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