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** In South Korea, ''SuperSentai'' is locally dubbed under the name of ''PowerRangers'', a practice which began with ''BakuryuSentaiAbaranger'', which was translated into ''Power Rangers: Dino Thunder'' (unrelated to the actual ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''). Originally, several of the 80s ''Sentai'' seasons (from ''ChoudenshiBioman'' through ''KousokuSentaiTurboranger'', plus ''DaiSentaiGoggleFive'') were dubbed in Korean, until they switched to ''Power Rangers'' dubs during the ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' craze. ''PowerRangersWildForce'' was the last "proper" ''Rangers'' season dubbed in Korean before they switched back to ''Sentai'' (because of anti-Japanese sentiments clashing with the theme of ''PowerRangersNinjaStorm''), keeping the ''Power Rangers'' name for marketability purposes.

** In South Korea, ''SuperSentai'' is locally dubbed under the name of ''PowerRangers'', a practice which began with ''BakuryuSentaiAbaranger'', which was translated into ''Power Rangers: Dino Thunder'' (unrelated to the actual ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''). Originally, several of the 80s ''Sentai'' seasons (from ''ChoudenshiBioman'' through ''KousokuSentaiTurboranger'', plus ''DaiSentaiGoggleFive'') were dubbed in Korean, until they switched to ''Power Rangers'' dubs during the ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' craze. ''PowerRangersWildForce'' was the last "proper" ''Rangers'' season dubbed in Korean before they switched back to ''Sentai'', keeping the ''Power Rangers'' name for marketability purposes.

* ''NinjaResurrection'', implying a connection with ''NinjaScroll''.

** In South Korea, ''SuperSentai'' is locally dubbed under the name of ''PowerRangers'', a practice which began with ''BakuryuSentaiAbaranger'', which was translated into ''Power Rangers: Dino Thunder'' (unrelated to the actual ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''). Originally, several of the 80s ''Sentai'' seasons (from ''ChoudenshiBioman'' through ''KousokuSentaiTurboranger'', plus ''DaiSentaiGoggleFive'') were dubbed in Korean, until they switched to ''Power Rangers'' dubs during the ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' craze. ''PowerRangersWildForce'' was the last "proper" ''Rangers'' season dubbed in Korean before they switched back to ''Sentai''.

** In South Korea, ''SuperSentai'' is locally dubbed under the name of ''PowerRangers'', a practice which began with ''BakuryuSentaiAbaranger'', which was translated into ''Power Rangers: Dino Thunder'' (unrelated to the actual ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''). Originally, several of the 80s ''Sentai'' seasons (from ''ChoundenshiBioman'' through ''KousokuSentaiTurboranger'', plus ''DaiSentaiGoggleFive'') were dubbed in Korean, until they switched to ''Power Rangers'' dubs during the ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' craze. ''PowerRangersWildForce'' was the last "proper" ''Rangers'' season dubbed in Korean before they switched back to ''Sentai''.

** In South Korea, ''SuperSentai'' is locally dubbed under the name of ''PowerRangers'', a practice which began with ''BakuryuSentaiAbaranger'', which was translated into ''Power Rangers: Dino Thunder'' (unrelated to the actual ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''). Only ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' was skipped due to cultural reasons (in its place, a Korean dub of ''HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' was made instead).

** Likewise, in Brazil, the MetalHeroes series ''JikuuSenshiSpielban'' became ''[[KyojuuTokusouJuspion Jaspion]] 2'', trying to pass up as a sequel to a previous Metal Hero who was really popular there.

* The ''KOF Maximum Impact'' series is a spin-off of the main ''{{The King of Fighters}}'' series. However, that didn't stop SNK's US division from rebranding the game into ''The King of Fighters 2006''.

* ''Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth'' was retitled in Sweden to ''Scary Video'', an obvious nod to ''ScaryMovie''.

* In Hebrew, nearly every comedy is translated into something ending in the phrase "met mitzchok", or "died of laughter".

* The NES shoot-em-up ''Contra Force'' has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the ''{{Contra}}'' series. Its actually a localization of a canceled Famicom game titled ''Arc Hound''.
* ''Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight'' was already titled ''2010 Street Fighter'' in Japan, meaning that a connection between it and the ''StreetFighter'' was already implied long before the English localization rewrote the script. However, the "FinalFight" subtitle did not exist in the Japanese version.

