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Dream Tropes Wiki/Dada Ad

## Real Life

* The VanellopeDash's launch ads were this. These ads were directed by Gamm Bal, and they featured weird, creepy and strange situations with several camera effects. The only ad that featured the system as a main point was one ad where the handheld is formed out of dirt, seashells and other such materials, which turns into the real thing once a piece of glass (the screen) is placed on it.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Saved from Development Hell

Development Hell is what some works go through if there's too much Executive Meddling, lawsuits, and so on. The fanbase is waiting more and more impatiently, but nothing gets done.

Sometimes, however, divine intervention happens. After many years, or even decades, of promises, the work is finally released.

Of course, the finished product is almost always significantly, or even completely, different from what the creator originally had in mind, if for no other reason than the conditions imposed by the passage of time.

See also The Shelf of Movie Languishment, where it gets done, but not released. May involve What Could Have Been if the project saw changes after being dusted off.

*Please only list examples here which have actually left development hell. Also, note that just because a title was saved from development hell doesn't necessarily mean that it's good. There are far too many examples of "saved" titles that were so bad or underwhelming that people would have preferred it stayed in development hell.*

## Live-Action Film

* *Nova Orbis 3: Crackdown*, which served as the second part of *Nova Orbis 2: Return of the Team Miro*, is a notorious film in the Technic Heroes franchise case of development hell. It was originally going to released in 1984 alongside *Bionicle IV: Legends of Metru Nui*, but due to things like budget, rejected scripts and most notably, Sung Gim and Pasi Peure having trouble getting time and energy for the film, it wasn't until 1996, when the film was finally released after 13 tortuous years.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Operator from India

"You have reached the Operator From India page. My name is Bob, how may I be helping you today?"

A Race Trope, where phone calls are redirected to outsourced operators in far-away countries. Expect the problems other native speakers encounter with foreign accents (and overuse of the Military Alphabet so both parties can understand each other) to be comedy fodder.

Truth in Television, of course. For English speakers the most common call center location are the territories of the former British Raj. Odds are within ten years, they'll have been sourced somewhere else. The Philippines are another common destination, on account of American colonialism there. Unlike with (stereotypical) Indian examples, expect no or minimal quirky accents if you're from the West—owing also to such thorough colonialism, and the subsequent Foreign Culture Fetish it's engendered with it, Filipino call centre agents have been trained to mimic American (and possibly other Anglophone) accents so well, they would be mistaken for Westerners without any further clues to their location!

For Inconvenience, Press "1", or dial The Operators Must Be Crazy.

## Examples

### Western Animation

* The *Wonderbeaver* episode "Whisked Away" has a subplot about Doctor Marino Om outsourcing his ransom demand calls to India.

### Real Life

* Nearly every live person you engage at Theorysonic tech support is based in *Sweden* of all places.
* If you call Latikuu Edacra Customer Support and select the English-language option, you'll find that their call center has the Operator from Quebec.
Odcinek 1

**Odcinek 1** (nieoficjalna nazwa: #SucharStop) to pierwszy odcinek Republiki Kaktusa.

## Postaci

* Kaktus
* Cytryna
* Jabłek
* Jagoda
* Truskawka
* Grejpfrut (siedział na linku do strony, nie do końca liczy się jako występ w odcinku)

## Opis na YouTube

Jagoda tłumaczy, Jabłek popłynął, a Kaktus wprowadza zakaz...

## Fabuła

Odcinek rozpoczyna się w Centrum Dowodzenia, gdzie Kaktus publikuje nowe hashtagi. Następnie Kaktus ogłasza akcję #sucharstop, dzięki której w Republice Kaktusa ma już nie być suchych żartów. Nie udaje się to, ponieważ Jabłek dalej opowiada suchary. Po tym przywódca postanawia przywołać Wielką Polewkę, by akcja działała na większą skalę. Po zamienieniu Republiki Kaktusa w ocean polewki, owoce sobie pływają, a Jabłek się topi po opowiedzeniu kolejnego suchara.

## Ciekawostki

* Te suchary zostały opowiedziane w tym odcinku:
	+ Publikujemy! Że niby pod publiczkę!
	+ Co robi Kaktus ze złości na widok byłej dziewczyny? Ex-ploduje!
	+ Co mówi zakochany tost do tostera? Stary, ale ty jesteś gorący!
	+ Po co przychodzi Kaktus do zoo? Po-lewka!
	+ No i sięgnął dna...
Dream Tropes Wiki/Parody Assistance

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A great honor for anyone working on a parody is when the creator or anyone else involved with the original goes beyond granting the parodist permission (and even enjoying said work) and instead actually helping them out with their parody. This can be as simple as lending sets or as drastic as directly working with the parodist, such as singing in a duet.

Related to Adam Westing, an actor's Self-Parody of either his most famous role, his Old Shame, or his Typecasting. Also related to Approval of God, when a work's author approves the fandom's parodies (although that applies to Fan Works as well), and to Actually Pretty Funny, when a parody's target thinks the parody itself to be just that. See also Meme Acknowledgement.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* The *Dedrick's* episode "Who Let The Hound Dogs Out?" parodies the film *Hounddog*, and was directed by that film's director, Template:W.
	+ Template:W directed the *Blackfish* parody sequence in "The Aquarium Thing".
	+ Template:W and Template:W produced the songs for the *Alvin and the Chipmunks* parody band "Sal and the Hamsters" in "Hamsters"
* The *Legends of the Toa* episode "Evangelist" features a Show Within A Show called *Cyborg Turkey*, which is a (kinda mocking) parody of *Robot Chicken*. Template:W, the producers of *Robot Chicken*, animated the *Cyborg Turkey* sequences.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Cultural Translation

## Anime and Manga

* When *The Drillimation Series* was being translated into English, Marc Summers suggested the setting for *Star Trigon* be set to Los Angeles. He also considered New York City and Chicago as possible choices but Takajima said no and Japan was kept for the setting of the English dub.
* The English dubs of the first two *Calimero* shows changed the setting to rural Canada, and never bothered to Hand Wave the existence of the giant city in both.

