- Adaptation Displacement: Westerners are more likely to be familiar with the dubbed anime than the manga it is based on, or even the original Kinnikuman manga and anime.
- Anti-Climax Boss:
- Ricardo was set up to be the Big Bad of the Choujin Olympics Revival Arc, but his fight with Mantarou was lackluster and not even the main focus of the volume in which he's defeated.
- General Terror/Akuma Shogun is a better example, since he appears in the last English released volume only to disappear just as quickly, namely by Ashuraman taking him out with the crystalline leg he provided him.
- Arc Fatigue: The Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc. They had been in the past since 2005! To put it in context, Yudetamago spent more time on this single tournament arc than any other arc they'd done at the time, including arcs from the original Kinnikuman. Which is sad, really, considering that they were pretty good at avoiding this trope. Technically speaking, the Tag Arc is its own series; even so, it wouldn't be until 2011 the the arc would finally conclude.
- Awesome Music: The English theme song. UL-TI-MATE! MU-SCLE!
- The Japanese theme song is arguably even more awesome.
- The Japanese theme song
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
- Hanzo transforming into a horseshoe crab and then crushing Mantaro with his spiked shell during their fight. It comes out of nowhere and Hanzo only uses this technique once.
- Reborn Ashuraman preforming the Improved Ashura Buster (The version of his Ashura Buster where he grabs the ankles, wrists, and head, while holding his opponent over his head instead of on his shoulder) during his fight with Mantaro. It is especially strange considering that Ashuraman has literally no reason to do so, considering the Ultimate Ashura Buster is basically an even better version of the Improved Ashura Buster, due to grabbing the entirety of the legs, and the wrists, while also trapping the head with a leg lock.
- Broken Base: Was the 4Kids dub of this show an example of one of their very few dubs where they actually did things right, and quite possibly their only dub worth watching over the Japanese original? Or should it be treated with nothing but bile simply because it's a 4Kids dub? To this day, no-one can really see eye-to-eye on it.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Surprisingly a lot of the jokes in the 4Kids dub count as this, namely Wolfman's reaction to hearing Mantaro backtalk to Suguru, which has him graphically describes how he horribly beats his children and humiliates them as well, which culminates in him wondering why he doesn't have any visitation rights, meaning that he did actually treat his own son like that.
"What a brat! If my son talked to me like that, I'd beat him to within an inch of his life! I'd whip him senseless with my belt, and hold his head in the toilet until he was begging for mercy! I still don't understand why the judge cut off my visitation rights..."
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Many of Mantarou's opponents, like Kevin Mask, Checkmate, Mars, and Bone Cold are popular despite their limited appearances.
- Fridge Brilliance: In the show we never see Mantarou use the basic Kinniku Buster again after the Mars fight. Why? Because Mars showed off the counter to it on TV. No way any other combatant won't have seen and studied that.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The anime wasn't very popular in Japan, but became ridiculously so in America. One-shot villain Puripuriman/Monsieur Cheeks is also popular in America, to the point that he was used as Mr. Exposition throughout the remainder of the dub after his only appearance in the show proper. The anime was so popular in America that another season (which covered the Choujin Olympics Revival Arc) was commissioned by 4Kids.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Mantarou thought that Suguru was a fraud back when he was about to fight him for the Hercules Factory graduation fights. The 2011 revival manga reveals that Suguru actually also held this opinion of himself.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Anyone who's read the original series might find it funny that Kevin Mask constantly switches sides, since Robin Mask had a habit doing so in the first series (though admittedly, not as much as Kevin).
- Jerkass Woobie:
- In the Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc, it is Thunder of all people as in his backstory, he discovers that the reason why his mother was scared of him when he was a kid was because his father, a Time Choujin like him, attacked his home village and even raped his mother which explains why he was born! This caused him to run away from home crying. You got to feel sorry for the guy.
- Sunshine. Heel–Face Turn by his last appearance on the first series, Face–Heel Turn by the time Nisei came around because his comrades and friends left him one by one, but he still respected the Idol Choujin despite being enemies. And he always carried with him a photo of his companions and which is also the only remaining memory he has of them. So when Checkmate rips it out of apathy... he promptly breaks into tears. Even though he put his pupils through Training from Hell and was an Devil Choujin, you can't help but feel sorry for the guy.
- Memetic Loser: Gazelleman/Dik Dik Van Dik, is mocked among the fandom for never (canonically) winning a match.
- Narm: Though the puns were fitting, 4Kids still gave the show their usual watering down, Never Say "Die" included. This is perhaps at its absolute worst with the death of Mince, where the characters quite insistently repeat that he only broke his hip and was only badly hurt even while Meat is sobbing over his clothed body and his face appears in the sky inspirationally.
- Narm Charm: Meat's deep, gravelly voice in the English Dub, provivded by Mike Pollock, manages to be both jarring and fitting at the same time.
