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Dream Tropes Wiki/Fake Nationality

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When an actor plays a native of a nationality or area other than their own. Not counting those actors who play an extraterrestrial, who are never from the same place as their character. Probably.

Israeli and Arab actors tend to wind up playing each other quite frequently (though Israeli-for-Arab is more common than the other way around). Gung-ho movies made during World War II featured every kind of Asian except Japanese, since the Japanese-American actors were otherwise occupied. And very few Russian characters during the Cold War were played by native Russians. For foreign actors who are frequently employed to play foreign characters, see Plays Great Ethnics.

The most common examples have their own tropes: Fake American, Fake Australian, Fake Brit, Fake Irish, Fake Scot, Fake Russian, Yellowface, Brownface, and Fake Mixed Race. The Queen's Latin is a subtrope where characters in Ancient Grome or other classical-to-medieval settings are usually played by Brits, no matter what part of Europe they're actually from. See also: Fauxreigner where the character is pretending to be a nationality they aren't (or acting more stereotypical than they actually usually do).

If you are actually from the area in question, you may remember one or more of these examples as "That foreigner with a strange accent. Where are they supposed to be from?" On the other hand, some actors are really good at it. An added complication is that human appearance varies even within nationalities and ethnicities as a result when playing a historical character the foreigner might have been selected because s/he greatly resembled the original.

An actor who often does this well Plays Great Ethnics. When done poorly, it can result in WTH, Casting Agency?.

See Pass Fail when, for whatever reason, the actor isn't convincing as another nationality.

## Examples

### Western Animation

* The U.S. dub of *Tip's Nursery* does the Fake American in the original version vice-versa by having Sammy voiced by a Canadian doing a British accent.
* Every person besides Maddox and the Italian chef (who is played by an Italian-Maddoxian) in the controversial Season 2 episode "Chinatown".
Dream Tropes Wiki/Start My Own

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A character or characters are disgruntled with the way a certain organization or group is run, and (usually after getting kicked out) decide that they will not just start their own, but it'll be *better* than the original. Generally either ends with the new organization actually being better or, alternately, failing miserably as An Aesop about how some things are harder than they look.

The Moral Substitute is a Sub-Trope wherein the disgruntlement is (mainly) values-based.

Starting your own with friends or allies (however loose) will often result in an example of We ARE Struggling Together.

## Examples

### Real Life

#### Politics

* In 2007, Kouta Hisakawa, after losing his 2006 El Kadsreian presidential bid (which included a platform of El Kadsreian reunification), quit the El Kadsreian National Party to form Hisakawa's Unification Party.
	+ Similarly, the Rick Henson List party was founded by political professor Rick Henson after he was kicked out of Independent El Kadsreians for defending both sides of an abortion debate in Parliament.

#### Other

* The PBS station WBCM-TV was founded this way. A bunch of staff were fired from Template:W, made their way to the Catskills region, and founded their own PBS member station.
* Quite a few Japanese animation studios were founded by well-respected producers, animators and directors:
	+ Anitex was founded by dōjinshi artist Kagetaka Hamano after he was turned down by multiple anime producers due to lack of experience. So he asked a bunch of college kids about to graduate if they wanted to come work for him and he founded his own animation studio with the college kids he gathered as the first employees.
	+ Yoko Corporation was founded by former Tsuchida Production staff members after that company went bust.
	+ In 1991, disgruntled former Shin-Ei Animation director Umanosuke Asao and a few other former employees of the aforementioned studio along with some college kids and dōjinshi artists founded Production 91 after Asao was fired from Shin-Ei for, among other things, having an affair with a TV Asahi executive's sister, having issues with in-between animation contractors, not filing quality control reports, berating an animator for a error he made, and not answering his phone when the studio heads called.
	+ Studio Hendrix was founded by former KK C&D Asia staff members after that studio shut down.
* After Gérard Subercaseaux left El TV Kadsre Animation, he founded Cartoon Conundrum Productions so he could continue his career on his own.
* The *Esterlia* franchise was created by Template:W user Richie "MrNeutron" Rodriguez after an dispute with another user, Sparkplug26.
Kacie's World Quest/Tropes

* **And Now for Someone Completely Different**:
	+ The game makes you play as Tennet at the end of all four main chapters. He cannot attack enemies in any way, just kick them, which does nothing but stun them. He also does not get any upgrades that Kacie gets.
* **Artificial Stupidity**:
	+ In the Mole Mines races, there comes a point where there are no obstacles, so you might as well max out your speed. The computers, however, will never take this into consideration.
	+ It is not uncommon for enemies to accidentally kill each other.
* **Backtracking**:
	+ The player is expected to, and may have to, backtrack if they get one of Magny Glass's questions wrong.
* **Big Boo's Haunt**:
	+ Sort of - the second main chapter takes place in a funhouse full of evil clowns.
* **Button Mashing**:
	+ Whenever Kacie or Tennet get stuck, the player has to continuously press the A button (on the GameCube) or the X button (on the PS2) to get unstuck.
* **Demoted to Extra**:
	+ Onita and Paddy are completely shifted to the side in this game, and only show up briefly at the middle and end of the game.
* **Easter Egg**:
	+ Shopkeepers will start complaining if you spend too long looking at items, or cancelling when the menu asks you if you are sure you want to buy something.
* **Multi-Platform**:
	+ The game is available for both the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.
* **Only Smart People May Pass**:
	+ Quiz Time.
* **Pass Through the Rings**:
	+ One of the minigames in the Dark Zone makes you jump through rings.
* **Save Token**:
	+ Floppy Disks.

