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[[File:Facelessmassesresize.jpg|link=Excel Saga (anime)|frame|OK, now that's just ridiculous, even for [[Widget Series|this show]].]]
Animation is on a very strict timeframe almost all of the time. [[Limited Animation|It's a massive chore]] trying to get the main characters, their backgrounds, and their actions drawn and colored. One can forgive the animators for skimping on the unnecessary bits... like nine-tenths of the population of the show.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Di Gi Charat]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on it by drawing its minor characters as literal finger puppets, even when they're in the foreground.
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* There's "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spot-the-main-character Spot the Main Character]" meme, in which a participant shows a picture where all but one character are faceless, greyed or sketchy and then "cannot figure out" which of characters could be the important one. Surely, that one? Hmm, no, perhaps this...
* Seen in the first volume of ''[[RWBY]]''—anyone not important to the plot in some way is rendered as a simple black silhouette. However, this wasn't exactly a deliberate decision—according to [[Word of God]] the production team somehow overlooked the fact that they would have to do crowd scenes with dozens of extras until too late in the production process to actually generate individuals. This was rectified during the break between Volumes One and Two, and starting with the first episode of the 2014 season, the "shadow people" were gone.
** Mocked in ''RWBY'''s [[Summer Replacement Series]], ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'', where the rest of the cast notice the shadow people and are each initially concerned that something's wrong with them for seeing only silhouettes -- including silhouettes of themselves.
== Western Animation ==
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