History Main / OnlyOneFemaleMold

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' seems to have paradoxically been getting ''more'' like this while its [[ArtEvolution art has improved]]. Attractive female characters tend towards having the same Barbie doll figure, but you wouldn't think of this trope at the beginning with variously skinnier examples like Rachel, Anaak Zahard and Serena Rinnen showing up prominently. But fast forward to "Hell Train: The Name Hunt Station", you've still got a couple of exceptions like Anaak and Xiaxia, but with all the women suddenly seemingly wearing more form-fitting clothing, as well as being better drawn, you can easily keep listing examples who all look the same shape: Androssi, Yihwa, Lilial and Shilial, Alphine, Elaine, Hwa Ryun, Yuri, just in this story.

* Comicbook/{{Elephantmen}}: All of the major female characters have the [[HartmanHips exact]] [[MostCommonSuperpower same]] [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure body type]], with only hair and skin color to tell them apart. [[spoiler: Even Yvette, despite being a hardened killer decked out in scars, is drawn with the same proportions.]] Not to mention that they all seem to shop at the [[VaporWear same two]] [[SensualSpandex clothing stores.]] Compare this to the male characters, who come in all different shapes, sizes, and [[PettingZooPeople species]], and wear a wide mix of different outfits (though most all of them do sport a BadassLongcoat at some point).

For the face equivalent, see OnlySixFaces, GenericCuteness. Related to the MostCommonSuperpower. Contrast AmazonianBeauty, BigBeautifulWoman. See also HeroicBuild for when this trope applies to superheroines.

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

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has received flak for this, though at times, Oda decides to be just as [[CastOfSnowflakes outlandish]] with women as he is with men. This typically applies for female characters who are [[{{Gonk}} Gonks]], such as Miss Merry Christmas, Kokoro, Gloriosa, Sweet Pea, Jora, Charlotte Linlin AKA Big Mom, Charlotte Brûlée, and several others, though there are some exceptions, like Ms. Goldenweek, who aren't gonkish while still looking distinct. However, if they're meant to be attractive, chances are they'll be a variant of Nami with a different hairstyle and color. These female characters also tend to [[http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=40172 keep the same facial frame with few differentiations]].

** As it happens, subverting this trope was part of the undoing of the ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' cartoon and toyline. It was just too expensive for each character to have a completely new sculpt, especially with the level of detail those toys possessed. Mattel learned its lesson and went back to basing every toy on the same handful of body sculpts in the ''Masters of the Universe Classic'' toyline.

** While Moira is still slender and long-legged, she has unique facial proportions, short hair, and references Creator/DavidBowie in her skins. The extent of this trope is such that a fan theory immediately developed assuming that she is transsexual because of her atypical design (eliciting some unfortunate implications).

** While Moira is still slender and long-legged, she has unique facial proportions, short hair, and references Creator/DavidBowie in her skins. The extent of this trope is such that a fan theory immediately developed assuming that she is transsexual because of her atypical design.

* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'': Zarya (a short-haired, ripped bodybuilder), Mei (a short, chubby Chinese woman) and Orisa (a big centaur-adjacent ''robot'') were specifically designed to avert this trope. But the majority of female characters in the game still play the trope straight: D.Va, Mercy, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, Widowmaker, and Moira are all slender, conventionally attractive women with long, graceful legs and trim waists. Even characters like Pharah, who has yet to be seen without body armor, and Ana, an older woman who wears layers of body armor and a flowing cloak, seem to have the same general body type as the other women in the game. The newest female character, Brigitte ([[ItsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced Brig-EET-uh]]), is muscular and wears armor only slightly lighter than [[KnightInShiningArmor Reinhardt's]], but her face looks like someone [[OnlySixFaces copied and pasted]] Mercy's face onto Brigitte's head.

