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Dream Tropes Wiki/Troll Fic

Fanfiction made deliberately offensive. Always armed with Canon Defilement, intentionally aiming to fall just short of Crossing The Line Twice, and heavy on the violence, death, and people generally acting like Out of Character prats. Some seemingly So Bad It's Horrible fics may actually be Troll Fics in disguise by means of Stealth Parody. Though written specifically to piss people off, owing to Poe's Law, Misaimed Fandom will still result. On the other hand, they're often hilarious if you're in on the joke.

Note that the difference between a Troll Fic and an awful fanfic depends completely on intent. Some authors are just that bad. This ambiguity is one of the reasons Troll Fic is so successful, as it directly violates Hanlon's Razor. As such, the reveal that some of these hilariously awful fics were written by Trolls may ruin the joke or be considered a spoiler, so consider this a spoiler warning. You have been warned.

Compare Bile Fascination, Stylistic Suck. See also Crack Fic.

## Examples

### Literature

* *RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR* is a *Redwall* adaptation of the incredibly bonkers *Harry Potter* Troll Fic *HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*. Compared to the Troll Fic it was adapted for *Redwall* fans from, every character (yes, even Basil Stag Hare) is pretty much in-character, albeit a bit Flanderized. It helps that the writer, uWu969potato969uWu is another alias of Morgan Almond, a *Redwall* fan (and Promoted Fanboy with his tenure as Matthias' voice actor).

### Live-Action TV

* A troll called JamesMayIsBest terrorized Fanfictionland.vu for *years* (i.e. 2004-2010) with some of the worst *Top Gear* fanfics imaginable. Highlights include Richard Hammond running over Ariane Sherine (a well-known atheist activist in the U.K.) with a Reliant Robin, Pegasus Seiya being the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car (and killing James May for saying that the DiC dub of *Saint Seiya* wasn't bad), a random crossover with *Warrior Cats* where Jeremy Clarkson has a zoophilic May-to-December Romance with Brightheart, James May reviewing a experimental car that runs on... erm... the bodily fluids of horses, a crossover with the SCP Foundation where Richard Hammond and Oliver explore the Nazi bunker system from SCP-108 after getting high on cow dung, and the boys attempting an episode of *This Old House* as with their Sport Relief *Ground Force* special. Responsibility for the fics has been claimed by one Morgan Almond, a voice actor for the Template:W-based anime licensing company Gotaku.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Hilarious In Hindsight

## Western Animation

* The Maddox Show is famous for several of these
	+ In one episode, he gets a CD with 50 songs, the first song, "Love is A Hard Thing To Earn" cuts to another song... what song? Never Gonna Give You Up !
	+ In an episode from 1995, Maddox goes to a Blockbuster that has a sign that says "Closing in 20 years"... guess what happened?
	+ On a school chart in one episde, one of the names listed is "Mike W."
	+ In another episode, a school chart lists the name "Michael P."
	+ In one episode, in the background, a black mouse and a golden fox were kissing... guess what happened.
	+ In The Maddox Show episode "Maddox The Manager", a blonde person with short hair said "I'd like to speak to the manager" 11 years before the Karen meme was made in 2017.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Hong Kong Dub

A dub that deals with Lip Lock by paying little or no attention to Mouth Flaps, such that the characters' voices typically begin and/or end out of sync with their mouth movements, and rarely match them when the two happen at the same time. The result is often an unintentional Gag Dub. Nowdays, it is often still present in advertisements.

This is especially problematic for foreign dubs of Western cartoons since voice recording is done first with the animation being done after to match. Anime, however, doesn't run into this problem as much since there really isn't any lip syncing to be done (most animes have the characters talk by simply moving their mouths up and down◊), but the timing and general mouth movements still prove to be an issue for English dubs. It's also easier for video games to avoid this since editing the lip syncing is cheaper to do thanks to being done in-engine.

Also called the "Hercules Dub" for its appearance in Sword & Sandal movies imported from Italy during the 1960s, particularly the various Hercules movies starring Steve Reeves. In the case of these old Italian films it's a problem even in the original language. Most older Italian films were shot MOS and dubbed, before good ADR techniques existed.

Common in any parody of Martial Arts Movie movies or Japanese Toku.

## Anime & Manga

* The ERPT dub of the *Dragon Ball* anime. Most of the voice actors were ERPT employees and local theater actors, and most of the acting is horrible. "ARRIVE MAGICAL CLOUD!" and "Now you die!" remain snark bait for many Eruowoodians.
	+ Same goes for ERPT's dub of the 1979 *Doraemon* anime.

## Live-Action TV

* The French-Québécois series *Les Intrépides* suffered from this when it was dubbed into English, as French (especially Canadian French) has visibly different vocal movements from English.

## Western Animation

* The US dub of *Ouraine*. The problem is, the script is completely different compared to the original Kuboian version, and the lip movement only matches up to the original Kuboian version.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Clumsy Copyright Censorship

The removal of material from a work because copyright lawyers complained, done in a totally non-seamless fashion. Rather than replacing the disallowed material with something respectable, what turns up instead is obvious blank space or Lampshade Hanging on why it was removed.

