History Main / GratuitousGerman

** The majority of the 'Lost Grounds' are made up of or take roots from German words: Dead World of Indieglut Lugh ('Dead World of Lugh in Embers'), Briona Gwydion the Dragonbein Range ('bein' in old German stands for 'bone'), Arche Koeln Waterfall (Combination of Arche, 'ark', and Köln, the German city of Cologne), Wailing Capital Wald Uberlisterin ('Deceiver of the Forest'), and finally Hülle Granz Cathedral ('Shell Gloss Cathedral')-which also features the only song in-game with an actual language, in full German.

The German subbers used the more appropriate "vernichten!" (to exterminate vermin - or verminate as people have started saying.) The German translators used "Eliminieren!" (eliminate) since extermineren isn't a real German word, but 'Deutschlish'.

* '''Uber''' is correctly spelled "über". For non-german keyboards lacking the letter Ü, "ueber" would be the correct transliteration. The german word is mostly used to mean "over", but can also mean "beyond" if applied to a scale, or "super", indicationg something is surpassing usual boundaries or limitations

[[caption-width:300:[-Caution! Ride no car onto this unlocked room! Additionally funny because in German you cannot "ride" a motor vehicle, only animals. [[hottip:* :The correct word for "ride" here would be "fahren." [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle And now you Know]] ]]-] ]]

** He literally said, "Thyself, still be sorry, and you!" and it makes even less sense in German, than it does in English.

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** "Globenheimer" isn't a real word at all.

* Whenever the [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] use German it is gramatically wrong most of the time. And "Globenheimer" isn't even a real word!

*** [[RuleOfFunny The latter one is supposed to be a pun]] on the movie ''DasButt''.

** Yes, they were actually speaking German. But hearing "Achtung!", "Schutzstaffel!" and "Mein Leben!" (and precious little else) hundreds of times was ''extremely'' gratuitous.

* '''Uber''' is correctly spelled "über". For non-german keyboards lacking the letter Ü, '''ueber''' would be the correct transliteration. The german word is mostly used to mean "over", but can also mean "beyond" if applied to a scale, or "super", indicationg something is surpassing usual boundaries or limitations

* '''Uber''' is correctly spelled "über", but non-german keybords usually lack the letter Ü. The german word is mostly used to mean "over", but can also mean "beyond" if applied to a scale, or "super", indicationg something is surpassing usual boundaries or limitations

* Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (1993) aka Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (or to be gratuitously Germanic ''Devil's Schloss Dracula: Zirkel des Blutes'') had speech in German in its introductory sequence.

** It's a game that came out only in Japan, this wasn't a translated version for the German market. Considering that Dracula is supposed to be of Romanian origin, and there's the VampireVords trope, it makes little sense. Also, HammerHorror was obviously one of the influences for the Castlevania franchise, and considering English is the international language, English with a British accent would make sense as well. However, it definitely sounds cool (even if you don't understand a single word) and appropriately Gotik.

* The original [[LegacyofKain Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain]] (1996) by SiliconKnights had several German-sounding names for cities/villages (e.g. Vasserbünde, Coorhagen, Nachtholm, Steinchencröe, Uschtenheim - German speakers might know if they make sense or not), while the original script and voice acting of the game is in English.

** Ther is also the German soldier in the tank who watches Indy fighting somebody through a periscope and says "Die Amis. Die kämpfen wie Weiber!" (Americans. They fight like women!). That is actually the only German line in the movie that seems to have been said by a native speaker.

** In the Japanese releases the sub-titles were actually Japanese translations of the Nietzsche titles (''Chikara e no Ishi'', ''Zenaku no Higan'', and ''Zarathrustra wa Kaku Katariki'', repsectively) and the German was only used in the English titling.

** In fact, Zoids contains more gratuitous German and Italian than you can throw a braunschweiger at, it's just that for some reason the dub worked the names out from katakana, resulting in such hilarious names as Schubaltz (Schwarz) and Alcobaleno (Arcobareno (rainbow)). Even the seemingly normal names like Flyheight and Zeke were originally Freiheit and Sieg.

* Uber, which originally meant "over", is now commonly used in English for "super".

* Generally, German in Marvel Comics is nothing short of abominable ("Eyige!" "Hurensohn!" "Vas der teufel?") - the first issue of the Ultimate imprint comic "The Ultimates" made for a nice change in that regard. '' "Mein Gott! Erschiesst es! Erschiesst es doch endlich!" '' which is something you can imagine Captain America must have heard an awful lot.