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1A lot of long-running heroes from both Creator/{{Marvel}} and Creator/DCComics suffer this. UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} in particular has cringe-worthy racist and sexist moments, especially in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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3!!The following have their own pages:
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5* ValuesDissonance/TheDCU
6* ValuesDissonance/MarvelUniverse
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9!!Other Comic Books
10* Not quite a comic book, but near enough: [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tameing_a_Shrew;_or,_Petruchio%27s_Patent_Family_Bedstead,_Gags_%26_Thumscrews.png This 1815 cartoon]] is meant to be a funny, comic portrayal of how to deal with your wife. By strapping her into bed [[MaritalRapeLicense so that you can do whatever you want with her]], using gags and thumbscrews, if necessary.
11* ''Many'' of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' older slapstick routines are magnificently dated and offensive by today's standards:
12** In his earliest incarnation Moose was, by today's standards, an outright terrible boyfriend who would not only savagely beat up anyone who so much as looked at Midge (and sometimes for ''[[MortonsFork not]]'' looking at her because "[[InsaneTrollLogic Why?! Isn't she pretty enough?!]]"), but even threatened and intimidated ''her'', which was entirely PlayedForLaughs. As the years went on he mellowed into at least treating her genuinely well, and from that to a mostly good-natured guy who just has a bad temper and is typically TooDumbToLive.
13** Some of the Moose-related stories of The80s and The90s have also aged poorly. In one story, Midge breaks up with him over his overly jealous behavior. Moose goes on a Hulk-like rampage, complete with property damage and assaulting everyone he encounters (including his closest friends). The Archie gang save the day by having Midge calm him down, and explaining to her that the incident proves how much he needs her. As if that seems like the foundation of a healthy relationship. In other stories, Moose blames Reggie for Midge's cheating behavior, but never confronts Midge herself.
14** "Big" Ethel was originally both [[{{Gonk}} a hideous bony monster]] and as close to an [[BlackComedyRape outright rapist]] as these comics could get, who all the boys were outright disgusted by. Again, as the years have gone on she went from that to typically just lusting over Jughead (and the source of the humor was Jughead's overall fear of women, rather than her looks), and ultimately got a redesign into a somewhat plain but otherwise easy on the eyes woman who's typically very kindhearted and fun to be around.
15** In earlier comics Jughead was outright repulsed by women, against the idea of them having careers, and firmly believed women were below men. This was all PlayedForLaughs and he was portrayed as both sympathetic and often in the right for believing this, whereas nowadays this would be over the top for even a StrawMisogynist. Over the years this slowly changed from hate into a phobia that was mocked InUniverse, to indifference to women and only being afraid of Ethel's advances, to simply not being interested in women. ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'' took this even farther, with Jughead being explicitly UsefulNotes/{{asexual}}.
16** Some comics have been rewritten or had pages altered to change the story into something appropriate for modern values, such as one infamous story that had Jughead lamenting women in the work force and being portrayed as in the right (the story was rewritten to have a different plot). These often stick out as the new text and/or newly drawn pages often clash with the style of the older ones, so much so that a few of these older "fixed" stories have been completely redrawn from the ground-up so the style would match. Even nowadays if you look, you'll find older stories where they'll mention "___ Ethel", complete with the big glaring space where "Big" was before it was whited out.
17** ...while others received {{George Lucas Altered Version}}s, such as one issue that featured Archie defending his home from a robber ''Film/HomeAlone'' style (albeit unintentionally; it was the mess he'd left behind that tripped the robber up). Years later the comic received a part two where [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Reality Ensued]] and the robber sued them for the injuries. Similarly, a ''That Wilkin Boy'' bit had Sampson fall for a scam where he, in effect, handed a couple hundred dollars to a thief posing as an FBI agent that ended on a page featuring the scammers [[TheBadGuyWins celebrating that they got away with it]] -- newer prints of the story feature a footnote of an embarrassed Sampson declaring the police had since caught the thieves and begging the reader not to tell Bingo or Sam.
18** Another gag you'll ''never'' see nowadays is the gag where Ms. Grundy's entire head of hair would fly off her head whenever startled or frightened, leaving it ambiguous if she's actually bald and wearing a wig or if it's merely a SightGag. Back then it was just a funny "ha ha the grumpy old teacher is bald" joke, but nowadays this would never fly as viewers would likely see it as making fun of cancer survivors.
