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The Nondescript

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The Nondescript	comment	Basically, this trope is when a character is described as being "utterly unmemorable." They have a boring face, boring eyes, boring hair, they're not too tall or too short, they're not too fat or too thin, and their voice is often a monotone (but not so creepy that it's memorable). They might call themselves by a bland name like Mr. Smith. In short, the only reason they're interesting at all is because of how uninteresting they appear. However, beneath that yawn-worthy exterior may lurk something very interesting indeed. The Nondescript is often a spy, or Con Man, or criminal, whose looks make it easy for him to get away with what he's doing because people either can't remember what he looks like or can't describe him well when they do. Other times, The Nondescript is just a Played for Laughs attribute of a character. Certain characters take this to superpower levels: they aren't merely average looking, they are so nondescript that even the narrator seems unable to pin down any of their features — or, in fact, to tell us anything about them. One gets the impression that these characters are deliberately doing something to make themselves invisible in plain sight. Usually occurs only in literature, because unmemorable and nondescript actors are hard to find and not particularly rewarding to film. When it does appear in a visual medium, the nondescriptness will often be an Informed Ability for just that reason. This can be used to help the reader/viewer/player to imagine the character as themselves, resulting in a Featureless Protagonist. When it's aided by magic or scientific Phlebotinum it usually involves a Perception Filter. Related to He Who Must Not Be Seen. Compare The Spook, Suspect Is Hatless, Beneath Suspicion and Beneath Notice. Occasionally The Men in Black achieve this. Extreme examples tend to become outright Forgettable Characters.
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The Nondescript / int_10bc0a19	comment	The young Vetinari manages this without magic in Night Watch, training himself to stand perfectly still and eschewing the usual Assassin jet-blacknote There's actually a reason for this- Assassins are supposed to be somewhat noticeable, to give the victims a chance. for more drab colours.
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The Nondescript / int_11d0af1	comment	His Dark Materials: This is the "magic" witches use to become invisible: since actual invisibility is impossible, they just make themselves very, very nondescript, causing everyone to simply ignore them. Will Parry also does a version of this; he is introduced as someone who, because of his mother's mental illness and the responsibilities it puts upon him, has learned to escape the notice of others in order to avoid being taken by social services. He later demonstrates this talent by shaking the attention he's gathered from a crowd by pretending to be dull and stupid.
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The Nondescript / int_12b12556	comment	The book version of The Bourne Identity from the The Bourne Series specifically notes that this is one of Jason's defining traits, an utterly average face that allows him to easily disguise himself.
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The Nondescript / int_1367cea0	comment	Nice Guy from Worm, an ex-ex-member of the Slaughterhouse Nine, had this as a superpower. When we finally see him in action, it's...not pleasant.
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The Nondescript / int_157916fb	comment	Black Crusade adds the "Illusion of Normalcy" mutation, which hides all mutations, blasphemous tattoos etc. in addition to giving "Unremarkable".
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The Nondescript / int_194eb14e	comment	Aline Pagrovna from Strikeforce: Morituri explains this was why she volunteered to sacrifice her life to become a superhero — she was perpetually ignored as uninteresting by everyone else around her, and decided a year of attention was preferable to a lifetime of apathy.
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The Nondescript / int_19ae41a0	comment	Inverted in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, where part of the murderer's ploy was built on the fact that the victim's husband Alfred Inglethorp, was not only easy to remember, but also easy to disguise as.
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The Nondescript / int_1c552432	comment	Brett from Inside Job was hired by Cognito, Inc. because his appearance is so generic he can't be detected by spy satellites.
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The Nondescript / int_1e0f7416	comment	Sheftu, the male lead of Eloise McGraw's Mara, Daughter of the Nile, exploits this in his role as double agent for the king. He's even complimented on it by two of the other characters. However, when he's in his day job, he's perfectly capable of appearing glitteringly resplendent, and women—including the title character—tend to find him very attractive, despite not being conventionally handsome.
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The Nondescript / int_1e123f98	comment	HÃ©liacin Glainglain in the Achille Talon story "L'Appeau d'EphÃ¨se"note (literally "The Bird call from Ephesus", but it's also a pun on an untranslatable french expression to say "expensive") is a kleptomaniac Undescript. In fact, the common-ness of the character allowed the artist to include him in crowd shots throughout the book, long before Talon actually meets the fellow. To the reader who notices this character who appears in several unrelated moments unlike the rest of the background characters who are all unique, this can count as Foreshadowing.
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The Nondescript / int_1e9205c1	comment	In Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune this is explicitly stated as the reason Dama, the leader of the Honored Matres, was able to come to power and stay in power. Before coming to power her utterly plain and unremarkable appearance kept people from taking her as a serious threat, and after coming to power prevented people from successfully plotting against her because no one could remember who she was or what she looked like. Those closest to her know better and are completely terrified of her.
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The Nondescript / int_20ac8a71	comment	And then there's Agent ! from Doom Patrol, who dresses and acts with the intention to shock, but nobody notices him, and his power is, explicitly, the ability to go unnoticed. He's a subversion in the fact that he has many very distinguishing features; for one, his chest is a birdcage with a toy biplane inside of it. (If you guessed this character was created by Grant Morrison, give yourself a gold star.)
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The Nondescript / int_2134b407	comment	Travis McGee takes full advantage of his own generally unremarkable appearance in his investigations; his height — 6'5" — is literally the only thing most people remember about him. He occasionally puts lifts in his shoes to make it even harder for them to remember anything else.
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The Nondescript / int_229f5b68	comment	This is Inspector Jack Robinson's major physical trait in the Phryne Fisher novels, and it makes him a very efficient policeman. Even people he has arrested cannot remember what he looks like.
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The Nondescript / int_22e860f4	comment	Psych: Discussed when Henry describes a woman he was set up with as nondescript and Shawn remarks that he's only heard someone say that when discussing a crime scene.
