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Those of you people that aren't from U.S.A. may have found through internet that the original name of a character you used to know is not the same as in your country.
So, post pictures of some popular characters and the name they used to have in your country.
I'll start from the italian names of three popular characters of the Transformers G1:

Commander

Memor

Astrum

Does this count as a popular char?

Wally

You grew up knowing him as Waldo, but I grew up knowing him as Wally

Because everywhere else in the world except for the United States and Canada, we go by his original name. Why he was renamed in the US and Canada to Waldo is beyond me. What's wrong with Wally? Too British for you?

I think Wally is just too common.
Besides…
From the left: DUCA Duck, Buster Bunny, BABY Bunny, Dizzy Devil and LINDON!!

Why the hell did they rename Plucky "Duca"? It would have been understandable if his original name was Duke Duck, which is the exact translation (and pretty cool IMHO), but it's not!
Only a letter of difference among Babs and Baby, but the whole meaning of the word changes a lot.
But the most disturbing thing is Hamtom becoming Lindon, because in the same years the series was aired in Italy was popular even a brand of diapers with almost the same name: Lindor.
This is senseless if you think here in Italy this guy below was renamed…

LORD FENER!

Because "Vader" was too similar to "Water", word used in the 80s to define this thing:

In the UK during the 80's, the word Ninja was banned due to the connections it had to violence. Yeah. Seriously. Not only that, but throwing stars and nunchucks were also banned, so Michelangelo was never shown using his nunchucks, and they were eventually replaced with a grappling hook.

Yeah.

This is an obvious one

Japan:

U.S:

Why? Apparently, Pocket Monsters had already been used in the U.S, so they shortened it to Pokemon. Personally, I like the name Pokemon more than Pocket Monsters. Short and sweet.

Maybe you are talking of "Monster In My Pocket". But yes, the reason is that. And I like the word "pokemon" better too.

They used the English version in Japan and the Japanese version in the U.S, lol.

Vodka From Fighting Street Became
Zangief from Street Figher

Luffy from One Piece, is named Drake in the Greek Dub
In matter of fact, all the members of the team had different names!
Roronoa Zoro = Blackjack
Usopp = Gus
Sanji = Sunny
Nami = Bonnie
Chopper = Billy

Oh! In the italian dub he was renamed Rubber because of his stretching arms.