History Main / CitySlicker

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* Lots of them in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', of all types.
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* Also, Pauly Shore in ''Film/SonInLaw''. (Which was, against all expectation, [[SincerityMode a pretty good movie]].)

* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', John comes across a writer from the East named Jimmy Saints, who's writing stories about the West. He's later encountered several times inexplicably captured by gangs of outlaws. Eventually he decides to just go back home and write about something else (presumably something that won't get him killed).

A person, new to TheWildWest, who's seen as an {{acceptable target|s}} by [[GoodOlBoy the locals]]. By stereotype, this trope is flashily dressed in big-city fashions, thinks rural folks are idiots, and is unused to manual labor.

The name comes from "slicker" being slang for a newborn calf, indicating how naive the newcomer is about the ways of the West. Yep, it's a subtrope of NaiveNewcomer, and has a strong overlap with CityMouse.

'''Greenhorn:''' Less emphasis on the flashiness and snobbery, more emphasis on the naivete. The Greenhorn wants to do the right thing, but doesn't know the ropes yet. Usually grows into a hardened veteran of the West.

'''Tinhorn:''' Almost always paired with the word "gambler." The Tinhorn plays down the naivete, and emphasizes the flash and surface wealth. Generally a malevolent figure, though easily vanquished.

* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'', Melvin Potter is a tenderfoot from back east who arrives on the frontier looking to make a fresh start who gets suckered into financing {{Prospector}} Pan Taggart's expedition into InjunCountry to find the mother lode in Gold Creek.

* ''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'': In one form or another, this is what Old Shatterhand repeatedly gets ''mistaken'' for as a plot point even long after he's become famous in the West under that name. Mostly because he actually does buy clean new clothes and the like every so often, uses his ''nom du guerre'' only when he ''means'' to impress (and his plain old German given name otherwise), isn't above sometimes coming up with a quick fib about his identity for various reasons, and of course for all the fame attached to his name most people still simply don't know what the actual man behind it actually ''looks'' like. And what he looks like is actually not very impressive -- an unassuming, average-sized, friendly and polite young man, with hands that seem to be "as delicate as a woman's" does not exactly lead a seasoned westman to believe this is Old Shatterhand, who ''everybody'' imagines to be at least a 7-foot-tall mass of muscles. (He also explicitly begins his future career in the West as a "greenhorn" -- using that very word -- in ''Winnetou I''.)

* Simon in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. One of the things unfortunately cut short was his potential to [[CharacterDevelopment develop]] from this trope into a {{conman}} able to use his familiarity with the Alliance, respectable appearance and [[TheSmartGuy intelligence]] to pull jobs the border-dwelling rest of the crew couldn't otherwise pull off (for example, the hospital job in ''Ariel'').

** Just about every minor character from the coasts or a big city gets one-upped, humiliated or put in their place by a local Montanan. Californians are a favorite target.

* The cowboy song "Zebra Dun" is about someone mistaken for this. In it, a well-dressed fancy-talkin' man approaches a cowboy camp asking if he can borrow a horse. The cowboys give him the titular Zebra Dun as a prank, it being the worst bronco anyone's ever seen. The newcomer rides him like he was on a palfrey going to town, even letting go the reins to roll a cigarette while the horse bucks. The impressed foreman immediately offers him a job.

* The animated short ''WesternAnimation/WildLife'' (nominated for an Oscar in 2012) tells the story of a RemittanceMan from England who moves to Alberta, and soon finds himself ill-prepared for the harshness of the terrain or the prejudices that the locals have towards the [[UpperClassTwit upper-class twits]] who have descended upon their country. [[DownerEnding It doesn't end well for him]]...

* Also, Pauly Shore in ''Film/SonInLaw''. (Which was, against all expectation, [[SincerityMode a pretty good movie]].)

* In ''Film/TheOutlawsIsComing'', magazine editor Kenneth Cabot (Creator/AdamWest) is a greenhorn who gets from Boston to the WildWest to investigate the vanishing buffalo herds. Despite not knowing one end of a gun from the other ([[RecklessGunUsage his first on drawing the gun he bought for the journey is to peer down the barrel]]), he is FramedForHeroism by Annie Oakley and becomes Sheriff of Caspar.

* Randy Discher, in the episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' where he quits the force to take over his uncle's farm.

* The song "Buttons and Bows," in which the singer laments having chosen the West over the East and wants to go back home.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BulletDancing Making A Tenderfoot Dance]]]]

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* The title character in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pied-tendre Tenderfoot]]'' (French title ''Le Pied-tendre''), from the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' comic book series. Waldo Badmington is an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch in the Wild West. The book's prologue sets the stage by giving funny examples of the notions of ''tenderfoot'', ''greenhorn'' and ''dude'', but the locals discover that their habitual hazing of newcomers fails in the face of an ImperturbableEnglishman's education. By the end Waldo has gotten a bit better about it, going as far as to join the hazing of a fellow newly-arrived Englishman who [[SeriousBusiness holds his golf clubs wrong.]]

