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9A character that looks strange in the context of their cartoon world. Often a result of ArtEvolution, with earlier designs becoming TheArtifact to a newer, more refined sensibility. It could be that a major character was designed independently and integrated without any changes. This could also be an intentional stylistic choice, indicating a descrepency between the odd one out and the rest of their world.
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11{{Crossover}}s often result in this, with an attempt at fidelity to both art styles rather than going for OffModel. It's especially noticeable when the characters are from different franchises, showcasing distinctive character designs from their respective source material. A {{Gonk}} often utilizes this, deviating from the style specifically for the purpose of looking ugly. Same could be applied to an EldritchAbomination to emphasize how alien it is.
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13Compare ArtShift (when the art itself shifts in style temporarily), ArtStyleDissonance (where the art intentionally clashes with tone of a work), ArtStyleClash (when a work uses different art styles to highlight conflict or themes), MasculineLinesFeminineCurves (women tend to be drawn more realistically than men in many illustrated works) and FlashyProtagonistsBlandExtras (when the major characters look non-standard compared to the background characters). CartoonishCompanions, NoCartoonFish, and RealisticSpeciesCartoonySpecies are {{subtrope}}s. Sometimes EvilIsAngular can result in this if there's a heavily skewed hero/villain character ratio.
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17* NonStandardCharacterDesign/VideoGames
18* NonStandardCharacterDesign/WesternAnimation
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24* Soaky, a kids' bubble bath marketed in the late 50s and early 60s, was packaged in containers designed as noted cartoon stars. The commercials pairing some of these stars were sometimes bizarre. Muskie (from ''WesternAnimation/TheDeputyDawgShow'') and [[WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow Dick Tracy]] is seen on one spot, while [[WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales Tennessee Tuxedo]] and Franchise/{{Superman}} appear in another. The realistic and/or semi-realistic designs of Tracy and Superman contrast quite glaringly against the cartoony Muskie and Tennessee.
25* The Advertising/TrixRabbit tries time and again to get some Trix cereal from the kids. So in the 80s, who should call him but the one and only WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08gt3JqdJfI The simplistic design of the Trix rabbit]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlqblhfNKs stands out against Bugs' highly defined design]] like a sore thumb.
26* ''Advertising/FrontRowJoe'': While most of the characters are cats with near-humanlike proportions, Elton is a FunnyAnimal cat with a much more short, chubby, and exaggerated design.
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30* Aburazaka from ''Manga/AiKora'' has a chubby-cheeked, excessively-stylized face that makes him look like a gag manga character. It contrasts not only with the relatively realistic faces of the rest of the cast, but also with his personality of a shameless pervert.
31* ''Anime/ArmitageIII'': The Second-type androids, along with [[spoiler:Naomi Armitage and Julian Moore]], are designed and drawn in a traditional, big-eyed Anime style. The humans, D'anclaude, and the [[spoiler:Third-type androids]] are designed in a more realistic style (and with [[{{Mukokuseki}} more visibly European facial features]]).
32* Two [[{{Foil}} opposing characters]] in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' have a different character design than most of the cast: Koro-Sensei and the Chairman of Kunugigaoka School. The former is a comically drawn smiley-faced octopus monster; the latter is much more subtle, as he is a normal human being, but he's drawn in a more angular art style that emphasizes his status as a sociopathic MagnificentBastard.
33* Deliberately invoked with ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''[='=]s titans, who look much more photorealistic than the human characters.
34* The fusions in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' are drawn in a much more serious style than the regular characters. When a fusion fails, it's drawn [[StylisticSuck in a much crappier style than the regular characters.]]
35* Not unlike the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' celebrities example, are the monkey and dog in ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'', who look like people with photographed heads.
36* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', whenever Kamiyama encounters one of his former middle school classmates, they're always depicted in a simplistic cartoony style that contrast the series' semi-realistic style.
37* Honey’s teacher Miss Alphonne from ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' has a very odd appearance compared to everyone else, with her big head, shovel like jaw, facial hair, crooked teeth, one eye often depicted as being bigger than the other, and often is depicted noseless.
38* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'':
39** The PluckyComicRelief, [[CluelessDetective Gai Kurasawa]] and his assistant [[CosplayOtakuGirl Kiko]], don't look like they even belong in the same series, which is appropriate given that generally the only reason they ''are'' involved is chance. These two alone are also the only ones in the entire series (until the OVA with the YaoiFangirl- and even that features these two) to show the standard exaggerated anime expressions such as WingDingEyes, SweatDrop, and CrossPoppingVeins.
40** [[MadScientist Dr. Schraeder]] and his crazy hair that's [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens probably taller than he is]].
41* The [[EldritchAbomination D-Reaper]] of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' looks like nothing ever seen before (or after) in the whole franchise. {{Invoked|Trope}} to emphasize how the D-Reaper is neither human nor Digimon.
42* Most of the game characters in ''Anime/DotHackSign'' have standard {{Anime}} designs, except for "A-20", who appears in a couple of episodes and has a much more cartoony appearance and no visible nose. This looks especially strange when she's interacting with Mimiru. Of course this does lampshade the fact that the animated characters we're watching are actually supposed to ''be'' animated characters and not real people.
43* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
44** Cell of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' looks like something that crawled out of a {{Seinen}} series. He starts off with pink colored HellishPupils, then gains blue, then pink irises with black pupils in a similar vein to the Androids. He is by far the most detailed character to come out of the series. ''Manga/DragonBall'' creator Creator/AkiraToriyama regrets making Cell so detailed since he kept forgetting to draw his spots.
45** [[MadScientist Dr. Wheelo]] from ''Anime/DragonBallZTheWorldsStrongest'' is one of the most original looking villains, as most movie villains tends to be an {{Expy}} of another character. He is a giant brain in a jar, that turns out to be mounted on a giant, mechanical body, that is rather alien looking.
46** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'':
47*** Aside from his hairstyle, the Saiyan Cabba of Universe 6 physically looks quite different than just about every other Saiyan seen in the series. Despite his definite fighting prowess, he's almost completely devoid of muscle definition, far thinner the U7's Saiyans like Vegeta's brother Tarble, or Trunks and Goten who are human-hybrid children. Also notable is that his eyes are in a thin design similar to Android's 17 and 18 that, while have been seen on Saiyans in the past, were never before seen on a Super Saiyan.
48*** Ribriane of Universe 2. Her design is quite different from Toriyama's usual style. She is drawn cuter with wide eyes in her human form. She wouldn't be out of place in ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', which makes sense since she's an obvious homage to the Magical Girl genre.
49*** Supreme Kai Pell of Universe 2 looks very unusual among the Supreme Kais, with his largely bald head and stocky build. One could have mistaken him for a God of Destruction if it wasn't for his clothing.
50* Hiruma from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', with his fangs, claws, and spiky blonde AnimeHair looks very different from the more normally drawn members of the cast.
51* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' delivers a very minor example; Ed, Al, Hohenheim and [[spoiler:all other characters of Xerxian descent]] are drawn with a dark yellow outline to their hair which makes them appear to glow slightly. All other characters, even other blonds, have their hair outlined in black.
52* In ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'', Principal Hiroin has a considerably more cartoonish look than all the characters, including a huge round head over a midget body.
53* ''Manga/FutureDiary'':
54** All of the diary owners are drawn in a style somewhere between typical anime and realistic. Eighth however... Eighth is four feet tall, and has a head nearly as large as the rest of her body, with eyes the size of dinner plates perched over a cat's mouth. Next to other characters, [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx3446wJG1qzz9rr.png she can look utterly terrifying]][[note]]or adorable.[[/note]]
55** There's also Deus Ex Machina, who is animated entirely with CG while everyone else is drawn in 2D.
56* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': Most characters have ordinary, fairly realistic proportions and appearances, so Koil Krasnov and the unnamed informant in "FABRICATE FOG" stand out. Koil Krasnov is a gigantic guy with a RightHandOfDoom, weirdly short legs, an exaggerated square jaw, and red eyeliner. The informant is a tiny guy with a huge forehead, dot-shaped eyebrows, and blue shadows under his eyes. His facial expressions are animated in a more cartoony manner than the other characters'.
57* It can look mighty weird when Elizabeth of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is standing next to the rest of the cast.
58* The title character and his family members in ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' are drawn as simplistic birds on default. They're normal humans and the choice is stylistic. We occasionally see pieces of Punpun's real face, and later on he's drawn in different ways besides a bird, but that's his default.
59* ''Anime/GreenVsRed'' is a crossover of the ''entire'' franchise, if you can understand that. The OVA had the Lupin impersonators at the beginning are drawn to resemble '''all''' possible incarnations of the character and then some, including the Pink Jacket Lupin, a fat Lupin and [[Creator/ShinichiWatanabe Nabeshin.]]
60* In ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'', the main four's Gunpla are vastly different from each other, even more so that previous entries. Hiroto's Core Gundam is a smaller version of the RX-78-2 Gundam with stubby arms and legs. May's [=WoDom=] Pod is based off of the Walking Dome from ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', one of many strange designs created by the late futurist artist Syd Mead. Parviz's Valkylander is a SuperDeformed dragon that turns into a ''Gundlander'' version of the [[Manga/Gundam00Sidestories Astraea F]]. Kazami's Justice Knight is probably the closest to a normal Gunpla despite being a knight-themed Justice Gundam.
61* Kohina from ''Manga/GugureKokkuriSan'' has a markedly different style from her companions and other children, being stylized with rectangular eyes, no nose, and a very short, simplistic, round shape in her overall appearance. Her eyes are the only ones to feature square highlights and irises. She does, however, experience ArtShift during particularly emotional moments, such as when she's crying, or is extremely happy. During these moments, she becomes nearly twice her normal height to match that of her 10 year old classmates.
62* ''Anime/HareGuu'':
63** There are birds that are drawn in a crude, primitive style.
64** Guu herself has more simplistic style than the rest of the cast, lacking fingers and toes in most situations, and moves with boneless flops.
65* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': [[StudentCouncilPresident Hinagiku]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Katsura]] is actually in a different, more...flowery style that is heavily reminiscent of [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena]], which seems to be one of Hata-sensei's inspirations for her character and some elements of the plot. It's especially noticeable in her introductory chapter but as the art style for the series has become more of a mixture of PuniPlush and NoodlePeople her design has become more-or-less the same as everyone else's unless she's being focused on.
66* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' has a lot of variation in its visual designs, but a few stand out even among the other characters. Chrollo Lucilfer, for example, has a more realistic design compared to most of the other characters, with just enough detail to make him look strangely unsettling.
67* The vice-principal that appears in episode 11 of ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'' has a slightly more Westernized appearance than other characters.
68* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
69** Jones, Bonham, Page, and Plant, the four [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]] Straizo [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', have more notably monstrous designs compared to the mostly human designs of the rest of the zombies.
70** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'':
71*** Guido Mista is the only character who has irises but lacks defined pupils.
72*** While the series is no stranger to {{Gonk}}s, they usually still look like otherwise normal humans, which causes Pesci and Carne to stand out as particularly extreme. Pesci, on top of his small, beady eyes, seems to lack a chin, making it hard to know where his neck ends and his head begins, and combined with his AnimeHair, it's easy to make comparisons to a pineapple. Carne, meanwhile, takes this up to eleven, as on top of being noticeably obese, he seems to lack a neck, nose, and ears, has a ''square shaped'' body and head, a tiny mouth, and pin-prick pupils.
73*** [[spoiler:While [[TheDon Diavolo]]'s design is mostly nothing to out of place in ''[=JoJo=]'', his eyes stand out for being done is a completely different style from the rest of the cast, only adding to the AmbiguouslyHuman nature of the character]].
74* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':
75** In their later appearances, Kaguya (Moron) and Kaguya (Ice) take this in opposite directions. (Moron) becomes SuperDeformed with thicker outlines and less detail, while (Ice) becomes more realistic (particularly with her hair).
76** During Maki's trip to India, all the locals were drawn far more realistically than is standard for the series. Presumably, they're based off of people that the author met during his research trip.
77* The protagonist of ''Manga/{{Kasane}}'' has sharp teeth and giant, angular eyes that contrast with the normal manga-looking characters. She's supposed to be an unattractive looking girl.
78* ''Anime/KillLaKill'':
79** ''Kill la Kill'' is a series reminiscent of 80s anime, but Dr. Matoi and Soichiro Kiryuin look like they come respectively from a 70s series and an early 90s anime, with a wild case of AnimeHair. [[spoiler:This is used to foreshadow that they are actually the same person.]]
80** The Mankanshoku family is noticeably more cartoony and drawn in a looser style than the rest of the other roughly-drawn characters.
81** Nui Harime has non-standard character ''animation.'' [[WorldOfHam Nearly everyone moves in huge, over the top motions]], but Nui is rarely ever shown moving from one position to the next (there's usually a cut signifying it) and when she ''does'' move, it's [[LimitedAnimation the cheapest looking movement imaginable.]] The result is a singularly unnerving character. The intention is to make it clear that she's on a different level than the other characters, her animations start getting more fluid as Ryuko gets stronger and fights her more evenly.
82* Daichi of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' is drawn markedly different from the rest of the cast, being shorter, rounded, and with minimal facial features save his lips, usually drawn in a fish-like pursing. [[spoiler:When he speaks seriously with Yuriko, he is drawn much more seriously and normally, complete with visible eyes.]]
83* Moguro Fukuzou, the titular character from ''Manga/LaughingSalesman''. Even within the cartoonish art style, Moguro still stands out among other characters, with his thin red lips, large head, pale skin, stout body, and his never-changing facial expression. This, of course, makes him even more unsettling.
84* ''Manga/LuckyStar'''s anime adaptation has Anime Tenchou and the rest of his co-workers, who are drawn in a very bold, sketchy action-series style, in contrast to the PuniPlush of everyone else. That's because Anime Tenchou didn't originate from ''Lucky Star'', since he was created by ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' character designer Kazuhiko Shimamoto as the mascot of Animate and had his own OVA by Creator/StudioGainax, long before he made appearances in other anime (as he's also appeared in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'').
85* All the students of ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'' have black sclera in their eyes, except Onpoo, who has white sclera instead. Justified as her head is a black music note.
86* Soujirou Marui, father of the triplets in ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}'', is drawn with a much rougher art style and thicker outlines compared to everyone else. His face is also somewhat different from the rest of the cast, adult and child alike.
87* Kobayashi from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has notably smaller irises then the rest of the cast.
88* In ''Manga/MobPsycho100'', most characters will typically have very beady irises that look like dots, such as Mob, his parents, Tome, Dimple, and plenty of background characters. The rest will have slightly wider irises, like Reigen, Ritsu, Teru, and Ichi. However, Tsubomi stands out the most, because she's the only character so far with BigAnimeEyes.
89** When hitting a [[SuperMode 100% Explosion]], Mob undergoes an extended and dramatic ArtShift that starkly contrasts with the simpler, cartoonier designs of everyone around him.
90* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', All Might has a character design and shading closer to American comic books than manga to emphasize that he is an American-style superhero. Midoriya also has small amounts of that American comic book hatching on him, perhaps symbolic of how Midoriya takes All Might as his role model for superheroics. Even less standard is All Might's true form, a scrawny man with aggressive, angular features, no visible lips, and sunken eyes with black sclera.
91* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Itachi's girlfriend Izumi is the first Uchiha shown not to have black or dark blue hair, with black eyes. She has brown hair and eyes.
92* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': Double Cheeseburgirl, Yuuko's OddballDoppelganger. Her face is unusually detailed compared to everyone else. While other characters may ''temporarily'' get more detailed during an ArtShift to convey their changing emotions, this is how Doublecheeseburgirl normally looks.
93* Fuusuke the main character from ''Manga/{{Ninku}}'' has a very cartoonish design compared to everyone else, with his oversized head, huge eyes, big ears, duckbill like lips, and tongue that usually hangs out of his mouth.
94* ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' had ''three'' different art styles for characters, two different lead artists plus CGI, that serve to distinguish who is from the past or [[spoiler:a potential future.]]
95* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' has Ucchi and Futaki. While most of the cast have a traditional manga look, Ucchi has vertical-oval BlackBeadEyes and almost no facial details aside from her mouth. Futaki is even more cartoonish, with perfectly circular black eyes and a mouth that is almost always drawn as a small triangle. They've been nicknamed "The Emoji People" by Tomoko.
96* Medjed from ''Anime/OhSuddenlyEgyptianGod'' has two traits in his design that differs him from the other characters. He's the only character who isn't a FunnyAnimal, and his eyes are drawn differently compared to the rest, with a semi-realistic look.
97* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
98** The Admirals Akainu, Kizaru, and Aokiji, who, mostly because they are based on actual actors (Yusaku Masuda, Kunie Tanaka, and Bunta Sugawara respectively), are drawn in a style more realistic than most others (especially Akainu). Post-TimeSkip, new Admirals Fujitora and Ryokugyu join them; the former resembles actor Shintaro Katsu as Franchise/{{Zatoichi}} and the latter resembles actor Yoshio Harada in his role as Gennai Aramaki in ''Roningai''.
99** [[MadScientist Caesar Clown's]] design is remarkably different from most of the characters in the series, to the point of many fans thinking he looks like somebody out of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.
100** Mihawk's eyes. Aside from their [[SupernaturalGoldEyes color]] and hawk-like design (which earned him the name "[[RedBaron Hawk Eye]]"), the most outstanding thing about them is actually just that they're TsurimeEyes, which don't really show up in this series.
101** Cavendish, who's drawn as a {{Bishonen}}, and has glinting eyes. That's a very, '''''[[MillionToOneChance very]]''''' uncommon trait for male characters in ''One Piece'', not even for a RidiculouslyCuteCritter like Chopper. It's usually reserved for female characters.
102** There are a handful of female characters who ''don't'' have glinting eyes. This includes characters such as Kokoro, Perona, Lola, Sweet Pea, and Monet.
103** [[AdventurerArchaeologist Nico Robin]] looks more realistic than the rest of the Straw Hat Crew.
104** Diamante's eyes and nose look realistic, so he looks ''really'' strange with a CheshireCatGrin coupled with his GagLips.
105** Charlotte Katakuri looks like a super gritty, post-apocalyptic BadassBiker guy with the grim personality to match, seeming to have come straight out of ''Film/MadMax'' or something.
106** Kin'emon's wife, O-tsuru, looks like she stepped out of an Ukiyo-e drawing.
107* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Saitama, the main character, is often [[StylisticSuck drawn intentionally half-assed]] to reflect his similarly half-assed, uncaring attitude towards fights in general. This also reflects the art of ONE's original webcomic, which was similarly crude. Notably, he undergoes a one-man ArtShift when he gets anywhere near serious, joining the rest of the characters in art quality.
108** Tatsumaki also sometimes undergoes this ArtShift when she's being more bratty or childish than usual.
109** Black Sperm is given a similar treatment, looking crude and simple most of the time before gaining a disturbingly-detailed face and muscles in combat.
110* Almost all characters from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' seem to be unrealistically good-looking, from the abandoned children who survives on the street until a head of a dukedom who is only an inch from being rotten… and then we have Isla Yura, a human form of abomination itself with a stick-like body and lunatic big eyes... definitely far below the standard of the characters’ appearance.
111* ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'':
112** Tsubasa Yuuki stands out whenever she shows up. She's drawn in a '70s shoujo manga style, and is specifically modeled after [[Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles Lady Oscar.]]
113** The penguins look more cartoonish than the human characters around them. The series shows realistic penguins on occasion just to draw a comparison with the usual group.
114* In ''Manga/PocketMonsters'', some of Red's Pokémon, most noticeably Clefairy, have much more cartoonish and expressive faces than other mons.
115* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
116** A minor example, but Nando has more realistically drawn eyes compared to the other characters, who have larger and more cartoony-looking eyes.
117** In ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'' the museum curator Lorenzo looked more Western Animated, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Lorenzo_M05.png particularly in the eyes than the classic big anime eyes.]]
118** Cilan's SkintoneSclerae are even more [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120308015029/pokemon/images/3/3a/Vestless_Cilan.png noticeable]] than in the games.
119** The Charizard Kiawe inherited from his grandfather and the Stoutland that took care of Ash's Litten are both noticeably more ragged than normal ones, to indicate their age and experience.
120** Ash's Gengar has bright red eyes and is a lighter purple compared to how normal Gengars have more muted eyes and a darker purple. It makes it more closely resemble Gengar's colors in the core games.
