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List of Bali's Kingdom tropes

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Template:Under ConstructionThis article features all (or most) of the tropes present in the French-Kuboian television series Bali's Kingdom.

## Tropes

* **Affably Evil**:
	+ Pretty much all villains are this, except Digi.
* **Big Bad Ensemble**:
	+ Four recurring antagonists who rotate in appearances. Sometimes more than one will appear in an episode.
* **Denser and Wackier**:
	+ Especially compared to other Kantasy shows.
* **Dramedy**:
	+ The show has both its dramatic and wacky moments.
* **Everything's Better With Princesses**:
	+ Natalie, of course.
* **Evil Versus Evil**:
	+ Digi is not on good terms with Chuck and Nick.
* **Fat Idiot**:
	+ Chuck is not very intelligent.
* **For Teh Evulz**:
	+ Shriekball shows this behaviour frequently.
* **Good Is Not Nice**:
	+ Ayr is committed to his partnership with Natalie, and makes sure he keeps Bali's Kingdom protected. However, he can still be a jerk, mainly when he thinks the other heroes are being immature.
* **Good Is Not Soft**:
	+ Bradly can get very aggressive when dealing with the villians, though he is more verbally aggressive than physically aggressive.
* **Hero with an F in Good**:
	+ As mentioned in "Good Is Not Soft", Bradly believes that being aggressive is the best way to be good... which usually causes him to make things worse.
* **Heroic Neutral**:
	+ Teebiay occasionally does goes things, but mostly keeps to himself.
* **Odd Frendship**:
	+ Natalie and Ayr, despite being partners, have some contradicting personalities. One example being that Natalie is laid back and friendly, whilst Ayr is strict and has zero tolerance of nonsense.
* **Only in It for the Money**:
	+ Chuck and Nick both switch sides frequently just for money.

### Your Mileage May Vary

* **Designated Villain**:
	+ Chuck is often labelled a bad guy, but really isn't a bad person.
* **El Kadsreians Love Dunkin' Donuts**:
	+ The show has gained a cult following in the United States.

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Dream Tropes Wiki/Take That, Critics!

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A specific form of Take That!, in which the producers of a show respond to criticism of the show through the show itself, either through subtle in-jokes that obliquely refer to the criticism, putting lines of dialogue into the mouths of the characters, or presenting parodies of their critics. The program may even break the fourth wall to directly address the critics.

Depending on the producer, this can come in many forms; gentle ribbing or parody of the critics and their position, pointed rejoinders, triumphant gloating, and — in extreme cases — over-the-top bile that leads to the strong assumption that the critics may have struck a delicate nerve (either that, or the producer just plain Can't Take Criticism).

Sometimes features the Straw Critic. Inverted Trope of Caustic Critic. This also qualifies the show as an Author Tract.

Compare Take That, Audience!, when it's the viewers who are targets of in-show satire. See also Dear Negative Reader, when the creator directly addresses the critics without the vehicle of the show, and Insult Backfire, when the critics' own words are used against them.

## Examples

### Live-Action Films

* Mickey Mouse (1995 film) has a scene where Mickey LITERALLY breaks the fourth wall when he says "People complain my cartoons are too safe, politically correct and family friendly, but in all honesty, TAKE THAT!" the scene has a glass break effect and fades to black and goes to the next scene (or in the TV version, the commercial break)

### Live-Action TV

* The meteor that nearly destroys El Kadsre City in the *Neo-Shifters* episode "Impact!" was named after Golden Raspberry Awards founder Template:W because writer Frans Losnedahl had a grudge against him.
* Some of TVTime Entertainment's *The Price is Right* DVDs proudly display a quote from Ken Tucker of *Entertainment Weekly* calling it "a vulgar orgy of crass consumerism" on the back cover. Tucker wasn't amused and *Entertainment Weekly* publishers the Meredith Corporation tried to sue TVTime to prevent them from using the quote anymore (they lost).

### Western Animation

* The *Sagwa's Siamese Life* recurring character Frederick S. Wells (a Jerka\*\* British explorer) was named and modeled after music critic Template:W because show writer Template:W wanted to take out revenge for Wells' review of *Transformers UK* issue 160 (The One With... Richard Branson getting attacked by Deceptions he found in the sewer) wherein he called it a "crap comic", especially since Furman worked on that comic series. Furman also stated "We would have made Frederick also a ranting poet and a fan of rubbish anarcho-punk bands had Amy Tan, the PBS censors and the Chinese culture advisor allowed that."
Dream Tropes Wiki/No-Hoper Repeat

A basic goal for any TV show is to "win" its timeslot for the network by having the highest ratings, and thus the highest ad revenue. However, there are some battles you just can't win: "Appointment Television" or "must-see TV" events such as sports championships, Award Shows, and major premieres/finales are going to win their timeslots no matter what the other networks air.

In response, the other networks may not even try to compete for ratings and instead look for the least expensive way to fill that airtime. Often, this means reruns of a popular show, a movie marathon, or something else with extremely low production costs. Affiliated networks may actively seek out their worst programming to avoid interfering with the dominant program's ratings, or even direct viewers to the other channel rather than competing at all.

