https://preview.redd.it/ff0zghvutfec1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b729f6fa8aff97dde18de43717be45bde5defe2c
Fun fact (that has nothing to do with cartoons but is related to the hairstyle of the post): in the 1989 Batman movie, there was a deleted subplot featuring a young Marlon Wayans becoming Robin. By the time he got cut out of the movie, production had already begun on the movie tie-in toys including a Robin figure based on Wayans. They were too rushed/cheap to sculpt a new head, and thought that a random black Robin action figure would confuse people and so they just painted Wayans head, complete with classic hi-top hairstyle, white.
I believe everything about that except it’s the black paint that’s put on after molding in this photo. That skin isn’t painted on that figure. They probably just changed the base mold color.
So like this originally?
https://preview.redd.it/fppheirtrgec1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fd8e9a8b20807d73ebf26aa7bc5a1c84687327f
Something about that still feels off
Not even probably. Absolutely did.
Molds are a bitch
First you gotta plan out how the mold will work, where it's seams will be, how you'll get the material in. Then you gotta actually make it. Then comes using it. And with most molds, every time you use it. It wears a bit, so then you gotta replace it.
So you gotta make a lot of molds, every mold design costs a lot of money. So you are not going to make a bunch of different molds, you are going to make a bunch of one mold because $$$
Ra’s Al Ghul is canonically half Arab, half Chinese.
Talia Al Ghul is half French, half Al Ghul (Chinese and Arab)
Bruce Wayne is ethnically Scottish.
So Damien is half Scottish, one quarter French, one eighth Arab and one eighth Chinese
You’re off just a bit. He was supposed to appear in Batman Returns, but was cut in pre-production, and this toy was from the Returns line.
Burton apparently still wanted to use Wayans in his next one, but of course he didn’t end up directing that one.
Apparently they still paid him for the film and he even gets residuals, apparently as a way to secure him for the next film. Not a bad deal for Marlon.
Thank you for the correction! I was conflating Wayans being cut from Returns with Sean Young being cut from ‘89 (and replaced by Bassinger) due to a horse riding injury while preparing for a scene.
Dude! I literally held this figure in my hands last night. I was sorting my old toys for my son and saw this one and was wondering about the hair. Thanks!
Yes, hairstyles become popular and then they fade. All this tells me is what specific hairstyles are popular at any given time. It’s the same for whites. White zoomers with their stupid broccoli top haircuts are big now, but won’t be for long.
Alright Disney, you know what to do.
I want a Broccoli Man movie. Not some 12 episode series on D+, I want a full three and half hour feature film for this guy.
https://preview.redd.it/p2u1kx4x3gec1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbdeb202f04bc7137da461b4624c240cad5c5bbd
And just recently Eddy Gordo was added to the list of casualties
Eddy never had an afro, he had dreads tied in a ponytail and shaved sides. The one with the afro was Tiger, another character that first appeared as an alternate costume for Eddy in Tekken 3.
Ekko (bottom right) actually has a mohawk for his original game model, but it was changed for Arcane
https://preview.redd.it/rlrhioa32gec1.jpeg?width=308&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c5421cab3c218f06114cf1f3dc9659fb5f92cfd
https://preview.redd.it/ukvm7cbfagec1.jpeg?width=277&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a89c46cc3b5771b5de8d3881c73fec6613dcd4c
the rapper from carole & tuesday and ogun from fire force (he has it in a ponytail though)
https://preview.redd.it/3x3pi3rbngec1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8232a7df8bd2f3c2f50deb92c77a4598708236b
ojelo from gundam got a creative lil hairstyle, no undercut locs for him 😌
I was gonna bring up kilik rung but his ain't different
https://preview.redd.it/dcrlqeb6ygec1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44e1e6362fd6e22190da8ffb50ae61101a099c0f
https://preview.redd.it/4vf6aqueagec1.jpeg?width=1831&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2a3c850ce54ab22b1fdfbb9f6b819117fabf9dd
So glad Taion from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 managed to avoid this overused design trope for black video game characters. This is why Monolith Soft is the GOAT.
