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* {{Invoked}} in ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'', when the blond-haired woman in Episode 5 talks to an American official. You ''watch'' the FunWithSubtitles, but you ''hear'' extremely horrible English. She's actually ''insulting'' America by [[MemeticMutation literally talking in Blind Idiot]].

** The Malaysian translation of the other Parts of the manga (up to ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'') translated some names of the characters and the [[FightingSpirit Stands]] fairly well, but ended up translating the Egyptian God Stands "Bastet" and "Atum" to "Vesta" and "''Autumn''" respectively.

* The Swedish Dub of ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' is filled to the brim with these, but sadly none of them are funny enough.

*** Though most Portuguese fans tend to pass "Cachalote" off as an [[StealthInsult insult]]. Given he only uses it in [[Anime/DragonBallGT GT]][[labelnote:*]]Which was dubbed in Portuguese before there was French version, so they had to rely on both the japanese and the American versions.[[/labelnote]] and [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]][[labelnote:*]]Which was made and aired [[UpToEleven before the English dub rights were even resolved.]][[/labelnote]] [[WildMassGuessing it's a possibility]].

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* There have been two Italian dubs of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': one made in 2000 that saw wide theatrical release, made by Miramax, and one that saw a one-week release in theatres in 2014, made by Lucky Red. While the 2000 dub was perfectly fine, the 2014 dub, aside from suffering from [[PurpleProse overly archaic dialogue]], chose to translate Shishigami's name as "Beast-God". The problem? The Italian form of the name is a [[RageAgainstTheHeavens direct insult to God]], one that's considered as bad as a racial slur to boot. After some attempts to defend the word choice by the head translator, subsequent releases changed the name to "Stag-God", which is a much more acceptable form (though still not entirely clean).

* The Italian dub of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' is filled with translation problems.

** One manga hosting site is infamous for poor translations. Aside from awkward name translations (Riku Doldo -> [[UnfortunateNames Dolt]], Jesus Burgess -> Xuxasu Basasu, the Yeti Cool Brothers -> Eighty Cool Brothers, despite there only being two of them), context is butchered and and scenes are mixed up, so we get things like stating Doflamingo is controlling [[spoiler: Kaidou]] (despite it actually being the opposite in canon), Vice Admiral Maynard deciding to spread chaos, and Riku telling his granddaughter that, once he becomes king again, she will be queen. This gives off the implication of incest. (The actual line states that she would be a princess.)

* The manga scanlation effort for ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'' decided to heavily alter certain dialogues during the Prisoners Arc, for some reason, one notorious event is the time Baki and Kozue first try to make love and Yujiro interrupts them to give them a piece of his mind, the original Japanese dialogue has Yujiro gloating about how Baki and Kozue shouldn’t be nervous about touching each other, that people should indulge themselves in sexual intercourse as much as possible, living for one’s desires is the true way of life, the scanlation dialogue on the other hand changed all of that to Yujiro demanding Baki to make a child with Kozue as soon as possible, that Yujiro wanted a new heir since Baki till that point was not the potential fighting challenge Yujiro hoped for so a grandchild would be groomed for that goal. That introduced a completely new plot point that simply did not exist.

* ''Initial D 4th Stage'' out of Malasia has some particularily horrid examples. The subs appear to be translations of the Chinese dubs, which seem to have been censored to aviod giving people ideas. When Itsuki turbocharges his Levin, a couple of car otakus comment that it has "the part" and when Takumi gets snubbed on Akina, he clearly says ''something'' (my Japanese isn't that good) about "braking," but the sub just says, "That is not an easy opponent." Names can be as-they-sound-in-Japanese, as-the-kanji-sound-if-read-as-Chinese (Takumi ends up being something like "Liagjang"), or transalated into English (Daiki is often "Big Tree"). Then later in the stage Keisuke damages his own car and the team has to get a "shopping car." My personal favorite is when Daiki brings his car into the garage before the battle because, "I need to check the car baker. Lend me some glue."

** Before the official localizations became wildly available, fansubs of the series also made things less clear than they really were. Many fans believed there was no evidence whatsoever of Rei being cloned from Yui based on fansubs, and this was used to rebuttal arguments against Rei and Shinji [[IncestYay being incestual]].

* In an older region 0 DVD dub for ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', After Kai Shiden rescues Reccoa Londe, he introduces himself by saying "My name's Kai Shiden. As a freelance investigative journalist, I can appear anywhere, anytime. Even the Vatican." Kai actually carries himself as if he thought he was a supercool secret agent, so it almost fits into character. The Bandai dub covers this up by givig him a more pedestrian line "...and as a freelance investigative journalist, I can behave professionally, even around a beautiful woman such as yourself".