## Video games

* The El Kadsreian version of *Call of Duty: Black Ops* replaces Richard Nixon with Hiroshi Kayos for the sixth Zombies map "Five".
* The North American version of EKBA 2000 has a shortened career mode, lasting 6 games (the El Kadsreian version lasted 17 games)
Dream Tropes Wiki/Neon (1993 film)/Tropes/What Could Have Been

* After Don Simpson's death in 1996, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Joss Whedon, Stuart Shertick (the first film's director), Marco Pennette and Kevin S. Bright was slated to direct the sequel before Joel Schumacher came on. The reason why Kevin S. Bright turned down because he was concentrating on directing episodes for *Friends*.
R.A. Releasing/Tropes

* **Thinly Veiled Dub Country Change**:
	+ This trope was used *en masse*.
		- The dubs of Bollywood movies they did pretended that they were set in the United States instead of India, with the exception of some such as the dub of *Junoon*, aka *The Legend of the Were-Tiger* (and even then the characters are said to be "visiting" India). Any fact that the "American" characters were obviously Indian was either not explained or hand-waved as them "being" Indian-Americans, and they pretended the Taj Mahal was a mosque anytime a film featured it, and any film set in rural India with lots of chickens running about and colorful buildings were passed off as taking place *in Appalachia*.
		- Any Turkish film they dubbed and released Stateside was now set in the United States thanks to this, and all of the Turkish names were Westernized or changed to English names.
		- The English dubs of the *Torakku Yarō* films had the films now taking place in the Deep South, with everyone passed as Japanese-Americans.
El TV Kadsre Films/Tropes

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* **BBC Quarry**:
	+ Every Technic Western film was shot in a mockup Old West village built in a sand quarry.
	+ Technic Heroes has a tendency of using forests and quarries for, say, magical places and stuff.
* **Production Posse**:
	+ Many films feature Template:W as one of the star non-El Kadsreian celebrities. Radio DJ Template:W (aka the guy who put on Template:W) also tends to show up, and still does despite *Disco Panic* treating his old, rebellious self like a moron.
* **The Moral Substitute**:
	+ *Justice For All* and it's sequels were made as a more kid-friendly alternative to the *Friday the 13th* series, featuring a Funny Animal, Friend to All Children serial killer who doesn't use blades or guns and without much blood.
Harsher In Hindsight

## Western Animation

* In an episode from The Maddox Show made in the 90s, the site that lists the countries with the most computer viruses are China and Italy.
* In "Worst Week Ever" from *Aria Adventures*, there is a scene where in Ceeby's mind Aria says hello to people over and over until she gets into a problem screaming Hello to someone. When taken into context, it's basically parodying *the own show*.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Bad Humor Truck

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Ah, the ice cream truck. That All-American, summertime staple of childhood.

But what's this? The truck's driver is a Child Hater who's doing this as a front to sell drugs. Or maybe he's a pedophile who can't keep his Mr. Softie in his pants. Or he's an uncaptured Serial Killer who's stashing the bodies away between the fudge pops and the Creamsicles. Worst of all, maybe he won't stop to sell the protagonists some ice cream. And his truck is either an Alleged Car (either played straight or exaggerated), redesigned from a paddy wagon or a discarded military vehicle, or looks as if it was featured on an episode of Pimp My Ride (Truth in Television: there really was an episode of Pimp My Ride in which an ice cream truck driver calls upon Xzibit and his ride-pimping crew to make his ride a cool one). And that happy, tinkly music somehow only adds to the creepiness.

For some reason, ice cream truck drivers in fiction are hardly ever as wholesome as one might expect.

Sub-Trope of Creepy Stalker Van. May overlap with Monster Clown. The trope is named after the Good Humor ice cream company.

## Examples

### Real Life

* Dharamshala Mann, who led the Nostradamus' Warnings doomsday cult, drove a Template:W truck on the side to appear inconspicuous. One of his cult's former members recalled that she had been indoctrinated when she went out one day to buy a cone. The El Kadsreian Intelligence Service eventually killed him by planting a bomb in a Mister Softee truck he was repairing (they planted the bomb while he went to grab cleaning solvents, and set the bomb off whilst he was replacing a damaged spark plug.)
	+ His right-hand man Gandhi Bruce also worked for Mister Softee. Whilst working in the company's territory in Mata Nui, he accidentally ran over a kid.
* Kidsney ice cream truck drivers are complete idiots, Circlia ones are not.
	+ That's why even the own creator of the country hates the country. However, he does not hate Circlia, and he's totally fine with it.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Sleeper Hit

A sleeper hit is a work that becomes an unexpected success upon its release, usually through word of mouth. Either the work slipped under the fandom and critics' radar during production, it was dismissed as outright crap based just on previews, or the company/publisher didn't have much faith in it and neglected its promotion, yet it managed to get sizable box offices or sales. It might make an impact on the fandom collective and become a Cult Classic, or be a matter of Quality by Popular Vote and be forgotten quickly: the point being, it exceeded expectations.

