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6	[[center:[[AC:The war came!\
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15	''Star War the Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West'' is a GagDub of ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. It can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XziLNeFm1ok seen here.]]
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17	The dub's script originated from a [[MemeticMutation memetic]] RecursiveTranslation[=/=]TranslationTrainWreck found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170115091456/http://winterson.com/2009/01/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west-redux.html in China by blogger Jeremy Winterson.]] The name is taken from the translation of the opening crawl, the original being, obviously, "''Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith''"; where the Chinese subtitles were then machine translated back into "Englsih". Most sentences are absolutely mangled in the translation, although some sentences still have their original meanings intact. It was later turned into a Gag Dub by the Website/{{Youtube}} channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVGOpc3MZBZ407VAi3m4VFg TheThirdGathers]] with clips posted beginning in 2010. In August 2021, director Timothy B Morgan began work on dubbing the only other known authentic full movie script, presumably found in China, ''Napoleon's Explosive'' (the mistranslation of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite''), featuring some of the vocal actors who dubbed ''Backstroke of the West''. This project was shelved when Backstroke of the West doubled its views on Gratefuldeadpool's upload of the full movie from 5 million to 10 million views in one year, with dozens of reaction videos. Morgan compiled and cut up these reaction videos into a 5 hour long supercut which follows the course of the movie, and at times contains uncanny moments of people asking the same questions or having similar reactions to a moment of the film. In the meantime, Reddit user "Koffikapp" stuck "gold" purchasing about 10 DVD's from China which contained full Chinglish subtitles of movies including 2 Harry Potter movies including the famous "Hally Porter" subtitles popularized years ago, Hannibal Lecter film The Red Dragon, Chicago, X-Men First Class, Phone Booth, Doubt, Tears of the Sun, and Star War Episope IV of which a few screencaps existed online and Morgan had hoped to persuade the Dub Gathers group to find in 2016, with no luck. Morgan, too long wanting to dub Hally Porter, shelved Napoleon Explosive and started casting and directing both. On February 28, 2024, The first scene of Hally Porter and the Door of the Room, Morgan's first movie since Backstroke of the West, was posted.
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19	As of February 2024, the [=GratefulDeadpool=] upload has over 12 million views. In 2021, following a copyright takedown which has since been retracted, the entire video became [[https://archive.org/details/StarWarTheThirdGathersBackstrokeOfTheWestHDDubbed archived]].
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21	Self-made [[RecursiveTranslation Recursive Translations]] have been made of the other Star Wars movies in the series, collectively known as ''WebOriginal/TheStarWarGatherings'', with a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDubGathers/comments/5eqwzd/welcome_to_the_dub_gathers_our_first_project_is/ fandub]] of ''The Fourth Gathers: WebVideo/TheNoveltyDesire''[[note]]''Episode IV: Film/ANewHope''[[/note]] and ''The Fifth Gathers: WebVideo/TheCounterattackCollection''[[note]]''Episode V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[/note]] both completed, clips and reaction videos of which can still be found. A new group of actors was cast for these movies, however a few Backstroke of the West actors, including Tom Schalk and Benjamin Pierce, did reprise their roles. Backstroke director Tim Morgan was involved only in assistance with casting and editing the scene where Ben returns as the West Emperor. These subtitles were created by Reddit users KnifeofPi, Quirderph, and Rivercast. The dubs were directed by Quirderph, and are largely focused on Star Wars, employing a different, irreverent style. Morgan, having sat on the sidelines with no authentic bootlegs from China, is only now able to resume movie production.
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23	[[folder:Dub Cast]]
24	->'''Tim Morgan:'''
25	->Casting / Director / Editor / Producer
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27	->'''Tim Morgan:'''
28	->Allah Gold/A Line/Liked To/The Peaceful Is Willing To/Reaching the West of Reaches/The Hero aka Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (voice)
29	->Viceroy Nute Gunray (voice)
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31	->'''Jeremy Evans:'''
32	->The Ratio/Ratio Tile/Ratio The Tile/Section Ratio General/The Willing To Compares/The Willing to Compares Host/The Compares/The Willing to Compares The Master aka Obi Wan Kenobi (voice)
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34	->'''Kent Genis:'''
35	->Section/The Gram/Republicans aka Clone Army (voice)
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37	->'''Tyler Mertes:'''
38	->Space General/The General Space/Old Man aka General Grievous (voice)
39	->Battle Droids (voice)
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41	->'''Blunt Rapture:'''
42	->Captain Lushros Dofine (voice)
43	->Lampay Fay (voice)
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45	->'''Ben Pierce:'''
46	->The D/The Speaker/Speaker D/West Emporer/Host/The Friend/Prime Minister/The Pudding/The Governor of This City/The Member of Senate/Adult/The Country Of/Teacher/Master/The Emperor/Superior/D The Superior/Dark Lord/Dark Improbity/Big King aka Chancelor Palpatine/Darth Sideous (voice)
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48	->'''Dan Grimes:'''
49	->The/Numerator the Threat aka Count Dooku (voice)
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51	->'''Kurt Yeager:'''
52	->Text How Big Teachers aka Mace Windu (voice)
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54	->'''Zach Skoubis:'''
55	->Blow the Skin aka [=C3PO=] (voice)
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57	->'''Zach Parker:'''
58	->The Senator/Councilman aka Bail Organa (voice)
59	->Captian Typho (voice)
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61	->'''Arielle Ceplina:'''
62	->The Plum Of/The Gets the Rice aka Padme Amidala (voice)
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64	->'''Jen Wilcher:'''
65	->Vanquish Is/Small Manakin aka Yoda (voice)
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67	->'''Dave Beifer:'''
68	->Ki-Adi-Mundi (voice)
69	->Mas Amedda (voice)
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71	->'''John Wilie:'''
72	->Tion Medon (voice)
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74	->'''Ian Evans:'''
75	->The Child aka Youngling (voice)
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77	->'''AJ Daughtry-Krill:'''
78	->Captain aka Captain Jeremoch Colton (voice)
79	->Captain aka Captain Raymus Antilies (voice)
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81	->'''Tom Schalk:'''
82	->South Host aka Darth Vader (voice)
83	[[/folder]]
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85	Note: Only tropes about this particular translation should be put here. Anything on the original film should go on [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith the proper page]].
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87	----
88	!!List these tropeseses only:
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90	* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
91	** Speaker D. ''Revenge of the Sith'' heavily implies that Palpatine was the apprentice who murdered Darth Plagueis; here, Reach the Man was killed by his land, not by The D. It's also said that the war wasn't started by him, but by Allah Gold, meaning that The D might genuinely be a WellIntentionedExtremist doing what he feels is necessary to end the conflict. It's still undeniable that he's not a good person: he causes the destruction of the Hopeless Situation Warriors, and he's every bit as ambitious and power-hungry as Palpatine, wanting to be [[GratuitousGerman aller]] strong and big than anyone.
