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[Wozman23]

For the most part, I've enjoyed looking through the favorite/worst male/female threads, but they contain a lot of realistically designed humans. I would have felt silly adding most of the characters I loved to those threads because they didn't really fit in.

So what are the best non-human characters, GAF?

My favorites:

Ratchet & Clank:

Dr. Nefarious:

Sly Cooper (and the Gang):

Jak & Daxter (preferably the less angry looking original):

Sackboy:

Iota & Atoi:

Yarny:

Kutaro from Puppeteer: (The entire game had brilliantly designed characters, bosses, and environments.)

Rayman (preferably the 2D, hand-drawn version):

Cuphead and Mugman:

Raz:

Earthworm Jim:

Noodle from Snake Pass:

Pic from Snapshot: (Coming to PS3 and Vita Fall 2012... Still waiting...)

There are a few Nintendo characters I could mention (Yoshi, Kirby, the Kongs...) but this post is already ballooning out of control, so I'll leave those for someone else.

 

[DNAbro]

Undertale has good character designs.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Jak (basically an elf) and especially Raz shouldn't be there.

 

[Wozman23]

Jak (basically an elf) and especially Raz shouldn't be there.

I debated them, but they're both pretty stylized. I'd say they're humanoid, but not 100% human. Plus, I like Daxter way more than Jak, but didn't want to leave him out.

 

[woopWOOP]

Anything Kirby

I have a soft spot for those Secret of Mana baddies too

 

[immortald3ath]

Banjo Kazooie
Sonic
Donkey Kong
Diddy Kong
Fox McCloud

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

portal 2 atlas and p-body

 

[DiipuSurotu]

 

[playingwithfire]

Most of those designs in the OP belong in the upcoming Worst Anthropomorphic / Non-Human Character Designs thread.

 

[Tyrant Rave]

I love the look for Merkava in Under Night In-birth

 

[The Dink]

Monster Hunter monsters.

 

[Toxi]

Monster Hunter monsters.

These aren't anthropomorphized, but they definitely are some of the best non-human designs.

 

[Platy]

But we already have a best male character design thread =P

Spoiler

It is just a jab at how the default of anything is male so 90% of the choices posted here will be male, not that I didn't see the tearaway girl in the op

 

[Herbspiceguy]

 

[QuantumSquid]

 

[Selddon]

final fantasy tactics had some great nonhuman races

 

[Azoor]

I really like Orisa from Overwatch.

 

[Mediking]

Persona 5's demons thread.

Morgana thread.

 

[Wozman23]

These aren't anthropomorphized, but they definitely are some of the best non-human designs.

This topic can be inclusive to any non-humans. I just got sick of scrolling through humans. Mascots, monsters, paperclips with eyes. All are welcome here.

But we already have a best male character design thread =P

Spoiler

It is just a jab at how the default of anything is male so 90% of the choices posted here will be male, not that I didn't see the tearaway girl in the op

True. I did like the Jade (BG&E) and Kat (Gravity Rush) mentions. There's also Six (Little Nightmares) who was mentioned to be female in the original marketing, but later has also been described as being sexually ambiguous. Still, all those are humanoid. So I guess we need more non-humanoid female characters.

Most of those designs in the OP belong in the upcoming Worst Anthropomorphic / Non-Human Character Designs thread.

Feel free to make that thread and just quote me.

 

[TrueBlue]

 

[Dynomutt]

Fran. Design is awesome.

 

[QuantumSquid]

Fran. Design is awesome.

C'mon man, that's basically a human with rabbit ears.

 

[SargerusBR]

The Draenei/Eredar from WoW

 

[Platy]

C'mon man, that's basically a human with rabbit ears.

probably because of years and years of

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/c7vEWXY.jpg[/IMG]

https://twitter.com/glitchedpuppet/status/883143570739257344

 

[cm osi]

Scias from Breath of fire IV

probably because of years and years of

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/c7vEWXY.jpg[/IMG]

https://twitter.com/glitchedpuppet/status/883143570739257344

not the case for viera at least

 

[moustascheman]

Frog - Chrono Trigger

 

[Burt]

Frog - Chrono Trigger

grr barely beaten

the best

Scias from Breath of fire IV

Also the best

Also the best

 

[Vanguard771]

The new designs for the Zora from BotW are my current favorite. Unfortunately I don't have a picture on hand.

