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Ditto Aliens

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Ditto Aliens	comment	The tendency for all aliens, within a given species, to look almost identical. This is contrary to human expectations, where the diversity of appearance within even single families of humans is remarkable. With extraterrestrials there is no evidence of this racial or ethnic diversity. Everyone from the same species will look almost exactly alike. The technical reasons for this stem from the aliens' real-life origin. If they're Rubber-Forehead Aliens, then the rubber forehead, if it is of sufficient weirdness, makes every actor who wears it look alike. If the aliens are Serkis Folk, the modelers got lazy and only designed one computer model (this is also why this is common in video games). If the aliens are Big Creepy-Crawlies, well, all bugs look the same anyway. If anyone tries to point this out, the alien character will most likely respond that they look nothing like their compatriots and might shoot back, "To me, all humans look the same," implying that there are indeed differences that the untrained eye might not pick up. Alternatively, they may accuse you of Fantastic Racism. Counterintuitively, this is one way in which Human Aliens are more realistic than the more "complicated" types. A potential explanation is that aliens tell themselves apart by non-visual signals. Many real animals, who may or may not know each other visually, get lots of information just from scent, but this is rarely used as a device unless the aliens are particularly inhuman. Interesting side note: Some evidence suggests that humans have trouble discerning differences between faces that belong to a group they are unfamiliar with. "They all look the same", therefore, has some basis in fact. This is the basis of the Racial Face Blindness trope. However, this effect fades with time and exposure to different individuals of said different groups. Therefore, a sheltered Westerner moving to Korea will, after initial difficulty, eventually be able to tell his neighbors apart quite well.note A mild inverse has also been noted by people who return to ethnically homogenous regions after living for a time in "melting pot" regions, and suddenly notice how similar everyone looks. One can assume the same would hold true if he moved to Alpha Centauri. See also In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race. Compare Planet of Hats and Inexplicably Identical Individuals. Contrast Cast of Snowflakes, where even the aliens look different from each other.
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Ditto Aliens / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft: averted with the protoss who have varying facial features, builds, and skin tones, with their coloration varying from pale white to pink to dark purple (except for the Purifiers, who are made of grey metal). Played straight and justified with the zerg: every zerg subspecies looks identical to every other member of the subspecies, but that's because they all use the same genetic code and are simply printed from a larva when the hive needs that specific form. Except for the handful of sapient leaders, they're all essentially clones.
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Ditto Aliens / int_1869a077	comment	Exaggerated in one episode of Samurai Jack with the Chritchellites, an alien race whose members not only look the same, and dress the same, but sound the same, all voiced by Tom Kenny inflecting all their lines the exact same way. The only distinguishing feature that their leader has is that his visor is orange.
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Ditto Aliens / int_21e4ee5c	comment	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Played straight in an episode of where one race has no diversity of appearance beyond male/female.
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Ditto Aliens / int_223c2a48	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while Hylians and Sheikah all have truly unique models, the Zora, Gorons, Rito, and Gerudo have one basic model for the males and females of their children, adults, and elderly, with the Gerudo also having an extra one for the middle aged characters. Said model is usually made more distinct by changing the color of its skin, its hair style, and/or its wardrobe.
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Ditto Aliens / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise managed a slight aversion with the Andorians, who, while mostly being various shades of blue, also feature a race of white-skinned Andorians called the Aenar. In the Distant Finale, we see that blue Andorian Shran married one of these Aenar, and their child is an interestingly unique Teal color.
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Ditto Aliens / int_235b57c7	comment	There's an alien-on-alien version of this in Eugenesis, one Quintesson is unable to distinguish between Cybertronians, despite the fact that Cybertronians are incredibly varied by body-structure by design.
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Ditto Aliens / int_27b1a88b	comment	Part Time UFO: The humans and other earthly creatures seen throughout the game are drawn distinctly from each other. The same, however, is not true of the aliens: The only difference between the two player Jobskis is the color of their respective chassis. A piece of art drawn for Father's Day also showed that Jobski's father looked exactly like them, but with a topknot instead of an antenna. Aside from their commander, the star aliens found on the Moon resemble each other. The only exception to this rule is Ankh, but she is the only member of her species seen in the game.
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Ditto Aliens / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor Koltok mentions that humans all look alike to him.