92	** Similar to Speaker D above, Space General is also somewhat nicer to his underlings in this version besides a one-off threat to feed them dog. When the Abruption Doctrine leaders question his ability to keep them safe, he begs them to believe him rather than threaten them as he did in the original work, and when it looks like Ratio and Gold will escape capture on his airship, he urges his troops to escape.
93	** Vanquish Is is far more helpful to Gold than Yoda is to Anakin in ''Revenge of the Sith''. Evidently, Allah Gold told Vanquish Is about The Plum Of's pregnancy, judging by [[CrossDressingVoices his/her]] "Pregnancy? Pregnancy." line, meaning that either the Hopless Situation Parliament has no rules against marriage like the Jedi Council did, or Vanquish Is is Gold's SecretKeeper. Vanquish Is' advice also seems much more helpful than the Jedi platitudes Yoda spouts in the equivalent scene in ''Revenge of the Sith''.
94	* AdaptationalVillainy: The Republic as a whole. The fact that they now live in a galactic system called the Gram Republic implies the heroes are basically fighting for a narco-state.
95	* AdaptationalWimp: Count Dooku gets downgraded from someone Anakin and Obi-Wan are no match for, to just a "Big" who is defeatable, going by Palpatine's dialogue. While supposedly less badass, instead of trying to get the duo to surrender their swords, he confidently goads them into pulling them out for battle and dedicating their bodies as if obsessed with lightsaber dueling and human sacrifices.
96	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "The tile time transfers the troops."
97	* AerithAndBob: "Lemon Avenue" sounds kinda out of place on Coruscant.
98	* {{Ambadassador}}: The Jedi were this in general, but Allah Gold in particular is mentioned as being involved with some sort of peace negotiation - presumably with the Abruption Doctrine - a few times throughout the movie.
99	* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Hopeless Situation Parliament. Apparently, they have taught Allah Gold that the best way to end war is to have "less freedom with more wars", and Gold summarizes "the parliament plan" as doing exactly that. They also punish Gold for his relation to "long peace" by denying him a title, and apparently are using him to spy on Speaker D in order to find out about his sex life.
100	* AmbiguousSyntax: Space General could either be threatening to feed his MechaMooks dog meat or threatening to feed them ''to'' a dog depending on how one interprets that line.
101	* {{Angrish}}:
102	** Gold's reaction to not being granted a title by the Presbyterian Church is as incomprehensible as the rest of the script.
103	-->"Can be how like this\
104	Like this too wide of the mark\
105	Like this inequity\
106	I can how belong to the\
107	parliament but is not"
108	** Ratio Tile reacting to Allah Gold's killing of younglings:
109	-->"This is what who fuck"
110	* ArcWords: "Strong and big", "Good elephant", "On the hoof", and "[[ObligatorySwearing Fuck]]". To a lesser extent, "What is the row", "Cut up rough", "Walk first one step" and "Do not want."
111	* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
112	** If not referring to time or punctuation, Allah Gold mentioning Ratio Tile's periods is either this trope or stating that he is transgender.
113	** Earlier on, Speaker D mentioned to Allah Gold that the public has an "eye ear," which apparently has a voice.
114	*** Though you could also interpret that as him saying that they are facing the eye ear with ''their'' voices, [[VoodooShark not that this makes any more sense.]]
115	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: When Speaker D appoints Allah Gold as a private, he phrases it as though it's a public office rather than a military rank. When the West Emperor contacts Commanding Officer, he calls him "Section commanding officer" although Commanding Officer appears to command a large army.
116	* AscendedMeme: By accident. The translation unintentionally references the memetic nature of the "Unlimited power" line by having Speaker D BreakTheFourthWall and brag that he will "Get to say with you that part forever."
117	* AssShove: One of the pilots says of a droid fighter, "He is in my behind."
118	* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Allah Gold disagrees, saying he does not need his unborn child's help. He does consider the baby to be a blessing, but probably means that in a sentimental way.
119	* BadBoss: Zig-zagged with Space General. At one point, because of their failure to capture Ratio Tile and Allah Gold, he angrily exclaims "I should really feeds you all dog!" But later, after Gold and Tile defeat his bodyguards, Space General tells the same underlings "Leave he, run quickly!" while he confronts them on his own.
120	* BadassBoast:
121	** "You are a sacrifice article, that I cut up rough now," definitely counts.
122	** One way to interpret The D's line "my power has always been to have no like," is that it's a very archaic way of saying that he has no equal e.g. "there are none like me", in which case, it's certainly badass.
123	* BigNo: Subverted. It's rendered as "Not" and "Do not want", since Chinese doesn't have a word that specifically means 'no', instead it would be a negative term. In one case,[[labelnote:*]]Senator witnessing the death of a Hopeless Situation[[/labelnote]] it becomes "Run", possibly because [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped the translators thought he said "Go".]]
124	* BlessedWithSuck: Depending on the interpretation, The D's power "to have no like" may be regarded as this.
125	* BlindIdiotTranslation: People fluent in both languages have suggested that [[http://web.archive.org/web/20180808231902/http:/dot-chan.tumblr.com/post/98147547108/deconstructing-a-translation-trainwreck-how-no a recursive translation isn't enough to explain the trainwreck]]. They suspect that whoever translated the film into Chinese didn't have access to an actual script, as evidenced by some "translations" making sense only if you assume they [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped misheard the original English]], or they didn't pick up on it at all and made up a line they thought made sense in context. For example:
126	** "Just as Count Dooku predicted" becomes "Kill these two republics bodyguard."
127	** Yoda's line about "premonitions" became "Pregnancy? Pregnancy." The translator might not have known the word "premonition" or understood it to mean "pregnancy" - which makes sense, as The Plum Of's pregnancy is exactly what Allah Gold is worried about.
128	** Senator's casual comment that Blow the Skin "is my wife" may come from the translator mishearing Bail Organa's original line, "Have the protocol droid's mind wiped", as "The protocol droid is my wife."
129	** "Space General" seems to be a contextual name, deriving from the translator's not knowing or understanding the name "Grievous."
130	** Luke Skywalker's name is rendered as "See Me", which may derive from the translator hearing "look" instead of "Luke."
131	** The Sand People are referred to as "Pathetic People", which may derive from the translator hearing "sad people."
132	** "The front is a lemon avenue flying straightly" was originally "Landing strip straight ahead", and it may be that the translator heard "landing strip" as "lemon street."
133	** Allah Gold saying he was "made by the Presbyterian Church" may have been trying to say he was "mad" at them, but the line was mangled by a spelling and/or grammatical error.
134	* BlindObedience: Commanding Officer, and to an extent the other Republic Troopseses, to D The Superior upon being ordered by the latter to gun down the Hopeless Situation Warriors.
135	* BluntYes:
136	** Assuming that "Is!" is an affirmative answer in this universe - see CatchPhrase below, Ratio Tile agrees with Allah Gold that [[WorthyOpponent he has indeed underrated Gold's ability.]]
137	** Also, Senator needs some serious lessons in tact: "Look, your loss very miserably heavy."
