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For some reason, the character is mostly ignorant of and often confused by common social conventions and behaviors. They usually grasp enough to minimally function around other people most of the time, but any circumstances outside of their limited experience fluster, puzzle or (at worst) upset or enrage them.

 

 

One background that can lead to this trope is to be [[Raised by Wolves]]—growing up with animal parents. Alternatively, they may have had an isolated or abused childhood or [[Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training]]. Or all three. They may be bamboozled by the opposite sex and ask [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]] Alternately, they may have had social skills in the past, but after being away on [[The Quest]] or some other mission for an extended time, may find themselves unable to reintegrate due to being a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] or a [[Stranger in a Familiar Land]].

 

Quite often a point is made of stating that this character is very intelligent or "learns fast" to make sure the audience doesn't just write them off as dense and to justify characters trying to help them adjust, or as an excuse for why they've adjusted as well as they did. However, it might just be an [[Informed Ability]].

 

An extreme form of [[Fish Out of Water]], milder cases may result in [[Strange Girl]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]], or [[No Sense of Humor]]. [[Homeschooled Kids]] are usually portrayed this way.

 

Related to: [[Friendless Background]] and [[I Just Want to Have Friends]] when the character isn't happy about this situation.

 

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* In ''[[Creo the Crimson Crises]]'' we have Kiki, who's never even worn shoes or underwear until she joins the main cast. Her idea of making friends is to [[Skinship Grope|grope]] the first pretty girl that walks by, announcing her intentions, and breaking off a store sign as a gift of friendship.

* ''[[Death Note]]''

* Mana from ''[[Mermaid Saga]]'', having been raised by [[cannibal]]istic [[Our Mermaids Are Different|mermaids]], suffers quite a bit of this.

* Naruto, from ''[[Naruto]]''. He initially didn't understand sex: he thought a pregnant woman just suddenly got fat. He likes to shout and insult people who can blast him away without him as much as feeling it. He can't get obvious behavior signals such as, Sakura punching him; to Naruto, this means she's worth trying to romance. He didn't understand why Hinata was stalking him and {{spoiler|recently declaring her love and willingness to die for him when fighting against Pain}}. For him it means "she's just weird". Which is odd, as he lived two years with a Porn Writer and {{spoiler|wrote one of said porns}}.

** When attempting to be sociable, Sai usually winds up insulting someone. He eventually learns his lesson; people seem to like it when you tell them the ''opposite'' of what you think of them.

** Her male counterpart, Kaworu Nagisa, might know a bit more about human interaction, but he is just as oblivious as to how the rules work.

** Shinji Ikari, Gendo's actual son, is not much better either. But at the very least, his denseness is not off the atomic scale like Rei is. Even being related to Gendo must kill your social skills like no tomorrow.

* The title character from ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' qualifies. Having spent thirteen years of mistreatment by a cruel ringmaster, she's suspicious of everybody, detests killing, and adamantly opposed to eating meat. As such, she doesn't know how to interact with other people. She either lashes out in a rage, misunderstands others' actions, and stubbornly refuses to see beyond her calls of judgment. Worse still, she is not able to admit what her problem is and expects her friends to just "read her mind." Nadia becomes a much more sociable and trusting character, however, as a result of her close relationships with Jean (arguably the complete opposite of Nadia), Marie, Grandis, and, to a lesser extent, the ''Nautilus'' crew.

** Creed Diskenth, the series' [[Big Bad]] isn't much better off, combining this trope with [[Lack of Empathy]], [[No Sense of Humour]], and [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]] for truly awe-inspiring results. He can't understand or relate to other people at all, is an utter failure as a [[Manipulative Bastard]], is prone to [[Freak-Out|Freak Outs]] when he doesn't get his way, and honestly doesn't understand why killing [[The Hero]]'s [[Not Love Interest]] would cause him to hate his (Creed's) guts. He frequently misunderstands people, doesn't get why his [[Bad Boss]] tendencies are causing his underlings to flee, is oblivious to his [[Dark Chick|right-hand woman]]'s [[Love Martyr|blatant crush on him]], and is convinced that [[The Hero|Train]] will realise how much Creed matters to him once [[Murder the Hypotenuse|all his friends are dead]]. Unlike many examples on this page, it is ''never'' played for laughs.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]''.

