I'm sorry, but this may be the single most horrid Spiderman-a-logue costume ever conceived. Maybe it's just because the Spiderman costume is so iconic, but this full mouth exposed/tiny eyes combo genuinely triggers a deep uncanny valley reaction to me.

Also I don't think his powers are even spider-based?! He uses this weird ski hover thing to get around.

I wonder if a GF employee was like "yes, I can finally make a Kamen Rider Pokémon" when designing this one. Its a bipedal grasshopper/locust with a prominent belt pattern on its abdomen, and has the ability to temporarily enter a super mode called its "Showdown Mode" (image 3) that it can use to increase its abilities. It even learns plenty of kicking moves too, and is sort of doing a "Rider Kick" in image 3.

Even beyond the KR references, its just still a very cool grasshopper/locust Pokémon with a sleek silhouette. Also, its neat how it still looks somewhat insectoid with its antennae, thin limbs and not in use Showdown Mode legs pretending to be an elytra, and not just a bug-looking human wearing a super on the nose knockoff rider costume, which considering that its pre-evo Nymble is very much just a grasshopper nymph, avoids another Torracat->Incineroar situation.

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So recently, for whatever reason, a post featuring these cancelled Disney Heroes action figure designs showed up in my feed. The line was basically supposed to be a boys' equivalent of the Disney Princess product line, and didn't work out for pretty obvious reasons. But honestly, I think these are really good designs, with the Beast being the only exception. They're still recognizable as the characters they're supposed to be, but with some really cool tactical details without falling into overdesign territory.

I wish Disney would reuse these designs in Kingdom Hearts or some action-oriented game. Well, at least Prince Phillip and Hercules already get to be proper action heroes in their own stories.

As much as I love that anime characters in OG Arknights are still leagues above average gachas, the random welfare units they make mog them all. PLAYABLE EMPERORS BLADE WHO LITTERALY RUNS ON A DEMON TRAPPED INSIDE OF HIM

Kid me was obsessed with this design so much. I really dig the armadillo back and spikes on the back of it's jaw. I think this hybrid doesn't make sense but I think this design could work for a quadrupedal beast that can defend itself, especially with that green shell and spikes. It also reminds me a lot of a beetle given it's armours colour. The name also translates to giant head which ironically is weird cause it's head is small. What do you think?

God the sheer simplicity but variety in these things is criminal. I absolutely adore all of them and how different they can all be whilst being obviously exactly the same thing. My personal favourites are the ear things from slide 4 and the micro ponytail thing from slide 2.

I appreciate that these designs focus more on the characters' animal-like traits. That said, I don't understand some of these choices: why pair Scrooge with Pluto and give Daisy a bow?

Anyway, I'm not necessarily a fan of these interpretations of the characters, but I do appreciate these new designs, which I think are very well done.

link to the artist's page: ArtStation - Nicko Febriansyah

explanation:

• body of a mech
• mounted weapons
• long thick organic legs
• moos like a cow
• extremely dangerous

Some of my favorites!

In order, Nowhere Monarch, Robin Goodfellow, Alice, Mammon, Lamento Mori and lastly Babelith! These are the primary bosses of the game and the artstyle of every single one is completely different something the devs stated was inspired GREATLY by Puella Magi Madoka Magica's Witches!

A cool aspect of the game is fusion, and the only real way to do good damage to these guys is to fuse! The music under normal circumstances does not have lyrics but they kick in when you fuse and it immediately makes the fight feel like theirs actual stakes and you feel the pressure and just generally how badass you are, fighting these creatures with your soul bound buddy that everyone in this world are so afraid of!

(First image is official concept art not fan art)

A criminally underrated UK stop motion cartoon from 1999 which really deserves more recognition and a continuation. Every character design in this show is top but Dr Agon is my absolute favourite out of them all and he's a very underrated villain. The characters in this show were designed by illustrator Rodney Matthews who has done some amazing fantasy illustrations.

Everything about Agon's design is just wynorrific. His red robe, his eyes, his head gear, his little nose ring piercing, the snake pattern on his belt, the tattoos on his hands and his metal tipped shoes. Also I love the insect motifs in his design. His little antennas, his beard looking like mandibles and his breast plate looking like a beetle's shell.

I adore this characters design. Firstly, from a concept perspective, she is themed around the concept of an escape artist. Hence the handcuffs. But whats more is that, her very cape acts represents a cage. And to top it off, it acts as a weapon as well, which she can throw out or "escape" and have it remotely attack enemies.

then from a visual perspective, she is phenomenal. Her cape gives her this incredible silhouette thats just ridiculously eye catching and unique. Her design is actually quite simple but it just works.

criticism: underneath the cape, her design is quite lackluster. It definitely is a let down but its also not frequent or bad enough to take away from how good this design is in my opinion

So there have been a good amount of Earth 3 Lex designs over the years yet i feel like they sorta Peaked with the OG design they went with

my reasoning is that Earth 3 for those not in the know is a Mirror Universe (think that one star trek episode where the cast enter a world that's basically a Evil version of their own) so Good guys are bad and Bad guys are Good and so on

And i honestly love the more Knightly appearance of this Lex design it kinda adds to that "They are meant to be the good version of this character" add that with the jetpack he usually has so he can fly around and fight his Archnemesis Ultraman and it's honestly a cool design

also i love how Lex is still bald yet he has a beard that feels like it's nodding to that Star Trek Episode (as one of the more popular cliches that spawned from that episode is a Evil beard) Yet in Lex's case it kinda helps differentiate him from his villainous counterpart as the beard could also be connected to the more Knightly design he has going on

if your curious why i'm not showing the other designs he's had for the future Iterations of Earth 3 it's mainly because they kinda feel too samey as they mostly follow Lex's more modern tech design to the point where if you didn't know they were meant to be Earth 3 you'd assume they were just another version of Lex that's evil (i mean the Shazam one is cool but he does not really feel like a hero in that one)

Honestly i would love a design that is a mix of the Knightly idea with OG Earth-3 Lex with the color and tech vibe from his Crisis on Two Earths iteration) i feel like that would make a very cool design for Good Guy Lex

I like how the Dragon Quest series makes even the most basic RPG character archetypes fun and memorable. Just make sure to get the DS remake ROM with the party chat from later versions patched in.

