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Never Learned to Read

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Never Learned to Read	comment	A common plot for a Very Special Episode: A character, typically a friend or acquaintance of The Hero, is revealed to be illiterate by some odd quirk of behavior. This is typically a shameful secret to them; the episode typically ends with their beginning to study, and the issue is never mentioned again. This plot lends itself to mysteries because of the suspicious behavior used to cover up illiteracy and the opportunity for a character to be cleared of crime because the crime depended upon being literate. This trope has started to invite parody, and is probably on its way to becoming a Discredited Trope in relatively wealthy societies due to the vast majority of the people within possessing functional literacy. If it's still played straight, the character will probably be dyslexic, with the Aesop being that this has nothing to do with being uneducated and should not be a source of shame. Characters are also occasionally revealed to be unable to read English (or whatever is the dominant language where they are living) due to being recent immigrants. Stories set in or around the Industrial Revolution (or similar time periods where universal education is a recent invention) may have the character in question quit school at a young age in order to support their family, or due to some other bit of the harshness of life. These Tragic Dropouts simply do not have the time to learn how to read, having never had the security of life to allow for an education. By the time they do become secure enough in their livelihood to take the time, they are simply too ashamed to admit it and usually get by with only a very basic literacy, or (if they're old enough) claiming that their eyes aren't what they used to be. Stories set in an era prior to that (or where public education doesn't exist) may realistically have illiteracy as the norm. Violations of that fall under Medieval Universal Literacy. May very well lead to a "Reading Is Cool" Aesop. See also Hates Reading.
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Never Learned to Read / int_118d9a39	comment	The Beatryce Prophecy: Invoked in all the girls in the land, where it is illegal to teach girls to read or write.
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Never Learned to Read / int_11aa61f3	comment	In Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, this is a part of what kicks off the plot progression. In the beginning, the brothers age from 17 to 25, and the vicar has given a stern call for them to finally take the ABC book into their hands.
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Never Learned to Read / int_11e9403c	comment	1-800-Where-R-U: One of Jess's biggest secrets, and a great shame, is that while she can play a piece after hearing it once, she never learned to read sheet music. For an aspiring musician, this is a serious handicap,note John Lennon notoriously had this problem, although it's not as much of an issue in rock and roll and she takes steps to remedy it when she's found out in book 2.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1362f409	comment	Lyra: Comes up in Patricia C. Wrede's series final book "The Raven Ring" by way of Culture Clash. It's mentioned in one scene that the protagonist can't read, and it's implied that this is normal for her people, who have a strong Oral Tradition. She has no idea why her rich city-born companion is embarrassed to have brought the subject up.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm: Rachel Lindt, aka "Bitch", can read and write only at an extremely basic level (not even close to being fully literate) due to her nasty childhood. When the team sends letters to Taylor late in the story, Rachel had to dictate hers to one of her minions rather than write it herself.
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Never Learned to Read / int_145d3a77	comment	In Matched, most people don't know how to read, since reading and books are outlawed.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1498d0bd	comment	Cooking Companions: Anatoly, one of your companions, has the outward appearance of a scholar but never even learned simple math.
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Never Learned to Read / int_162230f4	comment	One Kate & Allie saw Kate trying to teach the building's handyman to read. When he rebels at children's books, she presents him with an adult romance novel, which he is instantly able to read.
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Never Learned to Read / int_18494c61	comment	The Alds from Annals of the Western Shore view reading and books as evil.
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Never Learned to Read / int_198091c2	comment	Logan's Run: In "Man Out of Time", the tribe living in the ruins of the Sanctuary Project facility have no concept of what reading and writing are.
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Never Learned to Read / int_198a1261	comment	In The New Job, Theofil (having grown up as a 19th-century Eastern European peasant) doesn't learn to read or write until late in life. When he does, it leads to a heartwarming moment when he writes his first-ever love letter to his wife of 20 years.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1a2d9d58	comment	In the Tortall and Other Lands short story Plain Magic, Tonya is the local wizard's apprentice and so he should have been teaching her all kinds of things, starting with how to read. She thinks with scorn that he's quite weak and too afraid of competition to teach her anything useful. When the village is threatened by a dragon and the wizard suggests feeding Tonya to it, Tonya isn't surprised and is quite happy to abandon him to travel with the bolder and more generous woman who saved her.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1a75e2c8	comment	Ragged Dick: In Horatio Alger, Jr.'s book, young Dick realizes that his illiteracy will be an obstacle in his plan to lift himself by his bootstraps. He solves this by finding another orphan who was able to get some schooling before being kicked out on the streets and allowing the boy to sublet his room in exchange for tutoring.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In Dragon Age: Origins, if you play as a Dwarf Commoner, you should be illiterate, seeing as how you're a two-bit thug on the lowest rung of Dwarven society. But since being unable to read would add a layer of complication to other parts of the game, the crime boss you work for mentions that he taught your prostitute sister to read as part of making her into a High-Class Call Girl, and it's implied that she passed those lessons onto you. In Dragon Age II, Hawke can make a gift of a book to Fenris, prompting him to admit that — thanks to his background as an escaped slave — he's never had the opportunity to learn how to read. Hawke can offer to teach him, if the player chooses.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: It is sometimes common for mutants with physical differences or noticeable powers to not have a formal education due to Fantastic Racism of their families or their communities. Excalibur: Meggan was illiterate since her inhuman appearance kept her from going to school as a child. During the course of the series, several members of the team offered to help tutor her, and near the end, she finishes her lessons and has an average adult reading level. New Mutants: Catseye from the Hellions was abandoned at birth since her mutation manifested early, and she spent much of her life thinking she was a cat who transformed into a human rather than vice-versa. Once discovered by Emma Frost, she went from complete illiteracy to grade school-level reading within a year, showing a hidden intelligence.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1e533773	comment	Beauty and the Beast (2017): Played for Laughs. It's noted that many extras can't read, as was common during the time period. The end of "Gaston" contains this gem.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1ed2c571	comment	The Cosby Show: Sammy Davis Jr. guest starred as Ray Palomino, the grandfather of Cliff's patient who is about to give birth and has nowhere to live. Ray bristles when asked to write down contact info or read a pamphlet about childcare. Cliff's wife Clair opines the behavior may suggest illiteracy. She confirms this when Ray provides a list he supposedly wrote himself, but when asked to read a poorly written name, he claims to have forgotten his glasses. Asked to confirm the spelling of "Tom Mitchell" by clarifying if it's spelled with one A or two, Ray happily replies that it is spelled with two. Near the end of the episode, a retired English teacher offers to tutor him so he can read to his new great-grandchild.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1f170d5e	comment	Player characters in Ancient Domains of Mystery may start the game illiterate, depending on the chosen class, race, and Learning stat.
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Never Learned to Read / int_1f26effb	comment	Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness: Vanitas was prevented from learning to read or a number of other skills (such as Cure spells) to keep him dependent on Xehanort. When Aqua finds out, she volunteers to teach him, deciding that her desire to spite Xehanort outweighs her own hatred of Vanitas.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2175d90e	comment	Benson: Benson is stunned to realize that his nephew is barely literate, having spent all his time practicing and playing basketball. The young man thinks it's no big deal but Benson stresses that he might not get a professional contract and even if he did, he can't play ball forever.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Nino from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade was so badly neglected by her Abusive Parent Sonia that she cannot read. Instead, she learned to use magic tomes by watching Sonia and imitating her chants (something that gets her a lot of respect from fellow mage and potential love interest Erk). Her supports with Canas have him teaching her how to properly read and write. Cyril from Fire Emblem: Three Houses reveals in his B support with Lysithea that he was never taught to read. This is justified by him being an orphaned Almyran refugee taken in as a servant by Archbishop Rhea, who has never seen a need for him to learn reading in his current position, while he has never had any ambition of his own. This does make him an oddity among the cast, however, as every other recruitable character is either a teacher or a student at Garreg Mach, meaning that even the handful of his fellow commoners had to master reading to pass the entrance exams.
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Never Learned to Read / int_22d74b2e	comment	Being literate is comparatively uncommon among most of the population of Redwall. Most of the Abbeydwellers learn enough of the basics to function, but most vermin and a few of the Long Patrollers don't really need to read.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2372359	comment	Garion in The Belgariad had his family deliberately keep him illiterate and socially isolated on a distant farm. This is because he's The Chosen One, and his coming and the great deeds he must perform were written down as prophecy ages go... and they don't want him reading or hearing about any spoilers. When he's already too far into his epic quest to back out then they finally allow one of his traveling companions (the one he's supposed to marry later, so they get lots of quality time together) to tutor him. The prequel, Belgarath the Sorcerer, gives another reason: one of his ancestors nearly threw Aloria into civil war after reading the prophecies and getting a swelled head, and they'd rather history not repeat itself. Or rather Polgara would rather it not. Belgarath thought it was a stupid idea (which it was), especially given unlike the one who messed up Garion did not know his heritage already, so there was no real worry.
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Never Learned to Read / int_24ffd341	comment	Charlie on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is on the fringe of this trope. When under pressure, he can scrawl out basic English and seems to be able to read basic words, but when he writes for himself, it's a secret, illegible script that resembles hieroglyphics. This example seems downplayed, as Charlie attended high school, and he was more or less functional in earlier seasons. It's implied that prolonged exposure to cleaning chemicals and inhalants are gradually frying his brain. The Gang has no interest in helping Charlie learn how to read or write, and neither does he. It's later revealed that he can read Irish Gaelic ...but not speak it.
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Never Learned to Read / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: This trope has appeared or been referenced five times in the long running series. In fact, both the creators and writers have discussed two of the examples listed below with an interesting note that both of the characters were originally going to be the same character being Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson before they became separate characters. In "Krusty Gets Busted", Krusty the Clown is cleared of a robbery in part because of the revelation of his illiteracy. However, this does create a Fridge Logic moment as later information would reveal that his father is a Rabbi who trained him to be one himself making it hard to believe that he would be illiterate. To be fair though, his reading level is minimal, he is a drug addict, and it could be that illiterate when it comes to English, which would make it more realistic. Either way, the show creators mentioned in one of the DVD commentaries that they decided to drop this character trait as it wouldn't make sense given the stuff that he does. In "Treehouse of Horror IV", Blackbeard is revealed to be illiterate in a moment that is Played for Laughs. In the scene, Marge gives the jury, which he is a part of, her wedding photo and tells them to look what is on the back of it leading to this hilarious quote: In "When You Dish Upon a Star", Homer states that this is his secret to Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, when he accidentally discovers they are secretly in town, after they ask him to not tell anyone that they are in town. Strangely, this is never mentioned again so whether it's true or not is unknown, as even Baldwin lampshades the fact that Homer just read the card on a gift basket, to which counters that he recognized the logo (which is possible). One of the writers even addressed this in a book by stating it was added for Rule of Funny despite Homer being depicted as being able to read both before and after this moment. In "Grift of the Magi", Springfield Elementary parodies this trope by putting on a play for Mr. Burns, talking about the downsides of it that could affect him as a businessman. They put on the play for him, due to the school running out of funds when they installed faulty and expensive ramps for an injured Bart, in the hopes that he will donate money to help the school which sadly doesn't work. After this fails, the toy company Kid First Industries steps in and privatizes the school, with a hidden agenda of observing the kids in the hopes that it will lead to creation of a hit toy in time for Christmas, with the end result being Funzo. In "The Book Job", Neil Gaiman reveals this about himself, in a bizarre self presentation of himself, after pretending to be the Butt-Monkey of a con artists group, who are trying to make money as authors, only to reveal himself as a Diabolical Mastermind and go behind their backs to publish the book under his name. This revelation also implies that all of his previous books were published under similar cons of other people who are the real authors.
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Never Learned to Read / int_271d578d	comment	Danny the Dog: Danny was literally kept as a wild animal despite being human, and as such never learned any civilized skills, reading among them.
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Never Learned to Read / int_27f86cfb	comment	Unsurprisingly, none of the animals in The One and Only Ivan can read. However, Ivan the gorilla understands English, knows something about reading. He can see the mall's billboard from his cage, and knows that what's written on it is the same verbal spiel he's heard countless times - Welcome To The Exit 8 Big Top Mall And Video Arcade, Home To The One And Only Ivan. After great effort, he manages to deduce which set of letters corresponds to "home" and laboriously copies them in a painted collage depicting the zoo he saw in a commercial. Unfortunately to humans his artwork is abstract in the extreme, but it does draw attention to the plight of him and the other animals in the mall, and that helps.
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Never Learned to Read / int_283bc056	comment	Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Agency: In Divine Intersection, Joanna, who came from some theocratic version of America, was analyzed by Jake, and her statements seem to indicate that she was never taught to read.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2a77a546	comment	Inside Out: Bing Bong can't read at all aside from identifying letters, which gets him, Joy, and Sadness into trouble when he leads them into an area that says "Danger" which he insists is a shortcut. Justified because he is an imaginary friend that Riley created when she was a toddler, before she could read.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2aa31308	comment	Mama's Family: In the episode "Reading the Riot Act", Mama and Iola get fed up with the crappy job their church lady president is doing and plan to impeach her...until Mama discovers that it's because she can't read.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2af4f467	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: The DiC Entertainment continuation featured a boy named Adam who had trouble learning to read in the episode "A is for Android". He ends up learning to recognize the word "fire" in time to help General Hawk destroy his own android duplicate.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Matt Parkman in Heroes can't read due to his dyslexia, although this does not seem to hamper his detective skills at all. He sucks at Scrabble though.
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Never Learned to Read / int_2bb4ae0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Heroes	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2bb4ae0f
Never Learned to Read / int_2bd40c7f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_2bd40c7f	comment	Teaching Ryuuko to read and spell is the subject of chapter 27 of Cellar Secrets, as by means of being a Wild Child, she never learned literacy. They managed to, however, she can't read much besides kindergarten and preschool level, along with the fact that she tends to disregard the syntaxes and the fact that she can't spell too many things, making her, in most senses of the term, functionally illiterate. Satsuki notes she might not advance very far.
Never Learned to Read / int_2bd40c7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_2bd40c7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cellar Secrets / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2bd40c7f
Never Learned to Read / int_2c15b0d3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_2c15b0d3	comment	Batgirl (2000): Cassandra Cain, Batgirl II, was raised to be the perfect assassin by her father, who never even spoke in front of her, so she didn't know how to speak, much less to read. When she was taken in by the Batfamily, she spent her life as a crime-fighter. It was consistently depicted as a set-back, and eventually caused the rift between Oracle and her, after Oracle called her "stupid" in the middle of a battle while Cassie was desperately trying to shut down a killer robot, hurting Cass deeply. Cassandra Cain has it worse than most. The reason her dad never spoke to her is to encourage the language centers of her brain to "read" body language. As such, besides the usual troubles of learning to read (and speak) later in life, her brain effectively developed in such a way that her ability to learn speech was almost completely demolished. Makes this a pretty big What the Hell, Hero? moment for Oracle, as she's effectively not only hurt by being reminded of her embarrassing handicap, it ignored the fact that the only reason she is that way is because of severe emotional abuse (her father would randomly attack her as part of her training) for the first several years of her life, culminating in her killing a man while knowing exactly how horrified he is. At age 8. That the only thing wrong with her brain is her difficulty with language is a sign of nothing short of Heroic Willpower.
Never Learned to Read / int_2c15b0d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_2c15b0d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Batgirl (2000) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2c15b0d3
Never Learned to Read / int_2cfe43cb	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_2cfe43cb	comment	Adventures in Odyssey had the episode "Cousin Albert" were Lucy discovers that her basketball star cousin Albert cannot read. Albert says that basketball is all he ever wanted and that he doesn't need to learn how to read. He changes his mind after he was beaten in a one-on-one game with the school janitor who also couldn't read.
Never Learned to Read / int_2cfe43cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_2cfe43cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Adventures in Odyssey (Radio)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2cfe43cb
Never Learned to Read / int_2d1084bc	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_2d1084bc	comment	Beavis And Butthead: Beavis and Butt-Head are generally illiterate, either misreading signs/labels as something else or finding them too difficult to understand. In "School Test", they take several hours to write their names; Beavis can't even do it correctly, writing his as "Beafis".
Never Learned to Read / int_2d1084bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_2d1084bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Beavis and Butt-Head	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2d1084bc
Never Learned to Read / int_2e6e838	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_2e6e838	comment	"Death by Chocolate" has Yogi Bear reveal that he and Boo-Boo are illiterate during his testimony. Boo-Boo's illiteracy is proven false after Harvey comes across the typewriter Boo-Boo wrote his Unabooboo manifesto on.