## Your Mileage May Vary

* **Game-Breaker**:
	+ Maxxing out all of Kacie's status makes her fairly overpowered, as it means that you can run and swim really fast, can jump really high and can kill almost all enemies in one hit.
* **Scrappy Mechanic**:
	+ The fact you need to *buy* saves. Want to stop playing but don't have any sweets? Tough luck, I'm afraid!
	+ The fact that Kacie and Tennet have a random chance of getting stuck when crawling through holes. It doesn't harm you, but can get very annoying and wastes time.
	+ The fact that some enemies can only be defeated with items, which have to be bought from shops.
	+ The parts where you play as Tennet aren't typically enjoyed by players, since he cannot defeat enemies and does not get any of Kacie's upgrades.
ETVKK/Funny

* Joshua von Schweetz:
	+ Some time in August 2002: "Today's program is brought to you by *bacon*."
	+ 2003 ETVKK Awards: "Did you smoke on children's television?" Even better, he was reffering to *himself*.
	+ 2004: "Someone put off the *water alarm*!"
	+ 2007: "Hippity hoppity, Sagwa is now *my property*." (Referring to the fact he got a Siamese cat which he named Sagwa II).
	+ 2011: "It's like Scrabble, but instead of letters, it's your *respiratory system*."
	+ 2015: "Scott, the fire extinguisher isn't working. *Bring me the hairspray*!"
	+ August 2019: Welcome to ETVKK. We're obsessed with robots who turn into all sorts of crazy things and a kid-friendly variant of animal xenofiction involving toads.
* Ji Chang:
	+ 2016 when Scott Cawthon showed up to promote the *Five Nights at Freddy's* novels: "Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, where a kid can get salmonella and die... or get murdered by a uncaptured serial killer and die."
* Scott Gwendolyn:
	+ "Back in Scotland, all the ice cream vans played the Monty Python theme or music box noises. Nowadays, here in El Kadsre, they all play Music Box Dancer as performed by a SNES"
Dream Tropes Wiki/Banushen Television (Creator)

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Banushen Television is an El Kadsreian TV channel that was launched in 1981 on channel 11, after attempts at a 11th channel service was rejected by the BAV, like VTV 2. Banushen Media Corporation itself was formed in 1979 by the Matsushita family after El TV Kadsre was acquired by the Vlokozuian Media Union.

It has been the El Kadsreian licensee of some significant US shows over the years, especially Fox, NBC and Comedy Central ones, including *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*.
Dream Tropes Wiki/X Meets Y

A formulation primarily used to pitch a show or to quickly sum up the impression a show gives by expressing it as the sum of two separate, unrelated shows. The most famous variation is ""Die Hard" on an X", where X is a different location, means of mass transportation, or IN SPACE!, and so on.

It's very common in music writing — both reviews and press releases usually describe an artist as "Artist X meets Artist Y". Similarly, a work of literature may be reviewed as being the fusion of the styles of two authors; a common variation is to say that a novel is "as if X had written Y".

See also Mix and Match, but this differs from it in that, conceptually, Mix and Match works on the genre level (Space Opera + The Western = Wagon Train to the Stars), while X Meets Y works on the show/character level. Should more works/characters be added into the mix (e.g. X + Y + Z...) and it starts specifically using mathematical symbols to define the work/character as parts of others, it becomes Troperithmetic.

Compare Recycled In SPACE, Crossover, This Is Your Premise on Drugs. See also Dueling Works. Frequent enough with weapons to qualify for a separate trope: see Military Mashup Machine. It can also result in a type of Tropes That Will Never Happen.

Not to Be Confused with works that have X Meets Y in their title, which are covered by Versus Title.

To get a few pitch ideas for free see our Pitch Generator.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* Various El Kadsreian reviewers of *Roswell* said it was "*Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* meets *The X-Files*".
* Similarity, various El Kadsreian reviewers of DAG said it was "*Friends* meets *Benson*".
* El Kadsreian critics described the Canadian TV series *Student Bodies*, "*Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* meets *Caroline in the City*"
Dream Tropes Wiki/Man of a Thousand Voices

Voice Actors known for a wide range of voices, and therefore voicing Loads and Loads of Characters. Fact is, the industry is incredibly small, and there just aren't enough actors to cover all the exponentially increasing amount of characters and projects created each year. Being versatile is required.

Bonus points if the actor is able to avert Larynx Dissonance and Not Even Bothering with the Accent, but it's not vital.

Name comes from a nickname given to Mel Blanc, who was responsible for nearly every classic Looney Tunes character. (This is an exaggeration, however. He admits in his autobiography that he "only" did about 850 voices.)

Can overlap with Talking to Himself, if the actor does multiple roles on the same show.

Interestingly enough, the vast majority of voice actors and vocal work don't create "voices" but are largely using their own natural voice with slight tonal changes, pitched up or down. Thus it is still possible for a Pigeonholed Voice Actor to ironically also have "a thousand voices," just people aren't aware of their versatility.

