Ordinary
Ordinary adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Stand out
Stand out verb - To extend outward beyond a usual point.
Both terms in one sentence
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I Just Want to Be Special: Miou really wants to stand out and be something special, but she's just an ordinary girl.
Source: Visual Novel / A Profile - Kaiden from Mass Effect and Jacob from Mass Effect 2 both stand out as ordinary in their Dysfunction Junction crews.
Source: The Everyman -
In the original Fist of the North Star manga, Zengyo, the assistant of Ryuken's old rival Koryu, originally resembled an ordinary middle-aged man with no real qualities that made him stand out.
Source: You Don't Look Like You
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