138	* BodyguardBetrayal:
139	** Allah Gold is a bodyguard of the Republic, along with Ratio Tile. He assures It Gets the Rice that he can't rebel against the Republic, but then proceeds to do so, switching his loyalty to the Empire of the First Choice.
140	** The Republic Troopseses as well, once the Hopeless Situation's time runs out, are ordered by D The Superior to kill them off.
141	* BoomerangBigot: One of the Super Battle Droids is very antagonistic toward robots, despite being, itself, a robot.
142	* BornInTheSaddle: It seems when they're not talking about elephants, the characters really have a thing for horses. More specifically, their hooves.
143	-->"Make him on the hoof very dangerous."\
144	"As long as he is on the hoof."\
145	"He returns incredibly on the hoof."\
146	"I can feel she return on the hoof."\
147	"Is that baby on the hoof?"
148	** Note that "on the hoof" can also mean "will be slaughtered." [[ImAHumanitarian Make of that what you will.]]
149	* BringIt:
150	** Anakin's last line to Obi-Wan before their duel is changed from "You will try" to "Come."
151	** Grevious's line of "Attack Kenobi" becomes "Come, section ratio."
152	* BrutalHonesty: "The Presbyterian Church like, enjoys you not."
153	* BuffySpeak: An Allah Gold specialty, with lines like "This honor and duties is a lot too big" and "You died at the time of livinging the child" (apparently "birthing" is not in his dictionary). Speaker D combines this with old-timey PurpleProse at times: “the Presbyterian church, like, enjoys you not.”
154	* BumblingSidekick: The Republic Troopseses. One of them has to be reminded mid-battle whose side he's on ("We are Republicans, soldier!") while another can't shoot down an airship right in front of him until The D or the West Emperor gives him exact coordinates to fire at. Despite this, they still manage to wipe out most of the Hopeless Situation Warriors, thanks in part to their apparent BlindObedience.
155	* CallForward: "A day after the fair."
156	* CaptainObvious:
157	** One of Allah Gold's main character traits.
158	*** Early on, he declares that "The beginning accelerates."
159	*** Right before crash-landing half of Space General's airship that he, Speaker D, Ratio Tile and R2 are in. (Keep in mind that the ship is not only burning, ''the fire brigade'' have already arrived and started putting out the fire), he warns that "The temperature of our airship is too high."
160	*** He explains his troubles with the Presbyterian Church to The Plum Of by telling her that "some matters took place."
161	*** At the climax, he tells her "I can see your ship" while standing ''right in front of it''.
162	** Ratio Tile at one point claims that, "We have to hurry to act now!"
163	** Ratio Tile tells Allah Gold "our faith believes in our religion."
164	** Vanquish Is announces that "The current time arrived."
165	* {{Catchphrase}}: A minor one, but [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_shock_trooper the Shock Troopseses]] always responds to The D's orders by saying ''"Is! Follow instructions."''
166	** The Republic Troopseses respond to The D's orders to kill the Hopeless Situation Warriors by saying, "My host soon be finish."
167	* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: When Allah Gold starts making disparaging comments about the West Emperor, D the Superior (who secretly is the West Emperor) turns it back around to the Parliament, saying "I also belong to the Hopeless Situation Presbyterian".
168	* CharacterLevel: Apparently the Hopeless Situation Warriors have something similar to this, as Allah Gold boasts to The that "My force has promoted two times" since their last encounter.
169	* ChurchMilitant: The Hopeless Situation Warriors that are in the Presbyterian Church qualify.
170	* CoolAirship: There are no spaceships here, just [[InsistentTerminology airships.]] With elephants in them. The D is the only one to avert this, instead calling his personal ship a space craft.
171	* TheComicallySerious: All the original acting becomes this when paired with absolute WordSalad dialogue. [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously Kudos to the actors in the dub for pulling it off]] without [[{{Corpsing}} breaking down in helpless laughter.]] Music/JohnWilliams' music and Creator/GeorgeLucas' cinematography also really add to this feel.
172	* CompositeCharacter: Apparenty, R2-D2 and Darth Plagueis are the same person, "Reach the Man". Alternatively, it's just an aversion of the OneSteveLimit.
173	* CrazyPrepared:
174	** This appears to be Ratio Tile's strategy at the start of the movie. In a discussion with Allah Gold he acknowledges that they might be running into a trap, but adds that they will account for that and then account for that.
175	** As soon as The D orders Space General to transfer his troops to "the wood method star", Space General tells him that it's already been completed.
176	* CulturalTranslation:
177	** A rare case of translation going the opposite way: Padmé was not only called "The Plum Of" (in China, plums symbolize nobility and virtue) but also "Gets the Rice" (suggesting that Republic economy is based on rice, à la FeudalJapan).
178	** The Space General punishing his robotic minions by feeding them dog might also be a case of this. [[note]] Though if this is the case, it may not be a threat, but rather Space General deciding that he needs to feed them better/different food. Alternatively, he could be threatening to feed them ''to'' a dog.[[/note]]
179	* DarkIsNotEvil: It's unclear in this case, unlike in the series proper. The Dark, to begin with, is never directly connected to the Wish Power, and seems to be a neutral source of power unique unto itself. While it does seem to lend itself to more destructive abilities, the Hopeless Situation Warriors don't seem to consider it an abomination in the way the Jedi view the Dark Side of the Force. Of course, it's The D claiming most of the Dark's virtues, so take this with a grain of salt.
180	* DeadlyEuphemism: The Pudding weirdly combines this with an Aversion of NeverSayDie.
181	-->"Then his land killed him to let him going to bed."
182	* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of characters' dialogue makes more sense if you consider them to be this. Though it's harder to interpret them like this in the dubbed version, [[TheComicallySerious if only because most of the actors give dead serious performances.]]
183	* DealWithTheDevil: Possibly what Allah Gold means when he mentions holding tight a devil to end the war.
184	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A lot, most notably with Darth Vader's alternate name, "Reaching the West of Reaches."
185	** "But we can will account and then account."
186	** "The general space can always succeed to succeed."
187	** "That he must the square who study it the square."
188	** Allah Gold tells The Plum Of that "Just a dream is just." For added redundancy, [[MeaningfulEcho she then says it to him later in the same scene.]]
189	** "Like to like to look after them."
190	** Ratio Tile helpfully informs us that: "Our faith believes in our religion."
191	** "I needs must I should"
192	* DisabilitySuperpower: The line "Disabled person must solve" might indicate that Ratio Tile has one of these and that it will give him an advantage against Allah Gold.
193	* DisproportionateRetribution: After expressing discomfort due to decapitating The, Allah Gold is comforted by The D, who tells him that the business of vengeance is very familiar.
194	* TheDragAlong: Chewbacca's name was literally translated as "Drag Along."
195	* DramaticPause: Used occasionally in the dub, in an attempt at making the new dialogue match the actors' lip movements. This generally adds to TheComicallySerious nature of the dub.
196	--> '''The D:''' "He is very deep... to black... influence... understanding."
197	* DrugsAreBad: Used by The Plum Of when she tells Allah Gold he's too high to own an "expectation value"... whatever that is.
