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Sdrawkcab Speech
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Someone speaks with the speech audio reversed. This can be done to invoke a feeling of unreality or disorientation. It may happen in a dream or it may give an impression of a dreamlike state. In a filmed or animated work, it may manifest itself in a character reading literal speech written backward, or it may happen when a character attempts to pronouce the phonemes in a word or sentence in reverse order, or it may be done by taking regular audio and playing it backwards. In a written work the dialogue will be spelled backwards, and on rare occasions even the shapes of the letters may be flipped. Another version of this trope is the phenomenon known as "backmasking", when messages are hidden in rock music recordings by being recorded backwards, usually as an Easter Egg. (In Ye Olden Days when people played music on phonograph records it was easy enough to hear these hidden messages by making your turntable spin in reverse.) In the past, some of these messages have stoked controversy about their supposed subconscious effects on listeners; see Subliminal Seduction for more details. This trope is limited to speech, or the sound of someone's voice. For written works, this means that character monologue or dialogue is included in the trope (e.g. Zatanna's backwards-spoken spells), while in-universe writing is not (e.g. the inscription on the Mirror of Erised, since nobody reads it out loud in the book). May be used as part of a Rewind Gag. Compare Sdrawkcab Name, which might be written or spoken. Examples |
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The Clone High episode "Raisin The Stakes" has a scene where JFK gets high on raisins and falls through a skylight, landing on a table. Between his highness and the massive pain of shattering his leg, he starts rambling in backwards speech. If one plays his words in reverse, it's a secret message exhorting viewers to keep watching Clone High and help it win an Emmy. | |
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The interlude "Neon Gumbo" from The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe is the final verse and outro of a song from their first EP, "Many Moons," in reverse. | |
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In The Smurfs comic book version of "The Hundredth Smurf", Vanity's mirror clone literally speaks backwards with all the letters and punctuation marks in his speech balloons arranged backwards, as a mirror to Vanity's own speech balloons. In the Animated Adaptation, Vanity's mirror clone speaks with all the words arranged in reverse order. | |
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During the seance in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the rite that banishes their spirits is "Ed and Chris note Solomon and Matheson, the series' creators will rule the world" in reverse. | |
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Bleach: After the Time Skip, Shinji learned how to use Sakanade to invert the sounds heard by his target on top of their sense of direction. | |
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The breakdown to "Beercan" uses a sample from a Care Bears record as Spoken Word in Music, then repeats part of it in reverse - it could be transcribed as something like "I'm sad and unhappy - yppahnu dna das" | |
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In her HaraHara course in Puyo Puyo Fever 2, Amitie snaps Feli out of her state when she finds her chanting the following backwards speech: | |
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The Simpsons: In "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two" Chief Wiggum has a Dream Sequence where Lisa appears, talking in reversed backward speech in an homage to Twin Peaks. When Wiggum repeatedly fails to understand her hints, she eventually gets angry and tells him what she means normally. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: In "Sins of Our Fathers", Destro speaks an arcane chant to control a demon. If played backwards, he's saying, "Anyone listening to this backwards for a secret occult message is a real dweeb!" | |
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During one of the music video segments in the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Vidiots," Beavis reveals that he can do this. His speech actually has the audio reversed, but when Butt-Head tries it, he just reverses the order of the words. | |
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In the Broad City episode "Sliding Doors," a rewind reveals that an unintelligibly slurring homeless man is saying, "Donald Trump will be president!" | |
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Cuphead: Viewing the bad ending and returning to the title screen will cause the cheery quartet's audio to be played backwards. | |
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In Spirou & Fantasio, Zorglub created an artificial language for his Zorgmen, Zorglang, that consists in inverting the letter in every word while keeping their position in the sentence (so that "Hail Zorglub" becomes "Liah Bulgroz"). | |
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In the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) episode "A Friend in Need," the spell Ileena is given by Jarvan to summon him is "come to me" said backwards. | |
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In A Night at the Opera (1935), Fiorello, Tomasso, and Ricardo impersonate three foreign dignitaries, with Driftwood pretending to be their interpreter. A police captain calls them out as impostors, whereupon Driftwood turns to the three and they start talking in what seems to be As Long as It Sounds Foreign gibberish. What it actually is, is normal English dialogue — Driftwood says "Did you hear what he said? He said you were frauds and impostors!", then Fiorello and Ricardo say stuff like "How can he say a thing like that?", "This is ridiculous," etc. — with all the dialogue played backwards. | |
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All of the standard zombies in Half-Life 2 shout "Help! God, help! HELP ME!" in reverse. | |
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Used at the beginning of the House of Mouse short "Hickory Dicker Mickey". | |
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Beck's "Loser" has some backwards singing during the "breakdown" section, which is simply the full chorus reversed: "Soy un perdedor / I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?" The breakdown to "Beercan" uses a sample from a Care Bears record as Spoken Word in Music, then repeats part of it in reverse - it could be transcribed as something like "I'm sad and unhappy - yppahnu dna das" |
