This species has seldom been seen and naturalists have considered putting it on the endangered species list. He is marked by his love of baseball, by having a skill with rural machinery and hunting firearms beyond his years, and his propensity to emit sounds like "gee whiz". The All-American boy usually dwells in aQuirky Town within which he is asfree as the air driving every where on his bicycle. He is always naive but charming, and respectful to his elders (who most likely include aStandard Fifties Father and aHousewife). If he has a sibling, it will be an older brother to idolize or a little sisterto protect.

There are variants of this trope. The geeky variant still maintains the ingenuity, self-reliance, and wholesomeness of this but applies his interest to such things as home science experiments and the like. The high-school variety wears a letterman's sweater and spends his off hours using his mechanical skill to restore an old car.

An All-American boy often gets a job as aKid Detective. If he joins the military when he grows up he will almost inevitably become aSouthern-Fried Private.

The closestDistaff Counterpart would probably beGirl Next Door.

Not to be confused with the film of the same name.

Comic Books

• Steve Rogers (akaCaptain America (comics)) pretty much fits the general personality of this trope, although he was a terrible athlete as a child, in large part due to hisGeek Physique. After he got the Super-Soldier Serum, he was able to embody the trope even more.

Film

• Audy Murphy in the beginning ofTo Hell And Back.
• The title character inMr. Smith Goes to Washington is a grown-up example, as well as all the boys in his"Boy Rangers" group.
• Often smuggled into big-budget Hollywood films set in other countries, particularly when this makes no contextual sense (See:The Three Musketeers 1993,The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, etc)
• Big Fish is a great example. Quirky small town, baseball, etc.
• TheAndy Hardy film series.
• Bye Bye Birdie: The number "A Healthy, Normal American Boy" describes Conrad Birdie as this in a series ofBlatant Lies.

Literature

• The Hardy Boys.
• A pair ofKid Detectives inThe Crow and the Castle by Keith Robinson.
• Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn.
• Jeff and the "four horsemen" in1632. Lean more toward the geeky variant in this case.
• Some ofRobert Heinlein's works are thisRecycled in Space.
• Henry Huggins in theRamona and Beezus books byBeverly Cleary.

Live-Action TV

• Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, fromLeave It to Beaver.
• Orel Puppington ofMoral Orel is a Deconstruction of this.
• Opie Taylor and his pals onThe Andy Griffith Show.
• Cory Matthews ofBoy Meets World is a modern example. He begins by caring about more baseball than anything and seeing his father as Superman.

Newspaper Comics

• Dennis the Menace US is closer to this than the name suggests, unlike hisBritish counterpart.

Radio

• Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy.

Theatre

• Biff inDeath of a Salesman is this as a kid. As he grows up, not so much.

Video Games

• Ninten fromMOTHER 1 and Ness fromEarthBound, both of whom are bat-wielding Everyman boys from a small town.
• Mike Jones, teenaged ace pitcher fromStarTropics. His All-American-ness—contrasted with and found strange by the natives of the islands he's visiting—is a large part of the game's humor and tone.

Western Animation

• According toWord of God, Rocky ofRocky and Bullwinkle is an All-American Boy in squirrel form.
• Hank and Dean Venture,The Venture Brothers, at least initially.
• Davey Hansen inDavey and Goliath.

Real Life

• Institutionally invoked by the Boy Scouts of America.

• Trope
• The All-American Boy
• Always Male
• National Stereotyping Tropes
• Normal People
• The Fifties
• Indexed States of America
• All the Tropes Superhero Team