What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

I have a bone to pick with the arrested development of most indie game design, but Don't Starve/Don't Starve together is one of the most unappealing mixture of political comic proportions and thick lines. My distaste for the game comes off as contrarian so i'll leave that aside, but on visual design alone i cannot think of something as enjoyed by so many people with such a strong fanbase producing loads of art that i cannot see the appeal of.

inb4 "intentionally ugly"
I agree with this. I ignored it forever because I didn't want to like it because of how it looked.

Then I played it and loved it.

Then I realized there's literally no point to the game and gave up on it, so it's back on my shitlist.
 
There was an obscure cartoon in the '90s called Stressed Eric. The main character looks like Earthworm Jim:
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Just about every character looks hideous:
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There was an obscure cartoon in the '90s called Stressed Eric. The main character looks like Earthworm Jim:

Just about every character looks hideous:
Klasky-Csupo strikes again. The only shows where their artstyle actually worked were Duckman and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
 
Advance Wars has some terrible designs for its villains
OK, they're villains; they're supposed to look weird. Even the heroes aren't safe though. What's going on with her body?
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All the characters seem to have this weird crotch thrust thing going on:
Those seem pretty accurate and anatomically correct to me, ngl. Might be my ape brain but the girl in red has that, underage(?) scrawny stance, more round belly, but boney so there is less thigh meat. I think the pelvis/hips area of people is more like a square and the butt tilts down, stomach up, and there's a little triangle plane where the tailbone kinda is. check an anatomy book or blockey references to see what I mean. TLDR, she is just young n skinny
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From the waist up, it's fine, but waist-down is what the heck?
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Bravely default was a mess of stupid nippon job class costumes, I will agree there. The furry one with the pompadour was something else. The censorship sucked too, not the modding of the outfits (I'm not too interested in half naked 14yos) but the characters still spoke to their age about certain things

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Bravely default was a mess of stupid nippon job class costumes, I will agree there. The furry one with the pompadour was something else. The censorship sucked too, not the modding of the outfits (I'm not too interested in half naked 14yos) but the characters still spoke to their age about certain things
Are the Bravely Default characters supposed to be children? I thought they were just going for some weird pseudo-chibi aesthetic. The censorship put me off of ever touching the franchise though so I wouldn't know.

New Nintendo direct today reminded me how terrible the Xenoblade 2 protagonist looks.
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Xenoblade has some fantastic-looking characters, but he gets worse the longer I look at him. The weird sweater? onesie is probably the most egregious part, but the thick as hell thighhigh boots are pretty terrible too.

Also Ziggy from Xenosaga just looks clunky.

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Are the Bravely Default characters supposed to be children? I thought they were just going for some weird pseudo-chibi aesthetic. The censorship put me off of ever touching the franchise though so I wouldn't know.

New Nintendo direct today reminded me how terrible the Xenoblade 2 protagonist looks.
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Xenoblade has some fantastic-looking characters, but he gets worse the longer I look at him. The weird sweater? onesie is probably the most egregious part, but the thick as hell thighhigh boots are pretty terrible too.

Also Ziggy from Xenosaga just looks clunky.

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Yea Edea the knight girl in the pic (Valkyrie job outfit)/ thats the boss for the job but Edea looks like her enough, is canon 15. All of them are 15-16 yo, even Ringabel technically. In the western release, Tiz is 19, Agnes 20, Edea 18 and Ringabel is of unknown age I do not play many weeb games from the east but I can understand why the age up, one of the censored costumes is basically strings and there is literally a date rape scenario with the DeRosa guy who roofied women to 'test ' his new drugs, then put the damaged ones into pens. Same dude who picked up a 15 year old in the Bravo Bikini also says, "my techniques are truly superior. they all leave satisfied". And she has to be saved before he does the same to her.

mini tangent, but, on one hand, why the hell are the costumes, even the base ones that have no story purpose, so sexual when the crew are highschoolers? At least the weird nakedness is Gender neutral



That dude in the mickey shoes looks like a kingdom hearts character, and a shinmegami side character heh
 
This may be an empty bumb on the thread but i Just noticed he has a thigh gap and no 'outline' of anything, its it's basically flat down under. I only noticed as the weird thigh gap thing was putting me off.

Even Asto had a more practical outfit
They're meant to be gender-neutral or some shit
 
The worst in recent memory has to go to Seraphine, the champion from League of Legends. Her design looks that of a generic magical girl character and doesn't mesh well with the League universe as a whole. The best character designs in the game give you a sense of a champion's playstyle and personality just by looking at them. Seraphine meanwhile has no visible personality whatsoever, outside of generically happy like a Disney princess.
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