What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

Usually with DQ, Horii draws an uninspired idea for a monster then Toriyama takes it and adds his own spin
I wonder how Orgodemir looked pre-Horii. As there seem to be, describe his being called "visual kei devil" (as per pixiv trivia, who knows what the source), really precise western inspirations.
 
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If OCs count then I'd like to bring up this... thing.
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It's description needs no words: "Kitty is. feral!! They're super like.. peppy and loud and excitable, super cheerful and stuff. They also are like.. pretty violent, they carry around a bat for a weapon so like.. Yeah. Theyre just this annoying childish ball of chaos, basically they're also nonbinary! they/them"
 
If OCs count then I'd like to bring up this... thing.
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It's description needs no words: "Kitty is. feral!! They're super like.. peppy and loud and excitable, super cheerful and stuff. They also are like.. pretty violent, they carry around a bat for a weapon so like.. Yeah. Theyre just this annoying childish ball of chaos, basically they're also nonbinary! they/them"
It's a human sparkledog!
 
If OCs count then I'd like to bring up this... thing.
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It's description needs no words: "Kitty is. feral!! They're super like.. peppy and loud and excitable, super cheerful and stuff. They also are like.. pretty violent, they carry around a bat for a weapon so like.. Yeah. Theyre just this annoying childish ball of chaos, basically they're also nonbinary! they/them"
Everything here is so cluttered that it has no clue what it's trying to convey. On one hand, the split blue/pink feels like an Ibuki Mioda rip-off (assuming it's a Danganronpa oc), while it also brings me back to those cringe Mary Sue DeviantArt ocs from years ago.
 
If OCs count then I'd like to bring up this... thing.
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It's description needs no words: "Kitty is. feral!! They're super like.. peppy and loud and excitable, super cheerful and stuff. They also are like.. pretty violent, they carry around a bat for a weapon so like.. Yeah. Theyre just this annoying childish ball of chaos, basically they're also nonbinary! they/them"
DanganRonpa OC's do tend to be...something else. Usually because the fandom thinks they're edgy but would probably cry if the blood wasn't candy coloured.
 
If OCs count then I'd like to bring up this... thing.
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It's description needs no words: "Kitty is. feral!! They're super like.. peppy and loud and excitable, super cheerful and stuff. They also are like.. pretty violent, they carry around a bat for a weapon so like.. Yeah. Theyre just this annoying childish ball of chaos, basically they're also nonbinary! they/them"
It's like deviantart meets Alegria. You have the over complexity of the former with the soulless lack of proportions of the latter. There is so much bad I'd need several paragraphs to list it, but the most immediate ones is having the bad original model added next to the character so the unfortunate viewer will see how much effort was put into it.
 
Not sure if this qualifies as "backseat moderation" but I feel the thread loses its purpose if we start posting literal Deviantart-tier OC reference sheets done by people that have basement dweller level understanding of art fundamentals. These are hobbyists doing stuff for themselves or the people who commission them, so it is not intended for a general audience or to be distributed for mass media consumption as part of a product or franchise nor it is done by people that work as professionals.

Bad character designs are the rule and not the exception in that context, it is the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel" approach to this topic.

Plus, there are already threads for Deviantart Horrors and Furry Art Freak Shows dedicated to mocking that type of content.
 
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