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Rookie Red Ranger

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Rookie Red Ranger	comment	Where the most powerful member is the NaÃ¯ve Newcomer. In some series, the protagonist starts his adventure by joining a group that's already been in business for a while before the events of the story. This is often to help the audience to relate to the hero more, as like in a Welcome Episode, we're meeting the main ensemble with him. Because the ensemble are already close to each other, but not the protagonist, expect him or her to receive a Chilly Reception. For when the rookie doesn't become The Leader or the most powerful team member, but still earns their place among the team/cast through a display of might and mettle, see Newcomer Saves the Day. Compare Ensign Newbie. Contrast Team Prima Donna.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_13998e73	comment	Evan is this in the Heroes of Maple blockbuster arc of MapleStory. He's barely into his teens by the time of the story, but is fighting alongside five other Living Legends from several centuries ago. Nevertheless, he ends up being The Leader, much to his own surprise and embarrassment, while he tries to live up to the legacy left behind by his predecessor, Freud.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online combines this with a hefty dose of Ensign Newbie. The player character is given command of a starship at the rank of Ensign. The game attempts to justify this by saying that the player is the only officer left, and by the end of the tutorial, you're at least promoted to Lieutenant (not much better). The circumstances for this vary between each faction. The Federation player gets it due to circumstances (pre-Season 8, it was because of a Borg invasion, post-Season 8 it's because you're forced to kill the Klingons and your captain after the captain gets kidnapped by said Klingons)... if you play the tutorial. If you don't, they just say that you did so well on your Starfleet Academy tests that they're bumping you up that high. The Klingons use, natch, Klingon Promotion, while the Romulans pretty much force you to gather a crew and use a very old starship.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_14e8f2fd	comment	In most series, the new guy is a civilian who is suddenly brought onto the team at the end of the first episode due to their bravery. The exception is Ultraman Dyna where Asuka is seen at the beginning of the series as a trainee for recruitment into Super GUTS.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_14efdf5f	comment	Sometimes the Ultras themselves are this in their title series. Asides from Mebius mentioned above, Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Geed, Ultraman Taiga, and Ultraman Z are good examples as well. Ultraman Leo is another, both as an Ultra and as Gen Ohtori (human host), much like Seven but without the combat experience or genre savviness.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: Daisuke Motomiya of Digimon Adventure 02 ("Davis" in the English dub) is a zigzagged example. He was introduced as the first of the new generation to receive a Digimon partner and a Digimental, and even received Taichi's goggles as a blessing and an act of Passing the Torch. Despite this, the show also frequently cast him as a No-Respect Guy and Butt-Monkey and introduced several new members alongside him so he was not the only NaÃ¯ve Newcomer. Despite this, however, he remains the group's most consistent driving force and their Determinator in chief. Takato of Digimon Tamers was the last to get his partner, the last to have it evolve, and the last to learn how to fight, let alone win a fight on its own. However, he seeks to learn as much as he can from Henry and Rika, and they make for a fairly balanced Power Trio. Also, he's the first one to reach Ultimate (Mega in the dub). Marcus of Digimon Data Squad was hired by DATS specifically because of this - within less than a day of meeting Agumon, he had already manged to activate his D.N.A. and evolve him, taking down a rampaging Cockatrimon where seasoned agent Yoshi was pretty much useless. Upon witnessing this, Sampson remarked that he absolutely needed someone like Marcus because of his ability to do that so quickly. After some consternation with Thomas, Marcus eventually becomes the de-facto leader of their DATS field team Power Trio. Tagiru of Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time. He'd been on the Xros Heart basketball team for a while, but he had no idea that the other two members were part of a different kind of team. He doesn't really act as the leader of the team until the Crisis Crossover finale where Taiki is wounded and the responsibility of joining the other five legendary heroes (including the aforementioned Davis, Marcus and Takato) in combating Quartzmon is up to him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Lyn, who never knew she was royalty and is suddenly Lord Caelin when her grandfather dies a few years after she finds out (her parents having died years earlier). Justified in that, well, that's kind of how royalty works. Also, the player character, technically, being trusted to guide pretty much an army when he/she has zero experience in the matter. In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Ike is suddenly promoted to leader of the Greil Mercenaries, despite almost everyone else having more experience than him. Justified by the fact that Greil was his father, and Ike was going to eventually inherit the group if Greil hadn't perished. This actually is a sore point for two characters who leave the squad as a result. Later events prove that Ike was indeed worthy of the promotion. The player character is also this in the Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem remake and in Fire Emblem: Awakening, as they quickly rise to second-in-command of their respective armies. But since they're a man-at-arms or tactician (respectively) rather than the main lord, this may make them the Rookie Blue Ranger instead, or Green maybe... In Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Alm quickly becomes the leader of the Deliverance resistance group, despite being an inexperienced youth who only recently left his small village. While this upsets some veterans of the group (and, in Echoes, there's Fernand who outright LEAVES in frustration), Alm does prove himself capable.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_21bc178a	comment	In Dokidoki Precure, the Rookie is Mana (pink) while the Veteran is MakoPi (purple). (How very original...) It goes the other way from the above example: Mana is quickly proven to be one of the very best pink cure in the history of Precure, enough to surpass MakoPi in several ways. Mana's meteor rookie status is even more reinforced by The Reveal of Jonathan Klondike and Cure Ace sometimes later. The thing that separates the two, though, is circumstances: Yuri isn't an active Precure at the start of Heartcatch due to the fact that she lost everything due to her over-self confidence in doing things by herself, while MakoPi is trying to be The Atoner for Her Greatest Failure. Yuri just doesn't give anyone the time of day until she finally gets back in the saddle while MakoPi does when she finds out Mana has massive balls of steel, which doesn't take long.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_24a053d1	comment	Ressha Sentai ToQger: The five ToQGers were already friends and were drawn into the conflict at the same time, but Right was the last to get his changer since he was separated from the others at first. Downplayed since the time difference amounts to something like five minutes, and a few episodes later, the team decides that they don't need a formal leader anyway.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_27286fb2	comment	Justified in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Even though the Raimi-verse Spider-Man and Webb-verse Spider-Man have more solo experience than the MCU Spider-Man, they still name him commander because he's the only one who has actually worked in a formal team before.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: The titular team of fairies forms after Stella, Musa, Flora, and Tecna rescue Bloom from a trio of witches. All of the former already have access to their fairy transformations and know some magic. By contrast, Bloom, who soon becomes The Leader, starts out as a novice who's just learned magic exists, so she doesn't know any magic to defend herself and earns her fairy transformation a couple of episodes later.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_28c6afce	comment	The Thomas & Friends series had planned a Spin-Off series about a team of construction machines. In the Poorly Disguised Pilot episode Jack, who was to be the main character, is introduced to the rest of the pack machines.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_2ba1d958	comment	Neo is arguably this trope in The Matrix; he still adheres to the official chain of command where Morpheus and Trinity are his official superiors, but his status as the One grants him a degree of independence, and he takes the lead in Morpheus's rescue in the first film even before his powers have manifested.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_2dd2a7a5	comment	In War and Peace in Mind, Warren Peace defers to Will Stronghold as leader of their team despite Warren being two years older.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_31d9877	comment	Boamund in Grailblazers is appointed leader of the Order of the Grail Knights after awakening from a magical sleep. The other Knights have been in business for nearly 1500 years.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_3381cfbc	comment	The third inversion happens in Power Rangers Dino Fury. Zayto is the only one on the team that has the experience, being a knight from his homeworld of Rafkon along with receiving the powers alongside his fellow knights, and has dealt with the Sporix before. It's the other Rangers that have no skills as they technically join him as the replacements for his deceased knights.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_3565350a	comment	Both Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 involve the respective protagonists joining a pre-existing clan. That said, both clans start out with one significant character each and a bunch of generics before the heroes join.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition the Right Man in the Wrong Place Player Character that eventually becomes the Inquisitor isn't really inexperienced as they're a skilled warrior or mage at the onset, however, no matter their backstory they've never really been a leader before (the elf mage origin was the First to the leader of their clan, and they're probably the most qualified of the various potential Inquisitors). Having the Mark that can close the Breaches that are threatening to destroy Thedas means that everyone quickly begins looking to them, including the Order Reborn that is being formed to do the saving. Your former interrogators turned allies all but thrust the position on you because A.) as far as the rest of Thedas is concerned you were chosen by Andraste to do said world-saving and B.) they were already looking for someone to lead the Inquisition to stop the Mage-Templar War and since the Warden and Hawke aren't available...
