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* In ''Series/YesMinister'', "going native" is a term for when ministers start to view themselves as part of their departments rather than part of the government, and get into the Civil Service mindset of hoarding money and influence for the department rather than following the government's agenda.
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* ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'': A few of the mermaids get very attached to pretending to be humans, much to the dismay of the more misanthropic mermaids. Ondina expresses concern about how Sirena and Mimmi both got jobs and boyfriends and regularly wander around on land when their undersea chores are done. Rita and Weilan went even further, as both of them have lived on land for over a decade, being indistinguishable from humans at first glace until they get splashed.
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* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Lucius Vorenus is complimented by a high-class Roman visiting Egypt for averting this. He stays true Roman while other officials in Cleopatra's court, including the triumvir Mark Antony, go native, a sacrilegious offense to Roman eyes. See Real Life below for more info on Antony's fate.
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* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Lucius Vorenus is complimented by a high-class Roman visiting Egypt for averting this. He stays true Roman while other officials in Cleopatra's court, including the triumvir Mark Antony, go native, a sacrilegious offense to Roman eyes. See [[GoingNative/RealLife the Real Life below examples]] for more info on Antony's fate.
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* Gabriel/the Trickster from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fits this. He ran away and 'joined the Pagans', only to eventually go up against Lucifer because he actually quite likes humans and doesn't particularly want them to die. He's also shown to understand sarcasm, have conversations with people and blink regularly (Castiel had difficulty with those at first).
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* Gabriel/the Trickster from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fits this. He An archangel, he ran away and 'joined the Pagans', Pagans' and took on Loki's identity, only to eventually go up against his brother Lucifer because he actually quite likes humans and doesn't particularly want them to die. He's also shown to understand sarcasm, have normal conversations with people and blink regularly (Castiel had difficulty with those at first).
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* Gabriel/Trickster from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fits this. He ran away and 'joined the Pagans', only to eventually go up against Lucifer because he actually quite likes humans and doesn't particularly want them to die. He's also shown to understand sarcasm, have conversations with people and blink regularly (Castiel had difficulty with those at first).
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* Gabriel/Trickster Gabriel/the Trickster from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fits this. He ran away and 'joined the Pagans', only to eventually go up against Lucifer because he actually quite likes humans and doesn't particularly want them to die. He's also shown to understand sarcasm, have conversations with people and blink regularly (Castiel had difficulty with those at first).
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*** Ben Sisko went completely native over the course of the series, he started calling the wormhole aliens "Prophets", learned to read ancient Bajoran and bought land on Bajor to build a house. Several of his superiors said that Starfleet was deeply concerned by Ben's role as the Emissary and increasing assimilation into Bajoran culture, and said that they would have pulled him out if it wouldn't have totally ruined friendly relations with Bajor. Ultimately subverted in the three part pilot of Season 7, where we learn that Sisko’s “mother” was actually one of the wormhole alien “Prophets”, thereby making him partially a native of that region. She even tells him that “you are of Bajor”.
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*** Ben Sisko went completely native over the course of the series, he started calling the wormhole aliens "Prophets", learned to read ancient Bajoran and bought land on Bajor to build a house. Several of his superiors said that Starfleet was deeply concerned by Ben's role as the Emissary and increasing assimilation into Bajoran culture, and said that they would have pulled him out if it wouldn't have totally ruined friendly relations with Bajor. Ultimately subverted in the three part three-part pilot of Season 7, where we learn that Sisko’s “mother” was actually one of the wormhole alien “Prophets”, thereby making him partially a native of that region. She even tells him that “you are of Bajor”.
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*** During [[ResurrectiveImmortality her previous life in the body of Curzon]], Dax was one of the early Federation diplomats to start friendly relations with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]]. Being already kind of a boisterous hothead, he gained their respect and trust by becoming deeply involved in Klingon culture, learning their language and martial arts, as well as coming to highly appreciate their music and [[ForeignQueasine cuisine]]. Eventually one of his Klingon friends even named his son after him, and Dax was part of the group of four warriors who swore a blood oath to avenge the murder of the firstborn sons of the other three, no matter how long it would take to find their killer (a Klingon criminal known as the Albino). His connection to the Klingons was so strong that even when his body died and his mind added to that a young female scientist, it became a very major part of her new personalty. To the extent that [[spoiler:when she meets the only Klingon in the Federation as he takes down a group of bullies with his martial arts skills, she immediately gets very interested in him and eventually ends up as his wife a few years later.]]
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*** During [[ResurrectiveImmortality her previous life in the body of Curzon]], Jadzia Dax was one of the early Federation diplomats to start friendly relations with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]]. Being already kind of a boisterous hothead, he Curzon Dax gained their respect and trust by becoming deeply involved in Klingon culture, learning their language and martial arts, as well as coming to highly appreciate their music and [[ForeignQueasine cuisine]]. Eventually one of his Klingon friends even named his son after him, and Dax was part of the group of four warriors who swore a blood oath to avenge the murder of the firstborn sons of the other three, no matter how long it would take to find their killer (a Klingon criminal known as the Albino). His connection to the Klingons was so strong that even when his body died and his mind added the Dax symbiote passed on to that a young female scientist, scientist named Jadzia, it became a very major part of her new personalty. To the extent that [[spoiler:when she meets Worf, the only Klingon in the Federation Starfleet, as he takes down a group of bullies with his martial arts skills, she immediately gets very interested in him and eventually ends up as his wife a few years later.]]
