History Main / DeliberateValuesDissonance

* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': PlayedForLaughs in the "Tales from the SMP" episode "The Village That Went Mad". Bad hits Quackity whenever the latter gets on his nerves, which -- since they're playing husband and wife -- is assumed to be DomesticAbuse and subsequently glossed over because "it was a different time".

* In the ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fan comic ''Webcomic/RadioPride'', Alastor tries to keep his asexuality under wraps in part because it was considered "sexual dysfunction" when he was alive.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8835751/2/In-Strange-Waters In Strange Waters]]'', a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', fic, it's revealed that unlike in canon, in which middle and high schoolers study on schoolships to foster a sense of independence, [[CanadaEh the Canadian government]] found that too expensive, and [[OriginalCharacter Vimy Ridge Academy]] is thus on land, albeit in the middle of nowhere.

* ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'' plays with this sometimes, especially with historically "good" or "heroic" characters, almost all of whom are in hell for one reason or another. For example, Thomas Jefferson in his first appearance relates a funny anecdote about writing the Declaration of Independence, halfway through the line "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal" his ink ran out, and he sent his slave to get more, seeing no contradiction in this. It's also implied that Jack the Ripper was Queen Victoria's nephew, and she ordered the Prime Minister to let him rampage freely, and shielded him from justice, only concerned with the shame the scandal would bring on the Royal Family, not the deaths of her subjects. It's all completely PlayedForLaughs, of course.

* ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'' takes place in 1989, so obviously there's gonna be at least some of this, but the number "Dead Gay Son" qualifies as a mix of this and an in-universe case of FairForItsDay; after JD (with Veronica's help) murders {{Jerk Jock}}s Kurt Kelley and Ram Sweeney, he makes their deaths look like a suicide pact that paints them as star-crossed gay lovers, when in reality, they were homophobic perverted dudebros who JD murdered because they spread a rumor about having a threesome with his girlfriend [[DisproportionateRetribution as revenge for not letting them date-rape her]]. Because of this, Kurt and Ram's formerly quite vehemently homophobic fathers decide to stand up for gay rights in their honor, which is fine and all...but the song they sing about it posthumously {{flanderiz|ation}}es Kurt and Ram into CampGay stereotypes -- stating that they "weren't dirty, they just had flair", making references to ribbons, rhinestones, pearly necklaces and purses, deciding that Kurt and Ram must've been fans of the Village People and Judy Garland in life and just generally painting them as having extremely feminine qualities that they clearly didn't actually have when they were alive. Possibly justified, as the suicide note JD faked for Kurt and Ram painted them as having hid their "gay forbidden love" from a disapproving world, though the fact that the first assumptions their fathers make are "rhinestones, disco, pearly necklaces and Judy Garland" is still pretty telling.

* ''WebVideo/AskLovecraft'': Much of the humor revolves around Lovecraft's outdated mores and sensibilities. For example, he passes out the first time he finds out [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama a black man was elected President of the United States,]] and he apparently doesn't believe [[CrossesTheLineTwice Italians have souls]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePinkShoes'', this is seen with Albrecht and Hilarion attempting to marry Kristyn/Giselle. When told she's 17, they say that just because she's a little ''old'' doesn't mean they can't marry.

* 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 inhereted from each race, so it ''still'' comes across as pretty racist by modern standards.

* In ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'', modern girl Xiaxi finds herself in ancient China as a result of Plot and finds her values clashing with the horribly entitled nobility she has to serve. Case in point, she's given a 'trial run' to see how things working before starting her mission for real and is almost immediately executed and used as fertilizer because someone used her as material for a rude joke. She herself hadn't done anything.

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwA1VeYpvaM "If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate"]]. You won't see your princess the same way again.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21853549 Perception]]'' discusses Bajoran expectations regarding gender and sexual preferences: femininity is all about stoicism and self-confidence while masculinity is expressed through intelligence and enthusiasm. So to Kira Nerys, Worf's gayer than oil wrestling, the Vulcans' hat is being flamingly camp, and Julian Bashir is so much of a manly man he verges on TestosteronePoisoning. Jadzia is left crying from laughter after the explication.