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_3b05a9de	comment	Power Rangers Time Force: Wes didn't even appear until the second part of the two-part season premiere (and didn't officially join the team until the episode after that); the rest of the team were trained Time Police. The only reason they bothered involving him was because they needed a DNA match for the previous Red Ranger. Jen didn't even want Wes on the team for personal reasons, but prodding from the others (aka they need Wes other than DNA matching) made her reluctantly give Wes the powers. Played with in that while Wes leads the charge in the field, Jen the Pink Ranger is the official leader and the one who directs the team's activities.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_3b34143f	comment	The titular character of Harry Potter is initially the most inexperienced Wizard among his circle of friends, despite being the de facto leader due to his natural bravado and his reputation as "The Boy Who Lived". The Pureblood Ron Weasley grew up around Magic all his life, and has a detailed knowledge of the Wizarding World despite his lack of formal training, while the Muggle-born Hermione Granger spends several months successfully practicing Magic on her own before she even gets to Hogwarts. Because he was raised by his Wizard-hating Aunt and Uncle, Harry remains almost completely clueless about Magic until he actually starts his classes.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_40010ddc	comment	In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, the Rookie is Tsubomi (pink) while the Veteran is Yuri (purple). Naturally enough, Tsubomi find it difficult to earn Yuri's respect. It doesn't help that Tsubomi is, by Word of God, the weakest pink cure in the history of Precure. And then there is Cure Flower, who was the previous generation's Pretty Cure. Yuri's case is an interesting one as she isn't resentful towards Tsubomi for being leader, she's resentful to her, Erika and Itsuki for being Precure because of her arrogance leading to them being activated in the first place. Once she ultimately gets over it, she becomes a lot kinder to them.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_411acd6e	comment	As The Wonderful 101 is in part a love letter to Sentai/Power Rangers series, the main protagonist Wonder Red follows this tradition, having only been an agent for a year—yet easily the most efficient of all the Wonderful One-Double-Oh. This causes friction with Wonder-Blue, who is the more experienced agent yet is relegated to Red's Number Two. Another reason he's put in charge is because the enemy attack is focused on his assigned Protectorate of Blossom City.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_41cc1c3a	comment	Halo 3: ODST features the Rookie, who is also the Heroic Mime. It's zig-zagged a bit, since he's still a veteran who's actually both higher-ranked and more experienced than the squad's demolition expert; ODSTs don't allow actual rookies to join their number.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_41ecc735	comment	Joe Shimamura, the titular Cyborg 009. As the ninth prototype, he's the most recently converted member of the team; while the other eight have all had time to adjust and adapt to what's been done to them, he's literally thrown into the midst of their escape attempt with no idea what's going on and has to be brought to speed on the fly. He also happens to be the most powerful, as the organization learned as they worked. And the later cyborgs just keep getting stronger with each new model...
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_42c17ca1	comment	Inverted in Power Rangers in Space: Red Space Ranger Andros was the experienced one, having been operating in outer space for some time, and the other four (who had already established themselves as True Companions in the prior series Power Rangers Turbo) joined him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_43b328fd	comment	In Lightning Only Strikes Once, while technically not the most powerful, Wells essentially takes on a leadership role for the other twelve ambassadors when heâ€™s appointed as Skaikruâ€™s Ambassador to the Coalition while Clarke and Lexa are absent. He maintains this authority over the other twelve ambassadors even after Lexa and Clarke return, albeit through a process of explaining everything calmly and rationally until they go along with it; Wells argues that he only fell into the position of leader because Skaikru donâ€™t have a history with the other clans, so nobody resents him for some past slight and thus find it easier to follow his orders.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_44127c7c	comment	There have been several Power Rangers series where the Red Ranger is the last one of the Five-Man Band to join up. Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Borderline example, as none of the Rangers had superhero experience and few of them knew each other beforehand. That said, Leo wasn't the one who initially retrieved the sword from the stone; Mike was. Plus, he was an illegal stowaway and had no experience or training relevant to the mission as the others did: Damon knew Alpha and worked the Astro Megaship. Maya had ancient knowledge of the Quasar Sabres and had a connection to the Galactabeasts. Kai, Kendrix and Mike were already stationed on Terra Venture and had experience in the military forces and in science. As for Karone, well, let's just say she has experience with how Rangers work, but from the other side of the fight. Power Rangers Time Force: Wes didn't even appear until the second part of the two-part season premiere (and didn't officially join the team until the episode after that); the rest of the team were trained Time Police. The only reason they bothered involving him was because they needed a DNA match for the previous Red Ranger. Jen didn't even want Wes on the team for personal reasons, but prodding from the others (aka they need Wes other than DNA matching) made her reluctantly give Wes the powers. Played with in that while Wes leads the charge in the field, Jen the Pink Ranger is the official leader and the one who directs the team's activities. In Power Rangers Wild Force, Taylor, Alyssa, Max and Danny were actively fighting monsters for a year, six months, six months, and two months respectively before Cole even joined up. And Cole's a Raised by Natives orphan who made his way from South America to Turtle Cove by boat. He's not just new to superheroics, he's new to modern civilization. The only reason he's the leader is that his patron Wild Zord outranks the others, and Taylor spends a lot of time bitter about it, since she was the leader before he showed up, and she actually knows how to lead. In Power Rangers S.P.D., Sky, Bridge and Syd had been going through training for a good while before Jack and Z were drafted into the Ranger program as the Red and Yellow Rangers. Justified since Sky, who would otherwise have been first in line for leadership, failed a Secret Test of Character, and Commander Cruger realized he'd go on an ego trip if he did become the leader. It takes him quite a while to get over it. It should also be noted that Jack didn't even realize that being the Red Ranger meant he was supposed to be the leader at first, and Cruger doesn't hesitate to temporarily relieve him of command when he lets that realization send him on an ego trip himself. In the epilogue, after Jack retires because he prefers charity work, Sky becomes the new Red Ranger. In Power Rangers Mystic Force, while the entire team was new to magic and superheroics, Nick was The Drifter passing through Briarwood, while the other four were already a tight group of friends. Nick was also the last one to activate his powers, but he was the one who first took steps to try and help a man as part of the test of character to identify the chosen Rangers. Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, Mack was the only one who wasn't meant to be on the team, as his father intended to be the Red Ranger himself. Mack only got his morpher after everyone else, and even then, it was to save his dad from a group of foot soldiers. After proving himself, his father allowed him to continue as the Red Ranger and leader of the team. Power Rangers Jungle Fury had it partially deconstructed with Casey assigned to be one of the Order of the Claw's guardians, even though he was just a "cub" with years less training than Theo and Lily. This led to concerns about not catching up. Thankfully though, he proved to be a fast learner for many of the new skills, and his instincts end up making him a well-rounded leader, though the diffuse team structure also doesn't put a lot of pressure on him. Power Rangers Megaforce mirrored Mystic Force in having Troy as the new kid in town, recruited for superhero duty alongside two best-friend pairs who were already acquainted. He does initially mention that he has reservations about being picked to be team leader right off the bat, but he quickly proves himself, and it doesn't come up again after the premiere. Power Rangers Dino Charge plays with this trope. Tyler, the Red Ranger, was the third person to find his Energem and was followed by Shelby and Riley. Chase and Koda were the first two Rangers that bonded with their Energems and were recruited by Kendall Morgan, with the three mentioned earlier joining a while later. Despite that, Tyler still leads the team because Chase is an unfocused womanizer, Koda is a caveman with very little experience in the modern world, Riley never expressed interest in being the leader, and trying to make Shelby the leader would be the last thing on Kendall's mind. In Power Rangers Beast Morphers, Devon has some martial arts skills and is able to hold his own against Blaze in a fight, but he only became Red Ranger by being in the right place at the right time. In contrast, Ravi was actually picked to be a Ranger and had been trained as such, and Zoey was a candidate for the position even if she came up short in the final selection. But when villains attack and incapacitate two of the three people that were actually designated to be Rangers, you work with what you've got. Devon becomes the team leader when the others concede the position to him after he confronts them on the fact that their bickering over trying to claim the job has started getting in the way of their duties. Even then, he isn't a good leader at first and has to learn to take his team's advice instead of trying to make all the calls on his own. Inverted in Power Rangers in Space: Red Space Ranger