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