Never Learned to Read / int_2e6e838	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_2e6e838	featureConfidence	1.0
Yogi Bear	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2e6e838
Never Learned to Read / int_2f1032e5	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_2f1032e5	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: A large number of the boys in CGS/Tekkadan, including the protagonist Mikazuki, fit in here due to never having had a formal education. When Kudelia offers to teach Mika early in the series, he and a number of other boys eagerly start studying.
Never Learned to Read / int_2f1032e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_2f1032e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_2f1032e5
Never Learned to Read / int_3099b05a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3099b05a	comment	Miss Abbott and the Doctor: With her background, Cati Abbott was never taught to read or write, and learns to do both throughout the series. Ten years later, she's able to write long letters, albeit with some spelling errors.
Never Learned to Read / int_3099b05a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3099b05a	featureConfidence	1.0
Miss Abbott and the Doctor (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3099b05a
Never Learned to Read / int_31a48eed	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Grell", the titular Slave Race are forbidden to read and write by their human masters.
Never Learned to Read / int_31a48eed	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_31a48eed	featureConfidence	1.0
The Outer Limits (1995)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_31a48eed
Never Learned to Read / int_35c6c0d2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_35c6c0d2	comment	In the Earthsea Cycle, the Kargs as a people view reading and writing as "black arts" and avoid them at all costs, though ironically they are excellent at mathematics. When Ged rescues Tenar from the Tombs of Atuan and brings her with him to his land, she eventually learns how to speak his language, and then to read and write in it.
Never Learned to Read / int_35c6c0d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_35c6c0d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Earthsea	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_35c6c0d2
Never Learned to Read / int_35e675e2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_35e675e2	comment	None of the Norsemen in Vikings know how to read or write.note In Real Life, literacy was reasonably common among the Norse upper crust, but Norse culture, like Celtic and Ancient Greek, put a much larger emphasis on the spoken word than the written one. Of course, the Vikings wrote in runic script, rather than Roman letters. The only main character who can do either is Athelstan, but he's also a very well-educated Anglo-Saxon monk from Christian England.
Never Learned to Read / int_35e675e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_35e675e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Vikings	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_35e675e2
Never Learned to Read / int_36d6aa	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_36d6aa	comment	The Daevabad Trilogy: The daeva king Ghassan never bothered to learn to read, expecting always to have scribes at hand for that purpose. His son Ali, however, is a passionate bookworm.
Never Learned to Read / int_36d6aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_36d6aa	featureConfidence	1.0
The Daevabad Trilogy	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_36d6aa
Never Learned to Read / int_38b32f2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_38b32f2	comment	The Breadwinner: This trope is common in which it is set in Afghanistan. When Parvana/"Aatish" and/or her father are in the market selling wares they also advertise themselves as able to read/write letters for any illiterate passersby. This is how she meets Razaq.
Never Learned to Read / int_38b32f2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_38b32f2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Breadwinner	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_38b32f2
Never Learned to Read / int_39c20861	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_39c20861	comment	Fitzcairn from Highlander dragged his feet on learning how to read for centuries. By the late 20th century, Duncan finally convinces him to learn ... whereupon Fitzcairn just as stubbornly refuses to learn how to use a computer.
Never Learned to Read / int_39c20861	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_39c20861	featureConfidence	1.0
Highlander	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_39c20861
Never Learned to Read / int_3aabfec3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3aabfec3	comment	Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The episode "The Fine Print" had the villain Looten Plunder trick an illiterate worker named Joe into spraying poison instead of fertilizer by putting stickers of smiling apples over the barrels' skull and crossbones insignias. The Planeteers help Joe understand the importance of learning to read and undo the damage Plunder tricked him into causing.
Never Learned to Read / int_3aabfec3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3aabfec3	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain Planet and the Planeteers	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3aabfec3
Never Learned to Read / int_3ac755dd	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3ac755dd	comment	In the stage version of Beauty and the Beast, it's revealed that the Beast only has rudimentary reading skills (at best) and is embarrassed by it. When a song from this version, "Human Again", was animated for the IMAX version of the original film (where it had been a Cut Song), this detail was included in a short dialogue scene. Of course, if you know the film, you know that Belle is a voracious reader. So this a setup for a heartwarming scene of Belle reading to the Beast, leading him to talk about how he never knew how reading could take him away from who and what he is.
Never Learned to Read / int_3ac755dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3ac755dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Beauty and the Beast	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3ac755dd
Never Learned to Read / int_3af6f979	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3af6f979	comment	Aunt Sissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn never learned because her immigrant parents didn't realize they were supposed to send her to school until she was too old to start. Her parents didn't know how to read either.
Never Learned to Read / int_3af6f979	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3af6f979	featureConfidence	1.0
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3af6f979
Never Learned to Read / int_3b259e54	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3b259e54	comment	Anne of the Indies: Captain Providence can read charts by identifying coastlines, depth marks, etc., but is otherwise illiterate; relying on Dr. Jameson to read and write for her. (It's implied that Jameson might be the only member of her crew who can read.) Leads to a situation where Jameson writes a very elegant and polite 'I Have Your Wife' note on Anne's behalf.
Never Learned to Read / int_3b259e54	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3b259e54	featureConfidence	1.0
Anne of the Indies	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3b259e54
Never Learned to Read / int_3b34143f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter : In the fourth book, Albus Dumbledore once mentioned that he was not sure if his brother could read in an Out-of-Character Moment when discussing Aberforth appearing the newspapers when he was prosecuted for doing inappropriate charms on goats in a conversation with Hagrid and Harry and his friends. However, the context of this statement is ambiguous with several possible different interpretations. This can be a read as a joke meant only for Hagrid, who knows Aberforth while the kids and the readers donâ€™t, about the general and unfair perception of the brothers as being a genius and a simpleton. This could also been seen as the type of mean joke that people make about their siblings all the time without really meaning it. Aberforth is not introduced until the end of the seventh book with Harry and his friends quickly coming to understand that the general perception of Aberforth as an idiot jealous of his brother for his genius is not true. Aberforth is sharp as a tack and is even vaguely alluded to by Mundungus Fletcher as being so even before the kids meet him which doesnâ€™t jive with being illiterate. He mentions Rita Skeeterâ€™s book in a way that implies heâ€™s read it and is seen both reading and writing in front of his brother in the Fantastic Beasts movies which points the original comment in the â€œmean jokeâ€� direction.
Never Learned to Read / int_3b34143f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3b34143f	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3b34143f
Never Learned to Read / int_3eacc2fd	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3eacc2fd	comment	Corner Gas: In one episode, Lacey thinks Oscar doesn't know how to read due to a Sustained Misunderstanding.
Never Learned to Read / int_3eacc2fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3eacc2fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Corner Gas	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3eacc2fd
Never Learned to Read / int_3f35c69c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_3f35c69c	comment	Bards in the Deverry series are forbidden to read. They believe that if a bard learns so much as the name of a single letter of the alphabet, his Agwen (Muse/Patron goddess) will desert him forever. They pass on all their lore through oral tradition.
Never Learned to Read / int_3f35c69c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_3f35c69c	featureConfidence	1.0
Deverry	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_3f35c69c
Never Learned to Read / int_40515eb0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_40515eb0	comment	Thanks: Grammy is the only member of the Winthrop family who is illiterate. In the final episode, Elizabeth teaches her how to write her name.
Never Learned to Read / int_40515eb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_40515eb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Thanks	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_40515eb0
Never Learned to Read / int_40672565	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_40672565	comment	There was an episode of Head of the Class where the star basketball player couldn't read. The smart kids tried to get him to be passable enough to pass his SATs so he could get into a college program; then he decided to turn pro right after high school; then he came clean and said he'd take a year off to learn to read. Of course he never showed up again.
Never Learned to Read / int_40672565	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_40672565	featureConfidence	1.0
Head of the Class	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_40672565
Never Learned to Read / int_41f44d77	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_41f44d77	comment	Say of Pink and Say can't read.
Never Learned to Read / int_41f44d77	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_41f44d77	featureConfidence	1.0
Pink And Say	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_41f44d77
Never Learned to Read / int_42085f56	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_42085f56	comment	Charles in Charge: One of Charles' friends is revealed to be illiterate when a fire breaks out and he can't read the instructions for a fire extinguisher.
Never Learned to Read / int_42085f56	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_42085f56	featureConfidence	1.0
Charles in Charge	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_42085f56
Never Learned to Read / int_42f417ec	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_42f417ec	comment	Spartacus: The title character never learned to read due to being born into slavery which was common in the Roman Republic. When Spartacus goes to negotiate a deal with pirates for use of their ships to leave Rome behind forever, their envoy gives his message of the terms of the deal to Spartacus who then turns and hands it to Antoninus who can read. This clues him in that Spartacus is a slave and why Rome has been trying so hard to not let anyone find out that a slave rebellion has gotten so out of control.
Never Learned to Read / int_42f417ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_42f417ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Spartacus	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_42f417ec
Never Learned to Read / int_44fe781e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Asuka portrays the recent immigrant version. She's been failing tests at school, but when Shinji is having issues with a math problem and reads it out loud, she solves it easily in her head. When he expresses his shock that she's not getting better grades, she reveals that it is because she can't read the kanji in the tests.
Never Learned to Read / int_44fe781e	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_44fe781e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neon Genesis Evangelion	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_44fe781e
Never Learned to Read / int_464bd747	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_464bd747	comment	Highcraft: The group has Logan read out the rules in "INFERNAL HIGH II". He struggles with this, trying to sound the words out loud, much to everyone else's annoyance.
Never Learned to Read / int_464bd747	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_464bd747	featureConfidence	1.0
Highcraft (Web Video)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_464bd747
Never Learned to Read / int_468bebb0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_468bebb0	comment	And also played with in Brutha's case because at one point he's called upon to memorize the contents of an entire library so that it can be reproduced even if the library is destroyed by Omnian fundamentalists. This being the Discworld, the books start to "leak", he gains the information without having understood the words that he memorized.
Never Learned to Read / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_468bebb0
Never Learned to Read / int_4737c653	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4737c653	comment	An episode of Elementary features an imprisoned man who was illiterate at the time of his conviction, something attributed to poverty and dysfunctional home environment. He's depicted as having not only learned during his incarceration, but become able to read at an advanced level, frequently quoting classic literature. Somebody invested in teaching him to that extent proves to be Sherlock and Joan's lead on his accomplice.
Never Learned to Read / int_4737c653	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4737c653	featureConfidence	1.0
Elementary	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4737c653
Never Learned to Read / int_476bc61d	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_476bc61d	comment	In Kid Icarus: Uprising, Pit, upon seemingly falling to his doom claims to have never learned to read. This later gets a Shout-Out in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where Pit screams this when Star KO'd. The game also reveals that Pit has somehow managed to beat all three paths of Fire Emblem Fates despite not knowing how to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_476bc61d	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_476bc61d	featureConfidence	1.0
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_476bc61d
Never Learned to Read / int_47f0eac3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_47f0eac3	comment	Metalocalypse: A variation can be found in the series, where it is revealed that neither Toki nor Skwisgaar can read music (Skwisgaar in particular claims to have music dyslexia), which you'd think is a big deal when you play in the most popular band in the history of the world, but actually, such a thing is quite possible. Most rock and other popular music performers don't use or need sheet music and instead they write music by jamming and learn by ear, and transcribe it in the form of tablature, which uses the guitar strings and fret positions as reference points. In fact many of the great Blues musicians of the '20s and '30s couldn't read at all, let alone read sheet music.
Never Learned to Read / int_47f0eac3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_47f0eac3	featureConfidence	1.0
Metalocalypse	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_47f0eac3
Never Learned to Read / int_48358aca	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_48358aca	comment	The Guns of the South: Nate Caudell (a schoolteacher before he enlisted) ends up teaching a fair number of adults to read and write during his stint in the Confederate Army, and marvels at how deeply learning letters impacts people who learn it in adulthood.
Never Learned to Read / int_48358aca	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_48358aca	featureConfidence	1.0
The Guns of the South	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_48358aca
Never Learned to Read / int_48cec739	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_48cec739	comment	Girls' Last Tour: Yuuri never learnt how to read even phonetic Japanese, whereas Chito can both read and write it, but can't read kanji. Living in the post-apocalypse makes this rather excusable.
Never Learned to Read / int_48cec739	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_48cec739	featureConfidence	1.0
Girls' Last Tour (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_48cec739
Never Learned to Read / int_495c0eab	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_495c0eab	comment	Basic D&D has the ability to read based on the INT score. Characters with an int below 6 are illiterate, and those below 9 can handle simple words.
Never Learned to Read / int_495c0eab	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_495c0eab	featureConfidence	1.0
Basic Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_495c0eab
Never Learned to Read / int_4a759a77	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4a759a77	comment	Our Flag Means Death: Most of the crew, except for Stede, Jim, and Lucius, never learned to read or write. Understandable, given that the show is set in 1717.
Never Learned to Read / int_4a759a77	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4a759a77	featureConfidence	1.0
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4a759a77
Never Learned to Read / int_4a80cec	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4a80cec	comment	Corky Romano: One of Corky's brothers is "rumored" to be illiterate, with the FBI commenting that he hides it well. Throughout the movie, his attempts to cover for himself are transparent (When he is buying ice cream from an ice cream truck he keeps naming flavors that they do not have, despite the operator telling him to read the menu on the side of the truck) and at the end of the movie, his confession refers to points in the past where it had previously been an issue (He had gone to a store to buy cigarettes and had bought tampons instead). It is generally played for laughs except for his tearful confession at the end.
Never Learned to Read / int_4a80cec	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4a80cec	featureConfidence	1.0
Corky Romano	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4a80cec
Never Learned to Read / int_4b6223aa	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4b6223aa	comment	Diarmid in Who Needs Men?, since he was raised in a postapocalyptic chaos. His wife wants to teach him, but there is never the time for it.
Never Learned to Read / int_4b6223aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4b6223aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Who Needs Men?	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4b6223aa
Never Learned to Read / int_4c4aa9c4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4c4aa9c4	comment	A large theme in Captive of the Orcs. Very few Orcs can read. Even-high ranking Orcs are usually illiterate. On the other hand, the Luminean Exiles have near-universal literacy.
Never Learned to Read / int_4c4aa9c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4c4aa9c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Captive of the Orcs	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4c4aa9c4
Never Learned to Read / int_4f01368	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock: A Very Special Episode in the fourth sesaon has the titular hero discover his former enemy-turned-ally, Rubberband Man, has this as a secret sore spot due to his severe dyslexia. During the episode, we see how this not only affects his civilian identity with him being unable to read his mountain of fan mail, but also his superhero identity when he has to read a manual to disarm a bomb (which thankfully he was able to do), even showing the audience his point of view with the letters looking more like the Cyrillic alphabet than Latin. To wrap it up nicely in a bow, the episode even ends with Static and Rubberband Man breaking the fourth wall by directly addressing the audience to give them a "Reading Is Cool" Aesop, this being the second and last time the series has done this with the first being the second season finale.
Never Learned to Read / int_4f01368	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4f01368	featureConfidence	1.0
Static Shock	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4f01368
Never Learned to Read / int_4fc536a5	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_4fc536a5	comment	The main character of Necropolis was just the daughter of a poor barley farmer in a medieval-ish fantasy setting before her village was destroyed by raiding bandits, so she either never learned to read or was sub-literate at absolute best before she was taken into the service of the Queen's warriors. As a peace keeper for the Queen, there is much more expected for her to know and be able to do, and being able to read is just one of them. During some travels with her Mentor, her Training Montage shows her doing both physical training and learning to read, with her mispronouncing simple words and being made to read the same story multiple times until she can do so without making any mistakes.
Never Learned to Read / int_4fc536a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_4fc536a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Necropolis (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4fc536a5
Never Learned to Read / int_525c9c7a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_525c9c7a	comment	Dinotopia: The digest-sized book Windchaser (circa 1800s) has a Satisfied Street Rat named Hugh O'Donovan and Raymond Wilks, the son of a middle-class man, wash up on the island. After being taken in by the natives and asked to give their names and occupations, Hugh asks Raymond to put down his occupation as "entrepreneur", preemptively and defensively claiming he does know how to read and write — he just doesn't know how to spell it. Raymond confesses he can't spell it either, and they share a laugh.
Never Learned to Read / int_525c9c7a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_525c9c7a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dinotopia	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_525c9c7a
Never Learned to Read / int_5261d625	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5261d625	comment	Samurai Champloo: Played for laughs in one episode where Mugen is revealed to be illiterate because of his habit of always ordering the same thing as his companions Fuu and Jin. A rather enthusiastic teacher acts as a Drill Sergeant Nasty and teaches him to read, and at the end of the episode, Mugen uses his newly acquired skills as a Graffiti artist as well as tagging his name on his companions' clothing... and possessions... and pet. Incidentally, using this trope is a good example of the Anachronism Stew of the series: Mugen is a 19-year-old from Ryukyu who has been a criminal his entire life; realistically Fuu and Jin should have been more surprised if he could read.