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Ditto Aliens / int_334120fc	comment	Thief in 8-Bit Theater insists that all humans look the same, one of the many expressions of his racism against all non-elf species.
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Ditto Aliens / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed Trope in Max Lucado book "When God Whispers Your Name": We tend to consider strangers an indistinguishable mass of people, but as the shepherd of a flock knows each sheep by name, so does the Good Shepherd Jesus know all of us as individuals.
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Ditto Aliens / int_4354fc98	comment	Planet of the Apes: In "The Good Seeds", a gorilla officer comments that all humans look alike. In "The Surgeon", the gorilla guard Haman can't describe the human who attacked him, namely Burke, as he thinks that all humans look the same. Urko agrees with him. In "The Deception", Fauna says that all humans looked alike to her when she could see.
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Ditto Aliens / int_45fc0fc2	comment	In Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, the aliens attending Superman and Ali's boxing match insist that Superman keep his costume on instead of changing into boxing trunks. That way, it will be easier to tell them apart.
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Ditto Aliens / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: Aside from having a Hive Caste System, the Quintessons look identical, with no individuals having distinctive traits. This is exploited in "The Dweller in The Depths" when Galvatron distrusts some Quintessons trying to work with him after being manipulated by members of their race before. The aliens convince Galvatron to trust them by pointing out that Galvatron has no way of knowing if they're the same individuals who betrayed him previously, since they all look alike.
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Ditto Aliens / int_4d6b8984	comment	Mass Effect: Annihilation: Used for racism at one point, when the Sleepwalker team see a panicked batarian running around, vomiting up black stuff. Irrit Non, a volus, decides he must be responsible for everything that's going on, because he's a batarian (never mind that he's clearly in no condition to be responsible for anything). Another batarian who's there angrily asks Irrit if she thinks all batarians look alike. Irrit just replies "yes".
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Ditto Aliens / int_4d9653ef	comment	The keepers, introduced in Planescape, look like identical bald humanoids wearing identical black coats and smoked goggles to hide the fact that they have no eyes, which is just another reason other races find them creepy.
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Ditto Aliens / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "To Serve Man", the Kanamits are all identical in appearance. The ambassador has a goatee and white robes to distinguish him from the others.
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Ditto Aliens / int_5562da6a	comment	Lampshaded in 3rd Rock from the Sun: In an episode where the (alien) family is trying to decide what (human) race they are, it is pointed out that Dick has never noticed that Nina is black, at which point he quips "You people all look alike to me".
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Ditto Aliens / int_564115c7	comment	In Everworld the Hetwans all seem to look and act completely identical, though the human protagonists eventually realize they have Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism (females are rarely seen). They initially hope that the Hetwans can't tell humans apart either, until they see a wanted poster for Senna in their capital city.
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Ditto Aliens / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Deliberately done in the Battle For Azure City arc. The hobgoblin army was done entirely by copying and pasting one (male) sprite hundreds and hundreds of times, while the human army contained a wide variety of sprites of different genders and appearances. Word Of Giant is that this was done to indicate that the humans of Azure City were more socially advanced than the hobgoblins. Also in the Azure City battle, Redcloak creates three skeletal undead and dresses them up like Xykon to serve as decoys:
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Ditto Aliens / int_57c63941	comment	Subverted in Seekers. When Ujurak transforms into a seal to talk to some real seals, he thinks they all look the same at first, but then he notices subtle differences between them.
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Ditto Aliens / int_5bf7c9a3	comment	All the alien skins in Star Wars Battlefront (2015) are identical to a single member of that species, with all the Rodians looking just like Greedo and all the Sullustans having the same face as Nien Nunb. Meanwhile, all those humans running around look different for whatever reason.
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Ditto Aliens / int_61d236b7	comment	In InCryptid, the Human Outside, Alien Inside Johrlac are Inexplicably Identical Individuals — all of them are Eerie Pale Skinned Brunettes, only differing in appearance between sexes and across age groups. Since they're a telepathic species, they never needed to differentiate each other by appearance.
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Ditto Aliens / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: Subverted with the Canim. The Narashan Canim are the only Canim to have diplomatic relations with the Alerans and almost all look like seven-foot-tall wolfmen with midnight-black fur, leading to most Alerans assuming that all Canim look like them. Later on, however, Tavi and company are introduced to the Shuaran Canim, another group of Canim who have tawny golden fur, lankier bodies, and comparatively slender snouts.