198	* DrugsAreGood: Vanquish Is apparently thinks that the remaining Hopeless Situation Warriors should use cocaine as a stimulant to make up for their lack of numbers.
199	--> '''Vanquish Is:''' "Wait until the gram the person discovers. Will use very long hours."
200	* DubInducedPlotHole:
201	** The InternalReveal of The D being the MoleInCharge has been replaced with an AsYouKnow statement about him being the governor of Coruscant. Thus, it seems like Allah Gold suddenly decides to kill him for no reason whatsoever, unless The D was just {{Troll}}ing him and Allah Gold simply came to a [[OhCrap silent realization]] of his ''actual'' identity. Perhaps Gold was just angrily condemning The D for his crimes by telling him that he has betrayed his duties as governor?
202	** When informing Allah Gold of Space General's location, Speaker D says that he is "at particularly the system of..." [[TooLongDidntDub and the line ends there.]]
203	* EatingMachine: The battle droids might be this, if Space General's threat to feed them dog is any indication.
204	* EmotionalTorque: Brought up as a requirement for a combat report, of all things. Before Text How Big sends Allah Gold off to report the results of their battle to Speaker D, he adds that the report wants to make the person feel.
205	* TheEmpire: Speaker D turns the Gram Republic into the Empire of the First Choice after becoming sick and disabled.
206	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
207	** Senator Bail Organa is simply known as "Senator".
208	** General Grievous is similarly given the generic, but accurate name "Space General."
209	** Commander Cody, like the first two, gets the more generic title of "Commanding Officer."
210	* FailedASpotCheck:
211	** At one point, a pilot has to be given exact coordinates to fire at in order to shoot down a Hopeless Situation Warrior who is flying directly in front of him.
212	** When the medical droids explain The Plum Of's condition, Senator incredulously repeats "Child?", implying he hadn't noticed her extremely advanced pregnancy.
213	* FantasticRacism: The Hopeless Situation Warriors, and to an extent, the Presbyterian Church, really really despise those from the West. It backfires on them later when Speaker D, who is from the West, decides he's had enough of it, and promptly starts killing them off.
214	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Hopeless Situation Warriors might be the counterpart to Jews, depending on how you read Ratio Tile's statement that "Our faith believes in our religion, but is not to believe in [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist a certain person]]."
215	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Ratio Tile approaches Space General, convinced that everybody is good. Space General immediately orders his troops to kill Ratio Tile.
216	* FateWorseThanDeath: Allah Gold threatens to "ruin" Ratio Tile, implying that he wants to give his old master one of these.
217	* FelonyMisdemeanor: According to Speaker D, the Parliament is supporting war by voting.
218	* FisherKing: The Tragedy that Reach the Man is the story of a strong and big West Emperor who was killed by his land, perhaps after it got sick of his evil and abuse.
219	* FloweryElizabethanEnglish:
220	** A few words here and there fall under this trope, like "lo", "vexed" and "afresh". But the syntax of the translation is so mangled it often sounds very archaic. Many people have said that the dubbed version plays like a William Shakespeare performance.
221	** A bit of a Genius Bonus - The translation "a day after the fair", replacing "too late" actually stems from an [[http://www.finedictionary.com/A%20day%20after%20the%20fair.html archaic expression]] meaning exactly that.
222	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
223	** Allah Gold asks the Ratio Tile "Is you make the ghost?" while on the Space General's airship. While the Ratio denies this, it could be foreshadowing Obi-Wan's eventual becoming into a Force ghost in the canon films. Alternatively, it could be a reference to [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels that ship used by a crew of resistance fighters he would later hunt down as Reaches.]] It ''did'' include a few Hopeless Situations, after all. Though Ratio was not among them. (This would've truly been an example of this trope if this had been the case. [[HilariousInHindsight This translation was made years before]] ''[[HilariousInHindsight Rebels]]''.)
224	** Space General also makes a reference to Ratio Tile dying to settle an unspecified struggle. This could be a reference to Obi-Wan's death in Film/ANewHope.
225	** Similarly, Ratio Tile's declaration that he "was old" may be referencing the achronological release order of the ''Star Wars'' films by acknowledging that Film/ANewHope takes place much later in Obi-Wan's life.
226	** When D tells Allah Gold about Reaching The Man Cloth Space, Gold jumps to the conclusion that "In fact he can come back from the brink of death," which is what Gold/Reaches himself does at the end of the film.
227	* FountainOfYouth: Ratio Tile possibly discovered something like this, since he talks about being old in the past tense.
228	* FunWithSubtitles: The English subtitles contain the original, untranslated script.
229	* GenderFlip: Particularly Reach the Master and Blow the Skin seem to be female in this version, judging by the former's voice and the latter being referred to as Senator's wife.
230	* GeniusBruiser: The West seems to be this, since The D tells Allah that he must "study the square" in order to understand the The Dark World.
231	* GeometricMagic: Speaker D implies that this is how the Dark World works.
232	* TheGhost:
233	** The Good Elephant. [[JustifiedTrope Of course, he didn't actually exist in the original film.]]
234	** There's also the mysterious Academic Association that gets a mentioned a few times.
235	* GlorySeeker: The members of the Presbyterian Church, according to both Speaker D and Gold.
236	-->'''Speaker D''': They are just a flock of to fish for fame its person. Even act as rivals with the Senate.
237	-->'''Allah Gold''': [[YouCanSayThatAgain You can say that again]].
238	* GoForTheEye: Ratio the Tile instructs R2 to destroy the last Airship Robot by "beat[ing] it the in-between eye".
239	* GoKartingWithBowser: Bizarrely, the Presbyterian Church seems to have been in email contact with the West up until Text How Big attempts to kill The D, judging by his line "The west ages is already on doing not reply."
240	** Also "Ratio Prosperous drive with The."
241	* GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood:
242	** This exchange.
243	-->'''Ratio Tile:''' The peaceful is willing to, D the superior is a bad person!\
244	'''Allah Gold:''' To me hero's is just bad person![[note]]Allah is probably actually saying that ''Hero's Ground'' (another name for Hopeless Situation Warriors) are just as bad as Speaker D, but it's funnier this way.[[/note]]\
245	'''Ratio Tile:''' [[YoureInsane Friend you are crazy!]]
246	** The Presbyterian Church seems to believe this, as they punish Allah Gold for his track record of "long peace" by denying him a title.
247	* GratuitousGerman: The Pudding would be aller strong and big than anyone.
248	* GreyAndGrayMorality: For all their heroism, the Hopeless Situation Warriors perform some rather unsavory actions for the sake of their goals, and the villains are either {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s at best, like The D, or have redeeming qualities, like how Space General is a BenevolentBoss.
249	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: When confronting The, who is "a big", Ratio Tile surprisingly reveals that he and Allah Gold are "for the big." However, they still proceed to fight him regardless. Alternatively, one could interpret this as meaning that the Hopeless Situation Warriors exist for ''dealing with'' the big. They are the solution ''for'' the problem.
