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A stock plot: an ugly duckling goes off in private, loses the glasses, takes down her hair, maybe gets a little makeup and some nicer clothes and finally returns as a swan. Another version of this would be "Miss Jones Syndrome", where a dowdy, bespectacled woman switches to contacts, shakes loose her hair, and is told by the unrequited object of her affections, "Why, Miss Jones, you are beautiful." This is mainly possible because most of the "ugly" women on TV or in the movies are beautiful actresses in bad clothes, though it also has something to do with Hollywood's unforgivingly narrow standards of physical attractiveness, particularly for women. Story-wise, it's a nice little way of advancing An Aesop about how looks aren't everything, while saving the hero from actually having to go out with an ugly girl (see also: Sweet and Sour Grapes). Opposed by Nerds Are Sexy, and is directly contrasted by Ugly All Along. See She Is All Grown Up for the related prettification of a childhood friend. Contrast Just the Way You Are, where a character is beautiful to begin with, and Unnecessary Makeover, where a character's new appearance is disliked. The trope, She Cleans Up Nicely, often differs in that while the girl in question might like rough casual clothes or work gear most of the time, she knows damn well she can look stunningly good when she wants to be. See also I Just Want to Be Beautiful as the reason this trope exists. Compare with I Just Want to Be Special and I Just Want to Be Loved when beauty isn't the only thing they desire and get before being revealed as beautiful all along. See also Clark Kent Outfit, and Fanservice Pack. Contrast Irony as She Is Cast, where this is always the potential, but it is never tapped. Progressively Prettier is applying a similar change to a character without much in-universe reaction (it's for the audience's benefit), because it's done either gradually or between adaptations. Nowadays, straight examples are becoming less common, but the trope is still used from time to time. When it is, the work will often claim that beauty is less important than the Character Development or other plot changes that unlock it—which may or may not be convincing. While the trope is usually considered Always Female, male examples do exist, along the lines of a slob or nerd cleaning up his act, getting a haircut and trading in the dirty wifebeater or Star Trek T-shirt for Armani or Savile Row items. Or, in more recent works, an unhappy Camp Gay and/or transgender character may get a classic makeover just like the typical female ugly duckling, and then be just as beautiful at the prom in a Pimped-Out Dress. |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, it's revealed that Midna was cursed into her diminutive impish guise, and has a rather more shapely and statuesque humanlike true form which is then only seen in the epilogue. | |
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Pretty Little Liars: Hanna was overweight when part of Alison’s gang, but after Alison went missing Hanna worked extra hard to lose weight and weigh less than Alison, which by the start of Sophomore year she managed. After this, Hanna took the missing Alison’s place as the most popular girl in High school. | |
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Helen Narbon finds herself complaining: "Leave it to me to live in a defective fictional universe." Of course, the real problem is that she did not lose the glasses. | |
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Watchmen: A male version. Laurie comments that the nerdy Dan looks quite handsome without his glasses. | |
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Zoey 101 deconstructs this in "Quinn Misses The Mark". After Quinn learns her long-term boyfriend Mark dumped her for a pretty girl named Brooke, she glams herself up in an effort to win him back. Quinn immediately becomes a head-turning beauty among other students who are asking her out from the moment they lay eyes on her. While Quinn enjoys the attention, Zoey and Lola tell these new suitors to buzz off since they know they wouldn't have given her a second look before the makeover and tell her to go back to her old self. Her plan tragically fails when Mark hates what she did and tells her he dumped her because he and Brooke have more in common, causing Quinn to break down knowing it's really over for good. Logan, of all people, is the one who snaps her out of it giving her a Just the Way You Are speech despite the fact she looks like the girl she usually dates. | |
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In an episode of Unlimited, Huntress jokingly declares The Question (Vic Sage, the male one) to be the ugliest guy ever to wear a featureless mask all the time. Even after the Relationship Upgrade, she still hadn't seen his face. In part of the season finale, Q is beaten to within an inch of his life. He lets her remove his mask to kiss him, and he remarks that she was right on her joke. She still finds him attractive. | |
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This shows up in The Hottie and the Nottie when the repulsive best friend is given a makeover. Although the actress is made up with things like rotting teeth, warts, and fungus, you can still tell she normally looks great. | |
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On Clone High, the last two episodes just sort of mocked this trope. Joan is already quite good-looking, and as Abe tries to find her "hidden beauty" he just insults her unintentionally. | |
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In the second season The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Nowhere Affair", a THRUSH computer picks an ugly duckling sexy THRUSH scientist to seduce Napoleon Solo, in the hopes of reversing the Easy Amnesia that was induced when Solo took "Capsule B" before his capture by THRUSH. The scientist does the statutory transformation from geeky to hottie by, of course, taking off her ugly glasses and white lab coat and Letting Her Hair Down. | |
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One episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi! features a rare male example with Spaceytchi. After washing himself and removing his black outfit, the girls find him much more attractive. | |
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Manga Soprano: In High school girls who fool around with makeup look down on beautiful women with no makeup, Mina shoves Kanade into the pool because Alto dumped the former in favor of the latter. When Kanade emerges from the pool, she's revealed to be pretty. | |
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Although she was never supposed to be "ugly" (just plain) the character of Jamie Sullivan in A Walk to Remember has a moment during the scene in which she performs in the school play; as she takes off a black cape she is revealed in a blue silk dress, along with full hair and make-up for the first time. | |
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Male example: In one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Hillary has a glasses-wearing boyfriend who she thinks looks better without them and makes him not wear them. This is only revealed after he accidentally rams Will's car. | |
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The Spirit: When Ellen Dolan is first introduced, she's a dowdy college girl with her hair up, glasses, and a geeky fiancé. By the end of the story, the Spirit lets her hair down and removes her glasses... and then steals a kiss from the lovely girl. Needless to say, she dumps the fiance soon after. In the movie by Frank Miller, Ellen starts out beautiful. | |
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One of Akane's pet peeves in Ranma ½ is that, although female Ranma looks very ordinary in the standard, unisex Chinese uniform (which is tailored for Ranma's male form anyway), "she" is actually a beautiful woman otherwise. (Not to mention Ranma's apparently unconscious, instinctive ability to do both sexpot and Moe at will...) Not surprisingly, Ranma's mother, Nodoka, appears as an attractive, but nondescript woman in a kimono most of the time. When she lets her hair down, she goes from "pretty" to total babe in two seconds flat. Inverted by Mousse, who initially comes off as a Bishonen, but is a total moron who requires thick Coke-bottle glasses to function properly. Near the end of the series there is a Beach Episode where domestic mother figure Kasumi appears wearing the second-tiniest bikini in the entire episode (only raving loony Kodachi wears a smaller one), and accidentally wins a beauty contest (in which all the other girls have entered, and for which she is acting as a "card girl") when the (mostly male) audience decide they like her best. Minor example is Ukyo when she decides to dress like a girl. Even though every guy starts drooling over her, it's only a minor example because she was plenty cute enough already. |
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An episode of The Addams Family had something similar to this with Pugsley's teacher. | |
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Male example in Death Race 2000 Frankenstein is dressed in all leather to disguise his supposedly horrific scars and burns and has a mask where you can see the damage◊ around his eye. His Love Interest removes his mask and discovers... he looks completely fine, the horror getup was a act for Frankenstein’s racing career. | |
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Sluggy Freelance's Gwynn is a classic example of this, with artist Pete Abrams going to significant lengths to render her more attractive, including redefining the shape of her face. | |
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In Bleach, Mayuri Kurotsuchi of all people gets a shower scene where we find that under all his war paint he is actually hot. | |
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Averted in Gilmore Girls when Lane gets contacts because she didn't like the shadows her glasses cast in some promotional pictures for her band. Her appearance isn't a concern at all, her style doesn't change, and her boyfriend Zach actually finds her less attractive without her glasses. Rather than trying to make an aesop out of it, Lane casually switches between glasses and contacts for the remainder of the series, with no further attention drawn to it. | |
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In Glass Mask, Maya, who is usually described as "plain-looking", is cast as a beautiful princess opposite the beautiful Ayumi. Everyone thinks it's a complete miscast, and are extremely surprised by Maya's first appearance on stage. It only lasts as long as the stage makeup does and weirds out her friends. | |
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The Cosby Show had a notable inversion in the episode where Theo's teacher (Brazilian superstar Sonia Braga) came to dinner at the Huxtables' home. Prior to her appearance onscreen Theo had been describing her in unflattering terms, but when she finally arrives she is (to his shock and surprise) stunning. She stays stunning until she has to be "Teacher" again with his parents, at which point she casually puts her long hair up into a bun and puts on heavy glasses. She doesn't stop being beautiful, but the transformation is still impressive. | |
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Felicity Smoak from Arrow once had to let her hair down, lose the glasses and dress sexy to infiltrate a casino. She looked gorgeous, to nobody's surprise. | |
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Lizzi in the Greek episode "See You Next Time, Sisters!". Who knew that a straightening iron and a power suit could give a girl such confidence? Though it was less a confidence issue and more busting her out of her Plucky Office Girl position to her boss, Tegan. | |
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Runaways: This trope does not feature within the story itself, but comments made by Alex Wilder (who reacted with dumbfounded shock upon seeing her after a year long gap) and several flashbacks (During one of which Karolina suggests that she get contacts) reveal that Nico Minoru went through this transformation. Also one of the few instances that combine it with a major change in aesthetic. | |
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An episode of Cheers ("Abnormal Psychology") had Diane trying to get Lilith and Frasier together by asking Lilith for a hairpin to fix the refrigerator door. Frasier scoffs at her transparent methods, but Lilith lets her hair down, and the two are instantly inflamed with lust for each other. | |