* ''ARG/WelcomeHomeClownIllustrations'': WordOfGod has this [[InvokedTrope trope invoked]] as Eddie and Frank are canonically in a romantic relationship, but due to the show airing in the late 60s-early 70s, when LGBT+ people weren't as accepted, The Playfellow Workshop could never show their relationship. The company had to resort to [[HideYourGays subtly hinting at it]] instead.

* ''LetsPlay/{{Bravemule}}'': uses this in its portrayal of the dwarf culture of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''. The dwarves are violently isolationist, vicious, and militaristic, perceiving anything they are not familiar with as a threat and slaughtering it accordingly. This leads to the fort's downfall when Behem's deadfall trap in the trade depot causes the humans to go to war with Bravemule, and Traeme fully expects to be remembered as a hero for [[spoiler:ordering Exi to [[GodzillaThreshold breach the Underworld]] when the humans get the upper hand]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also consider]] [[AlienGeometries octagons to be unholy]].

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* ''Literature/ChaosFighters'': An example occurs with the various continents having different administration systems, and in particular Lefrad. [[spoiler:The Yedrei-Phlaq confrontation happened at an unspecified time prior to the start of the ''entire main series'']], which is partly [[spoiler:due to their leader trying to force their administration systems on the others (Yedrei uses monarchy while Phlaq uses democracy.]] As a result, in ''Chaos Fighters-Route of Peaks'', [[spoiler:the government of Tziac sent only ''one'' person to join the main characters' party to eliminate the mountain bandits, fearing of bringing significant casualties to the soldiers, which happened during the confrontation.]] Even other countries merely used long range weaponry to eliminate them, [[spoiler:despite sending slightly more (read: ''two'') people to aid the main characters' party]]. This also leads to another dissonance where in ''Chaos Fighters-Route of Land'', [[spoiler:''almost every country'' in Yedrei continent gave military support of various degree to help the Estau rebel pact, which is a military force to capture Lestreb from the demons' reign.]]
* ''Literature/LandGames'': The player's society is extremely imperialistic, regularly invading and conquering foreign worlds. Jayle is the only one who has a problem with this.
* ''Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide'': This is done with future social mores aren't at all like present ones, much like present ones would be almost incomprehensible to those of several hundred years in the past. A particular example is future humans' views on (legalized) rape, which are so divorced from modern mores that the latter are incomprehensible to the protagonists even after being explained.
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* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'': The Flower Scouts abide by very strict gender roles, and think girls should only be concerned with looks and boys, while guys should be rugged and manly. This goes so far, that they [[spoiler: [[KickTheDog ran off]] the much less traditional [[TomBoy Nikki]] for not conforming to their views]], leading to Neil calling them "ignorant, fucking cunts" for this attitude.

* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'': [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the parenting where Strong Bad and the Cheat [[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 70's 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.

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* In ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' we have the Flower Scouts, who abide by very strict gender roles; they think girls should only be concerned with looks and boys, while guys should be rugged and manly. This goes so far, that they [[spoiler: [[KickTheDog ran off]] the much less traditional [[TomBoy Nikki]] for not conforming to their views]], leading to Neil calling them "ignorant, fucking cunts" for this attitude.
* ''WebAnimation/DorisAndMaryAnneAreBreakingOutOfPrison'', set in 1922, has Doris, a white woman, be imprisoned for just nine months for [[spoiler:running over a baby]], while Mary-Anne, a black woman, be sentenced for fifty years for [[spoiler:slamming a door]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwA1VeYpvaM "If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate"]] by ''Website/{{Cracked}}''. You won't see your princess the same way again.

* Parodied in the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' parenting where Strong Bad and the Cheat [[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 70's 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.

