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{{quote|''But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."''
|[[The Bible|Matthew 13:57]] the official [[Trope Namer]].}}
When [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]] is applied to the protagonist in his world.
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Compare [[All of the Other Reindeer]], [[Ungrateful Bastard]]s, [[What Have You Done for Me Lately?]]. The opposite of [[A Hero to His Hometown]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In ''[[The Hobbit]]'',
** Bilbo Baggins participates in events of legend, then comes home to learn they've declared him legally dead, sold his house and don't believe a thing he's got to say.
** Similarly, in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]],'' Bilbo's nephew Frodo carries the [[Artifact of Doom|One Ring]] across half of Middle-Earth at great cost to his body, mind, and soul, destroys the [[Evil Overlord]] and ends the endless battle between good and evil, but when he returns to the Shire, his cousins Merry and Pippin are the ones who get the respect, due to becoming warriors and leading battles against the brigands who had taken over the Shire.
* In the ''[[Xanth]]'' novels, everywhere else, Bink is known as "Magician Bink". Most people don't know why (since Bink's talent stays hidden by design), but they know he's a Magician and treat him with due respect. In his home village, even years later, he's still "Bink The Talentless Wonder".
* In the famous [[Sherlock Holmes]] pastiche, ''The Seven-Percent Solution'' has Holmes and Watson in Germany with Sigmund Freud pursuing a villain. During the chase, the German police meets them and immediately announces that the constables are to be put at Holmes' disposal to catch the criminal and the Detective quietly mutters "No prophet is accepted in his own country."
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* The Argentinean soldiers who returned from the Falklands' war suffered from this, in one of the most degrading demonstrations of hypocrisy and ungratefulness from the same society they came. Said society was brainwashed and manipulated by the Corrupt Government of that era, anyways, but the ungratefulness and hypocrisy are still there.
* ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' was burned in John Steinbeck's hometown, and when he moved back there he wasn't treated well because everyone thought he was a communist.
* [[wikipedia:Josephine Baker|Josephine Baker]] was ignored and briefly hated in America because she was black and tried to take on [[Mega Corp|William Randolph Hearst]], but was revered as a ''goddess'' in France because of her pioneering dance style. Her working as [[
* Variation with [[Rammstein]]: One of the (if not ''the'') world's most famous [[Industrial Metal]] bands, with sold-out concerts in many parts of the world... yet they can't catch a break in their native Germany. As Paul Landers, their rhythm guitarist, said:
{{quote|''"We have such a bad reputation in Germany it can’t get any worse elsewhere."''}}
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