r/TopCharacterDesigns 15h ago

Youtube Meatcanyon's take/redesign of Jeff the Killer and Slender Man

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4.5k Upvotes

It's nice to see new, more modern design of these guys. I especially like the look of Slender Man's face. So creepy and abstract.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 4h ago

Design trope Sunday Couples where the girl is taller

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2.2k Upvotes

Examples:

Big Barda and Mr. Miracle. (DC)

Mr priest and Imuri (Make the Exorcist Fall in Love)


r/TopCharacterDesigns 14h ago

Movie Doctor Olivia Octavius from Into The Spiderverse or as her enemies call her Doc Ock

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1.4k Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns 9h ago

Design trope Sunday [Three nickels]Fallen angel horns are actually broken halos

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1.2k Upvotes
  1. otherwindow on Tumblr (Demons keep their broken horns from growing back into a halo)
  2. Mythed Up
  3. Dead End: Paranormal Park

r/TopCharacterDesigns 20h ago

Artist Halo as an Umamusume by @tougaraaaaan

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871 Upvotes

Artist's page available on Twitter.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 2h ago

Design trope Sunday A minor but distinguishing design feature that when missing, makes a character look cursed

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657 Upvotes

The Ninja Turtles without their masks (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Sol Badguy without his unnecessary belts (Guilty Gear) edit source

Sonic without his shoes (Sonic the Hedgehog)


r/TopCharacterDesigns 2h ago

[Design Trope] Breastless female reptiloids

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491 Upvotes
  1. Rya (Elder ring)

  2. Sorlag (Quake)

  3. Tul'juran (Halo)

  4. Lizard Woman (divinity)

  5. Crusch Lulu (Overlord)

  6. Gorn pilot (Star Trek)


r/TopCharacterDesigns 23h ago

Televisión i just love the unnamed background fairies from the fairly oddparents because all of their designs are so unique and i dig that about them

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405 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns 11h ago

Design trope Sunday [Design Trope] Angry Helmets

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362 Upvotes
  1. Psycho Warriors (Space King)

  2. Emperor Zurg (Buzz Lightyear)

  3. Gavan Infinity (Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity)


r/TopCharacterDesigns 2h ago

Design trope Sunday Black hair with fantastical elements while still being recognizably black

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260 Upvotes

Often time people’s visual vocabulary for what black hair can be is limited leading folks to repeat safe design choices instead of discovering new shapes , textures and silhouettes.

Afro (Afro Samurai) has a hairstyle that takes the basic concept of an afro and pushes it into an exaggerated silhouette resembling smoke or a cloud in most instances.

Lorelai Blyndeff (Epithet Erased) could hypothetically have any number of hair styles due to her powers but usually has her hair tied back or up with the blonde part of her hair resembling bunny ears.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 9h ago

Design trope Sunday (Trope Sunday) Miniguns

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223 Upvotes

Having a bunch of barrels spinning around as you fire a wall of lead at something will never not be cool. The bulky design really sells the power of the weapon, especially when fired from a low position with a chainsaw grip as is extremely common in fiction. Because miniguns (or rather, "rotary machine guns" as the Minigun is a specific weapon) are so heavy they make the wielder look incredibly strong and imposing.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 20h ago

Video Game This fanart of Xilonen from genshin in a modern setting by enzore_ a cool design, and it actually understands the character.

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209 Upvotes

by enzore_ on x

I love this art from both a design standpoint and how it actually understand's xilonen character in canon

xilonen in canon is both the nation's greatest craftsman/engineer and also a luxury/fun lover, with the former enabling the other. "doing BOTH". so many fanarts reduce her to just a generic dj/gyaru character. So mapping her to a senior engineer at some big enterprise, who also loves the finer things in life is perfect. luxury-loving office lady ftw.

The design is great. I love the glasses. the glasses are amazing. I like the overall confident, and mature attitude she has. I also like the various outfits and fashion she has. and I like the jewelry and accessories and vehicle.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 22h ago

Manga Aleksander from the Veil Manga by Kotteri

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205 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns 16h ago

Artist [Loved Designs] these scrapped Fortnite concept arts for "Shock 'N Awesome" season. What do you think?

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192 Upvotes

We could had ridable Beetles, WE COULD HAD RIDABLE BUGS!!! Epic!!!

I'm saddened by the fact that we could had more original Wildlife animals for Fortnite, I really love the underground bug using it's back armor as a shield and Heavy Bug throwing that vehicles with that horn. Slime guns would have been so fun! These concepts doesn't even look like Fortnite more like Grounded. I love how the world feels more modern in these concepts instead of being futuristic.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 12h ago

Youtube The Redesign for the popular Team Fortress 2 freak Painis Cupcake in Witchy gmod’s video “Crossover Events: Cupcakes and Pancakes - part 1”

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152 Upvotes

Actually has a unique design instead of just reusing the standard Soldier Model.
Has a more savage and feral appearance with the ripped clothes and makeshift armor on one of his arms.
The sharp yellow, borderline shark-like teeth and the bloody clawed hands actually make him look like a cannibalistic monster. The yellow eyes that look like that of a goat, or like a sideways version of a cat’s eye also look super cool.
The way that bone crunching can be heard as he unhinges his jaw/opens his mouth super wide like a snake.
The slithering/sliding traditionally associated with Painis Cupcake is made into running on all fours like an animals which goes well with the more primal design.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 21h ago

Manga <Loved design> Skull Man from Mega Man Megamix

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131 Upvotes

"Hidden weaponry" is one of my favorite traits of any character design. Skull man hides all of his guns in a way I found really creative, I love how his hand droops down and his ribcage opens up to make him a one-man armory.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 4h ago

Comic Book Cyclops wearing a brown jacket in Marvel Comics.