- No Problem with Licensed Games: Both games released in America for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 respectively are considered very fun wresting games with good controls and a great selection of characters. Some consider them the best wrestling games ever made.
- The Scrappy:
- Terry the Kid. Not only are a great deal of most of his moves basically Terryman's moves, which are already criticized for being lame, he also tries to deny the fact that he's nothing like Terryman and that he performs the moves at different angles and timing, which isn't fooling anybody.
- Canadianman's getting his fair share of hatred for taking successive levels in jerkassery, but his Scrappy status was really cemented when he tried to unmask Chaos as Kinnikuman Great.
- Jijioman, for being a Dirty Old Man who receives little to no comeuppance for his acts of perversion and his unappealing design of an extremely elderly man in an adult diaper. He's also notably disliked for taking the place of more popular past antagonists in the Army of Idols in the Demon Seed Arc, like Bone Cold or Ricardo, in the Demon Seed Arc, which makes him seem out of place among the rest of the members, who were all fairly popular villains (Scarface, Kevin Mask, Hanzo, and Illioukhine) return to help him.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Basically every Ensemble Dark Horse doesn't get much time to shine.
- Checkmate. He has a cool gimmick of being able to shapeshift into a stone body with a castle for a head or a centaur, as well as being the student of Sunshine. He most notably never fights in a match again after he is defeated by Mantaro.
- Hanzo, for being a ninja choujin with a strange yet interesting fighting style, leading to his fights being memorable. He notably disappears from the story entirely after the Demon Seed Arc with no given explanation.
- So Bad, It's Good: Just like with the Spanish dub of the prequel, the series was dubbed in Colombia (a country when Professional Wrestling is not very popular to begin with, compared to Mexico) and it suffers for it, although this is justified, as 4Kids were unable to dub it in Mexico (compared with their other series they dubbed before) due to budget constraints.note
- Strawman Has a Point: Anybody who's read Kinnikuman would agree with the old Choujin that Mantarou is completely out of line for assuming that Suguru's fights were fixed. But then, you learn that after the ending of the original series, Suguru annulled his fight records and burnt every video of his fights (keeping only a picture of him and Terryman holding up the Dream Choujin Tag Tournament trophy to himself). The only photographs of him left was when he was still a complete coward, so combining with the fact that Suguru became a Bumbling Dad when Mantarou was born, it's not hard to see why Mantarou thought his father fixed his fights.
- Superlative Dubbing: Believe it or not, 4Kids did remarkably well with this show, since the goofy, over-the-top voice acting and Hurricane of Puns fit the tone of the show perfectly. After all, the series is an action-comedy, whose origins are from a manga that was originally a gag manga. As such, it's commonly cited as one the few anime that 4Kids managed to not screw up.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kevin Mask's motivation in the Choujin Olympics arc, namely to defeat Mantaro to avenge the Mask dynasty's humilation because of Robin losing to Suguru in the 20th Choujin Olympics, which seems quite unreasonable, given that Robin Mask essentially restored the honor of his family after his Heel–Face Turn, and that Suguru and Robin are both close friends. The fact that Robin literally states he wants to lose properly to Suguru in a clean fight unlike the last two times in the Farewell, Kinnikuman one-shot only makes Kevin seem less sympathetic in the revelation, not to mention that Kevin attempted to remove Mantaro's mask, which, if it had been a successful attempt, would have resulted in Mantaro having to off himself, due to the Kinniku Clan's traditions would sour any sympathy one would have for Kevin.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The 4Kids dub has some surpisingly dirty jokes, especially since 4Kids has a (notorious, depending on who you ask) reputation of sanitizing things for it's intended audience of... well, kids. One dirty joke in particular is Mantaro mentioning that he knows all of his father Suguru's secrets, which includes their sexual fetishes, such as the time Suguru dressed up as Bibimba, while Bibimba herself dressed up as Buffaloman, and wrestled her husband into submission.
- Woolseyism:
- Some of the dialog's meaning was changed completely. Kid Muscle (to Roxanne): "Bring your two friends! We could have a foursome... for golf!"
- Even detractors of the dub agree that renaming Gazelleman to Dik Dik Van Dik was one of the dub's best creative liberties.
- The Iroha Hell Tour got renamed as the Alphabet Soup de Loop in the dub. Already an unrealistic move in the Japanese version, it's made even moreso in English (the three parts of the attack spell out "Iroha" in katakana, the dub spells it as "YOA" (as in, as Mantarou puts it, "YOA OUTTA HERE!"), with the イ kana flipped to make it look like a lowercase Y.)
- Tel-Tel Boy's Antenna Slice is repurposed into the Handtenna Zap Slap for the dub, which actually makes a bit more sense, considering he's a walking cell phone, an electronic device. It also helps that the kanji on his face, 電, translates to "electricity".