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Ditto Aliens / int_67c02f03	comment	In Harry Turtledove's World War/Colonization series, which takes place over nearly a century, neither humans nor the alien Lizards ever quite get the hang of even telling each other's genders apart.
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Ditto Aliens / int_69735f15	comment	Shakara: Many alien species look like they might as well be clone populations, including the Krull, the Subbubi, the Psicos, and even the Shakara themselves.
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Ditto Aliens / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Beholders play with this. All "true" beholders fall into a familiar template, an Oculothorax crowned with eyestalks, but two beholders can look very different from each other in terms of body part proportions, coloration and skin texture. In other cases, two beholders may look all but identical to an onlooker of another species... but those beholders will be able to find some difference between them, either because their teeth are a little longer or their skin is a slightly different shade of red. And since every beholder believes itself to be the epitome of its species, those two near-identical beholders would fly into a homicidal rage and try to kill each other as abominations. They'd also be shocked and disgusted that another species couldn't tell their purity from the debased nature of the other beholder - that is, if a beholder was capable of viewing a non-beholder as annoying vermin. Enforced by the reigar of the Spelljammer setting. These fabulous Combat Aestheticists made Battle Thralls of an all-female race called the lakshu that made the mistake of assuming a bunch of "namby-pamby artistes" wouldn't know how to fight. After subjugating their opponents as their Amazon Brigade, the reigar got busy "appropriating the lakshu as a work of art," creating a uniform height, body mass, appearance, etc. for the race as a whole. The lakshu thus use tattoos, Body Paint and equipment to express individuality. The keepers, introduced in Planescape, look like identical bald humanoids wearing identical black coats and smoked goggles to hide the fact that they have no eyes, which is just another reason other races find them creepy.
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Ditto Aliens / int_6ae1d164	comment	Discussed in Galaxy of Fear; the heroes meet a Sullustan named Dr'uun, and see in passing one named Dr'aan who looks exactly the same. Tash concludes that maybe they're twins. And as it turns out, that was actually Foreshadowing for how both were clones of the same Sullustan.
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Ditto Aliens / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Averted in Farscape where pretty much all the alien species seen have distinct differences among individuals.
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Ditto Aliens / int_70814599	comment	The Asgard in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis are all identical, though it is justified by the fact that they are all clones. (In the finale Daniel Jackson says they tell them apart from their voices.) Other alien races such as the Wraith, are similar to one another, but have enough differences between themselves to be unique. The Wraith also have cookie-cutter soldiers, but those are clones. The mindless soldier caste are also masked, making it even harder to differentiate them.
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Ditto Aliens / int_733067bf	comment	Averted in Mom and Dad Save the World. There's an alien species with men who look like dogs and women who look like fish, but they all look unique. When Marge meets one dogman, she recognizes him from a photograph his wife showed her.
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Ditto Aliens / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Odo always said he had difficulty imitating humanoids (unlike other Changelings), and when someone said they thought he had perfectly imitated a seagull, he responded "I doubt the seagulls would agree." When Odo finally meets other Changelings, and they take a humanoid form, their faces are similar to Odo's. This doesn't make much sense, since Odo's face looks like that because he didn't have the skill to properly imitate humanoid facial structure, and other Changelings are shown to have that skill. It seems the Changelings were made to look like Odo just so the viewer would know they are part of the same race, even though this should be totally obvious anyway, as both Odo and the other Changelings explicitly state that Odo is one of them. In Odo's case, it's quite likely that he could do a better job of mimicking human or Bajoran facial features, but simply chooses not to because he wants to maintain a distinct racial identity; this is his stated reason for refusing cosmetic surgery after being Brought Down to Normal for a while. As for the other Changelings, one of the major plot threads during the Dominion War arc was their making a huge effort to entice or cajole Odo into shifting his allegiance, so they may have been imitating his appearance on purpose. The Changeling design is also a copy of the makeup from a race of Precursors in TNG which was deliberately designed as a "generic" humanoid (with the main Changeling character played by the same actress). After Sisko ends up taking the role of a 21st century historical figure, Quark fails to notice the resemblance even when it's pointed out to him, saying "All humans look alike." The man who he replaced was played by Sisko's usual stunt double, although they don't really look that much alike. It's also a reference to Quark's actor playing several unrelated Ferengi characters over the course of the franchise.
