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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': When Kay'la obtains a viper familiar named Trowser, she's originally disappointed and calls it "useless but cute" to its face. (And, to be fair, she's a level 7 paladin with a magic warhorse fighting incredibly deadly enemies on a daily basis.) Then, Trowser comes in clutch four different times while she fights her way through a harrowing dungeon[[note]]First his blindsight lets her survive an ankheg ambush in pitch blackness, then he substitutes himself for a ceremonial scepter to solve a door puzzle, then she uses his poison to coat her blades to defeat a monster immune to slashing damage, and finally he reminds her about the acorn so she can magically grow a tree and punch through the roof to escape the dungeon[[/note]], and by the end she's proclaiming it the greatest snake of all time and jokingly offering to make it her squire.
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': When Kay'la obtains a viper familiar named Trowser, she's originally disappointed and calls it "useless but cute" to its face. (And, to be fair, she's a level 7 paladin with a magic warhorse fighting incredibly deadly enemies on a daily basis.) Then, Trowser comes in clutch four different times while she fights her way through a harrowing dungeon[[note]]First his blindsight lets her survive an ankheg ambush in pitch blackness, then he substitutes himself for a ceremonial scepter to solve a door puzzle, then she uses his poison to coat her blades to defeat a monster immune to slashing damage, and finally he reminds her about the acorn so she can magically grow a tree and punch through the roof to escape the dungeon[[/note]], and by the end she's proclaiming it the greatest snake of all time and jokingly offering to make it her squire.
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* In ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'', newbie Langa who's never once skateboarded duct-tapes his feet to a skateboard, doesn't know how to move afterwards without help, and beats the heck out of the competition just to try it (and for the sake of a new friend).
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** Davis Motomiya's and Veemon's first day on the job as second-generation Digidestined is an example. Answering a distress call, Tai, TK, and Kari all enter the Digital World and discover that their Digimon partners can't evolve and are at risk of being enslaved by the Digimon Emperor. Davis enters later, meets his new partner Veemon and earns the Digimental of Courage, enabling Veemon to Armor-Digivolve to [[{{Badass}} Flamedramon]] and save Kari (Davis' crush) from an enslaved [[RhinoRampage Monochromon]].
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** Davis Motomiya's and Veemon's first day on the job as second-generation Digidestined is an example. Answering a distress call, Tai, TK, and Kari all enter the Digital World and discover that their Digimon partners can't evolve and are at risk of being enslaved by the Digimon Emperor. Davis enters later, meets his new partner Veemon and earns the Digimental of Courage, enabling Veemon to Armor-Digivolve to [[{{Badass}} Flamedramon]] Flamedramon and save Kari (Davis' crush) from an enslaved [[RhinoRampage Monochromon]].
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* In ''The Secret of My Success'', Creator/MichaelJFox plays Brantley Foster, an up and coming business major who's trying to gain a foothold at his uncle's corporation - Primrose. Unfortunately, he applied at a time that it was ripe for a takeover. But after going over the company's ledger, and hearing from their dissatisfied business partners, Brantley soon realizes that the real problem is his uncle's lack of business sense. So he devises a way [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKKYBMjvqI to save the company]], by buying it out from under his uncle... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPCp-dOW3cI with help from his uncle's wife:]] Brantley's aunt, Vera.
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** In ''Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack'', the guests, who were initially in the middle of their "training", end up being the ones to save New York from an alien invasion.
** The guests, who are the latest recruits of NEST in ''Ride/TransformersTheRide'', ultimately are the ones to stop Megatron's invasion along with Evac, who too had never gone out into combat before.
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* At Ride/UniversalStudios:
** In ''Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack'', the guests, who were initially in the middle of their "training", end up being the ones to save New York from an alien invasion.
** The guests, who are the latest recruits of NEST in ''Ride/TransformersTheRide'', ultimately are the ones to stop Megatron's invasion along with Evac, who too had never gone out into combat before.
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* In ''Series/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'', when Apollo 12 is hit by lightning, producing glitches everywhere, EECOM John Aaron proposes "try SCE to aux," a procedure unknown by most, including Flight Director Gerald Griffin and Commander Pete Conrad. Rookie Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean does, and this saves the mission.
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* Frequent in the SilverAge ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'', usually with a "We were wrong to laugh at [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower your ridiculous powers]]" conclusion. For instance, Bouncing Boy defeating an unnamed ShockAndAwe villain because he's not grounded after being rejected ''twice''.
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** Kage's big plan to defeat the Cures in ''PrettyCureAllStars'' New Stage 2 is derailed because Miyuki invited [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana and her friends]] to the Fairy Academy -- his GreatBigBookOfEverything had nothing on the Doki-Doki team and thus couldn't exploit their TransformationTrinket weakness.