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An episode of Rick and Morty opens by showing Morty looking into the eyes of the Truth Tortoise which says the backwards message, "I'm a Beatle, Paul is dead." | |
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In The Batman Adventures' second annual, Ra's al Ghul recites a demonic incantation to purge the world of all humanity that is written like this. The various backward phrases include things like "Kirby was the greatest"note Jack Kirby created Etrigan, guest-star in this annual, "I buried Paul!", "Sometimes my arms turn back" and "My sweet satin" (a reference to the song 'Satin Doll'). If he'd said Satan it would have at least made sense in context... | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Infernal Slumber", Bloo talks backwards as part of the friends' plan to act weird to convince an awoken Terrence that he's dreaming. | |
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In the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, Ecolo's alternate voice reverses his speech. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Backwards", the crew of the Dwarf visit an alternate universe where time runs backwards, and everyone speaks in Sdrawkcab Speech. (Reversing the episode's audio reveals that some of the dialogue is appropriate to the situation, some of it is just gibberish, and some of it is snarky commentary about how boring a person's life must be if they went to the trouble of reversing the audio.) | |
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In Gotham Girls and Zatanna Trial Of The Crystal Wand: Zatanna uses this for her spells. | |
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Halo: In the level "Gravemind" of Halo 2, there's a reverse-speech that plays throughout the bgm/background that can only be understood when reversing both at a careful level, both the voice and message itself is truly haunting. The Elites' dialogue in Halo: Combat Evolved was created by reversing and pitch-shifting some of Sgt. Johnson's dialogue. |
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Amethyst speaks this way in the Steven Universe episode "An Indirect Kiss" when her gem gets cracked and starts getting wonky. | |
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In Twin Peaks, the denizens of the Black Lodge have a strange singsongy way of speaking. What they did was have the actors read their lines forward into a recorder, play it backwards to learn how to recreate those sounds, film the scenes while saying the backwards lines, then re-backwards-izing it forwards. In The Return, they take it up to eleven and have the actors perform backwards, including the odd speech, just to add to the creepy factor. | |
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The Elites' dialogue in Halo: Combat Evolved was created by reversing and pitch-shifting some of Sgt. Johnson's dialogue. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Leave the Busting to Us!", the martian that gets off Phineas and Ferb's Ferris wheel delivers this message: In "Unfair Science Fair Redux, Another Story", the martians who crown Candace say a few backmasked words, "Yensid" (Disney) and "Erimnevop" (Povenmire). Also when Ferb has a conversation with one of them in their language, he is actually saying his line backwards: "They say fine, but not without them." |
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In The Flash (2014), the episode "The New Rogues" has Barry being trapped in a mirror by Mirror Master. While in there, sounds appears backwards to people on the other side, much like a reflection. In order to understand what Barry is saying, a device that reverses audio had to be put on the mirror to translate what Barry is saying. | |
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In Pokémon Battle Royale: ULTRA BEASTS!, just like in the anime, Kartana's cry is lines spoken backwards, though unlike in the Pokémon anime, it's not just one sentence, but rather various bits and pieces of the dialogue of Jetstream Sam. | |
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When Obi-Wan first meets Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, Jango says to his clone son, Boba, "Rood eht so-heeck," instructing Boba to close a door and hide his Mandalorian armor. Some sources identify this as a "coded language", but the first two words spoken are "the door" backwards. The rest is gibberish. | |
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Kaeloo: In "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff", Kaeloo manages to get a spirit to communicate with them through Quack Quack. Its speech is incomprehensible at first, and when Stumpy asks why he can't understand it, Kaeloo explains that spirits always speak backwards and asks the director of the cartoon to play the snippet of dialogue backwards so that they can hear what it's saying. The dialogue, when reversed, says "I am the great spirit of yogurts". | |
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: "The Dream of A Lifetime" has a hilarious, unintentional example when Donald meets his mother as a baby in Scrooge's dream. At this point, Hortense is only able to say "glxblt", and an overjoyed Donald begins hugging and fussing over her. Fergus immediately grabs Donald by the neck, which causes him to garble "blxglt", and Hortense correcting, "Nuh-uh, glxblt!" | |
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The Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Mathmagic" has Star being trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop that features a different punchline for the Chicken Joke said by Janna. One time, she says a backwards message that says, "To get to the other side." | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1: The term "Xenoblade" is uttered in the final boss theme when played in reversed due to the lyrics being played backwards. | |
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Sdrawkcab Speech / int_8f55e11a | comment |
Object Lockdown has Cherry, whose entire language is nothing but reverse English. She tried to explain why she speaks in reverse to Berry, but that failed. According to her, her backwards talk came years after she and her family moved to Ahi Island from Foodkraine in 1879. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_8f55e11a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_8f55e11a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Object Lockdown (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_8f55e11a | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9153ccb1 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9153ccb1 | comment |
