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