This is Baron Greenback. If you think about it, he probably looks like someone you know. In fact, if you concentrate on it for long enough, Cyril Sneer from The Racoons probably looks like someone you know.

This is very embarrassing for many people and probably shouldn't be spoken about, which is why I'm going to unceremoniously address it.

People Who Look Like Cartoon Characters

We all know that the point behind characatures is to emphasise a feature of someone's body to the point of it almost being insulting. But if you start calling people with spinal bifida hunchbacks [medics please correct me as to whether this is a cause], or saying that someone with an antisocially large overbite looks like Goofy, people start to get insulted.

Why is this?

Because people are:
 

[a] Easily offended,
[b] Insecure about their physical shortcomings and don't wish for them to be brought to anyone else's attention,
[c] The kind that suffer anyway from uncontrollable muscular disfunctions which cause them to lash out if they imagine they're being provoked

In this last case it's best to keep quiet about it for your own good rather than theirs. Do not mention that the probable reason behind their being 'a hard nut' is to overcompensate for the fact that they look like Pikachu.

Pikachu?

Yes, Pikachu.

 

 
© Pokemon

 

This is Pikachu. He is, believe it or not, a mouse. Moreover, he is a yellow mouse that shoots lightning bolts from his cheeks. He lives in a Pokeball. He has friends with names like Magicarp, Poliwag and Psy-duck. But nobody really cares because they ALL look stupid.

This is the point - if everyone around you looks daft, you have no other frame of reference to go by - you do not necessarily look daft because no-one else does. This does matter, however, if you meet someone who clearly looks more sensible, then the cracks begin to show.

It is then quite obvious that you look like a fruitcake, and genetics is no excuse.

 

"I'd be better off if I kept my mouth shut" - Kurt Cobain