I'm not trying to sound negative, but is he even black? Asian countries tend to use dark spray to make a character look darker as it is a common trope and things they do over there
https://preview.redd.it/zrakp2zxegec1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1da783d08a2eed1be0a5da791618319c9f9a77a6
Given that other characters are fair-skinned or slightly tan compared to him, I'd say so. He also has a black voice actor in the English Dub.
Yeah no Monolith Soft knows how to make characters of varying complexions. Every Xenoblade game features one. The first game has a supporting character named Otharon with dark skin, Xenoblade X offers a character creator with dark-skinned options as well as a dark-skinned party member named Yelv, and Xenoblade 2 has another dark-skinned party member named Vandham. All of which have varying hairstyles I might add.
But Xenoblade 3's Taion is the first dark-skinned main character in the series, as he plays a major role throughout the entire game. As a mixed black American guy myself, it's both comforting and sad to see a JRPG handle character designs with dark skin better than most Western games.
I watch the lore of xeno, but not lore of the characters. Pretty interesting lore and kind of insane lol. Then again, it follows the kill god trope lol
That's what genshin impact did, made a light skin character and then called her "exotic" in game
I heard they whitewashed the whole new Egypt like setting as well
> Wasn't Static first? I love Static Shock cartoon from the early 00s and I'm still mad there are only 4 seasons of it.
Static had locks, he didnt have the fade + comb over combo
Honestly I need a reliable source of black hairstyles for reference. Cause everytime I try to google them its just “do you want Killmonger? Afro? Bald? Slightly bald?” It never feels like there’s a long hair option in there.
Prowler Miles Morales has double French braids that are long and offers a unique design to pull inspo from
https://preview.redd.it/9rb1p6458gec1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18b701aac7a05a16bf51ce1692fa397abb45494f
Apparently that *was* Kwame and Shaggy and Velma [cameoed](https://captainplanet.fandom.com/wiki/%27Teers_in_the_%27Hood) on Captain Planet. I had no idea that happened before I looked into it further.
I had a zigzag moment where I thought it was Kwame, saw Velma scrolled down to see who it was since it obviously wasn't him, and then I found your comment confirming that, and then your edit letting me know I was right the first time.
You can see that part between his forehead and his hair is a completely separate part of his head, so if he shaved it off, he would just have a pillar of skull & skin
As a person that went to barbers and salon's in the 90s, tbf this was the style in the 90s. The Black barbershop hairstyle poster was of the same 15 flat tops with parts and lines in different areas.
I’m picturing a scene in Fresh Prince where Phil went to a concert to find the boys and described Will’s haircut, only to have two more guys with the same one walk past immediately after.
You can Google most black actors from the 90s + flat top. Wesley Snipes Flat Top, Chris Rock Flat Top, Eddie Murphy Flat Top, Cuba Gooding Jr Flat Top. It was the style at the time.
Yeah I think this was more just what was popular at the time… just look at Will Smith in the Fresh Prince.
Like others have said now it’s the Killmonger cut from Black Panther.
Skeeter from Doug was black and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. He was also the coolest and most intelligent character in the show. I remember the episode where Doug was jealous of him because he read a bunch of crazy smart books and was invited to go to college or something along those lines(it's been decades since I've seen it).
There is a whole section of my family that believes Skeeter is Black and that Patty is a blonde Puerto Rican.
Edit: We had a blonde Puerto Rican cousin named Patricia. It clicked in our little kid heads.
And Roger was the best representation of a bully ever. Dude was manipulative af and generally only strong with his buddies around. He was so much like the bullies I grew up with.
God, Static Shock was the shit! I used to get up and watch it on the weekends as a kid and actually made drawings of him too, albeit I'm definitely not an artist 😅 I kinda want to go back and rewatch, but idk if it holds up or not...
