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** According to a "behind the scenes" show I saw on the Biography Channel, this is exactly what they did.

* Averted in [[DeadLikeMe]] with Daisy. It takes the rest of the reapers quite a while to get used to her.

** The vampire Vanrushal takes the cake though - after you and the exorcist Luther confront and fight him in his evil mansion (after killing dozens of evil minions) he claims that he's weakened down to near-human levels and can't stay here, so he joins your army. Without your approval. Against Luther's loud protests. (Luther joins too, to keep an eye on Vanrushal.) When I think of close, trusted allies, I think of people who have seriously tried to kill me. Granted, [[LampshadeHanging as Vanrushal points out]], he was keeping to himself and it was your party that tried to kill ''him''.

*** Sadly, [[LampshadeHanging no life-changing field trip with Zuko]] [[RunningGag for Toph]].

*** Sadly, no life-changing field trip with Zuko for Toph.

* In ''BlackLagoon'', Rock integrates rather quickly with the crew of the Lagoon, insofar he goes from being their hostage to being, at least superficially, 'one of them' in the space of about a day (although to be fair, that was ''some'' day). Rock himself {{lampshades}} this at one point and starts to wonder if he's developed StockholmSyndrome because of how calm he is over the degree of familiarity he gets with them so quickly. It's somewhat subverted with the fact that it takes about six episodes for Revy to properly accept him once he has actually joined them.

* Terra from ''TeenTitans'' meets the main cast in one episode, becomes best buds with them in a minute, then leaves in a fit of rage after (mistakenly) thinking they had betrayed her at the end of that same episode. Later, she comes back with a big smile on her face, offering her unending services to the team. They take her in, they throw her a big old welcome party, and then she attempts to murder them all. This is over-simplified; not only is the PlugNPlayFriends aspect ginormous here, Terra herself is actually very well developed as a character and the reasons for her actions are not hard to discern.

* Happens a lot in ''ExitFate'', as the game has ''75'' recruitable party members. Petra just joins the army because she doesn't think you respect a woman's strength. Shin is almost literally an incarantion of evil and tried to turn Soth into something similar ''and'' you have to fight them, but then Soth joins up to redeem himself and Shin joins because you seem interesting. The vampire Vanrushal takes the cake though - after you and the exorcist Luther confront and fight him in his evil mansion (after killing dozens of evil minions) he claims that he's weakened down to near-human levels and can't stay here, so he joins your army. Without your approval. Against Luther's loud protests. (Luther joins too, to keep an eye on Vanrushal.) When I think of close, trusted allies, I think of people who have seriously tried to kill me. Granted, [[LampshadeHanging as Vanrushal points out]], he was keeping to himself and it was your party that tried to kill ''him''.

* Happens a lot in ''ExitFate'', as the game has ''75'' recruitable party members. Petra just joins the army because she doesn't think you respect a woman's strength. Shin is almost literally an incarantion of evil and tried to turn Soth into something similar ''and'' you have to fight them, but then Soth joins up to redeem himself and Shin joins because you seem interesting. The vampire Vanrushal takes the cake though - after you and the exorcist Luther confront and fight him in his evil mansion (after killing dozens of evil minions) he claims that he's weakened down to near-human levels and can't stay here, so he joins your army. Without your approval. Against Luther's loud protests. (Luther joins too, to keep an eye on Vanrushal.) When I think of close, trusted allies, I think of people who have seriously tried to kill me.

*** That reminds me of FinalFantasyVII, when the old Cait Sith is destroyed in the ancient temple and a new one joins the party almost immediately after. In this case, it was justified in that Cait Sith was remote controlled by a Shin-Ra defector and that he sent out the new one as soon as the old one was about to get destroyed.

** How is it weird that Sanji was acting completely in-character? His two defining character traits are being an expert chef and falling in love with every pretty girl he lays eyes on. Considering how he acts the rest of the time, him being suspicious of Nami would practically be character derailment... (remember that he was very quick the first to accept Robin as a member of the crew, even knowing she had just defected from Baroque Works, just because)

** How is it weird that Sanji was acting completely in-character? His two defining character traits are being an expert chef and falling in love with every pretty girl he lays eyes on. Considering how he acts the rest of the time, him being suspicious of Nami would practically be character derailment....

