History Main / DeliberateValuesDissonance

In HistoricalFiction and HistoricalFantasy, this is often a necessity to avoid anachronisms; indeed readers may criticize works for failure to reflect the actual historically accurate views as an AnachronismStew. This may result in an AuthorTract, the story condemning or praising certain values or societal norms that are no longer relevant. Be wary, though, for sometimes RealityIsUnrealistic and the deliberately different values end up just as inaccurate, but in the opposite direction -- a story could present some value as being a relic of the past [[ValuesResonance even if it's still widespread at the time of its writing,]] [[TheThemeParkVersion grossly overrepresent how common or how severe a certain dissonant historical value is]], or even [[CommonKnowledge making up horrifying and disgusting historical values wholesale]] merely to shock the audience (in fact, the page quote is an example of the last part; murdering one's unfaithful wife with a fireplace poker was hardly universally accepted as appropriate behavior even in the Renaissance)[[note]]Nor did French nobility and royalty poop on the floors of Versailes, as the source claims; for one, the British would [[NeverLiveItDown never let the French live it down.]][[/note]].

In HistoricalFiction and HistoricalFantasy, this is often a necessity to avoid anachronisms; indeed readers may criticize works for failure to reflect the actual historically accurate views as an AnachronismStew. This may result in an AuthorTract, the story condemning or praising certain values or societal norms that are no longer relevant. Be wary, though, for sometimes RealityIsUnrealistic and the deliberately different values end up just as inaccurate, but in the opposite direction]] -- a story could present some value as being a relic of the past [[ValuesResonance even if it's still widespread at the time of its writing,]][[TheThemeParkVersion grossly overrepresent how common or how severe a certain dissonant value is]], or even [[CommonKnowledge making up horrifying and disgusting historical values wholesale]] merely to shock the audience (in fact, the page quote is an example of the last part; murdering one's unfaithful wife with a fireplace poker was hardly universally accepted as appropriate behavior even in the Renaissance)[[note]]Nor did French nobility and royalty poop on the floors of Versailes, as the source claims; for one, the British would [[NeverLiveItDown never let the French live it down.]][[/note]].

In HistoricalFiction and HistoricalFantasy, this is often a necessity to avoid anachronisms; indeed readers may criticize works for failure to reflect the actual historically accurate views as an AnachronismStew. This may result in an AuthorTract, the story condemning or praising certain values or societal norms that are no longer relevant. Be wary, though, for sometimes RealityIsUnrealistic and the deliberately different values end up just as inaccurate, but [[TheThemeParkVersion in the opposite direction]] -- a story could present some value as being a relic of the past even if it's still widespread at the time of its writing, or present a value as common in a specific place or time period even if it wasn't (in fact, the page quote is an example of this; murdering one's unfaithful wife with a fireplace poker was hardly universally accepted as appropriate behavior even in the Renaissance).

* ''Fanfic/UzumakiNarukoTotheVictortheSpoilsV2'': In canon, ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has something of a throwaway line near the Chunin Exams arc, near the first third of Episode 21 of the anime, that implies ninja are considered adults from the time they receive their forehead protectors. This fic treats this line with the seriousness it comes with, with many of the rookie genin actually having to do adult duties such as paying taxes while also learning about adult pleasures such as drinking and having sex despite being 12- to 13-years-old. As the meme goes "Old enough to kill; old enough to x."

* In ''ComicBook/MarvelComicsOneThousand'', the Eternity Mask only functions for people who truly believe in equality, making them the equal of their foes. For most of the story, it's used by American heroes fighting for democracy, or failed to be used by those whose ideals have been contaminated by elitism. In the flashback to its origin in Arthurian England, both the Comicbook/BlackKnight and the narration have no question that its creators are villains, with a mad scheme to overturn the divine rights of the nobility, and that any society in which their beliefs succeeded would be terrible.

* One storyline in ''ComicBook/ScoobyDooTeamUp'' saw the gang transported back to 1942 to help out the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica. Daphne was understandably appalled to discover that Comicbook/WonderWoman, one of the JSA's most powerful members, was relegated to being the team's ''secretary''. Subverted in that by the end of the story, some of the male JSA members have decided that they should all take turns doing that job.

* The back matter in ''Comicbook/XMenNoir'' is a StylisticSuck pulp adventure story written by this universe's counterpart of Bolivar Trask, about a "superman" fighting mutants. Perhaps surprisingly, given both the racism often seen in such stories in real life and 616-Trask's FantasticRacism, the story is very clear that Nimrod and the Sentinels are superior due to being mixed race. It then explains ''exactly'' what traits they inherited from each race, so it ''still'' comes across as pretty racist by modern standards.

* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'': [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] when Strong Bad and the Cheat decide to [[EggSitting take their "baby" (a zip-lok of banana pudding)]] to the King of Town's restaurant [=SteaKastle=] which hasn't been updated since the 70s featuring a high chair that's a bear trap and cigars on the kids menu. Strong Bad opts to go to a modern family day out, a vape shop that also sells hot fries.

* In the ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15670416/chapters/39178201#workskin Hindsight]]'', Heather Chander remembers when in kindergarten, she and Veronica had a bout of PuppyLove. Since their childhood was in the late 1970s[[note]]Heathers is set in the late 1980s[[/note]], this lead to her mother, who while not homophobic herself, warning her about the kind of discrimination she could face if she was openly gay.

** In the '70s, Cap and the Falcon fought William Burnside and Jack Monroe, the Captain America and [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]] [[LegacyCharacter of the 1950s]]. Both were decidedly racist and sexist, with Jack in particular hurling racist insults at the Falcon and insinuating that Sharon Carter [[WomenAreDelicate was a weakling because she's a woman]]. Burnside ultimately graduated to a full-fledged EvilReactionary supervillain, a willing ally of the neo-fascistic far-right "Watchdogs" and even of the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] in their fight to forcibly restore American culture to a 1950s hardline conservative's version of "the good old days".

* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': The movie takes place in 1973, and the Landsat scientist [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Steve Woodward]] is genuinely and openly surprised to see that [[GenderBlenderName Mason Weaver]] the photographer accompanying his expedition is a woman.