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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Combat Cyborgs Otto, Deed, and Sette from ''[[Nanoha Striker S]]'', who, despite looking like teenagers, have barely a month of real memories (since they were artificially aged and imprinted mainly with combat skills).
* Chii in ''[[Chobits]]''. Not in a physical sense, her body is a robot that has existed for a while. But she's dead at the beginning of the series, and in the first episode she gets reincarnated into her own body. Her new self is very much born yesterday, having to learn everything.
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== Comics ==
* ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'': Superboy.
* In ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', The Smiler's original pick for a vice presidential candidate was a two-year old first-term representative who had been cloned. He had a completely clean record, and no baggage from past
* Madelyne Pryor, Scott Summer's first wife in ''[[X-Men]]'' was eventually [[
== Film ==
* ''[[The Snowman]]''
* ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]''
* ''[[Pinocchio]]'', a boy is carved from wood and brought to life.
* Used for a hilarious closing scene in ''Avengers: Age of Ultron'', in an exchange between two robots (one of whom was created last week, and the other who had been created more recently).
{{quote|'''Ultron''': [Humanity is] doomed.
'''Vision:''' Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them.
'''Ultron:''' You're ''unbearably'' naïve.
'''Vision:''' Well, I was born yesterday. (blasts him)}}
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* [[The Bible]]: Adam, then Eve.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* ''[[Pinocchio]]'', the original source.
* ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'': Lady Amalthea is immediately noticeable as having a "newness" to her, where each movement she makes indicates that she's doing many things for the first time. This happens to be because {{spoiler|up until that point, she was a unicorn}}.
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* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' mentioned the idiom in one of the books, telling how you (the reader) were probably not born yesterday. The author adds, [[Lemony Narrator|"Unless, of course, you]] ''[[Lemony Narrator|were]]'' [[Lemony Narrator|born yesterday, and in that case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on having learned how to read so early in life."]]
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Various characters in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* Luke and Sky Smith from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spinoff ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Sylvari from ''[[Guild Wars]]: Eye of the North'' and ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' are this, as they are a new race just getting their foothold. You actually get to see the 'birth' of the first Sylvari in a cutscene in Eye of the North.
* Grunt from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', and he's basically ''born'' in your cargo bay.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Peep in ''[[Peep and the Big Wide World]]'' is a baby male chicken about as intelligent as a human first grader. In one episode he recalls his entire life, which actually did start yesterday.
* ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'': Lady Amalthea is immediately noticeable as having a "newness" to her, where each movement she makes indicates that she's doing many things for the first time. This happens to be because {{spoiler|up until that point, she was a unicorn}}.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In very rare cases, a person's brain can lose track of its entire memory making it seem like it has been 'wiped', such as in [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13627118 this example]. Victims generally retain a few links and don't lose everything, though it can happen ([[Paranoia Fuel|there are also very rare conditions where every memory can vanish, just like that, and with no warning at all]]).
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