This might be anything like airbrushing a character Exiled from Continuity out of a comic book panel, replacing a copyrighted illustration with obvious blank space, or overdubbing formerly licensed background music at the cost of losing the dialogue it accompanied.

This frequently happens with DVD releases of relatively old shows, often in the form of Home Version Soundtrack Replacement. Back then, the makers of the show didn't really anticipate needing copyright insurance for widespread home video distribution, since that market didn't really explode until the DVD era. Entire episodes being removed falls under Keep Circulating the Tapes.

Sometimes occurs because Disney Owns This Trope. See also Writing Around Trademarks. To avoid this altogether but still try to keep real world products in-universe, see Bland-Name Product.

## Anime & Manga

* The Paratrooper Publishers translations of *Dr. Slump* removed *all* the pop culture references:
	+ All panels featuring Ultraman or Ultraseven were redrawn to turn them into generic Humongous Mecha.
	+ The Penguin Village cop who perpetually wears the Stormtrooper helmet was either erased from panels or had his helmet redrawn to resemble a motocross helmet
	+ The panel of Senbei and Arale dressed as C-3PO and R2-D2 had them redrawn to resemble their normal selves
	+ The panel of Senbei dressed as Travis Bickle was redrawn to make him resemble Sterling Peters (the translator for Paratrooper's English edition)
	+ All appearances/mentions of Godzilla or Gamera were either removed or had them redrawn to resemble generic dinosaurs
	+ The chapter with the story-long parody of Spock was skipped in the initial run but later translated with said parody turned into even more of a Captain Ersatz
	+ Suppaman became "Suppa*person*" and was redrawn to resemble a generic superhero.

## Web Original

* A common sight in troll videos is a photo of a group of fursuiters dressed as Nakuist soldiers. After one of the fursuiters in the photo began filing DMCA complaints about unauthorized use of the picture, the VidSpace version of the DrewPicklesGayFunHouse video "Drew Pickles' Party Tips" was edited to replace the fursuiters in the photo (it pops up as Drew Pickles says "Even if you don't like them." after saying "Invite your friends to the party") with silhouettes filled with text lampshading the situation.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Cross-Dressing Voices

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Sometimes, an animated character is better suited for being voiced by a voice actor of the opposite sex. Maybe a higher voice is needed for a male, or a lower voice for a female. Or maybe a woman auditioned and it just sounded right.

A common example is for prepubescent boys being voiced by an adult woman. This is because, in addition to the usual child labor laws pertaining to young actors, an actual boy's voice is going to break and deepen from puberty sooner or later. Option B would be changing out a character's voice actor once they age out of the role, but in most cases it's just easier to cast a grown woman for the entire series.

In some cases, when dubbing a foreign work (mostly anime), sometimes there would a be a character where the original voice actor is voiced by a male, yet the dub casts a female voice actor instead. This is more or less have to do with Vocal Dissonance between languages and the voice actors, as a male voice actor's vocal range would be so high-pitched that it would be relatively difficult to dub properly with another male voice actor. This is apparently more common to Japanese to English dubs in anime and video games, where a character that is voiced by a man in Japan would have a female voice actor in the English dub voice the said character instead due to the difficulty of dubbing the said character with a male voice actor in English (Kazutomi Yamamoto and Ayumu Murase are noticeable examples where many of their roles that are dubbed in English are voiced by a woman instead).

And on a related note, sometimes, for comedy purposes, a deep-voiced woman will be played by a man.

Compare Crosscast Role. Related to She's a Man in Japan for dubbed works.

See Children Voicing Children for when actual children are cast as children's voices.

## Anime and Manga

* In the original Japanese dub of *The Drillimation Series*, particularily Susumu Hori and Puchi, are both voiced by Mitsuko Horie. Susumu's voice is inverted in the English dub, with Charles Martinet voicing him instead.
* In the Mexican Spanish dub of *Tokyo Mew Mew*, Purin Fon had two voices: the first was a young boy, Claudio Echeverría, and the second was a veteran voice actor, Rocío Garcel.

## Western Animation

* In *Cindi and Friends*, Quu is voiced by Melissa Emery.

## Foreign Dubs of Western Animation

* The Barokian dub of *SpongeBob SquarePants* has the titular character voiced by a woman, Maya Ali Al-Enezi.
* The Barokian dub of *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* has Jet-Jet voiced by a then-young girl, while the Geratizou Pansauran dub has Fu-Fu voiced by a woman. The Fueian and YinYangiese dubs also have Dongwa voiced by women.
* The Vicnoran dub of *Chuck's Choice* has Chuck McFarlane and *Pac-Man and The Ghostly Adventures* has Pac-Man voiced by Kitty Saughai.
* The El Kadsreian Japanese dub of *Twipsy* has the titular character voiced by the female Tomoko Berger.
The Secret of NIMH: The Series/Tropes