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The Nondescript / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter: The title character's traditional killing outfit consists of a drab, long-sleeved Henley shirt and khaki cargo pants, which are nondescript enough to avoid standing out in most settings.
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The Nondescript / int_25d97c04	comment	In the 1980s James Bond 007: Role-Playing In Her Majesty's Secret Service roleplaying game, a nondescript appearance costs more character points than an attractive one. This fits the setting (where agents tend to be good-looking) and requires the character to pay for the benefit of easily blending into the crowd (a useful thing for a spy).
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The Nondescript / int_263d08ee	comment	A minor character in a Tom Swift/Hardy Boys crossover book is like this. He is a thief who steals rare documents by simply walking out with them, confident no-one could remember enough about him to track him down.
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The Nondescript / int_2b1a53fb	comment	In Moonraker, as news gets out of a sensational murder-suicide (declared to be) over a woman, interested parties go out of their way to come up with a picture for the press that... doesn't not look like her, but communicates little that could be used to actually pick her out.
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The Nondescript / int_2b4ed8de	comment	Blandon from Yo-kai Watch is a ninja-like yokai that can blend in anywhere. Humans he inspirits become incredibly plain and unnoticeable.
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The Nondescript / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: In the expanded universe material, a story is told from Rachel Mills's point of view using a job interview as a framing device. She says that the interviewer is similar to most of the people she interviewed with since leaving the Marines, and that she could probably spend hours alone in a room with him and still not be able to describe him. He is interviewing her for a job in a new government agency that hunts down people with superpowers (which itself has the nondescript name "Building 26").
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The Nondescript / int_2ef88218	comment	The Book of Unremitting Horror has "The Man in The Bar", an Outer Dark Entity that confuses everyones senses, making sure that it has no discernable features to be identified by any witnesses. Which is perfect for hunting its prey at Bars.
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The Nondescript / int_30a5ebfd	comment	The Naruto fanfiction Training for the Job introduces Munamoto Sousou, a rather shy and quiet ninja academy student. Ino, who is assigned to evaluate Sousou's espionage talents shortly before graduation, describes her as, "So unassuming that she makes people overlook her, making her ideal for civilian infiltration."
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The Nondescript / int_33728d94	comment	Dragaera: Exploited by assassins. Kragar is so easily ignored that people never seem to notice when he enters a room, usually causing an inadvertent Stealth Hi/Bye. He was originally a member of the House of the Dragon, but because no one would pay attention to his orders, he had to become a mobster of the Jhereg. Mario Greymist, The Dreaded top assassin of the Jhereg, turns out to be a plain, pleasant-looking man.
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The Nondescript / int_3501cc23	comment	Gentleman Bastard: Locke is frequently described as scrawnier than normal, but otherwise he's said to be very nondescript. The fact that he appears half Vadran and half Therin allows him to pass as either. His unexceptional appearance helps him be the Master of Disguise of the Bastards. Jean is very large, while the Sanza twins have large, hooked noses.
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The Nondescript / int_35e04208	comment	Whale Talk: Swim team member Jackie Craig is described as a "chameleon" who looks and acts so averagely that if he robbed a bank, no one would be able to describe him.
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The Nondescript / int_35f1d3fb	comment	Zandar, Zartan's brother from the G.I. Joe comics was this kind of guy. He is so unnoticeable that in one instance, Zandar was literally sat upon, as it was thought the chair was empty. Admittedly, he is a master of camouflage and can easily hide in plain sight. So, it's like sitting on a chameleon, it's not really your fault for not noticing him when he's trying not to be noticed. Also Ghostrider, the pilot of the Phantom X-19. The Running Gag in his few comic appearances was that none of the other Joes could ever remember his name, he was just that good. (Of course, there were probably other reasons why Marvel never wanted his name spoken, too)
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The Nondescript / int_37a6e77b	comment	Samson the guinea pig of Camp Lazlo, a case of Ascended Extra that isn't quite that. He once snuck into a guarded vault of candy just by waltzing in. When the owner of it found him, he actively stepped over Samson and blamed a fly for it.
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The Nondescript / int_383223ca	comment	Dimitrios, the archvillain of A Coffin for Dimitrios manages to escape capture despite all of his crimes and betrayals, because he's quite ordinary looking apart from his terrifying eyes. The descriptions of him from a co-worker, an ex-lover, and a former employer are so general that they could fit thousands of people. At one point an older, well-dressed Dimitrios is described as looking like a diplomat at a state dinner, but a fairly unimportant guest who no one would pay attention to and would fade into the background.
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The Nondescript / int_38cb92a7	comment	Former Cuban spy Felix Cortez was able to enter and exit the US at will in Clear and Present Danger because while the FBI had his description, it was so generic (early middle aged Latino male, average height and build, no distinguishing features) that it was useless.
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The Nondescript / int_397e9ed2	comment	In Luminosity, this is Allirea's power.
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The Nondescript / int_3b34143f	comment	One Harry Potter Alternate Universe fanfic titled The Art of Hidden Personas has the main character, Hadrian Walker, basically Harry born and grown under different circumstances, assumes such a disguise. It is made possible via copious use of advanced glamours and also unremarkable behavior. When attention is brought upon him most of the Hogwarts staff have trouble putting a face to his name and even Chessmaster Dumbledore is affected.
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The Nondescript / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Ann Veal, George Michael's girlfriend. She is bland in both personality and appearance, prompting George Michael's family to constantly forget she's around and screw up her name. They often wonder what George Michael sees in her ("Is she funny or something?"). Whenever George Michael says something complimentary about her, he's met with a dubious "Her?" However, this is downplayed later in the series when she becomes very religious.
