diff --git a/code/datums/datacore.dm b/code/datums/datacore.dm
index 765e1ee9e9..45d50ced1d 100644
--- a/code/datums/datacore.dm
+++ b/code/datums/datacore.dm
@@ -262,6 +262,9 @@
 		var/icon/charicon = cached_character_icon(H)
 		front = icon(charicon, dir = SOUTH)
 		side = icon(charicon, dir = WEST)
+	else // Sending null things through browse_rsc() makes a runtime and breaks the console trying to view the record.
+		front = icon('html/images/no_image32.png')
+		side = icon('html/images/no_image32.png')
 
 	if(!id)
 		id = text("[]", add_zero(num2hex(rand(1, 65536)), 4))
diff --git a/code/modules/client/client procs.dm b/code/modules/client/client procs.dm
index 97fc1afdaf..c31482cb8b 100644
--- a/code/modules/client/client procs.dm	
+++ b/code/modules/client/client procs.dm	
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@
 		'html/images/sglogo.png',
 		'html/images/talisman.png',
 		'html/images/paper_bg.png',
+		'html/images/no_image32.png',
 		'icons/pda_icons/pda_atmos.png',
 		'icons/pda_icons/pda_back.png',
 		'icons/pda_icons/pda_bell.png',
diff --git a/html/images/no_image32.png b/html/images/no_image32.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f5a9d1b52f
Binary files /dev/null and b/html/images/no_image32.png differ