What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

I could be here all day sperging out about Fate: Grand Order's inconsistent character design, but here's what I consider to be one of the worst ones:
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It's a shame since I like her design when she's in the cloak.
 
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Designs for a show called Ollie & Scoops. Not the worst ever but still bad, even for an attempt at stylization. I feel like it's trying to go for an ugly cute style but I think it leans too far into ugly to work.
Here's the original designs. Still not great but a better then what we have here.
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Eh, Ollie and Scoops themselves are kinda cute, but agreed on the rest of the cast. In addition to being too on the ugly side, character designs are too disjointed, and there is no sense of harmony or cohesion between them.
 
Prison School is ugly even if it has big tiddy anime girls. Their thiccness is meh

Hazbin Hotel is just edgy tumblr art

F is for family. I love the show but the art is kinda ugly.

I still can't unsee paper mouth even in modern south park. and a lot of the reactions are horrendous, especially tilted head with shocked expression.

Corniel and bernie is an ugly fucking show on Nicktoons. It always made me think of expired cooked mac n cheese

MK2 sub zero

Fanboy and chum chum, fairly odd parents, Invader Zim (idc if its intentional), Rugrats, rocket power (still like the show regardless) My life as a Teenage Robot, The mighty B!, Danny Phantom, As told by ginger, A pup named scooby doo, disneys Hercules show, Hercules and Xena animated movie (based on the live action shows)
Sonic underground (except robotnik he genuinely looks like an evil dictator)
Street fighter anime, Mortal Kombat Defenders of Earth Realm, captain planet, captain planet 2:Magic School Bus Boogaloo,Jimmy Neutron, CatDog

She looks a bit too, how do I say this....colorful for Metal Slug.
trust me, it's gotten really bad. They completely abandoned iconic characters for generic anime-esque ones. I hate how the Morden regime full of giant machines of death are practically useless against the waifu rush meta. And instead of buffing-debuffing units (like the fucking based rebel army)
They just vomit more. Theres no balance whatsoever its whoever spends more money wins.
 
It's supposed to be kinda ugly. It's set in the 70s, after all (and certain characters, like Sue's mercenary coworker Vivian, look like they were ripped directly from some demented, rejected animated segment from the Sesame Street of the time).
Sounds like it should be up my alley then. I kinda dig period pieces if they're handled well.
 
It's tragic when a good or even great character design gets mysteriously thrown out the window and replaced with shit.
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It’s depressing when the concept art is better than the final design. Frozen comes to mind.

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Claire Keane

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Minkyu Lee

But instead of one of the fun, expressive Elsas we ended up with a marketable generic Anna palette swap.

Anyway:
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Dr. Stone is supposedly a decent show but this is the ugliest hairstyle, even for an anime protagonist. It's like it was dug out of a trash can full of rejected YGO designs.
 
"Omg, I love Sailor Moon! But why can't it like have more androgynous-looking characters in it? And with more diverse skin colors and body positivity!"

I honestly don't really care if a show or piece of media has a diverse cast in it. I just can't get behind them when it feels like that's the primary focus, while the story and such come secondary.
Also minor spergout nitpick with the designs: Those look like ballerina slippers with heels tacked on at a weird angle, which even for an animated show look ridiculous as fuck to be wearing.

the modern magical girl fandom is literal malignant cancer
 
It’s depressing when the concept art is better than the final design. Frozen comes to mind.

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Claire Keane

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Minkyu Lee

But instead of one of the fun, expressive Elsas we ended up with a marketable generic Anna palette swap.

Anyway:
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Dr. Stone is supposedly a decent show but this is the ugliest hairstyle, even for an anime protagonist. It's like it was dug out of a trash can full of rejected YGO designs.
I remember Tumblr shoving this anime in all of its ads and people were getting so sick of it.
 
It’s depressing when the concept art is better than the final design. Frozen comes to mind.

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Claire Keane

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Minkyu Lee

But instead of one of the fun, expressive Elsas we ended up with a marketable generic Anna palette swap.

Anyway:
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Dr. Stone is supposedly a decent show but this is the ugliest hairstyle, even for an anime protagonist. It's like it was dug out of a trash can full of rejected YGO designs.
The hair overall didn't bother me much (nearly all of the characters besides him have okay hair), it was the eyes of the female characters in particular that did. They were spaced out far too much that it could get a bit unsettling or distracting depending on the scene.
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"Omg, I love Sailor Moon! But why can't it like have more androgynous-looking characters in it? And with more diverse skin colors and body positivity!"

I honestly don't really care if a show or piece of media has a diverse cast in it. I just can't get behind them when it feels like that's the primary focus, while the story and such come secondary.
The thing that blows my mind is that Sailor Moon already had LGBT characters and handled them better than most of the stuff that comes out nowadays. It’s almost like Haruka and Michiru were characters first and “cousins” second.

Also, the title annoys me more than the character’s designs. (I have no real opinion based on that single screenshot.) Even if it’s supposed to be a parody, it sounds like a placeholder name taken from an anime title generator.

Also, fuck it. Let’s sperg about kids’ anime.

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Let's not forget Smile, aka "WE WANT THE MOE AUTIST CROWD"
The uniforms themselves are fine imo (I prefer simpler outfits like those in Fresh and Heartcatch) but the hair is crazy even by Precure standards. I wouldn’t personally call them bad, they’re at least unique, but their normal hairstyles are cuter.

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Still beats poor Mint and her rattail, at least.

(Also, I didn't want to quote you twice but I think Muse and her pumpkin skirt are more ridiculous than Melody. Rhythm is cute though.)

Precure is known for its overly complicated designs, even compared to other mahou shoujo series. It’s part of its charm imo. They’re busy, but usually not too garish.

Then they bring out the super forms.

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Cosmo, what did they do to your hair? (The rest can be seen here. Special mention goes to Soleil’s scale hair; 10 cans of hair spray or magic? You decide!)

The hair overall didn't bother me much (nearly all of the characters besides him have okay hair), it was the eyes of the female characters in particular that did. They were spaced out far too much that it could get a bit unsettling or distracting depending on the scene.
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Haven’t seen How to Draw Manga style art in a while. She'd be cute if the eyes were closer.
 
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The thing that blows my mind is that Sailor Moon already had LGBT characters and handled them better than most of the stuff that comes out nowadays. It’s almost like Haruka and Michiru were characters first and “cousins” second.

Also, the title annoys me more than the character’s designs. (I have no real opinion based on that single screenshot.) Even if it’s supposed to be a parody, it sounds like a placeholder name taken from an anime title generator.

Also, fuck it. Let’s sperg about kids’ anime.

The uniforms themselves are fine imo (I prefer simpler outfits like those in Fresh and Heartcatch) but the hair is crazy even by Precure standards. I wouldn’t personally call them bad, they’re at least unique, but their normal hairstyles are cuter.

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Still beats poor Mint and her rattail, at least.

(Also, I didn't want to quote you twice but I think Muse and her pumpkin skirt are more ridiculous than Melody. Rhythm is cute though.)

Precure is known for its overly complicated designs, even compared to other mahou shoujo series. It’s part of its charm imo. They’re busy, but usually not too garish.

Then they bring out the super forms.

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Cosmo, what did they do to your hair? (The rest can be seen here. Special mention goes to Soleil’s scale hair; 10 cans of hair spray or magic? You decide!)
I have a feeling that the FPS go down to the single digits when the super forms are on screen. Those designs is how you show your animator how much you hate them.
 
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