"One Piece" character Cutty Flam, also known as Franky, "X-Men: Days of the Future Past" actor Hugh Jackman and the late Marilyn Monroe have one thing in common. They all know how it feels like being left by parents.
Franky is the only American among the Straw Hat Pirates in "One Piece," the manga created by Eiichiro Oda. The character was abandoned by his pirate parents when he was 10 years old. A shipwright then took him as an apprentice.
Eventually, Franky turned himself into a cola-powered cyborg with super-human strength after rebuilding parts of his body to cure his severe injuries while working as a shipwright's apprentice.
While Franky was 10 when he was abandoned by his parents, Jackman was eight years old when his mother left and never came back. In 2012, he emotionally shared to Australian Women's Weekly how devastated he was when his mother fled to the United Kingdom, leaving him in Sydney, Australia with his father and his four siblings.
Jackman went on to become one of the most bankable Hollywood actors of his generation. He is known for playing Wolverine in several films including "X-Men," "X-Men: The Last Stand," "X-Men: Origins: Wolverine" and recently "X-Men: Days of the Future Past."
On the other hand, Monroe was placed by her mother with her foster parents in Hawthorne, California after her birth. They soon reunited but her mother was institutionalized after her paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis.
Monroe went on to become one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s. Her first full-length film was the 1947 drama "Dangerous Years" and her final full-length film was the 1961 romantic drama "The Misfits." She died in 1962 at the age of 36.
According to a new biography titled "Sinatra: The Chairman," Frank Sinatra was so concerned about Monroe's mental health he wanted to marry her. In excerpts of the book obtained by The New York Daily News, talent manager Milt Ebbins said there was no doubt Sinatra was in love with Monroe.