Discussion History Series / TeenWolf

Hard to do when the character page is locked.

Edit: In fact, they were, but aparently someone didnt like it and selfishly reverted it back to its older version.

To the best of my knowledge, \\\"aversions\\\" are not to be listed except for tropes that are listed as OmnipresentTropes. See AvertedTrope for reference.

Dumping cuts here, in case they contain some salvageable material. Some of this may fit on DeliberateValuesDissonance.

[[folder:Aversions (cut)]]
* Averted in \\\'\\\'Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure\\\'\\\'. Joseph\\\'s buddy Smokey experiences the exact sort of racism that was unfortunately common for African Americans in the 1930\\\'s.
* Averted with [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Captain America]], who indeed does have his prejudices as a result of being transported from the 40s.
* Averted, surprisingly, in \\\'\\\'Film/TheHauntedMansion\\\'\\\'. [[spoiler:The hauntings are started when the butler kills the head of the family\\\'s bride-to-be the night before the wedding, to prevent the intolerable scandal of a mixed wedding.]] Very appropriate and realistic for the Reconstruction-era South, but astonishing to see in a Disney film. You might notice, though, that they carefully avoided actually \\\'\\\'mentioning\\\'\\\' her race as a factor. The only thing the butler explicitly said was that it was a scandal because he was marrying beneath his station, as he would have if she were just a white servant.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'FlagsOfOurFathers\\\'\\\'. Ironically, director ClintEastwood then caught flak in some circles for \\\'\\\'failing\\\'\\\' to make politically correct history by adding token minorities to the segregated units that stormed Iwo Jima. Spike Lee in particular came after Eastwood for this, but Eastwood responded by saying that the film was meant for historical accuracy and that Lee should \\\"Shut his face.\\\" Multiple black soldiers actually are visible in the film as extras, serving in the same auxiliary roles that they would have in real life.
* Averted seriously in \\\'\\\'Film/BackToTheFuture\\\'\\\'. After arriving in 1955, Marty discovers the future mayor of Hill Valley is working as a janitor in a tiny diner and attending night school, eager to make something of himself. When Marty points out he could be mayor some day, his (white) boss loudly scoffs, \\\"Yeah, a colored mayor, that\\\'ll be the day.\\\" Also, Marty\\\'s mother is a serious smoker, drinker, and seems very eager to get it on with the boy she\\\'s nabbed [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl despite her claim that she \\\"never chased a boy or called a boy]] or \\\'\\\'[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial sat in a parked car]]\\\'\\\' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial with a boy]]!\\\"
** Even further averted. The film also has 3-D, a member of Biff\\\'s gang, say \\\"beat it spook, this doesn\\\'t concern you,\\\" to Reginald (a black man) after shoving Marty into the trunk of his car. The other three (also black men) of Reginald\\\'s band get out of the car and scare the gang off with Reginald saying, \\\"who you callin\\\' spook, peckerwood?\\\" Spook was an old racist term for African-Americans in the 50\\\'s and \\\"peckerwood\\\" was a slur for whites.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'[[MenInBlack Men in Black 3]]\\\'\\\'. Agent J travels back in time to 1969. While there, he gets pulled over by a pair of white cops for being a [[NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel black man driving a fancy car]] (though he did in fact steal it).
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': And just because you see a black man driving a nice car \\\'\\\'does not mean he stole it!\\\'\\\'
--> [Beat]
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': ...I stole this one. But \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' \\\'cause I\\\'m \\\'\\\'black\\\'\\\'.
** it ahould be noted that, before he travels back in time, Agent J is explicitly warned about the discrimination he would face in the sixties.
* Averted in many ways in Literature/BelisariusSeries. However sometimes they do seem far more tolerant of religious, ethnic, and class differences then early medieval people really would be.
* Averted, along with most of HollywoodHistory, in \\\'\\\'HorribleHistories\\\'\\\'. The nasty, brutal and political incorrect aspects are all on display, but so are the aversions. In Groovy Greeks for instance there is a point by point comparison of the role and privileges of Athenian and Spartan women. (Short version, Athens bad, Sparta good.)
* The Literature/TimeScout series mostly averts this. An effort is made to be accurate to the time periods, for good and for ill.
* Carefully averted in the \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Destroyermen}}\\\'\\\' series, given that the author is a history professor. Much of USS \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' crew are mildly racist, and slurs like \\\"Japs\\\" and \\\"Nips\\\" fly freely (particularly in regards to their nemesis, the battlecruiser \\\'\\\'Amagi\\\'\\\'). And one enlisted is described as a \\\"Kard-Karrying Klansman\\\", and is noted to have put on shows in blackface to amuse the other destroyermen. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is eventually lynched by the other enlisted for {{rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing one of \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' [[PettingZooPeople Lemurian]] allies.]]
* Averted in a throwaway line in \\\'\\\'[[TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archive]]\\\'\\\' by CharlesStross. Bob explains to another character that back in the day, it was illegal to work in the clandestine services and be homosexual: they viewed you as a security risk. The fallacy is that [[SelfFulfillingProphecy this actually made gays security risks]] because they were vulnerable to blackmail (\\\"do this for me or I tell your boss and you lose your job\\\"). So in the present, they just insist on being openly gay: you can\\\'t be blackmailed if you\\\'re not hiding anything. Hence Bob\\\'s gay flatmates getting the day off for [[PrideParade Gay Pride]] to maintain their security clearances.
** This is actually TruthInTelevision, more or less. Modern-day intelligence requires prospective employees to let them know if they are in the closet, for precisely that reason, so they can gauge the security risk. (Of course when it was illegal, being openly gay was still a blackmail risk. See Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five for an example.)
* Ryan West\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/TheRiseOfTheSaxons\\\'\\\' makes a point out of averting this, with the Anglo-Saxon protagonists portrayed as cheerfully murdering defenceless children during their attempted genocide of the Celts, whom they view as \\\"sub-humans\\\" and \\\"vermin\\\". The fact that the author\\\'s afterword identifies the novel as an attempt to \\\'\\\'honour\\\'\\\' the Anglo-Saxons in a way which will make the modern English proud has led [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RND1CASILBKVS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= certain]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RPE78N7R79DIP/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= readers]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R37H8U1CI1EX3V/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= to]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R4IEW9LA6ERV6/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= question]] his political leanings.
* Averted in the \\\'\\\'Series/HogansHeroes\\\'\\\' episode \\\"The Softer They Fall\\\". Kinchloe has a boxing match with a German to divert attention from the Wacky Antics elsewhere, and Hogan warns him not to win, since the Germans would probably kill a black man who defeated their champion.
* Averted in JeevesAndWooster. Despite the rather nostalgic tone of the show it doesn’t shy away from portraying some of the unsavory elements of [[GenteelInterbellumSetting the time period]];
** Class prejudice, though seemingly absent in the younger generation, is something that a few of the characters have to overcome in order to [[InterClassRomance get married or at any rate get the approval of their parents or guardians]]. At one point [[EvilMatriarch Aunt Agatha]] tries to get Bertie to buy off his uncle’s working class girlfriend.