A variant is scheduling something special during such an event, often during a break in the action. For the Super Bowl, this often meant an alternative during the halftime break (although this practice has fell out of favor when the NFL began to make efforts to invite major musicians to play the halftime show rather than performance ensembles such as Up With People).

These are sometimes used to fill a Friday Night Death Slot.

## Examples

* When the Nickelodeon family of networks have their Worldwide Day of Play, they tend to suspend programming for a few hours so kids can "get up, go outside and play". Therefore, other kids' networks will air programming to entertain those who don't feel like going outside but want to watch something besides a static screen on any of the Nick channels, making Nick's tactic a bit useless, for at least a few hours. Take 2018 for instance:
	+ Range ran an all-day marathon of *Eckhart* capped off with the network premiere of *Eckhart: The Movie* and an airing of *Shaolin Soccer*.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Idiosyncractic Episode Naming

Many shows utilize quirky episode naming conventions. Though the episode title is usually not even broadcast with the show (usually only Animated Series do this), this information is gleaned from press releases, closed captioning, and guide information. Of course, in literature it can be more obvious.

American Live-Action TV Pilots are often exempt from this, as pilots do not usually have titles, and are usually made before anyone on the production staff comes up with the idea to name episodes idiosyncratically.

Now, if the names get too in-jokey, quirky or obscure they can have an adverse effect in being difficult to correlate the plot of the episode when its name means absolutely nothing.

When a show gets dubbed in a foreign language, expect this trope to not survive (particularly if it's an English show getting dubbed in German or French or if it's a Japanese show getting dubbed in the west).

Single-episode exceptions to the rule are the Odd Name Out.

Sub-tropes include Episode Finishes the Title and Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name! (typically taking the "\_\_\_\_! \_\_\_\_\_!!" title format). Compare Character Name and the Noun Phrase if they're used in a series, Unusual Chapter Numbers, Theme Naming, Translation Matchmaking and Title Drop.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* Like *Love, Inc.*, what does *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*, *Street Hawk*, *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* and *Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu* have in common? These are all epsiode titles of the Banushen Television series *Who's Watching in the Family*(all other episodes are named after other TV series).
* The Banushen Television game show spoof series *The Game Champions* does not use episode titles, like *Soap*. It just uses the air date of the episode they first aired.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Short Run in Peru

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New episodes of television shows aren't aired on the same day or even week everywhere in the world. Obviously, new episodes of an anime are going to be out in Japan before they're shown in the United States due to the time it takes to translate it and time subtitles (dubbing only increases the wait). Shows made in the United States are, naturally, usually shown in the United States before they're shown in another country. It only makes sense that a show will be shown first in the country that made it.

However, an odd trend is that, although a title was made in one country, the people in another country see new episodes first, which seems extremely counter-intuitive, at least to the viewers of the country of origin. Usually it's a US-based show that's shown first in Canada, Australia, the UK, or even Latin America.

The reason this happens is that, once they've paid for them, licensees/networks in those countries often have considerable control over when they want to air the episodes, and they just happen to air them earlier than the original country's station does. Oftentimes a contract will state that episodes cannot be aired before a certain date, anticipating that the home network will air the show before then, but then for whatever reason the airdate in the home country is pushed back, but the foreign station keeps its originally planned airdate.

With the advent of file-sharing networks and sites like YouTube, this often results in anxious viewers in the original country seeing episodes weeks or even months before they're ever aired.

This may overlap with Germans Love David Hasselhoff, which can sometimes be either a cause or an effect of this trope.

Contrast No Export for You, where foreign countries never see the work at all.

## Western Animation

* *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* has had this happen.
	+ "Cool Fu-Fu" had been released direct-to-video in El Kadsre a month prior to being aired Stateside.
	+ The restored version had aired first in El Kadsre, Barokia, and (oddly enough) Template:W prior to being released onto VidSpace worldwide. The fandom had to keep quiet to concentrate on committing to say their full opinions on the restored version on the VidSpace release of it.
* The first three episodes of *Sagwa on the Go!* had aired in Barokia, dubbed in Barokian with English audio available, prior to their international premiere. The fandom kept quiet to not reveal spoilers.
* The restored versions of *Timothy Goes to School*, *Pelswick*, and *Braceface* had begun being aired by ETVKK in El Kadsre two weeks prior to the VidSpace uploads of them. Like with *Sagwa on the Go!*, the fandoms of those three shows had to keep quiet to help with opinions.
Countryballs: The Animated Series/Role Association

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## English

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* In an alternative universe lives the Countryballs; who are:
	+ North America - The Ace Template:W, constant apologizer Template:W, and Lazy Bum Teebiay.
		- The Caribbean - Kiteretsu's Antagonistic Offspring Suzu Kato, baseball player Template:W, Hollywood Voodoo C.J., The Stoner Template:W, and Kiteretsu's Identical Stranger (to Suzu) son Takehiro Nakahara.
	+ Europe - Retired Bada\*\* Template:W, Supreme Chef and fellow wave ruler Template:W
Dream Tropes Wiki/I Don't Care If I Lost

Mostly, sport channels from certain countries only celebrates when a team related to their country win a tournament, but some channels may celebrate every time a team win, which is very controversial

## Examples

Rede Horizonte had the tradition of declaring that any team won, even if their team losses, examples are the World Cup Final 1998, Libertadores 2002, Libertadores 2007, Libertadores 2008, Sudamericana 2010, Clubs World Cup 2010, etc.)

