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These races will generally be further subdivided into [[Underground Monkey|every possible variation]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* The newer Ivalice games (''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'' seem to be going in having a race for each of the 12 zodiac signs. ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' alone has Humes, Viera, Bangaa, Moogles, Seeqs, Nu Mou, Baknamy, Garif, Helgas, Rebe, Urutan-Yensa {{spoiler|and the god-like Occuria}}. Revenant Wings adds the Aegyl and Feol Viera offshoot, while Tactics A2 includes the winged Gria.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', when considered as a whole. Any given game has no more than five races, but consider the range, from human-like Hylians (the PC race, distinct from humans [[Depending On the Writer|in some games but not others]]), Kokiri and Gerudo to less human-like Gorons, Zora, Deku, Rito ([[Word of God|confirmed decedents of the Zora]]), Korok (evolved Kokiri), Minish, Twili, Subrosians, Tokay, and a few others. Also, there are myriad monstrous races including: Lizalfos, Skull Kids, Armos, the undead Stalfos, Redead, Gidbo, Poe, and Garo, Moblin... The list goes on.
* ''[[Suikoden]]'' does this (usually using some kind of animal as a basis) on account of having [[One Hundred and Eight|108]] characters in [[Loads and Loads of Characters|EVERY game]]. To ensure [[Cast of Snowflakes|variety]], the series has Kobolds (dog people), [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Nei-Kobolds]] (cat people), Lizard people, duck people, wingers, a race of beavers, mermaids, purpoises. Some argue if the Cyndar/Sindar people are a separate race or a lost civilization. Other characters such as Jeane, Zerase etc have also been argued if they are entirely human. Every game seems to add at least one more race to the count.
* ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'' has around a dozen, and more depending on what you count as a race. Besides humans, there are asari, turians, salarians, quarians, krogans, hanar, volus, elcor, drell, geth, rachni, vorcha, the Yahg, the {{spoiler|Reapers}}, and the Collectors {{spoiler|(arguably)}} for sentient species. And there's even ''more'' mentioned in the Cerberus Daily News, such as a recently discovered race of alien bees, the lone survivor of his planet, a race of AI's living in what is basically [[The Matrix]], A new race that was subsequently offended by the Krogans, and more.
* [[Super Mario Bros|The Mario series]] has at least two dozen sentient races at this point, many of them originated as supposedly non-sentient mooks. [[What Measure Is a Mook?|And yes]], you'll be torching, freezing, crushing and star-powering plenty of those acknowledgedly sentient races in each new 2D outing. (No, you don't get to kill any [[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Piantas]], stop asking._
** Hell, even the original ''[[Super Mario Bros (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros]]'' starts off with humans, Toads, Bowser's race, Koopa Troopers, Goombas, Lakitu, Spinies, Buzzy Beetles, Hammer Bros, Cheep Cheeps, Bloopers and (arguably living) Podoboos. Whoa.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' not only has [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] but Loads And Loads Of Races as well, with at least one representative from any [[Youkai]] ZUN wants to add. The first Windows era game ''alone'' contains humans, vampires, fairies, a [[Witch Species]], and what is [[Wild Mass Guessing|heavily suspected to be]] a Chinese dragon. Other games introduce [[Petting Zoo People|animals-turned-youkai]], humans-turned-youkai, ghosts, demons, [[Our Angels Are Different|celestials]], [[Physical God|gods]], [[Our Elves Are Better|Lunarians]], a [[Shinigami]], kappa, tengu, [[Humanoid Abomination|whatever the hell Yukari is]], and the list goes on.
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* In ''[[Ugly Americans]]'', New York alone seems to be home to hundreds, if not thousands, of races. Many are introduced for a quick gag, only to be fleshed out with their own histories and customs later on.
* The original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' cartoon. Earth Ponies, Pegasus Ponies, Unicorn Ponies, Sea Ponies, Flutter Ponies, Bushwoolies, Grundles, Furbobs, Stonebacks, Flories, Crab Nasties, and more.
** The G4 ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' seems to trim the pony populace to just the first three (Celestia and Luna are unique as they are technically [[Physical Gods|goddesses),]] but there are also appearances of other talking and civilized animals such as zebras, griffons, donkeys, mules, cows and buffalo. Applejack's family keeps sheep that need to be herded despite being fully capable of speech, and even the nontalking animals show considerable sapience. Also [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons.]]
* ''Thundercats'' , in both incarnations, has more races than you'd think would ''fit'' on one planet. Various animal-people are only the beginning.
 
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