Andros was the experienced one, having been operating in outer space for some time, and the other four (who had already established themselves as True Companions in the prior series Power Rangers Turbo) joined him. Also inverted in Power Rangers Ninja Steel. Brody had received some ninja training from his father before he was abducted by aliens years ago, while the rest of the team has no experience with either ninjas or aliens. The third inversion happens in Power Rangers Dino Fury. Zayto is the only one on the team that has the experience, being a knight from his homeworld of Rafkon along with receiving the powers alongside his fellow knights, and has dealt with the Sporix before. It's the other Rangers that have no skills as they technically join him as the replacements for his deceased knights. Averted in Season 2 of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, when the original Red, Yellow, and Black Rangers were sent to a peace conference, and three teenage martial arts experts joined the team in their place. Rocky was a Rookie and the Red Ranger, but doesn't count for the trope because the leadership role was passed to established Ranger Tommy instead of the newcomer. Also played with during "Once a Ranger" in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive; when a team of past Rangers are recruited to replace the depowered Overdrive team, their selected Red Ranger, Bridge, has apparently only recently been promoted to Red Ranger status (having been the Green Ranger of Power Rangers S.P.D. until he was promoted to Blue in the final episode), but the veteran Rangers are led by Adam Park, the MMPR Black Ranger, due to his greater experience.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_44fe781e	comment	Deconstructed with Neon Genesis Evangelion's Shinji Ikari. He's the last of the pilots to be recruited and, without any prior experience, performs the allegedly nigh impossible feat of activating one of the titular mechas upon the first try (With even an Artificial Human created specifically for piloting taking over 7 months), quickly catches up to the most experienced fighter in the group, and eventually trumps her. By episode 19, he's a good enough fighter to effortlessly ravage a monster that neither Asuka nor Rei had any chance against, only failing to defeat it because he ran out of power before he could deliver the killing blow. Regardless, his lack of military training left him completely unprepared for the psychological consequences of actual life and death battles, and for all his talent, he has the worst possible personality for the job, being a timid, delicate young boy who breaks out in a panic at the slightest provocation. By the time the show is over, he's a complete nervous wreck waiting to be relieved of his misery. Episode 12 puts it like this:
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4776861e	comment	It was intended that the Theodore Tugboat episode Theodore and The Big Harbour be the series pilot. It shows Theodore arriving as a NaÃ¯ve Newcomer to the Big Harbour and finding out about the V-Word system.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_490374f5	comment	Thunder Cats: Lion-O had the misfortune of being a twelve-year-old in a twenty-four-year-old's body, thanks to a malfunctioning cryosleep pod. He adapted pretty well, all things considered (the sanity of his teammates placing him in charge before the trials to prove his capability as leader can be questioned, however).
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_49a87cb3	comment	Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII is given this position after the group get out of Midgar and most of the original AVALANCHE members are dead. It's more realistic than most cases, though; at this point of the game, only two of the five group members were a part of the original AVALANCHE, the new group doesn't have much continuity with the old one, Cloud is a battle hardened military veteran, and Barret Wallace is a domestic terrorist who got 3/5 of his crew wiped out. Later on, when Cloud is out of commission, Cid Highwind, the last member to join, is nominated by Barret to lead the group, because despite his seniority, Barret admits that he really isn't leadership material, and Cid is an experienced veteran of Shinra's space program. Well, that, and the fact that the Highwind belongs to him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_49a88435	comment	Averted in Final Fantasy XII with Vaan, who serves as a point-of-view character (he is the first playable character after the prologue and represents the entire when wandering around towns) but it is clear that once the party assembles, Princess Ashe is the true leader, making most of the big decisions on the quest. That said, Ashe is the last playable character you gain, and the next to last to join permanently.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_49a88442	comment	The Warrior of Light of Final Fantasy XIV begins the story as a fresh-faced adventurer who'd recently made a name for themselves in one of the three city-states of the Eorzean Alliance. Their exploits and Chronic Hero Syndrome get them invited into the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, who have been working from the shadows for years to take on the primal, Garlean, and Ascian threats. It isn't long before the Warrior gains a reputation as the strongest of Scion of all, along with notoriety as the eikon-slayer responsible for felling one primal after another.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4b2c1779	comment	Power Rangers Megaforce mirrored Mystic Force in having Troy as the new kid in town, recruited for superhero duty alongside two best-friend pairs who were already acquainted. He does initially mention that he has reservations about being picked to be team leader right off the bat, but he quickly proves himself, and it doesn't come up again after the premiere.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4be3aedd	comment	Averted in Season 2 of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, when the original Red, Yellow, and Black Rangers were sent to a peace conference, and three teenage martial arts experts joined the team in their place. Rocky was a Rookie and the Red Ranger, but doesn't count for the trope because the leadership role was passed to established Ranger Tommy instead of the newcomer.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4d60a132	comment	Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop: Takeda joins ZAC team on the first episode, after time-travelling from the future alongside his very powerful Bit Suit, Jupiter.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4dd947ba	comment	Tagiru of Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time. He'd been on the Xros Heart basketball team for a while, but he had no idea that the other two members were part of a different kind of team. He doesn't really act as the leader of the team until the Crisis Crossover finale where Taiki is wounded and the responsibility of joining the other five legendary heroes (including the aforementioned Davis, Marcus and Takato) in combating Quartzmon is up to him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4e502ec5	comment	Show by Rock!!: Cyan serves as this for not only Plasmagica, but for everyone else under the Banded Rocking Records label as well. According to Dagger, despite being a newcomer to Midi City and only staying there for a comparatively short time, her Melodisian crystal evolves at a seemingly alarming rate, which is why he wants to steal her away from Plasmagica and put her on the most powerful band in Midi City's history.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4e910a46	comment	Star Trek: Bridge Commander provides a couple of interesting cases for this, depending on who you view as the "Main character". Commander Larsen says in her first Log entry that while the player controlled character spent many years as a first officer, he'd only been on The USS Dauntless for four months. Larsen herself is the newest member of the Dauntless' crew, and she is often considered The Hero of the game's Five-Man Band.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4f57b33a	comment	The second Tokyo Mew Mew series, Tokyo Mew Mew a la Mode, features a protagonist called Berii who replaces the original leader of the Mew Mew girls. Berii has the DNA from two different animal species, unlike the other girls who only have one species per person. She's made the leader of the team as soon as she joins them, even though any other member would have had more experience. For that reason, she's not universally loved by the Mew Mew fandom.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_4f9064f6	comment	Kung Fu Panda 2 has Po the Dragon Warrior, having proven himself, fights with the Furious Five and for all his remaining naivety, he has proven an asset to the team.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_50e2e357	comment	The Reboot Star Trek (2009) has Kirk acting in this role, as he takes command of the Enterprise during a crisis while still officially in the Academy because the official captain (Pike) has been captured and the official first officer (Spock) has been relieved of command due to him being emotionally compromised.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_5106ee7e	comment	Galaxy Angel II: Kazuya Shiranami starts out fresh out of his training under Forte Stollen, who drops him off at the Luxiole to join the Rune Angel Wing under the command of Tact Mayers. While his ship, the Brave Heart, isn't too powerful by itself, its ability to combine with the other Emblem Frames makes him a crucial member of the team. Shortly after, due to jamming on the communications that renders them unable to relay orders from the Luxiole's bridge, Tact decides to delegate the duty of command to Kazuya, who despite his doubts, quickly proves himself to be effective at it, and ends up officially appointed as the squad's leader. This is reinforced when another of the members, Lily C. Sherbet, quickly defers to him despite officially outranking him (he's an Ensign while she's a Lieutenant).
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_53446b8	comment	The player character is also this in the Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem remake and in Fire Emblem: Awakening, as they quickly rise to second-in-command of their respective armies. But since they're a man-at-arms or tactician (respectively) rather than the main lord, this may make them the Rookie Blue Ranger instead, or Green maybe...
