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Dream Tropes Wiki/Interface Screw

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An event in a video game where the controller buttons are switched around, or the player's display is interfered with.

This may be one of the Standard Status Effects. When it's done well, it can be entertaining or funny. However, done poorly, it may break game immersion and cause frustration. If it makes the game noticeably more difficult to play, then it can be considered a form of Fake Difficulty. If such a status effect is available for the player to use on enemies, expect for it to either do nothing at all due to the lack of an interface between the AI and the game, or cause deliberate Artificial Stupidity to compensate for this. Sometimes used as an intentionally created glitch. Can be utilized by Multiplayer-Only Items. If this is done because the player character has been injured in some way, that's Injured Player Character Stage. If the player's controls have been temporarily limited in order to focus their attention on exposition, that's Expository Gameplay Limitation.

Compare Camera Screw. Some of the examples will overlap. Justified if the game uses a Diegetic Interface.

## Shoot 'em Ups

* The *Touhou Project* doesn't generally use this trope, but there are some examples:
	+ In *Touhou 8: Imperishable Night*, Mystia Lorelei has a few moves that can make the entire screen dim by 50%. One of her explicitly stated powers is causing night-blindness in humans.
		- In the same game, Reisen Udongein Inaba has a similar move that dims the whole screen by 50% but with a red tint instead. It's also one of the most creepiest moves in the entire game.
Croeya/Banned in China

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Croeya is also known for their ban obsession.

## Anime & Manga

* *Higurashi When They Cry* caused controversy in Croeya due to being aired in children's timeslots and wound up being banned from daytime broadcast. The broadcaster of the Croeyan Indonesian dub was fined (and then used the fine to buy the local rights for *Jewelpet*).

## Professional Wrestling

Professional wrestling *is* a thing in Croeya, but it is censored half the time to avoid the conservative Moral Guardians in the government's wrath.

* How Template:W managed to hold a house show in Needale is a Riddle for the Ages. The organizers were fined and the next time CZW held a show in the country, they sarcastically replaced the weed whackers, barbed wire, light tubes etc. etc. with (no joke) pool noodles and tennis rackets.
* Template:W weren't allowed to make any references to politics during their house show at Croeya Comics Convention.

## Music

Much like Malaysia, Croeya tends to ban certain musical concerts.

* Averted with the Template:W, they've performed in the country and gotten away with singing about everything from murder to gang violence scot-free.

## Video games

* Soni is banned due to copyright claim from Chronostorm.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Most Annoying Sound

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Most video games use audio cues as well as visual cues to let the player know what is going on around them. However, in some games these audio cues become an extreme annoyance to the player, either intentionally or through repetition. These sounds disrupt gameplay and force the player to focus on the sound instead of the game itself. Many gamers choose to disable the volume just to avoid hearing that sound again. And God forbid if you have misophonia over it. One execution of that sound effect can give you PTSD or nightmares for months.

In order for one of these sounds to be a Most Annoying Sound, it must fall into one of the following categories; otherwise it's just personal dislike:

* Annoying Video-Game Helper — In a game's attempts to assist you, it just irritates you even more, often due to repetition.
* Critical Annoyance — The sound for "Warning! Bad stuff happening!", and in this case it causes you to perform even worse.
* Death sounds — Your character is already dead, and that stupid death music is playing again.
* Ear Worm — The sound is stuck in your head, and now even turning volume off doesn't help.
* Repetitive sounds — Sounds that re- sounds that repeat-repeat-repeat themselves- sounds that repeat themselves are the worst-worst-worst.
* Taunts — The "come at me!" moves/sounds in multiplayer games are often designed to create this annoyance. Any strategy to use taunts to annoy other players and possibly screw with their concentration is generally considered poor form.

See also Annoying Video-Game Helper, Critical Annoyance, Hell Is That Noise, Loud of War. Contrast Most Wonderful Sound.

## Anime

* Miyuki Takara's "Big NO!" from *The Drillimation Series* got so grating as the series progressed. Since the 2000s, the trope has been used less often.

## Western Animation

* Maddox from *The Maddox Show* dribbling a tennis ball with his tennis racket. It got so annoying in tennis episodes that in the Maddox Show Online episode that parodies Serena Williams, he did it for 7 days, just imagine...
	+ In one 2004 Maddox Show Online episode, Maddox puts duck tape, glue and an image of Tara Strong to stop the sound, it glued to the floor.
Qua Feng

**Qua Feng** is the Captain of the 3rd Grand Army of the Warriors of Peace legion. When the Jade General was uniting the world of Han, Qua Feng was the child-emperor of a small kingdom renowned for its archers and crossbowmen. He pledged his allegiance to the General's cause and became an invaluable and loyal ally. When the Emperor came, Feng relinquished his titles and kingdom and became a humble follower of the Still Path, eventually rising back to prominence as a Praetor.