** Race comes up a few times in the series, most notably in the episode where almost all the characters are running around in BlackFace. The entire Drones Club has formed a minstrel show and Bertie Wooster blacks up to blend in with them. The whole thing is rendered [[PlayedForLaughs more funny than offensive]] by the fact that all of the characters involved (including Bertie) are too dumb to know anything about the history or context of that kind of entertainment. Another episode has Bertie imitating an African chief and talking in [[YouNoTakeCandle caveman speak]]. Once again the incident is saved by the real chief showing up and speaking better English than Bertie. In the episodes set in America it is clear that segregation is very much in place.
** The show points out the some aristocrats were attracted to Fascism in the interwar years. Though most of the characters find would be dictator [[ThoseWackyNazis Roderick Spode]] ridiculous he has his own movement and his idea about drowning foreigners coming into Britain was a big hit with the inhabitants of Totleigh on the Would.
* Most games avert the trope by setting themselves in fantasy universes that do not experience the same gender and racial prejudices which would exist in an actual medieval setting.
** \\\'\\\'Reign\\\'\\\' goes one step further, and actually explains why gender prejudices don\\\'t exist in a setting where they might otherwise seem to belong -- it\\\'s commonly believed that riding a horse in the classical way will make a man infertile, so cavalry is composed of women and eunuchs. On top of that, magic is a great equalizer for the tendency for men to be larger and stronger, and one of the major world powers has been led by women since its foundation. It does feature racial prejudices, but they\\\'re actually inverted from what most players are used to -- since the sun is in a fixed position in the sky at all times, most people are dark-skinned and the whites who live in the areas of permanent shadow or night are actually the ones who are hated and feared with a reputation for being primitive savages.
* Interestingly averted in LANoire, where virtually all the characters have attitudes towards women that would automatically make them villains in a contemporary setting, but which were totally normal for 1940s California. (The more sympathetic characters are still the least racist and misogynist ones, obviously.)
* Averted in \\\'\\\'VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3\\\'\\\' when Naked Snake talked to Sigint and found out that despite the fact that Sigint\\\'s a genius, only Zero would hire him because he didn\\\'t care about him being black.
*** Played straight in the backstory of the Boss, a woman who led a platoon in WorldWarII and was on the front lines in the Battle of Normandy.
* VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun averts the trope completely, featuring slaves as a trade-able commodity of all things! Of course, certain social policies can allow you to abolish slavery.
** VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis also averts this, with natives being a key factor in the game. Large tribes are portrayed as actual playable nations that most colonial empires will inevitably fight, and any colonization in the game shows the number of natives in the province you want to colonize. Notice how that number decreases after each attempt... In fact, the game encourages you to slaughter natives. Though they provide bonus population and some good events, they can destroy or cripple the colony if they feel so. Though game features reputation system, nobody cares if you genocide whole tribes in some distant land.
** Like \\\'\\\'Victoria\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'Europa Universalis\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'VideoGame/HeartsOfIron III\\\'\\\' is another Paradox Interactive game not quite true to life. The Holocaust, Russian gulags and Japanese war crimes are not mentioned, perhaps understandably, but Germany [[NoSwastikas doesn\\\'t even have the right flag]].
* Perhaps one of the best [[AvertedTrope aversions]] is LibertysKids. Despite being an American cartoon about the AmericanRevolution, it does not gloss over issues of slavery (especially concerning ThomasJefferson), mob violence, the treatment of Native Americans, or other morally questionable actions by pro-Revolution parties. And it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'kids\\\'\\\' show!
* For a less obvious form, compare the amount of smoking that goes on in shows and movies \\\'\\\'made\\\'\\\' in TheFifties and TheSixties with the amount in those which are just \\\'\\\'set\\\'\\\' in the Fifties. Its easier to list the [[AvertedTrope Aversions]]:
** \\\'\\\'Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck\\\'\\\', in which all of the characters seem to be chain smokers. The film included a now-[[AluminumChristmasTrees unbelievable]] period cigarette commercial to play up how things have changed; the DVD commentary mentions how many of those people died of lung cancer (Andy Rooney, who never smoked, lived much longer than his colleagues at Murrow-era CBS News).
** The 2004 film \\\'\\\'Ike: Countdown To D-Day\\\'\\\'. Nonsmoker Tom Selleck couldn\\\'t quite match Eisenhower\\\'s smoking habit, but he did his best.
** Smoking in movies of the time was also exaggerated, due to ProductPlacement. Actual smoking rates in the U.S. peaked at about 56% among men during TheFifties (and at about a third of all women during TheSixties.) So at most, just over half of all men were smokers; an outrageous number today, but not as universal as period films would have us believe.
** Parodied in \\\'\\\'ThankYouForSmoking\\\'\\\', when Senator Finistre tries to have cigarettes in old movies digitally replaced with candy canes, \\\'\\\'etc\\\'\\\'.
* So, so, \\\'\\\'so\\\'\\\' completely averted in \\\'\\\'{{Deadwood}}\\\'\\\'. To the point where one character is called \\\"Short Nigger General\\\" more often than he is anything else.
** TruthInTelevision considering Samuel Fields was a real person, who referred \\\'\\\'to himself\\\'\\\' as a \\\"sly-coon.\\\"
** And going to bed with a Chinese prostitute is considered so far beneath a white man\\\'s dignity that the pimps have to offer their prostitutes to Deadwood\\\'s males for practically nothing.
* Averted, [[{{Anvilicious}} then beaten to death]] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped with a crowbar]] in \\\'\\\'MadMen\\\'\\\'. Racism, sexism, and various other forms of non-[=PCness=] run rampant in the series... exactly as they would have throughout the 1960s. A few, generally younger, characters have more enlightened perspectives (particularly Peggy on sexism and Pete on racism), but for the most part, if someone\\\'s disgusted with something sexist/racist/what have you, it\\\'s for some other reason (e.g. Don\\\'s disgust with Roger\\\'s UncleTomfoolery in {{blackface}} at his wedding was not so much because of the racism but because he thought his friend was making a fool of himself). [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Justifiable]], given the RoseTintedNarrative that tends to surround TheSixties; but on the other hand, it might go too far in the other direction. There are no minorities except for janitors, maids, and bellhops in one of the most racially diverse cities in the country. Discrimination existed, of course, but to see diners and jazz clubs without a single non-white face begs an eyeroll or two.
* There is one single outright aversion in \\\'\\\'Series/DoctorWho\\\'\\\', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks \\\"Remembrance Of The Daleks\\\"]]: The racist Mike Smith and a racist sign, pissing off Ace since her friend\\\'s flat was firebombed by skinheads. The black cafe worker who serves the Doctor mentions that his ancestor was kidnapped to be a slave, so his family became English.
* \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Animorphs}}\\\'\\\' has a weird aversion: in one book, villains changed history to create a modern-day America in which slavery and racism are still commonplace. A lot of authors would make their heroic main characters still have the same personality and tolerance they have in the main timeline, despite having grown up in such a racist society. Not the case here though: in the alternate timeline, our main characters are okay with owning slaves, they\\\'re racist towards black people and their alien friend, they consider turning each other in for \\\"radical tendencies\\\" as a good Nazi would, and they support the killing of rainforest tribes because they \\\"don\\\'t want a world filled with Primitives any more than [they] want a world filled with [alien invaders]\\\". They revert to their normal selves only once their memory of the \\\"real\\\" timeline is supernaturally restored, at which point they are revolted by how they just thought and acted.
