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* [[Codex Alera|Tavi of Calderon]], an orphan raised by his aunt and uncle, [[The Call Put Me on Hold|powerless]] in a world where [[Everyone Is a Super]]. As he grows up, saves the world repeatedly, and generally attracts attention by [[Badass Normal|being very]] [[Crazy Awesome|awesome]], people begin to notice strange things about him. Such as how {{spoiler|the [[Obfuscating Stupidity|mentally disabled]] slave owned by his uncle looks rather like legendary swordsman Araris Valerian behind the coward's brand on his face, and is uncannily good with a sword. Or how Tavi just happens to look a ''lot'' like Princeps Gaius Septimus, who was <s>killed in battle</s> assassinated under cover of a battle near Tavi's home shortly before he was born. Or how First Lord Gaius Sextus, Septimus's father, put Tavi through the Academy as his personal aide. Or how his bodyguard when he ends up Captain of a Legion is a brilliant, scarred swordsman named Araris... Yeah, [[Meaningful Name|"Tavi"]] is [[Secret Legacy|short for]] "[[Rags to Royalty|Gaius]] Oc'''tavi'''an."}}

* Gilbert Markham, the hero of ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'':

* Flinx from the [[Humanx Commonwealth]] novels was an urban variant, bought at a slave auction and grudgingly raised by the irascible Mother Mastiff in Drallar, the [[Wretched Hive]] capital of a rustic colony-world called Moth. {{spoiler|He's the product of an illegal eugenics experiment that left him [[Cursed with Awesome]] [[Psychic Powers]] and the only Class A mind capable of activating a [[Lost Technology]]'s galaxy-saving defense mechanism.}}

* Bria in ''[[The Last Dove]]''. She is raised in a rural village where she is mocked for not being able to Change. {{spoiler|Then she finds out that she's Queen Vasi's daughter}}

== Live-Action TV ==

* [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Captain Kirk]] was born and raised on a farm in Iowa. Even though he becomes a [[Memetic Badass]] starship captain, he still identifies with Iowa as his home.

'''Kirk:''' No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space. }}

** For that matter, Jean-Luc Picard grew up on his family's vinyard, although he shed himself of this trope as soon as he was old enough to enlist as a Starfleet cadet.

* Not a hero, nor a boy, but the idea of the trope is invoked by [[Mad Men|Bert Cooper]] upon the death of the secretary Miss Blankenship:

* Malcolm Reynolds of ''[[Firefly]]'' was a rancher on the rural planet Shadow before he [[Jumped At the Call|joined up with the Independents]] against the encroaching [[The Empire|Alliance]]. He then proceeded to lose everything he cared about except his second in command, his coat, his gun, and [[Knight in Sour Armor|almost broken idealism.]]

* Played with in ''[[Skins]]''. Alo lives on a farm, and Mini's "pet name" for him is "Farm Boy."