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Played straight with Honor Harrington, with a bit of Ugly Duckling thrown in. When she was young she actually was rather unattractive (never quite "ugly," per se, but tall and gangly and generally plain), but in recent years (starting a year or two before the first novel, On Basilisk Station) she has begun to grow into her looks, and is now described by most characters as having a sharp-edged and exotic beauty. The problem is that, with prolong, it took her sixty years to finally get to this point, so her self-image as an ugly child is pretty much carved in stone, compounded by the additional factors of an Attempted Rape in her childhood and having a mother who has always been regarded as gorgeous. When Honor finally accepts that she might be more attractive than she has always thought, she begins to use makeup and dress for style and realizes how much she has changed since her youth. | |
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Another straight if over-the-top example occurs in The Simpsons where Lisa is inspired to take dancing lessons. She and Marge are watching a film where the male protagonist chooses a woman named "Lisabella" to be his dance partner. She initially looks very bookish but on removing her glasses, Letting Her Hair Down and having the top buttons of her blouse pop off is revealed to be stunning. | |
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Emma Emmerich suddenly attracts Raiden's interest when she takes off her glasses in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, but it's a subversion when it's shown she's just wearing empty frames because she likes glasses, and she doesn't care whether or not she's prettier without them. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots does this twice, to male characters - first when Otacon switches to contact lenses at Naomi's suggestion, and secondly when Johnny takes off his mask and darkens his hair, revealing that all this time he looked like a ridiculously Bishōnen version of Solid Snake. | |
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Played straight in Kevin & Kell, where Lindesfarne helps Fiona in this way. Later inverted, when Fiona undoes the change to escape unwanted attention — and going negative, by developing huge ears that she considers unflattering. | |
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Miss Congeniality 2 plays with the trope: At first, Sandra Bullock tells a school girl to put her hair up because it will enhance her features better and that "people care about people who care about themselves". But at the end of the film Bullock meets the girl again and, having learned her lesson, takes the bow out of the kid's hair and says "I know that people care about people who care about themselves? but I really don't care about those people". | |
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Hyakko: Torako may not be really ugly, but her tomboyish demeanor usually lets her be outshined by girls like Ayumi—until she decides to get loose while posing for some photos. Tsubomiya Inori plays this straight. Her usual Sadako-like appearance tends to repel people, but when Torako peels back her forelocks and gives her a makeover...wow◊. |
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Parodied in Me and My Dick. Joey finally decides that he loves Sally, and even thinks that maybe she wouldn't be quite so ugly without her glasses. He removes them...and she immediately goes cross-eyed, prompting him to put them right back on. | |
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Male example played for laughs in Beelzebub: delinquent gang leader Tatsuya Himekawa sports a gigantic pompadour and a pair of tacky shades, but when he's forced to take off the glasses and let down his hair, he could pass for Sephiroth's kid brother. No one recognizes him until his hair goes back up. Played for more laughs because, despite the girls raving about how handsome Himekawa looks with his hair down, he persists in subverting the trope by keeping the ridiculous hairdo and shades for no particular reason at all. |
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There's a touch of this in Lawrence Block's Ariel (Block). Ariel and klutzy Erskine are Puppy Love in the making (although they'd both disagree because they're friends). Ariel notes in her diary, after describing a warm, funny conversation they've had, "What he should really do is get contact lenses when he's older. His eyes are really quite attractive." | |
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The Mummy (1999): Evelyn starts off the movie with the costuming department trying their darndest to make her actress, Rachel Weisz, look like a frumpy librarian. Then, before setting out on a journey into the Egyptian desert she switches clothes and loses the bun and glasses, and Rick O'Connell is appropriately stunned. | |
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Alex from Heroes. A bespectacled, cute-at-best comic book nerd? Sorry, that position is already taken, and we've got quotas to fill. If it was just his "new identity" with a shave and one less pair of glasses, it would be debatable, but then that Shirtless Scene came out of left field... | |
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Doug Stone's No. 1 country hit from 1991 "In a Different Light," which featured an outwardly ugly female co-worker of an office boy — her hair worn in a bun, thick glasses and unfashionable business suits. The guy fantasizes about taking her out and one night actually does. When the two have sex, he sees her in all her beautiful glory — with no glasses, "your hair falling down, and love in your eyes." | |
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In Off the Line, when Vincent was a boss mob, his head was circled with jagged horns and had claw-like hands with leathery wings. He was a Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette with visible veins on his skin with his hair covering his face, giving him a very demonic appearance. When he's changed into a pet mob, he loses the horns, the claws and the veins and gets some color in his skin. He's noted to be very good-looking. | |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope Von Schweetz is rather cute, even with her waif clothing and unkempt hair. When she transforms into a princess once she crosses the finish line of her game Sugar Rush, she becomes radiant. But she prefers how she looked before. | |
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For the first two seasons of Justice League Hawkgirl always wore a Wolverine-like mask giving her black dots for eyes◊ and you never saw her whole face. At the end of the season two episode "Wild Cards" she sits at the bedside of an injured Green Lantern in the Watchtower. The two have been building a romance for the past two years. Green Lantern finally takes off her mask and she's revealed to be absolutely gorgeous◊ with beautiful green eyes. In an episode of Unlimited, Huntress jokingly declares The Question (Vic Sage, the male one) to be the ugliest guy ever to wear a featureless mask all the time. Even after the Relationship Upgrade, she still hadn't seen his face. In part of the season finale, Q is beaten to within an inch of his life. He lets her remove his mask to kiss him, and he remarks that she was right on her joke. She still finds him attractive. |
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Jake 2.0 featured an almost painfully ridiculous invocation of this trope in episode 6 "Last Man Standing", wherein Diane Hughes (the NSA doctor tasked with monitoring Jake's nanite functions) accompanies an ailing Jake to a wedding to look after him. Despite the fact that Keegan Connor Tracy (the actress portraying Diane) is almost unfairly good-looking, they pull this trope with her by straightening her hair and removing her glasses. The reveal is impressively goofy. | |
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Subverted in 1962's That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant when Gig Young tells a plain looking secretary to take off her glasses and let her hair down, and is disappointed to get the same woman with a bad squint and messy hair. "Gee, it always works in the movies!" | |
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In D.Gray-Man, Miranda Lotto lacked confidence in herself and suffering from the stress of being the only one not affected by the time loop affecting her town. It wasn't until she got her Innocence and became confident in her abilities (not to mention Letting Her Hair Down and She Cleans Up Nicely) that we truly see how beautiful Miranda was. | |
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Subverted in Blade of the Immortal where Rin (who is attractive, just too young) takes down her hair and tries to talk seductively to Manji in order to prove that she can be mature and lady-like. Manji simply bursts out laughing at her and mocks the trope itself. | |
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In one Naruto filler arc, there was the minor villain Fuuma Kagerou. He pretty much looked like a gorilla with a huge overbite in his first appearance. Then he, literally, shed his body and was revealed to be a quite beautiful girl... Of course, since Kagerou's general powers and abilities were inspired by the mayfly, this also meant that her remaining lifespan was reduced to a few hours through this act. | |
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Supergirl: In her Linda Lee Danvers/Linda Lang/Kara Danvers Secret Identity, Kara dyes and braids her hair and wears glasses in order to look like an inconspicuous, average, geeky brunette instead of a stunningly beautiful blonde with an athletic build. | |
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The Dukes of Hazzard: In the non-canonical The Beginning (released as a made-for-TV film in 2005), 18-year-old Daisy is portrayed as a mousy nerd, complete with unkempt hair, bifocal glasses, heavy sweaters, and plaid clothes along with baggy jeans. Then she applies for a job at the Boar's Nest and decides to shed all this for her trademark tight short-shorts, her hair let down, and no more glasses. | |
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In the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", the principal of the school (where the finals are held) looks very professional and...well, not unattractive. Yet it's not until she saves a life from drowning that she feels "alive!" She tosses off her glasses, releases her flowing hair from bun-captivity, and possibly the top button on her coat becomes undone, becoming the kind of school official whose office a teenaged boy wouldn't mind being sent. | |
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The Lamune & 40 series makes this into a Running Gag; when Meganekko Cocoa removes her glasses for any reason, everyone in the immediate area has this trope hit them hard — and she just says "What?" as she puts them back on. | |
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Annie in Community seems to be undergoing an on-going process of this trope; it's suggested in her backstory that, as well as being a rather neurotic nerd, she had problems with weight and acne which she's only overcome relatively recently, which coupled with her various neuroses and self-esteem issues mean that she doesn't fully realize exactly how attractive she really is. | |
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Jane Eyre. Jane is written as poor and plain. She's called ugly numerous times by antagonists, so you expect it'll be like She Cleans Up Nicely when she's with Rochester. But the point of the story is that Rochester likes her looks because she's not conventionally pretty, because he knows that he is not. | |
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In Word of Honor, Zhou Zishu disguises himself as a scruffy, homeless man and wears a fake face to ensure that his former assassination organization would not come after him. But once the mask comes off and Zhou Zishu starts dressing nicely, Wen Kexing, Cheng Ling and Gu Xiang all remark and are stunned at how handsome he is. | |
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Dekomori Sanae from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, after she leaves her dellusions on episode 12. | |
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Alpha Flight: A bizarre example with Jeanne-Marie Beaubier and her alter-ego Aurora. Aurora wears her hair loose, and no glasses; Jeanne-Marie has a tight bun and "glasses you barely need for reading" (as her brother put it). While Jeanne-Marie is hardly ugly, she looks much more strict and severe than free-spirited Aurora. It reverses the trope, in that her (long lost twin) brother first saw her as Aurora, then was shocked to see her do up her hair and put on glasses on purpose to look less attractive. This is no Clark Kenting, either; she has multiple personality disorder, so this trope works to draw the line between two different people. | |
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American Horror Story: Murder House plays this for pathos when Addie, who appears to have Down Syndrome, wants to "look pretty" for Halloween, wearing the makeup Violet put on her, instead of wearing the ugly rubber mask her mom wants her to wear. Her mom is furious at Addie for doing this, but eventually, reluctantly lets her daughter go out without the mask. | |