It may start a Cash Cow Franchise, spawn cases of Follow the Leader, or even start a whole new genre.

Supertrope of And You Thought It Would Fail, where the work is actively derided before release and still ends up being a hit. Compare to Ensemble Dark Horse, when a character in a show/film/etc. becomes unexpectedly popular. If it takes longer than just its initial release to become popular, then it has been Vindicated by History instead.

Compare Colbert Bump. Contrast Acclaimed Flop, where a work flops in terms of box office or ratings but does well with critics and audiences, and Critic-Proof, in which a popular blockbuster/franchise gets a lot of bad publicity, despite being a box office hit.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* According to El Kadsreians, the American series *Married with Children* on Viva Television was excepted to be pulled against RGN's hit series *Neo-Shifters*. Instead El Kadsre has all eleven seasons.
* Similarity, according to El Kadsreians, *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* on Banushen Television goes will with the trope. It was originally excepted to be pulled against El TV Kadsre 2's American series *NewsRadio*, but instead El Kadsre has all seven seasons.
* *Fantastic Journies* is the first Technic Heroes TV show, and it was excepting to die in 1981. Instead it became El TV Kadsre 1's highest-rated series.

* When American series *Malcolm in the Middle* premiered in El Kadsre on Banushen Television, it was excepting to lose a half of lead-in *Frasier'*s audience. Instead the country has all seven seasons.
* When *3rd Rock from the Sun* premiered on El TV Kadsre 3, it was excepting to lose a two-third of *Rescue 911'*s audience. Instead, the country has all six seasons.

### Live-Action Film

* *Quest for the Masks* was excepted to be a flop, like then-recent El TV Kadsre films. But it ended up saving the studio.

### Western Animation

* According to El Kadsreians, *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* on ETVKK is excepted to die after 10 of 40 episodes aired, but instead El Kadsre has all 40 episodes aired and spawned a franchise.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Recursive Import

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So you made this neat video game, right? But, hey, this game may be just too weird or just too Japanese, or you used a copyright license in a certain region you can't use in another, and apparently in order to sell it outside the region, you need to, um... change it. The plot, the main characters, or the soundtrack could all be candidates to be adjusted, possibly for the sake of a Dolled-Up Installment.

Sometimes this can lead to a very strange conclusion — the altered version of the product being marketed alongside or after the original version. Inevitably leads to arguments over which version is better.

Note that this is different from more standard imports in that it's the selling of an alternate-region version of a product that originated in the country of question. Also, selling a faithfully adapted alternate-language version does not really count — although a Macekre-ified version might. This trope applies best when the product is radically changed and yet the source material is obviously traceable.

Related to this trope is "reverse importing". Since American anime DVDs are far cheaper than Japanese ones, some Japanese anime fans choose to import American DVDs to save money. This eventually led to Bad Export for You.

See also Recursive Adaptation and Remade for the Export.

## Anime & Manga

* *Samurai Pizza Cats*/*Kyatto Ninden Teyandee* got this twice in 2018 courtesy of El TV Kadsre Television Network:
	+ The well-known English version (*Pizza Cats*) was dubbed back into Japanese (as サムライピザキャッツ: キャッ党忍伝てやんでえUSA), using most of the voice actors from the original version (the voice actors who died or retired had their characters voiced by soundalikes) reprising their roles. So far, this version has only aired on 2k in Mahri, and that broadcast is bilingual, meaning the viewer can switch back to the English track if they know the language or if parents want a teaching tool for younger Mahrian children to learn English.
	+ To fix problems regarding Nippol's Polish dubs (Legendarne koty ninja and Samuraj Kocięta), El TV Kadsre worked with Nippol to have most of the Template:W-based voice actors from the Saban dub re-dub the show from it's original Japanese. Like with the Japanese re-import, some voice actors had moved away, retired, or died, so soundalikes were called in to voice their characters. The result? Legendary Ninja Cats, aka *Samurai Pizza Cats: The Dub You've Never Seen*. The other dubs of the Saban version aired on ETVKK Scandinavia had their casts redo their versions from the original Japanese to match, and so far they've all only aired on that aforementioned channel.
* 4Kids' English dub of *Tama of Third Street: Do You Know My Tama?*, known as *Tama & Friends*, was dubbed back into Japanese using the majority of the same voice actors as the original.
Clyohrairans' PewDiePie Craze

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This trope is about the participation of the PewDiePie vs. T-Series battle by citizens in different countries. The battle caused so much controversy on social media from the Western World, (especially in the United States, El Kadsre, Kadersaryina, Clyohraira and etc.), and the Eastern World, (especially in India). The Subscribe to PewDiePie movement caused controversy for being involved in mass shootings, vandalism, and possibly committed terrorist attacks. T-Series caused controversy for doing subbots and viewbots, and trying to be the #1 most subbed YouTube channel. People from different political spectrum praise different sides of the battle like the right wing favors PewDiePie, while the left wing favors T-Series. During the battle, activism and online activism were extremely crazy and insane, western companies, especially the ones in the United States, El Kadsre, Kadersaryina, and Clyohraira are now making stuff for PewDiePie, some Indian people are making stuff for T-Series. Government of Clyohraira was the only one from any government that made stuff for PewDiePie, the construction of two statues of PewDiePie. Amuelet Judeiut is the reason why he made PewDiePie these gifts, since he's a very trendy Clyohrairan politician, supports western trends, especially the ones in the United States, El Kadsre, and Kadersaryina. The battle was such a global phenomenon, that even after the battle was over, the stuff had still kept going, but not as extreme, compared to the beginning and during the battle.

