1. Lex Luthor and the iconic bald

If you know Superman only from the movies, you might remember that the biggest villain, Lex Luthor, is bald. Originally, however, he sported a red mane, which was sublimated from the comic because of a cartoonist's mistake. In the early years of the character, Leo Nowak took on the task of turning it into a daily comic for the newspapers, which increased the pressure on his performance.

Unintentionally, Nowak ended up confusing Lex Luthor with one of his bald henchmen and kept him looking like this until DC Comics agreed that she was better for the character, creating a plot for the loss of hair.

The original Lex Luther (left) was mistaken for a henchman (right), but the change in the villain's appearance ended up pleasing

2. Dragon Ball Z and the job-saving tactic

“Dragon Ball Z” popularized anime in the West and has an important feature of their characters: when they take over their superpowers, a physical change happens to be more easily identifiable by the viewers. With this, the Super Saiyans assume a golden hair.

This is a reflection of the comics, which adopted a tactic to save time. Because the characters have great hair, coloring them in the manga was too tiring for even the collaborators of Akira Toriyama, creator of the saga. So in the transformations, the Saiyajins had white hair - which saved a lot of time to finish the manga.

The blond look of the anime (left) was a reflection of the manga's work economy (right)

3. Creeper and the accidental emergence of a villain

Every fan of "Minecraft" must have already blown his hair off when a Creeper shows up and destroys everything he had built for hours! The emergence of the game's great villain, however, was totally accidental: Marcus Persson, its creator, worked alone on the project when he misled a code to create a piggy, and the result was a bizarre penis-shaped creature.

Despite this, Persson decided that it would be interesting to put the character in some way in his game and ended it with a layer of green paint and an angry smile that scares fans just to appear. With that, they take revenge on their "creator" by blowing up anything they find ahead.

The creator of "Minecraft" was modeling a little pig and eventually created Creeper unintentionally.

4. Yogi and the cartoons machine

With the popularization of TV in the 1950s, it was necessary to create attractions to entertain children. The designs, especially from Disney, were complex and took a long time to complete. So various ways were sought to simplify this work - and that's when William Hanna and Joseph Barbera came into play.

In 1957 they developed the technique of layered animation, ie repeating what does not need to be redrawn and altering the basics to create the illusion of movement. The static background was the first big advent until they saw that simplifying characters makes it easier to animate them. That's why, for example, Zé Hive is a whole brown bear with only a tie and a hat - something simpler to manipulate.

Less detail makes it easy to produce multiple episodes quickly

5. Silver Surfer and the Flying Board

The Silver Surfer took a while to appear in the Fantastic Four universe, but it brought with it a new instrument that caused initial awkwardness: the flying board. That would be too “bizarre” even for fiction, since the board didn't even have thrusters or jets.

However, its creator, Jack Kirby, justified by saying that the character needed some extra element and that he was already "tired" of drawing spaceships. Thus, the Silver Surfer got a board - which also helped the professionals work because it is simpler to draw.

Silver Surfer got a board because the designer was tired of making spaceships

* Posted on 06/04/2016