Unfortenally, the channel got sued in February 2011 by the Nationalist Party of Brazil and the ban wasn't lifted yet. Accidentally, the channel celebrated things against Brazilian soccer clubs in 2013 (Raja Casablanca scoring against Atlético Mineiro) and 2018 (Belgium scoring against Brazil). The channel was fined by R$ 50.000 (U$ 8733.85) on both times.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Digital Piracy Is Okay

An inversion of Digital Piracy Is Evil, where downloading something not only doesn't mean you're a reprobate, but is actually encouraged by the artist. Compare Digital Distribution, for when they want you to download it but still expect you to pay for it.

Beyond evangelism, reasons for this attitude include boosting coverage and/or market share, sales of complementary goods and nurturing fan-added value.

See also Keep Circulating the Tapes and Information Wants to Be Free.

Abandonware is a related concept, where circulating obsolete software is given a pass because the market for it literally doesn't exist anymore.

(Only add examples where the creator of a work has endorsed piracy of their own product. This is not a forum for discussion about piracy.)

## Examples

### Neutral

* Latikuu Edacra seems to revel in this trope:
	+ If the PS1 port of Latikuu's 2000 *Redwall* game detects that it's a pirated copy or that it's being played on a emulator (for example Bleem! and/or Connectix Virtual Game Station), the game boots up with a screen saying "YOU LAZY CHEATERHEAD!" before properly beginning the game.
	+ When *Redwall: Martin's Journey* was initially sold at GameStop, Latikuu arranged with GameStop for the game to be sold on a "pay-what-you-want" system.
* Hyper Amy Sisters has an extra country when pirated.
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Dream Tropes Wiki/Grail in the Garbage

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It's an artifact of earth-shaking power. Its value is immeasurable, its history is the stuff of legends. It's... being offered at a clearance price at the local discount store.

Sometimes, priceless things can be found in the most unlikely places. Maybe the previous owner didn't realize what he had, maybe some higher power put it there for a reason, maybe it's just one of those unique chance encounters. For whatever reason, it's being treated as far less valuable than it really is, and it's ripe for the picking by an unsuspecting hero. If this sort of thing is actually the bread and butter of the place in question, then it's a Bazaar of the Bizarre or The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday.

Compare It May Help You on Your Quest, Worthless Yellow Rocks, Priceless Paperweight, Excalibur in the Rust, and Commonplace Rare.

See also Violin Scam, which is a form of The Con in which the Con Man makes the mark believe that the two of them have found a valuable item, when the item is actually worthless.

Contrast Mock Guffin.

## Examples

### Real Life

* The original 16mm film masters for *Robotman* were believed to have been lost for years until a near-clean copy was discovered in a dumpster in Sao Paulo, Brazil by a local garbage man. How the print wound up there remains a mystery, and it's been speculated that it was the print screened at a film festival in the city in 1979.
G.I. Joe: A Waste of Taxpayers' Money/Tropes

**G.I. Joe: A Waste of Taxpayers' Money** is an Abridged Series of *G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero* by the VidSpace user ChineseCheckers232.

## A Waste of Taxpayers' Tropes

* **Alternative Character Interpretation**: All over the place. Hawk is lazy, Duke's crazy, Sgt. Slaughter blames Cobra for everything but the power going out... the list goes on and on.
Rinava/Quotes

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* Jaylin Rounds: I'm not gonna Google the name of the newest health risk found in soft drinks by some loser doctors, it's bad enough that I looked up the Encyclopedia Dramatica page for *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* and all I got was a page that simply said "NO".

* Kenelm Clarkson: Jaylin's a cute to me!
* Jaylin: Mreow! (climbs onto Kenelm's lap)
* Kenelm Clarkson: Okay then Jay, stop it!
Nightmare Fuel/Western Animation

* On Enzo Rocks!, Enzo's "eye gag" can scare some people. Because of this the show led into quick cancellation straight before Season 2 premiered.

* Aurora Borealis and Company:
* The Soviets usually cause the most nightmare fuel. They almost always have these creepy smiles on their faces when their evil plans are in action.
* Anna is very unpredictable where one minute she can be calm, the next she can be snarling at you while telling you to go to gulag, and often holding an AK-47 (however she never shoots anyone) or punching you in the face.
* In the *Trip to Britain*franchise, the Soviets manage to hypnotize everybody in London into loving them, and the way the people behave is very unnerving, as they are almost like zombies who only do what the Soviets command them to do.
* *Trouble in Europe*is a spin-off series tthat has a lot more nightmare fuel as the series is supposed to be darker and aimed at a slightly older audience. Creepy moments include Mila turning into a monster and destroying the city of Belgarade, Serbia in the episode "The Bad Beast of Belgrade", and an episode with a very scary banshee.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Big-Lipped Alligator Moment

A Non Sequitur is a bit or line of dialogue that is intentionally out of place, usually designed to elicit a comedic reaction. They have no actual bearing on the plot, although they are staples of characters who are part of their own little world like the Cloudcuckoolander or The Ditz.