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Ditto Aliens / int_74c659e6	comment	In Rocket Age the Metisians are a race that look incredibly alike due to their only method of reproduction being cloning. Although there are slight variations, only a Metisian could tell them apart, since they are a race of squid-like aliens that look a little like brains in jars.
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Ditto Aliens / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: This fantasy series uses the Ditto Aliens trope a lot. When Gorons and non-lethal Zoras were introduced in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, each had exactly one model to go around — the only ones who looked any different were the Zora king and princess, and the Gorons' tribe leader. The gorons at least had deviation in size, but it was still the exact same model, just enlarged or shrunken as needed. This is in stark contrast to the Hylians, who all looked unique. This was improved a bit in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — the Zora had two different models for standard citizens. A number of relatively important gorons got unique models as well, but the ordinary ones still all looked alike. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while Hylians and Sheikah all have truly unique models, the Zora, Gorons, Rito, and Gerudo have one basic model for the males and females of their children, adults, and elderly, with the Gerudo also having an extra one for the middle aged characters. Said model is usually made more distinct by changing the color of its skin, its hair style, and/or its wardrobe.
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Ditto Aliens / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, it's generally played straight within each individual game, but averted within the franchise as a whole, particular with the Kig-Yar, whom we know consist of at least three different sub-species; the Jackals from the Bungie-era games (native to the continent of Ruuht), the Skirmishers from Halo: Reach (native to the asteroid colony of T'vao), and the Jackals introduced in Halo 4 (native to the continent of Ibie'sh). Additionally, Word of God has explicitly stated that the continually changing physical appearances of the Covenant species between each game all represent equally canon phenotypes. There's even a rather clever justification why humans seem to avert this: originally, humanity displayed dozens of different subspecies and variations on par with the physical variety seen among the other alien species (Neanderthals, Denisovans, H. floriesensis/Florians, etc.). Most of these, however, were present on the Halo targeted by the Didact for composition. The few that remained were only enough to preserve Homo Sapiens in the long run.
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Ditto Aliens / int_76bb982f	comment	Lampshaded in the Shadow Warrior remake.
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Ditto Aliens / int_7832b74c	comment	Zig-zagged in Steven Universe: Gems of a single kind are actually supposed to all look alike, as they're created artificially and designed for specific tasks, as can been seen with the first three Rubies shown, who are identical except for gemstone location. Major variations in body type (like Amethyst's short height, contrast with Quartzes' intended Heroic Build) are considered deformities/defects. However, a later group of Rubies show there are cosmetic variations small enough to not be considered deformities, like varying tones of the same color of skin, which is how most later gems of the same type are portrayed. And while they share voice actors, they do make their voices sound different. Pearls seem to have such differences deliberately in order to match the appearance of those they serve under (e.g. Yellow Diamond has a yellow Pearl, Blue Diamond has a blue Pearl).
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Ditto Aliens / int_797baecd	comment	Star Trek Living Memory: The Warborn, due to their origins as force-grown clones. By design they don't really have even the distinguishing characteristics usually given with puberty (since their designers figured with their fast life spans that wouldn't be much of a need). The ones at Starfleet Academy have to wear custom uniforms just so strangers can tell them apart. Of course, this means if one Warborn wanted to imitate another, all they'd have to do is copy their mannerisms enough (an easy task given they're designed to learn quickly) and wear the same uniform...
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Ditto Aliens / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect actually averts this trope in that most of the Humanoid Aliens of the same species do look different, either by having different facial proportions or different coloration/markings. For example, asari have skin tones ranging from blue to deep purple, turians range from grey to reddish brown and krogan have different colored head crests and different shapes of eye while salarians have different skin patterns and variously shaped 'horns' on their head. True, some do look identical, only generic NPCs that reuse the same character model. However, for the more starfish-y aliens like the quadrupedal elcor, jellyfish hanar or the pressure-suit wearing volus, there is only one model throughout the series, though the Volus Adept, a Joke Character in Mass Effect 3 did receive a uniquely skinned pressure suit with extra armor plating. Drell seem to play this straight; every drell in the series is a recolor of the same model.
