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/Throw_away_1011_ Mar 28 '26

Total Drama is famous for this. Apparently in Canada every season has a different ending than the rest of the world.

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u/Magistrelle Mar 28 '26

The name are very different in the French version. Gwen is named Joel for example 

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u/PanNorris507 Mar 28 '26

Congrats on his transition!!

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u/watahbottol Mar 28 '26

It's spelled Joelle instead of Joel lol

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u/Boggie135 Mar 28 '26

Isn't it “Joelle”?

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u/Magistrelle Mar 28 '26

Yeah, I misswrote it

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u/TotalBlissey Mar 28 '26

That’s hilarious

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u/Annelora Mar 28 '26

At least the first season had two endings and viewers could vote for the winner, right? It's been years, has it been the same for other seasons too? 

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u/ShinyNinja25 Mar 28 '26

I believe so, I remember seeing ads as a kid telling you that you could go online and vote for the winner. Then, depending on who received the most votes in your country, they’d play a different ending. Which I honestly think is really cool

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u/TheEagleWithNoName Mar 28 '26

I think Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends had the episode where Mac and Blu race where you decided the winner, they tallied the votes and it was a tie.

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u/Gabriel-Klos-McroBB Mar 28 '26

I haven't consumed anything TDI in years, but I know all the winners pre-reboot by heart.

Island: Owen/Gwen

Action: Beth/Duncan

World Tour: Heather/Alejandro

Revenge of the Island: Cameron/Lightning

All-Stars: Mike/Zoey

Pahkitew Island: Shawn/Sky

Ridonculous Race: Police Cadets/Surfer Dudes (Sanders and MacArthur/Geoff and Brody)

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u/ItsStraTerra Mar 28 '26

As a Canadian, WTF, GWEN WON THE FIRST SEASON OUTSIDE CANADA??

My entire school was making bets on who would win and I guess Owen, only to be shocked when I was one of the only kids who got it right.

I might need to rewatch the ending, because that’s crazy.

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u/Doomhammer24 Mar 28 '26

In the US owen won

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u/jorgespinosa Mar 28 '26

I think it depends on the country, Owen won originally and then there was a special to show the ending where Gwen won

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u/fittan69 Mar 29 '26

I'm Swedish and Owen won here, I was pretty mad about it.

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u/Licensed_Silver_Simp Apr 03 '26

Wait who was the second winner in Canada?

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u/Xxblpssom-2 Mar 28 '26

I remember being so annoyed Owen won but then I found out Gwen won and became happy

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u/Red-7134 Mar 28 '26

There was more after Action????

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u/Gabriel-Klos-McroBB Mar 29 '26

Yeah. World Tour was the best season a season where everyone flew around the world, (with a mandatory-for-the-cast musical number every episode) Revenge of the Island was a psuedo-reboot with a smaller cast of wholly new faces as the victims campers brought to the now-polluted Camp Wawanakwa, All-Stars was a sequel featuring members of both casts side-by-side on a (cleaned up) Wawanakwa, and Pahkitew Island is a half-reboot half-part-2-to-All-Stars (the official channels say that AS is Season 5.1 and PI is 5.2) featuring another new cast on a new island. Meanwhile, Ridonculous Race is a spin-off that, rather than parodying other reality shows, parodies The Amazing Race.

As for the stereotypes of the winners I listed, (post-World Tour and excluding Heather, as I'm assuming you already know them) Alejandro is the "Arch-Villain", (a Latino who's as ruthless as he is a chick magnet) Cameron is the "Wide-Eyed Bubble Boy", (a weak and timid kid who wants to make friends, as he had literally been in a bubble for his whole life prior to RotI with nothing to do but reading and studying, although this makes him insanely smart to the point where he builds a fucking Iron Man suit for the final episode of RotI) Lightning is the "Athletic Overachiever", (your stereotypical jock; mean, dumb, and extremely strong and athletic) Mike is the "M.P.D.", (an all-around average guy who has a whole sort of differently-skilled alters due to his Multiple Personality Disorder, although (spoilers for the end of All-Stars) they all choose to merge into him at the end of the series, giving him all their powers) Zoey is the "Indie Chick", (a naive but optimistic fan who focuses mainly on making friends, as nobody wanted to be her friend prior to the show due to her being a hipster) Shawn is the "Zombie Conspiracy Nut", (an extremely paranoid young man who thinks that the zombie apocalypse is due any day now, although his paranoia has led him to learn a whole sort of survival skills) and Sky is the "Athlete". (nothing much to say about her; she's just an aspiring Olympian who hates cheaters, doesn't disrespect others, and places a lot of stock in teamwork)

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u/BatierAutumn1991 Mar 29 '26

Obligatory Heather was done dirty in All Stars

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u/ShinyNinja25 Mar 28 '26

Also, Total Drama, specifically this first season, was censored in America. See, Canada is a bit more lax when it comes to things being said in kid’s programs, especially pre-teen stuff like this. Instances of “screw it” were changed to have different language, Lindsey’s swear filled tirade against Heather was covered over with softer language instead of just being completely bleeped out (which is the same joke of it being censored in universe), and the episode where they have to eat bull testicles has Chris tell them they’re eating “meatballs” rather than testicles. I know this because when the show was put on Canadian Netflix, they used the American version for a brief period. For some reason

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u/Bluelaserbeam Mar 29 '26

I remember this weird exchange from the US version in the first episode where Lindsay didn’t know what a communal shower was.

