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** Aang the Avatar is like this in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. He's so naïve and kinda ditzy that characters easily forget that he's already a master-level Airbender when the show begins. The fact he's a 12-year-old kid doesn't help, either. Thankfully, none of that gets in the way of him learning '''everything''' -- '''''FAST.'''''
** Korra from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is skilled in three of the four elements, but due to her sheltered upbringing, she's socially inept when she goes to Republic City and discovers the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized enemies]] [[ChessMaster that]] call it home.

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** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Aang the Avatar Avatar]] is like this in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. He's so naïve and kinda ditzy that characters easily forget that he's already a master-level Airbender when the show begins. The fact he's a 12-year-old kid doesn't help, either. Thankfully, none of that gets in the way of him learning '''everything''' -- '''''FAST.'''''
** Korra [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraAvatarKorra Korra]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is skilled in three of the four elements, but due to her sheltered upbringing, she's socially inept when she goes to Republic City and discovers the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized enemies]] [[ChessMaster that]] call it home.



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* Goku from ''Manga/DragonBall'' spent most of his childhood on his own after his adoptive father died, so at the start he lacks even the most basic skills, such as personal hygiene, maths, social skills and the like... he gets better along the story but remains naïve enough to fall for the oldest and dumbest tricks in the book (for example, he's fooled when Raditz tells an obvious lie, and is shocked that he would lie)... he's also a powerhouse of brute strength, agility and endurance AND he's a genius in all things related to martial arts. Clearly SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining.
** It's even [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] during the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament. At one point during his fight with Goku, [[PaperThinDisguise Jackie Chun]] switches to [[DrunkenBoxing Drunken Fist]] ''specifically because'' Goku is too young to understand how a drunk person moves, giving Jackie an edge (albeit temporarily).

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* Goku from ''Manga/DragonBall'' spent most of his childhood on his own after his adoptive father died, so at the start he lacks even the most basic skills, such as personal hygiene, maths, social skills and the like... he gets better along the story but remains naïve enough to fall for the oldest and dumbest tricks in the book (for example, he's fooled when Raditz tells an obvious lie, and is shocked that he would lie)... he's also a powerhouse of brute strength, agility and endurance AND he's a genius in all things related to martial arts. Clearly SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining.
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SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining. It's even [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] during the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament. At one point during his fight with Goku, [[PaperThinDisguise Jackie Chun]] switches to [[DrunkenBoxing Drunken Fist]] ''specifically because'' Goku is too young to understand how a drunk person moves, giving Jackie an edge (albeit temporarily).
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** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' are examples, both Peter Parker and ComicBook/MilesMorales. They have a defined sense of good and evil and no accountability, and were just teenagers. The politics behind what SHIELD and ComicBook/TheUltimates do and don't do is usually news to them. They also frequently fall into DestructiveSaviour mode, and SHIELD has to clean up behind them.

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** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' are examples, both Peter Parker and ComicBook/MilesMorales.[[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]]. They have a defined sense of good and evil and no accountability, and were just teenagers. The politics behind what SHIELD and ComicBook/TheUltimates do and don't do is usually news to them. They also frequently fall into DestructiveSaviour mode, and SHIELD has to clean up behind them.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/VentureBrothers'' episode "The Lepidopterists", 21 and 24 are accompanied by Henchman #1, a totally by-the-book henchman who's [[GenreBlindness clearly never been on a single mission]]. While 21 and 24 infiltrate JJ's museum with carefree abandon (due to their SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder status), Henchman 1 continually runs into problems and is eventually hunted down by Brock Samson. Throughout their mission, 21 and 24 attribute Henchman 1's difficulties to him being a newbie and not actually knowing what he's doing and tell him exactly how he's going to die (at Brock's hands).