Never Learned to Read / int_5261d625	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5261d625	featureConfidence	1.0
Samurai Champloo	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5261d625
Never Learned to Read / int_5271c9f8	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5271c9f8	comment	Theod Knecht in To Shape a Dragon's Breath went from a New Livnik orphanage straight into training to serve a upper class household, where he thought he'd likely remain; he never went to primary school or any formal education. After bonding with a dragon hatchling (and making it through the scandal that resulted afterwards when Frau Kuiper intervenes and takes him in as a Scholarship Student) he is then thrust into academy, even illiterate. Even a year later, he struggles to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_5271c9f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5271c9f8	featureConfidence	1.0
To Shape a Dragon's Breath	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5271c9f8
Never Learned to Read / int_5388685a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5388685a	comment	Westeros: An American Musical: Davos turns out to not have known to read in Act I because he's seen learning to do so in "Please, Your Grace".
Never Learned to Read / int_5388685a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5388685a	featureConfidence	1.0
Westeros: An American Musical (Theatre)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5388685a
Never Learned to Read / int_5400d19	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5400d19	comment	The Raccoons: In the episode "Read No Evil!", Bert befriends a hermit who is about to be thrown out of his swamp home. He reveals to Bert that he cannot read, which is how he didn't know that the papers left by his father were property deeds, which make him the legal owner of the swamp.
Never Learned to Read / int_5400d19	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5400d19	featureConfidence	1.0
The Raccoons	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5400d19
Never Learned to Read / int_5427b38d	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5427b38d	comment	In chapter 9 of Lost, Found, this is downplayed, as Ryuuko can read and does read but wasn't allowed to by the "orphanage" workers, it's just that she can't write, probably because she hasn't learned how to.
Never Learned to Read / int_5427b38d	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5427b38d	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost, Found (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5427b38d
Never Learned to Read / int_546876cb	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_546876cb	comment	Sonic Boom: Knuckles is a Zig-Zagging Trope as his literacy level changes depending upon the episode, which can range from illiterate to literate enough to read government documents. In the episode "My Fair Sticksy", he temporarily forgets that he can't read after putting on a pair of glasses to read Stick's invitation. In the episode "Chili Dog Day Afternoon", he is shown able to read a map, however the latter half of the episode, in which obtains and reads it, is All Just a Dream. Finally in the episode "Mayor Knuckles", he is shown able to recall the exact document a person would need and possibly create his own law document that he wished for the mayor to approve, unless he got one of his teammates to create it for him.
Never Learned to Read / int_546876cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_546876cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic Boom	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_546876cb
Never Learned to Read / int_54f1f0c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_54f1f0c	comment	Kemono Friends: Friends are physically incapable of learning to read. This makes the literacy of the human characters a subject of interest to them.
Never Learned to Read / int_54f1f0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_54f1f0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Kemono Friends	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_54f1f0c
Never Learned to Read / int_57a07f77	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_57a07f77	comment	Sovereign Seven: Network never learned to read because she came from a world of telepathy, and any skills she needs she "borrows" from those around her. Without her telepathy, she can't even speak, as she only knows that skill from borrowing it from others. Network lives in perpetual fear of being made "headblind".
Never Learned to Read / int_57a07f77	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_57a07f77	featureConfidence	1.0
Sovereign Seven (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_57a07f77
Never Learned to Read / int_584c32ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_584c32ed	comment	In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, being a local vagrant has never learned to read. The Widow Douglas takes pains to teach him, however, and by the end of the play, he can read at least a little and is proud of it.
Never Learned to Read / int_584c32ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_584c32ed	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Theatre)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_584c32ed
Never Learned to Read / int_58be8dc6	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_58be8dc6	comment	In Holes, Zero agrees to dig Stanley's holes if he'll teach him how to read. Stanley is hesitant to foist his work on Zero, but Zero insists. The other campers begin to resent Stanley because they think he's taking advantage of Zero. At the climax, the two are stuck in a hole surrounded by poisonous lizards and with the treasure the warden had been searching for. Zero suddenly asks Stanley if his full name is spelled the same forwards and backwards, and Stanley confirms it is. Zero asked because he noticed the name "Stanley Yelnats" on the treasure chest — proving that it originally belonged to Stanley's great-grandfather.
Never Learned to Read / int_58be8dc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_58be8dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Holes	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_58be8dc6
Never Learned to Read / int_59da62aa	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Honest Hearts. The Survivalist's journals mention a group of children who would eventually become the Sorrows arriving in Zion Canyon. He specifically goes out of his way to point out that they're literate.
Never Learned to Read / int_59da62aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_59da62aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_59da62aa
Never Learned to Read / int_5b0b10de	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5b0b10de	comment	In The Magnificent Seven TV series, one episode did this for tracker Vin Tanner.
Never Learned to Read / int_5b0b10de	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5b0b10de	featureConfidence	1.0
TheMagnificentSeven	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5b0b10de
Never Learned to Read / int_5c6186ec	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5c6186ec	comment	The eponymous Crankshaft. He was revealed to be illiterate during the strip and learned to read with help from the students who rode in his bus.
Never Learned to Read / int_5c6186ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5c6186ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Crankshaft (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5c6186ec
Never Learned to Read / int_5e150650	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5e150650	comment	Characters in Exalted need at least one dot in either Lore in 2e or Linguistics in 3e to be literate. Due to an infamous oversight in 2e, iconic villain Mask of Winters can't actually read. Barbarian characters (which include Lunar Exalted) in 2e need two dots in Lore to be literate, as their home cultures have oral traditions instead.
Never Learned to Read / int_5e150650	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5e150650	featureConfidence	1.0
Exalted (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5e150650
Never Learned to Read / int_5eee9172	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_5eee9172	comment	At the start of The Crowner John Mysteries, Sir John—like many of his class—is illiterate. He is embarrassed by this, especially as his main rival (and brother-in-law) the Sheriff of Exeter is literate. Over the course of the books, John takes lessons from his clerk Thomas to become literate.
Never Learned to Read / int_5eee9172	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_5eee9172	featureConfidence	1.0
The Crowner John Mysteries	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_5eee9172
Never Learned to Read / int_604b7b58	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_604b7b58	comment	Boots from Cemetery Bird didn't have time to learn to read before suffering Childhood Brain Damage at age 6. Afterwards he was unable to learn, aside from a few words.
Never Learned to Read / int_604b7b58	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_604b7b58	featureConfidence	1.0
Cemetery Bird	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_604b7b58
Never Learned to Read / int_60ce6107	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_60ce6107	comment	Ik Mik Loreland: The troll-like Karbonkel is the only inhabitant of Loria who cannot read. When Mik tries to teach him, he gets so angry that he curses it to become the illiterate country of Loreland and scatters the letters of the alphabet across different places.
Never Learned to Read / int_60ce6107	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_60ce6107	featureConfidence	1.0
Ik Mik Loreland	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_60ce6107
Never Learned to Read / int_610a694a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_610a694a	comment	PokÃ©mon Adventures: Played with. It's revealed that Wild Child Sapphire is barely literate when she has to pass a written test for the chance to battle Roxanne, and of course, said Gym Leader mocks her and lectures her on the importance of reading. Sapphire's illiteracy can easily be attributed to her lifestyle... but also due to her lifestyle, she's well versed in Pokemon ecology and biology, meaning that once she has someone read the questions for her, she ends up the first person ever to score a perfect mark on Roxanne's test.
Never Learned to Read / int_610a694a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_610a694a	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon Adventures (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_610a694a
Never Learned to Read / int_61750a5f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_61750a5f	comment	Porridge: "Bunny" Warren claims to be in prison because he could not read the sign: "Warning, Burglar Alarm". He also gets Fletcher to read him letters from his wife. It is strongly implied that he is actually dyslexic.
Never Learned to Read / int_61750a5f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_61750a5f	featureConfidence	1.0
Porridge	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_61750a5f
Never Learned to Read / int_619a5135	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_619a5135	comment	Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid: Su-a was raised as a servant and can't read or write. It becomes a roadblock when she is rendered mute. Uihyeon later starts teaching her how to read and write, and she does so crudely but understandably.
Never Learned to Read / int_619a5135	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_619a5135	featureConfidence	1.0
Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_619a5135
Never Learned to Read / int_62570927	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: X-Men: It is sometimes common for mutants with physical differences or noticeable powers to not have a formal education due to Fantastic Racism of their families or their communities. Excalibur: Meggan was illiterate since her inhuman appearance kept her from going to school as a child. During the course of the series, several members of the team offered to help tutor her, and near the end, she finishes her lessons and has an average adult reading level. New Mutants: Catseye from the Hellions was abandoned at birth since her mutation manifested early, and she spent much of her life thinking she was a cat who transformed into a human rather than vice-versa. Once discovered by Emma Frost, she went from complete illiteracy to grade school-level reading within a year, showing a hidden intelligence.
Never Learned to Read / int_62570927	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_62570927	featureConfidence	1.0
Marvel Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_62570927
Never Learned to Read / int_6274e926	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6274e926	comment	Jem: The series featured an episode where it was revealed Roxy was illiterate, which was foreshadowed a few times early on but never clarified until season 2. After this she begins to learn to read which is even given a Call-Back in the finale, where she and the other Misfits go to Ba Nee's farewell party as she was the girl who gave Roxy a book to help her learn to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_6274e926	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6274e926	featureConfidence	1.0
Jem	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6274e926
Never Learned to Read / int_629cd094	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, if you play as a Dwarf Commoner, you should be illiterate, seeing as how you're a two-bit thug on the lowest rung of Dwarven society. But since being unable to read would add a layer of complication to other parts of the game, the crime boss you work for mentions that he taught your prostitute sister to read as part of making her into a High-Class Call Girl, and it's implied that she passed those lessons onto you.
Never Learned to Read / int_629cd094	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_629cd094	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_629cd094
Never Learned to Read / int_6365ff3a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6365ff3a	comment	In the opening chapter of Dragon Quest V, the hero is only 6 years old and can't read well. The few times he is able to read something, he has an older friend with him. This doesn't apply in later chapters, though, and you can go back and reread several signs you couldn't when you were young.
Never Learned to Read / int_6365ff3a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6365ff3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Quest V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6365ff3a
Never Learned to Read / int_64776522	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_64776522	comment	Books in Yggdra Union can only be used by "the literate" (an in-game item condition), Nietzsche and Milanor are greyed out in selection. Guess what that means?
Never Learned to Read / int_64776522	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_64776522	featureConfidence	1.0
Yggdra Union (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_64776522
Never Learned to Read / int_68807451	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_68807451	comment	Bizenghast: Edrear is shown to be illiterate. This is Played for Laughs when Edrear asks directions to a store called Jacys, and it is revealed to be directly behind him (and clearly labeled).
Never Learned to Read / int_68807451	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_68807451	featureConfidence	1.0
Bizenghast (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_68807451
Never Learned to Read / int_694ab80	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond: The episode "Joyride" gave the audience this quote:
Never Learned to Read / int_694ab80	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_694ab80	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Beyond	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_694ab80
Never Learned to Read / int_696b75c2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_696b75c2	comment	Although there are newspapers and bookstores around, a point is made that illiteracy among lower-class people is common in A Brother's Price since mothers make more money if their daughters work alongside them than if they're off in schools. Men are almost never taught to read. Cullen Moorland admits that his cousin tried to teach him, but he claims she was a poor teacher, and anyway it's not like his wives, once he's married, will let him read. The Whistlers, seriously thinking about courting him, feel differently.
Never Learned to Read / int_696b75c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_696b75c2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_696b75c2
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8aff51	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Part of the Vorin religion's strict gender roles mean that men are not allowed to read. The only exception is if they become ardents (sort of priest-slaves), who legally have no gender and are supposed to learn all skills so they can provide aid to both men and women. It's not uncommon for Vorin men who have an interest in math or scholarship to join the ardentia. Furthermore, there are stylized glyphs that are practically a language in their own right, but since they are designed to be recognizable even by someone who has never seen them before, everyone insists it's not the same, and men are allowed to read them. Most men still don't learn them, though. Late in the second book, Words of Radiance, it's discovered that Lord Amaram managed to find a Loophole Abuse around this by arranging glyphs into a complex series of ideas, creating what was essentially a full language that at first looks like gibberish to those who are used to just seeing glyphs by themselves. In Oathbringer, Dalinar scandalises his country (yet again) by learning to read, and even writing the in-universe book that gives the story its name.
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8aff51	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8aff51	featureConfidence	1.0
The Stormlight Archive	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6a8aff51
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8d182d	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8d182d	comment	Spenser: The title character encounters a college basketball star who can't read in the novel Playmates.
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8d182d	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6a8d182d	featureConfidence	1.0
Spenser	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6a8d182d
Never Learned to Read / int_6ac55ec7	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: Unlike any other character class, the Barbarian is illiterate unless they multiclass or spend extra skill points on literacy. The reason is left ambiguous, such as the barbarian coming from a culture with an oral tradition, but can pose problems if they come to a writing-dependent civilization. Basic D&D has the ability to read based on the INT score. Characters with an int below 6 are illiterate, and those below 9 can handle simple words.
Never Learned to Read / int_6ac55ec7	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6ac55ec7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6ac55ec7
Never Learned to Read / int_6c1d09b3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3: You can talk Mister Lopez out of suicide (and gain good karma) by convincing him to act as a father figure to the young orphan Ted Strayer. Mister Lopez will mention teaching him how to read. It's implied most wastelanders are illiterate.
Never Learned to Read / int_6c1d09b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6c1d09b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6c1d09b3
Never Learned to Read / int_6c39a620	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: It turns out that the protagonist's adoptive brother within the nobility doesn't know how to read despite the two of them being the same age and the brother getting top-notch education on paper. Worse, it is discovered that almost all the orphans in the orphanage the protagonist is managing are better educated than her brother, with the "almost" coming from the recent arrival of a Doorstop Baby.
Never Learned to Read / int_6c39a620	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6c39a620	featureConfidence	1.0
Ascendance of a Bookworm	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6c39a620
Never Learned to Read / int_6c711d2c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6c711d2c	comment	Color Me Perfect: The mentally disabled woman Dina never had any formal education. Her main reason for signing up for the intelligence-boosting gene therapy is that the scientists promise that she'll be taught to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_6c711d2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6c711d2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Color Me Perfect	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6c711d2c
Never Learned to Read / int_6cc7497b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6cc7497b	comment	Castlevania (2017): Played With by Trevor Belmont. He can read normal Romanian text just fine, but the various languages of the books in the Belmont Hold are beyond him due to being orphaned before he could be taught them. Compared to the brilliant Sylpha and Alucard, who are both multilingual, he's basically illiterate.
Never Learned to Read / int_6cc7497b	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6cc7497b	featureConfidence	1.0
Castlevania (2017)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6cc7497b
Never Learned to Read / int_6ebb08e3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6ebb08e3	comment	Gunnora from Alfdis & Gunnora never learned to read, but is trying to teach herself in her spare time. This becomes somewhat significant when Alfdis sends her a written message. She's very upset when Alfdis's father uses it as an excuse not to hire her.
Never Learned to Read / int_6ebb08e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6ebb08e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Alfdis & Gunnora (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6ebb08e3
Never Learned to Read / int_6ed09d93	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6ed09d93	comment	Big Mouth: Coach Steve is outstandingly illiterate. So much so that he reads the letter B as "fat guy" and E as "sideways comb."
Never Learned to Read / int_6ed09d93	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6ed09d93	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Mouth	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6ed09d93
Never Learned to Read / int_6fd4e61f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6fd4e61f	comment	In Animal Farm, shortly after taking control of the farm, the pigs reveal that they can already read and write, so they teach it to the other animals. The results are... rather zigzagged. The dogs can read as well as the pigs but aren't interested in reading anything other than The Seven Commandments of Animalism. Benjamin the donkey can read probably better than the pigs but chooses not to read. Muriel the goat can read newspapers. Clover has learned all of the alphabet but can't put the letters together. Poor Boxer can't get beyond A, B, C, and D, and Mollie won't spell anything other than her own name. All the others (sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese) are pretty much book-dumb.
Never Learned to Read / int_6fd4e61f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6fd4e61f	featureConfidence	1.0
Animal Farm	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6fd4e61f
Never Learned to Read / int_6ff8b00a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_6ff8b00a	comment	Dora the Explorer: The villain in "Dora's Royal Rescue" never learned to read, and is thus trying to stop everyone else from reading. In the end, Don Quixote agrees to teach him.
Never Learned to Read / int_6ff8b00a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_6ff8b00a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dora the Explorer	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_6ff8b00a
Never Learned to Read / int_72262aee	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph is a justified version of this trope due to the fact that she was born blind and lives in a world that doesn't have any form of Braille. Despite this, there are still a few times where this is Played for Laughs, such as when she tries to prove that she can help put up wanted posters only to put it blank side up or when she points that she is blind when people try to get her to read something.