121* The [[EldritchAbomination witches]] and their [[EldritchLocation barriers]] from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' are all animated in drastically, disturbingly different ways from the rest of the show. Each one has a unique style of animation, ranging from thick-line to shadow puppets.
122* The (live) humans in the ''Manga/SchoolLive'' manga are done in the {{moe}} norm for SchoolgirlSeries. The zombies are usually drawn in a much more realistic way.
123* Hata in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'' is definitely the only one missing a [[TheNoseless visible nose]] in the entire cast and is the only one [[DullEyesOfUnHappiness without glossy eyes]]. She is also rendered as a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] more often.
124* The Seiyuu [[TheCameo Cameos]] in ''Manga/SeiyusLife'' are drawn in a more realistic style.
125* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
126** The Flying Dutchman, who looks like some sort of deranged and villainous muppet.
127** Excalibur is drawn with very little detail, huge round eyes and an all-white color scheme, looking notably cartoonish among the other characters. Lampshaded by various characters across the series, most notably how he looks like he has googley eyes from a rainy day arts and crafts project.
128* Over Justice from ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' is basically an ''WebAnimation/InfernoCop'' character transplanted in a setting based on [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty & Stocking's]] style (this series runs on Gainax and Trigger homages, unsurprisingly). As such, he's a heavily shaded, barely animated cardboard cutout... until he needs to get serious, anyway.
129* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'':
130** Besides her unusual hair color, Anya's eyes are noticeably larger and more exaggerated compared to even the other child characters. Her eyes do slowly become less detailed as the manga goes on, with the focus instead switched towards giving her a number of exaggerated expressions.
131** Franky Franklin has a simplified design when compared with the other adult characters, having a squarish head, round eyes and [[BlackDotPupils black dot pupils]], befitting his primary role as comic relief.
132* In ''Still Sick'', Shimizu's boss is a portly man with a wide oval-shaped head, in contrast to the rest of the cast, who are drawn more realistically.
133* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
134** Lordgenome is deliberately drawn in a sketch-heavy style, to highlight his role as the BigBad. Later applied to [[spoiler:[[PeopleJars Lordgenome's head]] and post-timeskip Simon]].
135** [[spoiler:The Anti-Spiral]] looks like a chalk drawing in animated form. This highlights not only his BigBad status, but how utterly ''[[EldritchAbomination wrong]]'' he is. Similarly, his standard battle mecha are both CG and don't resemble a human being or animal in the slightest, unlike every previous mecha in the series. Even their codename, Mugann, means "faceless". Their battleships (and their units), Ashtanga, also look unusual in that they are like a bizarre mass of faces and shadow-arms and a bit more grim and realistically shaded, and overall completely unlike the Gunmen and Dai-Guns before.
136%% zero context example ** Attenborough has been nicknamed "Beamspam [=McMuppet=]", for reasons that will become apparent when you see [[http://i40.tinypic.com/qoce1t.jpg this picture]] (he's the third one from the left).
137* The Earth-based characters and environments in ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'' are drawn in a realistic style, but Stitch maintains his cutesy Western-based looks. The other elements from the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise also stick close to its original art style.
138* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' is a realistically-drawn series (with a few minor exceptions like Thorkell's hair going Super Saiyan). The Frank king, however, looks like Humpty Dumpty. A case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in the manga due to him appearing in the very first chapter, however he stands out more in the anime due to the adaptation showing the events in a chronological order.
139* Downplayed in ''Manga/WakakoZake''. Wakako is drawn slightly differently from all other characters -- mostly in her large oval eyes -- though this is likely to make her immediately distinct from surrounding incidental characters.
140* This happened to Chiba from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' after her ArtEvolution. She looked considerably more mature then most other characters from late elementary throughout middle school. It eventually leveled out in high school when everyone began aging.
141* Xabungle of ''Anime/{{Xabungle}}'' and the [[MilitaryMashupMachine transformable landship]] Iron Gear's robot mode stick out like a sore thumb as humanoid robots in a world where nearly every other machine is of a TabletopGame/BattleTech-ish ChickenWalker type. The Doylist reason is that they came from early drafts of the show, which was a more serious {{mecha}} series set in space.
142* The Duel Club from ''Anime/YuGiOhVrains'' consists of 6 members including Yusaku. Not two of them have the same art-style. This is possibly justified in that three of them are completely irrelevant side characters and Aoi is purposefully designed to look as generic as possible.
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146* While the majority of the characters from ''Animation/AdventuresOfCaptainVrungel'' have exaggerated proportions mostly made up of circles, are very cartoony-looking, and are animated using paper-doll animation, the mob boss main antagonist, Chief, is almost always only shown with just the bottom half of his face, which is depicted as cel-animated lips and a cigar moving on top of a still painting rendered somewhat more realistically than the rest of the characters. [[spoiler: This was done to hide his true identity as [[EvilAllAlong Archibald Dandy]] of the Yacht Club, and when the camera cuts from a close-up of his face to showing his full body, the design fits in with the rest of the cast]].
147* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': The pupils of Careful S.'s eyes are designed differently from the other Supermen of his team. His look more like real-life eyes, having an iris and a pupil, whereas the other Supermen have just a simple black pupil with a highlight inside.
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151* Everyone in the ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'' graphic novels has black eyebrows except Mr. Chapman, whose eyebrows are the same colour as his hair.
152* Almost everyone in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' has BlackBeadEyes on default. Kevin's most noticeable feature are his baby blue eyes, which make him really stand out from the others. He had black eyes in his first appearance but was redesigned later.
153* This is how you tell if a character in an ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' comic is an ComicBookFantasyCasting version of a real person -- fictional characters are quite clean and grotesque-looking, but caricatures are a lot more realistic and detailed. Compare Boneywasawarriorwayayix (who was modelled after the editor of the magazine ''Asterix'' was originally printed in, ''Pilote''), Dubbleosix (a Sean Connery parody) and Spartakis (based on Kirk Douglas) to non-caricature characters like Fulliautomatix or Caligula Minus and the difference is obvious. This is occasionally really useful, since a lot of the "cameos" are French celebrities that no-one outside of France would identify.\
154The exceptions are [[PrettyBoy Tragicomix]] and (somewhat less so) Panacea, who aren't particularly based on any one person but are drawn much more photorealistically than the other characters, especially in closeup. Panacea is stylized enough to not look out of place with either Tragicomix or Obelix, but when we see Tragicomix and Asterix together it looks almost like a CrossOver. Tragicomix is also the only adult male Gaulish or even Celtic character to lack a moustache, besides members of the tribe in ''The Big Fight'' who were forced to shave by their chief's ForeignCultureFetish for Rome. When Tragicomix reappeared in ''The Actress'', he got a more stylized design based on how he looks in the AnimatedAdaptation ''Asterix Versus Caesar'', making him look a lot less odd.
155* ''ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick'': Slapstick has an appearance akin to a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes character in a world with more realistic designs. This is to highlight his powers, which makes him and him alone follow CartoonPhysics.
156* Used in Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}'s run on ''ComicBook/BlackPanther''. Future Panther (and his former companions Abner Little and Princess Zanda) are drawn in a distinctly [[http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Costello_Panther_3.jpg Kirbyesqe style.]] Other characters are drawn in a more modern style, highlighting how these three are in a very different world.
157* The Bone cousins in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' are drawn in a simpler, more cartoony style than the other characters. Unlike the other characters they also obey cartoon physics, most notably in a scene where Phoney Bone tries to hide a partly eaten pie by shoving it into Fone Bone's mouth and [[DinnerDeformation Fone Bone's head assumes the shape of the pie, complete with missing segment.]] They are also the ''first'' characters shown -- Thorn, the first human character, doesn't appear until chapter 2.
158* The aardvarks in ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' are drawn in a cartoony style, with liberal use of zip-a-tone. Everything else, especially as the [[ArtEvolution art gets better]], is much more realistic and hard-edged, and zip-a-tone is used nowhere else.
159* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' comic, ''The Quest for Kalevala'', Creator/DonRosa decided to draw [[Literature/TheKalevala Väinämöinen and Louhi]] with realistic human noses instead of [[{{Dogfaces}} the usual dog-noses reserved for supporting cast]]. In contrast, Elias Lönnrot, who is a historical character and not a character from ''Kalevala'', is drawn with a dog-nose.
160* Tojo is a cub that appears in ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' comics, standing out among other cubs due to being one of the few lions with blue eyes.
161* ''ComicBook/{{Melusine}}'': Some monsters are drawn by guest artists and have a noticeably different style. (For example, one by Midam which looks like it just escaped from ''ComicBook/KidPaddle''.)
162* The black Cuban-Mexican protagonist in the Mexican comic book series ''ComicBook/MeminPinguin'' is drawn in a cartoony style while everyone else, including his three friends, is done in a far more realistic style.
163* In ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'', whenever real people (or Franchise/{{Superman}}) show up, they're drawn with realistic faces, which contrasts with the usual characters looking cartoony. Then there's also the CrossOver with ''El Capitan Trueno'', where the Trueno characters get sometimes drawn in their original realistic style and sometimes look cartoony... and sometimes it's a mix... you can see why we don't like talking about that.
164* In Fawcett and DC Comics' ''Captain Marvel[=/=]ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' series, characters designed by C.C. Beck (and Pete Constanza, working in Beck's style) generally tended to be much more cartoonish and simplified in appearance then those from Mac Raboy, Jack Binder, and other artists. Until the final issues of the 70's ''Shazam'' title, however, they were almost always drawn "on-model", particularly Billy with his classic BlackBeadEyes. The trend is most noticeable in [[http://cdn.coollinesartwork.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_43177/ShazamGoldenBookPgs67.jpg the finely detailed work of Kurt Schaffenberger,]] where Billy often looks bizarre and inhuman next to the realistic Freddy and Mary. When Don Newton took over as the main artist, he standardized Billy's look to match Mary and Freddy. Some non-DCU spin-off media (such as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'') still use the Beck designs, even if the other characters are less cartoonish looking.
165* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
166** The original ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' cast started standing out when the comic-only cast were introduced, many of which were taller, had more humanistic builds, and were more prone to having hair. ArtEvolution made characters look even more out of place. It wasn't until around issue 160 or so that the character designs finally became consistent, firmly rooting themselves into designs following the style of the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' redesigns.
