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** Not to mention the constant fanfics that have Vegeta calling Bulma "Onna" and talking about how he's the "Saiya-jin No Ouji" and came from "Vegeta-sei"

** Dragonball fandom is particularly guilty of this trope, though in some cases it's because authors are using Japanese to represet alien (usually Saiya-jin) dialects. Perhaps a rare case of a [[Justified Trope]] given that Toriyama used English for Vegeta's attacks for exactly this purpose.

* A horrific example of this very nearly destroyed the Improfanfic series ''Final Fantasy Legacy'', and was the very first instance of an Impro part actually being pulled ([[Canon Discontinuity|entirely removed from the series and disregarded by all future authors]]) to save the story. The original author for the sixth chapter (of what would go on to be a 60+ chapter story) committed multiple sins, including killing off half the characters, throwing a brand-new story into ending mode, and spewing rivers of gratuitous Japanese into a story which, at that point, had used ''absolutely no Japanese whatsoever''. Some of the worst examples:

{{quote|Chapter title: ''"Shoujou no Kokoro to Akuma no Higeki"''

** Shinobu herself is an example of this trope, as her real name is Scarlet Jacobs and she's (presumably) American - she just took a Japanese nickname (the dictionary form of shinobi) for no apparent reason.

* ''[[Death Smiles]]'''s entirely western cast includes a girl whose English parents named her [[Aerith and Bob|Sakura]]. A very rare Japanese example not played for humor.

{{quote|"Sushi, kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon'ichi..."}}

** Remedied in the Wii version, where he is now Piston Hond'''o''', and pretty much a [[Samurai]] boxer.