r/TopCharacterDesigns

Sorry for the low quality, most of this is fanarts from the 90-00s so is hard to find some of them.

That said, is amazing how he manage to put homer and bart in absolutely everything and make it look cool as fuck.

Why did they make a mascot off an already lame ad, I hate this stupid little puff ball: his unnerving eyes and weird realistic looking teeth

Ttar is one of my favourite of all the psuedo legendary Pokémon and for good reason too. Its a giant lizard monster covered with spikes-something to beware off right from the get go.

Sure its fangs and arms are tiny, but the squinted eyes make up for those, their almost always constant glare making it look pretty intimidating in addition to the aformentioned spikes. Its huge and chunky legs and super long tail with essentially a spiky mace at the end also help reinforce how scary it is. I can imagine it walking and causing tremors as it walks, and its tail crushing any unfortunate obstacle in its path as its swung back and forth.

May was one of the oldest female protagonist designs for the games (and anime) given she debuted way back in 2002 which is now almost 25 years ago. Despite multiple gens of the games and anime later, her design managed to remain popular over 20+ years and is still considered the most memorable of many of the female protagonists.

It's a combination of the bandana, the red outfit, and the more sporty/adventure type look to her over more traditional girly looking heroines that kept her prominent. Of course the anime giving her a starring role and her being the first new female companion after Misty helped too, she's the most watched/viewed of all the female companions of the anime after the original cast of Misty/Brock since Hoenn aired over 23 years ago.

Junji Ito is the famous horror manga artist behind classics like Uzumaki and Hellstar Remina, and his bread and butter of his artstyle is making completely mundane things look deeply unsettling. Junji Ito's Cat Diary is an autobiographical manga he made about his family and their two pet cats, Yon & Miu.

The story is nominally not a horror, it's just a comedy slice of life manga depicting the day to day life of two cat owners and their cat. Junji Ito really can't help himself though, and the story often plunges into classic Ito-style body horror whenever he depicts the "cuteness aggression" that a lot of pet owners report feeling towards their pet animals.

Even in scenes where he doesn't exaggerate the facial expressions for comedic effect, Ito hilariously draws himself and his wife like they're uncanny horror characters that came straight out of one of his manga. Ito always draws himself as this gaunt, hollow-eyed man with a haunted expression permanently plastered on his face; he draws his wife as this terrifying, pupilless, sneering fiend who always looks like she's holding a blood-stained kitchen knife behind her back. It's extra funny when you see real life pictures of the two and find out they're just pleasant-looking ordinary middle aged folk.

so in the vast marvel multiverse there exists a earth

Earth-423 which is basically "what if spider-man was a Disney Renaissance era princess musical film"

A very unique interpretation of the turtles.

I'm really surprised I haven't seen a post about this. There are episode cards from this show that I would hang up in my house. They really feels like some kind of old Fairy tail book.

The Vox are a race of "Super-Inhumans" who were genetically engineered by the Kree Empire in order to subjugate the Inhumans living on Earth.

And my god, they look so cool. The raven feathers as a cape, the energy scythe, the helmet/mask, they look like Cosmic Grim Reapers. 10/10 design.

I've been fiending after this Round Table management sim for the last few days, and I just wanted to throw some praise in for the character designs here.

There's so much love for authentic medieval armor - both the functional and the flouncy parade stuff - that shows in the artist's intricate rendering and exaggeration of specific details, like Goberto's frogmouth helmet or Ursula's spiky couter. Unlike a lot of fantasy artists, you can tell they truly understand how and why the individual pieces of a suit moved and were held together.

At the same time, the designs themselves don't let themselves be restricted by the bounds of historical armor design, and the themes of individual knights veer from the familar to the absurd. A cute riff on the Green Knight and aforementioned frogmouth give way to a goth knight, a salaryman knight, a maid knight, and a knight who's literally just a walking cathedral. There's variation in not just the armor, but in the body language and facial structure (extra points for the ladies being weird too), but they all feel cohesive when you're rapid-scrolling through your lineup and figuring out who you're going to send to deal with an infestation of rowdy chickens.

I just love the damaged suits by the end of each spider-man movie. It's kind of satifying to look at...

I watched the commercial not expecting much but then I saw the SpongeBob characters wearing the outifts from the Strawhat Crew and they all look so cool, cute and charming.

Some of them are just wearing the same clothes and accessories (which is neat by itself) but there are some cool adaptations like Patrick holding three jellyfishing nets instead of three swords like Zoro, or Gary having Chopper's hat on his shell.

In the second image, I also really liked how they crossed over Mrs. Puff with Big Mom. They go well together like puzzle pieces.

I love these toothy little creeps. They definitely look aquatic and do not look friendly in the slightest.

Teeth. It’s just… look at it. Such a creative design.

The design works perfectly for horror because it takes a familiar human shape and covers it entirely in teeth. It looks unnatural and deeply unsettling, while still being simple enough to be instantly recognizable and memorable. A perfect horror design that gives you the creeps.

Axe just fits perfectly into the angry birds crew, while still being original enough to stand out, plus I love how he's a cassowary, since that's such a cool bird to make an angry bird, and very different compared to the species of the other flock members. Also I admire the artists dedication to putting axe in like, every angry birds art style ever lol, it makes axe fit in the angry birds universe more and more.

Of course all art is made by u/pepe_fedez go check them out and show them some love, or else axe will come to your house and break all your valuables

Van helsing 2004: in the original movie, frankenstein had a normal monster appearence, he was made of corpses skin, a black clothing, a block shaped head, in the 2004 van helsing movie, he looks like a cyberpunk cyborg powered by elecricity, also mr hyde in the original books he was a short and hunchbacked version of jekyll, here he looks like a beast a hulk like figure with inhuman strenght, also the werefolf in the original movie he looked like a normal man with hair all over his body, here he looks now like a real werewolf
CASTLEVANIA: in the original bram stoker novels, dracula had white hair, old man appearence, a mustache, and look like a creepy elderly man, here he has white hair, but is more taller, has an elegant bad ass coat, a formed jaw and face
headless horseman (2004): in the original novel, he was a horseman, with a medieval outfit, a sword, and a pumpkin, just like that a decapitated horseman, here he is a ghost rider anti hero, with a modern leather jacket and a biker instead of a horse..kinda stupid but awesome lol

They're just such skrunkly blorbos while also being perfect depictions of his guests. I love Salty, Dollip, and Dawko's especially.

He's a Howard the Duck villain but has been in Deadpool & Spider-Man comics a couple times.

He's a little bit of a joke version of Doctor Doom, but thats not why he was created. He's just a really fun character though.

His design is super fun with his bell head & somewhat intimidating human facial structure, his dong hand he attacks with & spiked right side knuckle, his classic belt with a wrestlers vibe, I also like that he feels classic yet still intimidating.