Springboarding from there, we find the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, or BLAM (an appropriate term in and of itself, as they tend to show up with all the subtlety of a shotgun blast). This is a very bizarre scene in an otherwise normal story that veers off into the surreal or strange. Upon exiting that scene, the plot continues on like it never happened.

Remember, Tropes Are Not Bad, as many of these types of scenes can be well-remembered and enjoyed, if not fully explained.

## Examples

### Professional Wrestling

* Before a 2008 episode of *WWE Raw*, a video aired showing a catgirl running through a field whilst she narrated saying she was looking for friends for years, and was gonna "finally find them in the darkest place of all", that being *Raw*. The wrestler was Jane Meowza, a female otaku who believed herself to be a neko girl. The video was never mentioned or brought up again, the gimmick was shunted to *WWE ECW* where the wrestler who was gonna play her, El Kadsreian wrestler Jazz Basl, performed as Jane for a bit before she was quietly wished well in her future endeavors a week later, and the WWE dumped all the merchandise made for Jane into bargain bins at toy stores.
Hyper Amy/Tropes

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* **Mascot Racer:** Hyper Amy Run.
* **Killer App**: Pretty much any Hyper Amy game released for an Zerona computer is an killer app. It's pretty weird for a series older than Super Mario.
* **Anti-Hero**: Amy is too much of an ordinary person. It's like she's a person from a slice-of-life movie. oh wait, there was an movie like that that had 2 sequel films THAT CELEBRATE A NEW DECADE!
El Kadsre/Banned in China

El Kadsre is infamous for being ban-happy when it comes to anything that's on the government's s\*\*\* list.

## Film

* A handful of extremely explicit or "unapproved for release" films, such as *Megan Is Missing*, *A Serbian Film*, *Sausage Party*, *Seeking a Friend for the End of the World*, *Freakonomics*, *Faces of Death*, *Goodbye Uncle Tom*, *Children's Island*, *Love Camp 7*, *Deep Impact*, *When Worlds Collide*, *Blood Sucking Freaks*, *Conquest*, *Africa Addio*, *2012*, *Cannibal Ferox*, and was *Cannibal Holocaust* were all banned in El Kadsre on their initial release (*When Worlds Collide* was made in 1951 but banned in 1983). While *Conquest* and *Cannibal Holocaust* have since been released (albeit with *Conquest* having *all the gore cut*, thus turning it from a weird medieval action movie with typical Lucio Fulci gore into just a weird medieval action movie and making it's status as a Lucio Fulci movie pointless), the rest remain banned. Some films were banned for other reasons (*Deep Impact*, *When Worlds Collide*, *Seeking a Friend for the End of the World* and *2012* because the censorship board feared they would offend Kadsreius Shintoists, *Goodbye Uncle Tom* and *Africa Addio* because they were considered "highly racist").

## Music

* El Kadsre has a fascination with telling any left-wing musician to go screw themselves, as well as doing the same for right-wing musicians:
	+ Template:W is banned from stepping foot in El Kadsre for "undisclosed reasons".
	+ Template:W was banned from touring in the country after the release of *The Monsanto Years*. Needless to say his fans were p\*\*\*ed.
	+ All of Template:W' songs were banned from the radio in the Vlokozu Union in every part of the country except Romrac.
	+ Template:W was banned from touring in El Kadsre for a long time for being pro-NRA.

## Live-Action TV

* *Sons of Anarchy* was nearly banned from broadcast on TTV in El Kadsre when someone showed a gunfight scene from an episode to Westborough High Massacre survivor Thunder Lion, and sparked a national moral panic over the showing of "graphic violence involving weapons of war" on television.

## Web Original

* *Template:W* is banned in El Kadsre and attempting to reach it through *any* ISP there will instead generate a "not found" page. Template:W is also banned from entering the country.
* *Elsagate* (also known as Elsa and Spiderman videos) has been banned in El Kadsre for being too inappropriate for children.

## Website

* Rule34, Encyclopedia Dramactica, 8chan, 4chan, PornHub, Bestgore and PETA is currently blocked in El Kadsre. However, the site isn't fully blocked in El Kadsre, since it was only blocked in certain IPs.
EKBA 2000/Tropes

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* **Awesome Music**: "Bus Sliced With Barbecue". Also an Ear Worm at times.
* **Funny Moment**: Yaseen Rahimtoola in the career mode breathes this trope.
* **Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition**: The "Polygamy Pak". It only adds the EKBA Shots Fired 1989 arena and a "making of" video featuring Kaiji Zheng.
* **Logo Joke**: The "o" in "Namco" gets replaced with a basketball.
* **Nightmare Fuel**: In the career mode, Kaiji Zheng's "crying cows on the farm" pre-game speech. Sweet dreams.
Hated, Now Loved

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## Western Animation

* Object shows used to be hated in Schelipoerys back in 2011. It became popular in the country in 2019. No specific reason was given. However, 10% of the population still hates these type of shows.

## Video Games

* Tomato Adventure used to be hated in Gau. It became popular in the country in 2019. No specific reason was given. However, 7% of the population still hates this game.
Amy/Tropes

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Template:Trope**Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor**:

How come Shao does every voice for Amy expect the french one?

