History Main / CulturalRebel

** Jorah is one of the few Northmen to be an anointed knight (a calling associated with the Faith of the Seven and would require Jorah to convert from the Old Gods to the Faith of the Seven). As a result of his exile and travels, Jorah has become the most widely traveled and cosmopolitan Westerosi of his generation, despite the fact that he originated from the most insular and isolated part of the Seven Kingdoms. This is given a {{lampshade}} by his nickname "Jorah the Andal" despite the fact that he's of the First Men.

* Turles from ''Anime/DragonBallZTheTreeOfMight'' has this as the motivation for his villainy. He's an alien from a species with a FantasticCasteSystem, into which he was born as a low-class warrior (much like series hero Goku). Low-class Saiyans were regarded by their culture as little more than weak CannonFodder, both incapable and undeserving of any higher purpose. But through [[MysteriousPast means that have never been explained]], Turles found himself in possession of seeds of the Tree of Might, an inverted WorldTree that produces extremely effective PowerUpFood. Declaring himself "done with that life" (of being an expendable soldier), Turles went rogue and has spent decades traveling from world to world, planting the Tree of Might and increasing his strength. The result is a Saiyan who is, when introduced, is at least at the same level if not stronger than the Super Elite class Saiyan Vegeta.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': By Time Lord standards, the Doctor is one hell of a rebel. They are staid, egotistical, and overly formal, not to mention somewhat stagnant from a cultural standpoint. He, on the other hand, uses time travel to broaden his cultural perspective as far as possible, has (for the most part) no pretensions of being better than anyone else (aside from mentions of having SeenItAll and his own genius, both of which tend to be quite true) simply because he was born a Time Lord, and he's so unorthodox and informal he (as well as his rival, The Master) is considered (from their point of view) the gold standard for a Time Lord {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

* Music/{{Eminem}} was arguably this for rap music, as he was the first white rapper to really break into mainstream respectability (sorry, Music/VanillaIce and Music/BeastieBoys). He also was a trailer-park hick who never got into country-western, folk, hard rock, or any of the other genres stereotypically associated with his particular class - but instead wanted to make it big as a white rapper. Despite all odds, he cultivated a huge middle-class fanbase.

* Nigel Kennedy, a British violinist caught the attention and scorn of many people by not conforming to the idea that you have to look neat and classy to play classical music. His hair was often uncombed and he did enjoy performing in formal clothing rather than always wear a tuxedo.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Varric Tethras is a surface dwarf who is part of the Dwarven Merchant's Guild and is [[LikeGoesWithLike only attracted to other dwarves]]... and that's it. Otherwise, he fully embraces Andrastian human surface life; much to the chagrin of his [[TheExile exiled]] but [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy proud traditional dwarven parents and older brother]]. His greatest fear is even "turn[ing] out like his parents."
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Sera ''prides'' herself on not being like [[EnslavedElves other elves]], and often boasts of how she's "just people," and how all her beliefs and interests lie with the majority Andrastian human commoner culture instead of the minority [[FantasticGhetto city elf culture]]. (It ties back to her InternalizedCategorism.)

** The [[WizardingSchool College of Winterhold]] features an Orc librarian (Urag), a Nord scholar (Tolfdir), and a Nord student (Onmund). Considering that both orcs and nords are [[ProudWarriorRace proud warrior races]] and magic is even a taboo among the later (at least in the current game era), their interest on it can be seen as uncommon.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': A [[spoiler:Noxian]] who doesn't spill blood may as well be a vegetarian serpent. Mel seems to have designed her life in Piltover to be be the opposite of everything her family stands for. [[spoiler:A reunion with her mother makes her realize it's not enough to value diplomacy over battle. To break free from her roots, she must strive for peace rather than allow conflict to fester.]]

** In "wej Duj", we're introduced to T'Lyn, a Vulcan who is this by Vulcan standards as she prefers to work on her own projects in her spare time and trusting her instincts rather than relying on logic alone. She's ultimately shipped off to a Starfleet ship [[DudeWheresMyRespect despite the fact that these actions are what saved their ship]].

