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By "badly" I of course mean "badly, in your personal opinion."

What are some characters that fanartists seem to never manage to portray properly? Either because they always screw up some element of the actor's appearance/performance, or (for book fandoms) they always portray them like X when they're described as Y, or some totally different reason.

When I was into SPN, I hated how Castiel was always drawn pale with black hair. Misha Collins' hair is dark but it definitely isn't black. And he sure as hell isn't pale.

I was going to mention how Charles Xavier is always drawn as really short. Looking at his height though....he is actually pretty short.

Yeah, just googled him, and that is not black hair.
Although I think some people legitly can't tell the difference, going by someone trying to tell me that my hair (same colour) was black.
But still. No.

I'm still so salty that almost all Lord of the Rings and/or Silmarillion artists, even the book-focused ones, seem to draw Elrond so unattractively and always in the same way - always including all the inaccurate and bad things about Hugo Weaving's Elrond (the oldness, the receding hairline, the dull limp thin hair) yet at the same time somehow taking out all the awesome and appropriate things about his Elrond (the piercing eyes, the Eyebrows of Doom.) Siiiigggggghhhhh. It's so boring.

I feel similar about Legolas since most artists draw him using movies as reference :(

ayrt

Yeah me too. Well, I did always picture Legolas as blond even before I saw the movies, and I like him as blond since the rest of the fellowship is full of dark-haired people and variety is good, but I didn't picture him like the movies.

And it's not that the movie version is bad, even, just that there's sooooo little variation! It gets so boring!

different anon:

well, he sorta was blond even before the live-action version. If you feel like torturing yourself, image google up 'Legolas Rankin-Bass'. Just be prepared for eye-bleach if you catch a glimpse of Thranduil from the same studio.

LOL I've seen pictures of that, though I've never actually watched the movie. He looks kind of like a baby John Smith from Pocahontas. And then of course Thranduil looks like a mossy toad-gnome thing which I weirdly love bc he still has fabulous golden hair.

the anon that mentioned the Rankin-Bass Legolas:

LOL - now I'm not going to unsee that image

(truth be told, I can only watch that in small amounts because once Gollum comes on - I'm out of the room like a bat out of hell. Brother Theodore's voice creeps me the fuck out)

Not always...but Malik from Assassin's Creed rarely really looks like himself.

Levi from Attack on Titan is often drawn as either ridiculously tiny in contrast to the other characters, or like a twiggy little uke (often both). Yes he's short, but he's not child sized and the guy should be muscled like a small tank, based on his stats.

He's not always portrayed badly, but Sandor Clegane drawn as a male model with a birthmark is ridiculously common.

Not portrayed badly, but Luna's supposed to have dirty blonde hair. I think people in general tend ignore any shade of blonde that's not close to platinum.

Didn't they give her platinum blonde in the movie?

They did. But even before Evanna was cast, most people drew Luna with super bright blonde hair. I mean Emma Watson's hair was never that curly in the movies, but most fan artists still drew Hermione with super curly hair. /shrug

John Watson of BBC's Sherlock gets the short end of the stick real bad. There's plenty of typical flimsy-uke out there, but there's just as much that basically makes him look like the main character from Up. There's a halfway point, guys!

(Even the more decent art tends to make him look much much younger/leaner...)

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