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