Tropescilloscope: Translation Convention

The characters speak in a foreign language, but the audience hears it in their own language for their benefit. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes All Just a Dream Heroic BSoD I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Name I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Mr. Exposition Shell-Shocked Veteran Morality Pet Brainless Beauty Genre Shift Slap-Slap-Kiss Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Leave the Camera Running Fingore Mistaken for Gay Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Action Prologue Revenge Nice Hat Character Development Hell Is That Noise Older Than They Look Historical Hero Upgrade Television Movie Index Stylistic Suck Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Suspiciously Specific Denial Hero Antagonist Artistic License – Law Retired Badass Whole Plot Reference Comically Missing the Point More Dakka Stealth Pun The Smart Guy Cool Car Bald of Evil Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dramatic Gun Cock Police are Useless Disguised in Drag Death Glare Police Brutality Chewing the Scenery Freeze-Frame Bonus Ship Tease Anti-Villain Only in It for the Money Half the Man He Used to Be "Well Done, Son!" Guy Adaptation Name Change Aluminum Christmas Trees Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Big Guy The Dreaded The '50s Vampire Fiction Black Best Friend Deliberately Monochrome Bloodier and Gorier Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fantastic Racism Captain Obvious Apocalypse How Henpecked Husband Scenery Porn The Mafia Agony of the Feet You Have Failed Me Narrator The Bully Dirty Coward Rewatch Bonus Took a Level in Badass Children Are Innocent Instant Death Bullet Precision F-Strike Redshirt Army Poor Communication Kills Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bolivian Army Ending Let's Get Dangerous! From Nobody to Nightmare Foil The Dragon Adaptation Dye-Job Get Out! Wicked Cultured Protagonist Title Bilingual Bonus Camera Abuse Laughing Mad Action Survivor Double Entendre Loads and Loads of Characters Blood Knight Black and Gray Morality Hate Sink Kill It with Fire Deliberate Values Dissonance For the Evulz Shut Up, Hannibal! The Great Depression Retcon Deadpan Snarker Damsel in Distress Twist Ending Corrupt Corporate Executive Unreliable Narrator Rule of Funny "Shaggy Dog" Story Not So Stoic Those Two Bad Guys Neck Snap Heterosexual Life-Partners Heel–Face Turn In Medias Res Becoming the Mask You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! How We Got Here Nothing Is Scarier Ominous Latin Chanting Foreshadowing Arc Words Properly Paranoid '80s Hair Drill Sergeant Nasty Your Cheating Heart Science Fiction Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The X of Y Would Hurt a Child Fourth Date Marriage For Want of a Nail Badass Normal Rule of Three Break the Cutie Biopic The Stoner Bury Your Gays Obfuscating Stupidity Mighty Whitey Spared by the Adaptation Parental Incest Important Haircut "The Reason You Suck" Speech Punny Name Romantic False Lead Truth in Television And the Adventure Continues Once More, with Clarity! Dumb Blonde In Name Only Car Fu Pet the Dog Hooker with a Heart of Gold Deus ex Machina Sir Swears-a-Lot Composite Character Ambiguous Ending The Quiet One Early-Bird Cameo Ghost Fiction The Film of the Book Ax-Crazy Light Is Not Good Greater-Scope Villain Defiant to the End Reality Has No Subtitles Curse Cut Short From Bad to Worse Eye Scream Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Smurfette Principle Took a Level in Jerkass Jerkass Has a Point Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Spiteful Spit Attempted Rape Adults Are Useless Japanese Films Sinister Minister BFG Facial Horror Screw the Money, I Have Rules! What the Hell, Hero? Green-Eyed Monster Drugs Are Bad Animated Credits Opening Hair-Trigger Temper The Reveal Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Artistic License – Gun Safety The Un-Reveal Off-into-the-Distance Ending Knife Nut What You Are in the Dark All There in the Manual Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Celebrity Paradox Dropped a Bridge on Him And I Must Scream Big-Bad Ensemble The Oner Madness Mantra Failed a Spot Check Death Seeker Super Strength Cloudcuckoolander Bad Boss Adaptational Heroism Bond One-Liner The Ace O.O.C. Is Serious Business It Can Think Self-Deprecation Sci-Fi Horror French Films Country Matters Four-Temperament Ensemble Funny Foreigner Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Cool Guns Jerk Jock Darkest Hour Needs Wiki Magic Love Fate Worse than