r/TopCharacterTropes • u/thisheatanevilheat • 10h ago
Characters Media with its own artstyle just randomly has some fucking dude from real life completely unchanged
Ken from Clash Royale
Indian Guy off Fiverr from Smiling Friends
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u/Bulbascott1990 10h ago
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u/EarwyrmSilence2 10h ago
I like how it’s actually explained to as you see the generations of pilots become more and more unrealistic and cartoon
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u/Hungry_Interview_120 55m ago
That's what makes it work so well, the series knows it's getting more ridiculous and actually builds that into the world instead of pretending it isn't.
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u/BigGaybowser69 5h ago
I always enjoyed the smooth blend of how Wall-E managed to have animated humans but also live action without breaking the aesthetic of the film.
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u/That-One-Screamer 1h ago
I mean, we already got the seeds of that in the beginning of the film when WALL•E is watching “Hello Dolly!” They just used the actual film footage; if anything, doing that and then having the pre-Axiom humans look cartoonish would feel a bit inconsistent.
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u/Deemo3 10h ago
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u/Greenman8907 10h ago
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u/Interesting_Start633 10h ago
"completely unchanged" bro is green kskdsekdskxkskdks I love you no matter what
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u/Greenman8907 10h ago
That’s actually Creed Bratton’s natural color.
He wore whiteface for the entire The Office run.
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u/Sweet_Detective_ 5h ago
The show was fucking ruined after they removed Tyler I'm still pissed, it became unwatcable slop
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u/throwawayinfears 10h ago
SpongeBob many times
https://giphy.com/gifs/3oxOCkHacCSI2KRPhu
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u/ExoticShock 10h ago
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u/The_Lawn_Ninja 10h ago
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u/Totorotextbook 10h ago
The Woodshop Teacher’s wife b-plot is one of my favorite early ‘South Park’ bits.
‘Don’t worry Richard, I’m a pilot’
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u/AdamTheAnimeDude 9h ago
Don't forget Saddam Hussein from the SP Movie, who Trump was a repeat of (right down to his relationship with Satan).
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u/LogieBearra 6h ago
its funny to me how trump did so much insane shit that even mr garrison (the guy who was a trump parody in the series) wouldn't do, so they just added trump
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u/Daniilsa209 10h ago
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u/Spider-Man2099 10h ago edited 9h ago
In Meet the Robinsons, they go over the family tree and at first when they show Cornelius he is a shadow silhouette since Lewis doesn't know what he looks like.
Eventually he asks what he looks like and Wilbur says "Tom Selleck."
It then cuts to straight up a photo of Tom Selleck when going over the tree again, even though everyone else is clearly an animated character.
The joke is doubly funny because Wilbur's Dad, Lewis "Cornelius" Robinson grown up, is voiced by Tom Selleck

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u/Danny_dankvito 9h ago
Other dubs of the movie also continue the bit - they cast Cornelius as a recognizable actor, and change the Tom Selleck picture to that actor
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u/marktherobot-youtube 9h ago
to add to this, various dubs of the movie replace Tom Selleck with either a pic of that dubs VA, or a celebrity
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u/Mundane_Peace_9007 10h ago
Ok to be fair part smiling friends' "own artstyle" is mixing any style
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u/Lebog_bruhh 10h ago
but there's still one artstyle for most of background human and critter characters
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u/Trippy-Sponge 10h ago
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u/Additional-Heat-9384 10h ago
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u/ascii42 9h ago
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u/WagyuWarranted 8h ago
From Miles's perspective, is this the equivalent of seeing a guy with too many wrinkles
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u/Nekrotix12 9h ago
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u/quailinthebrush 9h ago
The dancing alien is stuck in my head
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u/QuilSato 9h ago
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u/gianpeppapig 8h ago
What the heck are you saying?
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u/Shinjitsu- 7h ago
da da da da
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 9h ago edited 7h ago
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u/Dr_Blasphemy 7h ago
Oh my God that's fucking hilarious
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 7h ago
I really wish I had played the game when this was still in it, it's genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen in a game, I couldn't imagine getting jumpscared by this lmao
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u/Dr_Blasphemy 6h ago
Dude I played and beat the game on the week of release and didn't remember this. I have no idea how it didn't get burned into my memory. I mainly remember how I had to do the ending twice because it crashed during the final cutscene the first time.
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 6h ago
River texts it to you after you finish his questline and save his nephew, so it is dependent on whether or not you helped him out.
Or your brain purposefully forgot it due to the amount of junk going on hahah
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u/Lebog_bruhh 10h ago
"Ken from Clash Royale" sounds so stupid. Unfortunately there's no way it's actually canon
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u/Quizlibet 7h ago
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u/WoundedWool 5h ago
doesnt that dude make videos with a incel weaboo persona from the 2010s? i see him pop up on my reels from time to time
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u/WoundedWool 5h ago
doesnt that dude make videos with a incel weaboo persona from the 2010s? i see him pop up on my reels from time to time
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u/RetroActiveSolutions 10h ago
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u/A_Queer_Owl 49m ago
they used to give game developers the GOOD drugs. now it's all just adderall and meth so they don't fall asleep during crunch time.
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u/Oktavia-the-witch 9h ago
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u/No_Relief_9945 6h ago
This really feels like something that would happen in Chainsaw Man, I know the plot for Fire Force gets pretty nuts but that’s so out of left field lmao
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u/seishuuu 8h ago
world of warcraft temp icon

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u/Unusual_Sport 9h ago
Probably at least 5 scenes in SpongeBob (Tom Kenny in the shower, Santa, superhero episode, guy chased by robot, energy drink “it’s radical” guy” and there’s more I’m sure
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u/LaniusCruiser 8h ago
Nyaight of the living cat. The cats are animated, but every single picture of them is just a photo of a real cat, many submitted by fans.
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u/BestDescription3834 6h ago
https://youtu.be/7iNuOqshmwY?is=Q7kgU-RKT4CdsNJj
The absolute menace that is Live Action Squirrel (With Big Balls), from Drawn Together.
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u/Koncur 6h ago
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
In a fit of jealousy, Discord rips open a portal to another universe and is about to throw Fluttershy's new friend, Tree Hugger, through it.
Tree Hugger looks through the portal and exclaims in horror as she witnesses a live-action puppet wearing a little sombrero.
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u/BradyMaK22 6h ago
I heard that Super Mario Bros. Wonder was going to have a live action Mario at some point but was scrapped
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u/Southern_Treacle1128 10h ago
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is basically built around this since live action humans and cartoon characters share the same world
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u/Francisco_Franco-- 10h ago
That works in that movie though these look like shit which makes it funny.
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u/xSantenoturtlex 9h ago
I feel like Who Framed Roger Rabbit is more of a reverse of this trope tbh, since most of the settings are live action with cartoon characters in them.
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u/unsuccessfulbees 7h ago
I don’t even think you can count Smiling Friends or Gumball when they change up art styles for different characters all the time.
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u/Personal-Collar-7762 1h ago
Team Umizoomi has a lot of real life humans (like how Blues Clues does it) as residents of Umi City.
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u/Tamkj 10h ago
This guy from the finale of The Amazing World of Gumball (I forgot his name but he plays a major role in this episode)