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** [[spoiler: The anthropologists studying her eventually figure out "Nellish" is just English, garbled by her speech impediment and years of living completely alone. Once they figure this out, the ability to treat it as a cipher instead of a completely unique language makes communication much easier. It also reveals that, language barrier aside, Nell can be quite eloquent when she wants to be]].

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* A lot of {{PPC}} agents came from continua where normal behaviour does not match up to that of the Real World. For example, ''{{Redwall}}''-continuum-born ferret Molly has difficulty grasping that cannibalism is not normal, and the shapeshifter Drake was born a non-anthropomorphic fox and thus when he first arrived grasped almost nothing of normal human behaviour.
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* Walter Bishop in ''{{Fringe}}'' is awkward as a central character trait: he's locked up in a a mental institution, completely isolated from the world for the past seventeen years.

* Naruto, from ''{{Naruto}}''. He initially didn't understand sex: he thought a pregnant woman just suddenly got fat. He likes to shout and insult people who can blast him away without him as much as feeling it. He can't get obvious behaviour signals such as, Sakura punching him; to Naruto, this means she's worth trying to romance. He didn't understand why Hinata was stalking him and [[spoiler: recently declaring her love and willingness to die for him when fighting against Pain]]. For him it means "she's just weird". Which is odd, as he lived two years with a Porn Writer and [[spoiler: wrote one of said porns]].\\
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When attempting to be sociable, Sai usually winds up insulting someone. He eventually learns his lesson; people seem to like it when you tell them the ''opposite'' of what you think of them.

* Spencer Reid in ''CriminalMinds'', who has a hard time fitting in with people other than the team, being a mix of InsufferableGenius and ChildProdigy.

** Near is also quite awkward and seems unlikely to get by if he had to fend for himself in the normal world. Oddly, depspite their practical problems, they both possesses great theoretical knowledge of people. His rival Mello left the Wammy's House orphanage where they were both raised at the age of 14 and is quite street-savvy in comparision.

* One episode of the ''{{Pokemon}}'' anime was about a kid who was raised by Kangaskhan. And in a [[PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure loose manga adaptation of the Diamond and Pearl (but mostly Diamond) versions]], the main character was raised by wild Pokemon. In the former's case, he was [[ParentalAbandonment lost by his parents]] when they were on vacation. In the latter case, the kid was being watched by Professor Rowan, and the good professor decided that the boy should go live with Pokemon because he could sort of communicate with them. Let me rephrase that: ''Rowan sent a small child to live in the wild with Pokemon because he thinks the kid can talk to animals.'' In Rowan's defense, it worked.

* Naruto, from ''{{Naruto}}''. He initially didn't understand sex: he thought a pregnant woman just suddenly got fat. He likes to shout and insult people who can blast him away without him as much as feeling it. He can't get obvious behaviour signals such as, Sakura punching him; to Naruto, this means she's worth trying to romance. He didn't understand why Hinata was stalking him and [[spoiler: recently declaring her love and willingness to die for him when fighting against Pein]]. For him it means "she's just weird". Which is odd, as he lived two years with a Porn Writer and [[spoiler: wrote one of said porns]].\\

** Captain Carrot was raised by dwarves who have a lot of cultural differences to humans. At one point it's {{lampshade}}d, as his adopted dwarf father muses that he'd heard of children being RaisedByWolves, and wondered if the alpha male ever had to take the child aside and start a talk like, "Now, son, you may have noticed that you're not as hairy as the others..."\\

* Clara's kids in ''TheGuild''.

For some reason, the character is mostly ignorant of and often confused by common social conventions and behaviors. He usually grasps enough to minimally function around other people most of the time, but any circumstances outside of his limited experience fluster, puzzle or (at worst) upset or enrage them.

* The title character in ''Starman'' is an alien who [[HumansThroughAlienEyes doesn't know very much about Earth and its inhabitants]].
* Danny in ''Unleashed'' aka ''Danny The Dog'' was raised like a dog -- locked up in a cage and with a leash around his neck. He has no social skill whatsoever other than some basic English language skills.

* Laura Kinney, AKA X-23, is the [[OppositeSexClone female counterpart]] to {{Wolverine}} in the MarvelComics [[TheVerse Universe]]. She is an example of the "synthetic" subtrope. Cloned in large part from incomplete samples stolen from the Weapon-X project and raised as an assassin-for-rent; she is literate, multilingual, and when she sees the need a superb actress. However her post-escape attempt to go to ground at her aunt's place (to be more exact, her first day at school) was marred by her failure to grasp that there are Knowledge Sets people do not Discuss and times/places (think Principal's Office) when one should at least feign being intimidated.

* Laura Kinney, AKA X-23, is another example of the "synthetic" subtrope. Cloned in large part from incomplete samples stolen from the Weapon-X project and raised as an assassin-for-rent; she is literate, multilingual, and when she sees the need a superb actress. However her post-escape attempt to go to ground at her aunt's place (to be more exact, her first day at school) was marred by her failure to grasp that there are Knowledge Sets people do not Discuss and times/places (think Principal's Office) when one should at least feign being intimidated.

Largely dropped by the time of ''Dragon Ball Z'', where Goku seems to be less the sheltered but fairly clever person he was as a child, and more just [[GeniusDitz a complete idiot]] when it comes to anything except beating up the bad guys. This is due to all the blows he took to the head while young.

* Horo from ''{{Spice and Wolf}}'' matches this trope to a glimmering 'T'. She is a wolf spirit/god of the harvest. She's a lot savvier about the way humans live than the others, though. She has lived with humans several times in the past, and spent centuries watching the people of a single village. Indeed, she often understands people better than they understand themselves, and isn't above emotional manipulation when it suits her. She is carefree about certain human conventions, but not because she doesn't understand them -- she just doesn't care. She also goes centuries without interacting with humans, so her social awkwardness often stems from being so out of touch with the times.
** On the other hand, the point is made that Lawrence's social skills are quite poor as well. While he's adept at communicating at others of his trade in the process of various business deals, he doesn't have much experience with people outside of the field of economics. He's ''especially'' ignorant of the courtship process.

* Jenna in Jane Yolen's GreatAltaSaga. She was raised in Seldan Hame, which, unlike the rest of the Dales, is largely untouched by the "superior" culture of the Garunian invaders.

* Rozalin from ''{{Disgaea}}2'', due to her being raised in complete isolation from the real world. [[spoiler:Which was intentional on the part of the BigBad so she would remain a socially retarded idiot completely devoted to him for her entire life]].

** Near is also quite awkward and seems unlikely to get by if he had to fend for himself in the normal world. Oddly, depspite their practical problems, they both possesses great theoretical knowledge of people. His rival Mello escaped the Wammy's House orphanage where they were both raised at the age of 14 and is quite street-savvy in comparision.