Not to be confused with Voice Changeling or Voice of the Legion.

## Just choose a few key roles to give an idea of the actors' ranges. Save large lists for their own pages.

### Vicnoran

* Rozo Zvervea has been the Vicnoran voice of Template:W, Template:W, Template:W, and many others since the 1970's. He isn't called the "Vicnoran Template:W" for nothing. He has also been the official Vicnoran voice of Mickey Mouse since 1992 (when Nicholas Brija quit the role because Mickey's iconic tone of voice apparently was hell on his vocal cords).
Dream Tropes Wiki/Celebrity Voice Actor

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For some reason, celebrities do a lot of voice acting in big budget animated movies. Maybe the producers figure more people will see movies with big-name stars in them. Maybe John Q. Public just loves his celebrities. The fact celebrities can enjoy acting work without having to deal with costumes, script memorization and other elements of live action film is another factor (although motion capture animation has many of those demands). Regardless, regular voice actors often get cast aside in favor of someone more famous when a big, important animated movie is made for public consumption.

Sometimes this results in the more Genre Savvy of viewers not only becoming aware of just who's voicing the characters, but mentally referring to the characters by the actors' names - especially if it's been a while since they've last seen the movie.

As it turns out, professional voice actors (especially Billy West and Tara Strong) are not exactly pleased that their jobs are being poached by actors from other disciplines, which makes sense, as it implies that the performing skills are interchangeable. While professional voice actors are capable of utilizing a wide vocal or acting range to create a given character's personality, celebrities are usually cast for marketing purposes because audiences will recognize the popular actor.

It's important to note that this is not always a recipe for disaster. Some celebrities prove to be very talented at voice acting, and would likely be among the most prolific at the profession if they did it exclusively. Indeed, there are a fair number of performers who have managed strong careers in both fields and do not qualify for the pitfalls of this, although becoming equally famous in both is unusual. Some on-stage Hollywood actors - Mark Hamill and Eden Riegel, to name two - moved on to voice acting later in their video careers.

That said, Billy West's scorn has been (arguably) justified in some cases where celebrity voice actors haven't delivered the goods, such as Cameron Diaz's notoriously flat performance in Shrek; or in cases where an actor is wildly miscast, such as Billy Bob Thornton in the dub of Princess Mononoke. That's where the reason for this being a separate trope becomes apparent.

Often turn out to be examples of Ink Suit Actors. If most voice actors in a single work are this, they're an All-Star Cast. See also Pop-Star Composer for the musical equivalent.

## Examples

### Anime & Manga

* The French dub of *Cyborg Kuro-chan* had film director Template:W voicing the narrator, this was mainly because his daughter Tania was working on the dub as Juliet. Meanwhile, the songs were sung by notable singers: the theme by Template:W and the ending theme by Template:W.
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## Western Animation

* Mega Simpson fan MaddoxSimpsonsFan does this to when his kids watch the series
	+ "I'm Bart Simpson, Who are you?"
	+ The blood isn't cut out of Itchy & Scratchy, since his kids know it's bad.
	+ Several scenes of Homer and Marge in bed are cut for obvious reasons.
	+ In Homer The Heretic: "You bet your sweet... D'oh!"
	+ The alcohol isn't cut since his kids know it isn't good until you are 21.
	+ The smoking also isn't cut since his kids know it's bad
	+ Several political references were cut, like "They put all the jerks in Tower 1"
	+ These versions of Episodes are available at MaddoxSimpsonsFan.co.ew/TheSimpsonsCensored
Dream Tropes Wiki/Gateway Series

A Gateway Series is a series that introduces a significant niche of viewers to a genre that is new to them, and that is a positive enough introduction for them to hunt down other examples of the genre.

Trope Namer: In the drug world, a gateway drug is a drug that entices you or makes it easier to try other drugs. This name is mostly used by anti-drug programs, so there is debate about whether gateway drugs exist. But a gateway series, ones that makes you start watching new genres you never used to watch, is definitely real.

Even if you don't grow too passionate about the genre after watching a Gateway Series, after a few years you'll still end up with a vast knowledge about it and maybe a big pile of DVDs. If you do become passionate, then your room may be devoted to your new addiction. It all depends on how strongly you embrace your new tastes.

Someone's personal Gateway Series will be granted immunity from criticism thanks to the Nostalgia Filter.

Gateway series often have some things in common, mostly anything that causes a good first impression, both from the series and the entire genre. Each genre has a certain pattern, so to enjoy it you have to grow accustomed to those unique quirks. Thus, many Gateway Series blend styles or cross genres together; you are attracted to the series by quirks you already have and so get used to the new ones that way. Thus, Japanese Anime that has Western-style storytelling makes for good gates.

Maturity level also matters. In genres with age ghettos, a Gateway Series will likely double as What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? Or have many Parental Bonuses.

Deep, intricate storylines or massive loads of action are common, as well as being weird in a fun and upbeat way. Those things help you realize that this genre can have a lot of good and different stuff to offer.