# Beginning and during the PewDiePie vs. T-Series Battle

## Activism

### PewDiePie side (Subscribe to PewDiePie Movement)

Anti-T-Series protests by Clyohrairans, (even by some Clyohraira politicians) did it in India were very extreme, so far that they were burning the flag of India, the Clyohrairan politicians called the Clyohrairan government to ban all Clyohrairans from entering India after the protests were over.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Fake Shemp

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Every once in a while, you want to bring back a guest star or former recurring character, and you want this so much that the fact that the appropriate actor isn't available (i.e. unwilling, busy, or dead) doesn't stop you.

Or perhaps they are a regular but they unexpectedly quit or died or you had to abruptly fire them or are just unavailable temporarily and you need to buy time to write them out or replace them.

Pulling off The Other Darrin is tricky under the best of circumstances. Trying to do it for a one-shot appearance is pretty much impossible.

So you pull off something dicey: use a stand-in, and don't show their face. You can combine this with a little Stock Footage to improve the effect. Not bad, as long as the audience doesn't get wise. In more recent years, creating Serkis Folk that can pass for the real deal has been tried, but it's rarely passable (and ethically dubious).

This method has also been used to allow two characters normally played by the same actor to appear in the same frame.

This is somewhat easier to do with animation – after all, the characters look the same no matter what actor you use, and sometimes you can even get away with a silent cameo. Just... if they have to talk, be very careful of which voice actor sound-alike you hire.

Can sometimes overlap with Obvious Stunt Double and Stock Footage Failure.

See also The Dead Rise to Advertise, which often overlaps with this trope.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Network Decay/Total Abandonment

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## Animax International Distributors

* Animax Tasanala aired too much Tamagotchi! (non-Tasanalan edit) and Cardcaptor Sakura until its shutdown in 2011 (when Animax Tasanala replaced with Sony Spin), after Sony hits 300 million dollar fine for airing non-Tasanalan edit of Tamagotchi!.

## Other "Total Abandonment" examples

### Internet

* The Drama Network launched in 1983 and used to air mainly 50s-80s drama and sci-fi shows until *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* was added to the schedule in 1989. Then, in 1994, it turned into the Internetish version of FX, where it is to this day.

### Tasanala

* Disney Channel Tasanala used to air Disney shows until 2009
Dream Tropes Wiki/Adjustable Censorship

Adjustable Censorship is when you are given the option of turning mature content (usually violence, swearing, or sexual content) on or off. This usually happens in Video Games, but other media, such as DVDs and websites, occasionally have such options. You may have an "On/Off" toggle or a slider that goes from "Bloodless Carnage" to "High-Pressure Blood" to "Gorn". There may also be an option to change the color of the blood or replace it with something silly like flowers, happy faces, or green slime.

This is fairly common in Arcade Games and Pinball, so that more family-oriented establishments can carry games that they consider profitable but by default are too inappropriate for the establishment.

In some older games, back when adult content was much less acceptable in video games, the mature content was deactivated by default and had to be re-activated through a cheat code in order to hide it from the censors, making this a possible way of Getting Crap Past the Radar. These days, the ESRB (or any similar video game censorship board) will generally rate a game assuming all mature content is set to its highest level.

## Non video game examples

### Pinball

* Latikuu Leisure's *Redwall* gave operators three language settings - "Family", "Teens", and "Older Teens". "Older Teens" has some mild swearing (including Constance saying "What the hell is wrong with your bloody aiming skills?" instead of "Why are your aiming skills so poor?"), while "Family" changes the typical *Redwall* lines to more family friendly/PC equivalents (for example, Matthias says "I will destroy all those evil villains" instead of "I will crush the wicked rats!").

### Theme Parks

* Opryland's Music Chooser coaster has a "Angry Wuss Mode" which removes all the offensive content from songs, if you played Baby, It's Cold Outside, the song lasts 45 seconds before it is replaced with static noise.
Razor (Eruowoodian band)/Tropes

* **Brother-Sister Team**: Amy and James Hill.
* **Dork Age**: To some, all albums released after the death of Andrew Gomez. (1990 through 1994)
* **Epic Riff**: *Hoo boy!*
* **Fanon Discontinuity**: Some hardcore fans view their 1983 self-titled debut as the only album they ever made.
* **Heavy Metal**: The band never really refers to them self as heavy metal (They're more of a glam/hair metal band), but nearly all their albums fit the genre snugly.
* **Iconic Logo**: The red letters "RA OR" with a steel lightning bolt going right through where the Z would be.
* **Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness**: Ranges from around 6 to 7. For their ballads, 2 to 3.
* **Power Ballad**: "To You" from *Razor*, as well as "I'm Never Givin' Up" from *Floating Under The Radar.*
* **Replacement Scrappy**: Sam Wolf, who replaced Gomez after he died in 1990. Some fans criticized him for making Razor sound a tad more *indie*.
* **Riot Grrrl**: Amy Hill is an early, non-punk example.
* **Signature Song**: "I Just Wanna Feel It"
* **So Bad, It's Horrible**: *Razor4* received scathing reviews upon it's release, and it's easy to see why. Lazy songwriting, bored vocals, and just about everything that would be considered unacceptable on a *flippin' **Razor** album*. The Hill twins reportedly hated the album so much that *they demanded it be deleted from their catalog.*
* **Tear Jerker**: Andrew Gomez' death.
* **Tough Act To Follow**: The band has admitted that they just aren't able to capture the essence of their first album.
* **Yandere**: "Jealousy" from *OICU812!*
Dream Tropes Wiki/Dueling Works

This page is a list of similar works made during the same period of time. Sometimes one work intentionally copied another. Sometimes it's part of a wider trend in which that type of work became very popular all of sudden and others are made. Sometimes it's total coincidence: the creators just had the same idea. Which is the original and which is the imitation is not always completely clear; sometimes, however, it is painfully so.