The Shining. Danny draws "REDRUM" on the door while Wendy is asleep, and his repeated uttering of the word wakes her up. As she tries to give her son a Cooldown Hug, she looks into the mirror and sees the word reversed ("MURDER"). Cue the infamous "Here's Johnny!" scene. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9153ccb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9153ccb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Shining | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9153ccb1 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_919cf6ca | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_919cf6ca | comment |
In The Secrets of Droon, Galen's copy Nelag does everything backwards, which is annoying most of the time, but comes in handy when they need to read a scroll written in mirror writing, which he reads out loud like normal speech. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_919cf6ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_919cf6ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Secrets of Droon | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_919cf6ca | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_95d534e1 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_95d534e1 | comment |
In The Dragon Prince, every magic spell requires a spoken incantation. The spell incantations for Black Magic sound like regular speech spoken backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_95d534e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_95d534e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Dragon Prince | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_95d534e1 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_985ad25d | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_985ad25d | comment |
Dragon Ball Super: Super Shenron only understands the "Divine Language", which is just each word spoken backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_985ad25d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_985ad25d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dragon Ball Super | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_985ad25d | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9a7088bc | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9a7088bc | comment |
In the Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead," an alien power causes the Enterprise crew to hallucinate their fears. This includes Kirk talking in reversed audio to represent his fear of being unable to communicate. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9a7088bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9a7088bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Trek: The Original Series | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9a7088bc | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9b4ab849 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9b4ab849 | comment |
Kartana's cry is made up of the phrase "Once again I have cut a worthless object", or portions thereof, played backwards. The English dub did the same thing. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9b4ab849 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9b4ab849 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lupin III | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9b4ab849 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9ef652e2 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9ef652e2 | comment |
Butthole Surfers: There hit song "Pepper" contains in its solo two lines from the chorus backwards "I don't mind the sun sometimes; the images it shows; you never know just how you look through other people's eyes." | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9ef652e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9ef652e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Butthole Surfers (Music) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_9ef652e2 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a0b3a75e | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a0b3a75e | comment |
In Superman & Lois, the people of the Inverse World (AKA Bizarro Earth) speak in reverse and write the opposite way. It's initially difficult to understand them, but it seems that it's not that hard to adapt for some people. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a0b3a75e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a0b3a75e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Superman & Lois | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a0b3a75e | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a183d57f | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a183d57f | comment |
Played for laughs in the Futurama episode "Calculon 2.0" where the crew of the Planet Express try to bring Calculon back to life through a scientific ritual. Said ritual involved pentagrams, Red and Black and Evil All Over robes, and Amy playing an installation disc backwards which just so happens to say "Rise from the dead in the name of Satan". | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Futurama | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a183d57f | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a1f8aea0 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a1f8aea0 | comment |
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, the Aqua Teens speak entirely backwards after escaping from The Sphinx, until they decide to switch back to English after realizing how dumb they're sounding. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a1f8aea0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a1f8aea0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a1f8aea0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a465e6bd | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a465e6bd | comment |
Jujutsu Kaisen: All of Hanami's dialogue is conveyed through reverse speech, with most of his thoughts instead conveyed through monologue. Mahito and Jogo seem to be the only ones capable of understanding him. He later demonstrates that he can make himself comprehensible to people if he wishes, resulting in them hearing his voice in their head. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a465e6bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a465e6bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a465e6bd | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a7199cf6 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a7199cf6 | comment |
