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{{quote|''But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."''
|[[The Bible|Matthew 13:57]] the official [[Trope Namer]].}}
When [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]] is applied to the protagonist in his world.
So you've saved the universe many times, taken down many multi-dimensional threats, and have generally done lots of good stuff. [[
At least, in places other than the town or world you came from.
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The temporal version of this trope is [[Dead Artists Are Better]] or [[Vindicated by History]].
Compare [[All of the Other Reindeer]], [[Ungrateful Bastard
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' certainly counts, as he grew up in the [[Muggles]]' world where he's practically unknown. A sharp contrast to his celebrity status in the world of wizards.
* In ''[[The Hobbit]]'',
** Bilbo Baggins participates in events of legend, then comes home to learn they've declared him legally dead, sold his house and don't believe a thing he's got to say.
** Similarly, in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]],'' Bilbo's nephew Frodo carries the [[Artifact of Doom|One Ring]] across half of Middle-Earth at great cost to his body, mind, and soul, destroys the [[Evil Overlord]] and ends the endless battle between good and evil, but when he returns to the Shire, his cousins Merry and Pippin are the ones who get the respect, due to becoming warriors and leading battles against the brigands who had taken over the Shire.
* In the ''[[Xanth]]'' novels, everywhere else, Bink is known as "Magician Bink". Most people don't know why (since Bink's talent stays hidden by design), but they know he's a Magician and treat him with due respect. In his home village, even years later, he's still "Bink The Talentless Wonder".
* In the famous [[Sherlock Holmes]] pastiche, ''The Seven-Percent Solution'' has Holmes and Watson in Germany with Sigmund Freud pursuing a villain. During the chase, the German police meets them and immediately announces that the constables are to be put at Holmes' disposal to catch the criminal and the Detective quietly mutters "No prophet is accepted in his own country."
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** ''By The Sword'' features another example: the story of "Kerowyn's Ride" achieves remarkably widespread popularity across a number of countries, but the events of the eponymous ride - in which tomboy Kerowyn set out to rescue her younger brother's fiancee after her home was attacked, her father killed, her brother gravely injured and his fiancee kidnapped - are a source of some embarrassment to the rest of that end of her family. It's not good when your older sister has to rescue your bride for you, after all.
* The above Talia's story resembles Menolly's story in Anne McCaffrey's ''Dragonsong'', wherein the protagonist is a girl who dares to perform and even compose music in a fishing village of a practical and pragmatic (and repressive) sort. In the course of the novel, Menolly injures herself cleaning fish, and her own mother deliberately stitches her palm up wrong, crippling her hand so she can barely perform routine household tasks (making her even more despised), let alone play any instrument. Meanwhile, the Master Harper Robinton and his faithful have been searching for the "anonymous" author of the fine music mailed to him by a rural harper, and take her away from all that to make her as much a star as a Medieval setting permits.
* In the [[Young Wizards]] books, wizardry has to be kept a secret. So after saving the earth and {{spoiler|''relighting the sun while rewriting who the Lone Power is so he is can be redeemed''}}, Kit and Nita go back to school to get bullied. Granted, they can stop the bullying now but... Later, in the fifth book, Nita at least is still without friends at school
* [[A Dog of Flanders]] by British author Ouida takes place in Flanders, Belgium. But both in Great Britain as in Belgium this children's novel is totally forgotten and not popular at all. In Japan, however, it's a massively successful children's classic.
* In the Russian book series ''[[Alice, Girl from the Future]]'', the heroine is a young girl ( 7 years old at the beginning, 13 in the end) who, on her adventures, rescues countless people (and planets) and is thus revered and respected on many worlds, and by some high-ranked officers on Earth. But in her hometown, she is regarded as lightheaded, irresponsible misfit, [[You Are Grounded|is often grounded]], distrusted and belittled.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The Doctor. Saves the multiverse more times than he can count, but is still looked upon as a wanted criminal for much of his life (except for those few times he's been elected President of Gallifrey, but even then it ends up with him being charged with treason or some such). Things got so bad that at one point [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|the Time Lords wiped the Doctor's mind]], [[The Nth Doctor|forced him to regenerate]], and exiled him to Earth with a TARDIS that was sabotaged and rendered useless. Even after he saved Gallifrey from [[A Fate Worse Than Death]], the ungrateful so-and-sos still merely gave him his memory back and allowed him use of the
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'':
** Cameron Mitchell returns to his hometown for one episode. While no one thinks he's evil or a criminal or anything, no one really knows what's going on at the SGC, and they basically remember him as the football player who came back with a weird girlfriend and is the reason they all have to sign confidentiality agreements.