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In the ''WesternAnimation/VentureBrothers'' episode "The Lepidopterists", 21 and 24 are accompanied by Henchman #1, a totally by-the-book henchman who's whose [[GenreBlindness clearly never been on a single mission]]. While 21 and 24 infiltrate JJ's museum with carefree abandon (due to their SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder status), Henchman 1 continually runs into problems and is eventually hunted down by Brock Samson. Throughout their mission, 21 and 24 attribute Henchman 1's difficulties to him being a newbie and not actually knowing what he's doing doing, and continue to tell him exactly how he's going to die (at Brock's hands).
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* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'': This is why Jason refuses to let Cass help with the search for the Joker in the latter half of the story. While she is easily on the same level as Bruce in hand-to-hand combat, it takes more than martial prowess to capture the Joker, and Cass still has very little knowledge of the outside world and experience as a vigilante.

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* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'': ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeNyame'': This is why Jason refuses to let Cass help with the search for the Joker in the latter half of the story. While she is easily on the same level as Bruce in hand-to-hand combat, it takes more than martial prowess to capture the Joker, and Cass still has very little knowledge of the outside world and experience as a vigilante.
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** Princess Tana from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' starts like this. She ''is'' a PluckyGirl with quite the talent to ride pegasi and use a BladeOnAStick, but she's also very sheltered by her brother and has just finished her official training. This leads her to catch a huge DistressBall in Ephraim's route, but with some training, she can become quite the powerhouse.

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** Princess Tana from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' starts like this. She ''is'' a PluckyGirl with quite the talent to ride pegasi and use a BladeOnAStick, spear, but she's also very sheltered by her brother and has just finished her official training. This leads her to catch a huge DistressBall in Ephraim's route, but with some training, she can become quite the powerhouse.
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** One of the series creators has outright stated they consider him "our Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (See above example).

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** One of the series creators has outright stated they consider him "our Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''" (See above example).
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* ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': Emilia Justina/Emi Yusa is very powerful and charismatic, but is genuinely shocked to discover that the Church of Ente Isla, which she had been fighting for her entire life, is {{corrupt|Church}}; her friends, Albert and Emeralda, are not too surprised to discover this themselves. Furthermore, she is unaware that Suzuno is another Ente Isla native, something that Maou and his group [[EverybodyKnewAlready knew from the minute she saw them]], until Suzuno explicitly told her so to her face; Suzuno herself is absolutely ''shocked'' that Emi didn't figure it out herself.

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* ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': Emilia Justina/Emi Yusa is very powerful and charismatic, but is genuinely shocked to discover that the Church of Ente Isla, which she had been fighting for her entire life, is {{corrupt|Church}}; her friends, Albert and Emeralda, are not too surprised to discover this themselves. Furthermore, she is unaware that Suzuno is another Ente Isla native, something that Maou and his group [[EverybodyKnewAlready knew from the minute she saw them]], until Suzuno explicitly told her so to her face; Suzuno herself is absolutely ''shocked'' that Emi didn't figure it out herself.



* Shichika of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'': He's spent his entire life on a remote island cut off from civilization with only his sister and his father. He can't even tell other humans apart from each other by sight alone. While he did receive 20 years of training in Kyotoryuu, a powerful fighting style that is essentially "swordsmanship without a sword", he lacks actual battle experience. This actually cost him a quick victory in Episode 2 when he was caught off guard by his opponent's sword pressure and inadvertently held back on what would have been a decisive blow. Fortunately he had a backup plan in that case.

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* Shichika of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'': ''Literature/{{Katanagatari}}'': He's spent his entire life on a remote island cut off from civilization with only his sister and his father. He can't even tell other humans apart from each other by sight alone. While he did receive 20 years of training in Kyotoryuu, a powerful fighting style that is essentially "swordsmanship without a sword", he lacks actual battle experience. This actually cost him a quick victory in Episode 2 when he was caught off guard by his opponent's sword pressure and inadvertently held back on what would have been a decisive blow. Fortunately he had a backup plan in that case.



* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':
** This is how Reina is introduced, being completely naïve about how her lambasting fellow hunters could get her into a fight with them, which is called out with BrutalHonesty by Akira. Meanwhile he’s actually really impressed with her fighting skill. But she still falls for a WoundedGazelleGambit after that, and it takes a while for her to stop being WillfullyWeak by wearing cheaper armor than she can afford simply to prove herself. Reina eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of this]] and into a GuileHero.
** TheRival Katsuya, on the other hand, despite being talented, never seems to learn. He just keeps on repeating the same mistakes, getting his subordinates killed, and being easily manipulated (especially if said lies make Akira, the one he’s a GreenEyedMonster of, look bad).