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** Myrcella chews Jaime out when he comes to rescue her, declaring that she loves Trystane and Dorne is her home now.
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** Mance Rayder grew up in the Night's Watch but eventually went native among the wildlings and rose to be their king. A zigzagged example, since had been a wildling foundling taken in by the Watch to begin with.
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** Jon Snow pretends to go native when he joins the wildlings and gains a lot of insight into them in the process and his superiors accuse him of actually going native. He's unquestionably loyal to the Night's Watch but with his frequent references to the Wildlings as "Free Folk", it's more than a little obvious that his time among them has had an effect. Tormund Giantsbane even {{lampshades}} this when he suggests Jon spent too much time with them and will never be a true "kneeler" again.
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** Daenerys goes native among the Dothraki, though their RapePillageAndBurn traditions still repulse her; she is far less willing to assimilate into Qarth and Slaver's Bay, however.
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** Accusations of going native from extremists are common in the series.
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** Accusations of going native from extremists are common in the series. The xenophobic Clark regime tried to dismiss Babylon 5's opposition to them by claiming Sheridan had succumbed to a made-up condition they called "Minbari War Syndrome".
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** The first Kosh seems to have gone native with humanoids, in a sense. To the point of helping to assassinate his successor to prevent him from listening to Sheridan's plans.
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** The Doctor has, over the course of their [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very long life]], grown very fond of Earth. They still love to travel, and are a little too alien to really be considered a "native", but the Doctor loves everything about our culture, clothes, food and people. Particularly conspicuous in the Classic Series, when they frequently interacted with the Time Lords, throwing into sharp relief how utterly... well... ''alien'' their human-esque appearance and behaviour seemed to other members of their own species. The Tenth Doctor was probably the biggest example of this, almost to the point of mild PinocchioSyndrome.
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** The Doctor has, over the course of their [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very long life]], grown very fond of Earth. They still love to travel, and are a little too alien to really be considered a "native", but the Doctor loves everything about our culture, clothes, food and people. Particularly conspicuous in the Classic Series, when they frequently interacted with the Time Lords, throwing into sharp relief how utterly... well... ''alien'' their human-esque appearance and behaviour seemed to other members of their own species. The Tenth Doctor was probably the biggest example of this, almost to the point of mild PinocchioSyndrome.BecomeARealBoy.
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* On ''Series/{{The 100}}'', Octavia desperately ''tries'' to do this, embracing Grounder ways and rejecting most of her ties to the Sky People, but she can never quite gain acceptance among the Grounders. Her lover, Lincoln, is a Grounder, but the rest of his people accuse ''him'' of Going Native with the Sky People, even though Lincoln's acceptance among the Sky People is only slightly better than Octavia's among the Grounders.
* In ''Series/TheAmericans'', Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are Russian spies who were sent to America back in the 60's. After 20 years in the States, Phillip has increasingly embraced American culture, creating a rift with Elizabeth, who has remained largely loyal to the Soviet Union.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** The first Kosh seems to have gone native with humanoids, in a sense. To the point of helping to assassinate his successor to prevent him from listening to Sheridan's plans.
** Delenn was accused of doing this by other Minbari and in fact she had, biologically speaking. Culturally she remained a Minbari. Racism aside it is perhaps a legitimate fear that a diplomat will do this if in contact to long and so the Grey Council may have not been totally irrational.
** Sinclair fits in so well as Minbari Ambassador that this seems to be the trope. However, [[spoiler:it's the other way around, Minbari culture is based around his role as [[CrystalDragonJesus Valen]]]].
** Accusations of going native from extremists are common in the series.
** During his assignment to Minbar, Vir goes Full Native. Much to Londo's chagrin. The extent of his Native turn eventually causes some [[RuleOfDrama interesting story]].
** The previous Centauri ambassador to Minbar also went native, which is why the Centauri took so long to send someone again. According to JMS, he's in retreat somewhere, meditating and trying to grow a head bone.
* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': After surviving the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlacc pit]], Boba Fett is stripped from his armor by Jawas and [[MadeASlave enslaved]] by a Tusken raiders tribe. One day he saves the life of a Tusken child by killing a sand monster, and the tribe starts integrating him. He helps them getting rid of a heavily armed Pyke Syndicate train crossing their territory, and in turn they teach him their gaderffii staff-based martial art, dress him like them and have him build his own staff (he had to go through a [[JunkieProphet ritualistic]] MushroomSamba first). It doesn't end well for the tribe as they're wiped out by the Pyke Syndicate, but the experience does a lot to end Boba's [[IWorkAlone lone wolf attitude]], driving him to [[StartMyOwn form his own crime syndicate]] based on [[TrueCompanions mutual loyalty]].
* ''Series/BurnNotice''
** Michael jokingly accuses the security chief for the Pakistani consulate of going native after finding him in an Indian restaurant. May be a subversion, as the cultures of India and Pakistan are almost indistinguishable.
--->'''Waseem:''' Oh, I like the chicken tikka.