## Wargear

* Artificer Armour
* Refractor Field
* Power Sword
* Selenite Shard-bolt Pistol
* Frag Grenades
Aria Adventures/Funny

* Oh golly oh early, and we mean ***THE FOURTH EPISODE IN THE ENTIRE SERIES***, Anidrawed's wife and him are fighting about signing the divorce papers. Right after he starts his turn, no kidding, ***THE 2 SLEEPING PILL-EMBEDDED DONUTS ARE SHOVED RIGHT INTO HIS MOUTH***.
* In "Aria's TV Channel", right when Aria's TV Channel is made and she previews the channel, guess what? A buttload of commercials, of course!
* In the sequel to the episode above, there is a Inappropriate Timed Banner of Aria laughing at someone about to die. This later became a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment, because, we should note only a few years later, the same thing happened to SpongeBob.
Everyday is a Lovely Day in Circlia

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## Video Games

* While definetly not the most popular, Cookie Run is the most installed app game in Circlia.
* The Sims 4 is quite getting the hang of it on the eyes of Circlia.
* Animal Crossing is a very big hit in Circlia amongst children and tweens. Because of that, it has become Nintendo's Franchise Zombie in the same country. And it has quite an Periphery Demographic if you think of it...

## Movies

* Greeny Phatom: The Movie has okay ratings in Circlia, but at least, for good riddance, it's not as milked as Animal Crossing.
* Doubutsu no Mori is popular on Circlia, mostly due to Animal Crossing being adored.
* Most of the Star Wars trilogy is well-recieved in Circlia, though not as much as the Lion King trilogy.

## Websites

* Thanks to Circlia's bad website moderation, Twitter is very popular towards pre-teens... for some reason...

## Western Animation

* Apparently, Boris e Rufus, has been terribly milked thanks to CTV Kids's awful schedules. One episode even interrupted an 9/11 memorial... shame on you, CTV. Shame on you.
* Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is very popular in Circlia and Cartoon Network can't stop airing it.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales

Stereotype loved by the people it stereotypes.

(Laconic description - full description here)

## Examples

### Western Animation

* "Thief in the Night", the *Transformers G1* episode that caused Casey Kasem to leave the show because of it's stereotyping of Arabic people, is a favorite episode among Arabic fans, mainly thanks to Superlative Dubbing by the Tunisian dubbing crew.
ETVKK Reviews/Tropes/Epileptic Trees

* Chuck Cunningham Syndrome is usually explained as being the result of [X character] retiring from acting after his/her/their stint on [Y series] to pursue a successful career in celebrity infomercials. Cue a modified infomercial clip of [X character] "pitching" a random infomercial product. This joke was actually spawned in the JoBlo *Awfully Good Movies* review of *Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie*, but *ETVKK Reviews* took the joke and ran with it.
	+ Examples include: Otter pitching the Steam Buddy and Hound pitching the Safety Beep.
* Barney the Dinosaur and his friends are secret agents of Zordon who distract children with fun games while the Power Rangers kick a\*\* elsewhere.
* The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogues:
	+ The last ETVKK Review of the "actual" end of the Saban era of *Power Rangers*, *Power Rangers Wild Force*, gives one for all the Saban-era Power Rangers:
		- "Zack Taylor became the keyboardist for Otis Day and the Knights."
		- "Tommy Oliver quit stock car racing to become a paleontologist and, along with Bulk & Skull, managed a resort in Cancún. He is currently teaching at a high school in Nebraska."
		- "Jason Lee Scott became a publicist for Kraftwerk. He is currently in a mental asylum after claiming that the Voice of Energy kept talking to him in his sleep."
		- "T.J. Johnson became an ambulance chasing lawyer in Angel Grove. He later died in a freak gardening accident that the police said was "best left unsolved"."
		- "Carlos Valerte served as a congressman from Utah and later as the Mayor of Provo. He has since become President of the United States."
		- "Trini Kwan became Carlos' vice-president despite having been born in a tiny Southeast Asia country with a hard-to-pronounce name."
	+ The *Animorphs* review had this too:
		- "Jake went on to be a congressman from Montana."
		- "Rachel died by adding too much protein to her protein shake."
		- "Tobias is now a butcher who lives in England, a place worse than death thanks to British humor and culture and Commonwealth English slang and phrases."
		- "Cassie got turned into roadkill in a freak zucchini accident."
		- "Marco had a failed morph and turned into Marco Polo, the famous explorer."
Nickelodeon Kuboia/Tropes

* **Adored by the Network**:
	+ The Challenge UK dub of *Takeshi's Castle* was favourited by Nick Kuboia, and one of the few game shows they aired throughout their lifetime. And considering the US dub (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge/MXC) was dumped into overnight slots on Fizzpop, it's no wonder the Challenge UK dub is more popular in Kuboia.
* **What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?**:
	+ Nickelodeon Kuboia aired some shows with... *rather adult humour*. *Takeshi's Castle* and *Samurai Pizza Cats* often had this thing happening.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Hidden Track

It's been a good five minutes since the last song on the CD ended. By now, you've kind of relaxed yourself (and by relaxing, we most likely mean planning on spending the next 3 hours looking for examples for all those YKTTWs), when, suddenly... is that... music? Congratulations, you've just discovered a Hidden Track, the trope where the Easter Egg and the Bonus Material make love inside an album.

At its most basic, the Hidden Track is just a song on the album that isn't on the playlist. However, musicians have sometimes played further tricks in order to play into the fact that they are rewards for faithful listeners who listen all the way through the album. Some have hidden it several minutes after the last listed song after some dead time. With Compact Discs and digital technology, people have been able to play further tricks by hiding them in a Track 0 spot, or making them only accessible by computer or only when playing all the way through continuously.