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** This is how Reina is introduced, being completely naïve about how her lambasting fellow hunters could get her into a fight with them, which is called out with BrutalHonesty by Akira. Meanwhile he’s Meanwhile, he's actually really impressed with her fighting skill. But she still falls for a WoundedGazelleGambit after that, and it takes a while for her to stop being WillfullyWeak by wearing cheaper armor than she can afford simply to prove herself. Reina eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of this]] and into a GuileHero.
** TheRival Katsuya, on the other hand, despite being talented, never seems to learn. He just keeps on repeating the same mistakes, getting his subordinates killed, and being easily manipulated (especially if said lies make Akira, the one he’s he's a GreenEyedMonster of, look bad).



* In ''LightNovel/VioletEvergarden'', this was Violet's initial problem when it came to writing letters as noted by the Doll teacher. She was the only one in her class to attain perfect grades in vocabulary and grammar, as well as having excellent typing skills, but Violet simply lacked the social skills to accurately decipher a person's true letter and express it properly in a letter.

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* In ''LightNovel/VioletEvergarden'', ''Literature/VioletEvergarden'', this was Violet's initial problem when it came to writing letters as noted by the Doll teacher. She was the only one in her class to attain perfect grades in vocabulary and grammar, as well as having excellent typing skills, but Violet simply lacked the social skills to accurately decipher a person's true letter and express it properly in a letter.
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** Brienne is a woman in a male-dominated society and is able to fight on equal level with many of them in a stand-up fight--the first thing she does on screen is defeat [[KnightInShiningArmour Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers, who is widely agreed to be one of the greatest fighters alive. Even [[BloodKnight Jaime]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Kingslayer"]] [[MemeticBadass Lannister]] admits she's stronger than him, though he also says she needs more experience to be truly deadly. Unfortunately, Brienne is a WideEyedIdealist in a CrapsackWorld where AnyoneCanDie. This [[FailureKnight doesn't work very well]] for her.

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** Brienne is a woman in a male-dominated society and is able to fight on equal level with many of them in a stand-up fight--the first thing she does on screen is defeat [[KnightInShiningArmour Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers, who is widely agreed to be one of the greatest fighters alive. Even [[BloodKnight Jaime]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Kingslayer"]] [[MemeticBadass Jaime "Kingslayer" Lannister]] admits she's stronger than him, though he also says she needs more experience to be truly deadly. Unfortunately, Brienne is a WideEyedIdealist in a CrapsackWorld where AnyoneCanDie. This [[FailureKnight doesn't work very well]] for her.
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* Dr. Tenma in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. He's a surgical prodigy and an excellent doctor in general, but he's completely oblivious about Dr. Heinemann's political games, and that costs him the life of a patient he could have saved. After that, he gets better and evolves into an AllLovingHero.

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* Dr. Tenma in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''.''Manga/{{Monster}}''. He's a surgical prodigy and an excellent doctor in general, but he's completely oblivious about Dr. Heinemann's political games, and that costs him the life of a patient he could have saved. After that, he gets better and evolves into an AllLovingHero.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "The Lepidopterists", 21 and 24 are accompanied by Henchman #1, a totally by-the-book henchman who's [[GenreBlindness clearly never been on a single mission]]. While 21 and 24 infiltrate JJ's museum with carefree abandon (due to their SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder status), Henchman 1 continually runs into problems and is eventually hunted down by Brock Samson. Throughout their mission, 21 and 24 attribute Henchman 1's difficulties to him being a newbie and not actually knowing what he's doing and tell him exactly how he's going to die (at Brock's hands).