** Sheldon was reared in Texas, but his accent only appears when upset, he looks down upon farmers, hicks, etc., and as a reclusive {{Nerd}} is the farthest possible thing from the athletic, stereotypical cowboy, and is a staunch HollywoodAtheist despite being reared as an Evangelical Christian.

* Yo-Less from the ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'': he's young, black, not into rap music or street slang but because he's been brought up in the [[OopNorth North of England]], really loves brass band music.

** Giamo Casanunda, "[[TheCasanova world's second greatest lover (nut I try harder!)]], [[{{Swashbuckler}} finest swordsman]] and [[PrivateMilitaryContractors soldier of fortune]]" (and [[SelfProclaimedLiar outrageous liar]]) in the Discworld universe averts every stereotype connected with him [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame being a dwarf]] (except the one about being short).

What's interesting is [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority how often characters like this are often the protagonists in stories]] -- but what's even more interesting is that they're often portrayed as heroic, not because of their rugged individualism but because of all the adversity they face for daring to be different. Sometimes this is a genuine plea for tolerance on the part of the author(s), but at other times it is actually a coded defense of the status quo: a sneaky way of suggesting that the hero faces this adversity not because of society's prejudices, but because people who act differently are, well, [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong kind of misguided]], if not outright freakish. In stories featuring an ActionGirl, for example, the implication is sometimes that it's okay for ''this'' female to be the way she is because she's...[[CondescendingCompassion different, and just can't mesh with the other, "normal" females]], [[StayInTheKitchen who are expected to know their place]]. (Compare YouAreACreditToYourRace, where a character is "praised" for being so much "better" than the rest of their kind, and thus the exception.)

--> "I was born a poor black child...then one day I heard my first Mantovani record, and realized -- ''these'' are my people!"

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* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' has Sybok, an emotion-embracing Vulcan, a race infamous for not emoting.
* ''Film/AnotherTimeAnotherPlace'' has Janie, who is the only one in her village to treat the Italian [=POWs=] with anything other than indifference or outright contempt.
* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'': Newt and the other white Southerners who rebel against the Confederacy, breaking with the majority. His Aunt Sally is also an abolitionist who helps slaves escape, while Newt comes to oppose slavery as well.

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** Giamo Casanunda, "[[TheCasanova world's second greatest lover (But I try harder!)]], [[{{Swashbuckler}} finest swordsman]] and [[PrivateMilitaryContractors soldier of fortune]]" (and [[SelfProclaimedLiar outrageous liar]]) in the Discworld universe averts every stereotype connected with him [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame being a dwarf]] (except the one about being short).
** Another example in the Literature/{{Discworld}} is Hwel, a dwarf {{expy}} of Creator/{{William Shakespeare}}, appearing in the ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' and ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' "who'd been banished from his tribe years ago, not only because of his claustrophobia but also because he had a tendency to daydream."

** There are also a few humans who are officially considered dwarfs because they follow the dwarf culture. Most obviously there's Carrot Ironfounderson, who was raised in a Dwarf mine, but we also see Pepe from ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', who is short enough to pass as a dwarf but is actually a human who converted.
** In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' it's mentioned that serious dwarf and troll players of Thud (a dwarfs-vs-trolls game where both players play both sides) become interested in the other's culture, with examples of a dwarf who knows the troll history chant, and a troll who wears an iron helmet and has a cup shaped like a dwarfish drinking horn (troll drinks would dissolve an actual horn, though).

* J from ''Literature/{{I Am J}}'' bemoans about himself because he spent a day hanging at Starbucks "despite" being Puerto Rican. He keeps on doing it.

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', [[SoulBrotha Gunn]] doesn't start out this way. Then he sees a production of ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' and falls in love with {{Ballet}}.
** And ''then'' [[spoiler: [[DealWithTheDevil Wolfram & Hart]] filled his brain with lawyer skills so he could contribute to the team]] and he ended up singing a lot more Gilbert & Sullivan than he would've liked.

