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# Music.{{PoodleHat}}: GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: InUniverse, "Genius in France" is about a StrawLoser who was NeverAcceptedInHisHometown but finds himself inexplicably beloved by the population of France. '''Unsure how to classify this one'''
# Film.{{DoctorZhivago}}: Zhivago isn't appreciated until after he dies.
** This [[LifeImitatesArt parallels]] Pasternak himself, whose book was originally [[BannedInChina banned in the Soviet Union]]. '''As noted, this is both an in-universe and IRL example, so I'm not sure how to classify it.'''
# Characters.{{DestripandoLaHistoria}}: The Greeks feared him for being the God of War, but he was beloved by the Romans, even making him an important part of their lore. '''Unsure how to classify this one'''
# Series.{{TheVietnamWar}}: Many American soldiers dealt with this when returning home. Karl Marlantes recalls having to wind his way through a hostile mob of protesters after arriving home, and also mentions that having been a Vietnam Vet was such a MarkOfShame that he didn't find out a close friend was also a veteran until after they had known each other for over a decade. African-American soldiers had the added burden of facing racism, and not just in the South: Roger Harris wasn't able to get a taxi ride back to his home in the predominantly Black Roxbury section of Boston until a police officer ''forced'' a taxi driver to take him. '''Documentary about real life, unsure how to classify it.'''
# Characters.{{Canadas Drag Race Season 1}}: The first and so far only Bahamian rep in the franchise. She left her home in the capital of Nassau to seek asylum in Canada, due to the nation’s far more progressive attitudes towards sexuality. '''Unsure'''
# CulturalCringe: NeverAcceptedInHisHometown may also contain elements of this. Contrast CulturalPosturing.
# LikeADuckTakesToWater: Compare InstantExpert and NeverAcceptedInHisHometown. Contrast FishOutOfWater and GracefulInTheirElement.
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# Fanfic.{{RainbowInTheDark}}: The Mane Six barely have any recognition in Ponyville but they're famous all over Equestria.
# Flanderization.{{WesternAnimation}}: ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' has one in J. Jonah Jameson. In most versions he's simply a somewhat {{jerk|ass}}y newspaper man with a somewhat justified hatred to Spider-Man. Here all he does is go on for hours on various Bugle Jumbotrons about what a menace Spider-Man is despite knowing full well that he's now working for S.H.I.E.L.D. It's also shown that his negative PR campaign is working better then normal and has turned almost '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown the whole city against him]]'''.
# Characters.{{AnimeCrimesDivision}}: Her backstory. She was born and brought up in Prestige TV City and was one of the very few Otaku there. She moved to Neo Otaku City in order to be among like-minded people and gain acceptance from the community her heart belongs to. This is why she is so hell-bent on solving the case of the serial killer in Season 2 despite odds being stacked against her.
# Characters.{{FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance}}: Cid notes that the Nu Mou consider him "an eccentric loony."
# Characters.{{DragonAgeOriginsPlayableCharactersTheWarden}}: Except for the Dalish Elf, each Warden initially suffers this as [[YouCantGoHomeAgain a result]] of their respective Origin. The Human Noble's home was seized by Arl Howe, the Dwarf Noble was exiled from Orzammar, the City Elf and the Dwarf Commoner were wanted criminals in Denerim and Orzammar respectively, and Templars are not particularly thrilled to see the Mage Warden again.
# Characters.{{ShadowRaiders}}: Thanks to Lord Mantle exiling him from Rock. [[spoiler: Jade's first act as ruler is to publicly restore Graveheart's citizenship and rights.]]
# Fridge.{{Crysis}}: [[Literature/TheBible A prophet receives]] '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown no honor in his own country]]'''. Prophet gets back to the US, and CELL tries to hunt him down.
# HeroWithBadPublicity.{{MarvelUniverse}}: This is exaggerated in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' where Jameson's smear campaign is not only '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown more effective]]''', but less deserved as he's become an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and has never egged-on JJ, thus giving less credence to it. The beginning of Season 3 finally averts this. Spidey joining and becoming a successful Avenger results in the general populace of New York loving him.
# Characters.{{WarcraftTheAllianceQuelThalas}}: Despite being a living legend of Quel'Thalas, she's not accepted in her town for her newfound powers. That and she chose to stay loyal to the Alliance, because of her hatred of the orcs.
# Literature.{{ADogOfFlanders}}: On a meta level. The book was written by a British author and takes place in Belgium, but in both countries the novel fell into obscurity; only in Japan is it a widely-beloved classic.
# GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff.{{Food}}: Wimpy is a hamburger chain (named after the character from ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'') founded in ''1934'' in the United States and became very popular in the UK and especially South Africa, whose locals love them so much that it's now headquartered there in Johannesburg. By 1978 though, Wimpy had become obscure in the United States and, without anyone willing to take over American operations after the founder's death, '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown disappeared from the US completely]]'''.