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When the NewMeat joins TheIndexTeam for an adventure and ends up saving the day and everyone's asses on it, [[FireForgedFriends earning them a permanent membership]]. If this happens in the first episode and the new member becomes TheLeader, this is a RookieRedRanger, a specific SubTrope.
Often a delayed EstablishingCharacterMoment. Compare WeWorkWellTogether, where everyone on the team is new, but they end up sticking together, anyway.
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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': Davis, Yolei, and Cody are all recruited ("chosen") to serve as replacement Digidestined, since the original team is incapacitated. Each of them gets to save the day during their respective first adventures in the Digital World.
** Davis Motomiya's and Veemon's first day on the job as second-generation Digidestined is an example. Answering a distress call, Tai, TK, and Kari all enter the Digital World and discover that their Digimon partners can't evolve and are at risk of being enslaved by the Digimon Emperor. Davis enters later, meets his new partner Veemon and earns the Digimental of Courage, enabling Veemon to Armor-Digivolve to [[{{Badass}} Flamedramon]] and save Kari (Davis' crush) from an enslaved [[RhinoRampage Monochromon]].
** Yolei and Cody, also new recruits, save the day with their partners, Hawkmon and Armadillomon, during their first stint in the Digital World. The Digimon Emperor, learning from his mistakes, immediately imprisons Davis and Veemon, preventing them from evolving. He also nearly enslaves Veemon, but Yolei and Cody pull a last-minute rescue with their armor-digivolved partners Halsemon and Digmon.
* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', Clare is the newcomer to the Paburo Hunting Party (Helen and Deneve were ''[[HeterosexualLifePartners definitely]]'' working together before, and are implied to have at least known Miria) and to hunting Awakened Beings in general, being the lowest-ranked warrior of the Organization at the time. Still, it is quickly revealed that because she became a Claymore solely to destroy a specific Awakened Being, her entire skillset is geared towards killing them, and she ends up saving everyone from a TotalPartyKill [[spoiler:[[UriahGambit that the Organization hoped this would end in]]]] and becoming a {{True Companion|s}} of the other three.
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* ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** Comicbook/GreenArrow does this in his first appearance with the League, when he shatters the diamond the League are trapped in with a diamond-tipped arrow.
** In Issue #31, a penny-ante crook discovers an artifact from another dimension and uses it to launch the Justice League into space in an attempt to asphyxiate them. However, this was thwarted by their latest inductee ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, who uses his anti-gravity belt to bring them back to land. The team was then able to track down the villain thanks to Hawkman, but the villain uses his device to create an amalgamation of the present team which defeats them all except Hawkman, who figures out the amalgamation's shortcomings and defeats the villain.
* Frequent in the SilverAge ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'', usually with a "We were wrong to laugh at [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower your ridiculous powers]]" conclusion. For instance, Bouncing Boy defeating an unnamed ShockAndAwe villain because he's not grounded after being rejected ''twice''.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''/''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' crossover, a standoff between Xavin and their mentor Chrell is broken by Klara Prast, who's only been a Runaway for less than a day.
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* In ''The Secret of My Success'', Creator/MichaelJFox plays Brantley Foster, an up and coming business major who's trying to gain a foothold at his uncle's corporation - Primrose. Unfortunately, he applied at a time that it was ripe for a takeover. But after going over the company's ledger, and hearing from their dissatisfied business partners, Brantley soon realizes that the real problem is his uncle's lack of business sense. So he devises a way [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKKYBMjvqI to save the company]], by buying it out from under his uncle... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPCp-dOW3cI with help from his uncle's wife:]] Brantley's aunt, Vera.
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* Downplayed in ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho''. On his first official Secret Investigations case, Max comes up with a creative solution that lets them save Melifaro's life ''and'' kill the MonsterOfTheWeek, while his new colleagues' ideas basically boil down to sacrificing Melifaro to make sure the monster cannot escape.
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* The first episode of ''Series/NashBridges''' sixth season introduces us to new detective Antwon Babcock just in time for him to participate in the investigation of a mad bomber. At episode's end, they find the bomb in the trunk of a car, but there's no time to defuse it. Antwon jumps into the driver's seat and drives it into the bay, bailing out at the last second. He earns a standing ovation.
* Downplayed in ''Series/DoctorWho'', at least within the revived series, where it's typical for a new companion to save the doctor on her debut episode, more or less as a way of proving her mettle to his satisfaction.
* In his debut episode, Lt. Reginald Barclay from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ends up helping La Forge save the day, once he gets dragged off the Holodeck.
