Sample of observed V-band light curves, corrected for extinction and reddening, illustrating the well known diversity of Type II SNe (e.g., Patat et al. 1994; Pastorello et al. 2004). This diversity is representative of that shown in Anderson et al. (2014), revealing Type II SNe with a range of brightness, decline rate, and duration in their high-brightness phase. The plotting order progresses from faint to bright events at maximum (see Sect. 2.2 for discussion).