History Main / BadExportForYou

** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' likewise had part of each episode cut to accomodate longer intro and ending credits, as well as a tacked on ending segment starring the Arms Microns (i.e. the Transformers' weapons that somehow became sentient without their wielders being aware of their sentience... despite just about all weapons in the show being built-in). Generally it was establishing shots that were cut, but sometimes sequences were cut as well. The series was famously not aired in its totality in Japan: the second season's finale was rewritten so that instead of ending with the apparent death of Optimus Prime, [[NoEnding he instead dramatically faced Megatron]] before the fade to black. The third season (Beast Hunters) and the SeriesFinale movie ''Predacons Rising'' was not aired in Japan at all, and were instead replaced with a Japan-original web series called Transformers: Go that carried over almost ''nothing'' from Prime. To date, neither Beast Hunters nor Rise of the Predacons have been made available in Japan.
** It could be argued that ''all'' Transformers series which were localized under Yoshikazu Iwanami (''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', ''Animated'', ''Prime'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'') were bad exports, since they were altered to the point of becoming almost GagDub versions of the originals. Among other things, characters would often [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] (in an early episode of ''Prime'', what was meant to be a tense moment where a damaged piece of equipment was accidentally brought to life and was creeping up on the Autobot Ratchet was undercut by Ratchet grumbling at the audience to stop yelling, "Look out behind you!"), make references to (Japanese) current events or pop culture such as timeslots or other shows (in ''Animated'', there was at least one occasion where the Autobots joked about taking the timeslot of ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueFire'', a fellow robot-themed {{Toku}} show also made by [=TakaraTomy=]), or gained exaggerated [[VerbalTic vocal tic]]s (in ''Beast Wars'', ''everyone'' had some sort of tic, like Blackarachnia's habit of hissing "Shaa!" or Silverbolt ending almost all his sentences with an exaggerated "de-su"). This unfortunately undercut the mature storytelling of those series and helped cement Transformers as "for little kids", which might in turn explain Transformers' greatly diminished popularity in Japan.

*** The company that's currently releasing them (Classic Media) is making its own extras for the American releases to make up for this. As mentioned, though, a lot of the films were unavailable in their original Japanese versions -- including the undeniably classic original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' -- until ''2004 or later'', well after the American market for subtitled foreign films came in vogue.

* The newly-formed Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany acquired the North American rights to the WesternAnimation/{{The Magic Roundabout|2005}} movie. Poised to release it in a market unfamiliar with the original show, the studio took an unusual route and did a SameLanguageDub of the film. The plot was entirely the same, but now it featured an American AllStarCast, with only Music/KylieMinogue and Creator/IanMcKellen retaining their roles. What changed most dramatically is the dialogue, courtesy of a rewritten script by Creator/ButchHartman. Not only was a narration from Creator/JudiDench added and all British slang removed, but almost all of the jokes were rewritten, with most of them centering around American-centric pop culture references. The uniqueness of this version, renamed to ''Doogal'', makes it a curiosity to this day, though the approach did not make the film a success in North America.

* Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles:

* It took centuries for Creator/WilliamShakespeare to become popular in France, as his works were only available in bowdlerized translations and even the plays were staged in [[http://www.economist.com/node/3809488 heavily butchered form]]. In fact, it was only with André Gide's translation of ''Hamlet'' in 1946 that the Bard became truly respected there.

* It took centuries for Creator/WilliamShakespeare to become popular in France, as his works were only available in bowdlerized translations and even the plays were staged in [[http://www.economist.com/node/3809488 heavily butchered form]]. In fact, it was only with André Gide's translation of ''Hamlet'' in 1946 that the Bard became truly respected there.

* It took centuries for
Creator/WilliamShakespeare to become popular in France, as his works were only available in bowdlerized translations and even the plays were staged in [[http://www.economist.com/node/3809488 heavily butchered form]]. In fact, it was only with André Gide's translation of ''Hamlet'' in 1946 that the Bard became truly respected there.

* ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'': In many, many other countries with stricter censorship codes, the sex scenes were completely cut while scenes with any visible penis used a earlier take where the CGI penises had not yet been rendered into the scenes (yes, most of the penises were CGI) or in the rare case of real penises, used alternative takes with the penis not visible, this despite the film already being rated to be for adults only to begin with. On the other hand, this is a better option compared to BannedInChina in many ways, and the excessive violence, expletives and crude humor are still left in uncut.

* The European and Australian Blu-ray releases of ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' includes two featurettes, "On the Set with Walter" and "Inside the Gulag", both of which are not on the American and Southeast Asian Blu-ray releases.

* The newly-formed The Weinstein Company acquired the North American rights to the WesternAnimation/{{The Magic Roundabout|2005}} movie. Poised to release it in a market unfamiliar with the original show, the studio took an unusual route and did a Same Language Dub of the film. The plot was entirely the same, but now it featured an American All-Star Cast, with only Kylie Minogue and Ian McKellen retaining their roles. What changed most dramatically is the dialogue, courtesy of a rewritten script by Butch Hartman. Not only was a narration from Judi Dench added and all British slang removed, but almost all of the jokes were rewritten, with most of them centering around American-centric pop culture references. The uniqueness of this version, renamed to Doogal, makes it a curiosity to this day, though the approach did not make the film a success in North America.

* The "international" (read: Australian) version of Series/DieSendungMitDerMaus seems to have various segments lobbed off and only focuses on the "how it's made" segments and the animated segments featuring the mouse and his friends. Material licensed from other studios, such as the ''Captain Bluebear'' segment and the ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' segment, does not air on that version of the show. Understandable since that they are third-party segments and may have licensing clauses that prevent them from being resold as part of another show, as they may be aired as either part of a different show or on their own in other countries. Additionally, none of the musical segments were ever exported either, although [[Music/SchnappiDasKleineKrokodil Schnappi]] made it worldwide [[MemeticMutation by different means]].

* Every ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' release in the US by Creator/ShoutFactory (And by extension, ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'') would fall into this, mostly by picture quality, as these releases are mostly the Toei Channel broadcast masters (i.e. strong and/or strobe lights being dimmed or blurred) like it's the best US fans will ever get, as opposed to the original Japanese domestic releases, which has none of the said edits. Also mostly to discouage reverse importing as the US sets are nearly the same prices Japanese consumers would get ''for 3 to 4 episodes on their [=DVD=] volumes.''

*** A particularly potent example is the ''Transformers Prime'' episode "[[Recap/TransformersPrimeS1E12Predatory Predatory]]", which introduced the [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]], [[CompleteMonster murderous]] Airarchnid and was a slasher movie/ Predator parody with the Autobots' human ally Jack having to use his wits to stay alive. The Japanese version changes Airachnid into a [[WesternAnimation/PepeLePew Pepe Le Pew]]-type who adores handsome boys like Jack and wants to "keep" him, going so far as to edit out scenes that showed a [[CreepySouvenir wall of trophies]] on her ship that was part of the Predator homage. While the edit could be justified by the need to cut scenes in order to accommodate longer intro and ending credits, the immense change in tone was so jarring that when some of the Japanese voice actors were shown the original they were stunned to see the difference.

** Capitol removed tracks from the band's albums and added singles and filler to them so that they could release 'new' albums later on. A particular JustForFun/{{egregious}} example of their policy is taking Side 1 of the UK version of ''Music/{{Help}}'', interspersing its tracks with the orchestral score from [[Film/{{Help}} the film]] (not performed by The Beatles), and releasing this as the US version of ''Help!''. With the second side of ''Help!'', they spread the 7 tracks amongst three albums: ''Beatles VI'', ''Music/{{Rubber Soul}}'' (US), and ''Yesterday And Today''. The Beatles were so annoyed with the latter that they insisted Capitol stopped the process. The only US album released later was ''Hey Jude'', which was a compilation of non-album singles and the previously soundtrack only (in the US) "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better". This was released as a stopgap whilst the band worked on Abbey Road (they had promised Capitol ''Music/LetItBe'', then called ''Get Back'', but weren't satisfied with it at the time).[[note]]It certainly didn't help that Capitol put the executive who'd rejected four of the first five Beatles singles for American release in charge of their albums.[[/note]]

