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Oblivion Remastered Character Creator, also known as the Oblivion Abominations or Oblivion Remaster Character Creations, refers to memes and jokes about the character creator tool in the RPG video game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Originally released in 2006 by Bethesda, the game was remastered by Virtuos and relaunched on April 22nd, 2025, featuring upgraded graphics via Unreal Engine 5. The remaster retained the original's character customization system, allowing players to craft exaggerated and grotesque avatars but with updated graphics quality. This led to a viral trend in which users shared their creations across platforms like Reddit's /r/OblivionAbominations, X / Twitter and TikTok, often drawing comparisons to the original Fallout talking heads and spawning memes about Rare J.D. Vances.

Origin

On April 22nd, 2025, game developer Virtuous released a remastered version of the 2006 Bethesda open-world RPG Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Oblivion Remastered features upgraded graphics using Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), additional dialogues and other gameplay changes, while maintaining the vast majority of the original game's quirks.^[1]

The game's character creator has long been known for enabling exaggerated and distorted facial features, with internet users creating the subreddit^[2] /r/OblivionAbominations on August 18th, 2015, to share strange-looking character creations with each other.

An early notable post on the subreddit^[3] /r/OblivionAbominations was posted by Redditor /u/nobody_2002 on October 8th, 2018, gathering over 800 upvotes in seven years. Another noteworthy post^[4] depicting an Avatar inspired character was shared by an unknown Redditor on October 28th, 2020, gathering over 1,400 upvotes in five years.

More internet users began sharing their Oblivion character creator creations in April 2025 following the remastered version's release, with Redditor /u/Villenthessis sharing their Oblivion character to the subreddit /r/gaming^[4] and gathering over 13,000 upvotes in two days.

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More internet users shared their Oblivion Abominations in late April 2025, with Redditor /u/DeCarn writing, "Ladies and gentleman, we're back in business," and gathering over 38,000 upvotes on an April 22nd, 2025, post shared to the subreddit /r/Oblivion.^[5]

On April 22nd, X^[6] user @Julia_CaSsian posted a video sharing their Oblivion Remastered creation, gathering over 37,000 likes on a post that read, "Trying the Oblivion remake, character creation is going well, elves are gorgeous now."

Trying the Oblivion remake, character creation is going well, elves are gorgeous now pic.twitter.com/fjw4oqoPBl

— Julia (@Julia_CaSsian) April 22, 2025

That same day, X^[7] user @CAMELCASTOff posted a Rare J.D. Vance meme created using the new Oblivion Remastered character tool, gathering over 72,000 likes on a post captioned, "This is my magnum opus in Oblivion Remaster. Sir Vancealot."

Also on April 22nd, X^[8] user @FearMongrel tweeted, "oblivion so funny to me. we finally have the technology to recreate the og fallout talking head renders in real time," sharing the aforementioned J.D. Vance edit with a scene from Fallout.

On April 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[9] @rotary.connection posted a video writing, "The Oblivion Remastered character creation tool is so good," sharing a relatively normal-looking character followed by a grotesque one. The post gathered over 1 million plays and 130,000 likes in a day.

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