** Ryu, already motherless, lost his father when he was six years old in an accident at once tragic and stupid beyond belief: his father tried out a spine-snapping bear hug on the only pillar supporting their tumbledown dojo, crushing himself in the ruins.

** Ryoga's [[No Sense of Direction|issues with direction]] are [[It Runs in The Family|hereditary]] on ''both'' sides of the family, so any two members of the family only meet in extremely rare circumstance.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' - The Beatrice who lived in Kuwadorian in 1967 is a mild-ish version of this. She was raised in a hidden mansion by a few servants and Kinzo, who would come down every few days or so, but was forbidden from leaving the Kuwadorian and so knows absolutely nothing about life outside of it. {{spoiler|Just before she died from falling off a cliff, Rosa actually speculated that part of the reason she didn't seem to be afraid of climbing down the cliff was because she didn't understand that if she fell from it, she would die}}.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' - Inu, as a defining trait. He was orphaned at a young age, his only remaining family is a full demon half-brother who hates his guts and because of his [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-breed status]] is ostracized by both human and demonic society. Small surprise that [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|his personality is coarse]] and is known for [[Brutal Honesty|speaking his mind no matter what the situation]]; not to mention a [[Violence Is the Only Option|willingness to respond to any perceived slight with his fists.]]

* Shizuo Heiwajima from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' [[Friendless Background|grew up with very little]] in the way of positive social contact due to his [[Hair-Trigger Temper|anger]] and impulse control issues. As a result, he does not have much in the way of social graces.

* Shin of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' could pass as a football [[Expy]] of FMP's Sousuke because of this trait. He was basically a complete loner until he joined the football team in middle school. It actually makes his dedication to football a rather unintentional [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], it was through football that he was able to make friends.

* The heroine Eureka from ''[[Eureka Seven]]''. She doesn't have any friends and doesn't open her heart to anyone prior to meeting the protagonist Renton. In the first episode, she did an insensitive thing by burning Renton's house down and she does not seem to comprehend why Renton reacted so miserable about it. She does not even know what is "cool", what love is and how to be pregnant with a baby. It is this lack of social skills that she had a hard time being a mother to her 3 kids. She eventually become a more sociable person towards the end of the series, thanks to the influence of her lover Renton.

* Saori Chiba from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' is both a realistic example and example not [[Played for Laughs]] or cuteness. She has no friends at the start of the manga, later chapters reveal that she [[Hates Everyone Equally]], and even when she becomes more friendly her social skills are rather awkward. She [[Cannot Tell a Joke]] and when she's having friendship issues her first thought is to destroy her two-year friendship and ignore that person.

 

{{quote|'''Cassandra''': (''speaking into an audiorecorder/diary'') "They say you are supposed to... dress up for parties," (''looks at conservative business suit in mirror'') "But this is just... wrong."}}

* Vlad in ''[[Hack Slash]]'' was abandoned as a baby due to his deformity and brought up in seclusion by a kindly but reclusive Czech-American butcher, causing him to be [[Gentle Giant|innocent]], very good with [[Weapon of Choice|cleavers]], and [[You No Take Candle|not very good at English]].

* Marv in ''[[Sin City]]'' admits to having little to no social skills. Dwight once mentioned that [[Born in the Wrong Century|he would've gotten along with people if he was born in an ancient battle field]], though.

 

* Subverted in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'', where Gendo didn't dare to neglect Rei—since unlike in [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|NGE]], in this setting he wouldn't get away with it. But since Rei is a Sidoci, the unnormal version of the Xenomix (human and nazzadi hybrid) where being stoic and emotionless is a default personality, his efforts were wasted.

* In ''[[Progress]]'', Luna has poor social skills thanks to a combination of guilt and being a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]].