** Almost fully happens to Michael during the final season, which saw him having to live the life of a disavowed and desolate former agent in order to attract the attention of the terrorist group he needed to get in with. By the final episodes, even after making contact with his friends again, he's spent so much time with no back up, no resources, pressure from his handlers who only want top-tier results, and the largely sympathetic nature of the terrorist that got so many on his side in the first place, Michael is only moments away from embracing the other side before he is brought to his senses.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor has, over the course of their [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very long life]], grown very fond of Earth. They still love to travel, and are a little too alien to really be considered a "native", but the Doctor loves everything about our culture, clothes, food and people. Particularly conspicuous in the Classic Series, when they frequently interacted with the Time Lords, throwing into sharp relief how utterly... well... ''alien'' their human-esque appearance and behaviour seemed to other members of their own species. The Tenth Doctor was probably the biggest example of this, almost to the point of mild PinocchioSyndrome.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]], a stranded alien has been covertly living as a Welsh politician, and, even as she plots to [[spoiler:blow up the entire Earth to facilitate her escape]], grumbles that the London-based government wouldn't notice if UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} slid into the sea. She then immediately labels the moment as an example of this trope.
* Sully in ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' often seems to relate more to his Native American friends than the white folks in town.
** In the episode "Another Woman", a white woman is rescued following a raid on a Native American camp. It turns out she was raised by the tribe after having been abducted at such a young age that she barely remembers her old life or how to speak English.
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', the Peacekeepers are so paranoid about this happening to their troops that they consider ''anyone who even speaks to an alien without explicit authorization'' to have become “irreversibly contaminated”[[note]]The commanding officer who ordered that designation for so little was noted to be ''insane'' and twisting the rules to the point that the officer in question is later told she could have come back to the fold after he was relieved of command if she wished; however she actually had gone native by then and had no desire to[[/note]]. While this may seem like plain old Xenophobia at first, digging into the Peacekeepers’ past with the Eidelon “Peacemakers” reveals that these people were specifically engineered to be impartial enforcers who were never supposed to take sides in a conflict. Therefore, this extreme isolation was necessary for them to retain that impartiality.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Nandi, former [[HighClassCallGirl Companion]] (a ritualized and ''very'' high-class prostitute from the urban, "civilized" Core) turns tough-talking [[MissKitty madam]] of a rim-world brothel. Certain episodes suggest this may be happening to [[SilkHidingSteel Inara]], the show's other companion, through her association with scruffy and unrespectable folks like Mal.
** More sinister is the sole survivor of a Reaver attack on a ship. He begins to act as a Reaver because he can't mentally handle the things he saw, so he becomes the horror he witnessed. It's strongly implied that this is how the Reavers replenish their numbers.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Daenerys goes native among the Dothraki, though their RapePillageAndBurn traditions still repulse her; she is far less willing to assimilate into Qarth and Slaver's Bay, however.
** Sansa's hairstyle grows more elaborate during Season 1 as she adapts to life in the south.
** Jon Snow pretends to go native when he joins the wildlings and gains a lot of insight into them in the process and his superiors accuse him of actually going native. He's unquestionably loyal to the Night's Watch but with his frequent references to the Wildlings as "Free Folk", it's more than a little obvious that his time among them has had an effect. Tormund Giantsbane even {{lampshades}} this when he suggests Jon spent too much time with them and will never be a true "kneeler" again.
** Mance Rayder grew up in the Night's Watch but eventually went native among the wildlings and rose to be their king.
** Jaime snarks that Catelyn has become a real she-wolf (House Stark) rather than a fish (House Tully) as she became quite comfortable with her Northern home after being married off to Ned. Lysa Arryn later tells Sansa that her mother in her youth was quite a big eater and far less austere than when she was Lady of Winterfell, pointing out that she assimilated into Ned's world very easily.
** Myrcella chews Jaime out when he comes to rescue her, declaring that she loves Trystane and Dorne is her home now.
* Called out in dialogue in ''Series/GoodOmens'' when Crowley and Aziraphale survive the attempts of their respective superiors to execute them; it's Beelzebub's explanation for how Crowley, a demon, can lounge casually in a holy water bath.
* In the second season of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Mohinder works with Mr. Bennet to take down the Company from within, but eventually becomes convinced that the Company is really the heroic organization and Bennet was misleading him.
%%* Zeb Macahan from ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon''.
* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Gypsy Eyes", after Harm & Mac have had their plane shot down by the Russian Air Force in Russia, they join a Gypsy brother and sister couple. They find out that Harm’s long lost father escaped from captivity as a POW taken to Russia, assimilated into that Romani family, died protecting them, and had even sired a son with a woman.
** A different episode concerns a female naval officer who got lost, took shelter with, then joined an Iraqi Bedouin tribe by marrying into it.
* ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': Part of Kamen Rider Bravo's backstory. Born Gennosuke Oren, he changed his name to Oren Pierre Alfonzo after going to France, where he served as a soldier of their Parachute Regiment, fighting in the Middle East and Africa, in order to gain French citizenship. He also trained as a patisserie there, and is renowned as one of their top bakers. By the time he returned to Japan, he was more French than Japanese.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Locke "goes native" by leaving the 815 camp to join the Others. Also, in season 5, [[spoiler: several of the 815ers join the Dharma Initiative and lead happy lives in the 1970s.]]
* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' when an Arab terrorist sleeper agent ([[CastingGag played by the Jewish Ike Barinholtz]]) becomes completely Americanized to the point of becoming Jewish, speaking with a perfect "Goofy White Guy" American accent and basically living UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream as just another suburbanite. He's called out on this by his contact... who then [[HeelFaceTurn becomes mesmerized by the vibrating chair, built-in remote and TiVo,]] promptly adopting the same accent and turning his turban into a fruit bowl to become the agent's "old friend".
* A RunningGag in ''Series/TheNanny'' was the Sheffields, especially Gracie, adopting stereotypically Jewish mannerisms and speaking Yiddish due to Fran's influence.
* In the later series of ''Series/NorthernExposure'', Joel ends up living with native villagers on the banks of the river.
* ''Series/TheOrville'':
** {{Downplayed}} but present with the Security Chiefs. Alara and Talla are Xeleyans, a culture whose [[PlanetOfHats species hat]] is that of the ProudScholarRace, who [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect look down on military careers and combat soldiers]], despite being {{Heavyworlder}}s with SuperStrength in Earth-normal gravity. Alara had a great deal of insecurity and angst over being unable to fit in with her native people, feeling more comfortable with humans. Talla comes from a family of {{Cultural Rebel}}s who are considered trash by their fellow Xeleyans, and grew up in the more cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Union.
** Another "{{Downplayed}} but present" comes with Isaac. A MechanicalLifeform, he was sent by his people as an observer [[spoiler: as well as a spy and infiltrator]] to learn about organics. In the course of this, he spends 700 years on a time-shifted planet observing their cultural development, starts a romantic relationship with the ship's doctor (and helps take care of her kids), and comes to feel more at home with the crew than his people [[spoiler: enough to make a HeelFaceTurn and literally rip his leader's head off when ordered to prove his loyalty by killing his girlfriend's young son.]]
** Likewise, the conflict with Bortus and Klyden has elements of this with some {{Deconstruction}}. Their species is a OneGenderRace that presents as male and has a nasty misogynistic streak. Early on, Bortus is forced to question his culture's gender norms when his child is born female, which forces a court battle against "correcting" the child's gender (he loses). Bortus's ex also [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything turned out to be more into women, which is punishable by life imprisonment]] on the homeworld. Bortus adapting to the more gender-neutral culture of the Union (including taking orders from Kelly) while Klyden is stubbornly sticking to his guns as far as Molocan norms, has pretty much destroyed their marriage.
* ''{{Series/Outlander}}'': After offering himself in exchange for [[spoiler: having Roger freed from captivity, Young Ian is adopted by the Mohawk, an outcome he is very pleased with]]. Upon his reappearance, he has a Mohawk hairstyle and clothing, along with carrying a bow.
* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Lucius Vorenus is complimented by a high-class Roman visiting Egypt for averting this. He stays true Roman while other officials in Cleopatra's court, including the triumvir Mark Antony, go native, a sacrilegious offense to Roman eyes. See Real Life below for more info on Antony's fate.
* In ''Rosehaven'', Emma Dawes follows her best friend Daniel to his hometown while recovering from a bad honeymoon, getting a job in his mother's real estate agency. By the end of the second series, while Emma and others claim that she's still an outsider, Daniel points out that she likes Rosehaven more than most of the people born there.
* During one "Sprockets" sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' broadcast just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dieter waxes poetically (and almost [[HoYay homoerotically]]) about an East German filmmaker (played by Creator/WoodyHarrelson) whose films, in the opinion of Dieter, were "the perfect combination of depression, anti-consumerism, and disdain for the decadent western democracies". He then says that he is personally thrilled to welcome the filmmaker to his show. And when the filmmaker comes out, he's in a Mickey Mouse t-shirt and flip flops, Hawaiian shorts, and is toting two big bags of fast food hamburgers. Most of his interview consisted of Dieter being aghast at the man's sudden devotion to western-style democratic consumerism now that the Wall had fallen.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepers_(TV_series) Sleepers]]'', a BBC comedy-drama originally shown in 1991, tells the story of two Soviet 'sleeper' agents sent to Britain in the 1960s but all but forgotten about until 1991. Meanwhile the two agents have Gone Native and now consider themselves British, and the series depicts their attempts to evade the KGB who want to bring them back to the Soviet Union.
** The trope is lampshaded when Major Grishina finds the head of the local KGB cell loudly cheering a baseball game. "What am I supposed to do, wear an ''I Love Leningrad'' T-shirt?"
* Happens multiple times in ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** In "A Hundred Days", Jack O'Neill gets trapped on a planet after a meteor hits the Stargate and buries it. He gets a quick TimeSkip montage wherein he gets married and settles down, only to get rescued by the end of the episode.
** In "Fallen", Daniel Jackson wakes up on a strange planet with no memory of his previous life (before or after he [[AscendToAHigherPlaneofExistence Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence]]) and becomes a part of the local tribe. The [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] is returned, along with his memory, by the end of the episode ... again.