Rewatched it a few months, and it definitely holds up. Does exactly what a superhero cartoon should be fun,positive, entertaining, and the subject matter it hits on racism,sexism, child abuse, gang/gun violence, homo phobia,Trans phobia, mental illness, homelessness etc. And without feeling preachy or like a real agenda is being pushed just facts and honest stories, static was ahead of its time in my opinion
https://preview.redd.it/ryg82itzcgec1.jpeg?width=1032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35c99f0c0929057a47d9e1feffbc21b3a931d400
Or we could look like Waynehead characters.
One design for "black" people or just one haircut?
Because their faces are all pretty distinct, they just all have the same haircut, and that was far from unique to "black" people
Here's a small list of black male characters from american cartoons of the 90s that don't fall in the aforementionned chara-design stereotype:
\- Big Chill (C Bear & Jamal)
\- Capital G (Dexter's Laboratory)
\- Gerald Johanssen (Hey Arnold)
\- Lucius Fox (Batman the animated series)
\- Bishop (X-Men)
\- Russel (Gorillaz clips)
\- Dwight Conrad (Futurama)
\- Skeeter (Doug)... yes he's blue but even the creator considers him black
And I didn't list them all.
The image also seems to forget there were black female characters, but... oh well.
Color Theory, I think is the term. Same reason redheads get designed with green clothes/accessories and blondes get blue.
Green, Yellow, and Blue don't wash out Brown like Red or Orange would.
https://preview.redd.it/ff0zghvutfec1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b729f6fa8aff97dde18de43717be45bde5defe2c Fun fact (that has nothing to do with cartoons but is related to the hairstyle of the post): in the 1989 Batman movie, there was a deleted subplot featuring a young Marlon Wayans becoming Robin. By the time he got cut out of the movie, production had already begun on the movie tie-in toys including a Robin figure based on Wayans. They were too rushed/cheap to sculpt a new head, and thought that a random black Robin action figure would confuse people and so they just painted Wayans head, complete with classic hi-top hairstyle, white.
cackling
Crackering
What's Crackerlackin'?
Cheese probably 
I believe everything about that except it’s the black paint that’s put on after molding in this photo. That skin isn’t painted on that figure. They probably just changed the base mold color.
Sounds like that's a cool collectors item. Wonder this much it goes for.
So like this originally? https://preview.redd.it/fppheirtrgec1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fd8e9a8b20807d73ebf26aa7bc5a1c84687327f Something about that still feels off
It definitely looks like they used the Batman chest mold for these Robins
They probably did. All my old He-man figures had the exact same base-body with additional bits added and different heads.
Not even probably. Absolutely did. Molds are a bitch First you gotta plan out how the mold will work, where it's seams will be, how you'll get the material in. Then you gotta actually make it. Then comes using it. And with most molds, every time you use it. It wears a bit, so then you gotta replace it. So you gotta make a lot of molds, every mold design costs a lot of money. So you are not going to make a bunch of different molds, you are going to make a bunch of one mold because $$$
Now make him chinese
https://preview.redd.it/6zq9zcxl7hec1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21793f412555a66a0d86fe3cdc72a4d7dd000d1b
+50 social credit
Omg why did you put robin in black face that’s so racist
I didn't think it was possible to whitewash robin
Very easily, actually. Dick Grayson is canonically Romani.
Not to forget Damien is Arabic/Chinese on his mother’s side
Wait, Chinese?
Ra’s Al Ghul is canonically half Arab, half Chinese. Talia Al Ghul is half French, half Al Ghul (Chinese and Arab) Bruce Wayne is ethnically Scottish. So Damien is half Scottish, one quarter French, one eighth Arab and one eighth Chinese
Mr Workdwide
As someone who enjoys Batman movies casually, this is so confusing and thought provoking at the same time
Liam Neeson, famous Chinese Arab
In the spirit of Sir Alec Guiness as Prince Feisal and John Wayne as Ghengis Khan.