**Epic Fail**:

Amy's sister is just a recolored Amy.

**Avoid The Dreaded G Rating**:

She acts more PG *than* G.

And not only that, but she gets really weird sometimes.

**Clumsy Copyright Censorship**:

Amy looked like Mario.

*Once.*

But, in Brazil, you really couldn't!

**Anti-Hero**:

Amy is too much of an ordinary person. It's like she's a person from a slice-of-life movie. oh wait, there was an movie like that that had 2 sequel films THAT CELEBRATE A NEW DECADE!

**Parental Neglect**:

It's canon. Amy is an abandoned child since she ever was 7! They didn't even matter to care for putting her for adoption!
Dream Tropes Wiki/Japandering

Western celebrity does advertising in Japan, often using silly gimmicks.

(Laconic description, full description here)

## Examples

### Commercials

* It was a common trend in El Kadsre in the late 90s and early 2000s for adverts to use cartoon characters (complete with the original voice actors reprising their roles) to advertise products. Among them: the *PB&J Otter* cast was in commercials for Coca-Cola's Fruitopia drink, the Knights of the Square Table from *Blazing Dragons* were shilling for Wachusett Potato Chips, Barney the Dinosaur did a series of Milka commercials, *Bob the Builder* and his crew appeared in adverts for Pot Noodle, and the rabbits of *Watership Down* did a couple adverts for Blue Riband chocolate bars. In addition, *The Simpsons* did English versions of their Japanese C.C. Lemon adverts.
* Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel did a El Kadsreian advert for Taco Bell in the mid-1990s. It has gained meme status among Ebert's fans.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Star-Making Role

Every A-List star starts somewhere. They do bit parts and walk-on roles. They may be a lesser part of an Ensemble Cast who becomes an Ensemble Dark Horse. They may even wind up doing something they may not be proud of later. Either way, when their memoirs are written or they sit down with James Lipton, this is the role they point to and say "that's where it really started for me" — the rise from obscurity to main player. The role may have been written for the specific purpose of making this specific person a star by showcasing their talents. More often than not, it's a case of taking the right part and running with it. This is the role they earn their name with.

This isn't always a star's first role. It's not even their first film or series to be a major success. It might even become completely overshadowed by the parts it helped give them in bigger-budget productions.

Sometimes an actor can have a star making role in one country (usually their homeland) and a different star making role on a more global basis. For example, Christoph Waltz was known for years in Germany and Austria before Inglorious Basterds made him a household name to international audiences. And Marion Cotillard became a star with A Very Long Engagement in France before La Vie en Rose and her Oscar win made her a star abroad.

See also Retroactive Recognition for reactions to roles the actor or actress had before their SMR (Harrison Ford as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, here). Contrast Star-Derailing Role for when the star goes in the opposite direction. Compare Career Resurrection for when they were once a star, faded, and became big again. Compare Breakthrough Hit (equivalent for creators).

## Examples

### Film

* *Neo-Shifters: The Beginning* for Ben Ivanson.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Trailer Delay

You see a preview of what seems to be a big movie coming out. It gives you the date and you're all hyped up. But when the big day finally comes, it's not there.

This trope is about delays between the release of a teaser trailer or poster and the release of the movie itself, or even if it never gets released at all. The film could be in Development Hell or is facing delays. The release dates may change in such cases and on some rare cases, they may never get released at all.

Not to be confused with Release Date Change, where the change in release is minor and is done to avoid competition with other films.

## Examples

### Film

* *Web-Shifters* was advertised with a 1998 release date, and there's a teaser trailer. But the failures cause the movie not to happen.

### Western Animation

* Banushen Television advertised the El Kadsreian release of *Blue's Clues* with a premiere date of the fall of 1996, but Darren Cody cause it to delay to 1997.
* *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* was originally advertised with a November 2001 premiere in El Kadsre, but the 9/11 attacks cause the show to delay to January 2002.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Vanity Publishing

They will publish anything... as long as you pay *them*.

(Laconic description - full description here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VanityPublishing)

## Real Life Examples

### Literature

* A couple of books were originally vanity-published but picked up enough steam (often through the author's publicity efforts) to actually be picked up by a commercial publisher:
	+ The children's xenofiction novel *The Electrician's Cat* was originally published by PublishAmerica, but was later picked up by the mainstream Candlewick Press after gaining a cult following online. It helps that the book was generally okay and was liked by critics.
Lazy River Studios/Tropes

* **So My Kids Can Watch**:
	+ Viktória Csupó voiced Polly Esther in the Hungarian dub of *Samurai Pizza Cats* at the request of her son Max because he loved the show. Come 2018, and she reprised the role again in the Hungarian dub of the original version *Kyatto Ninden Teyandee* in order to honor Max's newborn son's birth.
		- Similarly, Tímea Dobay dubbed Speedy because a child in the daycare she moonlighted as a worker at had a love of cats. And she reprised the role in the dub of the original after learning of her son Paul Dobay getting his first ever cat.
	+ Sancho Aráoz was asked by Vince Melis if he wanted to voice Baba Miao in the Hungarian dub of *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat*, but wasn't sure if he wanted to voice a father figure, as Sancho wanted to show his kids his Hungarian language skills. So he asked them, and they went wild.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Bowdlerise/Vicnoran-translated Anime & Manga

Template:TropeVicnora classifies all anime & manga (hentai excluded) as children's media. Among other things, it bans the depiction of "incredibly violent content" and nudity, the depiction of blood, and the usage of swearing in children's media.

