History Main / GratuitousGerman

** Examples include Alteisen (Old Iron, really "scrap iron") and Weissritter (White Knight), plus their upgraded forms Alteisen Riese (Old Iron Giant) and Rein Weissritter (Pure White Knight)... plus the AlternateUniverse Alteisen Nacht (Old Iron Night) and Weissritter Abend (White Knight Evening). Some of the German names found in EndlessFrontier also double as fairytale references, including but not limited to Aschen, Haken, Zeit Krokodil and Schlafen Celeste.
** And of course all the [[AbusivePrecursors Einst]], who name ''all'' of their units and attacks in German. Even the mundane stuff like "Energy Drain" which becomes the blatantly obvious "Gewinnenergie".

* A lot of Square (now SquareEnix) games have used German in their titles and other places, such as [[{{Einhander}} Einhänder]] (in which German is Earth's global language) and ''Ehrgeiz'' (Ambition). ''Einhänder'' also features an animated video billboard in the first level that cycles through the text "leben - fallen - Volksgasmaske" ("to live - to fall - the people's gas mask").

* ''{{Animaniacs}}''. Aside from Dr. Scratchnsniff, the [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian stereotypical psychiatrist]] assigned to the Warner Siblings, there's also the oneshot Bavarian [[OverlyLongName Proffesor Otto von Schnitzelpusskrankengescheitmeyer]], and the "international friendship song", ''Schnitzelbank'', that he teaches to the Warners.

-> Krusty: ''"Heil! Heil!"''

* Nineteenth century Japanese didn't have an equivalent for "job," i.e. paid work subject to many constraints for both the employer and the employee dissimilar to a serf's "roboten" (German: statute labor, a serf's duty towards their feudal lord) which was the common form of "job" for non-landholding Japanese. They borrowed the German "Arbeit" and nihonized it into "arubaito." This occurs in nearly every anime where a character says they have a (part-time) "job," particularly wage-earner/blue-collar jobs. Case in point, Morisaki Taku's part-time job at a restaurant in ''{{Umi ga Kikoeru}}''.

* All three ''{{Xenosaga}}'' games were sub-titled with Nietzsche works in German: ''Der Wille Zur Macht'' (The Will To Power), ''Jenseits von Gut und Böse'' (Beyond Good And Evil), and ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' (Thus Spake Zarathustra). In addition, there was a ''Xenosaga Alle Spezielle'' (all special) DVD. Which, again, got the grammar wrong ("spezielle" is an adjective, in female or plural form, but it has no noun to refer to. "Alle speziellen Episoden" would be grammatically correct, though on a German DVD set you'd probably see "Alle Specials".)

** The weapons too: for example, Spiritia's default weapon is named Seelegewehr (Soul Rifle). ''Most'' of the names are tied to the user's.

* Practically the whole premise of ''PumpkinScissors'' is Post [[WorldWarI WWI]] Pre [[WorldWarII WWII]] Germany. "Gespenst Jäger" (Ghost Hunter, though "Gespenst" is only the singular) and "Himmel" (a drug) which means heaven, are the ones you hear mainly.

* In ''Infinite Ryvius'', German names are extensively used for space ships(Liebe Delta, Gestalt, Gespenst).

* Lots in the work of SylviaPlath (both her parents were German), most evident in ''{Ariel}''

* The ''SaGaFrontier II OST'' is the soundtrack from the video game. Released in Japan, the album's printed paper inserts expect a native Japanese reader, but nearly ''all'' the track names are in German for no obvious reason. (A handful are [[GratuitousFrench in French]].) Though, in fairness, the composer Masashi Hamauzu is a Japanese national who was born in Munich, Germany.

-> ''Danke schön! Oktoberfest! German!''

* ''OpenBlue'''s Seran, being a FantasyCounterPartCulture of NaziGermany, naturally has this. One of the staff has made the most of what he has, having requested an [[ButNotTooForeign Austrian-Japanese-Korean]] friend to check the translations of the various terms in its [[AllThereInTheManual Worldbook]] entry. Aside from the fact that "Seran" itself isn't even Germanic, everything else has been fixed.

* Used accurately in FanFic/AeonNatumEngel, [[ViewersAreGeniuses without translation]].

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[[caption-width:300:[-Caution! Ride no car onto this open space[[hottip:* :If you felt especially weird, you could also translate this as "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]] ]]-] ]]

** Recently he addressed Beast as "Liebchen," which is inappropriate unless they were going for some all-blue HoYay.

*** Well, that is not quite wrong in German. ''Überfall'' also is a seldomly-used word for ''ambush'' or ''shock attack''. The funny thing is that the Nazi soldier yelled it out loud, and ''after'' Indy and his companions are arrested already.

** Also, later installments often had an edge towards German language (Wing used German numbers for Zechs and Noin (actually in German written 'sechs' and 'neun'), SEED had among other's Tolle Koenig, which translates into 'awesome king' (Funnily enough, in the older use of the word it would mean "insane king".), 00 has the Meisters, which are simply put masters. GGundam, on the other hand, surprisingly averted its gratuitous use: the only suit with a German name was [[{{JustifiedTrope}} from Neo-Germany]].)

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