Cyborg 009: Season 1 (Original 2003 Toonami Broadcasts)

When the 2001 series of Cyborg 009 first aired on Toonami in summer 2003, various early-run episodes were initially broadcast in a less-edited format, and contained language that was later deemed too objectionable for the Y-7 rating placed on the series.

Two such episodes that existed were episodes 3 and 4: "Assassin of Flash" and "At the End of the Battle".

In the first, the villain Cyborg 0010- states as part of his speech; "Truly, I'm your brother from HELL!". In the latter episode, Cyborg 002, in his rant about not trusting others, shouts "I don't even believe in God!". While the dub was notable for its liberties in dialogue (which increased through its run), these two lines ran closer to what was intended from the Japanese version.

After Cartoon Network's Standards and Practices Department realized such language slipped by the rating, the former episode had the objectionable word muted in its early rebroadcasts, before the line was later fully redubbed to be "I am your brother gone BAD!" for Sony Pictures' DVD releases. In the case of episode 4, 002's line was redubbed to "I couldn't even trust my parents!".

Oddly enough, due to Sony lacking proper subtitles on their DVD releases and instead recycling the dub scripts for the episodes (in the form of "dubtitles"), which included added dialogue where there was silence and added jokes, the two original lines do appear intact. However, in the case of the original dub audio, it would appear to be lost, aside from any recordings that fans may have saved from the first Toonami broadcasts.