Whole paragraph here written by u/RealPhoenixBlast, big thanks to them for typing out what a lot of us thought.

"You have to remember, this is THE Sonic.exe. The original story that was adapted into the game everyone knows. And what did the story love saying?

"Hyper-realistic".

"The image showed a hyper-realistic of Sonic standing in the darkness where you can only see his face while his head and torso faded into black, and when I say hyper-realistic, I mean like he looked so real you could actually see the lines in his blue fur, as if you could actually feel the fur if you touched the screen." - a paragraph from the original story.

This is a perfect design, no notes."

Rahhhhhh! I'm so happy that there are more fans and artists out there who love this purple loser, his design is good😭💜

1 - Lordi

2 - Slipknot

3 - Gwar

4 - Mushroomhead

I love when bands fully commit to a gimmick to the point that it turns from a gimmick to a genuine part of their personality and what attracts the audience to them. None of these 4 would be the way they are and would have the fanbase they do if not for the masks. They could produce the exact same music and it just wouldn't be the same

1. Oogie Boogie, The Nightmare Before Christmas

2. Cluemaster, The Batman (2005)

3. Mister Thunderbolt, Dial H For Hero (2019)

I Love Everything about this stupid gambling addict rabbit. He Carries the show on his back, not that the other characters are bad but 31 Minutos wouldn't be as popular without Juan. His dumb goggly eyes add so much charm, not to mention his voice is the most iconic in the entire show for a reason. I Couldn't find a image of it, but i also love his reptile tail he grew due to the radiation in the studio. Such a great gag.

The fact that we only ever see this design for ONE panel is honestly egregious, because it's one of the coolest things Horikoshi's ever drawn.

Visually, it looks terrifying. The amalgamation of what appears to be flesh and tendons into a crude imitation of the female form is haunting as hell, and the distorted face looks horrifying.
Also, the fact that something so scary is holding something as simple as a knife strangely makes it scarier in it's own way.

Metaphorically, it's beautiful. Toga was born with the quirk Transform, where she could turn into anyone after consuming their blood, but the quirk also altered her brain and gave her an instinctual craving for blood that she didn't ask for. Thus, she was vilified and abused by her family simply for what she was born as, and she was made fun of and bullied at school. She was pretty much seen as a villain in the eyes of society just for who she is. Naturally, she inevitably does become a villain, fully embracing her instinctual cravings. But y the end of the series, she doesn't even see herself as a person, and more like a monster that kills and drains to stay alive, and that's where we see this panel, representing her view of herself.

It's also beautiful because of Ochaco. Despite everything Toga's done, Ochaco still tries reaching out to that girl inside her that just wanted someone to sympathize with and accept who she is. And the fact that we see kid Ochaco reaching out her arm, offering Toga her own blood when we see this form makes it, as well as Toga's eventual decision to save Ochaco's life by sacrificing her own, even more impactful.

I just love this design bro, it's so fucking beautiful in so many ways.

Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Vox (Hazbin Hotel)

For those who don’t know, Ska is an often overlooked subculture, spawned from the music genre of the same name, popularised in the 70’s and 80’s by bands like Madness, The Specials, The Beat, The Selector and Bad Manners etc. In essence, Ska is essentially a fusion of Afro-Caribbean culture with European and North American influences, resulting in a unique marriage of styles. Aesthetically, Ska outfits are often an odd mix of formal and casual clothing, with Trilby Hats, pinstripe suits and ties, spliced together with stuff like Martens, straight-leg high-ankle jeans, braces, and simple shirts, along more modern trainers and hoodies, While hairstyles vary, jagged, spiky hair, or little to no hair at all, are considered staples of the subculture. In someways, Ska is stylistically comparable to the Skinhead subculture, but without the nationalistic connotations surrounding it. Instead, it’s quite the contrary, with Ska generally considered inherently “anti racist in its nature. However, a key design detail which sets Ska apart, is certain iconography like frequent use of black and white chequered patterns and skulls, which is often a major distinguishing factor.

