>>150940450
It's not really a dubbing thing, the UT characters were often designed without any real set names(with exceptions being ones that were clear homages, but even then you had the sideswipe homage not being named Sideswipe in either country), Japan chose to use certain names and America different ones. Japanese names could be just as random and arbitrary, like the minicon called Sureshock being Arcee simply because she's also a fembot apparently.
This became awkward with superlink actually having proper homages to characters who already had the name in Micron Legend(Arcee vs Ariel, who was clearly intended to be Arcee, for example)