19** Archie comics have also touched on these on InUniverse from time to time, usually [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]. One issue had Jughead explaining that it was tradition in ancient tribes for a pair of friends as close as he and Archie to become SwornBrothers by [[BloodOath cutting themselves and mixing their blood]]. When Archie points out that by today's standards this is a {{Squick}}ey practice that carries serious health risks, Jughead is quick to point out he has a way that doesn't go against modern values:
20---> '''Jughead:''' Yeah! Since we're pretending to be ancient tribesmen, I was thinking we would ''pretend'' to cut ourselves and mix our blood!
21---> '''Archie:''' You know what? I like the way you think!
22** Not even the famous love triangle that put Archie Comics on the map is invulnerable to this.
23*** In the earliest years of Archie, Archie only dated Veronica, and Betty was the DoggedNiceGirl who was constantly left out in the cold, with a vindictive streak that often led her to try to sabotage the couple. She was nevertheless portrayed sympathetically as the girl who was always getting her heart broken by a jerk, even though Archie simply didn’t notice her affections and/or made it clear he was interested in Veronica only, and Betty was usually the one trying to ruin their romance to get Archie to herself. The writers amended this by having Archie being in a relationship where Betty and Veronica share him. They also portray them in an open relationship, as even though the girls are his most frequent dates, Archie, Betty and Veronica are often seen dating and flirting with other people.
24*** Only in much later years have readers questioned Betty’s UndyingLoyalty to Archie. For most of it’s run, Archie’s constant dismissal of Betty in favor of Veronica, breaking dates with her at the last moment to go out with Ronnie and constantly using her as a backup date when Veronica was unavailable was often PlayedForLaughs, implied Archie should treat Betty better, or least implied that it was Veronica’s fault for tempting him. In more recent years, however, readers complain that the romance between Archie and Betty is toxic and unhealthy. They place fault at Archie for being the one to give into temptation and ditch Betty for Veronica over and over, and Betty herself for putting up with his shabby treatment. Lots of fans say that Betty should dump him and find a new boyfriend who won’t string her along and constantly disappoint her for another girl: one comic had exactly that happen where Reggie and Betty begin dating to make Archie and Veronica, respectively, jealous, and the relationship soon [[BecomingTheMask became genuine]], but as StatusQuoIsGod everything snapped back to "normal" at the end anyways.
25*** In-universe, there are published stories which question why would Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl even want to maintain relationships with Archie. There are boys who treat them better than he ever did, and who are less likely to cheat on them. In one story, Cheryl questions why Archie forgot to send her a Valentine Day's card, and wonders whether he feels neglected. Then she is casually reminded by other characters of the various favors and gifts which she offered him, and that he barely made an effort to return her affection. Cheryl realizes Archie's selfishness, but still fails to do more than offer him mild criticism. StatusQuoIsGod, but some of these stories are not comedic in nature and would realistically lead to break-ups.
26** Archie's selfishness is also brought up in an old multi-part story about his relationship with Jughead. Archie requested a favor from Jughead that required quite a bit of physical effort and public humiliation to make Archie look good for his date, then did not even bother to thank him. An angry Jughead questions whether Archie even gets the idea of a friendship without ulterior motives and selfish requests. He only calms down when witnessing Archie's latest goof, rationalizing that at least their friendship will never be boring. With friends like these... It does not seem to be a depiction of a healthy relationship.
27* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'':
28** The story ''Recap/AsterixAndTheSecretWeapon'' had a female bard, Bravura, come to the village, and introducing feminism to its women, which causes the men to leave the village in protest of their unfeminine ways. The main plot deals with female legionaries being introduced to fight the Gauls, because Gaulish gallantry insists they can't fight women. In the end, though the women of the village are prepared to fight, Asterix suggests they defeat the female legionaries by turning the village into a combination shopping center/spa, where the women can get mani/pedicures, get their hair done, and buy new clothes. In the end, the story ends with the men coming back and the women happily going back to their roles as housewives. Bizarrely, this comic was written in 1991, at a point where everyone should have known better. Even more bizarrely, most critical outrage was focused on a scene where Asterix punches Bravura, saying this would normalize violence against women, even though the context was completely different to domestic violence (it was in reaction to the ''second time'' Bravura had sexually harassed him publicly, using her [[TinyGuyHugeGirl size difference]] to manhandle him and completely ignoring him asking her to stop - and he immediately felt horrible about hitting her, ''and'' almost all the other characters treat him like crap for the rest of the story as a result of what he did) and the comics rely on silly violent slapstick constantly.
29** The comic frequently presents black characters in the stereotypical blackface fashion with inky black skin and huge, red lips (in the earliest issues they even had thick "African" [[FunetikAksent accents]], although this was fortunately dropped in later volumes and the English translations). The crow's-nest pirate is a prominent example, which was recognised by the comics' original French audience as a parody of a character from a serious pirate ''bandes dessinée'', so his [[{{Blackface}} caricatured features]] were a way of swiping at comic books taking themselves too seriously. Interestingly, they rarely act out negative stereotypes when they have larger roles, behaving like any other character.
30** A more cultural issue is the frequent use of gentle AlcoholInducedIdiocy and "funny drunk" archetypes, which are considered innocent in France, acceptable but not particularly child-friendly in the UK, and a thoroughly DiscreditedTrope in America where heavy drinking is connected in the public consciousness primarily to alcoholism. This may have contributed to how the comics have repeatedly failed to break America.
31** Obelix is usually the one to be given a love interest, though usually it's unreciprocated and takes the form of a crush on a pretty woman which helps drive the plot. In ''Recap/AsterixAndCaesarsGift'', he develops another crush on newcomer Influenza, the daughter of an innkeeper, who uses this crush to manipulate him. Influenza is stated to be a teenager; Obelix, though he has a VagueAge, is clearly an adult and is at ''least'' in his twenties [[note]]He and Asterix are the same age; according to one book, Asterix isn't as young as he looks. Asterix and Obelix could be anywhere between their twenties and their thirties[[/note]]. While it was more acceptable in times past for adult men to pursue teenaged girls, to modern readers it's certainly uncomfortable.
32** A lot of the humour is based around transplanting modern stereotypes about European countries to their historical equivalents - jokes about Belgian tribesman eating mayonnaise and Corsicans having switchblade swords are funny if you're a continental European, but nonsensical if you're American. Even nations that Americans do have stereotypes about (France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain, Scotland) get treated from the French point of view, or from an unusual angle to avoid [[DudeNotFunny making jokes Goscinny thought would be considered more offensive than playful]]. ''Asterix'' dealt with American stereotypes in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'', where the added racial elements of having Native Americans act in stereotypical ways come off as just not funny to American readers (the jokes about American culture were removed from the film version to avoid alienating American audiences); ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'' has likewise been seen as horrendously racist against the Japanese.
33** Europeans have a long history of stereotyping and making fun of each other, and such humour is not considered particularly offensive in Europe so long as you're not referencing old wars or making fun of genocide. In America, a melting pot where immigrants from various European countries attempted to keep a personal cultural identity while living with others doing the same, many experiencing serious class oppression due to coming from the wrong 'old country', it comes off as much more mean-spirited.
34* The typical climax to many strips in BritishComics like ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' in the '70s would involve a child doing something naughty and being given, as some stories put it, 'six of the best' - in other words, being bent across Dad's knee and whacked on the bum with a large slipper. It can be pretty surprising to a younger reader (ie. a reader not old enough to remember the time when smacking wasn't controversial) to realize that not only was that considered a moralistic plot element, ''you were supposed to laugh''. Later comics don't do this.
35** This was also the case in school-set stories, where the general outcome for naughty children was to be caned by a teacher wearing an outmoded and archaic mortarboard and black gown. Many BritishComics originate in Scotland; what stopped corporal punishment in the ''Dandy'' and the ''Beano'' was the realization that the comic producers were advocating a practice that had been made illegal in the nation where they were created and printed.
36** Another story-type from old British Comics has aged rather poorly. A nerdy character (male or female) has become a TeachersPet or temporarily enjoys some favor from the teacher. So his/her classmates conspire to either get them in trouble with the teacher, or to frame them for some act of vandalism. Ending with the public caning of the mostly innocent nerd, while the conspirators take pleasure in their suffering. It seems more like bullying than a moralistic tale.
37* Racial stereotypes, especially black and Chinese caricatures, were pretty frequent in British Comics back in their early days although no strip with these sort of characters were particularly long-lasting. Some racial caricatures appeared in British Comics as late as The80s.
38** The portrayal of Italians as bombastic, boastful, but prone to cowardice and instant surrender, began in [=WW2=] as a propaganda device alongside less-than-flattering NationalStereotypes concerning the Germans and the Japanese. These didn't die in 1945; super-soldier Captain Hurricane RM was still subjecting arrogant Huns, cowardly Italians and ape-like Japs to his Ragin' Fury style of fighting as late as The70s and is still available in reprints.
39* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' either stubbornly ignore it, or simply don't realize it in many tracts which contain outdated values (one example is in [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1054/1054_01.asp "The Little Bride"]], when the Christian Suzy insists that Mohammed was not a man of God because he married teenage girls and had slaves).
40* The dissonance in comics is mocked in the video game ''VideoGame/ComicJumperTheAdventuresOfCaptainSmiley.'' When he travels into UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, he is immediately paired with a ching chongey Chinese stereotype and put up against a feminist villain. Even Captain Smiley's sidekick Star, who is a complete {{Jerkass}} throughout the game, [[EvenEvilHasStandards is offended]]. The game also points out how UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode forbade swearing, but allowed ethnic stereotypes.
41* The main character/narrator of ''ComicBook/{{Crecy}}'' frequently breaks the fourth wall to talk to the readers. At one point he notes they probably think of the French as CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys and points out that in his times they were feared across Europe and invaded Britain many times - if anything, they probably were considering the British "parsnip eating surrender monkeys".
42* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'': Album #125 ''Vrouwen komen van Mars'' (women are from Mars) has in-universe ValuesDissonance when the main characters travel to an album so old that it has become a holy grail among comic book collectors called ''De avonturen van snijboon en zoon'' through a machine that transports them there.
43** In the album they notice not only that SmokingIsCool there, but EVERYONE (even the little kids) do it. Justified, as the comic series [[MerchandiseDriven was given as a freebie if you bought enough packs of cigarettes]].
44** There is no female character in the entire album. At the end of the story it is revealed that the creator wanted his characters to search for womankind in the album ''Vrouwen komen van Mars'' but it was never finished.
45* The ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' suffers from this more commonly than Mickey's comics.
46** One recurring issue is with the fact that many comics end with Donald either chasing after the nephews and preparing to spank them with something (usually a stick) or having spanked the nephews, either for genuine misdeeds they committed during the comic or just because he's feeling angry and wants to take it out on them. Given how attitudes have changed about CorporalPunishment, this would ''not'' be allowed in modern comics.
47** A ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' comic from 1949 called "Voodoo Hoodoo" showed, in a flashback, Scrooge [=McDuck=] hiring thugs to chase stereotypically drawn Africans out of their village so he could take their land, causing a witch doctor to send a zombie after him. Most of the sympathy of the story is reserved for Bombie the Zombie (who has had to search for Scrooge for years) and Donald (who the Zombie is currently chasing, mistaking him for a young Scrooge), with relatively little for the African tribe. When later depicted in Creator/DonRosa's ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', there is no doubt that his treatment of the natives is Scrooge's FaceHeelTurn, and arguably a crossing of the MoralEventHorizon. When Bombie was introduced in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', his entire backstory was redone, removing all of the connections to the tribe, and was completely redesigned to remove any sort of racist connotations (he's a [[Franchise/TheDCU Solomon Grundy]]-esque {{Dogface}} with only the nose ring being kept).
48** One Scrooge incident had Scrooge gloat that legendary cowboy Creator/BuffaloBill had taught him how to fight with knives "Injun style". When mentioned on ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', one of the hosts, Wiz, had to sheepishly remind everyone that Scrooge is ''very'' old and it was a different time.
49** ''ComicBook/BackToTheKlondike'' (one of Scrooge's origin stories), the saloon singer and con-woman Glittering Goldie spiked Scrooge's drink and stole his gold. He retaliates by kidnapping her and forcing her to work with him in his private mine, to repay him. While they developed romantic feelings for each other during their forced co-habitation, Scrooge is clearly benefiting from a crime here. Mr."I made my money square" (as he keeps insisting) earned money from kidnapping and slave labor. Nowadays, this would be seen as entering the VillainProtagonist area.
50** In "The Second-Richest Duck" (1956), Scrooge offers to share some coffee with his new rival and look-alike Flintheart Glomgold (in his debut story). He is SlippingAMickey to Flintheart, who is knocked out for the night. Flintheart is typically depicted as the most villainous of the two of them, but here Scrooge is the one who resorts to crime first.
51* In the introduction to ''Fagin the Jew'' (his own confrontation with the anti-Semitism in Creator/CharlesDickens' ''Literature/OliverTwist''), Creator/WillEisner recollects how he created {{E|thnicScrappy}}bony as a one-dimensional [[EthnicScrappy comic relief black sidekick]] for ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' because it was common practice at the time. After serving alongside other Americans of different heritage in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Eisner was more enlightened and gave Ebony more depth and gravitas.
