Examples of a trope: posthumous vindication
Post date: 2022-06-23 12:48:06
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Today, in connection with Control in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the thought popped into my head: "Oh, I like the kind of story where someone is disgraced or their theories refuted and they die in tragic obscurity or ignominy, but then it turns out later that they were right and their actions or research end up having helped save the world."

But then I thought..."the kind of story?" What other fictional examples are there of this particular type of plot, so that I have subconsciously classified it as a trope? I couldn't think of any, though I feel I must have seen some. Meg's father in A Wrinkle in Time comes close, but he didn't really help save the world. Sarah Connor would've fit, if she had been dead when Terminator 2 began, but of course she wasn't.

What about you, Mefi? Can you think of any?
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