** Note that there is a black girl on the team, who typically serves as TheHeart. Being cut off from her \\\'\\\'cannot\\\'\\\' have done the white characters any emotional good.
[[/folder]]

To the best of my knowledge, \\\"aversions\\\" are not to be listed except for tropes that are listed as OmnipresentTropes. See AvertedTrope for reference.

Dumping cuts here, just in case they contain some salvageable material. Some of this may fit on ValuesDissonance or DeliberateValuesDissonance.

[[folder:Aversions (cut)]]
* Averted in \\\'\\\'Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure\\\'\\\'. Joseph\\\'s buddy Smokey experiences the exact sort of racism that was unfortunately common for African Americans in the 1930\\\'s.
* Averted with [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Captain America]], who indeed does have his prejudices as a result of being transported from the 40s.
* Averted, surprisingly, in \\\'\\\'Film/TheHauntedMansion\\\'\\\'. [[spoiler:The hauntings are started when the butler kills the head of the family\\\'s bride-to-be the night before the wedding, to prevent the intolerable scandal of a mixed wedding.]] Very appropriate and realistic for the Reconstruction-era South, but astonishing to see in a Disney film. You might notice, though, that they carefully avoided actually \\\'\\\'mentioning\\\'\\\' her race as a factor. The only thing the butler explicitly said was that it was a scandal because he was marrying beneath his station, as he would have if she were just a white servant.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'FlagsOfOurFathers\\\'\\\'. Ironically, director ClintEastwood then caught flak in some circles for \\\'\\\'failing\\\'\\\' to make politically correct history by adding token minorities to the segregated units that stormed Iwo Jima. Spike Lee in particular came after Eastwood for this, but Eastwood responded by saying that the film was meant for historical accuracy and that Lee should \\\"Shut his face.\\\" Multiple black soldiers actually are visible in the film as extras, serving in the same auxiliary roles that they would have in real life.
* Averted seriously in \\\'\\\'Film/BackToTheFuture\\\'\\\'. After arriving in 1955, Marty discovers the future mayor of Hill Valley is working as a janitor in a tiny diner and attending night school, eager to make something of himself. When Marty points out he could be mayor some day, his (white) boss loudly scoffs, \\\"Yeah, a colored mayor, that\\\'ll be the day.\\\" Also, Marty\\\'s mother is a serious smoker, drinker, and seems very eager to get it on with the boy she\\\'s nabbed [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl despite her claim that she \\\"never chased a boy or called a boy]] or \\\'\\\'[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial sat in a parked car]]\\\'\\\' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial with a boy]]!\\\"
** Even further averted. The film also has 3-D, a member of Biff\\\'s gang, say \\\"beat it spook, this doesn\\\'t concern you,\\\" to Reginald (a black man) after shoving Marty into the trunk of his car. The other three (also black men) of Reginald\\\'s band get out of the car and scare the gang off with Reginald saying, \\\"who you callin\\\' spook, peckerwood?\\\" Spook was an old racist term for African-Americans in the 50\\\'s and \\\"peckerwood\\\" was a slur for whites.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'[[MenInBlack Men in Black 3]]\\\'\\\'. Agent J travels back in time to 1969. While there, he gets pulled over by a pair of white cops for being a [[NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel black man driving a fancy car]] (though he did in fact steal it).
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': And just because you see a black man driving a nice car \\\'\\\'does not mean he stole it!\\\'\\\'
--> [Beat]
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': ...I stole this one. But \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' \\\'cause I\\\'m \\\'\\\'black\\\'\\\'.
** it ahould be noted that, before he travels back in time, Agent J is explicitly warned about the discrimination he would face in the sixties.
* Averted in many ways in Literature/BelisariusSeries. However sometimes they do seem far more tolerant of religious, ethnic, and class differences then early medieval people really would be.
* Averted, along with most of HollywoodHistory, in \\\'\\\'HorribleHistories\\\'\\\'. The nasty, brutal and political incorrect aspects are all on display, but so are the aversions. In Groovy Greeks for instance there is a point by point comparison of the role and privileges of Athenian and Spartan women. (Short version, Athens bad, Sparta good.)
* The Literature/TimeScout series mostly averts this. An effort is made to be accurate to the time periods, for good and for ill.
* Carefully averted in the \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Destroyermen}}\\\'\\\' series, given that the author is a history professor. Much of USS \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' crew are mildly racist, and slurs like \\\"Japs\\\" and \\\"Nips\\\" fly freely (particularly in regards to their nemesis, the battlecruiser \\\'\\\'Amagi\\\'\\\'). And one enlisted is described as a \\\"Kard-Karrying Klansman\\\", and is noted to have put on shows in blackface to amuse the other destroyermen. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is eventually lynched by the other enlisted for {{rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing one of \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' [[PettingZooPeople Lemurian]] allies.]]
* Averted in a throwaway line in \\\'\\\'[[TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archive]]\\\'\\\' by CharlesStross. Bob explains to another character that back in the day, it was illegal to work in the clandestine services and be homosexual: they viewed you as a security risk. The fallacy is that [[SelfFulfillingProphecy this actually made gays security risks]] because they were vulnerable to blackmail (\\\"do this for me or I tell your boss and you lose your job\\\"). So in the present, they just insist on being openly gay: you can\\\'t be blackmailed if you\\\'re not hiding anything. Hence Bob\\\'s gay flatmates getting the day off for [[PrideParade Gay Pride]] to maintain their security clearances.
** This is actually TruthInTelevision, more or less. Modern-day intelligence requires prospective employees to let them know if they are in the closet, for precisely that reason, so they can gauge the security risk. (Of course when it was illegal, being openly gay was still a blackmail risk. See Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five for an example.)
* Ryan West\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/TheRiseOfTheSaxons\\\'\\\' makes a point out of averting this, with the Anglo-Saxon protagonists portrayed as cheerfully murdering defenceless children during their attempted genocide of the Celts, whom they view as \\\"sub-humans\\\" and \\\"vermin\\\". The fact that the author\\\'s afterword identifies the novel as an attempt to \\\'\\\'honour\\\'\\\' the Anglo-Saxons in a way which will make the modern English proud has led [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RND1CASILBKVS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= certain]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RPE78N7R79DIP/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= readers]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R37H8U1CI1EX3V/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= to]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R4IEW9LA6ERV6/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= question]] his political leanings.
* Averted in the \\\'\\\'Series/HogansHeroes\\\'\\\' episode \\\"The Softer They Fall\\\". Kinchloe has a boxing match with a German to divert attention from the Wacky Antics elsewhere, and Hogan warns him not to win, since the Germans would probably kill a black man who defeated their champion.
* Averted in JeevesAndWooster. Despite the rather nostalgic tone of the show it doesn’t shy away from portraying some of the unsavory elements of [[GenteelInterbellumSetting the time period]];
** Class prejudice, though seemingly absent in the younger generation, is something that a few of the characters have to overcome in order to [[InterClassRomance get married or at any rate get the approval of their parents or guardians]]. At one point [[EvilMatriarch Aunt Agatha]] tries to get Bertie to buy off his uncle’s working class girlfriend.