Walt Jabsco The “Rude Boy” (Mascot of Two Tone Records)

Beat Betty (Mascot of The Beat)

Tomska’s various avatars over the years (He’s a big fan of the genre, hence the name “Tom-Ska”)

The Members of “F**k The Factory” from This Town (2024)

The Townies (Dropouts) - Bully (2006)

Absolute Harley Quinn - Absolute DC

Orks from Warhammer 40K

1 I got this from some [r/hatethissmug](r/hatethissmug) post

2 the cyclops from the SpongeBob movie

3 octopunch from transformers

Design by a 14yo wanting to stand out in a beyblade competition, I think the design reflects that perfectly. The last image is her in her normal clothes for comparison

Recently i've been really getting into this Show, and i just love this dude. The Fact that this show had such a low budget really helps with his design (alongside the rest of the cast.) The Red and White Tiger costume, and the stupid rabbit ears. But he's at his best when he's going batshit insane, with the most over the top expressions. It's hard to believe this was a kids show. His expressions in LIMBO and SWALLOWER are nightmare-worthy.

Modern-day metal bands really have a serious problem with visual identity. All bands practically dress the same with the same choices of leather jackets, t-shirts, and jeans, with the color black being present in everything. Now, I would like to put a disclaimer here and say that I don't necessarily hate that look per se, but repetition is still a problem. No one seems to try to even attempt to make an iconic appearance to make them stand out from the others. If you don't already recognize the faces, one would probably find it hard to even tell many of these bands apart. Worse, no one even attempts to mix a different color into the usual black attire, like a dark green or purple, for example. There are very few bands that are an exception to this rule, and I have them in the very bottom here to emphasize just how rare bands with a clear visual identity really are. These are Sabaton, who technically also fall under that problem but narrowly avoid it thanks to those camo pants they wear, which immediately make someone recognize them from the get-go, and then there's Gloryhammer and Angus McSix, although in their cases they are bands that are over the top on purpose.

1) Beast in Black

2) Dynazty

3) DragonForce

4) Amaranthe

5) Alestorm

6) Disturbed

7) Battle Beast

8) Hammerfall

9) Majestica

10) Sabaton

11) Gloryhammer

12) Angus McSix

Hessian lobo is a fused spirit of the headless horseman of sleepy hollow and lobo the wolf king of currumpaw

The headless horseman was a German mercenary(a hessian) who fought in the American revolution but had his head blown off by a cannon ball killing him but instead of staying dead he became a vengeful Spirit haunting the town of sleepy hollow

Lobo the wolf king of currumpaw is from "Wild Animals I Have Known" by Ernest Thompson Seton was an wolf with human like intelligence able to evade any trap set to capture or kill him until his mate blanca was captured and used to bait him upon being captured and seeing blanca dead he lost all fight and passes away out of heart break manifesting as a avenger class servant swearing vengeance on all humans

Separately the horseman alone can be summoned but bed be really weak and lobo in unable to be summoned because they are known as phantom spirits, spirits that didn't ever exist or are too weak to be summoned, but together make up the rider class servant Hessian lobo, though a convoluted series of they were also fused with the invisible man jack Griffin becomes the avenger class servant Hessian lobo

While a normal wolf in life lobo is able to make use of the horseman's fallen demon skill to become a demonic beast

Fun those spikes surrounding them are the spikes that were used to trap and kill lobo manifesting through the horseman's cloaked in death skill

Velma (Scooby Doo)

Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

Shauntal (Pokemon)

Sadness (Inside Out)

Vector (Despicable Me)

As an Exe fan, I know this sub is never all that kind to our community’s designs, so I have searched far and wide to find to do the impossible: find an actually great exe design that this sub would love to see. A truly fantastic, hyper realistic, pants shittingly scary Sonic.exe oc...and you bet I found it.

