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In media, often times the major characters will have flashy designs while background characters have more generic ones. This ultimately ends up making the protagonist look like they have a Non-Standard Character Design. This trope is used to make sure the viewer knows which characters are important and to make sure the main characters don't blend into the scenery. In anime and manga, this often results in the protagonist having bright blue Anime Hair while the characters around him have brown hair and more average haircuts. In other works, specifically in school or military settings, you can tell who is who because the main characters use Non Uniform Uniforms or Custom Uniforms while the background characters don't. This trope is a major reason for a Hair Color Spoiler, as a character will be introduced with a design too noticeable to make them a random extra or minor character. Sub-trope to Distinctive Appearances and related to The Law of Conservation of Detail. Compare to Faceless Masses, which goes even more extreme and makes the background characters have little-to-no features, Conspicuous in the Crowd, for when someone's behaviour in a crowd marks them out, and Hero with a Unique Name, where the protagonist has a stand-out name. Contrast with Vanilla Protagonist, Ridiculously Average Guy, and Cast of Snowflakes, where every character got a distinctive design. In some cases, the protagonist is Stylized for the Viewer and not "really" meant to look abnormally designed. |
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Very prominent in Genshin Impact. While all main and playable characters have very detailed designs, all NPCs (even those said to be very different from regular people or that are extremely important in hours long, important side quests) share the same regional sets of repeating models, causing many fairly memorable characters to look practically identical. | |
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Subverted in Nurse Angel Ririka SOS. Ririka's blonde hair is not just to note that she's sweet and heroic. It's plot-related foreshadowing. Most characters are brunettes, with the Human Aliens having technicolor hair and Ririka being a blonde. Ririka's blondness stems from her being the reincarnation of the original Nurse Angel. | |
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Episode 2 of Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart has a shot where all the characters have demure brown or black hair, except for the blonde main character Hikari. | |
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Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Played for Laughs with Chrono. Most characters have normal hairstyles (if impossible for real life hair colours), so Chrono's blatant Anime Hair (particularly the pink upward pointing swirl) becomes the target of many jokes, including a Running Gag of Kanzaki's horses attempting to eat it. | |
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The Simpsons: The Simpsons themselves look quite cartoony, with Sphere Eyes and stylized hair, while many supporting characters are drawn more realistically. This is due to the series' Art Evolution. In the first season, the Simpsons family blended in with background characters, however new characters began looking more realistic starting with the second season. | |
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Death Parade takes advantage of this trope to separate the realistic-looking episodic human guests from the recurring cast of supernatural arbiters. The humans all have realistic features and toned down outfits while the arbiters have mostly candy-colored hair and eyes, often with an Improbable Hairstyle to boot. They also wear contrasting black and white uniforms to make them stand out more. | |
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Parodied in a Tumblr post where a girl was born looking like a typical, pink-haired anime protagonist. She goes out of her way to avoid becoming one. Other variations of the post invert this by setting it in a world where everyone has a unique design, but the main characters are the ones who dyed their hair and changed their wardrobe to blend in. This trope kicks in when it's shown that while the artificially unique characters are visually distinct, the natural-born flashy ones are walking stereotypes. |
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Penny Saves Paldea: Lampshaded when Arven notices that people who seem important usually have a strange sense of fashion, with him specifically noting Penny's hoodie and Eevee backpack and Juliana's neon-colored school uniform as signs they're destined for greatness. He then wonders if he's also important, as he carries a giant bag around everywhere he goes. Although Arven has no way of being aware of it, he's correct on both counts because the three of them are part of an Ensemble Cast in a Pokemon game. | |
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RWBY: RWBY plays this straight. In the first season, background characters were literally black placeholders (allowing you to pick out main characters simply by being actual human beings instead of placeholders), before they started using generic models for crowds in the second season. This makes the Hair Color Spoiler for Pyrrha all the more obvious. Volume 4 and 5 subvert this. It introduces many mundane-looking important characters and even the main characters get drabber clothes. This is to emphasize how darker the world got after the Wham Episode finale of Volume 3. Volume 6 downplays this by introducing more brightly coloured characters. |
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The Loonatics Unleashed are Funny Animals with superpowers and Color-Coded for Your Convenience in a City of Adventure called Acmetropolis that's inhabited by mostly normal muggles that tend to flee from the Monster of the Week. Aside from the Rogues Gallery and the Loonatics' mentor, Zadavia, all other characters appear slightly more detailed than henohenomoheji and do little more than stare in awe and flee in terror, rarely even speaking any lines. | |
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Downplayed in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The background characters and minor characters have generic black eyes, while major characters like Quasimodo and Esmeralda have eye colors. This is most noticeable in the ending scene. The little girl gains Innocent Blue Eyes for her close-up, only to go back to black eyes in the subsequent scene. | |