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A parody of this trope was done on the first season episode of Arrested Development, "Visiting Ours". G.O.B. has to seduce his father's secretary, and in the process he tells her to take off her glasses and let down her hair, revealing her to be cross-eyed with bad, poofy hair. What makes this a more thorough subversion than usual is the fact that with her glasses and done up hair, she is reasonably attractive, but without them she becomes rather unnerving looking. Ironically, Judy Greer is in fact quite attractive in real life. Fans speculate that the show was intentionally trying to make her incrementally more attractive with each new appearance (sometimes with justifications, like her stealing a bunch of money for breast augmentation surgery) until by her final appearance on the show she's pretty smokin' hot — but everyone still treats her the same way. |
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Delightful example from Episode 8 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, where it's applied to Tieria Erde. Ditch the glasses and that pink... thing for a gorgeous dress and hair extensions? Why, Miss Erde, you're beautiful. | |
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Food Wars!: Nao Sadatsuka is normally a rather creepy-looking girl who goes around hunching over, giggling like mad and with her hair a mess. When she gets "purified" by Hisako's dish in the Fall Classic, she looks like this. It only lasts for a brief time, though. | |
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Air Awakens: Vhalla, a modest library apprentice, is not very feminine, likes wearing leggings and a tunic, never makes up, and has trouble with her frizzy hair. And then a prince invites her to a ball. Following her makeover at the hands of servants, not to mention a tailor-made dress, she turns out to be stunning. | |
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An early episode of Charles in Charge ("A Date With Enid", broadcast 12/05/84) featured some play with this trope. Enid, a classic early-80s girl nerd with ugly glasses and hair up in an awful style, is Douglas' first crush. She expresses a desire to be more attractive to him. Citing the old "take off glasses and shake out hair, voila she's beautiful" cliche, Enid fears that it won't be that easy for her. They spend the entire episode trying things to prettify her that fail horribly, only to discover at the end all she had to do was... take off her glasses and shake out her hair. Of course, the twist is that Douglas now thinks they "ruined" her... | |
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Allison's makeover at the end of in The Breakfast Club - that is if you are one of the few who see it as this, in contrast to the majority who see it as this. | |
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In Freaky Friday, Annabel claims at the start of the book that her little brother was the one who inherited all of her parents' good features. But when she and her mother swap bodies, her mother takes the day off to get her hair cut, her braces removed, and her wardrobe updated, and the transformation is so dramatic that Annabel's crush Boris doesn't recognize her when she comes by and only refers to her as a mysterious "hot chick". | |
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In Gypsy, when tomboyish Louise (Natalie Wood) first gets beautiful clothes and has her hair done, she looks in the mirror, and incredulously says: "I'm pretty. I'm a pretty girl, Mama." | |
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Whateley Universe: Discussed in The Big Idea with Delta Spike: | |
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Another male example appears in PandoraHearts. After he gets an Important Haircut and loses the Opaque Nerd Glasses, Leo is revealed to be quite beautiful after all. | |
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Shaenon Garrity does it straight (more or less) in Skin Horse in the Tin Soldier story arc, when dumpy little Marcie of the Department of Irradiation gets a makeover from Tip Wilkins. Her glasses get changed to better glasses, her hair stays up in a perm, but the rest of the trope plays out precisely, including everyone suddenly seeing her as sexy. On the other hand, Dr. Lee already looks extremely sexy with her hair up and her glasses on. No makeover needed there. | |
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Subverted in, of all places, The Muppet Show. Miss Piggy was doing her usual routine of flirting with the male guest star— in this case, John Denver: | |
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Played mostly straight in the musical Wicked where the very green Elphaba quite literally lets her hair down, takes off her glasses, and dons some lipstick before being told, "Why, look, miss Elphaba, you're beautiful" by her roommate. However, other than the Love Interest, no one seems to notice. It is then subverted: Elphaba rushes from the room in tears, shows up the next day in a flirtier wardrobe, and earning everyone's notice because they know exactly how her roommate "fixed" her. Elphaba's future love interest then tells her that she really doesn't have to change herself, she's just fine. She never follows Glinda's makeover tips again, seeing as the costume department is too busy slowly transforming her into the Wicked Witch of the West. Then in Act II, |
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| Beautiful All Along / int_503e91c7 | comment |
Played with in The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent. When Sei Takanashi is transported to another world and into the kingdom of Slantania, the court sees that she's haggard, pale-skinned, and looks seriously ill, thanks to her exploitative office job. After a few weeks of proper rest, nutrition, and sunlight, she "transforms" into a healthy, strikingly beautiful young woman. About the only intentional intervention was Sei creating an eye-bag cream out of herbs but even then, she didn't realize she could cure her vision and let her stop using her eyeglasses. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_503e91c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_503e91c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_503e91c7 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_50919f42 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_50919f42 | comment |
Hanged Man from The Manor's Prize, in backstory. In the past she was unpopular and couldn't get with guys, but after a makeover and a self-esteem boost, she became much more successful romantically. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_50919f42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_50919f42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Manor's Prize (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_50919f42 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_52744882 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_52744882 | comment |
During Dinoverse Will, seeking to call attention to himself with a stunt, proposes just this to Patience McCray, the toughest jock in the school. If he pays to get her a makeover and pretty clothes and she hangs on to his arm at his party, he'll look like he's tamed her and she'll show up the more feminine girls at school. Patience smiles sweetly, says she's never been so insulted in her life, and punches him. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_52744882 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_52744882 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dinoverse | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_52744882 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5426fe58 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5426fe58 | comment |
Burned (2010) reveals that if Rephaim chose good and became human, he would look "hotter then an Oklahoma blacktop in the middle of the summer". Just how attractive he could be is the only thing Aphrodite and Stevie Rae can agree on. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5426fe58 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5426fe58 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Burned (2010) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5426fe58 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_55e7770f | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_55e7770f | comment |
Gender flipped in Xam'd: Lost Memories: Raigyo is first introduced as a funny looking bloke in desperate need of a shave and a haircut◊. Then, about two thirds into his introductory episodes, he decides to go and get that shave and haircut and...well, damn◊. Newcomer Akiyaki spends a good fifteen seconds just ogling stupidly before it even registers in his head that it's really the same guy. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_55e7770f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_55e7770f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Xam'd: Lost Memories | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_55e7770f | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57bebb0a | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57bebb0a | comment |
That '80s Show actually managed to do this right by taking the very attractive Chyler Leigh and putting her in so much heavy goth punk rocker makeup that she truly did become unrecognizable, allowing her natural beauty to shine more effectively for the rare occasions where she was seen without the punk makeup. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57bebb0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57bebb0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| That '80s Show | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_57bebb0a | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57e3ab58 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57e3ab58 | comment |
In The Dick Van Dyke Show episode Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra, Miss Harding is a kindergarten teacher that goes from Hollywood Homely to stunning in ten seconds flat by discarding a baggy blouse, losing her eyeglasses, and Letting Her Hair Down to get into the role of Egyptian Queen. It works so well that none of the wives will let their husbands play Mark Antony, and Laura later says she's going to have Miss Harding banned from any role except script girl. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57e3ab58 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_57e3ab58 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_57e3ab58 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_584365d4 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_584365d4 | comment |
Becca from Melody wears dowdy, conservative clothes when she is introduced, and she puts herself in the “not pretty� category. However, when she is wearing an evening gown, or even a t-shirt and jeans, she clearly looks quite nice. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_584365d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_584365d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Melody (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_584365d4 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_58fd69fb | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_58fd69fb | comment |
Megumi "Nodame" Noda from Nodame Cantabile is actually a very attractive lady when she washes her hair and doesn't dress in mold-afflicted dirty clothes—and also refrains from shouting at the top of her lungs all the time or making silly faces. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_58fd69fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_58fd69fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nodame Cantabile (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_58fd69fb | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5921531b | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5921531b | comment |
Chie Satanoka from Persona 4 she spends most of the game being treated as Hollywood Homely and Chie is jealousy of Yukiko and Rise for being more feminine and desired than her. Of course the moment Chie puts on a kimono and make up at the new year event, the player character notes (what the fanbase already knew) that she looks absolutely radiant | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5921531b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5921531b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Persona 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5921531b | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_59a45343 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_59a45343 | comment |
In Phoenix, Uzume was an ugly woman being held as a prisoner by Chinese soldiers. After marrying Sarutahiko, she reveals that she's actually very beautiful and that she disguised herself as an ugly woman so that the soldiers wouldn't rape her. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_59a45343 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_59a45343 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Phoenix (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_59a45343 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5aa392c7 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5aa392c7 | comment |
