History Main / OnlySixFaces

* Unsed intentionally in the comic ''{{Sturmtruppen}}'', where all the soldiers share the same body type, and so do the officers. Bonvi's point was to underline how much war "de-humanize" soldiers and turns them into an anonymous mass.

** What makes Hirai's current style even more baffling is that it is a recent change in his style. Take a look at one of his older series, {{Dancouga}}. Now compare it to the above mentioned series. It almost raises the question of "What happened, Mr. Hirai?"
*** Well, he never actually designed the characters in that show, only the mechanics.
*** The 2012 {{Remaster}} of ''Gundam SEED'' is another perfect example. While ''SEED'' was the start of his generic art style, at least the early episodes had the characters with more distinctive features and unique quirks. The remaster completely throws these out in favor of making everyone look as identical as they did in ''SEED Destiny''.

* DonHertzfeldt's cartoons, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Film/ItsSuchABeautifulDay''.

* DonHertzfeldt's cartoons, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ItsSuchABeautifulDay

** Oddly enough, many of South Park's one-off characters are a complete aversion of this. The primary characters look similar because of a far more simplified character design from the early seasons, while anymore, characters have unique head shapes, hairstyles, hair colors, mouths, and eyes -- they've got a ton of different Redneck characters that all look very distinct from one-another. Now, if there were a trope for Only Six Voices... Wait there [[TalkingToHimself is]]

** In-story, the fact that Susan and Diane [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-10-13 look and sound identical]][[hottip:*:and according to Grace, this extends to their entire body structure]] save for hair color and clothing choice [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-10-10 is noted]] and implied to be significant.

* All of ArinaTanemura's main heroines have a similar face, [[BigEyesLittleEyes gigantic-eyed and all]], with eye-size variations and her male characters only occasionally bear different-sized eyes and pupils. She is fond of long hair so most of heroines also have RapunzelHair, though she does style it differently from character to character.

* JohnByrne (of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', ''Comicbook/TheManOfSteel'') is known for having his male faces look the same, while his female characters all have the same face. This is especially noticeable when his Batman and Superman are on the same page: the two of them are twins who happen to wear different costumes.

** In the most extreme example, MasterOfDisguise Kanako seems almost a LampshadeHanging, easily dressing up as any of the ''LoveHina'' characters and even passing off the big-breasted Mutsumi as Keitaro with little more than some makeup and hair styling, glasses, and a {{sarashi}}.

** In [[CuteGhostGirl Sayo]]'s profile, he apologized for basically making her a white-haired Konoka.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' games also have character designs by Toriyama. Some characters look suspiciously similar to some Dragonball characters, and even some of the monsters/animals looks familiar. Which leads some to joke that the robot is Trunks' time machine with eyeballs.

* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki also has his own "Star System" of sorts - while, in each movie, the characters are very distinguishable from one another, watching several of his films in a row brings the audience to a realization that Miyazaki has many, effectively unnamed, "actors": most of his female leads bear a striking resemblance to Manga/{{Nausicaa|OfTheValleyOfTheWind}}, though at different ages – Anime/{{Kiki|sDeliveryService}}, [[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle Sophie]], [[Anime/CastleInTheSky Sheeta]], [[Anime/PorcoRosso Fio]], and [[Anime/PrincessMononoke San]], being the most prominent examples; most male leads, in turn, look similar to [[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Asbel]] at different ages - [[Anime/PrincessMononoke Ashitaka]], [[Anime/SpiritedAway Kohaku]], [[Anime/CastleInTheSky Pazu]], and [[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle Howl]] being the most obvious, though his look is altered from softer to harsher, depending on the character's personality. Other characters include [[Anime/SpiritedAway Yubaba]], who also appeared in ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', and even bit characters like the soot spirits (appearing in both ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' and ''Anime/SpiritedAway''). Watch closely next time for your favorite "actor".