Sometimes, rather than home-brew a knock off, a company will license a foreign work, and adapt it to be more like its competitor. Occasionally, creators will be forced to war with one another when they simultaneously produce similar works which are subsequently released within a short time from each other.

One thing to remember regarding Dueling Works is that Tropes Are Not Bad — while many Dueling Works appear to be blatant rip-offs, the competition between two shows (or simply the desire to set each other apart) often spurs each other to develop in quality. The result is a grateful television audience.

See also Dueling Products for proof that this type of competition isn't limited to just works. See also The Mockbuster. Not to be confused with Dueling-Stars Movie.

Again, just to be clear: The works have to be produced during the same time period, otherwise you've got either Follow the Leader or Serial Numbers Filed Off. Also see Fandom Rivalry.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Promoted Fanboy

Some fans have all the luck. Somehow they've managed to be a part of the very industry, or even the very work, that they're a fan of. This can range anywhere from the minor, such as a Contest Winner Cameo, or to the point where the fan has creative control and is Running the Asylum.

Compare Ascended Fanboy (a fan In-Universe), Ascended Fanfic, Big Name Fan (the ones most likely to be promoted), Official Fan-Submitted Content. Contrast Hire the Critic.

*As noted below, many franchises have been around for so long that it's only natural that fans would get to work on them.*

## Examples

### Western Animation

* *It's the Paul Taylor Program!* star-turned singer-songwriter/composer Jacek Fiedorowicz is a huge fan of *The Secret of NIMH* (even going as far as to name his daughter after Mrs. Brisby and to occasionally use the stage names "Jacek Brisby" and/or "Jacie Brisby"). When he found out that the animated series spinoff was having it's voice recording done in Canada, he went down to Vancouver to audition, and while he ended up being apart of the additional voices crew - he did get to voice Jonathan Brisby (Mrs. Brisby's deceased husband) in his flashback (and ghostly) appearances as well as Ensemble Darkhorse character Twigs (Teresa Brisby's best friend). And then he got to create Season 2's theme song.
* Irish actress Shauna Monaghan was a huge fan of the *Redwall* novels as a child. When she went down to Toronto to audition for the franchise's next animated installment, she auditioned for every female character available. She apparently cried tears of joy when she got the role of her favorite character, Jess Squirrel.
Dream Tropes Wiki/BBC Quarry

> "I fought in many battles with the Technic Heroes, and half of those battles seemed to occur in a quarry near Cicmpillici."
>
> Hank Jeroem, panel at Silicon Valley Comic Con in 2018

The ISO Standard alien planet set, as used endlessly in *Blake's 7*, *Doctor Who* and even *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* TV series. It was a disused or rented quarry, full of interestingly dull rocks and fascinatingly monotonous scenery, the perfect alien-landscape-on-a-budget — the British equivalent of Kirk's Rock. As a bonus, since shooting in a quarry means you're below the surrounding ground level, anachronistic structures/features aren't readily visible and don't require expensive sets or more expensive post-production work to conceal.

So common was the quarry usage by these series that according to Gareth Thomas, who played Blake in *Blake's Seven*, there was one occasion when they heard noises at the other side of the quarry, and discovered *Doctor Who* was filming there at the same time (though evidence of filming dates shows this may be apocryphal).

The quarries were usually not owned by The BBC, but rented for filming from businesses like Lime Works.

The direct American equivalent is Bronson Canyon. See also Kirk's Rock and California Doubling.

## Examples

### *Technic Heroes* in General

* Almost every installment in the *Technic Heroes* franchise has filmed at least one of the battles or TV episodes in a quarry, usually the Kadsreian Limestone quarry in Cicmpillici.
	+ For *Nebular Knights*, it was usually a quarry in La Baie, Quebec.
Detective Bones/Tropes

* **Fake Nationality**: Common, as the voices were recorded in Canada.
	+ Purr Evans is voiced by Ottawa Valley native Michael O'Reilly with a Brooklyn accent, while Terrence Scammell voiced the titular character with a Minnesotan accent.
* **Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping**: Klasky Csupo recorded the voices for this in Canada instead of Los Angeles, so the actors would sometimes slip up - for example Chief Barnaby says "What *aboot* the problem with the mafia we can't solve at all?" in "Mafia Troubles - Part 1".
	+ Sometimes, the actors will lapse into their natural accents (usually Anglophone Canadian or Quebecois accents). For example, Purr Evans, who speaks with a Brooklyn accent, randomly switches to a Canadian one for a couple lines in "Stuck in the Dumps".
Dream Tropes Wiki/Ridiculous Future Sequelisation

A work set in the future will often take elements of the present day and refer to them as a way to show that it is our future and not a fictional place. One form this can take is for there to be a reference to a contemporary Long Runner, and show that it is still going strong.