* The premise of ''WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory'' can be summed up as this trope, PlayedForLaughs. The heroes are the {{Ancient Rom|e}}ans, with every bloody conquest of other nations, every discrimination based on gender, class, or religion, and every [[TheCaligula insane emperor]] is painted as glorious and righteous - no matter [[RefugeInAudacity how batshit]] it can be.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Occurs with Magus, who is from a parallel universe. In that universe, magic that permanently changes a person's sex is readily available, genuinely making one's sex a ''choice'' rather than something one is born with, so their views on sexism and gender roles are... different. It's noted that there is no stigma against transgender individuals or non-heterosexual romances in his world due to this magic being available. However, they fully embrace the idea that certain occupations are more suited for one sex over the other, and Magus looks down on a friend of his because she chose to pursue a career as a warrior while remaining female, saying that it's utterly absurd to make such a choice. Magus himself was born female, but changed his sex (and gender identity) upon choosing the path of a warrior, because "men make better fighters". This is rather sharply at odds with the modern Western ideal of no discrimination between the sexes regarding occupation and, despite them having no stigma against transgenderism as such, also at odds with the principle that your real gender is the one that you feel you are inside, since they think your gender should be the one that fits your job. Notably, Magus is convinced that Ellen shouldn't be a fighter and a woman, but thinks that means she shouldn't be a woman, rather than that she shouldn't be a fighter.

* An example occurs in ''Literature/ChaosFighters'', particularly in Lefrad, which consists of continents has different administration systems. [[spoiler:Yedrei-Phlaq confrontation happened an unspecified time prior to the start of the ''entire main series'']], which is partly [[spoiler:due to their leader trying to force their administration systems to others (Yedrei uses monarchy while Phlaq uses democracy.]] As the result, in ''Chaos Fighters-Route of Peaks'', [[spoiler:the government of Tziac sent only ''one'' person to join the main characters' party to eliminate the mountain bandits, fearing of bringing significant casualties to the soldiers, which happened during the confrontation.]] Even other countries merely used long range weaponry to eliminate them, [[spoiler:despite sending slightly more (read: ''two'') people to aid the main characters' party]]. This also leads to another dissonance where in ''Chaos Fighters-Route of Land'', [[spoiler:''almost every country'' in Yedrei continent gave military support of various degree to help the Estau rebel pact, which is a military force to capture Lestreb from the demons' reign.]]
* ''Literature/LandGames'': The player's society is extremely imperialistic, regularly invading and conquering foreign worlds. Jayle is the only one who has a problem with this.
* ''WebVideo/Needlem0use'': This series pulls no punches in showcasing the rampant homophobia present in 1960's America, and [[spoiler:Sarah expresses concern about her and her girlfriend Lily's safety to the point where she asks Luther to watch over them]].

* [[https://youtu.be/HQ7mJFNkLAU In this]] ''Website/CollegeHumor'' sketch, the guys want to pull pranks like in the classic 80’s movies. One of the guys tries pointing out a lot of those pranks were basically assault battery and sexual assault and borderline rapes so they wouldn’t be a good idea to pull in the modern age.
* This is done in ''Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide'' where future social mores aren't at all like present ones, much like present ones would be almost incomprehensible those of several hundred years in the past. A particular example is future humans' views on (legalized) rape, which are so divorced from modern mores that the latter are incomprehensible to the protagonists even after being explained.

* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': PlayedForLaughs in the "Tales from the SMP" episode "The Village That Went Mad". Bad hits Quackity whenever the latter gets on his nerves, which -- since they're playing husband and wife -- is assumed to be DomesticAbuse and subsequently glossed over because "it was a different time".

* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'':
** Anchorwoman Katie Killjoy is openly homophobic. She died in 1992, some time before LGBT people were widely accepted in mainstream society.
** Niffty died in the 1950s, and still holds to the traditionalist ideas about gender roles she had when she was alive.

* Script/SeinfeldTheTwinTowers: Jerry's uncle Leo says his cousin Jeffrey is a "hero" for assaulting a halal food vendor who didn't have a license, a nod to the spike in Islamophobic attacks in the days and weeks after 9/11.