Gateway Series must be good in some sense, and must not have much more squick than normally comes with the genre. Otherwise, you would be turned off. If it does work, these tend to be (though not always are) responsible for a Newbie Boom for either the overall franchise the series might be part of (espeically for a Long Runner) -or- for the "genre" it's part of, the success of Anime in North America during the early-to-mid 90's for example owes a lot to this as explored below.

Compare Breakthrough Hit, the gateway to a creator; Star-Making Role, the gateway to an actor; and Killer App, the gateway to a console. Contrast It's Popular, Now It Sucks!. Not to be confused with the Gateway series or its video game adaptation. See also TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug.

Important note: Classifying anything as a 'gateway something' doesn't imply in any way that it is less good than the less accessible material it leads on to. All that we're saying is that for a lot of people, these examples lead on to discovering and enjoying other things. It's not a value judgement, just an observation of how fans tend to start from common points.

## Examples

### Film

* *Technic Heroes* series started out the legend of El Kadsreian tokusatsu.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Compilation Movie

A Compilation Movie is created by editing together episodes of a television series to create a movie-length installment. Although this usually applies to home video releases, it can happen with broadcasts as well. How seamless the resulting movie is depends on how good the editor was, and what materials they had to work with (sometimes the opening credits or To Be Continued caption will be left in as the editor only had the complete version of each episode, or the end credits may only refer to the people who worked on the last episode). While the bulk of each episode is usually kept intact, some minor editing is usually made for time, continuity, or to make the new edit more seamless.

Back before home video recorders became widespread these would sometimes be released to cinemas as feature films. As home videos became more common, these were increasingly released as direct-to-video 'movies'. Often the plots of the two episodes thus used had absolutely no relation to each other (save the involvement of The Hero, naturally); this was sometimes patched over with dubbed-in dialog attempting to link the two adventures. With the modern trend of releasing full seasons of series on DVD, this form of Compilation Movie seems to be dying out.

A Compilation Movie can also be used in serialized TV to combine all the episodes of a serial into a single "movie", if the serial was very long then the resulting Compilation Movie may be essentially a feature length Clip Show. In the mecha anime genre, these movies are pretty much still par for the course. In the case of Soap Operas that are aired several times a week, a compilation at the end of the week may be the only repeat. This is preferable to a back-to-back showing as it avoids viewers leaving after only the first episode, and in theory allows more advertisements where the credits used to be.

While the pacing of these movies are often quite suspect, especially in a series where there was originally a cliffhanger, new scenes are sometimes added to justify their release.

This is sometimes inverted by editing an extended episode or Direct-to-Video movie into several episodes for Syndication, leaving a several odd cliffhangers if this wasn't intended during production.

Compare Clip Show, Five-Episode Pilot and especially Patchwork Story. Featurization is the equivalent for film serials rather than television shows. See The Film of the Series if the film is more of an adaptation rather than a compilation.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* Three episodes of *Caroline in the City* namely "Caroline and the Bad Trip", "Caroline and Richard & Julia" and "Caroline and the Wayward Husband" were combined and edited together to form one movie *The Girl and the Guys in New York* and released theatrically in El Kadsre by BTV Films on August 22, 1997.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Retroactive Recognition

This is what happens when you watch an older work and suddenly realize that a small role is played by an actor who got big well after the performance. You already saw him, but only now recognize him. This usually results when a former bit player finally lands a breakout role. It may also include a few minor roles before their Star-Making Role.

This can sometimes occur across media, when a celebrity in one medium had a brief and less-celebrated career in another.

When you just can't shake the image of the other roles, it's Role Association. If the older work is repackaged to accentuate the actor's later successes, it falls into Billing Displacement.

## H-K

* J.D. New World Pictures, one of the newer Power Network talents, used to do Downfall Parodies.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Big Damn Movie

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This trope refers to the habit of movies based on TV shows casting the main characters as being involved in a dramatic plot, *particularly* when nothing remotely similar happens in the series itself. This can be as big as the world or as small as recess, just so long as it is made "epic". Oddly enough, often seems to involve neighborhoods being torn down to build shopping malls.

Due to the fact that nearly all movie adaptations use this trope to some degree (after all, it's hard to keep up an epic tone across a 13-52 episode season), examples shall be limited to things that involve a large change in dynamic.

Can sometimes overlap with Summer Blockbuster, but is distinct from an Epic Movie, which is inherently epic to begin with. Sequel Escalation is a similar phenomenon.

## Examples of films adapted from

### Western Animation

* *PB&J Otter* was a preschooler-aimed Slice of Life show where every episode focuses on a problem which the main three characters solve with a "Noodle Dance". *PB&J Otter and the Legend of Snaildarter* had the otters three and their friends trying to find a lost treasure whilst being hunted by a villainous descendant of the guy who hid the treasure in the first place, plus they face various dangers and perils along the way. Then, it goes Up To Eleven when the kids use a Humongous Mecha of all things to defeat the villain.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Retraux

Media produced in an intentionally old-fashioned style, designed with the intentional appearance of being decades older than is actually the case. The term is a portmanteau of "retro" and the French word "faux", meaning "false".

Whereas steampunk involves a setting that is faux-retro, this trope is entirely one of how the medium is painted— entirely stylistic, in other words. Sound is intentionally scratchy, marks of damaged reel, and faded appearance are common in Film or television. Some films go out of their ways to open with studio vanity plates pulled directly from the era that they depict (See Logo Joke for that).