** This happens a bunch in the [[Stargate Verse]], since they can't tell anyone about their planet/galaxy-saving adventures. Before Jacob Carter becomes a Tok'ra host, he disparages Sam's work with "deep-space radar telemetry" and tries to get her into NASA. Similarly, when [[Stargate Atlantis|Rodney McKay]] returns to Earth for a scientific presentation by an old colleague, he is repeatedly criticized for not publishing in a couple of decades since no one knows about all his top-secret work with the Stargate program.
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* [[Older Than Feudalism]] examples from ''[[The Bible]]:
** In Matthew, Jesus goes back to Nazareth, where he grew up. His frigid reception causes him to [[Lampshade]] this trope. ''But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."'' Things don't go so well, because, honestly, how seriously would you take your old neighbor if he suddenly showed up after years of living out of town, going on about how he's the son of God and the new age is at hand?
** In the long run, averted: Christianity eventually became the dominant religion in
** Also, to this day, Nazareth itself is just under 32% Christian, making it one of the largest if not the largest Christian population in all of [[Israel]].
* Just like Jesus, [[
* The majority of India did not take after Siddhartha's message, either, but he was very popular in most other areas of Asia.
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* In ''[[Secret of Mana]]'', the Boy is banished from his hometown after the residents learn he has disturbed [[Only the Chosen May Wield|the Sword in the Stone]]. Though possibly recognized as the [[Chosen One]], the elder correctly deduces that trouble will inevitably follow him around. He remains exiled even after becoming a hero, but at least he's allowed back in during the ending.
* In ''[[Fallout]]'',
** The Vault Dweller, having saved the area from a BBEG and saved his vault in particular with the recovery of the water chip, is promptly banished from his vault forever because he's been changed too much by the outside world.
** Returned to in Fallout 3, in which the Lone Wanderer (optionally) rescues the vault and is then kicked out because the residents unfairly blame him/her for the problems existing in the first place (with a [[Call Back]] to the speech in the original ''Fallout'' to boot).
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** This gets worse in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' because even after you save most of the world and return to your adopted home village post [[Time Skip]] no one recognizes you except as a scary intruder, and you're remembered from before then as a strange loner who likely died once he left the forest.
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* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'': Despite impressing the notables in the big city and in the swamp territories, Quentyn's hometown of Freedom Downs considers his chosen calling as a Questor a joke and can only see the bad side of his successful adventures. However, when the town is threatened to be repossessed because of an old debt concerning an old Questor's abandoned quest, Quentyn volunteers to resume it to cancel the town's debt even though he may never be able to see home again. The town, stunned at this sacrifice, finally realize that their current Questor is a hero and hail him as such.
* [
* [[Erfworld]]'s Sizemore the [[Dishing Out Dirt|Dirtamancer]] is something like "rockstar" in the Magic Kingdom, where all the other magic users appreciate his abilities and willingness to lend a hand to anyone. Back home in Gobwin Knob, his boss refers to him "as the shit guy" and his job is basically taking everyone's waste and making terrible smelling golems out of it. He starts getting more respect at home once Parson takes over as Chief Warlord, but that comes at the cost of his popularity in the Magic Kingdom (as more and more people become unwilling to associate with him due to his side's actions and expansion)
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'': Schlock is considered an abomination by other carbosilicate amorphs on his home planet, due to the peculiar circumstances of his "birth" resulting in [[Ambiguous Innocence|an adult specimen lacking the necessary intellectual maturity to develop a proper moral compass]]. He got recruited by Tagon's Toughs at a time when they only accepted humans, and has since fit nicely in the crew; although his immaturity makes him hard to work with at times, he is on good terms with grunts and officers alike.