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_534f0200	comment	In Kamen Rider Saber, Touma finds himself the newest member of an order of knights called the Sword of Logos after a sacred sword appears before him. While he's willing to join them in their fight, most of the other knights in the order don't quite know what to make of him, and at least Ogami is openly skeptical of how much good a writer is going to be.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_546f4d9a	comment	Power Rangers Dino Charge plays with this trope. Tyler, the Red Ranger, was the third person to find his Energem and was followed by Shelby and Riley. Chase and Koda were the first two Rangers that bonded with their Energems and were recruited by Kendall Morgan, with the three mentioned earlier joining a while later. Despite that, Tyler still leads the team because Chase is an unfocused womanizer, Koda is a caveman with very little experience in the modern world, Riley never expressed interest in being the leader, and trying to make Shelby the leader would be the last thing on Kendall's mind.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_57bad31c	comment	In My Huntsman Academia, Izuku is instated as the leader of Team MNVW despite having his Aura for just two days at the time. His teammates are all far more experienced than him, particularly Pyrrha Nikos, who is a four-time tournament champion and quite possibly the best fighter in her year. He also has One For All, one of the strongest Semblances in the world and the same Semblance used by the world's greatest Huntsman, Toshinori Yagi.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The Player Character is something of a Physical God, being able to achieve small scale reality warping by shouting at it. (On top of being one of the greatest warriors, mages, and/or thieves in the game world as well.)
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3 this is somewhat downplayed with the protagonist joining the team halfway through its roster.ExplanationOut of the final nine-to-ten-man roster of SEES, there are three founding members (one of whom had left the team prior to the events of the game before later rejoining), a veteran Robot Girl who joins later on, a girl who joined before the protagonist but had no combat experience, a guy who joined shortly after the protagonist, and three more newbies who join two to four months after the protagonist. However, the team had already existed for a few years by the time the protagonist joined, and they're made field leader only a couple of days after joining, ultimately resulting in them having the second-most authority of the team overall.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_5ba61d9d	comment	In Power Rangers Beast Morphers, Devon has some martial arts skills and is able to hold his own against Blaze in a fight, but he only became Red Ranger by being in the right place at the right time. In contrast, Ravi was actually picked to be a Ranger and had been trained as such, and Zoey was a candidate for the position even if she came up short in the final selection. But when villains attack and incapacitate two of the three people that were actually designated to be Rangers, you work with what you've got. Devon becomes the team leader when the others concede the position to him after he confronts them on the fact that their bickering over trying to claim the job has started getting in the way of their duties. Even then, he isn't a good leader at first and has to learn to take his team's advice instead of trying to make all the calls on his own.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_5e50079	comment	Channing of Lunarosse is thrown into this position of the expedition party after he's conscripted into La RÃ©sistance, due to his having the most experience thus far. He's not crazy about it, but it helps his growth into The Hero as he becomes capable of making the hard decisions needed.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: John Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis; while his rank made him the second-in-command of the military forces of the Atlantis expedition and he possesses the strongest natural form of the Ancient gene discovered on Earth, making him uniquely qualified to operate Ancient technology, he only learned that the Stargate even existed in the pilot episode of Atlantis a few weeks before going to Atlantis, by which point the Stargate Program had been preparing for the expedition to Atlantis for weeks if not months and the program itself had been in operation for almost a decade. "Most powerful" is up for debate, but with Cameron Mitchell becoming the leader of SG1 for seasons nine and ten, he definitely fits. However, thanks to a liberal dose of Remember the New Guy? and the personalities of the original characters, he is accepted into the group immediately. It should also be noted that Mitchell was initially appointed to and expected to assemble a completely new SG-1 after the original team chose to 'retire' and pursue other career paths after the downfall of the Goa'uld; he only became the leader of the original team when they were all recalled to action to face the new threat of the Ori.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_69daf29	comment	Sydney of GrrlPower has an unprecedented suite of superpowers available to her due to her powers coming from a set of mysterious orbs she found (or they might have found her), rather than having been born with those powers. Additionally to that, her knowledge of comics and superheroes make her great at figuring out situations with super enemies. Thus, despite being a recruit, Sydney ends up getting a major role in many missions anyway.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_6a67a019	comment	Mirai Sentai Timeranger: Tatsuya met the team completely by accident, and they recruited him solely because the first use of the Chrono Changers required five people.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_6edca17b	comment	Part of the entire point of Crimson Tide. Lt. Commander Hunter is replacing the USS Alabama's XO, who has appendicitis. Naturally, most of the crew (except for Weps) doesn't really have any sense of loyalty toward him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_6f1bcb62	comment	In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Ike is suddenly promoted to leader of the Greil Mercenaries, despite almost everyone else having more experience than him. Justified by the fact that Greil was his father, and Ike was going to eventually inherit the group if Greil hadn't perished. This actually is a sore point for two characters who leave the squad as a result. Later events prove that Ike was indeed worthy of the promotion.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_6f3ca8cf	comment	Amu Hinamori of Shugo Chara! is an interesting case: She's the last to join the Guardians, but the first to reach full power.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_6f6c1eb7	comment	Marcus of Digimon Data Squad was hired by DATS specifically because of this - within less than a day of meeting Agumon, he had already manged to activate his D.N.A. and evolve him, taking down a rampaging Cockatrimon where seasoned agent Yoshi was pretty much useless. Upon witnessing this, Sampson remarked that he absolutely needed someone like Marcus because of his ability to do that so quickly. After some consternation with Thomas, Marcus eventually becomes the de-facto leader of their DATS field team Power Trio.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_70814599	comment	"Most powerful" is up for debate, but with Cameron Mitchell becoming the leader of SG1 for seasons nine and ten, he definitely fits. However, thanks to a liberal dose of Remember the New Guy? and the personalities of the original characters, he is accepted into the group immediately. It should also be noted that Mitchell was initially appointed to and expected to assemble a completely new SG-1 after the original team chose to 'retire' and pursue other career paths after the downfall of the Goa'uld; he only became the leader of the original team when they were all recalled to action to face the new threat of the Ori.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_712d16f3	comment	Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Jan was picked up months after Retsu and Ran began training with Master Shafu.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_71b83e8	comment	Willow of Earthsong is very much this, as she is missing all of her memories since that's what happens on Earthsong, and she's also a completely new being. So, minor skills aside, she is as rookie as they come.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_735a44a9	comment	Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Daigo was the last to tame his Zyudenryu partner, yet he's the one who manages to make the Kyoryugers work as a team by getting them to open up to each other.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Halo 3: ODST features the Rookie, who is also the Heroic Mime. It's zig-zagged a bit, since he's still a veteran who's actually both higher-ranked and more experienced than the squad's demolition expert; ODSTs don't allow actual rookies to join their number. In Halo 4's Spartan Ops cutscenes, Gabriel Thorne is this to the rest of Fireteam Majestic, being its youngest and least experienced member. Nonetheless, he more than holds his own, with Halo: Escalation revealing that he eventually gets promoted to team leader. Similar to the Rookie's case though, Thorne was already a decorated veteran, since the Spartan-IVs draw their recruits primarily from the best of the UNSC's other branches.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_75c0d5be	comment	Inverted in Choujin Sentai Jetman; Ryu had prior military experience and was the only one empowered with Birdonic energy before the Vyram appeared. The others, all civilians, need training to master their Birdonic powers.