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[[File:pierre-auguste-renoir-the-ingenue_1973.jpg|frame|''The Ingenue'', by [
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There is no direct male version [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[The Ingenue]] which shares the same characeristics and possibitive connotations. The closest equivalent for male characters, [[Man Child]], has rather negative connotations with immaturity and being weak, with the emphasis being more on the lack of adult characteristics in the manchild versus their childlike purity.
Compare [[Man Child]], [[The Pollyanna]], [[Princess Classic]], [[The Cutie]], [[Purity Sue]], [[Parasol of Prettiness]], [[Proper Lady]]. Contrast [[The Vamp]], [[Femme Fatale]], [[Innocent Bigot]], [[Seemingly
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* Millicent Hattersley (née Hargrave) of ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]''.
* In ''New Grub Street'' Marian Yule is an ingenue who grows up by becoming less naïve, more independent and self-assured; but still dutiful and nice.
* Sybil in ''[[Invisible Man (Literature)|Invisible Man]]'' is a deconstruction of this. Not just in the sense of being a [[Seemingly
* Charlene from ''The Little Drummer Girl'' by [[John Le Carre]] plays these roles in her theatre troupe, but is anything but.
* Iliana from the ''[[Night World]]'' novel ''Witchlight'''s behavior is explained this way by another character. "She's too pure to deal with this kind of stuff." Considering that her life has been that of a normal teenagers' in our world, but she is in fact in a world with vampires, witches, werewolves, and shapeshifters, and that she is well-liked enough that people really try to be good people around her, this is understandable. {{spoiler|And she toughens up some later.}}
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