18 Legendary Figures Who Look Completely Different in AI Reconstructions

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18 Legendary Figures Who Look Completely Different in AI Reconstructions

Have you ever been curious about the true appearance of famous figures from history? We took a look at how filmmakers, artists, and even AI imagine them — and as expected, each offers a very different perspective. The outcome was unexpected, and some of the results are genuinely shocking.

Nefertiti

© Doctor Who / BBC Studios, © Arkadiy Etumyan / Wikimedia Commons, © CC BY-SA 3.0

AI-generated image

Madame du Barry

© Jeanne du Barry / Why Not Productions, © Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry / François-Hubert Drouais / National Gallery of Art / Wikimedia Commons

AI-generated image

Cleopatra

© Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre / With Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), © Cleopatra / John William Waterhouse / Private collection / Wikimedia Commons

AI-generated image

Suleiman the Magnificent

© Muhtesem Yüzyil / TIMS Productions, © Sultan Suleiman in profile / Unknown author / Kunsthistorisches Museum / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Roxelana

© Muhtesem Yüzyil / TIMS Productions, © Rosa Solymanni uxor / Unidentified painter / Jak Amran Collection / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Queen Mary Stuart

© Mary Queen of Scots / Focus Features, © Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87) / François Clouet / Royal Collection / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Giacomo Casanova

© Casanova / Touchstone Pictures, © Giacomo Casanova / Kelly Galbraith / Wikimedia Commons, © CC-BY-SA-4.0, AI-generated image

Joan of Arc

© Joan of Arc / Columbia Pictures, © Joan of Arc / John Everett Millais / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Ludwig van Beethoven

© Immortal Beloved / Icon Entertainment International, © Portrait of Beethoven / Joseph Karl Stieler / Beethoven House / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Hypatia

© Agora / Mod Producciones, © El disidente / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0 Universal, AI-generated image

Jane Austen

© Becoming Jane / HanWay Films, © Cassandra Austen via James Andrews / Jane Austen (based on the portrait by Cassandra Austen) / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Emperor Commodus

© Gladiator / DreamWorks Pictures, © Bust of Emperor Commodus / Unknown author / Getty Villa / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Louis XIV

© The Man in the Iron Mask / United Artists, © Louis XIV, King of France / Charles Le Brun / Museum of the History of France / Department of Paintings of the Louvre / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Henry VIII

© The Tudors / Peace Arch Entertainment Group, © Portrait of Henry VIII / Hans Holbein the Younger / Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Anne Boleyn

© The Tudors / Peace Arch Entertainment Group, © Anne Boleyn / Template:Leornado Da Vinci / National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Mary I

© The Tudors / Peace Arch Entertainment Group, © Mary I of England / Antonis Mor / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

Xerxes I

© 300 / Legendary Entertainment, © Esther Denouncing Haman / Ernest Normand / Wikimedia Commons

AI-generated image

Isabella of Castile

© Isabel / Diagonal TV, © Isabel la Católica / Museo del Prado / Wikipedia

AI-generated image

If you love movies, get ready to discover what actually happens off camera and how films are brought to life behind the scenes.

Preview photo credit The Tudors / Peace Arch Entertainment Group, Anne Boleyn / Template:Leornado Da Vinci / National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, AI-generated image

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