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_76feae04	comment	In Power Rangers Mystic Force, while the entire team was new to magic and superheroics, Nick was The Drifter passing through Briarwood, while the other four were already a tight group of friends. Nick was also the last one to activate his powers, but he was the one who first took steps to try and help a man as part of the test of character to identify the chosen Rangers.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_77dd9e4a	comment	In HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, out of the main cast of four, Megumi (pink) is the last to receive her powers, as the others already had theirs before the first episode. However, it is worth noting that Hime (blue) initially was too scared to fight properly, Yuuko's (yellow) powers are best suited for support, and Iona (purple) is a loner who refuses to do anything with Hime. Interestingly enough, with a news program covering all the Precure that are stationed across the globe, it is implicated that Megumi is the final girl in-series to become a Precure period.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Lars becomes the captain of the Off Colors, despite being just a human teenager (even if an empowered one after coming back to life) surrounded by thousand years old gems. Justified because it's his gemless body allows him to infiltrate facilities and steal things protected by gem-detecting systems.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_78e27fa7	comment	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Lyn, who never knew she was royalty and is suddenly Lord Caelin when her grandfather dies a few years after she finds out (her parents having died years earlier). Justified in that, well, that's kind of how royalty works. Also, the player character, technically, being trusted to guide pretty much an army when he/she has zero experience in the matter.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_79dfce5	comment	Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters: Subverted, while Hiromu joins the team later because his sister wouldn't let him train with the others; he still has trained to become a Go-Buster for as long as Ryuuji and Yoko, and is as aware of them that the Vaglass need to to be stopped. Played straight when it comes to knowing them, as Hiromu is aloof to them while Ryuuji and Yoko have a sibling-like relationship.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_7ac43256	comment	Ryusei Date is the last member to join the original SRX Team. He's pretty much the de facto leader of the group, mostly because his machine is the head of their team's Combining Mecha Super Robot, acting as its main pilot.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_7bc3c27c	comment	In Cyberpunk: Another Daybreak, David rockets up to executive Corpo status practically overnight thanks to becoming Kamen Rider Ichi-gata. But he's utterly out of his depth and needs constant pointers from others for guidance in both the corporate field and his battles as a Kamen Rider.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_80e22239	comment	Super Robot Wars Judgment has the main character Touya Shun, who is a relative newcomer to the team, and to mecha combat in general.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek Star Trek: Bridge Commander provides a couple of interesting cases for this, depending on who you view as the "Main character". Commander Larsen says in her first Log entry that while the player controlled character spent many years as a first officer, he'd only been on The USS Dauntless for four months. Larsen herself is the newest member of the Dauntless' crew, and she is often considered The Hero of the game's Five-Man Band. Star Trek Online combines this with a hefty dose of Ensign Newbie. The player character is given command of a starship at the rank of Ensign. The game attempts to justify this by saying that the player is the only officer left, and by the end of the tutorial, you're at least promoted to Lieutenant (not much better). The circumstances for this vary between each faction. The Federation player gets it due to circumstances (pre-Season 8, it was because of a Borg invasion, post-Season 8 it's because you're forced to kill the Klingons and your captain after the captain gets kidnapped by said Klingons)... if you play the tutorial. If you don't, they just say that you did so well on your Starfleet Academy tests that they're bumping you up that high. The Klingons use, natch, Klingon Promotion, while the Romulans pretty much force you to gather a crew and use a very old starship.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_81bd6d63	comment	Seth, the main character in Atlantis: The Lost Tales, is the newest recruit of the Queen's Companions and the hero of the story.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: In Kamen Rider Saber, Touma finds himself the newest member of an order of knights called the Sword of Logos after a sacred sword appears before him. While he's willing to join them in their fight, most of the other knights in the order don't quite know what to make of him, and at least Ogami is openly skeptical of how much good a writer is going to be. In Kamen Rider Gotchard, Houtaro becomes the newest member of the Alchemists' Academy in the second episode after passing the entrance test (albeit through unorthodox methods) because having a Kamen Rider on-side is always a good thing. Ironically, his primary form's main color is blue instead.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_82643b4b	comment	Zoids: New Century: Bit Cloud was introduced as a drifter who collected scrapped Zoid parts, while the Blitz Team was long since formed for who knows before he joins them. Even though he is inexperienced as a Zoid pilot, Bit proves to the Blitz Team's best pilot. Plus, he's the only one of them that can pilot the Liger Zero, a Zoid that refused to be piloted by anyone else.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_86aff994	comment	Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Borderline example, as none of the Rangers had superhero experience and few of them knew each other beforehand. That said, Leo wasn't the one who initially retrieved the sword from the stone; Mike was. Plus, he was an illegal stowaway and had no experience or training relevant to the mission as the others did: Damon knew Alpha and worked the Astro Megaship. Maya had ancient knowledge of the Quasar Sabres and had a connection to the Galactabeasts. Kai, Kendrix and Mike were already stationed on Terra Venture and had experience in the military forces and in science. As for Karone, well, let's just say she has experience with how Rangers work, but from the other side of the fight.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_8a95c055	comment	In Soon I Will Be Invincible, one of the two viewpoint characters is Fatale, a rookie Cyborg superhero who is asked to join the most famous superteam in the world. Much is made of the fact that she's so new on the scene that many people can't pronounce her name right (and the villain keeps forgetting it entirely).
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_8cb4a772	comment	Played with in Ultraman Mebius. Mirai was the third of GUYS' seven members to join, but as the human form of Mebius, he's still not very experienced with being both a GUYS officer or an Ultraman.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_8e077a1	comment	Also inverted in Power Rangers Ninja Steel. Brody had received some ninja training from his father before he was abducted by aliens years ago, while the rest of the team has no experience with either ninjas or aliens.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_9036f2e	comment	Seijuu Sentai Gingaman: Ryouma wasn't the first choice as Gingared, and only received his powers from the actual first choice, his brother Hyuga, when the latter presumably died.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_93acba01	comment	In Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Alm quickly becomes the leader of the Deliverance resistance group, despite being an inexperienced youth who only recently left his small village. While this upsets some veterans of the group (and, in Echoes, there's Fernand who outright LEAVES in frustration), Alm does prove himself capable.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_9cefc9f8	comment	Macross Delta: Freyja initially doesn't seem particularly powerful....before managing to rival Mikumo for sheer power despite being a NaÃ¯ve Newcomer. This becomes a plot point when Freyja is the only singer capable of breaking Mikumo's hold over the galaxy due to Roid's Assimilation Plot, and subsequently does so. For bonus points, Freyja's primary color as part of Walkure is also red.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls Throughout the series, the Player Character in the various guild and faction quests is almost always this. In each game, it is possible for the player to catapult from total newcomer to head of the faction within just a few in-game weeks. This is especially jarring with some of the political factions where some NPCs have spent years or even decades getting to their respective positions, only to have the PC leap past them in terms of rank. Asskicking Leads to Leadership and, sometimes, Challenging the Chief play into this. Given that your character is one of the biggest ass-kickers around, it serves to justify it somewhat. Skyrim: The Player Character is something of a Physical God, being able to achieve small scale reality warping by shouting at it. (On top of being one of the greatest warriors, mages, and/or thieves in the game world as well.)
