When Cartoon Network aired this movie, they edited out all uses of the word "hell" and removed the pre-credits opening scene. But since the pre-credits segment sets up the rest of the movie, Piccolo's line "I'm gonna pay you back for what you did to me!" no longer makes sense.
Released on DVD in America twice. The initial release was dubbed by Pioneer Entertainment with the Ocean Group and was a very accurate dub. It was later reissued with a new, less-accurate dub by FUNimation Productions in-house voice actors. While this version had a less accurate dub and fewer bonus features, it did feature a superior Japanese subtitled version, translated by Steven J. Simmons.
In the 1997 Canadian Pioneer Entertainment dub, Goku and Piccolo are voiced by Peter Kelamis and Scott McNeil, who coincidentally are both Australian-born actors that moved to Canada.
This movie has had two Video CD releases by Speedy: one features the Pioneer release with the first English dub done by Ocean Studios and the other featuring Speedy's own internal dub, subtitled The Vengeance of the Demon King.
In the opening scene of the 2003 AB-Groupe dub, which renamed Piccolo as Big Green, Garlic Jr. says "So Big Green and Goku were really one. That's what they said. No matter, now they're both quite dead!"
This is a script error which conflicts with the series, in all other versions, Garlic Jr. refers to Piccolo and Kami as being one.
This is a script error which conflicts with the series, in all other versions, Garlic Jr. refers to Piccolo and Kami as being one.