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[[File:~~The_country_cousin_8216~~.jpg|link=Silly Symphonies|thumb|350px|A literal one.]]

[[File:The country cousin 8216.jpg|link=Silly Symphonies|thumb|350px|A literal one.]]

A quiet character, from a rural location, commonly [[Arcadia]], often found as a [[Fish Out of Water]] in the Big City. Frequently depicted as having an inherent superiority in morality, ethics or common sense compared to the people around her. Often used as an authorial voice to deliver [[An Aesop]], or simply to provide a contrast to the "sophisticated" people with whom she lives or works.

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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]''. The first half has the [[City Mouse]] reporter in the wilds of Australia, while the second half has [[Country Mouse]] Dundee in the wilds of New York.

* ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]''. The first half has the [[City Mouse]] reporter in the wilds of Australia, while the second half has Country Mouse Dundee in the wilds of New York.

* Joe Buck from [[Midnight Cowboy]].

* Many [[Frank Capra]] protagonists, most notably Longfellow Deeds from ''[[Mr. Deeds Goes to Town]]'' and Jefferson Smith from ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]''.

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== [[Literature]] ==

* Beatrix Potter retold Aesop's fable as ''The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse''. A country mouse is accidentally brought to the city, finds it too dangerous, and returns home; a city mouse visits him there, is frightened by the weather and prospect of a cow stepping on him, and returns home. Potter draws the Aesop that people like different things (and ignore different disadvantages).

* Louisa May Alcott's novel ''An Old-Fashioned Girl'' has this as its basic premise. Poor country girl Polly Milton befriended wealthy city girl Fanny Shaw when the latter was visiting a mutual friend, and after several months of correspondence, goes to visit her friend in the city. During the two months of her visit, she [[Pollyanna~~|Pollyannas~~]] the entire household.

* Louisa May Alcott's novel ''An Old-Fashioned Girl'' has this as its basic premise. Poor country girl Polly Milton befriended wealthy city girl Fanny Shaw when the latter was visiting a mutual friend, and after several months of correspondence, goes to visit her friend in the city. During the two months of her visit, she [[Pollyanna]]s the entire household.

* Sylvia Plath's ''The Bell Jar'' centres around Esther Greenwood and her failure to cope with New York City.

* José Antonio from the Chilean novel ''Golondrina de Invierno'' ("Winter Swallow").

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* Fred on ''[[Angel]]'' definitely qualifies.

* Woody Boyd from ''[[Cheers]]'', from rural Indiana.

* Although being the engineer of a spaceship has broadened her quite a bit, there's still a fair amount of [[Country Mouse]] in ''[[Firefly]]'''s Kaylee.

* Although being the engineer of a spaceship has broadened her quite a bit, there's still a fair amount of Country Mouse in ''[[Firefly]]'''s Kaylee.

** In "Shindig" she attends a formal ball. At first, she's completely out of place. Eventually, she finds a crowd of engineers (or, at least, elite socialites with tinkering hobbies) and spends the rest of the ball talking engines with them.

** Saffron appears to be this at first.

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* Mami in ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV''. An innocent farm girl who momentarily took care of [[God-Emperor|Fou-lu]] and promptly fell for him (and it's implied Fou-lu feels the same, although it's kinda [[The Stoic|hard to tell]]). [[Love Hurts|Then]] [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|things]] [[Fantastic Nuke|go]] [[Tear Jerker|horribly]] [[It's All My Fault|wrong]]. [[Humans Are Bastards|And]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|how]].

* Nephenee from ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Fire Emblem 9/10]]'' is a shy country girl who rarely speaks, mostly to hide her country accent.

** Also the [[Dragon Rider~~|Dragon Riders~~]] Cormag and Glen from ''[[Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones]]''. As children, they're taken in by the Grado military after they throw stones at the dogs surrounding Emperor Vigarde's carriage during a trip to the countryside.

** Also the [[Dragon Rider]]s Cormag and Glen from ''[[Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones]]''. As children, they're taken in by the Grado military after they throw stones at the dogs surrounding Emperor Vigarde's carriage during a trip to the countryside.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The page picture is from the [[Silly Symphonies]] short ''The Country Cousin'', featuring a literal country mouse.

* [[Tom and Jerry|Jerry]] becomes a ''literal'' [[Country Mouse]] in New York in the short "Mouse in Manhattan".

* [[Tom and Jerry|Jerry]] becomes a ''literal'' Country Mouse in New York in the short "Mouse in Manhattan".

* [[Parody Sue|Lila]] from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''. Compare her to Rhonda, and you'll know she fits.

** Stinky lacks the closer to Earth qualities but plays the country stereotypes much harder. He even lives in a simply little shack incongruously placed amidst tall brick buildings.