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Ditto Aliens / int_7b039953	comment	Averted in Avatar: The Na'vi all have noticeable difference in facial features.
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Ditto Aliens / int_7e0b7db1	comment	Cocoon: Played straight with the Antareans, to such an extent that Kitty can easily impersonate Phil in the second movie.
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Ditto Aliens / int_7fc78282	comment	Inverted (in the "other races can't tell us apart" sense) in The Lord of the Rings: In one scene in The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo is astonished that his elven audience in Rivendell can't tell what parts of a poem he was reading were written by him, and which were written by the DÃºnadannote (read: Aragorn). One elf responds "To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different, or to shepherds. But Mortals have not been our study. We have other business." Bilbo later discusses with Frodo why this might be: Bilbo actually wrote all the verses; Aragorn merely told him to include the detail of the green stone. In The Two Towers, during the Entmoot, Pippin expects the Ents to be as similar to each other as hobbits look to another race, but it turns out they are as different as the various tree types.
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Ditto Aliens / int_7fd403f8	comment	The unnamed "miner" aliens from Galaxy Quest are a pack of cute, identical-looking blue-skinned critters. This hides their monstruous, cannibalistic nature.
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Ditto Aliens / int_81b77705	comment	In one Fantastic Four story, the Solons are a large but humanoid race who reproduce by binary fission, like single cell organisms, so apart from gender (the purpose of which is anybody's guess) they all appear identical. Amusingly, the first Solon to visit Earth assumed she wouldn't need to disguise herself (despite being huge and blue) because, to her eyes, individual humans all looked so wildly different that she assumed no one would even notice her.
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Ditto Aliens / int_897271d7	comment	In Alien in a Small Town, the alien Paul initially finds humans hard to tell apart, but he learns in time. In fairness, his own species isn't remotely humanoid.
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Ditto Aliens / int_8df5521b	comment	In one Superman story, a grateful race Supes once saved is on Earth to find a human actor to play him in a movie they're going to make about his daring rescue. The one they wind up choosing bears a much closer resemblance to Jimmy Olsen (short, scrawny, red hair and freckles). He's ultimately chosen because he's ill (further separating him from Superman) and his coughing is close to the aliens' language, which will make it easy for him to memorize the script, but even after Superman himself points out the difference, the aliens shrug it off, insisting that they're practically identical.
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Ditto Aliens / int_986e857e	comment	Usually avoided in Ben 10, if only because you rarely see two aliens of the same species even if the scene is in a crowded space-prison, although you occasionally see an alien like the ones Ben can change into. There is a literal Ditto Alien, though, in Ben's Ditto form which can split into multiple copies. In Ben 10: Alien Force, however, the DNAliens all look the same, and Ditto has been replaced with the sonically-empowered Echo-Echo. The Highbreed are near-indentical, but had differing patterns for the eyes on their face, which are sometimes asymmetric. One episode featured extended contact with a specific Highbreed individual, who returned for the finale. Justified because they were inbred to the point of becoming sterile. Thus there's not a lot of genetic diversity among them. In one episode of Alien Force, a dragonlike alien claims that all primates look alike to him. He was probably referring the the similarity Kevin and Gwen bear to his enemies the Forever Knights, but at the time Ben was in the form of Spider Monkey: a four-armed blue monkeylike creature. Averted to a higher degree in Ben 10: Omniverse, where aliens of the same species all have distinct looks.
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Ditto Aliens / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Originally, PokÃ©mon did this with all of its Mons and most NPCs. In the newer games there are now differences between genders of Pokemon. Also, since GSC mook trainers have names. Notably averted with Spinda, which has a different pattern of spots for each individual member of the species. Although there logically is a limit to the number of different spot patterns, the number is still high enough that a player would have to hunt them for several years before getting a repeated pattern.
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Ditto Aliens / int_a0262740	comment	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Oompa-Loompas look identical to humans, except for their size, but all of them are played by the same actor, with no attempt to differentiate individuals.
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Ditto Aliens / int_a183d57f	comment	On Futurama, the aliens of Omicron Persei 8 take the "humans all look the same" philosophy to ludicrous extremes by not being able to tell the difference between a woman with one eye and a orangutan wearing clothes, a wig, and an eyepatch.
