History NoSocialSkills / WesternAnimation

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]] has some moments like this due to her [[LonelyRichKid wealthy status]], and growing up thinking that [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex she needs to be the best all the time]] has caused her to diminish her people skills. At the start of her arc, Amity is shown to be Lonely Among People, even though she longs for companionship. Ironically, her AlphaBitch attitude [[HerOwnWorstEnemy sabotages any chances of helping her find genuine friendship]]. She also assumed that Luz's attempts at kindness were really Luz trying to annoy or torment her, even going so far as to view Luz's offering to help with the library kids or simply strike up a friendly conversation as instantly considered bothering her, even though [[NoListeningSkills Luz continuously tries to explain that her embarrassing Amity or getting her in trouble was unintentional]], and Amity refuses to apologize to her, only focusing on her own predicament, and [[NeverMyFault refuses to see that those incidents were largely her own fault, take responsibility for her actions, and own up to her mistakes]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has Starfire. She is an alien from another planet and thus, Earth culture is quite new to her. Additionally, her people, Tamaranians, are quite open with their emotions and how they feel, so there's often a lack of subtlety in her actions. However, it makes her endearing, especially contrasting with her older sister, who while much more socially aware and seemingly cool, is a hedonistic jerk.

** The Ice King was a once-ordinary man [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity driven mad by a cursed magical crown]]. Now he's an [[HairTriggerTemper ill-tempered]], senile hermit who lives alone in his palace of ice with only penguins for companions, which has rather put a damper on his social skills. Finn and Jake develop [[FriendlyEnemy something of a friendship]] with him, even though the Ice King gets on their nerves.

*** While Zuko is much OlderAndWiser in''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', he still has his moments, as shown in season three where he talks about the time he hired the [[HavingABlast Combustion Man]] to kill the former Avatar... in front of the current Avatar's father. Although he speaks about his assassination attempt against Aang at that time, given the nature of {{Reincarnation}} and how the show stresses how different yet so similar the Avatars are and generally all of them are the same person ever since Wan and Raava fuse together to create the Avatar Spirit, said current Avatar's father has every right to be feel uncomfortable.

*** While Zuko is much OlderAndWiser, he still has his moments, as shown in season three where he talks about the time he hired the [[HavingABlast Combustion Man]] to kill the former Avatar... in front of the current Avatar's father. Although he speaks about his assassination attempt against Aang at that time, given the nature of {{Reincarnation}} and how the show stresses how different yet so similar the Avatars are and generally all of them are the same person ever since Wan and Raava fuse together to create the Avatar Spirit, said current Avatar's father has every right to be feel uncomfortable.

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]] has some moments like this due to her [[LonelyRichKid wealthy status]], and growing up thinking that [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex she needs to be the best all the time]] has caused her to diminish her people skills. At the start of her arc, Amity is shown to be Lonely Among People, even though she longs for companionship. Ironically, her AlphaBitch attitude [[HerOwnWorstEnemy sabotages any chances of helping her for genuine friendship]]. She also assumed that Luz's attempts at kindness were really Luz trying to annoy or torment her, even going so far as to view Luz's offering to help with the library kids or simply strike up a friendly conversation as instantly considered bothering her, even though [[NoListeningSkills Luz continuously tries to explain that her embarrassing Amity or getting her in trouble was unintentional]], and Amity refuses to apologize to her, only focusing on her own predicament, and [[NeverMyFault refuses to see that those incidents were largely her own fault, take responsibility for her actions, and own up to her mistakes]].

