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'''Prospero''': ''Tis new to thee.''|''[[The Tempest]]''}}

 

* Will Smith in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' learns that his experience as a NYPD cop means precisely dick when he enters the new world of alien policing.

* In the film version of Astrid Lindgren's ''Mio, my Mio'' (I think the movie title was ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'', but I'm not sure) the titular character serves as the Naive Newcomer as he was taken from the Land of Faraway as a newborn and doesn't return until nine years later. After a while it gets a bit tedious that he constantly needs to have the world explained to him, but it also leads to a rather funny moment (largely thanks to Christian Bale's delivery). It involves Mio (Nicholas Pickard) and Jum-Jum (Bale) gallopping along a bridge that's being raised, and Mio panicks when he can't get the horse to stop. The horse then proceeds to fly across the gap in the bridge, and then the following exchange:

'''Jum-Jum''': (in a kids-are-stupid tone) What you know does not amount to much, Mio. }}

* Shilo from ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''. She was locked in her bedroom for 17 years. A large chunk of the story is about her entering the real world for the first time, and the trouble being naive gets her into.

** Dr. Daniel Jackson. But he quickly fit in.

** Jackson's [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]], Jonas Quinn, did much of the same thing, oddly enough, long after the show and other characters had all been well-established to the audience.

'''Jonas''': Funny. }}

* Colonel Mitchell averts this trope nicely when he joins [[Stargate SG-1]] by having read all the mission reports. In fact, he ends up giving a lot of the background exposition, which is a nice change from Sam and Daniel always having to do it.