Never Learned to Read / int_72262aee	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_72262aee	featureConfidence	1.0
Avatar: The Last Airbender	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_72262aee
Never Learned to Read / int_733f2aaf	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_733f2aaf	comment	Cradle Series: Yerin can't read, because her master didn't bother to teach her anything that was not directly relevant to the sacred arts. Lindon finds this a bit uncomfortable, but Yerin repeatedly jokes about it. In Wintersteel, Min Shuei, the fiance of Yerin's master, is surprised and horrified that he never bothered to teach Yerin to read. She resolves to do so herself, despite the tight time limit they're under. In Dreadgod, it's mentioned that Yerin had a lot of trouble with Min Shuei's instruction, between Min Shuei's teaching style and the fact that Yerin just doesn't like the woman. She only started learning for real when Lindon started teaching her, and by the time of this book she is fully literate.
Never Learned to Read / int_733f2aaf	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_733f2aaf	featureConfidence	1.0
Cradle Series	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_733f2aaf
Never Learned to Read / int_73d7930f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_73d7930f	comment	Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine doesn't learn to read until Jake, who's younger, teaches him. He manages to get into Starfleet Academy a few years later with only about two years of semi-formal schooling. It's possible though that Jake is teaching him how to read human script since Ferengi has its own system of writing.
Never Learned to Read / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_73d7930f
Never Learned to Read / int_742d029d	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_742d029d	comment	Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts: Minami Shimada is a downplayed example; she's Japanese but lived in Germany until recently, so while she can read and write in German, her reading and writing comprehension of Japanese kanji is very poor due to Heritage Disconnect, to the point that she is landed in Class F with the other protagonists. A Whole Episode Flashback in the anime adaptation reveals that on her first day at Fumizuki Academy, she even accidentally wrote her name wrong.
Never Learned to Read / int_742d029d	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_742d029d	featureConfidence	1.0
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_742d029d
Never Learned to Read / int_76dc8764	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_76dc8764	comment	Lex on The Tribe is an arrogant, tough, streetwise character... who never learned to read or write beyond a very low grade school level. The series implied several times that he had Dyslexia. It's a major source of insecurity for him, and he does try to improve his skills more than once.
Never Learned to Read / int_76dc8764	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_76dc8764	featureConfidence	1.0
The Tribe	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_76dc8764
Never Learned to Read / int_78146d21	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_78146d21	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Ragetti insists he should "get credit for tryin'" to read the Bible.
Never Learned to Read / int_78146d21	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_78146d21	featureConfidence	1.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_78146d21
Never Learned to Read / int_78b8e562	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_78b8e562	comment	One Life to Live's Lee Ann realized this about her friend Jason Webb. She offered to teach him. Sure enough, her spending time with him caused tension in her marriage (not helped by her refusing to tell her husband why she was hanging out with him, wanting to protect his privacy) and ultimately led to an affair.
Never Learned to Read / int_78b8e562	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_78b8e562	featureConfidence	1.0
One Life to Live	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_78b8e562
Never Learned to Read / int_78e27fa7	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_78e27fa7	comment	Nino from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade was so badly neglected by her Abusive Parent Sonia that she cannot read. Instead, she learned to use magic tomes by watching Sonia and imitating her chants (something that gets her a lot of respect from fellow mage and potential love interest Erk). Her supports with Canas have him teaching her how to properly read and write.
Never Learned to Read / int_78e27fa7	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_78e27fa7	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_78e27fa7
Never Learned to Read / int_7a8dc374	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7a8dc374	comment	The Afterward: Olsa, being a Street Urchin, was illiterate until Kalanthe had taught her.
Never Learned to Read / int_7a8dc374	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7a8dc374	featureConfidence	1.0
The Afterward	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7a8dc374
Never Learned to Read / int_7ac38ec4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Akira never knew his parents and grew up without a formal education until Alpha teaches him to read and write. Because of this, it's not until he gets his temporary Hunter license turned into a real one that he notices that his name had been misspelled because he couldn't read it until Alpha taught him to.
Never Learned to Read / int_7ac38ec4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7ac38ec4	featureConfidence	1.0
Rebuild World	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7ac38ec4
Never Learned to Read / int_7ce87095	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7ce87095	comment	Cool Hand Luke: Chain gang big man Dragline doesn't know how to read. He'll hand over letters and other reading material for his fellow prisoners to read to him.
Never Learned to Read / int_7ce87095	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7ce87095	featureConfidence	1.0
Cool Hand Luke	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7ce87095
Never Learned to Read / int_7cfdc4b0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7cfdc4b0	comment	Conan the Adventurer: In one episode, Conan admits that he never learned how to read (something not that unusual for a rural blacksmith's son in a medieval time period). His travelling companions manage to teach him in an improbably short period of time.
Never Learned to Read / int_7cfdc4b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7cfdc4b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Conan the Adventurer	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7cfdc4b0
Never Learned to Read / int_7d271ad1	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7d271ad1	comment	The Sword in the Stone: When Archimedes instructs Wart (AKA Arthur Pendragon) to read a large stack of books, Wart reveals he'd never learned how to read or write (which was the norm in that era), prompting Archimedes to start teaching him how to do so.
Never Learned to Read / int_7d271ad1	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7d271ad1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sword in the Stone	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7d271ad1
Never Learned to Read / int_7dcdbde1	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7dcdbde1	comment	The Great Ace Attorney: Before being taken under Inspector Gregson's wing as a Scotland Yard apprentice investigator, Gina Lestrade spent her life as a pickpocket on the East End streets of London, stealing what she could to support herself and the other orphans. After she's begun working under Gregson, in "The Return of the Great Departed Soul", she tells Ryunosuke that she can't read very well, by which she means that she's just recently started learning the alphabet — she later tells him that she's currently working on the letters A through E. By the time of "The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo", she's come a long way; she says that she has reading "all buttoned up" and is proud to demonstrate that she can now read full words, dates, and names. In the end credits, she happily says that she now knows the whole alphabet and as such is able to read the note she found from Gregson that he left for her before he was killed.
Never Learned to Read / int_7dcdbde1	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7dcdbde1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Great Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7dcdbde1
Never Learned to Read / int_7e91f431	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7e91f431	comment	In Crash Tag Team Racing, one of the many quotes that Crunch Bandicoot says upon having his vehicle destroyed in a race is a claim that he never learned to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_7e91f431	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7e91f431	featureConfidence	1.0
Crash Tag Team Racing (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7e91f431
Never Learned to Read / int_7f225484	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7f225484	comment	Sephrenia is deliberately illiterate in the Elenium trilogy. This is her own choice, however; she speaks both the Elene and Styric languages fluently, though Styric is her native tongue. She doesn't want to learn to read the Elene language because she doesn't want to accidentally become confused in a situation where she needs to think and speak very quickly in Styric (the language in which one casts magic). Subverted in Tamuli, when it's revealed that she can read in her native Styric. She pretended that she cannot read, so that her young students, who are typically not very bright, could feel superior at least in something.
Never Learned to Read / int_7f225484	featureApplicability	-0.3
Never Learned to Read / int_7f225484	featureConfidence	1.0
Elenium	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7f225484
Never Learned to Read / int_7f5bc680	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Fallout 3: You can talk Mister Lopez out of suicide (and gain good karma) by convincing him to act as a father figure to the young orphan Ted Strayer. Mister Lopez will mention teaching him how to read. It's implied most wastelanders are illiterate. Fallout: New Vegas: Honest Hearts. The Survivalist's journals mention a group of children who would eventually become the Sorrows arriving in Zion Canyon. He specifically goes out of his way to point out that they're literate.
Never Learned to Read / int_7f5bc680	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7f5bc680	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7f5bc680
Never Learned to Read / int_7fc57c48	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_7fc57c48	comment	My So-Called Life, "Why Jordan Can't Read". Subverting the single episode aspect in that Jordan doesn't start his tutoring right away (plus he's already been held back at least a year), and the fact that it pervades his character throughout the rest of the series. He can write music though.
Never Learned to Read / int_7fc57c48	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_7fc57c48	featureConfidence	1.0
My So-Called Life	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_7fc57c48
Never Learned to Read / int_80942169	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_80942169	comment	Seth from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is revealed to be illiterate when his girlfriend catches him giving sports tickets to nerds in exchange for them doing his homework, because he, well, can't. The episode ends with, you guessed it, Seth studying to learn how to read. Yay tropes.
Never Learned to Read / int_80942169	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_80942169	featureConfidence	1.0
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_80942169
Never Learned to Read / int_809ac00	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_809ac00	comment	Black Dagger Brotherhood: The aptly named Blood Knight Zsadist of J.R.Ward's series is illiterate for well over a century until he fell in love with the aristocratic vampire Bella, and learned to read in order to be "worthy of courting" her. Before then, Zsadist made no effort to change his illiterate state, though there were hints it did bother him, since it not only inconvenienced him but also forced him to rely on others — mainly his twin, Phury — to accomplish simple tasks. Once he recognized his feelings for Bella, he worked relentlessly with his tutor, Mary, with all his hard work at last culminating in him writing, "I love you" to Bella in a squiggly, childlike handwriting.
Never Learned to Read / int_809ac00	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_809ac00	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Dagger Brotherhood	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_809ac00
Never Learned to Read / int_811d7bc4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_811d7bc4	comment	Helen's Mysterious Castle: Helen, until a sheep dies and her brother figure Ardis makes a grave and notices she can't read what he put on it. So he teaches her how to read, which also unlocks the information in the books that are in the titular castle.
Never Learned to Read / int_811d7bc4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_811d7bc4	featureConfidence	1.0
Helen's Mysterious Castle (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_811d7bc4
Never Learned to Read / int_817ec44f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_817ec44f	comment	Captain N: The Game Master: In "The Invasion of the Paper Pedalers", this trope helps the paperboy Julio escape Mother Brainâ€™s mind-controlling papers due to the fact that illiteracy makes one immune to them.
Never Learned to Read / int_817ec44f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_817ec44f	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain N: The Game Master	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_817ec44f
Never Learned to Read / int_83d41855	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_83d41855	comment	It's fairly understandable that Broadway and Hudson in Gargoyles never learned to read, as they aren't human and come from a society where reading wasn't important. Hudson feels shame for it but believes he is too old to learn now, in contrast to Broadway, who, in true "ignorance is bliss" style, brags that he has no need for literacy. Not only was their Very Special Episode done better than usual, but it actually does affect later episodes, when the two are seen practicing reading, seeking help from others, or struggling to read. In the last canon episode, Broadway's reading has improved enough that he's seen reading Shakespearean poetry to impress his girlfriend, Angela; Hudson, meanwhile, develops a fondness for reading the newspaper (between this and his nigh-religious following of the nightly news, he's actually more attuned to night-to-night events than most of his clanmates). There's also Hakon, again pretty understandable since he's from the early 11th century, too. On the other hand, he's proud of his illiteracy, openly mocking the Magus's reliance on his spellbook. (The showrunners have stated that this was deliberately made a part of his character as a sneaky little "Reading Is Cool" Aesop — you don't want to be like Hakon, do you, kids?)
Never Learned to Read / int_83d41855	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_83d41855	featureConfidence	1.0
Gargoyles	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_83d41855
Never Learned to Read / int_858624ba	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_858624ba	comment	Parodied in Will & Grace when Grace panics when her boyfriend Nathan is less excited about her birthday gift of a book than Karen's gift of a motorcycle. He solemnly informs her that he can't read, and she immediately softens and apologizes, to which he replies "I can read! You've seen me read!"
Never Learned to Read / int_858624ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_858624ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Will & Grace	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_858624ba
Never Learned to Read / int_85c47924	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_85c47924	comment	i am sam: Sam can't read anything beyond simple picture books, which comes back to bite him when his daughter Lucy has to be one reading to him.
Never Learned to Read / int_85c47924	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_85c47924	featureConfidence	1.0
i am sam	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_85c47924
Never Learned to Read / int_88e4c402	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_88e4c402	comment	The protagonist of Card Shark starts off being unable to read or write, but as he travels with the Comte and learns from him, his journal entries improve significantly.
Never Learned to Read / int_88e4c402	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_88e4c402	featureConfidence	1.0
Card Shark (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_88e4c402
Never Learned to Read / int_89bf8ce	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: In one episode, Liz and Pete suspected that Tracy might be illiterate. He wasn't, but he played along to get out of work.
Never Learned to Read / int_89bf8ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_89bf8ce	featureConfidence	1.0
30 Rock	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_89bf8ce
Never Learned to Read / int_89c17c86	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_89c17c86	comment	Battletoads (2020): Zits questions if Rash knows how to read when the trio examine a billboard in one stage and Rash doesn't realize what it says. His reply in which he mispronounces "books" doesn't help his case.
Never Learned to Read / int_89c17c86	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_89c17c86	featureConfidence	1.0
BattleToads (2020) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_89c17c86
Never Learned to Read / int_89e3395e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_89e3395e	comment	Tyce from Deagle Nation is extremely close to this trope. While he might be able to actually read, nearly every single word he's typed since his first appearance is misspelled and grammatically incorrect to the point of absurdity.
Never Learned to Read / int_89e3395e	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_89e3395e	featureConfidence	1.0
Deagle Nation (Web Video)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_89e3395e
Never Learned to Read / int_8a3a1edd	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8a3a1edd	comment	In an early episode of Saved by the Bell (back when it was still called Good Morning Miss Bliss), a bully is revealed to be illiterate, which is why he forced others to do his homework.
Never Learned to Read / int_8a3a1edd	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8a3a1edd	featureConfidence	1.0
Saved by the Bell	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8a3a1edd
Never Learned to Read / int_8a728f1a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8a728f1a	comment	In A Drowned Maiden's Hair, the deaf servant Muffet has reached middle age with almost no exposure to language of any kind. Once Maud starts teaching her to read, she learns quickly.
Never Learned to Read / int_8a728f1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8a728f1a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Drowned Maiden's Hair	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8a728f1a
Never Learned to Read / int_8ad2102e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8ad2102e	comment	How Funny (This Country Is): The pickpocket kids cannot read, since for them, pickpocketing is the only skills that they ever need to have; so Muluk has Samsul teach them how as part of his plan to educate them. When Glen's gang protest, their boss Jarot reminds Glen that time he once ran away from a mob to a police station because he couldn't read the sign.
Never Learned to Read / int_8ad2102e	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8ad2102e	featureConfidence	1.0
How Funny (This Country Is)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8ad2102e
Never Learned to Read / int_8b5820ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8b5820ed	comment	In Red Dead Redemption the main character John Marston's wife Abigail Marston admits that she's illiterate. At one point she suspects that her husband has received a love letter from another woman. Unable to read it herself she asks John to read it for her. In the prequel Red Dead Redemption 2, it's stated that even John didn't know how to read until he was taken in by the Van der Linde gang when he was 12. Nor did the protagonist of that game Arthur Morgan (he was a few years older than John when he met Dutch) or many of the other members of the gang. Arthur develops this skill rather nicely, as evidence by his journal. John...less so. Early on in Chapter 2, you can find Jack Marston being taught to read with Abigail saying that she wants him to learn to read so he can have a better life than she did. Also comes into play with a side mission, in which the Roanoke Fuel Company, having polluted the Butcher Creek water supply and giving the inhabitants/wildlife lead-poisoning, have one of their employees pose as a shaman, manipulate the residents into thinking it's a spiritual curse, and trying to manipulate them into signing a legal waiver absolving the company of responsibility for the incident, assuming they're illiterate...one of them isn't.
Never Learned to Read / int_8b5820ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8b5820ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dead Redemption (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8b5820ed
Never Learned to Read / int_8bd02a57	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8bd02a57	comment	Sissel from Ghost Trick, which almost leads to some complications early on in the plot. Apparently, it's because of his Ghost Amnesia. Except it's not. He really never learned to read, because he was a cat when he was still alive.
Never Learned to Read / int_8bd02a57	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8bd02a57	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghost Trick (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8bd02a57
Never Learned to Read / int_8d36db52	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8d36db52	comment	In Tyranny, Dark Action Girl Verse is illiterate as a result of having grown up in The Horde, and is rather embarrassed about it when the player notices. One can offer to teach her, but she suggests that they wait until after the war is over.
Never Learned to Read / int_8d36db52	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8d36db52	featureConfidence	1.0
Tyranny (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8d36db52
Never Learned to Read / int_8d50e6ff	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8d50e6ff	comment	Zigzagged in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. "A Novel Approach" establishes that King Dedede can't read, despite being able to read cook books and letters in previous episodes. Dedede justifies this by saying he just prefers books with pictures.
