Strangest Fortnite skins, ranked

Fortnite isn’t just the biggest game in the world — it’s an unstoppable property seemingly hellbent on bringing every other famous property into its fold in interesting ways. We’ve had trailer reveals hosted by Palpatine himself, a huge concert by Travis Scott, and we’ve recently witnessed the live defrosting of Mariah Carey. Those blockbuster events are great and bizarre in an awesome way, but so are many of the regular skins and collabs we see in Fortnite. Let’s look at the wildest of the bunch.

10. Peely

Maybe it’s the dead black eyes. Maybe it’s the tiny smile, or the strange bootheels. Perhaps it’s the slightly peeled-off skin on the upper part of the head. Peely suffers from Teletubbyism, an affliction that causes creatures to look cute on first glance but more and more off the longer you stare at them.

So many parents only look at the stuff their kids love once, so Peely passes the parental test. After looking at it like five times, however, there was no doubt in my mind Peely was designed to visit players in their nightmares long after their games had concluded.

And, the best part is that this is not even Peely’s final form.

9. Juice WRLD

Unlike most skins on this list, Juice WRLD’s skin looks fine. Juice was a handsome dude, and the problem resides in the “was” part. Juice has sadly passed away at a very young age in a rather tragic way, so I just can’t help but to think this skin shouldn’t exist in this game. Though it looks genuinely cool, this is the only “weird” skin in the game I just cannot approve of.

Pretty much any way you can think of to honor a deceased person is better than creating an avatar of them you can kill again till the end of time.

8. Fabio Sparklemane

Maybe it’s the Internet, but anthropomorphized cats, dogs, and bears all work surprisingly well on most games. Still, there’s something about a horse that stands on two legs and contends for the Victory Royale that just feels too out there. Is it because his hooves would never be able to reach the trigger of any of the guns in the game? Or is it because he might have been named after Fabio, a man and meme so good looking he once accidentally mesmerized a bird that flew straight into his face and exploded while the man was enjoying a supposedly peaceful rollercoaster ride.

7. The Brat

Out of all the weird Fortnite skins out there, the Brat is easily the funniest. It’s a case of the more you look at it, the funnier he gets. Unlike Meowscles, who clearly has the body of a (very fit) human, The Brat is a hot dog through and through. His chest is a sausage, he wears a bun as a coat, his chest hair is a squiggle of mustard, and his arms are strings of sausage.

Also, unlike most of the other peculiar Fortnite skins, The Brat is 100% cool, 0% creepy — so long as you ignore his incriminating necklace made of baby sausages.

6. Fishstick

A very interesting play on the name, Fishstick is a fish head on a very skinny anthropomorphized human body. This thing has some whacky bulging eyes and a near-permanent smile on his face. He looks harmless, but there’s no better remorseless killing machine than a creature who loses all recollection of their crimes every five seconds.

I was trying to think of a Fishstick skin to crown as the weirdest of the weird, but it’s just too hard. I guess the suit one edges out the other ones for its impersonal murderer vibes, if only for just a little bit.

5. Meowdas

Meowdas is the weirdest variation of the original Meowscles skin, which was already one of the strangest skins in the game.

Meowscles is a buff and conveniently shirtless human body with the face of a cartoon cat. It’s the kind of thing that the Internet loves, and thus something you probably should never confess your love for in the real world. Meowdas is a combination between Meowscles and Midas, and the result is not a cute buff anthropomorphized cat, but something that goes for both cute and edgy all the while being an anthropomorphized cat.

4. Beef Boss

Do you love the weird McDonald’s lore, but feel like its characters could still stand to be a bit more bizarre? Then Beef Boss is just the skin for you.

Forget human-shaped cats. For all I know, Beef Boss could just be a regular man wearing a highly impractical burger-shaped helmet, but, if there’s any consistency to the world of Fortnite, then that’s a sentient burger who grew arms and legs just so he could kill hundreds of people, and that’s quite something.

3. Peely Bone

Players quickly complained that the original Peely looked creepy as hell — or maybe they didn’t, but I sure did — and I admit to my mistake. The adverse reaction to the cute monstrosity created something even worse. Ever wondered what Peely looked like on the inside? Was he all banana? Welp, it turns out Peely is banana on the outside, manana on the inside. Unlike the original Peely, which is just sneakily frightening, is full on creepy.

I’m sorry for all the nightmares this thing sure must have caused, but I’m just so glad a major game — a cutesy looking one, at that — had the guts to, well, show Peely’s guts.

2. Mariah Carey

Yes, I’m afraid I am not joking.

This one is especially great because it carries the immense weight of Internet history. Mariah Carey started off as one of the most popular pop stars in the world, then became meme because of a legendary localization of her song “Without you” in the Bulgarian version of American Idol, where it infamously became “Ken Lee”. That would’ve been more than enough for a fulfilling career, but then Carey morphed into another, larger, meme.

Carey recently went on from being a massive superstar to a creature that the legend told spent most of the year in a cryogenic chamber only to be de-frozen during Christmas to play “All I want for Christmas is you”. Very funny, for the year when the meme originated, at least. It didn’t stop there, however. The meme got so popular that this year Carey became not only a skin on Fortnite, but even allowed you to see the block of ice imprisoning her shattering in game live. Weirdest of all? The Mariah Carey skin is something you can play as throughout the whole year.

1. Skibidi Toilet Back Bling

Who wouldn’t want to wear a human head inhabiting inside a toilet as a backpack? The Skibidi Toilet Back Bling isn’t just one of the most visually odd cosmetics in a game, it’s also one that seems to bend all human-made rules.

Fortnite belongs to Epic Games, whereas Skibidi Toilet, though now a registered trademark with its own toy line and attempted movie or tv in the works, is something that came out of Half-Life 2 mods. Valve seems pretty chill about all this, but the company could have very well raised some issues with the usage of what are basically Half-Life 2 assets by the biggest game from the competition.

Skibidi Toilet is no stranger to litigation, as the IP owners nearly went into battle against Garry’s Mod, the Half-Life 2 game responsible for its creation. Weirdly enough, Valve also had nothing to do with any of that. That’s just a taste of how strange reality gets under the shadow of Skibidi Toilet.

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