-->'''The Gamemaster''': Guys, please! I want you to roleplay this. Remember you've never met this guy before, the last guys you met tried to kill you, and you're standing in the ruins of an evil, cursed castle. Just act appropriately.\\

'''Magellan''': Yes. Yes I would.\\
- ''TheGamers''

When a new character permanently joins an [[{{Nakama}} ensemble cast]], it takes an astonishingly short time for her to get to the same level of rapport with the other characters as they already had with each other (and with [[JonasQuinn the character she's replacing]]). Expect one FishOutOfWater episode, and then she'll be flirting, sharing intimate secrets, in on all the jokes.

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*** In Blackfire's case, the Titans were probably trying to be extra nice to her because she was Starfire's sister.
* Averted twice in AvatarTheLastAirbender:

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*** Not to mention that, by the third episode (or second, depending on how you count the opening two-parter), the Maquis were all happily in Starfleet uniforms, which created no tension at all from either side.

* Oliver in ''{{Coupling}}''. Goes on a blind date with one of the main characters and it doesn't work out. In the next episode he's best friends with all of her male friends.
** Possibly justified - Oliver is [[ReplacementScrappy extremely similar]] to Steve's lifelong friend Jeff, who'd just left the country.
** This trope is also employed in the second episode, when Patrick befriends then-strangers Steve and Jeff, and Jane befriends Susan. They had all met before, however, in a RetCon episode.

* Terra from ''TeenTitans''. For those if you not in the know, this character meets the main cast in one episode, becomes best buds with them in a minute, then leaves in a fit of rage after (mistakenly) thinking they had betrayed her at the end of that same episode. Later, she comes back with a big smile on her face, offering her unending services to the team. They take her in, they throw her a big old welcome party, and then she attempts to murder them all. This is over-simplified; not only is the PlugNPlayFriends aspect ginormous here, Terra herself is actually very well developed as a character and the reasons for her actions are not hard to discern.

* Terra from ''TeenTitans''? For those if you not in the know, this character meets the main cast in one episode, becomes best buds with them in a minute, then leaves in a fit of rage after (mistakenly) thinking they had betrayed her at the end of that same episode. Later, she comes back with a big smile on her face, offering her unending services to the team. They take her in, they throw her a big old welcome party, and then she attempts to murder them all. This is over-simplified; not only is the PlugNPlayFriends aspect ginormous here, Terra herself is actually very well developed as a character and the reasons for her actions are not hard to discern.

* [[HowDidWeMissThisOne Did we forget about]] Terra from ''TeenTitans''? For those if you not in the know, this character meets the main cast in one episode, becomes best buds with them in a minute, then leaves in a fit of rage after (mistakenly) thinking they had betrayed her at the end of that same episode. Later, she comes back with a big smile on her face, offering her unending services to the team. They take her in, they throw her a big old welcome party, and then she attempts to murder them all. This is over-simplified; not only is the PlugNPlayFriends aspect ginormous here, Terra herself is actually very well developed as a character and the reasons for her actions are not hard to discern.

* {{Stargate SG-1}}'s introduction of Teal'c, in which he betrays his ''god'' in a HeelFaceTurn, makes it seem odd that O'Neill trusts him so quickly, to the point of sternly insisting on his inclusion into SG-1. The TropeNamer JonasQuinn [[AvertedTrope averted]] it, however.

** Inverted once in PowerRangersInSpace. A bee-monster has no desire to serve [[BigBad Astronema]], and only wants to make friends with the civilians he's sent to terrorize; the Yellow Ranger is rather quick to trust him.

* H.G.Wells in the last episodes of season two on {{Warehouse 13}}.She joins the team suddenly in one episode, and is treated as family the next, before she betrays them in the season finale.