* Earlier art for the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' novels have fairly distinguishable characters; as the ArtEvolution set in, though, each character, moreso the females, become more and more identical facially and body-wise (which is noteworthy because both the anime and the books avoid using the same exact body types for the major female characters), leaving only their hair (and eyes, but very sporadically compared to before) as a distinguishing mark. Pick up the first ''Slayers Special'' novel, then pick up the latest ''Slayers Smash'' (a continuation, basically) and be amazed.

** Basically, age and sex are what make her characters distinct. All children are Shippo, all young men are Miroku, all young women are Sango.

** Random villagers tend to have more elongated faces than her main characters, though. you can basically tell who's going to be important to the episode by the presence or absence of the basic faces - if he looks like Miroku, you're either going to have to save him or kill him.

* Lampshaded in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. Hanajima and her younger brother Megumi are drawn with pretty much the same face, and everyone thinks they look alike...but Hana always protests that they look completely different.

** Tony seems to both play this irritatingly straight ''and'' subvert it with his work with the ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' series: Female characters are almost literally the same girl wearing different dresses, but male characters (especially non-human ones) are very diverse, apart from maybe the lead males.

* Whilst ''Manga/OnePiece'' has always had a brilliant record for differentiating male characters from one another (perhaps more so than any other manga out there, considering just how outlandish and distinctive each of those characters tends to be), the ''female'' characters have traditionally come from a far, far more limited palette, thus evoking the "female characters are more susceptible" aspect of this trope in spades. There was a time when it wouldn't have been a stretch to describe the vast majority of ''OnePiece'' females as "Nami clones" (the few exceptions mostly being the women who [[{{Gonk}} barely look human at all]] like Miss Merry Christmas). Perhaps inevitably, considering just how large his cast has grown, Oda recently seems to have overcome this limitation, even to the point of coming up with an entire [[LadyLand island of nothing but female characters]], [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/e0/Kujatribewomen.png with a crapload of differentiation]], in the largest part because he quit "holding back" and let the female characters have faces as wild and outlandish as any male character.

* Although ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' is notable for its more realistic style and lack of the usual visual gags, the female characters (except for Doa) have pretty much the same face. If Rin didn't have those hair rings, she would be practically indistinguishable from the other female characters.

* The female students in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' are basically the same design except for hair and eye style or props, making it difficult for the uninitiated to tell them apart.

** Maria also averts the trope to some degree, although it may be due to her different skin tone rather than her actual facial features. And then, of course, we have the {{Gonk}} Kotokon...

* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', more than a handful of the women look ''remarkably'' similar, which is used as a plot point. Also, before his character development kicked in, Rei looked a hell of a lot like Shin.

* The female characters in Yamatogawa's stories are all quite distinct. The main male character is pretty much the same guy across all stories. Considering [[{{Hentai}} what he writes]], [[WildMassGuessing could it be]] [[AuthorAvatar intentional]]?

* Basically all of ArinaTanemura's main heroines have a similar face, [[BigEyesLittleEyes gigantic-eyed and all]], with eye-size variations and her male characters only occasionally bear different-sized eyes and pupils. She is fond of long hair so most of heroines also have RapunzelHair, though she does style it differently from character to character.
* Kaori Yuki was guilty of this during ealier years (the first six volumes of God Child and the first volumes of ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'', possibly earlier work too). There was always a man with slightly longer, dark hair, a blonde/brunette women with long, curly hair, not to mention a line of young boys with blond hair (honestly, could anyone tell Eric, Ariel and that boy from the God child chapter Who killed Cock Robin apart?)

** It should be noted that if Lieutenant Maya Ibuki wore the boy's school uniform for Shinji's school, she would look ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE HIM.
* H-Manga artist Shunjyo Shusuke is a heavily blatant case of only ''one'' face ''and'' body for either gender (and even then, it's only a matter of effort in eye-shine to make one into the other) '''however''' this is excusable with the variations in personalities and the fact that both models are detailed enough to stand out compared to more typical anime styles.

