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*** Also, would the military even have [[Teens Are Short|teenager-sized]] uniforms?

*** You mean [[Berserk Button|tiny micro bean-sized uniforms]]?

 

However, when they all go off to {{spoiler|battle in the Fourth Ninja War}} everyone dons the uniform (except for Naruto, who isn't there).

** Nanoha tends to wear her instructor squad uniform most of the time, and only wears her Section 6 uniform on official business. Signum and Vita occasionally wear the "first class undersuit" as a less restrictive counterpart to the female uniform.

** After joining the Saint Church, {{spoiler|Sister Sein}} wears a nun outfit with short sleeves, for an unspecified reason relating to the rules.

** In ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', Arika's uniform has pink trim, unlike the green in most Coral uniforms. The top Pearl wears a white uniform instead of gray, with red trim instead of yellow. Mai, however, wears bright orange trim with her Coral and Pearl uniforms.

* Alice L. Malvin from ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'' wears a yellow uniform while everyone else in the army wears an olive one.

* In ''[[Sket Dance]]'', Shinzou, the Kendo club captain, is constantly [[cosplay]]ing as a samurai, so that even when he's in school he wears the traditional samurai outfit instead of the school uniform. In one episode he is even seen getting chastised by the martinet [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council|Student Council]] vice-president for doing this.

* ''[[Blue Exorcist]]'' has Paladin [[Alliteration|Arthur August Angel]], who has an extremely fancy uniform.

'''[[Jerkass|Angel]]''': [[Completely Missing the Point|Unfortunately for you, I had these clothes made-to-order.]] }}

* In [[Hidan no Aria]], Riko modified her school uniform to be more Lolita-like.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In [[The DCU]], [[The Legion of Super Heroes]] franchise has brought twists to this trope ''twice'':

** In the early issues of the "present day" [[Prequel]] comic, ''L.E.G.I.O.N. '89'', characters wore a wide range of clothing styles reflecting culture, alien anatomy, and/or personal aesthetics, but they all shared the standard livery of black underlayer, white overgarments, and the L.E.G.I.O.N. symbol in gold. No two characters, even those in the background, ever wore quite the same outfit: despite this, they were all obviously members of the same force. Later artists got lazy and gave the rank-and-file grunts identical uniforms.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** Troi wears a purplish outfit for much of the series. She was ordered to wear a Starfleet uniform by Jellico in "Chain of Command".

*** And to her credit, after being ordered to wear it, she wears it for the rest of the series.

** Admirals from ''[[The Next Generation]]'' on seem to be a straighter example—we see such a wide variety of outfits that either Starfleet Command is ''constantly'' changing flag officers' uniforms, or they can wear whatever they want as long as you can tell that it is a uniform.

*** Many of the admirals seem to be wearing similar variants however, that look almost like the modern "mess dress" variants of British Army uniforms. As does Picard, in a number of episodes (that isn't just an open jacket- if you look carefully you'll notice that grey section is an additional panel of the uniform jacket, fastening on the right side).

* In the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', Adama occasionally added a cape to his standard officer's uniform. Commander Cain, his counterpart on the Pegasus, went for a more Pattonesque look, eschewing the officer's uniform entirely for a fighter pilot's uniform and carrying a ''[[The Baroness|riding crop]]''.

** It's made fairly clear in a number of episodes that the cape is part of a Colonial Warrior's dress uniform (look at the party on Carrolon).

** In some episodes, he also wears his (neck)tie around his forehead as a type of bandana. Basically, staying within the rules of the dress code while looking nothing like everybody else.

* Jenny, the title character from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Doctor's Daughter", is a [[Designer Babies|genetically engineered]] soldier who emerges fully grown (and clothed) from a cloning machine. While her fellow soldiers are dressed in standard drab military fatigues, Jenny arrives in fitted black trousers, a tight green tee shirt (in a vibrant and flattering shade, no less) and flawless makeup, sans bulky coat. The difference in uniform is never explained, and no one seems to question it.

* Peacekeepers on ''[[Farscape]]'': They started out with uniforms, and the lower ranking troops continued to wear uniforms, but for anyone with the rank above Senior Officer or Lieutenant the rule seemed to be "As long as it's made out of red and black leather..."

* In episode of ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'', "Bye Bye Kenan part 2", Kel arrives in Kenan's new school wearing a green tracksuit and black leather jacket. The teacher mistook him for Kenan and calls him out about the clothes he is wearing. It is dropped when Kel says he isn't the student she is expecting.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** And even then, there can be some subtle variation amongst the rank-and-file. After a few battles [[Badass Normal|Imperial]] [[Redshirt Army|Guardsmen]] tend to pick up souvenirs or trophies, while members of more pious regiments will attach devotional scripts or lucky relics to their flak armor. [[Space Marine]] [[Warrior Monk|Marines]] will all proudly be wearing their chapter's colors, of course, but their armor usually has at least one purity seal on it somewhere, while some members have their own coat-of-arms to display. [[The Corruption|Chaos]] [[Evil Counterpart|Space]] [[Space Pirate|Marines]]' ([[Spikes of Villainy|spiky]]) armor is a patchwork of parts collected across millennia, and with [[Body Horror|mutations]] that ensure any two models aren't exactly the same. And the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orks]], of course, don't even ''have'' a concept of "uniform," only [[Planet of Hats|clan]] [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|colors]].

** This trope is extremely common in war games. Unless a game abstracts an entire large unit to one "block," it is essential to distinguish the leader of a unit for the sake of the ''players''. Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 enforce this trope by requiring in the rules that a unit's leader can be clearly identified and using different models to represent them.

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