In the Ghost Whisperer episode “The Woman Of His Dreams�, the episode’s ghost keeps appearing in Jim’s dreams. When he finds her name and attends her funeral to get more information for Melinda, he finds out that he was actually knew her in high school. Back then, she was a shy wallflower with glasses and frumpy clothes. But at the time of her death, she had become a beautiful and successful fashion model, and that version of her is the one that appears to Jim, which is why he didn’t know who she was before. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5aa392c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5aa392c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost Whisperer | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5aa392c7 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d4da196 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d4da196 | comment |
In Spider-Man, Peter Parker loses his eyesight problems when he gains his spider powers, so he stops wearing glasses. Mary Jane notices his beautiful blue eyes, of course. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d4da196 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d4da196 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spider-Man | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5d4da196 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d933433 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d933433 | comment |
Reina's room: Hanako was a plain girl. When Yutaro forced her to play Juilet in a Romeo and Juliet play, she dressed up nicely for the role and everyone saw how beautiful she was. Yutaro tried to confess to her after the fact, but she rejected him. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d933433 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5d933433 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Reina's room (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5d933433 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e16d550 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e16d550 | comment |
Lolopechka from Black Clover usually has a sloppy appearance with unkempt hair and unattractive glasses. However, when she formally dresses up and remove her glasses in her appearance as the princess of the Heart Kingdom, she's downright gorgeous. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e16d550 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e16d550 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Clover (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5e16d550 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e91c7d | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e91c7d | comment |
Ingrid Hunnigan from Resident Evil 4. Leon even comments on it. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e91c7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5e91c7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5e91c7d | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5f6f0132 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5f6f0132 | comment |
Tink, of all people, turns out to be this at the end of Disgaea 2. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5f6f0132 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_5f6f0132 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_5f6f0132 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6095c862 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6095c862 | comment |
Likewise, in Strawberry 100%, Toujou Aya becomes better looking by letting her bangs down, and beautiful by taking off her glasses and unbraiding her hair. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6095c862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6095c862 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Strawberry 100% (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6095c862 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60a795f1 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60a795f1 | comment |
Happens to a male teacher in Sleepover. Julie advises him to loosen his tie and take off his glasses, also messing up his hair a little. A woman at the club immediately shows an interest in him. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60a795f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60a795f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sleepover | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_60a795f1 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60f02ddb | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60f02ddb | comment |
American Dad!: Double Subverted in the Avatar parody episode, where Chelsea, a girl interested in Steve, lets down her hair and takes off her glasses to reveal... an unkempt afro and beady eyes. Double Subversion in that he still finds her attractive. Possibly moreso. Subverted in an episode featuring a Kathy and Hoda style morning show, only drunker and crueler. They take a dowdy woman and when she comes out after the makeover, looking better, they say "Oh, we've got another one!". They then display a sign saying "Unsalvageable" and pull a cord dropping her into a trapdoor. |
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| Beautiful All Along / int_60f02ddb | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_60f02ddb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| American Dad! | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_60f02ddb | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_61484102 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_61484102 | comment |
In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg Murry wears glasses and has mousy hair. After an emotional talk with Calvin, one of the most popular guys at her school, she cries and Calvin takes off her glasses, and comments that she has "dream-boat eyes." He then tells her to not let any other guy see her pretty eyes. Later in the series, she actually became prettier and married Calvin. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_61484102 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_61484102 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_61484102 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6276800c | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6276800c | comment |
Played straighter by The Nostalgia Critic, who hated how he looked as a kid and young teenager, but now is relieved to be a Pretty Boy adult who gets a lot of attention (whether it's creepy/rapey or the nice kind). | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6276800c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6276800c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6276800c | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_62b21b5c | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_62b21b5c | comment |
Played with fairly mercilessly in an episode of the Ramen Fighter Miki anime where our heroine meets a scary teacher who looks like a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl. Even her attempts to look friendlier just make her scarier. However, she has the ability to become quite attractive and give off an extremely friendly vibe, but apparently only while she's eating ramen. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_62b21b5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_62b21b5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ramen Fighter Miki (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_62b21b5c | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_658c8ce9 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_658c8ce9 | comment |
In Beauty Pop, this pretty much covers all the girls Kiri makes over. Kanako's second makeover may be the closest to note, though, as it is revealed that her dowdy looks distracted people from her how perfect her hair, skin and nails are thanks to the instruction she's been taking from the SP in regards to their care. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_658c8ce9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_658c8ce9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Beauty Pop (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_658c8ce9 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6920713d | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6920713d | comment |
Amber in Shortpacked! manages to pull this off without losing the glasses, just getting new ones. The hairstyle and more flattering clothing helped, but the point still stands. Especially since they weren't that different from what she wore previously. |
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| Beautiful All Along / int_6920713d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6920713d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shortpacked! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6920713d | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_699c1e80 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_699c1e80 | comment |
She-Hulk: One theory about gamma radiation is that it transforms a human's body to match submerged emotions and feelings that he or she had tried hard to keep submerged. So while the Hulk was the embodiment of Bruce Banner's inner angst and anger as a result of his unhappy childhood at the hands of an abusive father, She-Hulk was Jen's uninhibited, feminine side that she so much wanted to let show, meaning the gamma rays simply made her the Amazonian Beauty she was within. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_699c1e80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_699c1e80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| She-Hulk (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_699c1e80 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6a4bddd6 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
Iron Man: When Pepper Potts first appeared, she had freckles and looked like a teenager. Several issues later, she "got a makeover" and became the more better-known version of the character (in terms of looks). | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6a4bddd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6a4bddd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Iron Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6a4bddd6 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6afbf84e | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6afbf84e | comment |
In The Mirror Has Two Faces, the frumpy plain Jane professor played by Barbra Streisand gets fed up with her husband's obliviousness to her (although they did agree to a strictly platonic marriage), and spends the several weeks that he's away dieting, hitting the gym, and going to the beauty salon. By the time he returns, she looks terrific and has the self-confidence necessary to dump him. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6afbf84e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6afbf84e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mirror Has Two Faces | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6afbf84e | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6c5e0560 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6c5e0560 | comment |
To show that this trope is not restricted to women, Mitsukake from Fushigi Yuugi was first seen with long unkempt hair and a Grizzly Adams Beard of Sorrow. When he saved Miaka and the gang and revealed his real face, he was male model gorgeous. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6c5e0560 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6c5e0560 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fushigi Yuugi (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6c5e0560 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6f73a6e9 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6f73a6e9 | comment |
Gerard from Weak Hero is a male inversion. In the present day he sports an unflattering green bob that covers his eyes and gets him nicknamed variations of Broccoli Head. A flashback then reveals that, just a year prior, he was a gorgeous Pretty Boy with a "bad boy" fashion style (slicked-back hair, studded ears, and a leather jacket) that made him a major Chick Magnet. Then he hit the Despair Event Horizon, part of which caused him to receive nasty scarring above his eye, and he changed his look entirely to distance himself from his old persona and ensure he stood out as little as possible. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6f73a6e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6f73a6e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Weak Hero (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6f73a6e9 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6fb5f959 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6fb5f959 | comment |
"She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby nods at this trope with the isolated line: "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!" | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6fb5f959 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_6fb5f959 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thomas Dolby (Music) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_6fb5f959 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_701f0ece | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_701f0ece | comment |