The name harks back to when each song was a track running along the vinyl disc. The Beatles are the Trope Namer, having done it first on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's still a very widely used term for individual music pieces. If you knew this already, you should just roll your eyes at the lame squares who needed a widely used word explained to them; if you didn't, then don't worry, those other people are jerks.

In video games, this trope covers music tracks that aren't used in the game but aren't so Dummied Out that they're inaccessible without outright hacking the game. The hidden music might be accessible through the Sound Test, or by inserting the game's CD-ROM into any ordinary CD player (taking care not to play the game data on Track 1).

This practice is dying out with the rise of iTunes and Digital Distribution, partially because these services have led to trends shunning albums, with material on the albums being more likely to be shuffled and thus not worth considering as much as a single continuous work, leading to more artists releasing more and more singles. Many songs that were previously hidden tracks are now being listed in album tracklists with many digital providers (even those listed under "Hidden in the Middle of the Album" below). It's also very easy to spot a hidden song when the last track is 20 minutes long. The music provider service Bandcamp allows artists to add hidden tracks to their digital releases, keeping the format alive in some respects. Some artists have also opted to keep bonus tracks available only on physical editions of the album.

## Unlisted independent track

* *Whodunnit? A Share A Story Musical Mystery* has it's soundtrack end with "Hooray (The Day Is Great!)", then 15 seconds later "East Bound and Down" by Jerry Reed, the song heard in the trailers, starts up. On CD player displays, it's listed as "HIDDEN - EAST BOUND AND DOWN".
Dream Tropes Wiki/Permanent Placeholder

When a TV show, video game, or movie is being created, sometimes temporary content is created to fill in as a placeholder. Less often, the placeholder content ends up becoming permanent, either because the creators decided they liked it, or they simply couldn't do anything better.

Often overlaps with Descended Creator, particularly in Western animated productions. When preparing an animatic from the storyboard, the staff records a "scratch track" to be replaced by the final voice track later in production. Sometimes, however, the scratch track for one character comes out so well that they decide to have the artist who recorded it do the actual voice.

Similarly, a songwriter might string together a "guide lyric" or "dummy lyric" consisting of arbitrary words that happen to fit the tune, and then decide to keep some or all of it as the actual lyric of the song.

Not to be confused with Left It In - that trope is about something done unintentionally that is kept in the final take, whereas Permanent Placeholder is about things that were put in on purpose, with the intent of replacing them later.

A subtrope of Throw It In!. See also Working Title, "Untitled" Title and Regent for Life. Compare and contrast The Missingno., which can possibly result from a placeholder that wasn't permanent per se, but stayed in the code anyway. Compare Fake-Real Turn, which is when something that was started as a deception grows into what it was pretending to be.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* When *BTV News Inside* was first premiered on Banushen Television in 1998, it was intended as a placeholder until American series *Hollyweird* premiered in 1999. When Fox found out that *Hollyweird* was dumped due to Shaun Cassidy's departure, *BTV News Inside* ended up going permanent, and it was still going.
Catodose/Tropes

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* **What Do You Mean It's Not For Kids?** - Despite the cute cat characters, the show aired in primetime and has a lot of adult humor and jokes. However, it has been aired on some of the ETVKK blocks in the United El Kadsreian Nations alongside actual kids' shows such as *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* (which is one of the things it spoofs) and *Doraemon*, and was aired UEKN-wide on the local Nickelodeon feed.
	+ Also, the show has been dubbed and censored in many countries to kids' show standards (meaning no adult humor and no incestual jokes between Benny and his grandma).
ETVKK/Nightmare Fuel

* Joshua von Schweetz invading the 2002 ETVKK Awards through the El TV Kadsre website. This resulted in 1/3 of the award winners that year being unknown to the audience who viewed it on TV. Just the thought of not knowing an award just because someone invaded the whole award show through a choppy black and white low signal online video service gives chills down the spines of many.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Digital Bikini

Template:TropeWhen a naked character is given a computer-created bikini or underwear, often at the censor's request, as actually cutting the scene would leave a major plothole (or anger purist fans who hate it when scenes get cut for content) and cropping the nudity with pan and zoom effects would make the scene look awkward as hell. This is also used to make risque clothing more modest (i.e., a female character who originally wears a thong now has on a mild version of a Thong of Shielding, booty shorts, or granny panties on a "safe for air" version of a movie or cable show that was brought to free-to-air TV). A close relative of Censor Steam (and Conspicuous CG, as most of these examples — especially for the live-action movies — look so obvious, even to the most naive viewer). Sometimes this does occur with Barbie Doll Anatomy (or Non-Humans Lack Attributes) involved, though lack of certain... um, elements should technically make it less egregiously nude it doesn't lessen the overall perception that there's a lot of skin on show in places clothing should be. Other times, though, it can have the opposite effect entirely and merely look kinky without said attributes, so it's easier just to cover it up.

This of course stems from consideration of intended audiences, standards and practices departments and mainly pressure from Moral Guardians who can easily sink something if they mean to. This isn't to mean this practice is bad, just somewhat irritating to the purist.

Compare with Family-Friendly Firearms, when real-life guns and weapons are digitally altered into more censor-friendly fictional weapons.

Not to be confused with bikinis made of electronic components (if there is any such thing... yet).