Retraux may involve Deliberately Monochrome, Antiquated Linguistics, or Silence Is Golden. Can also lead to a Decade-Themed Filter in case on invoking 20th century period films. If it's a supposedly past speculation about The Future or 20 Minutes into the Future (i.e., the present), it will inevitably invoke Zeerust or Raygun Gothic. The presentation's outdated nature often overlaps with Stylistic Suck.

In video games, retraux is common in freeware and indie projects for practical reasons — pixelated sprites and chiptunes are a lot simpler to make than quality 3D assets, high-resolution 2D art, and orchestral studio recordings. Another emerging artform is the Video Game Demake, in which a game is adapted for an earlier-generation platform.

Compare Genre Throwback, where a production is made evoking old-style works but with modern production values (in contrast, something that's Retraux can be mistaken for an actual old-style production). Can overlap with Newer Than They Think when done especially well. See also Retraux Flashback when this is combined with an Art Shift in an otherwise more modern looking work.

## Anime and Manga

* When Nippol decided to bring their *Tama & Friends* license to the States in 2013 after buying the rights to 4Kids' dub of the original anime series (*Do You Know My Tama?*), they produced a English dub of *Tama & Friends: Search for It! The Magic Puni-Puni Stone* recorded and produced deliberately in the style of Macekre anime dubs from the late 90's and early 2000's, *especially* those of 4Kids. They even used a New York City recording studio (NYAV Post's NYC branch) and had some of the original voice actors from the aforementioned 4Kids dub reprise their roles.

## Live-Action TV

* The November 19, 2018 episode of Oyfish is styled like a 1980s episode, complete with the 1978-2000 ITN logo appearing in the advertisements, and an episode of On Location Oyfish following it.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Flagship Franchise

Some creators and studios work on a large number of unrelated projects throughout their history, while others instead focus on a particular series/franchise, possibly with a few side projects here and there. A flagship franchise is what happens when a creator consistently pools all of their creative efforts into releasing multiple major installments of a single series over many years, becoming intrinsically associated with it in the process. That is not to say that flagship franchises cannot change, if the creator finishes the original story arc and moves on to a new project that is just as big but completely unrelated to the first one.

Compare/contrast Magnum Opus, which is about a particular work (or series) that is considered a creator's greatest by the audience and critics, while not necessarily being the creator's central focus; and Adored by the Network, where the network or publisher makes the creative team work on a particular franchise at the expense of other projects.

## Examples

### Anime & Manga

* *Doraemon* was belated by some as Banushen Television's flagship anime series.

### Film

* The Technic Heroes franchise was long be the signature of El TV Kadsre.

### Live-Action TV

* In El Kadsre, *Cheers* was considered Banushen Television's first most-viewed live-action sitcom series, until it was broken in 1986 by *Growing Pains*, in 1989 by *Murphy Brown* (after country's rights takeover from Vlokozu Television), in 1991 by *Seinfeld*, in 1994 by *Friends*, in 1997 by *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*, in 2000 by *Malcolm in the Middle*, in 2005 by *How I Met Your Mother*, and in 2014 by *The Goldbergs*.

### Western Animation

* *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* was to be El TV Kadsre's flagship cartoon in El Kadsre.
* *The Sweet Treets* for Colourbox.
* *Ouraine/Apple Wood* for Red Grape Studios.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Trailer Spoof

So you're in the movie theatre, the house lights are coming down, and the screen lights up with the previews of coming attractions. After the standard green MPAA Trailer Approved To Accompany This Feature slate, the screen shows a dark city full of foreboding, while the announcer intones about heady topics like crime running rampant or a city crying out for help. On a rooftop, a shadowy figure emerges. It could only be a certain Dark Knight...and then the figure is revealed!

Wait, that's not what Batman looks like! It's... Scooby-Doo?!?

Congratulations. You've just been had by a Trailer Spoof.

A Trailer Spoof is when a trailer will try to hook your attention by pretending to be a trailer for a well known movie franchise, or a highly-anticipated blockbuster film. Then anywhere from half-way to three quarters through comes The Reveal: it's actually a trailer for a perhaps not-so-anticipated comedy movie. (It's almost always some form of comedy, dramas and straight action/adventure films take themselves too seriously to try this sort of thing.)

Virtually all Trailer Spoofs are teaser trailers, whose purpose is to "build awareness" for the film, although it's still a long way off from release. Expect actual footage from the real film to be limited to 30 seconds or less, since usually teaser trailers are made when the film is still being worked on. If they had more footage to show, the studio would likely not bother with a spoof, and just release a trailer cut from the footage instead.

Compare Real Trailer, Fake Movie, which is when the trick to the trailer is that it's for a movie that doesn't exist. Yet.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* The first promos for *Cougar Town* in El Kadsre on Banushen Television started off looking like *Friends* complete with its theme song.
* The first promo for *Malcolm in the Middle* in El Kadsre on Banushen Television had a clip from *Caroline in the City* (a show Star TV got first-run rights, and Banushen Television got second-run rights in El Kadsre) at the beginning.