250	* HenpeckedHusband: The Gets the Rice blames Allah Gold personally for the war, telling him it "represented your mistake."
251	* HeroicBastard: Allah Gold and The Gets the Rice's children are this, as Allah Gold mentions early on of thinking of nothing but getting married to The Gets the Rice, indicating that she had gotten pregnant out of wedlock in this version.
252	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: While reporting to The D that he had killed the Abruption Doctrine leaders, Allah Gold describes himself as a barbarian despite having just ended the war, [[ThirdPersonPerson while referring to presumably himself in the third person.]]
253	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Hopeless Situation Warriors send Allah Gold to know The D at fuck, hoping that they can undermine him. It backfires ''stupendously'' as Allah Gold becomes The D's apprentice and annihilates their entire encampment.
254	* HonorBeforeReason: When Allah Gold says that Ratio Tile owes him seven times, Ratio reminds him that it's actually ''nine'' times (although the preceding events don't count for some reason). Perhaps Ratio Tile was [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten so embarrassed]] by [[MyGreatestFailure getting knocked out of the fight with The]] that he was willing to owe Allah Gold two more favors just to get him to drop it?
255	* HopeBringer: Could be the reason the Hopeless Situation Warriors got their name; a bunch of lightsaber-wielding space wizards backed by the Presbyterian Church who are called into action when [[DarkestHour all hope seems lost.]]
256	* HoneyTrap: A suprising male version of this trope -- the Presbyterian Church sends Allah Gold for The D to "know him at fuck."
257	* HonorableElephant: The Good Elephant, considering his moniker.
258	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter:
259	** When confronting Space General again, Ratio Tile claims everybody is good.[[note]]Although he could have meant "everyone's good, just keep doing what you're doing"[[/note]] He also has no problem with letting Allah Gold -- who thinks that the best way to put an end to war is to have less freedom and start more wars -- participate in peace negotiations.
260	** Before his second fight with the Space General, he says he has “contacted good” after speaking with the [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver silver, red-wearing]] landing delegation.
261	** Allah Gold isn't much better. He's convinced that "[[ObviouslyEvil Speaker D]] is not a bad person" and that "[[GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood Heroes is just bad person.]]"
262	* HoverTank: The Republic military apparently possesses an "air tank", which one of the Hopeless Situation Elders is upset to learn won't be sent into battle. Alternatively, "air tank" might refer to [[https://www.amazon.com/s?k=air+tank&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 exactly what it refers to in our world]], which is not nearly as cool, but much funnier.
263	* HulkSpeak: Ratio Tile expresses how civilised he is.
264	-->'''Ratio Tile:''' "Looking me am a civilization person."
265	* HumanSacrifice: The seems to have something of a fixation on this, telling Allah Gold and Ratio Tile to "dedicate their bodies," before he fights them, and calling Allah Gold a "sacrifice article," before threatening to dismember him.
266	* HypocriticalHumor:
267	** A super battle droid calls Reach the Man a "stupid robot" before said robot defeats him and another droid of the same model rather embarrassingly by spraying oil in their faces and lighting them on fire.
268	** Immediately after unceremoniously and rather gruesomely immolating Space General to death with a blaster, Ratio Tile says:
269	--> [[HulkSpeak Looking me am a civilization person.]]
270	* IceCreamKoan:
271	** This gem that leaves Allah Gold and most likely the audience utterly baffled:
272	-->'''Speaker D:''' Allah Gold, if a person wants to comprehend, that he must the square who study it [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the square]], but [[ImmediateSelfContradiction only a little bit much]] more than only concerning. If you like to be a leads more astutely, that you must accept this [[BuffySpeak more great]] power. But want the caution Hopeless Situation, Allah Gold, you only ask for help me then can become the...the knowledge of the dark of the study Hopeless, [[{{Malaproper}} in the fire of water]]. ''[[PsychoticSmirk (twisted little grin)]]''\
273	'''Allah Gold:''' [[FlatWhat You say what?]]
274	** Much of the dialogue comes across like this, notably when Ratio Tile and Vanquish Is find the bodies of the younglings slaughtered by Reaching the West of Reaches... And immediately dive into a philosophical debate about whether children can exist.
275	* IdiotBall: Discussed by Space General while addressing his Abruption Doctrine allies, claiming that they are only foolish on that particular star.
276	* IgnoreTheDisability: Space General invokes this by telling Ratio Tile that he'll just ignore the fact that Ratio is already dead, having "died to settle" some past struggle.
277	* IHaveManyNames: A few characters.
278	** Anakin is usually referred to as "Allah Gold", or sometimes simply "Gold." After his turn to the Black Influence, he is referred to as "The Peaceful Is Willing To" by the Hopeless Situation Warriors, or "Reaching the West of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Reaches]]" by Speaker D aka West Emperor. Yoda calls him "A Line." Several times, The Plum Of calls him simply "Line." Ratio also called him "Line" at the start.
279	** Obi-Wan is alternately called "The Willing to Compares" and "Ratio the Tile." The opening scroll also calls him "Ratio Prosperous." A Presbyterian Church Elder calls him "Card Ratio." Commanding Officer calls him "The Section pulIs the Ratio." Senator calls him, "The compares the willing to Ratio." Blow the Skin calls him, "The willing to compares host."
280	** Palpatine is usually known as D the speaker/the speaker D/speaker/Mr. speaker. He calls himself "the member of senate" and "the governor of this city" once each. His alter ego, Darth Sidious, is known as west emperor or simply emperor. His henchmen refer to him as host, or "my host".
281	* ImmediateSelfContradiction:
282	** Allah Gold creates one when asking to join the Parliament of the Presbyterian Church.
283	-->"Let me enter the Parliament, do not let me."
284	** Allah Gold seems very conflicted about his impending fatherhood, since he dismissively tells The Plum Of "I do not need the child's help," then immediately proclaims proudly that "Our baby blesses god'sly."
285	** The D remarks that Allah Gold is “affirmative to have doubted.” He also uses the phrase "a little bit much more."
286	** After The D encounters an injured Allah Gold, he tells the Shock Troopseses to "Grasp the person right away." They dutifully reply "Is, follow instructions!", but then just scamper away without doing anything.
287	** But the ultimate example of this might come from The Plum Of's medical examination.
288	-->'''Medical Droid:''' [[FalseReassurance "Check result, she complete health]] but we can't explain why she quick dead."
289	* ImprovisedWeapon: Possibly what Speaker D is talking about when he says "I beat the Intelligence Bureau the telephone."
290	* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Allah Gold's premonition seemingly depicts The Plum Of tearfully begging for her baby to be returned, which gives the impression that Gold turns to the Dark World just to prevent a child abduction.
291	* ItsWhatIDo: When The Speaker D warns Ratio tile and Allah Gold that The is "a big", he reassures the Speaker that he and Allah are "for the Big."
292	* LameComeback:
293	** Not that the original insult was all that witty, but Space General's comeback is just bad.
