Satan?

I was just watching the world tournament saga, and it seems that the world champion is called "satan"?

whenever I saw dbz on cartoon network, he was called "hercule" ...

that's weird

i saw some people in the crowd with cards saying "God Bless Satan"
hehehe

 

When funimation dubbed DBZ. They changed a few names. Mr Satan was one of them, its probably because the censorship board didnt want a character to be named after the lord of Hell.

 

Mr Satan is Cool.. They Also changed the guys from hell t-shirts when Goku was on snake road. they had Hell on their shirt but they changed it to Heli or something like that..

All the church folk my think DBZ promotes Devil worshiping!@


KaMeKaZi

 

Ya they changed Hell to the Hall for Infinite losers or something like that. Personally I dont understand why they cant say Heaven and Hell. Damn censors.

 

Hell, you can hardly say pants on American TV.

 

i no i was confused on who mr satan was but i found out it was hercule, i agree damn censors. videl though means devil look at the letters their switched.

 

From what I hear, the name Hercule was used in the French version of DBZ and they took the name from there. I find Satan a much better name though, I remember in the one episode King Kai was mentioning something about "Hercule Puffs".....and ummmm, Satan Puffs sounds much funnier

 

lol that guy very funny... but i think satan sounds better also so i dont have to b confused i hate it when that happens.

 

That's pretty clever to use Videl as an anagram for devil, what with Videl being an actual name and all. My opinion, anyway.

 

i no isnt it? lol theres a girl at my school named videl hehehe^-^
also lol gohan means rice and u know sharpner and iresa? gohans and videls classmates? teir names mean sharpener and eraser. lol i like the name puns though.

 

Well, before blaming censors we should think of ONE THING.

WHY THE HECK DID THE AUTHORS NAME him like that!?

Sure, american censorship sucks, but does that give the right to anime authors name their characters wish such controversial names? I mean, the chapter where Mr. Satan asks the people to give him their energy (to save the world yadda yadda yadda) and they raise their hands up to heaven yelling "Satan! Satan!"

Now THAT IS SCARY!

Now don't tell me that "satan" is the japanese meaning for SOMETHING... the authors knew what it meant before they used it. And the american censors are the bad guys? GIMME A BREAK.

Or perhaps it's just that DBZ sucks. (Yeah right flame me, but shows like this make people judge anime by violent and gory show stereotypes.

Why not looking at other anime shows with much more content and deep characters, like say... Saber Marionette? :anime:

 

Well someone's a touchy young Christian with no sense of humour!

 

it's just a name, and if you ain't christian there is no reason not to use it, because it means nothing

 

Who Cares

Right on Mordeth! I agree absolutely.

 

im a christian but i dont have trouble with the name ...

 

It's not being a christian I have a problem with, its with not having a good sense of humour and being touchy I find grating. You however, do have a sense of humour and are not touchy.
But lets not let this devolve into a debate of religion when it's hardcore anime fans we should be more concerned about.

 

I find it rather funny and ironic how he was given the name "Satan", and of course I have no problem at all with it, even though I am a Catholic and all. I was freaked out before when I watched the Dragonball GT TV special years ago and saw that a city was named "Satan City". Maybe there is a Japanese meaning of the name, it could be some type of food or something... or probably just an interesting name that Akira Toriyama gave him for no reason at all. I mean, Gohan means "steamed rice", Chi Chi... well I won't say what that means, Namek is Japanese for slug or snail methinks, and well all of the Saiyans have vegetable like names. I'm sure that it was just due to a theme that Mr. Satan was given that name.

 

Maybe because he acts evil to all the heroes all the time, what with leeching off them and all.