One Darkwing Duck story printed in Disney Adventures saw Launchpad get shocked by Megavolt, resulting in everything he said coming out backwards. This confused Darkwing until he eventually caught on. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a7199cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a7199cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Darkwing Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_a7199cf6 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ab4f6c9 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ab4f6c9 | comment |
In the opening credits of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, a choral version of the main BTAS theme is heard with Ominous Latin Chanting. However, the lyrics were actually the names of some of the production crew written backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ab4f6c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ab4f6c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ab4f6c9 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aca7b22d | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aca7b22d | comment |
In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Wand", Gumball and Darwin pretend a toy wand Richard has is actually magic. When he hits them with a "reverse spell", Gumball says the words in his previous sentence ("Its power has overtaken you") in reversed order ("You overtaken has power its"). Darwin corrects him by speaking what is clearly a reversed recording of the same sentence. In "The Sale" after badmouthing Mr. Robinson, Gumball and Darwin demand Nicole to take it back. After saying, "Okay, okay, okay! I take it back!", she's told to properly take it back, saying, "Kcab ti ekat I. Yako, yako, yako!". |
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Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aca7b22d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aca7b22d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Amazing World of Gumball | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aca7b22d | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aff74f6b | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aff74f6b | comment |
In the D.N.Angel fanfic Of Darkness and Light, the oracle Lunara speaks backwards whenever she gives her predictions. It took her servant boy Yami a full year to become her official translator. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aff74f6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aff74f6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
D.N.Angel (Manga) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_aff74f6b | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b3309b69 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b3309b69 | comment |
Puyo Puyo: In her HaraHara course in Puyo Puyo Fever 2, Amitie snaps Feli out of her state when she finds her chanting the following backwards speech: In the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, Ecolo's alternate voice reverses his speech. |
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Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b3309b69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b3309b69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Puyo Puyo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b3309b69 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b48e4fd8 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b48e4fd8 | comment |
Most of the spoken dialogue in The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories is done in the Twin Peaks style (i.e. having the actors speak the lines backwards, then reversing it) in order to add to the creepy, dreamlike, surreal atmosphere of the game. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b48e4fd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b48e4fd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_b48e4fd8 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_baa97a52 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_baa97a52 | comment |
Played seriously in Tenet when a character who has been 'inverted' (traveling backwards in time) has to use a radio with translation software to speak with someone in normal time, as their speech sounds this way. The special features reveal that the audio for this scene was not reversed — Kenneth Branagh actually practiced speaking backwards with a Russian accent. Not too surprising, given Christopher Nolan's reputation for trying to do as much in-camera as possible. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_baa97a52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_baa97a52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tenet | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_baa97a52 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_bc848d30 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_bc848d30 | comment |
SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Opposite Day", SpongeBob and Patrick speak backwards while celebrating the titular day. The translation: | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_bc848d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_bc848d30 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c095f21d | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c095f21d | comment |
In Simoun, the Argentum soldiers speak what at first appears complete gibberish, but on closer inspection is just Simulacran/Japanese played backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c095f21d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c095f21d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Simoun | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c095f21d | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c4a22754 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c4a22754 | comment |
In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, the so called "Ancient Egyptian speech" is just the dialogue played backwards which translates to: | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c4a22754 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c4a22754 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_c4a22754 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cf6ccaa7 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cf6ccaa7 | comment |
Katrina in Animal Crossing: New Horizons does this when telling your fortune. "LLA SWONK LATSRYC EHT" (The Crystal knows all) and "RETSASID DETREVA" (Disaster averted). | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cf6ccaa7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cf6ccaa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cf6ccaa7 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cff37096 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cff37096 | comment |