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' ''WesternAnimation/VentureBrothers'' episode "The Lepidopterists", 21 and 24 are accompanied by Henchman #1, a totally by-the-book henchman who's [[GenreBlindness clearly never been on a single mission]]. While 21 and 24 infiltrate JJ's museum with carefree abandon (due to their SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder status), Henchman 1 continually runs into problems and is eventually hunted down by Brock Samson. Throughout their mission, 21 and 24 attribute Henchman 1's difficulties to him being a newbie and not actually knowing what he's doing and tell him exactly how he's going to die (at Brock's hands).
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* ''Fanfic/ThroughHerEyes'':
** Weiss is this, as in canon, having never really faced any actual Grimm before. She also gets distracted and emotional easily, hindering her.
** Ruby is also this, as Pyrrha notes at one point. She's legitimately skilled with Crescent Rose, especially when fighting Grimm, but she tends to hesitate before attacking too much when sparring, focuses on defending her teammates to the point that she leaves herself vulnerable, and sometimes is less than fully aware of the positioning of nearby walls. Later, she assumes that someone trying to sell her and Blake drugs was attempting to sell them [[AnIcePerson Ice Dust]], and didn't realize it until Blake said that she was reasonably certain that he was a drug dealer.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Something of a stereotype among the Tau, who have some of the best tech in the galaxy but a depressingly naive outlook on how other species work. In one case, they celebrated the arrival of Necrons who'd obliterated a Tyranid fleet by sending a diplomatic party including an Ethereal... who were then promptly obliterated by the Necrons.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Something of a stereotype among the Tau, who have some of the best tech in the galaxy, but an unfortunate tendency to assume that the rest of the galaxy but a depressingly naive outlook on how other species work. In one case, is as sensible as they celebrated are, instead of everyone being AlwaysChaoticEvil [[StupidEvil to the arrival point of Necrons who'd obliterated a Tyranid fleet by sending a diplomatic party including an Ethereal... who were then promptly obliterated by the Necrons.occasional absurdity]].
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Orihime has martial arts ability. In fact, she has black-belt level skill. She also has a one-hit kill ability that could potentially be devastating. The snag is that she is too idealistic and soft-hearted to be able to function as a warrior. The end result is someone who struggles to possess the mentality for battle which affects her skills and power. She's been working on this REAL hard.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Orihime has martial arts ability. In fact, she has It might surprise you to know that [[CloudCuckoolander Orihime]] is actually a theoretically superlative fighter; she's a black-belt level skill. She also has a one-hit kill ability that could martial artists, and her spiritual powers allow her to block any attack, heal any injury, and potentially be devastating. The snag is that she is too idealistic and soft-hearted to be able to function as a warrior. The end result is someone who OneHitKill any opponent. She still struggles to possess the mentality for in battle which affects and has to be protected because for all her skills and power. She's been power, she's still an ActualPacifist high school student, not a BloodKnight like Ichigo or a trained warrior like the Gotei 13. She spends most of the series working on this REAL hard.to overcome her own hesitance in battle so she can stop being TheLoad.



* In the beginning Goku from ''Manga/DragonBall'' lacks even the most normal skills, such as personal hygiene, maths, social skills and the like... he gets better along the story but remains naïve enough to fall for the oldest and dumbest tricks in the book (for example, he's fooled when Raditz tells an obvious lie, and is shocked that he would lie)... he's also a powerhouse of brute strength, agility and endurance AND he's a genius in all things related to martial arts. Clearly SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining.
** It's even [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] during the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament. At one point during his fight with Goku, [[PaperThinDisguise Jackie Chun]] switches to Drunken Fist ''specifically because'' Goku is too young to understand how a drunk person moves, giving Jackie an edge (albeit temporarily).

