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Pokémon Anime Botched dub edits

Discussion in 'Pokémon General' started by Otter Mii-kun, Jul 7, 2017.

  1. Otter Mii-kun

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    The Pokémon anime's English dub, particularly when it was done by 4Kids, has been notorious for "cringeworthy" editing errors, often a result of rewriting parts of the script to cater to Western audiences.

    What are your favorite botched dub edits?

    My all-time favorite dub editing error is the "Hurricane winds are a breeze for Pidgeotto here" line in Mewtwo Strikes Back, which Corey said in the 4Kids dub even though the Pokémon shown is clearly a Pidgeot.

    Another noteworthy bad edit that cracks me up would be rice balls being infamously called "jelly-filled donuts", which I'm sure everybody knows about. When I first saw Brock incorrectly describe the rice balls in that way, I thought to myself "those are some strange-looking donuts!"
     
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    They tend to go back and forth between referring to the rice balls and donuts and sandwiches, which always confused me as a kid. They don't look like either, but could be strangely shaped donuts. There's no way that they could have been sandwiches, though.
     
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    The donuts for sure. I never understood why the donuts were white.
     
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    I LOVE JELLY FILLED DOUGHNUTS!!

    But also onigiri being changed to sub sandwiches... why?
     
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    Of course jelly filled doughnuts.

    There was one line somewhere that just defies Pokémon logic itself:

    "Finish it with False Swipe!"

    4Kids, you do know that False Swipe leaves the target at 1 HP? No?
     
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    That line that's always stuck with me was when Brock claims that water-types are weak against fire types. Like... That's pretty much the first type matchup you learn about in the game...

    It gets a little more mind-boggling when in that same match, Ash's water-type is beaten by a fire-type attack, so maybe it wasn't just a dub edit. Maybe the entire episode had the facts wrong.
     
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    "What Pokémon evolves into Seviper?" It got so bad that Pokémon STAFF had to handle these questions! LMAO
     
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    Wait Fire types aren't strong against Water types? Then how did Alain's Mega Charizard X beat Ash-Greninja with Blast Burn?
     
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    Nothing makes sense anymore.
     
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    Not sure if this was the official episode, but I was watching Ash and Volkner's gym battle on YouTube and all of a sudden Ash had Volkner's lines and Volkner had Ash's lines XD Whether it was the real episode or not, it sure was funny.
     
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