Never Learned to Read / int_8d50e6ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8d50e6ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8d50e6ff
Never Learned to Read / int_8d81f086	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk had a subversion — a suspect who was a Mexican immigrant and tried to hide the fact that he couldn't read English. His illiteracy ended up being a good thing as the real killer had avoided escaping through a door after the murder because there was a sign on it that said an alarm would sound if it was opened.
Never Learned to Read / int_8d81f086	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8d81f086	featureConfidence	1.0
Monk	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8d81f086
Never Learned to Read / int_8da477bd	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8da477bd	comment	This sets off the main plot of Gutenberg! The Musical!!, as the town's illiteracy helps spur Gutenberg to invent the printing press. Most notably, a woman's inability to read accidentally kills her child (she mistakes jelly beans for medicine. It's that kind of musical).
Never Learned to Read / int_8da477bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8da477bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Gutenberg The Musical (Theatre)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8da477bd
Never Learned to Read / int_8ddfa373	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8ddfa373	comment	In Ocean Girl, the son of ORCA's head woman was revealed to be illiterate because he was dyslexic. Mike was a jerk who used his dyslexia to get out of things until Neri helped him learn to read. Then he turned good.
Never Learned to Read / int_8ddfa373	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8ddfa373	featureConfidence	1.0
Ocean Girl	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8ddfa373
Never Learned to Read / int_8dfbdff2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8dfbdff2	comment	A first-season episode of Law & Order focuses on a baby who has been shot to death by a teenage hitman working for a drug dealer. Stone gets the kid on the stand and forces him to admit that he's illiterate; the dealer had written the address of the intended target, but the kid went to the wrong place.
Never Learned to Read / int_8dfbdff2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8dfbdff2	featureConfidence	1.0
Law & Order	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8dfbdff2
Never Learned to Read / int_8e25a559	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8e25a559	comment	Under the Sun: Olof is a prosperous 40-year-old farmer who never learned to read. This becomes important when Ellen leaves him a goodbye letter (it turns out she was married, and she's left to get divorced) and Erik, the third corner in the Love Triangle, maliciously mistranslates the letter when Olof gives it to him to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_8e25a559	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8e25a559	featureConfidence	1.0
Under the Sun	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8e25a559
Never Learned to Read / int_8ecb86b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8ecb86b	comment	In Redeeming Love, Angel was a Sex Slave since she was 8, and her pimps had seen no reason to teach her to read or write. Later in the novel, one of her new friends teaches her.
Never Learned to Read / int_8ecb86b	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8ecb86b	featureConfidence	1.0
Redeeming Love	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8ecb86b
Never Learned to Read / int_8feb243f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_8feb243f	comment	The eponymous Eva Luna always wanted to learn how to read and write, so she could properly use her talent as The Storyteller. Her agitated life didn't give her the chance until she was in her mid-teens at least, and she was absolutely euphoric as she put her ideas and plots into written words.
Never Learned to Read / int_8feb243f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_8feb243f	featureConfidence	1.0
Eva Luna	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_8feb243f
Never Learned to Read / int_93a07966	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_93a07966	comment	Fate/Apocrypha: Jeanne d'Arc never learned to read since she was a farmer's daughter turned warrior. However, since the Holy Grail provides the Servants with basic knowledge of the modern world, it doesn't hinder her that much.
Never Learned to Read / int_93a07966	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_93a07966	featureConfidence	1.0
Fate/Apocrypha	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_93a07966
Never Learned to Read / int_94248b8a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_94248b8a	comment	Scare Tactics (DC Comics): Fang, coming from an isolated clan of werewolves in Appalachia, is semi-literate at best. Slither offers to help him improve his reading.
Never Learned to Read / int_94248b8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_94248b8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Scare Tactics (DC Comics) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_94248b8a
Never Learned to Read / int_95a8c491	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_95a8c491	comment	Sym-Bionic Titan: Played for Laughs with a Show Within a Show called "High School Heights", a show about each character being in a love triangle or having a secret, with one of the characters named Andy having a secret of being illiterate in high school and the only person who knows this is his girlfriend. This even gets referenced again in â€œThe Ballad of Scary Maryâ€�, where a friend of Kimmy Mysner reveals this to her but says not reveal anything else as her DVR acting up caused her to miss the episode.
Never Learned to Read / int_95a8c491	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_95a8c491	featureConfidence	1.0
Sym-Bionic Titan	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_95a8c491
Never Learned to Read / int_95bfa795	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_95bfa795	comment	Excalibur: Meggan was illiterate since her inhuman appearance kept her from going to school as a child. During the course of the series, several members of the team offered to help tutor her, and near the end, she finishes her lessons and has an average adult reading level.
Never Learned to Read / int_95bfa795	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_95bfa795	featureConfidence	1.0
Excalibur	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_95bfa795
Never Learned to Read / int_974f7efb	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_974f7efb	comment	The Drew Carey Show: One episode spoofed cheap attempts to win an Emmy, in which Drew had to single-handedly discover a cure for Kate's terminal illness. The only problem is, he never learned to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_974f7efb	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_974f7efb	featureConfidence	1.0
The Drew Carey Show	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_974f7efb
Never Learned to Read / int_97ba4858	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_97ba4858	comment	Driving Miss Daisy: "Hoke" couldn't read, but he could somehow get a driver's license despite this fact. Since he was licensed in the 1940s, one presumes the requirements were different at the time. This is still a plot point in the 1981 made-for-TV movie "The Pride of Jesse Hallam". The title character has a driver's license despite being illiterate.
Never Learned to Read / int_97ba4858	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_97ba4858	featureConfidence	1.0
Driving Miss Daisy (Theatre)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_97ba4858
Never Learned to Read / int_99055407	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: At least two instances: Eddie wants to enroll in a college where athletics is valued over academics and plans to forsake his studies for an NBA-worthy basketball career. That is, until he meets a supermarket stockboy/bagboy who was a former college standout ... until suffering a career-ending injury, after which his illiteracy is exposed. 3J, the Cousin Oliver of Family Matters, was introduced in an episode where Urkel is his Big Brother (an episode paying homage to the organization).
Never Learned to Read / int_99055407	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_99055407	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_99055407
Never Learned to Read / int_9912e8d4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9912e8d4	comment	Leonard Derrin in Blonde Sunrise, due to growing up in poverty and having an ill father who could barely read himself, is illiterate. It's not until Daine decides to help him that Leonard can even so much as read his own name.
Never Learned to Read / int_9912e8d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9912e8d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Blonde Sunrise (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9912e8d4
Never Learned to Read / int_994bf218	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_994bf218	comment	Jakub Wędrowycz: The title character's academic education is limited to three years of elementary Russian school, so he barely knows the Latin alphabet (he never bothered to brush up on it in over 80 years). Note, though, that Jakub is very big on Obfuscating Stupidity (also, Obfuscating Insanity and Obfuscating Drunkenness).
Never Learned to Read / int_994bf218	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_994bf218	featureConfidence	1.0
Jakub Wędrowycz	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_994bf218
Never Learned to Read / int_9a56099	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9a56099	comment	A League of Their Own: Shirley Baker, which leads to a hilarious moment when former burlesque dancer Mae takes it upon herself to teach her how to read:
Never Learned to Read / int_9a56099	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9a56099	featureConfidence	1.0
A League of Their Own	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9a56099
Never Learned to Read / int_9b4acc1f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9b4acc1f	comment	Luffy from None Piece is unable to read the disclaimer in episode 3, Played for Laughs.
Never Learned to Read / int_9b4acc1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9b4acc1f	featureConfidence	1.0
None Piece (Web Video)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9b4acc1f
Never Learned to Read / int_9cfeb135	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9cfeb135	comment	In one episode of Hamish Macbeth, Hamish's friend TV John is revealed to be illiterate. Being a mystery series, his illiteracy was the impetus for suspicious behavior.
Never Learned to Read / int_9cfeb135	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9cfeb135	featureConfidence	1.0
Hamish Macbeth	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9cfeb135
Never Learned to Read / int_9d1d0598	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9d1d0598	comment	Venturian Tale: Johnny Ghost can't read, apparently. (Not that it affects anything.)
Never Learned to Read / int_9d1d0598	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9d1d0598	featureConfidence	1.0
VenturianTale	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9d1d0598
Never Learned to Read / int_9d47a2a2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Davos Seaworth. Due to his lowly origins, the smuggler-turned-knight-turned Lord never learned how to read. It's his elevation to Hand of the King that prompts him to learn, alongside his young son. This applies to the majority of common people in Westeros. Only nobles, maesters, septons, etc. can usually be relied upon to be literate. In one scene Arya Stark is trying to show Hot Pie how to read a map, and he's astonished that she can actually read the place names written on it (unaware that she's actually nobility). Gilly outright calls Samwell Tarly a wizard when he proves able to "turn squiggles on paper into words".
Never Learned to Read / int_9d47a2a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9d47a2a2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9d47a2a2
Never Learned to Read / int_9e2dbb4d	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show: In "Take the Cake", Mordecai and Rigby are tasked with picking Mr. Maellard's birthday cake from a bakery. When they realize they have a prepaid receipt, they get into that line, and a woman starts pitching a fit and calling them line cutters, not realizing there's a separate line for prepaid costumers, and the clerk tells her maybe she should learn how to read. Later, that same woman tries to run the boys off the road, but they manage to lose her after she crashes her car into a ditch. It turns out she actually couldn't read and couldn't tell what a "road closed" sign said. So on top of being a psycho, the woman was also a moron.
Never Learned to Read / int_9e2dbb4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9e2dbb4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Regular Show	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9e2dbb4d
Never Learned to Read / int_9e3d1858	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9e3d1858	comment	In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, several characters are explicitly stated to be illiterate. Granted, this game is set in a realistic version of rural 14th-century Bohemia, so literacy is very much the exception. Henry is initially illiterate, and the player has to pay a scribe to teach him how. When the bailiff of Uzhitz gets into an argument with the local priest and threatens to report him to his superiors, the priest merely laughs. Then the priest explains that if his antagonist wants to send a letter denouncing him to the bishop, he'll need to find someone to write it for him first, and the priest is the only literate person in the village. Sir Hanush is also illiterate, being more inclined towards a more... hands-on approach to governance. When called out on this, he, rather defensively, claims that he doesn't need to know how to read; that's what he hires scribes for.
Never Learned to Read / int_9e3d1858	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9e3d1858	featureConfidence	1.0
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9e3d1858
Never Learned to Read / int_9e418e1b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9e418e1b	comment	The Three Musketeers (1973): When the Duke of Buckingham asks D'Artagnan if he has read the Queen's letter, D'Artagnan admits that he cannot read. When he is sent some wine and a note in the sequel he gets around this by pretending the handwriting is so bad he cannot make it out and asks the quartermaster to try (this is different from the books where D'Artagnan is quite literate, even if he does hate Latin).
Never Learned to Read / int_9e418e1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9e418e1b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Three Musketeers (1973)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9e418e1b
Never Learned to Read / int_9e7d2cd2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9e7d2cd2	comment	The Piano: George Baines, a forester and retired sailor, is illiterate.
Never Learned to Read / int_9e7d2cd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9e7d2cd2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Piano	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9e7d2cd2
Never Learned to Read / int_9f89a5f0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: The franchise has two examples with both girls being raised in two vastly different environments, one being a rural forested area and the other being a major urban city, but share a common trait of both being illiterate but not dumb. PokÃ©mon X and Y: Emma, an orphan who has lived on the streets her whole life has never learned to how to read (though she can speak several languages, having overheard plenty of foreign tourists). Once Looker takes her in, she begins studying.
Never Learned to Read / int_9f89a5f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_9f89a5f0	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon (Franchise)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_9f89a5f0
Never Learned to Read / int_a03824e8	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Batgirl (2000): Cassandra Cain, Batgirl II, was raised to be the perfect assassin by her father, who never even spoke in front of her, so she didn't know how to speak, much less to read. When she was taken in by the Batfamily, she spent her life as a crime-fighter. It was consistently depicted as a set-back, and eventually caused the rift between Oracle and her, after Oracle called her "stupid" in the middle of a battle while Cassie was desperately trying to shut down a killer robot, hurting Cass deeply. Cassandra Cain has it worse than most. The reason her dad never spoke to her is to encourage the language centers of her brain to "read" body language. As such, besides the usual troubles of learning to read (and speak) later in life, her brain effectively developed in such a way that her ability to learn speech was almost completely demolished. Makes this a pretty big What the Hell, Hero? moment for Oracle, as she's effectively not only hurt by being reminded of her embarrassing handicap, it ignored the fact that the only reason she is that way is because of severe emotional abuse (her father would randomly attack her as part of her training) for the first several years of her life, culminating in her killing a man while knowing exactly how horrified he is. At age 8. That the only thing wrong with her brain is her difficulty with language is a sign of nothing short of Heroic Willpower. Scare Tactics (DC Comics): Fang, coming from an isolated clan of werewolves in Appalachia, is semi-literate at best. Slither offers to help him improve his reading. Sovereign Seven: Network never learned to read because she came from a world of telepathy, and any skills she needs she "borrows" from those around her. Without her telepathy, she can't even speak, as she only knows that skill from borrowing it from others. Network lives in perpetual fear of being made "headblind".
Never Learned to Read / int_a03824e8	featureApplicability	1.0
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The DCU (Franchise)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a03824e8
Never Learned to Read / int_a13a0bb0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a13a0bb0	comment	It's revealed at the end of Six of Crows that Wylan Van Eck can't read. It makes the messages his father sent him all the crueler.
Never Learned to Read / int_a13a0bb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_a13a0bb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Six of Crows	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a13a0bb0
Never Learned to Read / int_a1970a85	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a1970a85	comment	In Fading Suns, the stereotypical Avestite can't read. Avestites are also in charge of rooting out heresy, even if they're not capable of reading the Omega Gospels to know what is true doctrine.
Never Learned to Read / int_a1970a85	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fading Suns (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a1970a85
Never Learned to Read / int_a28b92ae	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a28b92ae	comment	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Since the Wudang school of martial arts refused to admit women, master thief Jade Fox stole their instruction manual, but since she can't read, she has only been able to study the diagrams. Her secret protÃ©gÃ© Jen, on the other hand, is a young noblewoman who Surpassed the Teacher because she could actually read the book. This leads to tensions between the women as Jade comes to envy Jen's progress.
Never Learned to Read / int_a28b92ae	featureApplicability	1.0
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a28b92ae
Never Learned to Read / int_a506a38b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a506a38b	comment	Wayne's World: Parodied in a scene subtitled "Oscar Clip", where Wayne finishes up a tearful lament with "And worst of all, I never learned to READ!", only to admit that he made that up as soon as the subtitle disappears. The fact that Kate Winslet won an Oscar for The Reader 16 years later only makes the Oscar Bait joke even funnier.
Never Learned to Read / int_a506a38b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Wayne's World	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a506a38b
Never Learned to Read / int_a54eef52	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a54eef52	comment	Hetalia: Axis Powers: Apparently, Japan assumed as much about Italy.
Never Learned to Read / int_a54eef52	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_a54eef52	featureConfidence	1.0
Hetalia: Axis Powers (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a54eef52
Never Learned to Read / int_a5cdcee4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a5cdcee4	comment	Annie: This is Annie's dark secret, revealed when feckless Guy puts a speech on the teleprompter for her to read, assuming she can because of her age.
Never Learned to Read / int_a5cdcee4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_a5cdcee4	featureConfidence	1.0
Annie (2014)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a5cdcee4
Never Learned to Read / int_a6492af2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a6492af2	comment	Nick Andros in The Stand is deaf-mute and communicates primarily by writing, which makes for a complicated situation when the first person he meets after The Plague, Tom Cullen, is developmentally disabled and can't read. In spite of this, the two become fast friends.
Never Learned to Read / int_a6492af2	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Stand	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a6492af2
Never Learned to Read / int_a790ad9e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a790ad9e	comment	Tomorrow's Joe: Joe Yabuki is a former Street Urchin who never went to school and is barely literate. This bites him hard in the ass when he wants to get a boxing license and it's time for the written exams...
Never Learned to Read / int_a790ad9e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Tomorrow's Joe (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a790ad9e
Never Learned to Read / int_a9830146	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_a9830146	comment	Terinu is unable to read because his species was genetically uplifted to be a Slave Race, so their built dyslexia was considered a security measure. So far he's managed to hide the fact from his friends.
Never Learned to Read / int_a9830146	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_a9830146	featureConfidence	1.0
Terinu (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a9830146
Never Learned to Read / int_aac68a8	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_aac68a8	comment	Sundance from Thunderstone is totally illiterate, which he reveals when his peace offering to Noah for mistreating him is to ask Noah to teach him to read. This is implied to be a rarity even in Haven, as other characters can occasionally be seen reading books or writing notes with no difficulties.