Hercules Returns involves a Gag Dub of an Italian Sword and Sandal movie. The actor playing Hercules has a tendency to walk away from the people he's talking to, then abruptly turn to face them, at which point the Gag Dub always makes a sound like the soundtrack is being reversed. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cff37096 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cff37096 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hercules Returns | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_cff37096 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d0d474b1 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d0d474b1 | comment |
Zatanna from The DCU uses this method of speaking in order to cast spells. It's arguably the best-known aspect of her character. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d0d474b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d0d474b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Zatanna (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d0d474b1 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d3e3e38a | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d3e3e38a | comment |
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: The Beast Island signal is a First Ones emergency recording playing backwards, including lines like "Planetwide evacuation required. All units return to Eternia." and "This is a feature, not a bug." | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d3e3e38a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d3e3e38a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d3e3e38a | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5166b43 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5166b43 | comment |
In the level "Gravemind" of Halo 2, there's a reverse-speech that plays throughout the bgm/background that can only be understood when reversing both at a careful level, both the voice and message itself is truly haunting. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5166b43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5166b43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Halo 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5166b43 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5ddd6c1 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5ddd6c1 | comment |
Pokémon: The Series: In "Clefairy Tales", when Jessie and James disguise themselves as aliens, they continuously chant, "Nomékop", which is "Pokémon" spelled backwards. There's an instance where James of Team Rocket talks backwards when being swallowed by his Victreebel. The message is "Leo Burnettnote an advertising executive and 4Kids are the devil", an intentional protest by James's voice actor Eric Stuart against not being paid for commercial work. Kartana's cry is made up of the phrase "Once again I have cut a worthless object", or portions thereof, played backwards. The English dub did the same thing. |
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Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pokémon: The Series | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_d5ddd6c1 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_dc15a89b | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_dc15a89b | comment |
Supernova 1987 has backwards names, and the alien ship uses backwards text as well. Once you rescue the scientist, his speech is also backwards until he adjusts his wristband. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_dc15a89b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_dc15a89b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Supernova 1987 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_dc15a89b | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_de4bbe64 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_de4bbe64 | comment |
Esio Trot: Mr Hoppy claims you can talk to tortoises by saying words backwards, and gives Mrs. Silver a paper with words written backwards telling her tortoise to grow bigger. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_de4bbe64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_de4bbe64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Esio Trot | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_de4bbe64 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e25322af | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e25322af | comment |
Homestar Runner often does this. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e25322af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e25322af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e25322af | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e5d5d23c | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e5d5d23c | comment |
In the Doom episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd, when the Nerd screams that he wants to play Doom, all of a sudden the Devil (in the form of the Icon of Sin from Doom II) starts talking in reverse, leaving the Nerd clueless. After a few tape-player backmask translations, he asks if the Icon of Sin has to keep talking backwards all the time, leading to the latter dropping the backmasking charade and starting talking in normal speech from here on. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e5d5d23c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e5d5d23c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Doom (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e5d5d23c | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e6fca67a | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e6fca67a | comment |
In Hell House LLC, Sara speaks slurred gibberish while sleepwalking — it's actually audio from her final interview scene played backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e6fca67a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e6fca67a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hell House LLC | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e6fca67a | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e7795776 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e7795776 | comment |