* ''ARG/WelcomeHomeClownIllustrations'': WordOfGod [[invoked]] is that Eddie and Frank are canonically in a romantic relationship, but due to the show airing in the late 60s-early 70s, when LGBT+ people weren't as accepted, The Playfellow Workshop could never show their relationship. The company had to resort to [[HideYourGays subtly hinting at it]] instead.
* [[Creator/SamRaimi Raimi]]posting is a meme involving exaggerating how much Values Dissonance there is in his ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' to the point where the films would've been considered beyond unacceptable even back in 2002.

* Much of the humor of ''WebVideo/AskLovecraft'' revolves around Lovecraft's outdated mores and sensibilities. For example, he passes out the first time he finds out [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama a black man was elected President of the United States,]] and he apparently doesn't believe [[CrossesTheLineTwice Italians have souls]].
* ''LetsPlay/{{Bravemule}}'' uses this in its portrayal of the dwarf culture of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''. The dwarves are violently isolationist, vicious, and militaristic, perceiving anything they are not familiar with as a threat and slaughtering it accordingly. This leads to the fort's downfall when Behem's deadfall trap in the trade depot causes the humans to go to war with Bravemule, and Traeme fully expects to be remembered as a hero for [[spoiler:ordering Exi to [[GodzillaThreshold breach the Underworld]] when the humans get the upper hand]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also consider]] [[AlienGeometries octagons to be unholy]].
-->[[{{Understatement}} But they do not know us.]]

* ''Film/KungFury'' is set in the '80s and meant to invoke feeling like a movie from that, complete with a homophobic comment. Early on, the police chief says the mayor is up his ass "like a fag on Viagra."[[note]]Which is an AnachronismStew itself, as Viagra was not manufactured until the '90s.[[/note]]
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''[[WebVideo/DreamSMP Tales from the SMP]]'' episode "The Village That Went Mad". Bad hits Quackity whenever the latter gets on his nerves, which -- since they're playing husband and wife -- is assumed to be DomesticAbuse and subsequently glossed over because "it was a different time".

** The list of Jack Sparrow's most egregious crimes includes "Impersonating a cleric of the Church of England". Today, most peope fail to understand what the big deal is, but at the time, the CoE was responsible for a number of civic functions, including distributing poor relief and maintaining birth and death records. This, in turn, meant that impersonating a cleric was considered a form of what we would today call conspiracy to commit fraud and a variety of fraud-adjacent crimes.

** Usagi himself is hardly uncontroversial, in that he has a deep and abiding loathing for non-Japanese people. Though, given that his contacts with foreigneres generally involve some combination of guns, tuberculosis and general assholery, it's quite understandable.
** While Usagi is generally an even-tempered and polite fellow, he does not hesitate to lay the smackdown on a disrespectful or disobedient peasant when the situation calls for it.

* Occurs several times in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' in flashbacks and appearances of the old Team Venture: a giant in the team is called Humongoloid; Col. Gentleman refers to the Japanese Kano's "racial handicap"; and of course:

Sometimes, [[ValuesDissonance morals don't travel well]]. Often, what is appropriate to one culture at a given time can be repugnant to the same culture at another, or vice versa. Thus, when depicting other cultures, a creator has to choose whether to portray them accurately or not. Many just use their own contemporary culture for [[CultureBlind everyone in the story]] for narrative reasons or just to make writing it easier, resulting in an inaccurate and/or anachronistic story. Some, however, [[ShownTheirWork research the culture]] and make an effort to reproduce the attitudes of the time and place accurately, even when they are wildly different to what the author knows or might consider sensible. Thus one ends up with a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "The Inner Fight", after Mariner reveals to the Klingon Ma'ah why she's been on a self-destructive streak, she reveals that she participated in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the Dominion War]]. Ma'ah is envious of this -- the Dominion sent many Klingon warriors to Sto-vo-kor and it would have been a glorious war to participate in. However, Mariner [[WarIsHell believes the entire thing was horrible]] and he shouldn't want to be part of it.

* ''Film/{{Little Women 2019}}'' shows that women are not expected to work and their property goes automatically goes to their husbands.

* ''Film/{{Little Women 2019}}'' shows that women are not expected to work and any property goes automatically goes to their husbands.