167** Nack, Bean, and Bark, whose designs are drawn in the "classic" style (i.e.: short and chubby) of the old games, look really out of place next to the modern designs of rest of the cast. This is because they never received any "modern" redesigns in the games due to [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome never appearing in them]], and the character designers never bothered updating the three themselves beyond [[SuddenEyeColor giving them eye colors]].
168** The [=SegaSonic=] design characters like Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles clash with the {{Canon Foreigner}} characters; most of the [=SatAM=] and Archie-original characters don't follow the design scheme of the Sega characters, the former due to being made in the 90's without Sega's input and the latter following the design conventions of [=SatAM=], also without Sega's input. Thus we get characters with {{Furry Female Mane}}s[[note]]A few Sega-created characters, like Vanilla and Blaze, have hair, but it's very sparingly used and typically matches their fur colour[[/note]], more humanoid designs, [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully dressed]] ''male'' characters and [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal minimally dressed]] ''female'' characters. The ContinuityReboot redesigned several characters, most notably Sally and Antoine, to look more Sega-esque.
169* The first ''ComicBook/XMen[=/=]Franchise/StarTrek'' crossover infamously used jarringly different arts styles for each set of characters. The crew of the ''Enterprise'' was portrayed rather realistically, with more muted colors, more shadowed faces, and so on. The X-Men got absurdly muscular or curvy proportions, proportionally larger eyes, brighter colors, and their clothing seemed to always have a metallic sheen on it.
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173* In ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'', only the two main characters are drawn with the well-recognizable pointy noses. Any disguises they wear have to include a mask for this reason (and the masks [[LatexPerfection somehow fit right over their noses]]).
174* In ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', Dick and the rest of the police are drawn fairly realistically -- but his relatives B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie are like Popeye characters. The crooks that Dick pursues are also freakish, but they're supposed to be freakish-looking in-universe.
175* PlayedForLaughs in ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' once when Beetle appears in what turns out to be a DreamSequence [[HeroicBuild looking like a character from a superhero comic]]. Another time, a bunch of characters from other comics appear briefly, drawn as in the originals.
176* In ''ComicStrip/PriscillasPop'', Hollyhock has a simple head and face design unlike the other humans.
177* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
178** By the mid 1950s, the characters have became more detailed while Charlie Brown still has the simple design he had from the start. Later, the other characters got simpler designs and this was no longer the case.
179** Lucy was drawn with much more realistic eyes, however she got the BlackBeadEyes like everyone else later but with marks.
180* ''Tillie the Toiler'': Mac is drawn rather cartoony compared to the semi-realistic style of the comic.
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184* ''FanFic/TheRWBYLoops'' has a few unique twists in comparison to the more general [[FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops loops setting.]] For one, all loopers on Remnant activate in pairs, which is eventually explained as a result of their unique soul anatomy; for another, an early intervention by a hacker led to three nominally villainous individuals looping, alongside a pet dog and two teachers, which circumvented the usual way loopers were activated and had a number of consequences.
185* ''Fanfic/PostMULifeScream'' has the sorority known as Exceeda Zeta, and its members consist of Laura Sharp [[note]]who has a dragon-like appearance coupled with furry legs[[/note]], Dot Pressler [[note]]an orange gelatinous creature[[/note]], Colette Creouture [[note]]a semi-furry, horn-sporting monster[[/note]], Katy [=McCrea=] [[note]]who looks like an anthropomorphic fish with a full head of hair[[/note]], and Monnie Monstre [[note]]who has red hair, yellow skin, four arms, and a dinosaur-like tail[[/note]]. They each stand out quite significantly from the other sororities[=/=]fraternities at Monsters University in that their designs are far more detailed and vastly different from each other.
186** Katy and Monnie stand out in particular as they seem to be the ''only'' monsters at MU who wear pants.
187** Dot is also different from the other blob-like monsters, seeing as how she has a more realistically slim body complete with curves.
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191* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Everyone else is drawn with curves, Jafar is drawn with straight lines and is much thinner than the rest of the cast.
192* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the other residents of Wonderland are cartoony, while the main character, Alice, her older sister, and Dinah the kitten are semi-realistic. This is most noticeable with Alice and the Mad Hatter. Justified as Wonderland is much wackier than the "real world" of the movie.
193* Kidagakash from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' for some reason despite being an Atlantean actually looks more like a white woman with tanned skin and white hair, while the other Atlanteans (including [[Creator/LeonardNimoy her father, King Kashekhim Nedakh)]] have more ethnic designs. She is the only character in the film to have [[OccultBlueEyes blue eyes]], something no one else in the film has. Her fingers have rounded tips, while the males have square-tipped fingers, the other females also have similarly-drawn fingers ([[WrenchWench Audrey]] has squared fingers because of her tomboyish nature, while Helga has claw-like fingers to fit her role as TheDragon).
194** Speaking of Helga, her animation is considerably ''much more'' fluid than the rest of the cast. This may be due to her supervising animator being from France.
195* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022 The Bad Guys]]'': All of the human character have round heads, and their limbs and bodies are proportional to each other. By contract, Cuddles, Professor Marmalade's human assistant, looks completely ''wrong''. His body is large and brick-shaped while he has long, thin limbs and a cylindrical head.
196* [=LeFou=], Maurice, and the appliances as humans are far toonier-looking than the rest of the human cast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
197* The Bohrok in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}: Mask of Light'' are more-or-less faithful representations of the original LEGO models, in a movie where every other character has been redesigned to look more organic and less like buildable action figures. They were actually the first characters to be designed for the movie, and ended up having a mere cameo, frozen in ice. The fire drones in the second movie, due to reusing the bodies of the Bohrok, stand out in the same fashion.
198* In the ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' films, all of the characters' eyes are drawn on their windshields. In ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', a background salescar has, for some reason, her eyes on her headlights instead, thus looking like she wandered out of the set of ''WesternAnimation/ACarsLifeSparkysBigAdventure''. They probably made her look like that because she's ''selling'' headlights.
199** TheHero Lightning [=McQueen=] has a rather unique design compared to most other stock cars -- specifically his hood area is squished in a little and the sides are raised up slightly, his spoiler is bigger with rounded edges and curves in at the center, and his back bumper is completely yellow instead of having a yellow double stripe (a tradition in NASCAR given to racers in their rookie seasons). This sets him apart from the others.
200* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'':
201** All the residents of the Land of the Dead have crude skeleton appearances that look almost the same, but Ernesto de la Cruz looks very much like he did when he was alive. This is a clue to that he's not what he seems.
202** Héctor is the only skeleton who has rusty yellow bones, is barefoot, and wears rags. This shows he's being forgotten, and once he is remembered once again by the Riveras, his bones revert to white, he gains a pair of shoes, and his clothes are good as new.
203* ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'':
204** [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]], unlike all the other Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es before her, is actually animated using CGI instead of cel animation, so she often looks very strange when they are all in a group. It also explained why she had to be redesigned when she is greenlighted into the franchise so that she can blend in with the other princesses. The first few waves of Rapunzel merch that used 2D images had a tendency to be...[[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/20300000/Rapunzel-disney-princess-20380637-1086-1246.jpg creepy]], due to basically being paint-overs of the 3D models. It was especially obvious in the group pictures, where the rest of the Princesses big, anime-style eyes look tiny when compared to Rapunzel's soulless dinner plates. Disney seemed to have realized this though, as her [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/e/e5/RapunzelNew.png official redesign]] fits in perfectly now. Unusually, ''Tangled'' was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally meant to look]] traditionally animated (such as with ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'') so plenty of very early promotional images and especially concept art have her looking Disney Princess typical instead of the uncannier version early merchandise went with.
205** WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} and WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} look somewhat less stylized than the later princesses. This is because Snow White was rotoscoped in her film and Cinderella was drawn with a more realistic face compared to other princesses.
206** Aurora from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' is currently the only Princess with an unnatural eye color. She has purple eyes.
207* The Anglerfish from ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' is the only realistically-drawn animal to appear in the entire film.
208* In ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', Iduna and her daughters have slightly almond eyes and a slightly different skin tone than other characters. This is expanded upon in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' with the reveal that [[spoiler:Iduna is from a tribe of FantasyCounterpartCulture Sami called the Northuldra]].
209* Watch ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Professor Ratigan, unlike ALL the other "mice", has five fingers. Justified, because in the film, at least, he is a rat.
210* In the 1939 Max Fleischer film of ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'', Gulliver is drawn in a more realistic manner (thanks to {{Rotoscoping}}) than the more cartoony Lilliputians. Except the two love-interest Lilliputians, Prince David and Princess Glory, who are also rotoscoped, wrecking the otherwise nicely stylistic contrast.
211* In ''WesternAnimation/GummibarTheYummyGummySearchForSanta'', the Gummy Bear himself looks out of place alongside his friends, Harry, Kala and Vampiro.
212* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' Toothless's design is less cartoony than the other dragons. He was always meant to stand out characterwise, by being of the rarest and most intelligent dragon species.
213** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': The Light Fury is noticeably more typically feminine than all the other female dragons shown so far. Part of it is due to being a species closely related to Night Furies.
214* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'':
215** Whilst most of the other main characters are your standard Franchise/{{LEGO}} minifigs [[spoiler:or human]], Princess Uni-Kitty is a cat/unicorn made entirely out of bricks, with an {{Animesque}} face being printed on a brick.
216** Emmet and Benny have BlackBeadEyes reminiscent of the early generations of minifigs, while the other major characters have reflections in their eyes.
217** [[CaptainColorbeard Metal Beard]] is built much more like a Toys/{{Bionicle}} or Toys/HeroFactory figure than something from a traditional set.
218** Vitruvius is a minor offender here: Almost all of the non-licensed characters have yellow skin, with a few non-humans (e.g., the vampire) having non-human skin tones. Vitruvius owns the MagicalNegro trope by having brown skin, which is otherwise very rare on non-licensed minifigs. His staff wasn't an actual LEGO piece, but rather a partially-eaten lollipop. His appearance in actual LEGO sets naturally averts that, giving him a staff made from a LEGO bar and jewel piece.
219* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leo}}'': Most of the humans are designed with semi-realistic proportions, except the kindergarteners, which have huge, spherical heads with massive fish eyes on the sides of their heads, and round teeth. It's lampshaded when there's a slideshow showing some of the older kids as they looked in kindergarten, and immediately followed by how they look now.
220-->'''Principal Spahn:''' Isn't that something, how they've grown?
221* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'':
222** The song "I Just Can't Wait to be King" features weirdly colored animals, in contrast to the more-or-less realistic colors of the film. Though this may be considered an ArtShift typical of a DisneyAcidSequence.
223** The animals in the "Circle of Life" opening (and occasionally seen in the background) are all drawn realistically, despite the main and supporting cast being far more cartoony. This is best shown by comparing the [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110518173124/lionking/images/5/57/Meerkats.png meerkats from the beginning of the movie]] to the far more cartoonish [[http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b3/8c/56/b38c5626b4733d1953eda4334a6c25c7.jpg Timon]]. Timon is supposed to be {{Gonk}}, so it's somewhat justified, though his family in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf the third film]] are also cartoony like him.
224* ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'':
225** Melman the giraffe looks more cartoonish-looking than the realistically-drawn giraffes that inhabit Africa in ''Escape 2 Africa.''
226** Sonya the bear from the third movie looks far more realistic than the rest of the cartoonish animals.
227** In ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'', Dave is much more anthropomorphic than the other octopi.
228* In the ''Creator/JetlagProductions'' movie ''WesternAnimation/MagicGiftOfTheSnowman'', most of the characters have cute anime esque designs except for the villain Charlatan with his bulging bug eyes, wrinkled skin, bony face, long crooked teeth, and claw like hands.
229* In ''WesternAnimation/TheManFromButtonWillow'', most of the characters look like they came from a Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon, save for the main character Justin Eagle who looks more realistic because he was rotoscoped.
230* Every character in Creator/ChuckJones' ''[[Literature/TheJungleBook Mowgli's Brothers]]'' has a very stylized look to them with the exception of Tabaqui the jackal who looks like a stoned quadrupedal Wile Coyote with sickly green colored fur.
231* From ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', the humanized Diamond Dogs would look less out-of-place in a Music/{{Gorillaz}} clip than in an ''Equestria Girls'' movie.
232* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'':
233** Tiger Lily is drawn realistically as opposed to the more [[ValuesDissonance "Cleveland Indians"]]-looking Native Americans featured in the film.
234** Peter has PointyEars while the other humans don't.
235* The Blue Fairy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' is the only realistically-drawn character in the entire film considering the fact that she was {{rotoscop|ing}}ed.
236* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' [[InkSuitActor had her appearance based on her voice actress, Irene Bedard]], and while the rest of her tribe are portrayed fairly closely to how they would have looked in real life, she sticks out like a sore thumb. Even among the Disney Princesses, she's stylistically different, drawn with smaller, realistically sized eyes and lankier limbs.
237* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', while all of the other characters are drawn realistically and tend to be somewhat fleshy, Dr. Facilier is unusually tall and NoodlePeople thin.
238* In ''Anime/RingingBell'', a cute, adorable little lamb becomes a monstrous ram that looks nothing like what he did as a kid or really any other sheep in the movie. It's {{justified|Trope}} because of [[TrainingFromHell how he lived]].
239* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets2'', Daisy the Shih Tzu has a far more realistic appearance than all the other characters from the same movie.
240* Fiona's human form in ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' stands out against other humans in the franchise. She is an InkSuitActor of her voice actress, Creator/CameronDiaz. Future humans (including her parents) are less hyper-realistic looking and more stylized.
241* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManSpiderVerse'':
242** ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': As befitting the multiverse concept, three of the alternate Spider-People are animated very differently from the other characters:
243*** Spider-Man Noir has an entirely black-and-white color scheme that makes him look like he's in a dimly-lit street even in bright daylight. Also, while every character is rendered at least partially with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Day_process Ben-Day dots]], they're particularly visible on Noir.
244*** Peni Parker is much more {{Animesque}} than the rest of the cast, right down to the large eyes and exaggerated expressions. She's even rendered in a pseudo-"2D" style, despite being in a CGI film.
245*** ComicBook/SpiderHam's uniqueness isn't just because he's a pig[[note]]Well, a spider-turned-pig[[/note]]; he's rendered to look like he almost walked straight out of a ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, right down to the "2D" look and bouncy animation. Notably, he's also treated as an animated character in-universe.
246** The sequel, ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Across the Spider-Verse]]'', having many more Spider-People (and some others) from different universes than the last one, has plenty of characters who are uniquely animated:
247*** Hobie Brown / ComicBook/SpiderPunk, fitting in with his [[TheQuincyPunk punk anarchist]] nature, has an overall design making him look as though he's made of newspaper clippings that resemble both something from a punk rock album cover and something from an Underground comic book, which constantly shift both shape and color, like a living animated collage. He's also animated on threes rather than other Spider-People's ones or Miles's twos.
248*** Ben Reilly / Scarlet Spider's design stands out by incorporating the drawing and inking style of Tom Lyle, one of the artists who worked on 90's comic book ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', as well as the artist responsible for his iconic blue hoodie and red spandex outfit.
249*** The [[BuiltWithLego LEGO Spider-Man]] (and his entire universe) are done in CGI animated to resemble stop motion, just like ''The LEGO Movie''.
250*** Spider-Man from the [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 1967 cartoon]] is drawn in 2D and is complete with LimitedAnimation, fitting for a character from a cheap 1960s television cartoon.
251*** [[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Insomniac Spider-Man]] is realistically shaded and textured, and animated on ones rather than twos, to match the look of the games he comes from.
252*** Peter Parker from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' animated show has a much bigger and more angular head and flatter feet compared to other characters, given that he's from a show from completely different art style.
253*** Non-Spider-Person example: The Spot, in the beginning of the film, is a blank, featureless humanoid with inky black spots all over his body. Looking closer at his design you can see he's literally a blank character design, as you can clearly see thin sketch lines on his body. His spots he creates are also comparable to ink blots spilled on a page. Later in the film, [[spoiler:when he powers up and becomes a TranshumanAbomination, that inkiness spreads all over his body, making him look like a living black scribble.]]
254*** Another villainous example: The alternate-universe Vulture who Gwen, Miguel, and Jess fight in the beginning of the film is animated to resemble a Leonardo Da Vinci sketch brought to life, including only being coloured in shades of brown. Gwen even asks if he's made of parchment.
255* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water]]'', all of the CGI models of the characters in their superhero forms look like their cartoon counterparts... except for Sandy Cheeks, [[FourthWallPortrait who looks like an actual squirrel.]]
256* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoSeeSpaceJam'', the Nerdlucks have far more detailed and complex designs than the Titans.
257* The Fairy Prince's pet bumblebee, Buzzby from ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'' is for some reason drawn very realistically compared to the otherwise cartoonish-looking animals that appear in the film. The human and fairy characters are also drawn differently from all of the animal characters (aside from the aforementioned Buzzby).
258* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': Dug's design is a little more cutesy and more consistent with the other cartoony-looking characters than the rest of the more photorealistic-looking dogs, especially in the eyes. This is used to [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute easily distinguish]] Dug as a good dog from the rest of the {{Mook|s}} canines the BigBad uses.
259* King Candy from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' looks more Disney-esque and cartoony (a la Ralph and Fix-It Felix Jr.) compared to the SuperDeformed and Animesque characters of Sugar Rush. This is actually {{Foreshadowing}} that [[spoiler:King Candy isn't who he says he is.]] Also happens all through the movie, whenever characters from different video games appear next to each other. The scenes between the cartoony Fix-It Felix Jr. and the more realistically designed Sgt. Calhoun are probably the most notable.
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263* Unusually for a highbrow live-action film, Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/{{Ran}}'' includes two characters (Lord Ichimonji Hidetora and Lady Kaede) who are set apart by their ''Noh''-inspired costume and makeup.
264* The villains in the French film ''Film/{{Immort|al}}el'' are realistic CGI -- all other characters are played by live actors.
265* ''Film/PacificRim'':
266** Most of the Jaegers are fairly humanoid, except Crimson Typhoon -- who has ''three'' arms and digitgrade legs -- and Cherno Alpha -- who has, in place of a normal head, something that looks like a nuclear cooling tower.
267** In regards to the Kaiju, Onibaba sticks out like a sore thumb due to its [[GiantEnemyCrab crustacean body]] and four, centaurian legs as opposed to the bipedal, semi-reptilian Kaiju in the film.
268* A portion of the robots introduced in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' seemed to have been experiments in out-there character design (specifically Demolishor/Scavenger, the Arcee triplets and Rampage, none of whom had real legs, though the Rampage toy could also turn into a centaur), especially since the later films went back to more traditional-looking and often exceedingly humanlike robot bodies.
269* Most of the title creatures in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' have the same basic appearance but with different markings, skin coloring, and eye colors, but George, Lenny, and Daffy from ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' look much more cartoonish compared to the others with George being very fat and having big lips, Lenny being tall and skinny with big buck teeth and a dopey expression, and Daffy having googily eyes, a beak like mouth, and three yellow hairs on his head.
270* Zilla is the only kaiju in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' to be portrayed entirely by CGI. Every other monster in the film is portrayed using practical effects. This was a nod to how ''Film/Godzilla1998'' heavily relied on digital effects for its depiction of Godzilla.
271* In ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone intentionally made Kim Jong-il shorter and fatter than the other puppets, with more exaggerated facial features with his jagged teeth and sagging cheeks.
272* In ''Film/TheHowling'', the werewolves have scraggly fur with long muzzles, long pointed ears and long clawed hands. However, when Karen White becomes a werewolf at the end, she ends up looking like a female Wookie from ''Franchise/StarWars''. This is because Creator/DeeWallace requested to have her werewolf form be beautiful and feminine.
273* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'': Longclaw has a less stylized, more proportionate design compared to other anthropomorphic animals in the film series (who are as stubby as ever), resembling a human-sized talking owl in native garb. She would have stood out less in the original version of the film where Sonic had a more realistic design, but when he was redesigned to avoid the UnintentionalUncannyValley, Longclaw went unchanged.
274* Most of the Whos from Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas have exaggerated, somewhat grotesque, animalistic appearances, with the exceptions of Martha May Whovier and Cindy Lou Who who look like normal people.
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278* The title character of ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', in both the books and the two cartoon adaptations, is the only character in the series that has visible sclerae. Averted in the movie, however.
279* In the ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' books, most of the bird characters, such as Goose and Mr. Owl, are anthropomorphic, complete with FeatherFingers. The only exception is Hawk, who is a realistically-drawn red-tailed hawk.
