History Main / OnlySixFaces

Anime and manga sometimes use a large amount of [[EyeTropes eye variation]] (employing all sorts of non-existent eye colors (red, purple, etc.), eye shapes ([[TsurimeEyes slanted inward]], [[TaremeEyes slanted outward]], [[HellishPupils slit pupils]], etc) and [[HairTropes hair variation]] (with unrealistic (but natural) colors and styles that defy physics), along with other distinguishing features such as scars, tattoos, etc. rather than changing the overall shape of the face itself (anime and manga also stop short at skin colors, though, because taking too much liberty with them as with eye and hair colors could result in sickly or monstrous-looking characters). This results in various instances of AmbiguouslyBrown characters, where skin tone is the only clue for guessing the characters' ethnicity. Similarly, early western superheroes often look alike aside from their distinctive costumes, particularly those created prior to UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, where pretty much every superhero was a classically handsome white guy with varying hair colours and styles, with varying eye and face shapes usually used to specifically denote ethnicity, with people of the ''same'' ethnicity tending to look alike.

FacelessMasses takes this trope to the extreme. The opposite of CastOfSnowflakes, where even the most incidental characters' designs tend to be unique and well-defined. Sounds like but is unrelated to SameFaceDifferentName, which is about creators going by different monikers. A ''clever'' creator can work around this and create a ReusedCharacterDesign habit. See also GenericCuteness (every character has the same cutesy features), OnlyOneFemaleMold (all female characters have the same body type), and YouAllLookFamiliar (the videogame version).

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]" presents a future where everyone is given a government-funded surgical makeover at puberty, choosing their new face and figure from a limited catalogue of stock models. The effect was achieved in the show by having a handful of actors play multiple roles.

* For practical reasons this has been the case with most if not all doll lines, such as ''Toys/Barbie'', ''Toys/AmericanGirl'', ''Toys/{{Hairdorables}}'' or Toys/{{Bratz}}, which use a few stock face moulds and may add small variances depending on the doll's ethnicity or some unique traits. The only other things distinguishing the dolls from each other are their hair, skin colour, outfit, and backstories. Many doll collectors who focus on a brand will categorize these molds--for example, American Girl started with the Classic, which was used for the first four historical characters and many dozens afterwards.

* For practical reasons this has been the case with most if not all doll lines, namely ''Literature/AmericanGirl'', using a few stock face moulds depending on the doll's ethnicity or unique traits if any. The only other things distinguishing the dolls from each other are their hair, skin colour, outfit, and their backstories.

* Most ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' toys have the same mold and only differ in color, hair, and symbol markings.

* Every single character in object shows such as ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' and ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' share the same face and limbs. It's the objects ''themselves'' that identify them.

*** This later became a problem when masks became the only unique part of the toys. After the Inika line, almost all Toa-level figures had a standard template for how they're built. While some of them are visually different, construction-wise they were all nearly the same, and a simple armor swap can make one Toa look like another (or a bad guy). Adverted with the Barraki and Mistika Makuta lines, who all had unique construction making them vastly different from each other, even in the same line (the Barraki, in fact, were only similar in the construction of their "skull", while the Mistika Makuta had nothing in common at all).