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== Anime ==
* While the ''[[Escaflowne]]'' dub wasn't awful, it did have one or two dodgy performances that had long-time fans going rabid — most notably, the voice of Dilandau, whose Japanese actress made him sound masterfully [[Axe Crazy]], but whose English VA made him sound like a spoiled brat. (The fact that it was the English VA's first role ever, and that he was going through puberty at the time probably had a lot to do with this, and it's said that his voice acting got a little better as time went on.) Also, Merle's 35-year-old-sounding English VA is cringe-inducing.
* Speaking of original Japanese, ''[[Lovely Complex]]''. [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
* The ''[[Bible Black]]'' English dub doesn't seem to have any exclamation points, up to ''and including'' Rika's suicide. Add the fact that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU3Gg696yrM everyone sounds about thirty years older than they should] and you've got a pretty horrendous experience. One would have to come to the understanding that hentai probably isn't going to be dubbed very well, but ''Bible Black'' is a special case — it's horrible dubbing ''even by porn standards''.
* [[Manga Entertainment]] tried to get as much of the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] TV series' dub cast as possible for their dubbing of the films. Sadly, it was one of the ones they couldn't get that did them in the most—Matt Greenfield turned down the role of Makoto Hyuga.<ref>Greenfield ran [[ADV Films|the company that made the TV series' dub.]]</ref> Who do they replace him with? Keith Burgess, whose husky, low voice was not only completely unfit for Hyuga, but emotionless and slurred as well, killing most of the character's scenes.
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Macross: Do You Remember Love?]]'' Or maybe it should be "Do you want to remember the legendarily-bad English dub ''Macross in: Clash of the Bionoids''?" For the uninitiated, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb0K-XZUQaQ here's a sample.]
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' has wrestled with all manner of bad dubs:
** The UK dubs for both ''[[
** The Funimation cast's first performances in Season 3 of ''DBZ''. Special mention to Sean Schemmel's blocky, wooden
** However, both of those dubs pale in comparison to the utter abomination that is the English Malaysian dub of the ''DBZ'' movies<ref>Often referred to as the "Speedy Dub" after the company that distributed it</ref>. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlc8Ko38ECA Witness the horror for yourself.]
* The Malay dub of Gundam 00, One Piece and Get Backers, just to name a few, are fucking horrible. The voices either sounds annoying or sounds like the VA just phoning it in.
* The RTM 1 dubs of the ''[[Transformers]]'' series ''[[Transformers Headmasters|Headmasters]]'', ''[[Transformers Victory|Victory]]'', and ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce|Super-God Masterforce]]'' were done in Malaysia by a cast with little knowledge of the source material. It doesn't help that characters are given bizarre new names — Spike is called "Sparkle", Metroplex is "Phillip", etc. More info at TFWiki [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/RTM_1_dub here.]
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* Adult!Nel keeping her toddler voice in the original Japanese ''[[Bleach]]''. She was supposed to have a lisp and all, but ''come on''! The English dub seems to have fixed this at the expense of making Toddler!Nel sound older.
** And it just makes it worse that she cries out "ITSYGO!" [sic] every two minutes, more when he's getting his ass kicked. At least the dub has her say his name correctly. It's supposed to sound cute, but not after forty freakin' episodes of it.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWru5o07j_I The voice acting] for ''[[
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* The Singaporean English dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' is very useful because it gives the actual lines and story of the show, but it features some infamous choices for the voice acting. Most noticeable example: Seto Kaiba sounds like Nappa from ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z''.
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** Where the other voices took a medium-sized handful of episodes to fall into place, Ash's new voice actress took ''multiple seasons'' to progress (and arguably, it ''still'' isn't any good!)
* The dubbing of ''[[Iczer|Fight! Iczer-One]]'' is terrible, appearing to have been read by at most three women cold from scripts.
* While most of the dub cast of ''[[Eiken]]'' sounded like they were phoning it in the whole time, [[Bryce Papenbrook]]'s screechy Densuke and [[Rebecca Forstadt]]'s portrayal of Chiharu are especially bad.
** Which is a shame, because they had rather talented voice actors such as [[Cindy Robinson]] and [[Stephanie Sheh]].
* Dubbed at the same studio as ''Eiken'', ''[[Green Green]]'''s dub features lazy writing, terrible acting for most major characters, and a complete inability to pronounce names right or even consistently from scene to scene. Fortunately, the show itself is bad enough that the impact of the poor dubbing is lessened.
* Among the many complaints leveled against the 4Kids dub of ''[[One Piece]]'', the worst aspect has to be its voice acting and casting, the most notable one being David Moo as Sanji. Forgiving the fact that they gave him a Brooklyn-accent, they made him sound like those [[No Smoking|lollipops]] had given him a severe case of smoker's lung, ridding his voice of the suave quality the original had.