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_9e88e11c	comment	A few years later, this happens again twice with the team. Though not a rookie, The Wasp was probably the weakest member of the team and especially among the founders, and had never taken the job seriously, but after a Trauma Conga Line that involved her suffering a humiliating abuse from her then-husband Hank Pym (formerly Ant-Man) and their subsequent divorce, she re-committed to the job and became the team's new leader. Despite her inexperience and relatively weak powerset, she went on and Took a Level in Badass and earned her new position. A few years into this, she took a leave of absence, and leadership was passed onto Monica Rambeau, the then-current Captain Marvel, who was also one of the newest and least experienced members of the team, though given she was billed as the most powerful at the time, it seemed like a good idea.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_9f6c32a9	comment	In Wanted, Wesley (James McAvoy) learns that his late father belonged to a secret assassin organization. He joins the organization and trains to be a professional killer himself, partially to avenge his father's death.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_9feb7ff3	comment	Power Rangers Jungle Fury had it partially deconstructed with Casey assigned to be one of the Order of the Claw's guardians, even though he was just a "cub" with years less training than Theo and Lily. This led to concerns about not catching up. Thankfully though, he proved to be a fast learner for many of the new skills, and his instincts end up making him a well-rounded leader, though the diffuse team structure also doesn't put a lot of pressure on him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_a058fdcf	comment	Also played with during "Once a Ranger" in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive; when a team of past Rangers are recruited to replace the depowered Overdrive team, their selected Red Ranger, Bridge, has apparently only recently been promoted to Red Ranger status (having been the Green Ranger of Power Rangers S.P.D. until he was promoted to Blue in the final episode), but the veteran Rangers are led by Adam Park, the MMPR Black Ranger, due to his greater experience.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_a7ae79c2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Trooper starts off as the newest recruit to Havok Squad. After the prologue, all but you and the resident Sergeant Rock (though he is an officer) Aric Jorgon end up defecting to the Empire and General Garza promotes you as the new commander and makes you an officer in order to deal with the defectors, while demoting Jorgan for failing to see the betrayal coming. By the end of the Trooper Class story, you become a Colonel.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_a81a8107	comment	Shin Super Robot Wars: Ryusei Date is the last member to join the original SRX Team. He's pretty much the de facto leader of the group, mostly because his machine is the head of their team's Combining Mecha Super Robot, acting as its main pilot. Kyosuke Nanbu is this to the ATX Team. Excellen, Sanger, and Bullet is already a member before Kyosuke joined the team. In the end, not only he ended up s the de facto leader of the team, he is the acting commander of the player army.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_ab344279	comment	Keti of Footloose could be argued as this. Although she's not a hero, per se, and is certainly not the most talented of the group, she is the protagonist of the story (thanks to the in-universe "Primary Protagonist Syndrome") and her arrival at the dojo places her well behind her friends who have been there training already for a number of years.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	In Orphan Black, Hustler Sarah Manning quickly becomes the de facto leader of the protagonist clones who are fighting for survival against myriad conspiracies. Uptight soccer-mom Alison and biology student Cosima have been aware of and involved in their situation for far longer, but Sarah's introduction massively changes the status quo, and her street-smarts and ruthlessness soon put her unofficially in charge of the group.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_b2fba3e0	comment	In the Ultra Series, the Ultra's human identity is usually also the newest member of the defense team. The trend began with Ultraseven, in which Dan joins Ultra Garrison in the first episode, shortly after meeting them. There are only five defense team-centered series that avert this: the original Ultraman (Hayata was Science Patrol's Number Two), Ultraman Tiga (Daigo was already a member of GUTS at the beginning of the series, though he was the last member to join barring Yazumi), Ultraman X (Daichi was already a member of Xio, but generally worked in the scientific division instead), Ultraman Z (Haruki was already a member of STORAGE and trained as a Humongous Mecha pilot) and Ultraman Blazar (Gento was SKaRD's Captain). Musashi Haruno from Ultraman Cosmos is a subversion as he was already a member of EYES' parent organization SRC when the series starts but joined EYES in the second episode. Played with in Ultraman Mebius. Mirai was the third of GUYS' seven members to join, but as the human form of Mebius, he's still not very experienced with being both a GUYS officer or an Ultraman. In most series, the new guy is a civilian who is suddenly brought onto the team at the end of the first episode due to their bravery. The exception is Ultraman Dyna where Asuka is seen at the beginning of the series as a trainee for recruitment into Super GUTS. Sometimes the Ultras themselves are this in their title series. Asides from Mebius mentioned above, Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Geed, Ultraman Taiga, and Ultraman Z are good examples as well. Ultraman Leo is another, both as an Ultra and as Gen Ohtori (human host), much like Seven but without the combat experience or genre savviness.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_b4622158	comment	Kyuu in Rakenzarn Tales is eventually nominated brigade leader despite not being the strongest (at first) or even being native to Rakenzarn. This is due to his being able to take command of the situation, being smart and savvy enough to handle the situations he's thrown into and make sound decisions.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_b50cc7e6	comment	Officially, since the Hulk has trouble playing nice with others 3/4 of the time, the other founders once mentioned that they transferred the official 'Founder' status that the Hulk would normally have to Rogers.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_b89bf586	comment	Ninjago: Lloyd Garmadon, son of the Big Bad Lord Garmadon, is The Chosen One and is destined to be the most powerful ninja despite initially being the youngest, newest, and least experienced member of the team.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai also has had its fair share as well. Inverted in Choujin Sentai Jetman; Ryu had prior military experience and was the only one empowered with Birdonic energy before the Vyram appeared. The others, all civilians, need training to master their Birdonic powers. Gosei Sentai Dairanger: Ryou was the last to be recruited. Rin was simply the last to arrive, but she'd had prior training. Chouriki Sentai Ohranger inverts this; Goro had his powers before the show began, while the others got theirs in the second episode. He is also a captain to their lieutenants. Seijuu Sentai Gingaman: Ryouma wasn't the first choice as Gingared, and only received his powers from the actual first choice, his brother Hyuga, when the latter presumably died. Mirai Sentai Timeranger: Tatsuya met the team completely by accident, and they recruited him solely because the first use of the Chrono Changers required five people. Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger: Kakeru was the last of his team recruited and made GaoRed because GaoLion chose him. Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: Ban was a new transfer to SPD's Earth branch, yet was made team leader. Mahou Sentai Magiranger: Kai is passed over in becoming a Magiranger at first over his older siblings because their mother didn't believe him to have enough courage to be the Red Magician. Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Jan was picked up months after Retsu and Ran began training with Master Shafu. Samurai Sentai Shinkenger deconstructs this trope, but not with Takeru. As it turns out, he's just the Body Double to the REAL 18th head of the Shiba Clan, Kaoru, who enters late into the conflict and formally takes over. This was expected from the very beginning, so Takeru doesn't fight for the position but now loses purpose in life, as well as the vassals he had come to call his friends. The morale of the vassals themselves also suffers hard, especially after Kaoru's Jerkass retainer causes Genta to walk out as well. It doesn't take long for Kaoru to realize that she was naive to think she could just slip into Takeru's role without problem. Since it was Takeru, not her, who showed up to meet the vassals at the very start, their teamwork and strength were built around him. After getting Genta back into the team and earning his forgiveness and respect, Kaoru later reinstates Takeru as the leader, even legally adopting him to make it official, despite the fact that he's older than her. Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters: Subverted, while Hiromu joins the team later because his sister wouldn't let him train with the others; he still has trained to become a Go-Buster for as long as Ryuuji and Yoko, and is as aware of them that the Vaglass need to to be stopped. Played straight when it comes to knowing them, as Hiromu is aloof to them while Ryuuji and Yoko have a sibling-like relationship. Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Daigo was the last to tame his Zyudenryu partner, yet he's the one who manages to make the Kyoryugers work as a team by getting them to open up to each other. Ressha Sentai ToQger: The five ToQGers were already friends and were drawn into the conflict at the same time, but Right was the last to get his changer since he was separated from the others at first. Downplayed since the time difference amounts to something like five minutes, and a few episodes later, the team decides that they don't need a formal leader anyway. Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Yamato Kazakiri was a human who stumbled across the world of Zyuland, and met four guardians who had the training and skills to fight against the Deathgaliens. Though the other 4 were trained guards, they only actually gain their Zyuohger powers at around the same time. Yamato is still technically the last to transform, but only by about a minute or so. Mashin Sentai Kiramager: While the rest of the team are celebrities in their respective fields, Juru was the last to be recruited and is simply an Ordinary High-School Student. Yet he was assigned as leader since he was chosen by the Red Kiramei Stone, and Red has traditionally always been the Kiramagers' leader. For his part, Juru is well aware of how out-of-place he is in this regard and lacks some confidence because of it. Admittedly though, while the other 4 were far more experienced in life than him, being a year to a few years older and being very competent and well-known people compared to him not even being out of school, yet they had only actually gained their powers a few days prior and the battle he meets them on was their first deployment barring some training missions beforehand. And had Fire (the stone who chose him as his partner) not conveniently missed him during the initial recruitment drive, he would have been brought on at the same time they were. Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger: Gira was the final one of the five to become a King-Ohger as, unlike the others, he was not a monarch that received the powers through birthright (Hymeno, Rita, and Kaguragi), or being elected like Yamna. Still, Gira was recognized by God Kuwagata as the true heir of the powers after Racules, the king of Shugoddam, proved to be a tyrant. Also, Gira is the one who slowly gets the monarchs to start working together as a proper team and not on a loose alliance term. He is actually somewhat of a deconstruction of this since his rapidly growing power and other abilities come from being Dagded's creation and his being recognized by God Kuwagata partially comes from having eaten his Shugod Soul as a kid, which means that Racules was unable to become Kuwagata Ohger regardless of God Kuwagata's decision. This makes him more similar to a Tyke Bomb, who came at the right time.