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* Happened twice on the galactic scale in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' lore: during the [[BugWar Rachni Wars]], the krogan, who have only recently joined the galactic spaceflight club, save the Council Space from the Rachni. Later on, when the krogan themselves go rogue, the turians, also newcomers on the galactic arena, hold them off, earning themselves a permanent place on the Council. In the series proper, humans are also the newcomers on the historical time scale, but end up rallying the rest of the galaxy to beat back the Reapers.
*''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G. II]]'' introduced Tamao Mitsurugi's character as [[{{Fangirl}} a huge fan]] of series protagonist, Yuka Takeuichi. Not only was it her first tournament appearance, she defeated several of Yuka's old rivals, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtOpXTVMhbY as well as Yuka, herself.]] Then went on to ultimately defeat both the main antagonists: [[TheDragon Saki Shinjo]] and [[BigBad Miranda Jahana]], all of whom were older and experienced martial artists. Making this an egregious case of InstantExpert, since Tamao hadn't had any training, yet not only [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxntwMlbMk saved everyone]], she became the third canonical champion of the VG tournament [[ImprobableAge at the age of 14]], [[MovesetClone by simply emulating Yuka's fighting style.]]
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* In season 2 of ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated'', Aeofel joins the eponymous adventuring company as TheIntern. In the FinalBattle, the villains are so busy taking down the core party members that Aeofel gets through relatively unscathed and ultimately goes mano-a-mano against the end boss, killing him in single combat and preventing a TotalPartyKill. He sticks with the group for four more seasons.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', [[TheBigGuy Toph Beifong]] is introduced in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBlindBandit Book 2, Chapter 6]]. Late in the episode, when Sokka's and Katara's attempt to rescue Aang and Toph from angered pro-bending wrestlers, who think the two cheated them, goes about as horribly wrong as can be, Toph's father tries to reason with the ringmaster, saying that Toph is a tiny, blind, and delicate girl. [[BerserkButton Being called weak]] [[TheLastStraw for the millionth time by her father]] causes her to [[IAmNotLeftHanded drop her girly-girl facade]] in front of him entirely, and proceed to [[CurbStompBattle thoroughly wipe the floor with every pro-bender present]], without the help of [[TheChosenOne The]] [[PhysicalGod Avatar]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Terra (whose superpower is to [[DishingOutDirt move the earth with her mind]]) makes a serious attempt to join the team just as they're being attacked by giant robots that burrow underground; naturally, her powers make her vital towards saving the day. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since it's revealed that Terra is acting as TheMole for Slade, the supervillain beind the robots. He deliberately staged an attack that would let Terra show off her skills, impress the Teen Titans, and earn herself a spot on their team.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Superboy and Miss Martian each save their teammates during their respective first outings.
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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': Davis, Yolei, and Cody are all recruited ("chosen") to serve as replacement Digidestined, since the original team is incapacitated. Each of them gets to save the day during their respective first adventures in the Digital World.
** Davis Motomiya's and Veemon's first day on the job as second-generation Digidestined is an example. Answering a distress call, Tai, TK, and Kari all enter the Digital World and discover that their Digimon partners can't evolve and are at risk of being enslaved by the Digimon Emperor. Davis enters later, meets his new partner Veemon and earns the Digimental of Courage, enabling Veemon to Armor-Digivolve to [[{{Badass}} Flamedramon]] and save Kari (Davis' crush) from an enslaved [[RhinoRampage Monochromon]].
** Yolei and Cody, also new recruits, save the day with their partners, Hawkmon and Armadillomon, during their first stint in the Digital World. The Digimon Emperor, learning from his mistakes, immediately imprisons Davis and Veemon, preventing them from evolving. He also nearly enslaves Veemon, but Yolei and Cody pull a last-minute rescue with their armor-digivolved partners Halsemon and Digmon.
* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', Clare is the newcomer to the Paburo Hunting Party (Helen and Deneve were ''[[HeterosexualLifePartners definitely]]'' working together before, and are implied to have at least known Miria) and to hunting Awakened Beings in general, being the lowest-ranked warrior of the Organization at the time. Still, it is quickly revealed that because she became a Claymore solely to destroy a specific Awakened Being, her entire skillset is geared towards killing them, and she ends up saving everyone from a TotalPartyKill [[spoiler:[[UriahGambit that the Organization hoped this would end in]]]] and becoming a {{True Companion|s}} of the other three.
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* ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** Comicbook/GreenArrow does this in his first appearance with the League, when he shatters the diamond the League are trapped in with a diamond-tipped arrow.
** In Issue #31, a penny-ante crook discovers an artifact from another dimension and uses it to launch the Justice League into space in an attempt to asphyxiate them. However, this was thwarted by their latest inductee ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, who uses his anti-gravity belt to bring them back to land. The team was then able to track down the villain thanks to Hawkman, but the villain uses his device to create an amalgamation of the present team which defeats them all except Hawkman, who figures out the amalgamation's shortcomings and defeats the villain.
