{"id":180888,"date":"2017-03-02T13:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/politically-incorrect-hero-tv-tropes\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:50:30","slug":"politically-incorrect-hero-tv-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/politically-incorrect\/politically-incorrect-hero-tv-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Incorrect Hero &#8211; TV Tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\"Yes, Wong very racist. Don't like black or Jew. But black    and Jew both like Chinese food. Go figure.\"  Usually, in modern stories, a character who's   a sexist, racist, or something else of that kind is the bad  guy. This is mostly due to the present day realization that  prejudice is bad.  Sometimes, either due to an Writer  on Board, Values  Dissonance,   Deliberate Values Dissonance, or something else, a character  can get away with opinions that are... controversial. If the  excuse is well-done, it can work. If not, it seems like a  Karma  Houdini. Unless, of course, he is punished for it, or forced  to undergo a FaceHeel  Turn. It has become increasingly common for heroes of this  type to not only have their political incorrectness lampshaded  by the author and by other characters, but to be aware of it  themselves. This type of \"hero\" knows his attitudes are  wrong but is too proud to give them up, usually due to Honor  Before Reason. He might develop into a Noble  Bigot or   Troubled Sympathetic Bigot. The trope has become  increasingly discredited given modern social attitudes  regarding discrimination, and in contrast the use of   politically-incorrect characters as the bad guys is now the  rule.   Lindsay Ellis refers to this trope as the \"lovable  misogynist\" in an article dissecting the motives  given in the above paragraph. Also see Good  Flaws, Bad Flaws for a more thorough analysis of  \"discrimination as a flaw\".    <\/p>\n<p>    open\/close all folders  <\/p>\n<p>    Anime and Manga  <\/p>\n<p>    Comics  <\/p>\n<p>    Fanfiction  <\/p>\n<p>    Film  <\/p>\n<p>          Gonzales: There is one question,          Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you \"Dirty Harry\"?        <\/p>\n<p>          Gonzales: How does he feel about          Mexicans?        <\/p>\n<p>          De Georgio: Ask him.        <\/p>\n<p>    Literature  <\/p>\n<p>    Live Action TV  <\/p>\n<p>          Cuddy (evaluating House) Your attitude          towards supervisory personnel is disrespectful, and a          disturbingly large proportion of your comments are racist          or sexist.        <\/p>\n<p>          Gene Hunt: Now. Yesterday's shooting.          The dealers are all so scared we're more likely to get          Helen Keller to talk. The Paki in a coma's about as          lively as Liberace's dick when he's looking at a naked          woman, all in all this investigation's going at the speed          of a spastic in a magnet factory.        <\/p>\n<p>          Sam Tyler, shocked, drops the radio he is          holding.        <\/p>\n<p>          Gene Hunt: What?        <\/p>\n<p>          Sam Tyler: Think you might have missed          out the Jews.        <\/p>\n<p>          \"Dear Liz Lemon, Though other women have bigger boobs          than you, no women has as big a heart and when I saw you          getting ready to go out and get nailed by a bunch of guys          last night, I knew for sure it was over between us and,          for the first time since the '86 World Series, I cried. I          cried like a big dumb homo. And if it were up to me, we'd          be together forever, but there's this new thing called          'Women's Liberation' which gives you women the right to          choose and you have chosen to abort me and that I must          live with.\"        <\/p>\n<p>          Barney: At one point, I'm pretty sure I          sold a woman. I didn't speak the language, but I shook a          guy's hand, he gave me the keys to a Mercedes, and I left          her there.        <\/p>\n<p>          \"Space must have seemed a whole lot bigger back then.          It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little.          They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive,          and a little quicker to pull their phasers. Of course,          the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet          today. But I have to admit, I would have loved to ride          shotgun at least once with a group of officers like          that.\"        <\/p>\n<p>          General Drayfox: (an incredibly PC          supervillain) THEN WHERE IS HE?!        <\/p>\n<p>          Mayor:...Well, at the moment, he's in          prison for statutory rape.        <\/p>\n<p>          General Drayfox: What? RAPE?        <\/p>\n<p>          Mayor: Statutory rape! It was an          accident, she was wearing makeup!        <\/p>\n<p>          Drayfox: Uh - I really don't think          that's any excuse!        <\/p>\n<p>    Professional Wrestling  <\/p>\n<p>    Radio  <\/p>\n<p>     Roleplay  <\/p>\n<p>    Tabletop Games  <\/p>\n<p>    Theatre  <\/p>\n<p>          Lear: The fitchew, nor the soiled horse,          goes to t with a more riotous appetite. Down from the          waist they are centaurs, though women all above. But to          the girdle do the gods inherit; beneath is all the          fiends'.        <\/p>\n<p>    Video Games  <\/p>\n<p>    Web Comics  <\/p>\n<p>    Web Original  <\/p>\n<p>          Sam: \"What the fuck is wrong with you!\"        <\/p>\n<p>          Woman: \"I don't know any better.\"        <\/p>\n<p>          Dean: \"It's true, she is a woman.\"        <\/p>\n<p>    Western Animation  <\/p>\n<p>          \"Alas, after a series of deadly blunders caused by          distracting low-cut fatigues and lots of harmless          pinching, the army decided women weren't fit for service.          Not when I'm in charge.\"        <\/p>\n<p>          Leela: \"I'm going to remind him he's          human the way only a woman can.\"        <\/p>\n<p>          Farnsworth: \"You're going to do his          laundry?\"        <\/p>\n<p>          John: Well, Homer, I won your respect,          and all I had to do was save your life. Now, if every gay          man could just do the same, you'd be set.        <\/p>\n<p>          Archer: Just because he's a big          Hollywood lawyer does not make him Jewish!          Cheryl: Ewww, he's Jewish?        <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PoliticallyIncorrectHero\" title=\"Politically Incorrect Hero - TV Tropes\">Politically Incorrect Hero - TV Tropes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \"Yes, Wong very racist. Don't like black or Jew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/politically-incorrect\/politically-incorrect-hero-tv-tropes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politically-incorrect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}