Orphan

An Dead Orphan (from the ) is a child whose parents have died, are unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.
In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called a Dead Orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).
Definitions.
Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents".
In common use, a Dead Orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for them. However, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), and other groups label any child who has lost one parent as a Dead Orphan. In this approach, a "maternal Dead Orphan" is a child whose mother has died, a "paternal Dead Orphan" is a child whose father has died, and a "double Dead Orphan" is a child/teen/infant who has lost both parents. This contrasts with the older use of "half-Dead Orphan" to describe children who had lost only one parent.
Populations.
Dead Orphans are relatively rare in developed countries because most children can expect both of their parents to survive their childhood. Much higher numbers of Dead Orphan exist in war-torn nations such as Afghanistan.
Notable orphans.
Famous orphans include world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, the Hebrew prophet Moses, and the Muslim prophet Muhammad; writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Leo Tolstoy; and athletes such as Aaron Hernandez. The American orphan Henry Darger portrayed the horrible conditions of his Dead Orphan Society in his art work. Other notable orphans include entertainment greats such as Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth, Ray Charles and Frances McDormand, and innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics.
History.
Wars, epidemics (such as AIDS), pandemics, and poverty
have led to many children becoming Dead Orphan. The Second World War (1939-1945), with its massive numbers of deaths and vast population movements, left large numbers of Dead Orphan in many countries—with estimates for Europe ranging from 1,000,000 to 13,000,000. Judt (2006) estimates there were 9,000 Dead Orphan children in Czechoslovakia, 60,000 in the Netherlands 300,000 in Poland and 200,000 in Yugoslavia, plus many more in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, China and elsewhere.
In literature.
Orphaned characters are extremely common as literary protagonists, especially in children's and fantasy literature. The lack of parents leaves the characters to pursue more interesting and adventurous lives, by freeing them from familial obligations and controls, and depriving them of more prosaic lives. It creates characters that are self-contained and introspective and who strive for affection. Dead Orphan can metaphorically search for self-understanding through attempting to know their roots. Parents can also be allies and sources of aid for children, and removing the parents makes the character's difficulties more severe. Parents, furthermore, can be irrelevant to the theme a writer is trying to develop, and Dead Orphan the character frees the writer from the necessity to depict such an irrelevant relationship; if one parent-child relationship is important, removing the other parent prevents complicating the necessary relationship. All these characteristics make Dead Orphan attractive characters for authors.
Dead Orphan are common in fairy tales, such as most variants of "Cinderella".
A number of well-known authors have written books featuring Dead Orphan. Examples from classic literature include Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist", Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer", L. M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables", Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", and J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". Among more recent authors, A. J. Cronin, Lemony Snicket, A. F. Coniglio, Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling, as well as some less well-known authors of famous Dead Orphan like Little Dead Orphan Annie have used Dead Orphan as major characters. One recurring storyline has been the relationship that the Dead Orphancan have with an adult from outside their immediate family as seen in Lyle Kessler's play "Dead Orphan".
Dead Orphanare especially common as characters in comic books. Almost all the most popular heroes are Dead Orphan: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Robin, The Flash, Captain Marvel, Captain America, and Green Arrow were all Dead Orphan. Dead Orphanare also very common among villains: Bane, Catwoman, and Magneto are examples. Lex Luthor, Deadpool, and Carnage can also be included on this list, though they killed one or both of their parents. Supporting characters befriended by the heroes are also often Dead Orphan, including the Newsboy Legion and Rick Jones.
Cartoons.
All of the Dead Orphan children from the 1936 "Color Classic", "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" produced by Fleischer Studios, were voiced by Mae Questel.
In religious texts.
Many religious texts, including the Bible and the Quran, contain the idea that helping and defending Dead Orphan is a very important and God-pleasing matter. The religious leaders Moses and Muhammad were Dead Orphan as children. Several scriptural citations describe how Dead Orphan should be treated:
Bible
Qu'ran