* Frequent in the SilverAge ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'', usually with a "We were wrong to laugh at [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower your ridiculous powers]]" conclusion. For instance, Bouncing Boy defeating an unnamed ShockAndAwe villain because he's not grounded after being rejected ''twice''.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''/''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' crossover, a standoff between Xavin and their mentor Chrell is broken by Klara Prast, who's only been a Runaway for less than a day.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* In ''The Secret of My Success'', Creator/MichaelJFox plays Brantley Foster, an up and coming business major who's trying to gain a foothold at his uncle's corporation - Primrose. Unfortunately, he applied at a time that it was ripe for a takeover. But after going over the company's ledger, and hearing from their dissatisfied business partners, Brantley soon realizes that the real problem is his uncle's lack of business sense. So he devises a way [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKKYBMjvqI to save the company]], by buying it out from under his uncle... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPCp-dOW3cI with help from his uncle's wife:]] Brantley's aunt, Vera.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Downplayed in ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho''. On his first official Secret Investigations case, Max comes up with a creative solution that lets them save Melifaro's life ''and'' kill the MonsterOfTheWeek, while his new colleagues' ideas basically boil down to sacrificing Melifaro to make sure the monster cannot escape.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The first episode of ''Series/NashBridges''' sixth season introduces us to new detective Antwon Babcock just in time for him to participate in the investigation of a mad bomber. At episode's end, they find the bomb in the trunk of a car, but there's no time to defuse it. Antwon jumps into the driver's seat and drives it into the bay, bailing out at the last second. He earns a standing ovation.
* Downplayed in ''Series/DoctorWho'', at least within the revived series, where it's typical for a new companion to save the doctor on her debut episode, more or less as a way of proving her mettle to his satisfaction.
* In his debut episode, Lt. Reginald Barclay from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ends up helping La Forge save the day, once he gets dragged off the Holodeck.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Happened twice on the galactic scale in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' lore: during the [[BugWar Rachni Wars]], the krogan, who have only recently joined the galactic spaceflight club, save the Council Space from the Rachni. Later on, when the krogan themselves go rogue, the turians, also newcomers on the galactic arena, hold them off, earning themselves a permanent place on the Council. In the series proper, humans are also the newcomers on the historical time scale, but end up rallying the rest of the galaxy to beat back the Reapers.
*''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G. II]]'' introduced Tamao Mitsurugi's character as [[{{Fangirl}} a huge fan]] of series protagonist, Yuka Takeuichi. Not only was it her first tournament appearance, she defeated several of Yuka's old rivals, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtOpXTVMhbY as well as Yuka, herself.]] Then went on to ultimately defeat both the main antagonists: [[TheDragon Saki Shinjo]] and [[BigBad Miranda Jahana]], all of whom were older and experienced martial artists. Making this an egregious case of InstantExpert, since Tamao hadn't had any training, yet not only [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxntwMlbMk saved everyone]], she became the third canonical champion of the VG tournament [[ImprobableAge at the age of 14]], [[MovesetClone by simply emulating Yuka's fighting style.]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In season 2 of ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated'', Aeofel joins the eponymous adventuring company as TheIntern. In the FinalBattle, the villains are so busy taking down the core party members that Aeofel gets through relatively unscathed and ultimately goes mano-a-mano against the end boss, killing him in single combat and preventing a TotalPartyKill. He sticks with the group for four more seasons.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', [[TheBigGuy Toph Beifong]] is introduced in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBlindBandit Book 2, Chapter 6]]. Late in the episode, when Sokka's and Katara's attempt to rescue Aang and Toph from angered pro-bending wrestlers, who think the two cheated them, goes about as horribly wrong as can be, Toph's father tries to reason with the ringmaster, saying that Toph is a tiny, blind, and delicate girl. [[BerserkButton Being called weak]] [[TheLastStraw for the millionth time by her father]] causes her to [[IAmNotLeftHanded drop her girly-girl facade]] in front of him entirely, and proceed to [[CurbStompBattle thoroughly wipe the floor with every pro-bender present]], without the help of [[TheChosenOne The]] [[PhysicalGod Avatar]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Terra (whose superpower is to [[DishingOutDirt move the earth with her mind]]) makes a serious attempt to join the team just as they're being attacked by giant robots that burrow underground; naturally, her powers make her vital towards saving the day. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since it's revealed that Terra is acting as TheMole for Slade, the supervillain beind the robots. He deliberately staged an attack that would let Terra show off her skills, impress the Teen Titans, and earn herself a spot on their team.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Superboy and Miss Martian each save their teammates during their respective first outings.
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