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* ''[[Kare Kano]]'' did this frequently, where extras were often drawn as white silhouettes.

* Parodied in ''[[Pani Poni Dash!|Pani Poni Dash]]'', where nearly all the non-regular characters had obvious ''identical'' female or male designs. Or hilariously inhuman, such as a classroom of non-regulars all having flower pots for heads, or a classroom largely made up of scarecrows. To make that even more extreme they are refereed as "the rest of class" during introduction.

* ''[[The Wallflower]]'' uses this extensively - the [[Bishonen|bishonen boys']] adoring masses at the school look like a multi-armed,multi-headed cardboard cut-out. Later episodes do this on the ''main'' characters as well - to be fair, the manga it's based on does this too.

* Particularly common and pronounced in ''Atashin'chi'', where even in close-up shots extras are gray, ghost-like blobs.

* A computer animation variant: In ''[[War Planets]]'', the entire population of one planet, Planet Rock—apart from the royal family, who are main characters—wear identical suits of armor that conceal all distinguishing features. This was particularly obvious in a [[Story Arc]] in which the king [[Ten-Minute Retirement|abdicates]]; the new king, since he wasn't going to hang around long enough to make it worth creating a new character design, was depicted by another instance of the same anonymous armor.

* Somewhat averted in ''[[Clone High]]''; while traditional Faceless Masses are often used, recognizable historical figures are nearly always mixed in among them.

* The same thing happens from time to time in Butch Hartman's second animated show, ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', but it has its fair share of fully drawn crowds as well.

* Averted in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' where every person in a given crowd has a face (except for the extras in the medal scene during the [[Grand Finale]]).

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