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Done poorly these characters may just become flimsy justifications for an [[Info Dump]], making them a sort of inverse [[Mr. Exposition]].
Can overlap with [[Country Mouse]], [[Kid Appeal Character]] (who is also there to draw in younger audiences), [[Welcome to
A [[Super-Trope]] to [[Rookie Red Ranger]] (the newcomer is also [[The Hero]]), [[Ensign Newbie]] (the newcomer is an officer presiding over a more experienced enlisted crew).
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Tower of God]]'': [[Fish Out of Water|Twentyfifth Baam]], who spent years living in a cave with only a single girl as social contact, enters the secluded world of the Tower, which is an alien environment for most, and finds out that it can get a little rough when everybody is aiming for the same.
* Novice tennis player Eiichirou has to learn the basics of the sport in ''[[
* Rokuro Okajima, AKA Rock, from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.
* The virginal Kate Curtis in the [[Hentai]] ''Bondage Queen Kate''.
* Soah from ''[[The Bride of the Water God]]'', a literal [[Country Mouse]] now living at court with the Water God, and dealing with the intrigues of the Emperor.
* Mikado Ryugamine in ''[[
** Played straight with Yoshimune from the game 3 Way Standoff.
* Ito Keita in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]''.
* Mai in ''[[
* [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] ''HARD'' in the second season of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', with Shinji's partial [[Expy]] Saji Crossroads.
* In the anime ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'', Rakka acts as the Naive Newcomer, appearing in the Haibane's world and having to have everything explained to her by the seasoned residents.
* Keiichi in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* Arika Yumemiya in ''[[Mai-Otome]]''.
* Shinji Ikari from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. However, he is a lot less of a [[Wide
* Luffy tends to get most of these moments in ''[[One Piece]]'', as he honestly doesn't care how the world works unless it's directly relevant to him somehow. The other members of the Straw Hat crew also occasionally get moments of it, being among the very few denizens of the relatively tame East Blue to travel the considerably more deadly Grand Line, and thus having heard precious little about it beforehand.
* Haruhi in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''.
* Ai Tanabe in ''[[Planetes]]''.
* Ahiru in ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' {{spoiler|...since she's a duck that was magically turned into a girl.}}
* Ayato Kamina from ''[[
* Utena early on in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''.
* Tsukune in ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]''.
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* Nia in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. When first introduced, she isn't even aware of what a human is despite she and her father being ones themselves.
* Linna Yamazaki in the ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' remake, ''Tokyo 2040''.
* Noelle from ''[[Tenshi
* Takumi from ''[[Initial D]]'' is an interesting variation on this for at least the first couple seasons. Despite being nearly godlike in his abilities, he's often having basic racing techniques and auto facts/mechanics explained to him because he's developed his skills in isolation on his own and has no actual background. Later on, the racers he's defeated (despite being high-level themselves) often serve as the audience to explanations.
* Mitsuki Koyama / Fullmoon in ''[[Full Moon
* Hayato Kazami from ''[[
* ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* Matty Roth from ''[[
* Agent J in incarnations of ''Men In Black'': [[Men in Black (
* Robyn "Toybox" Slinger at the start of ''[[Top Ten]]''.
* Kitty Pryde (later Shadowcat) filled this role in the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics. This is notably averted with teenage girls [[Heel Face Turn|Rogue]], [[Bad Future|Phoenix II]], and arguably [[Street Urchin|Jubilee]].
** Rogue, in the movie adaptation of ''[[X-Men (
** Jean Grey served as this in the very first issue of X-Men.
** Alison Crestmere (aka Magma) is this in ''[[X
* Wee Hughie from ''[[The Boys]]'' is entirely based around this trope.