## Examples

### Anime

* Although it's kinda odd for fanservice like this to appear in *The Drillimation Series*, even though it is still a kid-friendly anime, some scenes of fanservice, particularly in *Magical Girl Team Lucky Star* were outright removed by either covering up a girl's cleavage or joining the top and bottom together.

### Music

* The El Kadsreian version of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album painted on swimshorts over the baby on the cover.
* When Scorpions' *Virgin Killer* album was released in the Vlokozu Union, instead of using the replacement cover with the band members that were later used in El Kadsreian reissues, they used the infamous original cover but painted on modest clothing over the girl's body.

### Western Animation

* In *Cindi and Friends*, Hyh and Quu are occasionally seen without anything on the top half of their body. Some dubs of the show edit vests onto them when this happens.
* In the "Escapable Szcenholf" episode, Aria takes off her "bag compartment" (which if you didn't know, is actually Aria becoming naked). On several dubs her "bag compartment" is kept. Also the dialouge between Aria and Ceeby after that is cut out.
Baby Alive/Tropes/Trivia

* **Adored by the Network**
	+ In its heyday, Nickelodeon in the United States would play it in massive marathons just like *SpongeBob SquarePants* and *Rugrats*.
	+ Canal J in France often plays the show for 168 hours.
	+ CBeebies in the Island of Sally is composed of 70% Baby Alive and 30% other shows.
	+ Now that CBBC in the UK airs it again, it's played first thing in the morning, last thing in the morning, first thing in the afternoon, last thing in the afternoon, first thing in the night and last thing in the night.
	+ Cartoon Network YinYangia played it 15 times a day when they still had the rights.
* **Screwed by the Network**
	+ However, Nickelodeon in the USA screwed the show when Nick rebranded.
	+ Nickelodeon in YinYangia also screwed it in 2003, just before losing rights.
* **Edited for Syndication** - TV Tokyo in Japan edits the episode where Alive throws a cat at Jack, because they don't want children to throw their pets at people.
* **Keep Circulating the Tapes**
	+ The French dub of Season 4 is completely lost, since it is no longer reran on French, Canadian-French, Sallyish-French and Heartlakian-French television and the DVD box set release of Seasons 1-10 was in English with French subtitles.
		- Gulli had a marathon of the whole show back in 2010...but when they aired it, there were no Season 4 episodes in it.
		- In fact, Season 4 in pretty much any language other than English, Sallyish or Russian is lost! It was also available in Japanese until 2016, when TV Tokyo started to take down every single Japanese-dubbed episode from YouTube and VidSpace.
	+ The Japanese dub. Due to copyright issues with the intro (which was added to the show to make it feel like an anime despite being a hybrid show), the Japanese dub was taken down from all websites, and can only be watched on TV.
Sagwa's Siamese Life/Tropes

* **Take That, Critics!**:
	+ The episode "Hardly Worth Considering" was written as a *huge* Take That! to the School Library Journal for it's review of the original 1994 *Sagwa* book, which included the episode title as part of the concluding line. The episode's title was taken from the review and focused on Sagwa making fun of Dongwa for liking a book that she thought wasn't very good, with the Aesop being "Don't judge anything by how it's written or looks".

### Trivia

* **Fandom Nickname**:
	+ *Sagwa's Slice of Life* for focusing more on the slice of life genre than usual.
* **The Other Darrin**:
	+ Oliver Grainger quit Dongwa after episode 15 of season 1 and so the role went to Luciano Zambrano, except for a couple episodes where Benjamin Rehbinder voiced him instead.
	+ Instead of Jesse Vinet voicing Sheegwa, the role was played by Katy Zambrano (sister of Dongwa's second actor in this show Luciano Zambrano) in Season 1, but in Season 2 the role was rotated between Duncan Kwei Armah (a *boy*, oddly enough) and Denise Chapuis in Season 2. Denise and Duncan replaced Katy after she had to quit the role after being hospitalized for a knee injury.
	+ The Three Daughters were also Darrin'd:
		- Kathy Tsoi was Darrin'd as Ba-Do by Hanako Aomori in Season 1 and Mei Ang in Season 2. Mei replaced Hanako after she hit puberty.
		- Leanne Adachi was Darrin'd as Luk-Do by Marie Aomori in Season 1 and Marissa Chua-McLeod in Season 2. Marrisa replaced Marie after she hit puberty.
		- Rosa Yee was Darrin'd by Huang-Do by Kiki Tsai in Season 1 and Danielle Jegal and Huyan Xiaoling in Season 2. Danielle replaced Kiki after she moved to Hong Kong to work for TVB, while Huyan filled in for Danielle whenever she was unavailable.
	+ Template:W was Darrin'd by Template:W as The Foolish Magistrate, reportedly due to salary issues with Hiro and the other Vancouver actors. The other humans of the palace were also recast.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Fully Absorbed Finale

When a show ends without a Grand Finale — likely if it was cancelled without enough warning to the producers to film a proper ending — the producers may instead wrap up any loose ends in an episode of another show set in the same Verse.

Conceptually, this is the Counter Trope of a Poorly Disguised Pilot. The Poorly Disguised Pilot is effectively the first episode of a show on a different show; the Fully Absorbed Finale is effectively the last episode of a show on a different show. Like the Poorly Disguised Pilot, the main characters from the "absorbing" show may take a back seat in the episode, with the focus on the characters from the "absorbed" finale.

