Hello Jito463,
I found a preference to disable subtitles by default, see the following pic prepared with Vlc 1.1.1 :
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Tools => Preferences => Show Settings (tick All) => Video => Subtitles/Osd => Enable sub-pictures (UNticked) => Save Pref
Then each time you launch VLC, it will default to disabling Subtitles
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But...as soon as you will need to display any subtitle, you'll have to do this all again and tick "Enable sub-pictures"
It seems that unticking "Enable sub-pictures" superseeds Video menu => Subtitles Track => Tick any subtitle.
I wasn't able to display any subtitle ticked in the Video menu, as soon as "Enable sub-pictures" is unticked in Preferences.