Pedestal

: Society often waits for those on pedestals to fail so they can be "knocked off," a process that is often more about the observer's sense of power than the idol's actual character.

Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading List - Longreads pedestal

Are you looking to explore a take on this, or perhaps a more literary analysis of the pedestal as a motif? : Society often waits for those on pedestals