Basic Trope: Someone who was considered heroic in the past is now polarizing or flat out considered a villain.
- Straight: Harold the Great wakes on top his mountain and holds onto views like treating women as in needing of care, holding the values of chivalry dear, and viewing anyone who isn't christian as sinful..
- Exaggerated: ???
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Harold held onto some views that were considered radical for his time, such as suggesting that the shouldn't presecute non christians at all. However, key word is for his time, as those views have become commonplace nowadays.
- Inverted: Harold Smith, a teenager from today, travels back in time with his progressive views among a medieval society.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Harold has conveniently moderen views for when he wakes.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Implied: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Harold did held onto these views, however it's easy to convince him to change.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Every 1000 years a dragon wakes and terrorizes Troperia, however Harold views these people not as his he needs to save because they and his nation has changed dramatically, so he leaves Troperia in a state of ruin, not recognizing it as his nation.
- Reconstructed: ???
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