Worst dub lines ever

[DBZGTKOSDH]

I don't know if anyone posted this, but here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTvabHR-9E

[Gaffer Tape]

3. Simply an update to the original. Honestly, what kid under the age of 10 knows what a VCR is?

Maybe being a kid has changed since I was one, but I'd honestly be surprised if most kids before 10 (I mean, come on, 10's pretty old) knew what a VCR was. When I was in that age range was the first half of the '90s, and I knew what a record player was. Hell, I knew what 8-tracks were before I was 7, and that was definitely dead technology. I don't think you're giving kids enough credit, especially given that VCRs would have been much more ubiquitous in their parents' lives than 8-tracks were in mine.

[DBZAOTA482]

He's moderately popular in Japan, and I'm talking about how they made him out to be such a manwhore in the old dub which only adds even more to the "Yamcha is a cheating womanizer and Vegeta is Bulma's shinning knight and armor" theory when in fact, Kuririn was more girl hungry than Yamcha (remember who's inability to think outside his penis is partly responsible for Cell reaching perfection). There's a FUNi bio saying "Although he is Bulma's boyfriend, he is attentive to other girls as well.", everyone during and after the Android Saga treat him with extreme callousness, making jokes about how the baby isn't his and how weak he is. Finally? You remember the episode where the Z-Senshi (with inclusion of family and friends) attended a barbeque at Bulma's place, in the dub, Chichi was talking about trading mates with Bulma then Yamcha butts in saying either one can take him and Chichi shoots him down while everyone (including Yamcha, himself) laughs their asses off (if I were him, I'd beat the shit out of her).

I think you're just getting waaaay too defensive about Yamcha. The dub isn't exactly horrible to him, and in Japan he's popular because they love making fun of his death in the Saiyan saga. And that last line is borderline psychotic, even if we were talking about one of his male friends. It's not normal to beat the shit out of people for making a joke at your expense, and I'd like to think Yamcha isn't a completely unhinged psychopath.

Really? They even imply that he's sexist.

[LiamKav]

Really? They even imply that he's sexist.

None of the main characters cover themselves in glory when it comes to gender equality, but I can't think of any specific to Yamcha example of him being sexist.

[Jord]

Haven't seen this classic posted here but I always cringed at this one:

*Tenshinhan's hand gets PUNCHED off by Nappa
Ten: You just wait till it grows back!

Also, some "gems" from IMDB:

Goku: That's what you think, Captain Cocky!

Frieza: There're three things I refuse to tolerate: cowardice, bad haircuts, and millitary insurrection.

Frieza: Thank you very much. I'm a visitor touring your lovely planet and I happened to come across seven Dragonballs. A man at a gift shop told me about the legend behind the balls. You know, the wish. But you need a password to activate them. Would you happen to know the password, my good man?
Nail: Not me. You should check with the chamber of commerce. They have that sort of information.

Vegeta: This doesn't concern you! This is between me and your circus clown of a father!
Goku: Circus clown. That's a new one.

Piccolo: I've never had real feelings about anyone before... Grr... I don't like it!

Dende: Hey! Don't piss off the god of love!

[DBZAOTA482]

Really? They even imply that he's sexist.

None of the main characters cover themselves in glory when it comes to gender equality, but I can't think of any specific to Yamcha example of him being sexist.

I remember in the dub where he said to Bulma "You're as smart as you can be, being a girl and all." Of course, I don't know how it is in the original.

[Gaffer Tape]

Oh, yeah. I remember that. Although I'd say that makes him sound more like he's 8 than a sexist.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Oh, yeah. I remember that. Although I'd say that makes him sound more like he's 8 than a sexist.

Except he's an adult male, and that's still a sexist comment that didn't exist in the original.

[Gaffer Tape]

What I'm saying is the line, as written, sounds like it was dialogue intended to be spoken by a child. Hell, even Sabat's delivery makes it sounds like it's being spoken by a child, not an adult sexist. Hell, listen to it and tell me that you'd know any adult who'd say something like, "You're pretty smart, for a guuuuuuuurl and all!"

[Piccolo Daimao]

What I'm saying is the line, as written, sounds like it was dialogue intended to be spoken by a child. Hell, even Sabat's delivery makes it sounds like it's being spoken by a child, not an adult sexist.

Same difference, IMO. Many sexists are immature by default anyway.

[Gaffer Tape]

I'm not really sure why you're arguing about it. It doesn't make any difference. We certainly seem to agree it's a stupid and insulting line. I just think that even if they were purposely trying to make him a sexist (which I doubt), they screwed it up by making it sound like 3rd grade playground banter.

