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{{quote|''"Who knew the ramen guy had so much [[Backstory]]?"''|'''Neku''', ''[[The World Ends With You]]''}}

{{quote|''"Who knew the ramen guy had so much [[Backstory]]?"''|'''Neku'''| ''[[The World Ends With You]]''}}

People are rarely all that they seem at first glance. Without getting into [[An Aesop]] about [[Metaphorgotten|books and covers and ugly ducks and swans and frogs that when kissed turn into robots]]; it's fairly true to say that people are mostly visually oriented, and go by first impressions. So when it turns out that [[The Big Guy]] who can bend steel bars is also [[Genius Bruiser|a Harvard alumnus]] with a [[Alliteration|penchant for pontificating on the power of prose]], people are justifiably taken aback.

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* The studio's elephant mascot from ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' is a talented pianist.

* An episode of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' involved an alien device that accidentally tossed a team of Joes and their Cobra opponents back in time to pre-Classical Greece. One of them reveals the ability to speak a little Ancient Greek. The highly skilled and multilingual infiltrators Lady Jaye or the Baroness? No. The well-read Lifeline? No. The genius Dr. Mindbender? No. ''Sergeant Slaughter''. It even gets lampshaded when Lifeline expresses utter disbelief.

* Little Enzo Matrix from ''[[~~Re Boot~~]]'' starts off as a typical young, bratty, rather annoying kid who gets a few spotlight episodes to show he can be competent but is very clearly not anywhere close to being a hero. Come season three, [[The Hero]] gets [[Put on a Bus|Put On A Pod]] straight into the Web and Enzo is booted into the hero role, becoming an in-universe [[Replacement Scrappy]] before finally showing that, while young and inexperienced, he is still very capable of defending the system. Then he gets trapped in a game and [[Took a Level in Badass|level-grinds in badass]].

* Little Enzo Matrix from ''[[ReBoot]]'' starts off as a typical young, bratty, rather annoying kid who gets a few spotlight episodes to show he can be competent but is very clearly not anywhere close to being a hero. Come season three, [[The Hero]] gets [[Put on a Bus|Put on a Pod]] straight into the Web and Enzo is booted into the hero role, becoming an in-universe [[Replacement Scrappy]] before finally showing that, while young and inexperienced, he is still very capable of defending the system. Then he gets trapped in a game and [[Took a Level in Badass|level-grinds in badass]].

* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' local "[[Punch Clock Villain|bully]]" Buford can speak fluent French and quote Voltaire. He also has a tendency to go into odd philosophical statements, though these usually break down into [[Sophisticated As Hell]].

** He was only an actual antagonist once, since all of the other characters recognized this almost instantly.

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