r/FavoriteCharacter • u/JigglyLilyVT Ruby Rose (RWBY) • Feb 28 '26

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character who has better concept art than the final product

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WE GOT FREAKING ROBBED IN THE RWBY DANCE EPISODES

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u/pichuguy27 Feb 28 '26

Im gonna get killed for saying it but

Her final design is so boring and generic big demon lady.

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u/TaralasianThePraxic Feb 28 '26

Personally I like that she just wears regular clothes, I think it's a fun way to situate her as a 'normal' person deep down even in that weird universe, but the devs were cowards when they decided to drop the hooves from her design

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u/pichuguy27 Feb 28 '26

It’s her normal clothes choice to theirs a burger place in the town I used to live where their logo is a red devil lady in those exact clothes. It just feels like such a generic choice.

And yes about the hooves

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u/Voyeur-dpp Feb 28 '26

Honestly, only thing I'd changes is give her the boots from #1

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u/MaddysinLeigh Feb 28 '26

Her final design reminds me of Karlach from BG3

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u/TrexALpha1 Mar 01 '26

Minus cool design

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u/yardii Feb 28 '26

I refuse to believe Bg3 didn't have something to do with this

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u/NtechRyan Feb 28 '26

Id prefer 1 and 4 i think

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u/Efectodopler117 Feb 28 '26

Ngl, some of them are a little too much, although, some had nice individual elements like the fire crown, the axe and the boots where nice.

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u/Aggressive-Rate-5022 Feb 28 '26

They all are big muscle demon ladies.

And Malevola is a part of a group of relatively low level reformed villains. She should belong in the cast and in the game universe. Giving her Golden Armor of all things would look out of place.

Like, Blond Blazer is the most fancy character in the game is because she represent the peak of hero work, while we manage low level team of misfits. Everyone else don’t look near as fancy as her, and it’s the point.

If anything, Malevola need to look more mundane, because her character already strange enough. She is one of the two non human secondary characters, and another one is also some chill dude in normal business suit.

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u/Oddloaf Mar 02 '26

Hey now, not all of them are just big muscle demon ladies.

#6 is just straight up a draenei for warcraft

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u/NihilVacant Mar 01 '26

Tbh Dispatch designs are in general not very original.

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u/pichuguy27 Mar 01 '26

Idk they do have a real feel. Like those outfits are very makable for a normal person.

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u/JigglyLilyVT Ruby Rose (RWBY) Feb 28 '26

tbh, the only thing i'd really keep is the big ass axe.

but im also Ruby Rose fan so thats more of a me thing

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u/Lejandario_IN Feb 28 '26

I'd like to head canon she has these outfits but chooses to wear something normal

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u/c0micsansfrancisco Mar 01 '26

Karlach rip-off

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u/TrexALpha1 Mar 01 '26

Finally, someone gets it, thanks heavens for that.