** Sheldon was raised in Texas, but his accent only appears when upset, he looks down upon farmers, hicks, etc, and as a reclusive {{Nerd}} is the farthest possible thing from the athletic, stereotypical cowboy, and is a staunch HollywoodAtheist despite being raised as an Evangelical Christian.
** Bernadette was raised Catholic, and thus is a CovertPervert who couldn't wait to introduce her Jewish boyfriend to her mother.

* By Time Lord standards, [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] is one hell of a rebel. They were staid, egotistical, and overly formal, not to mention were somewhat stagnant from a cultural standpoint. He, on the other hand, uses time travel to broaden his cultural perspective as far as possible, has (for the most part) no pretensions of being better than anyone else (aside from mentions of having SeenItAll and his own genius, both of which tend to be quite true) simply because he was born a Time Lord, and he's so unorthodox and informal he (as well as his rival, The Master) is considered (from their point of view) the gold standard for a Time Lord {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

-->'''Evan Evagora''': Growing up in this sect, they were taught to always tell the truth, and that's kind of the difference between [Elnor] and every other Romulan.

* CowboyCop Garrus Vakarian from the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series is this to the disciplined and highly regimented [[SpaceRomans turians]]. He'd rather do what's right than follow lousy orders which, in his own words, makes him a "bad turian." [[DeadpanSnarker He's also more likely to crack a joke than most members of his species]] - in the third game, Wrex exasperatedly calls him the one turian in the galaxy who thinks he's funny.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Vigil of Stendarr is a ChurchMilitant order dedicated to hunting down and destroying supernatural threats to mortal life, including Daedra, Daedra worshipers, vampires, lycanthropes, and others. While [[GoodIsNotNice generally good and benevolent]], they also exhibit KnightTemplar tendencies and are known to look down on [[OurElvesAreDifferent Dunmer (Dark Elves)]] and [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs (Orsimer)]] due to their cultural worship of and connection to [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]]. That said, they are known to count some cultural rebel Dunmer in their ranks.

* Zigzagged with Lily in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert''. Her Korean heritage is clearly important to her, yet she has openly resisted her parents’ attempts to make her into their cultural paragon of a good Korean girl.

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* ''Webcomic/BlackHole:'' Fishgirls are a race of female [[CuteMonsterGirl attractive]] FishPeople who find human males and have sex with them to reproduce and never stay with them. The "Little Fish-Girl" story introduces a fishgirl who doesn't want to just seduce a human and then leave; she wants to stay with them and be [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 part of]] [[ShoutOut their world]]. Of course, that doesn't stop her from straight up having sex with them anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has done this a ''lot'', with Spike the dragon who acts like ponies (by virtue of being raised by them), Gabby who would rather be friendly, helpful, and generous rather than a greedy apathetic jerk like other griffons, Thorax who would rather just be friends with ponies rather than using them like a food source like other changelings, and Autumn Blaze who would rather be talkative and feel emotions rather than the other mute emotionless kirins. Later episodes have subverted this though with more civil dragons showing up, griffons deciding to lighten up a bit, changelings pulling a HeelRaceTurn, and the other kirin deciding to give emotions and speech a try again.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats=]]]'' (2011), Lion-O prefers researching [[LostTechnology technology]] (which most Thundercats scorn as a myth) to [[ProudWarriorRace fighting]] and sees the FantasticRacism of Cats being on top as wrong. {{Lampshade}}d at one point by his older brother, Tygra:
-->'''Tygra''': You look at Lizards and see victims! You look at junk and see mythical tech!

** Bernadette was RaisedCatholic, and thus is a CovertPervert who couldn't wait to introduce her Jewish boyfriend to her mother.

