History Main / CountryMouse

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' (currently pictured above) stars the Greens, a family of farmers living in the middle of a busy modern city. A lot of the show's humor and plots come from the interactions between the rural-raised Greens and their urban neighbors, but the Greens are consistently depicted as decent people more versed in city life than one might expect from them.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Epel Felmier comes from a {{Ruritania}}n farming village and starts out brash, reckless and speaking in an impenetrable rural accent. He's being shaped up by Vil to behave in a more refined manner.

* The ''Literature/AngelinaBallerina'' book ''Angelina's Big City Ballet'' has this as a point of conflict for Angelina, who is visiting "The Big Cheese" to be part of a dance show and feels overwhelmed as the size and sophistication of the city compared to her small town of Chipping Cheddar.

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%%* In Helen Fern Daringer's novel, ''Country Cousin'', Susannah Endicott fills this role when she lives with her uncle's family in New York City in the late 1600's to go to school.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'''s [[spoiler:suicidal]] teenage semipro hockey player Cam Saunders came from Kapuskasing, ON [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuskasing (pop. 8196)]] to UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} to get on the fast track to the NHL.

* ''Film/CrocodileDundee''. The first half has the CityMouse reporter in the wilds of Australia, while the second half has Country Mouse Dundee in the wilds of New York.

* ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'': Percy calls [=LaSalle=] this because he's from Mobile, Alabama.[[note]] Mobile is not a tiny rural community, but it's definitely not an urban center like New Orleans is.[[/note]]

A character from a rural location finds themself as a FishOutOfWater in the Big City.

Often quiet and humble, or, alternatively, loud and eager to prove themselves that they can learn the ways of the urban life. Those characters are sometimes depicted as having an inherent superiority in morality, ethics or common sense compared to the "city-tainted" people around them. Can be an authorial voice to deliver AnAesop, or to provide a [[SlobsVSSnobs contrast]] to the "sophisticated" city-dwellers with whom they live and/or work with now.

SmallTownBoredom is sometimes what motivates these characters to travel to the city. On their first arrival there, they will be dazzled by the luxury of city life. WelcomeToTheBigCity or discovering the shallowness of the LifeOfTheParty will soon cure them; from this point on, they will either wisely head back to the countryside, or become corrupted by all the metropolitan consumerism, disease, violence, etc., going on.

* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'': According to Lisara, [[StepfordSmiler Ilia]] comes from the most backwater region [[AnotherDimension of Grimwald.]] Her natural accent is thick and slurs her speech so badly, hardly anyone can understand what she's saying. Despite this, Ilia has become a successful {{teen idol}} and a spokesperson for the Merlot Life Insurance company. All thanks to using an illusion spell that makes her speech sound normal [[spoiler:and her breasts [[FakeBoobs appear bigger]]]].

* [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]], when he first arrives in Metropolis from Smallville.

* ''[[ComicBook/VampireTheMasqueradeVault Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth]]'' is set in the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. While it is a fully urban environment, a lot of the characters are from the surrounding rural area and have shades of this. This includes {{Goth}} ActionGirl Cecily Bain, at least during her teenage years.

* Beatrix Potter retold Aesop's fable as ''The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse''. A country mouse is accidentally brought to the city, finds it too dangerous, and returns home; a city mouse visits him there, is frightened by the weather and prospect of a cow stepping on him, and returns home. Potter draws the Aesop that people like different things (and ignore different disadvantages).

* 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 a HumanoidAbomination. If this is true and not just RuleOfFunny, that would mean he's a subversion of this trope.

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* Aesop recounted the [[http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/city.html story]] of a city mouse visiting a country mouse and scorning his life as simple, but when the country mouse went to the city, he found the rich dining his city friend bragged of was guarded by cats, and concluded that safety and simplicity in the country were best.
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* Flare from ''LightNovel/JigokuNoGoukaDeYakaReTsuzuketaShounen'' never knew anything outside of his village before walking into Hell. Part of his reason for volunteering to become Primavera's bodyguard is the promise of seeing new things, and he's quickly awestruck when they first arrive in a city and is excited to learn what an ocean is. He also has no idea what money is and has to have gold and platinum explained to him.

* ''WesternAnimation/AttackOnMika'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDIRTpPspJ8 Keisuke Uemura]] is a college student who hails from a countryside town. However, he is bullied by his classmate Akiko for it until she's revealed to hail from the same countryside town as well.

Compare with CityMouse, CountryCousin and TheCityVsTheCountry when this is an actual plot. Contrast RichInDollarsPoorInSense.

* In ''Film/{{Colette}}'', Sidonie-Gabrielle is this when she first moves to Paris, and is completely out of place at her first soiree. She adapts quickly, and loses the country mouse completely when she adopts the Colette persona.