 

* Stéphane from ''[[The Science of Sleep]]'' is an odd example. He uses his imagination to cope with a lot of the outside world but does have some friends... they are equally as strange as him but when meeting Stéphanie it becomes clear he lacks some very basic social interaction. He goes into [[Stalker with a Crush]] mode in sincere innocence unaware anything he's doing is bad.

* ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' is an odd example: despite being taught by his inventor about manners and politeness, the title character has no idea whatsoever how to live outside his castle. On top of that, while he is very kind and gentle, his understanding of ethics is a bit... sketchy. Edward's "father," for lack of a better word, actually intended to fully educate him and would have left him with a workable, if outdated, method of interaction with people. Sadly he died before Edwards education was finished.

* Princess Rosalinda from ''[[Princess Protection Program]]'' was raised by royalty and has no experience with the behavior of American teenagers.

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Leeloo]] in ''[[The Fifth Element]]''.

 

* Princess Ida from [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Xanth]]'' series was accidentally left with the nymphs by the stork. As a result (due to the magic surrounding the nymph territory that wipes the previous day's memories away), she has absolutely no memories past her 12th birthday, at which she was rescued and raised by the (never mentioned again) Otterbees (basically sentient otters with a typically punnish name). Other than her lack of knowledge about human culture (mostly courtship and mating), she's stunningly well-adjusted.

* In Kelley Armstrong's ''[[Women of the Otherworld]]'' series, Clayton Danvers was bitten and Changed into a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]] when he was five years old. He spent two years as a [[Wild Child]] in Louisiana's bayous before being domesticated by another [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]]. He eventually relearned human customs such as "privacy" and "physical contact", but does not understand them and chooses not to observe them unless absolutely necessary. His thoughts are more wolfish than those of other [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]], as he was Changed at five instead of fifteen. As a child, he was often assumed to be mentally retarded since he rarely spoke and even then rarely in complete sentences.

* The eponymous character in J.M. Barrie's ''[[Peter Pan]]'', having been raised by [[The Fair Folk]], is an occasionally [[Sociopathic Hero|sadistic]] [[Trickster]].

* In Brooks' ''[[World War Z]]'', this phenomenon becomes a lingering social problem after the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] which ravaged western society, as orphaned children who were separated from their parents (by death [[A Fate Worse Than Death|or worse]]) and who managed to survive in the wild grow up feral.

* The narrator of Karen Hesse's ''The Music of Dolphins'' was the only survivor of an airplane crash in the Caribbean as a very young child, and was taken in by a pod of dolphins. She's reasonably healthy when she's found by (aside from minor considerations, such as having ''barnacles'' all over her) and, unlike other [[Wild Child]]ren in the center that's taking care of her, she can connect with people and understand language, because [[Friendly Playful Dolphin|dolphins are that awesome.]] However, the betrayals and confused feelings from the scientists studying her turn her away from them, and eventually she is allowed to return to the sea and her dolphin family.

* In Jane Lindskold's ''[[Firekeeper]]'' novels, the eponymous character was [[Raised by Wolves]], talking intelligent ones. She never manages to fully master elementary grammar, writing, or table manners, but elsewhere she's far from naive.

* Dondi Snayheever from [[Tim Powers]]' ''Last Call'' is socially incompetent. He was walled up inside a giant Skinner box by his father for virtually his entire childhood, surrounded by oversized paintings of playing cards and books about poker. His father was trying to condition his child to be the ultimate poker player, but lack of human contact left Dondi unable to judge other players' intentions.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** Death ([[The Grim Reaper]]) is notable particularly in the later novels for his fascination with, and often hilarious attempts to imitate, humans.

* The appropriately named Hunter in the ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' series. {{spoiler|After accidentally killing a friend with his mutant powers he is brutally hit in the head by Zil, leaving him partially brain damaged. Because of this he slurs his words a lot and doesn't understand some things.}} He is trained by the nearby coyotes (who are mutant, and can speak somewhat) on how to hunt, so is the primary food bringer for Perdido Beach along with Quinn and his fishermen.

* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Harry Wong most certainly has this problem. He is rather rude, impatient, and violent. One time, he went to his pal Jack Emery's house in the middle of the night, knocked on Jack's door, kicked it in when Jack didn't answer it fast enough, causing an alarm to blare for the whole neighborhood to hear, and then Harry simply punched out the alarm system to make it stop! Harry got an appropriate talking to for that!

 

* The eponymous protagonist of ''[[Kyle XY]]''. In the first episode, he awakes naked in the middle of the woods, with no memories or social skills.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''

** Anya from was very much one of these characters, for good reason: she was a 1,000-year-old demon trying to learn how to be a passable human. At least, at first it was that simple; later on it was revealed that she was born human (1,000 years ago in Sjornjost), and still later it was shown that she'd ''always'' talked and acted like an eccentric even in her original human life.

* Jayne, in ''[[Firefly]]''. [[Joss Whedon]] compared him to Anya in that they both said things that everybody else might be thinking but would not dare say out loud.

** Temperance Brennan is loner and a workaholic, she's completely ignorant of pop culture and responds to most movie and television references with "I don't know what that means." Her grasp on social niceties is also tenuous, but she sets herself apart from most TV characters by being willing and able to learn how to deal with people. She seems to be a combination of a mild degree of Asperger's, combined with an academic detachment from reality.

** Zack Addy is another one with No Social Skills, a textbook loner nerd who understands that social politics are ''occurring'', but can't figure out what to do with this information.<ref>In the [[Pilot]] episode, Zack acted more like a very smart but slightly awkward young guy, and even made sarcastic jokes and used slang.</ref> He exhibits Asperger's Syndrome; which made {{spoiler|the revelation that he was Gormagon's apprentice completely and totally out of character}}.

** Data's android "daughter" Lal. She was well-versed in "book learning", but not in social interaction. When she saw a couple kissing in Ten Forward, she exclaimed "That man is biting that female!" Data had No Social Skills himself, during the early series.

** "Suddenly Human" featured a human boy raised by aliens with a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|violent culture]] who couldn't fit in with human society.

** In his youth, Worf was unskilled when visiting his family in the Klingon Empire, after being raised by humans. He's apparently gotten better as an adult, but is still considered rather uptight and overly serious. When he acts according to Federation values (like mercy, democracy, humility, etc) he tends to get odd looks and confused reactions though.

* Luke Smith from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' is at a loss in social situations. Thankfully he becomes more sophisticated so as time goes on. After all, he's being raised in a "normal" high school environment and is a quick learner due to both his age and his genes.

** He was grown by aliens: human but created to be a "Human Archetype" so that they could do tests on him He has the absorbed intelligence of the thousands of people but not their social skills.

* Castiel from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is an angel who hasn't spent a lot of time down on earth, so he tends to lack basic knowledge of human etiquette, as well as failing to grasp the concept of sarcasm, rhetorical questions, and metaphor when he's first starting out. He also doesn't quite get the point of goodbyes or even of ending conversations in a conclusive manner. Once he's done saying what he wants to say, he goes poof, even if the other person isn't done yet.

* Parker from ''[[Leverage]]''. Quite possibly the world's greatest cat burglar; requires cheat sheets and extensive coaching to carry on a passing-for-normal conversation, and doesn't see ''why'' her male teammates freak out whenever she whips her shirt off in front of them to execute a quick-change.

** [[Word of God]] is she has Asperger's, explaining her behavior.

* ''[[Monk]]'' struggles to have a normal conversation even ''with'' cue cards. A few episodes have subverted this, though, by showing that he can actually be reasonably personable at times, it's just buried under layers of neuroses. For example, a large part of the plot of "Mr. Monk Is On The Air" is devoted to Monk's concerns about his deficient sense of humour. The episode ends with him watching his wedding video, and in it, he's laughing uproariously. It doesn't help that Monk's mother is shown to have been far more obsessive compulsive, and raised her sons to fear and obey her obsessions. Monk's father left the family because of her obsessive behavior, leaving the two sons to be [[Raised by Wolves]].

