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Basic Trope: Values have changed and what was once thought as fine is now not such, however said thing is so important to a older work's identity that they are still allowed to run it even as morals march on.

  • Straight: In the Fairy Tale: Alice and the Black Rose Alice gets pregnant at 18 unknowingly by Bob, however her pregnancy is so vital to her character development that even writers today keep it in.
  • Exaggerated: ???
  • Downplayed: Alice still gets pregnant but at 22, not 18.
  • Justified: Today's Writers apply Deliberate Values Dissonance, knowing that Alice and the Black Rose takes place in the 14th century
  • Inverted: Anything in the Black Rose that can be perceived problematic is changed.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: Some elements are kept in, others changed.
  • Averted: Today's Writers make Alice more independent and have her pregnancy take place when she is 25, this time, both Alice and Bob are aware of what's happening.
  • Enforced: "Alice's pregnancy is wrong to today's viewers for good reason, but it is too vital to cut it as well"
  • Lampshaded: Charlie and Diana watch a 1910's version Alice and the Black Rose, there stuff like the pregnancy is kept as well as adding more racist elements that wren't in the original tale. Charlie says:
Charlie: I heard they are remaking that show, and because it is the most famous version the racism will be kept too."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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