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Contrast ForgottenFallenFriend. See also RememberTheNewGuy.

** On that note, she's probably the only one who actually makes any attempt to prove her trustworthiness. Everyone else is all, "Okay, we trust you already, stop trying so hard." Oh, and don't forget [[spoiler:Russell]], although he had an excuse ([[spoiler:he was only fighting for the Empire because Gulcasa was holding his fiance hostage]]).

* Brookes in ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' - going from pretty much nobody to an integral member of the crew within all of about 10 minutes. [[spoiler: though the fact that he is pretty much ''TheChosenOne'' does somewhat account for this]]

* ''FireEmblem''. This happens so much, it is a wonder that the hero's group doesn't pick up any spies. [[spoiler: Reports are, the only spies in the series (Nasiar and Orsen) are the few characters that don't meet the heroes this way.]]

** Averted in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' when Ronon was added to the cast as a replacement. It takes Ronon a few episodes to become comfortable with the team and start forming deep relationships with them (a dead girlfriend and several years of being unable to stay in any one place for very long without endangering lives will do that to you.) He definitely takes a little longer to mesh with the team than most examples on this page, but they're all pretty tight fairly quickly.

-->-- '''''Film/TheGamers'''''

* Brookes in ''{{Breakout}}'' - going from pretty much nobody to an integral member of the crew within all of about 10 minutes. [[spoiler: though the fact that he is pretty much ''TheChosenOne'' does somewhat account for this]]

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Inverted with Reynir. On his first morning with the crew, he gets sent back to bed half because he was disturbing Tuuri's work, half because he hadn't gotten much sleep the previous night. Soon after faling asleep, he stumbles upon Tuuri's older bother Onni via the mage TalkingInYourDreams system. Onni asks Reynir how Tuuri is doing he finds out he's travelling with her, which causes Reynir to call himself "a lousy friend" for not having asked Tuuri (and at least one other person, as he used the word "them") how she felt about the expedition so far. The straighter version gets averted as the official crew had only existed as a group for only about two days when Reynir arrived, which made him an extra person to get used to having around for everyone else rather than an intruder in an established group of TrueCompanions.

* Played quite straight in ''YggdraUnion: We'll Never Fight Alone'', except the joining enemy was trying to kill you for 26 maps, and it takes less than 1 map to try and risk the male lead's life to save her. Either they're too confident, or too idiotic.

** When [[spoiler:Zuko]] joins the Gaang, he is also not welcomed immediately. He needs a separate episode with EACH of Aang, Sokka, and Katara to get their acceptance and forgiveness. Sadly, [[RunningGag no life-changing field trip with Zuko]] [[LampshadeHanging for Toph]].

* One of many reasons that Shirayuki Berii of ''TokyoMewMew a la mode'' is marked as a CanonSue. The TrueCompanions are generally inclusive and friendly, but Berii makes them practically worship her before they even ''speak'' to her.

-->--'''''Film/TheGamers'''''

* H.G.Wells in the last episodes of season two on {{Warehouse 13}}.She joins the team suddenly in one episode, treated as family the next, before she betrays them in the season finale.
* Averted in DeadLikeMe with Daisy. It takes the rest of the reapers quite a while to get used to her.

* ''FireEmblem''. This happens so much, it is a wonder that the hero's group doesn't pick up any spies. [[spoiler: Reports are, the only spies in the series (Nasiar and Orsen) are the few characters that don't meet the heroes this way.]] In ''FireEmblem'', however, in the games where you're merceneries everybody seems to think it perfectly normal to end up killing your old friends (in Gatrie's words) 'because of their poor choice in employers', so maybe it follow that it's normal to befriend the people who were trying to kill you.

* Oliver in ''{{Coupling}}''. Goes on a blind date with one of the main characters and it doesn't work out. In subsequent episodes he gets involved in the six-way phone call, and Jane later invites him to Sally's dinner party and Susan's antenatal class. By his fifth episode he's having regular drinks with Steve and Patrick, in [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Jeff's old seat]].

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* Naturally, this is a rather common trope in fan fiction, particularly crossovers.
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** And, uh... this IS Colette we're talking about. She would have taken advice from Sheena to heart if the woman was still actively trying to kill her!

* This is the case in-character for Bakura in the Monster World arc of ''Manga/YuGiOh''. Although Bakura has met Yugi and the gang before, his White Wizard character piece on an RPG game has not. The White Wizard readily joins the players' party and tries to sacrifice his life for them all within a few turns.

* This happens in season 3 of ''{{NCIS}}'' after the character of Caitlin Todd is killed off, her replacement is Mossad Officer Ziva David, who joins the team only a couple of episodes after her half-brother (the terrorist Ari Haswari) murdered Caitlin. However, this could be seen as an aversion, since they show the other members of the team being fairly open to her, but commenting on how it is odd for their boss, Agent Gibbs, to do the same. This is explained as Ziva having saved Gibbs' life when Ari came to kill him in his basement (by shooting her half-brother), forming a bond of trust that otherwise would not have occurred nearly as fast.

* The Trolls and Kids to each other in ''{{Homestuck}}'', considering they've known each other for all of a day on positive terms, although the Trolls harassed them previously. Averted however with some of the Trolls who outright refuse or seem disinterested in getting to know the Kids [[spoiler: somewhat justifiably given that they unleashed a PhysicalGod on the Trolls who started killing them]].

* Averted in ''FarScape.'' The original cast takes most of the first season to warm up to each other, new characters are in for a rough time until they prove themselves, and some (notably, Sikozu) never quite get the all-around seal of approval.

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* David from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' could almost be considered a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this; the Animorphs (except Marco and Ax) expect a relative stranger to join their team, cooperate with them, and go along with their tactics. However, the Animorphs play their hand poorly, and David is a bit too selfish for their tastes. It doesn't end well.