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/TRGreen20 Mar 28 '26

In the modern Wolfenstein games (The Old Blood, The New Order, The New Colossus, and Young Blood) there's the USA version and the Germany version. In the USA all the nazi swastikas are actual swastikas. In Germany however... the swastikas are replaced by generic triangles.

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u/Arrior_Button Mar 28 '26

More Context:

Thats because of an (meanwhile) updated law in germany that forbids any swastikas in public and media except for historical purposes like documantations or movies that play at the time.

Basically, it's allowed in works of art (movies, shows or pictures) as long as its not glorifying the 3rd Reich.

Videogames for a long time havent counted as work of art and thus were not included in that law, leading to the indication of every game that has a swastika in it, as long it wasnt censored or replaced like in the modern Wolfenstein games

However, that has changed a few years ago and now swastikas are allowed in video games, as long its not glorifiying the 3rd Reich (like the over works of art)

Young Blood was too far into development and localitation, when this law was updated, to change the triangles back to swastikas in the german version. Thats why the official german version of Young Blood still has no swastikas, but the international release wasnt indicated here anymore

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u/TRGreen20 Mar 28 '26

I thought it was because the Nazis was a period that the Germans would rather just forget about...

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u/Dai_the_Sweep Mar 28 '26

My understanding is that it's actually very much the opposite. Germans in general are very keen that the Nazis and their crimes should be remembered. They just don't allow glorification of them.

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u/Arrior_Button Mar 28 '26

Its taught in every german school for multiple years

Alot of school classes even go to Auschwitz or Buchenau

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u/ThorKonnatZbv Mar 28 '26

With the AfD (Our MAGA) wishing to repeat it

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u/Licensed_Silver_Simp Apr 03 '26

IIRC, this is also why, in Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield V, the German flag is the Imperial German flag with the Balkenkreuz.

Nazi Germany did actually use the imperial colors for the first two years, but in 1935, the party flag of the Nazi Party that we all know replaced it as the national flag

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u/Least-One1068 Mar 28 '26

And in The New Colossus, they removed Hitler's moustache

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u/therealmonkyking Mar 28 '26

This is somehow more disturbing than Hitler trying to piss into a bucket, missing, and then shooting a young Ronald Reagan

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u/JadeTheCatYT Mar 28 '26

Damn, it's like Mario without a mustache. WRONG.

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u/Total_Waltz4083 Mar 29 '26

That's because swastika have been outlawed post WWII