 

[Kolibri]

 

[Dangansona]

Looking at OP I have to say I love most of those characters. Maybe somehow Sackboy being my favorite?

 

[woopWOOP]

final fantasy tactics had some great nonhuman races

Nu Mous were so cutesy looking in that game

 

[Nicky Ali]

Say what you will about Sonic, you can't deny that his design is his strongest suit. It's iconic.

 

[MrPanic]

 

[mrjohill]

 

[Lord Azrael]

GET MY MAIN MAN DK UP IN HERE

Also a lot of Pokémon would apply but there's too many of them to post.

 

[TrueBlue]

Say what you will about Sonic, you can't deny that his design is his strongest suit. It's iconic.

Aye, I absolutely adore both his Classic and Modern designs. His Classic one is both cool and adorable, while his Modern one is sleek and athletic, which helps to sell "the fastest thing alive" shtick.

 

[moustascheman]

The Chozo from metroid are also pretty cool looking.

 

[Spoony Bob]

Sorry.

 

[His Majesty]

rock trolls so cute best ever

 

[DragonGirl]

To anthropomorphize means to humanize. Anthropomorphic characters are animals or objects that have been given human traits, in this case, physical traits. Stylized humans, even if the style is very cartoony, are not anthropomorphic so no, elves and cartoony humans don't count. Neither does Noodle as Noodle is straight cartoon snake. Kirby and other such things also don't count as they are entirely made up. In pokemon terms, Fennikin is not an anthropomorphic fox. But Braixen and Delphox are.

 

[themaskedndi]

Kirby for sure. Super cute and versatile. I love a lot of the Kirby enemy designs too. Waddle Dees are cute enough to helm their own series.

I love the robots in Nier: Automata, especially Pascal.

Pokemon is full of great (and terrible) designs, but these are a few underrated favorites of mine:

I also think that Monokuma (from Danganronpa) has a pretty iconic design.

 

[TheDinoman]

In my heart forever.

 

[Red Arremer]

My namesake obviously is one of the coolest:

I'm surprised Fang actually was not only posted, but also on page 1. Props.

Wolf O'Donnell from the Star Fox series, especially the Star Fox 2 incarnation is just badass:

Smite has some cool non-human character designs, but my favourite is probably Kukulkan:

with Camazotz being my runner-up.

Thoth, Anubis, Fenrir, among others, also are great.

The Capcom D&D Arcade games had some fantastic designs for gnolls, lizardmen and the likes.

Sega's Shining series had some really cool designs, like Bleu the dragon, Zylo the werewolf martial artist, as well as Peter the Phoenix

Spoiler

he starts out looking dumb, but his design improves vastly once he gets promoted

.

Also, because I feel like an obscure pick, one of my favourite non-human character designs of all time is Garam from the arcade Tetris Attack clone Naname de Magic! ... he's just such a goober.

Just a few from the top of my head. I could go on about this quite a while. :<

 

[Green Mega Man]

I love that damn blob.

 

[Drillary Clinton]

Morgana thread? Morgana thread.

 

[TissueBox]

How can y'all forget this pink blob??!

EDIT: OH whoops it's been mentioned already. xD
Well here's a good 'ol PNG anyway..!!

AWWrgh...

(That's Kirby btw.)

 

[canedaddy]

The best.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Blaze the Cat, brehs

 

[Wozman23]

To anthropomorphize means to humanize. Anthropomorphic characters are animals or objects that have been given human traits, in this case, physical traits. Stylized humans, even if the style is very cartoony, are not anthropomorphic so no, elves and cartoony humans don't count. Neither does Noodle as Noodle is straight cartoon snake. Kirby and other such things also don't count as they are entirely made up. In pokemon terms, Fennikin is not an anthropomorphic fox. But Braixen and Delphox are.

That's why I included the "/ Non-human" part of the post. It wasn't meant to be only anthropomorphic characters, but rather non-human characters, many of which just happen to be anthropomorphized.

We could split hairs about many of them. For instance, Noodle's face conveys emotion. He can smile or get scared, and screams when he falls to his death. If an real life snake ever smiles or yells at me, I'm gonna either kill it quickly or shit myself.

 

[Lucario]

this fuzzy fucker. (Asgore from Undertale)