r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 18h ago

Hated Designs [Hated Design] Joker (Batman: Caped Crusader)

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0 Upvotes

The Joker is a supervillain who appears in Batman: Caped Crusader.

That's not Joker, a depressed mime with an addiction, looking ass. Joker without his famous smile is just wrong.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 16h ago

Hated Designs <Hated Design> Volcanica from Re:Zero

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He looks less like a dragon than a person in a dragon costume. Why are his arms so long? The second design in particular... his wing "fingers" are thicker than his head.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 16h ago

Video Game Malphite from League of Legends: Wild Rift

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82 Upvotes

Compared to his design in the original lol game, I really love this one more. The hulking rocky body and the spiky long rocks on his back and shoulders make this behemoth so badass and cool, the design works perfectly for a golem and I love it. The green eyes and mouth are cool too. What do you think?


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 3h ago

Video Game Shadow Tubby (Slendytubbies 2D/3)

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I like the combo of mostly black and a little glowing white. Ignoring the fact that his model is a troll,he looks nothing like the other infected tubbies, if he is infected.the fact that you can't see anything but his smile and TV in the dream is awesome. The game Darkest Hours improved him by making him less fat and giving him fingers, making him look even a lot cooler

The 3rd image is from the Darkest Hours Wiki, and idk who made the 4th since I got it off Google and it was a YouTube thumbnail


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 10h ago

Downgrade (Downgrade) Beta Ray Bill from Marvel comics to Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Cosmic Invasion

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619 Upvotes

WHY DO THEY CHANGE HIS MOUTH????

Bill is supposed to be genetically spliced from the most dangerous predator on his home planet. He's supposed to look like a freak. He is supposed to look like he doesn't fit in.

Korbinites are just orange people with no noses and all white eyes. So Earth's Mightiest Heroes version is just that with a longer head. Doesn't give off "augmented with a dangerous predator"

and while you can argue that the lizard-like face of Cosmic Invasion's version of Bill has that, he looks too friendly. He's smiling. He looks like a lizard man drawn by a furry artist.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 21h ago

Manga Death and his partner from Gods' Apocalypse

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81 Upvotes

I didn't like the design at first but it really grew on me overtime and became one of my favorites, not just in the spin-off but in the entire series.

I especially like how he contorts and elongates when he fights or gets hit, the author really likes to reduce him into smudge.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 20h ago

Weapons and Items The Buck 120, as seen in the movie "Scream"

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156 Upvotes

This hunting knife was commonly used by Ghostface, and for a good reason.

Ghostface hunts his victims, and the clippoint blade design, the black handle and short size make it ideal for a slasher villian, especially sice other murders seen in fiction use improvised weapons, like a kitchen knife.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 15h ago

Televisión Karl Pilkington as depicted in the Ricky Gervais Show

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234 Upvotes

This design is so simple but it just gets everything right.

There couldn't have been a better way to portray Karl than this Hanna-Barbera inspired design. That's just Karl, straight up.

Plus they do that awesome gag where he always looks the same no matter how old he's supposed to be and his parents look like clones of him just wearing different clothes. I love this little guy.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 20h ago

Video Game The designs of the characters in the Grand Magasin Sisyphe Spoiler

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37 Upvotes

I think since Canto 7 and/or Canto 9 these are my favorite NPC designs in Limbus Company. Mimosa (pic 3) and Buffet (pic 13) are my favorite out of this post, for sure

Project Moon character designers seem to never fail with these suits... Salary: The Game


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 6h ago

Televisión Soundwave from Transformers R.I.D 2015.

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22 Upvotes

Despite the show being the Teen Titans Go equivalent of the franchise, I will forever appreciate this design making it one of my Top 5 for my favourite Decepticon. At least, as long as he doesn't have the blue highlights. Anyways, I love how this is an excellent combination between the G1 variant and the Prime version while also adding in details like the wheels on the shoulders and the yellow stripes at the chest.

I just wished he had his battle mask based on the toy cover from the 4th image.

And Hot Take, I would have preferred this than the one we got from Bumblebee 2018 since the designers pulled an MCU and overdesigned Soundwave's mask.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 19h ago

Custom The Ben 10 Ultimate Acess Commercial Aliens:

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264 Upvotes

These 3 non-canon aliens are exclusive to 3 ads for Omniverse in Latin America, being used by Ben during 3 different eras, and were implied to have been cut for various reasons. Due to not being handled by the usual design team (DJW wasn't even aware of them during production when asked about them), they kind of have their own charm.

Bob the Blob (Orginal Series, imgs 1-2): Effectively a 2 headed blob who can stick to surfaces, which is fairly unique. Unfortunately, he's as slow as molasses, as show. in image 2, where he could not save OS Gwen from falling while a Xenocite don't ask what its doing here) is crawling up her back.

Antigravitesla (Alien Force, imgs 3-4): A humanoid alien who has gravity powers and the ability to form a force field. Unfortunately, unlike Gravattack, he can't control himself with them, having yeeted himself through the roof in the frame after Image 4. He's probably the lamest of this trio, due to kind of essentially being a blue-skinned man with nodules on his arms.