** Like the My Little Pony example above, the Japanese version of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' had a longer intro and closing credits, plus bookending live-action segments featuring the [[JustForPun Otoboto]] family. This necessicated the removal of about 3 minutes per episode to fit the broadcasting time. In addition, the Japanese [=DVDs=] used the broadcast format (a cropped-down fullscreen format) rather than the widescreen format used by Shout!Factory's DVD releases or on several streaming services. Worse, the Otoboto Family segements were completely omitted from the DVD releases, meaning that BreakingTheFourthWall jokes that characters would make in the show sometimes had either [[OrphanedSetup no punchline]] or [[OrphanedPunchline no setup]].

A BadExportForYou can take on many forms. The work's text, when localized into a target language, may [[TranslationTrainWreck be completely incomprehensible]]. It also used to be a common practice when translating {{manga}} to mirror the pages horizontally,[[note]]because Japanese is read right-to-left and English and most Western languages left-to-right[[/note]] which can cause errors with text that is part of art. Several major scenes, game levels, {{Player Character}}s, and other major features of the original version of the work may have vanished or [[DummiedOut ended up disabled]]. A GameBreakingBug or two may turn up only in exported versions. [[DifficultyByRegion A video game may be made more unfair to play internationally]]. And last, but not least, the price of obtaining the work may be unreasonably higher in certain countries compared to its home country.

* Creator/{{Fox}} thought the ending of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' was too depressing, so they removed the song "Superheroes" and the DarkReprise of "Science Fiction[=/=]Double Feature" when released in America[[note]], resulting in a very bad transition, and the end credits plays a reprise of "The Time Warp" instead[[/note]]. Fortunately, 1990's-on home video releases would reinstate them, and DVD[=/=]Blu-ray issuing include both the original UK and the shortened US versions.

* The only ''Westernanimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' DVD to be released in '''any language other than English''' was ''Powerpuff Bluff''.

** The Bandai Asia release of the ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' toyline includes a Linkrun that just lights up and makes noise and a light-up Chiffon plush doll instead of the more advanced toys Japan and Korea got.

** Speaking of Disney, Disney Europe was notorious for this during the 2001-2003 era when many of the European Disney [=DVDs=] had many bonus features changed or removed, and some behind the scenes bonus features having their running times cut down.

* It took centuries for Creator/WilliamShakespeare to become popular in France, as his works were only available in bowdlerized translations and even the plays were staged in [[http://www.economist.com/node/3809488 heavily butchered form]]. In fact, it was only with André Gide's translation of ''Hamlet'' in 1946 that the Bard became truly respected there.

* The international 4K release of ''Film/CitizenKane'' was done by Warner Bros. instead of Criterion, and is missing a massive amount of supplements that the US and Canada got, such as a third commentary track and interviews with surviving (as of 1992) cast and crew members.

