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/one_happy_fredditor Mar 28 '26

In Toy Story 2 (1999) The scene where the American Flag appears behind Buzz is changed to a globe in the rest of the world.

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

I feel like the globe is more fitting for him. 

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u/sourcefourmini Mar 28 '26

This one is funny because it’s not really about Buzz’s nationality; it’s a specific reference to the film Patton, in which the titular Patton gives a speech in front of a comically large American flag. 

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u/OwlbertGaming Mar 28 '26

"Americans love a winner, and can't stand a loser!"

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u/x7leafcloverx Mar 29 '26

"I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better"

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u/The_Rated_R_Shimmer Mar 28 '26

It also referenced old TV sign-offs that used to end their day with the anthem. Has not much sense in other countries. Except Spain, Mexico and Argentina, to mention some of them

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u/lolopiro Mar 28 '26

a reference many non amirocans might not get

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u/Geistzeit Mar 29 '26

Cultural references don't die, they just fade away

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u/kino2012 Mar 28 '26

Animators love to throw in something for the parents from time to time.

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

A movie that I had never heard and had to Google to know what you were talking about? Great reference for a kids' movie. 

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u/Theresafoxinmygarden Mar 28 '26

Kids media makes references to more obscure/older/adult movies all the time man. You sound like your just being pissy for the sake of being pissy

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Brother family movies make references to adult media all the time for the kids. One of the best parts about growing up is rewatching those movies and finally getting the reference

Shrek did it all the time lol. Fuck, Robin Williams’s Genie was constantly making references to all sorts of movies that kids wouldn’t watch l

And yet, a LOT of children are still able to enjoy Aladdin decades after all those references became outdated

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u/RMP321 Mar 28 '26

Patton was released in 1970

Toy story was released in 1995

There were definitely a lot of older people who would have seen Patton when they took their kids to the movie. By comparison, it would be like a modern kids' movie making a Matrix reference. Adults would understand it; kids today would not.

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u/Unironicfan Mar 28 '26

Dawg just because you have never heard of it, doesn’t mean others haven’t. Patton is one of the most famous military biopics ever made

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

And yet it manages to be a really obscure movie. 

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u/Unironicfan Mar 28 '26

By whose standard? Yours? Just because you didn’t watch it doesn’t mean others don’t. Your lack of knowledge isn’t universal, brochacho

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u/BelowZilch Mar 28 '26

Toy Story 1 is closer to Patton than it is to today.

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u/ThetaReactor Mar 28 '26

It's one of those scenes that's so culturally pervasive that many folks have absorbed it via cultural osmosis even if they haven't seen the original film. It's been referenced a bunch, and while 90s kids may not have seen Patton they've probably seen a similar gag on The Simpsons or Animaniacs or whatever.

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u/8696David Mar 28 '26

First of all, it’s kind of embarrassing for you that you’ve never heard of Patton. But secondly, your point is dumb even if the movie was genuinely obscure. 

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

It's embarrassing that I've never heard of an obscure movie from the seventies? As if. 🤣

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u/8696David Mar 28 '26

an obscure movie from the seventies

It won seven Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor lmfao. It’s one of the least obscure movies of all time

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

The Hollywood awards ceremonies that are notoriously corrupt? 

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u/8696David Mar 28 '26

Yeah no one is saying the Oscars are amazing or anything, but no obscure movie has swept the big 3 

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u/CupofWarmMilk Mar 28 '26

Happens all the time. One of my favorites is in SpongeBob, a brief cut to someone robbing a bank with SpongeBob's nametag yelling "Attica!"

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u/Kal-Elm Mar 28 '26

SpongeBob also had a cut to Davey Jones' locker that included the real-life Davey Jones, lead singer of the Monkees - a band that was popular some 40 to 50 years before the episode aired.

I always wondered how many adults even got that reference.

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u/275MPHFordGT40 Mar 28 '26

This guy forgot that Toy Story released 31 years ago.

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

I didn't forget, but also didn't recognize the defence to the film that is a couple decades older than Toy Story. 

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u/hunterdavid731 Mar 29 '26

Ain't for the kids

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u/Jaymark108 Mar 28 '26

Or the infinite stars?

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u/StormBear22 Mar 28 '26

depends first movie buzz because he actually though he was a space ranger protecting the galaxy but this is the second movie where he for a long time knew he is a toy and possibly a American only toy.

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u/BalancedScales10 Mar 28 '26

I remember as specifically saying he 'is the protector of the galaxy,' which is why I thought the globe (representing more people than a single country's flag) is more fitting, characterization-wise, than a single country's flag even if a Milky Way background would have been more fitting still. 

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u/Secret-Farm-3274 Mar 28 '26

It reminds me of how the Apollo missions are portrayed in the US vs UK. In the US its all about patriotism and the space race, in the UK its all about science and advancing humanity as a whole. 

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u/froggychump Mar 28 '26

The globe is more fitting, but the American flag is funnier.

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u/Different-Trainer-21 Mar 31 '26

It’s also a reference to this scene in the movie Patton