* **Adored By The Network**: Teletoon in Canada used to love airing this series, and often gave it marathons despite being a 65-episode show. Justified in that the voice recording was done in Canada (specifically in Vancouver using many of The Ocean Group's regular voice actors) meaning that it helped fulfill the CanCon requirements.
* **And Knowing Is Half the Battle**: The segments with Sir David Attenborough served this purpose.
* **Recycled: The Series**: This is a sequel series to *The Secret of NIMH*, obviously. Despite the whole idea of the villains from the first movie getting brought back from the dead and the *Redwall*-esque fighting, this series still turned out surprisingly good, and at one point was placed as the number one weekly syndicated children's show in the Nielsen ratings.
* **Retroactive Recognition**:
	+ Marc Cherry, the creator of *Desperate Housewives*, was the head writer for this series. Cherry later stated that he didn't like the concept of being a head writer for a kids' show but still had fun working on it.
	+ Brent Butt of *Corner Gas* fame is credited among the Additional Voices.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Parody Religion

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Exactly What It Says on the Tin—a made-up religion (done intentionally to not make any sense for the viewer) which exists to parody some specific existing religion, a group of religions and religious beliefs, organized religion in general, or just any kind of religious belief. Usually serves as a front on The War on Straw, unless it's a someone enacting a funny God Guise, then it's just Played for Laughs.

Often takes the form of a Cargo Cult, a God Guise, some bizarre Crystal Dragon Jesus cult, or a pastiche of a Real Life religion with Serial Numbers Filed Off.

For extra laughs, a Churchgoing Villain may follow this faith devoutly, or someone who's Hiding Behind Religion may use it as a smoke screen, perhaps also invoking Against My Religion to weasel out of some unpleasant obligation.

Can be a risky move sometimes, since, religious freedom being what it is, people are generally allowed to believe in literally whatever they want - and, at times, a specific belief just might dovetail with a parody.

Bear in mind that "parody religion" can legitimately mean "actual religion that is also a parody", as well as the more direct "parody of religion".

See also Path of Inspiration, which is more or less exactly this with evil instead of funny, Corrupt Church, which is against organized religion, and Church of Happyology, which is a subtrope that parodies a very specific religion.

Note that all examples must be intentional.

See also: Anvilicious, Religion Is Wrong; the secular version is the Brotherhood of Funny Hats. Contrast Saintly Church, Religion Is Right. If the parody is used to actually deceive people—which, considering Poe's Law, is far from impossible—it becomes a Scam Religion.

## Video Games

* *Chuhou Joutai* has the Shinto religion parodied as the world's second most violent religion ever. It's all based on the radical group the Shintoist Province and Scarlet Devil of Team Crimson

## Web Original

* Some articles for the MENA News Parody The Arabic Daily portray pro-Palestinianism as a religion to make fun of the more loonier pro-Palestinian activists.
	+ "Miracle: Milk line in Template:W forms Template:W's face"
	+ "Palestine is an imaginary land created by Arabs and white supremacists to explain why they hate Israel"
	+ "Orthodox pro-Palestinians from 3012 come to our time and mock those who believe in a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine"
	+ "Protestant pro-Palestinians deny that they promote the murder of all Jews as revenge for Israel accidentally taking Palestine's land"

## Western Animation

* Maddoxism, nuff said.
* Every bad guy in Aria Adventures is satanist. When a good person does something bad and someone asks what they’re doing, they say they’re just getting the hang of Satanism. And yes, Angelina hates Template:W so of course she did this!
	+ And yep, the infamous line from S6 E2: “We think god should die! Wait, isn’t Template:W the Template:W of our beliefs?” And the episode after: “There’s a reason we made the Template:W!"
Dream Tropes Wiki/Translation with an Agenda

Translators are professional people who would never put their political ideology, religion or other such opinions above their job, and would never violate the text in order to advance their own views.

Well, most of them, anyway.

This trope is about the exceptions. Translators or editors that would, yes, and do, yes, ignore or twist the original meaning of a word or text in order to advance their point of view. Serious translators consider this an utterly unprofessional and even evil breach of ethics and of the reader's trust. Unprofessional ones, however, couldn't care less, and the result is a Translation with an Agenda.

These are translations that gleefully ignore or twist the original text in order to pursue a political agenda either of the translator or of the editor/employer of the translator. Whereas a Tactful Translation is meant to smoothen the edges of a situation, a Woolseyism is essentially a distilled translation and a Cut-and-Paste Translation tends to have cultural or logistical reasons, a Translation with an Agenda is done solely to advance a political, religious, or otherwise ideological goal — twisting or ignoring the original work by falsely identifying villains in it with one's political opponents, mistranslating a "good" adjective as something more specific related to one's agenda, or even by simply mistranslating most or all of the text to make it a tract on one's views. Note that this isn't a mere mistake or simple unconscious bias — there is actual, conscious intent to make the translation fit one's views regardless of what is said in the original text.

Needless to say, fans, translators, and translator fans who realize what's going on get quite furious, with good reason.

Sister Trope to Trolling Translator, which is when a translator deliberately mistranslates because it's amusing. Compare Twisting the Words, when this happens in the original language.