[Piccolo Daimao]

I'm not really sure why you're arguing about it. It doesn't make any difference. We certainly seem to agree it's a stupid and insulting line. I just think that even if they were purposely trying to make him a sexist (which I doubt), they screwed it up by making it sound like 3rd grade playground banter.

Not really arguing about it, just saying that even if it sounds like he's a child, it's still sexist anyway. Maybe I or both of us are nitpicking now, so let's just end it here.

[Son Satan]

"Kami up there all by himself and with no internet connection" - Goku
"I sure am glad I set my DVR to record this" - Mr. Satan

I don't think I'm alone in saying this, but I enjoy these little quips in the Kai dub. One that made me smile in particular is when Kaio's looking up the coordinates for Namek in his directory, and while he's looking for it, the dub adds "This might as well be written in Japanese,". I think adding in little bits of more "Western" or "modern" humor, so long as it isn't Season 3-groan worthy, and doesn't replace a line, makes the dub seem more... colloquial, I guess, instead of just having the speech adapted to English.

[Gonstead]

"Kami up there all by himself and with no internet connection" - Goku
"I sure am glad I set my DVR to record this" - Mr. Satan

I don't think I'm alone in saying this, but I enjoy these little quips in the Kai dub. One that made me smile in particular is when Kaio's looking up the coordinates for Namek in his directory, and while he's looking for it, the dub adds "This might as well be written in Japanese,". I think adding in little bits of more "Western" or "modern" humor, so long as it isn't Season 3-groan worthy, and doesn't replace a line, makes the dub seem more... colloquial, I guess, instead of just having the speech adapted to English.

I also consider that line to be a good nod to the original while also making some humor in the process.

[Son Satan]

I also consider that line to be a good nod to the original while also making some humor in the process.

Another one I really liked was when Bulma comes into the hospital with that crazy hairdo, and Kame Se'nin says "I thought you a deranged nurse [which was in the original] with a dated hairstyle." I love seeing the self-referential humor.

OT: Not really bad lines, but listen to anything the dub made Kila say. Atrocious.

[paparapa!!]

dbboxkaifan wrote:

"Kami up there all by himself and with no internet connection" - Goku
"I sure am glad I set my DVR to record this" - Mr. Satan


I don't think I'm alone in saying this, but I enjoy these little quips in the Kai dub. One that made me smile in particular is when Kaio's looking up the coordinates for Namek in his directory, and while he's looking for it, the dub adds "This might as well be written in Japanese,". I think adding in little bits of more "Western" or "modern" humor, so long as it isn't Season 3-groan worthy, and doesn't replace a line, makes the dub seem more... colloquial, I guess, instead of just having the speech adapted to English.

I think there incredibly hokey, and by the way there is no Japan and hence no Japanese language in the Dragon Ball universe (also, everybody speaks the same language anyway).

As for my own "worst dub lines ever", it's hard to say, because examples such as many of these occurred almost every other time a chacter opened their mouths during much of the Z dub. If I had to give indivual examples though, I guess I go with Yamucha's yea, yea, yeaaah line. Also, any lines that most involve misrepresenting the chacters (especially Goku!) or the scene in question. Examples of both include Goku's mercy speach in the Saiyan Arc and anything from season 4 about General Tao and the history of the Red Ribbon Army. Hilarious when it comes to the latter that in only the very next year Dragonball would begin airing in its entirty alongside of the very next next DBZ "season" (because of this they even had to change his name to Mercenary Tao, again, after just introducing him about a year eariler!)!

[matt0044]

I think there incredibly hokey, and by the way there is no Japan and hence no Japanese language in the Dragon Ball universe (also, everybody speaks the same language anyway).

Tell that to Murasaki and his American flag. I mean, Dragon Ball (Z) always had some real world references even in the original version (those were, however, few and far between unlike the dub).

[Saiga]

Really? They even imply that he's sexist.

Because of one line he says which probably isn't meant to make him look sexist. I don't see any evidence that they hate him.

[RemiLeopold]

"DON'T PISS OFF THE GOD OF LOVE!"
Seriously, where the HELL did that one come from? And why did it air on Toonami?

[BluezaBladeNZ]

"DON'T PISS OFF THE GOD OF LOVE!"
Seriously, where the HELL did that one come from? And why did it air on Toonami?

I'm not sure if it was on the Toonami/edited dub but it definitely was on the uncut singles and pretty sure it was on the 2007 track as well. It's when Gohan and Kuririn learn again that Polunga can grant three wishes, Kuririn says Namek rules and then Dende shouts this.