** Downplayed with Ba'al. After the Goa'uld are no longer the threat they once were, he hides out on Earth, developing a fondness for the culture. He's still evil, of course, but he actually picks up enough human traits that he becomes a better villain than the rest of the Goa'uld combined. His fondness for Earth is best shown in ''Continuum'', where in an alternate timeline, [[BenevolentAlienInvasion his grand takeover of Earth would have involved leaving it exactly as it is]], in exchange for humanity submitting to his absolute authority as God-Emperor. The other System Lords think he's gone ''insane''.
** Long time [=SG-1=] antagonist Harry Maybourne eventually gets marooned on a low tech planet, where he uses his knowledge to make himself king. He finds that he ''likes'' being the king, and that he's ''good'' at it, so much so that he is very popular among the people he's ruling because he has done so much to make their lives better. When he gets the opportunity to return to civilization, he opts to stay.
** Teal'c, after spending several years on Earth, becomes a bigger PopCulturedBadAss than his teammates.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries ST:TOS]]''
*** Thanks to {{phlebotinum}}-induced [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesia]], Captain Kirk winds up accidentally going native in the episode "The Paradise Syndrome". Being original Franchise/StarTrek, this of course is [[ResetButton reversed by the end of the episode]].
*** Captain Kirk does this again in "A Piece Of The Action" when he adopts the [[TheMafia natives' ways]] by making himself the biggest [[TheDon don]] on the planet. Nobody's gonna put the bag over him any more!
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
*** Data does the same when he walks into a pre-industrial village with damage-induced amnesia.
*** Even though it is done through a LotusEaterMachine (a small alien probe), Captain Picard does this in "The Inner Light". He lives out a long, full life in the span of an episode (and approximately 15 minutes in-universe).
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
*** During [[ResurrectiveImmortality her previous life in the body of Curzon]], Dax was one of the early Federation diplomats to start friendly relations with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]]. Being already kind of a boisterous hothead, he gained their respect and trust by becoming deeply involved in Klingon culture, learning their language and martial arts, as well as coming to highly appreciate their music and [[ForeignQueasine cuisine]]. Eventually one of his Klingon friends even named his son after him, and Dax was part of the group of four warriors who swore a blood oath to avenge the murder of the firstborn sons of the other three, no matter how long it would take to find their killer (a Klingon criminal known as the Albino). His connection to the Klingons was so strong that even when his body died and his mind added to that a young female scientist, it became a very major part of her new personalty. To the extent that [[spoiler:when she meets the only Klingon in the Federation as he takes down a group of bullies with his martial arts skills, she immediately gets very interested in him and eventually ends up as his wife a few years later.]]
*** Ben Sisko went completely native over the course of the series, he started calling the wormhole aliens "Prophets", learned to read ancient Bajoran and bought land on Bajor to build a house. Several of his superiors said that Starfleet was deeply concerned by Ben's role as the Emissary and increasing assimilation into Bajoran culture, and said that they would have pulled him out if it wouldn't have totally ruined friendly relations with Bajor. Ultimately subverted in the three part pilot of Season 7, where we learn that Sisko’s “mother” was actually one of the wormhole alien “Prophets”, thereby making him partially a native of that region. She even tells him that “you are of Bajor”.
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''
*** According to T'Pol, a Vulcan expedition crashed in Pennsylvania in the 1950s and, believing that rescue was not coming, disguised themselves as humans to survive. By the time rescue ''did'' come several months later, one of their number had become so fascinated with humanity that he refused to leave, and the others finally let him stay and reported to High Command that he had died in the crash.
* Gabriel/Trickster from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fits this. He ran away and 'joined the Pagans', only to eventually go up against Lucifer because he actually quite likes humans and doesn't particularly want them to die. He's also shown to understand sarcasm, have conversations with people and blink regularly (Castiel had difficulty with those at first).
* An episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' was called "Going Native", and involved an alien woman settling down on Earth.
* ''Series/TheTerror'': "Tell them we are gone." [[spoiler:One of them hadn't 'gone' as in died, he'd 'gone' as in this trope.]]
* In ''Series/YesMinister'', "going native" is a term for when ministers start to view themselves as part of their departments rather than part of the government, and get into the Civil Service mindset of hoarding money and influence for the department rather than following the government's agenda.
* In ''Series/TheAmericans'', Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are Russian spies who were sent to America back in the 60's. After 20 years in the States, Phillip has increasingly embraced American culture, creating a rift with Elizabeth, who has remained largely loyal to the Soviet Union.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** The first Kosh seems to have gone native with humanoids, in a sense. To the point of helping to assassinate his successor to prevent him from listening to Sheridan's plans.
** Delenn was accused of doing this by other Minbari and in fact she had, biologically speaking. Culturally she remained a Minbari. Racism aside it is perhaps a legitimate fear that a diplomat will do this if in contact to long and so the Grey Council may have not been totally irrational.
** Sinclair fits in so well as Minbari Ambassador that this seems to be the trope. However, [[spoiler:it's the other way around, Minbari culture is based around his role as [[CrystalDragonJesus Valen]]]].
** Accusations of going native from extremists are common in the series.
** During his assignment to Minbar, Vir goes Full Native. Much to Londo's chagrin. The extent of his Native turn eventually causes some [[RuleOfDrama interesting story]].
** The previous Centauri ambassador to Minbar also went native, which is why the Centauri took so long to send someone again. According to JMS, he's in retreat somewhere, meditating and trying to grow a head bone.
* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': After surviving the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlacc pit]], Boba Fett is stripped from his armor by Jawas and [[MadeASlave enslaved]] by a Tusken raiders tribe. One day he saves the life of a Tusken child by killing a sand monster, and the tribe starts integrating him. He helps them getting rid of a heavily armed Pyke Syndicate train crossing their territory, and in turn they teach him their gaderffii staff-based martial art, dress him like them and have him build his own staff (he had to go through a [[JunkieProphet ritualistic]] MushroomSamba first). It doesn't end well for the tribe as they're wiped out by the Pyke Syndicate, but the experience does a lot to end Boba's [[IWorkAlone lone wolf attitude]], driving him to [[StartMyOwn form his own crime syndicate]] based on [[TrueCompanions mutual loyalty]].
* ''Series/BurnNotice''
** Michael jokingly accuses the security chief for the Pakistani consulate of going native after finding him in an Indian restaurant. May be a subversion, as the cultures of India and Pakistan are almost indistinguishable.
--->'''Waseem:''' Oh, I like the chicken tikka.
** Almost fully happens to Michael during the final season, which saw him having to live the life of a disavowed and desolate former agent in order to attract the attention of the terrorist group he needed to get in with. By the final episodes, even after making contact with his friends again, he's spent so much time with no back up, no resources, pressure from his handlers who only want top-tier results, and the largely sympathetic nature of the terrorist that got so many on his side in the first place, Michael is only moments away from embracing the other side before he is brought to his senses.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor has, over the course of their [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very long life]], grown very fond of Earth. They still love to travel, and are a little too alien to really be considered a "native", but the Doctor loves everything about our culture, clothes, food and people. Particularly conspicuous in the Classic Series, when they frequently interacted with the Time Lords, throwing into sharp relief how utterly... well... ''alien'' their human-esque appearance and behaviour seemed to other members of their own species. The Tenth Doctor was probably the biggest example of this, almost to the point of mild PinocchioSyndrome.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]], a stranded alien has been covertly living as a Welsh politician, and, even as she plots to [[spoiler:blow up the entire Earth to facilitate her escape]], grumbles that the London-based government wouldn't notice if UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} slid into the sea. She then immediately labels the moment as an example of this trope.
* Sully in ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' often seems to relate more to his Native American friends than the white folks in town.
** In the episode "Another Woman", a white woman is rescued following a raid on a Native American camp. It turns out she was raised by the tribe after having been abducted at such a young age that she barely remembers her old life or how to speak English.
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', the Peacekeepers are so paranoid about this happening to their troops that they consider ''anyone who even speaks to an alien without explicit authorization'' to have become “irreversibly contaminated”[[note]]The commanding officer who ordered that designation for so little was noted to be ''insane'' and twisting the rules to the point that the officer in question is later told she could have come back to the fold after he was relieved of command if she wished; however she actually had gone native by then and had no desire to[[/note]]. While this may seem like plain old Xenophobia at first, digging into the Peacekeepers’ past with the Eidelon “Peacemakers” reveals that these people were specifically engineered to be impartial enforcers who were never supposed to take sides in a conflict. Therefore, this extreme isolation was necessary for them to retain that impartiality.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Nandi, former [[HighClassCallGirl Companion]] (a ritualized and ''very'' high-class prostitute from the urban, "civilized" Core) turns tough-talking [[MissKitty madam]] of a rim-world brothel. Certain episodes suggest this may be happening to [[SilkHidingSteel Inara]], the show's other companion, through her association with scruffy and unrespectable folks like Mal.
** More sinister is the sole survivor of a Reaver attack on a ship. He begins to act as a Reaver because he can't mentally handle the things he saw, so he becomes the horror he witnessed. It's strongly implied that this is how the Reavers replenish their numbers.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Daenerys goes native among the Dothraki, though their RapePillageAndBurn traditions still repulse her; she is far less willing to assimilate into Qarth and Slaver's Bay, however.
** Sansa's hairstyle grows more elaborate during Season 1 as she adapts to life in the south.
** Jon Snow pretends to go native when he joins the wildlings and gains a lot of insight into them in the process and his superiors accuse him of actually going native. He's unquestionably loyal to the Night's Watch but with his frequent references to the Wildlings as "Free Folk", it's more than a little obvious that his time among them has had an effect. Tormund Giantsbane even {{lampshades}} this when he suggests Jon spent too much time with them and will never be a true "kneeler" again.
** Mance Rayder grew up in the Night's Watch but eventually went native among the wildlings and rose to be their king.
** Jaime snarks that Catelyn has become a real she-wolf (House Stark) rather than a fish (House Tully) as she became quite comfortable with her Northern home after being married off to Ned. Lysa Arryn later tells Sansa that her mother in her youth was quite a big eater and far less austere than when she was Lady of Winterfell, pointing out that she assimilated into Ned's world very easily.
** Myrcella chews Jaime out when he comes to rescue her, declaring that she loves Trystane and Dorne is her home now.
* Called out in dialogue in ''Series/GoodOmens'' when Crowley and Aziraphale survive the attempts of their respective superiors to execute them; it's Beelzebub's explanation for how Crowley, a demon, can lounge casually in a holy water bath.
