Most character creators have a way of steering you towards making something that makes sense within the world you’re about to enter. Skyrim lets you be anything you want, as long as it’s a grubby-looking wretch in a hessian sack. Cyberpunk 2077 has incredible customization, but it guides your hand into making V look sufficiently cyberpunk by sheer virtue of the number of augmentations, tattoos, piercings, nu-metal contact lenses and outlandish hairstyles available.

And most games follow that logic. But Elden Ring is not most games. Its tools are so powerful that Elden Ring character creator sliders let you bust out of the realms of lore-friendly knights and into pop culture homages, living, sword-waving memes, and former U.S. presidents, all constructed with surprising detail and weapon configurations that make you nod in approval.

Here are some of our favorites, created by the insanely talented Elden Ring community. 

This guy looks like Sonic alright, if by Sonic you mean a Creepypasta about a lowlife who paints himself blue and hangs out by the school football field in his 1989 camper van, shouting at passing planes overhead.

We’ve got to hand it to the creator for using such imagination to give Sonic his trademark spin attack though. The sheer terror of having your game invaded by this thing and then having it roll you to death before you’ve even processed what it’s supposed to be. This is what Elden Ring , PvP multiplayer, and character creation sliders were all made for. Beautiful chaos.

Ah, Darth Maul. The stoic, face-tattooed be-all and end-all of cool at the turn of the millennium. In a movie that brought so many different flavors of disappointment to so many expectant fans, his dual lightsaber and nu-metal stylings were the outlier in an otherwise barren Episode 1 . 

While he hasn’t found a way to bring those trademark glowing melee weapons into the Lands Between, he has brought with him a general aesthetic that could see him easily slip into either any videogame protagonist role, or the lineup of Limp Bizkit.

Leyla, Broken Doll from EldenBling

Most of the creations here are outright funny, give a nod to pop culture, or subvert Elden Ring ’s super-serious and sinister atmosphere. This community made character, on the other hand, feels like part of the game. It only seems to deepen the lore – who might have fashioned such a dark plaything, and to what purpose? And why on Earth is it so good at killing things? Huh, George R. R. Martin? You’re the loremaster, we want answers.

If creator BlindPulse is in fact a FromSoftware developer working incognito, then they’re very good at keeping that fact hidden. If not, well, maybe they should be.

This won’t be the last grotesquely large chin you see in this list, just to warn you. Thanos, of course, is an all-powerful Marvel universe supervillain, destroyer of worlds, Fortnite cameo star and professional Ron Perlman impersonator. He’s the only logical player-character choice for a game set in cod-medieval mystical fantasy climes. I mean, he is good at acquiring powerful-sounding doohickeys. Are infinity stones and elden runes so different?

Judging by the permanently quizzical expression on this particular in-game Thanos’s face, yes. Yes they are. Committing mass murder is a slightly lofty ambition in a game that can kill you from 30 yards with a stern look, and we for one don’t back this fellow to pull it off.

Now we’re talking. He’s the God of War! The angriest being ever to be controlled by a pair of analog sticks. A natural inclusion into FromSoftware’s realm of unfeeling savagery, folkloric beings and ancient prophecies.

We love the attention to detail here. Just like Sonic’s deadly roll attack, the twin flaming blades are spot on, as is the somewhat impractical array of garments adorning Kratos’s torso. The user’s really taken the time to get his scowl just right, and we think Kratos would particularly appreciate that. 

We suppose on the surface it may appear there’s a risk of diminishing the 44th president of the United States’ accomplishments or stature by bringing him into a game about besting fantasy wolves at sword-fighting. But when you think about it, wasn’t breaking down boundaries and appearing in surprisingly places Mr Obama’s M.O. all along?

Is popping up in The Lands Between really so different to appearing on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast? Both take place in remote wildernesses (Maron’s garage in the latter’s case) and share a throughline of fatalism. The more we think about this, the cleverer a piece of social commentary it is for Obama to make his cameo here. We just wish he’d find a suit sooner rather than later.

This is concept and execution meeting perfectly in the middle. The half-shell provides excellent protection from backstabs and probably softens all that spine-damaging rolling. The melee weapons are absolutely in line with the way Leonardo, Donnatello, Michaelangelo and Raphael like to settle grievances on the streets, and the blindfolds… well, we’re not sure about the blindfolds on a practical level. Is it particularly important to keep their identity a mystery here, one wonders? And if so, might the fact that they are bipedal humanoid turtles with supreme fighting skill perhaps give the game away more than their exposed eyes?

We digress. This really is testament to how powerful Elden Ring ’s creation tools are. We’ve seen less convincing turtles in actual, licensed TMNT games of yesteryear.

For those not familiar, Gigachad is the alpha alpha male. He’s the guy in the sweaty muscle fit buttondown shirt talking to you about his crypto portfolio while little flecks of the protein shake he’s shaking spray your face. He knows where the nearest vacant beach house is at all times, and his blood contains taurine levels that would be fatal to most humans. 

He is also an actual human being with an improbably strong jaw whose prominence as a fitness model gave him the questionable accolade of become a worldwide meme about masculinity. If you liked everything about the Thanos build but the color, this one’s for you. 

Written by Phil Iwaniuk on behalf of GLHF.

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