History Main / CuriousAsAMonkey

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%%* In ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00575.html Hortense's niece]]
%%* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', Mac, the WrenchWench [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib094.html acts like this around any new machinery.]]
%%* In ''Webcomic/WoodenRose'', [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/comic.html Lillian deduces that the strange child is this, and not evil.]]
%%* ''Webcomic/{{Dissonance}}'': Pandora.

%%* Sausage in ''{{Webcomic/WooHoo}}'' is a very modern version of this, obsessed with looking things up on the Internet while exploring and learning about the city.

* This is the defining trait of Beastbox in ''ComicBook/{{Transformers}}'', who lacks a proper robot mode and instead has a gorilla as his primary form. He's naturally curious, like an ape... but he's also easily angered and frustrated. This doesn't help him in his job as an interrogator; there isn't an Autobot who has made it out of a session with Beastbox alive.

* The kender in ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}''.

->''Oh, what's that? What is that? Ohh, that thing has numbers on it! Hey, look at that thing. No, that other thing.''

%%* ''Literature/CuriousGeorge''

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-->-- '''The Curiosity Core,''' ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''

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* [[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba.]]

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* ''[[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]]''
* This is the defining trait of Beastbox in ''{{Transformers}}'', who lacks a proper robot mode and instead has a gorilla as his primary form. He's naturally curious, like an ape... but he's also easily angered and frustrated. This doesn't help him in his job as an interrogator; there isn't an Autobot who has made it out of a session with Beastbox alive.
* Calvin in several CalvinAndHobbes strips. He throws water on his dad to test dad's reflexes, drops an expensive compass out of a tree to study gravity, and considers wetting his pants while wearing winter clothes just so he can know how astronauts feel when they go in their suits.

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* The [[TropeNamers trope-naming]] monkey himself, ''CuriousGeorge''.
* LoisMcMasterBujold's MilesVorkosigan as a child. Cordelia complains at one point that she didn't even know that a certain machine could come apart.

* "Literature/EverythingsBetterWithElves": Sal has shades of this, especially in the prequel, "If You Give an Elf a Cookie".

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* The kender in ''{{Dragonlance}}''.
* The Curious disadvantage in ''{{GURPS}}''. It overlaps with ConstantlyCurious, but the presence of this trope -- the description explicitly says that a character with the disadvantage will be the one who presses buttons to find out what they do -- is the main reason why it's a disadvantage.

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* GLaDOS' Curiosity Core, a OneSceneWonder from VideoGame/{{Portal}}, provides the page quote.

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* GadgeteerGenius Molly in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' pesters people to let her examine any machines they happen to be using. She seems to have a particular fascination with the workings of firearms, even when they're being pointed at her.
* In ''NipAndTuck'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00575.html Hortense's niece]]
* In ''ImpureBlood'', Mac, the WrenchWench [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib094.html acts like this around any new machinery.]]
* In ''WoodenRose'', [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/comic.html Lillian deduces that the strange child is this, and not evil.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Dissonance}}'': Pandora.
* In ''{{Webcomic/Freefall}}'', [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2300/fc02288.htm Sawtooth knows better than to let Qwerty carry a device]] that was able to remotely disable robot movement.

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* Dee Dee from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. "OOOOOH! WhatDoesThisButtonDo"
** Although Dee Dee's behavior occasionally blurs the line as to whether she's genuinely curious about the workings of her brother's varied and sundry inventions, or if she's just using it as a blind to obfuscate the fact that she knows exactly how much damage she's doing, and takes malicious glee in doing so.

* [[CaptainObvious Monkeys]]. Never, ever leave one unattended in your house.
* One of the defining behaviors in 'determining' autism in children is the tendency or recurrent desire to take things, mostly machines, apart, often to see how they work. (Autism, like everything else presently in the DSM, is over-diagnosed. Curiosity is not in and of itself a symptom of autism.)
* Many species of parrots and macaws, but Kea Parrots are kings of this trope. Known as "Clowns of the Mountains", their ability to solve puzzles and group cooperation, vital when living in a harsh environment, makes them a pest for residents as their curiosity often causes them to take apart cars with their sharp beaks or fly away with someone's passport.

