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Appearance Angst
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It's an unfortunate though by no means uncommon mindset: many people are unhappy with the way they look. This phenomenon has little to do with the person's actual appearance (in fact, the biggest culprits are rarely unattractive or even unusual-looking), and almost everything to do with their self-perception. The simple fact is, most of us have an image of what we should look like, and in many cases, we don't live up to that image in one way or another. Naturally, the generally unrealistic beauty standards that other people, the media, and society hold and enforce does not help alleviate the problem. This issue is as common in the media we consume as it is in real life. This website hosts a wealth of tropes detailing how characters are unhappy with specific parts of their bodies, and even a trope covering characters who are generally unhappy with their looks. These characters have been struck with Appearance Angst. Appearance Angst covers any instance in which a character is legitimately distressed over one or more aspects of their appearance, be it weight, facial features, bust size, and so on. Some of these issues may ostensibly be within the character's ability to change — body weight, for example — or they may be completely outside of anyone's control, such as missing a limb. The issue at hand is that they feel distress over their body image. It's important to remember that Appearance Angst doesn't necessarily have to be justified — what the character actually looks like is aside from the point. In both fiction and reality, some of the biggest sufferers of this problem range from average-looking to quite attractive. Appearance Angst is primarily a matter of self-perception, not physique. It's a product of feelings, not necessarily facts. note In fact, this is arguably even more true in modern media, as relatively few characters outside of macabre or mean-spirited works are portrayed as blatantly unattractive or extremely ugly. Due to Hollywood Beauty Standards, in fact, for most characters "unattractiveness" is an Informed Attribute. While listing every root cause of Appearance Angst is well beyond the scope of this website, it's worth noting that the causes of body-image issues are often very personal and rarely singular in nature, so there's no one cause that holds true for everyone. It's something that can have any number of causes, including none. Asides from general self-esteem peer-pressure issues, however, we do list some tropes below that could serve as explanations. Like most body image issues, Appearance Angst can have devastating consequences if taken to extremes. It can lead to unhealthy habits like overexercising, undereating, excessive surgical intervention, or experimenting with dangerous (and often ineffective) means of changing one's appearance. It can also lead to legitimate and severe psychological issues, including depression, anxiety, body dysmorphic disorder, eating disorders, and more. Just because something is common doesn't mean it can't become serious. Subtropes and Related Tropes: |
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In Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty is a short, sallow, boyish-looking girl with mousy hair and big hands and feet (her nickname is based on a remark she made as a child, not her appearance), while her sisters Grace and Hope are both stunningly beautiful. Her insecurity about her looks makes her avoid society in favor of books, and she agrees to take her father's place at the Beast's castle not only because the rose he stole was for her, but she thinks her homeliness makes her less valuable and more expendable than her sisters. After living for a year in the mirror-less castle, though, she finds after the spell breaks that not only has the Beast become a handsome gentleman, but she has finally grown into her looks and become a physical beauty too. | |
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Shards of a Memory: It is implied that some of Raphael's rage had its roots in the crack in his plastron, feeling like it made him defective not unlike a broken toy car Leo found thrown away. | |
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Scrubs has Elliot and Carla start out aloof to each other, but in a Friendship Moment start discussing their own neurosis over their bodies and go on to complement each other. Carla hates that her hair frizzes up in humidity, Elliot praises Carla's lips while Carla appreciates Elliots butt. | |
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In Galaxy Express 999, the Conductor, who normally hides his body in his thick uniform, is terrified of the prospect of anyone seeing him without it. He's actually an invisible being, something he tries to hide from others. In the film Adieu Galaxy Express 999, he reveals that this is due to his indecisiveness, being unable to choose between a human body or a machine one. By this point, he has come to accept his choice, finally revealing himself to Tetsuro. | |
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In the Jojos Bizarre Adventure spinoff Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, Yoma Hashimoto is a model who becomes obsessed with personal fitness after growing to like his routine. His constant efforts to improve his physique chip away at his sanity, to the point of accusing his girlfriend of trying to "poison him" with his favorite carb-heavy spaghetti dish, complaining about the delivery man ringing the doorbell and ruining his sleep schedule, and glaring daggers at a man who reserved his personal trainer before him. He eventually snaps and murders his girlfriend, the delivery man, and the other gym-goer because he saw them all as threats to his fitness. | |
