* AcceptableTargets: 4Kids themselves, to the point where [[{{Flanderization}} people pin the blame on them for everything wrong with localized anime]]. Also see MisBlamed.
* AnimationAgeGhetto: many anime fans seem to accuse the company as firm believers in that concept not only because of how they have treated the fans' favorite shows, but also because, well...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you can obviously see it in their name]], of course!
* BrokenBase: The people who believe that editing a show is a necessary evil to get a show on television so that it will be popular and expose more kids to Japanese animation... versus the people who believe that editing a show in any way is an unforgivable crime and that anybody who accepts edits is a 4Kids cheerleader pod-person. And of course, whether it's even okay to be a fan of a show that has been subjected to editing (even ''Pokémon'' is not completely immune from this argument). Long story short, trying to justify 4Kids or saying anything remotely not-negative about them online is guaranteed to get one flamed into oblivion.
** There is, however, general consensus over some things: Namely that 1) ''OnePiece'' was a travesty, and 2) their decision to not release (until recently) uncut versions of their shows was monumentally stupid and doing so would probably have helped to improve their poor reputation.
* EarWorm: Say what you will about their dubbing work, but I'll be damned if you don't get at least one of their opening themes stuck in your head.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: '''[[DanGreen DAN]] [[LargeHam GREEN]]!'''
** {{Mad|dieBlaustein}}eleine [[DeadArtistsAreBetter Blaustein]]
** And MikePollock, who was well-received as Dr. Eggman's voice, enough to warrant a call-back for ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' and onward when Sega switched to using LA-based voice actors for every other Sonic character.
** EricStuart for his work as Brock, James, and Kaiba.
** MarcDiraison as one of the few tolerable voices in One Piece.
* MisBlamed: All. The. Time. 4Kids are not innocent by any means, but even they don't deserve ''all'' the hate they get. Many of their most offensive edits[[note]]The ''stupid'' edits, though, are all on them.[[/note]] can be blamed on the Standards & Practices Boards of the networks that aired their shows, as well as the Federal Communications Commission (which has ''VERY'' strict standards for what is allowed to be shown to children).
** Under the mention of Blue Popo, which references the edit done in ''Anime/DragonballZKai'' where the black-face Popo was turned blue for the TV airing. Creator/TheCW's Standards and Practices department is responsible for that, not 4Kids. Not 4Kids at all. There's also a whole list of "bad dubs" that 4Kids gets blamed for, even though they may not have had anything to do with a particular show—pretty much every anime that played on Fox or with another 4Kids show was automatically assumed to be dubbed by 4Kids and thus, all faults were upon them. A great example of this was ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', which was just as censored as any 4Kids show, but 4Kids never had any rights whatsoever to it.
** To this day, a startling number of anime fans honestly believe that ''every'' North American distribution company and ''every'' English anime dub follows the same reviled practices ({{Bowdlerization}}, CutAndPasteTranslation, etc.) as 4Kids, and this is often used as a justification for supporting piracy rather than official releases. In reality, 4Kids is one of the ONLY anime distributors/dubbers to have done these things on a regular basis, and the vast majority of anime releases in America (particularly those targeted at viewers over the age of 12) contain little to no censorship of any sort, unless mandated for airing on network television, and even then the home video release will usually be uncut[[note]]Legal Streaming is a different story; some shows—''Strike Witches'' and ''Panty & Stocking'', to name two—have been censored when streaming, only to be uncut on video[[/note]].
*** Creator/StreamlinePictures is another notorious example, but at least they ''tried'' to give fans what they wanted (and even released some of their anime tapes in a hybrid anamorphic/letterbox format). They just forgot to refrain from cutting and pasting all the time (e.g. when they changed one of Goemon's lines, where he says his CatchPhrase, to "Should've worn his asbestos suit", which admittedly sounds more appropriate given the situation, in ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''; the CatchPhrase appears in their dub of another ''Manga/LupinIII'' movie, though). You could say that a bunch of their dubs fall under SoBadItsGood, including ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' (with its line "Don't make me laugh. Maybe when you've downed your first clown!"). Harmony Gold was a frequent offender in the '80s, releasing Bowdlerized dubs (some of which Streamline later reissued) in addition to the classic that is ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''. As for Creator/{{FUNimation}}, their only offenses are ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' ([[OldShame before they were good]]) and the CulturalTranslation in ''CaseClosed'' (this happened partly because they were worried about getting sued by Creator/DCComics because of the anime's original title ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', never mind that Conan is actually a somewhat-common name in America, e.g. Creator/ConanOBrien; and giving the characters' English first names was mandated by the Japanese, probably in hopes that it could help get the show a prime-time airing; it didn't work).