294	-->'''Allah Gold:''' "Space General, you and not equal to I think severe."\
295	'''Space General:''' "Smelly boy."
296	** When Text How Big tells The D he failed, his reply is “Not. Not... you just failed”. [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith (Though in fairness, this is pretty close to the real line.)]]
297	* LargeAndInCharge: The villains often talk about their desire to become "strong and big." Clearly, size equals authority and power in this universe.
298	* LighterAndSofter: Even leaving aside the fact that many scenes are rendered hilarious by the translations, the overall tone is lighter. Among other things, the conflict is severely watered down. Everyone agrees that Allah Gold is a good fit for the council, the Sith are barely even implied to exist, and most of the characters are polite and compassionate, even the villains from the original movie (with the exception of The, who dies after one scene). The only element that's really darker than the original is Ratio Tile's [[PrecisionFStrike swearing]].
299	* LikeIsLikeAComma: Many characters talk like this:
300	** "Like, reach the man, good good good let us counter-attacking."
301	** "Like, this time do not calculate in fact."
302	** "The Presbyterian Church like, enjoys you not."
303	** "Like, record, you owe me a."
304	* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: Subverted, suprisingly enough. The opening lines are translated fairly accurately, [[UnreliableNarrator but they turn out to be wrong,]] as The D clearly states that they are in the Milky Way.
305	* LoveDodecahedron: Allah Gold's love life is... confusing, to say the least. He loves The Plum Of and she returns his feelings, but Speaker D convinces him to cheat on her with him. He also seems to believe that she's also cheating, presumably with Ratio Tile. Confusingly, he takes offense to this despite wanting to make out with Ratio himself.
306	* TheMafia: The Presbyterian Church, possibly. Allah Gold says that they "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_man made]]" him at one point.
307	* MeaningfulName: Ratio suddenly begins referring to Allah Gold as "The Peaceful is Willing To" only after his fall to the Dark World. Appropriate, given that Gold has proven himself to be willing to do [[IDidWhatIHadToDo quite a lot]] in order to [[WellIntentionedExtremist preserve peace.]]
308	* MediumAwareness: Allah Gold is apparently aware that he's a character in a movie, [[Film/ThePhantomMenace as he remembers the scene were he sent The Plum Of her necklace]]. [[LampshadeHanging Either that, or Hayden Christensen just broke character to lampshade]] that [[TimeShiftedActor he wasn't actually in that movie.]]
309	* TheMenFirst: Twice Space General offers himself up to distract Ratio (and Gold the first time) so that his underlings won't be forced to fight them. The first time, on his airship, he urges the crew to flee after his bodyguards are dispatched, and the second time comes when he tells his troops to let him handle Ratio alone.
310	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: It's hard to know what exactly Ratio Tile was attempting to convey with his statement that "The front is a lemon avenue flying straightly." When you're trying to crash land a burning airship, it's not really the time to toss out an IceCreamKoan. Maybe [[CoolAirship airship]] landing pads are called 'lemon avenues' on this planet, and Ratio Tile was giving Allah Gold directions. Or he was saying that Lemon Avenue is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip best landing pad in reach]].
311	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: According to Speaker D, the Presbyterian Church enjoys Allah Gold not, which motivates him to join the West.
312	* MoodWhiplash: This can happen in the dub, whenever a serious, silent scene is interrupted by a ridiculous, poorly traslated line. For instance, the dramatic scene where Drop is executed is followed by the remark "You make out quite good."
313	* {{Motifs}}: References to geometry keep popping up. One of the main characters has the first name Ratio, another's nickname is Line, and D talks about studying squares. Well, the opening scroll has the line, "Two squares fight the vehemence."
314	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After helping The Speaker D kill Text How Big, Allah Gold experiences a brief pang of conscience:
315	-->'''Allah Gold:''' I did what?!
316	* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom: Because of the way the original names were translated, some characters have long, unwieldy names such as "The Peaceful is Willing To" or "Reaching the Man Cloth Space".
317	* NationsAsPeople: Space General seems to think the Republic is a living entity, and that Ratio Tile and Allah Gold are its bodyguards. That, or he's being metaphorical and flowery.
318	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands:
319	** The D is cited as holding at least 6 different positions throughout the movie, being called both the Speaker and Prime Minister of the Senate (and at one point declares himself no more than a ''member'' of the Senate, but Text How Big calls his bluff), as well as being the Governor of the city of Coruscant, as well as being Emperor of the West (long before he actually becomes Emperor in the real movie) and at the end he forms the Empire of the First Choice. Later on, his troopseses refer to him by the title of "Big King."
320	** Allah Gold also does this. He starts out as a Hopeless Situation Warrior. Then Speaker D inducts him into an unspecified military as a private (though he also describes it as a civilian office). This also makes Gold eligible to become an Elder. The Parliament accepts this, but does not grant him the title in retaliation for his "long peace". Then he becomes Reaching the West of Reaches then South Host.
321	** Ratio Tile is another example, perhaps. The opening scroll calls him "Ratio prosperous." Next, Allah Gold calls him "teacher" though later on he's just "master." As he declares everybody is good to the large robot army, Space General yells "Section Ratio General."
322	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ratio Tile explains that Allah Gold has been denied a title because the Hopeless Situation Parliament does not like his history of "long peace."
323	* NoNonsenseNemesis: When informed that Ratio Tile and Allah Gold have landed in his airship, Space General immediately orders his troops to kill them, even though his troops merely wanted to ''hinder'' them.
324	* NoPartyGiven: Averted. Characters identify themselves as Republicans more than once.
325	* NonDubbedGrunts: The dub reverts to the actual ''Revenge of the Sith'' voice track for most interjections during fight scenes and the like.
326	* NonIndicativeName:
327	** The leaders of the Hopeless Situation are called the Presbyterian Church, but don't seem to believe in original sin or predestination, if you go by Ratio Tile's declaration that "everybody is good."
328	*** Given the above, and Ratio Tile's comment that "Apparently I depraved", they don't believe in total depravity either.
329	*** They may not even be Christian, given that their faith "is not to believe in a certain person."
330	*** If they are Christian, their version of the Nicene Creed must use the phrase "Good of Good."
331	** Also applies to the title of the movie itself. At no point does anyone from the West perform any swimming, and the one person who does (Ratio Tile) doesn't do the backstroke.
332	* NonSequitur: Happens constantly, due to the poor translation.
333	* NoodleIncident:
334	** Apparently, there was some kind of fair the day before the movie began. For some reason, it's very important that it's now the day afterwards. Maybe that's where the good elephant comes from?
335	** Whatever Space General did to establish his reputation as "very deceitful" is never elaborated on. [[spoiler: Unless it was in reference to the fact he's a fallen Hopeless Situation Warrior: that certainly would count as treachery.]]
336	** The Gets The Rice at one point tells Allah Gold that she "''was'' pregnant," with accompanying dramatic music, implying [[TragicStillbirth a very dark plot twist]], but the rest of the film proceeds to depict a relatively normal pregnancy culminating in the birth of two healthy babies.