* *One Piece* was cleansed of all blood, swearing, smoking, etc. etc. in the Vicnoran dub to the point where even those who decried the 4Kids dub would be tearing their hair out and screaming "TOO! MUCH! CENSORSHIP!"
* All the blood and violence was removed from *Death Note*... of all things.
* The Vicnoran dub of *Neon Genesis Evangelion* ended after 15 episodes because it grew too hard to censor such an ultra-violent series.
* The Vicnoran translation of the *Fullmetal Alchemist* manga changed the hexagram in the Ouroboros symbol to a crescent moon as a censor mistook it for the Star of David and believed having an Ouroboros on a villainous character would be offensive to Jewish people.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Release Date Change

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A trailer or poster announces a film's release date, but before its release, the date is pushed either back or forward due to circumstances either to avoid competition, a change in the production schedule or for being in bad taste in light of tragic events.

Not to be confused with Trailer Delay, where Development Hell causes a big gap in the original and final release dates. Anything victim of The Shelf of Movie Languishment is a victim of this.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* *Sabrina the Teenage Witch* was planned on to start in October 1996 in El Kadsre on Banushen Television, but Darren Cody don't have a buzz, so it picked up *The Single Guy* from CPN, in its timeslot intended for *Sabrina*starting with the season 1 episode that was skipped over by CPN, "Neighbors" and *Sabrina* ended up being delayed to early 1997.

* *Blue's Clues* was supposed to premiere in the September of 1996 in El Kadsre on Banushen Television, but like the *Sabrina* example above, then-Banushen CEO Darren Cody didn't have a buzz, and picked up an entry Cody had while working for El TV Kadsre, *Captain Bluebear Club* (the El Kadsreian English dub of *Käpt’n Blaubär Club* by Power Network) and *Blue's Clues* ended up being delayed to early 1997.

### Animated TV

* *Jamerica* was planned to be premiered on January 7, 2017, but was pushed 2 times, first to May 3, 2017 due to Maison Jamaocia, voice of Jamerica, left the show and was replaced by Kio Mendes, and then was moved to November 3, 2017 due to criticism of bad designs.

### Film

* *Quest for the Masks* was planned to be released on December 25, 1980, but it was pushed to May 12, 1981 after Hayato Nakahara was killed in the traffic collision and all of the scenes that were shot with Nakahara were reshot with Hideki Hamasaki.
* *Cindi* was supposed to be released in 2019, but was delayed to allow more production time.
* *The Useless Return of David* was originally gonna come out in 2018 after being announced in 2016, but the production extended the release to 2019.

### Western Animation

* The Maddox Show was originally going to call it's Hercules parody "Princess Carriage Crash" but was renamed to "Jerkules" due to Princess Diana's death and was pushed from late 1997 to early 1998.
Dream Tropes Wiki/He Also Did

As time goes by, we often stereotype writers and creators as filling certain niches. Stan Lee is Marvel Universe, Stephen King is horror (or at the very least supernatural), Arthur Conan Doyle is Sherlock Holmes... as a result, there are some times where we see somebody's name on something and go "Wait, WHAT? Are you sure it isn't just a guy with the same name?"

These are examples of well-known works (not obscure experiments) of creators that are so far out of their perceived niche that often times people don't immediately realize the person behind it.

Related to Playing Against Type, I Am Not Spock, Genre Adultery and WTH, Casting Agency? Compare Same Face, Different Name, where the creator hides the fact that he's doing something different under a new name, and Advertising by Association, where the creator's portfolio is used to hype the work. In music, Black Sheep Hit is a special case in which the aberration becomes famous. The One-Hit Wonder takes this Up to Eleven.

## Examples

### Real Life Examples

#### Actors

* Federico Carroll, best known for doing anime voice acting, also wrote for *Mole Miner*, and was once a ballet dancer with the Template:W. He also is a radio DJ and does voiceover work for many TV & radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.
* Legendary anime voice actor Joe Rotzinger leads a double-life as a copywriter for Boston Children's Hospital and has written dozens of books about medical & scientific fraud (don't you *dare* call it "quackery" and/or "psuedoscience" in his presence). He also ghostwrote some teen-targeted celebrity gossip books.
Vicnoran dubbing/Tropes

