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*** At another point, a character says something along the lines of "So, everyone from Cybertron is here," which came from the fact that the translators seemed to have forgotten that, in Japanese, the Autobots are called "Cybertrons" (the planet is also called that in Japanese, but in that case, it's pronounced more like "saber-tron") and so the line should have been something like "So, all the Autobots are here."

** Before ''Armada'' and ''Energon'', ''Transformers'' suffered a particularly infamous instance of this trope. The SoBadItsGood English ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' dub changed dialogue so nonsensically that you got translations like "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Fortress Maximus has come himself]]". There were also bizarre and completely pointless name changes, like renaming Blurr "Wally" and dubbing Spike as '''Sparkle''' of all things. The whole dub has become a minor meme in the ''Transformers'' fandom and is often considered a good example of what can happen with incompetent dubbing elsewhere.

* At one point, available English subs for ''Mankatsu'' (an AnimatedAnthology from the creator of Franchise/LupinIII) were machine-translated scripts (translated from the Russian dub) from a fan fourm. So, we got things like a character being warned "It is not your onions" when wondering if he should help someone, or people asking "What is this, this 7 ?" when confused (and let's not talk about what it did to the segments based around puns)

* The only available English subs for ''Mankatsu'' (an AnimatedAnthology from the creator of Franchise/LupinIII) are machine-translated scripts (translated from the Russian dub) from a fan fourm. So, we get things like a character being warned "It is not your onions" when wondering if he should help someone, or people asking "What is this, this 7 ?" when confused (and let's not talk about what it did to the segments based around puns)

* [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlooaXaaMAIw_8Z?format=jpg&name=medium There's a rather memetic image]] of an Instagram post by the official One Piece Instagram account promoting Volume 102 of the manga that had been translated with an auto-translation feature, resulting in the gem "[[MisterSeahorse Sanji was pregnant.]] [[TheBabyTrap Zoro has been locked in.]]"

** And let's not talk about the [[NoPronunciationGuide pronunciations]]. Smoochum got to be called "Smoo-Chum", "Smo-Choom", "Smoo-Choom" and "Smah-Choom". Meowth was pronounced "Me-Oh" for a long time (and also called "Meo" in the credits), then in Season 12, he became "Meow".

* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', in Chapter 43, Kanoko remarks that Sumika has stopped trying to convince Kanoko to give up on her fixation on Hime, and Sumika replies by saying that she's on Kanoko's side. In the localization, Kanoko instead says that "At first you'd been saying that she(Hime) should quit," implying that Sumika was trying to get Hime to resign from the salon.

** Before ''Armada'' and ''Energon'', ''Transformers'' suffered a particularly infamous instance of this trope. The SoBadItsGood English ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' dub changed dialogue so nonsensically that you got translations like "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Fortress Maximus has come himself]]". There were also bizarre and completely pointless name changes, like renaming Blurr "Wally" and dubbing Spike as '''sparkle''' of all things. The whole dub has become a minor meme in the ''Transformers'' fandom and is often considered a good example of what can happen with incompetent dubbing elsewhere.

** The French dub messed up and forgot that Jack, other than being a proper name, is also the face value for a card (which would be ''valet'' in French). This resulted in card names like the Knight of the King, the Knight of the Queen, and the Knight of Jack, whoever that Jack may be.

* And then there's ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which transliterates "dhampir" (half-vampire) as "dunpeal", and carries the same mistransliteration into the English version, to the point FanFiction continues using the term. Streamline's dub of the original movie also had this mistake. It wasn't fixed until Sentai Filmworks' 2015 redub of the original movie.

** 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''. Other bizarre choices were referring to the back of one's head as the "afterbrain," and calling a cannon a "barker."

** One manga hosting site is infamous for poor translations. Aside from awkward name translations (Riku Doldo -> 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.)

** When talking about Momo, Kaori says that she once thought Momo was a "ghost member" of the mahjong club (a term for a member who joins a school club but rarely, if ever, shows up) only to find out that Momo was always in the room at the same time, but due to her {{Invisibility}}, Kaori couldn't see her. The Crunchyroll subs have Kaori thinking Momo was "a member of the occult club".

* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', in Chapter 43, Kanoko tells Sumika that Sumika has stopped trying to convince Kanoko to give up on her fixation on Hime, and Sumika replies by saying that she's on Kanoko's side. In the localization, Kanoko instead says that "At first you'd been saying that she(Hime) should quit," implying that Sumika was trying to get Hime to resign from the salon.

** A fan translation of a later chapter has Orochi claim that he killed his relative [[spoiler:Kurozumi Kanjuro]]'s parents, when, in fact, he "got rid of the people who killed (his) parents."

* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', in Chapter 43, Kanoko tells Sumika that Sumika has stopped trying to convince Kanoko to give up on her fixation on Hime, and Sumika replys by saying that she's on Kanoko's side. In the localization, Kanoko instead says that "At first you'd been saying that she(Hime) should quit," implying that Sumika was trying to get Hime to resign from the salon.

*** 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]].

*** What's more perplexing, they somehow [[InconsistentDub couldn't keep the names consistent]] not only within the series but even [[UpToEleven within a single episode]]. Take a look on an example. Yami during his duel with [[spoiler: fake Kaiba]] summons Dark Magician and calls him "Cień Magii" (''Shadow of Magic''). Later, Yami casts Magical Hats on Dark Magician and calls him "Mroczny Magik" (which is closer to "Dark Magician" and might be the only case in the show when dubs use this name). When [[spoiler: Real Kaiba]] watched the fight on his computer, it said Yugi used a combination of Magical Hats and... "Black Magic". They managed to use three different names for the same card in the same episode!

* There was an ''Anime/AskDrRin'' subbing that had Tokiwa call himself a "LovableSexManiac". Now, ostensibly true as that may be for character description purposes, understanding Japanese, I can definitely say that he was calling himself a "[[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} shikigami]] user" instead, which makes a lot more sense.

** As an aside, Rez (レズ) in Japanese, if a separate word, is an abbreviation of "lesbian".

* In the ''VideoGame/Persona4'' manga adaptation, Dojima is once mentioned as having asked "the teacher" about the hospitalized [[spoiler:Nanako]]. "Sensei" is a Japanese term of respect for many different professions, not just teachers(which is what the word is usually associated with), so the translation was clearly supposed to say "the doctor."

** In the first episode of ''Golden Wind'', when Giorno is surrounded by adoring girls at a café, he says "Hitori ga suki," which can mean either "I like one person" or "I like to be alone" depending on context. He means the latter, but the English dub translated it as "There's only one girl I like, move along." He never shows any romantic interest in anyone for the entire season.

** In the first episode of ''Golden Wind'', when Giorno is surrounded by adoring girls at a café, he says "Hitori ga suki," which can mean either "I like one person" or "I like to be alone" depending on context. He means the latter, but the English dub translated it as "There's only one girl I like, move along."

-->"In the past, my Stand became dangerous to me and ''I ended up dead''. I witnessed various humans like us."

* ''Initial D 4th Stage'' out of Malaysia 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."

*** ''Energon'''s second Hungarian dubbing at first made sure to call the characters by the names made popular in the translations of the [[Comicbook/TheTransformers old Marvel Comics series]], rather than names used in the show's first dub. But as the series progressed, the names began alternating every other episode, leading to a confusing mess. Even in the 20 minute DVD ClipShow ''Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle'', containing newly dubbed clips from ''Energon'' and ''Cybertron'', couldn't keep them straight: certain names would change within the same scene, while characters who have only ever been named in ''Energon'' would be erroneously referred to by Generation 1 names or completely new names.