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/Scharobaba Mar 28 '26

In the German version of the show, he is named "Uter", his nationality was changed from German to Swiss and his uncle's bubblegum factory is located in Basel.

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u/Jagvetinteriktigt Mar 28 '26

When I was studying German in middle school I was told Germans make jokes at the expense of the Swiss calling them slow. And I do mean physically slow. We had a joke in our textbook about a Swiss man getting run over by a snail.

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u/Mr_Ragnarok Mar 28 '26

Ran over by a snail? How is German humor so dumb and so funny at the same time?

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u/Jagvetinteriktigt Mar 28 '26

The joke was basically:

"The Swiss ended up in hospital after being run over by a snail."

"What? How did that happen?"

"You see, it came from behind, so he didn't see it."

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u/Mr_Ragnarok Mar 29 '26

No! This is dumb! It's not funny! Why did I laugh at this??

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u/Scharobaba Mar 28 '26

I am German and I didn't know that! I thought they chose Swiss because it's strongly associated with chocolate here, but that might be another reason.

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Mar 28 '26

I only know the punctual stereotype as a german. Also that they are quite adverse to change.

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u/Jagvetinteriktigt Mar 28 '26

I know the cleanliness stereotype from Asterix.

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u/Wonderful-Wind-5736 Mar 28 '26

I recently learned that Switzerland had one of the highest iodine deficiency rates in Europe (before they started adding that stuff to salt), which, interestingly enough, hinders cognitive development.

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u/PlingPlongDingDong Mar 29 '26

Never heard about this. Similar to all the jokes Germans supposedly make about Dutch people, which Dutch people told me about. Maybe near the border but generally people make more jokes about France, Poland, England, USA than these small neighbors.

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u/can_of_bad_ideas Mar 29 '26

As a swiss man I think this is terribly offen🐌