What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

Gonna blow back some life into this chat by shitting on some ben 10 designs:
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This is just a bird man. Sure he's not terrible but its fucking boring compared to some other alien designs.

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Some shitty battletoads ripoff

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This thing just gives me Ligma. I don't mind goofy aliens but this is just....ugh


Regular series and alien force were oke but omniverse had some ugly motherfuckers.
 
Most of the Zi-O stuff looks like sin because of the big ugly ass shoulder pads. I think it may have been intentional to keep them from overshadowing the originals or the base design. thankfully Zi-O's base look is pretty cool. Decade wasn't so lucky:

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bonus points for his upgraded form where he wears his pokemon card collection

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You shut your whore mouth, Decade's base form is kino, unless you are talking about the belt's off color pink. But I absolutely agree with the final form.
 
Bob’s Burgers is one of the ugliest shows I’ve ever seen.

It's Golden Age Disney when compared to Big Mouth, but whereas Big Mouth's ugliness is part of its point, I don't really see any reason for Bob's Burgers to be ugly, other than "Well, all crudely animated comedy shows with a family in them have been ugly since the Simpsons, so I guess we have to be ugly too."
 
Bob’s Burgers is one of the ugliest shows I’ve ever seen.

Not sorry when I proudly say I've seen uglier (*cough* Big Mouth *cough* Rick & Morty *cough*) - but as much as I love this fucking show (Bob's Burgers)... Sadly, yeah - I can proudly say most of the characters look like fucking Muppet rejects.

I can see where you're coming from in just about why it doesn't get that... Special attention MacFarlane's works, The Simpsons, fuck - even South Park, still enjoy.
And say what you want about the writing quality of most of these examples, this just ain't the place for that.
 
I once found a Twitter thread on a now defunct account that showed cartoon drawings from a student about to enter CalArts. The student was an extreme SJW, but their artwork had character and a distinctive style. It looked like something made by a person with actual talent.

The thread then posted work that the student had made AFTER attending CalArts for a year. It was of the same characters the student had drawn before, only now everything had that "beanmouth and noodlearms" CalArts look to it. All personality had been scrubbed from it. Apparently CalArts makes it a point to erase all trace of individuality from their student's works so they can be more easily animated on a Korean assembly line.

When I see the garbage that Uncanny Valley posted, I see a bunch of design elements that can be swapped around to create a lazy, workshoplike product. It would be different if it were a single animator using animation shortcuts to tell a richly written story (or a topical story with a definite shelf like a la South Park,) But this is clearly just a bunch of hipster-produced low effort trash.
 
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