History Main / TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires

* In one episode of ''Series/{{House}}'', Dr. House surprises every Brazilian to ever watch the show by saying "castanhas-do-Pará" perfectly well in actual Portuguese instead of a Spanish mimic of Portuguese, but then this leads to him diagnosing his patient to be in Brazil because he was somewhere where Carnival was celebrated for a month. Not only is Carnival only celebrated for part of a week in Brazil (or one whole week in the case of the city of Salvador), it would be the rough equivalent of saying the United States doesn't function during the month of Thanksgiving.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiDevilSurvivor2'', Ronaldo Kuriki, the Japanese/Brazilian playable character who is against JP's and its leader Yamato Hotsuin, once greets the main character with "Buenos Dias" when he should be talking Portuguese.

* In a loose sense, this trope used to be true in the 16th-17th centuries, as Brazil was technically part of the Spanish Empire for almost a century due to King UsefulNotes/PhilipII of Spain having inherited the Portuguese Empire too. However, even back then, both empires' overseas branches were run as their original, separate entities, meaning there was little cultural overlap among them other than their general Iberian hue.

** Sunspot of the Comicbook/NewMutants also used to be a victim of the aforementioned "[=daCosta=]" junction, until the writers amended it in recent years. For an extra serving of this trope, his powers first manifested while he was playing soccer. He was originally established to be African-Brazilian, but at some point "everyone in South America is Latino" kicked in and he's been shown in various shades of AmbigiouslyBrown.

** Sunspot of the Comicbook/NewMutants also used to be a victim of the aforementioned "[=daCosta=]" junction, until the writers amended it in recent years. For an extra serving of this trope, his powers first manifested while he was playing soccer.

||Women have very little freedom, are subservient to their husbands and fathers, do not work outside the home, and are treated as second-class citizens, while men hold misogynistic views. ||Women also are regarded as equals to men. They have the right to vote and participate in government. Women work in all sorts of occupations and many women go to college. This is highly dependent on wealth and social class, as the more upper class women are more likely to have the same freedoms as men, while lower class women tend to be trapped in a cycle of dependence on men. Brazil is traditionally a patriarchal culture (for example if a husband killed his wife, it was considered okay if he could prove she was cheating on him. This is no longer true), but this is changing, although domestic violence is still a serious problem, to the point [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Maria_da_Penha specific laws]] were established in an attempt to curb the issue. ||

Some country somewhere in LatinLand; the spoken language is Spanish, like everywhere in Latin Land. It is composed of only one state (which is overrun by the Amazon forest) called São Paulo, whose capital is Rio de Janeiro, but it is also called Buenos Aires. Every Brazilian woman is stunningly beautiful, and has a beautiful ''bunda'' (that's Spanish for "ass", right?).[[note]]Not exactly. It indeed means ass, but in the Brazilian dialect of Portuguese, not Spanish. [[LampshadeHanging But hey, it's not like a whole continent would speak more than one language, riiiight...?]][[/note]] By the way, whenever you're in a Brazilian city, it'll be a ''favela'' (what Brazilian people call shantytowns), which is a place that makes the industrial era slums look like bright {{Utopia}}s; there are [[MisplacedWildlife monkeys in the city streets]], and large cats, and alligators ... and the occasional anaconda. The state has no military whatsoever, [[ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow or schools]]; civilization is at a never-ending war against the natives. Finally, everyone is junkyard poor.

* A rather bizarre eample in ''Film/NothingButTrouble'': the main character's clients are a couple of obnoxious sibling "Brazillionaires" named Fausto and Renalda Squiriniszu (a surname that is not only neither Portuguese nor Spanish, but doesn't seem to even ''exist''). They speak Spanish, not Portuguese, and a FreezeFrameBonus shows their passports to be ''Argentinian'', yet at the end of the movie, they are seen safely at their mansion in Rio.

* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has a broadcast showing Rio getting hit by an earthquake (complete with [[MonumentalDamage the Cristo Redentor's destruction]]). They namedrop an actual news station, [[Creator/{{Globo}} Globo News]]. But the broadcaster [[MisplacedAccent speaks with a Portuguese accent!]] Due to HollywoodScience, let's not delve into the fact that Brazil is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg far from any earthquake zone.]]

* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' features the very powerful Brazilian national team The Kingdom. The only team in FFI (that's their World Cup) to sweep 4-0 in their corresponding blocks. Whose captain Mac Roniejo has a special move named "Strike Samba" that obviously shouts "CARNIVAL!" and their special tactic being the Amazon River itself (or at least a humongous wave from the Amazon). And then there's the dark side. They were blackmailed by the BigBad Garshield to work for him, since their families are extremely poor. The catch: win the FFI or get sent straight back to the favelas. However, everything else is averted. Their looks are obviously Brazilian, especially the goalkeeper Falcao da Silva (a capoerista on top of that.)

-->-- '''Guga Chacra''', "[[https://www.estadao.com.br/internacional/gustavo-chacra/de-ny-a-brasilia-o-ocidente-nao-considera-o-brasil-ocidental/ From NY to Brasília - The West does not consider Brazil Western.]]", ''Estadão''

-->-- '''Guga Chacra'''

* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' revolves around a Hispanic-American sailor who was wrongly convicted of rape after being mistaken with a Brazilian sailor, due to the similarity of their uniforms. The Brazilian sailor has the Spanish name Javier instead of the Portuguese variant, Xavier. [[TranslationConvention And he speaks English with his Brazilian buddy, for that matter]]. [[note]]This can be TruthInTelevision sometimes. While Spanish and Portuguese has a lot in common, two native speakers of each language could still have some considerable difficulties to understand each other and opt to speak in a language that both know better, such as English.[[/note]]

* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' revolves around a Hispanic-American sailor who was wrongly convicted of rape after being mistaken with a Brazilian sailor, due to the similarity of their uniforms. The Brazilian sailor has the Spanish name Javier instead of the Portuguese variant, Xavier. [[AliensSpeakingEnglish And he speaks English with his Brazilian buddy, for that matter]].

** This might be because [[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0109351/locations it was filmed in Mexico]].

* Averted[[note]]Subverted? Avoided?[[/note]], in the movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', which seems to take place in a future Britain.

*** And it's named for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikutCJd13cM song]], not the country (the song is ''about'' Brazil though).

* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has a broadcast showing Rio getting hit by an earthquake (complete with [[MonumentalDamage the Cristo Redentor's destruction]]). They namedrop an actual news station, [[Creator/{{Globo}} Globo News]]. But the broadcaster [[MisplacedAccent speaks with a Portuguese accent!]] (but due to HollywoodScience, let's not delve into the fact that Brazil is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg far from any earthquake zone]]).

** In ''Street Fighter III: Second Impact'', the Brazilian stage is set in "SÃO PAURO" (''sic''). The stage itself is a common street, where there is an overturned truck written "CEAZA" (it should be "CEASA"), loaded with bananas[[note]]CEASA stands for Companhia Estadual de Abastecimento, Sociedade Anônima - roughly translated as State Company of Supply, Inc. Most Brazilian states have one. It is the company that supplies fruit, vegetables and other agro products to public fairs and supermarkets, besides selling them to the final consumer. So, if you see one of these trucks, it's actually likely to be loaded with bananas, but also with melons, pineapples, lettuce, carrots etc. Also, in São Paulo, it hasn't actually been called CEASA for some 50 years.[[/note]]. Obviously, there are monkeys all over the place.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' zig-zags this with the randomly generated Brazilian soldiers. They all come in the same "Hispanic" race setting and have Spanish-sounding names, but speak English[[note]]as the game doesn't feature Portuguese voice acting by default[[/note]].

* Zigzagged by WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfwAVniXNc Brazil]]. Surprisingly accurate, but still being highly satirical.

** "Blame It On Lisa" is full of these, deliberately used for humorous effect in its portrayal of Brazil, however they did lampshade one of the popular misconceptions by having Bart painstakingly learn Spanish for the trip... only to learn Brazilians speak Portuguese. A few things were brilliantly correct, such as the steakhouse with meat in swords and the colorful currency ("Ahh, look at all that pink and purple".[[note]]Respectively R$ 10 and R$ 5; other banknotes include R$ 2 (blue), R$ 20 (yellow), R$ 50 (amber), R$ 100 (teal) and R$ 200 (white, which was introduced in 2021); the only green Brazilian Real banknote was R$ 1, which has since been discontinued[[/note]] "Our money sure is gay"). At least they don't specifically use the Amazon, but the jungles that actually are in Rio.