337	** When summarizing a combat report that Allah Gold missed, Ratio mentions that he's apparently depraved. He doesn't elaborate and changes the subject quickly.
338	** Allah Gold apparently made some unspecified mistake in the past, which The Gets the Rice blames for starting the war.
339	** At one point, it's mentioned that, when Allah Gold was a child, Ratio Tile "did" his teacher. This is never brought up again or elaborated on.
340	* {{Novelization}}: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12862083/1/Backstroke-of-the-West-A-Novelization Two]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13299787/1/Backstroke-of-the-West fan-made ones,]] both found on Website/FanFictionDotNet. Also more [[https://www.fanfiction.net/search/?keywords=%22backstroke+of+the+west%22&ready=1&type=story on FanFiction.net now]]. More on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn such as [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19034647 Backstroke of the West (The Novelization) incomplete]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14186418 The Saga of The Good Elephant]].
341	* NoYou: Text How Big and Speaker D:
342	-->Text How Big: You failed!\
343	Speaker D: Not! Not, YOU just failed!!!
344	* NumberOfTheBeast: One of Speaker D's lines references it when he orders the destruction of the Hopeless Situation Warriors.
345	-->'''Speaker D:''' The dynasty opens fire 66, 60:00
346	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Allah Gold advises R2 to do this, telling him he needs him "foolish in ship".
347	* ObligatorySwearing: Particularly bad since the original film had no swearing in the first place. Here however, Ratio the Tile drops the F-bomb more than once. [[labelnote:Explanation]]This is a well-known "feature" of Chinese-to-English translation software of yore, in which the Chinese character for "dry" or "do" (干) is extremely prone to being mistranslated to a certain famous English profanity, as it happens that the verb "to do" in Chinese has the exact same vulgar double meaning as in English.[[/labelnote]]
348	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: It's too bad we never get to see The Good Elephant flying his airship.
349	* OlderThanTheyLook: The Space General may be older than he appears, even as a cyborg. He refers to himself as "old man" when telling his troops that he'll fight Ratio Tile alone.
350	* OldWindbag: The Hopeless Situation Elders of the Presbyterian Church are this to Allah Gold. Shortly after organizing a strategy for an important battle, Allah Gold's first thought is, "Is really boring."
351	* OverlyLongGag: An unintentional example. Having the Jedi be referred to as "Hopeless Situations" is funny at first, but the word "Jedi" is said ''a lot'' in this movie, so it really can get grating after a while.
352	* ParrotExposition: Before The Plum Of [[DeathbyChildbirth dies in childbirth]], this exchange between a medical droid and Ratio Tile:
353	-->'''Droid:''' Check result, she complete health but we can't explain why she quick dead.\
354	'''Ratio Tile:''' Does she die quickly?\
355	'''Droid:''' We must proceed the surgical operation right away, talent extrication child.\
356	'''Ratio Tile:''' Child?
357	* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The D calls his oppressive regime "The Empire of the First Choice", likely being an invocation of this trope.
358	* {{Planetville}}: In contrast to the real movies, this is Averted here. Vanquish Is manages to escape The D's notice simply by leaving the country.
359	* {{Pluralses}}: Not only that, but ''Pluralseses'' also make an appearance:
360	** Allah Gold talks about how he does not like "politicseses."
361	** He later speaks to Vanquish Is about the "dreamses" he's been having.
362	** At one point, Text How Big talks about the "troopseses."
363	** At the very end of the movie, the droids are referred to as "childses."
364	** The unexpected -es suffixing pops up in non-plural words as well. The Pudding commands Allah Gold, "Doing you needses must its matter", and Text How Big feels Allah Gold "cans not handles" the task of spying on The D.
365	* ThePowerOfHate: Though the Sith from the original are known to fuel hatred into strength, The D seems to take it a step further here: he declares to the Senate that "My power has always been to have no like!"
366	* PowerOfTheVoid: Speaker D claims to have a "great void", but it may not be the most reliable source of power, seeing as how he claims in the same scene that it was weak during his fight with Text How Big.
367	* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Ratio Tile after Space General taunts him for already being dead.
368	-->'''Space General''': Ignore you to how struggle you died to settle.\
369	'''Ratio Tile''': I can not think so. (''He uses the Wish Power to throw Space General up into the air'')
370	* ProductPlacement: Subverted. The original movie did not have any products from outside the ''Star Wars'' universe. This movie referred to the West Emperor as "Big King" ... the name of a sandwich from Burger King, who was promoting the original movie. Subverted as, at the time, the sandwich of that name was discontinued.
371	* RagingStiffie: It sure must be pretty embarrassing for Allah Gold when The Pudding tells him that he's "already at full cock."
372	* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Space General's "{{Beat}}, we are great and black influences" might be an example of this.
373	* RedLightDistrict: Space General may be hiding out in one. When Ratio Tile goes to find him, he's given directions by Commanding Officer to "the pimping mainland."
374	* RefugeInAudacity: There's no Order 66 in this version. Speaker D just flat-out tells Commanding Officer, as well as the other Republic Troopseses, to kill the Hopeless Situation Warriors.
375	* ReligionIsMagic: The Force doesn't exist. There's only The Wish Power. Let alone the fact that the Jedi Council is translated as the Presbyterian Church.
376	* TheRepublic: The Gram Republic, which the Speaker D turns into the Empire of the First Choice following him becoming disabled and sick.
377	* TheReveal:
378	** Space General was once a Hopeless Situation Warrior, and may even have served with Ratio Tile.
379	** Speaker D being the governor of the city is treated as this.
380	* RightHandVersusLeftHand: Speaker D apparently had to beat the Republic's Intelligence Bureau to the telephone in order to figure out where the Space General was hiding.
381	* {{Robosexual}}: Senator seems to be this, as evidenced by his sudden declaration that Blow the Skin "is my wife" in the penultimate scene, something that even Blow the Skin seems shocked about.
382	* SatanIsGood: Allah Gold wants to hold tight a devil to win the war. To be fair, 'devil' could have been referring to the Space General.
383	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Turns "I have the high ground" into "The geography that I stands compares you superior." Which also has the ''opposite'' meaning of the original line.
384	* SeriousBusiness: The D and Ratio Tile both say that Allah Gold's exasperation might lead him to the dark world.
385	* ShoutOut:
386	** Accidentally [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrows a turn of phrase]] from [[Series/DoctorWho another staple]] of the ScienceFiction genre:
387	-->"Exterminate them!"
388	** The D likens the power of the Black Influence to "many [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Supermans"]].
389	** "You are a sacrifice article that I cut up rough now" ''could'' be related to Creator/ChristopherLee's portrayal of [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 Lord Summerisle]].
390	* SirSwearsALot: Ratio Tile, who apparently loves to use the word "fuck" a lot.
391	* SpaceX: Two characters have 'space' added to their names; Space General and Reaching the Man Cloth Space.
392	* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Speaker D is very dismissive of The when he discusses his death with Space General, suggesting that The's dying is the very epitome of irrelevance.
