History Narm / DragonBall

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[[folder:Dragonball GT]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjW0wLl52L0 And this]] is Vegeta's ''second'' best comeback ever.
-->'''Super 17:''' I have to admire your ability to get up after a hit like that.\\
'''Vegeta:''' And I admire your ability to ''DIE!''
* Vegeta's sad, sad attempt at growing a mustache. Even his daughter made fun of it.
* The Sigma Force are given pathetically unintimidating voices in the English dub. They give (Base Form) Goku a decent fight, but with every word coming out in a stiff monotone, they sound more like children pretending to be robots and come off as the pathetic QuirkyMinibossSquad they really are.
* The English narrator speaks in a dramatic growl, as if to emphasize how intense the action is. Even if said action is Trunks dressing up as a woman to marry a goofy-looking space monster.
* The whole attempt by Funimation to make ''GT'' DarkerAndEdgier than ''Z'' is so ludicrously forced, right up to skipping the first 16 episodes, that it wheels right around to this instead. The darkening of the tone extends even to Funimation's choice of music, but when mixed with the first 16 episodes' way DenserAndWackier OG Dragon Ball-like stories (like Trunks crossdressing to mislead a giant catfish alien whose whiskers predict earthquakes,) it becomes a massive farce. Its a blessing that DVD releases allow viewers to have the English dub with the Japanese OST.

** [[https://youtu.be/cA-WIynIzzs?t=3m58s YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY THE WHOLE PLANET FATHEEEER! YOU'VE GOTTA STOP IIIT!]]
* Many English speaking fans consider Adult!Goku's Japanese voice {{Narm}}ful, finding it dissonant to hear a full-grown martial artist (who's a grandfather in the end) speaking with almost the exact same voice he had as a twelve-year old. This is intentional, however.

* Devilman's use of the Devilmite Beam during his fight with Goku. For context, it's an attack that instantly kills whoever it's used on by taking the evil in a person's heart and exploding them from the inside. When Devilman is about to use it, Roshi explains the attack's properties all while everybody is extremely dramatic about Goku's impending death... but Goku is pure of heart (or at least, [[GoodIsNotNice as pure as a Saiyan child can be]]), something that the audience is well aware of. Everyone present except Devilman himself is aware of this, yet they act like there's a chance the attack might actually kill Goku. And the funniest part? In the anime's version of the events, ''he tries it again.''

** When King Kai yells or exhibits emotion, [[VocalDissonance his seiyuu delivers his lines in a flat monotone voice]]. Granted, Creator/JojiYanami (King Kai's voice actor) was pushing ''86'' at the time and was [[TheOtherDarrin darrin'ed]] pretty soon afterwards.

* Goku mocking Piccolo for his fatal energy blast missing Goku's vital organs. Piccolo's thusly-memed response: '''''ALL OF THEM?!'''''

* Goku mocking Piccolo for his fatal energy blast missing Goku's vital organs. Piccolo's thusly-memed response: '''''ALL OF THEM?!'''''

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', when King Kai yells or exhibits emotion, [[VocalDissonance his seiyuu delivers his lines in a flat monotone voice]]. Granted, Creator/JojiYanami (King Kai's voice actor) was pushing ''86'' at the time and was [[TheOtherDarrin darrin'ed]] pretty soon afterwards.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjW0wLl52L0 And this]] is Vegeta's ''second'' best comeback ever, from ''GT''.

* In ''GT'', Vegeta's sad, sad attempt at growing a mustache. Even his daughter made fun of it.
* The Sigma Force in ''GT'' are given pathetically unintimidating voices in the English dub. They give (Base Form) Goku a decent fight, but with every word coming out in a stiff monotone, they sound more like children pretending to be robots and come off as the pathetic QuirkyMinibossSquad they really are.
* The English narrator for ''GT'' speaks in a dramatic growl, as if to emphasize how intense the action is. Even if said action is Trunks dressing up as a woman to marry a goofy-looking space monster.

** The hindi dub also uses a lot of wrong pronouns at different points. Occasionally, Krillin and Bulma have used the word "aap" to refer to Goku while Goku has used the same while referring to Piccolo. [[https://blogs.transparent.com/hindi/aap-tum-and-tu/ "Aap" basically means "you" but it is usually a pronoun used towards elders or strangers. For familiar people or people around the same age, genrally "tum" is used.]] This means despite being older than Goku, both Bulma and Krillin have talked to Goku as if he is older than them (this may be because Krillin is shorter and thus appears to be a kid of Gohan's age) and Goku has done the same with Piccolo, despite technically being older than him.

