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* ''[[Kare Kano]]'' did this frequently, where extras were often drawn as white silhouettes. |
* ''[[Kare Kano]]'' did this frequently, where extras were often drawn as white silhouettes. |
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* Parodied in ''[[Pani Poni Dash!|Pani Poni Dash]]'', where nearly all the non-regular characters had obvious ''identical'' female or male designs. Or hilariously inhuman, such as a classroom of non-regulars all having flower pots for heads, or a classroom largely made up of scarecrows. To make that even more extreme they are refereed as "the rest of class" during introduction. |
* Parodied in ''[[Pani Poni Dash!|Pani Poni Dash]]'', where nearly all the non-regular characters had obvious ''identical'' female or male designs. Or hilariously inhuman, such as a classroom of non-regulars all having flower pots for heads, or a classroom largely made up of scarecrows. To make that even more extreme they are refereed as "the rest of class" during introduction. |
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* ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on this somewhat in one episode, where two characters who only show up for that episode and talk to the main character are drawn with as little detail as to look less like drawn characters and more like poorly constructed paper-cutouts. |
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* ''[[The Wallflower]]'' uses this extensively - the [[Bishonen|bishonen boys']] adoring masses at the school look like a multi-armed,multi-headed cardboard cut-out. Later episodes do this on the ''main'' characters as well - to be fair, the manga it's based on does this too. |
* ''[[The Wallflower]]'' uses this extensively - the [[Bishonen|bishonen boys']] adoring masses at the school look like a multi-armed,multi-headed cardboard cut-out. Later episodes do this on the ''main'' characters as well - to be fair, the manga it's based on does this too. |
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* Particularly common and pronounced in ''Atashin'chi'', where even in close-up shots extras are gray, ghost-like blobs. |
* Particularly common and pronounced in ''Atashin'chi'', where even in close-up shots extras are gray, ghost-like blobs. |
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* A computer animation variant: In ''[[War Planets]]'', the entire population of one planet, Planet Rock—apart from the royal family, who are main characters—wear identical suits of armor that conceal all distinguishing features. This was particularly obvious in a [[Story Arc]] in which the king [[Ten-Minute Retirement|abdicates]]; the new king, since he wasn't going to hang around long enough to make it worth creating a new character design, was depicted by another instance of the same anonymous armor. |
* A computer animation variant: In ''[[War Planets]]'', the entire population of one planet, Planet Rock—apart from the royal family, who are main characters—wear identical suits of armor that conceal all distinguishing features. This was particularly obvious in a [[Story Arc]] in which the king [[Ten-Minute Retirement|abdicates]]; the new king, since he wasn't going to hang around long enough to make it worth creating a new character design, was depicted by another instance of the same anonymous armor. |
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* Somewhat averted in ''[[Clone High]]''; while traditional Faceless Masses are often used, recognizable historical figures are nearly always mixed in among them. |
* Somewhat averted in ''[[Clone High]]''; while traditional Faceless Masses are often used, recognizable historical figures are nearly always mixed in among them. |
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* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' often has background characters all in ''purple''. |
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* The same thing happens from time to time in Butch Hartman's second animated show, ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', but it has its fair share of fully drawn crowds as well. |
* The same thing happens from time to time in Butch Hartman's second animated show, ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', but it has its fair share of fully drawn crowds as well. |
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* Averted in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' where every person in a given crowd has a face (except for the extras in the medal scene during the [[Grand Finale]]). |
* Averted in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' where every person in a given crowd has a face (except for the extras in the medal scene during the [[Grand Finale]]). |
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