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* You have a [[Five-Man Band]], a group who is defined by their roles and quite often their physical size and appearance. You want these characters to be memorable, so you make them as different from each other in appearance as possible. [[The Hero]] is muscular, [[The Lancer]] is slender, [[The Big Guy]] is really huge, [[The Smart Guy]] is really small and oversized glasses, [[The Chick]] has [[Curves in All The Right Places|all the right curves]], etc.

* Have it all be [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]. [[Power Rangers]] has survived on this for years, the Red Ranger is the leader. The Pink Ranger or Yellow Ranger is the chick. Not bad for a team costume that covers their face, huh?

* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]

* [[Dress-Coded for Your Convenience]]

* ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'' gives {{spoiler|geth party member}} Legion a massive hole through his chest, visible from almost all angles, so the player can distinguish him from his hostile cousins at a glance and avoid friendly fire incidents.

** Legion also has {{spoiler|a chunk of Shepard's N7 armor recovered from the wreckage of the original ''Normandy''}} welded to his chest.

* Every single Robot Master in the [[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]] series is designed with a distinct body, which helps a lot when you consider how they [[Only Six Faces|tend to have similar faces]]. Many can also be told apart by their silhouettes (much like the ''[[Touhou]]'' example above), if ''9'' and ''10'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPScPaInWOI promo] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIRUVPROOU videos] are any indication.

 

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