** Race comes up a few times in the series, most notably in the episode where almost all the characters are running around in BlackFace. The entire Drones Club has formed a minstrel show and Bertie Wooster blacks up to blend in with them. The whole thing is rendered [[PlayedForLaughs more funny than offensive]] by the fact that all of the characters involved (including Bertie) are too dumb to know anything about the history or context of that kind of entertainment. Another episode has Bertie imitating an African chief and talking in [[YouNoTakeCandle caveman speak]]. Once again the incident is saved by the real chief showing up and speaking better English than Bertie. In the episodes set in America it is clear that segregation is very much in place.
** The show points out the some aristocrats were attracted to Fascism in the interwar years. Though most of the characters find would be dictator [[ThoseWackyNazis Roderick Spode]] ridiculous he has his own movement and his idea about drowning foreigners coming into Britain was a big hit with the inhabitants of Totleigh on the Would.
* Most games avert the trope by setting themselves in fantasy universes that do not experience the same gender and racial prejudices which would exist in an actual medieval setting.
** \\\'\\\'Reign\\\'\\\' goes one step further, and actually explains why gender prejudices don\\\'t exist in a setting where they might otherwise seem to belong -- it\\\'s commonly believed that riding a horse in the classical way will make a man infertile, so cavalry is composed of women and eunuchs. On top of that, magic is a great equalizer for the tendency for men to be larger and stronger, and one of the major world powers has been led by women since its foundation. It does feature racial prejudices, but they\\\'re actually inverted from what most players are used to -- since the sun is in a fixed position in the sky at all times, most people are dark-skinned and the whites who live in the areas of permanent shadow or night are actually the ones who are hated and feared with a reputation for being primitive savages.
* Interestingly averted in LANoire, where virtually all the characters have attitudes towards women that would automatically make them villains in a contemporary setting, but which were totally normal for 1940s California. (The more sympathetic characters are still the least racist and misogynist ones, obviously.)
* Averted in \\\'\\\'VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3\\\'\\\' when Naked Snake talked to Sigint and found out that despite the fact that Sigint\\\'s a genius, only Zero would hire him because he didn\\\'t care about him being black.
*** Played straight in the backstory of the Boss, a woman who led a platoon in WorldWarII and was on the front lines in the Battle of Normandy.
* VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun averts the trope completely, featuring slaves as a trade-able commodity of all things! Of course, certain social policies can allow you to abolish slavery.
** VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis also averts this, with natives being a key factor in the game. Large tribes are portrayed as actual playable nations that most colonial empires will inevitably fight, and any colonization in the game shows the number of natives in the province you want to colonize. Notice how that number decreases after each attempt... In fact, the game encourages you to slaughter natives. Though they provide bonus population and some good events, they can destroy or cripple the colony if they feel so. Though game features reputation system, nobody cares if you genocide whole tribes in some distant land.
** Like \\\'\\\'Victoria\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'Europa Universalis\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'VideoGame/HeartsOfIron III\\\'\\\' is another Paradox Interactive game not quite true to life. The Holocaust, Russian gulags and Japanese war crimes are not mentioned, perhaps understandably, but Germany [[NoSwastikas doesn\\\'t even have the right flag]].
* Perhaps one of the best [[AvertedTrope aversions]] is LibertysKids. Despite being an American cartoon about the AmericanRevolution, it does not gloss over issues of slavery (especially concerning ThomasJefferson), mob violence, the treatment of Native Americans, or other morally questionable actions by pro-Revolution parties. And it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'kids\\\'\\\' show!
* For a less obvious form, compare the amount of smoking that goes on in shows and movies \\\'\\\'made\\\'\\\' in TheFifties and TheSixties with the amount in those which are just \\\'\\\'set\\\'\\\' in the Fifties. Its easier to list the [[AvertedTrope Aversions]]:
** \\\'\\\'Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck\\\'\\\', in which all of the characters seem to be chain smokers. The film included a now-[[AluminumChristmasTrees unbelievable]] period cigarette commercial to play up how things have changed; the DVD commentary mentions how many of those people died of lung cancer (Andy Rooney, who never smoked, lived much longer than his colleagues at Murrow-era CBS News).
** The 2004 film \\\'\\\'Ike: Countdown To D-Day\\\'\\\'. Nonsmoker Tom Selleck couldn\\\'t quite match Eisenhower\\\'s smoking habit, but he did his best.
** Smoking in movies of the time was also exaggerated, due to ProductPlacement. Actual smoking rates in the U.S. peaked at about 56% among men during TheFifties (and at about a third of all women during TheSixties.) So at most, just over half of all men were smokers; an outrageous number today, but not as universal as period films would have us believe.
** Parodied in \\\'\\\'ThankYouForSmoking\\\'\\\', when Senator Finistre tries to have cigarettes in old movies digitally replaced with candy canes, \\\'\\\'etc\\\'\\\'.
* So, so, \\\'\\\'so\\\'\\\' completely averted in \\\'\\\'{{Deadwood}}\\\'\\\'. To the point where one character is called \\\"Short Nigger General\\\" more often than he is anything else.
** TruthInTelevision considering Samuel Fields was a real person, who referred \\\'\\\'to himself\\\'\\\' as a \\\"sly-coon.\\\"
** And going to bed with a Chinese prostitute is considered so far beneath a white man\\\'s dignity that the pimps have to offer their prostitutes to Deadwood\\\'s males for practically nothing.
* Averted, [[{{Anvilicious}} then beaten to death]] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped with a crowbar]] in \\\'\\\'MadMen\\\'\\\'. Racism, sexism, and various other forms of non-[=PCness=] run rampant in the series... exactly as they would have throughout the 1960s. A few, generally younger, characters have more enlightened perspectives (particularly Peggy on sexism and Pete on racism), but for the most part, if someone\\\'s disgusted with something sexist/racist/what have you, it\\\'s for some other reason (e.g. Don\\\'s disgust with Roger\\\'s UncleTomfoolery in {{blackface}} at his wedding was not so much because of the racism but because he thought his friend was making a fool of himself). [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Justifiable]], given the RoseTintedNarrative that tends to surround TheSixties; but on the other hand, it might go too far in the other direction. There are no minorities except for janitors, maids, and bellhops in one of the most racially diverse cities in the country. Discrimination existed, of course, but to see diners and jazz clubs without a single non-white face begs an eyeroll or two.
* There is one single outright aversion in \\\'\\\'Series/DoctorWho\\\'\\\', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks \\\"Remembrance Of The Daleks\\\"]]: The racist Mike Smith and a racist sign, pissing off Ace since her friend\\\'s flat was firebombed by skinheads. The black cafe worker who serves the Doctor mentions that his ancestor was kidnapped to be a slave, so his family became English.
* \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Animorphs}}\\\'\\\' has a weird aversion: in one book, villains changed history to create a modern-day America in which slavery and racism are still commonplace. A lot of authors would make their heroic main characters still have the same personality and tolerance they have in the main timeline, despite having grown up in such a racist society. Not the case here though: in the alternate timeline, our main characters are okay with owning slaves, they\\\'re racist towards black people and their alien friend, they consider turning each other in for \\\"radical tendencies\\\" as a good Nazi would, and they support the killing of rainforest tribes because they \\\"don\\\'t want a world filled with Primitives any more than [they] want a world filled with [alien invaders]\\\". They revert to their normal selves only once their memory of the \\\"real\\\" timeline is supernaturally restored, at which point they are revolted by how they just thought and acted.