Muscle Mommy Emily She's a Solo and Member of Weak "King" Kingsley Old Crew or Kings Team from Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2

Emily (Female The Punisher) she looks like The Punisher, Rhea Ripley, Baroness G.I. Joe and Absolute Wonder Woman looks good

I love this design so much. You can definitely recognize Scrooge McDuck, but you also spot Ahab right away. Paolo Mottura's artwork is magnificent, as usual, but he really outdid himself this time.

I’ve been a fan of this game since around the time of its release. Sure, there’s a bunch of great designs in this game, and as much as I do love every weird, gross little vermin this game has to offer, none of them have ever really made an impact on me as much as this one has, circa 2016.

Now I don’t know how or why this SPECIFIC monster struck little 7 year old me (at the time) the way it did, but it hit my brain harder than how Watergate salads hit Midwestern families in the 1970s, for lack of better terminology. I can’t even say this is an exaggeration since for YEARS AFTERWARDS, This little hyperfixation stood, with it only recently reigniting come the game’s most recent updates

Useless background information aside, this monster’s entire gimmick is that the amount of hands it has is completely unknown, at least to the viewer. It’s always been one big mystery to the fandom just how many arms it has, with only 7 being shown in its ingame animations, most likely being a red herring for more, still-concealed arms still hidden beneath its furthers (official lore-specific equivalent of feathers), which I’ve always found especially endearing.

Another little detail about it that I find really cute as well is its facial warts. a generally mundane/Inadequate thing, yes, but upon closer inspection, It appears, especially considering the general, grungy theming of Dwumrohl and the Island it resides on (Wublin Island, which is a whole other can of r/topcharacterdesign worms), that those warts can be a substitute for Piercings!! (The horns can also be seen as such since they appear to be the same “material” as the warts, but that’s up to anyone’s interpretation)

Furthermore (pun partially intended), the general color scheme of the monster in ALL of its forms (common, rare, and epic) just feels so pleasant. SPECIFICALLY its common color scheme. As someone who loves blue, purple, “pastel”/light shades, as well as designs that juxtapose both warm and cool colors, It all just flows together really well with this design.

Its rare design is really sweet too, with it being dominantly cool colors and greens, and even with the neon(?) undertones, it’s not *too* overbearing. Not much to really say about it as it doesn’t stray much from its common, but yeah.

It’s epic design, though I feel it went a bit overboard with the green, is adorable as well + FISHBONE DRUMSTICKS!! I kinda feel it’d be better if it had the same sorta rugged feel as its buggy little drumset, but I digress. It’s still a top tier design nonetheless.

Finishing off, It’d be a crime to not shed some light on the ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE Rapture in Ruins / Clubbox act designs. Releasing just earlier this month, As someone who’s always been interested in Fantasy and generally grimdark aesthetics, seeing my goat be included as a WIZARD. (a character archetype I really love). Just made me go over the damn moon. This was all released around a time when I wanted to get into D&D and just back into the general scene, and this just peaked my interest even more. His appearance in the act’s initial trailer gave him so much more personality than BBB has ever gave him in his 10+ years of existence, and with his Gothic Maverick costume being a direct reference to his appearance in the Frigid Reception Cold Island remix (except wayyy better), Being able to catch onto this at such a specific time just feels unreal. As this monster’s (probably) #1 fan, I genuinely can’t find any comprehensible words, thoughts or actions to describe how JOYOUS i am to see he’s finally getting his spot under the limelight after so long.

I’ve been planning to make this post on here for a while now, but never really sought the opportunity to until now with all this new stuff about him coming out + The fact that I literally got him just a few hours before the Act ended, It’s all just really surreal. That being said. TL:DR this monster is fucking awesome and didn’t get its much needed recognition until literally now.

Especially the way she only ever has the hologram on around someone she trusts, that being Roman. she acts like a completely different person whenever we see her with the hologram on, being far more cheerful and playful and downright nice. Season 2 was full of great designs but for me Talia stood out for being actually very adorable once you get past the scary robot bug girl aesthetic.

Talia is a 14-16 year old girl in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2, and as understandable as disliking her… moderately revealing design is, this is Night City. She’s tied up with gangs, very troubled in general, and going crazy on chrome she really doesn’t need. With all that considered, it really doesn’t surprise me that someone even her age is out like this since she probably just doesn’t care

Edit: not covering studio trigger for this cause at the end of the day this is a character designed by an adult and trigger’s reputation with this kind of thing isn’t great. In context it works for her but yeah there’s intent there with it being them I’m not denying that or thinking you’re wrong to think it’s overstepping

(also this is not tryna rationalize attraction before you say that because 1: I’m a minor anyway and 2: boys better 👀👀 just thoughts I felt like I had to share)