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_bb4af8d3	comment	Young Justice: Miss Martian joins the Team after their first adventure, and at that point had only been on Earth for about a month. Nevertheless, she has the most superpowers and is eventually revealed to have psychic abilities even greater than the norm of her species. She's not really the protagonist more than anyone else, though. She becomes team leader by the start of the third season, but by then the Team is Demoted to Extra. Inverted and deconstructed with Robin. He's the obvious choice for leader, to the point where Aqualad outright says that he's only filling in for Robin until he's old enough. The problem is, working with Batman for so long has left him absolutely horrible at teamwork. He does become team leader as Nightwing, five years later.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_bd3bfb55	comment	Kenji Narukami, from Madan Senki Ryukendo, is the second person to become a super-powered Madan warrior and join SHOT, an organization created to destroy demons. However, he is far less experienced and professional than his colleague, Fudou Juushirou, but still gets all the fancy power-ups and most of the spotlight.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_c0ce313e	comment	Mahou Sentai Magiranger: Kai is passed over in becoming a Magiranger at first over his older siblings because their mother didn't believe him to have enough courage to be the Red Magician.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_c137e301	comment	In Power Rangers Wild Force, Taylor, Alyssa, Max and Danny were actively fighting monsters for a year, six months, six months, and two months respectively before Cole even joined up. And Cole's a Raised by Natives orphan who made his way from South America to Turtle Cove by boat. He's not just new to superheroics, he's new to modern civilization. The only reason he's the leader is that his patron Wild Zord outranks the others, and Taylor spends a lot of time bitter about it, since she was the leader before he showed up, and she actually knows how to lead.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: Tidus (the Player Character) is introduced as a star blitzball player, getting him added to the hopelessly awful Besaid Aurochs team on the strength of his spectacular Sphere Shot ability. While Tidus himself is genuinely skilled, the player isn't, and learns everything about the game just before the match. Fortunately, even if you lose, the only storyline difference is whether or not Wakka is holding a trophy in the following cutscene.note You also win a +4 Strength Sphere, which is a nice item to get early on,
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_c3a5fa9	comment	In the third season of Robin of Sherwood, new character Robert of Huntingdon becomes leader of the outlaws and the new Robin Hood.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_c433d063	comment	Final Fantasy: It's not so jarring when Squall is made the leader of the team right after graduation. His teammates, Zell and Selphie, are also new graduates. Quistis has more experience, though, but she joins the team later after Squall has already been established as the leader. Final Fantasy VIII nevertheless contains a major instance of this: Squall is named leader of Balamb Garden, despite still being a fairly new graduate, around the middle of the game. This is mostly justified by the fact that Headmaster Cid is working off of Edea's foreknowledge of Squall's role in defeating Ultimecia. The fact that he's extremely competent helps too. Both Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 involve the respective protagonists joining a pre-existing clan. That said, both clans start out with one significant character each and a bunch of generics before the heroes join. Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII is given this position after the group get out of Midgar and most of the original AVALANCHE members are dead. It's more realistic than most cases, though; at this point of the game, only two of the five group members were a part of the original AVALANCHE, the new group doesn't have much continuity with the old one, Cloud is a battle hardened military veteran, and Barret Wallace is a domestic terrorist who got 3/5 of his crew wiped out. Later on, when Cloud is out of commission, Cid Highwind, the last member to join, is nominated by Barret to lead the group, because despite his seniority, Barret admits that he really isn't leadership material, and Cid is an experienced veteran of Shinra's space program. Well, that, and the fact that the Highwind belongs to him. Final Fantasy X: Tidus (the Player Character) is introduced as a star blitzball player, getting him added to the hopelessly awful Besaid Aurochs team on the strength of his spectacular Sphere Shot ability. While Tidus himself is genuinely skilled, the player isn't, and learns everything about the game just before the match. Fortunately, even if you lose, the only storyline difference is whether or not Wakka is holding a trophy in the following cutscene.note You also win a +4 Strength Sphere, which is a nice item to get early on, Averted in Final Fantasy XII with Vaan, who serves as a point-of-view character (he is the first playable character after the prologue and represents the entire when wandering around towns) but it is clear that once the party assembles, Princess Ashe is the true leader, making most of the big decisions on the quest. That said, Ashe is the last playable character you gain, and the next to last to join permanently. The Warrior of Light of Final Fantasy XIV begins the story as a fresh-faced adventurer who'd recently made a name for themselves in one of the three city-states of the Eorzean Alliance. Their exploits and Chronic Hero Syndrome get them invited into the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, who have been working from the shadows for years to take on the primal, Garlean, and Ascian threats. It isn't long before the Warrior gains a reputation as the strongest of Scion of all, along with notoriety as the eikon-slayer responsible for felling one primal after another.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_c489a759	comment	Daisuke Motomiya of Digimon Adventure 02 ("Davis" in the English dub) is a zigzagged example. He was introduced as the first of the new generation to receive a Digimon partner and a Digimental, and even received Taichi's goggles as a blessing and an act of Passing the Torch. Despite this, the show also frequently cast him as a No-Respect Guy and Butt-Monkey and introduced several new members alongside him so he was not the only NaÃ¯ve Newcomer. Despite this, however, he remains the group's most consistent driving force and their Determinator in chief.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_cd8e6855	comment	There are only five defense team-centered series that avert this: the original Ultraman (Hayata was Science Patrol's Number Two), Ultraman Tiga (Daigo was already a member of GUTS at the beginning of the series, though he was the last member to join barring Yazumi), Ultraman X (Daichi was already a member of Xio, but generally worked in the scientific division instead), Ultraman Z (Haruki was already a member of STORAGE and trained as a Humongous Mecha pilot) and Ultraman Blazar (Gento was SKaRD's Captain). Musashi Haruno from Ultraman Cosmos is a subversion as he was already a member of EYES' parent organization SRC when the series starts but joined EYES in the second episode.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_ce97a859	comment	Used in PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky: The Hero and their Partner join the Wigglytuff Guild as its newest members, allowing for introductions and for the player to be taught all about Treasure Town and the ins and outs of exploring mystery dungeons.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_d4ef40fe	comment	Mashin Sentai Kiramager: While the rest of the team are celebrities in their respective fields, Juru was the last to be recruited and is simply an Ordinary High-School Student. Yet he was assigned as leader since he was chosen by the Red Kiramei Stone, and Red has traditionally always been the Kiramagers' leader. For his part, Juru is well aware of how out-of-place he is in this regard and lacks some confidence because of it. Admittedly though, while the other 4 were far more experienced in life than him, being a year to a few years older and being very competent and well-known people compared to him not even being out of school, yet they had only actually gained their powers a few days prior and the battle he meets them on was their first deployment barring some training missions beforehand. And had Fire (the stone who chose him as his partner) not conveniently missed him during the initial recruitment drive, he would have been brought on at the same time they were.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_d5166b45	comment	In Halo 4's Spartan Ops cutscenes, Gabriel Thorne is this to the rest of Fireteam Majestic, being its youngest and least experienced member. Nonetheless, he more than holds his own, with Halo: Escalation revealing that he eventually gets promoted to team leader. Similar to the Rookie's case though, Thorne was already a decorated veteran, since the Spartan-IVs draw their recruits primarily from the best of the UNSC's other branches.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_d56cb367	comment	In Power Rangers S.P.D., Sky, Bridge and Syd had been going through training for a good while before Jack and Z were drafted into the Ranger program as the Red and Yellow Rangers. Justified since Sky, who would otherwise have been first in line for leadership, failed a Secret Test of Character, and Commander Cruger realized he'd go on an ego trip if he did become the leader. It takes him quite a while to get over it. It should also be noted that Jack didn't even realize that being the Red Ranger meant he was supposed to be the leader at first, and Cruger doesn't hesitate to temporarily relieve him of command when he lets that realization send him on an ego trip himself. In the epilogue, after Jack retires because he prefers charity work, Sky becomes the new Red Ranger.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_d91d0f35	comment	Chouriki Sentai Ohranger inverts this; Goro had his powers before the show began, while the others got theirs in the second episode. He is also a captain to their lieutenants.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_db088973	comment	Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger: Kakeru was the last of his team recruited and made GaoRed because GaoLion chose him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_dbdadbe3	comment	In Kamen Rider Gotchard, Houtaro becomes the newest member of the Alchemists' Academy in the second episode after passing the entrance test (albeit through unorthodox methods) because having a Kamen Rider on-side is always a good thing. Ironically, his primary form's main color is blue instead.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_dd6c417	comment	Samurai Sentai Shinkenger deconstructs this trope, but not with Takeru. As it turns out, he's just the Body Double to the REAL 18th head of the Shiba Clan, Kaoru, who enters late into the conflict and formally takes over. This was expected from the very beginning, so Takeru doesn't fight for the position but now loses purpose in life, as well as the vassals he had come to call his friends. The morale of the vassals themselves also suffers hard, especially after Kaoru's Jerkass retainer causes Genta to walk out as well. It doesn't take long for Kaoru to realize that she was naive to think she could just slip into Takeru's role without problem. Since it was Takeru, not her, who showed up to meet the vassals at the very start, their teamwork and strength were built around him. After getting Genta back into the team and earning his forgiveness and respect, Kaoru later reinstates Takeru as the leader, even legally adopting him to make it official, despite the fact that he's older than her.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_dd999f6d	comment	In Avengers: Infinite Wars, while Celeste Morne is a relatively new member of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, she and Doctor Strange are each awarded the status of master of the Sanctums of London and New York respectively after defeating Kaecilius and Karness Muur (although Celeste is an experienced Jedi Shadow even if she's new at practising magic).