* Various Comedy Night in El Kadsre promos of shows on Banushen Television (*That '70s Show,* *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*, *Will & Grace*, *Malcolm in the Middle*, *The King of Queens*, *Friends*, *The Red Green Show*, *Ally McBeal*, *Andy Richter Controls the Universe*and *Greg the Bunny*) aired from February to March 2002 spoofed the U.S. import Fox action series *24*, which was airing in El Kadsre on sister channel El TV Kadsre 1. The commercial break bumpers aired during this time used *24'*s split-screen clock display, and even the others bumpers was modified to adjust their *24* style.
Dream Tropes Wiki/One Of Us

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There are many, many famous people out there who are also geeks and nerds... which is exactly what we are. Most of them keep their geekish tendencies hidden. Some don't care.

The literal version of Hollywood Nerd. You can take the toughest, most vicious action hero, and when they go on a talk show to promote their new movie, they let it slip that they hadn't been getting much sleep because they've been playing the latest video game.

Compare Big Name Fan, Promoted Fanboy and Ascended Fanboy (a promoted fanboy In-Universe). Also compare The Knights Who Say "Squee!". See also Comics Rule Everything Around Me.

It probably isn't necessary to list every single genre fantasy or sci-fi writer here, though. Yes, we can assume that, say, Terry Pratchett or George R. R. Martin are gigantic fantasy geeks; it isn't necessary to say it... in fact, listing the fantasy or sci-fi writers who aren't geeks would be shorter. Probably because such a creature likely doesn't exist (except perhaps Terry Goodkind).

Not related to One of Our Own, the Joan Osborne and ABBA songs named "One of Us", the British drama miniseries that was released internationally on Netflix as "Retribution", or the biography of terrorist Anders Bering Breivik by Åsne Seierstad.

## Examples

### Political Geeks

#### Prime Ministers

* Former El Kadsreian Prime Minister Hadyn Tennison is a huge fan of *Warrior Cats*, *Doctor Who*, and *Technic Heroes*. He also quoted *SpongeBob SquarePants* in his farewell speech (downright ending it with "Goodbye everyone, I'll remember you all in therapy!"), has named *Cats* his favorite musical, is fond of the *Redwall* novels & TV shows, voiced his disappointment that there was no El Kadsreian version of *Spitting Image*, owns a collection of classic cars, follows Monster Jam on Twitter, made a well-publicized visit to Disneyland Sydney during his 2013 visit to Australia, invited Barney the Dinosaur to perform at the 2008 El Kadsreian Politicians' Dinner, and selected the new fire alarms used in the Parliament building. And on the subject of his daughter Amalie, she is a dedicated fursuiter and plays *Dungeons & Dragons* to pass the time.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Spiritual Successor

Template:Under ConstructionA Spiritual Successor is a type of sequel that is not part of the same world or story as its predecessor, but is nonetheless considered to be a successor because it's made by the same creators; shares common themes, styles, or elements; or, most likely, both. In other words, it's a sequel "in spirit".

The reasons for this are varied. Sometimes creators are unable to retain the rights to their original work, which makes a direct sequel impossible. Other times, designers don't feel like continuing the same story of the original work (and risking Sequelitis), but their distinctive style remains. Or producers try to adapt a different work following the model of a previous success of theirs, while maintaining a prudent separation between the two Canons. And then sometimes it occurs completely by accident.

Present in all sorts of media, although the term "Spiritual Successor" may have originated within video games (also known as companion games), because developers might own the engine and game code with publishers owning the trademarks to the franchise.

A spiritual successor may succumb to Better by a Different Name.

The series version of an Expy. Often overlaps with Serial Numbers Filed Off. Compare Spiritual Adaptation. Contrast They Copied It, So It Sucks!, Dolled-Up Installment, In Name Only, Dueling Shows, and Thematic Series. See also Production Posse.

The opposite is Spiritual Antithesis, though it is possible to be Spiritual Successor to one work and Spiritual Antithesis to another at the same time.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* For anyone who lived in Banushen Television's Comedy Night in El Kadsre slot, *The King of Queens* considered to be this to *Mad About You*.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

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When listing three or more things, the comedy rule is to not finish strong, but to list some strong examples followed by a very weak example, for the funny. Sometimes this will stick to the Rule of Three, but sometimes a proper Long List will increase the humor.

In the US and Canada, "jaywalking" means crossing the road in a dangerous manner, particularly ignoring the crosswalks when crossing city streets. In many other countries, not only are there almost no restrictions on where you can cross, but the idea of someone being fined for crossing the road is alien. In places where jaywalking is illegal, it's usually an infraction (i.e. like a parking ticket) rather than a proper criminal offense, and some cities don't even bother to enforce it.

See also: List of Transgressions, Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving, Felony Misdemeanor, Good News, Bad News, Odd Name Out, The Triple. Compare Poke the Poodle, All Crimes Are Equal, Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life, when the minor crime carries significant consequences. The inverse is Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, where a list of seemingly mundane things ends with something much darker. Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun is a related inverse that deals with deductions rather than listing things. Sub-Trope of The Last of These Is Not Like the Others.