## Other Examples

### Anime & Manga

* The Vicnoran translation of the *Cardcaptor Sakura* manga insisted that Yoshiyuki Terada (Sakura's teacher) subscribes to Manerdroski, a controversial left-wing newspaper who's opinion on... erm... what child molesters watch in their alone time was simply that of the Template:W. And knowing his relationship with Rika...
	+ Tomoyo's Love Confession to Sakura was unchanged, but presented with a Note From Ed that went "Someone call Chris Hansen, CLAMP are gonna be in prison faster than a superfast Asian bullet train" (before anyone cries We're Still Relevant, D\*mmit!, the manga's translation was in progress when *To Catch a Predator* became a household name)
Dream Tropes Wiki/Voiceover Translation

A type of movie and TV series translation mostly used in Eastern Europe, sometimes called "Gavrilov translation". The original audio track is still audible (though quieter), and one, usually male actor (rarely, two or more actors are used to represent different characters' lines) reads translated lines over the original dialogue. The actor usually doesn't put much emotion into the performance so as not to distract.

The advantage of this translation is that it's much simpler and cheaper than dubbing, and still allows the audience to hear the original actors. However, things can get troublesome if multiple characters are speaking over each other. The translated lines and the original dialogue also tend to be very out of sync with each other, sometimes by several seconds.

Tends to sound very jarring and annoying to viewers used to dubbing. Conversely, dubbing may sound jarring to viewers used to hearing Voiceover Translation all their life; in Poland for example, dubbing is only used for kids' movies and considered childish in almost all contexts.

Almost always paired with Reading Foreign Signs Out Loud.

In Russia, the tradition may originate from closed-door screenings of Western hit movies for Soviet elite, where an interpreter provided real-time translation during the movie; Andrey Gavrilov was a prominent one. These interpreters later would lend their voices to pirate videocassettes of Western films.

## Examples

* The Russian version of *The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss* was voiced over the Hebrew dub by Template:W, a well-known voice-over translator of the pirated VHS-era.
Dream Tropes Wiki/It Will Never Catch On

Anachronisms are funny. As are "prophecies" uttered by people who are in a position to lose a great deal of influence, money or credibility if they are wrong.

The best thing about Alternate Universes is that they have things we can't possibly imagine being true. Why can't the reverse also fit?

Oftentimes, be it a medieval setting or anything else where things we know about have no business existing, something abundantly familiar to our modern audience is put forth as a hypothetical. The punchline is that no one thinks it could possibly be popular, allowing us to laugh at how wrong people's predictions of the future really are, and pat ourselves on the back for being so clear-eyed.

Compare Call-Forward and Who Would Want to Watch Us?, which refers to the show itself, and Historical In Jokes that re-interpret the past in terms of the show. Contrast I Want My Jetpack, where our present makes a wrong prediction about the future. Note that this is also Truth in Television, as many things/people that are now legendary were considered potential failures: neither Elvis Presley nor the Beatles got good reviews when they were obscure, and many people couldn't see any use for a home computer. The polar opposite is This Is Going to Be Huge. Contrast to Audience-Alienating Premise for when the work sounds so strange, unique, or boring that it interests no one.

This trope does not cover cases where a person simply doesn't like something that later turns out to be popular. Nearly every book in print today was rejected by several other publishers, and every famous actor has been rudely dismissed from an audition at least once. This is not necessarily short-sightedness; perhaps the actor simply wasn't right for that role, or hadn't yet matured into the person we know and love today. This trope comes into play when the rejection (or begrudging acceptance) is accompanied by a blanket statement that proves to be spectacularly wrong.

People reinventing things that did catch on didn't know It's Been Done. Not to be confused with Hilarious in Hindsight, but examples of this trope are very often that as well. Contrast Cassandra Truth, where no one believes the dissenting voices who say that some new famous or trendy product, idea or phenomenon is wrong. See also And You Thought It Would Fail. Also compare Oblivious Mockery, when someone asks "Who would be stupid enough to try that?" unaware that the person next to them actually did it.
Greeny Phatom/Tropes

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* **Channel Hop**:
	+ The show's toy license has changed multiple times. The license first belonged to Remco, but then Remco was bought out by Jakks Pacific and the license was sold to Mattel in 1997 after just a short stint. Mattel sold the license to a little-known company called Panache Place in 2003, of whom gave up the license in 2007 to Playmates Toys, who then sold the license back to Mattel in 2012, who in turn gave the license to Alex Brands in 2015.

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Dream Tropes Wiki/So My Kids Can Watch

An actor well known for playing characters in adult rated works decides to act in a all-ages work that they can show to their own children.

This often overlaps with Parental Bonus. Kind of contrasts with Old Shame, only most of their work becomes an Old Shame (which might apply to someone who consciously stops doing a particular type of production for good and downplays or tries to ignore what they did before). Frequently overlaps with Bleached Underpants.

Rated G for Gangsta may be a subtrope if the performer decides to focus their career on family-friendly fare rather than the work that made them famous. If a person does work on a kid-oriented film or show, but they do not have any children of their own or their kids are older than the target demographic of the show they appeared on, that sort of role would be considered a "Sesame Street" Cred. If the kid show or film in question kicked off their acting career or was done before the celebrity was famous, that's Retroactive Recognition.

