History Main / GoodOldWays

This character [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel dresses in an old-fashioned manner]], uses old courtesies and practices things that have fallen by the wayside since YeGoodeOldeDays. Obviously a good man -- the writer is using his adherance to the GoodOldWays to signal it, as a convenient shorthand.

** This is more pronounced in UltimateMarvel, where there's a bigger gap between Cap getting frozen and thawed, and he has had far less time to get adjusted. For instance, while dating the Wasp, she was annoyed that his chivalry bordered on patronizing, he was bewildered by what she wore and watched on tv, and talked like her grandfather. To his credit, Cap was ahead of his time in some respects such as in the ''Ultimates Annual'' which has a World War II photo of him in costume, proudly standing with the African American Tuskeegee Airmen at a time when doing so was considered taboo by mainstream American society.

* There is also Turner D. Century, a supervillain who is dedicated to forcing society to change back to what it was before WorldWarOne. He was a silly enough villain that he was killed off by the Scourge of the Underworld.

* ''GhostDog'' is entirely about this trope. The titular character lives as a samurai in nineties Jersey city, working as a hitman for the mob. The film is interspersed with quotes from the Hagakure and Ghost Dog doing his best to live by the code of the samurai in the modern age. [[spoiler: it doesn't go so well.]]

* ASongOfIceAndFire: Most of the people of the North of Westeros worship the old gods and keep old traditions (one that is conspicuously mentioned is [[SacredHospitality treating household guests well and not doing them harm]], which may hold repercussions for a certain House... if said gods did more than provide fairly pointless PsychicDreamsForEveryone).

TheHero, the OldMaster, and other characters may explicitly affirm their loyalty to the GoodOldWays. If the DefectorFromDecadence has left a culture that has lost (in his eyes) its virtues and defends his behavior, he ''will'' invoke his.

* An underrated comedy, ''BlastFromThePast'', stars Brendan Fraser as the son of a nuclear physicist and his wife who was born in a fallout shelter where he lived for all of his life until his parents deemed it safe(a wrongly triggered air raid siren led them to believe that nuclear war was on in the '60s, so he had never left the shelter in 35 years). Fraser's character, [[MeaningfulName Adam]], was unfailingly polite and gentlemanly to everyone he met in the present day, to the point where the female lead(Eve, of course) found him insufferably snotty, while her gay cousin realized that Adam simply believed that that was how people should treat each other.

The Eldar more or less qualify as well, since they haven't

** Meanwhile, the Jägermonsters, the SuperSoldier minions of the Heterodynes who are currently banned from Mechanicsburg, are still trying to figure out what kind of Heterodyne Agatha will be, and hoping that she'll turn out to be ''vun ov de '''''fun''''' vuns!''

* An underrated comedy, ''Blast From The Past'', stars Brendan Fraser as the son of a nuclear physicist and his wife who was born in a fallout shelter where he lived for all of his life until his parents deemed it safe(a wrongly triggered air raid siren led them to believe that nuclear war was on in the '60s, so he had never left the shelter in 35 years). Fraser's character, [[MeaningfulName Adam]], was unfailingly polite and gentlemanly to everyone he met in the present day, to the point where the female lead(Eve, of course) found him insufferably snotty, while her gay cousin realized that Adam simply believed that that was how people should treat each other.

* HarryDresden likes to act old-fasioned, partly because he's a wizard, and partly to annoy Murphy. This is taken UpToEleven by some of the older supernatural entities

* TheDreamlandChronicles: [[http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-08/page-496/ The king defends receiving humans.]]

Not all GoodOldWays are entirely good; the characters may concede their faults but point out that only their virtues have been lost, as when a violent and courageous race loses their courage but not their taste for violence.

** The Converse is a particularly strange example. The shoes haven't changed their design in the 80 years they've been around, and have been popular since the late 1940s. Yet 30 years in the future, they'll be obscure collector's items?
*** Not straight on collector items. You tend to put your collectables on display, not actually wear them.

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Like GoodIsOldFashioned, GoodOldWays can create the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that any new value or way of life is by definition immoral. Whether this is deliberate or inadvertent depends on the writer and the value or way of life being referred to. A character may even invoke this trope to justify Aesops like SmokingIsCool or AllGaysArePedophiles.