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