In Berserk, Guts thinks of Casca as a soldier, it isn't until she dolls up for the ball after their major victory that he realizes that she is beautiful. The other men at the ball (who didn't realize she was female until that point) agree with him, enough that she has to make her escape. Hell you probably think of Guts as a downplayed male example, his attitude and attire dissuade women and people in general from finding him attractive (especially in comparison to Griffith). However Guts much like Casca looks great in formal wear and is considered handsome by women if they get a good look at him. |
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| Beautiful All Along / int_701f0ece | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_701f0ece | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Berserk (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_701f0ece | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_7041cf12 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_7041cf12 | comment |
Played with in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. Shirogane is already a fairly handsome young man, but most of the students find him intimidating due to his Exhausted Eye Bags giving him a constant Death Glare. When he finally gets a good night's sleep after his term as president is over, the rest of the students suddenly find him a lot easier to approach, but Kaguya finds herself less attracted to him due to him no longer conforming to her fetish. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_7041cf12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_7041cf12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_7041cf12 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_70c7b114 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_70c7b114 | comment |
On Gilligan's Island, a homely girl shows up on the island... and when given a makeover, looks exactly like Ginger Grant. Given that both characters were played by Tina Louise, people really should have seen this one coming. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_70c7b114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_70c7b114 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gilligan's Island | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_70c7b114 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_74b5360f | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_74b5360f | comment |
Manga Angel Neko Oka: Akira is often ridiculed for his plain appearance, though that all changed when he was trying to buy new clothes after entering high school, he was then scouted by a woman to be a model. After getting a make-up, Akira turns out to be an attractive man and is now a successful model. Shizuka thinks she's ugly due to the abuse she was getting from her mother and older sister. She was eventually persuaded into getting a make-up by Akira, revealing her to be a beautiful woman. |
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| Beautiful All Along / int_74b5360f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_74b5360f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Manga Angel Neko Oka (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_74b5360f | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_76c806ab | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_76c806ab | comment |
Howard the Duck: Winda Wester is very beautiful, but has a heavy speech impediment and quite a weird personality. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_76c806ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_76c806ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_76c806ab | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_77184a72 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_77184a72 | comment |
A variation occurs in the Victorious episode “Freak the Freak Out�. Cat and Jade get banned from a karaoke club after protesting the results of a singing competition between them and an untalented girl named Hayley who ends up being the owner’s daughter, and as a result wins the club’s singing competition (decided by her father) every night. To get revenge, Jade and Cat show back up and bet Hayley and her friend that anyone they pick from the audience could beat them in a crowd-decided singing competition. The girls pick the obvious choice- a rather hideous looking nerdy girl named Louise. Unfortunately for them, it’s actually Tori in a disguise (prosthetic nose, glasses, fake teeth…) that she removes as she sings, revealing her actual good looks along with a great performance that easily defeats Hayley. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_77184a72 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_77184a72 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Victorious | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_77184a72 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_78cdb216 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_78cdb216 | comment |
Parodied in Hayate × Blade. Inu, who starts off looking like something that would make The Wallflower's Sunako look normal, is given a makeover by her sister-in-arms Momoka. While she does look a lot prettier with her hair done up, she's still considered creepy by her peers thanks to her...odd mannerisms (and matching Speech Bubbles, which don't go away after her makeover). | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_78cdb216 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_78cdb216 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hayate × Blade (Manga) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_78cdb216 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_796b2fbd | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_796b2fbd | comment |
In DRAMAtical Murder, Clear wears a full-face gas mask at all times because his father told him that his face would be too disturbing for people to look at. In his route, Aoba persuades him to finally take the mask off, and... you guessed it, the only thing about Clear's face that disturbs him is how distractingly pretty it is. The real reason his "father" had him wear the mask was to prevent him from being recognized as an android, as he looks identical to his evil android "brothers" who work for the Big Bad. | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_796b2fbd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_796b2fbd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Beautiful All Along / int_796b2fbd | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_79c00bf7 | type |
Beautiful All Along | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_79c00bf7 | comment |
Heathers: The protagonist Veronica. After offering her forgery services to the titular clique in exchange for getting the school bullies to stop harassing her, the Heathers notice that she is an extremely pretty girl and decide to give her a typical "makeover." | |
| Beautiful All Along / int_79c00bf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Latooni Subota from Super Robot Wars: Original Generation wears eyeglasses during the first half of the first game, being a shy and quiet gothic lolita of some sort. One time, her friends make her wear girly clothes and take out her glasses, that attracts many of the Hagane's crew members. | |
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Double Subverted in the Avatar parody episode, where Chelsea, a girl interested in Steve, lets down her hair and takes off her glasses to reveal... an unkempt afro and beady eyes. Double Subversion in that he still finds her attractive. Possibly moreso. | |
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A scene from The Flintstones On the Rocks: Wilma walks into the bedroom with her hair down and in skimpy clothing, complete with Sexophone accompaniment. Fred at first seems to react according to the trope, but it turns out that Wilma was blocking his view of the TV. | |
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Eureka from Eureka Seven definitely deserves an honorable mention when she is not wearing her hairpin, as well as her long hair version in the movie ending. Renton is wise to fall for her. | |
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In Howl's Moving Castle Sophie believes herself to be ugly. It doesn't help that other girls agree, and she's wearing clothes a good 50 years out of date. Howl, however, can see her as her true self and comments that she's beautiful, which she denies, at which point her temporary change back to a young girl ends. At the end, Sophie ditches the ugly hat, gets some new clothes, and Letting Her Hair Down, which becomes silver. She breaks the curse, realizing her value and admits to Howl that she believes her silver hair to be beautiful. Of course, a witch turns her into a hunched over old lady for much of the movie, although the curse seems to come and go. |
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Mahana in the 1969 short film Johnny Lingo is constantly called ugly. After the titular character buys her dowry for eight cows, she's suddenly beautiful. Lingo explains that "she was always beautiful" and delivers An Aesop about self-worth. | |
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In episode 228-229 of Gintama (yes, they made a parody of Love Plus), the one person no one ever expected to be that hot was Pinko. | |
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Lisa Zemo of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, former epitome of the image of the nerd with no fashion sense, big glasses, and chronic nasal problems, became "hot" when she returned after a season break with "a new haircut, new clothes, new contacts, and new allergy medication." And instead of her crushing on Cookie as she used to, it was now the other way around. | |
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Yura from Honey Hunt when she loses the glasses and does something with that hair. | |
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In The Wallflower, Sunako, who shuns light and all forms of beauty, abruptly transforms from Super-Deformed creature into an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl when her friends are threatened or she has a brief bout of self-confidence. | |
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One Hell Teacher Nube chapter features a New Transfer Student that looks like a short, pony-tailed monkey in human clothes who wastes no time trying to flirt with all the girls in Nube's class despite their obvious disgust to his appearance. Then Nube finds out that he's actually a member of an all-male Yōkai species who must breed with human females and will do anything to win their love. The student admits this and decides to return to his homeland to train, whereupon he sheds his human disguise and reveals himself to be a Bishōnen. | |
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In Gargoyles, gargoyles have differing views of beauty compared to humans. While having a strong respect and appreciation for Elisa, Goliath never noticed how beautiful she was until she was transformed into a gargoyle. | |
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Played with in Howl's Moving Castle. Sophie never saw herself as pretty and lacked the confidence and self-esteem to see it, though many characters would argue with her that she was. In fact, a curse that turned her into an elderly lady helped Sophie gain confidence and appreciate herself for who she was. She also felt that her two sisters are prettier than her. |
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Elena in The Neapolitan Novels. As an adolescent, she has quite a bit of angst over not being as attractive as her childhood friend Lila. Once she moves away to college, gets better clothes and loses the acne, however, everyone in Naples and elsewhere seems to agree she's very pretty. Remarkably subverted, however, in that rather than the narrative dwelling on how her looks have improved, she seems to simply stop being so concerned about her appearance, except when she's trying to impress Nino, her long-term crush. | |
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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls has Jataro Kemuri, who spends all of his onscreen time masked thanks to his Abusive Parents constantly telling him how ugly he was. But after he loses to Komaru and Toko, the mask gets pulled off, revealing that he's actually pretty cute. Then the Monokuma Kids tear him apart. | |