If the ended show was launched with a Poorly Disguised Pilot on one show, the Fully Absorbed Finale will usually be an episode of the same show (assuming, of course, that the parent show is still in production).

Alternatively, things might get wrapped up in The Movie.

As this is an Ending of sorts, expect unmarked Spoilers for the series having their Finale abroad. Unmarked spoilers for the host series may also be present, especially if the shows were related prior to one of them being Cut Short.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* The first episode of *Cybnix* was that to *Neo-Machines*, which is part of the same *Neo* continuity.
Nick Go!/Tropes

* **Adored by the Network**:
	+ The list is so big it needs its own page.
* **El Kadsreians Love Dunkin' Donuts**:
	+ It was frequently reported that non-Kuboian kids who were into Kuboian culture would use technology so they could watch the channel in their own country.
* **Fanservice**:
	+ Jiao Sun's Sexy Whatever Outfit for Mama Miao from *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat*.
* **Getting Crap Past The Radar**:
	+ The presenters frequently made jokes that were considered border-line inappropriate.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Self-Deprecation

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Sure, we all have egos to some degree, save for severe psychological problems; but sometimes you just may not feel like being self-centered or egocentric. Sometimes you may just feel like cracking a joke that says, "Ha! Take That!, Me/Us!" This is the essence of self-deprecation.

This doesn't always work, though. Make these jokes in front of those actually feeling in those aforementioned moods, and they won't see the joke. You may get accused of being "self-hating" or even a "traitor". This, of course, means that oppressive regimes are right out, unless those jokes are too ingrained in the culture, like in the Eastern Bloc states (particularly since the major liberalizing of civil society that followed the Second World War). See also Some of My Best Friends Are X, which can also be invoked by members of group X, but rarely works better there than it does in other settings.

The reasoning behind using humor in this way varies between media but will most of the time be used to relax the audience and let them know that your comedy isn't laser targeted towards one group (unless Self-Deprecation is a staple of your comedy).

Note that this isn't about whether other people are allowed to make fun of you. Those would be different tropes (related to N-Word Privileges). Nor is it Heroic Self-Deprecation, which is actually putting yourself down for real.

Self-Deprecation can devolve into Compliment Fishing. Remember that the dividing line between the two is up to the listener, not the speaker.

A Super-Trope to Our Product Sucks. Often overlaps with Biting-the-Hand Humor, seeing as authors usually have someone who greenlights or approves of such works.

Compare Adam Westing, Biting-the-Hand Humor, Self-Parody, Who Writes This Crap?!, Who Would Want to Watch Us?, Take That, Audience!, Offending the Creator's Own, and Creator Career Self-Deprecation (including Writers Suck). Contrast These Tropes Love to Brag.

## Examples

### Advertising

* VCMC Auto's Australian ads featured the phrase "Bloody Vimzie driver!" as a slogan for a bit.

### Web Original

* Peter Greenburg wrote a list titled "Top 20 Worst Travel Books" for CRKO. One of the books on the list, *Don't Go There: The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World*, was written by him under his "Travel Detective" persona.

### Real Life

* During Greenpeace's 2010 boycott of Kit-Kat for using palm oil, they tried to bring the boycott to El Kadsre. Unfortunately, nobody at Greenpeace EK had been informed that the El Kadsreian Islands version of Kit-Kat uses marula oil rather than palm oil (using palm oil is illegal in Mahri, where Nestlé produces much of it's products for the El Kadsreian Islands market, and marula oil was declared to be a suitable replacement). Greenpeace themselves then tried to turn "Greenpeace saves the day from palm oil... substitutes" a meme. It ended up being a Forced Meme to most.
Nickelodeon (Yuru-charaia)/Uncutted deleted scenes

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## SpongeBob SquarePants

* Deleted scene from "Just One Bite" is shown on Nickelodeon Yuru-charaia (even after it became Free TV channel) and Nicktoons Yuru-charaia
* 3 deleted scenes from "Procrastination" (including SpongeBob exercising) is shown Nickelodeon Yuru-charaia (even after it became Free TV channel) and Nicktoons Yuru-charaia
* Unusually, unused title card of "Tea at the Treedom" is shown on Nickelodeon Yuru-charaia (even after it became Free TV channel) and Nicktoons Yuru-charaia
* original airing of "Shangahied" is shown on Nickelodeon Yuru-charaia (even after it became Free TV channel) and Nicktoons Yuru-charaia
Returned and Services League (dubbing studio)/Tropes