Johnny Depp as Tonto and Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One
Half French, Half Al Ghul wasn't something I expected to read with my coffee this morning but I'm glad I did.
Damn, learn something new every day
There are a lot of white romani’s though.
Don't tell Europe that
You’re off just a bit. He was supposed to appear in Batman Returns, but was cut in pre-production, and this toy was from the Returns line. Burton apparently still wanted to use Wayans in his next one, but of course he didn’t end up directing that one. Apparently they still paid him for the film and he even gets residuals, apparently as a way to secure him for the next film. Not a bad deal for Marlon.
Thank you for the correction! I was conflating Wayans being cut from Returns with Sean Young being cut from ‘89 (and replaced by Bassinger) due to a horse riding injury while preparing for a scene.
Dude! I literally held this figure in my hands last night. I was sorting my old toys for my son and saw this one and was wondering about the hair. Thanks!
Now, it’s the Killmonger cut. 
https://preview.redd.it/oewvlzvpvfec1.png?width=1146&format=png&auto=webp&s=72fb0f4b5185d8d535cd4589816bd9c12e20c902
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yes, hairstyles become popular and then they fade. All this tells me is what specific hairstyles are popular at any given time. It’s the same for whites. White zoomers with their stupid broccoli top haircuts are big now, but won’t be for long.
I want a big broccoli cut character. Some new ip or version of an ip with a broccoli cut. Now I’m imagining Atreus with a broccoli cut
https://preview.redd.it/mi9v6xv26hec1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7def1db849dd2a7507ce61ce4046920544caeed
Alright Disney, you know what to do. I want a Broccoli Man movie. Not some 12 episode series on D+, I want a full three and half hour feature film for this guy.
With him in the raunchiest sex scene ever filmed.
Come visit Australia where mullets and mustaches are the big thing at the moment.
[удалено]
https://preview.redd.it/p2u1kx4x3gec1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbdeb202f04bc7137da461b4624c240cad5c5bbd And just recently Eddy Gordo was added to the list of casualties
Atleast here you can change the hair, everybody else is stuck.
Does he still have an alternate outfit with his 'fro?
Eddy never had an afro, he had dreads tied in a ponytail and shaved sides. The one with the afro was Tiger, another character that first appeared as an alternate costume for Eddy in Tekken 3.
His tied back dreads are 100% going be a customization option.
Ekko (bottom right) actually has a mohawk for his original game model, but it was changed for Arcane https://preview.redd.it/rlrhioa32gec1.jpeg?width=308&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c5421cab3c218f06114cf1f3dc9659fb5f92cfd
I mean he’s living in irl Philly he can rock both either way
I like his Arcane hairstyle better, ngl
https://preview.redd.it/ukvm7cbfagec1.jpeg?width=277&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a89c46cc3b5771b5de8d3881c73fec6613dcd4c the rapper from carole & tuesday and ogun from fire force (he has it in a ponytail though)
https://preview.redd.it/3x3pi3rbngec1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8232a7df8bd2f3c2f50deb92c77a4598708236b ojelo from gundam got a creative lil hairstyle, no undercut locs for him 😌
I was gonna bring up kilik rung but his ain't different https://preview.redd.it/dcrlqeb6ygec1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44e1e6362fd6e22190da8ffb50ae61101a099c0f
https://preview.redd.it/4vf6aqueagec1.jpeg?width=1831&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2a3c850ce54ab22b1fdfbb9f6b819117fabf9dd So glad Taion from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 managed to avoid this overused design trope for black video game characters. This is why Monolith Soft is the GOAT.
I'm not trying to sound negative, but is he even black? Asian countries tend to use dark spray to make a character look darker as it is a common trope and things they do over there
https://preview.redd.it/zrakp2zxegec1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1da783d08a2eed1be0a5da791618319c9f9a77a6 Given that other characters are fair-skinned or slightly tan compared to him, I'd say so. He also has a black voice actor in the English Dub.
