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5	->''"Silence, assorted stereotypes."''
6	-->-- '''The Omnipotent Voice''' addressing the cast of ''WebAnimation/TheStrangerhood''
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8	A cast where every (or almost every) member represents a stereotype of some sort. These stereotypes can include:
9	* National/ethnic/religious stereotypes.
10	* Occupational stereotypes (doctor, soldier, pirate, artist, etc), usually wearing StockCostumeTraits.
11	* Subculture or lifestyle stereotypes (SurferDude, ValleyGirl, {{Goth}}, etc).
12	* {{Ms Fanservice}}s[[note]]([[MostWritersAreMale this is seldom done with males]])[[/note]] representing [[SexyWhateverOutfit "sexy"]] versions of certain job/subculture/nation/etc. identities ([[FairCop sexy cop]], [[HospitalHottie sexy nurse]], [[HotLibrarian sexy librarian]], etc.).
13	* Expies of well-known historical or fictional characters (BruceLeeClone, JoanOfArchetype, ClassicalMovieVampire, etc), usually representing their respective nations/ethnicities.
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15	If an All-Stereotype Cast contains a couple of non-stereotypical characters, they tend to be:
16	* "Normal Guys/Girls" who are much less stereotypical, but also much more [[TheGenericGuy "generic"]] than the rest. They're usually the main hero and AudienceSurrogate.[[note]]surprisingly often a WhiteMaleLead[[/note]]
17	* Wacky gimmick characters.
18	* If it's a video game that features bosses/mid-bosses, they're also quite often non-stereotypical.[[note]]Or at least, less stereo-typical.[[/note]]
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20	This trope could be used for different reasons. Maybe the creators had a limited time or budget to create a cast of fully fleshed but recognizable humorous characters, and turned to this trope as an easier shorthand. Maybe they just didn't care. Or maybe this was done intentionally, for example to parody or deconstruct the stereotypes, or just play them straight and revel in the ensuing campy silliness. Note: [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools This trope isn't necessarily a symptom of a bad or lazy creative process]]; if done right, it might result in an enjoyable if campy cast of characters.
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22	Though in LongRunners, they'll eventually gain CharacterDevelopment beyond their initial roles.
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24	This trope was surprisingly prominent in fighting/racing/vehicular combat video games, but can also be encountered elsewhere. If like characters band together and compete with other groups of likes, you've entered GangOfHats territory. A somewhat common subspecies of this trope is to use a bunch of ''national'' stereotypes to fill out a "global" cast.
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26	Compare FiveTokenBand, which doesn't necessarily consist of stereotypes, and is always multiethnic.[[note]]Inlike All Stereotype Cast, this could be, e.g., a monoethnic team of job stereotypes.[[/note]] See also CaptainEthnic; a superhero team consisting of Captain Ethnics will result in an All-Stereotype Cast.
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28	Subtrope of TasteTheRainbow.
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31	!!Example subpages:
32	[[index]]
33	* AllStereotypeCast/VideoGames
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37	!!Other examples:
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41	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
42	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' uses this trope intentionally, both to deconstruct said stereotypes and to keep the ridiculously large cast from becoming too overwhelming.
43	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is a pretty well-known example, where this is done deliberately and usually Played for Laughs. The characters represent various countries of the world, and are intentionally portrayed in a stereotypical manner: Japan is overly reserved, Italy is obsessed with pasta, America only wants to be the hero, etc.
44	* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' revels in this trope. Nearly every Gundam pilot is a walking national stereotype. To list a few: Japanese Domon (TheHero) is a martial artist trying to restore his family honor, Spaniard Carlos Andalusia dresses like a matador and his Gundam is shaped like a bull's head, Chibodee Crockett fits every {{EagleLand}} stereotype you can think of, and Indian Chandra Sijiema is an evil snake charmer.
45	* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'': The superhero identities of the supporting cast rely heavily on stereotypes: sexy MsFanservice superheroine Karina, bull-themed DashingHispanic Antonio, dragon-themed BruceLeeClone AnimeChineseGirl Pao-Lin, [[KindheartedSimpleton ditzy, nice]] AllAmericanFace Keith, and flamboyant [[note]] but according to WordOfGod, ''not'' CampGay but rather more of an agender trans person[[/note]] Nathan play this trope straight; Ivan plays with it by having his identity being a stereotypical ninja/samurai but instead he's a Russian Japanophile.
46	* ''Anime/ReCreators'' features a group of AnimeCharacterTypes as the main cast, considering all of them were actually pulled from the realm of fiction. Celesia is a female StockLightNovelHero, Mamika is the naive StockShoujoHeroine of a MagicalGirl series, Yuuya is the arrogant StockShonenRival, Rui is the ClassicAntiHero BigEater mech protagonist, Alicetaria the fantasy lead, and Blitz is the gruff ActionHero. We even get some video game stereotypes in Meteora, resident MrExposition tutorial girl. [[spoiler:From the latecomers' side: StockShonenHero Syo, brooding StockLightNovelHero Charon, and Hikayu, NaiveEverygirl visual novel lead.]]