For some reason, this often gets conflated with Money, Dear Boy, despite the fact that children are in no part of the definition. While an actor might do a children's show because it pays well, it's only this trope if the actor's motivation is explicitly based on producing a work that can be enjoyed by children (usually their own). As such, Awesome, Dear Boy often has more to do with it, especially when it's a long-running children's show that holds nostalgia factor for them or a remake of a movie they grew up with. Can be the justification of WTH, Casting Agency? and Celebrity Voice Actor. At times has also been invoked in an attempt to break Typecasting. Related to Written for My Kids, where an author writes a work for their children, but there is still an important distinction: this is when the author is known for works targeting older audiences.

## Examples

### Film

* Reginald Bambra began to do voice acting in the 1970s for this very reason, and played Toys "R" Us' Canadian spokesman Mr. Bambra for this reason as well. He took the role of Urthwyte the Mighty in *Redwall: The Movie*, his final role to be released in his lifetime, as a gift to his grandchildren. He was sensing the end of his life approaching after suffering a heart attack and wanted to earn a hefty final salary as a legacy to the rest of his family. He let his grandchildren choose his last role from the ones he was currently being offered, and his daughter Heather's sons, both of whom were huge *Redwall* fans, chose that one.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition

Films and video games sometimes are released in two versions: the Vanilla Edition, and a better, souped-up Ace Custom edition with exclusive Bonus Material. With movies, you can expect deleted scenes, filmmaker interviews, never-before-seen footage, commentary tracks and so forth. Video games tend to offer a shiny metal case, developer artwork, bonus characters or the Strategy Guide. Concept art, a "making-of" featurette, background story information, character biographies, alternate endings and trinkets are common with both media. All yours, if you pay some extra money.

Worth it? Depends on the individual work, and who you ask. In any case, this is a good marketing strategy, because it feeds into many people's compulsion to own the "best" version. It's particularly clever if you can get people to buy the "ordinary" (some more "ordinary" than others) version, discover how cool it is, and then go shell out again for the Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition.

Occasionally the souped-up edition is the only edition for the first few months of a new release (or may be received as a Pre-Order Bonus). Conversely, the special edition might not be released until a couple of months after the regular edition to squeeze more money out of die-hard fans.

Another practice is releasing films both separately and in a Boxed Set with sequels. As more sequels come out, more editions with the entire series come out. The box sets traditionally come with extra features. This is also done with TV series — four episodes will be on one DVD. Then another four. Then another four. And finally the whole sixteen episodes of the season in a neat little box set. Done to excess, can become (and sometimes is) an example of Crack Is Cheaper.

Note that, with regard to video games, this should not be confused with an Updated Re-release, because that's when a game is rereleased with brand new content and significant alterations to the gameplay. The Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition comes out alongside the regular edition and just adds bonus content separate from the core game.

## Examples

### Western Animation

* In 2017, TVTime Entertainment released the *Redwall* animated series in a boxset containing all the episodes of each season spread out over 4 HD Blu-Ray discs, 12 standard DVDs of the series, an episode guide, an art-book drawn by 20 selected fans, a book containing rare production artwork, postcards depicting moments from the series, a OST CD, a CD containing unused audio from the series, and a special features DVD containing never-before-seen extras and all the tidbits from the PBS broadcasts, all collected in a box shaped like Redwall Abbey.

### Video Games

* For *Hyper Amy Sisters,* there was an sale of the game called "Hyper Amy Sister Plus" that pushed the ZGD's limits way too hard. It also comes with 2 books for recreation on the Hyper Engine; one for the well known version, one for the plus.
Values Dissonance

## Films Animated

* **Life On Ox Island (1955)** gets slack today due to stereotypes of everybody that isn't Oxen, Americans are portrayed as fat, French are portrayed as losers who scream i surrender every time they see something scary (a roller coaster, a gun, etc.), and Jamaicans say mon every other sentence.

## Western Animation

* The Maddox Show has several examples for a kids show and the longest running sitcom of all time (1965-present)! Like Asian characters being obsessed with slurping there rice, "7-Erevee", Maddox calling Japanese "Japs" Maddox smoking in early episodes when he's 14, it changed in 1973 due to being too racist, older episodes are censored to remove those scenes.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Biting-the-Hand Humor

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When on a comedy the characters make jokes at the expense of the studio or network funding their movie or TV show. In the US, the favorite target out of the Big Four Networks seems to be FOX, although all networks are Acceptable Targets at some point or another. NBC has seemed to encourage it since about 2006, right around when it became the Butt-Monkey of the four major networks - and also right around the time 30 Rock started getting a lot of mileage out of the non-stop mockery.

This trope would also fit those moments when an embittered author, or one cynical of the morality of the publishing industry, inserts into his work a thinly disguised slap to the face of the publishing house that is keeping him in work, albeit for not entirely satisfactory royalties or advance payments.