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In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Tsubomi and Erika have pink and blue hair, while everyone else in their class and even their teammates Itsuki and Yuri have either brown or black hair. | |
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Subverted in the Naruto (1997) pilot. Naruto's blonde hair and blue eyes are specifically because he's not human—he's a kitsune. All the other characters have mundane designs. | |
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In Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, background characters have mundane hair and features while major characters have brighter designs. It's most notable when characters are part of the audience and sit amidst backgrounders. | |
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Double Subverted in Persona 4 where the playable protagonist might have silver hair, but still blends in crowds and especially school settings with the other students due to just wearing the standard school uniform and his hair's shade being rather subdued. The rest of the main party play this trope straight however with flashier clothes, accessories and hair. | |
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Everyone in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 has mundane hair colours except for the leads. Rin and Urara have natural hair colours that are unusual for Japanese people. The others just have oddball hair colours. | |
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In Turning Red, all the main characters wear bright colours while the background character's clothes are more muted. | |
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In Episode 2 of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure, Sango sticks out in a crowd with her purple hair in a sea of brunettes. Ironically, Sango doesn't like to stand out. | |
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Jem is bad at featuring major characters with bright pink or green hair in heavy contrast to extras who have brown or black hair. This would normally be justified under the characters dyeing their hair to have '80s Hair, however flashbacks show that their hair is natural. Raya has pink hair despite her parents and siblings having dark hair, while Clash was the only one in her family born with abnormally purple hair. Even Riot stands out from his parents as he is a tan blond while they're lighter-skinned and brunettes. | |
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Youtuber ErynCerise noted this trope regarding Love Live! - the premise (high school girls becoming idols) would seem to indicate the show would be about ordinary girls being transformed, but almost all of the main characters were already very distinctive, complete with brightly-colored hair and unusual hairstyles, even before the show starts. Only Hanayo, with her short bobbed light-brown hair and meek personality, resembles the show's extras more than her teammates. | |
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A variant is done in One-Punch Man, where The Protagonist Saitama actually has a simpler, sillier design compared to all other characters who look more realistic. Only when he gets serious, does he get more pronounced and defined facial designs. | |
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In Episode 3 of KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode, Aoi's idol Ayane has bright pink hair and a full face of makeup, traits that are absent in the other judges at the show. | |
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Background human characters in Steven Universe have Black Bead Eyes, making them look more simplified than the ones with names—although sometimes even the main characters will be drawn that way when they're shown from long distance. | |
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Frozen: Inverted. The main characters are styled completely differently from the background and minor characters. Leads like Elsa, Anna, Hans, and Kristoff have filled out bodies as men or traditional, slender, Disney ones as females. Background characters have a wide range of body types and are drawn more cartoony. | |
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A common comment from reviewers of Final Fantasy VII Remake was that, next to the game's ordinary civilians, the main characters and prominent NPCs looked ridiculous, with their over-the-top weapons and Anime Hair. A particular promotional screenshot showing Cloud on the train to Sector 7 became a minor internet meme to illustrate the feeling of 'when you're going to the anime convention'. This is somewhat Justified by the explanation that Barret's Avalanche cell was thrown out by the rest of the organisation for being full of over-the-top weirdos when the wider group all uses realistic 'milspec gear'. Members of SOLDIER, Cloud's purported former unit, are also stereotyped as having weird personalities and over-the-top hairstyles. | |
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In Princess Princess, the protagonists stand out from the rest of the plain, brown/dark-haired students. Tooru is blue-hairednote in the anime only; interestingly, he had dark hair in the manga, Mikoto's hair is reddish-pink, and Yuujirou is blonde and got longer hair than the others. The only other important student, Sakamoto, has green hair. | |
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In the first episode of Doki Doki! PreCure, when Mana is running all around solving problems, she sticks out with her pink hair, as opposed to the surrounding brown or black-haired students. | |
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Sailor Moon: Only major characters tend to have Anime Hair and out-there hair colours. | |
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Played straight in most of The Lion King. The actual characters in the movie all look cartoonish, whereas the background animals all look realistic. Averted in the "I Just Can't Wait to be King" Disney Acid Sequence, in which all animals look cartoonish. | |