* **Celebrity Voice Actor**:
	+ El TV Kadsre 1 weatherman Dr. Dreyfus Polák voiced the narrator in their dub of *Cyborg Kuro-Chan*.
* **Crowing Moment of Awesome**:
	+ When Dorami was announced to appear in the 2005 *Doraemon* anime; El Kadsreian fans wondered who would voice her since Naoki Takenaka expressed that she didn't have much interest in reprising her. Come the premiere of "Is This Goodbye? Doraemon Returns to the Future!" on El Kadsreian television, and Naoki surprised fans by *reprising the role anyway*. And she has continued to since then.
* **Enforced Method Acting**:
	+ None of the voice actors for the El Kadsreian English dub of the 2005 *Doraemon* anime were told beforehand Dorami would become a vampire in the episode "Doraemon vs. Dracula". Naoki Takenaka broke out into a crying mess when she learnt *her character was Dracula's victim*, and Brock Baker was very p\*\*\*ed about the idea of Dorami being one, which is why Dorami and Suneo sound a little depressed and *very angry* respectively throughout the other half of the episode (i.e. the later half of Part 1 and most of Part 2). Averted with the 2017 re-recorded version made for BTV Me's Big Halloween Party.
* **Gag Dub**:
	+ The 2017 re-recording of the *Doraemon* "Doraemon vs. Dracula" two-parter has one example: Halil Endrit Pjetër Behar Gumar ad-libbed Doraemon muttering "Ash's Pokeball malfunctions", as the "PONK!" noise that is part of it is used for Doraemon popping out a 3D copy of himself out of the 3D Copier Camera.
* **Reading Foreign Signs Out Loud**:
	+ Like with Power Network, RSL does this with their English dub of the 2005 *Doraemon* anime and it's associated media. Halil Endrit Pjetër Behar Gumar reads episode titles as Doraemon whilst Duncan Schleppi continues to narrate most Japanese-language signs (except for when Duncan was having surgery in May 2012, so Naoki Takenaka and Jane C. Baker rotated the sign reading for him in the episodes dubbed during that time). Sometimes, the reading can get spotty, for example, several bad grades on test papers in "Is This Goodbye? Doraemon Returns to the Future!" (or as it's known in Japanese: "のび太くん、さようなら！ドラえもん、未来へ帰る…"; *Nobitakun, sayōnara! Doraemon, mirai e kaeru…*) are read out loud as a single "F-" for *all of them*.
* **Vocal Dissonance**:
	+ Andy Wilson still cannot make Takeshi Goda's singing in *Doraemon* sound bad, though this is part of the dub's charm. Hell, even Corbin Berger attempted to sound a little bad when he stood in for Andy when he was in Template:W.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Credits Gag

Not to be confused with Creative Closing Credits or simply running credits over The Tag, The Stinger, or the Hilarious Outtakes, a credits gag involves a show making jokes within, about or upon the credits themselves. These may be a form of Couch Gag in a television series.

Common versions include:

* The credits getting "broken" and arguments over fixing them.
* Spoof credits, such as fake names, nonsensical or ridiculous roles, or fictional characters supposedly working behind the scenes.
* Referencing things within the credits, sometimes within a self-deprecating manner.
* Running fake credits before the end of the show, only to continue later.
* Homemade productions made by one person list job after job after job; with the same person's name next to it.
* Joke legal disclaimers. Variants on No Animals Were Harmed or This Is a Work of Fiction are subtropes of this type.

This is not just limited to the actual credits though, a film/series title gets this treatment too.

See also Logo Joke, Character as Himself and Special Edition Title.

## Examples

### Films — Animated

* The copyright notice in the end credits for *Redwall: The Movie* has "This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States, Canada and other countries and its unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution by a Warrior of Redwall."
Dream Tropes Wiki/The Shelf of Movie Languishment

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The movie is finished. The cast and crew have been paid, post-production is done. All it needs is an advertising campaign and to be sent to the theaters. Except it isn't, at least not at the speed most of its completed brethren do.

The act of being "shelved" is one of the oddities of the movie business. There are many reasons that a completed movie is set aside; a matter of timing, dissatisfaction with the result, corporate restructuring, unexpected copyright problems, etc. It can last anywhere from a couple months to forever.

See Executive Meddling and Too Soon for major causes of this. Compare Keep Circulating the Tapes (where the rights holders don't release copies for purchase after broadcast), Ashcan Copy (where the work was produced only to maintain the rights and was never intended for wide publication), Development Hell (where the work is never completed or takes an extraordinarily long time to complete), and Missing Episode (where the work is released, but is lost afterwards). See also Release Date Change, though that one doesn't have only delays.

## Examples

### Films-Live Action

* Much like *100 Years*, Sung Gim's 2006 mecha film *11 Years*, a marketing push for the Caelum's Best wine brand, was completed that year but wasn't meant to be released until 2016. However, due to somebody at Special Arrangement Releasing not paying attention, the film was accidentally leaked online. The gimmick was dropped and never brought up again and the film was retitled *DRon* to shake off any remaining traces of the gimmick. It was delayed until 2007... and still wasn't released. Template:W eventually put the film out of it's misery by releasing it straight-to-VOD in 2010.

### Live-Action TV

* In El Kadsre, *The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer* was supposed to premiere in November 1998 on Banushen Television on the Wednesday version of Comedy Night in El Kadsre, but because of controversy and U.S. broadcaster UPN's cancellation, Banushen delayed the show to early 1999. Banushen, however abruptly replaced the show on the November 1998 schedule with a repeat of *Veronica's Closet*. It did ended up aired on the Sunday version of Comedy Night in El Kadsre. *Costello* was also planned for the Tuesday version of Comedy Night in El Kadsre lineup to debut in November 1998, but it was delayed due to the problems U.S. broadcaster Fox is cancelling the show, abruptly replacing it with a repeat of *Suddenly Susan*. *Costello* however did ended up airing as a temporary replacement for *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*.

