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** ''Anime/{{Digimon Adventure 02}}'':

** Episode 11 of ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' has a scene where Akari, having just broken free of Lillithmon's mind control, swings at her with the Code Crown she was almost about to surrender to the villain. This opens up a small cut along her cheek which bleeds a little, and the fact that she's been caused to bleed causes her to go full RedEyesTakeWarning and combines her henchmon into a super-powered form. In the dub, not only is the blood removed from where Angie strikes Laylamon with the Code Crown, but the cut is as well. However, no attempts were made to change anything else, as the body language involved makes it quite clear what had originally happened. She still snaps, but there's little reason for it in the dub.

* The original North American dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is notorious for:
** Re-popularizing the UnusualEuphemism of "talent" for "breast size". Arguing over who should play the lead role in their production of "Snow White," Makoto says she should be chosen because of her large boobs. The [=DiC=] dub has her claim instead to "have the most acting experience and talent," but doesn't edit the gesture that makes it ''abundantly'' clear what Lita ([[DubNameChange as Makoto is named in the original dub]]) actually means - nor does it remove the focus on her breasts, the ''boing'' sound effect, or Rei/Raye's reaction shot when Lita repeats her claim a few moments later. This provides our page image.

*** Nephrite's reaction upon seeing Sailor Moon transform for the first time:

*** The [=DiC=] version kept in "I watched while you changed," but made it the last part of the sentence. The first part in the American dub was something to the extent of "So Sailor Moon is really named Serena."

** And, of course, trying to [[HideYourLesbians hide Haruka and Michiru's relationship]] by constantly declaring them "cousins" and then [[IncestSubtext not removing any of the romantic imagery]].

* While the English dub for ''Anime/YuGiOh'' may be infamous for its {{bowdlerization}}, it does have its moments.
-->'''Téa:''' (with a wink) Florida has the best beaches! Aww man, I think I forgot to pack my bathing suit!

** The original artwork of "Arrivalrivals" features "Alchemic Magician" [[https://ms.yugipedia.com//6/67/Arrivalrivals-LOD2-JP-VG-artwork.png pulling on "Slacker Magician"'s cheek]] in the usual {{Rubberface}} fashion, only to be interrupted by "Akashic Magician". The international release [[https://ms.yugipedia.com//3/3e/Arrivalrivals-LOD2-EN-VG-artwork.jpg removed the cheek pinch]]... which also removed the main thing showing that what's going on is slapstick. Instead, you now have Alchemic grabbing Slacker's wrist while she has her mouth wide open in some kind of gasp, complete with [[CryCute a little tear]]. Add in the fact that it seems to be followed by Xyz "Tribalrivals" (which shows Alchemic and Slacker [[FanserviceFauxFight having a pillowfight]]) and "Staring Contest" (which shows Akashic and Alchemic having a glare-off while Slacker sits in the background looking sleepy and confused), and suddenly the whole scene gains an InterruptedIntimacy connotation (with a sidenote of a love triangle) that wasn't really there before.
** "Tragedy of the Guillotine" depicts a dangerous looking guillotine, which, while not showing any blood or actual decapitation, was deemed too much for the TCG. The redrawn version was renamed to "Tragedy" and instead shows a woman being stalked by a creepy guy in a trenchcoat. The rather [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/e/ea/Tragedy-TF04-EN-VG.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121012190426 horrific looking art]] and implied sexual assaualt probably makes the card even more likely to upset MoralGuardians than a guillotine ever would.

** The original artwork of "Arrivalrivals" features Alchemic Magician [[https://ms.yugipedia.com//8/84/Arrivalrivals-LART-EN-UR-LE.png pulling on Slacker Magician's cheek]] in the usual {{Rubberface}} fashion, only to be interrupted by Akashic Magician. The international release [[https://yugipedia.com/thumb.php?f=Arrivalrivals-MP18-EN-UR-1E.png removed the cheek pinch]]... which also removed the main thing showing that what's going on is slapstick. Instead, you now have Alchemic grabbing Slacker's wrist while she's looking rather distressed (complete with [[CryCute a little tear]]). Add in the fact that it seems to be followed by Xyz Tribalrivals (which shows Alchemic and Slacker having a pillowfight) and Staring Contest (which shows Akashic and Alchemic having a glare-off while Slacker sits in the background looking sleepy and confused), and suddenly the whole scene gains an InterruptedIntimacy connotation (with a sidenote of a love triangle) that wasn't really there before.

