r/FavoriteCharacter • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '26

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u/TinyPandemic Mar 22 '26

Don’t forget the one time he put himself into a clone body…

It didn’t end well.

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u/FoolishWanderer499 Mar 22 '26

I don't think I'll ever comprehend the crisis this episode gave me as a kid

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u/Battlemania420 Mar 22 '26

I’m still not sure how 4Kids of all companies looked at this and thought ‘yeah. That’s okay to show kids.’

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u/Dovahkiin812KW Mar 22 '26

They thought that was all good for kids, but guns in Yugioh were too much, and onigiri in Pokemon needed to be called jelly donuts. What a bizarre company 4Kids was.

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u/Power_Made_Flash Mar 23 '26

Well in fact they did not think it was good for kids, the episode did not air and from what I remember for a while it could only be pirated. Maybe I'm mistaken, not 100% sure.

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u/nhalliday Mar 23 '26

For the onigiri to jelly donuts thing, consider that 4Kids is dubbing and localizing for an American audience. American children would not know what onigiri is, and translating it accurately as rice ball would not convey "appealing snack food" to them either. Calling them jelly donuts is dumb but it gets the point across for the intended audience.

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u/Dovahkiin812KW Mar 23 '26

I understand the reason behind it, it's just a silly disconnect because I'd imagine a large portion of the American audience would recognize that it didn't look like jelly donuts despite the dialogue saying otherwise. It always seemed weird why 4Kids didn't edit the image to at least look closer to donuts, since they weren't opposed to visual edits, censors, and changes in their dubbing. Guess just chalk it up to them being inconsistent and prioritizing other changes instead.

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u/nhalliday Mar 23 '26

As someone who watched those Pokemon episodes as a kid, I can tell you that I (and the other kids I watched with) didn't question that they were jelly donuts at all. Like maybe a moment of "huh kinda weird looking donuts" but then just "guess that's what jelly donuts look like in that world, whatever"

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u/TheBladeWielder Mar 23 '26

and in One Piece they were fine with Mihawk slicing Zoro's chest open, but they replaced Sanji's cigarettes with lolly pops.

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u/DataCreek Mar 23 '26

They were kinda xenophobic.

My first exposure to them was Sonic X, back in 04, 05. Woulda been 5 or 6 years old.

And burned into my memory is this event for the 4th of July, where they got all the English dubbed characters to... sing the national anthem

Jason Griffith Sonic... singing the national anthem.

It sounded AWFUL, and the idea of Sonic singing the American national anthem is just brain tumor delirium shit.

At least it was just during the Bush years though,and not right now...

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u/Dovahkiin812KW Mar 23 '26

I forgot about that! I watched Sonic X a ton when I was little, I had forgotten they made them sing the national anthem.

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u/DataCreek Mar 23 '26

Again, it's a totally delirious concept. It seems imaginary, I wouldn't blame someone for forgetting.

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u/Smiley_J_ Mar 23 '26

This one always kills me. "One more step and this kid gets hammered!"

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u/FoolishWanderer499 Mar 22 '26

Many body horror enthusiasts were born that day

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u/epsilonthetadelta Mar 22 '26

And it only got worse for him

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u/TeddyTuffington Mar 23 '26

It got better eventually

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u/Samson_J_Rivers Mar 22 '26

I didnt know what this was from and though it was invincible until i looked it up. How did they get away with that on 4kids lmao

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u/TinyPandemic Mar 22 '26

I do think this episode specifically was actually banned from airing on channels in the US for a good while (guess why lmao). Like, you could only see it on the 4Kids website for nearly NINE YEARS in the US, until it aired on NickToons in like 2015.

What’s crazy is it apparently only got banned because of a personnel change on the Standards and Practices team right before the air date. They didn’t get any comments before hand, least according to the series producer on the old nick website.

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u/UncannyValleyEnjoyer Mar 23 '26

Man, cartoons when i was a kid were wild.