out the charade, arguing that in her mind, Dawn is her sister fifty-fifty if the monks say they made her upward.
• Stephanie Mills, introduced in flavour 9 of All in The Family unit, is a variation of this trope. While non an bodily infant (she was about 9 years sometime when first introduced), she was left on the Bunkers' doorstep past her alcoholic father, who besides happened to be Edith's nephew.
• The pilot episode of The Waltons had a six-year-old deaf-mute girl left on the Waltons' doorstep past her mother after the father - mistakenly believing her to be mentally retarded - threatened to have her institutionalized.
• In the episode "Safe Haven" of Criminal Minds, a woman left her 13-year-old son at a infirmary (run across the Existent Life section for how this was possible) because he was severely unhinged and she was afraid of him.
  • In the episode "Soul Mates", the cop of the calendar week asked where they found Reid. Rossi joked that he was left in a basket of the steps of the FBI.
• Happens one time in a while in Telenovelas:
  • At some point, Valeria Ferrer from the Mexican series Carrusel finds an abandoned baby girl. She names her "Pelusita" and, being an simple student, quickly gets attached to her...
  • The heroine of the Venezuelan soap Cristal (and its Mexican and Brazilian remakes) is a girl who was dropped off as a baby in an orphanage, and afterward leaving it to face the existent globe, becomes the rival of an older woman - the female parent who couldn't heighten her due to very savage circumstances. And neither of them has any idea of their bond!
  • The protagonist of the Argentine soap Perla Negra (plus its Mexican remake) was dropped off in a Boarding School for rich girls as a newborn, alongside 22 extremely rare blackness pearls that would pay for her teaching and living expenses. The activity starts when she's most to leave the school and MANY twists of fate toss her in the path of her tardily best friend's Big Screwed-Upward Family, which may have the fundamental to unlock the secrets of the protagonist's birth.

Literature

• The title graphic symbol of the Harry Potter books follows this trope, left by Albus Dumbledore (with some help from Rubeus Hagrid, and the reluctant approval of Minerva McGonagall) on his aunt's doorstep, with a letter. The book makes information technology clear they knew the Dursleys were home when they left him, just dissimilar many versions of this trope, the Dursleys didn't exactly welcome Babe Harry into their homes with open arms.
  • In one of the many parallels betwixt the mortal enemies the same happened to Voldemort except he was left with an orphanage.
• This trope applies to the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which Quasimodo is abandoned outside Notre Matriarch and Frollo takes him in out of kindness.
• In the Discworld novel Thief of Time, both Lobsang Ludd and Jeremy Clockson were left on doorsteps equally infants (Jeremy at the Clockmaker's Guild, and Lobsang at the Thieves' Guild earlier he was discovered in his late teens by the History Monks). It turns out they're brothers, in a manner of speaking.
• Keith Laumer did this, although in his version the infant was a huge insect- or crustacean-looking affair and it took the army with lots of artillery to impale it — and then they decoded the bulletin which read, "Delight take adept care of my picayune girl." Somewhere between Tear Jerker and Squick there.
• The Jacqueline Wilson novel Dustbin Babe , about a Doorstop Baby (really constitute abandoned in a bin, as the title suggests) who sets out to trace her past on the solar day of her 14th altogether.
• Inverted in a short story in Highlights . A homo who has recently come into a big amount of money discovers that it has been cursed, and the only way to lift the curse is to requite the money away. He leaves the money, wrapped in a cloth, on the doorstep of an orphanage. The orphanage matron, upon seeing the bundle, assumes it to exist a babe earlier she gets a closer await at the contents.
• In the YA novel Unwind, set in a hereafter where birth command is banned, babies may legally exist abandoned on a doorstep — a practice known as "storking".
  • As you may imagine, this is a Deconstruction of sorts of the trope- what if the family unit doesn't want the baby? question is answered disturbingly: One of the main characters relates a past experince in which his family unit recived a "storked" babe, only to drop it off on the neighbour's doorstep at dark (the dominion is, if no one sees you doing it, it's not your baby). Then the neighbours do the aforementioned thing. And their neighbours. And their neighbours. The baby died.
• In Christopher Moore's Fool, Pocket is left on the doorstep of an abbey equally a baby.
• In Poul Anderson'south Three Hearts and Three Lions, Holger Carlsen.

"Believe it or not," he grinned, "I really vas the baby in the cartoons, yous know, the vun left on the doorstep. I must have been only a few days old ven I vas found in a courtyard in Helsingør. That's the very pretty place you call Elsinore, Hamlet'southward home town. I never learned vere I came from. Such happenings is very rare in Denmark, and the police force tried difficult to notice out, just they never did."

