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When the reason for Parental Abandonment of a character is revealed, and the parent is someone important to the world of the story, or at least the events. Occasionally alluded to constantly but vaguely for maximum surprise. This is often coupled with some startling revelation about the child too, such as if the parent was/is a scientist and the child was created in a lab experiment, or are following in a Secret Legacy of the family. In anime, said parent is usually the same sex as the child. Examples of Mysterious Parent include:

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  • When the reason for Parental Abandonment of a character is revealed, and the parent is someone important to the world of the story, or at least the events. Occasionally alluded to constantly but vaguely for maximum surprise. This is often coupled with some startling revelation about the child too, such as if the parent was/is a scientist and the child was created in a lab experiment, or are following in a Secret Legacy of the family. In anime, said parent is usually the same sex as the child. Examples of Mysterious Parent include:
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  • When the reason for Parental Abandonment of a character is revealed, and the parent is someone important to the world of the story, or at least the events. Occasionally alluded to constantly but vaguely for maximum surprise. This is often coupled with some startling revelation about the child too, such as if the parent was/is a scientist and the child was created in a lab experiment, or are following in a Secret Legacy of the family. In anime, said parent is usually the same sex as the child. This trope can also apply to more distant relatives or siblings, although their existence isn't as intuitive. Interestingly, real-life relationships can be just as tortuous and surprising as the fictional ones; for a famous example, Jack Nicholson learned just days before the premiere of Chinatown that his recently deceased "sister" was in fact his natural mother, and that the parents who raised him were in fact his grandparents (similar switches occurred in other people's lives, such as singer Bobby Darrin). Compare with Luke, I Am Your Father. Also compare Chekhov MIA, when the missing person actually shows up in the flesh. Examples of Mysterious Parent include:
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