Never Learned to Read / int_aac68a8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thunderstone	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_aac68a8
Never Learned to Read / int_ab389730	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ab389730	comment	The Ballad of Black Tom: Tommy is afraid of what Ma Att will do with the full version of the occult tome, so he has Otis remove a single page. Otis is illiterate, so there's no risk that he'll Go Mad from the Revelation.
Never Learned to Read / int_ab389730	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ballad of Black Tom	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ab389730
Never Learned to Read / int_ac719b97	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ac719b97	comment	Stargate: When the Goa'uld's slaves rebelled against them on Earth, Ra banned the use of all written language from the planet Abydos in order to keep his slaves there from learning about said rebellion and rebelling as well; consequently, they no longer know how to read or write in the present day, though they can still recognize writing (when Daniel Jackson tries to write something in the sand, the village leader immediately erases it out of fear that Ra will punish them for it). Luckily, there are still writings hidden away, allowing Daniel to figure out the coordinates to get them back home.
Never Learned to Read / int_ac719b97	featureApplicability	1.0
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Stargate	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ac719b97
Never Learned to Read / int_aeeee67a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_aeeee67a	comment	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Played for Laughs. Draco Malfoy's line was ad-libbed during rehearsal by Tom Felton, and they kept it. His tone isn't sarcastic or mocking either, it's one of genuine surprise.
Never Learned to Read / int_aeeee67a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_aeeee67a
Never Learned to Read / int_af457929	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_af457929	comment	Eight Crazy Nights: At one point when Whitey is getting on his nerves, Davey spells out â€œBite Meâ€� with French fries, Whitey replies â€œJokes on you son, I canâ€™t readâ€�.
Never Learned to Read / int_af457929	featureApplicability	1.0
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Eight Crazy Nights	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_af457929
Never Learned to Read / int_b0fc9724	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: In the episode hosted by Jack Black just before the opening of King Kong (2005) Black sings a song he wrote about the film, admitting during the song that he never read the script because "it gets in the way / of my acting process which I've carefully honed / and also I don't know how to read." One Celebrity Jeopardy sketch has Jeff Goldblum — as played by guest host David Duchovny — spending the whole show dreamily going off on verbal tangents. It turns out he's unable to participate in Final Jeopardy because, as he sadly admits, "I can't read or write."
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Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b0fc9724
Never Learned to Read / int_b1f436be	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b1f436be	comment	3rd Edition: Unlike any other character class, the Barbarian is illiterate unless they multiclass or spend extra skill points on literacy. The reason is left ambiguous, such as the barbarian coming from a culture with an oral tradition, but can pose problems if they come to a writing-dependent civilization.
Never Learned to Read / int_b1f436be	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b1f436be
Never Learned to Read / int_b30ae4db	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Davos, due to his humble origins. Davos's wife and son tried to teach him in the past, but it's suggested he was wary of that because they were trying to convert him through holy books. Shireen decides to teach him and he finally learns. Amory Lorch sent a letter regarding the Lannister plans to the wrong House, a House that is loyal to the Starks. Inverted for Arya Stark when she serves as Tywin Lannister's cupbearer during the second season. She's had a highborn daughter's education and thus can read very well, but this makes her stick out since she's trying to pose as a lowborn peasant and thus probably shouldn't know how to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_b30ae4db	featureApplicability	1.0
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Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b30ae4db
Never Learned to Read / int_b3bb3618	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b3bb3618	comment	In The Waltons episode, "The Scholar", Verda Grant, an illiterate but proudly self-sufficient African-American woman asks John-Boy to help her learn to read in secret. The boy is proud to help, but his youngest sister spots them and inadvertently exposes them to her teacher to excuse why she is not getting her homework done. When the teacher offers to help the woman herself, Verda assumes John-Boy betrayed her. Eventually, the truth is found out and the two reconcile.
Never Learned to Read / int_b3bb3618	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Waltons	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b3bb3618
Never Learned to Read / int_b44bc279	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b44bc279	comment	Bad Girls: Denny Blood, after her mother writes her a letter of apology for abandoning her and begs her to read it.
Never Learned to Read / int_b44bc279	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_b44bc279	featureConfidence	1.0
BadGirls	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b44bc279
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd3b89	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd3b89	comment	The Book Thief: Liesel first learns to read with the help of Hans and "The Grave Diggers' Handbook", the first book she stole at her brother's burial.
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd3b89	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Book Thief	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd3b89
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd6102	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd6102	comment	The narrator of 10,000 Maniacs' "Cherry Tree" laments their inability to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd6102	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd6102	featureConfidence	1.0
10,000 Maniacs (Music)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b5cd6102
Never Learned to Read / int_b73d4c5b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b73d4c5b	comment	Katri, Girl of the Meadows: Katri, being a nine-year-old who's lived on a rural Finnish farm all her life, is this. She quickly learns to read and write in RÃ¤ikkÃ¶lÃ¤ thanks to Martti and Akki.
Never Learned to Read / int_b73d4c5b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Katri, Girl of the Meadows	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b73d4c5b
Never Learned to Read / int_b86b5220	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b86b5220	comment	Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Many of the escaped slaves don't know how to read, which makes sense given they would likely not be educated in this regard. Whenever they find writing, like when they intercept a Roman messenger, they have to ask someone like Spartacus what it says.
Never Learned to Read / int_b86b5220	featureApplicability	1.0
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b86b5220
Never Learned to Read / int_b962c879	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: A Zig-Zagging Trope as the anime added some scenes that werenâ€™t in the manga that may or may not contradict each other. Both have a backstory of Natsu Dragneel being a Wild Child raised in the forest by the dragon Igneel who taught him how to read, write, hunt, cook, and use fire magic before he disappeared when Natsu was a teenager. However in episode 27 the anime added a Flashback of Natsuâ€™s first introduction to the guild which shows him having trouble reading everything except the reward on the job listing. This leads him to tearfully admit that most of his reading vocabulary consists of only food related words when the other kids laugh at his inability to read. Erza overhearing this states that there is nothing to be ashamed of before she offers to personally teach him. Natsu however rejects the offer leading Erza to grab him by his hair and drag him to where she would expand his vocabulary for the next three days without letting him sleep or eat. In conclusion this trope is averted in the manga due to Igneelâ€™s teaching and downplayed before being subverted due to Erzaâ€™s teaching.
Never Learned to Read / int_b962c879	featureApplicability	-0.3
Never Learned to Read / int_b962c879	featureConfidence	1.0
Fairy Tail (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b962c879
Never Learned to Read / int_b96adef8	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b96adef8	comment	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The doctor found that several citizens of the town—Jake, Hank, Myra—couldn't read, though they all learned at some point in the show's run.
Never Learned to Read / int_b96adef8	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_b96adef8	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b96adef8
Never Learned to Read / int_b9821fa9	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b9821fa9	comment	The Dark Crystal: Kira the Gelfling, despite being fluent in the Gelfling and Podling languages and even able to talk to animals, has never even heard of reading. Jen's lack of difficulty explaining the concept implies that this might be common in the Dark Crystal universe, which is implied again in the TV prequel when a Skeksis is genuinely impressed that a very upper-class Gelfling is literate.
Never Learned to Read / int_b9821fa9	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_b9821fa9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Crystal	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b9821fa9
Never Learned to Read / int_b9b796cf	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: It is briefly mentioned in Assassin's backstory that he was never taught how to read and write because he is a farmer turned swordsman.
Never Learned to Read / int_b9b796cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_b9b796cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Fate/stay night (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b9b796cf
Never Learned to Read / int_b9eade07	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_b9eade07	comment	In The Water-Babies, Tom is a ten-year-old chimney-sweep who has never been taught to read or write.
Never Learned to Read / int_b9eade07	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_b9eade07	featureConfidence	1.0
The Water-Babies	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_b9eade07
Never Learned to Read / int_ba3d2748	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: In the special edition DVD, Thunderhead mentions during his attempt to make a stay-in-school PSA that he never learned to read and that he hoped the kids had "better teachers than I had", implying he had a learning disability and the teachers gave up on him.
Never Learned to Read / int_ba3d2748	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ba3d2748	featureConfidence	1.0
The Incredibles	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ba3d2748
Never Learned to Read / int_bb1b8e8c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Being a Barbarian with an Intelligence of 6, it's not much of a surprise that Grog Strongjaw of Critical Role is illiterate. However, later on, he does make an effort to learn how to read by himself.
Never Learned to Read / int_bb1b8e8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bb1b8e8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Critical Role (Web Video)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bb1b8e8c
Never Learned to Read / int_bc758ea9	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bc758ea9	comment	Tiny Toon Adventures: An episode called "Why Dizzy Can't Read", (one part of a larger episode called "Elephant Issues"), has a plot revolving around Dizzy's illiteracy. Specifically, he is unable to read the script for a class assignment in Bugs Bunny's class, that has him reenact a scene from the original Looney Tunes with Buster Bunny as his partner, which causes the class to all laugh at him and leads Dizzy to storm out of the class. When Buster and Babs Bunny decide to look into the problem, they soon discover that the cause of his illiteracy is his addiction to television, leading to the episode's "Reading Is Cool" Aesop.
Never Learned to Read / int_bc758ea9	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bc758ea9	featureConfidence	1.0
Tiny Toon Adventures	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bc758ea9
Never Learned to Read / int_bcadd7cb	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: It's quite common for commoners and soldiers in the Imperium to be illiterate; recruits who are able to read and write can often count on promotion specifically because of this advantage. Of course, since the Imperium is vast, this will also vary between different regions; some are more literate than others.
Never Learned to Read / int_bcadd7cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bcadd7cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bcadd7cb
Never Learned to Read / int_bd0d2c55	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bd0d2c55	comment	The first Rumpole of the Bailey story has Rumpole proving that a confession was coerced because the defendant can't read or write, and thus couldn't have written it/known what he was signing.
Never Learned to Read / int_bd0d2c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bd0d2c55	featureConfidence	1.0
Rumpole of the Bailey	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bd0d2c55
Never Learned to Read / int_bd886ad	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bd886ad	comment	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: "Death by Chocolate" has Yogi Bear reveal that he and Boo-Boo are illiterate during his testimony. Boo-Boo's illiteracy is proven false after Harvey comes across the typewriter Boo-Boo wrote his Unabooboo manifesto on. "Deadomutt" parodies this trope when the villain Mentok used his Psychic Powers to override the jury to send Harvey to jail. He soon forgets how to read during the three and a half years that he spent in prison and has to relearn. Over the span of six months he goes from trying to read a children's book and having a "Lesson of the Day" Speech to doing the exact same thing except for reading the Penthouse forums.
Never Learned to Read / int_bd886ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bd886ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bd886ad
Never Learned to Read / int_bdd7ef30	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bdd7ef30	comment	Eugene from the Korean drama Mr. Sunshine (2018) lived in Korea until he was 9 and escaped to America from his slave owner with the help of a missionary. Since he was the child of slaves, he never learned to read in Korean. In the US, he was able to learn to read and write English well enough to get a university education at the Naval Academy. When he gets stationed in his hometown as a Marine officer, he has to learn to read his native tongue.
Never Learned to Read / int_bdd7ef30	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bdd7ef30	featureConfidence	1.0
Mr. Sunshine (2018)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bdd7ef30
Never Learned to Read / int_bee47cbe	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: As with most low-class Sharteshanians, Sette is illiterate, which becomes a plot point when she obtains secret letters from her father about his plans, which might have involved selling her out, but doesn't trust anyone present to read them to her. Also Played for Drama when Jivi taunts her about it in a crowded room, which even people who dislike her agree was going too far.
Never Learned to Read / int_bee47cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_bee47cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Unsounded (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_bee47cbe
Never Learned to Read / int_c02ce5b4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Unusually from one of the most powerful nobles in the realm, Lord Borros Baratheon doesn't know how to read and needs his Maester to do it for him when Lucerys Velaryon brings him the message from Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Never Learned to Read / int_c02ce5b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c02ce5b4	featureConfidence	1.0
House of the Dragon	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c02ce5b4
Never Learned to Read / int_c0d295c4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Subverted. While various characters in the comics, like Miss Pauling, state that four of the nine mercenaries are illiterate, they are all depicted being able to read and write, even if a few have a reading level below below where they should be.
Never Learned to Read / int_c0d295c4	featureApplicability	-0.3
Never Learned to Read / int_c0d295c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c0d295c4
Never Learned to Read / int_c137ae09	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c137ae09	comment	In God of War (PS4), when Atreus mentions that his father Kratos cannot read, Kratos corrects him — he can read, just not the language they're currently speaking. Presumably, Kratos spoke Ancient Greek in the original trilogy and is speaking Old Norse currently, with Translation Convention rendering both as English. Why Kratos can speak Old Norse but not read it goes unexplained. Atreus offers to teach his father how to read Old Norse, but they never get the opportunity to really start, requiring Atreus to read all the writing in the game on his father's behalf. By the time of God of War RagnarÃ¶k however Kratos has learned to read Nordic runes.
Never Learned to Read / int_c137ae09	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c137ae09	featureConfidence	1.0
God of War (PS4) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c137ae09
Never Learned to Read / int_c154066	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c154066	comment	A touchy subject for Todd in Chaos Walking. He never learned to read beyond a few words, and he can't even read his own mother's journal. Leads to a heartwarming moment in The Knife of Letting Go wherein Viola reads out her journal for him.
Never Learned to Read / int_c154066	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c154066	featureConfidence	1.0
Chaos Walking	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c154066
Never Learned to Read / int_c162446f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c162446f	comment	The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble: Woodruff, having literally just left infancy, doesn't know how to read at the start of the game. One of your first tasks is learning how.
Never Learned to Read / int_c162446f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c162446f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c162446f
Never Learned to Read / int_c1a76652	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c1a76652	comment	Black Books: There's an episode where a character is going to turn up to the bookshop to do a reading of his autobiography. Said character is a mafioso-type ex-con who can't read (the autobiography was ghostwritten by "the guy who wrote the Spice Girls book") and the protagonists have to teach him, since he threatens to brutally murder them and their mums if he still can't read by the time the book reading is scheduled.
Never Learned to Read / int_c1a76652	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c1a76652	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Books	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c1a76652
Never Learned to Read / int_c22f50d5	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c22f50d5	comment	Goblins in the Castle: Igor, as he notes at one point in Goblins on the Prowl. He's distressed by this, because it means he can't read stories to his giant friend John, who has to transcribe them into a larger volume so he can re-read them himself.
Never Learned to Read / int_c22f50d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c22f50d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Goblins in the Castle	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c22f50d5
Never Learned to Read / int_c30b42b5	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c30b42b5	comment	Itinerant cowhand Dave Blassingame, the protagonist of The Westerner, was illiterate (an unusual piece of realism for a 1960s TV western), although he could read numbers. In "School Days", he is taking lessons from a Schoolmarm to learn how to write his name.
Never Learned to Read / int_c30b42b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c30b42b5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Westerner	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c30b42b5
Never Learned to Read / int_c346fa94	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c346fa94	comment	New Mutants: Catseye from the Hellions was abandoned at birth since her mutation manifested early, and she spent much of her life thinking she was a cat who transformed into a human rather than vice-versa. Once discovered by Emma Frost, she went from complete illiteracy to grade school-level reading within a year, showing a hidden intelligence.
Never Learned to Read / int_c346fa94	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c346fa94	featureConfidence	1.0
New Mutants (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c346fa94
Never Learned to Read / int_c4282b71	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c4282b71	comment	This forms the premise of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Twilight Hours in which Twilight Sparkle discovers Applejack is illiterate. It's eventually revealed that she had to drop out of school to work on the farm after her parents died.
Never Learned to Read / int_c4282b71	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c4282b71	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c4282b71
Never Learned to Read / int_c59abec0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c59abec0	comment	Braveheart: Murron tells William Wallace that she never learned to read, something that wasn't abnormal in the Scottish highlands in the 13th century.
Never Learned to Read / int_c59abec0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c59abec0	featureConfidence	1.0
Braveheart	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c59abec0
Never Learned to Read / int_c662be52	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c662be52	comment	Women Talking: Education of girls in the Mennonite colony is very limited, so most female members can't really read or write. Thankfully, school teacher August helps them out with this when they're making plans.
Never Learned to Read / int_c662be52	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c662be52	featureConfidence	1.0
Women Talking	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c662be52
Never Learned to Read / int_c6a96bfb	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c6a96bfb	comment	Notably averted in Newsies. The Newsies are shown to be uneducated and orphaned, but presumably all or mostly know how to read the newspapers they sell.
Never Learned to Read / int_c6a96bfb	featureApplicability	-1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c6a96bfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Newsies (Theatre)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c6a96bfb
Never Learned to Read / int_c98e9a3c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_c98e9a3c	comment	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: In one episode it was revealed that Captain K'nuckles can't read. This was revealed when he tries to read Flapjack's diary to see what he had written about him, but naturally, he can't understand it.