** The original artwork of "Arrivalrivals" features Alchemic Magician [[https://ms.yugipedia.com//8/84/Arrivalrivals-LART-EN-UR-LE.png pulling on Slacker Magician's cheek]] in the usual {{Rubberface}} fashion, only to be interrupted by Akashic Magician. The international release [[https://yugipedia.com/thumb.php?f=Arrivalrivals-MP18-EN-UR-1E.png removed the cheek pinch]]... which also removed the main thing showing that what's going on is slapstick. Instead, you now have Alchemic grabbing Slacker's wrist while she's looking rather distressed (complete with [[CryCute a little tear]]). Add in the fact that it seems to be followed by Xyz Tribalrivals (which shows Alchemic and Slacker having a pillowfight) and Staring Contest (which shows Akashic and Alchemic having a glare-off while Slacker sits in the background looking sleepy and confused), and suddenly the whole scene gains an InterruptedIntimacy connotation that wasn't really there before.

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** Re-popularizing the UnusualEuphemism of "talent" for "breast size". Arguing over who should play the lead role in their production of "Snow White," Makoto says she should be chosen because of her large boobs. The [=DiC=] dub has her claim instead to be "the most talented," but doesn't edit the gesture that makes it ''abundantly'' clear what Lita ([[DubNameChange as Makoto is named in the original dub]]) actually means - nor does it remove the focus on her breasts, the sound effect, or Rei/Raye's reaction shot when Lita repeats her claim a few moments later. This provides our page image.

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* In the Swedish dub of the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Hit the Diamond," quickly nicknamed "the gayest episode ever" by its fans, the one word description of Ruby and Sapphire's behavior as "flirting" was cut. But there was no way to take out their constant steamy looks and romantic body language that runs throughout the whole episode.

*** The Kaiser and Daisuke had enough FoeYay, but the Emperor tells Davis how "seeing you squirm is so delicious" and calls him "pretty boy."

** Super Buu's fight with Gohan after absorbing Piccolo and Gotenks. In the dub, Super Buu cruelly uses [[BreakThemByTalking guilt inducing words]] based on the fact he's absorbed Piccolo and Goten, telling Gohan that he let his brother and master down in an attempt to break him mentally as well as physically. In the original, Buu mostly just brags about his new power and how he's overwhelming Gohan with it. He does play mind games with Gohan as well, but to a much lesser extent; taunting Gohan with Piccolo's words and the fact that he's beating Gohan with his own friends' techniques. The dub basically took this aspect of the fight and turned it UpToEleven.

** Making Mimete's game of Twister a little too much like sex. Not helping is the fact that she's thinking about going after a cute male marathon runner, her leg being in the air, bobbing suggestively as if she's in the throes of gymnastic passion, or the voice actress making Mimete's moans more sexual in the English dub than in in the original Japanese version. Considering that ''Sailor Moon S'' aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork (home of a lot of animated programming for kids that take GettingCrapPastTheRadar to places that Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel can't/won't), this probably isn't so much dub text as it is business as usual.

*** When Terra meets Sabin, it's after a boss fight against a martial artist who attacks with two bear minions. She says she mistook Sabin (because of his size) for one of the bears at first, and he takes it in good stride. The English translation, possibly due to a misunderstanding due to lack of context, has her mistake him for "[[GymBunny a bodybuilder straight out of the gym]]" and Sabin still playfully refers to himself as a "bear" in inverted commas, making it seem like she thinks he looks gay, and he's happily agreeing ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar pretty wild for 1995]]).

* Another example from a Hungarian dub, this time from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. "Punchies", the punching game that the characters often engage in to settle minor disputes, as well as just plain old punching is consistently translated as "öklözés" -- fisting. If viewers happen to miss the part when the characters are shown punching each other, and only hear them talking about fisting, what a good fister Mordecai is and how Rigby doesn't like being fisted... it can lead to confused faces. Or not, given the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar nature]] of the show.

* The English dub of ''Anime/SonicX'' tried to censor Maria's death by saying she was "captured" instead of shot to death. They forgot about her terminal illness. Shadow never seems to think to find Maria, implying even more that she died of [=NIDS=] decades ago. So, instead of a kid getting shot in a massacre, you have a kid captured by police and later dying to her illness. It's not much better and if anything it's more painful sounding.

Whether we like it or not, all viewers should be familiar with {{bowdlerization}}, especially when it comes to translating and localizing foreign shows (mostly {{Anime}} from UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}). Thanks to America's [[AnimationAgeGhetto attitude over cartoons being only for kids]] and [[ManChild adult]] [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark kids]] in the cases of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Creator/AdultSwim, and FOX's animation line-up (both the Saturday night line-up and the Sunday night one), anything in anime deemed too mature for the new, younger target {{Demographics}} has to be cut and covered up, especially any sexual {{Subtext}}, {{Double Entendre}}s, and [[NeverSayDie anything concerning violence, grievous bodily harm, or death]].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', not exactly known for its subtlety in the first place, had even more innuendo inserted into the English adaptation of the first volume for no readily apparent reason.
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' features a lot of just-plain morally questionable lines in the English dub, such as when France refers to America and England strangling each other as "releasing sexual tensions" and Japan's response to Italy commenting on allegedly shrinking this "thing" during their "getting acquainted" hot spring soak. In the Japanese version, he says, "You now know my secret. I guess I have no choice." The American version: "Japanese people [[GagPenis grow-a]], not [[IncrediblyLamePun show-a]]."

