Basic Trope: All the female characters have the same type of body, usually voluptuous.
- Straight: All of the female characters in a particular show have the same thin, hourglass body shape and identical facial features. The only things that set them apart are their hairstyles, outfits, and color schemes.
- Exaggerated:
- The female characters, regardless even of factors such as age and occupation, are all just Palette Swaps of each other.
- The One Guy also ends up using the same mold, just slightly stretched at the shoulders.
- Downplayed: All the female characters are skinny, but the exact shapes and proportions of their bodies vary so their similarities aren't extremely obvious.
- Justified:
- All the females are literal clones.
- The only female characters in the show are twin sisters.
- The story is set in a place where it would be logical for all the female characters to have similar body types, such as on a war front, where realistically all of the characters would be to some degree thin and/or muscular.
- The character in question is not a human but of a humanoid species whose females look similar while males look distinctive due to Gender Equals Breed.
- The Unreliable Narrator is uncomfortable with girls and so generalizes their looks, while men get more distinct facial features to show how he more easily recognizes them.
- The work is set in Deep-Immersion Gaming or a virtual reality, and the designers cheaped out on implementing character models; there is quite literally only one female model available.
- Inverted:
- Each of the female characters has a completely unique body shape, while all the male characters have the exact same tall, muscular body frame and square face.
- Cast of Snowflakes applied to everyone. No one shares the same body type regardless of their relatives.
- Subverted:
- All of the female characters have identical body types, until a Big Beautiful Woman Alice and Petite Pride Bobby join the main cast.
- While it's easy to think that all females look like Alice with a different wig, the only thing 'physically male' about principal C. Hardingson is her voice.
- Double Subverted:
- But then Alice loses a lot of weight, acquiring the same figure as the rest of the female characters, while Bobby is actually a Dude Looks Like a Lady.
- See Downplayed, Alice and Bobby's distinctive body shape isn't that obvious when compared to the male characters with completely unique body shapes.
- Parodied:
- The female characters look identical...and they're all inhumanly grotesque.
- A teenage girl, her mother, and her grandmother share the same busty hourglass figure and challenge random men to correctly guess which one is which.
- A more normal-looking woman is transported to a world where this rule applies and is instantly labeled a hideous freak of nature as she doesn't look like what people of their world expect women to look like.
- A 17-year-old girl looks like a little girl, albeit unusually tall. As she blows out the candles on her 18th birthday, her body shape suddenly morphs into that of most of the other adult women in the story.
- A one-woman comedy sketch where the star plays multiple different characters specifically to mock this trope. Expect lots of Lampshade Hanging.
- If a "woman" with a distinctive body shape exists in this world, everyone expects "her" to come out as a transgender man, or when an identical-looking "woman" comes out as a transgender man, his body shape suddenly morphs into a more distinctive one.
- Zig-Zagged: All the female characters have identical body types, until a Big Beautiful Woman Alice joins the cast. She soon after loses weight, gaining the same body shape as the rest of the cast. Then Petite Pride Bobby joins the cast, but Bobby is actually a Dude Looks Like a Lady who Disguised in Drag. Then Claire, one of the female characters becomes more muscular after going through a rigorous exercise regime, but then regains her original body shape when she slacks off. Then Statuesque Stunner Diane joins the cast, but later he comes out as a transgender man in the name of Danny. Then very busty Ellie joins the cast, but the fact is later reveals that she wears Fake Boobs and her breasts size are just the same as the rest of the cast...
- Averted:
- Both male and female body types in the show are varied and realistically so.
- Both sexes only have one body type each.
- Everyone in the show is a Stick Figure, regardless of their gender.
- Enforced:
- Most Writers Are Male
- The creators are afraid of making their female characters look too off-putting, so they use the same basic model for each of them.
- The creators don't think anybody would be interested in the show if all the female characters didn't have classically feminine bodies.
- The characters are for a girls' toy line, so their lack of variety in body type is to cut costs.
- It's a video game for a retro system set in a World of Action Girls. But memory constraints force all characters to be pallette-swaps of the same basic character sprites.
- Same game premise, more advanced system, but for budgetary constraints they could only hire the one (suitably gorgeous) model to base the character designs off. All the characters are the same woman wearing different costumes.
- Only one actress portrays all female characters in the No Budget show.
- Lampshaded: "How do all of you girls look so much alike? With how different your lifestyles are, that should be impossible."
- Invoked: The main female characters all decide to get surgery to give themselves identical body types.
- Exploited: Alice uses the fact that she looks so much like the other female characters to impersonate them.
- Defied: Overweight Alice doesn't do anything to attain the same figure as the other female characters, considering herself beautiful just the way she is.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Every adult female character has the exact same build, but every male character swears they are totally different, pointing out minute differences a viewer would attribute to Depending on the Artist.
- Played for Drama: In a dystopian future, all women, upon reaching a certain age, must undergo a procedure that gives them identical body shapes. One young woman is approaching that age and desperately fights the system to try to preserve her individuality.
- Implied: Fred, who is from a different town, country, or even an Alternate Universe, comes to visit and later comments on how all the women he met had virtually identical body types.
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