Thunderbolts* 3D Blu-ray (2025) [Region Free TBC] 10th September JAPAN ONLY

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Rockercub

Well, I apologize to Jlardonio for telling him to take a chill pill, but I honestly was taken aback by his response when I was just trying to help out.

I just went with "forced subs" 'cause others were using it and it's shorter than "non-English dialogue subs." (NEDS?) I am happy for those who like captions for the whole movie or are willing to turn them on and off, but that's just not me. I do find it a bit weird though that they'd include one set of English subs and not the other. Maybe for Japanese speakers who are trying to learn English? Anyways, not expecting anything, but maybe Happinet will add them back one day. It's worth checking on from release to release.

I was referring more to Jlardonio and Waverboy's last few posts as those were contributing nothing but in any case I hope that particular discussion has run its course now that it is clear what the subtitle issues are with this release.

You are right in that "forced subs" is being quite commonly used now to describe "English subtitles for only non-English dialogue" but I think it's highly misleading when it is used to refer to subtitles that can be switched off. Many French discs default to French subtitles when the English audio track is selected and the discs disable the option to turn them off so to me those are true forced subtitles.

I think for the foreseeable future we can assume that Japanese MCU releases will not be including separate English subtitle tracks for any non-English dialogue.