Tv Tropes Fish Out Of Water

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Naturally, Fish Out of Water have a danger of becoming awkward the longer a show runs. Or conversely, if they become used to their new surroundings, the risk is that their original characterization will be less applicable (same if they return to their old familiar surroundings).

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If the character quickly adapts to the new conditions and finds it better than back home, it's Like a Duck Takes to Water. If however, they decide to change things to how they used to be back home, they are a Blithe Spirit. See also Graceful in Their Element.

Anime & Manga

• One of the main characters in Planetes is Ai Tanabe, a Japanese girl who achieves her childhood dream of working in space. Working in a zero-gravity environment is new to her, and many of the earlier episodes are focused on her learning to adapt to life on board the station. The culture of an international space craft is just as foreign to her as the weightlessness of space.
• Full Metal Panic!'s Sousuke Sagara, despite being ethnically Japanese, was raised in war-torn Afghanistan. His mission places him (and his two American squadmates) in Tokyo, where Sousuke is forced to adapt to life as a normal high school student. The spin-off series Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu focuses on the comedy of Sousuke's attempt to adapt to the cultural differences of life in Japan.
• For the early part of the story, Kaname (Sousuke's love interest) writes him off as an insane military and mecha Otaku. Then their entire class gets abducted by terrorists; at the point where Sousuke finds and commandeers a mecha, Kaname finally realizes he was telling the truth the whole time and gets an Internal Monologue telling herself "You're in his world now."
• There's actually a not-so-different aspect to this, since Kaname herself spent a good portion of her youth in New York and as a result has a much more "American" personality (assertive, emotionally open, and short-tempered), meaning in some ways she's just as alien to Japanese society as Sousuke. She actually has the In-Series Nickname "The School Idol Nobody Wants to Date" because while she's very attractive, intelligent, and athletic, her personality tends to drive guys away.
• In Bizenghast, Edrear and Edaniel go to by a present for Dinah. Since Edrear has only ever left the Mausoleum for work, he knows nothing about human society. Because of this, Edaniel managed to get him in a skirt as part of his human disguise. Edrear also asked for directions to a store that was directly behind him(although this may be more to do with the fact that he is illiterate) and apparently put a quarter in a mailbox to see if a gum ball came out.
• Squid Girl features a literal fish squid out of water as the title character.
• Croise in a Foreign Labyrinth, which is about young Japanese girl who tries to adjust to her new life as a housekeeper in late 19th-century France.
• Kamisama Kiss is about a Ordinary High-School Student stumbling into the world of Shinto gods, demons and magic.
• In Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, a young soldier of a human galactic civilization gets stranded on a planet where the environment and culture are completely different from what he's used to.
• In Hetalia: Axis Powers, most of the characters experience this to some degree when traveling to other countries. It's most noticeable with Japan when he spends time with Italy and Germany after they form an alliance.
• Bleach: The Deicide arc reveals Chizuru has the ability to sense spirits, hollows and Soul Reapers when she regains consciousness while Karakura Town is trapped in Soul Society. Because no-one knew, she's had absolutely no information given her about the supernatural world and, since the gang are currently fleeing Aizen, she's been tossed into the deep end in the worst possible way. She has absolutely no idea what is going on and demands to be brought up to speed as soon as possible. She's well aware she may not understand everything she's told, but feels she should be told it anyway. No-one disagrees. Like the other spiritually aware school children, she's strong enough to survive Aizen's presence without dying.
• In A Certain Magical Index, mages exist secretly throughout the world, having their own culture and way of doing things. Most obviously, it's only relatively recently that technology has caught up (and surpassed, in areas) magic, so even young mages have absolutely no idea how to use even the most user-friendly machines. Why would they use a cell phone instead of a telepathy spell? Why would they use a computer instead of an enchanted book? So on and so forth. Since most of the series takes place in the most technologically advanced city in the world, they're even more out of their depth than normal.
• In Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, the young Prince Chagum has to flee the palace under the protection of Action Girl Balsa. Going from a life of luxury to being on the run is a bit of a harsh transition for him, though he adapts well later on.
• In Plastic Memories, Tsukasa is completely clueless to his new job of retrieving Giftia, or androids, near the end of their service life. Almost everyone there is a bit skeptical at being given a new employee.
• Dragon Ball:
• In the early parts of the original Dragon Ball, Goku has been raised in near isolation in the middle of the mountains and knows nothing of the outside world. Him growing up partly revolves around him getting to know the world and all the mishaps that follows because of his ignorance.
• Dragon Ball Z: To lesser extent, Gohan's misadventures in high school. Gohan lived a very sheltered life (fighting super-powered aliens and androids notwithstanding) where the only people he is close to are aliens, powerful humans, and a genius. Gohan learning how normal people act and behave is a major theme while he's in school.
• The Way of the Househusband follows "Immortal Tatsu", a Yakuza of no small repute, who has gone straight after getting married and becoming a house husband. Being a former career criminal, however, much of Tatsu's personality as a hardened gangster still seeps into his new domestic life. Hilarity Ensues.
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Due to a combination of dragons having a heavy case of Proud Warrior Race culture, along with humanity in their world being exactly like what you'd expect from a Fantasy Kitchen Sink modelled after a Medieval European Fantasy, most of the dragons, particularly Tohru, Kanna, and Elma, who come to the "main" Earth experience some difficulties adjusting to modern human life since it's completely different from everything they know. That said, there are a rare few that instead are Like a Duck Takes to Water, such as Lucoa and Telne, who despite some draconic eccentricities fit in perfectly. Though regardless of how much time each of the dragons took to comprehend this version of humanity, them spending enough time interacting with it has consistently resulted in them Going Native, feeling stronger connections to Earthly humans than they had even with other dragons back home.
• In episode 6 of Magic of Stella, Tamaki's first experience of a doujin game convention is basically being far out of her element, having no idea about some convention conventions means. When an member of the public hands her the former's sketch pad, for example, she didn't know that other person wants her to scribble for her.
• In A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Konatsu Amano, one of the two main characters, has to transfer from her high school in Tokyo to a school in Ehime, resulting in her feeling out of her element. While there, she befriends Koyuki Honami, who also doesn't have many friends due to being seen as perfect and unapproachable.
• Eris in Cat Planet Cuties, doesn't always understand certain Earth customs like nudity taboos and sometimes mistakes things depicted in Kio's Porn Stash of Mangas as being normal customs when they actually aren't such as wearing School Swimsuits to a diplomatic meeting.
• Due to her lack of confidence and inability to handle stress well, Mai "Ino" Inose in Asteroid in Love has quite a bit of distress when she is named the president. This is why, in Chapter 22/ Episode 7, Mira suggests to pick up the offer to be volunteer instructors at a children's stargazing event. As an astronomy event, Mai's responsibility is relatively light, so that she can get used to her new role.
• The second chapter of World Trigger has Kuga, a young boy from another dimension, walking around Japan doing things like offering his classmate a large wad of cash when he offers to take him out for dinner, breaking a mugger's leg, then simply knocking out another group of muggers when he's told by his Ordinary High-School Student friend that what he'd done was excessive, and offering compensation to a woman who'd crashed her car into him. He healed himself almost instantaneously, so it was likely for the car damages.
• Good Day to You, How About a Game?: Sae attends an elite girls' academy, but sticks out among the fancy young ladies like a sore thumb. She keeps her love of mahjong secret, since she's afraid they're snooty and will look down on her.