# Series.{{TheChosenTVSeries}}: Episode 3 of Season 3 revolves nearly entirely around this trope. Which makes sense, since Jesus is, you know, the TropeMaker.
# Literature.{{TheCavesOfSteel}}: Robots were created, developed and mass produced right on Earth almost three thousand years before the beginning of the novel. They were integral in the technological revolution that lead to space-travel, food for the whole planet and world peace, but they were never accepted into Earth society and were completely banned from the planet soon after their creation. It is only through the direct intervention of the Spacers, who have completely integrated robots into their way of life, that they are even beginning to merge with the Earthlings.
# YMMV.{{TheVillainess}}: GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Despite its positive reception at Cannes, '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown it didn't go win over Korean audiences]]''' as they found it "you run-of-the-mill, [[SoOkayItsAverage average]] [[ClicheStorm cliched]] action movie with [[{{Main/Melodrama}} melodramatic plot]]." However, it garnered positive reviews in the US and became somewhat a CultClassic among action junkies. In fact, this is one of the reasons why the director's next movie will be his Hollywood debut.
# Characters.{{TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel}}: She may be the Warrior Maid, the Shadow, the Kingmaker, but to her Elder family, she's just that annoying little girl who still [[HumansAreInsects plays with humans]].
# CulturalCringe: NeverAcceptedInHisHometown may also contain elements of this. Contrast CulturalPosturing.
# LikeADuckTakesToWater: Compare InstantExpert and NeverAcceptedInHisHometown. Contrast FishOutOfWater and GracefulInTheirElement.
# Literature.{{StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers}}: P8 Blue, who is a perfect ambassador for the Nasat people (friendly, intelligent, kind, brave, humorous) is actually an outcast on the Nasat homeworld.
# Characters.{{TwinPeaksResidents}}: His backstory as described in ''The Secret History of Twin Peaks'' has clear shades of it. In his youth, he was viewed by the Twin Peaks community as a drunken troublemaker, who lived in squalor and was quite the embarrassment to his family. After moving out from the town and joining the army, things started to look immensely up for him, as over the next two-and-a-half decades he rose through the ranks and became heavily involved with the GovernmentConspiracy. When he moved back to Twin Peaks in his older years, he once again became a bit of an outsider, although in a significantly more benign sense; by that time most townspeople had forgotten the tarnished reputation he had in his youth, and so instead came to see him as a rich, harmless eccentric. But he would prove to still be a bit of an embarrassment to his family, as with his new fortune, he started indulging in spendthrift behavior and went through several short-lived marriages with women much younger than him, which was seen as been at odds with not only his brother's, but most Twin Peaks citizen's more modest and straight-laced lifestyle.
# Music.{{TracyChapman}}: Her fan base is, or at least was initially, mostly white. She has been disparaged by other black musicians, such as [[Music/PublicEnemy Chuck D]], for her choice of genre.
# Literature.{{TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy}}: The tiny village of Shady Vale apparently managed to miss the fact that a Third War of the Races was fought that summer. When Shea and Flick make it back home, their father shows absolutely no knowledge of the fact that his biological son saved the life of the Elven King or that his adoptive son killed the most evil wizard in recorded history. All he has to say is "You boys have been acting strange since you got back from that hunting trip in Leah."
# Music.{{TheOutfield}}:
** A real-life example with the band's success. They '''never''' had a hit in their native Britain, but had quite a few hits in the U.S. The fact that "Your Love" is the only song of theirs that still receives radio airplay doesn't help.
** {{Averted|Trope}} with "Stranger in My Own Town", which is actually not what the title refers to; the narrator is lamenting about how horrible his home town has become.
# Characters.{{Hundred}}: Emilia grew up in ostracisation because her mother was from Wenz, which had a poor relationship with Gudenburg. Understandably, she's not too eager to go back to her homeland.
# OneHitWonder.{{ElectronicDance}}: '''Robin S''', '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown in her native USA]]''', only had one Top 10 hit on the Hot 100, "Show Me Love"(not to be confused with Music/{{Robyn}}'s 1997 hit), which peaked at #5 with [[EclipsedByTheRemix its 1993 remix by Stonebridge]]. Her follow-up, "Luv 4 Luv", [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff reached #7 in Belgium and #4 in the Netherlands]], but stalled out at #53 in the US and is mostly forgotten there.
# UsefulNotes.{{Brazil}}: One of the most famous and prolific musicians is Sergio Mendes, along with his band Brasil 66. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff In other countries, anyway]]. '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown In Brazil he's nearly unknown, except to music critics and scholars.]]'''