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Shaolin Soccer subverts this not once but twice. The heroine, originally a rather ugly girl with terrible skin, gets a makeover in the hopes of attracting the hero, but the result is almost as bad; she ends up with streetwalker-thick makeup, '80s big hair and shoulder pads. Eventually she goes through a second transformation where she gives up on the makeup, etc., and shaves her head bald — and looks better than ever (one wonders what happened to the bad skin). This is rather common in Stephen Chow movies, in that almost all of his love interests have either physical flaws, or are characteristically flawed. One of the most memorable moments in Chow's movies before he became vastly famous was the ending scene of God of Cookery, where the comically homely female street chef got an extreme makeover after he alleged death. The actress playing the role, however, is a famous Chinese pop star in real life, so her final appearance in the movie actually had her to do away with her faux ugly makeup. |
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Silver Spoon: Tamako, though it was hinted at before the kids returned from summer break. Subverted in that she immediately goes back to the way she was before; she really doesn't care what others think of her. Hachiken's ancestress in a flashback chapter to medieval times. She's a narrow-eyed girl with a Face of a Thug who is mistaken for a man at first, but it eventually becomes apparent that she's actually squinting because she needs glasses. |
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In French Kiss, Meg Ryan is certainly cute and perky, but when she dons a blue dress and wears a $150K diamond necklace, Luc (played by Kevin Kline) says, "Now who is the goddess?" | |
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Fanny Price in Mansfield Park. Once her cousins go off and leave the neighborhood without its most prominent belles, everyone starts to realize that Fanny not only looks very well when some attention is paid to her appearance, she's very pleasant company too. | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Hermione straightens her hair for the Yule Ball. That, and she got her buck teeth magically fixed earlier with a spell. There could also be a spoof of this when Hagrid "dresses up" for Madame Maxime. He tried to comb his hair, but comb teeth get all tangled up in it. He also wears a hideous furry suit. | |
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Broadly speaking, most super heroes with secret identities invoke this trope deliberately, making themselves look dowdier in civilian life so people won't connect them with their hero selves. Once in a while this will get lampshaded by someone innocently suggesting to Clark Kent or Diana Prince that they could really be quite attractive if they ditched their glasses, stood up straighter, etc. | |
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Parodied in Not Another Teen Movie (whose main plot followed She's All That). The main character, Janie, a "rebellious" artist who is seen as ugly by all the other characters, gets a makeover by a popular girl. Before she begins, the popular girl warns Janie, "this may seem a bit crazy..." She then proceeds to take off her glasses and pull down her hair. Suddenly, everyone acknowledges her beauty, and she even gets her own slow-walk down a stairway shot, complete with music. Also parodied before that when she's nominated "hardest to make into the prom queen" because she has "glasses, a pony tail and paint-covered overalls". Candidates stated as "easier" to make over are an albino folksinger, twins joined at the head, and a hunchback. | |
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Doing It Right This Time: Justified with Rei, whose abnormally still body-language and lack of affect were down to the tranquilisers Gendo cajoled Ritsuko into prescribing so that she'd be more biddable. Once she's off those, and even before her Significant Wardrobe Shift, Asuka notices the difference and realises to her surprise that "Wondergirl" is actually cute. And then a bit later on she tries on a party dress that flatters both her complexion and her figure, and shoots past "cute" all the way to "made Asuka realise she was bisexual". | |
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The New Batman Adventures episode "Mean Seasons" plays it straight as a twist. A villain going by the name "Calendar Girl" kidnaps various fashion and cosmetics bigwigs in order to exact her revenge from them. The villain wears a metal mask that conceals her face completely and constantly fumes about how the industry has ruined her, especially her beautiful face. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that she is still beautiful, but is so distraught and obsessed by her perceived flaws that she believes herself to be immeasurably hideous. | |
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Subverted in Shrek when beautiful human Princess Fiona is transformed by a kiss into her true form, an Ogre. Arguably, the words of her curse can be interpreted to mean she would transform into the form of her true love. Also played straight: Shrek finds Ogre Fiona beautiful. | |
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Gwen Stacy in The Spectacular Spider-Man. Seriously, she went from one of the cast's dowdiest female members to flat out gorgeous. Mary Jane was too kind. Though because of this she just looked like a blonde version of MJ, and many of the fans preferred how she looked. | |
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Excalibur: Meggan, who would go on to become Captain Britain's girlfriend (and eventually wife) was introduced as a funny-looking, furry outcast in a dystopian alternate dimension. It eventually turned out that she was both an empath and a reflexive shapeshifter whose appearance reflected her feelings and the way everyone around her felt about her. She only seemed twisted and ugly because that's the way her home dimension treated her, but once Cap was nice to her for a while, she turned into a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Galadriel. | |
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Skewed a bit in Ouran High School Host Club: when Haruhi Fujioka's Nerd Glasses come off, the members of the titular club are startled to realize that she's really quite attractive — but Tamaki still thinks she's a boy (unlike the other club members, who figured it out during the day). Inverted the following episode when the club members managed to find a picture of Haruhi sporting long hair and in a schoolgirl uniform, and they question just how such a pretty girl could turn into someone so mousy and boyish looking (to which Haruhi replied that she cut her hair after some mischievous kid stuck bubblegum into it). |
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ATTACK on MIKA: I was left behind by my family, but a handsome gang leader saved me?!: The messy-haired Ai Sonozaki gets a makeover from Taketora's beautician friend and is revealed that she's pretty. She was hiding her true self... But what was she really hiding from?: After being shoved into the pool by Rikan and her friend, the shy, freckle-faced Kana Takagi emerges as a beautiful girl, much to both bullies' confusion. Turns out she used makeup to hide it under a "plain girl" facade. My classmate looked down on me because I was a middle school graduate.. [sic]: When Taizou left Tomoya and Nagisa behind after Taizou set him up a blind group date and both went to an izakaya for some drinks, Nagisa revealed her pretty face when she took off her glasses and face mask. The reason Nagisa wears them is that she was tired of so many guys asking her out because of her looks. They excluded me from the after party for being fat and smelly, so...: Daichi was mocked by Taizou, Aira, and Ririna for being a fat introvert at a match-making party. They were no kinder to Lui who is plain-looking and wears glasses. Later, it was revealed that the looks were a façade and took off their glasses. Daichi was muscular, and Lui looked beautiful without their fake looks. Ririna and Aira tried to get together with Daichi but he rejects them in favor of Lui. |
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Subverted repeatedly on Daria. She is pretty, but has chosen to not play it up because she thinks doing so would be vain. Averted outright at least once though, when Daria was getting fitted for a wedding dress and the seamstress said her body had no curves, making it impossible to fit the dress right. And the dress hung off her like a smock for the rest of the episode. | |
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In Family Matters S5:E23, Steve's Aunt Oona from Altoona comes for a visit. She appears just as awkward and nerdy as Steve himself. Harriet takes pity on her and gives her a makeover, which reveals her to be as beautiful as Donna Summer. Because she is Donna Summer. | |
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Kaede of Don't Become an Otaku, Shinozaki-san! is a bespectacled otaku, so it's quite a shock to Akina when she sees how pretty Kaede is when the glasses come off. | |
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The title character in the Lupin III: Part II episode "Revenge of La Nerd" is a female detective flirting with the oblivious Zenigata. She usually wears a formal outfit. with thick glasses and her hair tied in a bun. When she plans to infiltrate Lupin's hideout, Zenigata objects that she's not pretty enough for Lupin to invite her inside. Cue her going inside her car, changing into a more revealing outfit, takes off her glasses, puts on makeup, and lets her hair down. Zenigata was shocked by her beauty. | |
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Sumireko Sanshokuin aka "Pansy" of Oresuki isn't exactly ugly, but male lead Joro thought she looked rather creepy with those thick glasses and hair tied in twin braids. Then she takes off her glasses, lets her hair down and unbuttons her blouse to reveal a pretty well-endowed figure, and he's left completely flabbergasted by her beauty. | |
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Subverted in Case Closed. An Idol Singer is killed through poison by his beautiful soon to be ex-manager, who is also his ex-girlfriend, because he treated her like garbage and lots of his abuse was about her physical features. Turns out he did this because she had cosmetic surgery to please him, but he liked her "ugly" original face better and heavily blamed himself for her change. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Inverted in the episode "The Cage", in which it is ultimately revealed that Vina's Gaussian Girl beauty is, quite literally, only an illusion. Her beauty was real, before she became horribly disfigured when her ship crash-landed on the planet, and she became older; the Talosians simply restored it via the illusion. It's made into An Aesop in "The Menagerie", when Pike also becomes horribly disfigured, and Spock risks everything to also give Pike the illusion of his former beauty. Beauty and ability to move around and actually do stuff. Pike was horribly debilitated, Vina less so but not enviable (Pike makes a light blink once for yes and twice for no, and that's the extent of his functionality. Vina... think scoliosis or polio, when it comes to movement.) Also illogical since Vina says they put her together wrong because "... they had never seen a human being." However, except for their giant heads, the Talosians look exactly like us, so they really should have been able to do it right.note This might be a holdover from an earlier draft of the script, in which the Talosians were supposed to be humanoid crabs, and were changed to humans with big heads for budget reasons. The episode "Mudd's Women" does this with a beautification drug. A woman realizes she doesn't need it and her confidence was what was truly responsible for her attractiveness when she's given a placebo. (Turns out to be a Broken Aesop, though: Apparently, "confidence" completely re-does one's hair and makeup, makes the lighting more flattering, and even generates a soft focus effect.) |
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Liza Elliott undergoes this sort of transformation at the end of the first act of Lady in the Dark. It's not such a surprise to the audience, since her glamorous self has already appeared in two Dream Sequences. | |
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Visible in Batman Returns. Who knew that getting thrown off a building, trashing her own house, and tearing up her clothes to make a catsuit would change dowdy secretary Selina Kyle so much? The book of the movie explains it's her self-confidence that makes her able to wear clothes that really suit her. | |
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Fran in Strictly Ballroom who has an acne problem at the start of the movie goes through a similar transformation, although Shirley has been on at her to treat her skin with product for the first half of the film. | |
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In Code Geass, Nina Einstein, who looked extremely dorky and nerdy in the first season, returns in the second season with an updated look, that she looked quite beautiful. | |