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49	[[folder:Comic Books]]
50	* ''ComicBook/KunskapensKorridorer'': The class of 8C consists of all the different personality types, which you'd expect from any work about a school: an AlphaBitch, TheBully, TokenMinority, etc.
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53	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
54	* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': A sort of {{Deconstruction}}. Each of the students in detention fulfills a high school stereotype of The80s: specifically, jocks, brainiacs, princesses, criminals, and basket cases -- and yet is about showing how they're much more than those stereotypes.
55	-->'''Brian''': You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.
56	* ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'': The Prussians/Germans are uptight efficiency freaks, the French guy is as interested in skirt-chasing and having fun as he is in piloting (if not more), the Italians are devout Catholics and have a lot of kids, the American is a cowboy, the British are stuffy and formal, and so forth. But as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKxMlovi4o&feature=PlayList&p=4EA6BDC0C1691CFE&playnext_from=PL&index=6 one YouTube review]] points out, the facts that all the actors are the appropriate nationalities and "insults" are applied evenly to all concerned helps mitigate the offensiveness.
57	** Also interestingly ''not the case'' for the Japanese pilot, who is presented as intelligent and articulate, speaks very good English [[HiddenDepths and has a taste for Scotch whisky to boot]].
58	* ''Film/District13Ultimatum'': Everyone. From the gangster alliance (Black Rastafarians who look like rejects from the Lord's Resistance Army, robe-clad bearded Arabs, TriggerHappy Portuguese used-car salesmen, tattooed Asian martial artists, and white Neo-Nazi skinheads), to the bad guys ([[OurPresidentsAreDifferent a PR-obsessed French President]] and his EvilChancellor), to the heroes (CowboyCop Damien and {{Neighborhood Friendly Gangster\|s}} Leito). It manages to be quite hilarious because of [[ClicheStorm how straight it plays the whole thing]].
59	* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' has a stereotypical quartet of high school comedy movie characters in the "real world" a stereotypical quartet of action comedy characters in the "Jumanji world"... and the juxtaposition is flipped when the high school teens get put into the player characters that are their diametric opposites in the Jumanji game. The closeted video game nerd ends up in the [[HeroicBuild muscular hero character]], the jock ends up as a glorified backpack, the AlphaBitch ends up in a frumpy portly guy, and the ShrinkingViolet girl ends up in a bare-midriff short-shorts KickChick ActionGirl.
60	* The poster for ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'' [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/32/08/a5/3208a5c0d324d31cacd0399ff883193b.jpg helpfully points them all out for us.]]
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63	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64	* ''Series/Sense8'': Due to having to introduce eight storylines all at once, the global cast comprises NationalStereotypes so the audience doesn't have to fill in the blanks as much. The protagonists are a [[GermanicDepressives serious, possibly sociopathic German]]; a queer San Franciscan intellectual; a [[InscrutableOriental quiet, stoic Korean]] who [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts is a champion kickboxer]]; a macho {{Telenovela}} actor from Mexico; a cool Nordic DJ; a nice all-American cop; a woman from India nervous about her [[SadBollywoodWedding upcoming wedding]] (complete with a Bollywood dance number early in the first season), and a poor Kenyan man with a mother dying of AIDS. The characters are fleshed out and allowed to be more than these stereotypes, however, even playing with some of them (e.g., the macho Mexican actor is [[ManlyGay closeted]], and the Indian woman is a religious scientist).
65	* ''Series/AlloAllo'': This show made fun of everyone. Rene is a cowardly FrenchJerk with a passionate love life; his waitresses are [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench sexy French women]]; ThoseWackyNazis include: two bumbling enlisted officers, a CampGay lieutenant, and a stoic bespectacled Gestapo officer; the English pilots speak with an [[IAmVeryBritish exaggerated English accent]] and are both [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very polite]] and [[StiffUpperLip stuffy]], Captain Bertorelli is a MilesGloriosus who [[ItaliansTalkWithHands talks with his hands]], etc.
66	* Played with on ''The Ranganation'', where Romesh's focus group are identified only by stereotype-esque descriptors, such as "Metalhead", "Ex-Banker", "Never Voted", and "Glam Gran".
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69	[[folder:Music]]
70	* Music/TheVillagePeople's gimmick was that each dressed as a different stereotype of American [[MachoCamp masculinity]].
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73	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
74	* This was the defining trait of Vincent J [=McMahon=]'s WWWF, as he wanted at least one wrestler for every ethnic group in New York to have a program a year and would take wrestlers from other territories if he had too. Not only are TropesNotBad, but over the years people found this [[VindicatedByHistory preferable]] to [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince Jr]]'s inflammatory race baiting and territory killing star poaching(Vince Sr was at least nice enough to send someone he considered equally "exotic" in to fill the vacancy)
75	* Wrestling/{{W\|OWWomenOfWrestling}}omen Of Wrestling's first run in the early 2000s attempted a more realistic take on this trope by showing wrestlers in their downtime trying to fit into the "new" culture and or explaining how all these people got on the roster to begin with. But when you have a six foot black woman named Slam Dunk, a Persian Belly Dancer, a South American Jungle Grrl and a Tongan named Paradise you're nonetheless using this trope. The 2012 {{revival}} a little less so, as it scouted more wrestlers as opposed to training new ones and changed fewer of those wrestlers' established gimmicks.
