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In most visual media, just about everyone is beautiful. But what are writers to do when someone's attractiveness is a plot point? Anime artists have Bishie Sparkle, Western animators have (or used to have) the Twinkle Smile — simple visual shorthands that viewers intuitively understand. But in live-action, often the only choice is to have the other characters tell us how attractive they are. Whether or not the viewer finds the character to be attractive, we must accept that within this fictional world, they are. This trope is about characters pointing out how exceptionally attractive they think a character is, not whether they're being drawn attractive, or whether the viewers think they're attractive. And having an unusually active sex life isn't a part of this trope either unless a character says outright that the reason that person is being pursued is that they're the best looking of the group. Of course, this trope is difficult to avoid in literature and other storytelling styles without high-resolution graphics or visuals. Some works may describe a character's appearance in glowing terms and let readers realize for themselves that the character is quite attractive, while others are content to just tell us that they're beautiful and move on. This trope is related to The Glasses Gotta Go and She Is All Grown Up, where we're informed that a particular character is more attractive than they were. It can be a consequence of Generic Cuteness, since there no way to tell which character is supposed to be prettier than the others. The inverse of Informed Attractiveness is Hollywood Homely, where we're told that a character is unattractive no matter what the viewer might think about the issue and Informed Deformity where the viewer is told a character is ugly, but can't tell otherwise because of Generic Cuteness. Inhumanly Beautiful Race nearly always falls under this trope. Compare Delusions of Beauty, where a character regards themselves as good-looking despite other characters disagreeing with their own assessment. Remember that this is not about how attractive or unattractive you subjectively believe the character to be. In-Universe Examples Only: |
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