• In the book The Children On The Top Floor, a television personality makes a Christmas Eve spoken communication in which he says he envies all the families out there with children... and in the morning time he finds four babies left on his doorstep.
• In Poppy Z. Brite'south Lost Souls, Nothing is left on the doorstep of a human couple.
• Moominpappa was left on the doorstep of an orphanage. Wrapped in a newspaper.
• Astronomer Carl Sagan's book "Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors", sets this upwardly every bit Book Ends, the idea of humanity as a doorstop baby, an orphan raised by the laws of the universe and growing upwardly to wonder nigh its origins and how information technology got there. Merely fragments of a note remain - the fossil tape.
• Annabeth Chase from Percy Jackson is one.
• This is Otto'due south backstory in the HIVE Series, beingness left outside an orphanage. The narrative mentions the staff are used to dealing with this kind of situation.
• Twig in The Edge Chronicles was abandoned in a woodtroll village. His parents had no selection; if they hadn't left him they would have had to walk back home through the Deepwoods, where all three would probable have perished.
• The title character of the Cat Regal series was left on the steps of the Theatre Royal as a toddler. She mentions that the theatre owner, Mr Sheridan, probably only took her in because he was a scrap drunk at the time.
• Milton from The Destiny Of Milton Gomrath was left on the steps of an orphanage every bit a baby.
• Florida and Dallas from Cherry-red Holler were abased on the steps of an orphanage in a crate containing travel brochures, hence their names.
• Twenty Years After, the sequel to The Three Musketeers, establishes that Aramis' ex-girlfriend slept with Athos while thinking he was a priest (it makes more sense in context), and left the resulting kid on the priest'south doorstep. Athos heard near it and adopted his own son, Raoul.
• In The Godsend, this is how the Marlowe family terminate upward with Bonnie, sort of: The Marlowes met Bonnie's mum and took her into their home, she gave nascence during the night and left her daughter at the doorstep.
• The only thing anybody knows about Ambrosio'southward origins in The Monk.
• In Devon Monk's Dead Fe, Rose's origin.

Music

• Murdoc Niccals of Gorillaz was abandoned on his father'south doorstep, presumably past his Missing Mom. Noodle, aged eight, was left on the doorstep of Kong Studios in a FedEx crate, seconds afterwards Murdoc finished placing the ad for a guitarist.
• The Decemberists' "The Chimbley Sweep":

I am an orphan, an orphan boy I've known no dearest, I've seen no female parent's joy A dirty doorstep my cradle laid My fortune'south made, I'll shake you from your sleep

• According to a natural language-in-cheek biography on his tape label'southward website, Sufjan Stevens was found on his adoptive parent's doorstep in a milk crate.
• The protagonist of the David Bowie song "Day-In Solar day-Out": "She was built-in in a handbag/Dearest left on a doorstep..." Unfortunately, life never really gets whatsoever better every bit she grows to adulthood.

Video Games

• The master character'due south girl in the video game Silent Hill one is left past the side of the road in a mode like this. The protagonist takes her in and before long officially adopts her. 7 years later, he probably ends up wondering whether that was a skilful idea.
• This is Link's backstory in The Fable of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
• Leaving a babe on the doorstep of an orphanage lets you sneak within the opened door to loot the place in Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

Web Comics

• In PvP, Skull the Troll's diminutive cousin Sheky passes himself off equally an abandoned infant (with a annotation to Skull to accept intendance of him) so he tin pickpocket the entire crew. He is found out and admits his existent story.
• The Cyantian Chronicles: Silver and other blackness, white and silver play tricks cubs. It helps that the parents are protecting them from a killer ruler who ordered the death of all of the blackness, silver and white foxes to eliminate the previous ruling caste.
  • Thankfully, the fox ruling cast gets better.
• In Blind Spot (now regrettably defunct), Dr. Dorian Mitchell is instructed to destroy the clone EUM061 he'd been raising at the laboratory. Harboring somewhat fatherly feelings toward the Designer Baby, he elects to drug him and smuggle him out of the lab instead; nevertheless, while driving down the highway, he panics and ends upward leaving the kid by the road unconscious.
• Dragon Mango: Spoofed; the alchemist Cupcake explains that she doesn't know exactly what race she is, because her adoptive female parent and mentor, Chocolate Explosion, institute her lying in a box on the doorstep. Her firsthand reaction upon seeing the box: "I didn't gild this!"
• In Sinfest, it'south the new twelvemonth, on Slick's doorsteps.