== Fan Works ==
* The four in ''[[
* In ''[[
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* Bethany from ''[[Dogma]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' Winston Zeddemore is not a scientist, let alone a parapsychologist, and applies for the job after seeing an ad put in the paper by the seriously over-worked Ghostbusters. His interview is a small moment of comic relief suggesting that he has no idea what he's getting himself into...and then he has no problem with the job, even going so far as to suggest a paranormal explanation for ''why'' the Ghostbusters were so over-worked in the first place.
* Agent John Meyers in the first ''[[Hellboy (
* Rookie cop Ellie Burr in ''[[Insomnia (
* Ariadne in ''[[Inception]].''
* Will Smith in ''[[Men in Black (
* 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:
{{quote| '''Mio''': It felt like we were flying! I didn't know Miramis could do that!<br />
'''Jum-Jum''': (in a kids-are-stupid tone) What you know does not amount to much, Mio. }}
* Shilo from ''[[Repo!
* Lt. Saavik in ''[[Star Trek II:
* Norvile Barnes in ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'' is a naive midwesterner, fresh from business school. He arrives in New York for work and finds everything requires experience, and he winds up in the mailroom.
* Skorpan in ''[[
* Dr. Reeves in ''[[Twister]]''. As a psychiatrist riding with tornado chasers, she asked questions on behalf of the audience like "What's a Category IV?".
* Adam Webber from ''[[Blast
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Radio]]: Lemuel Gulliver from ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'', in most of the first book and every so often thereafter.
** Given the fact that they are attending a school, nearly all the students count as this to a degree., especially Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Draco. Ron and Hermione both have the humorous dichotomy of being both the one asking the question and the one answering the others questions, depending on the subject.
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* The viewpoint character of nearly every utopian novel ever written (often combined with [[The Watson]].
* Most fantasy novels do this to some extent. If the lead character isn't [[Summon Everyman Hero|summoned from another world]], he's almost certainly from a small town and hasn't experienced the larger world. Either way, many things must be explained to him and, thus, the reader. Examples are numerous.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings
* In ''[[The Belgariad]]'', Garion grew up on a small farm, specifically isolated from the larger world by his "aunt".
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', Rand al'Thor and his friends Perrin and Matt grew up in a small town far from the turmoil of the world.
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* The Ohmsfords from ''[[Shannara]]''.
* ''[[Foundation]]'': "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before."
* Skorpan in ''[[
* Gavin Darklighter in the first two or three books of the [[X Wing Series]].
* George Fewkoombey in [[
* Adam of the web-novel ''[[
* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere:
* In ''[[The Monk (Literature)|The Monk]]'', Antonia is so unused to life in the city that she doesn't know her custom of wearing a veil in public is considered old-fashioned.
* In ''[[Someone Else's War
== Live Action TV ==
* [[3rd Rock
* PC Jim Carver, ''[[The Bill]].''
* Constable Maggie Doyle, ''[[Blue Heelers]].''
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* Dr. John Carter (also later Lucy Knight and to a lesser extent Neela Rasgotra), ''[[ER]]''.
* Jack Carter, ''[[Eureka]]''. Later season episodes justify this continued status by focusing more on his inability to understand complicated science rather than his lack of comfort with the many world-ending experiments performed in the city, though he may also be evolving into [[The Watson]].
* John Crichton on ''[[
* Simon of ''[[
* Taken to its fullest potential in ''[[
* Kyle from ''[[Kyle XY]]'', who is essentially a 16-year old infant.
* Detective Tim Bayliss is this for most of the run of ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' ultimately subverted {{spoiler|at the end of the series and in the subsequent movie, where he guns down a serial killer set free in the former and confesses to his ex-partner in the latter and presumably goes to jail.}}
* Detective Brian Cassidy, in the first season of ''[[Law and Order SVU]].'' Played with in that he does not last the season.
* Tess from ''[[
* Vladimir Sharapov of ''[[The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed]]''.
* Alex is a new recruit of the covert assassin operation known as "Division" in the action series ''[[Nikita (TV series)|Nikita]]''.
