What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

[TVB]

This might be me but this irks me on everything, might be the coloring or just how the characters are done.

It also reeks of shitty Bob's Burgers face

 

[Pissmaster]

Spoiler: genshit

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this is such an ugly mess of character design. the color palette is everywhere, his boots and gloves look weird like i know it's not supposed to have a hint of "post modern" aesthetic. I can clearly tell someone from the artist team had a bad week designing him.

The hair looks vaguely like the Kiwi Farms logo. Also, "Him"? That looks like a woman. I know that's a thing in anime, but, you know, come on.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

The hair looks vaguely like the Kiwi Farms logo. Also, "Him"? That looks like a woman. I know that's a thing in anime, but, you know, come on.

Yeah.

Not the worst design but that forehead is massive and I hate the bangs. They look like the receding hairline of an old man.

Idk if it's on purpose considering this is a dude.

 

[Pissmaster]

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Yeah.

Not the worst design but that forehead is massive and I hate the bangs. They look like the receding hairline of an old man.

Idk if it's on purpose considering this is a dude.

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Looks like a baby to me.

If that's a dude, they may as well just make an anime Jesse Ventura and call that a woman. There is absolutely nothing masculine about that character. It literally looks like a giant baby's head on a 10 year old's body.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Looks like a baby to me.

If that's a dude, they may as well just make an anime Jesse Ventura and call that a woman. There is absolutely nothing masculine about that character. It literally looks like a giant baby's head on a 10 year old's body.

Welcome to Japan.

 

[Hammr2]

Yeah.

Not the worst design but that forehead is massive and I hate the bangs. They look like the receding hairline of an old man.

Idk if it's on purpose considering this is a dude.

Not sure you are being nitpicky on the bang, or "hating for the sake of hating"
Calling that really trim bang is like receding hairline is pretty dumb. Because that would be missing hair on the sides, not in middle.

Having trim bang like that is nothing new, and Hideri case is just "specially" kinda splitting evenly in middle. Most people have 7/3 (left to right) or 3/7 (right to left) portion hair parting,
By your logic, for lesser obvious cases (not as heavily trim), would you say Sailor Moon herself has receding hairline because her bang is missing in middle? Or these below have receding hairline as well?


For really trim bang hair examples.
Male.



Female.



The last two, I'm sure you can find irl equivalent on celebrities boy cut hair like Anne Hathaway, Emma Watson and even Rhianna.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Not sure you are being nitpicky on the bang, or "hating for the sake of hating"
Calling that really trim bang is like receding hairline is pretty dumb. Because that would be missing hair on the sides, not in middle.
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Having trim bang like that is nothing new, and Hideri case is just "specially" kinda splitting evenly in middle. Most people have 7/3 (left to right) or 3/7 (right to left) portion hair parting,
By your logic, for lesser obvious cases (not as heavily trim), would you say Sailor Moon herself has receding hairline because her bang is missing in middle? Or these below have receding hairline as well?
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For really trim bang hair examples.
Male.
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Female.
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The last two, I'm sure you can find irl equivalent on celebrities boy cut hair like Anne Hathaway, Emma Watson and even Rhianna.

Now we're touching on art styles where the hairstyle doesn't even look that bad.

The examples you provided also don't have abnormally large foreheads like Hideri does. Which does make it look like he's balding.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

The character design in Baldur's Gate 3 rarely rises above "serviceable" but what the fuck were they going for with this idiot?



Gortash's hair and outfit are giving "villain of an anime set at a high school for vampires" while his face is giving "45 year old divorced construction foreman."

 

[ShooterOfCum]

Pretty sure those are actually rather close to how angels have been described in religious texts.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

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I hate the “biblically accurate angels” thing. One or two excerpts pertaining to a few of the beings at God's throne and suddenly all the references to angels as looking completely normal are ignored in favor of a “wacky” dunk on those “stupid evangelicals.”

 

[The Lawgiver]

The hair looks vaguely like the Kiwi Farms logo. Also, "Him"? That looks like a woman. I know that's a thing in anime, but, you know, come on.

In the game he's very clearly a dude when compared to the female characters, guy just has that "anime protag" level of somewhat over-design. I made a joke back when he came out that he looked like he could be Null's Vtuber model because he's a dog guy with the colors of the Kiwi farms dark mode and his hair literally looks like the logo when you position his head at certain angles. Some of his dialogue in text format where he's dealing with people also read kinda like Null posts to the point I would not be surprised if it was more than coincidence, but I know it's more than likely mere really fucking funny coincidence.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I hate the “biblically accurate angels” thing. One or two excerpts pertaining to a few of the beings at God's throne and suddenly all the references to angels as looking completely normal are ignored in favor of a “wacky” dunk on those “stupid evangelicals.”

