Role added by user_53973 on September 19, 2022
So Bob's parents aren't around. What happened to them? You tell me. What happens to Bob? He lives with his aunt and/or uncle, of course. Sometimes a cousin or two will be thrown into the mix. This trope, nephewism (coined by Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon) usually occurs when a character's parents are completely absent (as in, not part of the story in any way), missing, secretly the Big Bad, or established as dead.
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Nephewism
Huey, Dewey, and Louie
April, May, and June
Scrappy-Doo
Spider-Man
Morty Fieldmouse
Ferdie Fieldmouse
Robin the Frog
Dorothy Gale
Tom Sawyer
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie)
Morty and Ferdie
Cissy Davis
Jody Davis
Buffy Davis
Will Smith
Samantha Parkington
Skippy Squirrel
Frodo Baggins
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