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I'd be interested in seeing where this goes, for what it's worth.
Slight side-topic — one of the comments for that Agahnim post mentions someone having had a similar revelation with the platforms from Air Man's stage in Mega Man 2. Any idea what's going on there?
I'm not sure. I'm assuming that person is referring to these platforms
◊, but I don't know what they thought the platforms looked like.
EDIT: Whoops, they probably actually meant these platforms
◊. I can see how the tube could be either a mouth, or a nose, with the line at the bottom being the mouth instead. I'm not sure which it's supposed to be, though.
I'm guessing it's a Japanese-style octopus mouth, but yeah, I can see the mouth at the bottom now too. Thanks.
Another example would be "Eggette" aka "Omelette"
, based on misinterpreting a sprite of Eggman from Sonic Mania.
I remember there being a TLP for this years ago, but I don't know if it was discarded.
Look at this artwork
of Agahnim from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The creator shows how he misinterpretated the headdress of Agahnim's sprite as a silly-looking head, while the character's actual head is just below that.
I haven't seen a trope like this, but I feel like there's a YMMV-worthy concept here. It's like the visual version of a Mondegreen. The closest I can think of is Unfortunate Character Design, but I don't think that really fits this.
Do we have this? Is it YMMV-worthy?