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Compare [[Rookie Red Ranger]], when this trope is invoked is a superhero setting.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is Shiro Amada from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'', who gets called this by Eledore in the English dub.
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* GM Fraser's semiautobiographical ''[[McAuslan]]'' series is largely about this, from the point of view of the newbie officer.
{{quote|''"Thirty total strangers are ... wondering if he is a soft mark or a complete pig, or worse still, some kind of nut. When he realizes this he feels like telling them that he is, really, all right and on their side, but of course he can't. If he did, they would know for certain he was some kind of nut."''}}
* Lt. Blouse from ''[[
** Blouse is a straight example at first, but later turns into something of a
*** It's also worth pointing out that while Blouse is complete pants as a field officer, his entire service up until the book has been in logistics and administration, where he excelled, and the only reason he's given a field command at all is that the Borogravian army has no-one else to send.
** The Ephebian captain during the Tsortean War in ''[[
*** Both are examples of what the British Army calls a "Rupert", and in fact the term is extensively used in ''[[
{{quote|''The captain was eighteen and fresh from the academy, where he had passed with flying colors in such subjects as Classical Tactics, Valedictory Odes and Military Grammar. The sergeant was fifty-five, and instead of an education he had spent about forty years attacking or being attacked by harpies, humans, cyclopses, furies and horrible things on legs.''}}
* Lieutenant Hal Slater of the CoDominium Marines, in Jerry Pournelle's SF novel ''West of Honor''.
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* The viewpoint character of [[David Drake]]'s ''[[Ranks of Bronze]]'' starts the book as this. Given that the Romans are now [[The Ageless]] and most injuries, sometimes including death, can be fixed, he's got time to turn into [[Colonel Badass]] ... or, really, [[Four-Star Badass]]. Though the troops were in fact fairly impressed with him even in his first battle.
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* [[Creator's Pet|Wesley Crusher]] was put in charge of a team in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''.
** One early episode features the difficulty faced by those of low rank assuming command of the ship, when LaForge, then merely a junior-grade Lieutenant and the ''helmsman'' (before his upgrade to badass engineer), has to take command of the ''Enterprise''. Cue all ''sorts'' of people thinking that they're better than he is, and how awful his decisions are, personified in the [[Jerkass]] Chief Engineer Logan.
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