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* Pick any Western with Archie Fire Lame Deer in it. Any. The Lakota is hilarious.

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** Making Mimete's game of Twister a little too much like sex. Not helping is the fact that she's thinking about going after a cute male marathon runner, her leg being in the air, bobbing suggestively as if she's in the throes of gymnastic passion, or the voice actress making Mimete's moans more sexual in the English dub than in in the original Japanese version. Considering that ''Sailor Moon S'' aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork (home of a lot of animated programming for kids that take GettingCrapPastTheRadar to places that Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel can't/won't), this probably isn't so much a DubText as it is business as usual.

* When Snake rescues Meryl at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Meryl says Ocelot tortured her "and things even worse than that", implying she was [[RelationshipWritingFumble sexually abused or raped by him]]. In the original script, she'd said something more neutral along the lines of "and all kinds of things" which didn't carry the same implication, and considering later games would make it explicit that Ocelot was BadassGay, is rather awkward in hindsight.

* When Snake rescues Meryl at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Meryl says Ocelot tortured her "and things even worse than that", implying she was [[RelationshipWritingFumble sexually abused or raped by him]]. In the original script, she'd said something more neutral along the lines of "and all kinds of things" which didn't carry the same implication.

* There's an episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Chowder}}'' in which our title-character really has to pee. Many crude but innocent jokes follow. Now, for some reason, when it got dubbed into Hungarian, they translated the "go" part of "go to the toilet" as "elmenni", which means just that (to go [away]). However the correct phrase would have been "kimenni" (to go out), since "elmenni" has another, drastically different meaning in Hungarian: namely, [[DoubleEntendre "to come"]] (yes, the opposite of "go"). The voice actors obviously saw through this blooper, as you can tell by the peculiar way they stress the word.

* In the third episode of ''Animw/MagicalDoremi'', Aiko claims that she can see Doremi's underwear, accompanied by Doremi covering her front in reaction. The dub instead has Mirabelle say that she can see Dorie's epidermis (another word for skin). Her reaction is left in, making it seem as if she used an UnusualEuphemism for the area where Dorie holds herself.

** Speaking of Bardock, his unpleasant qualities were toned down in the Funi dub, presumably to make him easier to accept as a protagonist; he expresses some moral compunction at the beginning over Frieza regularly sending out his team to commit mass murder and undergoes a more obvious face-heel turn over the course of the special.

* A translation error in the original release of the ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' FanTranslation essentially took one of Abbey's lines from after Abbot explains where her head injury came from ("There never used to be any creatures like that before that were so hard to describe. These things were all [[BuffySpeak fly-y, mousey, buggy, and bitey]]."), and changed to have her deny his story ("There was no bizarre creature. It didn’t fly. It wasn’t mousey. It wasn’t buggy. It didn’t bite me."), making it look like [[DomesticAbuse he hit her]].

* ''Videogame/FireEmblemAwakening'':

* The Saban and later Creator/FUNimation ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' dubs tended to do this. The most obvious one was the scene where Frieza has the Dragon Balls and says that having the Balls makes him feel like caressing them. Fortunately, it was "fixed" in Creator/FUNimation's redub of those episodes, though you can't deny the scene isn't nearly as entertaining.

** This also occasionally happened in the dub for ''Dragon Ball''. It's hard to tell how the double entendres came about though, because there's no way Pilaf's line "I can't rule the world with one ball" wasn't intentional.

*** The Blue Water dub (an English dub showed in English-speaking countries other than the US, Australia, and New Zealand) of Dragon Ball had this gem from the same scene:
----> '''Yamcha''': Not dragon balls...definitely not dragon balls.
** Speaking of Hitler, he comes BackFromTheDead in one of the movies. While [[NotUsingTheZWord they only call him "The Dictator"]], and [[NoSwastikas his insignia is just an X]], one would expect the dub to downplay how much he's obviously Hitler, but they did the opposite. In the original, when he catches a glimpse of the blonde, ubermensch Super Saiyans, "The Dictator" calls them a bunch of poseurs. In the American dub, "The Dictator" actually likes them and seriously considers making them part of his Army.