** Interestingly, there are rare times when Monk seemily forgets his phobias and awkwardness and just acts like a normal person. However, this happens rarely, and he has no memory of it. This is revealed when a rapper (played by [[Snoop Dogg]]) shows up to ask for Monk's help in clearing his name. Monk starts acting gangsta and eagerly accepts the case. After the rapper leaves, Monk goes back to his old self and assumes he said "no".

* An episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' features the monster of the week as an entire feral family. It's hinted that the family has lived down through the centuries like this, and are the source of the legend of the [[Jersey Devil]].

* There was one ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' where he found a guy he left out in the woods who seemed completely wild (even though he was a full grown adult when it happened). Part of the reasons for his behavior was eating berries in the forest, and things had gotten so bad that he married a raccoon. It drew comparisons between him and Tarzan, until the end when it turns out that the man had {{spoiler|An acute case of schizoid or avoidant personality disorder, and would never be able to assimilate into regular society without drugs. Earl decided the best thing to do would be to release him into the wild where he was happiest.}}

* Jan Kandou from ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'', raised by pandas and tigers. He calls himself a "tiger boy" and demonstrates incredible strength, such as having a tree fall on him with no effect. It takes him a few episodes to master the concept of things like doors. His defining trait, though, is that, while he can speak proper Japanese, he colours it with made-up babytalk words such as "nikiniki (happy) and "zowazowa" (danger). These words are used to form the show's [[Excited Episode Title]]s.

{{quote|'''Gary:''' I do lie, I've been practicing. It's a social skill. Like the other day when I said I was gonna have a pudding pop, I was lying 'cause I don't like pudding pops. ... That was a lie, I do like pudding pops. I just knew we didn't have any.}}

** Taking the above a step further, ''[[Big Brother]]'' had [[Ms. Fanservice|Bonnie Holt]], from Leicester, East Midlands, United Kingdom, who may or may not have [[Aspergers Syndrome]], but her behavior indicates traces of it, if the [[YouTube]] footage of her is anything to go by.

 

* In a week long ''[[Garfield]]'' storyline Jon fell in love with a woman in a rec center who had been [[Raised by Wolves]]. She had only been in civilization for a week and she had tendencies like scratching her head with her foot, messily devouring her food, trying to bite off her foot when her shoe was too tight, and howling at the moon.

* Cartoonstock.com has a number of single-panel cartoons on the subject, of which this troper's favourite is the one about they guy who was raised by a pack of wolves, and the cleaning lady who came in twice a month. That's right, in an ''apartment''.

 

* In ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', one breed of [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Garou werewolves]], the lupus-born, were actually wolves who could take human form, with all the foreseeable consequences when they tried to blend into human society. Oddly enough, it was usually assumed that after their first transformation most of them could automatically speak whatever language was prevalent in the country were born in, just as human-born [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]] instinctively knew wolf language, but they couldn't necessarily speak it well. It's a lot of fun to tell a ''Werewolf'' NPC that the Lupus was raised by wolves when he shows a distinct indifference to conventional standards of politeness. Or hygiene.

** The other shapeshifting Changing Breeds also get their share of this, as all of them include animal-born members as well. Given the Changing Breeds include rats, reptiles, spiders and sharks, things can get... interesting.

* In the Arthaus [[Ravenloft]] product ''Heroes of Light'', a caliban (= mutant) paladin born with a tiger's head was abandoned at birth in a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Japanese-themed domain]], and was raised by the ''kami'' animal-spirits that found him. Although they taught him the idealized conduct of a samurai and holy man, they couldn't teach him how to deal with the less-than-ideal behavior of ordinary folk.

 

* The Silencers from the ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' games may like this. Depending on which version of their creation and training is true, they may be either taken from their parents in their youth and trained in a completely isolated facility or grown in vats, and then raised ''and'' trained in a completely isolated facility.

* Victor von Gerdenheim, of the ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' series of fighting games, is a [[Frankenstein's Monster]] who was barely raised ''at all'' before the Doctor's untimely death. Victor is so unacquainted with the very concept of death that he takes his "father"'s unmoving silence to be disappointment, and is extremely perplexed at his "sister" Emily's refusal to wake up. In the comics, Victor and Emily both mistake the Professor's lack of movement and silence as sleeping, then after a few months feel it must be sickness.

