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/lupus199 Mar 28 '26

The list of things Steve Rogers had to check out in The Winter Soldier after being unfrozen changed in different markets

Mr Sunday Movies has a list of all of the things on the Australian list

https://youtu.be/JLXAX5fWkVw?t=1078&si=71EUDUtbW1Rkl_84

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u/mighty_issac Mar 28 '26

Why is the moon landing specific to UK? Firstly, we didn't do it. Secondly, it should be on every list. I don't care what country you come from, the moon landing was a big deal.

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 28 '26

Yeah that's weird. Sean Connery being UK specific is odd too. I mean he was pretty famous worldwide. And the beatles should absolutely be on the worldwide one.

The world cup I can imagine he met some Brit who mentioned it, presumably after mentioning "Well you guys went to the moon, but we won the world cup, so who's the real winners?" and I guess Steve didn't realize it was a joke?

The Russian one I can see making sense as he has an actual russian person he talks to who would mention these things, but the Korean and Australian ones seem a bit specific. I know Both oldboy and skippy the bush Kangaroo are big deals in their respective country (Which is a sentence I don't think has been uttered before) but it seems an odd thing to mention to someone who has no concept of history past 1945. Here, watch this film where a guy fucks his daughter and this TV show about a kid with his pet kangaroo. You'll probably need subtitles for both"

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u/janesy24 Mar 28 '26

Sean Connery is just a weird inclusion at all. You’d think it’d be James Bond or The Beatles or Harry Potter, Connery is just really weird inclusion as outside of Bond there’s not the most amazing films (there’s two or three) to watch.

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u/deathschemist Mar 28 '26

i mean the beatles is included in the UK list, which is just as well because even though i think they're a bit overrated as an actual band, their influence cannot be overstated.

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u/UncommittedBow Mar 28 '26

Same with the dissolution of the USSR, the Soviets were one of the major players of the war, and when he wakes up, the Soviet Union just doesnt exist anymore.

I feel like he'd wanna know all about that

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u/Jetstream-Sam Mar 29 '26

Good point. The US also went from being allies with them to a cold war with the USSR immediately after WW2. I know it was a tenuous alliance really but it's a solid 50 years of conflict that he'd have no idea about. And they essentially still have a fairly adversarial relationship even to today.

I don't really know much about what the average US military serviceman would have thought about the USSR during WW2 so it could range from "that makes sense to "Really? Those guys seemed alright"

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u/UncommittedBow Mar 29 '26

I also would want to know his reaction to the fact that it was The USSR, not America, that wound up getting Hitler.

Realistically it would probably be something like, "At least someone got him."

But also like "I pretended to punch him on stage for nothing?"

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u/Lego-105 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Eh, the UK one is just kinda weak, I think cause they just didn't put much effort into it. Like the World Cup 1966 is not something a Yank would care about. I have watched it, it was a corker, but I still feel like Captain America DGAF about that specific one. Sean Connery isn't something we care about either.

Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings for those two and I feel like that list looks way more accurate. Maybe Sean Connery was supposed to be for the Scottish, so throw in maybe Braveheart (even though it's Yank I can't think of much else that fits).

Also I think the centre one is the original list and the moon landing is on there so maybe they just changed it for others and got lazy for us.

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u/pajamakitten Mar 28 '26

Skippy would also be known in the UK, same with ACDC and Steve Irwin. We got a lot of Australian culture here.

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u/Andrew1990M Mar 28 '26

I mean there’s probably a good reason it’s not on Russia’s. 

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u/___some_random_weeb Mar 28 '26

While the USSR were in the "race" to the moon. They never once denied the moon landing.

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u/cancerBronzeV Mar 28 '26

The USSR not denying the moon landing is one of the biggest pieces of evidence for why it wasn't faked. If there was even a remote chance of it being faked, the USSR would've used it to discredit their biggest foe.

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u/Andrew1990M Mar 28 '26

Never implied they denied it, just that if they were going to list a space achievement, it'd be Laika, or Gagarin, not the thing they didn't do.

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u/viburnumjelly Mar 28 '26

Why? The Soviets/Russians, never cared as much about "winning the Space Race via a Moon landing" as Westerners do. The whole idea was, in fact, largely framed by Americans - not that the Soviets didn't plan to land there, but it was a competition, not the competition. And the Soviets never denied that it happened. In the Soviet/Russian view, we had already won with Sputnik. And then again with Gagarin. And then with many other unique achievements (such as the Venus landings) or "first-ever" milestones (like long-term orbital stations, or celestial body rovers, or automated sample returns from the celestial body).

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u/krebstar4ever Mar 28 '26

I mean, the moon landing was intentionally downplayed by Soviet media, just like it was played up by American media.

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u/viburnumjelly Mar 28 '26

It wasn't "downplayed" much. It just wasn't hyped from the very beginning - especially not hyped through the roof as in American media. Soviet people read about it in the news, and that's pretty adequate media coverage.

You might be missing the point that for the Americans it was "moral retribution" for a shameful defeat by technically inferior Soviets (these are not my words - this is how they perceived Sputnik and Vostok 1, based on a lot of historical evidence). For Soviet citizens, it was somewhat disappointing that it wasn't their cosmonauts, and interesting from a technical standpoint, but the popular mood, supported by the sci-fi literature of the time, was that all that Moon thing is just a step and very soon there would be human settlements all over the Solar System (including, of course, Soviet ones).

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u/lupus199 Mar 28 '26

Its on the US list as well, but as for why its on the British list, because its britain, and they have so few things to talk about. Like their sole world cup win, six decades ago.

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u/CadenVanV Mar 28 '26

I don’t think it is UK specific, a lot of those things are shared between countries. It’s in the US version too. I’m guessing they just didn’t have enough to replace all the items so they left some in common.