*** There was a punk scene in Poland back in the 1980s (i.e. before TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.) [[note]] P J O'Rourke interviewed one of the Polish punk bands for ''Magazine/RollingStone'' and commented that while they were saying the same things as a Western punk band - going on about what a CrapsackWorld they lived in - a Western band would be saying these things defiantly, but the Polish band sounded resigned, as though they were just stating the obvious.[[/note]]

Related to RealWomenDontWearDresses, RealMenWearPink, MasculineGirlFeminineBoy, BaldWoman, StraightGay, CampStraight, PerkyGoth, BlackAndNerdy, MightyWhitey, BourgeoisBohemian (arguably), StereotypeFlip, StrawAffiliation, NoTrueScotsman, MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong, and TheWhitestBlackGuy. Does not necessarily include CulturalCringe or KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect, or mean that GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff. See also DawsonCasting, which can overlap with this trope if the actor is portraying a "hip" character much younger than his/her own generation.

* Music/SineadOConnor, while her musical genre has always been strictly pop, has been the subject of controversy with her [[BaldWoman baldness]] -- and she steadfastly refuses to let negative public opinion influence her decision. She also often goes against the traditionalist attitudes of Catholicism, the dominant religion of her home country. Most famously, she ripped up a photo of The Pope on a live TV broadcast in protest of the child sexual abuse going on within the Church.

** Sheldon was raised in Texas, but his accent only appears when upset, he looks down upon farmers, hicks, etc, and as a reclusive HollywoodNerd is the farthest possible thing from the athletic, stereotypical cowboy, and is a staunch HollywoodAtheist despite being raised as an Evangelical Christian.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': Every Orion we've seen in the prime timeline has been either a murderous pirate (male) or a voracious sexual predator (female). Conversely, D'Vana Tendi is a socially awkward medic.

A black person who loves ClassicalMusic and hates RAndB? An Italian person who likes Mexican food just a little more than Italian food, even though he has not a drop of Mexican blood in him? A lifelong resident of Nashville who hates {{country music}}, preferring {{heavy metal}} -- or, alternatively, {{Blues}} and {{Soul}}? A middle-aged adult who likes modern rock as well as classic rock? An American with a penchant for Canadian rock music? A blond teen girl who gets down with {{death metal}} and {{gangsta rap}}? Yes, all of these -- and so much more.

What's interesting is [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority how often characters like this are often the protagonists in stories]] -- but what's even more interesting is that they're often portrayed as heroic not because of their rugged individualism, but because of all the adversity they face for daring to be different. Sometimes this is a genuine plea for tolerance on the part of the author(s), but at other times it is actually a coded defense of the status quo: a sneaky way of suggesting that the hero faces this adversity not because of society's prejudices, but because people who act differently are, well, [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong kind of misguided]], if not outright freakish. In stories featuring an ActionGirl, for example, the implication is sometimes that it's okay for ''this'' female to be the way she is because she's...[[CondescendingCompassion different, and just can't mesh with the other, "normal" females]], [[StayInTheKitchen who are expected to know their place]]. (Compare YouAreACreditToYourRace, where a character is "praised" for being so much "better" than the rest of their kind, and thus the exception.)

* One ad featured a posh couple with a gothic son, and a gothic couple with a posh son. The two kids were friends.

* ''Anime/UFOWarriorDaiApolon'' has a motif built around American Football, which is odd given that the sport was barely recognized as an amateur sport in Japan in the mid 1970s. Speculation is that this was to add variety to the show. In-story, the protagonists frequently play football and often wear football jerseys, while the HumongousMecha has a football-helmet-shaped head and uses a football-shaped knife.

* Steve Martin's original "poor black child" sketch, which became the genesis for the movie, ''Film/TheJerk'' (although ''The Jerk'' itself doesn't count as the premise was slightly changed, making him adopted).

** Sheldon was raised in Texas, but his accent only appears when upset, he looks down upon farmers, hicks, etc, and as a reclusive HollywoodNerd is the farthest possible thing from the athletic, sterotypical cowboy, and is a staunch HollywoodAtheist despite being raised as an Evangelical Christian.