### Western Animation

* *Codename: Kids Next Door* was originally supposed to have a 2003 premiere date on ETVKK in El Kadsre, but it ended up delayed to 2012 for unknown reasons.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Fake-Out Opening

This is when a movie's first scene, usually before the credits, is so different from your preconceptions of the movie that you think you've walked into the wrong theater. Often leads to a Proscenium Reveal or the reveal of a Dream Intro.

Contrast with In Medias Res or Action Prologue (e.g., James Bond and Indiana Jones films) - they still fit the milieu and draw you in to the action. Also contrast Bait-and-Switch Credits. If the opening sequence never gets thematically tied to the story proper at all, it becomes a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. Nested Story Reveal is a similar trope where the fake-out continues for much longer than just one scene.

We hope it's not more proof why you should Never Trust a Trailer.

See also Bait-and-Switch Credits, Fake Action Prologue, Action-Hogging Opening and Non-Indicative First Episode.

Overlaps with Art Shift when the scenes are delineated from the "real" movie by footage that simulates some manner of projector mishap, up to and including frames of film melting from the heat of the lamp.

## Web Original

* The first edition of VidSpace's "PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch: Back in Session" livestream had the *Corduroy* slot begin with a completely unrelated episode of *Bloopy's Buddies* ("Bicycle Safety" to be exact). As the Bloopy Shuffle is being played, the episode stops and the screen goes down as we hear Zak and Wheezie from *Dragon Tales* bickering with each other and Ruff Ruffman as Zak changes master tapes, before the Corduroy episode ("Cute as a Button") starts.
Queen Marisa: The Founding Mother of Minecraftia (film)/Tropes

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* **Animated Adaptation:** This is basically an adaptation of the book into an anime film.
* **Everything's Better With Princesses:** Marisa is called "princess" at some points before she creates the throne, and Miho Fujiwara becomes one after Kichou marries Miho.
* **Rapunzel Hair:** Queen Marisa and Miho Fujiwara both get this as the film progresses.
Hyper Amy Sisters/Tropes

**Power-Up**: Fireching.

**Alternate Company Equivalent**: Super Mario Bros, but even RAISON, the creator of RYAU, HAS ONE!

**"Blind Idiot" Translation**: In the American manual, plants are now "plaintes".

**All There in the Manual**: You can't jump. In the manual, it says you can only walk and kick.

**That One Level**:It's only 1+2 and next thing you know you're going to break your ZGD with a hammer like CRAZY.

**Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition**: There was an sale of the game called "Hyper Amy Sister Plus" that pushed the ZGD's limits way too hard. It also comes with 2 books for recreation on the Hyper Engine; one for the well known version, one for the plus.

**Video Game Tutorial**:This game set up all the modern games. Including tutorials.

**Musical Spoiler**: You can hear water sounds 3 seconds before you start drowning.

**Big Bad**: It's an dragon.

**In-Game Novel**: A lot of them. The pages varies to 10 pages to an whopping 90.

**Power Up Motif**: the Visibility theme. while most people call this an distraction as it depletes HP and at some point 3 lives.

**Not the Intended Use**: on 0 + 3, get 50 candy and points, at the end go back, Template:Spoilers

**Persuasion Minigame**: As Coline when Apd asks a question at the first country, Coline can play an catching minigame to kidnap Amy, and make progress in the country trying to keep Amy inside, and the Apd boss battle can be skipped.

**Mini-Game Credits**: Amy can play an minigame and kidnap Apd.

**Human Cannonball**: Amy can talk to these weird Toad-like creatures to go in a cannonball and skip most of the level.

**Easy-Mode Mockery**: Playing Easy Mode is just medium but easier and has baby ads scattered all over it.

**Loading Screen**: Started it all.

**Older Than the NES**: 1976.'

**Oxygen Meter**: It exists alright..
Dream Tropes Wiki/All There in the Manual

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Information not mentioned within a specific work, but only found in supplemental material or in other works within the franchise. The significance of the info varies; it can be anything from little backstory details that clarify minor points, to information that is critical to understanding the plot.

For example, many anime OVAs based on a manga begin In Medias Res and rarely explain themselves under the assumption an OVA (being an occasional test run for a series) will typically be watched by someone who has read the original manga.

Other information can be found in text novels, video games, radio dramas, and image songs, as the entire franchise is treated as a package. Though, if you don't have the money for all that, there's always TV Tropes and That Other Wiki.

Fairly common in anime and mostly unknown in American shows, although it seems to be steadily picking up speed with shows like Lost. However, it's very common in American comic books because of the assurance that the stereotypical fan is obsessive enough to collect supplemental material (see Ultimate Universe). This also applies to the elaborate backstories many video games of the 1980s provided in accompanying comic books or novellas.

A common response to people who complain about The Film of the Book not making sense is that they should have read the book. Naturally there is disagreement on whether this is fair; some believe that a movie should stand on its own, while others feel that those who care enough to complain should care enough to read.

