Due to their English names differing from their Japanese names, the English names of several slicing moves obscure why they are categorized as such.
Aerial Ace's Japanese name is つばめがえし Swallow Return, referring to a sword technique.
Population Bomb's name in Japanese is ネズミざん Nezumizan, which can be read as both ねずみ算 nezumizan (to multiply like mice; literally "mouse mathematics", a common arithmetic problem) and ねずみ斬 nezumizan (mouse cut).