History Main / GratuitousItalian

* ''Theatre/LaNona'': {{Justified}}. By virtue of being descended from Italian immigrants, the Nona often flavors her speech with basic Italian phrases and words such as greetings. When sent to her room after being denied her nth serving of food, she angrily mutters "Andiamo! Andiamo!" as she repeats back in Italian what her relatives told her in Spanish --"¡Vamos, Nona, a su cuarto!".

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* Croatian hard Eurodance group Karma have "Amore Mio"("my love"), in which the TitleDrop is the only Italian lyric, the rest being in their native language.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': The official name of Unhooded Hyness's battle theme is "La Follia d'amore" (The Madness of Love).

* Izumi from ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' uses Italian exclamations from time to time. She moved to Italy at a young age, and had only recently come back to Japan. [[CatchPhrase Commozione~]]

%%* ''Anime/TokyoGhoul'': Tsukiyama. That is all.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' falls into this on occasion, understandable since the Roman Catholic Church is a major antagonist: "Croce di Pietro" (St. Peter's Cross), "La Regina del Mare Adriatico" (The Queen of the Adriatic Sea), and "La Persona Superiore a Dio" (The Person Above God) have all been thrown around here and there.

* In a way, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Malta}} Maltese]] language is UsefulNotes/{{Tunisia}}n Arabic sprinkled with Italian (and a dose of English for good measure).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':

* Pepe the Italian circus flea from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' randomly peppers his speech with words and phrases from his native language.

* Anyone who's lived in Spain may (or may not) be familiar with "Los Televicentes", one of a number of animated "time to go to bed" [=PSAs=]. At one point during the song, "Don Pepe" (who the talking parrot calls "Don Pepino"; itself an example) says "Io sono el nuovo presentatore Don Pepe"[[note]]"I am the / your new host Don Pepe". In Spanish, it would be "Yo soy el nueve presentador...".[[/note]], which is mostly correct, except for the "el" (it should be "il"); somewhat justified since the Spanish speaking viewers would likely figure it out anyway, since some parts of Italian aren't all that different from Spanish.

* And then of course there are [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] and his brother Luigi. Hilariously so in the ''Mario & Luigi'' games where, when talking to non-speaking [=NPCs=], they speak Italian-sounding gibberish. Luigi tends to use more Gratuitous Italian than his brother, predominantly words like Ciao! and Grazie! in the likes of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', etc. In ''VideoGame/FortuneStreet'' Mario will actually use "brava" instead of "bravo" when congratulating a female Mii.

* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' have most of their enemies named after the Italian tongue, just because. There are the PigMan enemies called "'''Porco'''", living [[DemBones skeletons]] named "'''Osso'''", {{Man Eating Plant}}s called "'''Erba'''", pumpkin-headed StingyJack enemies called "'''Zucca'''", robots with PowerPincers called "'''Forbici'''", feline-esque ClassicalChimera enemies called "'''Gatto'''", a [[OurManticoresAreSpinier manticore]] boss called "'''Leone'''", [[LivingShadow shadow clones]] and evil counterparts of the heroes called "'''Falso'''", the list just keep going on and on and on.
* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', the demon Horkos will tend to yell "[[LargeHam BUONO]]!" no matter whether he's being hit or if he's eating.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'', Maya likes saying "Ciao!" and "Grazie!" a lot.

* In a way, the Maltese language is Arabic sprinkled with Italian.

* The official motto of the US State of Maryland eschews [[PretentiousLatinMotto Latin]] for Italian--the only Italian motto in the country--but it is not merely Italian, but ''archaic'' Italian: ''Fatti maschii, parole femine''. (In modern Italian, it would be spelled ''maschi'' and ''femmine''.) It literally means "Manly deeds, womanly words," although the official translation is "Strong deeds, gentle words," which for those playing along at home is basically the same as "[[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Speak softly and]] CarryABigStick."

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic parodies this in his song "Lasagna" which names many Italian foods while rattling off Italian phrases.

* The opening theme to the original ''Anime/RecordOfLodossWar'' OVA, "Adesso e Fortuna" features gratutitious Italian in not just the title, but also within the lyrics, as "io sono prigionera" shows up multiple times in the chorus. Both English versions of the song keep the Italian as is.

* In a way, the Maltese language is Arabic sprinkled with Italian.

* Japanese took the Italian as their idol in soccer, and is very likely to integrate Italian in their names. Just check Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Football_clubs_in_Japan list of Japanese pro soccer teams]] and how many were inspired by the Italian language...

* Creator/MarieCorelli was an expert at many things, but language wasn't one of them. She was (or said she was) half Italian but spent most of her childhood in England, then was educated in France. She was a concert pianist, so probably most of her knowledge of Italian came from her musical education. Her attempts to use the language in her writing are laughably bad.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Unhooded Hyness's battle theme is commonly known as 'La Follia d'Amore' (The Madness of Love).

-->(Waitress, hamming it up with deliberate UpToEleven) ''As Sebastiane's mother would say, mangia!''