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Ditto Aliens / int_a495544e	comment	The LGMs of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command all look identical in addition to having a Hive Mind. On the flip side, one LGM called Mira "Booster" with the explanation that "you all look the same". Mira and Booster aren't even the same species; Mira is a Blue Skinned Space Babe, and Booster is a large red implied-to-be-reptilian being.
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Ditto Aliens / int_a54eef52	comment	The alien race Tony belongs to in Hetalia: Axis Powers all look like typical grays, though some have antennae. This is played with in Paint it White, where Tony's data claims that Earth is one of the most backward worlds in the whole galaxy because of its diversity and constant fighting. The Pict targeted Earth as part of its Assimilation Plot because it was rumored to be one of the most underdeveloped. Everybody on Earth is different and has their own ideas and views on the world, while they get along in harmony because they are almost exactly the same as each other allowing them to advance further in their technology and naturally get more "evolved." This is also played with when it turns out that the Pict are indiscriminate of whatever world or being they come across Even Tony himself gets turned by them.
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Ditto Aliens / int_a993be1f	comment	Inverted in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, in which an NPC, Visquis, mistakes Fiery Redhead Mira for the Player Character, claiming "all humans look alike" to him. Possibly also a lampshade hanging, as Visquis is a member of a species that only has a single character model in the game.
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Ditto Aliens / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	In one strip of Oglaf, humans are considered sexual deviants by other sapient species because their men look like their women. The really unsettling part for them is that our species looks like their women too.
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Ditto Aliens / int_aa639666	comment	This trope is touched on, and then averted in Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis. The protagonist, who comes from Earth and finds himself stranded on a planet he later learns is Mars, cannot tell the individuals of each local race apart initially. But he learns after spending some time among them.
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Ditto Aliens / int_ac7fd385	comment	It comes up a few times in Hatoful Boyfriend, though instead of aliens these are birds. The human protagonist notes that she can pick out her Childhood Friend Ryouta from a crowd of other rock doves seventy percent of the time, but when meeting three new pigeons at once she can't tell them apart. There are also three white fantail pigeons in the cast. In the manga human difficulties in telling them apart are brought up more than once.
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Ditto Aliens / int_b1081ba3	comment	Star Trek: Early Voyages: In "One of a Kind", the Lirin all appear to be identical to one another.
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Ditto Aliens / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Averted in Invader Zim. Irkens vary widely in looks, while still obviously being the same species. Oddly, Tallests Red and Purple look identical, except for their eye and armor colors. One fan theory is that they're twins (however that would work with a Uterine Replicator, anyway). The same goes for the Vorts (or Vortians?): Lard Nar has gray skin and "horns" (head tentacles?) that seem to be segmented, while Prisoner 777 is purple-skinned and his horns are more curved.
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Ditto Aliens / int_b66a22b1	comment	In Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero, it turns out that all the females of the alien race look exactly alike. The heroes discover that their lady friend is an undercover alien when they meet two more alien women who look just like her.
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Ditto Aliens / int_b6b6098	comment	Moshi Monsters: Played straight for the Astro Gremlins, who all look like pointy-eared blue creatures, and inverted for the Zoshlings where each individual one looks different.
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Ditto Aliens / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Humans have a lot of trouble telling if a Tau is male or female (the trick is that the nostrils have different shapes), nevermind spotting out individuals. Da Orks have this view of humans. Ork hierarchy is based on who is da biggest, meanest Ork around. Some relatively philosophical Orks (and the bar is very low here) wonder how the human chain of command works, since humans are all about the same size as each other. Some crafty Orks have noticed that da 'oomies what give da orders have more shiny bits on deir clothes. The main competing theory is dat it's all 'bout dem fancy 'ats.
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Ditto Aliens / int_bd310eaa	comment	Uryuoms from El Goonish Shive seem to be Ditto Aliens as well. They don't even have different genders. However, they are big on fashion and cosmetics, so apart from the basic face, they can still be differentiated.
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Ditto Aliens / int_beac6ffb	comment	This was improved a bit in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — the Zora had two different models for standard citizens. A number of relatively important gorons got unique models as well, but the ordinary ones still all looked alike.
