Never Accepted in His Hometown: Difference between revisions

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When [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]] is applied to the protagonist in his world.

So you've saved the universe many times, taken down many multi-dimensional threats, and have generally done lots of good stuff. [[Hundred Percent 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! ]]

So you've saved the universe many times, taken down many multi-dimensional threats, and have generally done lots of good stuff. [[Hundred-Percent 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! ]]

At least, in places other than the town or world you came from.

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* X-Men from [[Marvel Comics]]. Now worldwide famous; their every move on the news. Known for general superheroics, hated for being mutants. Massive protests right on their front gate all the darn time.

* Spider Man still can't catch a break from J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle.

* Guy Gardner, Kyle Rainer, John Stewart, and Charlie Vickers are all legendary members of the [[Green Lantern|Green Lantern Corps]]. They are clever, they are capable, they are fearless, and they have all saved countless millions of lives across the Galaxy, including many of their fellow Lanterns. Despite this, the general opinion of humans among the alien members of the Corps begins at "uncouth, primitive barbarians" and descends from there. [[Heroic BSOD|Hal Jordan]], [[Heroic Team Revolt|on the other hand]], [[Face Heel Turn|isn't appreciated by the other Lanterns]] [[Welcome Back Traitor|for entirely different reasons]].

* Guy Gardner, Kyle Rainer, John Stewart, and Charlie Vickers are all legendary members of the [[Green Lantern|Green Lantern Corps]]. They are clever, they are capable, they are fearless, and they have all saved countless millions of lives across the Galaxy, including many of their fellow Lanterns. Despite this, the general opinion of humans among the alien members of the Corps begins at "uncouth, primitive barbarians" and descends from there. [[Heroic BSOD|Hal Jordan]], [[Heroic Team Revolt|on the other hand]], [[Face Heel Turn|isn't appreciated by the other Lanterns]] [[Welcome Back, Traitor|for entirely different reasons]].

== Film ==

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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~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 -- 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...

* ''[[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 -- 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]]'':

** Cameron Mitchell returns to his hometown for one episode. While no one thinks he's evil or a criminal or anything, no one really knows what's going on at the SGC, and they basically remember him as the football player who came back with a weird girlfriend and is the reason they all have to sign confidentiality agreements.

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* ''Zelda''

** Link suffers from this in at least one installment of the series. In ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He 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.

** 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.

== Webcomics ==

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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 (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.

* [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/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 [[Mata Hari|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.

* [[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 [[Mata Hari|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."''}}

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