Comic Books

• Batman: Black and White, "A Matter of Trust": Bruce Wayne agrees to keep an eye on a doctor friend's twin toddlers when she has to deal with a medical emergency and can't find a sitter at short notice, and rapidly finds himself in a domestic situation that's entirely beyond his experience or training.
• Double Happiness. Being Chinese-American, Tom didn't fit in back in Boston. Then he moves in with relatives in San Francisco's Chinatown, and he doesn't fit in with them either.
• In the Franco-Belgian Comic Philmon, the titular character is frequently thrown into "Le Monde des Lettres", a magical land running on Alice in Wonderland logic. Many of the stories revolve around Philemon bumbling around lost, not knowing the strange rules of the world and getting caught up in the consequences.
• Princess Ugg has Princess Ulga, of a tribe of barbarians from the mountains, go to an Academy for Princess Classic princesses at the behest of her late mother. She has a lot of trouble fitting in there, given her vastly different upbringing.
• One of the defining traits of modern Supergirl. Unlike her more famous cousin, who left Krypton when he was too young to remember it, Kara spent her formative years growing up in Kryptonian society before she was sent to Earth as a teenager. Understandably, she has a harder time adjusting to life on Earth than Kal-El ever did, as she still considers herself a Kryptonian at heart. In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), Clark shows Kara around Metropolis. As she tries to figure hot dogs out, Clark mentions that adapting a new culture may be difficult.
• Terra: Atlee is from the subterranean Strata culture and does not really know how to act like a normal human despite posing as a human superhero. Her complete non-comprehension of social cues is part of what makes her come off as so cold and aloof.
• Wonder Woman: While in Diana's original introduction to the world outside Paradise Island she was well educated about the norms of society, but cared very little for them and had no trouble adjusting as she liked to living in the United States most subsequent rewrites of her origin make her far less prepared.
• Sensation Comics: Mala ends up in New York for most of a day, and is terribly confused. She picks up a car and throws the driver out thinking he was trying to threaten her by driving, is disgusted by posters for war films and despite being fully willing to submit to the local law keepers is convinced to lead a jail break by two career criminals.
• Wonder Woman (1987): When Diana first arrives in the US she is confused by the local culture and has a difficult time getting herself to be understood. While she adjusts there are still parts of society that she struggles with for years.
• Wonder Woman: Warbringer: Diana is mostly adjusted and educated enough to understand New York when she leaves her island to save the world, but has no real concept of money and how much things cost since there is no need for it on Themyscira. She is vaguely aware of the idea, but not at all prepared to have to pay for anything. Her clothes also make her stand out, and she's questioned about cosplaying a warrior princess which she is a bit surprised by.
• The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Diana is completely unprepared for the wider world as she'd been lied to her entire life and didn't believe any humans still lived outside the barrier around Themyscira. She is uncomfortable being around men and sticks out horribly even after Etta takes her under her wing. The first time she goes to a movie she starts yelling at the characters on screen, but she's not quite nave as she has a better understanding of the cost of war, prejudice and violence than many of those she's around.
• Nubia Coronation Special reveals that the first time Nubia operated in "Man's World" as an amazon, during an excursion to twentieth century USA, Nubia believed she could get by just by copying Diana. All goes well until Nubia witnesses an assault, apprehends the aggressor and turns him over to authorities only to be booked in jail herself. Prior to being reborn as an amazon Nubia had been Zahava, a respected princess, hunter, general and executioner of a kingdom on Madagascar. As a amazon, she had spent most of her time guarding "Doom's Doorway" and hunting down the monsters that managed to get past it, gaining her near universal respect from two amazon tribes otherwise perpetually feuding. Thus Nubia had no concept of profiling. She was completely unprepared for a society where being black could be a problem.
• All-New X-Men: The team were first Fish out of Temporal Water, and by the time they were getting used to their new reality, they got stranded in the Ultimate Marvel universe.

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