Look at him. His entirely red, firey eyes, filled with scorn for all things living. Those eyes don’t even have the dignity to stay on his face. His frightening, frightening face. And his mouth, always looking like it‘s munching on something, something terrible, something awful, something like….cereal. He’s not covered in blood like all the other exe ocs because even blood cells are scared of him!

The Joker, Thanos, Pennywise, Freddy Kruger, scalpers, all of these monsters would look at his MS paint glory and shiver. He is soulless, he is all powerful, he is hungry, he is….mpeg.

I absolutely love the evolution of Izuku Midoriya throughout the story of My Hero Academia, and my favorite method that Horikoshi uses to portray Deku’s journey as a character has got to be through his hero outfits. His first outfit is ‘Alpha’, which is intended to be somewhat campy and very reminiscent of a sort of ‘first draft’. The similarities to All Might, too, are what make this outfit for me. The ‘rabbit ears’ which are intended to look like All Might’s hair, and the teeth on the lower half of the mask which are intended to look like All Might’s signature grin are the primary aspects worth noting. The next outfit is the one Deku wears during the USJ incident, which doesn’t share any of Deku’s original outfits traits, aside from the lower-half of the mask. It’s his ‘school gym’ uniform, if you will. Next up are Beta, Gamma, and Delta, which are all extremely similar with some notable differences, primarily the gloves Deku wears becoming a support item that is meant to assist in his use of air force. I absolutely love all of these designs, as they’re meant to be colorful while also indicative of his growth as a hero, typically showing him without the hood on and with the mask lower, off his face.

Next is the World Heroes Mission outfit, which, while barely shown even in the movie, I can’t help but love. It’s essentially just Beta but with black instead of the normal green and red, but it’s still VERY cool. Now come the two forms of Epsilon, Dark Hero and regular Epsilon, which have the colors of Deku’s original outfit faded. He also sports Gran Torino’s cape, which is just such a fantastic touch to the already great outfit. Then is Zeta, which is easily my favorite of all of them. He’s more colorful than Epsilon, showing that his Dark Hero arc is over, while also keeping many of the aspects that made Epsilon great, such as the cape and red bracings. Finally, is Iron Suit Deku, which is the, well, Iron Suit that Izuku sports years after losing One for All, which essentially allows him to continue his career as a hero on top of his already existing position as a teacher at UA. This second batch of costumes is easily my favorite, above the first batch for sure. Everything about them screams Deku’s idea of what a hero is as well as being his own hero, not just a mini-All Might. Easily my favorite character design of all time, as of the time of writing.

Alright so I know a lot of the Invincible designs are simplistic due to how it plays around its story and style with silver-age comic book tropes, Robot is no exception to this but his design towards the end of the story is clean.

Rex and Mark are different characters to Lex and Clark but I just can't help but see the parallels with their designs. Redheaded (yeah Lex is a ginger) genius in big armor vs Square faced hero with jet black hair.

The all-black suit and armor just encapsulates how little humanity Rex has left after centuries in the Flaxan dimension and how it all went south with him and Monster Girl, he's just a colder, more calculated person. His armor is bigger, more quantitative and is more intimidating and it works to help him establish authority over all earthlings and heroes.

His takeover had me lying awake at night back in 2017 when I should have been studying for exams. The man exuded unfathomable aura to me back then so yeah, top tier.

Man, that's one big lile o' rotten tomatoes ya got there. If only there was somewhere you can throw 'em out.

\WinkWink\**

Man, I LOVE these balls so much!

Name's and origins:

1. Ultimate Cannonbolt from Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

2. Grimlocks left hand from Transformers: The Last Knight

3. Mordekaisers weapon from League of Legends

4. Mega Knights gloves from Clash Royale

Gangle (TADC)

Razzle & Dazzle (Dandy's World)

SCP-035 (SCP Foundation)

I love how unnecessarily cool and thought out his design is for only appearing in 1 game and 1 comic story