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Ditto Aliens / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Several of the alien races, usually because the costume designer stretched the budget by making all the masks from one mould. The most popular of the Doctor's adversaries (Daleks and Cybermen) are intentionally homogeneous, which adds to their creepiness. In "The Sensorites", the humans' inability to tell the Sensorites apart inspires one Sensorite to impersonate another with no more disguise than a change of clothes; the imposter fools everyone he meets, including some of his fellow aliens (although he does try to avoid anyone personally familiar with the one he's impersonating). Occasionally problematic â€” both "The Silurians" and "The Sea Devils" have the moral that the Silurians are all individuals and should be treated as such. Having identical, inexpressive faces and the same actor doing all of the voice work does not really contribute to this. Fortunately, for a later story by the same writer with the same themes, "Frontier in Space", the effects department gave all of the Draconians different faces, which makes them a lot easier to see as people. The revival series also redesigns the Silurians to look like beautiful lizard people. An odd exception: the Sontarans, explicitly described as being a race of clones, didn't all look alike, firstly because a variety of different actors played them and secondly because the costume and make-up was mildly revised for nearly each story in which they appeared. (The first and second Sontaran stories, "The Time Warrior" and "The Sontaran Experiment" averted this by having the same actor player play the three Sontarans seen in that story. Even though they did have a continuity mix-up in the latter story.) Despite there still being slight differences between the two Sontarans whose un-masked faces we see on scene in "The Sontaran Stratagem", the Ditto Aliens phenomena is lampshaded in the typical way "we say the same of humans." It's since been explained that the different looks are different batches of clones.
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Ditto Aliens / int_cdedd56a	comment	Exo Squad plays with this; it is mentioned several times that Terrans can't tell Neosapiens apart, to the point that every Neo has to have a unique "broodmark" tattooed on his/her head in order to distinguish them. However, they all look quite different.
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Ditto Aliens / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: while they're far from identical, the Saiyans uniformly resemble East Asian humans with no variation of skin, hair, or eye color and very similar facial features, while the humans have all their real life variations and several other ones. Daizenshuu 7 points this out and justifies it: the Saiyan population was very small (just several thousand) so predictably there wasn't much phenotypic diversity within it.
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Ditto Aliens / int_d0e3026a	comment	What Ifâ€¦? (2021): The divergence point in "What If... T'Challa Became A Star-Lord?" was Yondu sending Kraglin and Taserface to pick up Ego's offspring instead of doing it himself. They follow the wrong energy signature (from Wakanda's vibranium instead of Peter Quill's Celestial heritage) and pick up the wrong human (because all humans look alike to them, notwithstanding the obvious skin color difference).
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Ditto Aliens / int_d5b84b32	comment	Spore, though earlier stages at least have "baby" versions with more exaggerated features. Civ and Space, though? All members of a given species are identical, including the outfits.
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Ditto Aliens / int_d803ecde	comment	Averted to a higher degree in Ben 10: Omniverse, where aliens of the same species all have distinct looks.
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Ditto Aliens / int_e081af79	comment	Averted in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. We've seen crowd scenes of dragons, bigfeet, Nemesites, and Fleenians, and they've always been pretty well individuated.
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Ditto Aliens / int_e5db2eb8	comment	Pico: Penillians are a hermaphroditic species that use the same character model in both canon and fan games. Some fan games give them a little diversity by including gender differences (female anatomy is more prominent on males and vice versa), but otherwise leave the similarity intact. This doesn't apply to their Human Disguises, which can blend in with the populace seamlessly.
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Ditto Aliens / int_e68decb8	comment	Used throughout Star Control, and lampshaded by the Zoq-Fot-Pik: "You must meet with our leaders. They are wiser... more powerful beings! ...They look just like us, though."
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Ditto Aliens / int_e8224f8c	comment	The Emilys in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry looked exactly the same and even shared the same consciousness.
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Ditto Aliens / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	In one Starslip strip, when the crew is on Earth, two humans mistake Mr Jinx for their own cirbozoid employees. When Mr Jinx corrects them, one of them haughtily replies that cirbozoids all look the same... followed by a panel showing them standing next to each other, showing them to be nearly identical (mostly due to the strip's art style).
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Ditto Aliens / int_f5574a3d	comment	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles: All the characters are Serkis Folk, but the humanoid "Skinny" aliens are all the same model in (occasionally) different clothes. As are the bugs, within a given breed. The "Skinny" Colonel T'phai uses the "all humans look alike" line at one point.