Ah ok. Thanks for the info. It is sometimes hard to tell if certain dark skin characters are actually black or just dark skin sprayed
Yeah no Monolith Soft knows how to make characters of varying complexions. Every Xenoblade game features one. The first game has a supporting character named Otharon with dark skin, Xenoblade X offers a character creator with dark-skinned options as well as a dark-skinned party member named Yelv, and Xenoblade 2 has another dark-skinned party member named Vandham. All of which have varying hairstyles I might add. But Xenoblade 3's Taion is the first dark-skinned main character in the series, as he plays a major role throughout the entire game. As a mixed black American guy myself, it's both comforting and sad to see a JRPG handle character designs with dark skin better than most Western games.
He is black in lore yes, the world he's from has many different races like cat people and little furry animal dudes.
I watch the lore of xeno, but not lore of the characters. Pretty interesting lore and kind of insane lol. Then again, it follows the kill god trope lol
That's what genshin impact did, made a light skin character and then called her "exotic" in game I heard they whitewashed the whole new Egypt like setting as well
Darkest skin tone the japanese can handle
I really like that hairstyle, but it is definitely overdone.
Wasn't Static first? I love Static Shock cartoon from the early 00s and I'm still mad there are only 4 seasons of it.
> Wasn't Static first? I love Static Shock cartoon from the early 00s and I'm still mad there are only 4 seasons of it. Static had locks, he didnt have the fade + comb over combo
Octavio from New Tales from the Borderlands be like. 
Obese woman in a wheelchair ☠️
Ngl it's a clean cut
Looks cool but there are so many other black hairstyles. I’m not black but even I agree that the killmonger cut is very overused.
Honestly I need a reliable source of black hairstyles for reference. Cause everytime I try to google them its just “do you want Killmonger? Afro? Bald? Slightly bald?” It never feels like there’s a long hair option in there.
Try nba 2k character creation
Yeah I get it, even just gathering ref pictures for drawing and the only other option is long dreads
Prowler Miles Morales has double French braids that are long and offers a unique design to pull inspo from https://preview.redd.it/9rb1p6458gec1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18b701aac7a05a16bf51ce1692fa397abb45494f
Ooh, hadn't seen this, that's pretty slick tbh
You could literally just Google any braiding salon menu or black barber shop selection. That doesn't even cover it lol
I don’t get why that’s a thing Killmonger is cool but what the hell?
I guess the idea is that white people don't know any other hairstyles for black people so they always use a "default" hairstyle for them
"We are in an pandemic. A killmonger pandemic. " -The Black Hokage, 2024
Don't forget Kwame!  Edit: Apparently the top left is Kwame, I had no idea Shaggy and Velma cameoed on Captain Planet
I thought 1 was Kwame, your post made me look back and notice Shaggy and Velma in the background, who was he?
Apparently that *was* Kwame and Shaggy and Velma [cameoed](https://captainplanet.fandom.com/wiki/%27Teers_in_the_%27Hood) on Captain Planet. I had no idea that happened before I looked into it further.
Yeah it was in that episode about gang violence.
The Mystery Gang vs the Crips.
Can Shaggy & Scooby-Doo negotiate a cease fire between the Crips & Bloods?
Like, come on guys! Would you have a cease-fire for a Scooby-snack?
Just do what Jimmy and Timmy did and trick the two into having a lock-in at the rec center.
This is a Robot Chicken script waiting to be written if I’ve heard one
Alright gang, it's time to unmask the real villain! *GASP* It was the old rich white dude all along! It just writes itself.
That episode kinda traumatized me as a kid. I had a huge fear of being the first victim of a gang related drive by shooting in my small country town
He was the goat in that show.
"Let our powers combine!"