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* In the beginning Goku from ''Manga/DragonBall'' spent most of his childhood on his own after his adoptive father died, so at the start he lacks even the most normal basic skills, such as personal hygiene, maths, social skills and the like... he gets better along the story but remains naïve enough to fall for the oldest and dumbest tricks in the book (for example, he's fooled when Raditz tells an obvious lie, and is shocked that he would lie)... he's also a powerhouse of brute strength, agility and endurance AND he's a genius in all things related to martial arts. Clearly SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining.
** It's even [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] during the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament. At one point during his fight with Goku, [[PaperThinDisguise Jackie Chun]] switches to [[DrunkenBoxing Drunken Fist Fist]] ''specifically because'' Goku is too young to understand how a drunk person moves, giving Jackie an edge (albeit temporarily).
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** Klavier Gavin at age 17 was a legitimately talented prosecutor despite his ImprobableAge, but his lack of experience meant he never realized when he was being used as an UnwittingPawn in a FrameUp.[[spoiler: Albeit that the framer was his brother Kristoph, so it's understandable that he didn't want to consider that Kristoph might be lying.]]
** Vera Misham is an excellent artist, but [[spoiler:her age and trauma regarding being kidnapped because of the extremely accurate forgeries she made (the kidnapper thought her father Drew was the forger, but kidnapped Vera anyway to get to him) mean that she's also a shut-in with NoSocialSkills, and she easily falls prey to Kristoph's charms and allows him to almost kill her by giving her poison under the guise of a good luck charm that would protect her if she ever left her house.]]

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* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': When protagonist Ayato Amagiri faces minor {{recurrer}} Elliot Forster in the Phoenix Festa semifinal, he comments in his InternalMonologue that, given time and practice, Elliot might become better with the sword than himself. Until then, though, despite only having his backup weapon instead of his usual Orga Lux Ser Veresta, Ayato's greater experience and physical strength from being a few years older give him enough of an edge to win.


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* ''Literature/TheAsteriskWar'': When protagonist Ayato Amagiri faces minor {{recurrer}} Elliot Forster in the Phoenix Festa semifinal, he comments in his InternalMonologue that, given time and practice, Elliot might become better with the sword than himself. Until then, though, despite only having his backup weapon instead of his usual Orga Lux Ser Veresta, Ayato's greater experience and physical strength from being a few years older give him enough of an edge to win.
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* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'': Before arriving in [[WrongSideOfTheTracks the Barrel]], Wylan had spent the past sixteen years as a wealthy merchant’s son, and is newer to crime than any other main character. He’s also a DemolitionsExpert who’s absolutely brilliant at chemistry.
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* Shierke from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is a very skilled witch (and arguably the most useful character to have in a fight after [[PowerTrio the main three]]), but her youth and relative inexperience leads her to overestimate her abilities and make several ultimatley avoidable mistakes due to recklessness.

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* Shierke from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is a very skilled witch (and arguably the most useful character to have in a fight after [[PowerTrio the main three]]), but her youth and relative inexperience leads her to overestimate her abilities and make several ultimatley ultimately avoidable mistakes due to recklessness.
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* ''Manhwa/OnOrOff'': Kang notes that Yiyoung has a natural talent as a businessman, being capable to charm and befriend others, as well as lead and motivate his team into doing amazing work, but he is naïve and doesn't understand the corporate culture he now founds himself submerged in, nor how he can be easily manipulated or fail to demand respect from the people around him.

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* ''Manhwa/OnOrOff'': ''Webcomic/OnOrOff'': Kang notes that Yiyoung has a natural talent as a businessman, being capable to charm and befriend others, as well as lead and motivate his team into doing amazing work, but he is naïve and doesn't understand the corporate culture he now founds himself submerged in, nor how he can be easily manipulated or fail to demand respect from the people around him.
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* Shinji Ikari in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. He's shortly established as the most competent and skilled EVA pilot, beating out the much-more-experienced Asuka while in an EVA he's unfamiliar with, but [[spoiler: is easily manipulated by Gendo into accomplishing his goals and triggering a ''Fourth'' Impact.]]

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* Shinji Ikari in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. He's shortly established as the most competent and skilled EVA pilot, beating out the much-more-experienced Asuka while in an EVA he's unfamiliar with, but [[spoiler: is [[spoiler:is easily manipulated by Gendo into accomplishing his goals and triggering a ''Fourth'' Impact.]]



* All of the Heroes start out as this in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. Naofumi sees the truth after he is falsely accused while it takes the other three for the Church to try to kill them before they realize something is up.

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* All of the Heroes start out as this in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''.''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. Naofumi sees the truth after he is falsely accused while it takes the other three for the Church to try to kill them before they realize something is up.

