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** ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2]]'' takes this particularly [[Up to Eleven]], where the strongest slimes include a [[Henshin Hero]] slime, a [[Kill Sat]] slime, and a [[Humongous Mecha]] slime!
** The majority of monsters in the series have at least one recolor, including regular bosses. In fact, the secret boss of Dragon Quest 6, arguably the single most glorified, powerful antagonist in the franchise, is a palette swap of an earlier boss. It's easier to count the few enemies with unique sprites.
** ''[[Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime]]''. Each of the 100 different members of the [[Monster Town]] is a different type of slime.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' uses this in most incarnations, especially with the [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]] aspect: the blue monster casts water spells and is weak against thunder, the white monster casts ice spells and is weak against fire, etc. ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' made some extra use of this, as a side quest rewarded players for capturing entire "species" of monsters. It was especially common in the earlier, sprite-based games due to [[Palette Swap]]s.
** ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' has tons of instances of monsters that look exactly the same, only stronger and with a different name, including several Notorious Monsters.
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* ''[[MOTHER]]'', although otherwise unrelated to this trope, had a tribe of [[Cloudcuckoolander]] monkeys living underground in a desert.
** Actually, ''Mother'' plays this trope quite often. For example, the Lone Wolf, Silver Wolf, and Wolf are all the same sprite with different colors, and the Stray Dog is a wolf sprite colored brown with a chain around its neck.
** The entire trilogy does this, although [[
* The Swedish parody RPG ''Playelf'' has this with ninjas - there are red ninjas, blue ninjas, black ninjas, white ninjas, etc - as well as "hurry up-ninjas" which appears when the players are dithering. But the most awesome ninja...
{{quote|"There's also supposed to be a camouflage-coloured ninja, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|but no one has ever seen him]]".}}
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|Color-coded dragons]] predate most video games, as they appeared in the [[Tabletop Games]] ''[[Dungeons
** On one occasion, the color-coding is used as the basis of a truly heartbreaking [[Monster Is a Mommy]] story, when a noble silver dragon is born with albinism, and is hunted down and killed by an adventurer who thinks it's a white dragon.
*** One adventure featured a similar story with an albino red dragon, causing the party to prepare to fight it in ''the least effective way possible.''
** This was parodied in the webcomic ''[[Order of the Stick]]'': in one comic, a paladin discovers the titular party has killed a dragon. She then accuses them of possibly killing a creature of benevolence and wisdom, and asks why they thought it deserved death, to which Roy Greenhilt replies, "Erm... its scales weren't shiny?" which placates the paladin. Elan then breaks the [[Fourth Wall]] by winking at the reader and saying, "Dragons - now [[
*** Ironically, the comic does this itself with goblins/hobgoblins/ghouls.
** Rothé are bovines [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|resembling musk oxen]]. That have magical variants too: underground "deep rothé" is about 4' at the shoulder, still charging in herds, with infravision and communicating via ''dancing lights'' and "ghost rothé" is bison-sized, white and capable of stampeding ''under magical silence''.
** The Elves of D&D come in high, wood, sea, grey, wild and several other varieties.
** The third edition of ''[[Dungeons
*** Although one 3rd edition ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine article about creating monsters included "But this one's blue!" in a list of how ''not'' to do it.
** Fourth Edition includes at least one extra variety of every monster in its Monster Manual entry. Many of these fall into Underground Monkey status, being simply higher level versions from a different environment-normally, a different plane. Notably, the Feygrove Choker is a ''reverse'' Underground Monkey, being a creature from thick forests in the Feywild, while the base creature lurks in the Underdark.
* While discouraged due to the WYSIWYG rule of the game, ''[[Warhammer
** There's now specific models for veteran Space Marines, with custom boltguns that look a bit different and shoulder pads that have embossed icons for non-codex chapters. Of course, these models are more expensive, so some players stick with the old palette swap method.
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