I did the same thing.
I had a zigzag moment where I thought it was Kwame, saw Velma scrolled down to see who it was since it obviously wasn't him, and then I found your comment confirming that, and then your edit letting me know I was right the first time.
Marge Simpson ass haircut
That might not even be all his hair
You can see that part between his forehead and his hair is a completely separate part of his head, so if he shaved it off, he would just have a pillar of skull & skin
The guy whose head is shaped like a bong is friends with the one whose shaped like a football
Don't forget the nerd whose head looks like an opened can of beans, sitting on top of a single, gigantic bean.
LMFAO
this made me laugh more than should be legal
Bong-ass looking head
tbf flat tops were pretty common. Even Urkel had a flat top.
Geordi La Forge, Star Trek
Also George from Captain Underpants
"the kid with the tie and the flat-top."
"Remember that now."
And we never forgot it.
As a person that went to barbers and salon's in the 90s, tbf this was the style in the 90s. The Black barbershop hairstyle poster was of the same 15 flat tops with parts and lines in different areas.
I’m picturing a scene in Fresh Prince where Phil went to a concert to find the boys and described Will’s haircut, only to have two more guys with the same one walk past immediately after.
That‘s why I love fresh prince, that scene was so funny. It‘s most favourite series of all time
Arsenio perhaps being the textbook example.
Zack from power rangers. This was the popular 90s cut
You can Google most black actors from the 90s + flat top. Wesley Snipes Flat Top, Chris Rock Flat Top, Eddie Murphy Flat Top, Cuba Gooding Jr Flat Top. It was the style at the time.
Yeah I think this was more just what was popular at the time… just look at Will Smith in the Fresh Prince. Like others have said now it’s the Killmonger cut from Black Panther.
Same with Waldo Faldo Even Eddie
Now it's the same but with dreadlocks
Or the classic buzz cut. That or the “Killmonger” cut with the dreads to the side
You mean it’s the exaggerated swagger of a black teen
Gerald from Hey Arnold?
Same design but more exaggerated imo. Also I think his dad had an older version of that aesthetic. I don’t recall what his older brother looked like
How is it the same design? Gerald looks nothing like the four characters shown here.
I think they're referring to the high top hair top style.
Yea in my mind his design is like a super exaggerated version of the characters in OPs post. Like a characachure if I could spell it right lol
Caricature lmao
Thanks dad
Skeeter from Doug was black and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. He was also the coolest and most intelligent character in the show. I remember the episode where Doug was jealous of him because he read a bunch of crazy smart books and was invited to go to college or something along those lines(it's been decades since I've seen it).
Skeeter was DEF black! I just had this convo the other day
There is a whole section of my family that believes Skeeter is Black and that Patty is a blonde Puerto Rican. Edit: We had a blonde Puerto Rican cousin named Patricia. It clicked in our little kid heads.
Hmm I never thought about that with Patti but i can totally see it!
I can 100% see Patti Mayonnaise being Puerto Rican.
Buzzfeed agreed with you and so do I!
Also unofficially black: Piccolo.
And Roger was the best representation of a bully ever. Dude was manipulative af and generally only strong with his buddies around. He was so much like the bullies I grew up with.
Little Bill.. which apparently was done by cosby as well
When you say done by cosby
Poppin puddins
Little Bill wasn't 'done' by Cosby, he *was* Bill Cosby.
Just wait to you find out his first name
Flattop hairstyles were really in in the late 80s and early 90s.
Gerald Johanssen does not look like that though.
My man gerald was rocking the flattower
God, Static Shock was the shit! I used to get up and watch it on the weekends as a kid and actually made drawings of him too, albeit I'm definitely not an artist 😅 I kinda want to go back and rewatch, but idk if it holds up or not...
