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'''Hades:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Oy, verse.]]|''[[Hercules (Disney)|Hercules]]''}} |
'''Hades:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Oy, verse.]]|''[[Hercules (Disney)|Hercules]]''}} |
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Whenever characters are reading from an ancient prophecy or magical spell, it will rhyme, as if every ancient scroll and tome was written by Dr. Seuss. Even funnier, the translation makes it rhyme ''in English'', regardless of what culture it came from. It's like an attempt at [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter]], running headlong into [[What Do You Mean |
Whenever characters are reading from an ancient prophecy or magical spell, it will rhyme, as if every ancient scroll and tome was written by Dr. Seuss. Even funnier, the translation makes it rhyme ''in English'', regardless of what culture it came from. It's like an attempt at [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter]], running headlong into [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]. |
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That foreign-language [[Prophecies Rhyme All the Time]] is one of the most blatant forms of either [[Conveniently Precise Translation]] (if the characters actually translate it or use [[Translator Microbes]]) or [[Translation Convention]] (if they don't). In [[Real Life|reality]], it's hard work to translate a rhyme in one language into a rhyme in the other, not the kind of thing that you could easily do on the fly. |
That foreign-language [[Prophecies Rhyme All the Time]] is one of the most blatant forms of either [[Conveniently Precise Translation]] (if the characters actually translate it or use [[Translator Microbes]]) or [[Translation Convention]] (if they don't). In [[Real Life|reality]], it's hard work to translate a rhyme in one language into a rhyme in the other, not the kind of thing that you could easily do on the fly. |
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As if to enforce the trope, some characters [[Rhymes On a Dime|break out in rhyme]] when they receive prophetic visions. |
As if to enforce the trope, some characters [[Rhymes On a Dime|break out in rhyme]] when they receive prophetic visions. |
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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' is an [[Egregious]] user of this trope; all of the prophecies rhyme, even if they're translated from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' is an [[Egregious]] user of this trope; all of the prophecies rhyme, even if they're translated from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
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** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]] [[The Movie|The Abridged Movie]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this with Yugi actually asking if the prophecy was written by Dr. Seuss. |
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* The 4Kids dub of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' had the witches-in-training chant a rhyming couplet stating their spell's intention, rather than a string of magical words ending with a command as in the original. |
* The 4Kids dub of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' had the witches-in-training chant a rhyming couplet stating their spell's intention, rather than a string of magical words ending with a command as in the original. |
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** Amusingly, this is just what [[Doctor Strange]] does when casting spells. |
** Amusingly, this is just what [[Doctor Strange]] does when casting spells. |
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