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== Painting ==

** Taken to greater extremes as Christianity spreads around the world, where Jesus will often be given a [[Race Lift]] in the local church to reflect the local culture.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' gets this a lot, but probably the worst victim is the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Demon Lord]] Demogorgon; the consistant part of its appearance is that it has two animalistic heads and tentacle arms. Its bulk, amount and color of hair, skin texture, number of tentacles (varies between one and two on each arm), arm structure, and the ''species of the animals its heads are'' has varried over the years, between hyenas, baboons, and mandrills.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' artists can't seem to reach a consensus on what [[The Necromancer|Lim-Dul]] looks like. Dark Ritual shows him with black hair and ram's horns, his own card has him white-haired and with his horns out of the picture, and the comics draw him bald and with antlers.

* Sajan Gadadvara, ''[[Pathfinder]]'''s iconic monk, is supposed to be from [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Golarion's equivalent of Southeast Asia]]. He usually looks less Southeast Asian than some variation on the theme of [[Ambiguously Brown]].

*** [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|The Moogles]]: In the early series they're vaguely catlike white-or-light-colored furballs with a pom-pom and tiny purple wings, like [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080309044554/finalfantasy/images/7/78/FFIX-Moogle_Concept.jpg so]. From VII-X, they look like plush-toy versions of the above basic design (and in some cases are actual plush toys). The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' and ''[[Dissidia]]'' moogles look like the plush-toy variants, but more so and, most notably, with a comically oversized head and [[Gag Nose|big round clown nose]], as can be seen [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091008033351/finalfantasy/images/5/58/Dissidia_Moogle_Render.png here]. In the ''Crystal Chronicles'' spinoff series, moogles are like the "original-flavor" moogles, except [[Up to Eleven|even fluffier]] and overall less feline and more rodentine in appearance, a look shared with the moogle cameo in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080407173622/finalfantasy/images/9/9e/Ffccking_moogle.jpg Forelimbs are optional]. And then the Ivalice moogles (''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'', and ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' among others) are ''completely'' different, [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070325003033/finalfantasy/images/e/e7/XII-moogles.jpg as you can see].

*** [[Horse of a Different Color|The Chocobos]]: The in-game appearance of the chocobos has varied surprisingly little over most of the series—large, usually yellow flightless birds of varying degrees of cuteness/realism (''XII''-edition chocobos are probably the most realistic yet, while ''IX''-edition are probably the cutest). Except...when Yoshitaka Amano was asked to draw a flightless bird as a mount for ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'', his original concept was [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100310110656/finalfantasy/images/8/8d/FFII_Chocobo.jpg this surreal specter], which was then forgotten about...until they made an OVA sequel to ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''. [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090103220902/finalfantasy/images/f/f0/Chocobo_LotC.jpg Behold].

*** [[Blob Monster|Flans]]: The standard ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080321183139/finalfantasy/images/d/dd/Waterflanffx.jpg flan] is a vaguely-cylindrical blob with eyes and a mouth, limb-like "appendages" optional—but in their [[Final Fantasy I|first appearance]], they take on an [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090316013112/finalfantasy/images/f/f8/Amano_FF1_Slime-Flan.jpg almost myconid appearance], which is later echoed in some of the ''Crystal Chronicles'' [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091002003500/finalfantasy/images/d/da/Flan_ffcc_EoT_DS.gif flan designs].

*** [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|Bahamut]] is usually drawn as a huge black dragon...for ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', his design was [[Everything's Better with Rainbows|distinctly more fabulous.]]

** ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' had many examples of this. Every character has their concept as drawn by Yoshitaka Amano, their little pixeled map sprite, their battle sprite, their menu portrait, the super-deformed chibi official art based on the sprite, and a 3D render. Internal consistency between any of those is the ''exception'', not the rule.

** ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'' also gets it pretty bad, due to two main factors: The first is that it has been remade/ported no less than ''six times'', usually with an updated graphical look ([[The Hero|Firion]] is basically identical to Fighter in the NES version and doesn't begin looking like a different, unique character until the Playstation version) and sometimes with new official art by a new artist in the [[Feelies]]. Then there's the renditions of the main characters and villain in the FMV opening of some versions of the game, [[Off-Model|where they are utterly unrecognizable]]. Secondly, there's the little fact that Amano apparently could not decide how he wanted to draw Firion. Practically every concept piece features a very different-looking Firion, and a similar thing applies to art of the [[Big Bad|Emperor]]. It's so bad that Nomura's rendition of Firion for ''[[Dissidia]]'', which incorporates elements from practically all the official arts and recent sprites, looks more like "Firion" than [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080605190645/finalfantasy/images/1/1f/Amano_Firion_II.jpg "Firion"] does.

* Many [[Fighting Game]]s include this trope. Characters inexplicably change appearance from one game to the other, and then may retain their oldest attire or not.

** ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', ''[[The King Of Fighter]]'', ''[[Tekken]]'', ''[[Soul Calibur]]''...