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Toula from My Big Fat Greek Wedding started out as, in her words, "Frump Girl", but then she got contacts, changed her look, let her hair down (or at least arranged it more attractively), and started classes at a nearby college. Though in this case, it's less of a broken aesop than normal, since when Ian meets Toula again after her makeover, he says "I remember you. I don't remember frump girl, but I remember you", implying that he liked her in the first instance anyway. The DVD commentary with the writer/lead actress also clarifies that the "makeover" was about Toula becoming more confident with herself as she developed her own identity outside of her parents' restaurant; it wasn't solely about looking pretty so she can catch guys. |
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Inverted in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs when the protagonist has the pretty, ditzy (yet secretly highly intelligent) female lead put on her glasses and scrunchie her hair into a ponytail... and he finds her profoundly more beautiful than before. | |
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Parodied by The Nostalgia Chick in the Teen Witch review. She starts out with a prim, buttoned white shirt, the usual pigtails and her glasses. Then Madonna starts playing, she loses the shirt (she's got something on under it, don't get excited boys and girls), takes off the glasses and shakes out her hair. BUT THEN, she puts on a weird top, does her hair in a side-ponytail and puts the glasses back on, making her look ridiculously 80s-ish. | |
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A brilliant parody of this trope is used in the Lethal Weapon spoof Loaded Weapon 1. A plain, dowdy woman takes off her glasses, bends over and shakes out her hair, and when she looks back up, she's a completely different actress — supermodel Kathy Ireland, in fact. | |
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Inverted in an episode of Love, American Style, a new young executive is constantly distracted by his Sexy Secretary, played by Carol Wayne. Whenever she is in the room he becomes a bumbling moron and is in danger of getting fired for incompetence. However, when he learns that she needs heavy glasses to read fine print, he asks her to wear them around the office all the time since he doesn't find her attractive when she has them on. | |
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Starfire is an odd example in the Teen Titans episode "Transformation". She's beautiful to begin with, but the change she undergoes in the episode (which is similar to Tameranian puberty, but more extreme in her case) turns her ugly - temporarily. When it's over, she's not only beautiful again, she's far more powerful, as if the short "ugly period" was needed to strengthen her powers. | |
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The Princess Diaries, twice! First, when Mia is shown without glasses for the first time, and secondly, and more famously, after her extreme makeover. | |
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Secret Santa (2007): Shawna's sister Chloe looks like "the BEFORE girl in makeover adds," but after she does get a makeover for the winter dance, she's described as "very pretty." | |
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The scene in Superman: The Movie where Clark Kent is in Lois's apartment with her (off-screen) getting ready for their date. He is debating whether to reveal to her that he is Superman, and the actor straightens his posture, removes his glasses (OK, he doesn't let down his hair, it isn't a perfect example of this trope), does something to his expression, and becomes the extremely attractive Superman. Lois (still off-screen) says something and he changes his mind, transforming instantly back into the nerdy and relatively unattractive Clark. An excellent piece of acting by Christopher Reeve. In the original comics, Lois loved Superman because she compared shy, clumsy, and cowardly (after all, he disappeared at the first sign of danger!) Clark against, well, Superman. | |
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Vincent Law from Ergo Proxy. At the beginning he has Eyes Always Shut, a round face, and looks kinda short and dumpy. Some episodes later, after becoming a wanted man, he changes completely: he opens his eyes, musses his hair, loses some weight, stands up taller, and voilà ! | |
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In the anime Love Hina, Narusegawa Naru goes from looking like a total nerd to being beautiful by removing her Nerd Glasses and taking her hair out of massive braids. Then again, her "ugly" state is a deliberate act intended to drive off unwelcome male attention. | |
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In The Incredibles, Violet was initially an Emo Teen that hid behind her long, black hair and wore dark clothing. After her Character Development, she holds her hair back with a hairband and wears much brighter clothing, resulting in her looking much more attractive than before, enough so that her crush Tony notices. The sequel's improved animation quality further helps with this, giving her longer hair, a more attractive face and slightly wider hips. | |
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In Rocky, on Rocky and Adrian's first date, when Rocky takes off Adrian's glasses and hat: | |
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In Darren Shan's The Thin Executioner, we see a rare example that doesn't involve a change in appearance when Jebel has his pick of all the women in Wadi and he chooses the dowdy servant girl Bas over the Wadi princess Debbat. | |
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A straight (if over-the-top) example occurs in an episode of Duckman in which Cornfed meets a secretary who morphs into a supermodel when she undoes her hair/takes off her glasses. | |
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In Princess Jellyfish, Kuranosuke becomes convinced that Tsukimi is one of these, and decides to give her a makeover to prove it. Tsukimi was not amused, because she and the rest of the Amars think that making yourself over is like going over to the 'enemy' i.e. the side of the trendy people. Kuranosuke thinks every girl is a princess but is quite realistic in that, while he may think that way, he knows most of the world does make assumptions based on appearance. |
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Mani Mani People: Yuna wore Opaque Nerd Glasses and is plain-looking. When her boyfriend Rikuto's bullies dared her to strip, she stripped to her bikini and it revealed her beautiful body. Riko came to a forced date with Kanata, in plain clothes and glasses. During their date, Riko is revealed to be daughter of the CEO of Manidai and the company officials dressed them both in nice clothes revealing Riko to be beautiful. |
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Parodied in Beetle Bailey, when a "modernised" version of this trope (in a Show Within a Show that's now shown) involves a woman taking off her contact lenses to be revealed as beautiful. | |
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Blade Runner used this trope to good effect; when the replicant Rachel took down her hair (admittedly, she wasn't wearing glasses, as she was an android with perfect vision) she revealed herself to be beautiful and, in keeping with the theme of the film, more human. | |
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6teen: A brief gag in the fourth episode features Jonsey complaining that there are no hot girls in the nerdy store he's currently in, only for one of the nerd girls to let her hair down and correct her posture so she can blow him off more effectively. | |
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In Tales from Jabba's Palace, a collection of Star Wars short stories based around aliens in the background during the first half of Return of the Jedi the story about the "fat dancer" (remember her?) "reveals" that her species stores water (like a camel). By the end of a trek through Tatooine's desert after Jabba's death, she's thin and beautiful. Notable in that she considers herself to be quite attractive both before and after the trek. | |
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Avoided in Hairspray. Tracy Turnblad is short and overweight and her make-over can only do so much. Then again, she became popular before the make-over, which is more of a perk of already being popular, by winning the crowd over due to her upbeat attitude and dance ability rather than looks. The love interest, Link Larkin, likes her because she makes him grow as a person, and because he's narcissistic enough to be beautiful enough for both of them. Tracy's mother, Edna Turnblad, is traditionally played by a man, compounding the problems. Her husband, however, doesn't even notice the make-over, as he is in love with her no matter what (and he's as thick as a 1960's bomb shelter door when it comes to noticing things). There were casting calls for a local production of the play in Argentina. Even though the ad for the casting calls clearly demanded overweight teenagers for the role of Tracy, some skinny/normal girls ignored this and auditioned for the role anyway. With regards to Edna, in her case it's really a "Fabulous All Along" moment. |
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Subverted in Legend (1985) for many fans, who consider Mia Sara more attractive as "Dark Lili" than "Princess Lili". The fact her Evil Costume Switch is skimpier and gets a Navel-Deep Neckline certainly didn't hurt.) | |
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Vin in Mistborn: The Original Trilogy starts the series as a street thief who deliberately tries not to look attractive to keep the men from noticing her. Then she gets recruited by a group of heroes and given dresses and a beauty treatment to allow her to infiltrate the nobility. She looks stunning when she lets herself. | |
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Used in Kimi ni Todoke: the protagonist, Sawako, becomes very pretty when she smiles genuinely –- as opposed to her forced smile, which scared everyone away until she entered high school. | |
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Another Male example: In an episode of That's So Raven the titular character decides to makeover an art student with glasses, shaggy hair, and a bad wardrobe. Of course, his handsome face and nice body always existed, and Raven begins to crush on him as soon as he finishes the transformation. | |
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The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Andersen, 1843. A large grey bird hatches in a duck's nest. He gets teased because he looks bad for a duckling. The ugly duckling runs away, matures, and discovers he's a beautiful swan. | |
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The Saga of Tuck characters spend an awful lot of time trying to convince Jill that she looks pretty in a dress and make-up. Several characters later sign up for the cosmetology vocation course simply to work the "magic" out for themselves. | |
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In The Wire Bespectacled stripper turned confidential informant Shardene Innes is given "the gift of corrected vision" (contact lenses to replces her oversized Coke-bottle glasses) by the Baltimore PD to help her better spy on her bosses. She looks much more attrative and confident. After the case she starts dating the detective who was her handler. | |
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Aikuro Mikisugi of Kill la Kill manages to pull off one such transformation in under two seconds◊ simply by ditching the Opaque Nerd Glasses and running a hand through his hair. He does it several more times (and even starts removing his clothes as well) before finally ditching the disguise altogether. | |
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Done subtly in American Beauty with Jane and inverted with Angela. At the start of the film Thora Birch wears a lot of makeup to reflect how unhappy she is. As she starts dating Ricky and becomes a bit happier, she gradually wears less makeup as the film goes on. Mena Suvari then wears gradually more makeup as the film goes on, to reflect us finding out why she isn't so desirable. | |
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In My Bride is a Mermaid this trope is played in the classic fashion. The Class Representative takes off her glasses, lets her hair down, and the object of her affections (who doesn't recognize her) almost immediately bumps into her, and thinks about how cute she is. Unfortunately for her, she couldn't recognize him without her glasses. | |
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Sheldon from The Replacements is a scrawny, weak Nerd, who walks with a hunch and has a Jerry Lewis-esque voice...until he takes off his glasses and we find he is incredibly muscular with a stronger and more masculine voice. It turns out that his glasses are so heavy they act as weights and keep his from walking upright. Subverted when Todd tries to see if Sheldon's sister is the same, only to walk away trembling when he finds out that she's not. | |