* Tobias Beecher in the first season of ''[[Oz]]''.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' is rather fond of this, typically putting one of these in as Red Ranger. This in contrast to [[Super Sentai]], more fond of having the same ranger be [[The Ace]], leading to occasional amusing dissonance between character and behavior in the American version.
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'''Sam''': Well, it is your first time being captured by a Goa'uld.<br />
'''Jonas''': Funny. }}
* Colonel Mitchell averts this trope nicely when he joins [[Stargate SG
* Harry Kim from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
* John Burns in the first season of ''[[Taxi]]''. Elaine Nardo was one, too, in the pilot episode.
* Gwen Cooper, ''[[
* Donna's orientation by her predecessor in a flashback sequence of ''[[The West Wing]]''. She's not only tricked into thinking there's a nuclear warhead on the White House grounds, she reveals her surprise of this "fact" in an interview with a teen magazine, showing her "bambiesque naivite" to the world ("I'm too stupid to live!").
* In ''[[The X
== Radio ==
* Arthur Dent in ''[[The
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== Video Games ==
* The first two ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' games have the female lead be a Naive Newcomer to the world of monsters and the supernatural, while Yuri is a relative old hand--and the [[Cool Old Guy]] is very much an old hand. ''From the New World'' inverts this, with the male lead being the Naive Newcomer, and the female lead the old hand, while the [[Cool Old Guy]] is likely as or more naive than the male lead, although he's too crazy to show it.
* Tidus from ''[[
* Though an antagonist rather than a viewpoint character, Elena of the Turks in ''[[
* And Vaan of ''[[
* ''[[Legend of Legaia
* Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4'' starts off by new S.A.S. member Soap MacTavish showing his proficiency at a firing range and making his way through a 'killhouse' shooting pop-up terrorist targets. The game suggests a difficulty based on how well you manuever through said killhouse. That he soon starts [[Take a Level In Badass|taking levels in badassery]] needs not to be said.
* ''[[Gears of War]] 2'' features the main characters leading a 'green as grass' new recruit on his first patrol - who, by bizarre coincidence, is [[Backup Twin|one of the three brothers of the redshirt on Marcus's squad in the previous game]].
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* Phoenix Wright starts off as this in the first ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' game. He gets nervous, but doubly becomes so when the prosecution gets the upper hand in court or if Phoenix loses his advantage in the case. On top of this, he's always looking to someone to bail him out of a jam if he gets stuck, such as Mia. Despite characters that tell Phoenix that he is blind to how things really work, he still does what he think is right by just sheer determination. By the next two games, Phoenix slowly starts to shed off his newcomer skin and by ''Apollo Justice'', Phoenix is a lot wiser and more mellow, but still fierce in finding the truth.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Merrill]] in ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' has little experience with anything outside the Dalish, and is inordinately fascinated by the Kirkwall Alienage.
* James Vega in ''[[
* In a very odd way, the [[Player Character|Nameless One]] of ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''; despite being hundreds of years old at minimum, everything in his bizarre world is new to him because of his amnesia.
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* Taylor Quinn/Onca in ''[[Panthera]]''.
* Go in ''[[Mushroom Go]].''
* [[Stranger in
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4040 Tangerine acts this.]
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-55/ the Baron's new secretary] introduces us to the ''ubermenschen'' as she arrives.
** Also, Max, [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-77/ when he first meets the other Specialists], but somewhat easier than her, because some of them make him welcome.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4271 the green succubus serves little of the functions but definitely fits the role], arriving to replace Fucshia and get the brunt of Baby Blue's anger.
* Jack in ''[[Thornsaddle]]''. He's a muggle-born entering a [[Wizarding School
== Western Animation ==
* Todd in ''[[Wayside]]''.
* Fry from ''[[
* Jubilee in the 1990s ''[[X-Men (
* [[Doug]] was this slightly when he moved to Bluffington in the first (chronological) episode.
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