Naive
Patsy
Patsy noun - One who is easily deceived or cheated.
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Kaworu Nagisa is The Smart Guy, The Wise Beyond Their Years philosopher and replacement pilot for Unit 02 who is completely naive to the nature of humanity and ends up as SEELE's patsy.
Source: Anime / Neon Genesis Evangelion -
Trope averted in the Columbia studio's The Fox And The Crow cartoons, where the fox is kind of prissy, naive, and a constant patsy to the trickster crow.
Source: Cunning Like a Fox - In American courses, this gullible patsy is named "Joe Bloggs", a surname that pre-dates the World Wide Web and the rise of blogging: a phenomenon which, if read superficially by the naive, can give people a very misguided notion of what's factual.
Source: Hilarious In Hindsight / Other
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