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* In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney: Resolve'', Susato Mikotoba is an expert judicial assistant and the very reason Ryunosuke Naruhodo became a good lawyer. However, due to leaving Great Britain momentarily and alone at her father's behest to check up on his condition, she is left with no choice but to defend her best friend Rei Mambani from murder charges by herself. Susato pretends to be a man in order to act as her lawyer (as female lawyers are unheard of and prohibited to practice law). To her dismay, she realizes the pressure of being a defense lawyer is much different than her usual role by freezing on the spot in complete shock and acting very much like Ryunosuke under pressure (except sweating bullets of stress).

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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Pearl Fey is a prodigy spirit channeler, but she's still an 8-year-old girl who doesn't get family politics. She absolutely adores her cousin Maya and her mother Morgan... unaware that Morgan is actually plotting to ''kill'' Maya so Pearl could take her place as Master. She in fact serves as a SpannerInTheWorks to Morgan's plan to frame Maya for murder by retrieving evidence and proving that Ini Miney's testimony was false.
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** Liara in the first game. Young by [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]] standards, inexperienced, and will fry your brain or throw you across the room if you piss her off. [[CharacterDevelopment Not anymore in]] ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', as the [[BerserkButton Shadow Broker's attempt to do Shepard harm]] two years before have turned her into a character hellbent on getting revenge.

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** Liara in the first game. Young by [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]] standards, inexperienced, and will fry your brain or throw you across the room if you piss her off. [[CharacterDevelopment Not anymore in]] ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', as the [[BerserkButton Shadow Broker's attempt to do Shepard harm]] harm two years before have turned her into a character hellbent on getting revenge.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' fic ''Stirred'' (sequel to ''Ripples''), the Guardians are portrayed as this at the start of their tenure, as they have the strongest magic around, and absolutely no clue how to be adventurers. Several characters comment on just how incompetent their rescue party of Caleb on their first mission is — yet they still make it out against unbeatable odds (with a little secret help from Vathek and Narissa).
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* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': Kalsang is considered a prodigy amongst the next generation of airbenders and earned the rank of master at the age of fifteen. However, he lacks anything even resembling street smarts since he spent his entire life being sheltered in various Air Temples by his [[MyBelovedSmother overprotective mother]], who felt he wasn't ready to face the real world.
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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
** Uhtred is initially this; he's a talented enough young warrior to be [[WarGod Sif's]] protege, and he's not only unusually strong, but very fast for his size. He's initially facing Harry, who is barely trained, but a CombatPragmatist who's relatively experienced in life or death fights, and quite willing to do something ridiculous to win, and practised at pushing through his already ludicrous pain threshold. Guess who wins (though it is noted that it's not exactly a trick Uhtred will fall for twice).
** Hermione - she's got a vast and encyclopaedic knowledge of magic, along with many other subjects, and later develops exceptionally powerful chaos magic. However, she simply doesn't have the kind of reflexes or combat mentality that Harry does, and is unfortunately prone to assuming that MagicAIsMagicA (which with chaos magic it is very much not). However, when they end up psychically linked for a battle (or rather, [[spoiler: she literally ends up inside his head while her body undergoes DemonicPossession]]), they make for an utterly lethal combination.
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* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': Charles Xavier is much younger and inexperienced compared to Amahl Farouk, and the former is even a newbie to the astral plane when the latter introduces him to it. Charles is a WideEyedIdealist who's far too trusting, so Farouk is able to manipulate him at first. Yet Charles is such a gifted telepath that when they brawl in a psychic battlefield, Charles trounces Farouk quite handily, tearing the Shadow King's consciousness away from his body.
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-->'''Palpatine''': He had ''[[AdmiringTheAbomination such a knowledge of the Dark Side]]'', he could even stop the ones he cared about from dying... [sic] Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, [[TheStarscream then his apprentice killed him in his sleep]]. Ironic... he could save others from death, [[WhatAnIdiot but not himself]].

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* ''Manhwa/OnOrOff'': Kang notes that Yiyoung has a natural talent as a businessman, being capable to charm and befriend others, as well as lead and motivate his team into doing amazing work, but he is naïve and doesn't understand the corporate culture he now founds himself submerged in, nor how he can be easily manipulated or fail to demand respect from the people around him.

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