Theater

• This was Annie'due south origin story, left on the orphanage steps and given a letter of the alphabet and one-half of a locket.

Western Animation

• Bamm-Bamm in The Flintstones.
• Leela in Futurama was one of these and, as an adult, she still has the basket. Withal, she was left with Cookieville, a minimum security "orphanarium", instead of adoptive parents. (Inside, there's a big pile of baskets by the door.) She eventually meets her mutant parents and finds out why they left her in that location.
• A Bugs Bunny drawing features a midget gangster nicknamed Baby Face up Finster who "leaves" himself at the mouth of Bugs'south rabbit-hole, in guild to recover a valise full of stolen money he had accidentally dropped downwardly at that place. Hilarity genuinely ensues.
  • A about identical variation provided the primary plot of the Chip 'north Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Dirty Rotten Diapers" in which, much similar Infant Face Finster, a midget gangster pulls the aforementioned stunt in order to check the boodle that his ii henchwomen would actually steal.
• This happened to all three protagonists of Sonic Secret; one was raised by his aunt and uncle, one by an aristocratic family unit, and the final by a skilled thief.
  • The aforementioned 3rd hedgehog infant, Manic, is a minor subversion of the "there's always someone at that place to answer the door" office of this trope, he was actually stolen at the doorstep of where he was intended to be left, but was raised past the very thief who stole him.
• On one episode of Camp Lazlo, Chip and Skip did this to themselves to go Jane, the scoutmistress of the girls' camp, to adopt them. Jane assumed Lumpus did it to leave of taking care of them, and was less than pleased with him.
• Mickey Mouse winds up with a kid this mode in the cartoon Mickey Plays Papa (a drawing which notably featured Mickey dressing every bit his muse The Tramp to entertain the kid). The cloaked anonymous mother in the beginning is really quite sinister looking.
• In the short Officer Duck, Donald Duck disguises himself as a Door Step Baby to infiltrate the hideout of criminal Tiny Tom (Pete). Donald spends much of the cartoon bibbed and diapered, making for some amusing antics.
• The title grapheme of Trivial Elvis Jones and The Truckstoppers was left on the doorstop of a truckstop in a guitar case, past a mysterious Cadillac that vanished into the night. His parents, Elvis fanatics, are convinced that he's actually the son of the King. The kid himself does non believe this, and at times grows quite irritated with their obsession... which, among other things, include venerating a snotty handkerchief used by Elvis at a concert his adoptive mother attended, and forcing him to grow his (red) hair into an Elvis-like coif.
  • Lil Elvis has doubts nearly the state of affairs, and Once an Episode he speculates over who might have left him there, usually related to the current episode.
• In Growing Up Creepie, Creepie is an orphan left on doorstep of the Dweezwold Mansion, which is dwelling house to a family unit of diverse insects.
• Nibbles, Jerry'south adopted nephew on Tom and Jerry, is introduced as this, complete with the letter.
• In the The Simpsons episode, "Gone Maggie Gone", Homer leaves Maggie at a church doorstep for a second, only for her to get taken in and Homer can't get her back, setting off the plot for the rest of the episode.
• Yugo of Wakfu, though technically left in his cradle conspicuously nearby to his foster father and not on his doorstep.
• Quagmire found a babe girl on his doorstep on Family unit Guy. In this example it was actually his own daughter from a one-night stand. He ultimately gives her up for adoption.
• Wildfire left Princess Sara at the doorstep of her foster father, who actually was her real father.
• The Looney Tunes Show: Bugs does this to a de-anile Daffy at the end of "Casa de Calma".
• This is revealed to be Sari's origin in Transformers: Animated. She begins as a Cybertronian protoform that mysteriously appears ane mean solar day in Isaac Sumdac's lab. After touching the Protoform it scans his DNA and becomes a human/transformer hybrid who Sumdac adopts as his daughter. No caption is ever gives as to where Sari came from or how she got there.

