History SelfFanservice / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' owing its [[PopularWithFurries popularity with a certain demographic]]:

** Red is an interesting case. While he isn't ''ugly'' per se, he is more or less quite young. Even at age 14 in the [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver original generation II games]], he is still a rather scrawny-looking kid with unruly hair (from what can be seen from his 8-bit sprite anyway). Fans however ignore this, making him {{Bishonen}}, combing his hair down, and coloring his eyes red. This design is known as "Pixiv Red" due to originally being created by an artist on said website. Even for the remakes fans tend to use this design, despite the fact he has a new design, which actually is slick and {{Bishonen}} at that age. "Pixiv Red" is so ubiquitous, in fact, that mislabeling this version of Red can be major FlameBait in the Japanese fandom, and some Platform/NicoNicoDouga videos warn watchers in advance that the video uses this version of the character. Coincidentally, ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''[='=] Red actually resembles the fan version Red more closely, though even then there are also some 4komas that give this Red straighter hair.
** As soon as Red and his rival Blue were revealed to [[TheBusCameBack return]] [[HesAllGrownUp as young adults]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', fans quickly took note of his thicker build than [[{{Bishounen}} Blue]], and Red got hit with a second wave of this; while his official art already shows him as a rather well-built, handsome young man with sharper features than would be expected from his home region, fanart often exaggerates his muscles to outright {{hunk}} levels. In fact, none of the muscles on anywhere but his neck are particularly defined in his official art, it and his 3D model often looking scrawny in comparison to fan depictions. Less commonly, adult Blue also sometimes gets gratuitous muscle added onto him, despite being a more thinly-built {{Bishounen}}.
** Feminine-looking Pokémon -- especially [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Gardevoir]] (a CuteMonsterGirl-like mon "[[ClothingAppendage wearing]]" an elegant ballgown), [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Lopunny]] (a literal, anthropomorphic PlayboyBunny with [[HartmanHips wide hips]]), and [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Hatterene]] (a tiny stick figure-like creature with long hair forming a cloak that resembles a curvaceous body) -- are usually drawn in a more anthropomorphic and/or attractive manner compared to their cartoony original designs, with Gardevoir's "dress" being treated as a actual garment that can be removed, and Hatterene's real body being given the shape its hair initially implies; especially, and infamously, by the more... ''hardcore'' parts of the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': A from ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed Future Redeemed]]'' is OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous due to being [[spoiler:an incarnation of gender-neutral supercomputer Ontos (stated by Rex to be between the male Logos and the female Pneuma) and never being referred to by any pronouns at all]]. However, due to their obviously feminine appearance and being voiced by actresses, along with being [[spoiler:coded as female ("1") in the game data while their other half Alpha and combined past incarnation Alvis are outright referred to in the story with male pronouns]], many fans portray A in fanart as objectively female, putting particular emphasis on her godlike hips and rear along with enlarging her chest (though usually not to the extent of [[spoiler:her sister]] Pneuma, AKA Pyra and Mythra) and portraying her as having strong sexual tension with Matthew (or sometimes even Shulk or Rex).

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** The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/baldis-basics-in-education-and-learning/images/e/ea/Principal.png/revision/latest?cb=20180613142210 Principal of the Thing]] is just a poorly dithered, barely made out, pixelated realistic image of a man with a weird mouth and face and closed eyes holding his finger up and appears to be shouting, with glitched feet. But in [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/4f0dd5e5b7a933b11f883f7ac6373820/tumblr_pahyzum0jX1vr5s5go1_500.png fanart]], he has the appearance of a very tall, svelte, and handsome dude with either curly or messy brown hair and given black eyes. People also ship him with Baldi.

* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'': Marie Rose was deliberately made to [[TokenMiniMoe look]] ''[[CuteButCacophonic and sound]]'' like a prepubescent girl, despite her canonical age being 18. It rubbed most western gamers the wrong way, so they usually remedy the issue in H-art by making her look like an adolescent teen complete with a fuller figure.

