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Leverage, Warehouse 13, Buffy, Firefly, certain versions of the Batman family, Guardians of the Galaxy... and that’s just off the top of my head.

also pretty common in shounen anime, e.g. One Piece and Naruto.

Star gate, Star Trek, actually most sci-fi and fantasy really has a demographic that really responds to the trope

Some X-Men versions.

Space Sweepers is pretty literal about it, including how the crew end up adopting the kid and arranging schools for her.

It's a pretty big deal in Pose how the House system attempts to recreate family structures for people who are estranged from birth families.

I'd argue that Good Place fits into it because the romances are not that important to the final dynamic, and everyone maintains extremely close ties to each other over centuries of subjective time.

Really huge sci-fi fan and to a lesser extent fantasy fan, and I agree. Found family is a massive theme in most things I've read/watched/etc.

After your examples, Doctor Who post-2005 works as well? I mean, most of the modern companions who choose to travel with The Doctor end up forming a family of sorts.

I'd say Yaz, Ryan, and Graham qualify.

FAM

Acorna by McCaffery

three miners find a child alien and adopt her. Like, the books after were a bit of a train wreck, but the first book definitely had huge found family vibes.

ALL the CSI, criminal minds, castle, superstore for gods sake

Criminal Minds is so Found Family. Even though the scenes that show bits of their personal lives are fairly brief, the cast do such an amazing job with them, especially in earlier seasons.

Rizoli & Isles (though maybe more "blended" family having both blood and outsiders), Storks (an entire story about family of choice!) almost anything Whedon or knock off of Whedon, Harry Potter (granted Harry is an orphan and not much choice there) Final Fantasy X (and to a small bit X-2), Sailor Moon and many other magical girl animes. Love Live? Grimm went for it. (Not greatly but it tried.) Cars, the original. (There is no 2 & 3) Lilo & Stitch. (My fave.) St. Trinian's. Sugar & Spice (wrapped up in the cheerleader dynamic) The Italian Job! Ocean's 11, 12, 13, 8(choose any of them) Charlie's Angels. The Expendables. The Heralds of Valdemaar (choose a book with the Heralds and yeah.) Dead Like Me. Bones.

Ensemble casts are really huge on this for better or for worse. Like, about the only one I can say didn't manage it at all was OUaT. Maybe if they'd kept people unrelated.

If you're going to drop Lilo & Stitch, I'm going to throw in Treasure Planet.

And how about the Muppet Movies?

Yeah, Treasure Planet is a good one I forgot all about. (I'm less familiar with the Muppets.)

Fast and the Furious

AYRT

Thank you! I knew I was forgetting one. Definitely Fast franchise.

(I know I'm missing plenty but action movies are my thing.)

I completely forgot about Lilo and Stitch. I'll give you that one; it's definitely Found Family. And I suppose the Weasleys were Harry's found family, too. (I don't count a certain character, since he survived less than half the series.) FFX . . . I can see it if I squint? Kimahri's certainly Yuna's family, but there was a lot more focus on Tidus/Yuna (romance) and Tidus & Jecht (blood relatives.)

Whedon I've watched was Buffy, which I would not have called Found Family at all. I didn't think half these people even liked each other, let alone considered each other family. (This is also how I feel about The Avengers, which fans really latched onto as Found Family.)

All the magical girls I've watched were more or less lesbian romance, not found family? Not that I'm knocking lesbian romance. Maybe found family was more of a thing when you had to be more deniable about everyone being lesbians.

I read the Valdemar where the guy burned to death because he wanted to fuck his horse, or something like that. That one was definitely romance, not found family. Haven't tried any others.

Not familiar with anything else on the list.

I feel like Buffy gets more Found Familyesque in later seasons?

Buffy literally invokes this trope in the episode when Tara's family showing up.

you mean the episode called Family?

yeah, this show knew full well what trope it was playing at

In the Valdemar books, the whole concept of the heralds and Haven (or wherever they live) is very found family. There are romances involved, but it's still largely about people who didn't fit in with their biological families, but who found a place and their people.

The Avengers are found family in the comics, but the movies really fell flat on that concept so I think some of the latching onto it in fandom comes from bitterness at the MCU falling short of it and deciding to fuck canon and incorporate it anyway.

It doesn't work for me but if others want to go full ham with it fanon then that's their prerogative.

AYRT

okay. um... I put in FFX because the concept of Yuna and her Guardians being family and most of them not being related, to ME, made it fit the trope. Yes, the focus was on the Tidus/Yuna romance. Just, Lulu is still the cool Aunt and Auron is the absentee Uncle and well Rikku IS family if a bit estranged but she's the kid sister who STARTS the entire mess by kidnapping Summoners, and err on it goes.

Found family doesn't have to be the focus for the trope to exist. It's not how storytelling works.

And err... magical girl animes being lesbian romance is a ... take. -is completely baffled- Okay then.

Someone else explained the Valdemaar one. Again, doesn't have to be the focus to exist.

Your secret said you could count on one hand. I think this has turned into a deluge of "let us help you!"

It makes sense that Batman's . . . shit, I've actually seen it called the Batfamily . . . would end up as Found Family. Superhero comics are one of the most prominent examples of fans becoming canon writers, and Batman fans on Tumblr absolutely love to write Found Family fanfics. And X-Men seems like it would work even better for that, since the X-Men are often written like they're gay people with anti-gay families ("Have you tried not being a mutant?") Come to think of it, I've heard stuff that makes Runaways sound like Found Family . . . Maybe I'd know more about Found Family if I still read superhero comics.

Yeah, Runaways definitely qualifies.

I would like to add Community to the list: group of largely platonic friends who are there for each other even when their blood families desert them.

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