Related tropes include:

* All There in the Script is a closely related trope for when the names of characters or other things are not revealed within the work, but can be found in other materials such as production scripts, supplemental material, closed captioning, etc.
* Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole, when a Plot Hole in an adapted work results from the omission of some information from the source material
* Deleted Scene (in cases where plot holes and such are caused by the relevant information being in a scene that was cut for time or other reasons)
* Guide Dang It!, when it's nearly impossible to progress in a game without information that's difficult or impossible to find in the game itself, and must be looked up from a guide or other external source
* Word of God, where information not given in any part of the franchise is stated by the creator using some out-of-universe format, such as an interview or a personal blog

Not to be confused with Read the Freaking Manual, which refers to the oversight of not reading the manual despite it containing important practical information.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Un-Canceled

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That rarest of all television phenomena. A show that has been condemned to the fiery pits of cancellation is resurrected by the same executives who sought to destroy it... or different executives who want to right the wrongs of the previous ones.

Most times, this means a show is picked up by a cable channel or other network and put back into production. Very rarely, a show will be resurrected by the same network.

The biggest causes are either a campaign by fans (along with a compliant creator), or high sales in other media, such as DVD. If the show is not popular enough to warrant a whole new series but an ending is in demand by fans, then a TV movie, miniseries, or a new season may be ordered to Wrap It Up.

More common is creating a Revival or Series Franchise.

If the show got enough of a notice to have a Grand Finale, being Un-Canceled transforms it into a Series Fauxnale, followed by Postscript Season.

If a show is not actually canceled, but comes close before a last-minute renewal or a marginal decision to renew, that goes on Only Barely Renewed.

But if the show only got revived only for the ratings and most of the cast is not in the show, or there's too much change in budget and qualities, the revived show could go to a case of Seasonal Rot. If the show revival is made because the creators do care for the show, it can be better than the show in its pre-revival.

## Examples

### Western Animation

* *Pelswick*, a show cancelled way back in 2002 after two seasons, was un-cancelled for the streaming service Polygon in 2018.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Development Hell

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The state wherein an announced creative project becomes stuck at the preparation stage for years.

The term originates in the film industry, referring to films mired in pre-production without casting or production ever beginning. A common occurrence with book adaptations and other licensed materials, as legal squabbles over rights, Executive Meddling, budgetary problems, and differing artistic visions keep the project from going before the cameras. And even if it does make it to the shooting stage, a Troubled Production can easily derail it and throw it right back here.

Films stuck in Development Hell are called Vaporfilm. The Video Game equivalent of this is Vaporware.

Development Hell becomes a sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop over time — as one director gets fed up and quits, the project is assigned to a new director, who orders a new screenplay with a new vision, which results in producers demanding changes, wash, rinse, repeat etc. Projects in other media can sink into similar cesspits. Sometimes examples of this trope lead into cases of What Could Have Been or Trailer Delay.

The Shelf of Movie Languishment is a variation where a finished work gets stuck in release limbo.

Compare to Extremely Lengthy Creation, where a work did take a long time to come to fruition, but with no problems involved.

For those examples which *finally* became real, after years, or decades in some cases, look at Saved from Development Hell.

The Other Wiki has an entry about Development Hell, with a list of films that are either in Development Hell or once were.

## Films - Animation

* *Maddox: The Movie 2000* started development in 1979 as the original sequel before it was deemed too complex at the time, it was re-proposed in 1991, but the Doomsday Attacks were too similar to the Gulf War so it was finally accepted in 1998 and then released on December 31, 1999.

## Video Games

* EKBA 2000 was stuck in development hell for 6 years. It was originally named "EKBA Live" but was changed in early 1999. It was originally developed for the Atari Jaguar.
* Ryau the Jellyfish 5 was made 1990 - 1996. That's some hard work.
* A few Drillimation games ended up under this too:
	+ The first two *To Heart* games had lengthy development periods. The first ended up being 5 years, while the second was seven.

## Western Animation

* Any one of the rare fully animated *The Maddox Show Online* episodes... when they were delayed, they were replaced with essentially storyboards released to the public filler shorts.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Dolled-Up Installment

This is the practice of inserting a work into a franchise which it was not originally intended for, usually because of the marketing value of the name. This is usually the result of Executive Meddling, or else a dangerous similarity between a work-in-progress and a published and copyrighted one. Usually easy to spot, since the setting or style is noticeably different.

If the decision to doll up the installment is made soon enough, attempts can be made to make the installment more like the series it's being installed into. The differences between setting and style will then be toned down.

If a dolled-up installment is sufficiently successful and accepted, it can trigger Lost in Imitation: that is, later intentional installments of the series will take on characteristics that began with the Dolled-Up Installment.

It's common with Licensed Games. In some cases, all the programmers do is replace the sprites, for a game that ties into the source material In Name Only. A True Dolled-Up Video Game Installment will at least fit a bit more seamlessly into the franchise, such as with games dolled-up to fit into other, already established game franchises. Compare Super Mario Bros. 2, for example, to Yo! Noid!.

Subtrope of What Could Have Been.

Might overlap with Market-Based Title, if the new title puts the work in a franchise popular in the country.

The opposite of a Spiritual Successor, where the official franchise may be different, but the installment has a clear heritage.

For when it's the box cover that makes the work look as though it's something it's not, see American Kirby Is Hardcore. See also Canon Discontinuity, In Name Only, Translation Matchmaking, Recycled Script. Divorced Installment is the opposite, where a work originally intended to be part of a series or franchise is revised to become a standalone work.

## Examples

### Film

* Data-Byters: The Movie was originally started out as Takahiro Koizumi's spec script for a game show-based film, similar to *The Running Man*, but Banushen picked the script up, add elements of Data-Byters into it and turned into that movie.