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The Nondescript / int_3df46758	comment	Pirate Lady Corazon Rivadeneira from Open Blue is so nondescript that even the paintings she modeled for can't agree on how she looks like. It's implied to be a supernatural power.
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The Nondescript / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: A ghoul assassin like this shows up in book 4. Martin, the epitome of this trope, shows up in Death Masks. He deliberately cultivates this in every aspect, as a way of suppressing his infection. This is also very handy in the battlefield, as the enemy fighters, wizards, and snipers do not consider him a threat at all. In Fool Moon, Dresden whips up a potion that can turn him into this, temporarily, and he uses it to fairly good effect to avoid being killed by a giant Loup Garou. In Turn Coat, Harry describes P.I. Vince Graver in this way:
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The Nondescript / int_439e0f17	comment	Would I Lie to You?: In the first episode of series 7, David Mitchell (Actor) claims truthfully that it is his ambition to be The Nondescript:
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The Nondescript / int_45d65abf	comment	Mademoiselle Blanche in Cat Among the Pigeons is so nondescript that she can impersonate her deceased sister without even changing the passport photograph.
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The Nondescript / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Moist von Lipwig is said to look extremely unmemorable, which is perfect for a Con Man. He helps matters along by adding some identifying feature such as wearing fake nose or ear hair because that is invariably the only feature his victims will remember. In his persona as Postmaster, he wears a ridiculously flashy gold suit and winged hat, and is able to go incognito simply by not wearing this Iconic Outfit. Stratford from Snuff is pretty nondescript, that is until he gets mad. That's when he starts to really look like Stratford. Witches such as Granny Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching can magically generate a personal Perception Filter - they don't become invisible, just part of the scenery. The young Vetinari manages this without magic in Night Watch, training himself to stand perfectly still and eschewing the usual Assassin jet-blacknote There's actually a reason for this- Assassins are supposed to be somewhat noticeable, to give the victims a chance. for more drab colours.
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The Nondescript / int_48c2633f	comment	Repairman Jack is described as a generic "Pale Male", a natural image he also carefully cultivates to prevent himself from being IDed.
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The Nondescript / int_49e95a32	comment	Wallflower Blush from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Forgotten Friendship is constantly ignored and forgotten about by everyone else at Canterlot High, even by people she's just talked to. It's what drives her to use the Memory Stone to erase everyone's positive memories of Sunset Shimmer, forcing them to only remember her as she was before her Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Nondescript / int_4f27410b	comment	In Can't Hardly Wait, when Amanda is trying to find out who Preston is (though she may have also asked the wrong person):
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The Nondescript / int_4f410616	comment	In the The Mysterious Benedict Society books, Reynie Muldoon. Towards the beginning of the first book, he is described as being "...the least noticeable of boys. He was of average size, of an average pale complexion, his brown hair was of average length, and he wore average clothes." Later in the same book, he and Kate are spying on activities in the gym at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened when he is suddenly spotted by S.Q. Pedalian. However, he doesn't get caught because, as Kate explains...
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The Nondescript / int_4f88f22b	comment	Those That Wake has Man In Suit, who's described as just that; everything from his face to his clothing is so plain and blank it's impossible to describe.
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The Nondescript / int_50d22ad4	comment	Kohaku Namikaze nee Zoishin of A Growing Affection is this. She was passed over for promotion twice because while everyone remembered the fights she was in, no-one remembered that she was one of the participants. And her parents left her behind on family vacation because they did not realize she was not there.
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The Nondescript / int_526d4c5c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic, HK-47 gives a short lecture about assassination. He mentions how being a droid makes his job easy since most people tend to treat droids like furniture.
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The Nondescript / int_53bd0aaf	comment	Ardav, one of the Dalns gods in With Strings Attached, is magically nondescript to the point where no one can remember what the sexless god looks like; thinking of it brings up a blank humanoid mannequin.
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The Nondescript / int_55145659	comment	Shiraori of So I'm a Spider, So What? uses a camouflage magic which interferes with people's ability to perceive her features. Unless they spend enough time around her or already know what she looks like, they will only perceive her as being "white".
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The Nondescript / int_59632132	comment	In the shared anthology Temps, about people with superhuman powers being called in to work for the British government, one story tells of a young Pakistani man who is constantly ignored, people don't listen to him, they talk over his head, etc. When called in to do his Temps duty in a hostage crisis the people in charge ignore him, but he goes in, more or less accidentally "talks down" the hostage taker (who thinks he was already in the building) and leaves unthanked and unnoticed. He never shows any signs of the power of a "Temp" until the last line in the story, where we learn his codename is... The Invisible Boy.
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The Nondescript / int_5999b1ec	comment	Grey Murphy in the Xanth series. His driver's license lists his hair as "hair-colored" and his eyes as "neutral".
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The Nondescript / int_5c9b7531	comment	The assassin Vincent in Collateral consciously invokes this trope, making himself nondescript by coupling his gray hair with clothing entirely of gray. Supposedly, as training, the director even had Tom Cruise deliver a package in a public place with nobody recognizing him.
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The Nondescript / int_5e150650	comment	The Sidereal Exalted may be nondescript or attention-grabbing, as their individual natures dictate, but the Arcane Fate ensures that any non-Sidereal who meets them will find them very hard to remember...even more so when all traces of their existence, from footprints to pictures to bureaucratic records, get lost, are accidentally destroyed or defaced, or mysteriously vanish. Unfortunately for their social lives, they can't turn it off.
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The Nondescript / int_606e56fc	comment	In Geist: The Sin-Eaters, this is a power you can inflict on others.
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The Nondescript / int_6ac55ec7	comment	One of the Dungeons & Dragons splatbooks describe a nondescript box you can hide items in. It's not invisible, but anyone looking for it must pass a search check or they will ignore it. "It's just another plain box."
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The Nondescript / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: Justus, Ferdinand's spy, is described as having features that are either extremely common or within the average, resulting in him being able to disappear in a crowd.
