why does lego lord voldemort have a nose?

[Foreman]

Lord Voldemort has no nose, so why does his minifigure have one?

[x105Black]

He doesn't.  He does have nostrils where his nose would be, though.

[LegoAndDisney]

Couldn't this have been saved for the set discussion thread?

Edited May 21, 2018 by LegoAndDisney

[Foreman]

I don't feel it's not about a set but rather about a whole line of set

[Eggyslav]

Just as real Voldemort has no nose while everybody have one, The minifig Voldemort has a nose while every minifigure don't have one. Simple.

[Anonknee Muss]

1 hour ago, Foreman said:

I don't feel it's not about a set but rather about a whole line of set

Still falls under the HP theme discussion.

[Actor Builder]

so he smell

[N_Cat]

On 5/21/2018 at 7:55 AM, Foreman said:

Lord Voldemort has no nose, so why does his minifigure have one?

Because characters with unusual non-human faces often  get those details printed on, even when they violate the Lego aesthetic. Cornelius Evazan from Star Wars would probably also get a nose.

Also of note, not all Voldemorts do have nostrils. The Lego Dimensions version does not, and luckily he looks fine, so you can buy one of him if you want a nose-less one:

[Foreman]

2 hours ago, N_Cat said:

Because characters with unusual non-human faces often  get those details printed on, even when they violate the Lego aesthetic. Cornelius Evazan from Star Wars would probably also get a nose.

Also of note, not all Voldemorts do have nostrils. The Lego Dimensions version does not, and luckily he looks fine, so you can buy one of him if you want a nose-less one:

but Cornelius Evazan have a nose so violating the Lego aesthetic will make it more true to the source, but in the case of Lord Voldemort giving him a nose will both violate Lego aesthetic and the source material, it's not really a bad look tho and as Eggyslav said

22 hours ago, Eggyslav said:

Just as real Voldemort has no nose while everybody have one, The minifig Voldemort has a nose while every minifigure don't have one. Simple.

 

[Captain Nemo]

With a few exceptions, “human” minifigures do not have printed noses—because it should just be assumed that they have noses.

Likewise minifigures don’t have printed ears, but many hair pieces are molded so as to give the impression that they have ears.

Just because something is not focused on, does not mean it doesn't exist.

For Voldemort (and a few other characters such as Mummies and Skeletons), Lego prints holes or slits to emphasize the lack of human features which we would normally just assume to be present. So putting slits on Voldemort’s face is meant to make it off putting and inhuman in comparison to typical minifigures.