Characters that had their names changed in your country

El Risas (The Laughs)

This is danish.

Spongebob is Svampebob Firkant

Pinky and the Brain is the same thing

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are Blomst, Bobbel and Bellis

Chip 'n Dale are Chip and Chap

Darth Vader is the same as english

Dr. Claw is Doktor Klo

Eeyore is Æsel

Hank Hill KotH hasn't been aired here as far as I know

Scrooge McDuck is Joakim von And

The Joker is Jokeren

King Dedede The kirby games are sold in english here and we never got the anime

Brock is Brock like in english

Lupin III hasn't been aired here

Wreck-it Ralph is Vilde Rolf

Moana is Vaiana

Wolverine is called Jærven. Or atleast he was, back when comics actually got translated and sold here.

What are Looney Tunes characters called there?

Characters that had their names changed in your country

Not official, but people in Quebec are retarded and boomers today still think it's Dark Vader

Bugs Bunny = Snurre Snup
Daffy Duck = Daffy And
Porky Pig = Pelle Gris
Elmer Fudd = Elmer Fjot
Sylvester = Same thing
Tweety Bird = Pip
Yosemite Sam = Onkel Hans
Marvin the Martian = Marvin Marsmand
Road Runner = Hjulben
Wile E. Coyote = Grimm E. Ulv

Brazilian Shaggy is called Sausage

Daredevil became Demolisher

Bugs Bunny became Long Leg

Blossom became Flowey

Bubbles became Beauty

Buttercup became Sweety

Just the ones that come to mind immediately.

translating names

Why?

Does Looney Tunes even work in foreign countries? its full of puns and references.

Yeah, it works pretty well. Ofcourse sometimes we change the jokes to do something else, but mostly it works well. Also Looney Tunes is alot of slapstick physical humor, which is very universal. In general Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Woody Woodpecker are quite beloved here.

That list has sole weird entries. Joker is only called rigolar in the scoobidoo crossover, probably because nobody really cared about super heroes there at the time. And im pretty sure there is no french translation of king of the hill.
Talking about scooby doo, vella is called vera, and shaggy is called sammy.

Lobezno

Hulka

Agallas, Eustaquio Habichuela

Burbuja, Pétalo y Cactus

Kasnatov, Dra. Espanto, General Cicatriz

Batitrón, Fritox y Almóndiga

Capitán Muñón

Calavera

Abelardo 3000

Juanito, Jaimito, Jorgito, Tío Gilito

Chip y Chop

Los Pitufos

Osos Amorosos

Tarta de Fresa

Juan y Tolola

Valentín, Tiritón, Lanitas, Paqui

Gata Lupe

Moquete

El gato Isidoro

Carlitos, Pecas Patty, Emilio

Capitán Calzoncillos, Jorge Betanzos, Berto Henares

Epi y Blas, Coco, Triqui, Conde Draco

Rana Gustavo

And many others I don't remember or can't be bothered to remember. Plus a lot of Latin American changes from older dubs we imported.

Bob the sponge?

SpongeBob is SpongeBob.
Pinky and the Brain are Mignolo e Prof.
The Powerpuff Girls are Lolly, Dolly and Molly.
Chip and Dale are Cip e Ciop (pronounced cheep eh chohp).
Darth Vader is Dart Fener.
Dr Claw is Boss Artiglio (pronounced sorta like bohss artilyo, Boss Claw; the sound made by gli, a soft L, is very difficult for foreigners to even hear correctly nevermind pronounce and it sounds like a Y to them*)
Eeyore is Ih-Oh, which is closer to the intended pronunciation of Eeyore than how Americans say it lmao
Hank Hill is Hank Hill
Scrooge McDuck is Paperone (pahpehrohneh, literally Big Duck)
Joker is Joker
King Dedede is Re Dedede (reh dehdehdeh)
Brock is Brock but he's from Plumbeopoli instead of Pewter City.
Lupin is Lupin
Wreck-It Ralph is Ralph Spaccatutto (Ralph Breakseverything)
Moana is probably Moana. I'm not sure. I've never seen it in Italian.
Courage is Leone il cane fifone (Lion, the cowardly dog), Scooby is Sansone and Smurfs are Puffi
* this is the reason yeismo is so prevalent in New World Spanish, too; the Spaniards got a whole bunch people, forced them to learn Spanish but like Italian gli, the Spanish soft L is lost on foreign ears

I actually did localisation work for Italian and detailed it on Anon Babble. Lemme see if I can find the posts on warosu. Basically, references that we don't have we just swap for ones that we do. I've never seen Me, Myself and Irene in English but I'm sure that there no references to Kotetsu Jeeg in the original. You don't understand the immense cultural phenomenon Jeeg is in Italy. So whatever they said in the American version must've been something we, as a culture, just have no frame of reference for so the localiser decided to reference something we do have instead. And that's the sort of things I did, too.

Henri Hill

haha thats so cute

>Scrooge McDuck is Balthazar Picsou

That's the most standout one to me. That's just a whole-ass different name

BOB ESPONJA

Fredo Godofredo!

I love the Italian Duck comics

Soul

I find the inverse interesting to like how the Asterix characters get translated from French to English so Idefix becomes Dogmatix, Panoramix is Getafix and lot of others that are to much for my small Aussie mind

that swedish place

The Phantom has a literal translation of his name (Fantomen), but he was briefly called Dragos in one newspaper as they mistook him for Mandrake.
Gold/Silver age Batman was Läderlappen, named after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespertilionidae current bats is just Batman.
Superman is generally known as Stålmannen, the steel-man. Spidey is Spindelmannen, literally spider-man.
Dilbert initially became Herbert, I think it's a reference to a classic TV series en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_&_Herbert . Dogbert became Hundbert. Smaller changes were Ratbert to Råttbert and Catbert to Kattbert. Wally, Alice and Asok kept their names. Current publications just keep the original english names.
Calvin & Hobbes is Kalle & Hobbe.
Valerian & Laureline is Linda & Valentin (ladies first).
Garfield is Gustaf.

Daffy Duck = Daffy And

Daffy and?
daffu and who?

So the rhyming nature of the dub even affected the MC names, sorta

Bombón, Burbuja y Bellota.

At least they respect their names starting with B, unlike Petalo, Burbuja y Cactus

They called him Frank in our dub. And Sheen was renamed Max

In LatAm, 12 Oz Mouse was called Raton Esponja (Sponge Mouse)

"Are you on the bullet train to smartsville? Or are you taking the slow pony to the Rubber forest?"

the hat and hair bow on their names

Cute!

"Let me tell you something about stepping in someone else's corn flakes... It's a weird way to eat corn flakes."

You will change the names back to their actual, American-given names or you will be tariffed into poverty.

Americans can't deal with their own poverty lmao