** The Danish dub of the series, while notable (and particularly awesome, you can tell that Søren Lampik, the translator read the manga) for being one of the only Anime dubbed into Danish, that is not based of a cut English dub, it has a bit of this as it's, like the Polish/Italian version, based of the French version, witch already had its problems. For example, a lot of the beams are called "Kammehameha", like the Ki beam, Piccolo and Gohan uses, and sometimes a Galick Gun was called it, even though Vegeta clearly says "Gallick-stråle" (Gallick Beam) when he first uses it. There is also the Genki Dama. It changes name from "Genki Dama" to "Gendi Kama" when Goku returns to Earth. Speaking of Goku, the whole "Son" family is always called "Son" before their names, for example "Son-Goku", "Son-Gohan"

* The Polish ''over''dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' definitely takes the cake here as being translated from the French dub. For example, Piccolo is "Satan Littleheart" (Szatan Serduszko), Cell is "Protophyte" (Komórczak - it actually sounds less sophisticated in Polish) and Muten Roshi is "the Genius Turtle" (Genialny Żółw). We also have Kakarrot as either "Clown" or "Whale" (Kaszalot), Mr. Popo as Mr. Momo (understandable, as "Popo" means something mildly rude in Polish and French), and some really ingenious techniques. Big Bang Attack as "Mega Garlic Cannon" among others. Polish dub of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' switched back to proper Japanese names, but occasionally the crew throw some nods to the French-Polish names, as a sign of acknowledgement of their memetic status. For example, when Beerus [[MaliciousMisnaming calls]] Krillin "Turillin" ([[Film/TheThreeStooges Curly]] in the English dub), in the Polish version he calls him "Krilan", as he was called in the old DBZ overdub.

** For a long period, the most common fansub in the fandom was originally from Hong Kong, which resulted in some ''really'' silly lines. The most infamous case was probably a card where the official translation was the fairly accurate "Heart of the Underdog." The Hong Kong sub? "''Dignity of the Retarded.''" Which made it even funnier when Yugi started claiming the card reminded him of his best friend.

** The Brazilian dub of ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' was shared between two translators, informally known as "the good one" (that does most of the episodes) and "the bad one" (that did some episodes). For examples of the bad one:

* There have been two Italian dubs of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': one made in 2000 that saw wide theatrical release, made by Miramax, and one that saw a one-week release in theatres in 2014, made by Lucky Red. While the 2000 dub was perfectly fine, the 2014 dub, aside from suffering from [[PurpleProse overly archaic dialogue]], chose to translate Shishigami's name as "Beast-God". The problem? The Italian form of the name is a [[RageAgainstTheHeavens direct insult to God]], one that's considered as bad as a racial slur to boot. After some attempts to defend the word choice by the head translator, subsequent releases changed the name to "Stag-God", which is a much more acceptable form (though still not entirely clean).

** The most infamous and [[MemeticMutation memetic]] instance of this trope for this series would be the SoBadItsGood "Duwang" fan translation of ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'', a RecursiveTranslation done by a Chinese student (using a Chinese translation of the manga) for an English class project. "Duwang" comes from the translation of the setting, more accurately translated as "Morioh". The series being ''already'' [[WorldOfWeirdness quite strange]] didn't help matters any, so dialogue and events that [[ItMakesSenseInContext already didn't make a whole lot of sense out of context]] ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext or in context, for that matter]]) look like complete nonsense.
** The Malaysian translation of the other Parts of the manga (up to ''Manga/VentoAureo'') translated some names of the characters and the [[FightingSpirit Stands]] fairly well, but ended up translating the Egyptian God Stands "Bastet" and "Atum" to "Vesta" and "''Autumn''" respectively.
** The Brazilian translation of the manga had Avdol say this about Stands that harm their own Users:

* ''{{Manga/Vagabond}}'': if you only read Vagabond online, you'll get this eventually. Volumes 1 to 21 are scans of the official English language books, so the translations are of high quality and done by professionals. However, starting with volume 22 the chapters you can read online are scans from the Japanese books or from the Japanese magazine where Vagabond is serialized, with the translations done by amateurs. Though somewhat tolerable during the first volumes, later changes in translation teams make it progressively worse the more the story goes, to the point that the Ichijōji's aftermath arc and the Wandering arc are completely unintelligible and impossible to read (especially during the philosophical conversations between Takuan, Itakura, Kōetsu and Musashi, and in the scenes with the Hosokawa government officials). Luckily, the translation team that takes over at the Farming arc is much better, and the story becomes understandable again.

** A different bootleg had a somewhat less-mangled subtitle quirk involving names. Every name was translated into a un-namelike English word that sounded similar. The best of which were "Sanji" translated as "Sunkist" and "Crocodile" translated as "Clock Dell." Usopp became Liar Bu (understandable, being as the uso in his name means lie) and his father Yasopp was rendered as ''Jesus Bu''.

[[folder: Dragon Ball]]

** "Master Roshi" is itself an English version. The character's name in Japanese is "Muten Roshi", but "Roshi" is actually his title (which means "eldery master"). "Master Roshi" is equivalent to saying "Master Master".

