Averted in Naruto, which is especially glaring when you would think that a boy who has grown up orphaned and isolated his whole life would ask anybody and everyone he could about his parents if a chance presented itself.
Everybody Lives: Played with in Sleepy, where the Doctor explicitly challenges himself to save the day without anybody dying: "villains, innocents, everyone".
Unusual Euphemism: Apple Bloom says things like "everyone" and "anybody" instead of "everypony" and "anypony", which serves as your first hint that she wasn't raised by ponies.