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** A case of [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]. This is how Satan was depicted in medieval art -- with a crotch monster face.

*** For some reason, that just makes it funnier.

* Typically, a Digimon's voice becomes more adult-sounding and then more bestial-sounding as he or she advances through the five (six if the tamer is lucky) [[Evolutionary Levels]]. Sometimes, different forms of the same character have different voice actors. Not so in the [[Digimon Tamers|third season.]] The voices remain the same as their childlike "rookie" forms throughout. The highest levels are formed when the Digimon and the human partner [[Fusion Dance|merge together]], resulting in a form that looks impressive but still has the standard rookie voice and the standard kid voice talking at once. But their ''lines'' are written for a warrior. It's hard to keep taking the scene seriously when a pip-squeak dual voice yells stuff like "[[In the Name of The Moon|There is no excuse for your actions! I will see that justice is SERRRRRRRVED!]]" or "[[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner|Your judgment day is at hand! For the horrible things you've done, you must pay the ultimate price!]]" at the top of its lungs. Of course, since [[Evil Is Cool]], Beelzemon doesn't always sound like his rookie form. Neither does [[Ax Crazy]] good guy Cyberdramon, whose human partner is more the [[Kid With the Leash]].

* Typically, a Digimon's voice becomes more adult-sounding and then more bestial-sounding as he or she advances through the five (six if the tamer is lucky) [[Evolutionary Levels]]. Sometimes, different forms of the same character have different voice actors. Not so in the [[Digimon Tamers|third season.]] The voices remain the same as their childlike "rookie" forms throughout. The highest levels are formed when the Digimon and the human partner [[Fusion Dance|merge together]], resulting in a form that looks impressive but still has the standard rookie voice and the standard kid voice talking at once. But their ''lines'' are written for a warrior. It's hard to keep taking the scene seriously when a pip-squeak dual voice yells stuff like "[[In the Name of The Moon|There is no excuse for your actions! I will see that justice is SERRRRRRRVED!]]" or "[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Your judgment day is at hand! For the horrible things you've done, you must pay the ultimate price!]]" at the top of its lungs. Of course, since [[Evil Is Cool]], Beelzemon doesn't always sound like his rookie form. Neither does [[Ax Crazy]] good guy Cyberdramon, whose human partner is more the [[Kid With the Leash]].

** This happened in the Japanese version as well. It was to point out how their personalities were the same regardless of Digivolution; in ''[[Digimon Adventure]],'' they supposedly became different people. Ryo's Cyberdramon was different for [[All There in the Manual]] reasons. But yes, the voices do sound weird, and it was still confusing.

* Then there's the American dub of ''Digimon: The Movie'', where to conclude his heartbreaking story about how his Digimon got attacked by a virus, Willis delivers a completely deadpan, "And now he's obsessed with chasing me." Davis ends up in tears.

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** He didn't even kick the dog - he tossed it with his foot!

*** The puppy flies in this slow, perfectly controlled, fake-looking arc. It doesn't look violent! It looks like Ken was giving it a levitation lesson!

* In ''Digimon Data Squad,'' the dub of ''[[Digimon Savers]],'' just about every instance of [[This Is Unforgivable]] is kept. It won't take you long to realize why most translations change it. It just ''does not'' sound [[Badass]] in English.

* In ''Digimon Data Squad,'' the dub of ''[[Digimon Savers]],'' just about every instance of [[This Is Unforgivable!]] is kept. It won't take you long to realize why most translations change it. It just ''does not'' sound [[Badass]] in English.

* [[Digimon Tamers|Takato's]] crying scenes. In the first few episodes, Takato had a weird tendency towards crying over the most redundant things, especially ones related to Guilmon. Some could say that this was a way for the writers to portray Takato as the 10 year-old he is contrasting with his (and the other children's) maturity later in this season; but it's still hard to take seriously.

* The first time Matt's Crest was activated in the [[Digimon Adventure|first season]]. Screaming [[The Power of Friendship|"FRIENDSHIP!!!"]] at the top of your lungs kills the drama.