The chosen long runner is usually one that is well known for having several Numbered Sequels, which means all you need do is bump the number up by a few dozen.

Usually a throwaway gag, or incidental background detail for the eagle eyed.

But as nothing dates quite as fast as science fiction, the reference might pass a later audience by altogether.

This trope was popularised in The '80s, and the two most common film franchises joked about in the earliest examples were Rocky and Jaws, the former because it had already produced an unusually large number of Numbered Sequels, and the latter because it was often regarded as a Cash Cow Franchise remaking the same film over and over again, so conceivably they could carry on doing it forever. Nowadays, the most frequent targets seem to be the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars.

Distinct from Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo, which is where the work itself has a title which plays with the Numbered Sequels trope. Compare Sequel Snark.

## Examples

### Film - Live-Action

* The 2019 film *Viewer Nation*, which is set in 2024 showed an Honest Trailer for a movie called *The Deception of Runaway* on YouTube.
* The 1997 film *Welcome to Hell* (set in 2015) shows a Playstation 6 being used in one scene.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Galactic Dream Group (Creator)

**Galactic Dream Group** is a Japanese animation studio established in 1997 by Drillimation Studios alumni Munetoki Sasagawa. After he left Drillimation for his native Osaka to focus on his personal life, he decided that he wasn't done yet with animation and decided to found his own animation studio in his home town. While mainly a support & outsourcing studio, they've sometimes done the occasional original production. Galactic Dream also owns a CGI company, Galactic 3D Pixel.

## Galactic Dream and Galactic 3D Pixel have worked on

### Outsourcing

#### Galactic Dream

* *The Adventures of The Great Mouse Detective* (with Walt Disney Television Animation Australia, Wang Film Productions, Hanho Heung-Up, Funbag Animation Studios, and Production 91)
* *Eckhart* (uncredited)
* *God, the Devil and Bob* (uncredited)
* *Toad Patrol* (uncredited)
Dream Tropes Wiki/Only So Many Canadian Actors

To the outside viewer (usually American), after you start watching a few Canadian-made shows, you start to notice something. Something weird. It starts getting odd when you're watching Canadian TV, and you start shouting "Hey! It's that Guy!"... every five minutes, at every actor.

That's where this trope comes in.

You see, in Canada, the government offers significant tax breaks and direct subsidies to Canadian-made TV shows, in exchange enforcing a "Canadian actors only" policy for the majority of roles. But there are only so many actors in Canada, especially young actors. The country already has a relatively small population to begin with (about 35 million, roughly a ninth of the US population), and when you narrow the actors down to a specific age group (between 15 and 30, like most of the ones below), and then combine that with the fact that Canada has become a very popular shooting location for American producers on a tight budget, you're only left with a tiny handful of actors. Additionally, most of these actors often stay in Canada for the rest of their careers (though not always by choice). That said, some have managed to break out of it, notably Ellen Page, Aubrey Graham and Michael Cera.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing — if anything, it becomes enjoyable to the viewer, and because of the frequent recurrence of these actors, there often isn't much Role Association.

We only picked Canada as an example because Canada, along with Malaysia and the United Kingdom, is home to a lot of tropers. But this trope can be found in any country with a small enough dramatic community where actors either prefer to stay in their home country or are forced to stay because of linguistic incompatibility with countries around them. You can also notice this in the some of the more niche branches (relative to film and TV anyways) of dramatic arts, there are only so many Mummers dancers or Peking opera singers to go around.

On the other hand, the specific Family Channel Kid Com —> Degrassi path has become so well-trodden it's almost a subtrope of both this and Tom Hanks Syndrome. (Life with Derek was an unusual case in that many actors came from Degrassi to appear on the show in recurring roles - but sure enough, the reverse inevitably happened as well.)

Oddly enough, The Ocean Group, 9 Story Media Group, Fresh TV and Nelvana are also guilty of this trope, using many of the same actors in their shows, and some of the actors listed here have appeared in their shows as well.

## Examples

### Media Commonly Associated With This

* Any show that Phelan Morkel had a hand in:
	+ *Mole Miner*
	+ *Morten*
	+ *Wonderbeaver*
Dream Tropes Wiki/Transatlantic Equivalent

Two shows on opposite sides of the Atlantic can be compared with each other.

Typically, the older show is remade on the other side of The Pond. Most often, a UK show is remade in the US. In the case of foreign reality or game shows, this is because they are not usually aired by US commercial networks, and this allows American audiences to directly participate by becoming eligible contestants.

Shows that spread to even more countries become Multi-National Shows.

Compare Foreign Remake.

## Examples

### Film & TV

* Data-Byters (El Kadsre) / Data-Byters (U.S.): Tokusatsu game shows.
* Schweetzman (El Kadsre) / Schweetzman (USA): Sketch comedy shows.

### Networks

* RTE2 (Ireland) / Banushen Television (El Kadsre): Late 20th century broadcasters.
* Must See TV (USA) / Comedy Night in El Kadsre (El Kadsre): Comedy blocks.
Krazy Khampionship Wrestling/Tropes

**Krazy Khampionship Wrestling** is the *DEADLIEST, MOST BRUTAL THING YOU'LL EVER SEE!!! CAN YOU HANDLE IT?!?*

Now, minus Kayfabe. Krazy Khampionship Wrestling is a Take That-esque Stealth Parody of hardcore wrestling in general. Wrestlers, with personas that are cheesier than Kraft Mac & Cheese, square off in a (usually barbed wire) ring in venues such as comic cons and block parties. Established in '99. A TV pilot for the Template:W was performed and shot in 2015 but wasn't picked up, however the El Rey Network have considered giving the promotion a second shot at a series.