76	* Deliberately avoided with Lucha Liga Elite, as while it did go out of its way to get as many wrestlers/luchadores from as many different parts of the world as possible it made a point of having them keep their original gimmicks, which often didn't hint at anything in particular. The Argentina native is Hip Hop Man rather than the black US national. The "Chicano" is [[IronicNickname openly Puerto Rican]]. The man from Cameroon does have a lion theme but not as much as The Lion Brothers, who are Mexican.
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80	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
81	* The special beans in ''TabletopGame/{{Bohnanza}}'' spin-off ''Bohn to be Wild!'' rely heavily on stereotypes. For instance, the China bean is a yellow bean with a sedge hat and AsianBuckTeeth, and the Indian bean looks like a stereotypical Native American with a red face and a feather headdress.
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84	[[folder:Web Comics]]
85	* The whole premise of ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' is that the characters representing the countries are NationalStereotypes.
86	* ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'', also known as ''Countryballs'' is basically a webcomic born in Website/FourChan about Polandball and his relationship with the other countryballs, all of them represent NationalStereotypes based on actual conducts of every country translated into a personality. First based only on Europe and US, there's already the whole world pictured as countryball (also, not just limited to countries, there're also countyballs and even planetballs).
87	* ''Webcomic/TotalTrauma'' deconstructs the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series' usage of this trope. All of the contestants were pigeonholed by the producers into their stereotypes and were so deeply affected by it that it started to harmfully influence their behaviour, particularly with Heather feeling guilt over her role as an AlphaBitch and Duncan getting arrested because he was so desperate to prove he was still a tough delinquent. When they're all adults after the end of the show, many have had their lives irreparably damaged by it, with some even completely changing their identities to get away from their past selves.
88	* The premise of ''Webcomic/{{Boyfriends}}'' is the characters representing teen movie stereotypes in polyamorous relationship.
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91	[[folder:Western Animation]]
92	* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' might be one of the oldest examples of this trope. It features a couple of stereotypical cavemen, a RedplicaBaron, a couple of army stereotypes, a mob of stereotypical gangsters, a super-genius scientist inventor, a lazy hillbilly with a pet bear, a stereotype lumberjack with a pet beaver, a [[TheHero macho hero ]] with a LanternJawOfJustice, a GirlyGirl obsessed with her looks, and a DastardlyWhiplash-style villain.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' characters represent (and parody) reality show stereotypes, combining them with cartoon genre archetypes. Captain Hero, for example, parodies the macho jock stereotype and the confident, powerful superhero.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is an ''[[ExaggeratedTrope incredibly]]'' extreme example of this; Eustace is a GrumpyOldMan, Muriel is a Scottish KindheartedSimpleton that also becomes a BraveScot in certain episodes, Le Quack is a FrenchJerk, Di Lung is an {{Asian\|Rudeness}} NouveauRiche InsufferableGenius, Mad Dog is (debatably) a ScaryBlackMan, Kitty (prior to her redemption at the end of "The Mask") is a [[TheKlan Klan-robed]] StrawFeminist, the Flan King is a DashingHispanic FatBastard, Freaky Fred has BritishTeeth, Rumpled Kilt Skin is a ViolentGlaswegian, Courage is a SouthernFriedGenius, Katz and the Perfectionist are {{Evil Brit}}s, Courage's Computer is BritishStuffiness incarnate, Maria Ladrones is a female {{Bandito}}, the General and the Lieutenant are ArmedFarces, Dr. Zalost is a MadScientist / HerrDoktor, Dr. Vindaloo is a BollywoodNerd, Cajun Fox and Big Bayou are [[RaginCajun Ragin' Cajuns]]...honestly, it would be easier to list the characters that ''aren't'' blatant caricatures in this show.
95	* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' subverts this. The cast initially looks like this trope, consisting of clones of various historical figures rather than their expies. However, the characters themselves don't want to be tied down with other people's preconceptions of the historical figures from whom they're cloned, so they tend to do a complete 180-degree turn in terms of personality: Abe Lincoln is a weak-willed wimp, Joan of Arc went goth, Gandhi is a wacky party animal, and so on.
96	* The first generation of contestants of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' provides the current page image. The entire cast represent and parody teenage stereotypes. Some play their stereotypes straight (Duncan is a delinquent, Heather is an AlphaBitch, Geoff is a party animal, Lindsay is a dumb cheerleader, Harold/Cody/Noah are nerds/geeks, etc.), while some subvert expectations (Gwen is a PerkyGoth, Tyler is a jock who sucks at sports, DJ is also a jock but is a timid MamasBoy, etc.).
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''. While Lincoln himself is a pretty normal boy, his sisters seem to each embody a stereotype (bossy oldest sister, dumb fashionista, musician, comedian, athlete, goth, pageant princess, outdoors/wildlife lover, genius, and baby).
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