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The Nondescript / int_6c519c14	comment	Both main characters in the Knight and Rogue Series are perfectly average looking. Michael does have a scar on his face, but this is only used to identify him if he's already made himself stand out. Otherwise, it's been stated that it's easier to find the two by asking if anyone has seen their horses.
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The Nondescript / int_6ded030e	comment	In one episode of The Persuaders!, an assassin is set on the heroes' tail. He is just an aging, thin, unattractive man who is normally a repairman when he's not taking jobs like this. He attributes his success to the fact that he is always The Everyman who no-one ever notices or suspects.
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The Nondescript / int_6f437754	comment	Forward is a Firefly fanfic with multiple types of psychics, including one known as "Inducers." Inducers can manipulate emotions in others, including apathy and interest, and one uses this to remain completely unnoticeable. She can go as far as walking herself and a mind-controlled River right past the rest of the crew while they're distracted by an injured Mal without anyone noticing.
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The Nondescript / int_705bb59a	comment	Similarly, the Vampire: The Masquerade (and Vampire: The Requiem) power of "Obfuscate".
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The Nondescript / int_7674242b	type	The Nondescript
The Nondescript / int_7674242b	comment	In Transformers: Exiles, Makeshift's Shapeshifter Default Form is described as "so anonymous that it was practically impossible for anyone who saw him once to describe him accurately."
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The Nondescript / int_78ff9829	type	The Nondescript
The Nondescript / int_78ff9829	comment	Make a Wish: Harry's disguise "Mr. Black" is supposed to be completely unremarkable, but because he didn't bother to Read the Freaking Manual, he's instead noteworthy because no one can remember any distinguishing features or describe him.
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The Nondescript / int_7aaf9e41	type	The Nondescript
The Nondescript / int_7aaf9e41	comment	In a two-part story in Batman #542-543, Batman hunts a Serial Killer known as 'Faceless'. Faceless turns out to be an ordinary mailman, and all of his victims were people on his route: all of whom saw him every day, and none of whom noticed him or could remember a thing about him.
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The Nondescript / int_7df9324b	comment	Mr. Chalk from Zebra Girl. A partial example, he has almost no defining features, save a jagged cut of a mouth.
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The Nondescript / int_7f39a041	comment	Shinpachi from Gintama is described as this: During a "how to draw Shinpachi" segment, Gin instructs viewers to imagine the most boring and uninteresting face they can, then draw it. Also, at one point, Shinpachi is training to be a Highly-Visible Ninja, and manages to completely escape the notice of everyone in a crowded bookstore because, apparently, he is just that plain and unnoticeable. Even though he was wearing a cow costume at the time.
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The Nondescript / int_7f640c59	comment	Sims with "Pudding Face" in The Sims 3 have facial features which are completely and utterly average,note Character Customization sliders are all set to 0 value, making them neither positive nor negative, but nothing's stopping them from having an Eccentric, Flirtatious, or even Insane or Evil personality trait (or, potentially, all of these). Since the game occasionally makes Pudding Faces when it's creating new sims for "needed" positions around town, you could potentially end up with many identical sims around town after playing through a few in-game generations. Good luck keeping them all straight.
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The Nondescript / int_82d5c9d9	comment	In We Happy Few, Arthur Hastings has to take advantage of how amazingly average and mediocre everything about his appearance is, as well as the townsfolk being coked out of their minds on Joy, to get past most threats. As long as he doesn't attract attention to himself and isn't seen doing anything wrong, nobody will remember him and will leave him alone. Even if his cover is blown all he has to do is escape their chase and wait a few minutes, and they'll have forgotten what he looked like.
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The Nondescript / int_87cf8985	comment	In the Champions adventure "Red Doom", the character Disinformer has this quality, which is why he's one of the KGB's top spies.
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The Nondescript / int_89a3ffd6	comment	Carlotta Adams in Lord Edgware Dies has an indistinct appearance that "could take on an alien character easily, but had recognisable character of its own".
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The Nondescript / int_8bd3842a	comment	Hitman: An Informed Ability of Agent 47, who is said to be deliberately engineered to be multiracial so he could fit in anywhere without drawing attention. He doesn't actually look multiracial, and he's also got a barcode tattooed to the back of his shaved head, which is quite distinctive. And it's topped off by a $3,000 suit and custom handguns. In spite of it all, he seems to have no trouble passing himself off as just about anyone. Hitman (2016) features a group called Providence, a top-secret conspiracy who have ambitions to Take Over the World and already exert a huge influence on world governments already. In a later mission, one of your targets is interrogating a low-rank courier for Providence for information on his commander. The poor scrub can't give him a description of his boss because he just looks like an ordinary guy: an accountant who could sit next to you on the bus without you noticing. Apart from a nice suit and a bit of a raspy voice, he does look like a perfectly generic middle-aged guy.
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The Nondescript / int_8bf56056	type	The Nondescript
The Nondescript / int_8bf56056	comment	Trevor Blake from the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch novel The Farther Shore is described as physically nondescript, and his personality is rather quiet and boring. Then it turns out he's part of the project to create a new Borg Queen.
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The Nondescript / int_8df5521b	type	The Nondescript
The Nondescript / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman is, at least during the Silver Age of comics. There were SO many people that just happened to look like him, from his father to a random thug, that he could often take a day off by having someone else replace him in either of his identities. Even in modern stories, while Superman is a well-known icon, Clark Kent is about average height, with a generic haircut and no real identifying marks, making him fairly nondescript—which helps a lot with Clark Kenting.
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The Nondescript / int_903a9871	comment	Dark Heresy has the talent "Unremarkable", usually taken as a starting ability. Mind you, in this game you can also take chemical castration, nanite blood, and replacing half your brain with a computer as talents. Black Crusade adds the "Illusion of Normalcy" mutation, which hides all mutations, blasphemous tattoos etc. in addition to giving "Unremarkable".
