History Main / ReallyWasBornYesterday

Subverting the old joke, this character ''really was'' born yesterday, or this week at least, either artificially aged or just plain made the age they are now. They tend not to understand slang, or much of anything else, and will misunderstand social rules with [[HilarityEnsues usually comic results]]. May also be the result of a person being born normally but kept in some kind of stasis and never being conscious during their development since they still awake as a 'new' person.

* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' mentioned the idiom in one of the books, telling how you (the reader) were probably not born yesterday. The author adds, [[LemonyNarrator "Unless, of course, you]] ''[[LemonyNarrator were]]'' [[LemonyNarrator born yesterday, and in that case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on having learned how to read so early in life."]]

-->-- '''Prince Lir''', ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn''[[hottip:*:This is said the first time he sees the unicorn, who was indeed changed into a human woman only the previous night.]]

* The Sylvari from ''{{Guild Wars}}: Eye of the North'' and ''{{Guild Wars 2}}'' are this, as they are a new race just getting their foothold. You actually get to see the 'birth' of the first Sylvari in a cutscene in Eye of the North.
* Grunt from ''MassEffect2'', and he's basically ''born'' in your cargo bay.

* [[spoiler: Klaymen himself]] in ''TheNeverhood.'' The world is a kind of Eden (both metaphorically and, er, [[RuleOfSymbolism metaphorically]]), so it's not surprising there would be some literally new people in it.

* Dawn Summers in the fifth season of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer.''

* ''Film/TheLastUnicorn'': Lady Amalthea is immediately noticeable as having a "newness" to her, where each movement she makes indicates that she's doing many things for the first time. This happens to be because [[spoiler:up until that point, she was a unicorn]].

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* ''{{Pinocchio}}'', a boy is carved from wood and brought to life.

* TheBible: Adam, then Eve.

* ''{{Pinocchio}}'', the original source.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the [[TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton film of the same title]]

Subverting the old joke, this character ''really was'' born yesterday, or this week at least, either artificially aged or just plain made the age they are now. They tend not to understand slang, or much of anything else, and will misunderstand social rules with [[HilarityEnsues usually comic results]]. May also be Op result of a person being born normally but kept in some kind of stasis and never being conscious during their development since they still awake as a 'new' person.

Contrast ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, compare EmergentHuman, PinocchioSyndrome. They're often prone too BluntMetaphorsTrauma as well. Can be coupled with ArtificialHuman if they were recently created. The extreme end of YoungerThanTheyLook. Pairs well with BornAsAnAdult.

Contrast ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, compare EmergentHuman, PinocchioSyndrome. They're often prone too BluntMetaphorsTrauma as well. Can be coupled with ArtificialHuman if they were recently created. The extreme end of YoungerThanTheyLook.

* ''{{Series/Young Justice}}'': Superboy.

* A common occurrence in ''{{In Nomine}}'', where the angel or demon who was first sent to Earth this morning will nonetheless usually be wearing a body that looks like an adult human.

* KOS-MOS from ''{{Xenosaga}}'' is activated for the first time during the events of the first game. [[spoiler: Although she does share data with a buggy prototype that was activated once before.]]

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* In ''TheWiz'', the Scarecrow's IAmSong is called "I Was Born on the Day Before Yesterday".
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* In the Ender's Game series' fourth book ''Children of the Mind'', Ender gives one of his three bodies to Jane, an entity living within the computer network for 3000+ years. Ender himself then takes up his third body and his original fades to dust.

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* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' mentioned the idiom in one of the books, telling how you (the reader) were probably not born yesterday. The author adds, [[LemonyNarrator "Unless, of course, you ''were'' born yesterday, and in that case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on having learned how to read so early in life."]]

* Peep in ''PeepAndTheBigWideWorld'' is a baby male chicken about as intelligent as a human first grader. In one episode he recalls his entire life, which actually did start yesterday.

* Luke and Sky Smith from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' spinoff ''TheSarahJaneAdventures''.

* Luke Smith from ''Series/DoctorWho'' spinoff ''TheSarahJaneAdventures''.

* Belphoebe in the ''WhateleyUniverse'' is a cloned drow created by one student (Belphegor) using the cloning chamber he'd stolen from another (Jobe Wilkins) and accidentally imprinted with a copy of his own memories.

* Chii in ''{{Chobits}}''. Not in a physical sense, her body is a robot that has existed for a while. But she's dead at the beginning of the series, and in the first episode she gets reincarnated into her own body. Her new self is very much born yesterday, having to learn everything.

-->--'''Prince Lir, ''TheLastUnicorn''.'''[[hottip:*:This is said the first time he sees the unicorn, who was indeed changed into a human woman only the previous night]]

* ''TheLastUnicorn'' novel: Lady Amalthea is immediately noticeable as having a "newness" to her, where each movement she makes indicates that she's doing many things for the first time. This happens to be because [[spoiler:up until that point, she was a unicorn.]]

* ''TheLastUnicorn'': Lady Amalthea is immediately noticeable as having a "newness" to her, where each movement she makes indicates that she's doing many things for the first time. This happens to be because [[spoiler:up until that point, she was a unicorn.]]