393	-->"His dead is what doesn't matter!"
394	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Most of the characters at one point or another: Allah Gold and Ratio Tile, for example, are often shortened to "the Gold" and "the Ratio", respectively, while Speaker D is commonly referred to simply as "The D." Possibly ''the'' most triumphant example, however, is Count Dooku, who was renamed to simply "The" (although Ratio Tile also addresses him as "Drop" once).
395	* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Everyone. Besides {{Pluralses}}, they also add verb tenses to prepositions ("Toing have the patience."), turn gerunds into present participles ("You died at the time of livinging the child."), and place seemingly random words into past tense ("A line have beened distorted by the Dark World. You the trained boy noed longer is already.").
396	* SuddenNameChange: Presumably, the translation wasn't done all in one go. This is evidenced by characters' names changing between scenes. At one point, Anakin will be called 'Allah Gold', but later on everyone will call him 'The Peaceful is Willng To', for example.
397	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: A possible interpretation of Allah Gold's fall to the Dark World, judging from him suffering under NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and HenpeckedHusband.
398	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When trying to fly into The Space General's airship, only to notice the rapidly closing gate, Ratio the Tile says "I feel far from good."
399	* ToiletHumour: "The good elephant in airship dropped what things?" [[FartsOnFire It's implied that the elephant's poo caused an explosion which made the entire ship break apart.]]
400	* TooLongDidntDub: This happens very frequently, with only the first part of a line being translated and the rest omitted. For example, a line from the original about the Jedi needing to take control of the Senate is simply translated, "The Hopeless Situation Presbyterian Church." (equivalent to just saying, "The Jedi Council".) Some lines, such as Qui-Gon's name, were removed completely.
401	* TranslationTrainWreck: Doesn't even ''begin'' to cover it. Let's see what some of the names were translated to:
402	** Jedi Council -> [[ReligionIsMagic Presbyterian Church]]
403	** Jedi Knight -> Hopeless Situation Warrior / Hero's Ground
404	** The Dark Side -> The Dark World / The Black Influence / The Evil Augury
405	** Sith -> West
406	** Sith Lord -> South Host / Big / West Emperor / Governor of the City
407	** Separatists -> Abruption Doctrine
408	** Anakin Skywalker -> Allah Gold / The Peaceful Is Willing To / Line
409	** Obi-Wan Kenobi -> Ratio Tile / The Willing to Compares
410	** Count Dooku -> [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]] / Drop
411	** General Grievous -> Space General
412	** Chancellor Palpatine -> The Speaker D / The Pudding / Prime Minister
413	** Padmé Amidala -> The Gets the Rice / The Plum Of
414	** Yoda -> Vanquish Is / Particularly Reach the Master
415	** Mace Windu -> Text How Big
416	** C-3PO -> Blow the Skin
417	** R2-D2 -> R2 / Reach the Man
418	** Chewbacca -> Drag Along
419	** Bail Organa -> Senator
420	** Commander Cody -> Commanding Officer
421	** Darth Vader -> Reaching the West of Reaches
422	** Darth Plagueis -> Reach the Man / Reaching the Man Cloth Space / The Emperor
423	** Luke Skywalker -> See Me
424	** The Galactic Empire -> The Empire of the First Choice
425	** The Force -> Original Dint / Wish Power
426	** Buzz Droid -> Airship Robot
427	** Clone Trooper -> Republic Troops / Troopseses
428	* TranslationYes: Obi-Wan's line "Don't try it!" along with Captain Antilles' line "Yes, your highness?" simply become "Is."
429	* {{Understatement}}: Upon finding out that he supposedly killed The Plum Of, Reaching the West of Reaches gives a [[BigNo long, drawn out]], ''"Do not want"'', indicating his displeasure at learning such a fact.
430	* UnexplainedRecovery: Ratio Tile seems pretty fine for somebody who - if the Space General is to be believed - has already died.
431	* TheUnreveal: If you're waiting to see how Qui-Gon's name is translated, prepare yourself for disappointment. The translators apparently thought his name was to difficult to translate, so they removed it completely.
432	* VillainRespect: Space General is generally pleasant when conversing with his foes, he repeatedly refers to Allah Gold and Ratio Tile as "sir"
433	* VocalDissonance: Compared to the original ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' actors, the voices in the dubbed version go a couple different ways. Some are remarkably accurate imitations (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padmé, Dooku, Mace Windu). Others are way off, but clearly intended to fall under RuleOfFunny. Palpatine/The D has a flat American accent, Yoda/Vanquish Is has a raspy woman's voice, and Grievous/Space General sounds like an evil [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Comic Book Guy]].
434	* WarIsGlorious[=/=]WarIsHell: Allah Gold seems to think that "less freedom with more wars" is a good thing and also seems to treat battles as a game. Then again, he also seems to believe that [[StartXToStopX starting more wars will make it easier to end war]], makes reference twice to wanting to end war itself as a concept, has a history of "long peace", and is involved with peace negotiations, so where exactly he stands on this subject is rather confusing.
435	* WarWasBeginning: Rather bluntly expressed in the opening crawl translation as "The war came!"
436	* WellIntentionedExtremist: As mentioned above, Allah Gold seems to want to abolish the concept of war in its entirety, but ends up becoming a West to do it.
437	* WhamLine: "Did you heard the tragedy that Reach the Man?" For context, Reach the Man (Darth Plagueis) [[TheMole is also the alternate name of R2 in this version.]] Fittingly, ominous music kicks in following this line.
438	* WhatTheHellHero: One interpretation of Allah Gold's line about D being governor of the city. He may be reprimanding him for his use of the dark power, by reminding him of his responsibilities as governor.
439	* WordSaladPhilosophy: Many, many mangled sayings come off as this.
440	* WordSaladTitle: Due to being mangled in the translation, of course.
441	* WorthyOpponent:
442	** Space General refers to Ratio Tile formally as “Section Ratio General” and says he's “really a day of brave.”
443	** Given that "Is" is the affirmative answer, Ratio Tile acknowledges Allah Gold's ability when Gold accuses him of underrating it.
444	* YouCanSayThatAgain:
445	** Allah Gold says this word-for-word to The Pudding.
446	** "He cans say that again that system is very," said Text How Big when deciding to send Ratio Tile after the Space General.
447	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The D tells Gold that he has "completed [his] usage." [[SubvertedTrope Though he doesn't kill him after this. He just gives him a new mission.]]
448	* YoureInsane: "Friend, you are crazy!" said by Ratio Tile to Allah Gold after Gold expresses that he thinks hero's is just bad person.
449	* YouOweMe: Allah Gold to Ratio Tile after the former rescues the latter on the Space General's airship. Incidentally, the Ratio (whether out of sheer generosity or by a Freudian slip) manages to get himself deeper into debt:
450	-->'''Allah Gold:''' Like, record, you owe me a. You owed seven times.\
451	'''Ratio Tile:''' [[WritersCannotDoMath Is nine times, in fact.]] Like, this time do not calculate. [[AndAnotherThing In fact]].
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