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I'm not sure if any other than me knows what I'm going for here, so I had better add some examples.
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In short, [[Supporting Protagonist]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Audience Surrogate]].
There's some world that is already happening, and this character gets thrown in, ''[[In Medias Res|in medias res]]'', which is an awful lot like [[Real Life]] can be.
The purpose of these characters is to provide a mirror to the audience. At first, they give the audience someone to follow who they can identify with, as they enter an unfamiliar world. They may decrease in importance as the series goes on, as the audience understands the world and doesn't need to ask questions. But they provide a subtle anchor that reminds the audience of their own journey along with that character.
Related to [[Deuteragonist]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kagome in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is perhaps the [[Deuteragonist]], but as an [[Ordinary High School Student]] in the mythical [[Jidai Geki]], she provides someone for the audience to relate to.
* Togusa in ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' is the newest member of Public Security Section 9, and an unaugmented human to boot.
* Averted in ''[[Super GALS!]]'', where it looks like Aya is going to be in the shadow of gregarious Ran the entire time. And indeed, the story revolves around Ran -- but she comes out at the end exactly the same person as she was in the beginning. It turns out Aya was the [[Protagonist]] all along, as she [[Coming of Age Story|comes of age]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command|Buzz Lightyear]] plays this role in the first ''[[Toy Story]]'' film. He's not even aware he's a toy at first, so he learns the world of the bedroom toybox at the same time as the audience.
== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Noah Wylie's Dr. Carter in ''[[ER]]'' is a first-year resident in the hospital, getting thrown in the deep end.
* Harry Kim in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' transfers to the USS Voyager right before she's sucked in to the Delta Quadrant, and for the first year of the series tries to work his way into the existing crew relationships. Although with the Maquis, two factions of crew, but Harry doesn't yet belong to either group at first.
== [[Music]] ==
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