* Comicbook/{{Elephantmen}}: All of the major female characters [[HartmanHips look]] [[MostCommonSuperpower exactly]] [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure the same]], with only hair and skin color to tell them apart. [[spoiler: Even Yvette, main series villain, despite being a hardened killer decked out in scars, is drawn with the same proportions.]] Not to mention that they all seem to shop at the [[VaporWear same two]] [[SensualSpandex clothing stores.]] Compare this to the male characters, who come in all different shapes, sizes, and [[PettingZooPeople species]], and wear a wide mix of different outfits (though most all of them do sport a BadassLongcoat at some point).

* Comicbook/{{Elephantmen}}: All of the major female characters [[HartmanHips look]] [[MostCommonSuperpower exactly]] [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure the same]], with only hair and skin color to tell them apart. [[spoiler: Even Yvette, main series villain, despite being a hardened killer decked out in scars, is drawn with the same proportions.]] They all also seem to shop for the [[VaporWear same types]] [[SensualSpandex of clothes.]] Compare this to the male characters, who come in all different shapes, sizes, and [[PettingZooPeople species]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has received flak for this, though at times, Oda decides to be just as [[CastOfSnowflakes outlandish]] with women as he is with men. This typically applies for female characters who are [[{{Gonk}} Gonks]], such as Miss Merry Christmas, Kokoro, Gloriosa, Sweet Pea, Jora, Charlotte Linlin AKA Big Mom, Charlotte Brûlée, and several others. However, if they're meant to be attractive, chances are they'll be a variant of Nami with a different hairstyle and color. In the face department, female characters who aren't Gonks [[http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=40172 keep the same facial frame with few differentiations]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has received flak for this, though at times, Oda decides to be just as [[CastOfSnowflakes outlandish]] with women as he is with men. But, this typically applies for female characters who are [[{{Gonk}} Gonks]], such as Miss Merry Christmas, Kokoro, Gloriosa, Sweet Pea, Jora, Charlotte Linlin AKA Big Mom, Charlotte Brûlée, and several others. However, if they're meant to be attractive, chances are they'll be a variant of Nami with a different hairstyle and color. In the face department, female characters who aren't Gonks [[http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=40172 keep the same facial frame with few differentiations]].

* ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'' both averts this and plays it straight. Princesses, and even princes, have kept the same essential mold ever since the days of ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. These similarities transcend technique and this is especially obvious in the [[https://youtu.be/_BcYBFC6zfY?t=1m34s Wreck-it-Ralph 2 trailer]]. On the other hand, there is substantial body diversity with the supporting characters of both genders. Part of the reason for this historically is because drawing all women the same meant they could [[StockFootage recycle the same bodily animation]] over and over again without having to substantially change the body designs.

* ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'' both averts this and plays it straight. Princesses, and even princes, have kept the same essential mold ever since the days of ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. These similarities transcend technique and this is especially obvious in the [[https://youtu.be/_BcYBFC6zfY?t=1m34s Wreck-it-Ralph 2 trailer]]. On the other hand, there is substantial body diversity with the supporting characters of both genders.

In most animated works and comics featuring an ensemble cast, particularly a FiveManBand, the male characters will have a wide range of body types -- TheSmartGuy will often be [[GeekPhysiques small and slender]], TheBigGuy will be either huge and muscular or endearingly pudgy, and TheHero will typically be somewhere in between.

* ''FairyTail'' is pretty guilty of this as well as WorldOfBuxom, resulting in almost every girl having a busty hourglass figure, with very rare exceptions. (Basically Levy and [[TokenMiniMoe Wendy]] )

* In ''ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub'' (Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku), all the girls have the same figure. Considering that there is also a OnlySixFaces, the characters' hairs and eyes are the only major differences between them (along with few differences in their school uniform).

* In ''ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub'' (Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku), all the girls have the same figure. Considering that there is also aOnlySixFaces, the characters' hairs and eyes are the only major differences between them (along with few differences in their school uniform).