I like the crazy monstrosities made out of circles and eyes and shit. Way cooler than a fat baby with wings and a doot horn

 

[Flaming Insignias]

I like the crazy monstrosities made out of circles and eyes and shit. Way cooler than a fat baby with wings and a doot horn

I hate that false dichotomy of “eldritch monstrosity” or a putti. Why can't angels be the relatively normal-looking men the Bible describes them as? At the very least, let me have St Michael as the glorious warrior he was.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I hate that false dichotomy of “eldritch monstrosity” or a putti. Why can't angels be the relatively normal-looking men the Bible describes them as? At the very least, let me have St Michael as the glorious warrior he was.

You get that on the candles and stuff

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I hate that false dichotomy of “eldritch monstrosity” or a putti. Why can't angels be the relatively normal-looking men the Bible describes them as? At the very least, let me have St Michael as the glorious warrior he was.

The dichotomy was never real. They're just different forms of the same creature. Biblically accurate angel stuff is moreso describing what angels look like in heaven rather than how they look all the time.
Edit: in fact, angels look weird even in human form. They carry a presence which immediately marks them as inhuman which creeps most people out, which is why they still say "be not afraid" (except in Sodom where they got turned on).

 

[The Lawgiver]

The dichotomy was never real. They're just different forms of the same creature. Biblically accurate angel stuff is moreso describing what angels look like in heaven rather than how they look all the time.
Edit: in fact, angels look weird even in human form. They carry a presence which immediately marks them as inhuman which creeps most people out, which is why they still say "be not afraid" (except in Sodom where they got turned on).

Not exactly, there's different types of "angels". The ones people keep showing as "biblically accurate" with the wheels and eyes and shit are the thrones . Archangels are the more normal humanoid angel type which are also biblically accurate. this is stuff you can find really easy.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Not exactly, there's different types of "angels". The ones people keep showing as "biblically accurate" with the wheels and eyes and shit are the thrones . Archangels are the more normal humanoid angel type which are also biblically accurate. this is stuff you can find really easy.

I knoe that theres a hierarchy of angels beyond the three which usually get mentioned but aren't the big 4 archangels supposed to be different from the others?

 

[Flaming Insignias]

in fact, angels look weird even in human form. They carry a presence which immediately marks them as inhuman which creeps most people out, which is why they still say "be not afraid" (except in Sodom where they got turned on).

I do not know if the presence is necessarily creepy as much as it is overwhelming in the “fear of god” sense of witnessing even a fragment of heavenly power. I need to try reading the Greek and Aramaic to see the phrasing of “be not afraid,” as I feel it is more a statement of ease to those overwhelmed witnessing divinity than a plea not to freak out at the creepy floating eyeball thing heralding news.

I knoe that theres a hierarchy of angels beyond the three which usually get mentioned but aren't the big 4 archangels supposed to be different from the others?

The Big 4, or at least Michael, are not technically archangels going by the traditional hierarchy (which I still question as an attempt to create a concept of tiers where there may just be duties), since true Archangels are the second-lowest on the totem pole. Michael was referred to as Prince of Angels in Hebrew, and the term archangel was used in its place for much of the European world. Nonetheless, the four named “princes of the angels” are about the only time people mention archangels, so that is the de-facto meaning. Either way, it does appear that the most prominent of the heavenly host are generally humanoid, even if the cherubim and seraphim have notable inhuman traits.

 

[888Flux]

I hate the “biblically accurate angels” thing. One or two excerpts pertaining to a few of the beings at God's throne and suddenly all the references to angels as looking completely normal are ignored in favor of a “wacky” dunk on those “stupid evangelicals.”

It's peak "Dunning-Kruger" effect. Redditors have this virtue signal complex where they want to make it clear how much more intelliegent they are and how much they just notice the subtle nuances much more than you do. Except they are midwits who can only understand the word like its the TV Tropes wiki.

Redditors, having never read the Bible just assume information to be the objective truth because some queer made a 3 hour long YouTube video essay about it. They miss the point entirely though. An angel would probably be something completely incomprehensible to understand to our reality, which is probably what would lead to that visual description.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Not exactly, there's different types of "angels". The ones people keep showing as "biblically accurate" with the wheels and eyes and shit are the thrones . Archangels are the more normal humanoid angel type which are also biblically accurate. this is stuff you can find really easy.

Archangels heavenly forms are never exactly described. Its assumed that all angels can take human form to deal with mortals in a way that won't immediately inspire fear.

knoe that theres a hierarchy of angels beyond the three which usually get mentioned but aren't the big 4 archangels supposed to be different from the others?

There are only two archangels mentioned in the Bible, Gabriel and Michael, and they are also the only angels identified by name (outside Lucifer). Michael is ostensibly considered to be the leader of the angels, as he lead the angels into battle with Satan and his fallen angels when he rebelled, and he got into a fight with Satan over ownership of Moses's body.