** Note that there is a black girl on the team, who typically serves as TheHeart. Being cut off from her \\\'\\\'cannot\\\'\\\' have done the white characters any emotional good.
[[/folder]]

To the best of my knowledge, \\\"aversions\\\" are not to be listed except for tropes that are listed as OmnipresentTropes. See AvertedTrope for reference.

Dumping cuts here, just in case they contain some salvageable material.

[[folder:Aversions (cut)]]
* Averted in \\\'\\\'Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure\\\'\\\'. Joseph\\\'s buddy Smokey experiences the exact sort of racism that was unfortunately common for African Americans in the 1930\\\'s.
* Averted with [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Captain America]], who indeed does have his prejudices as a result of being transported from the 40s.
* Averted, surprisingly, in \\\'\\\'Film/TheHauntedMansion\\\'\\\'. [[spoiler:The hauntings are started when the butler kills the head of the family\\\'s bride-to-be the night before the wedding, to prevent the intolerable scandal of a mixed wedding.]] Very appropriate and realistic for the Reconstruction-era South, but astonishing to see in a Disney film. You might notice, though, that they carefully avoided actually \\\'\\\'mentioning\\\'\\\' her race as a factor. The only thing the butler explicitly said was that it was a scandal because he was marrying beneath his station, as he would have if she were just a white servant.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'FlagsOfOurFathers\\\'\\\'. Ironically, director ClintEastwood then caught flak in some circles for \\\'\\\'failing\\\'\\\' to make politically correct history by adding token minorities to the segregated units that stormed Iwo Jima. Spike Lee in particular came after Eastwood for this, but Eastwood responded by saying that the film was meant for historical accuracy and that Lee should \\\"Shut his face.\\\" Multiple black soldiers actually are visible in the film as extras, serving in the same auxiliary roles that they would have in real life.
* Averted seriously in \\\'\\\'Film/BackToTheFuture\\\'\\\'. After arriving in 1955, Marty discovers the future mayor of Hill Valley is working as a janitor in a tiny diner and attending night school, eager to make something of himself. When Marty points out he could be mayor some day, his (white) boss loudly scoffs, \\\"Yeah, a colored mayor, that\\\'ll be the day.\\\" Also, Marty\\\'s mother is a serious smoker, drinker, and seems very eager to get it on with the boy she\\\'s nabbed [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl despite her claim that she \\\"never chased a boy or called a boy]] or \\\'\\\'[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial sat in a parked car]]\\\'\\\' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial with a boy]]!\\\"
** Even further averted. The film also has 3-D, a member of Biff\\\'s gang, say \\\"beat it spook, this doesn\\\'t concern you,\\\" to Reginald (a black man) after shoving Marty into the trunk of his car. The other three (also black men) of Reginald\\\'s band get out of the car and scare the gang off with Reginald saying, \\\"who you callin\\\' spook, peckerwood?\\\" Spook was an old racist term for African-Americans in the 50\\\'s and \\\"peckerwood\\\" was a slur for whites.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'[[MenInBlack Men in Black 3]]\\\'\\\'. Agent J travels back in time to 1969. While there, he gets pulled over by a pair of white cops for being a [[NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel black man driving a fancy car]] (though he did in fact steal it).
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': And just because you see a black man driving a nice car \\\'\\\'does not mean he stole it!\\\'\\\'
--> [Beat]
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': ...I stole this one. But \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' \\\'cause I\\\'m \\\'\\\'black\\\'\\\'.
** it ahould be noted that, before he travels back in time, Agent J is explicitly warned about the discrimination he would face in the sixties.
* Averted in many ways in Literature/BelisariusSeries. However sometimes they do seem far more tolerant of religious, ethnic, and class differences then early medieval people really would be.
* Averted, along with most of HollywoodHistory, in \\\'\\\'HorribleHistories\\\'\\\'. The nasty, brutal and political incorrect aspects are all on display, but so are the aversions. In Groovy Greeks for instance there is a point by point comparison of the role and privileges of Athenian and Spartan women. (Short version, Athens bad, Sparta good.)
* The Literature/TimeScout series mostly averts this. An effort is made to be accurate to the time periods, for good and for ill.
* Carefully averted in the \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Destroyermen}}\\\'\\\' series, given that the author is a history professor. Much of USS \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' crew are mildly racist, and slurs like \\\"Japs\\\" and \\\"Nips\\\" fly freely (particularly in regards to their nemesis, the battlecruiser \\\'\\\'Amagi\\\'\\\'). And one enlisted is described as a \\\"Kard-Karrying Klansman\\\", and is noted to have put on shows in blackface to amuse the other destroyermen. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is eventually lynched by the other enlisted for {{rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing one of \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' [[PettingZooPeople Lemurian]] allies.]]
* Averted in a throwaway line in \\\'\\\'[[TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archive]]\\\'\\\' by CharlesStross. Bob explains to another character that back in the day, it was illegal to work in the clandestine services and be homosexual: they viewed you as a security risk. The fallacy is that [[SelfFulfillingProphecy this actually made gays security risks]] because they were vulnerable to blackmail (\\\"do this for me or I tell your boss and you lose your job\\\"). So in the present, they just insist on being openly gay: you can\\\'t be blackmailed if you\\\'re not hiding anything. Hence Bob\\\'s gay flatmates getting the day off for [[PrideParade Gay Pride]] to maintain their security clearances.
** This is actually TruthInTelevision, more or less. Modern-day intelligence requires prospective employees to let them know if they are in the closet, for precisely that reason, so they can gauge the security risk. (Of course when it was illegal, being openly gay was still a blackmail risk. See Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five for an example.)
* Ryan West\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/TheRiseOfTheSaxons\\\'\\\' makes a point out of averting this, with the Anglo-Saxon protagonists portrayed as cheerfully murdering defenceless children during their attempted genocide of the Celts, whom they view as \\\"sub-humans\\\" and \\\"vermin\\\". The fact that the author\\\'s afterword identifies the novel as an attempt to \\\'\\\'honour\\\'\\\' the Anglo-Saxons in a way which will make the modern English proud has led [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RND1CASILBKVS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= certain]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RPE78N7R79DIP/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= readers]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R37H8U1CI1EX3V/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= to]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R4IEW9LA6ERV6/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= question]] his political leanings.
* Averted in the \\\'\\\'Series/HogansHeroes\\\'\\\' episode \\\"The Softer They Fall\\\". Kinchloe has a boxing match with a German to divert attention from the Wacky Antics elsewhere, and Hogan warns him not to win, since the Germans would probably kill a black man who defeated their champion.
* Averted in JeevesAndWooster. Despite the rather nostalgic tone of the show it doesn’t shy away from portraying some of the unsavory elements of [[GenteelInterbellumSetting the time period]];
** Class prejudice, though seemingly absent in the younger generation, is something that a few of the characters have to overcome in order to [[InterClassRomance get married or at any rate get the approval of their parents or guardians]]. At one point [[EvilMatriarch Aunt Agatha]] tries to get Bertie to buy off his uncle’s working class girlfriend.
** Race comes up a few times in the series, most notably in the episode where almost all the characters are running around in BlackFace. The entire Drones Club has formed a minstrel show and Bertie Wooster blacks up to blend in with them. The whole thing is rendered [[PlayedForLaughs more funny than offensive]] by the fact that all of the characters involved (including Bertie) are too dumb to know anything about the history or context of that kind of entertainment. Another episode has Bertie imitating an African chief and talking in [[YouNoTakeCandle caveman speak]]. Once again the incident is saved by the real chief showing up and speaking better English than Bertie. In the episodes set in America it is clear that segregation is very much in place.
