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[[File:spfaces.jpg|link=South Park|~~right~~|You should see them hatless and bald.]]

[[File:spfaces.jpg|link=South Park|frame|You should see them hatless and bald.]]

{{quote|'''Eddy:''' You idiot! Does Rolf look like Double-D?

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When applied in excess to secondary characters, it can become [[Faceless Masses]]. The Videogame version of this trope is [[You All Look Familiar]].

This is an actual documented issue in ancient art history. Surviving [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits~~ burial portraits from Roman Egypt] resemble each other more than real people would. The painters must have mixed-and-matched a limited repertoire of features, making this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]]. (This could also be due to Ancient Egyptian art's long history of making people look good, rather than realistic.)

This is an actual documented issue in ancient art history. Surviving [[wikipedia:Fayum mummy portraits|burial portraits from Roman Egypt]] resemble each other more than real people would. The painters must have mixed-and-matched a limited repertoire of features, making this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]]. (This could also be due to Ancient Egyptian art's long history of making people look good, rather than realistic.)

The opposite of this trope is a [[Cast of Snowflakes]], where even the most incidental characters designs tend to be unique and well-defined. Sounds like but is unrelated to [[Same Face, Different Name]], which is about creators going by different monikers. A ''clever'' creator can work around this and create a [[Reused Character Design]] habit.

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** ''All'' of his female characters look near identical, especially in [[Galaxy Express 999]] and [[Captain Harlock]].

* Earlier art for the ''[[Slayers]]'' novels have fairly distinguishable characters; as the [[Art Evolution]] set in, though, each character, moreso the females, become more and more identical facially and body-wise (which is notworthy because both the anime and the books avoid using the same exact body types for the major female characters), leaving only their hair (and eyes, but very sporadically compared to before) as a distinguishing mark. Pick up the first ''Slayers Special'' novel, then pick up the latest ''Slayers Smash'' (a continuation, basically) and be amazed.

** To be specific, most of the females look like Lina, with Lina's new distinguishing mark being her [[Nipple and Dimed|nipples sticking out everywhere]].

** To be specific, most of the females look like Lina, with Lina's new distinguishing mark being her [[Nipple-and-Dimed|nipples sticking out everywhere]].

* ''[[Claymore]]'' can be weird about this. While all of the titular characters have fairly distinct facial features (impressive, given their identical coloration and uniformly unblemished skin), the unimportant human characters share maybe four or five faces between them, while important humans have distinctive faces.

* It's easy to think that Shinichi, Heiji, and Kaito Kid from ''[[Detective Conan]]'' and the Kaito Kid manga are actually the same person, along with ''every other guy'' who's the same age, and possibly ''every other girl'', considering {{spoiler|how well Kaito is able to disguise himself as Ran}}.

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* In the beginning, [[Naruto]] actually averted this, with characters having different faces. But [[Art Evolution|the art decayed]], and if the character is a young adult, it has the same chin and mouth as every other young adult. yeah, regardless of gender!!

** Several characters also strongly resemble each other; its usually justified though as most are either related in some way, or the resemblance is deliberately symbolic (for instance, Yahiko/ Deva Pain looks almost exactly like an older Naruto; this is probably to reflect his status as an [[Evil Counterpart]]).

* Basically all of [[Arina Tanemura (Creator)|Arina Tanemura's]] main heroines have a similar face, [[Big Eyes Little Eyes|gigantic-eyed and all]], with eye-size variations and her male characters only occasionally bear different-sized eyes and pupils. She is fond of long hair so most of heroines also have [[Rapunzel Hair]], though she does style it differently from character to character.

* Basically all of [[Arina Tanemura (Creator)|Arina Tanemura's]] main heroines have a similar face, [[Big Eyes, Little Eyes|gigantic-eyed and all]], with eye-size variations and her male characters only occasionally bear different-sized eyes and pupils. She is fond of long hair so most of heroines also have [[Rapunzel Hair]], though she does style it differently from character to character.

* Kaori Yuki was guilty of this during ealier years (the first six volumes of God Child and the first volumes of [[Angel Sanctuary]], possibly earlier work too). There was always a man with slightly longer, dark hair, a blonde/brunette women with long, curly hair, not to mention a line of young boys with blond hair (honestly, could anyone tell Eric, Ariel and that boy from the God child chapter Who killed Cock Robin apart?)

* [[Bizenghast]] is very much a victim of this. Almost all the young women and men, including Vincent and Dinah, have the same face with different hair. (The old men and women were slightly less subjected to it.) They all seem to have the same height as well.

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== Portraits ==

* The work of [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse~~ John William Waterhouse] took this to [[Up to Eleven|extremes]]--the subjects of his paintings all look exactly alike, just with different clothing and, occasionally, hair color.

* The work of [[wikipedia:John William Waterhouse|John William Waterhouse]] took this to [[Up to Eleven|extremes]]--the subjects of his paintings all look exactly alike, just with different clothing and, occasionally, hair color.

** Several of the Pre-Raphaelites (Dante Gabriel Rosetti comes to mind) feature this, because they tended to have a few go-to female models they used for most of their pictures. The portraits could be more accurately titled "[Model] as/in the guise of [Goddess/Mythological Figure]".

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{{quote| '''Stan:''' Let's go!

'''Kyle:''' I'm not going anywhere!

'''Stan:''' [[Duck Season Rabbit Season|Goddamnit, I'm not going with you! I wanna stay here!]]

'''Stan:''' [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!|Goddamnit, I'm not going with you! I wanna stay here!]]

'''Kyle:''' Huh? I thought you wanted to leave!

'''Stan:''' Oh wait, who am I again? }}

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* The Coke Zero Facial Profiler is a Facebook app that scans through your photos and tries to pair you with another Facebook member that resembles you. It even allows you to friend request your digital double. Although its accuracy varies depending on how good your photos are.

* Porn artist Zimmerman (well known for [[Rule 34|Rule34ing]] lots of cartoon characters (mostly Jessica Rabbit and Disney princesses) is amazing in how he can draw the same girl over 1000 times in a year, yet they are described as being different characters. Be even more amazed in the fact that he has been doing this for almost a ''decade'' and that his models range ''from Belle to Lara Croft''.

* According to [[That Other Wiki]]'s article on the [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army~~ Terracotta Army], [[Only Six Faces|eight face molds]] were used for nearly ten thousand statues, with individual features and expressions subsequently added.

* According to [[That Other Wiki]]'s article on the [[wikipedia:Terracotta Army|Terracotta Army]], [[Only Six Faces|eight face molds]] were used for nearly ten thousand statues, with individual features and expressions subsequently added.

* Greek Statues, due to the emphasis being on human perfection. The Romans, however, often times subverted this.

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