* ''FairyTail'' is pretty guilty of this as well as WorldOfBuxom, resulting in almost every girl having a busty hourglass figure,with very rare exceptions. (Basically Levy and [[TokenMiniMoe Wendy]] )

* In ''ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub'' (Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku), all the girls have the same figure. considering that there is also a OnlySixFaces, the characters hairs and eyes are the only major differences between them (along with few differences in their school uniform).
* Downplayed in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', while quirks can create some monstrous or otherwise outlandish appearances in some people, at most a girl will usually be a CuteMonsterGirl. (An exception is Habuko Mongoose, who has a realistic snake head, but she only appears in a side chapter.)
* {{Gender Inverted}} in ''Manga/MahouShoujoOre''. The girls come in various shapes and sizes, from short and cute, to tall, busty, and cool, to even getting in age and rail-thin. The magical boys, on the other hand, are the same height and build across the board (Even Saki's mom, who's been out of the game for years before the story starts, retains this HeroicBuild when she transforms). The bad guys are just nude versions of the hero model, making it jarring when one character tells the heroes to stop the "macho" villains. The only exceptions to this rule are Kokoro and Mohiro, both of which don't have much panel time.

* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'': Zarya (a short-haired, ripped bodybuilder), Mei (a short, chubby Chinese woman) and Orisa (a big centaur-adjacent ''robot'') were specifically designed to avert this trope. But the majority of female characters in the game still play the trope straight: D.Va, Mercy, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, Widowmaker, and Moira are all slender, conventionally attractive women with long, graceful legs and trim waists. Even characters like Pharah, who has yet to be seen without body armor, and Ana, an older woman who wears layers of body armor and a flowing cloak, seem to have the same general body type as the other women in the game. The newest female character, Brigitte ([[ItsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced Brig-EET-uh]])), is muscular and wears armor only slightly lighter than [[KnightInShiningArmor Reinhardt's]], but her face looks like someone [[OnlySixFaces copied and pasted]] Mercy's face onto Brigitte's head.

* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'': Zarya (a short-haired, ripped bodybuilder), Mei (a short, chubby Chinese woman) and Orisa (a big centaur-adjacent ''robot'') were specifically designed to avert this trope. But the majority of female characters in the game still play the trope straight: D.Va, Mercy, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, Widowmaker, and Moira are all slender, conventionally attractive women with long, graceful legs and trim waists. Even characters like Pharah, who has yet to be seen without body armor, and Ana, an older woman who wears layers of body armor and a flowing cloak, seem to have the same general body type as the other women in the game. The newest female character, Brigitte ([[ItsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced Brig-EET-uh]])), is muscular and wears armor only slightly lighter than [[KnightInShiningArmor Reinhardt's]], but her face looks like someone copied and pasted Mercy's face onto Brigitte's head.

* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'': Zarya (a short-haired bodybuilder) and Orisa (a large, quadrupedal ''robot'') were specifically designed to avert this trope. To a lesser extent, so does Mei, as she is short and somewhat chubby. But the majority of female characters in the game play the trope straight: D.Va, Mercy, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, and Widowmaker are all slender, conventionally attractive women with long, graceful legs and trim waists. Even characters like Pharah, who has yet to be seen without body armor, and Ana, an older woman who wears layers of body armor and a flowing cloak, seem to have the same general body type as the other women in the game.

* ''Manga/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.

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' seems to have paradoxically been getting ''more'' like this while its [[ArtEvolution art has improved]]. Attractive female characters tend towards having the same Barbie doll figure, but you wouldn't think of this trope at the beginning with variously skinnier examples like Rachel, Anaak Zahard and Serena Rinnen showing up prominently. But fast forward to "Hell Train: The Name Hunt Station", you've still got a couple of exceptions like Anaak and Xiaxia, but with all the women suddenly seemingly wearing more form-fitting clothing, as well as being better drawn, you can easily keep listing examples who all look the same shape: Androssi, Yihwa, Lilial and Shilial, Alphine, Elaine, Hwa Ryun, Yuri.

* {{Gender Inverted}} in ''Manga/MahouShoujoOre''. The girls come in various shapes and sizes, from short and cute, to tall, busty, and cool, to even getting in age and rail-thin. The magical boys, on the other hand, are the same height and build across the board (Even Saki's mom, who's been out of the game for years before the story starts, retains this HeroicBuild when she transforms). The only exceptions to this rule are Kokoro and Mohiro, both of which don't have much panel time.