A sister trope to Take That! and Writer Revolt. Related to Take That, Audience!. Often overlaps with Self-Deprecation (unless the author is even more correct than he believes about his employers being flawed.) Remembering who wears the pants can combine this with End-of-Series Awareness.

## Examples

### Anime & Manga

* *Kukan* was made as a huge Take That to Otaku culture and the seinen genre by it's writer Manaka Kibayashi to relieve the long-lived anger she had because the anime adaptation of her first manga, Katie Jane, was aired at Otaku O'Clock.
	+ One episode has Kukan saying "The only Americans who watch seinen and shonen anime are overweight thirty-year-olds living in their mother's basement, and the only Japanese who watch seinen and shonen anime are nerds who crush horribly on neko girls. And shojo can't be accounted for in America!"

### Live-Action TV

* The January 2019 CBS Polygon shows announcement has Template:W begin the promo by announcing "CBS is bringing us the Survivors of cancelled pilots", followed by a *Survivor* network promo. She then states "It's not elementary in what you're gonna see", followed by a *Elementary* network promo. Drew then flatly namedrops *Salvation*, which was cancelled a year prior in 2018, only for a Windows XP-style "File Not Found" error to pop up.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Sequel First

A later installment of a series gets released somewhere (in another country, or in a group of Compilation Re-release, etc.) before its original installments. A series is finally localized, thus averting No Export for You, but for whatever reason the company decides to begin with the latest title in the series rather than start from the beginning.

This is common in the video game industry due to their technological nature: a video game franchise that the developers originally didn't deem suitable for one market might be brought there later; if the original game was released for a platform that has since been discontinued, then the company will instead localize one of the more recent games in the same series for a current platform.

Related is Adaptation First, a tendency for a startlingly large number of video game franchises in Japan to have their ancillary products (such as anime series or manga) cross the Pacific without the actual games making the jump. See also Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.", when a major character or element from a series makes its overseas debut in a completely different franchise, and Novelization First, when the novelization of a film or television episode is released before the source material.

## Examples

### Film

* When Technic Heroes hit the United States and other foreign countries, *Nova Orbis* is the first one.

### Game

* When the Japanese version of the BACKY CLASSIC collection was made, the order was reversed. This was due to a error in the programming.

### Western Animation

* In Kuboia, *The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3* premiered in 1991, five years before *The Super Mario Bros. Super Show* did in 1996.
* In some countries, All New! The Sweet Treets aired before The New Adventures of The Sweet Treets, if only by a year or so.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Breakthrough Hit

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This is the very work that practically begins a creator's career and gives them success in their medium. This is the Breakthrough Hit.

For some creators, it could be the very first work they created. For others, it comes only after a series of unsuccessful attempts; these early attempts may end up being Vindicated by History, though. For many of these, creators are often subject to the curse of Tough Act to Follow, as practically every subsequent work may be compared to the breakthrough. More often than not, creators (musicians in particular) often dread the idea of a Black Sheep Hit becoming their breakthrough, as what is intended to be a one-off experiment in other areas may result in the publisher forcing them to follow that style from that point on.

Compare Killer App (equivalent for game systems), Star-Making Role (equivalent for actors), and Gateway Series (equivalent for an entire genre or multimedia franchise). Contrast Creator Killer and One-Hit Wonder.

## Examples

### Film

#### Live-Action

* *Neo-Shifters: The Beginning* for Jamie Lowe and Isamu Ueno.
* *Nova Orbis* for Pasi Peure.

### Live-Action TV

* *Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu* for various writers.
* *The Beauty and the Beasts* for Banushen Television.

### Western Animation (excluding Film)

* In El Kadsre, *Arthur*, *SpongeBob SquarePants, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* and *Redwall* for the ETVKK channel.
* In Gau, all of *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* series for GBC1 and GBC Kids.
* *Melanie* for Twinkle.
ETVKK/Self Deprecation