## Examples

### Western Animation

* *Pupsquad* has the main villain Dr. Lye Eonbreath, who's main evil mission to "take over the world, enslave all of humanity, and [a constantly-changing mundane task that's often relevant to the time when the episode was made and often borders on him doing good instead of doing evil]".
	+ Among the "third ones" include "replace the U.S. government with a military dictatorship to teach the left and right a lesson", "murder all movie critics", and "make sure that Vicnora has safer public transport by next year."
Nick Jr. Kuboia/Tropes

* **Adored By The Network**:
	+ *Cindi and Friends* in the 2002-2004 period.
	+ The channel used to overindulge in episodes of *Rainbow* in the 1990s and early 2000s.
* **Edited for Syndication**:
	+ *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!* had its intro moved to the beginning, rather than within the first few minutes. Also, whilst this only occured on occasions, sometimes episodes were trimmed in order for them to fit into a 20-minute timeslot.
* **El Kadsreians Love Dunkin' Donuts**:
	+ Most of the non-Kuboian shows that aired on the channel indirectly received popularity just for being aired on the channel.
* **Regional Bonus**:
	+ Since Kuboia is more relaxed regarding what gets onto preschool channels, anime and uncensored versions of Kantasy shows were allowed to air on the channel. Non-Kuboian parents who residented in Kuboia weren't very keen on this, however.
* **What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?**:
	+ Some of the Kantasy series it aired subvert this description, they *are* for little girls, but you wouldn't expect them to be.
	+ *Floral Magician Mary Bell* had a tendency for Panty Shots. They weren't edited out by the network.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Obvious Stunt Double

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Alice is a famous actress working on her latest movie. The time has come to film the scene where she rides a motorcycle through flaming hoops over a shark tank. But, wait, Alice is far too delicate, precious and non-expendable to put be put through that! A Stunt Double is needed. But Alice's usual stunt double is in the hospital, so what do they do? Hire Alice's friend Bob. Sure, he looks nothing like her, but it's not like anyone will notice.

A subtrope of Paper-Thin Disguise or Special Effects Failure, depending on whether the example is in-universe or not. It often overlaps with Fight Scene Failure. Stock Footage Failure is also related. The Other Darrin is something similar, where a character gets a new actor because the previous one left the show. Happens less often now than it used to, thanks to film and TV-makers now being able to digitally stick the real actor's face on the stunt performer.

## Examples

### Film

* Technic Heroes has so many examples that they have their own page.
* Happens in-Universe for the Maddox Movie, where Maddox hires a disco dancer as a stunt double and when he falls off a skateboard ramp, a cliff and eaten by an alligator, Maddox ignores him and sucks on his apple juice.
Dream Tropes Wiki/She's a Man in Japan

Sometimes things get Lost in Translation, and occasionally this isn't so much lost as purposely altered. Sometimes the "thing" in question is a character's sex.

Reasons for this are generally narrowed to five:

* To make the show more marketable to girls (especially to tomboys if they aren't likely to want to identify with The Chick) when the original show had The Smurfette Principle in play;
* The Moral Guardians don't want a Creepy or Wholesome Crossdresser or gay character in the cast (this is the most popular reason behind this trope, particularly in the case of Sailor Moon).
* Related to the above reason, the character looks too girly to pass for a male.
* The producers made a mistake, usually for the above reason. Of course, when the character was simply mistaken for the opposite sex, this can lead to continuity problems and may or may not be fixed.
* The work is being translated into a language that uses the concept of grammatical gender for nouns, and the character's sex doesn't fit the grammatical gender of their name, so the translator changed their sex because he thought it would otherwise look unnatural. This usually applies only to animals, objects, and Anthropomorphic Personifications.

Compare Affirmative Action Girl, Hide Your Lesbians, and Getting Crap Past the Radar. A subtrope of Gender Flip. May result in Viewer Gender Confusion.

Note that despite the title, this applies to changes in either direction, not just male to female. Which country they're coming from or going to doesn't matter either. The only possible inversion is if the writer gender-flips a character before the work is released.

## Western Animation

* The Swedish dub of *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* makes Dongwa and the Cook female (albeit the latter being a very *manly* woman). While the Cook's gender change is reasonable (he was female in the original book), Dongwa's is likely because the translator mistook him for a girl due to his Template:W-esque voice and feminine-looking body.
PBS Kids Live!/Tropes

