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The Intern
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Variant form of Naïve Newcomer. The young guy (often the Plucky Comic Relief) who is still new to the whole place. He's often brilliant, almost always irreverent, and almost always "not ready for prime time" (i.e. throwing up the first time he sees a serious accident, etc). Commonly treated as a Butt-Monkey, especially if they're an unpaid intern, in which case whatever happens to them will be dismissed as "being paid in experience". Often, it's clear that The Intern was a former Teen Genius, but is now learning that life is much tougher in the field. Darker works will often have the employers treat the intern as a disposable Red Shirt; this is a subtrope, Disposable Intern. See also New Meat, which is much the same trope but referring strictly to the military. For the Robert De Niro movie, go here. Examples |
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DEATH BATTLE! has one in Jocelyn, the team's underpaid intern and the host of The Desk of Death Battle, which was apparently given to her by Wiz and Boomstick as an alternative to actually paying her. | |
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Zach on Bones, at first. When his internship ends, the team keeps him on. After he leaves the show, he's replaced by a rotating roster of interns. | |
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House: Late in the series, there was an intern on House's team, Martha Masters. She must have been a genius of epic proportions to make it to the all stars team of all medical dramas at so young an age. | |
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Parks and Recreation: April started off as a very snarky and aloof version of this, until she's hired as a full time and paid employee for the department, specifically as Ron's assistant. | |
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Chika and the player character in the interactive romance novel Moonrise are in their first year medical internship. Her lowly status doesn't prevent Chika from talking back and shutting down her teachers or fellow interns if they're rude to her. | |
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Honey and - as of episode 5 - Smore are a non-abused version of this in Object Terror, usually helping out in assisting Printer and Computer during the challenges. However, the latter decided to do this for the sake of his antagonistic plot in the series. | |
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Yuki in Casualty, and to a lesser extent, Lenny. A few seasons earlier, Toby fit the role pretty well. | |
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The entire premise, especially in the first season, of Scrubs which comes full circle as JD, Turk, and Elliot, who were the first batch of interns in season 1, become residents and then attendings, acquire their own interns, and eventually wind up as senior staff by season 8 and are now in the role of mentors. | |
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Asok of Dilbert, though he's growing out of this role. | |
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Dr. Robidaux on Monday Mornings. She's actually a resident, but she's the youngest and least experienced on the team. Obviously, she's a very capable and competent doctor. | |
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Calum Buchanan in All Creatures Great And Small. | |
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Sandy in Absolute Power (BBC), who has a better grasp of the real world than her employers, and wishes they'd do a better job in completing the work experience paperwork for her NVQ certificate. She later becomes a paid employee, but leaves the company in Season 3 and is replaced by Clive, who's just an idiot. | |
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"Billy" from Total Drama, among several others, most of whom fall victim to the challenges in Seasons 1 and 3. | |
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In the first season of The Muppet Show, Scooter is cast as an inexperienced newbie whom Kermit was forced to hire as a gofer because his uncle owned the theater. Several early episodes feature Scooter coming to Kermit with ridiculous "fresh new ideas" for the show that Kermit puts into action against his will for fear of losing his lease. As the show went on, Scooter's antagonistic side was dropped and his uncle was barely ever mentioned. | |
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Dr. Bashir in the first few seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. | |
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In Cyberpunk: Another Daybreak, David gets his start with Hiden Intelligence when Isu offers him an internship with its cybersecurity division to help him get back on his feet following his mother's near-fatal car accident during a shootout on the highway. Rebecca, Kiwi, and Lucy initially use him as an errand boy to get cigarettes from the vending machine, but that ends after he's suddenly promoted to executive Corpo by becoming a Kamen Rider. | |
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Major Monogram's assistant Carl, from Phineas and Ferb. | |
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Ryan Howard of The Office is this when he is introduced. He later becomes a Smug Snake. | |
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Kenneth in 30 Rock. Unusual in that he's implied to actually be the oldest person there, and yet he still does menial tasks. | |
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McGee was like this during his first season on NCIS, and Tony still taunts him for being this trope. | |
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Acquisitions Incorporated starred three interns to the eponymous company: The Paladin Aoefel in seasons two through six, the Loveable Rogue Viari from season seven onward, and the Forest Ranger Morgane in season eight. Their job is usually to serve as the Straight Man for the utterly insane full-time employee trio. | |
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Welcome to Night Vale has several interns during the course of the show. All of them—with the exception of Dana and Maureen—are either killed or otherwise never heard from again, usually within a single episode. When Maureen stops blinking in-and-out of reality she calls Cecil out on his treatment of the interns, and the corresponding mortality rate, then goes back to working for him. Though she quits after surviving a couple more near death experiences. |
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Tam Fox is a Wayne Enterprises intern in Red Robin who quickly finds herself out of her depth with Tim. | |
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Dr. Kildare might be the trope codifier. James Kildare, idealistic and brilliant young doctor at Blair General Hospital, was the protagonist of a film series that ran for 15 installments, though he was written out after the ninth film due to actor Lew Ayres declaring himself a conscientious objector. His mentor, Dr. Gillespie, became the protagonist for the remaining films. | |
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Bud Roberts (Patrick Labyorteaux) on JAG served as an assistant to Harm & Mac during seasons 2-4, before he graduated from law school and became a judge advocate (military lawyer) in his own right. | |
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Tia from Potion Maker was sent to work in Pio's store by the kingdom's potion academy in the palace. Probably to teach her humility, though she suggests it's because she's too skilled to be a mere student. | |
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John Carter (Noah Wyle) on ER. It led to a really cool Character Development of John Carter from The Intern to The Veteran Instructor, followed by him handing off his title to the next in line, much as Dr. Green had done to him, when he left the show. Of course, it took ten years... | |
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Emily Owens, M.D.: Emily, Will (Emily's friend from med school), Cassandra (Emily's high school Alpha Bitch nemesis) and Tyra (Emily's confidante). They are supervised by brilliant but strict Dr. Bindari (heart surgeon) and friendly young doctor Micah, and they also compete for a position of Bindari's assistant. | |
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Uli Divini in the Medstar Duology, as a teen surgeon. When he reappears in Death Star he's twenty years older, more experienced, and much more cynical, having been hit by a stop-loss order and forced to serve continuously. | |
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The "disposable redshirt" version is used in The Librarians "And the Horns of a Dilemma," in which the main cast investigate the mysterious disappearances of eight people who turn out to have been interns for the same company, Golden Ax Foods. Golden Ax has recreated the Minoan Labyrinth via magic, sacrificing interns to the Minotaur to ensure the prosperity of their company. | |
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Mike Morton was officially an intern on Emergency!. An episode also had a cocky one who ride with the squad for training and thought he knew it all and looked down on the paramedics. He’s decently chastised by the end. | |
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