History Main / InconsistentDub

*** In the first season, the term "Sailor Senshi" was usually translated as "Sailor Guerreiras" (Sailor Warriors). After the [[UnCancelled Uncancelling]] and studio swap, suddenly they were... "the Sailor Moons" (which made the InTheNameOfTheMoon speech ridiculously [[{{Narm}} Narmy]], since Sailor Moon said her name ''three times'' [[hottip:* :"I'm ''a'' Sailor Moon! Who fights for love and justice! I'm Sailor Moon! Sailor Moon will punish you in the name of the moon"]]). After 70% of the R season it was changed to sometimes-Sailor and sometimes-Sailor Guerreiras, and so it stayed for all subsequent seasons.

* The Korean dub of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' refers to ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' as ''Power Rangers Blade Force''. This contradicts an earlier dub name the team received in ''KamenRiderDecade'' where they were known as ''Power Rangers Samurai Force''.

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* The Korean dub of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' refers to ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' as ''Power Rangers Blade Force''. This contradicts an earlier dub name the team received in ''KamenRiderDecade'' where they were known as ''Power Rangers Samurai Force''.

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* Same with... well, just about everyone in the ''Manga/SailorMoon S'' dub. Both attacks and transformation sequences never really stayed the same. Similarly, "[[CrystalDragonJesus Messiah]]" and "Holy Grail" had to be censored, but they never decided what to change them to.
** Quite possibly the worst offender is the [[MacGuffin Silver Crystal]] (Maboroshi no Ginzuishou). It's given a variety of different names in the anime dub, such as the Imperium Silver Crystal, Silver Moon Crystal, just plain Silver Crystal, or some variety of those three.

*** Fortunately you can tell which translator is working on the episode you're about to watch: if Inuyasha opens the episode with (the accurately translated) "I'll destroy Narak[u] with the Tessaiga!", it was Janson. If he does so with (the bizarrely reinterpreted) "We'll destroy Narak[u] with our steel teeth!", it was Correa.

*** For the Italian versions, there was actually a poll to determine whether Darth Vader (known as "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Dart]] Fener" in Italian) would use his original name in the ''RevengeOfTheSith'' dub. "Fener" won with 55% of the votes, although "Darth Vader", for some reason, is still used in most Italian merchandise blurbs. (Not to mention the fact that other Sith Lords would use "Darth" rather than "Dart" as a title.)

*** Fortunately you can tell which translator is working on the episode you're about to watch: if Inuyasha opens the episode with (the accurately translated) "I'll destroy Narak[u] with the Tessaiga!", it was Janson. If he does so with (the bizarrely reinterpreted) "We'll destroy Narak[u] [[DarthWiki/NaRm with our steel teeth!]]", it was Correa.

* The infamous Swedish translation of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' by [[AkeOhlmarks Åke Ohlmarks]] couldn't make up its mind whether one place was named Isengard, Isendor or Isendal. The river Entwash was first named "Slamma flod" ("Muddy River"), then "Bukteån" ("Bendy Stream") before finally becoming "Ente älv" ("Ent River").

** Another oddity of the Hungarian dub was Frieza's name, which was at first translated as Dermesztina ("Freezetina"), but was changed to Dermesztő ("Freezer") when it became apparent that he's a guy. Some changes also took place when they started dubbing ''DragonBallGT'' -- most of the French carryover names were left as they were, but the Trunk was restored to Trunks, as was Mr. Momo to Mr. Popo. Also, Vegeta finally began calling Son Goku by his Sayan name Kakarotto, while in the dub of ''Z'', he constantly referred to him as Songoku, save for a single episode in which Kakarotto was bizarrely translated as "Kásáló".

*** The Tokyopop translation of the English manga is also bad with this. Ichigo's age changed from 11 to 12 to 13, and back to 11. Her attack name also changed from "Sutoro Bell Bell" to the more accurate "Ribbon Strawberry Check" after the first volume. Kimera animals were also called "Chimera animals" in the first volume.

** Ironically, in Japanese episode 33 Blitzmon says "Lightning Topper" when using "Golden Thunder."

* The European Spanish dub of ''{{Friends}}'' renders [[KavorkaMan Joey's]] "How ''you'' doin?" catchphrase a different thing everytime it shows up, which kills the point of a catchphrase on the first place. The same happened with [[FamilyMatters Steve Urkel's]] "Did I do that?".

* An entire book has been written about problems in the Italian translation of ''HarryPotter''. Some infamous examples of InconsistentDub:

* The ''HarryPotter'' books started out changing "jumper" to "sweater", but quit at some point, creating a strange ambiguity. For all one knew, Lupin actually was intended to be wearing a child's dress, because surely if they meant a warm, woolen pullover which is worn by all sorts of people, they'd say so, as per usual.