* After the wonderful contrast of Creator/HughLaurie's near-bishounen Bertie and crooked-nosed StephenFry's round-faced Jeeves in ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'', not to mention [[http://axxc.nl/pgw/boe/inim.htm the gajillion different artist's interpretations of the two over the years]], it's a more than a little disappointing to read the manga ''Please, Jeeves'' and find that pretty much ALL the men have the same face-shape, just with different eyes and hair.

* Manwha by Hwang Ri Mi and Han Yu-rang can be accused of this. Most characters can only be distinguished by clothes and hair styles, and even the "ugly" characters are HollywoodHomely.

* Shojo mangaka Haruka Fukushima is ''incredibly'' guilty of this (though got ''slightly'' better after time), to the point that most of her heroines '''literally have the exact same hairstyle and hair colour'''. This and the fact that most of her series are {{Cliche Storm}}s has made her SnarkBait to veteran shojo fans.

** Not to mention the comic is in black and white.

* JohnByrne (of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', ''Comicbook/TheManOfSteel'') is known for having his male faces look pretty much the same, while his female characters all have the same face. This is especially noticeable when his Batman and Superman are on the same page: the two of them are twins who happen to wear different costumes.

** This trope was in full force in the Golden and Silver Age DCUniverse. Consider all the times that Superman and Batman were able to pose as each other with literally ''no one'' figuring it out until they explicitly identified themselves.
* The semi-internet-famous meme 'Tony Stark Is Everyone' is basically the masterpiece of this trope. Turns out that without his distinctive mustache, Tony Stark becomes Bruce Wayne. Adding glasses made him Clark Kent. From there, the permutations are endless.

* During {{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}, Superman would run into lookalikes often - from his Kandorian cousin to a movie actor- who were ''so'' similar to him that they could (and did) pass for him. Of course this was an intentional plot point. I guess Supes is supposed to have "one of those faces" which helps to explain his ClarkKenting - somewhat.

* Charlie Adlard's art for ''Comicbook/TheWalkingDead'' is especially bad with this, at least in the beginning of his tenure. He seems to have one stock "Unshaven White Guy With Large Nose and Scowl" face that he uses pretty much constantly for at least three or four different main characters, and most of the women (and Glen) are only identifiable by their hair and/or hats. In shots that just show the face, the reader has little clue who they're looking at, outside of the dialogue. On top of that, the range of expression for the vast majority of Adlard's characters is exactly one: semi-stoic serious face. This is especially notable since the first six issues were drawn by Tony Moore, who actually made all of the characters look very distinct from one-another, especially Lori (Rick's wife). Tony Moore being a complete and total aversion of this trope makes Charlie Adlard's work following Moore's departure all the more jarring, though he has visibly improved over time.

* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', a few generic character models are used for minor roles and even a few major characters are recycled. Art's model is used as a college student in the Another Believer montage and Franny's model is used for Lewis' mother. Which is [[OedipusComplex kinda creepy]] if you think about it.

* All young, attractive women in ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' over the decades, varying only by hair style and clothing. They're also drawn in a very different style from the men and older women, with sensuously flowing lines (which is of course only an exaggeration of reality). The style has shifted somewhat over the years, but the theme hasn't. Two recurring examples are Ms. Buxley and Beetle's previous girlfriend, who look about as different as they can within this technique, but mostly it applies to the hundreds of usually nameless extras Killer and the other soldiers are typically drooling after. If a young woman is drawn any other way, she's almost without exception meant to be plain or ugly.

* Characters in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' are pretty much only differentiated by hairstyles and accessories. Andy even changed her hairstyle early on to make her look less like Paige.

*** Edward Burne-Jones only does one face, usually from the same angle (three-quarters profile) with the same long thick neck and broad shoulders. When it's supposed to be male he puts a beard on it and covers up the neck with armour. It's basically Janey Morris (his model) plays everyone in the universe. Particularly pronounced in his stained-glass windows in Birmingham St Chad's, where Janey Morris is Jesus, the Madonna and the hosts of heaven.

