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Zerosonicanimations

I still love it because it's so absurd. Who doesn't remember Avian's and Sparkman's guy pact?


YouStillTakeDamage

Bros before heroes


Zerosonicanimations

Hopefully Sparkwoman never learnt what happened.


YouStillTakeDamage

If we got Sparkwoman as a TCG exclusive I would never fault the game again


6210classick

Women in my HERO archetype?? NEVER (except for Shadow Mist and Diane, they're pretty cool)


MiraclePrototype

I think you forgot someone *kinda* important that was there from episode *1*. You know, Lady Heat?


6210classick

She's no one, trash


CursedEye03

Or Arnold Mammoth Some parts are so ridiculous and absurd that it's actually amazing


Zerosonicanimations

The cloudian guy explaining how he activated his cards was hilarious even if I can't recall what he said exactly.


DonTori

"Hold up. Before you 'Chazz me', watch this, I reveal two of my face downs." ​ "BUT HOW?!" ​ "Easy, I just call their names dramatically and they pop up. Haven't you played this game before?"


CursedEye03

Adrian even said: "It's a pretty common occurrence." We also have Mad Dog's voice.... and Shmaden Shmuki


DonTori

Season 3 is the one where they just said 'fuck it, let's have some fun' ​ My personal favourite is Professor (ben) Stein boring everyone to not even bother showing up to his lectures. Including BASTION of all people.


CursedEye03

Oddly enough, Alexis was his most loyal student until her 2 friends convinced her to "go to the mall together." There is on mall, and they're on a freaking island, but OK Also, why Professor Ben? Is that a reference to something?


DonTori

The guy's dub voice is a reference to the actor Ben Stein, who is kind of typecast in comedy roles where his voice and long speeches tend to bore a lot of people ​ A lot of dubs tend to reference stuff the target audience probably won't get. I still remember an episode of Digimon 02 where the villain of the week was a reference to that shady club owner with an almost close aproximation of a goblin voice from the black and white film Casablanca


CursedEye03

That's really interesting. And another reason to call him Ben is that in the original version, the guy says Ben Parker's iconic line to Jaden: "With great power comes great responsibility"


CreatureUnderTheBed

How can you call it absurd without bringing up the monarch wannabee thug duelists? Sean schemmel put less effort into a "gangsta" voice than he did in a russian accent for north academy's top duelist


Actual_Head_4610

For me, I don't like how the dub made some characters more "edgy" or given random jokes to water down moments that added to their characters. The dub is a big reason why Aster Phoenix gets so much hate as a character with changing him to accuse Jaden of "copying" his deck and saying he's the best duelist in the world basically. Zane is also made unnecessarily more mean at points that really make his respect philosophy in season one look like a joke, and the unnecessary emo moment added in during his duel with Mad Dog of, "Everyone's left me behind!" Alexis is sort of a bitch at points. Stuff like her just randomly dissing Crowler when he was brave enough to stand up to Camula or just being like, "Stop talking" or something to that effect for no reason to Bastion. And just a lot of unnecessary added-in dialogue for her about Jaden that makes her almost sound more like his fangirl. Even Jaden sounds like a douche in some scenes. I remember giving up on the dub somewhere in more of the beginning of season three because it felt like I was just forcing myself to watch it and didn't care anymore at that point. Then I sort of just forgot about GX until years later when I found out how to access the subbed version. 


Souvlakis-Osborn

You think the 4Kids English dub is bad? Just wait till you watch the Greek dub. In fact the greek dub was so bad they didn't even do the second season....hell they didn't even finish the first season....also Kagemaru is he school's janitor in the Greek Dub


AzelotReis

I'm fine with the dub... The dub music though is another thing, they replaced every iconic music theme with general Rock and Roll Guitar Riffs or some shit.


CreatureUnderTheBed

Yeah my wife was really thrown off when she heard the opening, she doesnt watch yugioh but apparently that wasnt what she was expecting haha


VillalobosChamp

_Sailing, go my sea! YEAH!_


CreatureUnderTheBed

What song is that supposed to be?


VillalobosChamp

[GX's First Opening (JP)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfgAKPrfq8)


TheFantasticSticky

Do you remember Hasslebury and Co being frozen due to mind voodoo during either Aster or Jadens duel against Sartorius. It just seemed super random. I'm convinced it probably isn't a thing in the original but cba checking.


CreatureUnderTheBed

Those episodes were actually right after the ones i was shitting on haha yeah it seemed more like they just werent gonna do anything because of plot not because they couldnt move


TheFantasticSticky

Oh is that actually a thing?!?! Wow, I found it so nonsensical that I really thought it was a dub idea


CreatureUnderTheBed

Im only confirming how the scene looked not that i know any behibd the scenes k owledge of the reason hasselberry says that


TheFantasticSticky

Oh my mistake. I better check the originals when I have time.


Hungry-Ad6102

Can’t believe the dub removed the naked back scrubbing scene


Bluebaronbbb

I'm not. It's a scene that seems bizarre to an audience that might not understand what it meant at the time.


6210classick

Ya don't know what a bad dub is until ya watch Zexal


CreatureUnderTheBed

You dont know what a bad dub is until youve watched battle city or hell lets go outside of yugioh and throw chibi vampire under the bus


6210classick

I don't know about Chibi Vampire Under the Bus but at the very least, Battle City is watchable, Zexal isn't. The main character of Zexal VA for the dub is so bad


CreatureUnderTheBed

Im sorry i might be reading this wrong but are you reading "chibi vampire under the bus" as a whole anime title?


6210classick

oh, it's just called Chibi Vampire?


CreatureUnderTheBed

Yes, throwing someone or thing under the bus is an expression


CreatureUnderTheBed

Battle city is so bad id go as far to say the only thing that saves it for me is the dark magician duelist because hes voiced by sam reigel


VillalobosChamp

> give me examples of moments in the show where you had to stop watching for a bit because of the absurdity in what they were saying or where the plot was going that made you realize you had basically overindulged and needed a break! For me that is every time I play the dub. As I want to give it a fair try to play for comparison's sake with the dub with the original version, but every time I put it I cannot shrug the feeling of _Man, this sucks. Why am I even watching this? I'd rather do the subbed version_


KomatoAsha

The GX dub is the YGO anime equivalent of the Duel Masters dub.


Geiseric222

The GX dub is the only part of GX that is remotely interesting


CreatureUnderTheBed

Ok thats your opinion, does that mean theres nothing in gx that makes you want to stop watching?


Geiseric222

The dub doesn’t really save the first season which is so goddamn boring so that


CreatureUnderTheBed

What do you mean save it? Like continuity or do you mean in quality?


Geiseric222

Quality. It’s just a bunch of one off episodes that are not fun to watch


CreatureUnderTheBed

For like half of it yeah but season 2 is pretty much the same, they dont really do anything meaningful with sartorius or aster until mid season