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Naruto: Background characters and Red Shirts in Naruto rarely have hair colors other than brown or black. Their hairstyles can be flashy, however most of the time they don't have Anime Hair like the important characters. Subverted in the Spin-Offspring series Boruto. While they still mostly have black or brown hair, most of Boruto's classmates in the ninja academy have individual designs that stand out. Subverted in the Naruto (1997) pilot. Naruto's blonde hair and blue eyes are specifically because he's not human—he's a kitsune. All the other characters have mundane designs. |
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My Hero Academia: Inverted. Freckled, round-faced and green-haired Izuku Midoriya is singled out as "plain-looking" by most of the other members of his class, who are often more distinctive (i.e. Tokoyami has a bird head, Shoji has multiple arms, and Mineta has sticky purple balls growing from his head). Played straight when comparing 1-A as a whole to numerous background extras, who often have black and brown hair and mundane hairstyles. Double-subverted in some of the larger crowd scenes. As there are always a few people with visibly WEIRD quirks. |
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Sonic the Comic doesn't even try to blend in its cartoony SegaSonic characters with the Canon Foreigner cast. Though the Freedom Fighters such as Tekno and Shortfuse blend in well enough alongside Sonic and Amy, others are much taller and more humanoid than the Sega-created characters. | |
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In SSSS.GRIDMAN, Yuta stands out from the rest of the human cast thanks to his brilliant red hair. Similarly, Akane has lilac-colored hair and paled red eyes, marking her as a major character as well. | |
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No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! tends to draw a lot of background characters with a simplified "emoji" face with Black Bead Eyes or no eyes, a simple mouth, and no nose. This allows Tomoko to stick out to the audience (ironically). It gets a pretty thorough lampshading and parody when one character with a generic background design, Emiri Uchi, becomes an Ascended Extra—and still has an emoji face, only moving showing greater expression at specific moments. At one point, a flashback chapter does a Call-Forward, where, while walking past Uchi, Tomoko's rival Kotomi declares her to be a background character. | |
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Background characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! anime tend to have generic looking designs with brown or black hair with some exceptions◊. This only makes the infamous Anime Hair of the main characters stand out all that much more. Starting with Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, some extras or side characters sport crazy hairstyles or colors to make them blend in with the cast more. | |
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The major characters in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are "anime" looking while more minor characters are simplistic or cartoony. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The series takes this to a ludicrous degree. It started out relatively tame with the main character being a 6ft 5 buff dude with anime hair, but it got more and more obvious as the series evolved. By the time of Part 5, most, if not all important characters, are dressed in an such an outrageous, Lady Gaga- esque fashion that they wouldn't look out of place in a Gucci fashion show, and that is putting it mildly; many fans even joke about how Stand users can be identified by how fabulously they dress and pose, and how having a Stand can change one's sense of fashion. In contrast, most background characters and non-Stand users have more-or-less mundane fashion senses. Part 5 draws attention to this. As normal, the main heroes and villains dress in the most conspicuous ways possible. When the narration explains that mafiosi don't draw attention to themselves (a category that the main heroes and villains all belong), it simply shows some nondescript background characters to illustrate the point. There seems to be a dissonance between what the audience sees and what's supposed to be true in-universe, however, because it is plot relevant once that a gaudy villain is blending into a crowd of normally-dressed bystanders and has to be identified some other way. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog stars a bunch of Funny Animals while the random NPC characters are nearly always human. Humans can be both important and unimportant characters, however if an anthropomorphic animal pops up they're nearly always important. It wasn't until Sonic Forces that Funny Animals outside of the main characters became a thing (outside of the parts of Sonic Adventure taking place in the ancient past, which include many identical background echidnas). | |
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In Episode 18 of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, Ageha's warm brown hair and bright pink clothing pops against the muted colours of the kindergarteners she's lookibng after. | |
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At the start of Smile PreCure! it's very easy to tell which characters will be main characters during the classroom scene. All the random background students have black or brown hair in mundane styles, while the protagonists have hair colors like bright yellow and green. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has a somewhat complicated relationship with this trope: One an individual level, this trope is largely inverted. Background ponies and supporting characters who only show up for one episode are just as colorful and have designs just as complex as the main six ponies. Further, the main six all have the same generic female body shape, while background ponies and one-shot characters in later seasons of the show often get completely unique proportions. On the other hand, this trope is played much straighter on a broad scale, as the background character crowds tend to have very obvious cases of Only Six Faces. The show's use of Flash animation makes it very quick and easy to create new character models by taking preexisting ones and adding or removing features: thus, background ponies are made by taking basic mare and stallion body types and adding a mane and tail chosen from a number of preset styles; these models are further modified by being recolored multiple