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no1ryomafan · 3 months ago

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Mega Man has the goofiest fucking localization changes with names sometimes even if changing Rock Man to Mega Man was a good cool but I really think the funniest fucking thing that spanned across two series unintentionally was the fact they had to change VAVA to Vile since there asses in the states couldn’t get away with a clear Star Wars inspired character without too much copyright and that caused the domino effect later of them NAMING a fucking dude in Japanese Dr Vile and went “shit we can’t have people be confused- let’s rename him Weil and have it be German so it’s pronounced the same as if kids playing this game will know this and also just think he’s Wily due to the spelling”

#meg text #mega man #the fact this lead to Model W being the ONLY biometal with a name change is also fucking hilarious #sometimes I’m tempted to spell it as Model VV but I get a stroke #also I don’t know how Japan did get away with it compared to the US cause they don’t have a V sound and instead B #so literally when VAVA is said it’s STRAIGHT UP BABA #I guess another country wouldn’t be sued but I find it funny that slide but not in localization #also I don’t mean to put so many mm worms on blog but I randomly thought about this again and it’s so fucking funny

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