History Main / OnlyOneFemaleMold

* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' is pretty bad about this. Up until the release of Scylla (a little girl) all female characters had the same body shape, and even then it took another two years for another female with a unique body type to come along (Jing Wei, a teenager.) There were many females introduced in the two-year gap, but they had the same body shape as most of the other females did.

* In ''Animation/TheMissingLink'' (also known as ''B.C. Rock''), human men are [[CastOfSnowflakes extremely diverse in appearance]] -- they don't even ''walk'' like each other -- while all women look about the same. Note that the women look more like the Art/VenusOfWillendorf than the [[NubileSavage supermodels in fur bikinis]] one might expect.

* Similarly, the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'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. The only body type differences were made by making the body wider or skinnier (Superman was broader shouldered, but generally had the same proportions as the Flash, and similarly, Wonder Woman was simply a broader-shouldered version of Hawkgirl). Females mostly have the same ''face'', with different hairstyles keeping them distinct. There ''is'' one general exception, in the form of the "Block-shaped" male mold used for Gorillas, Grundy, and other stouter types, but that's about it.

* In ''Animation/TheMissingLink'' (also known as ''B.C. Rock''), human men are [[CastOfSnowflakes extremely diverse in appearance]] -- they don't even ''walk'' like each other -- while all women look about the same. Note that the women look more like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf the Venus of Willendorf]] than the [[NubileSavage supermodels in fur bikinis]] one might expect.

* While this trope is usually played straight within ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', [[GentleGiant Sakura Ogami]] from [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]] is a notable aversion.

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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Averted with most characters that get artwork, due to the author using a different character-creator software for each one. Haara has the athletic HeroicBuild from [=HeroForge=], for example, whereas her mother has the slender dancer body from [=HeroMachine=] 2.5 and Spectra has the curvy anime artstyle of ''Koikatsu Party.''
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* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'', where it's revealed that the females of ''every'' species, [[SexyDimorphism no matter how diverse the males might be]], look like sexy human women with maybe a few CuteMonsterGirl traits added. This causes one group to conclude that humans are secretly abominations because their males are the only ones to look relatively like their females, only "blobby chicks you wouldn't fuck."

* ''Manga/KenganAshura'' features pretty much every possible variation of the male build: fighters who come in a range of different weight classes and varying levels of musculature, old and middle-aged men who stands at varying degrees of fitness, non-fighting teenagers and young adults, etc. While the series does a good job in giving the female characters some distinctive facial features to not make them look like clones of each other, they all fall under the "relatively young, slender yet curvy, and conventionally pretty" mold. Even Togo Tomari, whose ''face'' probably has the most unique design of all the female characters still have the same body type as the rest of the ladies.

* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Averted with most characters that get artwork, due to the author using a different character-creator software for each one. Haara has the athletic HeroicBuild from [=HeroForge=], for example, whereas her mother has the slender dancer body from [=HeroMachine 2.5=] and Spectra has the curvy anime artstyle of ''Koikatsu Party.''

This often applies to most supporting characters, too. Occasionally a fat girl may appear as a [[FatComicRelief minor comic-relief character]], but she will never join the main cast.

See also WorldOfBuxom, OnlySixFaces, GenericCuteness. Related to the MostCommonSuperpower. Compare SexyDimorphism, where this trope is applied to fantasy monsters for {{fanservice}} reasons. Contrast AmazonianBeauty, BigBeautifulWoman, BustContrastDuo. See also HeroicBuild for when this trope applies to superheroines. See also ReusedCharacterDesign, for a non-gender specific variant.

* While this trope is usually played straight within ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', [[FaceOfAThug Sakura]] [[GentleGiant Ogami]] of [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]] is a notable aversion.
* Averted in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', and how. Even the girls’ vaginas look different.

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* ''VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame'': All games, for obvious reasons. Though male bodies aren't quite different for that purpose, at least they have "big and bulky" body type like Juggernaut, Solomon Grundy, or Hulk.

* The ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' creators didn't think boys would want to buy too many female action figures so made Teela and The Sorceress as one figure with changeable headgear. The mini-comics explained that Teela was origt an EvilKnockoff of The Sorceress created by Skeletor to gain access to Castle Grayskull. Most animated continuities make Teela her daughter.

* ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'' has a bad case of this. While younger characters do appear, most girls teenage or older have the same thin, busty figure and either Yuuna's doe eyes or Sagiri's piercing eyes. One color spread demonstrates this by having the three most prominent love interests (Yuuna, Chisaki, and Sagiri) pose together, and all of them notably have the same general body structure in it.

* ''Anime/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.

* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' creators didn't think boys would want to buy too many female action figures so made Teela and The Sorcerest as one figure with changeable headgear. The mini-comics explained that Teela was origt an EvilKnockoff of The Sorceress created by Skeletor to gain access to Castle Grayskull. Most animated continuities make Teela her daughter.

* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' creators didn't think boys would want to buy too many female action figures so made Teela and The Sorcerest as one figure with changeable headgear. The mini-comics explained that Teela was origt an EvilKnockoff of The Sorceress created by Skeletor to gain access to Castle Grayskull. Most animated continuities make Teela her daught.

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* Partially justified due to the [[AllCGICartoon animation style]] of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', in general males have three body types, muscular, stocky and average, while female bodies all look mostly the same with height and breast size being the only major difference. Later seasons introduce more body types for both genders.
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* Pretty much any ''VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame'', for obvious reasons. Though male bodies aren't quite different for that purpose, at least they have "big and bulky" body type like Juggernaut, Solomon Grundy, or Hulk.
* Most of the female [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' have the same slender figure, but there are a few who are more solidly built; for example, Slaughterhouse Zoe and one of the Chocobo Girls. It may or may not be significant that the fat Chocobo Girl is hidden in an alley and the slim ones are on the main street.
* 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. Eventually averted by the addition of Comicbook/SpiderGwen and ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 whose frames are noticeably thinner and smaller than the other female characters', which makes sense as the two are teenagers and the rest are adult women.
* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' isn't the worst in this regard, but a vast majority of female characters play the trope straight, with names like D.Va, Mercy, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, and Widowmaker are all slender, conventionally attractive women with long, graceful legs and trim waists, give or take some curves and height. There are some instances where [[SubvertedTrope the artists consciously avoided falling into this]] like Zarya (a short-haired, ripped bodybuilder), Mei (a short, chubby Chinese woman), Moira (a very lanky not-sorceress), and Orisa (a big centaur-adjacent ''robot''), but while you could almost certainly tell the difference between each female character during gameplay, more often than not, this has to with costume and weapon design than the actual shape of their bodies.

* Nearly every major character in ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' has very similar physical builds that differ only by bust size and species. Some exceptions are the fat lady NPC in Half-Genie Hero, the Tan Line Island Princess in Pirate's Curse, and some of the enemies from the collective series.

* Surprisingly averted in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. At a distance, all the characters look like recolors of each other, but there are actually subtle differences in the shapes of their faces and bodies. Rouge has wide hips and a large bust, while Blaze has a smaller chest, and Cream's body is bell-shaped.

* This has been a consistent complaint over ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' character models; the alpha builds, while rough, often had the females look like counterparts to the males of their race, but when it came time for final builds (after receiving yea many complaints about being ugly) it was like the developers threw up their hands and said: "screw it, let's make them all barbie dolls". 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.

* Partially justified due to the [[AllCGICartoon animation style]] of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', in general males have three body types, muscular, stocky and average, while female bodies all look mostly the same with height and breast size being the only major difference.

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