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmity Blight Amity Blight]] has some moments like this due to her [[LonelyRichKid wealthy status]], and growing up thinking that [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex she needs to be the best all the time]] has caused her to diminish her people skills. At the start of her arc, Amity is shown to be Lonely Among People, even though she longs for companionship. Ironically, her AlphaBitch attitude [[HerOwnWorstEnemy sabotages any chances of helping her for genuine friendship]]. She also assumed that Luz's attempts at kindness were really Luz trying to annoy or torment her, even going so far as to view Luz's offering to help with the library kids or simply strike up a friendly conversation as instantly considered bothering her, even though [[NoListeningSkills Luz continuously tries to explain that her embarrassing Amity or getting her in trouble was unintentional]], and Amity refuses to apologize to her, only focusing on her own predicament, and [[NeverMyFault refuses to see that those incidents were largely her own fault, take responsibility for her actions, and own up to her mistakes]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': PlayedForDrama. [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] has a very poor sense of social conduct and socially acceptable behavior, and it's impacted her ability to make friends her age; the after-effects of this can be best seen by her fear of being made fun of by Amity for being too cheesy when she goes to ask her out. Her father's untimely death only worsened things, as her inability to cope translated into her interactions with others continuing to become increasingly desperate, to the point of acting out and misbehaving. Worse still, Luz's desire for ''[[DesperatelyCravesAffection any]]'' [[DesperatelyCravesAffection form of companionship]], in part, resulted in the overly zealous displays of creativity that she hoped would prove her worthy of friendship or affection.

** Zuko and Azula were raised in a royal court and have little experience with casual interaction. Zuko, mainly through CharacterDevelopment and the positive influence of Uncle Iroh, is better off, but Azula is far worse, to the point that it's almost [[JerkassWoobie painful]] to watch -- she has NO ability to socially function outside of a battle or when not manipulating others. [[WordOfGod Aaron Ehasz]] states that if there was a Book 4, Azula would've had a HeelFaceTurn and received mental help, and she would've become the dorky variant of this trope (i.e. randomly spouting out how she feels).
** While Zuko is much OlderAndWiser, he still has his moments, as shown in season three where he talks about the time he hired the [[HavingABlast Combustion Man]] to kill the former Avatar... in front of the current Avatar's father. Although he speaks about his assassination attempt against Aang at that time, given the nature of {{Reincarnation}} and how the show stresses how different yet so similar the Avatars are and generally all of them are the same person ever since Wan and Raava fuse together to create the Avatar Spirit, said current Avatar's father has every right to be feel uncomfortable.

* Tina Belcher of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' is generally socially inept and doesn't fully understand the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. "Human Flesh" shows several of the other Belchers outright admitting she's not good with customers (punctuated with Tina repeatedly scratching her crotch in public and Louise calling her [[AutismInMedia autistic]]), and her tendency to write "[[RealPersonFic erotic friend-fiction]]" weirds out everyone who learns about it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Korra, Avatar [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang's]] reincarnation, was whisked away to a compound deep in the south pole where she could master the four elements in complete safety and security. The only problem? After coming to Republic City with only her best friend Naga (a Polar-Bear Dog), she is almost completely tactless when it comes to dealing with the locals of the city and proves to be InnocentlyInsensitive when she winds up involved in a LoveTriangle. A lot of people are able to influence her because of this.

** Twilight Sparkle starts out like this due to her voluntary asocial lifestyle. Half the reason she's ''in'' Ponyville is so she can learn about friendship. She needed a ''book'' to tell her what a slumber party was and how to throw it! In the episode "Baby Cakes", she casually (and {{innocently|Insensitive}}) tells Pinkie Pie that she pretty much expected Pinkie would be out of her depth caring for twin babies. She doesn't appear to notice that Pinkie is offended by this statement even as Pinkie kicks her out of Sugarcube Corner. She [[CharacterDevelopment gets better]] as the series goes along.
** And then you've got Princess Luna, though that can be excused for being [[FishOutOfTemporalWater sealed in the moon for a thousand years.]] She's bombastic, dramatic and a bit over the top, but she comes off as a big dork when she begins settling in. The comic books also add to this and we also see she was not as good with her subjects as Celestia was. Her lack of social skills, especially compared to Celestia's, when it came to interacting with their subjects and viewing them, may have been part of why Celestia was preferred to Luna.
** As Discord never really had any friends, he does not have much social skills, being more socially awkward and acting outwardly strange and loud.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': PlayedForDrama. Luz has a very poor sense of social conduct and socially acceptable behavior, and it's impacted her ability to make friends her age; the after-effects of this can be best seen by her fear of being made fun of by Amity for being too cheesy when she goes to ask her out. Her father's untimely death only worsened things, as her inability to cope translated into her interactions with others continuing to become increasingly desperate, to the point of acting out and misbehaving. Worse still, Luz's desire for ''[[DesperatelyCravesAffection any]]'' [[DesperatelyCravesAffection form of companionship]], in part, resulted in the overly zealous displays of creativity that she hoped would prove her worthy of friendship or affection.