* In the second season of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Mohinder works with Mr. Bennet to take down the Company from within, but eventually becomes convinced that the Company is really the heroic organization and Bennet was misleading him.
%%* Zeb Macahan from ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon''.
* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Gypsy Eyes", after Harm & Mac have had their plane shot down by the Russian Air Force in Russia, they join a Gypsy brother and sister couple. They find out that Harm’s long lost father escaped from captivity as a POW taken to Russia, assimilated into that Romani family, died protecting them, and had even sired a son with a woman.
** A different episode concerns a female naval officer who got lost, took shelter with, then joined an Iraqi Bedouin tribe by marrying into it.
* ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': Part of Kamen Rider Bravo's backstory. Born Gennosuke Oren, he changed his name to Oren Pierre Alfonzo after going to France, where he served as a soldier of their Parachute Regiment, fighting in the Middle East and Africa, in order to gain French citizenship. He also trained as a patisserie there, and is renowned as one of their top bakers. By the time he returned to Japan, he was more French than Japanese.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Locke "goes native" by leaving the 815 camp to join the Others. Also, in season 5, [[spoiler: several of the 815ers join the Dharma Initiative and lead happy lives in the 1970s.]]
* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' when an Arab terrorist sleeper agent ([[CastingGag played by the Jewish Ike Barinholtz]]) becomes completely Americanized to the point of becoming Jewish, speaking with a perfect "Goofy White Guy" American accent and basically living UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream as just another suburbanite. He's called out on this by his contact... who then [[HeelFaceTurn becomes mesmerized by the vibrating chair, built-in remote and TiVo,]] promptly adopting the same accent and turning his turban into a fruit bowl to become the agent's "old friend".
* A RunningGag in ''Series/TheNanny'' was the Sheffields, especially Gracie, adopting stereotypically Jewish mannerisms and speaking Yiddish due to Fran's influence.
* In the later series of ''Series/NorthernExposure'', Joel ends up living with native villagers on the banks of the river.
* ''Series/TheOrville'':
** {{Downplayed}} but present with the Security Chiefs. Alara and Talla are Xeleyans, a culture whose [[PlanetOfHats species hat]] is that of the ProudScholarRace, who [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect look down on military careers and combat soldiers]], despite being {{Heavyworlder}}s with SuperStrength in Earth-normal gravity. Alara had a great deal of insecurity and angst over being unable to fit in with her native people, feeling more comfortable with humans. Talla comes from a family of {{Cultural Rebel}}s who are considered trash by their fellow Xeleyans, and grew up in the more cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Union.
** Another "{{Downplayed}} but present" comes with Isaac. A MechanicalLifeform, he was sent by his people as an observer [[spoiler: as well as a spy and infiltrator]] to learn about organics. In the course of this, he spends 700 years on a time-shifted planet observing their cultural development, starts a romantic relationship with the ship's doctor (and helps take care of her kids), and comes to feel more at home with the crew than his people [[spoiler: enough to make a HeelFaceTurn and literally rip his leader's head off when ordered to prove his loyalty by killing his girlfriend's young son.]]
** Likewise, the conflict with Bortus and Klyden has elements of this with some {{Deconstruction}}. Their species is a OneGenderRace that presents as male and has a nasty misogynistic streak. Early on, Bortus is forced to question his culture's gender norms when his child is born female, which forces a court battle against "correcting" the child's gender (he loses). Bortus's ex also [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything turned out to be more into women, which is punishable by life imprisonment]] on the homeworld. Bortus adapting to the more gender-neutral culture of the Union (including taking orders from Kelly) while Klyden is stubbornly sticking to his guns as far as Molocan norms, has pretty much destroyed their marriage.
* ''{{Series/Outlander}}'': After offering himself in exchange for [[spoiler: having Roger freed from captivity, Young Ian is adopted by the Mohawk, an outcome he is very pleased with]]. Upon his reappearance, he has a Mohawk hairstyle and clothing, along with carrying a bow.
* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Lucius Vorenus is complimented by a high-class Roman visiting Egypt for averting this. He stays true Roman while other officials in Cleopatra's court, including the triumvir Mark Antony, go native, a sacrilegious offense to Roman eyes. See Real Life below for more info on Antony's fate.
* In ''Rosehaven'', Emma Dawes follows her best friend Daniel to his hometown while recovering from a bad honeymoon, getting a job in his mother's real estate agency. By the end of the second series, while Emma and others claim that she's still an outsider, Daniel points out that she likes Rosehaven more than most of the people born there.
* During one "Sprockets" sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' broadcast just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dieter waxes poetically (and almost [[HoYay homoerotically]]) about an East German filmmaker (played by Creator/WoodyHarrelson) whose films, in the opinion of Dieter, were "the perfect combination of depression, anti-consumerism, and disdain for the decadent western democracies". He then says that he is personally thrilled to welcome the filmmaker to his show. And when the filmmaker comes out, he's in a Mickey Mouse t-shirt and flip flops, Hawaiian shorts, and is toting two big bags of fast food hamburgers. Most of his interview consisted of Dieter being aghast at the man's sudden devotion to western-style democratic consumerism now that the Wall had fallen.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepers_(TV_series) Sleepers]]'', a BBC comedy-drama originally shown in 1991, tells the story of two Soviet 'sleeper' agents sent to Britain in the 1960s but all but forgotten about until 1991. Meanwhile the two agents have Gone Native and now consider themselves British, and the series depicts their attempts to evade the KGB who want to bring them back to the Soviet Union.
