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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]].}}

So you've saved the universe many times, taken down many multi-dimensional threats, and have generally done lots of good stuff. [[Hundred-Percent100% Heroism Rating|You're a celebrated hero!]] [[Famed in Story|Everyone knows your name, the kids want to grow up to be like you, and people may even be selling merchandise based off of you! ]]

The temporal version of this trope is [[Dead Artists Are Better]] or [[Vindicated Byby History]].

Compare [[All of the Other Reindeer]], [[Ungrateful Bastard|Ungrateful Bastards]]s, [[What Have You Done for Me Lately?]]. The opposite of [[A Hero to His Hometown]]

* One of the stories in [[Heavy Metal (Animationanimation)|Heavy Metal]] was about a nerdy kid from Earth (or at least, a planet that seems to be more Earth-like than most of the planets in that film) is transported to a different planet and given a [[Older Alter Ego|completely different physical appearance]] and basically becomes a [[Big Damn Heroes|huge hero]]. He has absolutely no interest in returning home.

* In ''[[The Hobbit]]'',

** 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 (Literature)|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 [[Young Wizards]] books, wizardry has to be kept a secret. So after saving the earth and {{spoiler|''relighting the sun while rewriting who the Lone Power is so he is can be redeemed''}}, Kit and Nita go back to school to get bullied. Granted, they can stop the bullying now but... Later, in the fifth book, Nita at least is still without friends at school 2-32–3 years later [[Pandering to Thethe Base|for no apparent reason other than being smart and quiet.]]

* In the Russian book series ''[[Alice, Girl Fromfrom the Future]]'', the heroine is a young girl ( 7 years old at the beginning, 13 in the end) who, on her adventures, rescues countless people (and planets) and is thus revered and respected on many worlds, and by some high-ranked officers on Earth. But in her hometown, she is regarded as lightheaded, irresponsible misfit, [[You Are Grounded|is often grounded]], distrusted and belittled.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The Doctor. Saves the multiverse more times than he can count, but is still looked upon as a wanted criminal for much of his life (except for those few times he's been elected President of Gallifrey, but even then it ends up with him being charged with treason or some such). Things got so bad that at one point [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|the Time Lords wiped the Doctor's mind]], [[The Nth Doctor|forced him to regenerate]], and exiled him to Earth with a TARDIS that was sabotaged and rendered useless. Even after he saved Gallifrey from [[A Fate Worse Than Death]], the ungrateful so-and-sos still merely gave him his memory back and allowed him use of the TARDIS -- whenTARDIS—when he went back to Gallifrey, he was still made prime suspect number one in the assassination of the President of the Time Lords... And that's not even counting the later time when he was put on trial for his life...

* ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'':

* [[Older Than Feudalism]] examples from ''[[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]:

** In the long run, averted: Christianity eventually became the dominant religion in Nazareth -- andNazareth—and all of the Middle East, for that matter -- formatter—for a period of 200-300200–300 years, at which point Islam swept in. Even then, it took at least a century and a half for the Christian lands under Muslim rule to convert (Christians were allowed to live as they pleased as long as they payed a higher tax rate; eventually taxes got too high, and...).

* Just like Jesus, [[Useful Notes/Islam|Muhammad]]'s message was not well received in his hometown, and for basically the same reasons. He eventually had to conquer it (bloodlessly, by [[Batman Gambit|playing its leader, Abu Sufyan, like a violin]]).

* In ''[[Fallout]]'',

** Link suffers from this in at least one installment of the series. In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: aA Link Toto T Hethe Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', he has to avoid being noticed while traveling through his native village of Kakariko because the townspeople are convinced that ''he's'' the villain who has abducted their beloved Princess Zelda. This is somewhat of a variant on the trope, since the hero's bad rep stems from some nasty public relations from the [[Big Bad]]'s minions.

** This gets worse in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' because even after you save most of the world and return to your adopted home village post [[Time Skip]] no one recognizes you except as a scary intruder, and you're remembered from before then as a strange loner who likely died once he left the forest.

* [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20170516173252/http://thedugs.com/ The Dugs]: In its photocomic days, Hamish [[Mc Haggis]], a player for the fictional Las Vegas Tsunami, becomes a skilled baseball player only after being shunned by his homeland, Scotland, for struggling at all things Scottish in a story line that begins [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730012708/http://thedugs.com/?p=155 here]

* In the live-action TV movie of ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'', the titular character spends most of the time having to get over this.

* ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (Literature)|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 [[MataSeductive HariSpy|a spy]] for [[La Résistance|the French Resistance]] during [[World War II]] (which earned her a Croix de Guerre, making her the first American-born woman to receive the honor) didn't hurt her reputation either.

* Variation with [[Rammstein (Music)|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."''}}

* Former [[Canadian Politics|Canadian Prime Minister]] Pierre Trudeau]] is both widely loved and widely hated by Canadians for a variety of reasons, although his vision of a bilingual country based on individual rights above all else has become widely accepted by Canadians living outside Quebec. ''Inside'' Quebec, Trudeau is almost universally hated by francophone Quebecers, who have always seen themselves as being distinct within Canada and now loathe Trudeau due to his opposition to distinct status for his home province.

* The British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] is internationally respected as an important stateswomen. [[Time Magazine]] even listed her among the most influential people of the 20th century. In the United Kingdom however she is hardly popular at all and even hated by most of the Britons. Her government is not held in high esteem compared to other British Prime Ministers. In a list of the 100 Worst Britons she was number 3 (compare this to her position in the list with 100 Greatest Britons: 16).

* Famed Japanese film director [[Akira Kurosawa]], up until his death, was [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|far more popular and acclaimed in the West]] than in his native country and was even accused by Japanese film critics of being "too Western". When ''Dodes'ka-den'' bombed in 1970, most of his small amount of Japanese popularity and acclaim vanished completely and he was considered to be a hack that was beloved in the West for what Japanese critics believed was mere exotica and [[Hype Aversion|over-rating by their American counterparts]]. After his death, [[Vindicated Byby History|his Japanese reputation]] [[Dead Artists Are Better|increased dramatically]].

* Dante Alighieri was Florence’s [[Butt Monkey]] ([[Never Accepted in His Hometown|When his natal city declared an amnesty for all the exiled politicians, he was the only one not included]]). He begged all his life to return, but he never could. He died in Ravena in 1321. When they realized Dante was [[Overly Narrow Superlative|the greatest modern Italian poet]], Florence came to regret Dante's exile, and made repeated requests for the return of his remains. The custodians of the body at Ravenna refused to comply, at one point going so far as to conceal the bones in a false wall of the monastery. Nevertheless, in 1829, a tomb was built for him in Florence in the basilica of Santa Croce. That tomb has been empty ever since, with Dante's body remaining in Ravenna, far from the land he loved so dearly.

* While ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]]'' was [[Americans Hate Tingle|hated in Greece]] and well-liked everywhere else, and ''[[Mulan (Disney)|Mulan]]'' was well-liked in its home market and '''[[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|loved in China]]''', ''[[Pocahontas (Disney)|Pocahontas]]'' was panned in its home market of America and decently-liked in other countries.

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