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In The Invisible, Annie spends the first hour of the film wearing a black wool cap pulled low and all black clothes, looking like the picture of a teenage thug. Then, hiding out in a crowded club, she pulls off the hat and lets her long wavy hair loose and tosses her face up, reveling in the music and anonymity, and Nick just walks around her and stares at how suddenly beautiful she is. | |
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Elphaba from Wicked is an odd-looking, bony woman with green skin, made worse by her terribly bland fashion sense. At first, Galinda can't find anything interesting about her aside from her silken, black hair. Later on, Galinda coaxes Elphaba to put on one of her hats and realizes out that there is something to Elphaba after all. She describes it as a "strange exotic quality of beauty". It is later mentioned that Elphaba does resemble her Dude Magnet mother Melena a lot. It's unsurprising that Fiyero, and Galinda herself, fell for Elphaba. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Inosuke Hashibara is a Blood Knight Wild Child who fights like an animal and wears the hides of beasts, including a boar's head that covers his entire head. Underneath that boar's head, however, is a very soft and effeminate face framed by shoulder-length black hair. | |
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Subverted in the South Park episode "The List". Kyle convinces one of the ugly girls to take off her coke bottle eye-magnifying glasses. Turns out that her eyes are tiny and practically on the sides of her head. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Carly wears Opaque Nerd Glasses and is unfortunately Blind Without 'Em unless her Superpowered Evil Side is in control. Misty pulls her glasses off at one point and says she is beautiful. Her Superpowered Evil Side is absolutely gorgeous, and Jack Atlas even takes a moment to admire her when they first clash. | |
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Karen from Penny and Aggie is quite good-looking after her makeover...but the "inner beauty" part? Forget it. | |
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The movie that arguably originated this trope, Now, Voyager (1942), also served to subvert it in anticipation. Bette Davis plays an overweight, dowdy, bespectacled, poorly dressed woman who's also painfully shy, unsocialized, maladjusted, and bullied by her widowed mother. When she loses weight, takes off her glasses, and buys fashionable clothes... she's still shy, unsocialized, maladjusted, and bullied by her mother. | |
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Ping of MegaTokyo attempts an inversion, and fails. | |
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On Homestar Runner, in the tenth issue of Strong Bad's independent comic Teen Girl Squad, a frumpy gal known throughout the series as "The Ugly One" gets made up for her birthday: she trades in her usual clothes, hairstyle, and glasses for more stylish ones, and even Strong Bad is impressed by the transformation: "Woah! Did I draw that new hotness?" | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer As Willow neither wears glasses nor her hair in a bun, this is done by changing her out of her overalls-'n-jumpers outfits she wore through the first three seasons. In "Homecoming", she looks gorgeous in her formal gown and in "Doppelgangland", she astonishes the boys when she puts on Vampire Willow's sexy black leather outfit. Examining her chest, she says "Oh. Look at these." And do they ever! The first time was in "Halloween". Buffy convinces Willow to dress a little more racily for Halloween and Willow proceeds to put her hair up, apply a bit of make-up and wear a midriff top with black mini skirt and boots. She eventually feels too self-conscious and goes out wearing a Bedsheet Ghost costume over the outfit. At the end she tosses the costume away and walks more confidently in the original outfit just as her future boyfriend Oz drives by and notices her. Inverted in the episode "Inca Mummy Girl". Willow wears a dowdy and unsexy Eskimo costume to a cultural party and remarks that maybe she should have worn something sexy. However, Oz ends up noticing her because of the costume. The trope is lampshaded in "Go Fish" with Buffy herself, who confronts Angelus while drawing out the small stake she was holding her hair bun in place with, letting her hair fall in the process. Angelus immediately mocks the trope, saying "Why, Ms. Summers! You're beautiful!" This trope could also be applied to Xander in "Go Fish". He spends the majority of the series in rather unflattering clothes, and goes undercover ("Not under much," as Buffy says) on the swim team. Cordelia, Buffy, and Willow are rather stunned to find out that Xander has a good body when in a Speedo. |
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Used in the rival bookstore scene of The Big Sleep (1946), where Marlowe "transforms" the lady bookseller. | |
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Brief from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is revealed to be this in a Cleans Up Nicely scene. | |
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Subversion in an episode of Midsomer Murders: A character, after killing off her love rivals, takes off her glasses, shakes down her hair, and goes looking for the object of her affection. He's creeped out, and when he learns what she's done, horrified. | |
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A subtle subversion is Chisame Hasegawa of Negima! Magister Negi Magi. In her daily school life she is a bespectacled computer geek, allegedly with bad skin. But at home she takes off her glasses, combs out her hair, and takes digital pictures of herself in costumes, which she then photoshops to clear up her skin and increase her bustline — and becomes the virtual idol "Chiu" on her website. Of course, her teacher Negi insists that she's cute enough as-is, but he's ten, what does he know? Her problems with her appearance may be one reason she seems to prefer remaining in the form of a ten-year-old via the age pills, during the Magic World arc... Asuna's friends are also rather surprised at how normal and even elegant Asuna can look without her hair ornaments, dressed normally and not kicking people in the face. |
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A male version would be Charden from Black Cat who wears glasses and a top hat. When he takes these off he turns out to be a handsome blonde man with flowing curls. | |
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Goblin Slayer: The titular character is a man who constantly walks around in armor and has a somewhat off-putting personality due to lack of social skills. The mystery surrounding him led a lot of people to make conjectures about his appearance, some even wondering if he might be a goblin in disguise. In the end of Volume 1, he takes off his helmet in front of the guild for the first time and, to the surprise of almost everyone,note His childhood friend isn't surprised, since she sees him bareheaded regularly he is an extremely handsome man described as having the "features of a warrior" (though his face is never fully shown). From there onwards he becomes the series' premiere Mr. Fanservice and since his face is never shown, the shots instead focus on his built musculature. The anime adds to this by having him have a very deep voice to add to his rugged adventurer charm. | |
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Family Guy plays this with Meg, who goes from a girl who's so ugly that people commit suicide by burning themselves to death rather than look at her to a very attractive woman. Meg eventually abandons it after becoming conceited, being humiliated on national television, and deciding that it is too hard to maintain. | |
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In Nameless, this happens with Eri in Yuri's route. Barely anything about her apperance changes; she brushes her hair before school and puts in a hairclip she got from Yuri and a bit of make up and the entire school begins to call her Swan Princess and comments on how beautiful she is. Despite her being pretty cute to begin with. | |
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Over the Hedge has Stella, the skunk, who "looks like a nest and smells like a swamp" until she's called upon to distract Tiger, a purebred Persian cat, by passing herself off as a lovely cat...and turns out, it just took a haircut and a dye-job to reveal how beautiful she was. | |
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In book three of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, when Nathaniel first sees Kitty's aura as Bartimaeus sees it, he exclaims, "You're beautiful!" to which she replies sarcastically, "Only just now?" | |
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An episode of MacGyver (1985) ("Twice Stung") references the cliche- for his next trick, Mac needs a woman's glasses, her hairpins, and the top three buttons of her shirt (upper cleavage level). She complies and it turns out to be part of the con that they're pulling. | |
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Inverted in, of all things, How to Marry a Millionaire. Poor Marilyn Monroe is all but blind without her glasses, but never wears them because she's afraid of men not liking her. When she finally meets her true love, he puts her glasses on and tells her that she's beautiful. | |
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Pig Bride is about a young girl cursed with a facial deformity unless she can win over her destined boyfriend. At least, that's what she thinks, but it turns out that underneath the mask she's really a beauty. | |
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She's All That, a modern Spiritual Adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, updated the Eliza Doolittle character from a Lower-Class Lout to the Hollywood Homely nerdy art student Laney Boggs, played by Rachael Leigh Cook. The protagonist Zack, challenged in a bet with his friend Dean that he can make Laney into the prom queen within six weeks, obliges. The result is an example of this trope so famous that it provides the page image, and many parodies of this trope will likely reference it in some form. | |
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Chika Ogiue of Genshiken. Normally, her strange paintbrush hair and baggy clothes mar her appearance, but occasionally she lets her hair down, puts on more form-fitting clothes, and swaps her contacts out for glasses and turns out to be quite attractive. Katou can also be considered this, as she turns out to be quite beautiful when that long, shaggy mop of hair isn't covering her face. |
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Referenced directly and mocked in Carrie (2002), when the jock replies to his girlfriend's request to take Carrie to the prom. | |
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Sailor Moon has a one-off character, Princess Dia, who wore Nerd Glasses. Once they were knocked off her face she was revealed to follow this trope. In the manga the Sailor Senshi wonder if this trope would apply to Umino if he removed his specs, complete with a Bishōnen Umino Imagine Spot. According to Naoko Takeuchi the trope does indeed apply to Umino too. | |
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In One Lonely Night Mike Hammer is infiltrating a ring of Dirty Communists, one of whom is a dowdy, plain-looking girl whom he flirts with to get information. She later turns up at his apartment in "a dress that looked like it had been painted on" — it turns out she's a case of Drop Dead Gorgeous Underneath. | |
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In Full Metal Panic! (or at least in the Overload! manga spin-off) Kaname's best friend Kyoko is normally cute, but apparently looks like this with her hair down and her glasses removed. Played with in that the group of creepy fanboys stalking her aren't interested in her like this because they have a fetish for her "glasses and braids" look, although Kaname thinks she's adorable. | |
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Deep Secret toys with this. Maree is fat, mousy, has a thin nose and thick glasses, and isn't especially known for her gorgeous dress. However, when Rupert falls in love with her, his perceptions change, and he finally realizes that she's beautiful, even if her physical appearance hasn't changed. | |
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The Burns and Allen Show: In "Ugly Duckling", Gracie decides to give Ronnie's Hollywood Homely brainy friend Mildred a makeover and send them to the prom together. | |
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Downplayed with Ophiuchus Shaina in Saint Seiya. She's far from unattractive, but hides her face behind a mask to be more intidimating, leading Seiya to believe she probably looked like the devil underneath. Then he breaks her mask during their fight, revealing she has a rather delicate and feminine face to complement her body. Seiya even comments on how beautiful she really is. | |
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