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Character design misinterpretations that you just cannot unsee

SilverX

SilverX

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Jan 21, 2018
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Ever saw a character that you thought was completely different and now that is how you see them? Pokemon Sword and Shield introduced a character named Bede, who is apparently a teenage male, but what I see is an old lady Pokemon trainer. This sums it up perfectly

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I just can't see Bede any other way
 
DiipuSurotu

DiipuSurotu

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Oct 25, 2017
53,148
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The lines and dots in Lucca's face are not her eyes and a mouth, but her eyeglasses seen from profile.
 
Zacmortar

Zacmortar

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Oct 25, 2017
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Thankfully without voice acting, i can continue to think of Bede as a lil old woman tearin ass through britain

Its a better character design that way
 
Lady Bow

Lady Bow

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Nov 30, 2017
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Always thought the Bullet Bill from Super Mario Bros. was smiling but it's actually its arm. I still can't unsee it tbh.

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The Unsent

The Unsent

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Oct 25, 2017
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Raine in Tales of Symphonia and Van in Tales of the Abyss I thought were 20 years older. They're both in 20s.
 
Grand Galvantula

Grand Galvantula

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Nov 14, 2017
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Brendan having white hair instead of it just being a hat in Pokemon R/S

I think they even poke fun at this in the manga
 
Vague Rant

Vague Rant

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Oct 28, 2017
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Lady Bow said:
Always thought the Bullet Bill from Super Mario Bros. was smiling but it's actually its arm. I still can't unsee it tbh.

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Looking at this I can't remember which way I see it, they both look right to me. I went looking at how they work in other games and Nintendo has been all over the place with them. In Super Mario Land 2, 64 and Sunshine, it's a mouth, in the Galaxy games and other recent games, a fist. Now I'm not even sure which one is intended in the NES sprite.

EDIT: And then the cartoons were like "It's both."
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hideousarmor

hideousarmor

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I've seen a lot of people misinterpret this guy from the elden ring trailer for a dwarf/one of those trolls w the long hair
 
Prof Bathtub

Prof Bathtub

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Apr 26, 2018
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For a while, I thought Quote had a profile view, with the far headphone being a Mario-esque nose, and the other eye being an ear/sideburn.
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Maybe it's because it's a little strange that his head is 3-quarters perspective while his body walks strictly side to side. And it's not like a robot has to look like "normal."
 
Rotobit

Rotobit

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Oct 27, 2017
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An audio example:



The first review I saw for this game (N Gamer in the UK I think? Or whatever came before that?) pointed it out and it's still all I hear to this day


Lady Bow said:
Always thought the Bullet Bill from Super Mario Bros. was smiling but it's actually its arm. I still can't unsee it tbh.

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Yup, I've always wondered if Banzai Bill was a direct reference to this.
 
Lady Bow

Lady Bow

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Nov 30, 2017
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Just remembered another one. I thought Silver from Pokemon G/S/C was a girl when I was a kid. It was hard to tell with the tiny screen and spritework.

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Billfisto

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Oct 30, 2017
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For some strange reason, my brain parses the Metroid 2 Alpha Metroid sprite as a weird flying clown head.

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The spike that originates from the middle is a nose, the eyes are on either side, and the mouth below.
 
KINGOFSHIBUYA Ltd.

KINGOFSHIBUYA Ltd.

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Oct 25, 2017
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Osaka, Osaka
Open the quote to see, but

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On a CRT TV through an RF video connection, these clouds from Super Mario Bros looked like floating teeth, which as a kid, I so no reason they wouldn't be. Everything else in Mario was nonsensical.

I didn't know they were clouds until probably around 10-15 years ago when emulators got better.
 
Jaded Alyx

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Oct 25, 2017
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DarkConfidant said:
Open the quote to see, but


On a CRT TV through an RF video connection, these clouds from Super Mario Bros looked like floating teeth, which as a kid, I so no reason they wouldn't be. Everything else in Mario was nonsensical.

I didn't know they were clouds until probably around 10-15 years ago when emulators got better.
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This is why you read the instruction booklet!
 
Scarlet Spider

Scarlet Spider

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Oct 25, 2017
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SilverX said:
Ever saw a character that you thought was completely different and now that is how you see them? Pokemon Sword and Shield introduced a character named Bede, who is apparently a teenage male, but what I see is an old lady Pokemon trainer. This sums it up perfectly

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I just can't see Bede any other way
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I see Ryo Asuka with that expression lol.
 
KINGOFSHIBUYA Ltd.

KINGOFSHIBUYA Ltd.

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Geg

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Link's Awakening was the first video game I ever played as a kid and I always thought Marin was like an older lady and the parts of hair behind her back was actually her like hunched over holding her hands behind her back. Even today I have trouble seeing her sprite correctly
 
Youabra

Youabra

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Oct 27, 2017
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During my first playthrough of FFTA I used to believe that Moogles had beaks according to their sprites. (Yes, it sounds stupid specially when you can clearly see Montblanc's portrait without a beak, but to be fair it doesn't have the moogle nose either)
 
Velocity:Design:Comfort

Velocity:Design:Comfort

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Nov 23, 2017
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Youabra said:
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During my first playthrough of FFTA I used to believe that Moogles had beaks according to their sprites. (Yes, it sounds stupid specially when you can clearly see Montblanc's portrait without a beak, but to be fair it doesn't have the moogle nose either)
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played this game 5 times and didnt realize til now that the moogle sprites are the normal non FF12 version but the portraits are FF12 version. Kind of weird
 
Pau

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I'll never be able to see Metapod as anything but angry.

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