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* How about the first time Tentomon digivolves into Kabuterimon? You can tell his voice actor was into the role.

** Made even funnier in the English dub in that they hadn't perfected the voice they used for Kabuterimon - he sounded completely different to how he sounds later on, and not in a good way.

* From Myotismon onwards, the Dub of Adventure picks up the original's habit of playing a selection of [[Theme Music Power Up|Powerup Theme Music]] with lyrics every time a significantly challenging enemy goes down. What song does the Dub use for this purpose? "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO2fF_gRIIs Hey Digimon]." There's something silly about a powerful, intimidating villain being killed off to a chorus of camp counselors with guitars gathered around a fire. Luckily, when 02 came along, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|it got better]].

* From Myotismon onwards, the Dub of Adventure picks up the original's habit of playing a selection of [[Theme Music Power-Up|Powerup Theme Music]] with lyrics every time a significantly challenging enemy goes down. What song does the Dub use for this purpose? "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO2fF_gRIIs Hey Digimon]." There's something silly about a powerful, intimidating villain being killed off to a chorus of camp counselors with guitars gathered around a fire. Luckily, when 02 came along, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|it got better]].

* That incident in Digimon Tamers episode 20, when Takato successfully used a hilariously-bad copy of the Blue Card (done by Hirokazu) to evolve Growlmon to WarGrowlmon. It was supposed to be serious; but the way that bad artwork that is the Faux Blue Card is shown during the card slash sequence and the subsequent successful evolution of Growlmon (which we could not have predicted would work) was hilarious.

* In one of the final episodes of [[Digimon Adventure 02|02]], we have the puppet guy gather all of the Dark Spore kids. They then go into a little world-between-worlds kind of thing. How do they get there? By chanting "Boys and girls, boys and girls, let's all go to the Digital World" in a creepy singsong voice.

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* In the [[Digimon Adventure]] dub, the death of millions of Numemon is ruined by Agumon's shrill yell of "AAAAAAH! I feel the POWER!!!"

* From Island of Lost Digimon, the Human Digimon's Super Funky Disco Neon Tank.

* A classic one (that, back at the time, was a frequent joke among the fandom): when listing Chimeramon/Kimeramon's body parts, the Digimon Emperor notes pretty badass and probably useful parts of equally badass Digimon: Angemon's wings, SkullGreymon's arm, Garurumon's legs.... and ''MetalGreymon's hair''. There's absolutely no real use for it other than aesthetics, especially considering on how much useful other parts of MetalGreymon would've been. Oh, and Ken lists that part last, giving a really funny [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]] feel to the scene. And since the first time isn't funny enough, the parts are re-listed by the older Chosen Children later, in the same order, again, highlighting such an important part of the villain's plan.

* A classic one (that, back at the time, was a frequent joke among the fandom): when listing Chimeramon/Kimeramon's body parts, the Digimon Emperor notes pretty badass and probably useful parts of equally badass Digimon: Angemon's wings, SkullGreymon's arm, Garurumon's legs.... and ''MetalGreymon's hair''. There's absolutely no real use for it other than aesthetics, especially considering on how much useful other parts of MetalGreymon would've been. Oh, and Ken lists that part last, giving a really funny [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] feel to the scene. And since the first time isn't funny enough, the parts are re-listed by the older Chosen Children later, in the same order, again, highlighting such an important part of the villain's plan.

* The fact that Keenan in ''[[Digimon Data Squad]]'' speaks in [[You No Take Candle]] is bad enough, but the fact that he refers to humans as hu-mons sounds both stupid and irritating. He wasn't [[Raised By Wolves]], the Digimon could all speak articulately! Why is he even talking like that, anyway?

* Some of the battles against the Devas in [[Digimon Tamers]]. Given that the Devas were minions of the Sovereign sent to subdue and conquer the Real World, you'd expect them to be pretty decent combatants, and indeed many of them put up a terrifyingly good fight ... against Champion level Digimon. But: