in the Trope Repair Shop.Undermined by Reality may refer to:
- Broken Aesop: A story's narrative defies its message.
- Clueless Aesop: An Aesop about a controversial subject isn't handled with enough nuance.
- Distanced from Current Events: An element of a work is changed before or after release thanks to unfortunate timing of real-world events.
- Don't Shoot the Message: Audiences want to agree with the works message but can't due to poor handling out out of work happenings.
- Harsher in Hindsight: A certain event/joke/scene doesn't age well because of fictional or Real Life future events.
- Hypocrite: A character in the work is called out for not practicing what they preach.
- Lost Aesop: An Aesop is set up, and then promptly forgotten.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: The controversy is deeply associated with these works at best, and at worst is the only thing people remember about them.
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