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* During the World Tour episodes of ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Digimon]]'', Ken and Matt are assisted by a young Mexican [=DigiDestined.=] In Japan, her name is Chichos, which is one later away from Chicho, the diminutive of the Spanish [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign male name]] Narciso. (On its own, it really isn't a name or meaningful at all, and it's ''also'' one letter away from "chicos," meaning ''"boys."'') The English and Spaniard dubs renamed her Rosa, and the Latin American dub Guadalupe (a stereotypical Mexican girl name if there is one).
** In the English dub of the same arc, the Australian boy Dingo becomes Derek.

* In the American English dub of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' episode "Princess Karaoke", [=ShogunGekomon=] is incorrectly referred to as Shogunmon. The French dub, which dubbed over the US, corrects his name to [=ShogunGekomon=].

* In the American English dub of ''Anime/{{DigimonAdventure}}'' episode "Princess Karaoke", [=ShogunGekomon=] is incorrectly referred to as Shogunmon. The French dub, which dubbed over the US, corrects his name to [=ShogunGekomon=].

* In ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' reunion episode "Forever Red", after the Red Rangers morph, they yell what colour and series they are from e.g. "[[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Red Turbo Ranger]]", "[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Red Space Ranger]]. [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Leo]] and [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Wes]] oddly yell "Go Galactic" (the morphing call) and "Time Force" respectively, as opposed to "Red Galaxy Ranger" and "Red Time Force Ranger". This was fixed in the French dub.

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* The Polish version of ''TabletopGame/SeventhSea'' changed the battle of Tannenberg to the Gruenweide, and corrected many nonsensical Ussurian (Russian) names of spells. The German version similarly changed Tannen to Tannheim, Insel to Inselburg, die Schwartzen Walden to die Schwarzen Wälder and a whole host of other things; for some reason, [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Fauner Konrad Pösen]] was left intact, even though Fauner is not a name in German and Konrad is a male first name (the character is female). The French version also changed the names of the noble families in Montaigne (France).
* An eventual one: in the OCG of the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game, the three main card types are Monster, Magic, and Trap. the English version kept these names for a while, but sadly replaced "Magic" with the more concrete noun "Spell" (Players would call Monster Cards "Monsters" and Trap Cards "Traps", but it does not sound right to English speakers to refer to Magic Cards as "Magics", rather then as "Spells".)

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* English dub of ''Anime/SwordOfTheStranger'' has much less accented Mandarin spoken by the ChinesePeople. It sadly makes it sound less like BlackSpeech.

* English dub of ''Film/SwordOfTheStranger'' has much less accented Mandarin spoken by the ChinesePeople. It sadly makes it sound less like BlackSpeach.

** In the original Japanese, the Children who pilot the Evas were called "Children" in the singular (for example, Rei is the "First Children" rather than "First Child"); the English dub and subtitles corrected this… however, a commentary track on the ''Platinum'' DVD release reveals that the translators had a hard time convincing Gainax – with whom they were in communication to ensure they got terms correct, and had used "Children" intentionally – that "Child" was a better choice. The much later redub by VSI changed it ''back'' to "Children" at Creator/HideakiAnno's insistent.

** In the original Japanese, the Children who pilot the Evas were called "Children" in the singular (for example, Rei is the "First Children" rather than "First Child"); the English dub and subtitles corrected this… however, a commentary track on the ''Platinum'' DVD release reveals that the translators had a hard time convincing Gainax – with whom they were in communication to ensure they got terms correct, and had used "Children" intentionally – that "Child" was a better choice. The much later redub by VSI changed it ''back'' to "Children" at the creator's insistent.

** In the original Japanese, the Children who pilot the Evas were called "Children" in the singular (for example, Rei is the "First Children" rather than "First Child"); the English dub and subtitles corrected this… however, a commentary track on the ''Platinum'' DVD release reveals that the translators had a hard time convincing Gainax – with whom they were in communication to ensure they got terms correct, and had used "Children" intentionally – that "Child" was a better choice.

* ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'': Marko Ramius is not a realistic Lithuanian name, so most Russian translation change it into more plausible Marius Ramenas.

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels were much better received in Russia than in the US, in large part due to the great dub of Anakin Skywalker by Andrey Zaitsev, as opposed to Hayden Christensen's wooden delivery.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons featuring Speedy Gonzalez are rife with [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign fake Spanish]] and [[JustAStupidAccent bad Mexican accents]]. This is not an issue with the Spanish dubs, which were done by real Mexicans.

* The infamous "omelette du fromage" from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' was corrected in the French dub to "omelette ''au'' fromage", but this episode still remains weird in French since there is no reason why no one understands Dexter, everybody [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench thinks he is super cool]] (especially since he is saying "scrambled eggs with cheese") and the on-screen appearances of the words are not corrected.

* An eventual one: in the OCG of the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game, the three main card types are Monster, Magic, and Trap. the english version kept these names for a while, but eventually turned replaced "Magic" with the more concrete noun "Spell" (Players would call Monster Cards "Monsters" and Trap Cards "Traps", but it does not sound right to English speakers to refer to Magic Cards as "Magics", rather then as "Spells".)

* In the Japanese version of ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', "JUNKER" was originally an acronym for "Judgment Uninfected Naked Kind & Execute Ranger". In other words, a series of randomly-chosen words strung together with no coherent meaning whatsoever (then again, it is a Creator/HideoKojima game). When the game was ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaCD for the [[RemadeForTheExport western market]], the meaning was changed to the somewhat more sensible "Japanese Undercover Neuro-Kinetic Elimination Ranger".

* ''VideoGame/ThunderForce V'''s boss descriptions, which were [[GratuitousEnglish already in English]] in the Japanese version, were [[{{Woolseyism}} rewritten]] in more gramatically correct English. The voice that reads out the description, however, still goes by the descriptions from the Japanese version.

* Most characters in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' have european names. This includes Major General Olivier Armstrong. While Olivier is a perfectly correct French first name, it happens to be a male one, despite Major General Armstrong being a woman. The French print of the manga changed it to the feminine form, Olivia.

** The MAGI supercomputers were referred to as Magi Baltasar, Magi Casper, and Magi Melchior ([[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger They]] come from the [[Literature/TheBible same source]]). Magi is the nominative plural or genitive singular of magus, so this was corrected in the English subtitles to Magus Balthasar and so on.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bumblebee Man's Spanish tends not to be very good, and he speaks in a thick American English accent. The Mexican dub of ''The Simpsons'' gave him a completely new voice so he could speak proper, native-sounding, and correct Mexican Spanish while still sounding like the Series/ChapulinColorado pastiche he's supposed to be.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bumblebee Man's Spanish tends not to be very good, and he speaks in a thick American English accent. The Mexican dub of ''The Simpsons'' gave him a completely new voice so he could speak proper, native-sounding, and correct Mexican Spanish while still sounding like the corny slapstick characters then-common on Mexican television.