** The show points out the some aristocrats were attracted to Fascism in the interwar years. Though most of the characters find would be dictator [[ThoseWackyNazis Roderick Spode]] ridiculous he has his own movement and his idea about drowning foreigners coming into Britain was a big hit with the inhabitants of Totleigh on the Would.
* Most games avert the trope by setting themselves in fantasy universes that do not experience the same gender and racial prejudices which would exist in an actual medieval setting.
** \\\'\\\'Reign\\\'\\\' goes one step further, and actually explains why gender prejudices don\\\'t exist in a setting where they might otherwise seem to belong -- it\\\'s commonly believed that riding a horse in the classical way will make a man infertile, so cavalry is composed of women and eunuchs. On top of that, magic is a great equalizer for the tendency for men to be larger and stronger, and one of the major world powers has been led by women since its foundation. It does feature racial prejudices, but they\\\'re actually inverted from what most players are used to -- since the sun is in a fixed position in the sky at all times, most people are dark-skinned and the whites who live in the areas of permanent shadow or night are actually the ones who are hated and feared with a reputation for being primitive savages.
* Interestingly averted in LANoire, where virtually all the characters have attitudes towards women that would automatically make them villains in a contemporary setting, but which were totally normal for 1940s California. (The more sympathetic characters are still the least racist and misogynist ones, obviously.)
* Averted in \\\'\\\'VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3\\\'\\\' when Naked Snake talked to Sigint and found out that despite the fact that Sigint\\\'s a genius, only Zero would hire him because he didn\\\'t care about him being black.
*** Played straight in the backstory of the Boss, a woman who led a platoon in WorldWarII and was on the front lines in the Battle of Normandy.
* VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun averts the trope completely, featuring slaves as a trade-able commodity of all things! Of course, certain social policies can allow you to abolish slavery.
** VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis also averts this, with natives being a key factor in the game. Large tribes are portrayed as actual playable nations that most colonial empires will inevitably fight, and any colonization in the game shows the number of natives in the province you want to colonize. Notice how that number decreases after each attempt... In fact, the game encourages you to slaughter natives. Though they provide bonus population and some good events, they can destroy or cripple the colony if they feel so. Though game features reputation system, nobody cares if you genocide whole tribes in some distant land.
** Like \\\'\\\'Victoria\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'Europa Universalis\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'VideoGame/HeartsOfIron III\\\'\\\' is another Paradox Interactive game not quite true to life. The Holocaust, Russian gulags and Japanese war crimes are not mentioned, perhaps understandably, but Germany [[NoSwastikas doesn\\\'t even have the right flag]].
* Perhaps one of the best [[AvertedTrope aversions]] is LibertysKids. Despite being an American cartoon about the AmericanRevolution, it does not gloss over issues of slavery (especially concerning ThomasJefferson), mob violence, the treatment of Native Americans, or other morally questionable actions by pro-Revolution parties. And it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'kids\\\'\\\' show!
* For a less obvious form, compare the amount of smoking that goes on in shows and movies \\\'\\\'made\\\'\\\' in TheFifties and TheSixties with the amount in those which are just \\\'\\\'set\\\'\\\' in the Fifties. Its easier to list the [[AvertedTrope Aversions]]:
** \\\'\\\'Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck\\\'\\\', in which all of the characters seem to be chain smokers. The film included a now-[[AluminumChristmasTrees unbelievable]] period cigarette commercial to play up how things have changed; the DVD commentary mentions how many of those people died of lung cancer (Andy Rooney, who never smoked, lived much longer than his colleagues at Murrow-era CBS News).
** The 2004 film \\\'\\\'Ike: Countdown To D-Day\\\'\\\'. Nonsmoker Tom Selleck couldn\\\'t quite match Eisenhower\\\'s smoking habit, but he did his best.
** Smoking in movies of the time was also exaggerated, due to ProductPlacement. Actual smoking rates in the U.S. peaked at about 56% among men during TheFifties (and at about a third of all women during TheSixties.) So at most, just over half of all men were smokers; an outrageous number today, but not as universal as period films would have us believe.
** Parodied in \\\'\\\'ThankYouForSmoking\\\'\\\', when Senator Finistre tries to have cigarettes in old movies digitally replaced with candy canes, \\\'\\\'etc\\\'\\\'.
* So, so, \\\'\\\'so\\\'\\\' completely averted in \\\'\\\'{{Deadwood}}\\\'\\\'. To the point where one character is called \\\"Short Nigger General\\\" more often than he is anything else.
** TruthInTelevision considering Samuel Fields was a real person, who referred \\\'\\\'to himself\\\'\\\' as a \\\"sly-coon.\\\"
** And going to bed with a Chinese prostitute is considered so far beneath a white man\\\'s dignity that the pimps have to offer their prostitutes to Deadwood\\\'s males for practically nothing.
* Averted, [[{{Anvilicious}} then beaten to death]] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped with a crowbar]] in \\\'\\\'MadMen\\\'\\\'. Racism, sexism, and various other forms of non-[=PCness=] run rampant in the series... exactly as they would have throughout the 1960s. A few, generally younger, characters have more enlightened perspectives (particularly Peggy on sexism and Pete on racism), but for the most part, if someone\\\'s disgusted with something sexist/racist/what have you, it\\\'s for some other reason (e.g. Don\\\'s disgust with Roger\\\'s UncleTomfoolery in {{blackface}} at his wedding was not so much because of the racism but because he thought his friend was making a fool of himself). [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Justifiable]], given the RoseTintedNarrative that tends to surround TheSixties; but on the other hand, it might go too far in the other direction. There are no minorities except for janitors, maids, and bellhops in one of the most racially diverse cities in the country. Discrimination existed, of course, but to see diners and jazz clubs without a single non-white face begs an eyeroll or two.
* There is one single outright aversion in \\\'\\\'Series/DoctorWho\\\'\\\', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks \\\"Remembrance Of The Daleks\\\"]]: The racist Mike Smith and a racist sign, pissing off Ace since her friend\\\'s flat was firebombed by skinheads. The black cafe worker who serves the Doctor mentions that his ancestor was kidnapped to be a slave, so his family became English.
* \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Animorphs}}\\\'\\\' has a weird aversion: in one book, villains changed history to create a modern-day America in which slavery and racism are still commonplace. A lot of authors would make their heroic main characters still have the same personality and tolerance they have in the main timeline, despite having grown up in such a racist society. Not the case here though: in the alternate timeline, our main characters are okay with owning slaves, they\\\'re racist towards black people and their alien friend, they consider turning each other in for \\\"radical tendencies\\\" as a good Nazi would, and they support the killing of rainforest tribes because they \\\"don\\\'t want a world filled with Primitives any more than [they] want a world filled with [alien invaders]\\\". They revert to their normal selves only once their memory of the \\\"real\\\" timeline is supernaturally restored, at which point they are revolted by how they just thought and acted.
** Note that there is a black girl on the team, who typically serves as TheHeart. Being cut off from her \\\'\\\'cannot\\\'\\\' have done the white characters any emotional good.