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Ditto Aliens / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 provides many counter-examples. The Minbari all have different head crests, starting with caste differentiations and then extending down to individual characters, and each Narn had a unique facial structure and spot pattern. Even Centauri (who were the most human-looking and thus already easily distinguishable to viewers) used their hairstyles to advertise their status. When any other race appeared in quantity, they also were all individuals. Even non-speaking background characters from the minor races were often diverse, although sometimes more due to Art Evolution (the makeup changing over time). Just for a few examples: Drazi sometimes have spiked cheeks, but many don't, and the scale patterns on their head are different — some even have smooth heads. The Abbai's crest comes in different lengths, and their colour ranges from orange to reddish-pink to beige, with different spot or blotch patterns. The Hyach come in different shades of orange from a near-beige to a near-red, and their scale patterns are different each time (some more pronounced, sometimes extending over the bridge of the nose). Markab sometimes have underbites, sometimes overbites. One of the Brakiri is bald, while most of his race have hair. Pak'ma'ra seem to be impossible to distinguish for other people, which mostly results from the fact that the masks completely cover the actors faces and hide all facial features. Within the show, the similarity of individual pak'ma'ra is used to employ them as spies and secret couriers. They all look the same, never seem to talk to anyone, don't have any conflicts with other races, and are also said to smell horribly. As a result they are ignored by everyone, are almost impossible to be individually recognized, and security personnel are very reluctant to perform searches on them, which makes them perfect spies. The family Zathras (all of them) is (are) the exception to the aversion. They're all played by the same actor, and all have the same name (albeit pronounced in several inaudibly different ways). The whole thing is played for levity, mostly.
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Ditto Aliens / int_f95a1dc9	comment	Space 1889 has a weird double inversion. Martians think humans look rather similar, but that is because they have seen only Caucasians. Mars has had a global society and easy long-distance travel for millennia, so regional differences between Canal Martians are next to non-existent. So Martians who do get to see east Asians and black people will be surprised by human diversity and perhaps realize that it is they, the Martians, who are similar.
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Ditto Aliens / int_fab6bdd9	comment	The Skrulls, or at least the rank-n-file ones, all tend to look and dress exactly alike (with mild variation if they're the brawny soldier type or the puny, gangly scientist type). Skrulls in charge look more different, but their tendency towards homogeneity has been pointed out and mocked a few times. Such as during the Young Avengers / Runaways crossover, when Xavin is mistaken for Super-Skrull (because she also has superpowers like his) and asks the Young Avengers if they think all Skrulls look alike. Hulkling (who we should point out is half-Skrull himself) sheepishly goes "yeah".
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Ditto Aliens / int_fad1ddfe	comment	In The Last Starfighter, although the member species of the Star League are visually diverse, members within most species are distinguishable only by their clothing. Played for laughs when Grig rapidly flashes through photos of his 600-member family; the images are a blur of various Lizard Folk of different height and dress, all sharing the same face.
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Ditto Aliens / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Exception — Due partly to the Merchandise-Driven origins of the franchise, most Transformers look suitably different, have different weapons and abilities, and even those who share an alternate mode may transform differently. A small handful don't even have a humanoid robot mode. It's not uncommon for Transformers to be upgraded into new bodies by any number of means, either, so the trope has arguably been completely reversed here: Not only do they not look identical, sometimes they won't even look like they did last time someone saw them!Exception to the exception: The plastic injection mold being one of the most expensive parts of the toymaking process, Hasbro and Takara tend to create multiple characters as recolors of the same physical design, so in the fictions some characters are model-mates with others. In G1, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp are all the same design, as are Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge. Rumble and Frenzy are the same model, as well. Then there are some specific "races" of mass-produced Cybertronian Mecha-Mooks, like Sharkticons, Sweeps, the Vehicons from Beast Machines, and some other examples.
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Ditto Aliens / int_ff9ab17f	comment	A Star Trek: The Next Generation episode had Wesley mistake a visiting alien officer for a friend of his from the Academy. Said alien explained that members of his race who come from the same "geostructure" look identical. When asked how the aliens told each other apart he replied "We just do." This may be a Lampshade Hanging, as the alien was played by the same actor. It's possible it was intended to be the same character, until the actor came on set and explained why that wasn't possible.
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