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* **Audience Participation**:
	+ The 2001 tour had a bit before the show actually starts in which Template:W leads arriving audience members all around the arena, to every place but where they need to be seated. This was dropped after an incident at the Hampton show wherein a fed up parent *punched the poor suit actress in the face*.
* **Audience Participation Failure**:
	+ During the "Dare to Be Stupid" number used in the 2002 and 2003 tours, Template:W encourages the kids to sing along with him and the Alley Cats. Since most of the kids in the audience weren't Weird Al fans, the performances mostly consisted of Dongwa's suit actor running through the audience randomly holding a live microphone (which was accidentally swapped out with a dummy mic during the New Orleans show!) at the kids in the audience during the chorus, hoping for them to fill in the blanks. Needless to say, the kids' attempts to say the song title tended to dissolve into gibberish quite quickly. Two versions of Dongwa's "Thanks for singing along with me!" line were recorded, a more thankful one when the kids actually helped, and a sarcastic one for when this happened.
		- On the international stops, the audiences in Tokyo and Osaka responded with great enthusiasm whilst the Fueian and London audiences at least tried to say the line correctly.
* **Cover Version**:
	+ Most of the songs in the 2001-2005 tours were covers of older songs, often set to the original studio instrumentals or remakes of them.
		- Taken Up to Eleven and crossed with Translated Cover Version in the Japanese and Fueian shows on the 2003 tour, plus the Spanish-language shows on the 2001-2005 tours.
	+ Averted when They Might Be Giants made a surprise appearance at the Hartford show on the 2004 tour to perform "Share a Story". And when Stevie Nicks made a surprise appearance to sing "Every Day" with the Sagwa cast at the Cookeville show on the same tour.
* **Recycled Soundtrack**:
	+ The theme song to the Vitello dub of *Crayon Shin-chan* was relyriced as "Birds of a Feather" for the 2001, 2003, and 2004 tours, and now was about the Miao kitten trio (Sagwa, Dongwa, and Sheegwa). The 2003 tour added additional verses about their culture and the 2004 tour remixed it (thus matching the German English-language remix of the Vitello *Shin-chan* theme).
Dream Tropes Wiki/Fatal Method Acting

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A performer dies suddenly while on the job.

If the audience doesn't realize what's going on, it's a Real Life example of All Part of the Show. Can be a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment if (s)he had acted such a scene in character or a comedian's routine involved jokes about their own death. For understandable reasons, a production where a near or actual death occurs is often a Troubled Production. Film and television usually go around this with a Fake Shemp.

Most of these and more can be found on the Snopes.com listing: Died Onstage

## Examples

### Near Misses:

#### Film

* Technic Heroes:
	+ Template:W (in suit as Turaga Vakama) nearly died during the filming of *Bionicle VII: Sea of Darkness* when he was bumped into by the craft services truck and fell all the way to the bottom of a BBC Quarry on the Abeta outskirts. Thankfully, he was wearing a thick layer of padding and mattresses were placed at said bottom of the quarry, so he survived with only some minor bruises. The driver of the craft services truck was cleared of any wrongdoing and the shot was inserted into the 2015 "Maximum Edition" as part of a new sequence.
	+ Boogaloo Shrimp had another accident on the set of *Hero Factory II: Ordeal of Fire* whilst doing stunt work when he tripped and rolled down a hill in the infamous Cicmpillici quarry. Like the other time, he wasn't hurt that much and survived.
	+ Template:W had a near miss with a pyrotechnics misfire whilst doing stunt work on *Hero Factory VI: Invasion From Below*. If her mother hadn't asked Liam Benson and the stunt director if the stunt could be remounted to a slightly safer position for her young body, she would have been burnt to death.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Dramatic Reading

The following paragraph is to be read in your most **IMPROBABLY EPIC** tone of voice.

We all know it can be fun to read terrible fanfiction, but what about having them read to you in a dramatic, booming voice, just so that all of the Narm can be fully appreciated? This is where the Dramatic Reading comes in. You can expect almost every bad fanfic that becomes infamous to have at least one dramatic reading, and often other media such as published books can get dramatic readings if they're sufficiently infamous.

A subtrope of Audio Adaptation.

## EXAMPLES!

* Lance Bentley (aka YouTube/VidSpace Poop maker PenguineCuisine) has recorded one for the *Day of the Barney Trilogy*, a *Barney & Friends* Hate Fic with a cult following (Lance sees it as So Bad It's Good because "it's trying to hide the writer's hate for the poor purple dinosaur behind a generic demonic conspiracy plot"). The reading of part one is quite funny, but the later installments can cause abdominal ruptures from laughing too hard (especially Thorton Marshall's voice, which Lance performed using a *Punch & Judy*-standard swazzle, having been practically raised in the theme park industry among rollercoasters and park live shows by his parents). At one point during the readings, Lance has to stop to figure out how the hell he's supposed to pronounce Maca'hzar's name.
	+ He has also performed dramatic readings for other fanfics such as the *Redwall* Troll Fic *soulless shell*, the *Warriors* Troll Fics *Hidden Prophices* and *StarKitsProphcy*, the *MRA Trilogy*, *Proper Discipline*, some of THE PETE PETERSON EXPERIENCE's work, *My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic* (aka *My Little Unicorn: Magic is Believing*, aka "whatever Dakari titled it last week"), some *Calvin at Camp* installments, *The simpsons movie remake by grapestr33t4life*, *The Prayer Warriors*, *Harvey Birdman Versus The Organization XIII*, *The Worst Phineas and Ferb Fanfic In History*, *Thirty Hs*, *Imma Wiserd*, *Neon Exodus Evangelion*, *Angel of the Bat*, and *Dante's Night at Freddy's*. Lance has also performed dramatic readings of some of the collected works of the *Protectors of the Plot Continuum*, some DeviantArt *Animated Atrocities* sheets, Joe Magnano's manifesto, the Common Sense Media review of *Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum* (along with the parent/kid reviews for it), and Roger Ebert's negative review of *Stargate*.
* VidSpace gamer Jeko has performed a couple Dramatic Readings, including:
	+ A reading of the *Twilight* / *Death Note* crossover Hate Fic *Killing the Cullens*.
	+ A reading of a few video game Troll Fics for his video "Trashiest Video Game Fan Fictions"