Why did Vigo have two red bulbs on his head?

His design has always confused me, I couldn’t tell if that was what he looked like when he was executed or if that was just how the design team made him look for some reason.

The red nubs were supposed to be a pair of horns which were going to grow out of the sides of Vigo’s head. Sadly for some reason they chose not to use the full concept, which I think would’ve been awesome:

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I just figured it was Vigo losing his human form, like the librarian ghost. Or the 40s frat boy ghosts from the cartoon.

@Kingpin

I think there just wasn’t time to go the whole way through the transformation. What you see at the end of the movie is what was ready at that moment, and all parties involved had to say “it’ll do” and work around it.

That’s awesome, finally learned something new about this franchise. The 2nd one on the left looks like Ivan Ooze.

I feel like the first sculpture from the left would fit Vigo more. It looked great when IDW implemented it in one of their issues.

IDW for the win

the horns would have def gave him a devil vibe which would added scariness too his look and kinda would of worked

Huh. I never noticed the red things on his head. Personally, I think he looks better without horns though.

Growing up, I thought all the positive energy coming from the crowd deformed him. Later I realized his demonic form is more or less his true form since his death(s). That extreme close up of his black and red eyes when he’s possessing Ray is still gets me! IDW went full on with the horns when Vigo was freed a second time. He seemed powerful enough that time without a massive supply of mood slime.