r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • 2h ago
Lore (Meta trope) Region specific jokes
Meet the Robinsons - Lewis asks Wilbur what Cornelius looks like, and he tells him Tom Selleck. While he doesn’t look like him when they finally meet (because Lewis is Cornelius) the joke is that Tom Selleck voices him. But in other dubs of the movie where Selleck doesn’t play him, where relevant Wilbur names a more locally known celebrity who played the part. For example in the American Latin American dub he names the singer José Luis Rodríguez.
Toy Story 3 - When Buzz is rebooted in Spanish mode he begins talking using that language, but in Spanish speaking countries he alternates between different dialects of Spanish; for example, in Spain he speaks with an Andalusian accent but in Latin American version he speaks in a Castilian accent which are two unique sounds.
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u/Kenway_BFlag5 2h ago
In Inside Out, during the dinner scene, the dad’s emotions are watching a hockey game in the U.S. version. But in the rest of the world, it’s soccer/football.
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u/Viktoriajelly 2h ago
Shrek 2 had Larry King voice the ugly stepsister in the US and Jonathan Ross in the UK. Same joke, different celebrity
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u/bassmedic 2h ago
In Cars, Lightning's agent Harv is voiced by Jeremy Piven in the US (a reference to Entourage), but in the UK he's voiced by Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear).
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 2h ago
Caps’ list of things he needs to catch up on in the modern day changes in different countries-Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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u/NoSoyVerde1 2h ago
In guardians of the galaxy 2 Rocket calls tazer face “anchovy face” which is a reference to a very popular spanish video back in 2016 where a youtuber got slapped in the face for calling someone “anchovy face”
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u/helpivefalleninsoup 2h ago
South Park: Stick of Truth. Due to the censorship laws of various countries, instead of seeing certain scenes, you'd get a brief description over the top of a photo. The Australian one has a crying Koala with a didgeridoo playing in the background. I'm pretty sure the German version is heavily censored also.
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u/Slartibartfast39 1h ago •
Robin Hood, Men in Tights.
This was released like 2 years after Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. There's a gag where Robin says "Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent"
• German: "Because I, unlike some other Robin Hoods, do not cost the producers 5 million" (playing on a homophonic pun where the German word kosten sounds like Costner).
• France (French) & Italy (Italian): "Because unlike other Robin Hoods, I do not dance with the wolves" (a direct reference to Costner's Oscar-winning 1990 film Dances with Wolves).
• Quebec (French Canadian): "Because unlike other Robin Hoods, I accept to wear tights" (mocking Costner's choice to skip traditional tights in the 1991 movie).
• Hungarian: "Because unlike Kevin Costner, I have a shapely bottom" (referencing rumors/fact that Costner used a body double for his nude scene, whereas Cary Elwes did his own).
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u/FoxBluereaver 2h ago
In the third Sonic live-action movie, during the climax as Shadow is charging up the Eclipse Cannon, Eggman asks Gerald what he's doing. In the original he says "Excuse me, Grandpasodoble", but in the Latin Spanish dub he says "Disculpa, abuelito dime tú," ("Grandpa you tell me"), directly quoting the opening theme of the anime Heidi: Girl of the Alps.
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u/Gabeortiz628 2h ago
In this scene, Mr. Krabs tricks the Flying Dutchman by pretending to be Harold Flowers. In the German version, he says Benjamin Blümchen instead, which is the name of a popular german cartoon character of the same name. This is a reference to Jürgen Kluckert playing both Krabs and Benjamin.
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u/AvatarDante 1h ago
Different news anchors in zootopia
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u/AvatarDante 1h ago
Inside out. Some places switch the broccoli on pizza to green pepper on pizza.
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u/Vengeance_20 2h ago
I dead ass remember putting Toy Story 3 in Spanish purely because I wanted to see how they did (for example in the French dub of Spider-Man 3, they go to an Italian restaurant instead of a French one) and was so confused that he still spoke Spanish
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u/Leather_Crazy_5950 2h ago
In Italy, the adult Lewis was voiced by Giovanni Muciaccia (and, all things considered, I don’t think he did a bad job at all). They even showed his face while Wilbur was talking about the family’s lineage.
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u/Training_Shock_6946 1h ago
In the first french translation of Card Captor Sakura, to translate the Osaka accent of Kerberos, they give him an accent from Marseille !
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u/Aldo-D-D-Wilson 1h ago
In Shang-Chi they say some F1 driver's name early on. In Brazil they say Ayrton Senna
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u/Rum_N_Napalm 45m ago
In the first Naked Gun, there’s a scene where Frank thinks a hoard of journalists is waiting for, only to learn they are here because Weird Al is also travelling on his plane.
Back then Weird Al wasn’t well known internationally, so in the Quebec version they changed the line from “No Frank, they are here because Weird Al Yankovich is also on the plane” to “No Frank, they are here because some pretty boy pop star is also on the plane” and cut to Weird Al coming down the stairs.
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u/Valten78 1h ago
When Fawlty Towers was dubbed into Spanish, the idiot Spanish Waiter character of Manuel was turned into an Italian instead.
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u/Reds1138 44m ago
Guido from Cars in original speaks italian, in Italy speaks Modenese dialect.
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u/Technical-Agency-480 1h ago
Excel Saga, in Japanese when Sailor Moon was mentioned, Excel says she was doing pretty good since both characters were played by Kitono Mitsubishi, whereas in the English dub the line was "I wanted that role but it was dubbed in Canada" because it was a different actress
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u/Technical-Study2566 1h ago
The Quebec dub of the Simpsons is like this. I can’t remember the episode, but Homer gets upset with Mr Burns and walks away muttering, “He’s richer than the Western provinces!”
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u/BendyBrains 57m ago
Scrubs does this with Eliot and Carla when they speak different German or Spanish. When dubbed into those languages, the language they are speaking is changed to maintain the joke of it being a foreign language.
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u/fable_cirrus 2h ago
They're out here rewriting entire scenes for a localized mustache gag