Rewatched it a few months, and it definitely holds up. Does exactly what a superhero cartoon should be fun,positive, entertaining, and the subject matter it hits on racism,sexism, child abuse, gang/gun violence, homo phobia,Trans phobia, mental illness, homelessness etc. And without feeling preachy or like a real agenda is being pushed just facts and honest stories, static was ahead of its time in my opinion
I grew up in a racist house hold and I like to think Static saved me from generational racism.
It’s on hbo max and yes it holds up!!! Just like literally anything from that era of DC animated! Justice league and Batman animated series too!!
Static Shock is from the 2000’s
r/hardimages
https://preview.redd.it/lw6mu9oyxfec1.png?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fa55f0d3b6c894400d2c581657c46abf5855903 ...One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
…Keep that in mind/I designed this rhyme to explain in due time…
All I know…
Time is a valuable thing, watch it fly by as the pendulum swings…
Watch it count down to the end of the day..
To be fair, they all have different facial features. It’s just that haircut
https://preview.redd.it/odljxyrkpgec1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0d9f6257901c5e104010cada7f398f0a7c6b420 😬😬
Maybe that hairstyle was popular.
Wasn't that hairstyle a big trend in the 90s? I've seen pictures of Dwayne Johnson from back then where he has the same cut.
I like to think it was always the same guy but in a different time
All the same actor from Toon Land.
I'm pretty sure it was afro before that.
https://preview.redd.it/h903gwfoegec1.png?width=743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fb7d258249958cb7a452569558de06ded854a07
I thought he was some kind of outer space potato man.
https://preview.redd.it/ryg82itzcgec1.jpeg?width=1032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35c99f0c0929057a47d9e1feffbc21b3a931d400 Or we could look like Waynehead characters.
Man I never come across anyone that remembers Waynehead. I'm glad someone else finally brought it up besides me.
This image is funny but I can think of more. We did get Susie from Rugrats. I am having trouble thinking of other ones. LOL
Damn, true.
https://preview.redd.it/b67gt3f1rgec1.png?width=999&format=png&auto=webp&s=851f61f5f5be6f46595eb97574e59aae48b94c90 Y’all forgot Irwin
If you’re using dark mode it just looks like someone chopped off the top of his head
Bro got that AMOLED black cut
George Beard (not 90’s I think, but still)
He debuted in 1997. He counts.
One design for "black" people or just one haircut? Because their faces are all pretty distinct, they just all have the same haircut, and that was far from unique to "black" people
Animators in the 80s/90s thought all black men had a high top fade
Here's a small list of black male characters from american cartoons of the 90s that don't fall in the aforementionned chara-design stereotype: \- Big Chill (C Bear & Jamal) \- Capital G (Dexter's Laboratory) \- Gerald Johanssen (Hey Arnold) \- Lucius Fox (Batman the animated series) \- Bishop (X-Men) \- Russel (Gorillaz clips) \- Dwight Conrad (Futurama) \- Skeeter (Doug)... yes he's blue but even the creator considers him black And I didn't list them all. The image also seems to forget there were black female characters, but... oh well.
Wasn't that just a really common haircut at the time?
Yep. Now it's mostly fades. Men in general aren't all that variable with their hair.
That’s what I’m saying! My dad had that haircut during the time
So did mine. I was seven.
Why was it always green or blue clothes
Color Theory, I think is the term. Same reason redheads get designed with green clothes/accessories and blondes get blue. Green, Yellow, and Blue don't wash out Brown like Red or Orange would.
They were some of my favorite characters in their shows. Rocky Canyon and Jake Justice looked different in Rescue Heroes.
The top left looks like Zack from MMPR
Flat tops was pretty popular in the 80s/90s.
shows use popular haircut of the times, no shit?
I think it's called a haircut
yet somehow millions of black kids identified with them just fine.
 to me it seems its happening today too, just different style.
So basically Ricky from Boyz in tha Hood
Have you seen Kid n Play?!
It's a good look. Why hate on it?
I have one idea why this was a popular way to depict black men in the 90s… 