Real Life

• Many states in the Usa have laws, called "safe haven" laws, which say a newborn child may be dropped off at a hospital emergency room or other spot (burn stations are popular) anonymously, no questions asked. There are some restrictions, in that the child must be under a certain age and tin can't simply be left out in the cold (that is, someone working there must be aware in that location is a baby that needs intendance). In fact, these laws were written specifically to proceed babies from beingness left out in the cold.
  • Ane country, Nebraska, created a safe haven law that originally lacked historic period restrictions. After people started dropping off teenagers, they realized they wrote the law more sweepingly than they intended and readjusted it to infants only.
    • Information technology was a bad few months. Parents were driving hundreds of miles from out-of-state to driblet off their older children. One woman drove all the manner from California and dropped her teenage son off at the kickoff hospital past the state line mere hours earlier the age restrictions took effect.
    • Tragically, some people did this with older children equally the simply way they could get the children acceptable mental health care.
    • We tin thank (now former) Nebraska land senator, Ernie Chambers, for this one. He didn't desire a rubber haven law to be passed at all, and blocked it for years. (Nebraska was one of the terminal states to laissez passer 1.) He assumed it wouldn't pass without the age limit, only eventually enough senators decided they'd rather risk a fiasco than babe lives.
• Farther Truth in Tv: There was something in the paper recently virtually how Italian hospitals were reintroducing foundling wheels to bargain with these sorts of cases.
  • Some German language hospitals take them also.
  • At present nosotros have 'em in Malaysia too, in the form of baby hatches, which are rather like the modern version of foundling wheels.
• A more nightmarish version happened in an episode of Rescue 911, which really happened. A couple loggers discovered something past the side of the route and wondered what information technology was. One of then looked and plant it was a bunch of blankets - and inside was a baby. I could merely imagine what would accept happened if they didn't observe them when they did.

Subversions

Films — Live Activity

• This was already an established film trope in 1921, when D.W. Griffith subverts it in Orphans of the Storm. Just before the French Revolution, a starving peasant couple in Paris decide to leave their baby at the church building, since they can't feed her. The father takes the infant, but when he arrives at the church, there is already a baby there. Seeing the other baby not only makes him rethink abandoning his own, merely he ends upward going domicile with both of them. They grow up to be played by Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
• The Three Stooges took a baby off someone else's doorstep when they thought nobody was home to find it... The mom was only gone for five minutes, and Hilarity Ensues.
• In Problem Child, the baby gets left on approximately eleven successive doorsteps, even as he grows into a toddler, before he's dropped off an an orphanage and a family finally keeps him, much to their future detriment.
• In "Kung Prisoner of war! Enter the Fist" the infant protagonist afterward being flung out a window durring a fight scene, rolls downwards a loma before coming to residuum in front of an onetime woman. The elderly adult female picks up the softly crying infant, rocks him in her artillery, says "oh, and so beautiful" and gently rolls him off the other side of the road downwards the colina once again.
• The titular Norbit was a drive-by doorstop baby.

Literature

• In The Devils Storybook (forget if I or II), a priest finds a babe thus on the doorstep of the church. Merely it turns out to exist an imp, a baby demon — at that place's a sulfurous scent and ruddy skin and horns and everything. And a sooty spot that won't rub off the spot where the child was left on the steps. The priest is all for caring for the kid, thinking information technology's God's will, simply the townsfolk become so upset that a mob ends up setting fire to the church, telling the priest to get out the imp at that place and come out. Only the priest refuses to abandon a baby, and stands there set to fire. The church burns down around him, and he remains utterly unharmed — the imp now gone. Afterwards, he wonders which power information technology was that saved him.
• Parodied in the children's book Bunnicula, about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables. The family finds him in a shoebox under a seat in a movie theater where they're watching a Dracula film, forth with a note in an obscure Uberwald dialect which the family cat translates as, "Take good care of my baby."

Live Action Tv

• The Male parent Ted Christmas Special begins with the priests finding a baby on their doorstep. As they prepare to take it in, the mother appears to announce she's made a error and takes the baby back. Ted muses nigh how they would have gotten into all kinds of hilarious situations while trying to take care of the baby. Dougal points out that information technology actually wouldn't have been all that funny, and Ted concurs.
• In ane sketch from the Australian comedy series The D Generation, a woman leaves her baby in a blanket on a suburban doorstep with a annotation. The homeowner peers out of the window and calls the bomb squad, who evacuate the area and safely detonate the 'suspicious package'.

Spider web Comics

• Horribly subverted in this Cyanide and Happiness strip.

Video Games

• Parodied in GTA Radio's anime pastiche Princess Robot Bubblegum , with a basket containing the heroine, a fully grown nude woman, existence dropped off at the doorstep of a Dirty Onetime Human.

Real Life

• A more Nightmare Fuel-inducing subversion in the case of Josef Fritzl as he claimed his girl had ran away to bring together a cult, only returning in the expressionless of night to drib her kids for her parents to raise and making the neighbors think she was an irresponsible slut when in actuality the children were born between Fritzl and his captive daughter and to ensure actuality, Fritzl had his daughter actually write letters claiming to be in the imaginary cult despite the reality that she was an unwilling Basement Dweller and this had been going on for years.

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