== Western Animation ==
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* The Argentinean soldiers who returned from the Falklands' war suffered from this, in one of the most degrading demonstrations of hypocrisy and ungratefulness from the same society they came. Said society was brainwashed and manipulated by the Corrupt Government of that era, anyways, but the ungratefulness and hypocrisy are still there.
* ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' was burned in John Steinbeck's hometown, and when he moved back there he wasn't treated well because everyone thought he was a communist.
* [[wikipedia:Josephine Baker|Josephine Baker]] was ignored and briefly hated in America because she was black and tried to take on [[Mega Corp|William Randolph Hearst]], but was revered as a ''goddess'' in France because of her pioneering dance style. Her working as [[
* Variation with [[Rammstein]]: One of the (if not ''the'') world's most famous [[Industrial Metal]] bands, with sold-out concerts in many parts of the world... yet they can't catch a break in their native Germany. As Paul Landers, their rhythm guitarist, said:
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* Former [[Canadian Politics|Canadian Prime Minister]] Pierre Trudeau
* Singer Anastasia is much more popular in Europe and Asia than her native America, so much so that you'd probably be hard-pressed to find someone in America who's heard of her.
* The British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] is internationally respected as an important stateswomen. [[Time Magazine]] even listed her among the most influential people of the 20th century. In the United Kingdom however she is hardly popular at all and even hated by most of the Britons. Her government is not held in high esteem compared to other British Prime Ministers. In a list of the 100 Worst Britons she was number 3 (compare this to her position in the list with 100 Greatest Britons: 16).
** YMMV. Plenty of people around the world regard Thatcher as badly as most Britons. Arguably worse.
* The same goes for [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], who is internationally respected for his reforms in the former USSR, which brought the [[Cold War]] to an end. Yet in Russia itself he is not held in high esteem because the poverty rate of his country didn't diminish after the USSR fell. And some older Russians feel that they lost a their global greatness after the mighty Soviet Union collapsed.
* During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s [[Benny Hill]]'s comedy shows were an international hit due to the risqué bathroom humor and absence of any dialogue. In his home country England his comedic talent was never met with much respect and most Englishmen were even embarrassed by his popularity.
* Famed Japanese film director [[Akira Kurosawa]], up until his death, was [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|far more popular and acclaimed in the West]] than in his native country and was even accused by Japanese film critics of being "too Western". When ''Dodes'ka-den'' bombed in 1970, most of his small amount of Japanese popularity and acclaim vanished completely and he was considered to be a hack that was beloved in the West for what Japanese critics believed was mere exotica and [[Hype Aversion|over-rating by their American counterparts]]. After his death, [[Vindicated by History|his Japanese reputation]] [[Dead Artists Are Better|increased dramatically]].
* Dante Alighieri was Florence’s [[Butt Monkey]] (
* Likewise, James Joyce is celebrated in Ireland today as a national hero. For most of his life, however, Ireland regarded him as persona non grata.
* As an Anglo-Irish singer-songwriter (albeit born in Buenos Aires), [[Chris De Burgh]] was generally never popular in the UK (or in the US), other than a few hits such as "Don't Pay the Ferryman" and "The Lady in Red", which both gained exposure on [[MTV]]. He has, however, long been popular in mainland European countries, especially in Norway, as well as in Brazil and [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|in Iran]].
* While [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on if he qualifies as a hero, [[Whale Wars|Paul Watson]] is not liked in many parts of Canada. Especially the seal-hunting areas.
* While ''[[Hercules (
* [[Donald Trump]], who lost his home state in both Presidential elections, seems unwelcome in New York City post-Presidency. [https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-donald-trump-six-years-escalator-20210613-dlo4u37b5zh2da7mfy3tmq7pey-story.html Many New Yorkers are calling for his arrest, or at very least, telling him to stay away.]
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