** The Japanese version of ''One Piece: Unlimited Cruise'' had a cringe-worthy performance where the giant Hulk-like Nightmare Luffy speaks in a ridiculously high-pitched helium voice. Luckily they realized how incredibly stupid that was, since when Nightmare Luffy debuted in the actual anime [[Mayumi Tanaka]] used a deeper, much more fitting tone.
** Odex's Singaporean English dub script is actually MORE accurate than the [[FUNimation]] dub, but ended up worse than the 4Kids dub. How did this happen? Plain and simple: the voice acting. Luffy's actor sounded like some stoned surfer dude, the recording quality sounded worse than a fandub, the cast had only a few actors on board (no pun intended) that voiced multiple characters and kept randomly changing as the series went on. Poor Nami went through THREE voice actors in the space of only 104 episodes. Thank god the mess only lasted those 104 episodes before broadcast was
* The Japanese voice of Byakko in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Seriously, have you heard his pathetic "roars?"
* The Italian dub of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' falls flat because all the voices sound similar. A fan joke is about how the roles are supposedly shared by the studios — "You do Hokuto, you do Nanto, you do fats, you do slims and women".
** The Swedish dub isn't any better, indeed, people some people have even claimed that even Microsoft Sam has a less monotone voice than some of these voice actors, which really tells a lot about how bad the voice acting is. [[Bowdlerise|Not that this is the only thing wrong with the Swedish version]]...
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** They also pick the wrong people to voice some of the characters, like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9XAZKfs8lc here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izfdGMdpL2U here.]
* When Cloverway took over the dubbing of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', a number of voice actors were switched out in the process. The one worst off of the bunch was Usagi/Serena herself, whose VA attempted to mimic her predecessor's voice ticks, but somehow made the character sound older than she should be. And the parts where she ''screams''...! Ironically, the VA for Chibi-Usa/Rini was actually better than her original, so it seemed like an odd trade-off!
* ''[[Hentai|Heritage From Father]]''
* Dean from the English dub of ''[[Supernatural (Anime)|Supernatural The Animation]]''. While the show managed to get Sam's actor from [[Supernatural (TV series)|the TV show]], this show is Dean's voice actor's first role, and it shows, as he delivers every line in the same emotion, whether expositing about the [[Monster of the Week]], to telling his brother about how he got the good life while Dean didn't. A small sample of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_4s4LvscE&feature=related here].
** [[Jared Padalecki]] sounds fantastic and in-character, while Jensen's replacement sounds like a Californian surfer dude. It would seem that he only bothered to capture the facetious aspect of sounding like [[Jensen Ackles]] without actually emoting or anything [[Buffy-Speak|actory]] like that. Or that was what the casting agency focused on in finding Jensen's replacement instead.
* It's been generally agreed on that the Hungarian dubbing of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had great voice casting, but the translation work was, in turn, horrid (it was translated from the French version, apparently by someone who hardly spoke even ''that'' language), and considering the episodes have been dubbed out of order, it's no wonder the actors reportedly had no clue what was going on in the story.
* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew|Mew Mew]] [[4Kids! Entertainment|Power]]'': While YMMV on the voice ''casting'' (not the [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]]) as a whole (opinions about the characters' voices are all over the place, ranging from not-that-good to pretty fitting), most people agree that Scottie Ray's Mark (Aoyama) just sounds... ''wrong''. It's far too deep for a preteen/teenager character, and he never tries to act in any way beyond an "old man storyteller" kind of intonation.
* The English Dub of [[Metal Fight Beyblade]]: [[No
* The Latin-American dub of ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' was done by a Colombian studio whom, for some reason, have all their cast talk on ridiculously high pitches, often in detriment of acting. People who watched the show ended complaining of genuine ear pain. The sheer low quality of this dub was pointed as the reason ''Kaleido Star'' went from being one of the most hyped series of their year to one of the most obscures.
* The Mexican dub for ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' is in the realm of [[Superlative Dubbing]], save for the horrible voice of the guardian beast Kerberos in his plushie form Kero. His voice is way too nasal and weirdly accented, as if the voice actor tried to do the Mexican equivalent of Kero's Kansai accent while speaking in high pitch, in all and all quite inappropriate for the character. The reason of this was that the studio decided to make the same actor do the voice of both Kero-chan form and his grown up version, when usually both roles are
== Film ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Whatever your opinion on ''[[Angela Anaconda]]'' is, the title character's voice makes [[Nails On a Chalkboard]] a half appealing alternative.
** The
* How about ''[[Titanic: The Legend Goes On]]''? The one with the mice with wildly-varying accents (''probably'' supposed to be Yiddish)? And one of the weirdest examples happens when the ship is sinking — a lady says "You had a tiger on board?" (don't ask). Throughout the entire movie, she'd spoken with a proper, upper-class, British accent. For that one line and ''that line only'', she ''had a freaking '''man's''' voice!'' And then has her normal voice back by her next line. It's clearly a man imitating a woman's voice there, did the original voice actress have to leave for the bathroom while they were recording or something?