** [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Cardcaptors]] was not handled by 4Kids at all but by Canadian company Nelvana (with some of the worst edits not even Nelvana's doing, but Kids WB's). And the original Japanese version of Anime/{{Pokemon}} is not much DarkerAndEdgier than the American version, among others.
** 4Kids also had to deal with the network and federal censors, which compared to the cable ones are much stricter.
** Additionally, 4Kids gets a lot of flak for how they remove all visible Japanese in their series and just leave blank space. According to a 4Kids comment on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvjCgu1t-g this video]], all the Japanese text is already removed from the master copies 4Kids receives.
-->'''Red Metallix''': Despite how nice it is to have official subs for Sonic X in the US, was it really necessary to remove ALL credits and Japanese words? Looking at Blank stuff is annoying.\\
'''4Kids''': These were removed from the masters which were delivered to 4Kids.
*** That's something done by TMS, not all production companies.
** Most of the changes done to ''OnePiece'', including changing the opening song, were dictated by the Japanese licensors who wanted to make sure the show would get on American TV. See also TheyJustDidntCare.
* NeverLiveItDown - Unfortunately, years of truly atrocious dubs and a few convention appearances with executives openly insulting the intelligence of their audience have pretty much ensured that they're probably going to [[http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/4Kids_Entertainment_files_for_bankruptcy carry their reputation to the grave with them]].
** '''''OnePiece'''''.
** The New York-based Voice talent that they use are hit pretty hard by this trope as they are often known as "4Kids Voice Actors" (even if 4Kids had absolutely nothing to do with the production in question). There are other companies whom have ever used New York Voice talent in other productions, usually Anime English dubs even before 4Kids came into the picture. However unfortunately this is due to the fact that 4Kids' handiwork is far more known than the majority of the other productions that have ever used New York Voice Talent.
* TheScrappy: Of anime dubbers.
** AlasPoorScrappy: The majority reaction to 4Kids going out of business.
* SoBadItsGood: The dub for ''Anime/YuGiOh'' gives it a late 80's-early 90's feel to an anime series that came out in '''2000'''.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Where to even begin?!
* TheyJustDidntCare: Many fans insist this happens with ''every'' series 4Kids touched.
** Haters aside, this actually did happen with ''OnePiece''. 4Kids never actively sought out the show; they had approached Toei with the intention of licensing ''UltimateMuscle'' and ''OjamajoDoremi''. However, Toei desperately wanted to sell a license for their smash-hit ''OnePiece'' to '''anyone''' who could air it on American TV. So when 4Kids came calling, they wound up receiving ''One Piece'' in addition to the two series they were shopping for. Unfortunately, the 4Kids higher-ups never watched a single episode before agreeing to the deal, and as the masters rolled in they became increasingly shocked at what they'd gotten themselves into—Toei's legendary control-freaking over the series couldn't have helped. The result of this was overreaction on 4Kids' part (even by their usual standards), which led to them taking a hacksaw to the series when a scalpel would have done the trick.
* TooGoodToLast - The Uncut English Dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', definitely, as well as their official subs. Only three volumes [with three episodes per volume] of the uncut dub were released. A fourth volume was [[OrSoIHeard allegedly]] made, but not released.[[note]]Further DVD releases were stopped due to poor sales. The fact that uncut ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' hasn't been streamed on Hulu (when most other 4Kids shows have) is apparently because of a long-running legal dispute with Yugi's Japanese voice actor; word on the street is he refuses to allow his voice to be heard outside of Japan and won't sign consent forms for international releases.[[/note]]
** ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''s first English dub is the more memorable and well-liked of the two.
** The dub of ''[[VideoGame/{{F-Zero}} F-Zero: GP Legend]]''. It only got up to fifteen episodes.
* WhatAnIdiot - You just HAD to [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-29/tv-tokyo-nihon-ad-terminate-yu-gi-oh-deal-sue-4kids hide funds from the makers]] of your [[Anime/YuGiOh biggest cash cow]], didn't you, 4Kids? Say goodbye to your contract... [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-31/4kids-yu-gi-oh-license-is-still-in-force-court-rules for about nine months]].
** [[http://www.4-traders.com/news/4Kids-Entertainment-Files-for-Bankruptcy-Under-Chapter-11--13596393/ And the company too apparently]]. Yeah, bad economy and allegations of hoarding money from the parent company ''that'll sue you for millions'' don't mix (even if said parent company winds up losing its case).
*** They didn't lose, just ''barely'' managed to come to an agreement on the property to allow 4Kids to continue production with Toei keeping a much closer eye on the company from then on. It didn't matter in the long run anyway, Konami brought the rights to the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' series not a few months after this.

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