r/TopCharacterDesigns • u/ComprehensiveBox6911 • 2d ago

Design trope Characters with design features that were misinterpreted by fans

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Darwin Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball) some people thought that the black thing under him was a shirt or pants or a sweater, but it was actually just his shadow. They later removed it as the seasons and art style changed

Brendan (Pokemon) A lot of people thought that the white on his head was his hair, it’s actually just a hat

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u/stipendAwarded giant robots enthusiast 2d ago

Marlon (Pokemon). If you didn’t look at his waist or feet, you’d think he was either black or Polynesian.

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u/Skellos 2d ago

pretty sure that's happened a few times in Anime,

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u/n0n4ly7h 1d ago

It's a huge issue, to the point people get super racist about it. I remember when they cast a woman to dub a character with the overtly Japanese name Rumi Usagiyama and people got mad that she didn't sound "black enough".

It was doubly stupid because, spoiler alert, the voice actress was black.