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* 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".)

* The BonusBoss of ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge'' has an attack that turns his sword into a gigantic lightning bolt called Formina Sage. When it returns in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'', the attack is now Fulminous Edge.

* While the book is famously DanBrowned regardless of language to the point of helping to inspire that trope (with [[DanBrowned/DanBrown a whole page]] of examples from [[TropeNamer its namesake]]), a few translations of Creator/DanBrown's ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', including the Bulgarian, Czech and Polish translations, correct all of the "Da Vinci" references to "Leonardo", starting with the very title. This is because "da Vinci", which means "from Vinci" in Italian, was solely an indicator of birthplace during UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance and was never considered a surname in [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Leonardo]]'s time.

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* The Hebrew translation of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' rendered the mangled Hebrew and Arabic words used in the original to a form more resembling the standard, such as "Kfitzat [=HaDerech=]"[[note]]"קפיצת הדרך - contraction of the road"[[/note]] for Kwizatz Haderach, "Bnot Gishrit"[[note]]"בנות גשרית - Daughters of Gishrit (shares the same root as גשר (Gesher), the Hebrew word for Bridge)"[[/note]] for Bene Gesserit and "Sheikh Hulud"[[note]]"شيخ خلود - Old Man Eternity"[[/note]] for Shai-Hulud

* The Hebrew translation of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' rendered the mangled Hebrew and Arabic words used in the original to a form more resembling the standard, such as "Kfitzat HaDerech"[[note]]"קפיצת הדרך - contraction of the road"[[/note]] for Kwizatz Haderach, "Bnot Gishrit"[[note]]"בנות גשרית - Daughters of Gishrit (shares the same root as גשר (Gesher), the Hebrew word for Bridge)"[[/note]] for Bene Gesserit and "Sheikh Hulud"[[note]]"شيخ خلود - Old Man Eternity"[[/note]] for Shai-Hulud

* The Spanish dubbed version of the ''Series/ERing'' episode "The General" is [[CriticalResearchFailure still bonkers]] to anyone familiar with the history of terrorism in Spain, but it corrects three errors from the original version:

* The Russian dub of ''Series/StargateSG1'' fixed some mistakes in the episodes dealing with Russians -- in particular, the [[FakeRussian horribly-accented Russian dialogue]] from "Small Victories" was dubbed over, and the surnames of Dr. Svetlana Markov and Lieutenant Tolinev (both being women) were changed to their correct feminine forms -- Markova and Tolineva, respectively. It's possible that the creators of the show realized their blunder and corrected in the episode "Full Alert". Daniel goes to Moscow and goes into an office looking for a "Captain Voronkov". The woman in the office tells him that she is Captain Daria Voronkov'''a'''.

* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra'' has some [[VideoGame/VirtualOn Valger-On]] dialogue that's in rather terrible English. When it was finally officially localized over a decade later, the English was rerecorded so that it sounds natural. The same was done with the English dialgoue in ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative''.

* The English release of ''Manga/{{Negima}}'' corrected a grammar error in a spell that was written in one of their several [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Foreign Languages]].

* 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".)

** The weapon "Thor Hammer", which had shown up in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral previous games]] [[NoExportForYou but never in English]], was properly renamed Mjölnir in the English localization. Likewise the ultimate wind spell, which was generally romanized as Holsety before, was changed to Forseti, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forseti which gets the mythological reference right.]]

** Shown above: An early episode had a sign reading "Pocke Mon Land" ('''Pocke'''t '''Mon'''sters) in the original, which the dub corrected to "Pokémon Land" (however, it was apparently done before the Japanese officially romanised the name as "Pokémon", but even before then it was ''Pocket Monsters'').

* The French dub of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' changes Scarecrow's incorrect mathematical statement, "Sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.", to "La somme de l'hypoténuse au carré doit être égale á la somme des deux cotés opposés au carré", meaning "The square of the hypotenuse must equal the squares of the two other sides" in English.

* 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, which ended up being used as her name in the English dub as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons featuring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales 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 English dub also corrected the main character's name. In the original Japanese, his name is pronounced ''Aakaado'' and the subtitles render it "A'''r'''ucard", but the dub says "A'''l'''ucard". This led to a bizarre argument between the English director and the Japanese producers (recalled in a commentary) – the director wanted the name changed to "Alucard" since it's clearly ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' backwards; the Japanese insisted the name must remain "Arucard" because it's [[{{Engrish}} Dracura]] backwards.

* The in-game name for Snake's cigarettes was "CIGARET" in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', which was likely a result of character limit that could be used on the item icons. In the English version, this was fixed to "CIGS", which is a much more common abbreviation for the word "cigarettes". Additionally, Revolver Ocelot's life bar originally said "[[{{Engrish}} OCEROT]]"

* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra'' has some [[VideoGame/VirtualOn Valger-On]] dialogue that's in rather terrible English. When it was finally officially localized over a decade later, the English was rerecorded so that it sounds natural.

* The Hebrew translation of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' rendered the mangled Hebrew and Arabic words used in the original to a form more resembling the standard, such as "Kfitzat HaDerech[[note]]"קפיצת הדרך - contraction of the road"[[/note]] for Kwizatz Haderach, and "Sheikh Hulud"[[note]]"شيخ خلود - Old Man Eternity"[[/note]] for Shai-Hulud

* The Hebrew translation of ''Literature/Dune'' rendered the mangled Hebrew and Arabic words used in the original to a form more resembling the standard, such as "Kfitzat HaDerech[[note]]"קפיצת הדרך - contraction of the road"[[/note]] for Kwizatz Haderach, and "Sheikh Hulud"[[note]]"شيخ خلود - Old Man Eternity"[[/note]] for Shai-Hulud

** The MAGI supercomputers were referred to as Magi Baltasar, Magi Casper, and Magi Melchior.[[note]]This is in reference to a pop culture version of TheThreeWiseMen who visited Jesus.[[/note]] Magi is the nominative plural or genitive singular of magus, so this was corrected in the English subtitles to Magus Balthasar and so on.

** The MAGI supercomputers were referred to as Magi Baltasar, Magi Casper, and Magi Melchior.[[note]]This is in reference to a pop culture version of the three wise men who visited Jesus.[[/note]] Magi is the nominative plural or genitive singular of magus, so this was corrected in the English subtitles to Magus Balthasar and so on.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons featuring ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons featuring ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales' 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons featuring ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzalez'' 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.

* ''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.

** In the original Japanese version, when Robin calls Chrom by name at the beginning despite never meeting him, Chrom confusedly asks Robin "How do you know my name?". This eventually stops making any sense whatsoever once it's revealed in-story a chapter or two later that Chrom is the prince of Ylisse, meaning there would be several hundred plausible reasons why the Avatar would know Chrom's name. The English localization fixes this by changing his line to "Ah, then you know who I am?", which is much more in line with what a famous figure would say upon being addressed by name by a stranger.

* ''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 Mexican.