* Mew Lettuce from ''TokyoMewMew'' has one attack, Reborn Lettuce Rush. Mew Bridget from 4Kids' ''Mew Mew Power'' was given 2 attacks; the second one just being the same attacked flipped the other way.

* Mew Lettuce from ''TokyoMewMew'' has one attack, Reborn Lettuce Rush. Mew Bridget from 4Kids' ''Mew Mew Power'' has about five, and they all look the same and do the same thing.

* The ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' manga by Viz ran into this during the "Aging Mushrooms" (called "Mushrooms of Time" in the English version) storyline. After consuming one of the titular items, which make you as old as the mushroom is long (in centimeters,) Ryouga turns into a little 6 year-old kid. Later on, he's fed a 3cm mushroom and becomes a three year-old, and he gets back at Ranma with the "Explosive Pulverization" technique (the ''Bakusai Tenketsu'', which Viz itself had ''always'' translated as "Breaking Point") and he gains a three year-old's lisp. Even worse, when he eats a 10cm mushroom, ''he keeps the lisp'' even though he didn't have one when he was six.

** In later dubbed series, this occurs ridiculously often between the dub of the television show and the US merchandise - for example, Dynasmon is referred to as Dunasmon in the card game, while Crusadermon retains his original name of [=LordKnightmon=]. As of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', it's clear that Bandai of America [[TheyJustDidntCare simply stopped caring]] - of all the Digimon introduced in ''Frontier'', absolutely none of them are listed as having the same attacks in the merchandise as they do in the anime, or in the Japanese media for that matter! Then there are the name inconsistencies - aside from the aforementioned Dynasmon and Crusadermon, Bandai also makes mistakes about "Lanamon"[[note]]Ranamon in the dub anime and Japanese material[[/note]], "Sephirothmon"[[note]]Sakkakumon in the dub anime, Sefirotmon in Japanese material[[/note]], "Velgrmon"[[note]]Velgemon in the dub anime, Velgmon in Japanese material[[/note]] and most annoyingly of all, "Kerpymon"[[hottip:*:Cherubimon literally everywhere else, [[{{Macekre}} and for good reason]]; this name is unfortunately as old as ''02'']]. The kicker here? According to ''Adventure'' dub director JeffNimoy, Bandai actually gave the dubbers what names to use for things, at least in the ''Adventure'' days, so either they stopped caring and doing that... or they were deliberately fucking with the dubbers by changing names after giving them.
** In the first airing of a Digimon 02 dub episode, a bunch of [=YukimiBotamon=] were referred to by this name, but the on-screen text showed "[=SnowBotamon=]" (English name used in Bandai's merchandise). Later reruns corrected the text, but the confusion remained.

* Italian dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' is filled with this. Crimson Chin got to be named Crimson il Mentone at first, then C-Man, then Crimson Mentone. His enemy Bronze Kneepads became initially Ginocchiera di Bronzo, then Ginocchio di Bronzo and finally Rotula di Bronzo. Remy Buxaplenty's name got pronounced in two different ways ("Ray-mi Bucks-a-plenty" the first time, "Ray-mee Books-a-plenty" in every other instance)

*** In 2013, ''Energon'' saw a [[DuelingDubs redub]], which attempted to reinstall the Marvel translations, though a few English and old-''Energon'' names still slip in occasionally. Further, this made it even more inconsistent with its prequel ''Armada'' and its sequel ''Cybertron''.

* The English dub of ''Gundam SEED Destiny'' transforms Kira's calm character into a naive and cocky person with some lines. In the original Japanese "I won't fight (ZAFT). Don't make me fight (ZAFT)." was changed to "I won't kill. Don't make me kill." even though he already made it clear he would shoot down anybody in his way in ''Gundam SEED''. The video games series ''Dynasty Warriors'' takes this to the extreme when he says "Thanks to this sword Lacus gave me, I can start kicking butt!"

** Energon takes it UpToEleven, but that doesn't mean Armada is guilty only of reverting TIdal Wave to his Japanese name once or twice. Megatron's partner Mini-con is named Leader-1, in homage to the main ''good guy'' from WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots. However, the name Leader-1 would be applied to almost ''any'' Mini-con at least once. Also, many a Mini-con reverted to the Japanese name (Swindle gets called Grid once, etc.) Rush-job applies here, too, though that's usually not enoguh to get the shows forgiven: ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' was ''also'' rushed to the States... and is a ''splendid'' example of how {{Woolseyism}} is done best, becoming more popular in US than the original ever was in Japan. You have to find a ''highly'' dedicated weeaboo to insist on the Japanese names in RID.