** Then there's Franchise/{{BIONICLE}}, which in the early days literally had only twelve different masks for the entire population of Mata Nui, and later possibly the entire universe. Virtually every mask introduced after the beginning was a one-off for the characters on whom they were used, with very rare exceptions, while almost everyone else still just had the same original twelve. Also, underneath the masks? The same four or five head pieces, further exacerbated by the first film trilogy which made all the heads the same.

** Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' line. Clone troopers are meant to all have the same face, and LEGO [[FridgeBrilliance used the same face for the Boba Fett figurine]]. However, they also gave the same face to all other Mandolorians and even the Senate Commandos, who are specifically stated to NOT be clones.

** Note that the characters featured in that animation are all designed by Naru Nanao; a couple of them even come from the same game. Her later designs vary a bit more.

** Forget stock 'designs', the game OtomeWaBokuNiKoishiteru ''literally'' uses the same three character pictures for any random students who aren't part of the main cast. This includes several named characters who are part of the Student Council during Takako's plot.
* A common source of mirth when talking about ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' is how pretty much every guard or scientist in the Black Mesa complex has the same face (well, for scientists there are two alternating faces). [[AscendedExtra This became more awkward when the models were given names and turned into unique [=NPCs=] in the sequel]]. Maybe they were short on employees and decided to [[ExpendableClone clone themselves repeatedly?]]

** [[CreatorsPet Joey]] is basically [[HighSchoolHustler Achmed]] with a light hair color/skin tone, and without a few inches or defined cheekbones. [[UncannyValley Why yes, they are good friends.]]
* Creator/TetsuyaNomura is often accused of succumbing to this trope. At least there's an in game excuse for all the characters that resemble each other in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games.
** To expand, in ''Kingdom Hearts'' Sora, Kairi and Xehanort, each have several look-a-likes for various reasons. You can be certain that every single time you notice someone bears a physical resemblance to someone else, it will be significant. This is so rampant in the series that it almost ''wasn't'' a surprise when we found out [[spoiler:Vanitas looks like Sora]]. So far, Riku is the only core member of the main cast to not have a doppelganger, unless you count the Riku Replica.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' had this bad. A very obvious shortcoming of the game's graphics department was that there were only one or two models for merchants, old ladies, old men, hookers and so on, as a result of which most [=NPCs=] of a particular type looked like identical twins. This stands out even more due to the fact that even named and important [=NPCs=] share some of these repetitive models.

** One step up in the fighting games. As far as Alphes' character portraits go, literally everyone has the same face.

* The 2005 video game ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'' has pretty much all gangs except the Warriors (who have the protagonist cast and 9 "New Bloods) use just 9 different characters, no more. And even then, in a lot of cases, one of the characters will be the gang's warlord who, as you'd expect only appears once, and as a boss, so apart from him/her, there are usually only 8 gang characters; what's more, you can often see several clones of the same character in one fight due to the fact that you'll be fighting multiple gang members throughout the game.

*** Not to mention one of the running jokes in the Dumbing of Age comments section is calling Dorothy "Blonde Amber." The similarity was also noted in the strip itself.

** The female characters' eyes have much larger irises, but besides that, all the faces are pretty much identical. They [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1323 apparently]] have lots of eye/hair color variation...but the comic's normally in black and white.

*** Note that the skulls in question aren't the least bit similar in shape to the heads of living characters.

* ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'' was originally like this, with cat, mouse, wolf and even ''pangolin'' looking almost exactly alike. After being called out on this several times, the artist initially excused it by saying that a more realistic pangolin face would look ugly, but later redesigned the characters to look more distinct from each other.

* Dan Shive of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has [[http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2010-04-20 noted]] that three of the main female characters have pretty much the same face. He's tried to give each of them a little more individuality, but points out that changing their faces too much would mean they'd no longer look like the people they're supposed to be. He averts it a lot better with characters created later in the series.

