History DubNameChange / EnglishToForeignAlbanianThroughIndonesian

[[folder:English To Catalan]]

** Puss in Boots to "Le Chat Potté" (modified from "Le Chat Botté" to explain the "P" he carves on the tree; however, it literally means "The Potted Cat" or "The Lucky Cat" (from the French expression ''"avoir du pot"'' meaning "being lucky" rather than "Puss in Boots").
*** [[{{Woolseyism}} Additionally]], it gives the character a PunnyName, Chat Potté sounding exactly like ''chapeauté'' ([[MeaningfulName "with a hat on"]], as opposed to the French version of Puss in Boots, ''Le Chat Botté'', "with boots on").

** Otto Mann to Otto Bus (France only; a play on "autobus", which is what "bus" is short for)

*** Darth (in general) to Dark ("Dark Maul", etc.) Even extends to parodies (see ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'' below). This is probably because the "th" sound does not exist in French and because [[GratuitousEnglish everyone knows what "Dark" means.]]

** Chewbacca to Chiktabba (Somehow, they believed that the original name had something to do with "chew tobacco", don' ask.)[[note]]"Chew tobacco" = "Chique tabac"[[/note]]. That name is only used once by Obi-Wan in the dub of ''A New Hope'' at the Cantina, he's called Chewbacca or Chewie for the rest of the films just like in the original version.

** Jabba the Hutt to Jabba le Forestier ("Forestier" means "forest-dweller"). Only used once by C-3PO in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', the rest of the time he's referred to as "Jabba le Hutt" (Jabba the Hutt).

** Leavo to Fortgeho ("fortgehen - to go away")

** Tom Marvolo Riddle to Tom Vorlost Riddle (to make the "I am Lord Voldemort"-anagram work; it becomes "ist Lord Voldemort")
** Rita Skeeter to Rita Kimmkorn ("Kimme und Korn" - "notch and bead sighter")

** Elves to 'Elben'. Here again, Tolkien himself had a hand in this. The usual German translation for ''elves'' is ''Elfen''. But like its English counterpart [[AdaptationDisplacement (before LotR)]], the image it evokes was more that of pixie- or fairy-like creatures, an association Tolkien desired to avoid (for the same reason he wrote of "dwarves" instead of "dwarfs"), supposing instead the older, less-used term Alb(en)/Elb(en) for the translation. [[note]]He probably went with ''Elben'' versus the more "classical" Germanic word ''Alben'' because ''Alben'' still has the rather spooky connotations of TheFairFolk; the German ''Albtraum'', which literally translates as "elf-dream," means "nightmare."[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts''

* The Finnish dub of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' swapped out the characters' names for [[MeaningfulName something more descriptive]]. Among others, Sulley is called Tarmo Karvanen ("karvainen" meaning "hairy"), Mike is called Masi Pallopää ("pallopää" meaning "ball head"), Randall is called Räähkä ("ruffian"), and Waternoose is called Rumilus ("ugly thing").

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' (France only):

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', in the Taiwanese dub:
** Spongebob Squarepants to Hǎimián Bǎobǎo (海綿寶寶, "Sponge Baby")

** Sir Topham Hatt - Gospodin Debeljkić

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':