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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is made with Flash animation, which results in certain flash elements being copy/pasted quite often. Most notably, in the first season, 95% of the ponies in the show (including the primary cast) all have the exact same body type, just with different coloration and hairstyles. It's also far from uncommon to see up to half a dozen clones in the background of large crowd scenes. The later seasons are a bit better about this, although it still tends to mostly use the same character models for anyone who isn't important to the plot. Although the blatant copy/pastes also means that any time a background character ''isn't'' a palette swap or a clone, they tend to get catapulted right into MemeticBystander territory.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' video games, there are very few overview sprites. So, most people have the same overview sprite. While this improves in later games, there's still only a handful of them. Each trainer class looks the same, unless the class is represented by both genders, in which it will have a whole TWO different appearances.
** ''Pokémon Battle Revolution'' also suffers, but not as much. There are six models, and every shirt, pair of pants, and hair color is a palette-swapped variant of the original model (i.e. every character using the Cool Girl model wears a tank top and jeans.) Also, not even hair color and eye color cannot be changed when a character is wearing a Pokemon costume. On the other hand, there is a bigger variety of hats, face accessories, and gloves.

** In the older Game Boy Pokemon games, certain Pokemon (excluding a few of the [[OlympusMons legendaries]], such as Lugia) had certain sprites on your party screen (a bug Pokemon will have a bug icon, a plant Pokemon will have a plant icon, etc.) or in the overworld, as opposed to the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS games, which had individual icons for every last Pokemon.

* One story in the book ''My Zombie Valentine'' [[spoiler: has a film producer complaining that he wasn't given enough budget for his ZombieApocalypse film, so he'd have to use the same four guys to play ''all'' the zombies. He averts this using ''real'' zombies, which of course GoesHorriblyWrong.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life|1}}'' had four scientist models, with two voices (both done by the same actor) and exactly one model for all the security guards. There were also only four models for the enemy soldiers. In ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'', Barney was brought back as an NPC, and two of the four scientist models (one with a new voice actor) became Eli Vance and Isaac Kleiner.
** The expansion, ''Half-Life: Opposing Force'', had the same faces for all soldiers of a particular combat class. So like the Black Mesa security, the US Army only recruits clones! There is much more facial variety than in the first ''Half-Life'', however.

** ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' and the Episodes are better about this in general, but unfortunately kept the scarcity of voice actors: ''all'' the unnamed [=NPCs=] (plus Colonel Cubbidge) share the same two voice actors: one man and one woman. All of the Vortigaunts are identical and have the same voice (Lou Gossett Jr. in ''Half-Life 2''; Tony Todd in ''Episode 2''), but it's assumed that their species is just naturally that way.

* All the Asgard in ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' look identical. The best way to tell them apart is by the voice.

* Taken to extremes in ''VideoGame/FutureWars'', in which many NPCs share sprites with ''the protagonist''. Except for the coveralls he wears at the beginning of the game, every outfit he wears is copied by at least one NPC.

* Justified in {{Warframe}} with the Grineer, whose massive similar-looking armies are a result of [[CloningBlues cloning.]]

* Most NPC characters in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} have some facial variations, except for elderly men who always have the same wrinkled faces and old "hillbilly prospector" voices. The voice acting for everyone else uses the same handful of actors over and over too, with no variation in style or accent.

*** Even more guilty is ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilZero'', where many of the random zombies are clones of STARS member Edward Dewey.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' (as do the [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar other]] [[Series/MonstersVsAliens two]] Creator/{{Dreamworks}} shows for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}) has a pretty high degree of clones for background characters differentiated merely by clothing recolouring and that's if you're lucky, {{Mooks}} draw the short straw and all look entirely the same.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' (as do the [[WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar other]] [[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens two]] Creator/{{Dreamworks}} shows for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}) has a pretty high degree of clones for background characters differentiated merely by clothing recolouring and that's if you're lucky, {{Mooks}} draw the short straw and all look entirely the same.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' (as do the [[WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar other]] [[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens two]] Creator/Dreamworks shows for Creator/Nickelodeon) has a pretty high degree of clones for background characters differentiated merely by clothing recolouring and that's if you're lucky, {{Mooks}} draw the short straw and all look entirely the same.

* In MassEffect, this is almost totally averted, except that every species except humanity is limited to one gender. This is justified for most of them in the background details if you pay attention, but they had to cancel Turian females during production, so they're just not there (or indistinguishable from the men). And of course, the Asari are a OneGenderRace. Also, humans have [[OnlySixFaces only six hairstyles.]]
** The sequel, while still a pretty big offender, does at least offer us female Batarians, in the few instances we see them. Their faces are identical to male batarians and their body structure isn't as blatantly female as humans, it can be hard to see at a glance.
** Mass Effect 2 onwards does introduce male quarians (Kal'Reegar, Rael'Zorah, Han'Gerrel, Zaal'Koris and Kenn the Salvage Dealer), Mass Effect 3 makes female krogan an important plot point, female Salarians like Dalatrass Linron from [=ME3=] are virtually indistinguishable from the males apart from voice, and a female turian has been seen in the expanded universe, though never in-game (they have shorter crests, but that's about the only observable difference)

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Episode 8 of ''BerserkAbridged'' when Corbowitz mistakes a group of similar-looking but not carbon-copy soldiers for this. Also doubles as a ShoutOut to Manga/{{Naruto}}:

* Visible in TheElderScrolls series, specifically [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] where all the guards of a town tend to have similar faces, despite the player being able to do a lot of customizing with their own faces. In fact, if you remove their helmets, the Imperial Guards you see, including the foresters, only have 2-3 face models. Granted, most of them are of the same race/gender combo (Imperial males) but still, it is a bit jarring when you find them fighting a monster, and even three guards all look the same. Even worse in the city of Bravil, where other than ONE Redguard male, the entire town guard are the SAME GUY.

* Visible in TheElderScrolls series, specifically [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] where all the guards of a town tend to have similar faces, despite the player being able to do a lot of customizing with their own faces. In fact, if you remove their helmets, the Imperial Guards you see, including the foresters, only have 2-3 face models. Granted, most of them are of the same race/gender combo (Breton males) but still, it is a bit jarring when you find them fighting a monster, and even three guards all look the same. Even worse in the city of Bravil, where other than ONE Redguard male, the entire town guard are the SAME GUY.

* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'' takes this to an extreme when the target of a certain plotline mission doesn't even get the benefit of a unique character model.

* ''Double Dragon'', the forefather of all modern beat em up games, has only a few stock enemies. The same can be said for its sequels. Double Dragon Neon lampshades this by making into a self-aware joke, especially with the "cartwheeling cannon fodder" enemy Williams.