* **Blooper**:
	+ Any dub by Nova Media.
* **Dueling Dubs**:
	+ Almost all of Nelvana's shows were redubbed for KidsCo when the channel premiered in the United El Kadsreian Nations. The only shows safe were *Pelswick*, *Cyberchase*, *Wayside*, and *The Fairly OddParents!*. The examples were:
		- *Braceface* was redubbed from it's original dub by S&S Post (aired on Jetix and VBC 2) into a new dub from Baker Digital Productions.
		- *Blaster's Universe* from it's in-house VBC dub (aired on that channel and Minimax) into a new dub also from Baker Digital Productions. Hörður Faheemsson was kept as Blaster.
		- *The Care Bears Family* from it's 1980s VBC in-house dub into a newer dub from Baker Digital Productions. Bobcat Nani was kept as Braveheart Lion and Kitty Saughai was kept as Shreekly.
* **Man of a Thousand Voices**:
	+ Kitty Saughai, new wave/synthpop/dance music/post-punk vocalist is known for her multi-octave range, which can go from maniacal shrieking to very soothing slow dance music singing. She's also a voice actress, having voiced Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, among others.
	+ Hörður Faheemsson, who is Icelandic-Barokian, is also a voice actor when he comes to Vicnora, and boy, his magic gets teleported along with him. He got to voice Template:W in the Vicnoran dub as well as in the Barokian dub, and in Vicnoran dubbing he is most known for voicing many characters from cartoons aired on VBC and TWO2 among other channels.
	+ Bobcat Nani has a deep bass voice that can be used for both serious and comedic purposes.
	+ Presbitero Mahi, good god. He's a Filipino-Vicnoran who's voiced Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, Template:W (and Periwinkle), and many others since 1976.
* **The Other Darrin**:
	+ *What's With Andy?* was hit hard by this. First, the titular character was recast with Presbitero Mahi after the original voice actor Seh Baxi had died, then everybody (save Shota Kita as Danny) ended up getting recast multiple times over the last two seasons. First Mayor Roth was recast with Koz Petrovic (the old voice actor, Talon Winter, was a celebrity and too expensive to keep using), then so was Teri with Kitty Saughai (the old voice actor, Meg Kasahu, had died as well), then Lori with Shotina Kita (the old voice actor, Yan Min LeFrançois, decided the role was "not for her"), then Al Larkin with Bobcat Nani (the old voice actor, Peter Drahi, had lost the ability to sound like Al), and the list went on and on before in the final season Principal DeRosa was recast with Drew Sani (the old voice actor, Guido Nani, had decided to go from doing dub work for imported cartoons to working for the Vicnoran embassy in Ireland).
* **Translation with an Agenda**:
	+ The Jetix dub of *Braceface* was clearly translated by someone who did not like the Anvilicious bits about Sharon being a vegetarian. As a result, the dub had a tendency of making the morals for the episodes where Sharon shoves animal rights down people's throats "All vegans are psycho lunatics" and even made the audience root for the fast food industry. Averted with the KidsCo dub, which was a straight translation.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Translation Train Wreck

Sometimes translations are bad. And sometimes they pass bad at warp speed and crash headlong into the wall around the galaxy.

When a translation goes from odd word choices and stilted grammar that is still somewhat parseable into the realm of pure gibberish, you have a Translation Train Wreck. This is especially common in bootleg translations, where the "localization team" has little budget, less incentive, and may not even speak the language they're translating to. In the case of little or no knowledge of the target language, they may guess as to the meaning and structure of what they need or use a direct machine translation.

This often results in a Good Bad Translation, although these tend to apply more to generally okay translations with a few funny mistranslations.

A Sister Trope of "Blind Idiot" Translation. Often caused by Recursive Translation. May also include Translate the Loanwords, Too.

Compare Gag Sub, a conscious choice usually made in fansubs and the subtitled counterpart of a Gag Dub.

Compare My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels, Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas and Intentional Engrish for Funny, where a fictional character manages to botch a language beyond all recognition. Also see Word-Salad Humor.

## Horsepower Plastic (Films)

* There was a point in time when Dreamworks didn't care about how they prepared their films when releasing them in Vicnora, and thus much of the Vicnoran dubs of their early films (from 1997-2004) were recorded by Nova Media, a company notorious for poor voice acting and scripts obviously translated via electronic means, resulting in... *interesting* results:
	+ The dub of *Deep Impact* has the "killer comet" referred to as the "radcolka", which just happens to be regional slang from Roho for "Massive C\*\*shot", so the lot got turned into the story of how a team of astronauts have been sent into space to stop the Earth from receiving a big b\*\*akke.
	+ *The Ring* has Samara's infamous "seven days" line become "you is die in 7 dens". Given that the Vicnoran words for "days" and "dens" are similar... this mistake can be justified.
	+ *Old School* has "You're my boy Blue!" become "You is boy, Blue".
	+ *Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy*... good lord...
		- "Go f\*\*\* yourself, San Diego!" becomes "San Diego is has sex with itself"
		- "Intercourse Island" becomes "Sexy Island"... which to be fair sounds like a bad Razzie bait romcom set on a deserted island.
	+ *Shrek* suffered even worse...
		- Most of the songs were sung over... with the English vocals still intact and with bad translations to boot. Plus some Gratuitous English.

"Taretski, ALL STAR"
Joshua von Schweetz's VidSpace Videos/Funny

* Pretty much the entirety of the Mac OS X Tiger destruction. Especially when he has the MEMZ virus and is calling for his Nat King Cole antivirus to save his computer.
* When he collaborated with Kaiji Zheng for the Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 gameplay.

Joshua: I'm giving them hella pizza.

Kaiji: Little do they know, I laced the pizza with... C4.
 \*Everyone starts exploding.\*
Dream Tropes Wiki/Creator Killer

Template:Trope
A Creator Killer is a rather unpredictable phenomenon when one or more works flop badly enough to take down or badly damage the publishers, the reputation of creative talents behind it, or both. Though there are usually many factors needed to cause the death of a publisher or a creator, some high-profile flops are linked (rightfully or not) to the death of the organization working on it. They will Never Live It Down.

