One word, Drag Strip. Thought his name was Drag Stripper... lol.

 

I think this may sort of qualify, but the constantly differing ways of pronouncing "Cheetor" in Beast Wars. Sometimes they placed heavy emphasis on the "-OR" at the end of his name, while other times - gosh, I can still recall this from 15 years ago - Cheetor would say his name "Cheater"/"Cheeter". "Cheeter". "-ER". "Cheeter, maximize!" I know it's not really that big of a deal (and even as a youngster it's not like I got confused at the mispronunciation), but it always stuck out to me.

 

Got another, uhh I forgot... WAIT I once called Shockwave, Shookwave

 

For years I thought Tigatron was really Tigertron.

 

It would really make more sense if it was.

 

"Fistitron." Boy was I bummed when I found out it was the less-than-intimidating just-one-T "Fisitron."

And of course there's Unicorn.

 

I'm reminded of TF:Animated's "Chugway".

 

My entire childhood I thought Monsterbot Grotusque was just named "Grotesque"

-ZacWilliam didn't learn different till the Internet fandom came along as an adult.

 

Before the 2007 movie came out, I was REALLY messing up with Optimus Prime's name.

 

Shockwave - Chugway

 

"Yo man I loved transformers when I was a kid. I had that Soundtape one, and he was like a foot and a half tall and made entirely out of metal. And he had these tapes, like Chestdog and Laserbird, and they really played music when you put them into him..."

 

I used to call blaster soundblaster as I didnt know the diffrence between them at the time

 

Back when I was younger with Beast Wars, I heard my brother talking about this character called "Wheelie". This was before I had seen anything of G1. I thought the character name would of been seen as "Really" at the time.

 

I kept mispronouncing Crosswise Crosswire.

 

I remember seeing the TV commercial for Thrust and Dirge before seeing the characters in the show. I thought the announcer was saying their names were "Rust" and "Dirt." And I thought those were pretty stupid names.

 

talking about mispronunciation! i remember the final ep of BW & Blackarachnia says Teletron 1 instead of Teletraan 1

 

one apon a time when i was younger than young and G1's session 4 headmaster showed up.

I thought Scorponok was Doggarnok.

Can you get any weirder than that?

 

I (and probably others) assumed "Arcee" was actually initials until I had seen it written.

 

she does and rattrap corrects her. in fact i think she does alot and it wasnt until then that he does indeed correct her. took him long enough considering who he is.

 

I was never sure if it was Alita One or Elita 1 or what as a kid.

-ZacWilliam, also I tended to spell Spike's wife's name as "Carlie"