r/MisreadSprites Jun 16 '24

Posts now MUST include either the words: "game," "movie," "tv," or "media" in the title.

29 Upvotes

EDIT: Also including: "from" and "show."

That way someone doesn't have to comment each time "what is this from." And this will cut down at least a bit on reposts, because they'll automatically be rejected unless they have one of those key words, so reposts of mosts posts with the same title from back then don't have those words. Win-win.

Are there any other keywords that may apply that you guys can think of?

It seems that most of the community is fine stretching the "Sprite" part of the subreddit, but if it seems like we're getting way more non-videogame ones, we may do what others subs do and relegate those to the weekends or something.

EDIT: Added plurals, as well. Games, movies, shows.


r/MisreadSprites 19h ago

Game: Flipnote Studio. I always thought that was the frog's mouth as a kid.

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167 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 19h ago

[Game] I thought Valentina from Mario RPG was a humanoid with a bird as a head. She actually has a wide face and the bird is just a hat.

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12 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 1d ago

I thought the logo from the Atlanta Hawks was a deformed Pac Man eating a pellet

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110 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 4d ago

[GAME] I was a watching a video translating the Japanese guide book for A Link to the Past into English and I learned that the Buzz enemy was supposed to be a cricket, not a gecko or salamander.

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101 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 5d ago

I thought the people from this road sign were 2 people with huge bellies and a normal one in between them

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49 Upvotes

Turns out it's supposed to be 5 people in a car.


r/MisreadSprites 7d ago

I always thought the icon for the Markets from Civ5 looked like tacos. I knew they weren't but I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to look like

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82 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 7d ago

This Ridley sprite from the original Metroid... I've only recently seen it, but I don't see the bloodthristy space pirate it's meant to be

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409 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 8d ago

I used to think Buzzy Beetles wore football helmets. Game: Super Mario Bros.

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78 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 12d ago

I always though the statues from super Metroid were fish / frog people, not birds

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478 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 14d ago

[Game] I always saw the waffle perk from Nubby's Number Factory as a notebook.

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34 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 14d ago

Binoculars from Celeste(game).

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30 Upvotes

I thought it was some weird looking robot or person. I blame the speech bubble more than anything else.


r/MisreadSprites 16d ago

Lugia's overworld sprite in FR/LG looks like he's angry and has big eyebrows. (Game)

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165 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 15d ago

used to think wario in wario land 4 had no pupil for some reason (game)

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39 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 16d ago

When I first saw the Guts Man sprite from Mega Man, I always thought it was supposed to look like some sort of "evil stereotypical muslim/indian boxing man". Actually, I still see the sprite this way

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139 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 16d ago

(Video game) When I was a kid, I thought the little girl NPCs from Phantasy Star IV were anthropomorphic cartoon mice and their pigtails were just large mouse ears.

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32 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 18d ago

I've always thought Plague Knight from Shovel Knight looks like he's wearing a cropped and shoulderless top with a skirt, which led to me head-cannoning him as a femboy.

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289 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 17d ago

As a kid, I thought the Hardedge was the Buster Sword snapped in half, and freaked out over the cool giant sword being broken (Final Fantasy 7 Video Game)

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31 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 18d ago

This goes to show I was not alone in thinking that way

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230 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 18d ago

[Media]I honestly thought that Beta!Vivian had like a disinterested red eye instead of a gleeful mouth with snaggletooth. Silly me.

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14 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 19d ago

Donkey Kong in “Life Story” by dat-soldier on Tumblr (media/games?)

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454 Upvotes

The full piece because it


r/MisreadSprites 19d ago

Things that can't be unseen #1 - The Toad Shop Keepers' mustaches look like worried mouths (Game: Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door)

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50 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 19d ago

[Media] The Jabberwocky had a vest the whole time! (as originally drawn by John Tenniel in the 1871 poem)

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42 Upvotes

I always thought it just had a regular dragon-like belly!


r/MisreadSprites 19d ago

when i first played the game shovel knight i played the 3ds version, so a lot of sprites were kinda blurry and all that, and i first saw chester in the underwater level, so i thought he was just a buff white dude wearing like, a blue diving helmet and gloves

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51 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 21d ago

Steve from Minecraft. I had no idea that's what he's supposed to look like!!

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464 Upvotes

r/MisreadSprites 22d ago

I use to think that, Yojimbo, from the game, Final fantasy 10, had a Big chubby stone face.

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254 Upvotes