History Anime / UltimateMuscle

* CanadaEh: Canadaman and Canadaboy (The Manitoban)

Americans got their eyefuls of it by way of [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] as ''Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy'', so it got the [[{{Bowdlerise}} standard treatment]]. Oddly enough, aside from blood, a great deal of innuendo and fart jokes were left in. A ''great'' deal of innuendo. But that's neither here nor there. The dub's title was based on Creator/{{Mattel}}'s ''M.U.S.C.L.E.''[[note]][[FunWithAcronyms Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere]][[/note]] toy line in the U.S., which in turn was based on characters from the original program (which was never dubbed or released in North America, because the MoralGuardians would've pounced on it like ants on a picnic basket). As crazy as it sounds, even by those who detest them, 4Kids' dub for this is considered to be one of their best by far, as the goofy voices they gave for the characters and the amount of dirtier jokes they left in from the original show, and a few dirty jokes ''they actually added themselves'', as well as [[{{Woolseyism}} replacing jokes that most American viewers wouldn't get]], ended up fitting the show's tone surprisingly well. Some would even go as far as to say [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing it's one of the very few dubs made by them that's worth watching over the Japanese original,]] [[SoBadItsGood and not in the "so bad it's hilarious" sense]] like their infamous ''Manga/OnePiece'' dub (which, incidentally, was actually required to do in order for 4Kids to gain the dubbing rights to this show). Of course, bringing this up with fans of the Japanese original [[BrokenBase is a good way to ignite flame wars that can be seen from space.]]

* GracefulLandingClumsyLanding: During the Chojin Crown arc, Vance MacMadd and his daughter Jacqueline make their entrance by leaping out of a helicopter. While Jacqueline lands gracefully, her father painfully faceplants.

* GiveHimANormalLife: Kinnikuman decided to try this with Mantarou and thus had his fight records annuled so that his son wouldn't know of his evil-fighting career. It kinda backfired in that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Mantarou became incredibly lazy and cowardly]]. It does pay off during Mantaro's fight against TelTel Boy. TelTel channels Suguru, hoping to instill some "fear of the father" in the son, but since Mantarou's grown up thinking his dad as nothing more than a bumbling idiot, it backfires. Completely.

* TheGrapller: Ricardo from was trained to be a master of submission techniques.

** Checkmate may have been trained by the dMp to be unable to feel pain, but that’s more a hindrance than an advantage. He takes so much damage without rest or notice that he eventually becomes paralyzed by his accumulative injuries.

** The Ninja/Ninja Ned's death is still kept intact in the dub, even though they never outright say the words. In particular when Mantaro has a NearDeathExperience and talks with his sprit, being told he's in the spirit world.

* BookDumb: Played with in the dub.

* AdpatationalTimespanChange: The Japanese anime and manga takes place 28 years after Kinnikuman won the Scramble for the Throne. The 4Kids dub on the other hand changes this timespan to a mere 10 years.