** [[Videogame/FinalFantasyV Faris Scherwiz]] is often given large breasts in fanart, ignoring that she had to [[{{Bifauxnen}} pass for a man]], albeit a rather pretty one, ever since she joined a pirate crew. She even lampshades that being a woman on a ship full of male pirates would be a ''very bad thing''. In fan art it's rare that she even gets depicted with smaller breasts than her sister Lenna. To be fair, [[HiddenBuxom the game itself does imply she is really busty when Galuf accidentally sees her true appearance,]] but the fans still really stretch the playability of being concealed from her pirate crew.
** The games with 16-bit sprites tend to get lots of this in general, despite the characters being visible in-game only as small, pixelated sprites with not particuarly a lot of detail on them (and not helped by most of the official art not matching the sprites at all, seemingly being more interested in [[RuleOfCool looking cool]] than helping people get an idea of what the characters actually look like). In particular, quite a lot of fanart exists of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Rydia]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Lenna, Faris]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Celes]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics Agrias]] with very... "glamorous" figures. Guess fans like to let their imaginations do most of the work...

** In the second game, Toy Bonnie is a LighterAndSofter redesign of the original Bonnie character in-universe, and thus the only one of the latter's counterparts to play the BunniesForCuteness trope straight. His design features a shorter snout, slimmer build, and prominent eyelashes meant to give him a cuter, kid-friendly look than his predecessor. Many fan artists, however, tend to play up Toy Bonnie's androgynous traits and draw him as an [[{{Bishonen}} young, effeminate pretty boy]] in both FunnyAnimal and humanized designs, often giving him a more delicate, waifish figure. These same traits also make Toy Bonnie a particularly common target of Rule63 art.

** Alyx, who in canon is a tomboyish WrenchWench, gets numerous character models (many of which were inspired by real-life Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima) with jiggling breasts and {{stripperific}} outfits (some being outright adult), and most infamously one of them had a '''fully-modeled cervix'''. The creator's attempt at a more faithful Alyx model didn't get released until towards the end of the mod's development life, and still shows more skin than in canon.
** Mossman goes from a middle aged woman to several years younger than she should be, and in earlier versions of the mod [[RaceLift went from white to Asian]]; unlike Alyx, a more accurate model was never made.

** Viridi in-game has the appearance of an eight-year-old, despite actually being much older. Some fanart ages her up physically and turns her into a {{Hot God}}dess [[HotterAndSexier rivaling Palutena,]] often showing off her [[HartmanHips hips,]] legs, and midriff.

** Quite a few incarnations of Zelda herself tend to get drawn with more curvaceous builds than they are shown having canonically. A fine example of this being ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'''s Zelda, who has her HartmanHips being taken to exaggerated levels; the version of Zelda used in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' also gets the same treatment.

** To give an anecdote of just how pervasive sexualized depictions of ''Overwatch'' characters are, there was a Twitter post that pointed how Tracer's model in ''Overwatch 2'' has no ass, and people were accusing Blizzard of copping out and desexualizing character in light of recent events and whatnot. Then someone put the models side-by-side and found out they were as flat as before.

** Rika is a slender Bifauxen woman who many mistake for a man at first glance. Fan art is prone to making this error much harder to make by giving her much larger breasts.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': While Lady Dimitrescu's original model is considered very attractive by most of the fanbase it's common for some of her traits to get changed in fanwork. The most common changes are massively increasing her bust, making her face younger looking with less wrinkles and changing her ghostly white skin to peach colored. Some of the more popular fan mods replace her long dress with racy lingerie or swimsuits.

** This also applies to ''[[DummiedOut scrapped characters]]'' as well! [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wapeach The cut Peach-clone from]] ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' ([[FanNickname who's now better known as Wapeach]]) goes from [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2711263-wapeach a cute petite Peach in a silly dress]] to a hot blonde with various physiques (her regular petite body but HotterAndSexier, a curvy shortstack, or a StatuesqueStunner like the princesses), and her [[MinidressOfPower short dress]] with X holes near the end becomes the perfect excuse for {{Panty Shot}}s. Those with the tall and curvy interpretation tend to replace the dress by a LeotardOfPower (with or without a cape) in homage to [[Anime/{{Yatterman}} Doronjo]] (whom Fumihide Aoki refered as an inspiration for this character).

** Muffet is a CuteMonsterGirl, so being at least modestly attractive comes with the territory. Some artists take things a step further, though, and ignore her less human features such as [[TheNoseless her lack of a nose]] or her slender neck to draw her as a six-armed, purple-skinned, but otherwise normal-looking anime girl. But more whom lean on the ''[[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Anthro]]'' side keep her less than human features and focus on making her more curvier and well-endowed, both in the upstairs and downstairs departments.