* Samsung's Galaxy S series and Galaxy Note series flagship smartphones sold in select regions such as the United States, China and Japan use Qualcomm's Snapdragon system on a chip while those sold in the rest of the world use Samsung's homegrown Exynos [=SoC=]. Samsung has been stagnating with its Exynos [=SoCs=] that (probably because of constant legal battles with Qualcomm) now perform much worse than their Snapdragon counterparts according to synthetic benchmarks like [=AnTuTu=]. Things came to a head in 2020 when the Exynos 990 suffered numerous issues such as overheating, throttling and battery drain, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_4NHHgwQ resulting in even budget phones]] [[EpicFail outperforming the flagships with the Exynos 990.]] Understandably, a number of people who game on their phones (and some who don't) and are not in a Snapdragon region are angry and wish Samsung would just drop Exynos to end the madness and use Snapdragon instead. While Samsung's [[https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsungs-statement-exynos-990-vs-snapdragon-865-unconvincing/ official statement]] [[BlatantLies claims otherwise]], the fact that its home country South Korea, traditionally an Exynos region, switched to Snapdragon for the S20 and Note 20 series, did not go unnoticed. It is quite easy to forget that the roles were reversed at one point; the Snapdragon 820 was considered inferior to the Exynos 8890 for the Galaxy S7 and Note 7, and the year before that, the Snapdragon 810 performed so poorly that Samsung averted this and shipped its phones with Exynos worldwide.

* The 2007 Hungarian DVD of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. Only the film's speaking parts were dubbed, but the song subtitles included on the disk are inconsistent with the dub and awkwardly translated in general, leading to some characters having different names in the spoken dialogue and in the subtitles. At least one line ("Uh-oh. I hope there's still time to set things right.") is missing and Jack just flaps his mouth silently, and one exchange ("What are you going to do?" - "I'm gonna do the best I can.") was left in English with no subtitles. To add further annoyance, the DVD was advertised as containing a Russian language track, one of the film's more interesting international dubs, but in reality it has the original English track on it twice. TV airings prior to 2010 did feature song subtitles written to match the dubbed dialogue (it's unknown why they didn't put these on the DVD), but they were in later years supplanted by the clunky DVD subs. At least certain TV showings fixed things like the missing line and the un-subbed exchange.

* In 2014, Creator/{{Disney}} has canceled plans for future Blu-ray releases for the Hungarian market and parts of the neighboring Central/East European region, including Creator/{{Pixar}} and [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel]] productions, though ''Franchise/StarWars'' is exempt. The reasoning is that Blu-ray releases typically sell very poorly there due to their steep prices (and suspected piracy). ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' was the first to be hit with this, with most further Disney films only coming out on DVD, often containing no bonus material. Only a handful of exceptions have been made since (''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''), but the Blu-ray export "ban" still holds otherwise.

* The Italian edition of the ''Franchise/SuperMario'' ''Encyclopedia'' is mostly good, except for two points. Hammer Bros are referred as "Martellone Bros." (The Italian name for the Sledge Bros., which are referred with their English name in the book) instead of the usual "Martelkoopa", and all the translation captions[[note]]Game screencaps in the book are taken from the Japanese version with captions translating underneath in any other version[[/note]] are either missing, filled with a "[=TRANSLATION GOES HERE=]" placeholder or ''in German''.

** The first Croatian dub, consisting of the first two seasons that aired on HRT, was hit with this badly due to it being of exceptionally poor quality. In addition to a small cast, unfitting voice actors and inadequate acting, the dubbing studio split each episode in half (artificially increasing the number of episodes as a result), directly lifted assets from the show's Serbian dubs, resorted to using one single person for most of the songs, and even [[EpicFail made countless, borderline serious audio mistakes]][[note]]Some examples being lines of dialogue that are [[BrokenRecord needlessly looped]] [[HongKongDub or missing]], random sound effects playing out of nowhere, and one of the recaps consisting of irrelevant line recordings cobbled together to form dialogue that makes absolutely no sense[[/note]]. Because of these issues, the show eventually received a new dub on a different channel, only porting over the lyrics of the opening song from the original Croatian dub.

* A majority of the [[Creator/WarnerBros Warner Bros. Animation]] library produced from 2002-2009 (shows like ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'', ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', among many others) was animated in widescreen, but since these shows aired on children's television blocks and channels, they are almost always cropped to 4:3, whether airing in reruns or on DVD releases. Some of the shows and DirectToVideo films of this era have been released in their original aspect ratio on Blu-ray, and most of these are available legally in Digital HD, but if one prefers physical media, they've got the short end of the stick.