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The Nondescript / int_90c73dda	comment	A shapeshifting alien in Animorphs is trying to pass himself off as human. When the main characters see his morph, it is described as, "the kind of guy who would disappear instantly in a crowd. The kind of guy who would blend. The kind of guy Jake might have become if Fate hadn't chosen a spectacularly odd path for him."
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The Nondescript / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: The Grey Men, assassins for the Big Bad, have this going on at the level of a Perception Filter, and use their nondescriptness to slip through crowds and get up close to their target. It is said that a Grey Man coming at you with a knife is less noticeable than the leg of a chair. Whenever they attempt to assassinate someone, their actions are mentioned in the text a while before anyone notices them. A late book in the series introduces a non-supernatural version with a man named Hark, a pickpocket who in the course of his career has stolen thousands of wallets. They'd never have caught him if he hadn't kept them all as souvenirs. He's sent to track a minor villain who had previously killed every spy set to watch him.
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The Nondescript / int_95caf5b8	comment	In The Fountainhead, when Gail Wynand is starting up his newspaper, the Banner, he brings a man who looks just like this into the newspaper offices and tells his journalistic team that this is their target audience.
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The Nondescript / int_960c7564	comment	Also a Gaiman example, Nobody Owens (it's in the name) from The Graveyard Book has this as an ability he learns from living among ghosts. He's so average-looking that nobody even remembers he's there unless he wants them to.
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The Nondescript / int_967347ea	type	The Nondescript
The Nondescript / int_967347ea	comment	This trope is a trait carried by several of the Black Rose Duelists of Revolutionary Girl Utena; with Kozue, Wakaba, and Keiko being the most affected. Kozue was this when she was younger due to being overshadowed by her twin brother Miki's genius piano skills, whereas she was both mediocre in skill and an anxious performer. Wakaba is a heartbreaking case of I Just Want to Be Special - the only way she can feel good is by helping others because she feels that she doesn't stand out in any other way. And Keiko is part of a Girl Posse that serves Nanami; when she breaks away from them briefly for a chance meeting with local casanova and crush Touga (who is also Nanami's older brother), both Nanami and the two other girls ostracize her severely. After her duel with Utena, it comes to a head when we find out that Utena doesn't know Keiko's name. There's also Wakaba's childhood friend Tatsuya, a Dogged Nice Guy to such proportions that Wakaba doesn't even notice his feelings. To make matters worse, Tatsuya's nickname is onion prince (referring to something as an onion, in Japan, means that it's shoddy or third-rate), and despite having his unrequited feelings and inferiority cause him emotional turmoil, Mikage deems him sound enough to be rejected from the Black Rose duels.
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The Nondescript / int_96b9f9a4	comment	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: How Luna Lovegood describes Harry Potter after fixing his broken nose: "Exceptionally ordinary."
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The Nondescript / int_974f7efb	comment	On The Drew Carey Show, Lewis and Oswald once boasted to Drew that their greatest edge in trying to meet women was being completely forgettable, thus any woman who turns them down would always give them a second chance a few years later by means of having forgotten them already. They go on to try to pick up a pair of girls who turn them down immediately, but they merely smirk and say "See you in ten years!"
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The Nondescript / int_981900a1	comment	The main character of Kuroko's Basketball has this attribute and weaponizes it to relay passes while playing basketball. Rakuzan High's Chihiro Mayuzumi has the same ability, and manages to stand out even less than Kuroko does. In his first appearance, we don't even learn his name, and his face is obstructed by his hair, giving him the appearance of just being a random stand-in who's only there because basketball teams need five players on the court.
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The Nondescript / int_9acdda28	comment	In the novel Watership Down and its animated adaptation, Hazel is a very nondescript rabbit, compared to his co-stars' distinguishing features (Bigwig's head-tuft, Blackberry's tipped ears, Fiver's and Pipkin's small size). Rabbits meeting his band for the first time invariably assume somebody else is the leader until told otherwise.
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The Nondescript / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has few knocking about: The Tickler is a Torture Technician in a company of particularly loathsome men-at-arms, but is in all other respects totally nondescript and ordinary. Mance Rayder, the "King Beyond the Wall" is described as rather unimpressive, looking like your average 40-something man. When Jon first sees Mance, he instantly dismisses him as a bard, since he's strumming a lute, and assumes that the more martial-looking Styr is the King Beyond the Wall. Davos Seaworth was a successful smuggler for years. And, for very many sound reasons: he is shrewd, is loyal to his own, is a fountain of common sense, gives workable advice and is a fairly nifty reader of people — traits that helped him rise to becoming a Lord. However, he could also win prizes in the Mr Physiognomically Average Contest for the Westeros, Braavos and Andolos regional rounds (and, arguably a few more places besides). Which definitely won't have hurt his original job description, at all. This comes into play when Wyman Manderly fakes Davos' execution as part of his revenge plans against the Freys, Boltons and Lannisters. Davos is eminently swappable with a few inmates you may have knocking about in prison. Whichever prison. And, with only minimal props added for effect (and just to make sure you sell the whole shtick). A historical version of one shows up in The Hedge Knight. Prince Daeron "the Drunkard" Targaryen carried a disguise with him at all times: he was sandy-haired, not particularly striking to look at if not downright plain (so much so, even violet eyes didn't stand out), of medium height and build, not particularly noteworthy in upper-class behavioural ticks (besides the getting-drunk-a-lot thing) and, thus, so unlike your standard Pretty Boy Targaryen high on airs and low on sense and/or manners, you'd not have a clue who he was, unless you knew him personally. Which is why it took his own father going out to hunt for him to successfully find him when he decided to get himself lost in various taverns, once... Guardsmen alone hadn't a hope in hell of spotting this particular barfly within a swarm of others.