*** It doesn't help that she's casually using [[Blood Magic]] and doesn't understand why it's bad.

* Béluga of ''[[Solatorobo]]'' has such poor social skills that even just asking the locals simple questions ends up with them all mad at him. However, when interacting with his teammates, he doesn't seem all that awkward. {{spoiler|Once he does his [[Heel Face Turn]], he decides to leave missions involving socialization to Red and Elh.}}

 

* Arcueid Brunestud, the [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] princess in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' has an abnormal way of interacting socially. She was created as a living weapon. Despite living for centuries, she's only been awake for a year or so; and she tended to erase her memories when going back to sleep. While she does get some cultural information via psychic osmosis, she remains awkward.

* In ''[[Little Busters!]]'', Natsume Rin is incapable of having anything even remotely resembling a conversation with anyone except her brother and childhood friends, and even then, her behaviour seems extremely awkward at times. When someone who isn't her brother or childhood friend attempts to talk to her, she will either try to hide behind [[The Protagonist|Riki's]] back or run away. If you make the right choices, however, she can get better.

 

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Grace spent most of her life in a laboratory, where she was treated as a something between an experimental animal and a [[Tyke Bomb|weapon project]] by most of the scientists (as were her brothers). After Damien 'freed' them, she spent several more years more or less imprisoned in an underground base. She is [[There Are No Therapists|implausibly well-adjusted]] despite this, but is unfamiliar with many aspects of mainstream culture, and is often quite naive.

* In ''[[Pandect]]'', almost all the Ace characters from wild animal species are like this at first.

* Faevv of ''[[Juathuur]]'' has been an outcast her whole life, and as a result she seems incapable of acting nice.

* Flik, and Akhana to an extent, in ''[[Para-Ten]]''.

* The eponymous ''[[Dawn of Time]]'': her behavior is far more primitive than other humans in her time period. One strip implies that she was raised by a Neanderthal.

* [[Black Adventures]] plays N this way. He's never heard of Christmas and isn't doesn't understand how to deal with jealousy.

* Jade Harley, Nepeta Leijon and Gamzee Makara in ''[[Homestuck]]''. Though in Gamzee's case it might just be the effects of Faygo and sopor slime. {{spoiler|Though he's [[Ax Crazy|much]] [[Monster Clown|worse]] when he doesn't have the slime...}}

* Taku from [[Mitadake Saga]] has no tact whatsoever. Not to mention he continues to pop up at the most inopportune of times.

* According to [[Word of God]], [[Sakana|Genji Sakana]] would love to not be a complete jerk to his family, but he has no idea how to be not a complete jerk to ''anyone''.

 

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' features Heffer the steer, who has constant trouble with social conventions. He was [[Raised by Wolves]], sophisticated lupine suburbanite yuppies—he's something of a black sheep steer to the wolves.

* [[Superboy]] from the animated series ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' is a clone of [[Superman]] who was grown in 16 weeks and fed information via telepathic genomorphs. Suffice to say he finds it difficult to deal with people, particularly his new teammates, when he's just beginning to adjust to life outside of CADMUS.

* The Earl of Lemongrab from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' definitely fit this trope. Lemongrab has no social skills because he's mentally unadjusted from being the product of a failed science experiment.

** The Ice King is insane. His only friends are penguins, and even Finn and Jake, the main characters, find him to be an obnoxious jerk even though they have a grudging friendship.

** In the episode "Baby Cakes", she casually ([[Innocently Insensitive|and innocently]]) tells Pinkie Pie that she pretty much expected Pinkie would be out of her depth caring for twin babies. She doesn't appear to notice that Pinkie is offended by this statement even as Pinkie kicks her out of Sugarcube Corner.

** And then you've got Princess Luna, though that can be excused for being [[Fish Out of Temporal Water|sealed in the moon for a thousand years.]] Hard to keep up with modern etiquette in a situation like that.

 

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