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Basic Trope: A character who displays more progressive worldviews for their time

  • Straight: Bob is a white man in the 1800's, yet he treats Alice, a black women as his equal.
  • Exaggerated: Bob also believes that women should stay out of the kitchen.... racial minorities should be treated well... basically a 21st person in a 1800's time period.
  • Downplayed: ???
  • Justified: Bob is a time traveler who got stranded in the 1800's
  • Inverted: Bob treats everyone who doesn't share the exact same traits as him as dirt.
  • Subverted: He only treats Alice nicely because she has some "nice benefits."
  • Double Subverted: Only to grow to actually hear her out and help her plight.
  • Parodied: Bob dresses like a hippie, chanting peace for all.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Bob acts how you would expect a slave owner in the 1800s to act.
  • Enforced: "We might get cancelled if we show Bob as a man of this time"
  • Lampshaded: "Your views are one century ahead."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Alice realizes that Bob is from the future, and inquires him about will will happen.
  • Defied: response to enforced "Yeah. But making him a man of his time would make for a more interesting story."
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: Only Bob is quite progressive, everyone around him shows views for their time, and as a result, he loses out on deals, and is cornered into bankruptcy.
  • Reconstructed: ???

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