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sheeeeit, I was thinking about how off-putting the designs in Street Fighter V are, then got on a tangent of searching the net, and noticed a thread about it on another forum (here) so yeahhhh I'm stealing that topic, bruh...

 

  • Rufus from Street Fighter 4...so ugly I don't even want to link that shit.  It's the first time I've ever wished I could magically "erase" a character from existence in any fighting game.  He's that damn bad, man.
  • The "Cowardly Lion Edition Akuma" from SF5.
  • The big steroid freak in SF5...I forgot that clown's name; I don't mind some characters being super buff but that is ridiculous.  It looks like in real life he would be about 15 feet tall and about as wide as a city bus.
  • The main guy from this game RTX Red Rock.

 

Cartoon shit--- take the nostalgia bias off for a minute and remember "The Wild Thornberries" and "Hey Arnold!".  Those characters were all shit-stain ugly, man.  Also---most things from current-era Cartoon Network are an eyesore.  And of course...the latest offender is that new shit they're trying to pass off as "Thundercats".

 

*The Catwoman outfit/design from the Halle Berry version.  When I first saw the picture, I actually thought it was a joke...like no way it was a real picture of the upcoming Catwoman at the time.  It still looks like some cheap thing they bought at your local "Party City" store during an "after Halloween" clearance sale....for probably 14.99🤣

 

 

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From MK5(Deadly Alliance) ...

 

Hsu Hao . He looks like a Village People reject /Daboog.  

 

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Nanny (X-men/X-factor)

 

Most X-men villains look cool. Not this one alas.

Her biggest accomplishment was the "death" of Storm in Uncanny Xmen 248 and subsequent regression of Storm to a teen.  Her partner in crime Orphan Maker looks cooler than her. Issue 248 was the first X-men issue I read and Jim Lee's first work on an X-title so its one I remember.

She is a low level telepath who tries to steal mutant children from parents to "save them" . She was originally a scientist for an anti-mutant organization headed by Cameron Hodge but after trying to stop them , she was locked into an egg shaped armor and went insane.

 

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Batman TAS Season 4/5 Joker

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The  eyes should stayed yellow .  The loss of the red lips is the worst change. He looks just like Freakazoid.

It makes him too  cartoony and less threatening. The facial color depending on lighting or other factors is often light blue/light gray as opposed to the stark white look in the previous design.

the only improvement is the change from the inner shirt to a green color,but overall a significant step down.

 

Catwoman Batman TAS Season 4/5

 

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Too much black all around. It needs some different accents. Also, why is her skin tone stark white?

It seems  her an Ivy underwent this change. While Ivy is seemingly mutating into a plant /human life form, Catwoman is a regular white woman. In her civilian look, she has a typical Caucasian skin tone so why change it for the costumed look?  At least her civilian look went back to the dark hair after being blonde in the earlier seasons

 

Riddler  - Batman TAS S4/5

 

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This riddler is an intellectual and narcissist. Wearing spandex doesnt really fit his character and why is he bald now? Lame.

 

 

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^yeah that's terrible... that Riddler just looks like a dude in some weird pajamas, and the Catwoman design up there is just visually boring.

 

Time for what some may consider blasphemy, real quick....most characters in SNK fighters...from Art of Fighting to Fatal Fury...most of those guys/girls just look boring to me....many of them just look like plain-Jane ordinary people, even tho yeah they're doing things like hitting with fire and all that.  The major exception to me from SNK/Neo-Geo world is the Samurai Shodown franchise... I like those characters.

 

Another one that might be a bit controversial-- One Piece.  I've mentioned it before many times... I just can't get past the look of that show.  I've tried on several occasions...but the designs are so hideous it's actually distracting.  The designs on just about all characters in that are PURE ass.  They just look....goofy and stupid...and in the worst possible ways.  At least there is some noticeable effort and thought put into it, unlike bottom-tier shit you see on Adult Swim in the past several years, like 12 oz. Mouse....but still, that shit is ugly... possibly the ugliest popular anime in history, at least in my opinion.

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On 9/12/2018 at 1:59 PM, DangerousJ said:

Batman TAS Season 4/5 Joker

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The  eyes should stayed yellow .  The loss of the red lips is the worst change. He looks just like Freakazoid.

It makes him too  cartoony and less threatening. The facial color depending on lighting or other factors is often light blue/light gray as opposed to the stark white look in the previous design.

the only improvement is the change from the inner shirt to a green color,but overall a significant step down.

This is has been the Joker look in animated DC stuff for years now.  I don't think it's bad.

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Technically, the Joker I posted was "Version 2". During Justice League (2001-2006) and the Batman Beyond Return of the Joker (2000), Bruce Timm slightly updated it, giving him back the yellow eyes, yellow teeth, and the red lips. I like this like 20 percent more than the one I posted, but not as much as the original 1992 version.

 

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Continuing with crappy designs..you know I had to go to the one franchise that is near and dear to my heart..

 

Live action Michael Bay Starscream (2007-2011)

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Ye gads. I understand that the G1 design cant be copy/pasted but good lord is this ugly.

Pros: It has the cockpit chest and is a military jet with a different G1 actor doing a decent take on the classic Chris Latta voice

Cons (lol)

The ugly insect head (Most Decepticons movie heads are ugly but SS is supposed to be "good looking")

The very wide body that makes him look like a Doritos chip

Chicken legs

Bland color scheme

 

 

 

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Demolishor from TF2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

 

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From arguably the worst live action film (and thats saying something), comes this Decepticon monstrosity.

Unicycles are comedy vehicles not alien robot bodies. No chest/abdomen/pelvis/legs?

Optimus executes him at point blank range early on in the film. While I would normally be upset at Op's more bloodthirsty movie portrayal, I can let it go for this dude.

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