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The Nondescript / int_9e876c22	comment	Good Omens: Pollution, whose ridiculously nondescript appearance allows him to take jobs in places that let him cause the most damage he can, but is so indescribable people will never remember he was there, or what he was doing when the disaster began.
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The Nondescript / int_9ec7bc59	comment	In Life of Pi, Pi's spiritual adviser Mr. Kumar (not the atheist one) is described as being so average looking that at one point he worries about being unable to pick him out of a crowd when they're set to meet at his family's zoo.
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The Nondescript / int_9f7704e8	comment	The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign has "Librarian-chan", whose name is not remembered by any of her classmates. She deliberately invokes the Bookworm trope so people will remember her for something; in truth, she only owns a few books.
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The Nondescript / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Kagerou Usui of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is this dialed up to 11. He fades into the background to the point of being at risk of getting run over by cars on the street. His name even derives from a Japanese phrase for "overshadowed". He is very annoyed at his lack of presence, but it also has advantages for him since he's a Covert Pervert.
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The Nondescript / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: There's John Doe, the Generic Man, who takes this to the logical extreme (that other extreme examples somehow manage to avoid) by being so generic and drab in appearance that he stands out spectacularly. He's literally featureless, except for a label on his chest that says "(person)". He can, by touching them, make other objects as undefined as he is. And then there's Agent ! from Doom Patrol, who dresses and acts with the intention to shock, but nobody notices him, and his power is, explicitly, the ability to go unnoticed. He's a subversion in the fact that he has many very distinguishing features; for one, his chest is a birdcage with a toy biplane inside of it. (If you guessed this character was created by Grant Morrison, give yourself a gold star.)
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The Nondescript / int_a040500a	comment	In Best Served Cold attributes this quality to Day, apprentice to the Master Poisoner assassin Morveer. Morveer describes her looks as an asset to their work- she's attractive enough to put people at ease, but not so attractive as to be distracting/memorable.
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The Nondescript / int_a476f6dd	comment	In The Story to End All Stories, Sherlock says they should be looking for someone who fits this description.
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The Nondescript / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project has Koishi, who's a metaphysical version of this. By closing her mind off she's closed others' mind to her, meaning that she's hard to notice and harder to remember, despite being a strange girl with an eye/heart/thing hanging around her chest.
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The Nondescript / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	The advantage "Bland" makes you this in the Legend of the Five Rings tabletop game 3rd edition. Too bad it also makes you less likely to be recognised when glory is to be had for great deeds.
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The Nondescript / int_abbfa923	comment	There's a creepy, possibly alien guy in the horror movie The Forgotten with rather short brown hair, brown eyes, a blank, ordinary face... and he's Immune to Bullets.
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The Nondescript / int_ac259af8	comment	Momoko from the Mahjong anime Saki takes this to supernatural level. When you're in a game where everyone is watching everyone else for a chance of quick victory, it's a tremendous advantage.
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The Nondescript / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Likewise, "Arcane" in Mage: The Ascension. The Ahl-i-Batin cranked it up to ten (not eleven—at eleven the universe forgets you exist). An entertaining variant because it can't be turned off, making it a two-edged sword.
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The Nondescript / int_aca7b22d	comment	Rob from The Amazing World of Gumball is this in "The Pony", with his entire existence being treated as a Noodle Incident, with Gumball and Darwin remembering him as much as the audience does. In "The Void", this is deconstructed, as he is revealed to have been thought of as a mistake by the Void and sucked in, being left unnoticed, even after trying to get saved by visitors there. "The Nobody" also deconstructs this, as it is revealed he has escaped and is still alive, but just glitched up and trying to claim an identity that has not already been taken.
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The Nondescript / int_aedfc20a	comment	Emmet of The LEGO Movie, who has the face of a generic LEGO minifig. He's so nondescript that the villain's forces have a hard time identifying him at first because he looks like everyone else â€” his face pulls false positives from every single other face in their database. Also deconstructed because this means that no-one that he interacts with on a daily basis even knows what's so special about him.
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The Nondescript / int_b29716ef	comment	Alex, Paul and Jess of The Real Hustle don't usually use disguises except for fake names, but are never recognised by their marks. Then again, the magic of editing means it probably happens, but we just never see it ("Hey, aren't you that guy off TV?")
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The Nondescript / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Bronn is grungy, unkempt, unshaven, and constantly wears the same black leather armour even when he can afford better clothes. That way, he stays blended into the background until it's too late for you to realise he's a lot more dangerous than you gave him credit for. The Tickler has a totally average, unremarkable appearance and carries out his horrible actions with casual nonchalance.
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The Nondescript / int_b50aa03f	comment	The eponymous Reynard from The Reynard Cycle is described as being extremely average looking when not in disguise. Basically, his face is a blank slate that can be molded into almost anything.
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The Nondescript / int_b6c9037f	comment	In the second episode of The Magnus Archives the statement giver recounts his meeting with a "man" calling itself John. The statement giver has trouble recalling any details about John beyond the color of its hair and its vaguely British accent; the harder he tries to recall details, the more hazy the memory gets. This even extended to John's clothes, as when John gave the statement giver some money he doesn't remember what article of clothing had the pocket that the money was withdrawn from. A much later episode reveals that 'John' was a thing of the Stranger, one of "shifting names and deja vu."
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The Nondescript / int_b80c3b	comment	Billy from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Even though he's played by Neil Patrick Harris, he does manage to pull off Clark Kenting remarkably well, and goes unnoticed following Captain Hammer and Penny around on their dates.
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The Nondescript / int_b9c8ae97	comment	Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from Perfume possesses a superhuman sense of smell and eventually becomes a mass murderer. However, he has no scent of his own, causing people to instinctively treat him as a cipher beneath their notice. Even a watchdog ignores him. This is part of his motivation to create the perfect scent.