Never Learned to Read / int_c98e9a3c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_c98e9a3c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_c98e9a3c
Never Learned to Read / int_ca677a95	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ca677a95	comment	Used several times on Little House on the Prairie due to its being set in the 19th century (and to champion reading programs, because of continued illiteracy): In an early first-season episode, Laura was ashamed at how poorly she could write and pretended to recite a poem she'd written about her Ma, but her written words didn't match what she said. (This was also in part because Nellie Olesen, whom she had just met, had cruelly mocked her when it was apparent to her she couldn't read or write.) When Caroline found out, she turned this into a heartwarming moment between mother and daughter. Another first-season episode sees Caroline take a substitute teaching job at the school, and the children cruelly mock a teenager when he cannot intelligently answer the questions or read what was on the blackboard. Caroline calls off school for several days while she privately tutors the lad. Mr. Edwards gives two examples of this, then subverts it: In an early episode, he wants to date the lady who works at the post office, so he sends himself letters addressed to himself from a fictional woman. Because he can't read, the letters are blank. After he's married and adopts the woman's kids, he doesn't want his kids to know he can't read, though nearly everyone else, even Mary and Laura, knows. John Jr. (the eldest of Mr. Edwards' sons) finds this out, but only after Edwards is attacked and nearly killed by a grizzly bear. In later episodes, he presumably learns to read as if he'd never had a problem. He's seen reading all sorts of things, including a bedtime story to a monkey. In the fourth-season episode "Whisper Country," a secretly illiterate female preacher tries to run Mary out of her teaching job in a remote farming community. When the woman continually misquotes the Bible and gives completely incorrect teachings, Mary suspects the woman's secret and challenges her to show her the verse to back her claims. The woman, in a fit of rage, holds up her Bible (thinking it held a magical power that would kill Mary), but when the tactic failed, the woman admitted she could not read. Averted in the 1978 episode "Harriet's Happenings." In an episode where Mrs. Olesen helps her publishing cousin start a newspaper in Walnut Grove, the fountain of misinformation starts a gossip column. After Nellie loses a spelling bee contest to the son of German immigrants, Mrs. Olesen — in a fit of ego and one-upmanship — sarcastically congratulates the winner and reveals his parents are illiterate. True, the boy's folks could not read English ... but they were fluent in reading German, something Charles eventually exposes in the episode's climactic scene, where he denounces the newspaper as "yellow journalism".
Never Learned to Read / int_ca677a95	featureApplicability	-1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ca677a95	featureConfidence	1.0
Little House on the Prairie	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ca677a95
Never Learned to Read / int_cb7392b7	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_cb7392b7	comment	A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre is borderline literate.
Never Learned to Read / int_cb7392b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_cb7392b7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Court of Thorns and Roses	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_cb7392b7
Never Learned to Read / int_ccf06dfc	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ccf06dfc	comment	Spliced: The very first episode "Stuck Together" reveals that there is not just one illiterate person but three, this of course makes sense as all of the characters are the creations of a Mad Scientist. The episode begins with the main duo, Peri and Entree, exploring the Professor's abandoned laboratory, when they stumble upon a notebook that they can tell is about Peri, with a diagram of him in it, however neither of them can read it. This leads the pair to ask the smartest person they know, being Mr. Smarty Pants, to read it for them. Unbeknownst to them, however, is the fact that he too is illiterate and gives them false information to cover it up. While it fools the pair, his henchman Octocat confronts him and tearfully admits that he can't read before spending several frames crying. However, when the audience next sees him, Octocat forces him to learn by having him sound out the words in a children's book. The final scene even has him go to the pair to tell them that he couldn't read before and make up for it by reading Peri's true purpose. Unfortunately, his purpose remains The Unreveal as Entree used the pages as toilet greatly upsetting Peri.
Never Learned to Read / int_ccf06dfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ccf06dfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Spliced	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ccf06dfc
Never Learned to Read / int_cd713f4	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_cd713f4	comment	Likewise in The Stainless Steel Rat. Slippery Jim is on a primitive planet and is signed up as a mercenary and told to scrawl an X as he undoubtedly can't read. Being an alien offworlder, Jim states that he can read and so is first going to correct how the recruiter twice tried to sign him up for the stated enlistment period.
Never Learned to Read / int_cd713f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_cd713f4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Stainless Steel Rat	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_cd713f4
Never Learned to Read / int_ce196127	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ce196127	comment	Jimmy Hickock in The Young Riders is a perfect example of this trope and one episode is devoted to his shameful secret being discovered by the other Riders. It is referred to in passing in later episodes, though.
Never Learned to Read / int_ce196127	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ce196127	featureConfidence	1.0
The Young Riders	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ce196127
Never Learned to Read / int_ce903ad3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ce903ad3	comment	Similar to Backlund above, Diamond Dallas Page didn't learn to read until he was well into his 30's.
Never Learned to Read / int_ce903ad3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ce903ad3	featureConfidence	1.0
Diamond Dallas Page (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ce903ad3
Never Learned to Read / int_ceb35731	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ceb35731	comment	Voldemort's Children invokes this, as Harry's abusive past has left him barely literate when he enters Hogwarts.
Never Learned to Read / int_ceb35731	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ceb35731	featureConfidence	1.0
Voldemort's Children (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ceb35731
Never Learned to Read / int_d1593c1f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d1593c1f	comment	George from Like a Fish Understands a Tree can't read. To his annoyance, he's still required to "read" magazines with everyone else as one of his activities at College.
Never Learned to Read / int_d1593c1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d1593c1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Like a Fish Understands a Tree	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d1593c1f
Never Learned to Read / int_d1710608	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d1710608	comment	Sharpe: This goes a long way to explain Satisfied Street Rat Richard Sharpe's Odd Friendship with the intensely aristocratic William Lawford.
Never Learned to Read / int_d1710608	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d1710608	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d1710608
Never Learned to Read / int_d240c96f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d240c96f	comment	EastEnders: Keith Miller.
Never Learned to Read / int_d240c96f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d240c96f	featureConfidence	1.0
EastEnders	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d240c96f
Never Learned to Read / int_d64eaaa2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d64eaaa2	comment	The Count of Monte Cristo (2002): At the start of the film, Dantes is illiterate (a change from the book, where he could read). One of the first things he wants to learn from Abbe Faria is how to read and write.
Never Learned to Read / int_d64eaaa2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d64eaaa2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d64eaaa2
Never Learned to Read / int_d658b2f2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d658b2f2	comment	Karate Bears can't exactly read the menu either.
Never Learned to Read / int_d658b2f2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d658b2f2	featureConfidence	1.0
Karate Bears (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d658b2f2
Never Learned to Read / int_d7943b1b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d7943b1b	comment	In Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Pellimore, the owl who would become Soren's mate, never learned to read as a child; Soren began teaching her how to read in the Ga'Hoole library, and their relationship developed from there.
Never Learned to Read / int_d7943b1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d7943b1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Guardians of Ga'Hoole	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d7943b1b
Never Learned to Read / int_d796465d	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d796465d	comment	The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Roadbuster apparently never learned to read and somehow survived millions of years in spite of this handicap, as revealed in an addendum story. This is especially odd because Roadbuster is, well, a robot... and Cybertronians have been shown to possess internal heads-up displays which by their very nature require the ability to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_d796465d	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d796465d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d796465d
Never Learned to Read / int_d806f895	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d806f895	comment	Salvatore, one of the contestants on the seventh season of Hell's Kitchen, revealed in one episode that he never learned to read. He was assigned to take orders from the patrons, but because he couldn't read, he also couldn't write intelligibly. Ramsay started to tear the mickey out of him but was pulled up short when Salvatore revealed that after immigrating to America, he took a job to help support his family instead of going to school.
Never Learned to Read / int_d806f895	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d806f895	featureConfidence	1.0
Hell's Kitchen	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d806f895
Never Learned to Read / int_d908efc	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d908efc	comment	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Inosuke admits that he never learned how to read or write. This is because he grew up in the mountains by himself after his mother was killed by the demon Doma and he was raised by a wild boar. The Wind Hashira, Sanemi Shinazugawa, can read, but doesnâ€™t know how to write.
Never Learned to Read / int_d908efc	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d908efc	featureConfidence	1.0
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d908efc
Never Learned to Read / int_d94d1ad2	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d94d1ad2	comment	In Insane CafÃ© 4, the Saurolophus eskrimadora Ms. Swimmer is illiterate. However, between Insane CafÃ© 4 and Insane CafÃ© 5, she apparently has learned how to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_d94d1ad2	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d94d1ad2	featureConfidence	1.0
Insane Cafe Series (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d94d1ad2
Never Learned to Read / int_d9c602eb	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Parodied in an early episode where Officer Barbrady is unable to solve the mystery of the chicken-molesting menace because he can't read the clues. Barbrady eventually does learn to read and discovers that the criminal is...a bookmobile driver, who has been committing these crimes as a Zany Scheme to get Barbrady to learn how to read. The next book he gives Barbrady is Atlas Shrugged, which causes Barbrady to swear off reading forever.
Never Learned to Read / int_d9c602eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_d9c602eb	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d9c602eb
Never Learned to Read / int_dad0dae3	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_dad0dae3	comment	50 First Dates: Henry uses this as a trick to get Lucy to talk to him on one of the many days he introduces himself to her in the diner. He splashes water on his eyes and acts like he's crying until she comes to see what's wrong. When he confesses that he can't read the menu, she spends all morning sitting with him "teaching" him. He blows it though when he doesn't ask her for a second date (because he knows she won't remember) and she gets furious and reveals that she knew the whole thing was a ploy and went along with it because she liked him.
Never Learned to Read / int_dad0dae3	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_dad0dae3	featureConfidence	1.0
50 First Dates	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_dad0dae3
Never Learned to Read / int_dc4363c5	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_dc4363c5	comment	On True Blood, Sam's teenage brother Tommy never learned to read because his parents were constantly on the move and exploited his Animorphism to win dog-fighting matches to support themselves, so he never went to school and they weren't concerned with educating him themselves (Sam himself was put up for adoption and had a normal childhood until his powers developed). He does learn to read during the Time Skip between seasons 3 and 4, and in a touch of realism, is shown to still have trouble with silent letters and has to sound out the words while writing.
Never Learned to Read / int_dc4363c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_dc4363c5	featureConfidence	1.0
True Blood	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_dc4363c5
Never Learned to Read / int_dd0a4790	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_dd0a4790	comment	The Facts of Life: There was one episode where Tootie's boyfriend turns out to be illiterate.
Never Learned to Read / int_dd0a4790	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_dd0a4790	featureConfidence	1.0
The Facts of Life	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_dd0a4790
Never Learned to Read / int_dd3b3337	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_dd3b3337	comment	The Principal: Ms. Orozco is giving Raymi after-school tutoring because it turns out that he can't read. When she decides to take a job at another school after one of the students tried to rape her, Rick personally takes over Raymi's lessons.
Never Learned to Read / int_dd3b3337	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_dd3b3337	featureConfidence	1.0
The Principal	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_dd3b3337
Never Learned to Read / int_dea37b6c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_dea37b6c	comment	In Ironclaw only Mages and a few other careers like Dilettante (one of two playable forms of nobleman) are automatically literate. Everyone else needs to spend character points on Literacy.
Never Learned to Read / int_dea37b6c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_dea37b6c	featureConfidence	1.0
Ironclaw (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_dea37b6c
Never Learned to Read / int_df083f42	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_df083f42	comment	Good Times: Unclear. In one of her criticisms of the series, Esther Rolle complained about over-emphasizing the character of J.J., whom Rolle (in a 1975 interview with Ebony magazine) contended was illiterate but yet was popular among audiences for his clownish antics. In actuality, it had never been explicitly mentioned whether or how well J.J. could read, although several episodes prior to 1977 revolved around his academic struggles.
Never Learned to Read / int_df083f42	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_df083f42	featureConfidence	1.0
Good Times	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_df083f42
Never Learned to Read / int_dfabfce5	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_dfabfce5	comment	In the prequel Red Dead Redemption 2, it's stated that even John didn't know how to read until he was taken in by the Van der Linde gang when he was 12. Nor did the protagonist of that game Arthur Morgan (he was a few years older than John when he met Dutch) or many of the other members of the gang. Arthur develops this skill rather nicely, as evidence by his journal. John...less so. Early on in Chapter 2, you can find Jack Marston being taught to read with Abigail saying that she wants him to learn to read so he can have a better life than she did.
Never Learned to Read / int_dfabfce5	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_dfabfce5	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dead Redemption II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_dfabfce5
Never Learned to Read / int_e0300f0c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e0300f0c	comment	In Oathbringer, Dalinar scandalises his country (yet again) by learning to read, and even writing the in-universe book that gives the story its name.
Never Learned to Read / int_e0300f0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e0300f0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Oathbringer	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e0300f0c
Never Learned to Read / int_e043db38	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e043db38	comment	Klaus (2019): The postmaster Jesper convinces the local children to write letters to Klaus asking him to make them toys, so that he can deliver them and keep his job, except several of the kids don't know how to write. They show up at the schoolhouse-turned-fish market and ask Alva, the burned-out teacher-turned-fishmonger, to teach them. Alva grudgingly agrees, but the first girl's awe at having written her own name makes the other kids eager to write theirs as well, and Alva's passion for teaching returns.
Never Learned to Read / int_e043db38	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e043db38	featureConfidence	1.0
Klaus (2019)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e043db38
Never Learned to Read / int_e04f934e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e04f934e	comment	Cyril from Fire Emblem: Three Houses reveals in his B support with Lysithea that he was never taught to read. This is justified by him being an orphaned Almyran refugee taken in as a servant by Archbishop Rhea, who has never seen a need for him to learn reading in his current position, while he has never had any ambition of his own. This does make him an oddity among the cast, however, as every other recruitable character is either a teacher or a student at Garreg Mach, meaning that even the handful of his fellow commoners had to master reading to pass the entrance exams.
Never Learned to Read / int_e04f934e	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e04f934e	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e04f934e
Never Learned to Read / int_e144ba19	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, Hawke can make a gift of a book to Fenris, prompting him to admit that — thanks to his background as an escaped slave — he's never had the opportunity to learn how to read. Hawke can offer to teach him, if the player chooses.
Never Learned to Read / int_e144ba19	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e144ba19	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e144ba19
Never Learned to Read / int_e199d649	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: Eragon never learned to read, although the uncle who raised him was literate; Brom irritably speculates that Garrow considered it an unnecessary luxury. Of course, it only takes a month of instruction for Eragon to be literate enough to gather information from government records, and only a few months after that for him to read philosophical discourse and write epic poetry (in a different language). Eragon's cousin Roran, having grown up in the same house, also never learned to read. He indicates a desire to try and learn since his inability to do so is holding him back from advancing in the Varden's ranks, but it isn't brought up much afterwards.
Never Learned to Read / int_e199d649	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e199d649	featureConfidence	1.0
Inheritance Cycle	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e199d649
Never Learned to Read / int_e3c80b99	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e3c80b99	comment	Magekiller: Marius, much like Fenris in Dragon Age II below, is mostly illiterate due to being a former slave and relies on Tessa to read to him.
Never Learned to Read / int_e3c80b99	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e3c80b99	featureConfidence	1.0
Magekiller (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e3c80b99
Never Learned to Read / int_e41de813	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e41de813	comment	Digitesque: Somewhere in the past thousand years, written language was lost completely. People aren't even aware that it's a thing, dismissing all the writing on ancient ruins as meaningless decoration. Ada manages to piece together English with the help of a subtitled video. Turns out that an artificial disease called the technophage erased all human memory and gave everyone dyslexia. While the memory loss is redundant now (as everyone contracts the disease in the womb), the dyslexia makes it impossible for anyone to puzzle out how written language works. Ada is naturally immune.
Never Learned to Read / int_e41de813	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e41de813	featureConfidence	1.0
Digitesque	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e41de813
Never Learned to Read / int_e44cb505	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e44cb505	comment	Hollyoaks: Patrick Blake discovered Maxine to be illiterate and taught her to read (leading to their long-running Domestic Abuse storyline.)
Never Learned to Read / int_e44cb505	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e44cb505	featureConfidence	1.0
Hollyoaks	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e44cb505
Never Learned to Read / int_e5015b06	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e5015b06	comment	Jodhaa Akbar: True to history, the Moghul emperor Akbar never learned to read or write; a childhood dominated by martial activity and becoming ruler at age 13 didn't allow the time for much scholarly development.
Never Learned to Read / int_e5015b06	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e5015b06	featureConfidence	1.0
Jodhaa Akbar	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e5015b06
Never Learned to Read / int_e5c5bc22	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS acknowledges that while this is more of a skill, it can be a serious advantage in low-tech levels. Conversely, illiteracy is a serious disadvantage in high-tech levels.
