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This species has seldom been seen and naturalists have considered putting it on the endangered species list. He is marked by his love of baseball, by having a skill with rural machinery and hunting firearms beyond his years, and his propensity to emit sounds like "gee whiz". The All-American boy usually dwells in a [[Quirky Town]] within which he is as [[Free
There are variants of this trope. The geeky variant still maintains the ingenuity, self-reliance, and wholesomeness of this but applies his interest to such things as home science experiments and the like. The high-school variety wears a letterman's sweater and spends his off hours using his mechanical skill to restore an old car.
An All-American boy often gets a job as a [[Kid Detective]]. If he joins the military when he grows up he will almost inevitably become a [[Southern
The closest [[Distaff Counterpart]] would probably be [[Girl Next Door]].
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Not to be confused with the film of the same name.
* Steve Rogers (aka [[Captain America]]) pretty much fits the general personality of this trope, although he was a terrible athlete as a child, in large part due to his [[Geek Physique]]. After he got the Super-Soldier Serum, he was able to embody the trope even more. ▼
== Comic Books ==
▲* Steve Rogers (aka [[Captain America (comics)]]) pretty much fits the general personality of this trope, although he was a terrible athlete as a child, in large part due to his [[Geek Physique]]. After he got the Super-Soldier Serum, he was able to embody the trope even more.
== Film ==
* Audy Murphy in the beginning of ''To Hell And Back''.
* The title character in ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'' is a grown-up example, as well as all the boys in his [[Scout Out|"Boy Rangers"]] group.
* Often smuggled into big-budget Hollywood films set in other countries, particularly when this makes no contextual sense (See: ''[[The Three Musketeers (1993
* ''[[Big Fish]]'' is a great example. Quirky small town, baseball, etc.
* The [[Andy Hardy]] film series.
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== Literature ==
* [[The Hardy Boys]].
* A pair of [[Kid Detective
* [[Tom Sawyer]] and [[Huckleberry Finn]].
* Jeff and the "four horsemen" in ''[[
* Some of [[Robert Heinlein]]'s works are this [[Recycled in Space]].
* Henry Huggins in the ''[[Ramona and Beezus]]'' books by [[Beverly Cleary]].
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* Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, from ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]''.
* Orel Puppington of ''[[Moral Orel]]'' is a Deconstruction of this.
* Opie Taylor and his pals on ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]''.
* Cory Matthews of [[Boy Meets World]] is a modern example. He begins by caring about more baseball than anything and seeing his father as Superman.
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* Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy.
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* Biff in ''[[Death of a Salesman]]'' is this as a kid. As he grows up, not so much.
== Video Games ==
* Ninten from ''[[
* Mike Jones, teenaged ace pitcher from ''[[
== Western Animation ==
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