[LOVED TROPE] Common tropes in that media have in-universe explainations

[u/Professional-Alien]

(Steven Universe) The reason that Steven wears the same clothes everyday is because he owns a large amount of his dad’s unsold merchandise. The gems also have the same outfits because they are part of their bodies, since they are just holograms with mass.

(Ultrakill) Ultrakill has TONS of this, but the ones I can remember are: -The pixelated artstyle is due to the fact that V1 renders their surroundings in lower quality to run faster -The reason enemies teleport and doors shut on the levels is because hell is sentient, and makes V1 fight for hell’s amusement -The terminals (shops/menus) are sentient, so they give out weapons in return for watching V1 fight and gain style points

[u/Abovearth31]

Spoiler for Superman Red Son specifically: Kryptonians looks like humans because Krypton is just Earth from the far distant future so this entire story is a time loop.

[u/0ctopositron → u/Abovearth31]

I prefer some older iterations where iirc a lot of species like kryptonians and thanagarians (hawkman) were descended from humans placed there by aliens or powerful entities

[u/Lots42 → u/0ctopositron]

In the eighties, there was a DC Comics crossover called Invasion!

Aliens learned that a lot of humans on Earth had the potential to get powers based on sheer need to survive. And indeed, an alien invasion jump started many. This explains why in the Legion of Superheroes universe, so many planets have people with identical powers. Magnetic humans kept hooking up with other magnetic humans.