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What is common in your field but shocks outsiders? Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language. It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.

I’ve seen some literal translations from Japanese. It’s very wooden in English. I’ve heard “todome da” all over and seen subs translate to “the final blow” but dub lines go with stuff like “time to end this!”

That's not a literal translation. In fact. what most people call a "literal translation" is simply a less polished localization. A literal translation of todome da would be "This is hit ensures a cessation of combat. " Nobody actually wants a literal translation.

Also with dubs there's the added layer of having to match timing and lip flaps (to a degree) so that adds a further dimension to the demands of localization.

I maintain that becoming slaves to lip flaps almost universally makes even the "good dubs" kinda awkward and stilted. I wish it happened less.