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** Van Helsing of...''[[Van Helsing]]'' has a similar [[Nice Hat]] for similar reasons, as Stephen Sommers has said: makes it very easy to tell who he is, even in a long shot.
* Several monsters created by [[Toho]] certainly apply here. One can easily recognize [[Godzilla]], King Ghidorah, Anguirus, and Gigan for example due to their distinctive appearances.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Is there anyone who can't [[media:
** The lightsaber colors were meant to be easily distinctive between Jedi and Sith. And in a literal vein, Luke's new lightsaber in ''Return of the Jedi'' was supposed to be blue, but with most of the Sarlacc pit battle being outside against the blue sky they changed it to green to stand out.
*** Also, apparently the reason [[Samuel L. Jackson]] wanted a purple lightsaber was so he could pick himself out in crowd shots.
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** Yep. Not only color, but also silhouette, pose, and light-to-dark ratio/location.
* This was talked about on the DVD of ''[[Spider-Man]] 2'', where they said it was really fun to create Doctor Octopus because all you needed was his silhouette and you can tell it is him.
* In ''[[Rush Hour]] 2'' the fight in the massage parlor had all of the [[
* In an aversion, the Transformers films have been criticized because the robot characters look too much alike, especially in fast-paced fight scenes. YMMV.
* In ''The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes'', Balding is a good head shorter and a good foot rounder than Murdoch. This makes a major plot point [[Fridge Logic|pretty perplexing.]]
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