times and having horns, wings or neither added on. The result is that it is common for background crowds to include characters that, while individually as visually complex as the main characters, look identical to each other in every detail but their color schemes or in one being a pegasus and another a unicorn. Further, a given finished model can often be copy-pasted multiple times in a single crowd shot — it's far from uncommon in early episodes to see various characters each appear three or four times in a single shot, or to have a large crowd consisting almost entirely of only six or so distinct character models. The main cast, by contrast, all have unique models of their own that are very rarely, if ever, Palette Swapped to make background ponies. The main characters do not have inherently flashier designs than background characters, but they stand out by virtue of being much more distinct and unique. Further, more or less the same finished background pony designs are used for filling background crowds regardless of in-show location, with minor modifications for settings with specific themes — in the cloud city of Cloudsdale, the background ponies are the usual ones all turned into pegasi; in the Wild West town of Appleloosa, the background ponies are again the ones seen everywhere else but with cowboy hats and bonnets added; and so on. |
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Dark Moon: The Blood Altar: Any extra seen is realistically colored compared to the more uniquely colored main characters. The vampires and werewolves are more understandable, though Sooha is more questionable. The contrast is reflected when Sooha, Heli and his brothers are seen amongst their fellow Decelis Academy schoolmates. | |
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Most background characters in Pokémon: The Series have duller coloured designs than the main characters. One major exception is Ash. He looks like a fairly ordinary Japanese boy besides his stylized Anime Hair. This is in part Early-Installment Weirdness because Kanto had more down-to-earth designs than future generations (especially in the games). | |
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In Ai Yori Aoshi, secondary characters have realistic hair coloring, but most of the lead characters don't. Kaoru's is brown (a very non-Japanese brown), Aoi's is (appropriately) blue, Taeko's is a reddish-brown, Miyabi's is a plum color, and Mayu's is bright purple. | |
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Inverted by Gundam Build Divers. The primary cast is fairly stereotypical, resembling a collection of 16-bit Japanese RPG video game characters (fighter hero, mechanic/gunner, supportive catgirl, elf mage, ninja girl, mysterious waif, etc). By contrast, their supporting cast includes a giant furry wolf dressed like an escapee from Dragon Ball Z, a posh fennec fox/human hybrid in folkloric Arabian garb, a three foot tall mink in a faux-German field uniform, a musclebound ogre-man and his fat comic relief sidekick, and a spectacularly buff and spectacularly camp ace pilot who wouldn't look out of place in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. | |
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Pretty Cure: Episode 2 of Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart has a shot where all the characters have demure brown or black hair, except for the blonde main character Hikari. Everyone in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 has mundane hair colours except for the leads. Rin and Urara have natural hair colours that are unusual for Japanese people. The others just have oddball hair colours. In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Tsubomi and Erika have pink and blue hair, while everyone else in their class and even their teammates Itsuki and Yuri have either brown or black hair. At the start of Smile PreCure! it's very easy to tell which characters will be main characters during the classroom scene. All the random background students have black or brown hair in mundane styles, while the protagonists have hair colors like bright yellow and green. In the first episode of Doki Doki! PreCure, when Mana is running all around solving problems, she sticks out with her pink hair, as opposed to the surrounding brown or black-haired students. In Episode 3 of KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode, Aoi's idol Ayane has bright pink hair and a full face of makeup, traits that are absent in the other judges at the show. In Episode 2 of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure, Sango sticks out in a crowd with her purple hair in a sea of brunettes. Ironically, Sango doesn't like to stand out. In Episode 18 of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, Ageha's warm brown hair and bright pink clothing pops against the muted colours of the kindergarteners she's lookibng after. |
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In Crazy Candies, all the main characters have cartoony designs that are significantly more detailed than the background candy civilians, who are nothing but single-colored humanoid shapes with non-moving faces drawn onto them. | |
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School-Live!: Zombies and background characters in general have black hair and brown eyes. This contrasts with the brightly colored protagonists. Subverted in one chapter. A girl is introduced with a character design akin to a major character. It is made to look like she would become a Sixth Ranger. Before the others can meet her, she had already turned into a zombie. |
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Oddbods: The main seven Oddbods have the seven colors of the rainbow with different antennae on the tops of their heads, while background Oddbods are gray with no antennae at all. | |
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Inverted in Mob Psycho 100. The less relevant to the plot, the further a character design will stray from the norm. Background extras and one-off characters are often cartoonishly grotesque; side characters are a flashy Cast of Snowflakes; the core supporting cast (sans Dimple) tends towards Generic Cuteness; and the protagonist himself looks so much like a generic background NPC that most of his friends call him Mob (the Japanese term for a nondescript extra) instead of his actual name. | |
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