History Main / OnlyOneFemaleMold

This, of course, has a ton of UnfortunateImplications in that men come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, while for women, there is only one "normal" body type and if you don't fit that, there's something wrong with you.

* An interesting example is in the background of ''TheIncredibles'', Edna Mode's design studio has three body type mannequins to model her clothes on: huge buff dude, medium-sized buff dude, and woman. [[FridgeLogic Perhaps she refuses to make costumes for any other body types.]]

* All the females in ''BBSenshiSangokuden'' are the exact same build, regardless of age, while males come under regular, Toutaku, and Ryofu Tallgeese.

* An interesting example is in the background of ''TheIncredibles'', Edna Mode's design studio has three body type mannequins to model her clothes on: huge buff dude, medium-sized buff dude, and woman.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is pretty bad about this. Morrigan is a twentysomething whose good looks other characters comment on. Wynne is a mage in her sixties. Put them in the same type of armor, and they're identical from the neck down.

* Also criticized and mocked [[http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/tagged/attack+of+the+clones multiple times]] by ''[[http://eschergirls.tumblr.com Escher Girls]]''.

* Also criticized [[http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/tagged/attack+of+the+clones multiple times]] by ''[[http://eschergirls.tumblr.com Escher Girls]]''.

* Criticized—along with excessive use of {{fanservice}} tropes related to the MaleGaze—by {{Moviebob}} in [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4719-Gender-Games this]] episode of "The Big Picture."

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' even the old wrinkle faced women will have young shaped bodies.

* True of almost all female champions in free to play RTS game ''{{League of Legends}}''. Despite the large number of playable women, they have only one Barbie-like body type with the exception of a few chibi-style dwarf/imp/child characters. Male champions' bodies vary significantly, though a large portion is dedicated to the muscle man type.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' and ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' used pretty much the same body and face types in nearly all the adult female chacters, particularly the [[ActionGirl Action Girls]], to the point where the best way to tell them apart was by their clothes and hair.
** This was also true of the ''male'' characters; there really was only one body mold for each sex in the ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' toyline (with a few exceptions). This means that virtually every male character shared He-Man's exaggerated muscularity so long as they had a toy.
* Similarly, the {{DCAU}}'s character designs come in two flavors, generally speaking: Male and Female. Naturally, male characters deviate from the norm more often, such as the Flash (who is thinner and has much more narrow shoulders than, say, Superman). Females mostly have the same ''face'', with different hairstyles keeping them distinct.
** Again, as with He-man, ''male'' characters just had "Slightly skinnier" which was pretty much achieved by squishing the character, Batman and Superman even have nearly the same ''face'', physique, and everything else to boot.

* ''SailorMoon''. Other than height, there's very little difference in build among ''any'' of the girls in the show, with the exception of [[FanNickname Usagi's fat friend]], who disappears halfway into the series and never even gets named on screen.

* Inverted with the 4th generation ''My Little Pony'' "blind bag" toys. 6 female molds, 1 male.
** However it's played relatively straight with there being only one Pegasus mold. Thus, Fluttershy ends up looking like a PaletteSwap of Rainbow Dash.

* True of almost all female champions in free to play RTS game ''{{League of Legends}}''. Despite the large number of playable women, they have only one Barbie-like body type with the exception of a few uniformly chibi-style dwarf/imp characters, while the male champions' bodies vary notably.

* Most of {{Barbie}}'s friends have the exact same body shape as her, which is especially odd since ''no real women do.''

** However it's played relatively straight with there being only one Pegasus mold. Thus, Fluttershy ends up looking like a PaletteSwap of Ranbow Dash.

* The original HeMan and SheRa animated series used pretty much the same body and face types in nearly all the adult female chacters, particularly the [[ActionGirl Action Girls]], to the point where the best way to tell them apart was by their clothes and hair.
** This was also true of the ''male'' characters; there really was only one body mold for each sex in the toyline (with a few exceptions). This means that virtually every male character shared He-Man's exaggerated muscularity so long as they had a toy.

** ...Maybe it's just Killer's fault?

* ''SailorMoon''. Other than height, is there really a difference in build among ''any'' of the girls in this show?

** This is generally true for almost all BioWare games, which tend to have only one male and one female models, used for all [=NPCs=] regardless of age or sometimes even species (for example, human body models are shared among other things by Twi'leks and Zabraks in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', and by asari and batarians in ''MassEffect''). ''JadeEmpire'', however, averts this, as there are fat, short or skinny NPC men and women.

* ''SailorMoon''. Other than height (and ignoring a certain [[BigBreastsBigDeal talented]] meme), is there really a difference in build among ''any'' of the girls in this show?

* {{Parodied}} and {{exaggerated}} in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance's'' ''WorldOfWarcraft'' parody. Riff complai to Torg that he has a TwentyBearAsses quest that requires killing only female slime blobs and he can't figure out how to distinguish them. A little later when Zoë is trying to create a character, she complains to Torg about the difference between the way the male and female characters look -- all the female versions are scantily clad and have the same exact generically sexy figure with a different head, even the ugly Jigants ([[ButterFace and the females still have the same Jigant face]]). Upon realising this, Torg becomes GenreSavvy enough to be able to advice Riff, and after hearing his advice, Riff wonders why the hell [[FailedASpotCheck he didn't notice]] it sooner that while most slime blobs are just blobs, some of them have that blob for a head atop the same old bikini'd sexy female body.