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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.
== Comics ==
 
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* 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 (Filmfilm)|The Three Musketeers 1993]]'', ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Filmfilm)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', etc)
* ''[[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|Kid Detectives]]s in ''The Crow and the Castle'' by Keith Robinson.
* [[Tom Sawyer]] and [[Huckleberry Finn]].
* Jeff and the "four horsemen" in ''[[1632]]''. Lean more toward the geeky variant in this case.
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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.
 
== TheaterTheatre ==
* Biff in ''[[Death of a Salesman]]'' is this as a kid. As he grows up, not so much.
 
== Video Games ==
* Ninten from ''[[EarthMOTHER Bound Zero1]]'' and Ness from ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'', both of whom are bat-wielding Everyman boys from a small town.
* Mike Jones, teenaged ace pitcher from ''[[Star TropicsStarTropics]]''. His All-American-ness--contrastedness—contrasted with and found strange by the natives of the islands he's visiting--isvisiting—is a large part of the game's humor and tone.
 
== Western Animation ==
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