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* [[Warren Ellis]]'s ''[[Crecy]]'' is a warts-and-all depiction of the famous Battle of Crécy in 1346. The narrator acknowledges the dissonance, describing himself as "a complete bloody xenophobe who comes from a time when it was acceptable to treat people from the next village like they were subhumans" and admitting that by modern standards his side have been "acting like evil pricks", but reminds the reader that the other side are even worse.
* Similarly to the ''Dead Girl'' example above, the [[Ultimate Marvel]] take on [[Captain America (comics)]] presents him with some rather modernly distasteful attitudes, as part of a more "realistic" take on what a soldier and average American citizen from 1940 would really be like, especially if he time-skipped to the 2000s. Case in point; when he first gets thawed out, he attacks Ultimate [[Nick Fury]] because, in the 1940s, black soldiers couldn't rise as high in the military as Nick Fury has, so he believes himself to be in some elaborate Nazi/alien trap.
** Which was a [[Critical Research Failure]] on the author's part; the first black colonel in the US Army was in 1916, the first black ''general'' was in 1940, and even before Cap went into the ice the achievements of units such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the 761st Tank Battalion were becoming widely known.
** Also seen when he expresses the classic [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]] attitude towards the French, which is a distinctly modern attitude; the backlash from this inspired the mainstream writers to have the original Cap talk about his time with the French resistance and how brave they were.
* At least one comic book version of [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] walked back some of the show's [[Anachronism Stew]] by showing a slight difference of attitudes toward slavery between Xena and Gabrielle. When presented with a Roman band of slaves about to be auctioned off, Gabrielle is appalled at slavery in general (not a common attitude in classical Rome) and particularly that one of the slaves is a pregnant woman. Xena, in contrast, is generally convinced that the (otherwise all-male) slaves must be criminals who've done something to deserve their condition, but makes an exception in the pregnant woman's case as it seems improbable to her that a pregnant woman could be guilty of any serious crime. The two thus agree to go buy the woman free, each for their own reasons—but leave the rest of them to be sold.
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