* The brand's current motto is "Tempus Vastata Bene", which is Latin and *very* roughly translates to "Time well wasted". The motto was first used as a suggestion by Joshua von Schweetz in one of his earliest days as host. It was officially adopted in 2013.
* Promos for *A Stargazer's Guide To The Cosmos* make statements like:
	+ "If you do not know why we put astronomers in the same category as doomsday cults and Bill Nye the Science Guy, Template:W".
	+ "Caution: This program may offend the higher-ups at El TV Kadsre" (for those who don't get the joke, El TV Kadsre has had a tendency to forbid any depiction of the end of the world in their programs due to the family owning them following a variation of Shintoism that forbids predicting the end of the world).
	+ Joshua von Schweetz appearing at the beginning of all of the promos, after the warning, saying "You're not ready for *A Stargazer's Guide To The Cosmos* on ETVKK? What are you waiting for, TTV to air it?"
* When My Chemical Romance showed up to promote *The Black Parade* in 2007, Kendall Masopust stated:
	+ "Ladies and gentlemen... ETVKK is now officially emo!"
* When Dr. Steel showed up in 2006, Joshua von Schweetz told the audience:
	+ "Ladies and gentlemen... you are all now being forced to build a Utopian Playland, courtesy of ETVKK and Dr. Steel"
* Current *Steven Universe* promos tend to feature actual complaints from Moral Guardians and anti-*Steven Universe* comments made by trolls online.
* When ETVKK announced they would be showing all their current and past shows online on VidSpace, even the ones everyone hates, the promo featured imagery of various ETVKK characters. When the announcer stated "even the ones everyone hates", the imagery stopped on the characters for *Little Clowns of Happytown*, an infamous 1980s Sugar Bowl show that ETVKK reran at one point.
* Leah Remini made a guest appearance in ETVKK's 2018 Christmas Pantomime and stated that "Since adults watch ETVKK for ancient 1980s cartoon reruns, I wonder who even watches Template:W."
* "Yep, a *Danny Phantom* marathon. Have your remotes ready for changing the channel for when "Phantom Planet" begins, since nobody liked that episode." Another promo for that same 2019 marathon states that everyone has seen the entire run and should only "relive the series" if they have nothing better to do, and even goes so far as to suggest renting a movie or going out for dinner instead.
* "What's the mighty power that can save the day? (M.A.S.K. logo) Who are robots in disguise? (Transformers logo) Who is that is? (Redwall logo) ...mighty robots, mighty vehicles? (File "ChallengeOfTheGoBotsLogo.PNG" Not Found)"
Dream Tropes Wiki/Amateur Cast

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Any movie, show, etc. (that is, not a documentary), where the cast is composed of untrained or untried actors and actresses. Directors do this for a variety of reasons, usually for the art or for the budget, and less commonly to avert potential You Look Familiar and/or Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize moments.

Can become Retroactive Recognition if an actor or actress becomes famous afterward. Differs from Non-Actor Vehicle in that the non-actors tend to be unknown to fame.

The inverse of this trope is All-Star Cast.

## Examples

### Anime

* Gotaku's early days of dubbing at Boston City Sound Studios was this. After investing quite a lot of money into building the studio and getting the necessary equipment, they didn't have much money to find professional voice actors. So as a result the company recruited many at-the-time inexperienced people, ranging from local theater actors (Gowan O'Kelly, Danny Giannakopoulos, Samantha Kiely, Joshua Stephens Casey) to radio DJs (Oscar McColgan, Douglas O'Donoghue, Edward Morse) to people quite literally recruited off the street (Elisabeth Jensdatter, Raymond Molina, Roderick Agafonov, Rosina Macellari) to even college students (Annette Côté, Benji Barnes, Lyle Casey, Brian King). The only one of the original V.As who had experience in voice acting was Norman Kerry.

### Professional Wrestling

* This has mostly been the state of pro wrestling in the El Kadsreian Islands for a long time. It's sheer coincidence that the Eight-Day War was happening when the sport was becoming very popular in the rest of the world but since then there haven't been any promotions able to enjoy enough longevity to establish a roster of veterans. Notable exceptions in El Kadsre are WNA, who has enough veterans to have a roster of them, Chikara El Kadsre, where most of the veterans were from Template:W, Magical Ring Battle, where most of the veterans were from the foreign leagues Template:W and Template:W, Backyard Wrasslin' League, where most of the veterans were from U.S. backyard wrestling leagues on the Pacific coast, and Lucha Libre League of El Kadsre, where most of the veterans were from Mexico's Template:W. Mahri's Mahrian National Wrestling League mostly has veterans from the U.S.-based Template:W and various Japanese leagues.
* The short-lived Appalachian Range Wrestling promotion of West Virginia was this, as the majority of it's wrestlers were plucked from Backyard Wrestling leagues and obscure local leagues. After it died in 2003, Japanese leagues such as Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, and Template:W took interest in their then-freshly-unemployed talent, flew them out to Japan, and turned them into superstars before they returned to America as indie circuit regulars.

### Western Animation

* *Melanie*. Twinkle were a fairly little-known studio at the time, so didn't have money to hire anybody too expensive.
Dream Tropes Wiki/The Song Remains the Same

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Basically, when an imported work is translated, theme songs and other songs are left in the original language. There's a really good reason for this; due to differing language structures, perfectly respectable foreign-language lyrics are nonsensical in English. Songs (like all poetry) are much, much harder to translate than regular dialogue. Hence, rather than overhaul the lyrics in the song as is normally done with spoken dialogue, the song is played in the original language to avoid dialogue failure of Zero Wing proportions.

This is an aversion of Alternative Foreign Theme Song, where the theme of a foreign TV show, game or film is changed to a completely different one when aired in another country.

Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Not to be confused with the band's concert movie titled The Song Remains the Same. Should not be confused with the Revolution episode "The Song Remains The Same" and the Supernatural episode "The Song Remains The Same". Loosely related to Translated Cover Version.

## Examples

### Films - Animation

* An odd example with the Vicnoran dub of *The Rugrats Movie*. The movie itself and the "This World Is Something New to Me" musical number (along with Devo's "Witch Doctor" song and the deleted Dr. Lipschitz song, making this one of the few dubs *not* to cut it out of the film) are dubbed, however Busta Rhymes' rapping for the Reptar Wagon was left in English with a Voiceover Translation applied to it (a bland-sounding actor reading the translated lyrics over *all the rapping*, and surprisingly, it's the same actor for future Memetic Molester Drew Pickles (Seh Baxi) doing the voiceover for the Reptar Wagon, when doing the voiceover he's using his natural speaking voice.) Perhaps the dubbing actors didn't know how to rap?