* In ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'', all gnolls look pretty much alike, except for their hairstyles.
* ''FanFic/HowIBecameYours'' (as well as the sequel, ''[[FanFic/HowIBecameYoursRiseOfTheAgniArmy Rise of the Agni Army]]'') has this something terrible. Mostly due to the fact that the artist traces her face over and over again, and only bothered to trace ''one'' character's face for her [[OriginalCharacter OCs.]]

** Taken even further with the recent inclusion of [[spoiler:the ectobiological parents of the original protagonists]], whose features are similar on purpose. The most extreme example thus far being [[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/File:John_Egbert2.png John]] and [[spoiler: [[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/File:Jake_English.png Jake]]]], whose facial features are pretty much exactly the same.

** Cleverly lampshaded in the episode "The Coon", in which after spending the entire episode keeping the other characters - and the audience - guessing as to his identity, masked vigilante "Mysterion" finally removes his mask, revealing him to be... [[TheUnreveal completely indistinguishable from just about every other boy in the show.]] Just to rub it in, the rest of the characters recognize him instantly, but don't say his name. Later episodes reveal him to be [[spoiler:Kenny.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', pretty much every girl has the exact same body, head, and face shapes. If it weren't for the vastly different hairstyles, clothes, and colors you wouldn't be able to tell any of them apart.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' [[http://www.shortpacked.com/blog/comic/book-5/01-a-talking-car-joins-the-cast/reflection/ points out]] that this happens in {{Batman}} comics all the time (the comic itself is a clear aversion, thankfully).

When you use "Only Six Faces", it often becomes more vital to give them some other DistinctiveAppearances through the use of LimitedWardrobe.

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** This is even {{Lampshaded}} in an episode of ''LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'', where Fujiko is cast as a stand-in for a European opera singer.

** This was continued by the creators of the movie version of Tezuka's ''[[OsamuTezukasMetropolis Metropolis]]'' with the character Rock.
** He took it up a notch in the ''{{Phoenix}}'' series. Not only did he use his major star system, but the primary theme of the series was reincarnation and the eternal struggle in attempting to catch the Phoenix. In the case of one soul, he was always doomed to have a large misshapen nose by the end of the story arc. Arguably the entire star system is these same people reincarnating again and again.

** Random villagers in Inyuasha tend to have more elongated faces than her main characters, though. you can basically tell who's going to be important to the episode by the presence or absence of the basic faces - if he looks like Miroku, you're either going to have to save him or kill him.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' downplays this. While it has tons of GenericCuteness and often relies on characteristics like IdiotHair, many characters have distinctive eye shapes, face shapes, and expressions. The first four seasons of the anime adaptation, however, play it very straight, and doesn't help by giving ''everybody'' except for Cuba the exact same skin color.

* YuuWatase is particularly bad about this - she appears to have two teenager/young adult faces, male and female, with different hairstyles and the occasional {{Gonk}} thrown in for good measure (and other age groups aren't exactly bursting with variety). In ''Imadoki!'', she actually had to ''change a character's hair color'' in order to make him distinguishable from another after he shaved his goatee. This is made even worse because of the two short stories shoehorned into the last volume of ''Imadoki!'', both starring male and female protagonists who are 100% identical to the ones from the story that just finished...and equally indistinguishable from the lead couples of ''Manga/FushigiYugi'', ''Manga/AbsoluteBoyfriend'', and ''Manga/{{Alice 19th}}''.

* In HokutoNoKen, more than a handful of the women look ''remarkably'' similar, which is used as a plot point. Also, before his character development kicked in, Rei looked a hell of a lot like Shin.
* ''WanderingSon''. The mangaka even admits that she always draws things where the characters don't look very different. When the only apparent differences between girls and boys are hairstyle and clothes, it's not exactly surprising that Shuuichi can easily look like a girl just by putting on a hairband.

