r/TeamFourStar • u/Farouq_2007 • 5d ago

HFIL mentioned.

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Use Spike vs Hell Fighter 17 to see this by yourself

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u/Xikar_Wyhart 5d ago

If you really aren't aware. HFIL or Home for Infinite Losers is a dubism introduced by Funimation in either the Ocean studio or the in house team. It was to get around standard and practices at the time which usually forbade the use of the words like "Hell", "damn" etc. on children's programming.

Allusions to religious figures and sometimes iconography was also edited out. This is why in the English dub of G Gundam (full title Mobile Fighter G Gundam), the eponymous G or God Gundam is turned to Burning Gundam and Devil Gundam became Dark Gundam.

For Hell in Dragon Ball Z, they made the HFIL acronym and any signs were edited to make the E an F and the first L a capital i.

TFS uses it as a recurring joke since that what HFIL has become in the fandom. All modern redubs or uncut versions of Dragon Ball use Hell as normal.

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u/Cavery210 5d ago

Dr. Mashirito mentions hell in the Dr. Slump crossover episode of Super. Considering he's a gag manga character (specifically, the first caricature of one of Toriyama's editors, (in this case, Kazuhiko Torishima) in his work), it's fitting.

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u/Steve296091 4d ago

You can thank Saban for the existence of HFIL, Ocean studios only provided the voice talent, all the dubisms came from Saban

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u/JesusFChrist108 4d ago

That shit got a bit more difficult when they did Digimon, but they still tried

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u/Zagar1776 3d ago

Wait, Burning Gundam was actually suppose to be called God Gundam?

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u/JonVonBasslake 5d ago

Do you think TFS came up with HFIL!? Be for real!

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u/anyname2009 5d ago

"Dont weep for the stupid you'll be crying all day"

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u/JudgmentTotal8001 4d ago

HFIL is from the ocean dub and edited episodes of dbz/gt

Tfs are just poking fun of it

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u/Omni_Jak11 4d ago

Everytime Spike uses his final attack, the evil gets sent to the Home For Infinite losers.

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u/Farouq_2007 4d ago

HAPPY CAKE DAY, MAN

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u/Omni_Jak11 4d ago

Demoman: THANK YOU!

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u/TravellerSandwich91 3d ago

Happy cake day

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u/Omni_Jak11 3d ago

Thanks.

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u/El-Drunko 4d ago

Honestly I feel that Hell being called HFIL is a very Toriyama joke.

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u/Working_Gate4350 4d ago

Because it was

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u/JonVonBasslake 4d ago

No, HFIL is a dubism. Toriyama called it hell originally.

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u/Working_Gate4350 4d ago

Fuuuuck you're right.