In case you were ever curious, this is what Danny DeVito would look like with blended foundation, light eyeliner, and a little bit of mascara. It's like they put him in an anime.Getty/Prequel
THIS LOOKS LIKE A FACE SWAP. THIS LOOKS LIKE SOME WOMAN'S FACE PASTED ONTO JOHN MULANEY'S. AND YET IT IS ALSO JOHN MULANEY'S FACE. ("I am a proud, Asian-American woman, and I deserve your respect!")Getty/Prequel
Come on. That's just not fair. This is the prettiest man alive. Edward Cullen WISHES he could look this good. Someone put Robert Pattinson in a Disney movie ASAP.Getty/Prequel
Of course, there's probably no way to make Zendaya look NOT good. She looks beautiful here, but it's kind of 'cause she looks...the same.Getty/Prequel
This is honestly just a really cool-looking picture of Trevor Noah. It's funny, how random it seems to be on this app when it comes to whether it makes you more attractive or turns you into some kind of unsettling character from The Polar Express.Getty/Prequel
Kristen Bell looks like Kristen Bell. Dax Shepherd looks like a woman in a suit who is missing part of her lip. Getty/Prequel
I don't know exactly what this filter did to alter the face of Benedict Cumberbatch, but I Do Not Like It. It's like he's halfway between being babified and turned into a goblin.Getty/Prequel
Olivia Munn looks SOOOOO pretty. Wow. Somebody should ACTUALLY turn her into a Disney Princess - I'm not kidding.Getty/Prequel
Jennifer Aniston looks almost entirely unaltered by this filter - which isn't really that surprising, because she seems to have been wholly unaltered by time, too.Getty/Prequel
Somebody forgot to give Baby Nick Jonas his milk before naptime. He's pouting about it now.Getty/Prequel
Phoebe Dynevor looks like a cartoon Princess, of course - though what Prequel did to her top lip is VERY dramatic. It can't be a PERFECT heart, come on now.Getty/Prequel
WHY. DOESN'T. THIS. PICTURE. OF GUY FIERI. LOOK ANY DIFFERENT!? Seriously, he just looks smoother. That's it. Does this mean he's already a cartoon? (That's actually not that surprising, come to think of it.)Getty/Prequel
OH COME ON. WHAT IS THIS PRETTY ANIME BOY FACE?! Tom Holland is already freakin' adorable, we should have known putting him through this filter would make him too powerful.Getty/Prequel
This sort of made Lupita Nyong'o look like a different person, to be quite honest - but what's really funny is what it did to the people in the background....who really no longer look like people at all. They kinda look like the gargoyles from Sleeping Beauty.Getty/Prequel
This is what Andy Samberg would look like if you put him in an anime. It looks like him, just........pretty. (Not that he's not already pretty as-is.)Getty/Prequel
This is just The Rock with a full face of makeup. (He looks good! Anyone else wanna see him in a drag show now? He'd clean up real nice - and you know his moves would be on point.)Getty/Prequel
HELP. NO. PUT IT BACK. THIS WAS JUST A PICTURE OF TOM HIDDLESTON SMILING. He looks like a demented court Jester about to meet his doom.Getty/Prequel
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. JOHN KRASINSKI. It literally looks like this filter couldn't decide whether to masculinize or feminize his face, so it just went for the half and half. Either half would be fine - I'm sure he would make a very pretty girl - but together on one face? Uncanny valley city.Getty/Prequel
THIS IS ANOTHER BABYMAN. LOOK AT THAT FACE. SOMEBODY JUST OFFERED MICHAEL B. JORDAN CANDY AND HE IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. Why does this five-year-old have a mustache?Getty/Prequel
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm too gay to process this photo. Princess Kristen. I can't speak. Getty/Prequel
POOR BEN SCHWARTZ - we admittedly picked a picture where he's making a pretty weird face, but, in fairness, Ben Schwartz is usually making a weird face. In this particular photo he looks like he could be some kind of snide noble side character in a story about royalty (which we're sure he would absolutely nail.)Getty/Prequel
Come ON. Look at this guy. Timothee Chalamet plus the Prequel Cartoon filter APPARENTLY just equals the sickest comic book character you've ever seen. Just put him in a Marvel movie already. We know it's gonna happen.Getty/Prequel
Oh god. Oh dear god. John Oliver. No. This man looks haunted. Posessed. This isn't even a man, this is a picture of a haunted puppet. With glass eyes.Getty/Prequel
Keke Palmer looks absolutely adorable as a cartoon - is anyone else getting major Powerpuff Girl vibes from this picture?Getty/Prequel
Tessa Thompson's honestly turned out really cool. This picture looks a lot like the portraits the Obamas had painted for the White House.Getty/Prequel
Elizabeth Olsen, of course, looks like some kind of goddess angel - because when does she not? If this were an animated movie she'd float in on a cloud and give the protagonist blessings to take with him on their journey.Getty/Prequel
Steve Martin...........what did this filter DO to you? Where are your lips? Why do you have a unibrow?Getty/Prequel
Come on. That's just not fair. Almost everyone else gets chibi-fied by this filter, but Elliot Page is over here looking like the plucky protagonist in a dystopian thriller. This guy looks like he came straight out of a comic book.Getty/Prequel
There's a lot of things that I could say about this unholy image of Pete Davidson, but, in the perfectly chosen words of my coworker Adam Mock: "He looks like he's a horse that made a wish to become human."Getty/Prequel
BABYMAN. THIS IS A MAN WITH A BABY'S FACE. It's like he's so hot in real life that this filter could not possibly make him hotter, so it just aged him down instead. (Something about that sneer with those big babydoll eyes has me giggling uncontrollably.)Getty/Prequel
Zoe Kravitz starts this show off strong - she looks like the mysterious sorceress who shows up and changes the protagonist's fate forever.Getty/Prequel
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If you're on any social media that features photos with any type of regularity, you've probably seen a handful (or more) of people talking about the Prequel filter app - specifically, the filter that turns any photo you run through it into one that looks like it was hand-drawn, maybe as concept art for a Disney movie or a Marvel comic.
Of course, as with any filter with that level of complexity is bound to have some bugs, or instances where it doesn't necessarily work like it should. Some of these photos that we decided to test it on - like the ones of of Tom Holland and Kristen Stewart - turned out so beautiful it almost hurts. Others - like the ones of John Mulaney, Tom Hiddleston, or, god help us, the one of John Oliver that's in there - look like the haunted nightmares of a child who just saw The Polar Express for the first time.
Still, whether they live in the Uncanny Valley or high up in Perfection Castle, these cartoonified pictures of some of our favorite celebrities deserve to be shared. In advance, we'd like to say both 'we're sorry,' and 'you're welcome.'
Now, without any further ado, let's dig into this weird limbo land of cartoonified - Prequelified, if you will - celebrities.