## Deadliest, Must Brutal Tropes

* **Garbage Wrestlers**:
	+ You get attacked with everything from weed whackers to *a kitchen sink*.
Redwall: The Movie/Tropes

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* **Autobots, Rock Out!**:
	+ Seen in *spades* throughout the movie. Mariel defeats Urgan Nagru to the tune of "Cross That Line" by Stan Bush and Matthias fights off Urgan's hoarde to the tune of "I'm A Fighter" by The Jeff Austin Project whilst Urgan gets two different villainous versions in the form of "Ready to Die" by Andrew W.K. and "High On Life" by Winterkill underscoring his hoarde's respective raids on the abbey.
* **Anyone Can Die**: Done intentionally and *even more than usual* to clear the decks for a new round of characters in case another *Redwall* cartoon was to be made. The full list of characters who are confirmed to die in this movie are, in order of death: Plumpen (his throat gets slit, however his death is obscured by a Gory Discretion Shot), Elmtail (shot by the proto-rifles of Urgan Nagru's hoarde, Basil Stag Hare is also shot but survives), Log-a-Log (slain by Urgan's hoarde; however like Plumpen his death is obscured by a Gory Discretion Shot), Squire Julian Gingivere and Jess Squirrel (both shown in a pile of bodies), Matthias (sacrifices himself by taking the blunt of Urgan's spear in a last ditch attempt to save Redwall Abbey), and Sir Harry the Muse (stabbed to death by Slagar). More deaths were planned but left out including Flugg, Sister May, and Jube. This was Averted with Winifred, who is savaged by Urgan's hoarde when fighting them in Mossflower Woods and presumed to be dead by Cornflower, only for Winifred turn out to be Not Quite Dead, literally saying "I am not dead... I have survived by pure chance..."; and also with Constance, who is in a coma for most of the movie after Sela knocks her out with a kick to the gut.
	+ Sir Harry the Muse was McLeaned to be exact, as Alan Bomer of the Xavier Eggers team viewed Harry as "a male, rhyme-spewing Mary Sue"
* **Back from the Dead**: Sela Vixen is brought back from the dead by Urgan Nagru to fight with him and Sela's son Slagar the Cruel (Slagar of whom turns out to be Not Quite Dead).
* **Big Damn Movie**: This movie took a TV adaptation of a then-ongoing novel series into a medieval action epic involving the deaths of virtually half of the main cast of the first two seasons of the TV show (including Matthias) and the protagonists facing a powerful entity intent on taking over Redwall Abbey and then *the entire world*. Oh, and the usage of *sorcery* (!) to bring people back from the dead.
* **Compressed Adaptation**/**Adaptation Expansion**: The books the plot was created from are represented somewhat but have compressed for time with some bits taken out, but there are some new things added (for example, changing Matthias' death from old age to sacrificing himself and being slashed badly by Urgan Nagru in a last ditch attempt to save Redwall Abbey).
Barokians Love Danny Phantom

## Western Animation

* Many Canadian cartoons are seen as crap over in the States, but are either popular or cult classics in Barokia.
	+ *What's With Andy?* is still rerun on BBT Kids long after it's original run ended. This may have something to do with either Andy being similar to a legendary Barokian cinema character named *Mahmud Shazfool* or the excellent dubbing.
	+ While *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* has been forgotten in America, it's still popular among Barokians as the show still airs there.
	+ *Caillou* is such a cult classic that in 2018, Jesse Vinet (the English voice of Rosie) and Pat Fry (the English voice of Boris) visited Barokia ComicCon.
* **Danny Phantom** is known to be a lot popular in Barokia. But Barokian Danny Phantom fans really want a next season.
El Kadsreian Basketball Association/Tropes

* **Hilarity Ensues**:
	+ During the second exhibition game at Template:W's Dancehall Theater in 1999, a bird flew into the theater and starting flying around the court. Cue the timekeeper scrambling to pause the game to avoid the whole "Coach Roy killed Victor" thing from *Rebound* happening years prior. Eventually, Animal Control was called in and after a rousing 2 minutes, captured the bird. We can thank god El TV Kadsre 1 had almost *nothing* scheduled at the time of broadcast, or we'd get a El Kadsreian counterpart to the Template:W! Also, a Wizards member tried to kill the bird with a basketball.
* **Impressive Pyrotechnics**
	+ The opening pyro of the 2015 Wizards v. Dragonflies exhibition game at Madison Square Garden.
* **Made of Plasticine**
	+ Faizullah Lufaqi, his occasional injuries almost got close to a real-life example of this trope. This is probably why he became a coach later on.
Screaming Eagles

*"There are two types of people on the battlefield, the quick and the dead,"*

- Unofficial motto of the Screaming Eagles

## 2541st Cohort, 'Screaming Eagles'

A golden eagle descending from a star studded sky

The **Screaming Eagles** were the 2541st Cohort of the Solar Auxilia that fought during the Great Crusade, Halcyon Age, and Five Ruins for the Loyalist Cause. Raised on the world of Seheron and famed throughout the Excertus for their daring airborne assaults.