Compare Genre-Killer and Franchise Killer. Not to be confused with Author Existence Failure (though they can overlap if the work's performance is so bad that the creator is Driven to Suicide or otherwise dies shortly after), Rage Against the Author or The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You, where the creator can be literally killed by his or her work. See Star-Derailing Role when it happens to the performers. See Old Shame for an old work which a creator turns against later (or refuses to let see the light of day), but which by itself probably won't destroy their credibility. See Tough Act to Follow when one's career was not killed by a flop but the inability to follow-up a massive success. A Role-Ending Misdemeanor is when this trope is caused by personal scandal rather than a failed work. Contrast Breakthrough Hit (when the work makes the creator a big name) and Career Resurrection and Win Back the Crowd (when the work makes the creator a big name again after a Creator Killer). For understandable reasons, many of these overlap with Troubled Production. If it literally, and directly, kills them, then it's probably an example of Fatal Method Acting.

Note: While a good number of these entries have either been Vindicated by History or are a Cult Classic, they still count as Creator Killers because of the damage they did at the time of their release.

Not to be confused with Fallen Creator, where a once-respected creator is permanently disgraced due to a string of flops or personal misbehaviors. A creator/business that went defunct after one or two serious flops/mistakes could still leave a lasting legacy and be fondly remembered in hindsight.

Do not confuse with A.I. Is a Crapshoot or for when an author wants to kill their own work. Has nothing to do with killing God, nor does it have anything to do with the creator dying for a different reason. Also has nothing to do with the God Killer awakening from Puzzle & Dragons.

## Examples

### Video Games

#### Other Publishers and Developers

* SoftCode, despite gaining success such as the Game Boy Color game *Redwall Adventures* in its earlier years, shut down after the poor sales of both the GBA port of *The Lemmings Chronicles* and the video game adaptation of *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World*. Many of its employees later go on to form Digital Gaming Republic, which gained more successful games and it was on the same facility SoftCode was headquarted.

### Western Animation

* Pop Star is GeneBox's least popular and least successful series ever. They didn't make any television series for several years.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Thinly Veiled Dub Country Change

One of the many odd things dubs of foreign media tend to do is replace the setting where the work takes place — even when it's very clear that it's not set where they say it is. It's one thing to re-dub the lines; it's quite another to remove the very clear visual references to the original setting. But dubbers are very persistent, going out of their way to make even the most obvious foreign reference totally a "local" one. The only way to really get away with that would be to assume that Viewers Are Morons (or at least culturally ignorant) - because you can't tell a place is outside America because of PAL Televisions and banknotes with crazy neon colors, right?

The reasons for this may vary. Some studios feel like viewers would relate better to characters from the same country as them. Some feel that the original culture would fly over the audience's heads. Sometimes they want to emphasize that the story is universal. And sometimes they're right; Tropes Are Not Bad, after all.

Compare Cultural Translation, where characterization and actions are changed rather than the setting to fit the target audience's culture (and to avoid things like Values Dissonance). See also Macekre and Cut-and-Paste Translation, the kind of dubs that would often do this sort of thing. The opposite of this trope is We All Live in America, where the work is explicitly set in a country other than where the author is from, but the characters and set pieces make it look like they never left their backyard.

## Examples

### Anime & Manga

* The Polish dub of *Floral Magician Mary Bell* avoids referring to the show as being in rural Japan as best as it can. Averted in the more obscure voiceover, wherein they refer to it being in Japan.
Fueian dubbing/Role Association

## Western Animation

* *Stickin' Around*: "For your big fat information, this our imagination!" Template:W (later Template:W) and her friend Template:W, what they thought is what you see! Also starring: Massive Ham Template:W (and no, this casting was indeed a coincidence), Team Mom (and proud owner of a dead pet) Template:W, bullies Template:W (later Template:W) and Template:W, Hamburgular's possible girlfriend and Meganekko Template:W, and Rich B\*\*\*h Template:W.
* *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat*: Franceball, Template:W, and a clown live in the palace of the Foolish Magistrate Template:W. Their parents are Template:W and Template:W, and their grandparents are Template:W and a 1990's Eurodance singer.
Fictional PSAs/Nightmare

Template:Issues

* From 1999 to 2006, The El Kadsreian Quitline anti-smoking campaign *Every cigarette is doing you damage* highlights the health effects of smoking, with announcing by Jade Ray, and advertises the Quitline number. The seven graphic commercials - *lung, brain, aorta, tumour, lung/tar, heart attack and eye* - pull no punches about the devastating effects smoking has on the body. There are images of fatty aortas, rotting lungs, tumours, blind eyes and a blood-clotted brain. The campaign ended after Fuse Special Effects, the company that did the adverts, had a pay dispute with the Quitline's organizers and the advertising agency, R.M. Films, *and* what didn't help was that anti-tobacco activist Rick O. Amuro, who conceptualized the ads, was arrested for sexual crimes.
* The Lynx Vlokozu Union animal rights PSAs from the late 1980s are so NSFW that we're not going in depth with them.