* The Capcom arcade game ''Top Secret'' had its title changed for its overseas version due to an [[TopSecret unrelated movie]] with the same name. The overseas version was released under the name of ''BionicCommando'', implying a connection between it and Capcom's overhead run 'n gun game ''Commando'', despite having nothing to do with it originally (the American flier even claimed that Super Joe was the main character). The later NES version tried to strengthen the connection by including ''Commando''-style overhead segments and the real Super Joe as a supporting character.

* Another Capcom example: the side-scrolling fantasy-themed platform game ''Chiki Chiki Boys'' was released outside Japan for the arcades as ''Mega Twins'', presumably implying that it was a ''MegaMan'' spinoff. It helps that the two main kids sort of look a bit like Mega Man and his "older brother" Proto Man (whose debut game, ''Mega Man III'', was released a few months after ''Mega Twins'' hit the arcades).

* In France, ''StrangerThanFiction'' is titled ''L'incroyable destin de Harold Crick'', which imitates the original French title of ''{{Amelie}}'', ''Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain''.

* The Dutch action film ''Vet Hard'' was released in the US as ''[[TheFastAndTheFurious Too Fat Too Furious]]''. [[WallBanger This is also a pun on Dutch slang and as such is completely incomprehensible to people who don't speak Dutch.]]

* In Finland, {{ER}} is known as ''Teho-osasto'' or ''intensive care unit''. {{Scrubs}} in turn became ''Tuho-osasto'' or loosely translated ''destructive care unit''.

* ''BionicCommando'' was so named to imply an association with Capcom's previous game ''Commando''; the arcade version was even explicitly advertised as a sequel. In the original Japanese release, there was no such connection, and the game was titled ''Top Secret'' ([[TopSecret no relation]]).
** The NES version did feature Super Joe as a supporting character, perhaps in an attempt to legitimize the connection.

* The Dutch action film ''Vet Hard'' was released in the US as ''[[TheFastAndTheFurious Too Fat Too Furious]]''. [[WallBanger This is a pun on Dutch slang and as such is completely incomprehensible to people who don't speak Dutch.]]

* ''Return of the Dragon'' was originally called ''[[WayOfTheDragon Way of the Dragon]]'' when it was produced in Hong Kong. ''EnterTheDragon'' was actually BruceLee's last complete film, but the retitling of ''Way of the Dragon'' was a means of capitalizing on Bruce Lee's fame and releasing the earlier film to a wider audience. All this despite the obviously higher budget of ''Enter the Dragon'' (being a Hollywood/Hong Kong joint studio venture), not to mention the fact that Lee's characters in the two films are obviously not the same person (in name OR in personality), and thus neither film was actually a sequel to the other. But if one were to [[FanWank fanwank]] them into a continuous story, it would be much easier to justify a clueless country bumpkin becoming a wise secret agent than vice-versa, and thus the Enter/Return titling makes no sense whatsoever.

** Likewise, in Brazil, the MetalHeroes series ''JikuuSenshiSpielban'' became ''Jaspion 2'', trying to pass up as a sequel to a previous Metal Hero who was really popular there.

* ''Return of the Dragon'' was originally called ''Way of the Dragon'' when it was produced in Hong Kong. ''EnterTheDragon'' was actually BruceLee's last complete film, but the retitling of ''Way of the Dragon'' was a means of capitalizing on Bruce Lee's fame and releasing the earlier film to a wider audience. All this despite the obviously higher budget of ''Enter the Dragon'' (being a Hollywood/Hong Kong joint studio venture), not to mention the fact that Lee's characters in the two films are obviously not the same person (in name OR in personality), and thus neither film was actually a sequel to the other. But if one were to [[FanWank fanwank]] them into a continuous story, it would be much easier to justify a clueless country bumpkin becoming a wise secret agent than vice-versa, and thus the Enter/Return titling makes no sense whatsoever.

* The Soviet film Ivan Vasilevich Changes His Occupation was translated as Ivan Vasilevich: Back to the Future. [[BackToTheFuture Back To The Future]] and Ivan Vasilevich are mainly related in that they have to do with time traveling.