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The Nondescript / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun has nondescript as a positive background during character creation. It means that, in a world where ambient cameras can keep track of you all the time, your appearance is so bog-standard for your age, sex and metatype that even face-recognising A.Is have problems distinguishing you from millions of other Jon/Jane Does.
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The Nondescript / int_bdc49dbe	comment	The Laundry Files: The Labyrinth Index mentions a type of spy called a Gray Man, who is so unremarkable and nondescript that they vanish from plain sight. This is described in relationship to Derek, who is not a Gray Man, but a rarer type of spy called the the Man of No Consequence, who is easily noticed but instantly dismissed — fortunately for him, since he has no experience with spycraft. This lets him blend into a crowd of Korean tourists despite clearly being neither Korean nor a tourist, and infiltrate a government building because anyone who sees him assumes he's either harmlessly lost and/or someone else's problem.
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The Nondescript / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Stone Mask in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has the ability to make the wearer appear as unnoticeable as a stone. This has a drawback: you get it by using the Lens of Truth to find a soldier who put it on, then suffered an injury. He laid there, hurt and forgotten, for days until you found him. However, particularly disciplined or trained people can see past it, such as the Gerudo Pirate Mini Bosses and their leader. They even have unique dialogue if they spot you wearing it, changing from saying "That's as far as you go" and "Everyone!!! A rat has snuck in!" to saying "You think you can trick us with that mask?" and "Everyone!!! A rat wearing a strange mask has snuck in!"
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The Nondescript / int_bf42e29d	comment	Hitman (2016) features a group called Providence, a top-secret conspiracy who have ambitions to Take Over the World and already exert a huge influence on world governments already. In a later mission, one of your targets is interrogating a low-rank courier for Providence for information on his commander. The poor scrub can't give him a description of his boss because he just looks like an ordinary guy: an accountant who could sit next to you on the bus without you noticing. Apart from a nice suit and a bit of a raspy voice, he does look like a perfectly generic middle-aged guy.
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The Nondescript / int_bfef9cdb	comment	Welcome to Night Vale: The Man In The Tan Jacket, who is is said to be completely unmemorable. Witnesses can't describe him outside of noting that he wears a tan jacket and carries a briefcase full of flies. Our narrator Cecil (and his counter-part Kevin) who described each other as being neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, having various human features like a nose and a mouth, but with odd smiles. The creators have gone on record as saying that Cecil will remain this way, so that he can look however fans want him to. Quite a number of fan artists have settled on the idea of a dark-skinned man with messy hair and a literal third eye.
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The Nondescript / int_bff01809	comment	In Warhammer, Wizards that study the grey wind of magic, the Lore of Shadow, become more nondescript and forgettable as they grow in ability.
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The Nondescript / int_c487221e	comment	Invoked in Men in Black and then some, though results vary. Their appearance is designed to have no distinguishing mark, to leave no lasting impression, to be easily dismissed. Then they delete all of your personal records, history, everything, until what's left is your first initial, and that will be your name from there on. And for good measure, they bring Neuralyzer on top of those.
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The Nondescript / int_c75ae76b	comment	One of Max Allan Collins's last storylines in Dick Tracy before leaving the title in the 80's involved a criminal of this type. His face is never shown on-panel, and — highly unusually for a Dick Tracy story — he successfully escapes at the end, even though his evil plan was thwarted. When Tracy is asked for a description of the guy so the police can search, he has no choice but to shrug and admit he can't remember what he looked like.
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The Nondescript / int_ca03e3a5	comment	Thomas from season 17 of The Mole (Dutch version) came across as a quiet, generically good-looking guy who faded into the background compared to other contestants like Imanuelle, Diederik, Sanne, and Jochem. This made him an ideal Mole who remained undetected by all but one contestant for the entire season.
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The Nondescript / int_cb2db091	comment	In Johnny Maxwell Trilogy's Only You Can Save Mankind, when Johnny contacts Kirsty in gamespace and says he was one of the boys at the computer shop earlier, she tries to work out which one by giving decent descriptions of all his friends, then says she didn't notice anyone else. Johnny's reply is "Yes, that was me."
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The Nondescript / int_ccf875f7	comment	The unsub in one Criminal Minds episode started killing because he was one of these and was angry that no one noticed him.
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The Nondescript / int_d00adba4	comment	Tofu's go-to appearance in Super Minion. He purposefully chose the most generic set of features from the humans he observed, both to avoid standing out and so that if he needed to unexpectedly assume a more specific disguise he would probably be closer.
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The Nondescript / int_d0fd0447	comment	ShÅ«sei Tokuda in Bungo to Alchemist is designed like a typical harem series hero with plain short black hair and black eyes. He complains about how even his teacher finds him boring.
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The Nondescript / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Likewise, there is a magical ability called "Incognito" in Deadlands that does nothing to alter its user's appearance, but instead makes him or her really, really, supernaturally... uninteresting. No surprise that it's under the purview of the Hucksters, arcane practitioners often described as "shifty".
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The Nondescript / int_d5bdc32e	comment	Aljabra Gihom in Gold Digger has a variation of this. She's noticeable enough when she's awake, but she has a habit of falling asleep while sitting in odd places, and being so still and unobtrusive that people casually mistake her for furniture. She's quite used to having people set coffee cups on her head or start to sit down on her.
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The Nondescript / int_d628053d	comment	The main character of Worth the Candle was once described by his best friend as what someone would look like if a player chose all of the "default" options on a character creator - blue eyes, brown hair, and average everything with no distinguishing features whatsoever. His tabletop gaming friends even nicknamed him "Default" until he stopped pretending to find it funny.