[[/folder]]

To the best of my knowledge, \\\"aversions\\\" are not to be listed except for tropes that are specifically marked for collecting those. Dumping cuts here, just in case they contain some salvageable material.
----
* Averted in \\\'\\\'Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure\\\'\\\'. Joseph\\\'s buddy Smokey experiences the exact sort of racism that was unfortunately common for African Americans in the 1930\\\'s.
* Averted with [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Captain America]], who indeed does have his prejudices as a result of being transported from the 40s.
* Averted, surprisingly, in \\\'\\\'Film/TheHauntedMansion\\\'\\\'. [[spoiler:The hauntings are started when the butler kills the head of the family\\\'s bride-to-be the night before the wedding, to prevent the intolerable scandal of a mixed wedding.]] Very appropriate and realistic for the Reconstruction-era South, but astonishing to see in a Disney film. You might notice, though, that they carefully avoided actually \\\'\\\'mentioning\\\'\\\' her race as a factor. The only thing the butler explicitly said was that it was a scandal because he was marrying beneath his station, as he would have if she were just a white servant.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'FlagsOfOurFathers\\\'\\\'. Ironically, director ClintEastwood then caught flak in some circles for \\\'\\\'failing\\\'\\\' to make politically correct history by adding token minorities to the segregated units that stormed Iwo Jima. Spike Lee in particular came after Eastwood for this, but Eastwood responded by saying that the film was meant for historical accuracy and that Lee should \\\"Shut his face.\\\" Multiple black soldiers actually are visible in the film as extras, serving in the same auxiliary roles that they would have in real life.
* Averted seriously in \\\'\\\'Film/BackToTheFuture\\\'\\\'. After arriving in 1955, Marty discovers the future mayor of Hill Valley is working as a janitor in a tiny diner and attending night school, eager to make something of himself. When Marty points out he could be mayor some day, his (white) boss loudly scoffs, \\\"Yeah, a colored mayor, that\\\'ll be the day.\\\" Also, Marty\\\'s mother is a serious smoker, drinker, and seems very eager to get it on with the boy she\\\'s nabbed [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl despite her claim that she \\\"never chased a boy or called a boy]] or \\\'\\\'[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial sat in a parked car]]\\\'\\\' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial with a boy]]!\\\"
** Even further averted. The film also has 3-D, a member of Biff\\\'s gang, say \\\"beat it spook, this doesn\\\'t concern you,\\\" to Reginald (a black man) after shoving Marty into the trunk of his car. The other three (also black men) of Reginald\\\'s band get out of the car and scare the gang off with Reginald saying, \\\"who you callin\\\' spook, peckerwood?\\\" Spook was an old racist term for African-Americans in the 50\\\'s and \\\"peckerwood\\\" was a slur for whites.
* Averted in \\\'\\\'[[MenInBlack Men in Black 3]]\\\'\\\'. Agent J travels back in time to 1969. While there, he gets pulled over by a pair of white cops for being a [[NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel black man driving a fancy car]] (though he did in fact steal it).
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': And just because you see a black man driving a nice car \\\'\\\'does not mean he stole it!\\\'\\\'
--> [Beat]
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Agent J\\\'\\\'\\\': ...I stole this one. But \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' \\\'cause I\\\'m \\\'\\\'black\\\'\\\'.
** it ahould be noted that, before he travels back in time, Agent J is explicitly warned about the discrimination he would face in the sixties.
* Averted in many ways in Literature/BelisariusSeries. However sometimes they do seem far more tolerant of religious, ethnic, and class differences then early medieval people really would be.
* Averted, along with most of HollywoodHistory, in \\\'\\\'HorribleHistories\\\'\\\'. The nasty, brutal and political incorrect aspects are all on display, but so are the aversions. In Groovy Greeks for instance there is a point by point comparison of the role and privileges of Athenian and Spartan women. (Short version, Athens bad, Sparta good.)
* The Literature/TimeScout series mostly averts this. An effort is made to be accurate to the time periods, for good and for ill.
* Carefully averted in the \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Destroyermen}}\\\'\\\' series, given that the author is a history professor. Much of USS \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' crew are mildly racist, and slurs like \\\"Japs\\\" and \\\"Nips\\\" fly freely (particularly in regards to their nemesis, the battlecruiser \\\'\\\'Amagi\\\'\\\'). And one enlisted is described as a \\\"Kard-Karrying Klansman\\\", and is noted to have put on shows in blackface to amuse the other destroyermen. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is eventually lynched by the other enlisted for {{rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing one of \\\'\\\'Walker\\\'s\\\'\\\' [[PettingZooPeople Lemurian]] allies.]]
* Averted in a throwaway line in \\\'\\\'[[TheLaundrySeries The Atrocity Archive]]\\\'\\\' by CharlesStross. Bob explains to another character that back in the day, it was illegal to work in the clandestine services and be homosexual: they viewed you as a security risk. The fallacy is that [[SelfFulfillingProphecy this actually made gays security risks]] because they were vulnerable to blackmail (\\\"do this for me or I tell your boss and you lose your job\\\"). So in the present, they just insist on being openly gay: you can\\\'t be blackmailed if you\\\'re not hiding anything. Hence Bob\\\'s gay flatmates getting the day off for [[PrideParade Gay Pride]] to maintain their security clearances.
** This is actually TruthInTelevision, more or less. Modern-day intelligence requires prospective employees to let them know if they are in the closet, for precisely that reason, so they can gauge the security risk. (Of course when it was illegal, being openly gay was still a blackmail risk. See Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five for an example.)
* Ryan West\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/TheRiseOfTheSaxons\\\'\\\' makes a point out of averting this, with the Anglo-Saxon protagonists portrayed as cheerfully murdering defenceless children during their attempted genocide of the Celts, whom they view as \\\"sub-humans\\\" and \\\"vermin\\\". The fact that the author\\\'s afterword identifies the novel as an attempt to \\\'\\\'honour\\\'\\\' the Anglo-Saxons in a way which will make the modern English proud has led [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RND1CASILBKVS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= certain]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RPE78N7R79DIP/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= readers]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R37H8U1CI1EX3V/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= to]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R4IEW9LA6ERV6/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= question]] his political leanings.
* Averted in the \\\'\\\'Series/HogansHeroes\\\'\\\' episode \\\"The Softer They Fall\\\". Kinchloe has a boxing match with a German to divert attention from the Wacky Antics elsewhere, and Hogan warns him not to win, since the Germans would probably kill a black man who defeated their champion.
* Averted in JeevesAndWooster. Despite the rather nostalgic tone of the show it doesn’t shy away from portraying some of the unsavory elements of [[GenteelInterbellumSetting the time period]];
** Class prejudice, though seemingly absent in the younger generation, is something that a few of the characters have to overcome in order to [[InterClassRomance get married or at any rate get the approval of their parents or guardians]]. At one point [[EvilMatriarch Aunt Agatha]] tries to get Bertie to buy off his uncle’s working class girlfriend.
** Race comes up a few times in the series, most notably in the episode where almost all the characters are running around in BlackFace. The entire Drones Club has formed a minstrel show and Bertie Wooster blacks up to blend in with them. The whole thing is rendered [[PlayedForLaughs more funny than offensive]] by the fact that all of the characters involved (including Bertie) are too dumb to know anything about the history or context of that kind of entertainment. Another episode has Bertie imitating an African chief and talking in [[YouNoTakeCandle caveman speak]]. Once again the incident is saved by the real chief showing up and speaking better English than Bertie. In the episodes set in America it is clear that segregation is very much in place.