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# Fanfic.{{TotalDramaTweenTour}}: Pandora's bio states this.
# AmericansHateTingle: By definition, this is a subtrope of BaseBreakingCharacter. Compare PopCultureIsolation. Contrast MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales, AmericanKirbyIsHardcore, and its polar opposites, GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and NeverAcceptedInHisHometown.

# UsefulNotes.{{Hinduism}}: '''Vaishnavism''' (Path of Vishnu) - These ones believe that Vishnu is the Supreme Godhead. The closest thing to a mainstream that Hinduism has got, it's the most widely followed path - largely since it's easily accessible and generally non-ascetic. Easily recognizable by the vertical ash-mark on the foreheads of its disciples. The ''Hare Krishnas'' in the West are an outgrowth of these guys. '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown In India, the ''Hare Krishnas'' are seen as loony bins by pretty much everyone.]]'''
# Music.{{PoodleHat}}: GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: InUniverse, "Genius in France" is about a StrawLoser who was NeverAcceptedInHisHometown but finds himself inexplicably beloved by the population of France.

# Main.{{SlobsVersusSnobs}}: In mainstream Mexican Lucha, this describes the rivalry between Wrestling/{{AAA}} and Wrestling/{{CMLL}}. Triple A has drawn the largest crowds on record in Mexico and in all of North America the only promotion to successfully out draw it is WWE. CMLL meanwhile typically draws smaller crowds but boasts the highest at the gate draws as far as revenue is concerned in the nation's history, WWE again being the only company on the continent that comes close.[[note]]WCW has beat them and WWF/E in both areas as far as North American promotions go but wasn't actually able to do so [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown on the continent of North America itself]], having to go to Asia. The Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance has also done comparable money gates to CMLL, but during the era in which it did, ''it was an alliance''.[[/note]] CMLL is the comparatively more serious of the two, its angles being much more down-to-earth and its presentation as a sport more formal, while AAA has had angles involving murder by volcano and lots of over-the-top GimmickMatches involving ladders or referee shenanigans. CMLL is also slightly more family-friendly, as blood is shed less frequently as a consequence of its more subdued {{gimmick matches}} and increasingly few of the matches it has that do feature bloodshed have aired on its TV program unedited. Before AAA, the same could be said of EMLL and LLI/UWA, except those promotions got along much better.

# Film.{{DoctorZhivago}}: Zhivago isn't appreciated until after he dies.
** This [[LifeImitatesArt parallels]] Pasternak himself, whose book was originally [[BannedInChina banned in the Soviet Union]].
# Characters.{{DestripandoLaHistoria}}: The Greeks feared him for being the God of War, but he was beloved by the Romans, even making him an important part of their lore.
# Series.{{TheVietnamWar}}: Many American soldiers dealt with this when returning home. Karl Marlantes recalls having to wind his way through a hostile mob of protesters after arriving home, and also mentions that having been a Vietnam Vet was such a MarkOfShame that he didn't find out a close friend was also a veteran until after they had known each other for over a decade. African-American soldiers had the added burden of facing racism, and not just in the South: Roger Harris wasn't able to get a taxi ride back to his home in the predominantly Black Roxbury section of Boston until a police officer ''forced'' a taxi driver to take him.
# Characters.{{Canadas Drag Race Season 1}}: The first and so far only Bahamian rep in the franchise. She left her home in the capital of Nassau to seek asylum in Canada, due to the nation’s far more progressive attitudes towards sexuality.
# ValuesDissonance.{{OtherMedia}}: UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming has been treated as a legitimate professional enterprise in South Korea since the 1990s[[note]]To make a long story short, broadband gaming was heavily popularized from the explosion of the PC bang (a Korean style of internet cafe and LocalHangout), with the Korean government being fast on the ball in organizing a dedicated branch, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_e-Sports_Association Korea e-Sports Association]][[/note]], in stark contrast to much of the western world, where it was only treated as a fringe endeavor that only began gaining increasing legitimacy in TheNewTens. As a result, Korea has a much more robust infrastructure to maintain integrity in the scene, and they also have a ''much'' harsher cultural attitude towards cheaters. While elsewhere, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor matchfixing and elo-boosting scandals are likely to dampen professional reputations]] (at most, earning a ban from the scene in question), it's treated as a severe show of moral failing with much broader legal repercussions in Korea, not just among professional gamers -- some, including former ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' champion Lee "Life" Seung Hyun, faced extended jail time for [[FixingTheGame matchfixing]] -- but even politicans -- [[https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/10636/a-history-of-account-sharing-proves-to-be-an-insurmountable-obstacle-in-ryu-ho-jungs-journey-to-be-elected-into-the-national-assembly such as Ryu Ho-jung]], a heavy nominee to represent the Justice Party in the 2020 Korean National Assembly, had her reputation significantly dented after political opponents uncovered a history of account-sharing in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' years prior. The dissonance is most apparent regarding international leagues where Korea is not the main authority -- in the ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' League, Su-min "SADO" Kim, was suspended for about 75% of the league's inaugural season following allegations of account-boosting, '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown a punishment that drew outrage from Korean audiences and other Korean league players]]''', as it was almost universally believed it should have been much more severe.

# VindicatedByHistory.{{LiveActionFilms}}: Creator/AkiraKurosawa, up until his death, was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff far more popular and acclaimed in the West]] than in Japan and was '''[[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown even accused by Japanese film critics of being "too Western"]]'''. When ''Film/{{Dodeskaden}}'' bombed in 1970, most of his small amount of Japanese popularity and acclaim vanished completely, and he was considered to be a hack whose Western acclaim was dismissed by Japanese critics as mere exotica and [[HypeAversion overrating by their American counterparts]]. After his death, his Japanese reputation [[PosthumousPopularityPotential increased dramatically]].