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Any Slayer that wasn't identified by a Watcher before being activated becomes this - Buffy herself is an example at the time she became the Slayer.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e381e71f	comment	Takato of Digimon Tamers was the last to get his partner, the last to have it evolve, and the last to learn how to fight, let alone win a fight on its own. However, he seeks to learn as much as he can from Henry and Rika, and they make for a fairly balanced Power Trio. Also, he's the first one to reach Ultimate (Mega in the dub).
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure has three different instances of this trope: In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, the Rookie is Tsubomi (pink) while the Veteran is Yuri (purple). Naturally enough, Tsubomi find it difficult to earn Yuri's respect. It doesn't help that Tsubomi is, by Word of God, the weakest pink cure in the history of Precure. And then there is Cure Flower, who was the previous generation's Pretty Cure. Yuri's case is an interesting one as she isn't resentful towards Tsubomi for being leader, she's resentful to her, Erika and Itsuki for being Precure because of her arrogance leading to them being activated in the first place. Once she ultimately gets over it, she becomes a lot kinder to them. In Dokidoki Precure, the Rookie is Mana (pink) while the Veteran is MakoPi (purple). (How very original...) It goes the other way from the above example: Mana is quickly proven to be one of the very best pink cure in the history of Precure, enough to surpass MakoPi in several ways. Mana's meteor rookie status is even more reinforced by The Reveal of Jonathan Klondike and Cure Ace sometimes later. The thing that separates the two, though, is circumstances: Yuri isn't an active Precure at the start of Heartcatch due to the fact that she lost everything due to her over-self confidence in doing things by herself, while MakoPi is trying to be The Atoner for Her Greatest Failure. Yuri just doesn't give anyone the time of day until she finally gets back in the saddle while MakoPi does when she finds out Mana has massive balls of steel, which doesn't take long. In HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, out of the main cast of four, Megumi (pink) is the last to receive her powers, as the others already had theirs before the first episode. However, it is worth noting that Hime (blue) initially was too scared to fight properly, Yuuko's (yellow) powers are best suited for support, and Iona (purple) is a loner who refuses to do anything with Hime. Interestingly enough, with a news program covering all the Precure that are stationed across the globe, it is implicated that Megumi is the final girl in-series to become a Precure period.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e40d0ab2	comment	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: Chiro is actually the robot monkey team's second leader, after the original had a Faceâ€“Heel Turn long ago. The rest of the team are all veterans by a vaster degree compared to him.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e4732abc	comment	John Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis; while his rank made him the second-in-command of the military forces of the Atlantis expedition and he possesses the strongest natural form of the Ancient gene discovered on Earth, making him uniquely qualified to operate Ancient technology, he only learned that the Stargate even existed in the pilot episode of Atlantis a few weeks before going to Atlantis, by which point the Stargate Program had been preparing for the expedition to Atlantis for weeks if not months and the program itself had been in operation for almost a decade.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e6d0a1a2	comment	Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger: Gira was the final one of the five to become a King-Ohger as, unlike the others, he was not a monarch that received the powers through birthright (Hymeno, Rita, and Kaguragi), or being elected like Yamna. Still, Gira was recognized by God Kuwagata as the true heir of the powers after Racules, the king of Shugoddam, proved to be a tyrant. Also, Gira is the one who slowly gets the monarchs to start working together as a proper team and not on a loose alliance term. He is actually somewhat of a deconstruction of this since his rapidly growing power and other abilities come from being Dagded's creation and his being recognized by God Kuwagata partially comes from having eaten his Shugod Soul as a kid, which means that Racules was unable to become Kuwagata Ohger regardless of God Kuwagata's decision. This makes him more similar to a Tyke Bomb, who came at the right time.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e71c679	comment	Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: Ban was a new transfer to SPD's Earth branch, yet was made team leader.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_e9a95545	comment	Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Yamato Kazakiri was a human who stumbled across the world of Zyuland, and met four guardians who had the training and skills to fight against the Deathgaliens. Though the other 4 were trained guards, they only actually gain their Zyuohger powers at around the same time. Yamato is still technically the last to transform, but only by about a minute or so.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_eb175449	comment	Vin from Mistborn was a new recruit to Kelsier's thieving crew; the other members were all much more experienced and familiar with each other.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_eb6719f6	comment	It's not so jarring when Squall is made the leader of the team right after graduation. His teammates, Zell and Selphie, are also new graduates. Quistis has more experience, though, but she joins the team later after Squall has already been established as the leader. Final Fantasy VIII nevertheless contains a major instance of this: Squall is named leader of Balamb Garden, despite still being a fairly new graduate, around the middle of the game. This is mostly justified by the fact that Headmaster Cid is working off of Edea's foreknowledge of Squall's role in defeating Ultimecia. The fact that he's extremely competent helps too.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_ed3aa1ba	comment	In Mission: Yozakura Family, Taiyo becomes the current patriarch of the Yozakura family by marrying Mutsumi. However, his inexperience means that he's often getting pointers from his new siblings while leaving the actual leadership to Mutsumi.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_ee742814	comment	Jewelpet Twinkle☆: The protagonist Akari Sakura is the last person to enroll at the magic school; the rest of her classmates have been there for a while already. Nonetheless, at the end of the show, it's her who has become the most powerful and who wins the highest honors.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_f20e228	comment	Don't Meddle with My Daughter!: Clara is the newest member of N.U.D.E.note acronym for: "Next Ultimate Defense Exports", having been with them for about a year by the time the series starts. She's the new "Eighth Wonder" and strives to live up to the original's legacy; not knowing the original was her mother. In fact, she's the only one in the organization who doesn't. Still, despite her naivety and relative inexperience, she's the strongest superheroine they have; making her their best chance against Blowjob.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_f81101f2	comment	This can also apply to Ash in PokÃ©mon: The Original Series. He is a beginning trainer just starting his journey when he gathers together his first group of friends, who, incidentally, are experienced Gym Leaders.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_fbaae8b9	comment	Gosei Sentai Dairanger: Ryou was the last to be recruited. Rin was simply the last to arrive, but she'd had prior training.
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_fe5f7909	comment	Lance-Constable Carrot of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Guards! Guards! fits the "most powerful member" aspect, being a very muscular new recruit to a fairly unfit Watch, who comes with his own Cool Sword. And it only takes him two books to become Captain Carrot, and outrank everyone except Commander Vimes (and that was only because he specifically asked for someone else to be put in charge because he worried that it would be too easy for him to command them).
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Rookie Red Ranger / int_fe8ef766	comment	While Captain America is the most famous leader of The Avengers, it's often a surprise to both readers and occasionally other characters that he wasn't a founding member in the core Marvel timeline (he actually didn't join until issue #4). The reader confusion is helped by his being a founding member in most other timelines, such as The Ultimates or in the various animated series and the MCU. Justified, since he honed his skills in World War II and is the most natural leader, despite being a relative newcomer. Officially, since the Hulk has trouble playing nice with others 3/4 of the time, the other founders once mentioned that they transferred the official 'Founder' status that the Hulk would normally have to Rogers. A few years later, this happens again twice with the team. Though not a rookie, The Wasp was probably the weakest member of the team and especially among the founders, and had never taken the job seriously, but after a Trauma Conga Line that involved her suffering a humiliating abuse from her then-husband Hank Pym (formerly Ant-Man) and their subsequent divorce, she re-committed to the job and became the team's new leader. Despite her inexperience and relatively weak powerset, she went on and Took a Level in Badass and earned her new position. A few years into this, she took a leave of absence, and leadership was passed onto Monica Rambeau, the then-current Captain Marvel, who was also one of the newest and least experienced members of the team, though given she was billed as the most powerful at the time, it seemed like a good idea.
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