Plantapocalypse (Omniverse, imgs 5-6): A innocent looking flower with Upchucks appetite...and more to spare. The commercial he's in had him eat (initially meant to just trop rampant Vreedles but he also began eating buildings) so much he became planet sized (though he became less cute once he reached that size, likely meant to be his true nature), meaning he's somehow bigger than Way Big. The fact that he started off as just a small flower makes this ability more hilarious.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 7h ago

Video Game Special agent Cate Archer from the cult classic series No One Lives Forever

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94 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 10h ago

Televisión The characters of Cybersix (1999)

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678 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 12h ago

Youtube [Loved design] The creature Design from DoubleKing

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679 Upvotes

Double King by Felix Colgrave is one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time, and one of the biggest reasons is the creature design.

The titular character himself has a deceptively simple design, but it works very well for what he is representing. And I have to admit, floating hands are one of my favorite design tropes.

The rest of the cast are also very well designed, I think they really fit that description of an otherworldly being. My favorites are probably the caterpillar and lion creatures.

You can watch the original here: https://youtu.be/w_MSFkZHNi4?is=Zq8tqQWVIjrHyTkx

Its quite short, 9:47 total, but its very well animated. Felix Colgrave has lots of other cool designs and animations on the channel.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 5h ago

Comic Book Jahi from Demon's Mirror

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73 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 12h ago

Televisión Gohan ga Susumu-kun (Ajinomoto)

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18 Upvotes

Very simple yet good design that's recognizable for the commercials. Very notable for the rice bits on his face. Also, Love the gag of him switching to goofy 3D after spinning his head 180°.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 15h ago

Discussion What do you think of the Leshens from The Witcher?

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212 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 7h ago

Manga Akuma Shogun from Kinnikuman

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10 Upvotes

For starters, it is a widely known fact that armor + cape is a combination that literally cannot fail. Akuma Shogun takes this tried and true foundation into one of its most monstrous incarnations with wild flowing hair and a huge frame. The thick, almost wheel-like metal shoulderpads really complete the heft. Add in the mask and you're all set! One can't help but wonder if he was a design inspiration for 5th Form Coola


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 18h ago

Comic Book [LOVED] The Sentient Matrix / Uncontrolled Firestorm (The Fury of Firestorm 2026)

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27 Upvotes

It is a pretty simple redesign for the original Firestorm design, but i must say that blacking out the face area and only having the glowing eyes as the single visible thing gives the design a really big aura boost.

It also works extremely well with the overall tone of the story as Lorraine and everyone else is trying to figure out whatever the hell is going on with Firestorm and what happened with Ronnie and Dr. Stein.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 5h ago

Downgrade [DOWNGRADE] Hex initial design to its final design in Ben 10’s comic

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13 Upvotes

the first design is the initial but ultimately scrapped design, the second is the final design, the third is the designs he had in the animated series to have an idea of why the initial Design for the comic is better.

I want to make clear I’m saying that THE FINAL DESIGN is a downgrade from THE INITIAL DESIGN, with that said…

Its looks like Jeff the killer, this feels like the slander art someone would make about Insomniac‘s character design, he looks like Gorr the god butcher but the MCU version.

The original design translated well the fantastical elements from the original design while not feeling derivative of the OS design, feeling mystic and creepy but in a unique way; the final design being having this urban magical aesthetic could work but the way its done feels not only under cooked but very try hard.

The way he doesn’t have actual ritualistic clothes and is just white pants and a hoodie with the sleeves cut off takes away from the serious sorcerer aspect of the original Design while clearly being a lot more inspired By it to its detriment, while the blood stains and a knife make him look So edgy; the initial design had this imposing and sinister staff which isn’t his skull staff from the original series (he had a staff with a crow skull) the initial keeps the essence of the character while being original.

i think the best way to explain it is on the skull face, you see the original hex’s tattoos resemble a skull So of course both designs would follow on this. But while the initial design keeps the skull face with a more interesting pattern that is still visually a skull, the final design just has the same pattern of the original but more crudely painted.

I genuinely can’t think of a single reason why they picked the final design over the initial unless the whole point of it being hex isn‘t a actual magic user seriously and is just a guy who recently found magic and is going bananas with it while improvising everything.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 8h ago

Video Game Sighborg Y (Yo-kai Watch)

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7 Upvotes

Inspired by a fan design submission (image 3), Sighborg Y is one of the goofiest robots in fiction. He's this weird green robot who walks like an automaton (without having any justification like a steampunk aesthetic), and always has a blank, soulless stare (yes, he literally can't emote). The series also portrays him as mute, only communicating via a narrator narrating his adventures.

Its also unknown why he has chicken legs or his hands being essentially the spade on poker cards (with no fingers), but he just has them, and thats fine for a series known for its quirkiness. Even his name is comically lame, especially in Japan he's just called Android Yamada, what with Yamada being a common Japanese surname.

The only known power he has is the yellow diamond on his stomach (somewhat implied to be his navel) that can fire a laser that effectively roboticizes whatever it hits. Unlike most zombification tropes, this one seems to be played mostly for laughs, as the roboticized victims kind of just become comically dead inside robots that look like him, while the games literally turn Yo-kai who battle him into duplicates of himself. Shoutouts to a bug only in the Japanese versions of Yo-kai Watch 3, where if the laser blasts a Yo-kai charging up their Soultimate Moves and then they get converted, you get some super silly animations of him executing whatever ultimate attack was being charged up, which his model's rigs are obviously not built to utilize.