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A glow-up is slang for when someone goes from being ugly to being attractive.
Of course, the word isn't strictly policed; it may be used for an average-looking person who just starts putting a lot of effort into their clothes, hair, or nails, for example. Hopefully, we all had a little bit of a glow-up while growing up, whether you cut your hair, stopped wearing that t-shirt with Gar🍸field on it, or finally♓ got rid of (most of) your acne.
Unfortunately, at some point, we all have to go from wearing shoes with wheels in them to professional heels or something equally boring. Video game characters, being, y'know, characters, usually glow up much better than we do. These are the ones we know had glow-ups rivaling a Kardashian.
6 𒁃 Noctis - Final Fantasy 15
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You spend your time in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 15 playing as Noctis, a pretty-boy prince with just three best friends, one car, and the open road. It's frankly impressive that they're restrained themselves from recording an emo album yet. Noctis would go great on the cover.
Of course, if you're the type that actually pays attention to dialogue and such, Noctis has quite a sad, dramatic story. No one really cares, though, since we're all much happier having him as our depressed anime boy.
Then, though, at the end of the base game, during the alternate ending DLC, and the graphic novel, we get a chance to revel in the glory of a fully adult Noctis. Let me tell you, this boy really refused to give up his edgy vibe. He made it work for him... and, ♑oh boy, does♛ it ever.
5 𒁏 ❀ Red And Blue - Pokemon
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Pokemon is a series that's been going on for so long that, despite the fact that video games are relatively new to our culture, your family may have multiple generations of Pokemon fans in it. It makes sense, then, that Red, the protag🅘onist of the very first Pokemon games, and his antagonist, Blue, have appeared in multiple other Pokemon games sinc🔯e their original appearance.
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These cameos include the Sun and Moon games, Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu, and, of course, the remakes LeafGreen and FireRed
These different games have their own unique art styles, and you may prefer one or the other. In the images, I'm comparing their original art to their Sun and Moon art. I feel like, regardless of your design preferences, everyone can appreciate the glow-up from their blocky, smug original concept art to the true character designs full of personality in Sun and Moon.
4 Zora - The Legend of Zelda 𝕴
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Listen.
I could lie to you, and say that this entry is here because it's funny that a race of monsters from an old game is full of sentient, humanoid creatures now. I could even pretend this is about the fact that we get to see a young Sidon in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. You'd probably buy it. But it's not about either of those things.
No, this entry is about how unreasonably hot Sidon is.
I know I'm not alone in this. The internet lost its mind when Sidon appeared in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild, and the passion continued until 168澳洲幸运5开奖网🌱:speedrunners were learning t💛o mount and ride him. Sidon is unapologetically and confusingly attractive, despite so many indicators that should tell my idiot, primate brain that this man is literally a fish.
Breath of the Wild was my very first 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Legend of Zelda experience, and you better believe I experienced whiplash when my partner informed me of how the Zora⛄ had looked in Link to the Past and other past Zelda games.
Nintendo really didn't need to go this hard.
3 Mr. 🉐Resetti - Ani𝐆mal Crossing
Not every glow-up requires a full makeover, guys. Sometimes, a mental health improvement can make all the difference in the way you're perceived by others. This is undoubtedly the case for Mr. Resetti, a beloved 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing character.
Mr. Resetti's career started in the very first Animal Crossing game as a character who chastised you for not saving your game. The more often you were careless, the harsher Resetti's criticism became!
Over the years, though, Resetti seemed to become less and less harsh. In the most recent game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Resetti wasn't even needed, thanks to the modern autosave feature. He did have a minuscule cameo, though, as the voice behind the airlift service that can pick you up anywhere on the island and bring you to safety.
We got a proper look into Mr. Resetti's journey when Brewster's cafe was added to the Museum in the 2.0 update; suddenly, players could invite any character they had an amiibo card for! Upon inviting Mr. Resetti, he gives you some insight into how stressful his old job was and how bad it was fo😼r his health.
He's still the same ol' mole that we know and love, though, and we're proud that he's finally making time to take care of himself.
2 Ignatz - Fi🌞re Emblem: Thr𓆏ee Houses
When you think about characters with glow-ups, you undoubtedly think of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fire Emblem franchise, where characters can literally grow up during the gameplay. I've only played 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the latest Fir𝄹e Emblem game, 💧Three Houses, but the statement stands true. After a timeskip, these teenagers are transf𓆉ormed into mature 🌃young adults.
Plenty of the characters would be a good fit for this list, but Ignatz is my favourite (and, in my opinion, the most drastic) example.
Pre-timeskip, Ignatz is a sweet boy, but a little unremarkable. He's a nerd, which you're meant to understand from the glasses, of course, so you can often find him in the library or the church. Though he's studying to be a knight at the academy thanks to his parents, he isn't sure he's right for the job - he'd rather be painting.
Ignatz is practically a new man post-timeskip.
His voice loses its shaky quality and he speaks with refreshing new confidence, even if he still becomes flustered sometimes. Ignatz, no longer in his parents' shadow, is by your side for his own reasons, even as he follows his passion for art (though, his relationships have an impact on exactly how that happens by the end of the game). None of that is to mention how attractive he is, now that he's earned the broad shoulders of a man and ditched the old, mushroom-y hairstyle.
1 Urthemiel/Kieran - Dragon Age 🍸
There's no better glow-up, in my humble opinion, than from dragon to human.
Or at least, that's the case for Urthemiel. Some dragons are quite stunning! The ones who appear in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Inquisition are beautiful creatures, so it's really unfortunate that you only see so many of them because you're hunting down and killing them. Urthemiel is a pretty gross dragon by comparison. He breathes purple fire and his scales look like someone stretched human skin over some spikes. It's pretty gruesome.
That's why it was so nice when he glowed up into Kieran, a human child, by the time of the third game.
In case you're not caught up with the deep, convoluted lore of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age, a Grey Warden warrior has to kill the dragon, known as an Archdemon, that's causing a Blight (basically a zombie outbreak). Otherwise, for complicated reasons, the Archdemon doesn't really die.
At the end of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Origins, you're the Grey Warden that has to die to kill the Archdemon. Thankfully, your sexy witch friend offers you an easy out - just have sex with her (or let your handsome friend Alistair do it) and the Archdemon soul won't enter you and kill you, but rather will enter her unborn child!
If you agreed to her pregnancy kink strange ritual at the time, by the time of Dragon Age: Inquisition that unborn child is now a born child, named Kieran! He's super creepy about it, too!