Celeste: There's a secret monologue hidden within the second half of the Mirror Temple's music track, where Madeline talks about her situation. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e7795776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e7795776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Celeste (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_e7795776 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ea4f62db | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Averted in the Family Guy episode "Yug Ylimaf". The plot is that time and events are going backwards but the characters still speak forwards for some reason. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ea4f62db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Family Guy | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ea4f62db | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ececd627 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ececd627 | comment |
Mr. Pickles, the titular character, is a Satanic dog who uses demonic incantations in order to hypnotize others to do his bidding. The incantation is actually a voice deepened and played backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ececd627 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ececd627 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mr. Pickles | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_ececd627 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_efcd8723 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_efcd8723 | comment |
XOR in Ultimate Custom Night has a reversed, pitch-lowered, sped-up and distorted version of Dee Dee's sneaky speech. In this case, XOR spawns multiple enemies rather than just one. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_efcd8723 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_efcd8723 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ultimate Custom Night (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_efcd8723 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f1a38c03 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f1a38c03 | comment |
Suske en Wiske: In the story "De brullende berg", the heroes meet a giant who talks in his own language. At first they use a translation device to communicate with him, but it breaks down after a while, leaving them unable to speak with the giant untill Wiske realizes the giant is actually just speaking backwards. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f1a38c03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f1a38c03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Suske en Wiske (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f1a38c03 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4b0e573 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4b0e573 | comment |
In Mortal Kombat: Deception, many of the inhabitants of the Netherrealm speak in reversed english. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4b0e573 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4b0e573 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mortal Kombat: Deception (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4b0e573 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4fb7079 | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4fb7079 | comment |
The Walten Files uses this twice to hide secret messages: The first instance occurs in Company Introductory Tape - playing it backwards reveals it to be a message intended for Sophie Walten. A second secret message appears in Relocate Project, which reveals how Rosemary Walten was lured into the backstage (and subsequently killed) by Bon. |
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Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4fb7079 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4fb7079 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Walten Files (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f4fb7079 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f724b70d | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f724b70d | comment |
In Code Lyoko's "Contact", Franz possesses Sissi. The problem is that his message ends up backwards. Forwards, this message says "I can help you. I want to enter into contact with you now. I'm Franz Hopper. I can help you." Later happens again in Jeremie's room, "I'm Franz Hopper. I can help you. I want to enter into contact with you now." | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f724b70d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f724b70d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Code Lyoko | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f724b70d | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f8acc9ea | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f8acc9ea | comment |
Control has a mirror you can enter in, leading to a Mirror World version of the lab where Jesse speaks backwards. Her internal monologue remains unaffected, however. An audio log also sits outside the Mirror, with the interviewer failing to get any answers to her questions out of the ranger that just left the Mirror because his speech is reversed. When you find the same audio log inside the Mirror, the interviewer's speech is reversed and the ranger's speech is forward. | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f8acc9ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f8acc9ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Control (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f8acc9ea | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f98c4eca | type |
Sdrawkcab Speech | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f98c4eca | comment |
Minions: The Rise of Gru: Gru enters the Vicious 6's lair by playing a record backwards, its audio proclaiming "Welcome to the Vicious 6". | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f98c4eca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Sdrawkcab Speech / int_f98c4eca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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It's everywhere in Gravity Falls - for example, at the end of every theme song is a whisper that, if played backwards, reveals a way to solve a secret code in the end credits. But one of the most notable examples is during Bill Cipher's death, where he shouts gibberish that translates to what seems to be a way to eventually bring him back to life: The show also pokes fun at its own usage of the trope at one point, where the chant to summon Bill is “backwards message� backwards, making it a very literal case of Sdrawkcab Speech. |
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In Spy Kids, the nonsense songs sung by the characters of the Show Within a Show Floop's Fooglies are actually cries of "Floop is a madman, help us, save us!" spoken backwards by the mutated and imprisoned Fooglies. | |
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