280* The eponymous character of ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould'', for some reason, has her face drawn on her funnel instead of the smokebox unlike all the other locomotives in the book. Averted in the film adaptation however, where the "Shiny New Engine"'s face is drawn on his cockpit, the "Broken Down Engine"'s and the "Big Strong Engine"'s faces are both drawn on their smokeboxes, and the "Rusty Old Engine"'s face is also drawn on his funnel.
281* In ''Literature/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', Snow White is the most traditionally MagicalGirl-looking out of the magical girls. This is because she's a [[AscendedFanboy magical girl fangirl]] who aspires to be the best magical girl possible.
282* Mr. Messy from the ''Literature/MrMen'' series has no outline; he's just a bunch of scribbles with eyes and a mouth.
283** Also, Mr. Sneeze has visible irises as opposed to the BlackBeadEyes every other character has. This could be a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as his book was only the fifth in the series.
284* The art style of Franchise/PreciousMoments figurines and other media uses [[SuperDeformed large heads]], rounded faces, and teardrop-shaped PuppyDogEyes, on both adults and children. In the ''Precious Moments Storybook Bible'', the only two humans not depicted this way are adult Moses and adult Jesus, who are drawn much more realistically.
285* In ''Literature/RainbowMagic'', [[Literature/RainbowMagicFloraTheFancyDressFairy Flora the Fancy Dress Fairy]] has green and blue hair, making her the only fairy with a naturally-occuring unnatural hair colour (some other fairies, such as Frankie and Layla, have unnatural hair colours, but their hair is dyed).
286* ''Literature/TatuAndPatu'': Veera has green almond-shaped eyes, while every other character has black-and-white SphereEyes.
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289[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
290* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' generally focused on the vampires who were humans with [[RubberForeheadAlien a reptilian true face]], but would also spend a bit more effort to make full-body suits for really crazy designs. On a few occasions they would blend the styles that results in just odd-looking for the normal standards of the show, like the LoanShark who had a literal shark head with flippers for hands, but dressed in a regular suit.
291* ''Series/LazyTown'': Ziggy looks much cartoonier than any of the other puppets. Whereas they have rather bulgy eyes and more realistic proportions. Ziggy has small, beady eyes and a bigger head than the rest.
292* American-created villains in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' sometimes tend towards this due to not exactly matching with the design aesthetics of the ''Franchise/SuperSentai''-sourced villains. [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Lord Zedd]], for instance, had no hint of the "single-eye" designs that were the trademark of the ''Dairanger'' monsters he used.
293** Furio from ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' is a strange example -- since his suit [[PropRecycling was recycled from]] an [[AdaptedOut unadapted]] ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' villain (specifically the OneWingedAngel form of the BigBad Dr. Hinelar), he doesn't match either the insectoid motif that the other American-original villains of the season had, ''or'' the four disparate groupings of the ''Gingaman''-based villains.
294** The most notable example of this was [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Sledge]], whose rough, green-and-grey design contrasts with the much more colorful ''Kyoryuger''-based villains.
295** [[Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers Scrozzle's]] design leans less towards the monsters of ''Go-Busters'' and moreso towards that of ''[[Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger Go-Onger]]''/''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'', more specifically his human-like face and hodge-podge armor. [[spoiler: And since Scrozzle's [[BigBad master]] turns out to be ''RPM's'' villain [[ReturningBigBad reborn]], this is a bit of foreshadowing.]]
296* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'' the Starfleet ship designs hold to a fairly consistent pattern, specifically a saucer section, usually a secondary hull, with either two or four warp nacelles supported by pylons elevated away from the ship. A few ship designs ended up skewing away from this for one reason or another (several background ships across the franchise do break this pattern, if only to show greater fleet variety, but rarely placed in the foreground).
297** The GrandFinale of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' showed a future ''Enterprise'' with a third nacelle planted into the middle of the stardrive section. Being a quick modification to an existing model in a one-off episode, little was really said about it. In addition, there were other cosmetic additions made to the saucer section (a long underslung phaser weapon and what looks like sensor pylons near the bridge) that took away the traditional clean saucer design.
298** The ''Defiant'' of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was said to be a unique design InUniverse. There is only a hint of a saucer but has very small nacelles seemingly clamped to the main ship rather than protruding away. The whole concept was that of a cheaply produced warship with a minimal profile making it harder to hit in battle. The class had a lot of potential but violated a number of [[NoOSHACompliance Starfleet safety standards to be operational]].
299** The ''Discovery'' of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' has an overly large secondary hull and cut-out sections of the saucer. The nacelles are also bolted directly to the secondary hull rather than having separate pylons.
300* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'': A few monsters/Ultras have designs very far removed from most things in the franchise aesthetically speaking.
301** ''Series/UltraSeven'': Alien Wild is the only alien or monster in the series which is depicted with a full-body suit that doesn't covers the actor's face. Seven himself has an inversion of what would become the traditional color scheme, being red with silver accents, and lacks the Color Timer, instead having the Beam Lamp on his forehead flash when he's running out of time.
302** ''Series/UltramanLeo'':Ultraman King is the only good-aligned Ultra with red eyes.
303** ''Series/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'': Ultraman Great is the sole Ultra whose suit is made of spandex instead of rubber, therefore creating some rather obvious folds and creases when he moves. The white parts of his suit are much brighter compared to his fellow comrades, a trait that shows up in all his future appearances (even during cameos).
304** ''Series/UltramanTheUltimateHero'': Ultraman Powered has blue eyes, which changes colour as he transforms.
305** ''Film/UltramanTheNext'': As the first installment of the Project N works meant to reboot the franchise from scratch, its titular Ultraman (sometimes called The Next) has a very, very different design to past Ultras, looking much more organic and with many vessel-like red lines on his body.
306** ''Series/UltramanNexus'': As the evolved form of The Next, Nexus maintains a very distinct design from past Ultras, having no real resemblance to any beyond the [[Series/{{Ultraman}} original]] one. Kuutura, Lord of the Dead, resembles little the usual fare of ''Ultra Series'' Kaiju even more than any of the other Space Beasts, looking like a swelling mass of flesh with screaming faces that wouldn't be out of place in a Creator/DavidCronenberg film.
307** ''Series/UltramanGinga'': Ultraman Victory is one of the few Ultras with a non-circular Color Timer, instead having a [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS V]]-shaped one.
308** ''Series/UltramanX'': X has an [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS X]]-shaped Color Timer in place of the usual circular one. He also has many cybernetic parts on his body which no other Ultra has.
309** ''Series/UltramanGeed'': Geed has curved triangles for eyes, and his Color Timer is shaped like the Ultra Capsules he frequently uses during his transformations.
310** ''Series/UltramanTaiga'': Ultraman Titas differs from most Ultras by having a muscular body instead of a slim one like other Ultras, as well as having silver shoulder pads, gloves and boots with red/black coloration unlike the rest of the U40 Ultras, this is due to him being the son of 2 members of the [[Anime/TheUltraman Heller Army]] who was sent to U40 to have a good life.
311** ''Series/UltramanZ'': Ultraman Z is the only Ultra with crystal-like textures on his eyes. Like Victory and X he also has a non-circular color timer instead having a [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS a Z letter]].
312* ''Series/VRTroopers'' has this in spades, thanks to [[{{Frankenslation}} taking three different shows]] from the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' franchise and stitching them together. None of the three Troopers have any unifying elements (or appear onscreen together outsides bits of US-exclusive footage); same thing goes for Grimlord's various henchmen (especially since in the first season he's got about 4 different categories of underlings who congregate in his dungeon).
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316* In ''Manhua/CyberWeaponZ'', all the fighters in the Shaolin temple wear the same garments, except Rosaland. It may be because she's not officially part of the program. Another case is Bu-Kang who fills in for the role of the PluckyComicRelief and is earmarked that way by looking like [[Franchise/DragonBall Krillin]].
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319[[folder:Music Videos]]
320* Music/CrazyCod: The King from "Keep Your Head Up, King" is shown as a wriggly blobbish shape, compared to other shapes being standard and very plain, to show he's unique.
321* The video for "[[https://youtu.be/SmnEhmjgZ9s Be Faithful]]" by Fatman Scoop mostly features characters who are floating heads with [[FloatingLimbs detached hands and feet]]. However, the stripper is the only one with a torso or limbs.
322* Cherry, lead singer of the animated band Music/StudioKillers is CG animated, while the rest of the band and other characters are all 2D.
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325[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
326* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': The Swedish Chef and Dr. Teeth are the only Muppet characters with human hands, since they're required to pick up and manipulate objects and convincingly play the piano, respectively.
327* The characters of ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' are naturally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hand puppets]]. Except for Neville, who's a butternut squash ([[MemeticMutation not a potato, learn your vegetables]]) on a stick, and Cedric Diggory, who is a face drawn on a foot.
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330[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
331* ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'':
332** It had a hefty does of this due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. About two dozen of the game's earliest [[HumongousMecha BattleMech]] designs were licensed from Japanese studios (such as ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''), whose thin and generally more graceful lines stood in stark contrast with the boxy, WalkingTank-style American original designs. The difference became even more magnified as the [[ArtEvolution game adopted the chunky American aesthetic entirely]]. However, a [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal fustercluck]] caused the designs to be dropped for almost a decade before being redesigned; they still look gangly, but not to the hilarious degree of the original designs.
333** There's also the very unusual ''Solaris: The Game World'' designs. They don't have the straightforward and functional war-machine look of most Battlemech designs, being more heavily decorated, detailed, stylized, and sometimes a bit bulbous. The reason for this is that, in a strange twist of fate, some of these designs are actually Studio Nue redraws of Battlemechs--many of which are designs based on Studio Nue's own ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' series! This leads to the somewhat surreal situation where the Battletech ''Colossus'' is actually the Japanese art for the Battletech ''Marauder'', because the Battletech ''Marauder'' artwork was originally a Zentradi Officer Pod in Japan.
334* ''Tabletopgame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
335** Due to the general shift of Daemon Engines having a more organic look (to emphasis their living nature) the Defiler now looks very out of place when compared to its brethren (due to its very boxy and mechanical design) as it was designed before the aesthetic was set. For a long while it was also the only example of a Daemon Engine, so this only became a problem when the newer codex introduced no less than 3 new Daemon Engines (and later they were joined by the Lord of Skulls Apocalypse unit).