* Entrapta in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' has very poor social skills, preferring to spend most of her time alone, making robots. She tends to mention extremely disturbing facts regardless of other people's feelings, gets distracted whenever she's around tech, likes getting into people's space and taking things without asking, never seeming to notice her comrades' frustration. However, [[spoiler:it turns out she's actually well aware of her poor people skills and is insecure over her inability to maintain relationships, having been abandoned multiple times by her friends. Nonetheless, she decides to put her skills to use to help them in ways she can]]. Justified in that Entrapta has been confirmed to be autistic, and therefore has difficulty interacting.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', [[SixthRanger Peridot]] has incredibly poor social skills in regards to humans and the Crystal Gems due to being new to the planet. She's revealed to not understand why she feels bad (small) when she accidentally hurts someone's feelings. She also doesn't understand why Garnet chooses to stay fused or why the others don't treat Pearl as she was taught a member of her SlaveRace should be treated. Though it's shown that this is a result of her conditioning on Homeworld, as she quickly learns all of them spending time with the Crystal Gems.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* [[HomeschooledKids Ezekiel]] from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama.''

* Zuko and Azula from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' were raised in a royal court and have little experience with casual interaction. Zuko, mainly through CharacterDevelopment and the positive influence of Uncle Iroh, is better off, but Azula is far worse, to the point that it's almost [[JerkassWoobie painful]] to watch -- she has NO ability to socially function outside of a battle or when not manipulating others. [[WordOfGod Aaron Ehasz]] states that if there was a Book 4, Azula would've had a HeelFaceTurn and received mental help, and she would've become the dorky variant of this trope (i.e. randomly spouting out how she feels).
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Korra, Avatar [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang's]] reincarnation, was whisked away to a compound deep in the south pole where she could master the four elements in complete safety and security. The only problem? After coming to Republic City with only her best friend Naga (a Polar-Bear Dog), she is almost completely tactless when it comes to dealing with the locals of the city and proves to be InnocentlyInsensitive when she winds up involved in a LoveTriangle. A lot of people are able to influence her because of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/ParadisePD'': PlayedForDrama. Luz has a very poor sense of social conduct and socially acceptable behavior, and it's impacted her ability to make friends her age; the after-effects of this can be best seen by her fear of being made fun of by Amity for being too cheesy when she goes to ask her out. Her father's untimely death only worsened things, as her inability to cope translated into her interactions with others continuing to become increasingly desperate, to the point of acting out and misbehaving. Worse still, Luz's desire for ''[[DesperatelyCravesAffection any]]'' [[DesperatelyCravesAffection form of companionship]], in part, resulted in the overly zealous displays of creativity that she hoped would prove her worthy of friendship or affection.

* [[VillainProtagonist Reagan Ridley]] of ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'' is a MadScientist who [[ChildProdigy graduated at the top of her class from MIT at the age of 13]]. She's also a BunnyEarsLawyer who's extremely competent at her job, but her abrasive personality and lack of social skills frequently alienate her coworkers, and it's implied that [[AmbiguousDisorder she may have some kind of disorder]] as well. It's for this reason that the [[LovableJock charismatic]] NaiveNewcomer Brett Hand is brought on to help her improve team morale.