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{{trope}}
In most animated works and comics featuring an ensemble cast, particularly a [[Five
Female characters, however, tend to have almost identical body
This often applies to most supporting characters, too. Occasionally a [[Fat Girl]] may appear as a minor comic-relief character, but she will never join the main cast.
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For the face equivalent, see [[Only Six Faces]], [[Generic Cuteness]]. Related to the [[Most Common Superpower]]. Contrast [[Pettanko]], [[Amazonian Beauty]], [[Big Beautiful Woman]]. See also [[Heroic Build]] for when this trope applies to superheroines.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[One Piece]]'' started as this (aside from the rare [[Token
* ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'' and other [[Leijiverse]] works owe this to [[Author Appeal]]. Males sometimes have a token Gonk just to skew the ratio.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. Other than height (and ignoring a certained talented meme), is there really a difference in build among ''any'' of the girls in this show?
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== [[Toys]] ==
* Most of [[Barbie]]'s friends have the exact same body shape as her, which is especially odd since ''no real women do.''
* [[Bratz]].{{context}}
* All the females in ''[[BB Senshi Sangokuden]]'' are the exact same build, regardless of age, while males come under regular, Toutaku, and Ryofu Tallgeese.
* Initially played straight with ''[[Monster High]]'' (although the dolls did have different face molds) until the release of Nefera De Nile's doll, which has a taller mold as she is older than the rest.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This has been a consistent complaint over ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' character models; the alpha builds, while rough, often had the females look like counterparts to the males of their race, but when it came time for final builds (after receiving yea many complaints about being ugly) it was like the developers threw up their hands and said "screw it, let's make them all barbie dolls".
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'' and ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' even the old wrinkle faced women will have young shaped bodies.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' is pretty bad about this. Morrigan is a twentysomething whose good looks other characters comment on. Wynne is a mage in her sixties. Put them in the same type of armor, and they're identical from the neck down.
** Though it must be said the same is true for male bodies; there are only two body models for human adults of both sexes, "normal" and "fat." Alistair, a warrior in his early twenties also described as attractive and muscular, has the same body model as the much older and ailing Arl Eamon, the elderly Bann Ceorlic, and sundry [[Squishy Wizard]] mages of all ages. The "fat" model is used for Lloyd the innkeeper and several extras (the female one shows up only on extras and Arl Eamon's cook).
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Criticized—along with excessive use of [[Fan Service]] tropes related to the [[Male Gaze]]—by [[Moviebob]] in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921203002/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4719-Gender-Games this] episode of "The Big Picture."
== [[Real Life]] ==
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