* At one point in Goku's fight with Majin Buu, he sees Buu use a move and immediately goes "That's Vegeta's technique!" The intent is to show that Buu is an InstantExpert who can use any move after seeing it once, but the problem is that the move Buu uses is a generic bit of BeamSpam of the sort that countless characters have thrown out on a whim. Even moreso because it has historically [[TheWorfBarrage never, ever worked]], making Goku's fearful reaction all the odder. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84ciGBhK8o Mocked heavily here.]]

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'''s "It's over NINE THOUSAND!", thanks to MemeticMutation, has become one of the most (in)famous pieces of {{Narm}} of all time. While the Ocean Group version of the line is better known, the Creator/{{Funimation}} version (which is the version Creator/TeamFourStar chose to parody) is pretty silly itself, although that might have been done on purpose to lightly parody the original version. The TV edit of Kai better homaged the original, in comparison to the uncut version sticking with the proper "It's over eight thousand!" of the Japanese text...even if Vegeta's growl at the end felt forced.

** Every time a character threatens to send someone [[NeverSayDie "to the next/another dimension!"]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjW0wLl52L0 And this]] is Vegeta's ''second'' best comeback ever, from ''GT''.
-->'''Super 17:''' I have to admire your ability to get up after a hit like that.\\
'''Vegeta:''' And I admire your ability to ''DIE!''

* In ''GT'', Vegeta's sad, sad attempt at growing a mustache. Even his daughter made fun of it.

* One from the original ''Dragon Ball'': Devilman's use of the Devilmite Beam during his fight with Goku. For context, it's an attack that instantly kills whoever it's used on by taking the evil in a person's heart and exploding them from the inside. When Devilman is about to use it, Roshi explains the attack's properties all while everybody is extremely dramatic about Goku's impending death... but Goku is pure of heart (or at least, [[GoodIsNotNice as pure as a Saiyan child can be]]), something that the audience is well aware of. Everyone present except Devilman himself is aware of this, yet they act like there's a chance the attack might actually kill Goku. And the funniest part? In the anime's version of the events, ''he tries it again.''

* The Bang Zoom! dub of ''Super'' isn't too bad per se since it features well known voice actors like Creator/JamiesonPrice and Creator/KaijiTang who did their best (and Creator/WendeeLee got to reprise the role of Bulma from 20+ years ago), but while the choice of Creator/LexLang as Goku isn't a bad idea on paper, the result is basically this. Goku is supposed to be a super strong BookDumb hillbilly but Lang's version of Goku goes so far with that it loops straight into Narm territory. His normal speaking voice has this odd whiny twang that tends to veer towards sounding like [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Morty]], his BigWhat attempt against Beerus sounds more like an imitation of a SassyBlackWoman and during battle, Goku lets out these odd [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises battle cries]] that sound like he's taken up [[Anime/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto Shinken]] (funny given who Lang has voiced before.) It's almost a shame they only managed to produce around 50 episodes before being quietly cancelled.
* The official dub of episode 111 of ''Super'' unfortunately turned Hit's elimination by Jiren into this with one major gaff: the Grand Priest declaring Hit as hailing from the 11th universe instead of the correct 6th. Jiren just betrayed his own universe!

** In the Majin Buu saga, Piccolo sneaks up behind [[SquishyWizard Babidi]] the two have a little back and forth before Babidi [[OhCrap realises that he is screwed]] then gets [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBE cut in half]]. In the anime, when Piccolo attempts his attack, Babidi manages to create a force field barrier around himself saving himself, then attacks Piccolo, who easily [[NoSell no sells the move]], then Piccolo destroys his barrier, forcing Babidi to run, only for Piccolo to sneak up behind him again, and this time, Piccolo manages to slice him up in the belly (not quite cutting him in half like the manga but close enough.)

* At one point in Goku's fight with Majin Buu, he sees Buu use a move and immediately goes "That's Vegeta's technique!" The intent is to show that Buu is an InstantExpert who can use any move after seeing it once, but the problem is that the move Buu uses is a generic bit of BeamSpam of the sort that countless characters have thrown out on a whim. Even moreso because it has historically [[TheWorfBarrage never, ever worked]], making Goku's fearful reaction all the odder. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84ciGBhK8o Mocked heavily here.]]