* StudioGainax's Yoshiyuki Sadamoto even satirized himself with this; pointing out that you could draw [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] by drawing Anime/{{Nadia|TheSecretOfBlueWater}}'s face [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/16767/ with different hair.]]

* After the wonderful contrast of HughLaurie's near-bishounen Bertie and crooked-nosed StephenFry's round-faced Jeeves in ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'', not to mention [[http://axxc.nl/pgw/boe/inim.htm the gajillion different artist's interpretations of the two over the years]], it's a more than a little disappointing to read the manga ''Please, Jeeves'' and find that pretty much ALL the men have the same face-shape, just with different eyes and hair.

* Shojo mangaka Haruka Fukushima is ''incredibly'' guilty of this (though got ''slightly'' better after time), to the point that most of her heroines '''literally have the exact same hairstyle and hair colour'''. This and the fact that most of her series are ClicheStorms has made her SnarkBait to veteran shojo fans.

** It wasn't just Superman - JimmyOlsen and LoisLane encountered identical duplicates of themselves on a semi-regular basis, too. Editor Mort Weisinger actually claimed (in response to a reader questioning the plausibility of this) that [[VoodooShark it was a real-world fact that everybody on Earth has one or more exact lookalikes running around]]! (You haven't met yours? Obviously you just haven't been looking hard enough!)

* David Lafuente averts this. He gives all the cast of ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan distinct faces, hairstyles, dress styles, and rarest of all, physical builds.

* ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog is often accused of taking this to the entire body. Many share a body and head type with Sonic, even if they're not hedgehogs. Many characters are distinguished by clothing elements, colored bodies, or hairstyle.
** This is part of the reason why the comics are immensely popular in the fan art community (one could make a drinking game out of browsing Website/DeviantArt for recolors of Sonic). The body type is fairly easy to learn and since many characters design-wise could be dumbed down as 'diffrent color Sonic with hair', novice artists often can fall back on tracing pages.

* Any interpretation of super heroes by Creator/Alex Ross will be super-detailed and almost photo-realistic... paintings of the exact same guy or girl, just in a different outfit (or painted green in the case of The Martian Manhunter, etc.)

* Franchise/{{LEGO}} had a stock smiley face for all figures during the 70s and 80s. Sometime in the 90s they decided to use more different prints (like bearded man, guy with sunglasses, etc.). They do new faces regularly, but lines like [[LEGOCity City]] are still plagued with this - for example most of the policemen have the same grumpy expression, and there seems to be only three different female head prints; this is possibly justifiable in how City figures are supposed to be generic everymen with no designated characterisation. Conversely, licensed themes handle this better because the main characters need to be identifiable, but they still spam the more generic-looking heads like the NormanOsborn one (who accordingly was also [[Franchise/IndianaJones a Nazi, a Communist]], his own son Harry, '''''and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the goddamn Batman]]''''') for mooks and guards.

** Played with in the ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' line. Clone troopers are meant to all have the same face, and LEGO [[FridgeBrilliance used the same face for the Boba Fett figurine]]. However, they also gave the same face to all other Mandolorians and even the Senate Commandos, who are specifically stated to NOT be clones.

* The first MassEffect game had many alien background characters cycle through the same small number of faces. It was actually [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe, when a Turian that didn't have much prior contact with humans couldn't tell what gender Shepard was, and later commented that humans "all look alike". The sequels brought more depth to character faces, but background characters still appeared with stock faces.
** KnightsOfTheOldRepublic was little better. There was only one face for each race, and only a couple for humans. Even the player character could only select from a few stock faces, and could quite possibly run into a face clone.

* A common source of mirth when talking about ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'' is how pretty much every guard or scientist in the Black Mesa complex has the same face (well, for scientists there are two alternating faces). [[AscendedExtra This became more awkward when the models were given names and turned into unique [=NPCs=] in the sequel]]. Maybe they were short on employees and decided to [[ExpendableClone clone themselves repeatedly?]]

