Best Redesigns - The opposite of the Worst Redesigns thread

[Hummingbird]

While enjoying the Worst Redesigns thread it got me thinking what about the opposite. So this is a thread to celebrate good redesigns regardless of media, games, company pics, etc.

I'll start...

Spoiler: Original Thundercats

Spoiler: 2011 Reboot

As much of an Urban Rivals fangirl I am, some of the early card art was so lazy they had to remake it.

Spoiler: Original Level 3

Spoiler: Redesign of level 3

Who can forget The Simpsons...

Spoiler: Original cartoons

Spoiler: When they got a TV show

 

[Madre Muerte]

Why is this in prospering grounds? oh well, I'll have to go with the old and new Nazgûl logos

Spoiler: old

Spoiler: New

 

[Big Ruski]

Spoiler: Jojo in the 80s

Spoiler: Jojo in the 00s

Amazing how Araki just gets better and better with his art. Even if you don't like the series, you can't help but be impressed.



Guts transformation to Giga Chad Thunder Cock, his jaw gets more sharper as his sword gets more duller lol.

Spoiler: Berserk through the years

 

[contradiction of terns]

Geralt from the Witcher series.

Spoiler: From ghoulish vampire poet to daddy

 

[Product Placement]

Crash 4 redesign of Crash is is very well done, issue with many redesigns they just had more shit to the character, like the crash with tatoos, this one keep it simple.

Bugs Bunny, first two designs just aren't good and really do feel like throw away characters, and if you watch the shorts using that design the character is fucking awful.

Smash games have a number of game redesigns or updates, here my two favorites

 

[Coelacanth]

As an Ao Oni fan I feel obliged to bring up Takeshi's art portraits.

The first one's basically a meme in the community (or was considering the western fandom is pretty much dead). Noprops remade all the portraits for the characters in the version that most LPers in the west play. She aimed for Junji Ito in terms of style and I think she mostly achieved that.

 

[The Real Me]

I think they really saved the franchise with this one.

 

[Captain Sensible]

The original kermit puppet strikes me as uncanny, same goes with most of the puppets but his is the most noticable

Spoiler: Original

Spoiler: Modern

 

[Hot Daddy Hard Nipples]

While I wouldn't call her very first design bad, I think Hyrule Warriors made the best-looking Zelda yet.

 

[verygayFrogs]

@Yukari Yakumo redesigns of the Hyper H20 Dangancast and the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania. Also whatever the fuck Sakurai did to Kid Icarus, I wish I hit puberty that good

 

[Hummingbird]

I'd go with Elminster (D&D and Forgotten Realms fans will know what I'm talking about) who started of as looking like a Gandolf clone.

Then in 3.5 edition he got a make over that gave him more of a Sean Connery flair.

 

[Valstrax]

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[Hummingbird]

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Dio is one of the few men who can have hearts on his outfit and we don't see him as a sissy.

 

[Product Placement]

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Which is the redesign? both look pretty ugly so can't tell

All JoJo art I have seen is really shit. Is the show and comic a meme like Room or Troll 2, where is funny to laugh at how shit it is or do people legit enjoy it?

 

[The Real Me]

Which is the redesign? both look pretty ugly so can't tell

All JoJo art I have seen is really shit. Is the show and comic a meme like Room or Troll 2, where is funny to laugh at how shit it is or do people legit enjoy it?

I don't even like JoJo but goddamn.

 

[Product Placement]

I don't even like JoJo but goddamn.

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Not bait, was a legit question, shit is ugly as fuck, does it have a good story or something despite that or is it being good just a meme

 

[Hummingbird]

Alucard from the Castlevania series started out like this in Dracula's Curse.

To the more detailed and bishie one we now know and love.

 

[TheClorax]

Armored Adventures wasn’t an amazing show by any means, but the designs were genuinely really good for a lot of Iron Man’s rogues.

Probably the best Tony’s Rogues have ever looked if I’m being honest.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

I'm sorry.... I just couldn't resist.

 

[The Last Stand]

Jim Davis' Garfield from the 70s.

To the 80s-00s.

Making Garfield smaller and more catlike was a smart move.

Their recent redesign however...