History Main / OnlyOneFemaleMold

* Very noticeable in the earlier ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' games. Even as late as 3, there were only two basic female models - the willowy adult (Helena, Christie, ect.) and the teenager (Kasumi, Ayame, ect.) - with hair, outfit, and fighting styles setting them apart. No longer the case as of 5, however; every character has their own model, and Last Round makes use of the new [[JigglePhysics Soft Engine]] to give every girl's body unique properties.

* Franchise/{{Disney}} princesses. While their male leads have managed at least a little diversity from a standard heroic physique over the years (Kuzco from ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and Milo from ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' being good examples) Disney princesses tend to stick to a very specific mold: slender but curvaceous, small hands and feet, long hair, large eyes, small nose and bee-stung lips. They tend to be at least a head shorter than their love interests too.

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* True of almost all female champions in free to play MOBA 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.

* In ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'', while the male heroes have several different body types (including "Beast" like Hulk, Juggernaut and Abomination, "Heroic" like Captain America, Black Panther and Electro, and "Slim" like Spider-Man) all the females have the exact same body type and PaintedOnPants style clothing.

* Most of the women (especially teenage and college girls) in TotallySpies mostly have relatively slender builds with very little variation.

** The dwarf, gnome, and pandaren females actually avert this, however, with the first and last being rather thick and curvy, while the 2nd is appropriately proportioned for such a short race. To a lesser extent, so do the Tauren. e

* Initially played straight with ''MonsterHigh'' (although the dolls did have different face molds) until the release of Nefera De Nile's doll, which has a taller mold as she is older than the rest.

* ''OnePiece'' started as this (aside from the rare TokenMiniMoe), though Oda finally decided to be just as [[CastOfSnowflakes outlandish]] with women as he was with men.
* ''UchuuSenkanYamato'' and other Anime/{{Leijiverse}} works owe this to AuthorAppeal. Males sometimes have a token Gonk just to skew the ratio.

* Along with OnlySixFaces, 'ComicStrip/'BeetleBailey'' is guilty of this. Apparently, all of Killer's girlfriends have a small slender built.

* {{Bratz}}.

* Along with OnlySixFaces, ''BeetleBailey'' is guilty of this. Apparently, all of Killer's girlfriends have a small slender built.

** 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 ''Franchise/MassEffect''). ''JadeEmpire'', however, averts this, as there are fat, short or skinny NPC men and women.

* CityOfHeroes has 3 body types. Male, Female, and "Huge" (Big male). This is given ''plenty'' of lampshading, such as washrooms having a third door for "Huge".

* ''UchuuSenkanYamato'' and other {{Leijiverse}} works owe this to AuthorAppeal. Males sometimes have a token Gonk just to skew the ratio.

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* Michaelangelo didn't have female models readily available, and so used his own body as a template for most of his paintings and several of his sculptures.

* Similarly, the {{DCAU}}'s character designs come in two flavors, generally speaking: Male and Female. This was at its most pronounced throughout ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', particularly the ''JLU'' seasons. There's a subset of the "male" character design that is basically "skinnier male", which isn't seen as often. Females mostly have the same ''face'', with different hairstyles keeping them distinct.

* An interesting example is in the background of ''WesternAnimation/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.]]

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.