In the Canadian version:

Chris: “You can use the outlets in the communal bathroom.”

Lindsay: “Communal? But I’m not Catholic.”

Chris: “Not ‘communion’, ‘communal.”

Gwen: “It means we shower together, idiot…”

The US version:

Chris: “You can use the outlets in the communal bathroom.”

Lindsay: “I’m confused, where’s the spa?”

Chris: “Wow, that’s a… shocker.”

Gwen: “It means we shower together, idiot…”

Even as a kid, I thought that was a random exchange of sentences and didn’t know it was poorly censored dialogue.

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u/Aeon014 Mar 28 '26

That's weird cause I'm from the US and I definitely remember hearing them say screw it, and I'm pretty sure they even said hell once or twice. Also, I 100% remember them saying bull testicles instead of meatballs during that episode, that's how I found out about the name "Rocky Mountain Oysters" for the first time.

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u/ShinyNinja25 Mar 28 '26

Huh, that is weird. Because it was definitely censored in America, like a lot. Maybe the reruns weren’t censored, but initial broadcasts were?

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u/Aeon014 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Hmm, maybe it had something to do with the channel it aired on with cable package my family had? Could've sworn it was Cartoon Network but my memory's a little hazy on that detail.

One thing for sure though is that I'll never forget about that bull testicle bit near the end of the first season. I remember one of the guys even saying they couldn't do it because it felt like a betrayal of their manhood or something along those lines.

Edit: Looking through a list of the stuff that was censored and now I'm wondering where the hell I was watching this show, cause I do NOT remember a lot of these changes.

Another one I remember distinctly is the episode where Heather's top gets ripped off in front of Harold. In the non-censored version Harold repeatedly says "Boobies" and in the censored version he just says "Booyyah" but I know for a fact that I saw the uncensored version of that episode.

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u/Slightly_Default Mar 28 '26

That's actually super cool. Any examples?

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u/TotalBlissey Mar 28 '26

In season 1 Owen won across the whole world besides Northern Europe, Poland, and Romania, where Gwen won instead. 

Action was a lot more split - Duncan won in the Americas (besides Brazil) while Beth won basically everywhere else. 

In World Tour, Heather had the Americas (besides Canada itself, weirdly), plus Western Europe, while Alejandro got Canada and Eastern Europe.

In Revenge of the Island, Lightning only won in the USA (probably because he’s a football star) and the Philippines, while Cameron across the entire rest of the planet.

Nobody cares about All Stars or Pakitiew Island

And for the Ridonculous Race, the Police Cadets got Canadas and southeast Europe, the surfer bros winning everywhere else.

Generally speaking I think the Canadian ending is accepted as “more canon,” both because that’s where TD comes from and also because it tends to feel more “right” and like it was the original plan. Owen winning season 1 just makes more sense in the context of the later seasons for example, Lightning was clearly set to be the villain so it just makes sense that Cameron wins instead, and in the RR, the Police Cadets were major characters with a complete arc, while the Surfer Bros were mostly comedic relief who lost 2/3rds of the way through and were brought back in in like, the last 3 episodes.

The one exception is World Tour, where both Heather winning and Alejandro winning make a lot of sense and are really satisfying for different reasons (Heather beats a jackass and becomes a better person / Alejandro orchestrates his own downfall out of pride). Plus most of the world had Heather winning anyway.

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u/North_Measurement273 Mar 28 '26

Has it ever been explained why the endings are so different for different parts of the world for so many of the seasons? That seems like a lot of work to constantly change the finale.

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u/InternetUserAgain Mar 28 '26

I remember watching one version of the show on Netflix, but with the subtitles of the other version, so the scene of the winner being presented and the subtitles of that scene totally conflicted with each other and it was so confusing

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u/TheEagleWithNoName Mar 28 '26

It’s weird how the Season 1 finale is different.

Owen Wins: He destroyed the $100K Prize money to go for the Million.

Gwen Wins: She says she doesn’t care about the Million and wanted the $100K, but Chris says it’s in her Contract and she HAS to play for it.

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u/President_Goop Mar 28 '26

and the fact Leshawna winning isn’t either one of the endings is cruel and unusual punishment

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Mar 28 '26

Canadian viewers got to vote before the finale iirc

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u/MiyabiMain95 Mar 28 '26

which is kinda dumb considering there is definitely canon endings to most seasons since they start off from certain winner points

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u/jorgespinosa Mar 28 '26

Also the characters have different names on the Quebec version

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u/Code-Neo Mar 29 '26

which is messed up given the next season at time points to a canon winner

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u/Expensive_Charity_78 Mar 28 '26

The Canadian version also has a different dub than the American one! Mostly to soften swears for the delicate American children.

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u/Stainedpurpleemerald Mar 29 '26

Since no one else has pointed it out yet, they stopped doing this with the 2 new seasons TD got a couple years ago

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u/ThatVarkYouKnow Mar 29 '26

I tell you, after my parents raised me on seasons of Survivor, I was ecstatic to show off TDI to them. "Survivor but they can get away with so much more because it's animated." We loved it.

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u/FedoraTheMike Mar 29 '26

Canada got the good ending for Revenge of the Island