* ''[[DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]]''

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* The protagonist of "The Caves and the Cockatrice" by ENesbit:

* In ''{{Freefall}}'', [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2300/fc02288.htm Sawtooth knows better than to let Qwerty carry a device.]]

* The 19-year-old magician Owyn from ''BetrayalAtKrondor'', with anything concerning magic.

* Dee Dee from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. "OOOOOH! What does ''[[BigRedButton this]]'' [[BigRedButton button]] do?" ([[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Trope namer]])

* In {{Bleach}}, of all people, [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, Byakuya's Zanpakuto]] is revealed to be this, childishly pressing any button in sight. The difference between [[spoiler: Senbonzakura and Byakuya]] is noted, though it was pointed out that [[spoiler: Byakuya]] acts exactly the same! Just hides that side better.

* In ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' by Jean Kerr, this is the defining trait of one of the children a toddler who could "take apart the toaster with a wooden spoon and a drying pan".

* Calvin in several CalvinAndHobbes strips. He throws water on his dad to test dad's reflexes, drops an expensive compass out of a tree to study gravity and considers wetting his pants while wearing winter clothes just so he can know how astronauts feel when they go in their suits.

->''Oh, what's that? What is that? Ohh, that thing has numbers on it! Hey, look at that thing. No, that other thing.''

* {{Lois McMaster Bujold}}'s MilesVorkosigan as a child. Cordelia complains at one point that she didn't even know that a certain machine could come apart.

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* ''{{Webcomic/Dissonance}}'': Pandora.

* Dee Dee from ''[[DextersLaboratory Dexter's Laboratory]]''. "OOOOOH! What does ''[[BigRedButton this]]'' [[BigRedButton button]] do?" ([[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Trope namer]])

* Many species of parrots and macaws, but Kea Parrots are kings of this trope. Known as "Clowns of the Mountains", their ability to solve puzzles and group cooperation, vital when living in a harsh environment, makes them a pest for residents as their curiosity often causes them to take apart cars with their sharp beaks or fly away with someone's passport.

-->-- '''The Curiosity Core,''' ''{{Portal}}''

* GLaDOS' Curiosity Core, a OneSceneWonder from {{Portal}}, provides the page quote.

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* ''[[DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]]''
* This is the defining trait of Beastbox in ''{{Transformers}}'', who lacks a proper robot mode and instead has a gorilla as his primary form. He's naturally curious, like an ape... but he's also easily angered and frustrated. This doesn't help him in his job as an interrogator; there isn't an Autobot who has made it out of a session with Beastbox alive.
* Calvin in several CalvinAndHobbes strips. He throws water on his dad to test dad's reflexes, drops an expensive compass out of a tree to study gravity and considers wetting his pants while wearing winter clothes just so he can know how astronauts feel when they go in their suits.

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* [[CaptainObvious Monkeys]]. Never, ever leave one unattended in your house.
* One of the defining behaviors in 'determining' autism in children is the tendency or recurrent desire to take things, mostly machines, apart, often to see how they work. (Autism, like everything else presently in the DSM, is over-diagnosed. Curiosity is not in and of itself a symptom of autism.)
* Many species of parrots and macaws, but Kea Parrots are kings of this trope. Known as "Clowns of the Mountains", their ability to solve puzzles and group cooperation, vital when living in a harsh environment, makes them a pest for residents as their curiosity often causes them to take apart cars with their sharp beaks or fly away with someone's passport.

* The Curious disadvantage in ''GURPS''. It overlaps with ConstantlyCurious, but the presence of this trope -- the description explicitly says that a character with the disadvantage will be the one who presses buttons to find out what they do -- is the main reason why it's a disadvantage.

Compare ElephantsChild, who asks questions from the same motive. CuriousAsAMonkey tends to be a less persistent nuisance, but makes trouble on a much grander scale. Sometimes, they overlap, when the child has moments of acting like either.