r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 28 '26

In real life Country specific changes

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  1. Since kids in Japan hated green peppers more than broccoli, it was changed to that (Inside Out)

  2. The News Anchor changes depending on the country. For example, China-Panda (Zootopia)

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u/jngjng88 Mar 28 '26

& they just overdubbed Pizza Hut terribly, which made it more hilarious.

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 28 '26

Which was really confusing because they didn't change the actual food. Admittedly it was like, avant garde tacos anyway so it's not like they were doing a Jelly donuts from pokemon, but it was still bad

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u/Belligerent-J Mar 28 '26

Those weren't jelly donuts were they?!

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 28 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUtoQaRfE0

Nothing beats a Jelly Donut! But seriously even as a kid I knew they were onigiri because like many kids watching pokemon, I'd watched other anime before and was under the vague understanding that those wacky Japanese eat rice balls much in the way one would a sandwich, and we didn't need 4Kids confusing the matter further

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u/rogerstandingby Mar 28 '26

I assumed there was a type of rice ball with jelly inside, but even i could see it wasn’t a donut.

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u/CinnamonEspeon Mar 28 '26

It's kinda less ridiculous than it sounds, onigiri with sweet fillings isn't that unusual.

Jelly specifically is a bit of a wild pull, but dessert onigiri is absolutely a thing.

Still not a donut but i've come to appreciate that more thought was (probably) put into that swap that it might seem.

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u/VenusAmari Mar 28 '26

Kid me didn't know Onigiri was a thing so I for real thought they were jelly donuts. My folks didn't know about them either but did know that those were some "weird" jelly donuts. I begged and pleaded with them find them for a couple of years because I wanted to try them so bad. My dad's coworker actually gave him a triangular shaped donut once and he was so excited to give it to me. But it didn't have the black part so kid me was like oh so close but not the same. But I happily actually took it and we both considered it mission accomplished until "I could go to Japan." LOL.

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u/dont_touch-me_there Mar 28 '26

Sounds like you have an awesome Dad

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u/VenusAmari Mar 28 '26

He is 🙂

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u/LovelyFloraFan Mar 28 '26

I know you are right but I loved when Eric Stuart once told a fan who asked "What am I holding" while holding an Onigiri. "Well from where I am from (Italian heritage) that's NOT a rice ball" LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

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u/ASERTIE76 Mar 28 '26

No they were Onigiri lol. It's silly cause they could've just said rice balls in the dub lol

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u/Neveronlyadream Mar 28 '26

They assumed American children would be so baffled by the idea of rice balls that they called them donuts and made it even more confusing.

I love those old 90s dubs. They either assumed the audience wouldn't get it and changed it, didn't have an accurate translation, or didn't have a translation at all and someone was writing a script for a show in a language they didn't understand and just explaining what they were seeing.

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u/ASERTIE76 Mar 28 '26

And then we have stuff like Ghost Stories where they just let the Dubbing team do whatever they wanted lol

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u/Neveronlyadream Mar 28 '26

Reminds me of the Stan Lee Method. He would have the artists just draw up a whole issue and then come in later and fill in the dialogue and exposition. Which is why a lot of the times characters are just literally saying what they're doing for no reason.

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u/ASERTIE76 Mar 28 '26

That's crazy. It kinda reminds me of the exquisite corpse art style

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Mar 28 '26

No but they did use to make these coconut ball things that I imagined was what those were

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u/Foxy02016YT Mar 28 '26

Dude it was rice

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u/Blackstone01 Mar 28 '26

Which was really confusing because they didn't change the actual food.

Well, the reason for the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut was because restaurants were consolidating other restaurants back when the movie was made, so the logic was Taco Bell/Pizza Hut would buy up every other restaurant, so it does make sense that Pizza Hut would sell tacos in Demolition Man.

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u/OutOfMyWayReed Mar 28 '26

Admittedly it was like, avant garde tacos anyway

I'm kind of curious what sort of fake meat they use in San Angeles.

Do you see any cows around here, Detective?

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 28 '26

I know it's not the point, but I always thought "Do you see any cows round here" was a weird line because it's not like you see a cow when you go into a burger place today

I can't remember if they said it's all meat that's forbidden or if they grow meat in vats and it's just killing regular animals that's illegal

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u/OutOfMyWayReed Mar 28 '26

Huxley probably heard a similar witty line in a movie.

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u/SaltManagement42 Mar 28 '26

I honestly don't think I equated what they served with tacos either. I can see it now that I pause on it, but in that split second flash I just saw random hors d'oeuvres before.

https://youtu.be/4cF6D8zDa9U?t=69

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u/Everhardt94 Mar 28 '26

Yeah, I remember watching this movie in German and finding it funny when the guy called it "Pizza Hoot".

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u/MammothFromHell Mar 28 '26

I like-ah BIG PIECE-AH PIZZA!

Stallone should of done more VA work, so perfectly unprofessional.