History NonStandardCharacterDesign / WesternAnimation

** Aang falls into this when he tries out some ridiculously badass and over-detailed armour in Season 3. It's meant to lampshade how impractical the armour is to use or, from a meta standpoint, animate; Aang can barely move in it, and aside from the scarf and LensFlare, the armour itself only has a single animation drawing that's just rotated for when he falls over.[[note]][[MythologyGag According to the commentary]], the character designer often drew armour like this before being told to make simpler designs for animation purposes.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareAlot'': True Heart Bear appeared only as a plush toy and sported a multi-colored pastel tie-dye like design for her main fur color. This is opposed to the normal Care Bear look, which is a single color for the primary fur, other than the white belly with the belly badge and white inner-ear coloring.

** The show underwent significant ArtEvolution early on, resulting in most of the character designs becoming considerably more realistic and less stylized--but the main characters maintained the same general appearances, [[TheArtifact since they had become far too iconic to change]]. Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are among the only characters who have hair exactly the same color as their skin, with no visible hairlines (making them look like they just have oddly shaped heads). Homer has a protruding muzzle-like mouth (colored brown to indicate stubble), an elongated cylindrical head, and a scribble on the side of his head to indicate baldness, three traits shared by very few other characters who aren't related to him. And Marge has a [[AnimeHair bizarrely shaped]] "beehive" hairdo that would be nearly impossible for a real woman to maintain. The show has {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this several times.
** {{God}} is actually the ''only'' character in the show to ever actually be drawn with [[FourFingeredHands five fingers on each hand, and five toes on each foot.]]

** In general, this is true of a lot of characters from earlier seasons, which had a looser and more cartoonish style, while later seasons went a more realistic route with a consistent style. Comic Book Guy has a more scribbly looking beard, shared with a number of similar characters introduced in the early seasons. Sideshow Bob has an unusually skinny face, sharp features and WildHair.
** When Hank Hill and other ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' characters made a brief cameo, they looked exactly the same as they did in their own show, skin color and all. A sort of SeriesContinuityError is created when the show had a Crossover with ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', where Jay Sherman was yellow (albeit still drawn in the same style as his show). In "The Simpsons Guy", [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy the Griffin family]] appeared normal colored, and Homer referred to them as "albino". Peter, on the opposite side, claimed everyone in Springfield looks like they have hepatitis.

* ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'': Koko the Clown looks more realistic compared to the cartoony cast of Fleischer's works. Justified because he was rotoscoped.

** Squidward doesn't look much like a squid at all, and WordOfGod is that, despite his name, he's actually an octopus. With six legs. So he's apparently a hexopus. What's interesting is that his relatives and Squilliam are also hexopuses.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': While most of the cast has multicolored pupils in their eyes, Melissa has visible irises with black pupils inside.

** Squidward doesn't look much like a squid at all, and WordOfGod is that, despite his name, he's actually an octopus. With six legs. So he's apparently a hexopus.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': All of the recurring cast are FunnyAnimals except Rules, who is a [[AnthropomorphicTypography talking exclamation mark]] who can shapeshift.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E19ToChangeAChangeling To Change a Changeling]]", Thorax's brother Pharynx had a purple shell, violet eyes and red crest and tail instead of the changelings' standard blue-and-cyan color scheme, and is the only changeling to do so. Even after he transforms into a more typical "bug-horse", he still retains a much darker color scheme than the other changelings.

** Then there's Thorax, the leader of the changelings after they defect from Queen Chrysalis. He is larger, has gem-like bumps on his chest, and a pair of stag-like antlers.

* Lampshaded in an episode in which Homer imagines his children as horrible mutant inbred freaks [[ItMakesSenseInContext if he and Marge become brother and sister.]] Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are briefly depicted as ordinary adorable cartoon children with Caucasian skintones, blue eyes, blond hair, five fingers on each hand, and no overbites.