Things that you are tired of seeing is a character design

[Maps]

Tell your mother Karen that she’s an angel.

[nostalgicroxas]

Am I the only one who feels they ripped off the Looney Toons with those eye brows?

[AceRagz]

The way I was told it started from a meme taken from Mean Girls and it just became popular and reddit adopted it for the entitled parents section.

[BobbyjoeX]

yeah but it has upset many REAL Karens

[Lucca_Vendramel]

I agree with everything you said. These tropes piss me off as well.

[jurinova]

Personally I'm super tired of seeing women with the exact same hairstyle. You know the one; long, slightly wavy but never messy or in the way. Even in action their hair is perfection! It gets tired so fast.
And high heels! Why must the women always have high heels! I love high heels but they are not suitable for action or even many job situations.

I feel like so many women characters are designed by thirsty straight men and it shows.

[Atarun]

The one thing I can't stand anymore is skirts.
I mean, I get why every female character would wear one in a school where there are uniforms and a precise dress code... but I see so many female characters with skirts in situations where it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, like in a fantasy setting where women go to battle. Who in their right mind would wear a skirt to battle?
Apart from the Scots, of course.

[joannekwan]

Albino humans with red/pink eyes (as the default coloring and not in say a setting akin to flash photography).

@jurinova YES. Even in live-action movies/shows they always have this haircut! I got so sick of seeing it!

[Atarun]

You're totally right! I ranted about skirts, but I could definitely say the same about high heels.

I cannot imagine a sane person fighting in stilettos. Makes about as much sense as tying both hands behind your back in a fist fight.

[Atarun]

I feel like sometimes that's done as a form of censorship, though...like maybe you have this little girl in an action comic, and she wears a dress...do you really want to flash her panties all the time just because it's more 'realistic'?

I guess if you're doing a comic with an art style that's heavy on realism, that's a dilemma you have to sort through...but in comics with cartoon styles, I think it can be forgiven if clothes don't always move the way they should. Heck, if the movement of clothes and hair looks better 'artistically' than it would 'realistically', I'll always pick artistic. Life's too short~

I agree that art trumps reality, especially in comics. But there's another solution in order to not show the panties of a girl/woman: make her wear pants and shorts. It won't prevent her from looking feminine and sexy. It will just erase the temptation to stick cameras way too low on every other scene. It might also prevent some clumsy heroines from stumbling so much. So many birds killed with one stone.

[mariusthered]

and et's NO a skirt!

[Atarun]

Ha ha ha, did I hit a nerve, calling kilts skirts?

[mariusthered]

my sidekick gets a bit tender about that issue.

[unknown_user]

• I'm tired of mega-shy-type-girls, who are getting blush and squeaking loudly from embarrassment for every 5 seconds (are common in romance animes, manga and comics).
• I'm even more tired of giant boobs in anime and immensely giant boobs in hentai.
• I'm tired.

[Pandastrophic]

All the guys having a 6 pack even though they don't exercise in the story.
It's fine if they're fit but does every guy really need a 6 pack? I like having a bit more diversity in body types.

[mariusthered]

when you have a character based on yourself then yes drawing a great body is needed because we dont get time to make a real one, were sat drawing and eating junk food. give us our fantasy's would ya!

[Atarun]

All the guys having a 6 pack even though they don't exercise in the story.
It's fine if they're fit but does every guy really need a 6 pack? I like having a bit more diversity in body types.

That's especially true with video games. Sure, more body types means more development and QA work, but when mages and rogues look like professional bodybuilders...

[azzy-m]

• Too many zippers. What is the point? It doesn't look cool?? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU USING ALL THOSE ZIPPERS FOR, SORA?!

• I don't know about you but I like women characters that don't give a shit and wear whatever they want, and then the creators change it something more "edgy" (coughs in the general direction of RWBY) (i'm sorry i really don't like volume 5~ designs for team rwby, actually i hate v5 with every fiber of my being)

• Superheroes that literally have a design that looks SO CLOSELY to their civilian personas that it's almost impossible for EVERYBODY to not know who they are. (Ladybug, Chat Noir and Queen Bee is what comes into mind. I mean at least they changed the hair style for Chat Noir. Ladybug literally has the same hair style and her hair color barely changed, she has appeared on TV multiple times, yet no one recognizes her? You can't even tell who Rena Rouge and Carapace are. And this became a rant about how nobody can recognize Ladybug and Chat Noir is bullshit-)

[HGohwell]

It's been said by many many stunt women all over the internet that skirts and heels are not an obstacle for any fighting/stunts they do so that never actually bothers me. There's a post somewhere where we discussed that in regards to female armour and how as long as the heels are well made and the skirt is not trip over length or pencil style, it doesn't hinder movement. Unlike sleeves which leads me too:

Those stupid off the shoulder impossibly low dresses. Yes, if your dress has proper structure and shape it can work (and I'm guilty of this design). It looks regal as hell when characters are static but the second they start moving I start questioning how that thing is staying up. Especially when they then start fighting.

Also, Curtains Match the Windows. Aka the hair and eye colour match and 99% of the time this is also the character's theme colour. I get it, we're colour coding so you can tell the characters apart easily but when this also falls into totally obvious character types it gets tiring. I don't want to be able to tell a character's entire story and arc from their colour scheme I'm not impressed.

[Rosso]

this shit right here

even worse... characters with animal ears and tails that don't "emote" at all? what's the point of those?! : /

And on that topic... eyebrows on animals >: ( I don't care for stylized comics but when you're going for a more grounded style, and/or this is just a pet or a single animal in an otherwise all human cast... DROP! THE! DAMN! EYEBROWS!! (u___u+

Also obligatory LGBT+ character designs that fit all kinds of stereotypes on how they look like (colorful hair and weird hairstyles, flamboyant clothes or no sense of fashion at all, piercings and tattoos everywhere... etc)

Lastly, Asian Girl with short black hair and a strand or two of some color. Preferably purple.