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* Amos Garrett in {{Series/Deadwood}} is a perfect example of the first type. He is even literally referred to as "The Dude".

* ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}''

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* ''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'': In one form or another, this is what Old Shatterhand repeatedly gets ''mistaken'' for as a plot point even long after he's become famous in the West under that name. Mostly because he actually does buy clean new clothes and the like every so often, uses his ''nom du guerre'' only when he ''means'' to impress (and his plain old German given name otherwise), isn't above sometimes coming up with a quick fib about his identity for various reasons, and of course for all the fame attached to his name most people still simply don't know what the actual man behind it actually ''looks'' like. And what he looks like is actually not very impressive - an unassuming, average-sized, friendly and polite young man, with hands that seem to be "as delicate as a woman's" does not exactly lead a seasoned westman to believe this is Old Shatterhand, who ''everybody'' imagines to be at least a 7-feet tall mass of muscles. (He also explicitly begins his future career in the West as a "greenhorn" -- using that very word -- in ''Winnetou I''.)

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[[AC:Dude]]: A tourist. (As used in the term "dude ranch".) Just here to soak up some Western flavor and see the sights. Plans to be going back East in a few weeks. Generally not malevolent, but can be pushy and inadvertently offensive.

[[AC:Greenhorn]]: Less emphasis on the flashiness and snobbery, more emphasis on the naivete. The Greenhorn wants to do the right thing, but doesn't know the ropes yet. Usually grows into a hardened veteran of the West.

[[AC:Tenderfoot]]: The emphasis here is on the soft skin and weak muscles that city life cause. Expect this character to get blisters and be exhausted after even the least demanding chore. Like the Greenhorn, he'll soon toughen up and learn the value of hard work.

[[AC:Tinhorn]]: Almost always paired with the word "gambler." The Tinhorn plays down the naivete, and emphasizes the flash and surface wealth. Generally a malevolent figure, though easily vanquished.

* The title character in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pied-tendre Tenderfoot]]'' (French title ''Le Pied-tendre''), from the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' comic book series. Waldo Badmington is an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch in the Wild West. The book's prologue sets the stage by giving funny examples of the notions of ''tenderfoot'', ''greenhorn'' and ''dude''.

* In ''Film/TheOutlawsIsComing'', magazine editor Kenneth Cabot is a greenhorn who gets from Boston to the WildWest to investigate the vanishing buffalo herds. Despite not knowing one end of a gun from the other ([[RecklessGunUsage his first on drawing the gun he bought for the journey is to peer down the barrel), he is FramedForHeroism by Annie Oakley and becomes Sheriff of Caspar.

* Another non-western example: the titular character in the film ''Jean De Florette'' fits the "Greenhorn" trope to a T. [[DownerEnding However, he never becomes a hardened veteran of the west.]]

* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'', Melvin Potter is tenderfoot from back east who arrives on the frontier looking to make a fresh start and gets suckered into financing Pan Taggart's expedition into InjunCountry to find the mother lode in Gold Creek.

[[AC:Dude]]: A tourist. (As used in the term "dude ranch".) Just here to soak up some Western flavor and see the sights. Plans to be going back East in a few weeks. Generally not malevolent, but can be pushy and inadvertantly offensive.

* The title character in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pied-tendre Tenderfoot]]'' (French title ''Le Pied-tendre''), from the ''ComicBook/{{Lucky Luke}}'' comic book series. Waldo Badmington is an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch in the Wild West. The book's prologue sets the stage by giving funny examples of the notions of ''tenderfoot'', ''greenhorn'' and ''dude''.

* The animated short ''WesternAnimation/WildLife'' (nominated for an Oscar in 2012), tells the story of a RemittanceMan from England who moves to Alberta, and soon finds himself ill-prepared for the harshness of the terrain or the prejudices that the locals have towards the [[UpperClassTwit upper-class twits]] who have descended upon their country. [[DownerEnding It doesn't end well for him]]...

* Here's one for a non-Western setting: In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Quint is really apprehensive about going out to sea with Hooper and Brodie for similar reasons. Hooper is a rich guy (Quint derides his "soft hands... been countin' money all your life."), and Brodie is severely afraid of water, though in his case it might be less of a "city slicker" type deal than the fact that he's just TheLandlubber.

* Of course, lots of them in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', of all types.

* In ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'', John Henry Hunter is [[http://squidbunnies.com/nto/?p=524 taken for one]] based largely on his [[ManInWhite fancy white clothes]].

A person, new to TheWildWest, who's seen as an {{acceptable target|s}} by [[GoodOlBoy the locals]]. By stereotype, a CitySlicker is flashily dressed in big-city fashions, thinks rural folks are idiots, and is unused to manual labor.