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*** That's right, the Sensorites were all physically identical, to the point that even they themselves could not tell each other apart except for their clothing, and not one of them had ever noticed this fact in all of the species long history.
** An odd exception: the Sontarans, explicitly described as being a race of clones, ''didn't'' all look alike, firstly because a variety of different actors played them and secondly because the costume and make-up was mildly revised for nearly each story in which they appeared. (The first and second Sontaran stories, ''The Time Warrior'' and ''The Sontaran Experiment'' averted this by having the same actor player play the three Sontarans seen in that story. Even though they did have a continuity mix-up in the latter story.) Despite there still being slight differences between the two Sontarans whose un-masked faces we see on scene in "The Sontaran Stratagem" the Ditto Aliens phenomena is lampshaded in the typical way "we say the same of humans."
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** Odo on always said he had difficulty imitating humanoids (unlike other Changelings), and when someone said they thought he had perfectly imitated a seagull, he responded "I doubt the seagulls would agree."
** After Sisko ends up [[Emergency Impersonation|taking the role]] [[Tricked-Out Time|of a 21st century historical figure]], Quark fails to notice the resemblance even when it's pointed out to him, saying "All humans look alike."
* A ''[[Star Trek: The
** This may be a [[Lampshade Hanging]], as the alien was played by the same actor. It's possible it was intended to be the same character, until the actor came on set and explained why that wasn't possible.
* [[Planet of Hats|Klingons]] in ''[[Star Trek]]'' are the archetype of the [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]], but are a good counter-example to this trope. Their ridges are family traits and the exact pattern is as unique as a fingerprint.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* The Asgard in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' are all identical, though it is [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that they are all clones. (In the finale Daniel Jackson says they tell them apart from their voices). Other alien races such as the Wraith, are similar to one another, but have enough differences between themselves to be unique.
** That would be a [[Lampshade Hanging]] or a [[Justified Trope]] or something, because the actor who plays Daniel Jackson also does the voice of an Asgard character.<ref>Thor himself, in fact, leading to the "I miss Thor" comment in an episode involving the much more annoying Heimdall going to Michael Shanks.</ref>
* Averted hard in ''[[Farscape]]'' where pretty much all the alien species seen have distinct differences among individuals.
* ''[[Buck Rogers in
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== Web Comics ==
* Given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', when a local sapient uses "they all look the same to me" line when referring to the mercenary group, offending the titular character Schlock, who is not even remotely bipedal. Hung with an even larger lampshade in a later strip of the same comic, where the alien members of the mercenary crew are complaining that a group of new recruits are all Terrans, and 'all look the same to them'. Given that at this point in the series history, 'Terrans' includes not just humans,
* Uryuoms from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' seem to be Ditto Aliens as well. They
* In one ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'' strip, when the crew is on Earth, two humans mistake Mr Jinx for their own cirbozoid employees. When Mr Jinx corrects them, one of them haughtily replies that cirbozoids all look the same... followed by a panel showing them standing next to each other, showing them to be nearly identical ([[Only Six Faces|mostly due to the strip's art style]]).
* Averted in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]].'' We've seen crowd scenes of [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090728.html dragons,] [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090314.html bigfeet,] and Fleenians, and they've always been pretty well [[Cast of Snowflakes|individuated]].
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130325030537/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111040421 This exercise] demonstrates why this may well be [[Truth in Television]]—while we're very well wired (for good reason) to distinguish between other members of our own species, without particularly noticable distinguishing features we're far less able to differentiate between individuals even of other commonly encountered species native to our own world. As such, it's no stretch to imagine we'd have difficulty with creatures from another world entirely.
** However, people who regularly live or work with animals will usually learn to recognise individuals of that species after enough time.
* People from one race are often unable to differentiate between members of another (unless they are well known to them). It's called the [[wikipedia:Cross-race effect|Cross-race effect]].
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