336** As it was one of the first titans ever produced, the Lucius Pattern Warhound suffers from a similar problem as the Defiler; namely it was boxy and much more mechanical looking than the more rounded, dog-headed Mars Pattern Warhound. Functionally the two are identical, but the aesthetic set by the Mars Pattern Warhound would later go on to influencing the design of the Reaver Titan and the (much smaller) Imperial Knight Titans. While a Lucius Pattern Reaver was produced, it was in epic scale (a 40k scale one was never made) and thus the Lucius pattern warhound remains the odd one out in the imperial lineup of titans. This is made all the more evident as the Lucius Warhound is much more easily scratch built than any of the other ones (due to its blocky nature) so most people will more likely own one than the Mars pattern variants.
337** While the Leagues of Votann tend towards a very [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture clean and practical]] aesthetic mixed with IndustrializedEvil, their resident psychic, the Grimnir, instead veers heavily towards WizardClassic.
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340[[folder:Toys]]
341* Franchise/{{LEGO}}:
342** Tim from ''Toys/LEGOTimeCruisers'' and the Indians from the old ''Wild West'' sets are some of the few original LEGO Minifig characters to have noses.
343** Certain characters in licensed Toys/LEGOThemes, such as the casts of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and the alien characters in ''Franchise/StarWars'', have uniquely molded head pieces, which at times looks odd on the standard Minifigure bodies and alongside other, normally designed minifig characters. Certain characters, such as Franchise/ScoobyDoo, [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]], and WesternAnimation/{{the Angry Birds|Movie}}, have such nonhuman bodies that the standard minifigure template simply won't do for them, and as such have unique molds with prints that makes it almost look like they hopped straight out of whatever {{film}} or show they came from.
344* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
345** The original Pohatu figure was only one with an inverted torso, so that he had a kicking action whereas the other Toa swung their arms. This carries over to his first Nuva form. He was also the first ''Bionicle'' to come with an accessory, namely a Systems rock that acted as a soccer ball for him.
346** Besides the playsets, Tarakava are the only ''Bionicle'' sets to make extensive use of System bricks, namely in their brick-built midsection.
347** Whereas most ''Bionicle'' beings have tribal-looking masks, robotic faces or animalistic heads, the Piraka have organic faces made out of rubber and bear big toothy, cartoony grins. The Toa Inika stand out in the same fashion, having rubber masks and actual mouth openings, sans Matoro and Kongu[[note]]though the latter still stands out for having what seems like a toothy sneer on his mask and being TwoFaced, making him the first non-Toa of Ice to have an asymmetric mask[[/note]]. InUniverse, this is due to the unique transformation of the Inika by the Red Star turning their masks into organic ones.
348** The [[LaResistance Voya Nui Resistance Team]], being a squad of deformed Matoran, each have at least one oddity in their design, such as Velika's uniquely built arms or Dalu's larger limb pieces, but none stand out like Kazi, who uses a forearm piece for his body, while the other five all have foot pieces for theirs, giving them significant hunches. He also lacks the usual head piece; his mask is mounted on a piece typically used for hands, and his legs are different pieces that lack hip articulation.
349** The titan set Axonn had an unmodified canister set body and individual fingers made from Matoran limbs. His short body, which looked like a Toa with more ornate armor, cartoonishly huge feet, and equally big FourFingeredHands stood out among other titan characters, which were taller and more evenly proportioned.
350** The Barraki sets were the first wave of canister sets without a uniform build, but Ehlek, Pridak, and Takadox stood out for their slim bodies that used no specific torso piece. Pridak in particular is the only canister set with waist articulation.
351** Several of the titans from the 2007 line:
352*** Gadunka and Maxilos, had custom designed bodies. Maxilos, being a fully robotic character in a world of Bio{{mechanical Lifeforms}}, had a hollow body with more articulation than most sets, and Gadunka, being [[MakeMyMonsterGrow an enlarged Rahi]], had a huge head on a squat body made from three Toa torso pieces and a Matoran body piece arranged triangularly.
353*** While not as much, Hydraxon has individual fingers similar to Axonn, this time made from a minifig arm piece common in the playsets and ''Toys/LEGOExoForce'' and the small claw/tooth piece as the fingernails.
354*** Lesovikk contains the only Toa to use the light-up Piraka eye/brain piece instead of the usual Toa piece.
355** Ironically, Mata Nui himself, the character whose biology franchise title alludes to, stands apart from other characters with his large, flat, filled-in, rectangular surfaces resembling a classic gray retro-style robot (a la a blockier ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''), very unlike the often oddly proportioned, lean, colorful, detail-heavy ("greebly") cyborg designs the franchise became known for. Makes sense, [[ToylessToylineCharacter as Mata Nui's original body was not made into a toy]] and therefor did not need to look compatible with LEGO pieces. However, he would not seem too out of place among the post-2011 LEGO action figure sets that introduced bulkier, flatter armor surfaces and more robust limbs.
356** Whereas most of the sets from the [[Toys/{{Bionicle2015}} reboot]] represent a natural progression of the standard action figure template, the Lord of Skull Spiders is instead a throwback to the franchise's Technic origins: it's built entirely around a play gimmick and has next to no useful articulation. It also has a printed-on face instead of a sculpt or a build, making it look more cartoonish than any other figure.
357* [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Mr. Game & Watch]]'s Toys/{{amiibo}} is two-dimensional (accurately reflecting the character), and more unusually has several poses that can be swapped out.
358* ''Toys/MilkyWayAndTheGalaxyGirls'':
359** Milky Way and her little sister are the only characters with [[WingdingEyes stars in their eyes]].
360** Mars is portrayed as an alien instead of being human.
361* ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'':
362** Plenty of Transformers have this going on, due to the original line being basically cobbled together from multiple unrelated lines. Ironhide and Ratchet's toys were originally intended to be MiniMecha and therefore don't have heads, [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy infamously]] receiving heavy redesigns to make them look anything like the other characters. But no amount of redesigning could make Sky Lynx, who has two separate bodies, neither of which have humanoid forms (a space shuttle and its platform that turn into a bird-thing and a lion), which can combine into a single robot that looks vaguely like a four-legged dragon, look normal. Even odder, he's not a combiner - he just has two separate bodies that share a mind. Explanations for why he's like this are generally along the lines of [[StarfishAliens "Sky Lynx is weird."]]
363** The Autobot Mini-Cassettes Grand Slam and Raindance. There have been Transformers that look more robotic than others, and some whose robot modes are animals instead of humanoids, but how many Transformers do you know whose "true" forms are ''vehicles?'' And they're not non-sentient drones, either -- they have personalities like any other Transformer!
364* Kaya from the Toys/AmericanGirlsCollection was a departure from the doll line's trademark toothy smile, out of respect for the Nez Perce tribe she belonged to, though her face mold is no longer exclusive to just her with the introduction of Logan Everett, American Girl's first and so far only boy doll.[[note]]Not counting the male Bitty Twin dolls that is; Logan is the first male mainline character to be introduced.[[/note]]
365* ''Toys/GoGosCrazyBones'': While most Gogos have a front and a back, [=GoodyBaddy=] is a double-sided Gogo with faces on both his front and back. Due to this design, [=GoodyBaddy=] also lacks the Magic Box stamp that every other Gogo has to ensure they aren't a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg]], which might confuse some people into thinking the real [=GoodyBaddy=] figure is a bootleg.
366* Toys/{{Squishmallows}}: Jingles the Cat's tail has stuffing inside, curves around to their front and is sewn on as to be unmovable. All other cats have unstuffed shorter tails that are only sewn on to the plush toy in the back.
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369[[folder:Web Animation]]
370* In ''The Legend of Zelda: WebAnimation/TheLightOfCourage'', Ganon actually has a very decent, almost professional-level model, which makes the blatant StylisticSuck of every other character stand out even more than they already do.
371* The title character of ''WebAnimation/{{Blockhead}}'' is drawn in a rather simplistic and cartoonish style while all other characters are drawn in a comparatively more realistic style.
372* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
373** Crack Stuntman is the only character to exist in the "real world" of the main characters that actually looks like a normal human being. He is also drawn in the style of the cartoon he voice acts for rather than the style of the main characters.
374** In an AprilFoolsDay cartoon, all the characters are replaced by "revamped for the '90s" versions of themselves with black outlines and exaggerated jagged edges, except Homsar who doesn't change at all. The final scene shows all the characters together, with Homsar obviously clashing with the rest.
375** In WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad Issue #11, So-And-So's manager at the Shirt Folding Store has her hair, eyes, mouth, and feet taken from clipped-out magazine pictures of a real-life person (Mary-Kate Olsen, to be precise).
376* The Whites, in comparison to the Proles, in ''WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever''. This trope is used to show that the Whites are completely inhuman.
377* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'':
378** Lumpy is taller than the rest, and is one of the few characters to lack a heart-shaped nose. In addition, his hands don't turn mitten-esque like the other animals and has simple BlackDotPupils rather than the traditional PieEyed pupils. Furthermore, his popsicle stick head and bulbous nose sticks out amongst the rounded oval-esque faces of the other characters.
379** Sniffles, to a lesser extent. While he has the large oval head, PieEyed pupils and short stature of most of the characters, he also lacks the standard heart nose and buckteeth. Instead, he has a [[AardvarkTrunks trunk-like snout with his mouth at the tip]].
380* [[NationsAsPeople The countries]] in ''Polandball'' usually take the form of spheres with their nation's flag emblazoned on it. However, several of them break this mold. Poland itself has its flag upside-down (a reference to the attempts on Drawball to flip the flag upside down), Israel is a tesseract rather than a sphere (because of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik Jewish Physics]]), Nepal is the actual flag with teeth added, Singapore is a triangle, and Kazakhstan and the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Reichtangle]] are rectangles.
381* In ''WebAnimation/MarioBrothers'', all character sprites are from the original ''VideoGame/{{Super Mario Bros|1}}'' with the exception of the Toads, whose sprites are from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' and have a slightly different artstyle (most notably, being outlined in blue while no other sprites have outlines). This is likely due to Toad's only sprite in the original game not exactly lending itself well to all the action required by the Toads in this series.
382* All the [[Series/DoctorWho Doctors]] in the ''WebAnimation/{{Mashed}}'' spoof ''Time Traveller Boyfriend'' are drawn in a cute {{Moe}} style except for the [[Creator/TomBaker Fourth]], who is drawn as a {{Gonk}}. His dialogue is all in capital letters as well.
