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** In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' the Colonial Marines wear armour and helmets that has been customised with graffiti in the manner of US troops in Vietnam. This was achieved by giving the cast marker pens and allowing them to adorn their costumes however they liked.

* Urzu team in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' all wear the same black jumpsuit when piloting their [[AMechByAnyOtherName Arm-Slaves]], but each has a different colored strip along the shoulder. Further, their M9 units themselves, while operating on an identical chassis, are visually distinguished by having different equipment loadouts. Mao's M9 has a different head with an aerial fin as part of an enhanced electronic warfare package. Kurtz' M9 typically will be armed with a larger anti-tank rifle for sniping other Arm-Slaves. Sagara's Arbalest is an M9 modified with deployable cooling fins and a different head to accommodate a [[SuperPrototype Lambda Driver]] and its control system, with a different color scheme to distinguish it.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'':

* The ladies of Japanese dance-pop trio {{Music/Perfume}} always looks simultaneously unified and distinctive thanks to a personalized look they kept over the years (A-Chan: Ponytail/loose curly hair and dress/blouse with skirt. Kashiyuka: Long straight hair with bangs and sleeveless top with miniskirt/minidress. Nocchi: Bobcut with shirt and shorts/hotpants).
* JPop band Music/PuffyAmiyumi used to wear the same clothing in her early years, but around the year 2000 they switched to wear different variations of the same outfit. Most of the time is a simple PalleteSwap, but sometimes they do some more drastic changes such as wearing very similar coordinates, but with different pieces, such as a long, loose skirt, a baggy tee, and sneakers but using different skirts, tees, and sneakers.

* The military of the [[{{Theatre/Tsukiuta}} Tsukino Empire]], or, the fleets of Tekigousha BondCreature partners at least. Besides that the leaders all have fabulous capes to swish, Gravi and Procella have slightly different jackets and pants, and some of the members, such as Aoi and Kai, have fluttery short capes. But the fourth fleet -- the [=SolidS=] and Quell members -- really have distinct costumes. Rikka's fluffed out peplum jacket, Tsubasa's multi-piece BadassLongcoat, all of their amazing boots, it goes on and on.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', during the field exam Seed cadets are required to wear their uniform. Squall wears his jacket unzipped and keeps his Griever necklace, while Zell wears combat gloves and has his sleeves rolled up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the latter case, as the gloves are his primary weapons and the rolled sleeves possibly enhance mobility in hand-to-hand combat. Seifer, in his arrogance, doesn't even bother to wear the uniform at all, wearing his normal outfit instead. Probably didn't help his disastrous performance review...

* ''VideoGame/{{Touken Ranbu}}'': Crosses over with DressCodedForYourConvenience -– swords belonging to sword schools will dress in matching outfits but with alterations depending on the character. Many of these outfits resemble military (Awataguchi, Aoe and Gō schools) or school uniforms (Yukihira).
* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel:'' At Thors Military Academy, upper-class students wear white uniforms and commoner students wear green. Our heroes Class VII are of mixed social classes and wear red. Their shirts and jackets all match, but the girls' skirts are all slightly different, as are the boys' trousers.

** ''Series/MashinSentaiKiramager'': The silver ranger has a spiky helmet with goggles on the forehead and changes the arms and most of the normally silver parts of the suit to orange, recolors a few other parts to light blue, and has a silver stripe on the chest instead of a black one. A gold ranger who only appeared during an imaginary sequence used a recolored version of the silver suit with the googles lowered over the eyes and additionally wore a scarf.

** ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'': The SixthRanger has black gloves and boots instead of white ones and a slightly different helmet style. His chest number is in the middle of the chest instead of to one side. The chest number is also surrounded by a yellow and black circle instead of a white and black one and doesn't have more lines coming off of it. He also wears yellow and black suspenders and a yellow and black belt instead of a silver belt. Interestingly, when Right briefly uses the orange suit in the last episode the gloves and boots are white instead (This might be because the orange suit's regular user is a reformed shadow). The epilogue movie adds a seventh ranger who uses the same helmet as the sixth but otherwise looks the same as the core rangers except for also having his chest number in the center with six lines coming off of it instead of four.
*** This trope is played for laughs in one of the movies where each of the core five rangers gets an animal-themed upgrade. Three of them get new weapons attached to their gloves, and one gets wings attached to his arms, but the pink ranger gets her suit almost entirely replaced with a panda costume.

** ''Series/MashinSentaiKiramager'': The silver ranger has goggles on his helmet's forehead and changes the arms and most of the normally silver parts of the suit to orange, recolors a few other parts to light blue, and has a silver stripe on the chest instead of a black one.

** ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' goes the same route as ''Kyuranger'', giving each Ranger their own customization. The Red Ranger has a gear-shaped crest sticking out of the back of the helmet like a topknot and a large pink peach symbol on his helmet unlike the rest of the Rangers, who have a much smaller gold one. The Yellow Ranger has shoulder spikes. The Blue Ranger who is based on a Japanese macaque is bulkier than the other rangers and has a vest that exposes his abs, fur covered arms, and a red patch on his butt. The Pink Ranger has wings and super-long legs that end in boots resembling talons. The Black Ranger is smaller than the rest of the Rangers, has cartoony body proportions, and has canine features including a tail. When the rangers change into their SuperMode they become even less uniform, with pink and black no longer even being humanoid in shape. The SixthRanger of the team has an almost entirely different suit style and doesn't even wear the same style of belt as the other ranger or have the peach symbol on the helmet. The only similarities are having a similar visor and mouth plate style.

* In the first season of ''Series/Space1999'' the crew of Moonbase Alpha all wore the same beige uniform, the only difference between them being the colour of one sleeve, denoting their department. The only exceptions were Koenig's, which had a round collar in the command colour of black, Bergman's, which had no sleeve colour, befitting his status as an OmnidisciplinaryScientist and the sash worn by security guards. In the second season, the producers made an attempt to 'humanise' the characters by giving them jackets to wear over their tunics. The jackets, which came in several designs and colours (usually unrelated to the department colour and then only coincidentally) were often decorated with the insignia and patches of various organisations which no longer had any real relevance to the Alphans. Although the main characters wore the same jackets fairly consistently, others were passed around amongst the supporting cast. Koenig also got to wear a sleeveless waistcoat on one occasion and female Alphans now had the option of wearing skirts. The most non-uniform uniform worn by any Alphan was that seen on a one episode character played by Patrick Mower. It not only featured a camouflage-patterned jacket but a stetson hat and cowboy boots!

** B'elanna Torres, USS Voyager's Chief Engineer, would occasionally wear a long jacket over her uniform, tailored with a chest pocket full of unidentifiable tools. Off screen, the reason for this was to disguise Roxann Dawson's pregnancy.

** In the sequel ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' the Colonial Marines wear armour and helmets that has been customised with graffiti in the manner of US troops in Vietnam. This was achieved by giving the cast marker pens and allowing them to adorn their costumes however they liked.

* In the first season of ''Series/Space1999'' the crew of Moonbase Alpha all wore the same beige uniform, the only difference between them being the colour of one sleeve, denoting their department. The only exceptions were Koenig's, which had a round collar in the command colour of black, Bergman's, which had no sleeve colour, befitting his status as an OmnidisciplinaryScientist and the sash worn by security guards. In the second season, the producers made an attempt to 'humanise' the characters by giving them jackets to wear over their tunics. The jackets, which came in several designs and colours (usually unrelated to the department colour and then only coincidentally) were often decorated with the insignia and patches of various organisations which no longer had any real relevance to the Alphans. Although the main characters wore the same jackets fairly consistently, others were passed around amongst the supporting cast. Koenig also got to wear a sleeveless waistcoat on one occasion and female Alphans now had the option of wearing skirts. The most non-uniform uniform worn by any Moonbase character was that seen on a one episode character played by Patrick Mower. It not only featured a camouflage-patterned jacket but a stetson hat and cowboy boots!

** In the sequel ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' the Colonial Marines wear armour and helmets that has been customised with graffiti in the style of US troops in Vietnam. This was achieved by giving the cast marker pens and allowing them to adorn their costumes however they liked.

* Corporal Steiner in ''Film/CrossOfIron''wears riding boots and breeches as part of his uniform, which were decidedly non-standard for an NCO in the German Army. However, given that he is a highly decorated soldier on the Eastern Front it is understandable that this is indulged by his superiors.

* Music/DestinysChild made this their signature look. In a MusicVideo or live performance, their outfits always had the same theme, but the specifics were different for each girl. For example, if the theme was a red shirt and black skirt, one might wear a tank top, another would wear a tube top, another would wear a halter, and when there were four members, the fourth might wear a baby tee or crop.

** Ankh-Morpork City Watch armor is described as "a museum exhibit of [[NiceHat funny helmets]] through the ages". The Watch is chronically underfunded and also one of the most species-diverse employers in the city, leading to a lot of improvising with whatever happened to be in the armoury and came closest to fitting.

Bob must wear some form of uniform which he finds repressive or simply dislikes, so he tries to act out and be an individual by wearing something distinctive. If he actually gets away with it, he may even inspire others to do the same. Often, Bob's change to his uniform comes from [[LoopholeAbuse finding a loophole]] -- The rulebook says "black shirt, shoes, socks, and pants," but says nothing about [[NiceHat silly hats]] or [[SleevesAreForWimps tearing the sleeves off the shirts]].

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Ashley gets hit with this trope HARD by wearing a Southern US-style leather take, a look that literally nobody else in the series uses. Cranked UptoEleven when you can set it as her ''combat armor''.