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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by OzzyApu » Sun May 27, 2012 1:45 am

DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:We really need to make a collection of all of these lines and put them into one video. It'd be awesome, and bad for my poor, little ears.
I'd love it. It's a pain having to sift through youtube clips to find bad lines, or even longer clips with maybe a couple cringe moments. If someone could mush them all in long compilations then that'd be awesome.

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Post by Gonstead » Sun May 27, 2012 2:06 am

I MIGHT be possibly buying a couple boxsets of Season 3 in the near future, so if I get the chance I can probably do one for Season 3.

That, and I could possibly complete the Frieza Saga challenge.
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Metalwario64 » Sun May 27, 2012 2:45 am

The real man's "Freeza Saga Challenge" is done via the original single DVDs. Plenty of little redubbing done on the season set, especially for extremely minor characters like this. (Posted video is the original dub by the way)
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Gonstead » Sun May 27, 2012 3:47 am

Metalwario64 wrote:The real man's "Freeza Saga Challenge" is done via the original single DVDs. Plenty of little redubbing done on the season set, especially for extremely minor characters like this. (Posted video is the original dub by the way)
That's exactly what I'll be possibly buying :)
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Fizzer » Sun May 27, 2012 5:46 am

Frieza saga challange... Would that be the the "Season 3" episodes, or the real Frieza saga? And what would you name a game of watching with entire Ocean dub, filling in the gap with the original Funi fub? :P

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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Gonstead » Sun May 27, 2012 9:07 am

Fizzer wrote:Freeza saga challange... Would that be the the "Season 3" episodes, or the real Freeza saga? And what would you name a game of watching with entire Ocean dub, filling in the gap with the original Funi fub? :P
The Frieza Saga portion of the Season 3 dub.

Ocean Dub Marathon? I'd call it a Tsunami.

I remember a pretty bad line from the original Funimation dub (Ocean)

"Nappa, remind me to get you de-flead after we're done here"
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by dbboxkaifan » Sun May 27, 2012 9:11 am

"Ally to good, nightmare to you!" isn't bad but nor is it Dragon Ball-related, it's more something, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man or whoever would say it.
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Post by Gonstead » Sun May 27, 2012 9:25 am

Technically, he was indeed a nightmare to Frieza XD
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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sun May 27, 2012 9:31 am

dbboxkaifan wrote:"Ally to good, nightmare to you!" isn't bad but nor is it Dragon Ball-related, it's more something, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man or whoever would say it.
Any superhero you like.
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

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DBZAOTA482 wrote:
dbboxkaifan wrote:"Ally to good, nightmare to you!" isn't bad but nor is it Dragon Ball-related, it's more something, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man or whoever would say it.
Any superhero you like.
Really just the Superman/Captain America-type superhero. Batman and Iron Man aren't your stereotypical heroes; they're even closer to anti-heroes, since the former has such a skewed moral code and the latter is, well, an asshole.

Gokuu fits into neither of those; he's just a happy-go-lucky martial artist hick who likes to fight and ends up getting tangled up in death-matches for the fate of the planet/universe far too often for his own good.

I think someone already mentioned Gohan's "I'm my father's SOOOOOOON!" in DBZ Movie #9. I remember almost choking with laughter when I heard that, which completely spoiled the tension of the scene.
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Drew » Sun May 27, 2012 11:20 am

"Cats loves food, yeah yeah yeah," is one that always sticks out in my mind.

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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by OzzyApu » Sun May 27, 2012 12:16 pm

Gonstead wrote:"Nappa, remind me to get you de-flead after we're done here"
"I'm telling you Vegeta, I don't have fleas! I'm just itching for some action!"
Ugh, that reminds me of the scenes when Freeza is sensed by the crew on Earth and Oolong's eating Bulma's food going "nom nom nom oh man I'm piggin' out" in his corny voice. So bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDnTRO0T ... re=related

I'm pretty sure it's in this clip near the end (I muted it so I wouldn't have to hear it again).

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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by BluezaBladeNZ » Sun May 27, 2012 5:38 pm

I would love to do a compilation of all the bad and cringeworthy lines as I have all the original singles, but I wouldn't have the time for it.

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Post by Gonstead » Sun May 27, 2012 6:21 pm

BluezaBladeNZ wrote:I would love to do a compilation of all the bad and cringeworthy lines as I have all the original singles, but I wouldn't have the time for it.
Send them to me and I'll gladly do it ^_^
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Corporate_Nothing » Mon May 28, 2012 2:03 am

Gonstead wrote:I MIGHT be possibly buying a couple boxsets of Season 3 in the near future, so if I get the chance I can probably do one for Season 3.

That, and I could possibly complete the Freeza Saga challenge.
I own the ("silent fix" re-pressings) of the Season 3 DVD singles. Captain Ginyu, Freeza, and Trunks Saga. All the original music and voices are present. No redubs. I could just loan you the DVDs themselves if you'd like.

Edit: Didn't see that you guys were already having this discussion. Yeah, anyone just free to PM me if you'd like to borrow them.

Edit 2: I own the Pioneer singles for the first three movies and the first two seasons as well.
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Corporate_Nothing wrote:
Gonstead wrote:I MIGHT be possibly buying a couple boxsets of Season 3 in the near future, so if I get the chance I can probably do one for Season 3.

That, and I could possibly complete the Freeza Saga challenge.
I own the ("silent fix" re-pressings) of the Season 3 DVD singles. Captain Ginyu, Freeza, and Trunks Saga. All the original music and voices are present. No redubs. I could just loan you the DVDs themselves if you'd like.

Edit: Didn't see that you guys were already having this discussion. Yeah, anyone just free to PM me if you'd like to borrow them.
Really? I thought that they had Kyle Hebert as the narrator.

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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Corporate_Nothing » Mon May 28, 2012 2:08 am

Pokewhiz7 wrote: Really? I thought that they had Kyle Hebert as the narrator.
Nope, not for these "sagas" anyway. Dale "monster truck announcer" Kelly is present in all his cheesy glory.
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by dbboxkaifan » Mon May 28, 2012 2:13 am

"By the power of King Kai" < French DBZ script (They used this line instead of I am the Super Saiyan, Son Goku!! in Z)
"hey freeza *totally emotionless*" < Portuguese dub, there's nothing wrong with "Hey Freeza!" but the voice actor was terrible at shouting and doing a simple line.
"songohanda's ssj2 screams iyaaaaaaaaaaah *emotionless too*" < Spain's dub.

Seriously what the hell was going through those companies to hire crappy VAs who couldn't do a damn decent job.

Son Gohan in the Spanish Spain's dub is Songohanda, like the Portuguese, it's always Songohan, keeping the Son at all times was unnecessary and made the names' a bit too long.
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Re: Worst dub lines ever

Post by Gonstead » Mon May 28, 2012 2:15 am

Corporate_Nothing wrote:
Pokewhiz7 wrote: Really? I thought that they had Kyle Hebert as the narrator.
Nope, not for these "sagas" anyway. Dale "monster truck announcer" Kelly is present in all his cheesy glory.
Not to mention this scene right here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=copDFCwqlgY

Starring only 3 voice actors. Take a guess at who voices who.
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