Never Learned to Read / int_e5c5bc22	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e5c5bc22	featureConfidence	1.0
GURPS (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e5c5bc22
Never Learned to Read / int_e5db6c8f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e5db6c8f	comment	Pyre takes place in a society where reading is a punishable offense. People who are found reading are banished to the Downside and the aversion is The Reader, a character capable of reading and therefore, guiding a group of exiles through the rites.
Never Learned to Read / int_e5db6c8f	featureApplicability	-1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e5db6c8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Pyre (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e5db6c8f
Never Learned to Read / int_e66a25a9	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: Keeping the general populace illiterate is a control method implemented by the Coalition States. Even high-ranking members of the military are not literate by default. The standard "Dead Boy" armor suit can read aloud written text to its wearer.
Never Learned to Read / int_e66a25a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e66a25a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Rifts (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e66a25a9
Never Learned to Read / int_e7a27429	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge: While most of the Kaiju have received information about the human world in some way, Godzilla Junior was never taught how to read. He is later given lessons, which let him read slowly.
Never Learned to Read / int_e7a27429	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e7a27429	featureConfidence	1.0
TheBridge	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e7a27429
Never Learned to Read / int_e936047a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!: Oskar Kokoshka is revealed to be illiterate in "Oskar Can't Read?", which he doesn't seem to mind until he does and asks Arnold for help. Granted, it is possibly justified by the fact that he's a Czechoslovakian immigrant for whom English is a second language, so it might just be that he hasn't learned to read English. While he succeeds in being able to read English, the problem is he takes everything he reads far too literally.
Never Learned to Read / int_e936047a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_e936047a	featureConfidence	1.0
Hey Arnold!	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_e936047a
Never Learned to Read / int_ea15127e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ea15127e	comment	The Professional: Subverted with LÃ¨on, who can barely read English, partially because heâ€™s from another country and his unspecified mental disorder, Mathilda has to sign papers for him and slowly teaches him throughout the movie.
Never Learned to Read / int_ea15127e	featureApplicability	-0.3
Never Learned to Read / int_ea15127e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Professional	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ea15127e
Never Learned to Read / int_ea4f62db	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The trope is explored twice in the series: In "12 And A Half Angry Men", it's mentioned that Carl the convenience store manager is illiterate. He even passes off a piece of paper with a squiggly line on it as the word "guilty" in Latin. The episode "Throw It Away" has a joke about Chris being unable to read after finding a suicide note left by Lois.
Never Learned to Read / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ea4f62db
Never Learned to Read / int_ea85bebc	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ea85bebc	comment	In Always Coming Home, the Dayao people consider reading sacred, since they associate it with the act of Creation. As such, any commoner attempting to read or write is punished by either an Eye Scream or An Arm and a Leg. This causes a lot of confusion for North Owl: among the Kesh, the only ones illiterate are those physically or mentally incapable of reading.
Never Learned to Read / int_ea85bebc	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ea85bebc	featureConfidence	1.0
Always Coming Home	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ea85bebc
Never Learned to Read / int_ebcaeb5a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ebcaeb5a	comment	Nanny McPhee: Evangeline - the Brown family's scullery maid and later stepmother to Mr. Brown's seven children - apparently didn't learn to read as a child. When the story opens, Lily Brown is teaching her how, and Evangeline progresses greatly while under the tutelage of Lady Adelaide Stitch, Mr. Brown's aunt-by-marriage.
Never Learned to Read / int_ebcaeb5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ebcaeb5a	featureConfidence	1.0
Nanny McPhee	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ebcaeb5a
Never Learned to Read / int_ec196f17	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ec196f17	comment	Kya from Where the Crawdads Sing attends exactly one day of school at age 7. As a result, up until Tate teaches her to read as a teenager, the only word she can read is her name.
Never Learned to Read / int_ec196f17	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ec196f17	featureConfidence	1.0
Where the Crawdads Sing	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ec196f17
Never Learned to Read / int_ec522504	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ec522504	comment	The 100th issue of Groo the Wanderer (Marvel run) is about Groo learning to read.
Never Learned to Read / int_ec522504	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ec522504	featureConfidence	1.0
Groo the Wanderer (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ec522504
Never Learned to Read / int_ecd3889f	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_ecd3889f	comment	John Cena would say this word for word during some interviews/debates to get the crowd laughing.
Never Learned to Read / int_ecd3889f	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_ecd3889f	featureConfidence	1.0
John Cena (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_ecd3889f
Never Learned to Read / int_eef5470a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: During the Hokkaido Arc, two of Kenshin and Kaoru's new protegÃ©s (Ashitaro and Asahi) can barely read. This brings them BIG trouble later: Asahi thought that gathering a certain quantity of money would be enough to purchase her freedom, but the real price was much higher and her abusive owner not only didn't dissuade her but wanted to sell her off to a far worse guy. When Ashitaro tried to defend her, he couldn't read the written contracts either and that led to a massive fight that Kenshin had to break up. Since the third protegÃ© (Alan) is literate, Ashitaro asks him to teach Asahi how to do it, and Alan happily accepts on the condition that Ashitaro should learn too.
Never Learned to Read / int_eef5470a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_eef5470a	featureConfidence	1.0
Rurouni Kenshin (Manga)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_eef5470a
Never Learned to Read / int_f1449c6b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f1449c6b	comment	StacheBros: In "Spike in the Most Amazing Story Ever", Spike admits to being illiterate, which leaves him unable to write a chapter in the Mushroom Kingdom Storybook.
Never Learned to Read / int_f1449c6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f1449c6b	featureConfidence	1.0
StacheBros (Web Video)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f1449c6b
Never Learned to Read / int_f15f622e	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver featured a construction worker and father who, as a plot point, never learned how to read and thus doesn't figure out first-hand when his troublemaking son with aspirations of engineering's school suspension is lifted, or that an inspection report details that the very construction site he's working on is a serious disaster zone (and the foreman bribed the inspector to "overlook" it). This nearly costs the worker his life when the inevitable happens at the climax.
Never Learned to Read / int_f15f622e	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f15f622e	featureConfidence	1.0
MacGyver (1985)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f15f622e
Never Learned to Read / int_f18a9d9c	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f18a9d9c	comment	In an episode of Highway to Heaven, Jonathan (the angel) discovers a co-worker couldn't read when he sends the guy into a storeroom to get a box of pies. Of course, Jonathan should have also guessed the guy was an idiot because there were two boxes of pies, and the guy didn't open either to see what was inside. Instead, he left the storeroom and came up with some excuse for why he couldn't retrieve them. Another episode had Jonathan helping a young man who had been a star basketball player in high school, but his illiteracy was exposed when he became injured and he couldn't stay in college. He takes a job at an after-school program teaching basketball and the kids tell him about their reading teacher when he confesses that he can't read. She helps him learn to read and they begin dating.
Never Learned to Read / int_f18a9d9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f18a9d9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Highway to Heaven	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f18a9d9c
Never Learned to Read / int_f31d7d98	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f31d7d98	comment	Drawn Together: The series has Foxxy Love taking and failing her Reading 101 test.
Never Learned to Read / int_f31d7d98	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f31d7d98	featureConfidence	1.0
Drawn Together	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f31d7d98
Never Learned to Read / int_f35ff085	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f35ff085	comment	Nisha from The Brotherhood of the Conch grew up as a Street Urchin and never got any education.
Never Learned to Read / int_f35ff085	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f35ff085	featureConfidence	1.0
The Brotherhood of the Conch	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f35ff085
Never Learned to Read / int_f480f310	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f480f310	comment	Books of the Raksura: Downplayed — Moon can read the Common Tongues but not his native Raksuran language because he was separated from the Raksura as a young child. After he joins a Raksura court, it takes years before he gets over the embarrassment enough to ask for lessons, but he's literate by the time of the fourth book.
Never Learned to Read / int_f480f310	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f480f310	featureConfidence	1.0
Books of the Raksura	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f480f310
Never Learned to Read / int_f6620f24	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f6620f24	comment	Remnants of Isolation: The girl who would be named Celesta, as said when examining the bookshelves in her cell:
Never Learned to Read / int_f6620f24	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f6620f24	featureConfidence	1.0
Remnants of Isolation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f6620f24
Never Learned to Read / int_f6c16bab	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f6c16bab	comment	Larten Crepsley in The Saga of Darren Shan. Considering his upbringing as a child laborer turned vampire's assistant, it's understandable.
Never Learned to Read / int_f6c16bab	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f6c16bab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Saga of Darren Shan	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f6c16bab
Never Learned to Read / int_f858847a	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_f858847a	comment	PokÃ©mon X and Y: Emma, an orphan who has lived on the streets her whole life has never learned to how to read (though she can speak several languages, having overheard plenty of foreign tourists). Once Looker takes her in, she begins studying.
Never Learned to Read / int_f858847a	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_f858847a	featureConfidence	1.0
Pokémon X and Y (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_f858847a
Never Learned to Read / int_fb5adbc0	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_fb5adbc0	comment	One of Wesley's new friends on Mr. Belvedere pays him to write his book reports, finally admitting that he never learned to read because his family moved around a lot. Wesley starts teaching him, but he starts going to remedial classes by the end of the episode.
Never Learned to Read / int_fb5adbc0	featureApplicability	1.0
Never Learned to Read / int_fb5adbc0	featureConfidence	1.0
Mr. Belvedere	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_fb5adbc0
Never Learned to Read / int_fda9c8b	type	Never Learned to Read
Never Learned to Read / int_fda9c8b	comment	Downton Abbey: When Andrew starts helping on the farm owned by Daisy's father-in-law, he is given some books to help with the tasks. When showing them to Thomas, the latter suspects Andrew is hiding something. In private later, Andrew admits in a burst of frustration that he never learned to read; he just looks at the pictures and only knows how to sign his name. Thomas, rather uncharacteristically, is fully sympathetic and refuses to mock Andrew; he even offers to help teach the younger man.
Never Learned to Read / int_fda9c8b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Never Learned to Read / int_fe4dc9c6	comment	The Chronicles of Dorsa: Joslyn, who came from a desert tribe originally before becoming a soldier, is illiterate when the story starts. Tasia then teaches Joslyn herself.
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White Cat Legend (Animation) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Heidi, Girl of the Alps / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Romeo's Blue Skies / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Samurai Champloo / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Groo the Wanderer (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Il était une fois en France (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Les Nombrils (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Mickey Mouse Comic Universe (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Princess Ugg (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Scare Tactics (DC Comics) (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (Comic Book) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Crankshaft (Comic Strip) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Hägar the Horrible (Comic Strip) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Pogo (Comic Strip) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Snuffy Smith (Comic Strip) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (DragonRand100) / Fan Fic / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Twilight Hours / Fan Fic / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Alien Exodus (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Arcanum (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Compass of Thy Soul (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Fallout: Equestria - Murky Number Seven (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
I've Got Your Back (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Leaf (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Boy Without a Fairy (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue) (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
A League of Their Own / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Almost Heroes / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Board and Care / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Cape Fear / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Central Station / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Chaos Walking (2021) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Charulata / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Color Me Perfect / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Cool Hand Luke / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Corky Romano / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Danny the Dog / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Days of Glory (2006) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Enemy at the Gates / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Fame / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Father of a Soldier / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
50 First Dates / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Gangs of New York / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Gretel and Hansel (2020) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Greyfriars Bobby / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
How Funny (This Country Is) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
i am sam / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Ironclad / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
King of Beggars / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
King of Devil's Island / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
La Cérémonie / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Little Indian, Big City / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Moonraker / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Mutant Chronicles / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Pain and Glory / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Queen of Katwe / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Robot Jox / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Spartacus / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Stark Love / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
10 Rillington Place / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Bare Footed Kid / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Cuenca Crime / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Handmaiden / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Jazz Singer / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Learning Tree / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Power and the Glory / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Substitute / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Three Musketeers (1973) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
3 Idiots / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Trumbo / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Under the Sun / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Viva Villa! / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Viva Zapata! / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Women Talking / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Yesterday (2004) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Rats SMP (Lets Play) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Utterly Mad Zone (Lets Play) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
A Brother's Price / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
A Drowned Maiden's Hair / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Always Coming Home / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
American Girls: Addy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
American Girls Collection / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
American Girls: Josefina / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Bleak House / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Blood Meridian / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Book of Isaiah / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Books of the Raksura / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Caliphate / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Chaos Walking / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Colony / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Cradle Series / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Digitesque / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Earthsea / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Eragon / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Goblins in the Castle / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Guardians of the Flame / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Heidi / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Holes / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Hollow Kingdom Trilogy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Holmes on the Range / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Joss Oder Der Preis Der Freiheit / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Maniac Magee / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
1-800-Where-R-U / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Our Mutual Friend / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Outbreak Company / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Parable of the Sower / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Pink And Say / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Raptor / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Scarlet Sister Mary / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Seven Brothers / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Sharpe's Tiger / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Sienkiewicz Trilogy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Small Gods / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Beatryce Prophecy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Bounty Trilogy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Chronicles of Dorsa / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Crowner John Mysteries / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Demon Headmaster / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Elenium / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Famous Five / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Lumatere Chronicles / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The New Job / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Night of Wishes / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Qur'an / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Reader / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Rising of the Shield Hero / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Saga of Darren Shan / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Science of Discworld / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Turn of the Screw / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Water-Babies / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Wednesday Wars / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Tortall and Other Lands / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Tsuki No Sango / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Where the Crawdads Sing / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Who Needs Men? / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Wuthering Heights / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
BloodNinja	seeAlso	Never Learned to Read
CirqueDuNie	seeAlso	Never Learned to Read
TheBookOfStoriesOCT	seeAlso	Never Learned to Read
WarHorse	seeAlso	Never Learned to Read
BECK (1999) (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Bizenghast (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dr. STONE (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Girls' Last Tour (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)! (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Letter Bee (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (Manga) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
10,000 Maniacs (Music) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Vangelis (Music) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Kill James Bond! (Podcast) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
One Shot Podcast (Podcast) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Rollplay (Podcast) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Adam Carolla Show (Radio) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Ragnarok's Ark (Roleplay) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Afterschool Special / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Banished (2015) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Benson / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Between the Lions / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Boardwalk Empire / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Corner Gas / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dark Side of the Ring / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Father Brown / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Grange Hill / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Gunsmoke / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Hell's Kitchen / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Highway to Heaven / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Hollyoaks / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Into the Badlands / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Law & Order: Criminal Intent / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Logan's Run / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Los Protegidos / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Mama's Family / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Mr. Belvedere / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Mr. Sunshine (2018) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Our Flag Means Death / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Porridge / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Promised Land (1996) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Quincy, M.E. / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Rumpole of the Bailey / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Sandglass / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Shameless (US) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Strangers with Candy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Thanks / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Artful Dodger / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Book of Pooh / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Borrowers / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Great / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Last Kingdom / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Magnificent Seven (1998) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Tribe / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
They Think It's All Over / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
30 Rock / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Touched by an Angel / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
31 Minutos / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
21 Jump Street / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Vikings / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Winter Begonia / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Theatre) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Driving Miss Daisy (Theatre) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
No Place to Be Somebody (Theatre) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Ruined (Theatre) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Kentucky Cycle (Theatre) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Blaze Union (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dangan Ronpa RPG (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
MadWorld (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Memoria (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Memoria (2013) (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Pyre (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Hayseed Knight (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Touhou Mystia's Izakaya (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Vernal Edge (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Wizard101 (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Video Game) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Hayseed Knight (Visual Novel) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
asdfmovie (Web Animation) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Gobblety Tobblety (Web Animation) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Salad Fingers (Web Animation) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Afterlife SMP (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Ask That Guy with the Glasses (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Berserk Abridged (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
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Captain Southbird (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Code MENT (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dog Shirt (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
50% OFF (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Highcraft (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Jenny Nicholson (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
None Piece (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Potter Puppet Pals (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Rats SMP (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Real-Time Fandub (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Shadow of Israphel (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Twisted Translations (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Venturian Tale (Web Video) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Blonde Sunrise (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dolmistaska (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
My Life at War (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Necropolis (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Terinu (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Trying Human (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Voldemort's Children (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Woods for the Trees (Webcomic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Arlo the Alligator Boy / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Beavis and Butt-Head / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Captain Planet and the Planeteers / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dora the Explorer / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Double Dragon (1993) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Dragon Hunters / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Frozen Fever / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Golan the Insatiable / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Inside Out / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Jem / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Klaus (2019) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Leo / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Muzzy in Gondoland / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Peter Pan & the Pirates / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Pingu / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
The Sword in the Stone / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Tigtone / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Twice Upon a Time / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Abdullah the Butcher (Wrestling) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
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