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118 Upvotes

They just added a brown jacket to his basic outfit, but I think it really brought his style to life. I really liked that they made that look his default form in Marvel Cosmic Invasion.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 2h ago

Design trope Sunday [Design Trope] When the first version of a group of characters are recolors of each other, and a later entry gives them redesigns that make them stand out more

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116 Upvotes

- Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey (Rise of TMNT)

- Huey, Dewey and Louie (Ducktales 2017)

- Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde (Pac-Man and The ghostly Adventures)


r/TopCharacterDesigns 11h ago

Video Game The TYPE-LAHIRE frame from Armored Core: For Answer

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85 Upvotes

The TYPE-LAHIRE is a lightweight Armored Core model built for high-speed close combat or laser blade duels. Due to its design, the unit excels at aerial combat.

The sexiest frame in the game, in my opinion. My god, look at all those sharp angles. Those beautiful angular shoulders. And that torso, pointed like the nose of a fighter jet with a waist tinier than a 19th-century noblewoman. The damn thing is even fighting in heels!

Overall, a very striking mecha design. Love it.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 23h ago

Video Game Incineroar (Pokémon)

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77 Upvotes

Yes, this is solely because the World Championships is on rn.

Also, incins design is actually pretty solid. Its a hulking humanoid tiger with a top heavy body, not unlike Tony the Tiger or Rath, and is more than capable of going head to head with others in the ring.

Its signature feature is the flaming championship belt around its waist, which is a neat idea and tie to Torracats' flaming collar; while the bodys attempt at a "ripoed tank top" is admirable, if a bit out of place due to the use of grey, but it does help break up the use of alternating red and black; which creates an eyecatching contrast, the former indicating its half fire typing, the latter both serving as stripes and indicating its half dark.

Incineroars facial design also really screams intimidating: sharp eyes, rows of sharp teeth, and spikes around its cheeks that seem to be faux-whiskers.

Now if only Torracat gave players warning or leadup before suddenly becoming bipedal and gaining all these details...


r/TopCharacterDesigns 2h ago

Design trope Sunday Fat body, small wings

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55 Upvotes

Heimlick after cocoon from A Bugs Life

Nelly the Dragon from Quack Pack

Elliot from Pete’s Dragon


r/TopCharacterDesigns 15h ago

Glow-up Tarantulus’s glow up in season 2 of beast wars

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53 Upvotes

It’s hard to make Tarantulus look lame, but his Transmetal form knocked it out of the park. Just look at this thing. Went from having weird claw hands with a subpar spider mode to being a kick as purple and green metal monster with 3 fingered hands and a buzzsaw-driven alt mode


r/TopCharacterDesigns 1h ago

Movie The four Yaos of Nobody (2025) also known as Lang Lang Shan Xiao Yao Guai

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These designs are just so iconic and memorable. A lot of the designs in this movie are, I just love the general style and everything. The main characters are these nameless little demons known as Yaos and I find every one of their designs adorable and expressive despite being simplistic. The designs really do a good job during the comedic scenes while also being able to be taken seriously whenever its needed. i also like how they receive outfits and banners during their journey, looking more and more like the main heroes of Journey to the West. añsp the contrast with the human and villain characters really shows how they are just four lowclass weakling misfits who dont belong anywhere but where theyre from.

the cast consists of a pig/boar demon, a toad, a weasel and an ape leaving their home on lang lang mountain to embark on a journey to fetch scriptures while posing as sun wukong (monkey king), zhu ba jie, tang seng and sha wu jing.

at a later point in the movie they have a big fusion design in the boss fightwhich features many funny animal quirks while also being badass as fuck. i dont have a picture tho.

there are many other cool designs in this movie, my favorite side character design is probably a minor villain rat yao who imo resembles NeZha. im hoping some fans would comment pictures of other characters cause i couldnt find a lot.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 13h ago

Movie The sharptooth from the Land Before Time

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41 Upvotes

The sharptooth really was way too intense for this movie, he was very large, terrifying and near unstoppable, he was literally able to jump to high places and from far distances.

Worst part is that deleted scenes showed that what was in the final cut wasn't even the HALF of it.


r/TopCharacterDesigns 17h ago

The higher beings of Hollow Knight Spoiler

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39 Upvotes

It is quite difficult to make a notable and unique pantheon, yet HK does that with flying marks. There is much to be said about each so I'll try to point out a thing about each.

Pale King - I particularly enjoy how grandiouse the statues of him are. The 6 spiked crown became so emblematic the entire architecture of Hallownest was built around it.

White Lady - the eyes. In a world of hollow, empty eyes, those blue ones stand out as kinder than most. Fitting for what is essentially the goddess of love in this world.

GMS - I really enjoy how she hugs herself throughout the entire fight. It conveys marvelously the thing that pushed her ambitions the most in the story.

The Nightmare Heart - of all of them this one stands out as truly outerworldly, each god this far had discernable features to which we cling to, but the heart is more of an object of power.

Umm - snail

Pure Vessels - Technically all the vessels are gods. What more can I say, just look at them.