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* The background monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' are [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally generated]] from a handful of body types, eye and limb types, etc. that vary randomly in scale position and color.

** In the older UsefulNotes/GameBoy Pokémon games, certain Pokémon (excluding a few of the [[OlympusMons legendaries]], such as Lugia) had certain sprites on your party screen (a bug Pokemon will have a bug icon, a plant Pokemon will have a plant icon, etc.) or in the overworld, as opposed to the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS games, which had individual icons for every Pokémon.

* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' runs on the same UsefulNotes/GameEngine as the ''KOTOR'' games above, and has exactly the same problem. You'll not only see the same faces over and over again as friend and/or foe, but you'll be seeing the same monsters and the same martial arts too. The worst thing is that while ''Jade Empire'' is quite a bit shorter than ''KOTOR'', it has far fewer character models than KOTOR's five hundred, and given that it generally avoids [[{{Mukokuseki}} unusual hair or eye colours]] for its (almost) entirely East Asian cast and has very few non-humans, it doesn't have the option of a PaletteSwap either. You're going to see a lot of black hair and brown eyes.

* Most VideoGame/GenshinImpact [=NPCs=] have similar models and designs, mainly the soldiers and the commoners. This is specially notorious in places such as the marketplace of Liyue and in certain cutscenes of the main story.

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'': Parodied. The generic sprites for {{N|onPlayerCharacter}}PCs have distinctive appearances that immediately draw attention to the fact that the same sprite has been re-used. For example, there are several characters in the game who inexplicably look like Mr. T, yet have absolutely nothing to do with one another. To further lampshade the sprite reuse, many of the NPC sprites (such as the doctor sprite, and many of the townspeople) were taken from its NES predecessor.

** The game's sequel, ''VideoGame/Mother3'', has an interesting take on this. All the original villagers of Tazmily Village each have completely unique sprites. After the timeskip that occurs in Chapter 4, however, the village becomes populated by generic {{Non Player Character}}s who look pretty much exactly like the ones from ''Earthbound''--these characters are vaguely suggested to be "visitors from the city". This even plays into a minor plot point, as [[spoiler:the game's villain is Porky Minch, who was previously TheDragon in ''Earthbound''. Having abused time travel so heavily that he has aged past the point where humans would normally die, he can no longer return to his own time--his nostalgia for his home is shown in the form of various homages to ''Earthbound''. It is suggested that the generic [=NPC=]s are either fakes intentionally constructed to resemble the people from his time, or that they were literally pulled from other eras and mindwashed into obeying him.]]

* In the Halloween special ''Scary Godmother'', the ''main character's model'' is re-used ''before she is even seen on screen'', albeit with a darker skintone and a different outfit.

* Agent Koenig in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' is [[spoiler: killed off after mentioning a brother with whom he plays [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPGs]] online. After the brother appears played by the same actor, they [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on it with characters discussing the identical appearance of the two Agents Koenig, and the mention of multiple other brothers whom they wonder whether are all identical. A third brother appears in later in season 2, and is indeed the same actor. He also has a note on his mirror revealing they have a sister, but she's yet to appear]].

* Justified in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' with the Grineer, whose massive similar-looking armies are a result of {{cloning|Blues}}. This has the side effect of causing their bodies to slowly deteriorate, making them desperate to defeat the Tenno quickly, which is why the player often faces huge numbers of them at a time.

* Very obvious in the New Orleans level in ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''. There are, at most, four or five different [=NPC=] models making up the crowd of people celebrating [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans Mardi Gras]]. They even perform the same animations at the same time; all the same model [=NPC=] will all pump their arms in the air at the exact same moment for example. Can probably be excused though as it is a [=PS2=] game that is literally simulating and displaying thousands of [=NPC=]s at the same time that the player can walk amongst and even kill, thus averting ThrivingGhostTown to an epic level.

* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' and ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' improves upon Absolution and Blood Money's NPC Count quite significantly; there's about 600 - 1200 NPC's in a single level!. The faces and bodies of each NPC are ''relatively'' unique (there's at least ten main body types, about 30 face models per ethnicity, and loads of other variations). The only reason it's not an averted example is due to the game having only so many face models and outfits to go around, so creating several pairs of twins in a level is just inevitable. However, it's unlikely for the same persons' head to be on the same clothing, or wearing siilar accessories. The names of each NPC, however, are completely unique per NPC; no two NPC's are called [[SincerityMode Robert]] [[Creator/RobertDowneyJr Uppey Jr.]] in the games.

* The [[TheNineties 1990s]] film series ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' has numerous examples of these. Since this is early computer animation, you can't really blame them.

* PerfectWorldOnline averted this for most player races due to the slider system. Beastman player characters had a limited number of animal types to choose from, resulting in more general similarities, and there were sets of cloned [=NPC=]s.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' (as do the [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar other]] [[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens2013 two]] Creator/{{Dreamworks}} shows for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}) has a pretty high degree of clones for background characters differentiated merely by clothing recolouring and that's if you're lucky, {{Mooks}} draw the short straw and [[FacelessGoons all look entirely the same]].

* While having better animation quality than their previous TV works, ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' has this in force far more than any other show by Creator/DreamWorks; Julien's Kingdom consists almost entirely of a single grey generic lemur that appear multiple times with different eye colours with a handful of unique named background lemurs (that themselves aren't immune to also being doubled) for flavour.

* In ''Film/{{Spider}}'', the story is told from the [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness point of view of an adult paranoid schizophrenic]] who [[spoiler: [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his mother as a child]].]] Over the course of the film, all the women in his adult life [[MindScrew turn into doppelgangers of his mother]], although they still retain their original personalities.