Apostando com a tradução: uma análise tradutória dos nomes de bosses no jogo Cuphead

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the proper name translation of seventeen bosses from the game Cuphead: Don't Deal With the Devil, in order to investigate how different translation strategies were used on these anthroponyms, their impact on the cartoonish atmosphere of the game and on the localization itself. As to fulfill said objectives, we used the concepts of conventional and loaded names (Hermans 1988), transcreation (O'Hagan; Mangiron, 2013), domestication and foreignization (2008 [1995]), as well as the Skopos Theory (Vermeer, 1978), all in conjunction with the qualitative methodology (Minayo, 2009). Based on them, we observed a predominant use of transcreation and domestication in the translation process, with the substitution of the original motivations and references for others that could appeal more to the public inserted in the Brazil locale, thus preserving the creative universe of the game while recreating it in an equally rich manner.