** Euron puts on the Ironborn Viking act when it suits him (like in his Kingsmoot speeches) but deep down he hates the Ironborn and their culture, openly subscribes and accepts the Greenlander view of the Ironborn as a bunch of morons, and thinks the Drowned God is bunk. He sees being exiled from the Iron Islands after the Greyjoy Rebellion as his blessing since it allowed to be "the greatest captain of the fourteen seas".
* Alara of ''Series/TheOrville''. The [[PlanetOfHats hat of her species]] is that of the intellectual, and if her parents are any indicator, [[InsufferableGenius they're pretty damn smug about it.]] Alara however takes advantage of hailing from a HeavyWorlder planet by being the skull cracking chief of security.

* Music/TheBeatles count too. When they first started RockAndRoll was primarily an American phenomenon. Nobody in their right mind believed British rock had any believability or chance to make it internationally. Then came UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion and as a result British rock has nowadays become just as accepted as American.

* Music/BeastieBoys: Despite being white and Jewish they became the first hiphop band to become an international success and even gain respectability among black hiphop artists.
* Music/{{Eminem}} was arguably this for rap music, as he was the first white rapper to really break into mainstream respectability (sorry, Music/VanillaIce and Music/BeastieBoys). He also was a trailer-park hick who never got into country-western, folk, hard rock or any of the other genres stereotypically associated with his particular class - but instead wanted to make it big as a white rapper. Despite all odds he cultivated a huge middle-class fanbase.

* Music/TheRamones: Joey Ramone was a tall, shy, geeky looking guy who suffered from OCD. Yet he absolutely loved RockAndRoll and even became the band's lead singer. Johnny Ramone was an ultraconservative supporter of the American Republican Party, which was quite unusual back then for a punk rocker [[UnbuiltTrope (but of course, punk barely existed at the time, and was pretty apolitical at first)]].

* Music/{{Sepultura}} are a metal band from Brazil. Before them, the only music Brazil was known for on a widespread level was bossa nova. Thanks to Sepultura's influence, magazines started covering about metal from around the world rather than just the US, UK and Germany. Now we have the likes of death metal bands from India and Iran and power metal from Russia and Italy.

* Many German metal bands formed out of a desire to make their country known for something apart from Schlager and Europop. They wanted to make it distinctive, and as a result German metal is heavier and scarier than anything else until Black Metal from Norway became famous a few years later. Now, of course, German metal has itself become a cliché.

** Clan Finn are the cutting edge of Imperial's medical industry, and have taken vows of non-violence. However, there are those who reject the clan's pacifist ways in favor of taking the fight to the Dark Legion. These are cast out from the clan, but stick together and form the unit known as the Bad Samaritans.

** The [[WizardingSchool College of Winterhold]] features an Orc librarian (Urag), a Nord scholar (Tolfdir) and a Nord student (Onmund). Considering that both orcs and nords are [[ProudWarriorRace proud warrior races]] and magic is even a taboo among the later (at least in the current game era), their interest on it can be seen as uncommon.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': Unicorns as a whole have a narrow-minded belief that only light magic can keep the world safe (with dark magic being forbidden), and they need to take no action against the upcoming Predators. Oleander is the only one in her clan who not only believes dark magic can be used for good, but travels out of the Woodlands to actively use it to fight and save her home, completely against the mentality of her fellow unicorns.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The comic is set in an AfterTheEnd world in which TheMagicCameBack. Its version of Finland is known for harboring poorly educated people, but also plenty of mages. Tuuri, one of the two Finns in the main MultinationalTeam, is an academic who speaks three languages and a non-mage. The other Finn, Lalli, actually is a poorly eductated mage, to the point that he needs Tuuri as a TranslatorBuddy because he only speaks his native language.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has done this a ''lot'', with Spike the dragon who acts like ponies (by virtue of being raised by them), Gabby who would rather be friendly, helpful and generous rather than a greedy apathetic jerk like other griffons, Thorax who would rather just be friends with ponies rather than using them like a food source like other changelings, and Autumn Blaze who would rather be talkative and feel emotions rather than the other mute emotionless kirins. Later episodes have subverted this though with more civil dragons showing up, griffons deciding to lighten up a bit, changelings pulling a HeelRaceTurn, and the other kirin deciding to give emotions and speech a try again.

* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' has Sybok, an emotion-embracing Vulcan.

* Charley Pride, the black country-and-western singer.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Vigil of Stendarr is a ChurchMilitant order dedicated to hunting down and destroying supernatural threats to mortal life, including Daedra, Daedra worshipers, vampires, lycanthropes, and others. While [[GoodIsNotNice generally good and benevolent]], they also exhibit KnightTemplar tendencies and are known to look down on [[OurElvesAreBetter Dunmer (Dark Elves)]] and [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs (Orsimer)]] due to their cultural worship of and connection to [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]]. That said, they are known to count some cultural rebel Dunmer in their ranks.

--> '''Tygra''': You look at Lizards and see victims! You look at junk and see mythical tech!
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has done this a ''lot'', with Spike the dragon who acts like ponies (by virtue of being raised by them), Gabby who would rather be friendly, helpful and generous rather than a greedy apathetic jerk like other griffons, Thorax who would rather just be friends with ponies rather than using them like a food source like other changelings, and Autumn Blaze who would rather be talkative and feel emotions rather than the other mute emotionless kirins. Later episodes have subverted this though with more civil dragons showing up, griffons deciding to lighten up a bit, changelings pulling a HeelRaceTurn, and the other kirin deciding to give emotions and speech a try again.

** Scandinavian metal might count too. While these bands incorporate plenty of "Viking" imagery into their music, and metal has been popular n the Nordic countries from the very beginning, many foreigners associate the Scandinavian countries with soft pop (ABBA, a-ha, Ace of Base, etc.). Black-metallists are also often very right-wing - sometimes fanatically so - in countries known for their strong liberalism and even progressivism.

** Another example in the Literature/{{Discworld}} is Hwel, a dwarf {{expy}} of Creator/{{William Shakespeare}}, appearing in the ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' and ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'' "who'd been banished from his tribe years ago, not only because of his claustrophobia but also because he had a tendency to daydream."
** From ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' onward, a growing number of female dwarfs in Ankh-Morpork have begun working to subvert OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame through outward displays of femininity, such as wearing dresses and make-up. However, they draw the line at shaving off their beards since, female or not, they're still ''dwarfs''.
** There are also a few humans who are officially considered dwarfs because they follow the dwarf culture. Most obviously there's Carrot Ironfounderson, who was raised in a Dwarf mine, but we also see Pepe from ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', who is short enough to pass as a dwarf but is actually a human who converted.
** In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'' it's mentioned that serious dwarf and troll players of Thud (a dwarfs-vs-trolls game where both players play both sides) become interested in the other's culture, with examples of a dwarf who knows the troll history chant, and a troll who wears an iron helmet and has a cup shaped like a dwarfish drinking horn (troll drinks would dissolve an actual horn, though).

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': The Qowat Milat nuns and Elnor follow the doctrine of the Way of Absolute Candor, which runs entirely counter to everything that the secretive Romulans hold dear.

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* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', [[SoulBrotha Gunn]] doesn't start out this way. Then he sees a production of ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' and falls in love with {{Ballet}}.
** And ''then'' [[spoiler: [[DealWithTheDevil Wolfram & Hart]] filled his brain with lawyer skills so he could contribute to the team]] and he ended up singing a lot more Gilbert & Sullivan than he would've liked.
* By Time Lord standards, [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] is one hell of a rebel. They were staid, egotistical, and overly formal, not to mention were somewhat stagnant from a cultural standpoint. He, on the other hand, uses time travel to broaden his cultural perspective as far as possible, has (for the most part) no pretensions of being better than anyone else (aside from mentions of having SeenItAll and his own genius, both of which tend to be quite true) simply because he was born a Time Lord, and he's so unorthodox and informal he (as well as his rival, The Master) is considered (from their point of view) the gold standard for a Time Lord {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

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* Yo-Less from the ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy''.