* At least one airing of ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'' on Disney Junior had this in ''reverse'' when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urpLN9YlSyo they accidentally used the Brazilian Portuguese dub for the Spanish SAP track]].

||Animals roam free in the cities. ||You're as likely to find a monkey in São Paulo as you are to find a deer in New York City. And even then, said monkeys are usually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_marmoset marmosets]], which are closer to American squirrels in terms of size and behavior.||

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' does that as well during Bella and Edward honeymoon trip, where we find out that the Cullens have an island in Rio de Janeiro, where you arrive through the west bit of the city, then take a boat, in spite of the fact that they should have gone south from the airport to reach the sea. No one was surprised that Creator/StephenieMeyer didn't know how to use Google Maps, but then it becomes even better when Edward decided to go back to the mainland to hunt. Since, you know, it's a forest out there and there must be something that a vegetarian vampire could eat. Except there ''isn't'' anything big enough for him (a stray [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara capybara]] would be a lucky find...). One wonders if he attacked the city zoo.

* It becomes better in ''VideoGame/MonsterMaulers'' because the Brazilian boss is a giant ''EenieMeenieMinyMoai'' Statue!!!

* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has a broadcast showing Rio getting hit by an earthquake (complete with [[MonumentalDamage the Cristo Redentor's destruction]]). They namedrop an actual news station, Globo News. But the broadcaster [[MisplacedAccent speaks with a Portuguese accent!]] (but due to HollywoodScience, let's not delve into the fact that Brazil is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg far from any earthquake zone]]).

* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has a broadcast showing Rio getting hit by an earthquake (complete with [[MonumentalDamage the Cristo Redentor's destruction]]). They namedrop an actual news station, Globo News. But the broadcaster speaks with a Portuguese accent! (but due to HollywoodScience, let's not delve into the fact that Brazil is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg far from any earthquake zone]]).

* For an anime that surely shows a love for Brazil, ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' [[CriticalResearchFailure fails miserably]] in several key basic information about the country. Surely you can't blame the Japanese for giving Japanese names to everybody, but then they try to balance it out with Brazilian surnames but the surnames don't make any sense as surnames. The anime can't even get something as basic as some of its local treats right by their local names. "Água de coco" (coconut water) is called "suco de coco" (coconut juice) and "caldo de cana" (sugarcane syrup) is called "suco de cana" (sugarcane juice) on the street market signs, when absolutely no Brazilian would call then that way.

* ''Film/MiamiVice'' features Ciudad Del Este, a cosmopolitan boomtown on the tri-border area between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Exactly the kind of city a geography-challenged screenwriter could have made up, [[AluminumChristmasTrees but it really exists.]]

** In the sequel, various cities Americans might not know are shown during the TravelMontage. On the other hand, there's some enforced TelevisionGeography as various parts of the Amazon are mixed close together.

** One of the early stages are on warehouses of Porto Alegre. It appears that the designers found out there are other cities on Brazil, besides Rio and Buenos Aires. The architecture of the warehouse even looks familiar to a Brazilian's eye! But then a eerie feeling settles in. Why there are posters about coffee plastered on every wall? These buildings are owned by a coffee trading comnpany? In Porto Alegre? Coffee still is a important export of Brazil, but it never was in Rio Grande do Sul (the state where Porto Alegre is the capital). It feels like breaking in a exports office in Marseilles and finding stacks of marketing material for calvados, and not a single one about pastis. Strange.

* ''WesternAnimation/FudencioESeusAmigos'': In the episode "Loira à Rodo" (a special for the 2010 South Africa World Cup), a korean dictator threatens to explode the capital of Brazil, but the brazilian characters don't mind because, well, he thinks [[TitleDrop the capital of Brazil is Buenos Aires]]. He explodes the city and gets arrested immediately after that.

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