Death Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism After the End Crucified Hero Shot Mood Whiplash Fun with Acronyms Evil vs. Evil Bring My Brown Pants Put on a Bus Film Noir Rape as Drama Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Thriller May–December Romance Belligerent Sexual Tension Gorn Adaptational Attractiveness Love at First Sight An Aesop Have a Gay Old Time Death by Sex Made of Iron War Is Hell Arch-Enemy Bi the Way Eldritch Abomination Conspicuous CG Bad "Bad Acting" Dirty Old Man Retirony Index of Film Westerns Final Girl My Greatest Failure Intergenerational Friendship Spanner in the Works Double-Meaning Title Arranged Marriage Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dying Moment of Awesome Big Bad Combat Pragmatist Flipping the Bird Beware the Nice Ones Domestic Abuse Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Costume Porn Due to the Dead Soundtrack Dissonance Evil Sounds Deep Token Minority The '70s Rule of Cool Your Head A-Splode Five-Man Band Blatant Lies Here We Go Again! No Name Given Groin Attack Dark Reprise Christmas Movies Index Antagonist Title Hollywood Law Lampshade Hanging Jerkass Air-Vent Passageway Chase Scene Parental Abandonment Accidental Murder Wrong Genre Savvy Music Stories Easily Forgiven Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The End... Or Is It? Scary Black Man Silence Is Golden Breaking the Fourth Wall Paper-Thin Disguise Insane Troll Logic Mugging the Monster Cat Scare Action Girl Only One Name Smoking Is Cool Every Car Is a Pinto Based on a True Story Slasher Smile Body Horror Affably Evil Authority Equals Asskicking Bullying a Dragon Made of Explodium Animal Motifs Disney Death Bottomless Magazines Villain Protagonist Berserk Button Woman Scorned Badass in a Nice Suit Credits Gag Demonic Possession Evil-Detecting Dog Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Offscreen Teleportation Badass Grandpa Stuff Blowing Up Sassy Black Woman Not Even Bothering with the Accent Slashed Throat Horror Comedy Race Lift Ass Shove Off with His Head! Imagine Spot Novelization Broken Aesop Pretty in Mink The Cavalry NO INDOOR VOICE Married to the Job No Celebrities Were Harmed Pretty Little Headshots Anachronic Order Dull Surprise Disproportionate Retribution Victoria's Secret Compartment Killed Mid-Sentence Evil Counterpart Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cool Old Guy Same Language Dub Well-Intentioned Extremist Back from the Dead Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ripped from the Headlines Mind Screw Face–Heel Turn Take a Third Option Downer Ending In the Back Red Oni, Blue Oni Framing Device Running Gag Wounded Gazelle Gambit Redemption Equals Death Wham Line Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dogged Nice Guy Obstructive Bureaucrat Evil Is Petty Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? German Films Action Genre An Axe to Grind No OSHA Compliance Manipulative Bastard Artistic License – Biology Trailers Always Spoil Big Bad Duumvirate Red Herring Not Using the "Z" Word Male Frontal Nudity Stock Footage Tagline Those Two Guys Naïve Newcomer Captain Ersatz Annoying Younger Sibling Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Woman in White Artistic License – Geography Funny Background Event Pay Evil unto Evil Exact Words One Steve Limit Visual Pun Alas, Poor Villain Tranquil Fury Vomit Indiscretion Shot Depraved Bisexual Enemy Mine Broken Bird Those Wacky Nazis Black Comedy Our Zombies Are Different Big Damn Heroes Unwitting Instigator of Doom Fanservice Extra It's Personal Fish out of Water Mad Scientist Unspoken Plan Guarantee Does This Remind You of Anything? Advertised Extra Genre Savvy Spell My Name with an "S" Insult Backfire As Long as It Sounds Foreign Canadian Movies Silent Movie Cassandra Truth Award-Bait Song The Musical Mexican Standoff Even Evil Has Standards Death by Irony Author Avatar Batman Gambit The Bad Guy Wins The Sociopath Daddy's Girl Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Card-Carrying Villain Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Rousing Speech Mythology Gag Fiery Redhead Hoist by His Own Petard Cool Old Lady Plot Hole Red Right Hand Motor Mouth Vitriolic Best Buds Mooks Brutal Honesty Creative Closing Credits Driven to Suicide Manchild Alpha Bitch Accidental Misnaming I Have Your Wife Freudian Excuse The Stinger Badass Longcoat Screw This, I'm Outta Here! One-Word Title Missing Mom Chekhov's Gun Demoted to Extra Storming the Castle Fainting Badass Bookworm Hypocritical Humor Drowning My Sorrows A Minor Kidroduction Film Series The Starscream Dwindling Party Age Lift Faux Affably Evil Red Eyes, Take