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In most animated works and comics featuring an ensemble cast, particularly a [[Five-Man Band]], the male characters will have a wide range of body types -- [[The Smart Guy]] will often be [[Geek Physiques|small and slender]], [[The Big Guy]] will be either huge and muscular or endearingly pudgy, and [[The Hero]] will typically be somewhere in between.
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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== [[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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* 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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== [[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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