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[[The Ingenue]] is a young [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|virginal]] woman with the [[Purity Personified|purity]] [[Adult Child|of a]] [[Children Are Innocent|child]].
She is [[Horrible Judge of Character|woefully naive]], making her a prime target for a villain seeking to take advantage of her, often in an [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]] fashion. As a result, the ingenue is one of the most common [[Distressed Damsel|Distressed Damsels]]. She is also [[Entendre Failure|immune to sexual innuendo]]. In a worst-case scenario, the character will be given no real personality beyond her [[Purity Sue|purity and innocence.]]
The ingenue is a [[Stock Character]] found throughout all media, although the character type, almost always voiced by a lyric soprano, is popular in [[Opera]]. The [[Princess Classic]] is one of the most common examples of this. Nowadays, the ingenue is parodied or subverted more often than not, because in this day and age it isn't plausible for an unsheltered girl to be completely innocent. If this character is played straight and not in a traditionally romantic setting, she may be [[Wrong Genre Savvy]], and will usually [[Break the Cutie|end up getting screwed over]].
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Compare [[Man Child]], [[The Pollyanna]], [[Princess Classic]], [[The Cutie]], [[Purity Sue]], [[Parasol of Prettiness]], [[Proper Lady]]. Contrast [[The Vamp]], [[Femme Fatale]], [[Innocent Bigot]], [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]], [[Stepford Smiler]], [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]], [[Covert Pervert]], [[Coy Girlish Flirt Pose]], [[Old Fashioned Rowboat Date]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* Arguably Usagi from ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' when her more obnoxious traits are toned down (which happens most noticeably when she takes the form of Princess Serenity).
* Albert from ''[[Gankutsuou]]'' is a rare male example, though the show is partly about him growing out of it by the way of a particularly cruel [[Break the Cutie]] process.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' has Belldandy. Oh, is she ''ever'' one of these. Her pastimes include [[Yamato Nadeshiko|cleaning]], talking about how much she loves cleaning, and coddling various inanimate objects because [[Power of Love|love makes machines work better]]. She'll give [[Love You and Everybody|any and every stranger on the street a hug]], but [[Asexuality|hasn't gotten past second base with the boyfriend she's lived with for years]]. There are occasions where she is shown as being aware of the situation, but these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule.
** For example, her knowledge of sexual innuendo is woefully limited, allowing her to misunderstand comments such as how Keiichi must not get a lot of sleep when he's with her. And she also misses Keiichi's hints about moving their relationship forward sexually, such as when they were standing in front of the love motel during an Urd-created rainstorm. On the other hand, she is at least somewhat aware that Keiichi has sexual desires, but admits she is not ready to fulfill them.
** Another example, is when they were at the hot Springs and Keiichi was trying to cover up his nakedness, Belldandy was totally unaware of Keiichi's embarrassment at being nude in front of a group of girls, and thought that Marller had in fact hurt him. Both Marller and Urd considered her complete obliviousness to be scary [http://i38.mangareader.net/ah-my-goddess/60/ah-my-goddess-241333.jpg\]
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* 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.}}
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist|Sansa]] [[Horrible Judge of Character|Stark]] from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''... Until [[It Got Worse]]. She's a perfect [[Deconstruction]] of how this trope [[Distressed Damsel|would actually play out]] in a [[World Half Empty]] and has definitely acquired some [[Jade
{{quote| '''Littlefinger:''' "[[Wrong Genre Savvy|Life is not a song]], sweetling. You may learn that one day, [[Break the Cutie|to your sorrow]]."}}
* Pippa from the ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' trilogy. {{spoiler|At first.}}
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** However she also shows great strength of character, bravery, and generally sees through anyone who tries to fool her.
* Pandora of ''[[Skins]]'' series 3 (and occasionally series 2) is sheltered and naive, self-confessed to be useless, and often is the unwitting source of innuendo. Part way through the third series she {{spoiler|falls in love with Thomas, an African immigrant, and a true gentleman.}} But later {{spoiler|in Thomas' absence, she is seduced by Cook, and quickly loses her blissful ignorant disposition as this complication comes to light}}.
* Kenneth the pageboy from ''[[
** Parodied in one episode when Liz is growing cynical about New York. An innocent-looking young woman steps off a bus, and enthusiastically asks: "say, where does a young prostitute go to get a start in this city?"
* Rachel Berry of ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'' [[Blatant Lies|calls herself this]] in the very first episode.
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* Sarah in ''[[Tanz Der Vampire]]'' subverts this trope. She's a pretty, sheltered, pure girl on the cusp of womanhood who longs for romance and excitement. She's ''also'' a shameless flirt who lies to get what she wants and spends hours at a time quite possibly pleasuring herself in the tub, vocalizing orgasmically about it.
** Alfred is quite honestly a better fit for this trope, despite being, you know. Male.
* Christine Daaé in every incarnation of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' '''except''' [Gaston Leroux's original novel where she may be a daydreamer (and [[Genre Savvy]] victim of [[Stockholm Syndrome]]) but also a [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]] whose pluck and stubbornness unnerve Raoul several times before he realizes how wrongly he's misjudged her just because she ''isn't'' a meek little ingenue-type.
** The ingenue version of Christine is parodied in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', where she's so woefully oblivious to her complete lack of operatic talent that she completely misses the fact that a dowdier but sonically gifted woman is actually doing all the singing!! She's self-centred as a gyroscope and finishes every sentence with two exclamation marks!!
** In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Christine is actually called "your precious little ingenue" (by her rival).
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** Mostly because of the character development toward the end of ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'', in which her innocence and faith in Yevon gets broken. And because she's shooting people in Stripperific skirts in ''X-2''.
* Colette from ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' fits this to a T. She's sweet-natured, caring, likes animals (particularly dogs and turtles), and self-sacrificing. Colette believes everyone has some good inside them (even assassins who have repeatedly stated their intention to kill her), and she worries about others more than herself (to the point of not telling the rest of the party things they ''really wouldn't mind knowing about'' because she doesn't want them to worry), and any sexual innuendo flies over her head.
** Her [[Expy]], [[Rose
* Deirdre from ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Geneaology of the Holy War''.
* Amy Rose in the older games from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] (The 16-bit games and both Adventures)'' until Cream came and took her place.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Penny from ''[[Doctor
* Generator (Jade Sinclair) is definitely [[The Ingenue]] of Team Kimba in the [[Whateley Universe (Literature)|Whateley Universe]]. She even looks several years younger than she really is.
** Well, she [[Character Development|was]], but [[Crazy Awesome|not]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|anymore]].
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