History Main / CountryMouse

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* Arika Yumemiya in ''{{Mai-Otome}}''

* Stevie Rae from ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight''.

* Kenneth the page from ''Series/ThirtyRock''. He used to live on a farm and moved to [=NYC=] to work in television. He's a naive, religious, innocent, and cheerful. He's certainly better than [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist the rest of the cast]]. But a couple of scenes that imply he may be both a StepfordSmiler and an EldritchAbomination. If this is true and not just RuleOfFunny, that would mean he's a subversion of this trope.

* Kenneth the page from ''Series/ThirtyRock''. He used to live on a farm and moved to [=NYC=] to work in television. He's a naive, religious, innocent, and cheerful. He's certainly better than [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist the rest of the cast]]. But a couple of scenes that imply he may be both a StepfordSmiler and an EldritchAbomination, which if true and not just RuleOfFunny, would mean he's a subversion of this trope.

* Kenneth the page from ''Series/ThirtyRock''.

* Gomer Pyle, of ''GomerPyleUSMC''.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': Bailey Pickett.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCountryMouseAndTheCityMouseAdventures'', a late '90s EdutainmentShow focusing on geography and world cultures, featured a literal country mouse named Emily and her cousin, the city mouse Alexander, going around the world [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin having adventures]] in what looks to be TheEdwardianEra.

* An oldish kid's TV show, ''Country Mouse & City Mouse''.

* In ''Nothing Sacred'', Hazel Flagg is flown from Warsaw, Vermont into New York City and becomes an overnight celebrity for suffering patiently with a rare terminal disease. But she knows she's not really dying, and she's perfectly healthy until she gets a bad hangover from overindulging in the city's nightlife.
* ''TheJerk'': Steve Martin's character was "born a poor black child" in the country, but moves to the city when he discovers white people music.

Compare with CityMouse and TheCityVsTheCountry when this is an actual plot.

* Another RealLife example: Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, better known as [[ThePope Pope Pio X.]]

On the first arrival at the city, may be dazzled by the luxury of city life. WelcomeToTheBigCity or discovering the shallowness of the LifeOfTheParty will soon cure her; in a single story, she will wisely head back to the countryside, or tragically die, trapped by disease, pregnancy, or despair, but in a continuing one, she will mature into the level-headed version.

* In [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack's]] cutie mark origin segment, Applejack recalls the time that she left the Apple farm to stay with her aunt and uncle in the big city. Although her aunt and uncle were nice enough people, she soon found herself depressed and constrained by the city lifestyle, and quickly decided to return to farm life.

* In Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''TheChangeling'', Ivy Carson was one of these.

* The many film versions of ''Heidi''.

* José Antonio from the Chilean novel ''Golondrina de Invierno'' ("Winter Swallow").

* It's the title character in Johanna Spyri's novel, ''Heidi'', when she goes to Frankfurt. There she meets Klara, who later visits her in the Alps, thus becoming a City Mouse.
* In the sequel, ''Heidi Grows Up'' by Charles Tritten, she attends school in Lausanne.

* Many FrankCapra protagonists, most notably Longfellow Deeds from ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'' and Jefferson Smith from ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington''.

* SuikodenII has Kinnison, an archer, who lives in the forest surrounding Ryukei Village, with his [[BigBadassWolf "dog", Shiro.]] After recruiting him and establishing your base, he writes about trying to adjust to life in the castle, and not being used to having so many others around. Following the game's ending, he and Shiro return to their forest.

* ''CrocodileDundee''. The first half has the CityMouse reporter in the wilds of Australia, while the second half has CountryMouse Dundee in the wilds of New York.
* Joe Buck from {{Midnight Cowboy}}.
* Many FrankCapra protagonists, most notably Longfellow Deeds from ''MrDeedsGoesToTown'' and Jefferson Smith from ''MrSmithGoesToWashington''.

* Radar O'Reilly from ''Series/{{Mash}}'' falls mostly into the "contrast" category, but was sometimes used as a straight-up innocent foil (most famously in the sixth-season episode "Fallen Idol").

* Sylvia Plath's ''The Bell Jar'' centres around Esther Greenwood and her failure to cope with New York City.