Warning Frame-Up Wretched Hive Rasputinian Death Reality Ensues Suddenly SHOUTING! Bloodless Carnage Dies Wide Open Refuge in Audacity The Lost Lenore Psychological Thriller The Brute Bland-Name Product Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Vamp The Chick Gender Flip Slasher Movie The Remake Darker and Edgier Villain Opening Scene Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Humans Are Bastards Unresolved Sexual Tension Fanservice The Voiceless Dark Action Girl Face Death with Dignity Rich Bitch As Himself Shipper on Deck Developing Doomed Characters 20 Minutes into the Future No-Sell The Ghost Sports Stories Kids Are Cruel Evil Is Hammy Zombie Stories My God, What Have I Done? Men Are the Expendable Gender Amusing Injuries Book-Ends Boom, Headshot! Insistent Terminology Daylight Horror Call-Forward Adaptational Villainy Gainax Ending Unusual Euphemism Male Gaze Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Vacation Films Setting Update All for Nothing timeperiod Big "NO!" Empathic Environment Black Comedy Rape Mystery and Detective Films Coming-of-Age Story Foregone Conclusion I Need a Freaking Drink Calling the Old Man Out Loophole Abuse MacGuffin Man on Fire Actually Pretty Funny Artistic License – History Early Installment Weirdness Serial Killer Overprotective Dad Plucky Comic Relief Almost Kiss Ambiguously Gay Karma Houdini Never Found the Body Translation Convention Lock and Load Montage Good Is Not Nice Ascended Extra Mr. Fanservice Oh, Crap! Psycho for Hire Not So Different Brother–Sister Incest The Place Death of a Child You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Expository Hairstyle Change Better to Die than Be Killed Humiliation Conga Determinator aka: The Determinator Heel Realization Show Within a Show Fake Shemp Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Hero Dies The Faceless Big Eater Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Major Injury Underreaction Big Brother Instinct Affectionate Parody Creepy Child Pyrrhic Victory The Alleged Car Big Fancy House Kick the Son of a Bitch Hollywood Darkness Very Loosely Based on a True Story Noodle Incident Taking You with Me Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Recycled IN SPACE! Last-Name Basis I Did What I Had to Do Reasonable Authority Figure Implacable Man Kill 'em All Match Cut Adapted Out Only Known by Their Nickname Non-Indicative Name Red Shirt Outrun the Fireball Continuity Nod B-Movie Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Offscreen Moment of Awesome Re-Cut Gone Horribly Right Improbable Aiming Skills Earn Your Happy Ending As the Good Book Says... Disney Villain Death Interrupted Suicide Logo Joke Cruel and Unusual Death Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adult Fear Villain with Good Publicity Gilligan Cut Toplessness from the Back Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Hypocrite Canon Foreigner No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Not So Above It All Informed Ability Hong Kong Films Training Montage Did Not Get the Girl Not Quite Dead She Cleans Up Nicely Dirty Cop Parental Substitute Villainous Breakdown Star-Crossed Lovers Market-Based Title Catapult Nightmare Extreme Doormat Names to Run Away from Really Fast Jump Scare Australian Movies Abhorrent Admirer Vomit Discretion Shot Handicapped Badass British Films Camp Gay Posthumous Character Brick Joke Drives Like Crazy Scenery Gorn Big Applesauce Punch-Clock Villain Race Against the Clock Flashback Fan Disservice Central Theme Evil Brit Reckless Gun Usage Death by Adaptation The Load Make It Look Like an Accident Shout-Out No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Gold Digger Crazy-Prepared Sacrificial Lion Cowboy Cop Closed Circle Bare Your Midriff Time Skip Only Sane Man A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Stoic Beauty Is Never Tarnished Covers Always Lie Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Unusually Uninteresting Sight Catch-Phrase Film Noir Index Happily Married Stalker with a Crush Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Hero Word of God Scare Chord Together in Death Alliterative Name Never Trust a Trailer Serious Business Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Plan Random Events Plot Historical-Domain Character A God Am I Bunny-Ears Lawyer Extremely Short Timespan Actor Allusion Be Careful What You Wish For "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Butt-Monkey The Mole Italian Films Would Hit a Girl Danny Peary Cult Movies List An Arm and a Leg Pre-Mortem One-Liner Expy Leitmotif The Cameo Auto Erotica "Awesome McCool" Name Rule of Symbolism Obviously Evil