** The show points out the some aristocrats were attracted to Fascism in the interwar years. Though most of the characters find would be dictator [[ThoseWackyNazis Roderick Spode]] ridiculous he has his own movement and his idea about drowning foreigners coming into Britain was a big hit with the inhabitants of Totleigh on the Would.
* Most games avert the trope by setting themselves in fantasy universes that do not experience the same gender and racial prejudices which would exist in an actual medieval setting.
** \\\'\\\'Reign\\\'\\\' goes one step further, and actually explains why gender prejudices don\\\'t exist in a setting where they might otherwise seem to belong -- it\\\'s commonly believed that riding a horse in the classical way will make a man infertile, so cavalry is composed of women and eunuchs. On top of that, magic is a great equalizer for the tendency for men to be larger and stronger, and one of the major world powers has been led by women since its foundation. It does feature racial prejudices, but they\\\'re actually inverted from what most players are used to -- since the sun is in a fixed position in the sky at all times, most people are dark-skinned and the whites who live in the areas of permanent shadow or night are actually the ones who are hated and feared with a reputation for being primitive savages.
* Interestingly averted in LANoire, where virtually all the characters have attitudes towards women that would automatically make them villains in a contemporary setting, but which were totally normal for 1940s California. (The more sympathetic characters are still the least racist and misogynist ones, obviously.)
* Averted in \\\'\\\'VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3\\\'\\\' when Naked Snake talked to Sigint and found out that despite the fact that Sigint\\\'s a genius, only Zero would hire him because he didn\\\'t care about him being black.
*** Played straight in the backstory of the Boss, a woman who led a platoon in WorldWarII and was on the front lines in the Battle of Normandy.
* VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun averts the trope completely, featuring slaves as a trade-able commodity of all things! Of course, certain social policies can allow you to abolish slavery.
** VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis also averts this, with natives being a key factor in the game. Large tribes are portrayed as actual playable nations that most colonial empires will inevitably fight, and any colonization in the game shows the number of natives in the province you want to colonize. Notice how that number decreases after each attempt... In fact, the game encourages you to slaughter natives. Though they provide bonus population and some good events, they can destroy or cripple the colony if they feel so. Though game features reputation system, nobody cares if you genocide whole tribes in some distant land.
** Like \\\'\\\'Victoria\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'Europa Universalis\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'VideoGame/HeartsOfIron III\\\'\\\' is another Paradox Interactive game not quite true to life. The Holocaust, Russian gulags and Japanese war crimes are not mentioned, perhaps understandably, but Germany [[NoSwastikas doesn\\\'t even have the right flag]].
* Perhaps one of the best [[AvertedTrope aversions]] is LibertysKids. Despite being an American cartoon about the AmericanRevolution, it does not gloss over issues of slavery (especially concerning ThomasJefferson), mob violence, the treatment of Native Americans, or other morally questionable actions by pro-Revolution parties. And it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'kids\\\'\\\' show!
* For a less obvious form, compare the amount of smoking that goes on in shows and movies \\\'\\\'made\\\'\\\' in TheFifties and TheSixties with the amount in those which are just \\\'\\\'set\\\'\\\' in the Fifties. Its easier to list the [[AvertedTrope Aversions]]:
** \\\'\\\'Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck\\\'\\\', in which all of the characters seem to be chain smokers. The film included a now-[[AluminumChristmasTrees unbelievable]] period cigarette commercial to play up how things have changed; the DVD commentary mentions how many of those people died of lung cancer (Andy Rooney, who never smoked, lived much longer than his colleagues at Murrow-era CBS News).
** The 2004 film \\\'\\\'Ike: Countdown To D-Day\\\'\\\'. Nonsmoker Tom Selleck couldn\\\'t quite match Eisenhower\\\'s smoking habit, but he did his best.
** Smoking in movies of the time was also exaggerated, due to ProductPlacement. Actual smoking rates in the U.S. peaked at about 56% among men during TheFifties (and at about a third of all women during TheSixties.) So at most, just over half of all men were smokers; an outrageous number today, but not as universal as period films would have us believe.
** Parodied in \\\'\\\'ThankYouForSmoking\\\'\\\', when Senator Finistre tries to have cigarettes in old movies digitally replaced with candy canes, \\\'\\\'etc\\\'\\\'.
* So, so, \\\'\\\'so\\\'\\\' completely averted in \\\'\\\'{{Deadwood}}\\\'\\\'. To the point where one character is called \\\"Short Nigger General\\\" more often than he is anything else.
** TruthInTelevision considering Samuel Fields was a real person, who referred \\\'\\\'to himself\\\'\\\' as a \\\"sly-coon.\\\"
** And going to bed with a Chinese prostitute is considered so far beneath a white man\\\'s dignity that the pimps have to offer their prostitutes to Deadwood\\\'s males for practically nothing.
* Averted, [[{{Anvilicious}} then beaten to death]] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped with a crowbar]] in \\\'\\\'MadMen\\\'\\\'. Racism, sexism, and various other forms of non-[=PCness=] run rampant in the series... exactly as they would have throughout the 1960s. A few, generally younger, characters have more enlightened perspectives (particularly Peggy on sexism and Pete on racism), but for the most part, if someone\\\'s disgusted with something sexist/racist/what have you, it\\\'s for some other reason (e.g. Don\\\'s disgust with Roger\\\'s UncleTomfoolery in {{blackface}} at his wedding was not so much because of the racism but because he thought his friend was making a fool of himself). [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Justifiable]], given the RoseTintedNarrative that tends to surround TheSixties; but on the other hand, it might go too far in the other direction. There are no minorities except for janitors, maids, and bellhops in one of the most racially diverse cities in the country. Discrimination existed, of course, but to see diners and jazz clubs without a single non-white face begs an eyeroll or two.
* There is one single outright aversion in \\\'\\\'Series/DoctorWho\\\'\\\', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks \\\"Remembrance Of The Daleks\\\"]]: The racist Mike Smith and a racist sign, pissing off Ace since her friend\\\'s flat was firebombed by skinheads. The black cafe worker who serves the Doctor mentions that his ancestor was kidnapped to be a slave, so his family became English.
* \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Animorphs}}\\\'\\\' has a weird aversion: in one book, villains changed history to create a modern-day America in which slavery and racism are still commonplace. A lot of authors would make their heroic main characters still have the same personality and tolerance they have in the main timeline, despite having grown up in such a racist society. Not the case here though: in the alternate timeline, our main characters are okay with owning slaves, they\\\'re racist towards black people and their alien friend, they consider turning each other in for \\\"radical tendencies\\\" as a good Nazi would, and they support the killing of rainforest tribes because they \\\"don\\\'t want a world filled with Primitives any more than [they] want a world filled with [alien invaders]\\\". They revert to their normal selves only once their memory of the \\\"real\\\" timeline is supernaturally restored, at which point they are revolted by how they just thought and acted.
** Note that there is a black girl on the team, who typically serves as TheHeart. Being cut off from her \\\'\\\'cannot\\\'\\\' have done the white characters any emotional good.