* The guys of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' are easy to tell apart, but the girls all have the same vaguely-childlike face, and the same build. It gets even more noticeable when you look at Team Ninja's fanart of Chun-Li and Cammy, though they tone down the former's HartmanHips.
** Well, that's not ''entirely'' true. Close inspection reveals that there are, in fact, ''two'' female models in the game, the tall, incredibly well-endowed Caucasian, and the petite, yet still incredibly well-endowed Asian (or [[ButNotTooForeign half-Asian]]).

* ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft'' offers about 8 or 9 face options per race/gender. While many of the male faces get used, female faces are rarely used unless they're one of the couple of youthful, smooth faces available for that race, making female characters more likely to look like clones of eachother.

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' does this oddly. There are dozens of unique {{character portrait}}s... but with each random NPC getting one from this selection, they get repetitive anyway, with it not helping that the portraits are always the same, not modified slightly the way characters in a work with OnlySixFaces usually can be.

* Save for Campbell, Dr. Betruger, Counselor Swann, Theresa Chasar and Sergeant Kelly, the NPC's in ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}'' have all the exact same asian, middle-aged white or young white male faces. There are two black males in the first level, though, but that could be {{Hand Wave}}d [[EpilepticTrees as them being twins]].

* Kristofer Straub's ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'' and its successor, ''StarslipCrisis'', have identical-looking humans except for hair and costuming. The strips don't suffer for this, though.

* All the characters in Vinnie Veritas's {{CCC}} series would be indistinguishable with shaved heads and the same clothes, but thanks to his utterly awesome character design ([[ImpossiblyCoolClothes by which I mean unique clothes]] and [[AnimeHair unique hair]]) he manages to make it CastOfSnowflakes at the same time.

** Also, in the [[ShowWithinAShow Terrance and Phillip]] episode, ''Not Without My Anus'', the character "Ugly Bob" wears a paper bag over his head. When he takes it off, he looks exactly like all the other characters, but they react as if he's [[HollywoodHomely traumatically hideous]].

*** The only characters that Professor Chaos has crossed off his Mysterion identity list are the obvious ones: [[TokenMinority Token]], [[FatBastard Cartman]], and [[InspirationallyDisadvantaged Jimmy and Timmy]].

* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', a few generic character models are used for minor roles and even a few major characters are recycled. Art's model is used as a college student in the Another Believer montage and Franny's model is used for Lewis' mother.
** Which is [[OedipusComplex kinda creepy]] if you think about it.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]'' Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman find a herd of zebras, among the many herds on the game preserve, and Alex has a hard time distinguishing Marty from the others. He finally manages to identify Marty using the scar on Marty's rump from when Alex bit him in the first movie.
** In real life, each zebra's pattern of stripes is unique, like human fingerprints. However, it would be like trying to identify a human by using ''only'' the fingerprints through a magnifying glass, a task that would be quite difficult.

* Much as with Classical Greek statues, Regency official portraits tended to all look alike, [[Series/{{Blackadder}} "'cause they're painted to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosycratic facial qualities of the person in question"]]. Historically, this contributed to Prince George marrying Caroline of Brunswick, who so repelled him on actually meeting that he immediately begged off claiming to feel unwell (and Caroline wasn't very impressed with George either, which didn't help things). The whole marriage was such a disaster he attempted (unsuccessfully) to divorce her, and a good many of his relatives started desperately trying to produce an heir (when it became clear he was never going to have any legitimate children), eventually leading to Queen Victoria.

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* Save for Campbell, Dr. Betruger, Counselor Swann, Theresa Chasar and Sergeant Kelly, the NPC's in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3'' have all the exact same asian, middle-aged white or young white male faces. There are two black males in the first level, though, but that could be {{Hand Wave}}d [[EpilepticTrees as them being twins]].
* VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX: In one case, Richard mixes up Shizuna for Izuna as the twins look the same, and [[HypocriticalHumor Shoko laughs at all of them looking the same]]. Shizuna thinks the same about the Gundam-faces.