Amoral Attorney Dramatic Irony Cluster F-Bomb Shown Their Work Anguished Declaration of Love True Companions Improbable Weapon User Homage Bloody Hilarious Anyone Can Die Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Adaptation Expansion Dressing as the Enemy He Who Fights Monsters Epic Fail Artistic License – Military Idiot Ball Karmic Death Historical Villain Upgrade Chekhov's Gunman A Father to His Men Mundane Made Awesome The Power of Love Meaningful Echo Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Dog Bites Back Bavarian Fire Drill Our Vampires Are Different Anachronism Stew Nice Guy All There in the Script Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cool Shades Fatal Flaw You Killed My Father The '60s Famous Last Words Abusive Parents The Alcoholic Product Placement Not What It Looks Like Creator Cameo Evil Laugh No Ending Peek-a-Boo Corpse Monumental Damage Crazy Jealous Guy What Happened to the Mouse? Sequel Hook Faking the Dead Dutch Angle Only a Flesh Wound Say My Name Sanity Slippage Immune to Bullets Cat Fight Mercy Kill Taking the Bullet Psychopathic Manchild Laser-Guided Karma Fantasy Films Hidden Depths Martial Arts Movie Honor Before Reason Stealth Hi/Bye He Knows Too Much Diabolus ex Machina Cold-Blooded Torture Real Life Roaring Rampage of Revenge Left the Background Music On Naked People Are Funny Manly Tears N-Word Privileges Rated M for Manly Straight Gay Superhero Riddle for the Ages Ms. Fanservice Eyepatch of Power Sole Survivor Military and Warfare Films Contrived Coincidence Parental Neglect Sequel Escalation Didn't Think This Through Deconstruction Worthy Opponent Eiffel Tower Effect Meaningful Background Event Yandere Guile Hero Deal with the Devil Anti-Hero Romantic Comedy Author Appeal Large Ham Betty and Veronica Eureka Moment All Girls Want Bad Boys Friend to All Children Room Full of Crazy Line-of-Sight Name The '90s Decoy Protagonist Break the Haughty I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bound and Gagged Works Set in World War II Too Dumb to Live Beta Couple Sealed Evil in a Can Curb-Stomp Battle Does Not Like Shoes Bait-and-Switch Documentary Take That! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Reality Is Unrealistic Eagleland Villain Ball All Men Are Perverts Papa Wolf Soft Glass Video Credits As You Know Black Dude Dies First It's All About Me Disappeared Dad Sadistic Choice World of Ham Jitter Cam Beard of Evil Wham Shot Blood from the Mouth The '80s Badass Boast There Is No Kill Like Overkill Really Gets Around Mama Bear Neck Lift It Will Never Catch On Dramedy Undying Loyalty Animal Title Index Horror Films Sexy Discretion Shot Defrosting Ice Queen Russian Films Guns Akimbo Up to Eleven Blackmail Irony Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Getting Crap Past the Radar Distracted by the Sexy Bar Brawl Determinator Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Heroic Sacrifice Destination Defenestration Small Name, Big Ego Tap on the Head folderlabel Spiritual Successor Dark Is Not Evil Department of Redundancy Department Awesome, but Impractical Everyone Has Standards Lighter and Softer The Atoner Hope Spot Grievous Bottley Harm This Is Gonna Suck Adaptational Badass Dark and Troubled Past Bond Villain Stupidity One-Man Army Artistic License – Physics Broken Pedestal Tempting Fate Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Maybe Ever After Shoot the Shaggy Dog Despair Event Horizon And Starring Chekhov's Skill Fatal Family Photo Fire-Forged Friends Shirtless Scene Bowdlerise Smug Snake Adaptation Distillation Shower Scene Villain Song Ungrateful Bastard Title Drop Corpsing Heroes Want Redheads Dissonant Serenity La Résistance Public Domain Feature Films Meet Cute The Lancer The Ditz Ironic Echo Politically Incorrect Villain Genre Throwback Moment Killer Ambiguous Disorder Armor-Piercing Question Improvised Weapon Intrepid Reporter Grey and Gray Morality Casting Gag Kubrick Stare Dual Wielding Kick the Dog Historical In-Joke Crapsack World Fat Bastard Call-Back Malevolent Masked Men Establishing Character Moment Femme Fatale My Beloved Smother Skewed Priorities The Casanova Aside Glance Knight Templar Pragmatic Adaptation The Chessmaster Bittersweet Ending Gratuitous English Pimped-Out Dress She's Got Legs Gory Discretion Shot Playing Gertrude Asshole Victim No Antagonist Never My Fault Love Triangle Stepford Smiler Totally Radical Cain and Abel Babies Ever After A Date with Rosie Palms Adorkable Epic Movie Pragmatic Villainy Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Hero of Another Story Chiaroscuro Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Overly Long Gag