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The Nondescript / int_d63abde4	comment	The guy from Shatterpoint who delivers a report on events from Haruun Kal. He's so nondescript that Mace Windu immediately pegs him for a spy.
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The Nondescript / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Gouda started out as one of these, a staid bureaucrat who was unnoticed by his co-workers, and when the protagonists look into his past, they find out that his colleagues only remember him for being totally unmemorable. This all changed one day when his face was badly disfigured in an accident, an event which he believes changed his "ghost" (his soul) and transformed him into a Machiavellian schemer. Despite the amount of prosthetics and advanced surgery available in this period, he decided to leave his face like that because it most certainly left more of an impression than his old one. Major Kusanagi herself has a cyberbody apparently designed to resemble a generic model of cyborg or android, though her hair and clothing tend to make her distinct regardless.
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The Nondescript / int_dee6ab5b	comment	Serge Storms: Orange Crush, there's a minor character named Joe Blow, who is totally average in both appearance and habits. So average that he is the perfect barometer to predict who the population as a whole will vote for, resulting in him getting stalked by the media every election cycle.
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The Nondescript / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Your U.L. Paper contact in Grand Theft Auto IV. "To me? Who am I? There's a hundred guys in this building alone who fit my description. Middle aged men, paunchy, glasses... you bring them here? What's this? Empty office, leased to a man who died in the last days of Vietnam... Call me up. My number never existed." — also goes for The Men in Black.
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The Nondescript / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Mayor is just an average smiling politician, right? Wrong. The episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" had a girl, Marcie Ross, who was so nondescript that no-one noticed her. She was never called on in class or spoken to by her peers. Eventually, a combination of quantum mechanics and the fact that the school is built over a Hellmouth turned her invisible. When her existence is revealed, she is implied to have been living in the school air vents for months without being reported missing. Willow and Xander don't know who she is, despite having had three classes with her the previous year. Marcie's goal is revenge on those who ignored her, through revenge and mutilation. At the end of the episode, she is taken away by The Men in Black to a classroom of likewise invisible people, to be trained in espionage and assassination.
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The Nondescript / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain books, Cain mentions the Lord General's personal psyker is, unusually, very powerful while still being sane with the only issue being that he has a dull and boring personality. On top of that, he is incredibly non-descript and even after several meetings, Cain can't even remember the faintest detail about him. Again, like the Emperor, this makes sense. Powerful in control psykers aren't likely to develop mutations or heed the whisperings of the warp. They can very neatly sidestep the dangers of their powers and be incredibly well adjusted. This is what makes these psykers so dangerous. You could be standing next to the most powerful psyker in the universe and not know it. The Emperor made it a point once he came out of hiding that everyone who gazed at him would know EXACTLY how powerful he was.
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The Nondescript / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly has this with Lawrence Dobson who looks to be nothing special, and loses anything interesting about him whatsoever when you see Simon wearing the most villainous getup you can imagine.
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The Nondescript / int_e97c9964	comment	In Robert Brockway's The Unnoticeables, the titular Unnoticeables are a crowd of Humanoid Abomination who are described as "looking human but not quite". They seem to have a psychic effect on people where those looking at them are compelled to not care about what they are or what they look like. Carey even has a moment where he is having difficulty even fighting one of them without feeling disinterested.
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The Nondescript / int_ee5e6821	comment	John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Exaggerated in one sketch where a woman in an office asks a co-worker to pass a message along to another co-worker, but is unable to sufficiently describe any sort of identifying feature, even height or hair colour. The punchline comes at the end of the sketch: He's her husband.
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The Nondescript / int_ee90a36f	comment	Dead Souls has an unusual example where this backfires, because people are somewhat Genre Savvy (or at least Wrong Genre Savvy). The protagonist Chichikov is fairly nondescript, having a blandly polite and charming personality and being neither handsome nor ugly. However, the oddity of his behavior- buying the records of dead peasants from landowners- is such that people start to think up odd theories about him, such as that he's the ghost of a mistreated war hero returned for revenge, or that he's Napoleon in disguise. It also doesn't help that because of the "buying souls" metaphor, he seems a lot like Satan in a The Devil Is a Loser depiction.
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The Nondescript / int_f4c7a55	comment	Granta Omega of Jedi Quest is a Force Blank. He has no connection to the Force whatsoever, and as such, is almost immediately forgotten by people after he leaves them, and is undetectable via the force.
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The Nondescript / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice: An assassin sent to kill Michael Westen certainly qualifies. He's shortish, chubby, with thinning brown hair and glasses. He's just another bureaucrat sent to review Michael's file. Until he asks for a drink and whips out a garrote. Spies show contempt for bureaucrats, meaning they're the perfect cover.
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The Nondescript / int_f565604d	comment	Ishimaru from Eyeshield 21 is frequently described as incredibly plain, often going unnoticed by teammates and even opposing players while on the field. The Devil Bats sometimes use this to their advantage by including him in crucial plays. This trope is played with such as by having Ishimaru run in the invisible man costume at the school athletics festival or by making his box in the manga incredibly small.
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The Nondescript / int_f73f989a	comment	Yuki and Kuyou in Kyon: Big Damn Hero have the ability to do this on a temporary basis. People are aware enough of them not to walk into them, but do not recognize them and are not aware of what they are doing.
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The Nondescript / int_fa5fa126	comment	In the first book of the Black Blade series, Grant uses illusion magic to look utterly gorgeous when working for his patrons and his utterly unremarkable natural appearance when plotting against them.
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The Nondescript / int_fe1b5414	comment	Shigeo Kageyama from Mob Psycho 100 is so average it hurts: ordinary grades, no extracurriculars, completely average looks, absolutely nothing interesting about him. His In-Series Nickname "Mob" (which gets used far more often than his real name), comes from the fact that he looks like a generic character from a crowd scene. What's not nondescript about him are his insanely powerful psychic abilities...
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