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* In Brazil, there was a time in which certain companies, to cut costs, would produce a Portuguese dub in ''Miami'' for their anime. These dubs were done by Brazilians who lived there — in other words, people with no experience whatsoever in the acting field, no control over accents, etc. The result, predictably enough, were dubs with an amateur-sounding cast, laughably-bad performances, different accents everywhere, terrible directing and so on. Fortunately, the practice died over time...for a while; recently, [[Viz Media]] decided to dub the (admittedly [[So Okay It's Average|mediocre]]) ''[[Blue Dragon]]'' [[The Anime of the Game|anime]] in Miami. The end result started to become a meme among the fandom mere days after the broadcast of the first episode. It's that bad. Check it out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3ILlVJSaU here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG2816sYr90 here] (naturally, more recommended if you know BR-Portuguese).
* Odex, a Singapore-based dub company. [[Alliteration|Beneath their belts are butcherings]] of such shows as ''[[Zipang]],'' ''[[Fantastic Children]]'' aaaaand...
** The English dub of ''[[Karin]]''... Karin's voice is tolerable for a while, but when she starts crying (which is common), it gets super high pitched and grating. And because we don't have a section for bad scripting, the English dub has one particularly-grating moment. "I'm gonna avoid that new transfer student!... but if I can't my peaceful life is going to be turned upside down!" So. Cliche.
** "Time for talk is over! I challenge you to DYOOOOOOL!"
* In Portugal, the TV stations don't bother with editing and keep the original background music, which is nice. However, the voiceovers are made by adults who have no idea how a child sounds. The adults (occasionally) sound good, but '''anything''' under the age of 18 will sound, if you're lucky, retarded. If you're unlucky, it's torture. In ascending order of pain — ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsohdZCmd8 Digimon Tamers]'', ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ExSDdwODc Naruto]'', ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW66ZKSIpw8 One Piece]''. Don't worry, the last one gets worse.
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* Studio Loudworks, an English-to-Serbian dub company. The voices can be utterly grating at some parts, and even when there isn't, there's still the matter of their glaring [[Blind Idiot Translation|blind idiot translations]]—They consistently (and very stupidly) translate word-for-word from English, resulting in a difficult-if-impossible to understand script.
* Most (mind you, not all!) of the Hungarian dubs released by the Romanian "Zone" dubbing studio. With only a handful of actors and actresses, most of whom suffer from horrible nasal and guttural voices, and a less than firm grasp on the language's grammar, it's no wonder that a number of their works had to be redubbed (most notably ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'') due to the viewers' outcry.
** The Hungarian movie dubs on the [[MGM]] station, made by the same studio but with proper Hungarian voice actors, qualify as well. Most of voice actors working on them are fine, that's not a problem, but the same cast dubs ''every'' movie, using the same voice, and sounding like they do not give a damn about acting. It gets on a person's nerves to hear the same couple of voices over and over again in every freaking movie. Some of the more classic films they play actually have older, perfectly passable dubs, yet the TV station still re-dubs even those, save for such isolated cases like ''[[Beetlejuice]]'', whose dub has been described above (it seems it had a
* While Spanish dubs tends to be good, there's some real stinkers and some real inept voice acting, depending the country or studio involved:
** Practically, anything dubbed in the city of Monterrey, Mexico (like ''[[Recess]]'') tended to be so awfuly dubbed, that the ''[[Recess]]''{{'}} direct-to-video movie was dubbed in Mexico City instead as a result (with better results). Needless to say, they only dubbed a few series before disappearing from the voice acting industry later on.
** In the same way, most stuff dubbed in Cuernavaca, Mexico was pretty awful to hear on screen (with some exceptions, like ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', and many animated stuff).
** Until recently, almost anything dubbed from Colombia was from being [[So Bad It's Good]] (''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', ''[[Super Doll Licca-chan]]'', ''Mikan Enikki'') to really franchise-destroying levels (the above mentioned awful dub of ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' destroyed any chance to bring the rest of the franchise in Spanish).
** Similar like the Brazilian case, almost anything dubbed in Spanish from Miami, Florida tends to be [[So Bad It's Good]] (''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'') to really ear-grating (''[[South Park]])'', but unlike with the Brazilian Portuguese voice actors in Miami (or the Hispanic ones from Los Angeles), the Hispanic voice actors from Miami are almost mostly Cuban-Americans, or some few South Americans (they ''rarely'' hire Mexican-Americans or Mexican expats like in Los Angeles) and they almost always keep their Cuban accents ''intact''.<ref>Just to give an idea how bad is this, try to imagine both ''[[South Park]]'' and ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' being voiced in English by Jamaican voice actors, [[Jive Turkey|while keeping their accents intact.]]</ref>
** The dubbing for the [[History Channel]] on its Latin American feed has the little problem that ''all'' the shows were
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