52* Ever since it became popularized during the 2000s (with stuff such as ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'') {{Fanservice}} shows up quite frequently in Franco-Belgian comic books that are targeted towards children (the best example of observing this phenomenon probably has to be ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou''). This can be quite jarring in countries such as in the United States where this is considered inappropriate for the target audience, but is usually seen as quite acceptable in the BENELUX and France, where kids frequently show up as {{Dirty Kid}}s in media, although it has been quite jarring for plenty of immigrants in those countries as well.
53* In the Gargoyles "ComicBook/GargoylesBadGuys" series, it's revealed that Dingo was raised by his stepfather, who showed visible shock when the teenaged Dingo came home with a mohawk. [[spoiler:You'd think someone who'd kill his wife, lie to her son about it and raise said son to a life of crime would be more understanding.]]
54* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}'' can be this towards lots of people who grew up with comics that were not BelgianComics (be it the American, Japanese or French type) due to how heavily it avoids having even the lightest mature subject matter (such as action, black comedy, flaws about school life, growing up, death, the environment, economy etc.) and thus ends up looking for the plenty who grew up with those comics as material that is [[SweetnessAversion so saccharine that they wouldn't even give it to their kids]]. Fact is that its heritage dates back from the '50s when there was a genre of Belgian comic books in which everyday families did everyday stuff. Before Jef Nys even worked on ''Jommeke'', he even created a comic book with an edgy kid character whose edginess stems from the fact that [[{{Tsundere}} at times he would be a jerk]]. In its native Flanders, the comic series has a very long-lasting demographic and is even popular with Muslim immigrants, something you wouldn't expect from something that originated in a Catholic magazine.
55* All of the comics from the heyday of Creator/HarveyComics feature preteen girls providing almost constant {{panty shot}}s. During the time when the stories and characters were most popular, a preteen girl showing her underwear was only considered cute and nothing more.
56* There's a bit of discussion on Website/{{Tumblr}} and Website/FourChan's /co/ board on how Harvey Comics' "Little Lotta" character, whose entire personality is more or less "hahaha, she's so fat", will never get an animated adaptation due to how relevant body-shaming and self-image issues have become. Ironically, the other major focus of "Little Lotta" is that her weight and appetite provide her with superhuman strength (she has uprooted trees), which violates the modern anti-obesity campaigns that both accompany and contradict the anti-body-shaming campaigns. In her case, there is no way to win!
57** Little Lotta, or at least a character inspired by her, did appear in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids''.
58* Creator/WilhelmBusch's 19th century stories like ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'' feature corporal punishment for kids (by caning). There are also some anti-Semitic bits in (lesser known) stories.
59* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'':
60** In an interview, writer Flávio Teixeira recounted that one of his scripts published in the 1990s consisted entirely of jokes about Lady [=McDeath=] encouraging a man to kill himself. He then admits that said story would never have been approved after the turn of the millennium, since awareness about depression and suicide would make the concept too distasteful.
61** There is one story from the 80's where the girls hold a beauty contest between all the boys, which throw boos and insults at every other boy participating in the contest other than themselves. During Jimmy's turn, the other boys repeatedly call him "bicha", which is a ''homophobic slur'' in Portuguese. A later republishing of the story changed their insult to "troca-letras" (letter-swapper).
62** A story from the 1990s shows Lady [=McDeath=] listening to the story of a boy named Amasio, who died after doing everything to win a girl, only to find out that she had a boyfriend. In the end, Lady [=McDeath=] cries, feels sorry for Amasio and paints the girl as selfish. But today, it's not hard to see how sick Amasio's obsession with winning over a girl who had no obligation to reciprocate his feelings. By the way, she probably already had a boyfriend since the beginning of the story, making Amasio's pain even more ridiculous.
63** A story from the 1990s shows Frank deciding to remove the scars to appear more attractive to flesh-and-blood women. As a result, Penadinho and his other friends reject him for not looking scary, the kids who loved playing with him treat him like a stranger, and the women are still scared of him. Then he gets tired and reinserts the scars, and the friends and kids take him back. Certainly they are incapable of loving Frank the way he is, which makes their friendship totally invalid.
64* In the ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' comics by Ibañez:
65** Most non-white characters are drawn and speak as typical wartime caricatures, complete with accents, which raises more than a few eyebrows in the present day. That said, Ibañez's black characters tended to be universally more competent or at least less [[TooDumbToLive suicidally stupid]] than the white protagonists, so maybe it was just him catering to the drawing style expected at the time.
66** The traditional Spaniard sentiment of disdain towards authority really shows in each album, starting with resident BadBoss El Súper, who is by far the greatest {{Jerkass}}. Real life politicians, wherever they show up, get absolutely no quarter.
67* ''ComicStrip/TheOutburstsOfEverettTrue'' depict a man with a HairTriggerTemper beating up anyone who angers him (or simply yelling at them if they're female). While this isn't so bad (several victims are depicted as {{Asshole Victim}}s who deserve their comeuppance) one strip features a woman laden with many packages from a shopping trip politely asking Everett to give up his seat for her, which he responds to by yelling at her and accusing her of being one of those women who "gives women's rights speeches". While this may have been acceptable in Edwardian times, nowadays it just comes off as rude and unchivalrous.
68* Dave Gibbons recalls encountering this trope when writing ''Powerman'' for a Nigerian audience in the '70s. In particular, he had difficulty with the idea that a fat stomach indicated success and power rather than [[VillainousGlutton gluttony]] and {{greed}}.
69* ''{{Superdickery}}'' is something of a sub-trope of this, as the "humor" of the time now comes off as manipulative, abusive, and all-around in bad taste.
70* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} in the Congo'' has often been criticized as having racist and colonialist views, as well as several scenes of unnecessary violence against animals. Hergé said that he was portraying the naïve views of the time. When the album was redrawn in 1946, Hergé removed several references to the fact that the Congo was at that time a Belgian colony. This failed to mollify critics. Because of its controversial subject matter, the album was previously only published as a facsimile black and white edition in English. However, a color English edition was finally published in September 2005, by Egmont Publishing, with a foreword explaining the historical context (a similar move had been employed for the 1983 translation of ''The Blue Lotus'') and a collectors'-edition banner in red covering the main image over the front cover.
71** When the album was to be published in the Nordic countries, the publishers objected to a scene on page 56 of the color album, where Tintin blows up a rhinoceros with a stick of dynamite. They asked the page to be redrawn, and Herge complied. Instead of blowing the animal to pieces, the rhino accidentally fires the gun of the sleeping Tintin, gets scared, and runs away. This page was also used in the English- and German-language translations.
72** When discussing racism in the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comics series one should also mention the fact that Hergé was forced to redraw black characters in "Tintin in America" and "The Crab with the Golden Claws" and change them into Caucasian characters under pressure of American publishers. This happened way in the 1950s!
73** Hergé's early albums were mostly drawn for fun, without much documentation. ''The Blue Lotus'' was the first story where Hergé actually did a lot of research. He had met a Chinese exchange student who told him a lot about Chinese culture and the Chinese-Japanese war that was going on back in 1934. This motivated Hergé to put more research into all of his stories. "The Blue Lotus" actually has a section where Tintin discusses various racist stereotypes about Chinese people to Chang, who laughs and says "people in your country must be crazy!" Hergé later lost contact with his Chinese friend and wrote arguably the most beautiful and touching album in the entire series, ''Tintin in Tibet'', just to express how much he missed him. They finally met again two years before Hergé's death.
74* Polish comic book ComicBook/TytusRomekIAtomek was created when Poland was a Communist country under Russian control. In order to have the books published, the creator Henryk Chmielewski was forced to include elements of Communist propaganda in them as well have his heroes praising current system while being critical of the much more western world. In one particular story, the heroes meet Fidel Castro who is shown as a very nice and sympathetic person.
75* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'' has lots of racial stereotyping (one of the characters is called "het Negerke", roughly translated as "The Little Negroid"). This makes export in other countries rather difficult, though the series is already too self-referential Flemish for that. The series did manage to be published in the politically correct Netherlands, though.
76* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'''s iconic bathing suit was created by feminist comic artist Trina Robbins as an example of open female sexuality and lack of shame. It has since been criticized by many feminists for being overly sexualized. And then when the bathing suit was brought back in 2017, writer Blake Northcott said her decision to do so [[HistoryRepeats was rebellion against shaming female sexuality.]] This is because of a BrokenBase within feminism itself between [[SexIsGood sex-positive]] and [[SexIsEvil sex-negative]] feminists that goes back decades.
77* ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape'': A lot of stories show the twins receiving CorporalPunishment for their pranks. Most of that stories were written in the Spain of the 1940s and 1950s... Nowadays, you could get arrested for these kinds of punishments. The only reason the old comics still get away with it (sort of) is because it's always PlayedForLaughs.

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