## History

The Screaming Eagles' homeworld of Seheron was brought into compliance in 816.M30 by the Emperor's own 1st Expeditionary Fleet. During a meeting with the Prime Minister of the planet the Emperor was able to convince him that joining the Imperium was in Seheron's best interest and after a brief discussion in Parliament the resolution was passed unanimously.

Seheron was quickly designated an ideal recruiting ground for the Imperial Army as it had a long tradition of aviation and a variety of biomes. Its first regiments were entirely homegrown but once they saw combat it was evident they had not had to fight a war in a very long time so Solar Auxilia officers were sent to reorganize the Seheron Regiments into Solar Auxilia Cohorts. The only resemblance the new formations had to the old was their doctrine as their training, equipment, and organization were entirely different.

It wasn't until 855.M30 that the 2541st Cohort was stood up and another decade after that before they became famous. At the Battle of Kalchus IV the 2541st launched an offensive into the heart of the resistance's territory, suffering heavy casualties as they came down from orbit in Stormbirds but making it to the surface in enough strength to capture the capital and seize the Kalchusian High Command. Leaderless the Kalchusian forces were overwhelmed by the Imperial Army and Kalchus IV was brought into compliance. For their actions they earned the epithet Screaming Eagles.

## Notable Campaigns

* Auretian Technocracy War - The Screaming Eagles fought alongside the Obsidian Guard and Crimson Lions Legions to bring the world of Aureus into compliance.
* Ullanor Crusade - The Screaming Eagles fought during the Ullanor Crusade against the Greenskin empire located in the Ullanor sector.

## Notable Members

* Lord Marshal Tiberius Scaro - Commander of the Screaming Eagles from the Auretian Technocracy War to the 1st Ruin

## Doctrine

The Screaming Eagles favor swift aerial insertion to take their enemies by surprise and attack from above, which static defenses rarely stop. Once on the ground they move quickly to secure their objectives before the enemy can react and coordinate closely with ground attack aircraft to make up for their lack of heavy armor or artillery.

## Appearance

### Uniform

The Screaming Eagles wear gold colored armor trimmed in white over black fatigues

### Insignia

The Screaming Eagles' regimental insignia is an eagle swooping down on a black field studded with white stars.
Eruowoodians Love Super Sentai

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## Animation

* *Dragonball* (along with *Dragonball Z* and *Dragonball Super*) is popular in Eruowood.
* *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (along with *Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*) is wildly popular in Eruowood.

## TV Shows

* *Power Rangers* (along with *Super Sentai*) is also wildly popular in Eruowood.
* *Sesame Street* is one of the most popular children's television shows in Eruowood.

## Video games

* The *Pokemon* video games are popular in Eruowood. *Pokemon Red and Blue* were the best selling video games on Game Boy in Eruowood.

## Miscellaneous

* The *77 Kids* chain is one of the most popular mall children's clothing stores in Eruowood.
* *Yuru-chara*/*Kigurumi* is popular in Eruowood, because these used in everything in Eruowood (except for foreign TV shows).
* *VHS* is still popular in Eruowood despite the fact the last VHS tapes in Eruowood were released in 2006.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Translation Matchmaking

Template:Under ConstructionThis is when two or more works that have little or nothing to do with each other are given translated titles that imply a connection. Sometimes to capitalize on the first work's fame, but often just because it's funny, which may be an overlap with Pun-Based Title.

This is only for titles that have been translated. When it affects the content of the original work, it's a Dolled-Up Installment, or just Dub Text.

Subtrope of Completely Different Title. See also Similarly Named Works and In Name Only. Parallel Porn Titles may also arise from this trope.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* In Barokia, *Caroline in the City* was known as *Mughamarat Karulin*, and *Malcolm in the Middle* becomes *Mughmarat Malkulm*.
* Vicnora made a few examples:
	+ *Friends* become Best Friends. In turn, *The Single Guy* also become Worst Friends.
	+ *Dharma & Greg* become The Best Couples. In turn, *Will & Grace* also become The Worst Couples.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Production 91 (Creator)

**Production 91** is a Japanese animation studio established in 1991 by former Shin-Ei staff.

They're probably best known for *Mi-Mo-Mi-Key*.

They have also been credited as **International Animation Office** (which is the name of a sub-unit within the company mostly dedicated to photography for anime series).

## In addition to the above, Production 91 has also worked on:

**Anime:**

* *Days For Me*
* *Days For Me II*
* *Her Majesty's Dog*
* *Jamaica Way*
* *Wedding Peach (2018)* (in association with OLM Team Koitabashi)

**Outsourcing:**

* *Angelina Ballerina* (with Varga Studio, Palembang Animation Production, and Shooters Media; also did *Angelina Ballerina: The Movie* with the aforementioned Varga Studio)
* *Clifford the Big Red Dog* (intro; series was animated by Hong Ying)
* *Redwall: The Movie* (with Nelvana Australia and AKOM)
* *Little Monsters* (intro and title cards; series was animated by Animation Services Hong Kong)
* *Maya & Miguel*
* *Sagwa: The Quest for the Jewels of the Forbidden City* (with Wang Film Productions, Dong Woo, Palembang Animation Production, and Digital eMation)

## Other projects Production 91 has helped out on:

* *Charlotte* (2nd Key Animation)
* *Death Note* (2nd Key Animation and Backgrounds)
* *InuYasha* (2nd Key Animation; credited as International Animation Office)
* *Yatterman Night* (2nd Key Animation)
* *Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS* (2nd Key Animation)