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In Batman Beyond, the members of the Terrific Trio were all heavily mutated after a science experiment gone wrong. Although they're initially revered as heroes for their work in helping to stop crime, they are all secretly depressed about their predicament and the looks they get for being freaks. | |
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House Party (2017): Derek is shy about having "french fry nipples", and so refuses to take off his shirt- in the route where this needs to happen, you have to have everyone at the party sign a petition in order to convince him. | |
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Silver Spoon: Downplayed and Justified with Tamako. While losing her characteristic obesity doesn't cause her any actual emotional distress, she openly dislikes it as she becomes weak and anemic when she loses weight, so she vastly prefers to remain her usual egg-shaped self whenever possible. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series had a villain named Calendar Girl, who refused to be seen without her mask. She was a former model whose crimes were acts of revenge against the industry people who made her feel like she wasn't beautiful enough. There were rumors that she was the victim of a botched plastic surgery. When her mask was removed it was revealed that she was still beautiful, she just couldn't see that anymore. | |
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The Vampire Chronicles: Gabrielle cuts off her waist-length hair after becoming a vampire, has a breakdown when she sees that it grows back each evening, and starts to cut and burn it nightly. She loves the freedom that the transformation granted her and is implied to see the long hair as a reminder of her suffocating old life as a nobleman's tubercular wife. | |
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The Boys: Mother's Milk has a daughter he's been ineffectually trying to prevent from going out with gangbangers or dress more conservatively. Then it turns out that because of the Compound V in his body that was transmitted at birth, she's actually 12 with the body of a 20-year-old supermodel (with all the consequences that implies), making her body image issues far worse than they seemed at first. | |
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Dr. Pimple Popper: While Dr. Pimple Popper's original Web Video series generally doesn't disclose the identities or backstories of her patients (largely because of privacy concerns), her TLC series goes into the emotional distress her patients' skin conditions cause them, and how much they affect their lives. | |
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Anne of Green Gables: Anne Shirley is picked on for having bright red hair, so she longs for any hair that isn't her hair color and at one point dyes it green by mistake. By her late teens, it has darkened into an attractive auburn. She's also insecure about her freckles (which also disappear by her late teens) and her skinny figure. | |
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Us and Them: During the fight against Jenova, Aeris contracts Id's Death, the disease Jenova was carrying, which wiped out the Cetra of old, which causes strange growths and scabs to start growing on her shoulder where the infection is festering. They die down when she recovers but leave discolored blotches on her skin that she is really self-conscious about. | |
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In Mission: Yozakura Family, Nanao's Yozakura talent manifested in his body's ability to adapt to nearly any poison and constantly strengthen itself to protect him from harm. As a result, he possesses a hulking physique and is three meters tall. He has to take special medicine to shrink himself down to his original size to actually go to school and knows that he has to stop going once the medicine stops working. His strange genetics led him to feel alienated from other people, particularly from the girl he has a crush on, Kitasato. | |
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Ben Grimm, aka The Thing of the Fantastic Four, has always struggled with how the mutation he sustained from the cosmic rays turned him into a hulking rock monster. Because of this, he's shunned and jeered at wherever he goes. It's especially noticeable when compared to his friends, who weren't grotesquely mutated by the cosmic rays. On several occasions he's had the chance to do away with his mutations and live a normal life, only to become The Thing again because his friends need him. Sharon Ventura, when she became She-Thing. By this point Ben had gotten over most of his angst over being rocklike (being the "idol o'millions" helps), so along comes Sharon, who's transformed from a standard comic book babe to a version of Ben's earliest look. She did not take it well. |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Cyrano's famous Gag Nose is the reason he's terrified of confessing his love to Roxanne and claims his mother never loved him. | |
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Katawa Shoujo: Hanako is deeply ashamed of the scars she sustained from her house burning down, and she makes every effort to cover them up and avoid contact with other people, to the point that she often skips class in order to read alone in the library. | |
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