** The trope is lampshaded when Major Grishina finds the head of the local KGB cell loudly cheering a baseball game. "What am I supposed to do, wear an ''I Love Leningrad'' T-shirt?"
* Happens multiple times in ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** In "A Hundred Days", Jack O'Neill gets trapped on a planet after a meteor hits the Stargate and buries it. He gets a quick TimeSkip montage wherein he gets married and settles down, only to get rescued by the end of the episode.
** In "Fallen", Daniel Jackson wakes up on a strange planet with no memory of his previous life (before or after he [[AscendToAHigherPlaneofExistence Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence]]) and becomes a part of the local tribe. The [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] is returned, along with his memory, by the end of the episode ... again.
** Downplayed with Ba'al. After the Goa'uld are no longer the threat they once were, he hides out on Earth, developing a fondness for the culture. He's still evil, of course, but he actually picks up enough human traits that he becomes a better villain than the rest of the Goa'uld combined. His fondness for Earth is best shown in ''Continuum'', where in an alternate timeline, [[BenevolentAlienInvasion his grand takeover of Earth would have involved leaving it exactly as it is]], in exchange for humanity submitting to his absolute authority as God-Emperor. The other System Lords think he's gone ''insane''.
** Long time [=SG-1=] antagonist Harry Maybourne eventually gets marooned on a low tech planet, where he uses his knowledge to make himself king. He finds that he ''likes'' being the king, and that he's ''good'' at it, so much so that he is very popular among the people he's ruling because he has done so much to make their lives better. When he gets the opportunity to return to civilization, he opts to stay.
** Teal'c, after spending several years on Earth, becomes a bigger PopCulturedBadAss than his teammates.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries ST:TOS]]''
*** Thanks to {{phlebotinum}}-induced [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesia]], Captain Kirk winds up accidentally going native in the episode "The Paradise Syndrome". Being original Franchise/StarTrek, this of course is [[ResetButton reversed by the end of the episode]].
*** Captain Kirk does this again in "A Piece Of The Action" when he adopts the [[TheMafia natives' ways]] by making himself the biggest [[TheDon don]] on the planet. Nobody's gonna put the bag over him any more!
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
*** Data does the same when he walks into a pre-industrial village with damage-induced amnesia.
*** Even though it is done through a LotusEaterMachine (a small alien probe), Captain Picard does this in "The Inner Light". He lives out a long, full life in the span of an episode (and approximately 15 minutes in-universe).
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
*** During [[ResurrectiveImmortality her previous life in the body of Curzon]], Dax was one of the early Federation diplomats to start friendly relations with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]]. Being already kind of a boisterous hothead, he gained their respect and trust by becoming deeply involved in Klingon culture, learning their language and martial arts, as well as coming to highly appreciate their music and [[ForeignQueasine cuisine]]. Eventually one of his Klingon friends even named his son after him, and Dax was part of the group of four warriors who swore a blood oath to avenge the murder of the firstborn sons of the other three, no matter how long it would take to find their killer (a Klingon criminal known as the Albino). His connection to the Klingons was so strong that even when his body died and his mind added to that a young female scientist, it became a very major part of her new personalty. To the extent that [[spoiler:when she meets the only Klingon in the Federation as he takes down a group of bullies with his martial arts skills, she immediately gets very interested in him and eventually ends up as his wife a few years later.]]
*** Ben Sisko went completely native over the course of the series, he started calling the wormhole aliens "Prophets", learned to read ancient Bajoran and bought land on Bajor to build a house. Several of his superiors said that Starfleet was deeply concerned by Ben's role as the Emissary and increasing assimilation into Bajoran culture, and said that they would have pulled him out if it wouldn't have totally ruined friendly relations with Bajor. Ultimately subverted in the three part pilot of Season 7, where we learn that Sisko’s “mother” was actually one of the wormhole alien “Prophets”, thereby making him partially a native of that region. She even tells him that “you are of Bajor”.
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''
*** According to T'Pol, a Vulcan expedition crashed in Pennsylvania in the 1950s and, believing that rescue was not coming, disguised themselves as humans to survive. By the time rescue ''did'' come several months later, one of their number had become so fascinated with humanity that he refused to leave, and the others finally let him stay and reported to High Command that he had died in the crash.
* Gabriel/Trickster from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fits this. He ran away and 'joined the Pagans', only to eventually go up against Lucifer because he actually quite likes humans and doesn't particularly want them to die. He's also shown to understand sarcasm, have conversations with people and blink regularly (Castiel had difficulty with those at first).
* An episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' was called "Going Native", and involved an alien woman settling down on Earth.
* ''Series/TheTerror'': "Tell them we are gone." [[spoiler:One of them hadn't 'gone' as in died, he'd 'gone' as in this trope.]]
* In ''Series/YesMinister'', "going native" is a term for when ministers start to view themselves as part of their departments rather than part of the government, and get into the Civil Service mindset of hoarding money and influence for the department rather than following the government's agenda.
