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* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. The previous guy sent to kill Kurtz, played by Scott Glenn. {{spoiler|Although he actually goes through with the mission}}, it's also implied that Willard is seduced as well.
{{quote| '''Willard:''' They were gonna make me a Major for this, and I wasn't even in their fuckin' army anymore.}}
* ''[[Doomsday]]''. With the slightly unusual variant that, thanks to [[You Kill It, You Bought It]], {{spoiler|the hero}} ends up going native as ''leader'' of an [[I'm a Humanitarian|army of Glaswegian cannibals]].
* Dr. Rae Crane does this at the end of ''[[Medicine Man]]''.
* Doc Brown seems to be getting along just fine in the Old West in ''[[Back to The Future|Back To The Future III]]'' -- until he runs into Buford Tannen, anyway.
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** Long time SG-1 antagonist Harry Maybourne eventually gets marooned on a low tech planet, where he uses his knowledge to make himself king. He finds that he ''likes'' being the king, and that he's ''good'' at it, so much so that he is very popular among the people he's ruling because he has done so much to make their lives better. When he gets the opportunity to return to civilization, he opts to stay.
* In the second season of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'', Mohinder works with Mr. Bennet to take down the Company from within, but eventually becomes convinced that the Company is really the heroic organization and Bennet was misleading him.
* In an episode of the revived ''[[
** You might even consider the Doctor a minor variation of the trope. In all his 1100-odd years, he sure has grown fond of us humans. He still loves to travel, and it a little too alien to really be considered a 'native', but he loved everything about our culture, clothes, food and people.
* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'': Locke "goes native" by leaving the 815 camp to join the Others. Also, in season 5, {{spoiler|several of the 815ers join the Dharma Initiative and lead happy lives in the 1970s.}}
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** Nandi, former [[High Class Call Girl|Companion]] turned tough-talking [[Miss Kitty|madam]] of a rim-world brothel. Certain episodes suggest this may have slowly been happening to [[Silk Hiding Steel|Inara]], the show's other companion.
** More sinister is the sole survivor of a Reaver attack on a ship. He begins to act as a Reaver because he can't mentally handle the things he saw, so he becomes the horror he witnessed.
* The first Kosh seems to have gone native with humanoids in ''[[
** Delenn was accused of doing this by other Minbari and in fact she had, biologically speaking. Culturally she remained a Minbari. Racism aside it is perhaps a legitimate fear that a diplomat will do this if in contact to long and so the Grey Council may have not been totally irrational.
*** Although Delenn's relationship with the human John Sheridan is part of what gets her accused of this, in the end he's the one who ends up moving to Minbar with her where they raise their son - who presumably ends up culturally Minbari despite being biologically mostly human.
** In the other direction was Sinclair, a "Minbari not born of Minbari" and less dramatically Marcus Cole.
** Accusations of going native from extremists are common in ''[[Babylon Five]]''.
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* In one episode of ''[[Burn Notice (TV)|Burn Notice]]'', Michael jokingly accuses the security chief for the Pakistani consulate of going native after finding him in an Indian restaurant.
{{quote| '''Waseem:''' Oh, I like the chicken tikka.}}
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** It's not only Ireland, this trope defines the Normans. Originally they were Vikings who settled in Northern France, enthusiastically adopting French and converting to Catholicism. Wherever they went the Normans conquered, left their mark on the language and culture before being absorbed and integrating into their new homes.
* Many of the English colonials in India 'went native', although they didn't so much adopt native dress as use Gratuitous (Local Indian Language) all the time, ride around on elephants and generally be pretty batty.<br /><br />During the early colonial period many British officials did go the whole hog adopting local dress, customs, wives etc. After the East India Company was replaced by direct Government rule things changed: postings became more for fixed terms rather than for life, mixing with the 'natives' became more socially taboo, and acclimatisation to the local culture dwindled to a thin patina of exoticism.
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* [[Catherine the Great]]. Born a German Lutheran who converted to the Russian Orthodox Church after becoming the wife of a Russian Tsar. Once she seized the throne, she fully embraced her adopted nation expanding the size, influence, and progress of Russia.
* In the 20th Century in Washington, DC, it was dogma among conservatives that the State Department was a nest of liberals/communists. Every time a republican president was elected, it was hoped that the new Secretary of State they appointed would set things straight down there. Much to their chagrin, however, it was invariably discovered that the new boss had instead taken on his subordinates' colors. He had [[Title Drop|Gone Native]].
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* J. Hudson Taylor, a British missionary in China, wore Chinese clothing, wore his hair in the Manchu queue, and spoke Chinese to be able to be better accepted by the Chinese public.
** Matteo Ricci, Jesuit priest and missionary, also mastered the Chinese language (including its complicated writing system), wore Chinese robes and was the first Westerner to visit the Forbidden City.
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* Soldiers from any number of long-term occupying armies over the centuries have found themselves in settled lives, even marrying locals and having children, in the occupied countries. For example, it's on record that when the ancient Romans were finally ordered to leave Britain as the empire collapsed, a lot of them quietly deserted to stay with their families.
* William Adams also known as Miura Anjin, an English ship's pilot working for the Dutch who eventually became an adviser to Tokugawa Ieyasu and was responsible for setting up Dutch and English trading houses in Japan. He also served as the inspiration for the Blackthorne character in [[Shogun]].
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