* Creator/KyleHebert's deep narrator voice can sometimes lead to Narm, like in the episode "Gohan Goes to High School" where he says in his standard, Creator/DonLafontaine-esque tone, "Hurry, Gohan! You'd hate to be late to class..." This is immediately followed by the title card with the standard "guitar riff episode title" theme. Basically, a rockin' guitar riff set to white text saying "Gohan Goes to High School". Doubly funny because [[TalkingToHimself Kyle Hebert is talking about Kyle Hebert]]. Its almost a shame he's been replaced in all subsequent dubs with Doc Morgan.

** Hell, ''every'' instance of AdaptationalHeroism in the dub is this. It was apparent in the Japanese version to a certain extent, but the original English dub straight-up turned Goku into a ComicBook/{{Superman}} {{expy}} for fear that Goku's [[BloodKnight actual character]] might be a turn-off for western audiences. Hearing all these lines in narration and spoken dialogue about how Goku is a "protector of the innocent" with not a single bad bone in his body becomes all the harder to take seriously when you know how Goku actually operates. [[note]]This, however, is a very {{Downplayed}} example since Goku is seen as an IdealHero even in the original manga by his friends and family (and by most fans), and experiences a subtle MessiahCreep.[[/note]] Unsurprisingly, Creator/{{Funimation}} consider the original dub an OldShame and have since made their dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' more accurate, with Goku's proper characterization in mind.

* Vegeta shouting "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPN2yOup9E THEN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO DIE!]]'''" (Video is a WebAnimation/YoutubePoop, but it's the only video containing the scene and you can still feel the Narm pretty well).

*** Broly catches Paragus trying to escape, and in a completely nonchalant tone, delivers this line:

-->'''Broly''': "Great idea Dad, but it'd get a little snug in there." [Proceeds to make some very awkward groaning noises while squeezing the pod into a projectile]
-->'''Paragus''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2-xuUffi4 PERISHED AT THE HAND OF MY OWN SON!]] [[PurpleProse NOT THAT! NO, WHY HAS DESTINY CONSPIRED AGAINST ME SO TRAGICALLY?!]]

** In the Namek saga, Freeza blasts open the ground he and Goku are fighting on creating a huge crater behind which Goku begins readying the Spirit Bomb. In the anime, Freeza blasts a crater open, Goku gets a vision from [[TheRival Vegeta]], the king and his own father, Bardock (both of whom he has never even seen in his life and probably doesn't know exist,) he attempts to fight Freeza again and after a brief and useless effort, he is kicked back behind the crater and then he starts making the spirit bomb.

-->'''King Kai:''' "Now I see! Like human beings dislike the sound of rubbing glass, probably the soundwave of the whistle, which a human being blows might echo suddenly irritating the ears of the Namek people, their nerves can't endure any of the pain!"[[note]]Often misheard as "Now I see! Black human beings dislike the sound of rubbing glass probably the soundwave of the whistle, which a human being blows might [[PerfectlyCromulentWord echoessummly]] irritating the ears of the Namek people, the nerve cut any other phase."[[/note]]

-->'''King Kai:''' "Now I see! Black human beings dislike the sound of rubbing glass, probably the soundwave of the whistle which a human being blows might [[PerfectlyCromulentWord echoessummly]] irritating the ears of the Namek people, the nerve cut any other phase!"

'''Meta-Cooler:''' At last, you show your real shape[[labelnote:explanation]]The amount of people [[{{Mondgreen}} who've misheard this word as]] "[[ObligatorySwearing shit]]" is astronomical, thanks to bad sound mixing.[[/labelnote]], Saiya People. If it is not so that is uninteresting.\\

-->'''Piccolo''': [[UnintentionalInnuendo Take your hands off from Gohan!]]

-->'''King Kai:''' "Now I see! Black human beings dislike the sound of rubbing glass, probably the soundwave of the whistle which a human being blows might [[PerfectlyCromulentWord echoessummly]] irritating the ears of the Namek people, the nerve cut any other phase!"

-->'''King Kai:''' "Now I see! Black human beings dislike the sound of rubbing glass, probably the soundwave of the whistle which a human being blows might [[PerfectlyCromulentWord echoessummly]] irritating the ears of the Namek people, the nerve cut any other phase!"\\