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)

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