** The Italian dub of Dragonball is just as bad. We get three 'Satans': "Al Satan" = The Ox King, "Al Satan" (again, without any kind of logic)[[note]]Actually, after the introduction of this other "Al Satan", the former one was renamed with his Japanese name Jyuma[[/note]] = Piccolo Daimao, and the well known and loved Mr. Satan. Muten Roshi is called the "Sea Turtle Genius" (Genio delle Tartarughe di mare). Tenshinhan becomes Tensing, Chaozu becomes Rif (???), Piccolo becomes Junior, and so on. And of course there are some horrible mistakes in the technique names translations - the worst of them all probably being the one which involves the Genki-dama and Kaioken. Basically, we get to see Goku training with Kaio-sama (in Italian "Kaio") and learning the Genki-dama ("Spherical Energy"). Then he goes back to Earth - and when he first uses the Kaioken against Nappa, someone arbitrarily decided that had to be the Genkidama, so they made him scream "Spherical Energy!". Which of course did not make any sense, and was later replaced by the proper Kaioken. The worst example of all, though, has to be Gohan's name - it's stated that Goku named him after his grandfather, but in the italian dub Goku's grandfather is named Son ''Gon''.
*** To be honest, though, a huge part of the name confusion carried over from the original Dragon Ball dub. In detail: most of the names of characters introduced in Z keep their original name, and techniques either get a straight translated name into Italian ("Final Flash" becoming "Lampo Finale") or keep theirs (Big Bang Attack). On the other hand, characters and attacks that got changed in Dragon Ball kept the "adapted" names.
** The Hungarian dub of Dragonball, which was also translated from the French one, had serious consistency issues regarding the name of the Kamehameha. It starts out as "Lifeforce Wave", occasionally becoming "Magical Beam", "Magical Power" and "Great Forces" (yes, in plural). When the character using it DOES shout Kamehameha, the -ha in the end is usually replaced with random shouting. And the worst is when two or more versions are used in the same episode. Also in the Hungarian dub, the Crane Hermit became the Raven Hermit, for no apparent reason. Although in Hungarian, the word for raven sounds more fitting to a villainous old man.

** The Danish dub of the series, while notable (and praticularly awesome, you can tell that Søren Lampik, the translator read the manga) for being one of the only Anime dubbed into Danish, that is not based of a cut English dub, it has a bit of this as it's, like the Polish/Italian version, based of the French version, witch already had its problems. For example, a lot of the beams are called "Kammehameha", like the Ki beam, Piccolo and Gohan uses, and sometimes a Gallick Gun was called it, even though Vegeta clearly says "Gallick-stråle" (Gallick Beam) when he first uses it. There is also the Genki Dama. It changes name from "Genki Dama" to "Gendi Kama" when Goku returns to Earth. Speaking of Goku, the whole "Son" family is always called "Son" before their names, for example "Son-Goku", "Son-Gohan"

** The English translation of the 2nd movie was rather odd. While the dub pronounced the BigBad's name as Dr. Willow, the subtitled version calls him Dr. Wheelo. Neither are correct, since the character's name is play on "Uiro", which is a type of Japanese steamed cake from Nagoya. Dr. Uiro's henchmen are named after local Nagoya delicacies (i.e. Dr. Cochin, Kishime, Ebifurya, Misokattsun).
** The Creator/VIZMedia translation of the manga has quite a few translation issues:
** Vegeta's SignatureAttack is "Gyarikku Hō" instead of "Galick Gun" - despite the fact that the name was supposed to be english in the first place.
** The first chapter is translated as "Bloomers and the Monkey King" - while "Bloomers" is a more accurate way of translating "Bulma", the rest of the manga uses the "Bulma" translation, meaning the title is inconsistent with the rest of the manga.

[[folder: Pokemon]]
* The Italian dub of ''Pokémon'' is filled with translation problems.

*** This is an issue with the English dub, too. It obviously uses the (usually expertly done) name localizations from the games, but doesn't always understand why the game localized it the way it did, and what the pun is supposed to be, thus screwing up the pronunciation. Thus, the tiny rock Pokemon that resembles a bonsai tree in a flowerpot, named "Usohachi" (from "uso" (=fake) and "hachi" (=flowerpot)) in the original, got cleverly localized to "Bonsly" in the games (from "bonsai", "sly" and "lie") and the dub pronounces it "Bon-slee".

* The Latin American Spanish dub of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', since season 10. Though mistakes and inconsistencies were always made, they were usually ignored due to nostalgia and the generally good quality of the rest of the work. But then bad dub struck, and translation mistakes and inconsistencies became much more evident (so big we wouldn't encourage listing every single one of them) and many people were turned off by the series. The change of dub company for season 13 seemed to brighten up things a bit, although the translator is using Nintendo of Europe's names for cities and attacks making the new dub something really odd to watch (name conventions between Latin America and Spain are vastly different when it comes to this, since the Latin American dub translates directly from the English dub, and the Spanish dub translates according to the Spanish games from Europe).

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[[folder: Transformers]]

[[folder: Yu Gi Oh]]