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