History PlayingWith / EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench

** Instead of coming off as either a BoisterousBruiser or TheIdiotFromOsaka, Flash somehow manages to invoke a different reaction: The [[RatedMForManly epitome of masculinity]] or [[GayCowboy someone who's a regular at Ram Ranch]] (The latter is due to the Kansai accent being translated into a drawl in America).

** [[TheBigGuy Flash]] speaks with a thick KansaiRegionalAccent to act big and tough. Reactions may vary from [[BoisterousBruiser actually scaring people]] or [[TheIdiotFromOsaka making a dumbass out of himself]].

** Instead of coming off as either a BoisterousBruiser or TheIdiotFromOsaka, Flash somehow manages to invoke a different reaction: The [[RatedMForManly epitome of masculinity]] or [[GayCowboy someone who's a regular at Ram Ranch]] (The latter is due to the KansaiRegionalAccent being translated into a drawl in America).

* '''Inverted''': Bob can't see how anyone finds French, the language of snooty waiters, remotely sexy. But the sound of German makes him think of that glorious summer he spent with [[NationalStereotypes Hilda, the busty pigtailed milkmaid...]]

** Alice is actually being extremely pissed with [[AbhorrentAdmirer Bob's insistent attitude]], so she suddenly lapses in a [[ForeignCussWord string of weird and convoluted insults in her native French]]. And since Bob [[CompletelyMissingThePoint didn't understand a word of what she said]], he now believes that she has just said something incredibly romantic, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper like a declaration of undying love!]]

** Bob snaps at people in German to get their attention.

** Bob knows that people naturally associate a German accent with malice, for [[AllGermansAreNazis some]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII reason]]...

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* Alice tries to speak French so she can seduce Bob, but she fails miserably. Turns out Bob really dislikes the French.
* Bob is angry at someone and yells at them in German. Said someone is a German-speaker (or native) who responds with "[[FlatWhat Ernsthaft?]]"

* Her feelings hurt, she reverts to her native Russian to hurl abuse at Bob. [[YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry He's instantly captivated.]]
* So he, in response, tries Russian. The German speaker then gets into an argument.

* '''Subverted''': Alice tries to speak French so she can seduce Bob, but she fails miserably. Turns out Bob really dislikes the French.
* '''Double Subverted''': Her feelings hurt, she reverts to her native Russian to hurl abuse at Bob. [[YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry He's instantly captivated.]]

* '''Defied''': Translation: "I am not trying to chat you up! I'm very very angry! ''Stop smiling like that!!''"

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'''Basic Trope''': Everything is sexier if said in French.
* '''Straight''': Alice uses French language to seduce Bob.
* '''Exaggerated''': Everything Alice says is in French. As a result, she's the most pursued female in the story.
* '''Justified''':
** English is Alice's second language, so Alice is more used to talking in French.
** Alice's profession requires her to speak French a lot, so it's a habit that she takes advantage of.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is French, but Bob thinks that using English is more effective to seduce him.
* '''Subverted''': Alice tries to speak French so she can seduce Bob, but she fails miserably.
* '''Double Subverted''': But that was a joke, and Alice really sound sexier when speaking French.

* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't speak French to seduce Bob.

* '''Invoked''': Alice takes French lessons to sound sexier in purpose.
* '''Exploited''': After Bob finds out that Alice speaks French, he asks her help to write a letter to his favorite French actor / actress.
* '''Defied''': Alice does not know French.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Justified''': English is Alice's second language, so Alice is more used to talking in French.

* '''Parodied''': Every time a man hears a word in French said by a woman, they immediately fall in love with her.

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Everything Alice says is in French.