* The 2005 video game homage to TheWarriors has pretty much all gangs except the Warriors (who have the protagonist cast and 9 "New Bloods) use just 9 different characters, no more. And even then, in a lot of cases, one of the characters will be the gang's warlord who, as you'd expect only appears once, and as a boss, so apart from him/her, there are usually only 8 gang characters; what's more, you can often see several clones of the same character in one fight due to the fact that you'll be fighting multiple gang members throughout the game.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' downplays this. While it has tons of GenericCuteness and often relies on characteristics like IdiotHair, many characters have distinctive eye shapes, face shapes, and expressions. The first four seasons of the anime adaptation, however, play it very straight, and doesn't help by giving <i>everybody</i> except for Cuba the exact same skin color.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' is very amusing and lots of fun, but reading the webcomic, with its often sketchy style, leads to much confusion between characters. Watching the anime is a bit easier on one's brain. Thank God for different hair colors!
** Some characters do have unique faces that can't be mistaken for anyone else's, Russia being the most prominent example. On the other hand, many characters are given distinctive appearance traits like [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]] or [[IdiotHair ahoge]] to counter the GenericCuteness -- take away England's characteristic BigOlEyebrows, and he could be mistaken for Iceland or a calm Prussia. Likewise, smooth down America's ahoge and you get Estonia.
** Taiwan is basically an Asian Hungary with a hair curl
** Cameroon is basically a black Sweden with a hair cross
** Thailand is basically dark haired Denmark, likewise Australia is twin ahoge thicked eyebrows Denmark.

* Lampshaded in ''[[GundamAbridged G Gundam Abridged]]'' where Domon points out that his brother Kyoji looks a lot like American Chibodee Crockett, for which he blames the animators.

* The 2005 video game homage to [[Film/TheWarriors]] has pretty much all gangs except the Warriors (who have the protagonist cast and 9 "New Bloods) use just 9 different characters, no more. And even then, in a lot of cases, one of the characters will be the gang's warlord who, as you'd expect only appears once, and as a boss, so apart from him/her, there are usually only 8 gang characters; what's more, you can often see several clones of the same character in one fight due to the fact that you'll be fighting multiple gang members throughout the game.

* Former SNK and current Capcom artist, "Shinkiro", possesses an almost photo-realistic (if slightly creepy) art-style. The thing is, all his characters have more or less the same face and their expressions seem limited to "serious", "creepy grin" and "manic grin".

** Ditto Jim Lee. Batman and Superman appear to be clones, and all women are identical. This actually caused me a lot of confusion in certain parts.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' there's an increasing level of homogenisation in Kubo's artwork as the manga (and by extension the anime) has progressed, where previously only a few characters shared similar features it seems he's working off a single face-shape template now with only cosmetic changes (hair, eye, skin) to differentiate. Characters that once looked very dissimilar now look almost identical (Ichigo and Byakuya, for example). When a gang of thugs invading the school looking for Ichigo mistook Uryuu Ishida for Ichigo, Uryuu's insulted response, "You got a good look at his face, didn't you? So what part of me resembles Kurosaki?", led to the fandom's response of "Your face does!". Cue memetic mutations, a fandom RunningGag and WildMassGuessing that perhaps TiteKubo knows about this trope and is having fun with it.

*** Overall though, Pixar had been pretty good at adverting this. Even when using the same model, they've been able to create [[CastOfSnowflakes pretty unique characters]], whether they be background or main.

* All of the women in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse'' have the same hairstyle, face, and body type, with the obvious exceptions of Barbie, her family, and her friends. ([[UnknownRival And Raquelle.]]) Justified in that the series takes place in a community of living Mattel dolls.

* Parodied in one ''Webcomic/AnimeNewsNina'' strip where Nina becomes a fan of a series whose male characters are distinguished only by hairstyle, eye colour, and one guy having a scar.