383* Most characters in ''WebAnimation/SenpaiClub'' are drawn in a cute, {{animesque}} style. The aforementioned "senpai" are drawn in a ''much'' more simplistic style with sharp angles, but are still treated as [[{{bishonen}} drop dead]] [[TheBeautifulElite gorgeous]].
384* In ''WebAnimation/TheGrosseryGang'' 2017 Christmas episode, the guest character [=PukieHurlC=], being a parody of Website/YouTube toy reviewer [=CookieSwirlC's=] logo, has eyes with green sclera, large black pupils, and white highlights, instead of the standard Grossery white sclera with a black pupil dot for an eye. She also has six eyelashes per eye, rather than three like the other female Grosseries.
385* ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]''
386** While everyone else's is either an edited ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' character model or [[VideoGame/GarrysMod ragdolls]] that are contorted and positioned to look as ridiculous as possible, [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Meggy and other Inklings]] are animated using [[VideoGame/GarrysMod Henry's Animation Tool]], resulting in unusually smooth, flowing animation compared to the rest of the cast.
387** The Genesis Arc introduces [[spoiler:[=SMG1=], [=SMG2=] and [=SMG0=]]]. The former two look like an amalgamation of shapes akin to VideoGame/SuperPaperMario rather than something recognisable or humanoid like other original characters, and the latter’s model is far, FAR more detailed, [[BodyHorror gory]] and realistic than the cartoonish designs of the rest of the cast. [[spoiler:All three of these are justified, as they all hailed from alternate universes]].
388* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' contains Theo, who is more cartoonish in design than the rest of the cast, who look more realistically animated. Justified as he is from a Video Game.
389* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': [[OnlySixFaces While it follows the same template as all the other human characters]], there are a few differences in [[TheDreaded Melinda's]] design compared to others. Her chin and nose are vastly different, and her limbs are ''much'' skinnier.
390* ''WebAnimation/RoosterTeethAnimatedAdventures'': everyone has simple dots for eyes [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T9f7lKPuTJ4/maxresdefault.jpg except for Geoff]], who has significantly larger eyes with visible lids and pupils. This is apparently because his model was created very early on and never "fixed" to match the others for the sake of consistency.
391* In ''WebAnimation/ChiknNuggit'' all of the main characters are animals designed in chibi-esque style. So when [[FatherTime Bezel]] is introduced, he immediately stands out, with him being a tall humanoid in a purple and cyan suit with a clock for a head. His appearance gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] a [[https://www.tiktok.com/@chikn.nuggit/video/7153672690019110187 couple]] [[https://www.tiktok.com/@chikn.nuggit/video/7212660653041995051 of]] [[https://www.tiktok.com/@chikn.nuggit/video/7186699244064066859 times]] by [[SitcomArchNemesis Fwench Fwy]], who complains about them not picking a more fitting form to blend in like they did.
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394[[folder:Web Comics]]
395* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': Princess Gwendolyn is drawn differently from all of her siblings, who resemble pretty anime girls ([[DudeLooksLikeALady even her brother Jamie]]). By contrast, Gwen's irises are much smaller and her rigid-looking face is drawn with more lines, which reflects the fact that her appearance is often described as that of a witch. She looks like she's from a different genre of story than her family members. This gets lampshaded in-story when the club members see a portrait of Gwen with her family (where she had been drawn to look even more frightening and out-of-place than usual) and wonder why she looks nothing like the rest of them.
396* The fortune teller from ''[[Webcomic/FifteenMinds Blue Moon Blossom]]'' stands out for being based on a BlobMonster rather than any real-world animals/animal groups (even stylized ones), being colored with a grainy violet-blue-green gradient instead of a single flat color, and having a star pattern apparently right on their body, assuming that isn't supposed to be clothing- the art style is so minimalist it's hard to tell.
397* In ''[[Webcomic/TsunamiChannel Experimental Comic Kotone]]'', the author had difficulty drawing a convincing middle-aged father... so he based [[http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2006-03-27&comic=ExCoKo Laika's dad]] on a character from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', making him stand out next everyone else, who are drawn in a simplified {{Moe}} style.
398* In ''Webcomic/{{Fite}}'', Mutali was originally designed to look very out-of-place compared to the rest of the characters, but the author changed his mind and switched to a character design in a style more like the others. [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/mike_luce/fite/series.php?view=single&ID=46349 Original,]] [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#5 final.]]
399* Gharsena, the BigBad of ''Webcomic/{{Garanos}}'', is the only character who's drawn without any light reflections in her eyes.
400* In ''Webcomic/{{Overcompensating}}'', Andrew Hussie is [[http://overcompensating.com/oc/index.php?comic=1265 portrayed]] in a pixelated style with animated fidgeting reminiscent of the art for his webcomic ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures''.
401* ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' has most of its characters given simple designs. Some secondary characters, however, look vastly more realistic. It can be quite jarring to see two characters like Trudy (BlankWhiteEyes, NoMouth, generally cartoony design) and Dr. Not (a ''far'' more detailed and human looking woman) side by side, especially since both are meant to be attractive women. [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/wiki/Trudy_%28Negaverse%29 Compare]] and [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/wiki/Doctor_Not contrast]].
402* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' normally uses a simple cartoon style, but it's fond of characters suddenly becoming hyperdetailed for a gag, such as Dedede's father being a photorealistic penguin. The GrandFinale StoryArc ''[[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2014/09/16/595-meet-me-at-final-destination-part-1/ Meet Me at Final Destination]]'' features characters suddenly and noticeably (including in universe) changing appearance briefly.
403* The ninjas recently introduced into ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' have been revealed to be fairly detailed [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/676 manga-style]] [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/697/ characters]] beneath their masks, in contrast to the western toony style of everyone else in the comic.
404* The Humanoid Steelswarm except Roach take on a hyper-realistic look in [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=31299697 comic #46]] of the ''Webcomic/YuGiOhCardGameGustoFanComic''.
405* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
406** Creator/AndrewHussie's AuthorAvatar is the only character who is drawn with a "guardian"-esque base yet has visible eyes (which are completely white in spite of white eyes usually meaning the character is dead, [[spoiler:the avatar ''does'' die but that's not until much later in the story]]) ''and'' lacks an outline. He is also drawn with orange-ish skin, whereas every other human who isn't a celebrity or part of Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff is drawn blank white.
407** Dad Egbert is the only character shown with a nose in the "default" art style; even the other Guardians are drawn without noses, but they do have other visible facial features. [[spoiler:The same applies for his counterpart across the Scratch, Dad Crocker]].
408* Not all countries of Webcomic/{{Polandball}} are balls:
409** The US is often drawn as a large blob - due to the [[YouAreFat "Americans are fat" stereotype]].
410** Kazakhstan is a brick - [[https://www.polandballwiki.com/wiki/Kazakhstanbrick#Why_Kazakhstanbrıck_ıs_a_Brıck due to an old Polandball in-joke]].
411** Israel is a hypercube - [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein due to Jewish physics]].
412*** The Russian Jewish Autonomous Oblast is also often drawn as one. Despite barely any Jews living there nowadays.
413** Bermuda and Singapore are triangles - due to [[TheBermudaTriangle having triangles]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore_growth_triangle associated with them]].
414** Chile is a rectangular snake - due to the shape of the country
415** Venice (booth the city and historical republic) is an octopus - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Veneto due to the unique shape of its flag]]
416** Countries/states with triangular gaps in their flags (such as Nepal and Ohio) have teeth filled mouths and are known as "Saurs" or "Rawrs" - Again due to how their flags are shaped.
417** There are also non-countryball characters such as the Reichtangle[[note]]Germany's suppressed Imperial ambitions, drawn as the German Empire flag standing up[[/note]] and the Omsk Bird[[note]][[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/winged-doom-welcome-to-omsk A Russian meme]] that got transferred into Polandball, represents either Russia's poorly hidden rotten core or just bad things in general[[/note]] which also doesn't follow the standard ball formula.
418* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive,'' Kestrel, who was originally the main character of ''Webcomic/QueenOfWands,'' retains her green eyes, even though other S*P characters have no visible irises.
419* ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' has one character, who the fans dubbed the Scribble Person because (s)he looks like an ever changing collection of scribbles/words in a vaguely humanoid shape. [[spoiler:(S)he is the Story.]]
420* ''Webcomic/TheStoryOfAnima'' has [[http://tapastic.com/episode/43379 Pocket]] and the [[http://tapastic.com/episode/48944 bandit leader]], who have long snouts and digitigrade legs in contrast to the shorter-muzzled, more humanoid {{Beast|Man}}kin.
421* Taito from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' sticks out a bit compared to the rest of the cast with her BlackBeadEyes and yellow {{Blush Sticker}}s.
422* In ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'', [[spoiler:the manifestation of a dead Christian priest encountered in a world where Christianity has fallen out of practice]] is drawn more realistically than any other character. [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=566 The difference can be seen on this page]].
423* You could try to list examples from ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'', mainly characters who are drawn more sketchily and less realistically than most... but the list would get too long, and eventually you'd realise there's no single "normal" style in this comic, and even many of the relatively normal-looking characters are drawn in subtly different styles from each other.
424* In the earliest ''[[Webcomic/TheRedacverse Redac]]'' stories, the simplistic art style lacked visible ears and noses. As a result, characters like Grandpa (who got ''huge'' ears) or Il and Myself (who got different kinds of [[GagNose Gag Noses]]) stood out.
425* ''Webcomic/{{Katamari}}'': While all of the members of the Royal Family have BlackBeadEyes, Opeo's eyes are vertical and are thinner than the rest of his cousins, who have rounder, wider and thicker eyes.
426* ''Webcomic/YumisCells'': The [[GhostInTheMachine cells]] in a person's brain are typically chibis on the plump side, but Daeyong's cells are realistically proportioned and muscular. Soonrok's cells are mostly normal except for his Naughty Cell and Tongue Cell, which are like Daeyong's.
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430* In seasons 1-3 of ''WebVideo/WithinLapenko'', most of the characters with speaking lines are played by Anton Lapenko, an actor with a moustache that he almost never conceals, not even to play female characters. In this show, two characters stand out in terms of appearance: Natella Strelnikova (the character is PracticallyJoker, the moustache is hidden as a reference to Creator/CesarRomero) and the false lady (the only character with speaking lines played by a woman).
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