When a character suffers a catastrophic glow-down — not just a visual downgrade, but a full-on aesthetic and narrative collapse. Once majestic, cool, or powerful, they’re redesigned into a weird, goofy, or straight-up embarrassing version of themselves.
“They Neptuned him. Dude used to look like a legend.”
“This reboot is suffering from major King Neptune Effect.”
“Her redesign has big Neptune Energy… in the bad way.”
“From silver fox to gas station cryptid — that’s the King Neptune pipeline.”
Variations:
Neptuned (verb) – “They Neptuned my boy!”
Neptune Energy (noun) – “His current look is giving Neptune Energy, and not in a good way.”
King Neptune Syndrome (rare alt form) – “It’s a classic case of King Neptune Syndrome: dev god to gym teacher.”
“This reboot is suffering from major King Neptune Effect.”
“Her redesign has big Neptune Energy… in the bad way.”
“From silver fox to gas station cryptid — that’s the King Neptune pipeline.”
Variations:
Neptuned (verb) – “They Neptuned my boy!”
Neptune Energy (noun) – “His current look is giving Neptune Energy, and not in a good way.”
King Neptune Syndrome (rare alt form) – “It’s a classic case of King Neptune Syndrome: dev god to gym teacher.”
by Black_lunger May 13, 2025
Get the King Neptune Effectmug. by Ocka rocka August 13, 2008
Get the Hamburger Kingmug. John: I dont feel like myself anymore im depressed..
Joe: It’s ok, King the homies are always here for you. Remain a King and keep fighting
Joe: It’s ok, King the homies are always here for you. Remain a King and keep fighting
by Kenorak February 20, 2023
Get the Kingmug. King is a good dog name.And if your dog is name king your in luck because dogs called king are are the best dogs ever.
by kingwasoneofmybestdogs April 23, 2022
Get the kingmug. by dildo777 April 23, 2024
Get the van kingmug. by Zāddÿ February 21, 2021
Get the Goat troll/king trollmug. A angry 4'5 chink. Renowned for his tiny penis and his love of 9 year olds. Constantly beaten in everything by his fellow chink chen.
by KoalasBest May 28, 2023
Get the Danny Kingmug.