### Anime

* YTV Stevia English and YTV Stevia Filipino dub of *Tamagotchi!*. its theme songs and closing songs remained the same, also left in Japanese.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Contest Winner Cameo

Sometimes, either to promote a product and generate interest in it, or maybe to maintain interest in it, or maybe just for the hell of it, a company will hold a contest in which the winner will get to make a brief appearance in a future work by that company. Sometimes this contest takes the form of a charity auction.

The contest winner's cameo could turn out to be anything from a simple appearance in the background, to playing a role in an important scene in the story. Or, depending on the tone, to be horribly killed. Sometimes the winners' scenes will be cut or the project itself canceled.

In some cases, appearing in the work is the result of a Kickstarter reward; people who donate to the product's development can win the right to appear in it.

Compare Official Fan-Submitted Content. Also compare Tuckerization, where characters are based on real people who haven't won anything.

## Examples

### Films — Live-Action

* Current Gotaku dub regular Jose Tourian got his start in acting when he won a contest to appear in a background role in RKO Pictures' 2011 film *Discworld - The Colour of Magic*. He's the guy who walks out of a pot shop looking bored (this bit was a Take That! to the accusations of the *Discworld* novels being written on drugs).
Harrislandics Loves Banzi and Canal+

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## Networks

* Canal+ is much loved by many Harrislandics, due to Canal+ is owner of many Pay TV channels (such as Animax, Nickelodeon and more) and aided many streaming services (such as Disney+, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video)

## Western Animation

* Banzi's Secret Diary is loved by many Harrislandics, Good Lord, there is many franchises based of Banzi's Secret Diary!
Kuboia Ruined It

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So there is a worldwide famous product that is praised and considered a classic by many. If it becomes very popular within a certain country overseas, a company or organisation in said country may want to buy the rights to the product and create their own version of it.

Here's the problem - their version is terrible.

This trope is ***not*** Americans Hate Tingle, where a product is disliked in a foreign country. Also, this trope is not just when another person makes their own version of something. It ***must*** be made in a different country than the original, and *must* be considered by most audiences to be significantly inferior to the original.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* The sketch comedy series *Schweetzman* was remade for the El Kadsreian market, but is considered far than the American version due to having less appealing jokes.

### Western Animation

* The 1992 Kantasy series *Alice in Wonderland* is often considered the Trope Maker and, to an extent, the Trope Namer. Many audiences consider it far worse than both the original book by Lewis Carroll and the Disney film. Why? Well, Alice uses a sceptre to fight, the White Rabbit runs a group of freedom fighters, Alice has a crush on her partner (a *monkey*) and most of the villains don't blend well in the goofy world of Wonderland.
* Fans of the 1984 Sweet Treets cartoon sometimes get annoyed at the changes *The New Adventures of The Sweet Treets* permanently brought into the franchise, as the Treets are hardly relevant anymore, and there are too many characters that are considered annoying or unnecessary.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Quietly Performing Sister Show

Many works receive spinoffs, sequels, sister works or an alternate continuity or two, and a large majority of those die quickly; mainly through Executive Meddling, lack of fan support, or a myriad of other issues. From what remains, some of these shows achieve critical and/or fan acclaim that equals, or even surpasses, the parent series. But what are we left with? A Quietly Performing Sister-Show. (Or QPS.)

These works will not wow the critics, getting rated anywhere from 'This isn't very good at all, avoid' to 'pretty good, but not as good as its predecessor', nor will they receive much support from the fanbase. Not to say there aren't any fans, but they will often be the minority, and even if they're not, most of the fans will agree that the original is the best. (The ones who really love the work, will generally pick it as their favourite.) Yet, the work will still perform, getting enough sales or views to continue its run. The general public will often find it an inoffensive and likeable, sometimes getting a fondness in their hearts for the show, despite its faults. If it's a show, it will probably be cancelled after a fairly long run, or the makers will call it day; but it will probably be released onto DVD or eventually be Vindicated by Reruns.

Sometimes this ties into They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, where the reason it never got the critical and fan acclaim because it was in the shadow of its predecessor. Other times, the show just might be mildly So Bad, It's Good, not strong enough to become a cult classic, but enough to entertain the public.

Contrast with More Popular Spinoff.

(NB: If a spinoff receives lower (but still good) ratings or is neglected by the fanbase but got great critical write-ups or lots of awards, or started in the shadow of a bigger show but gradually escaped it, then it's not this trope. One or two awards however don't count for much on their own, and those shows stay here).

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* El Kadsreians say *The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer* wanted to be a sister to *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*.
* Similarity, El Kadsreians say *Chicago Sons* is this to *Friends*, but didn't work out.
* *One for One'*s creator's sister show is *Greatest Daylight*.