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The Adrenaline Makeover candidate is almost always or was [[Beautiful All Along]]. But at the beginning of the story, our heroine is mousy, shy, wearing the bad glasses, the frumpy clothes, etc.
Sometimes she's secretly, unknowingly, the [[Hot Librarian]], or a case of [[She
The usual progression of the trope has the character starting out blinded to the world by their academic pursuits. She's in trouble that she needs assistance to get out of, resulting in a hero showing up and helping her through an epic adventure. The adventure distracts her from maintaining her frumpiness; the hero is there to rescue her, to help her de-frump, and to fall in love with her, making her realize as she returns his affections that if she'd just shaken out the hair and dumped the glasses before, she might have gotten a hot hero guy that much sooner.
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** Inverted with Maria Grace Fleed. When we meet her, she wears skin-tight bodysuits; when she properly joins the cast, she keeps them as fighting clothes and begins wearing dresses and flowing skirts as civilian outfits.
* Subverted in ''[[Tantei Gakuen Q]]''. {{spoiler|Kuniko Tooya}} drastically changed her looks between a ''very'' traumatic incident and her arrival to Class A, but takes her ''much'' more than that to fully blossom. It doesn't hurt that in the process we discover she'd been a case of [[Beware the Nice Ones]] from the start...
* ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'' has Rin Asano, who starts out so weak that she hired [[Badass|Manji]] in order to protect her life while she tracks down the man who ordered the [[You Killed My Father|murder of her father]] and rape of her mother. Cut to about 20 volumes later, when Manji has vanished without a trace. Rin starts kicking ass and taking names ''all the way into Edo Castle'' and doesn't stop until she's in Manji's cell. When he finally sees her again, he actually ''[[She
* Shirin Bakhtiar from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''. After being an assertive and outspoken adviser to princess Marina Ismail in the first season, while wearing presumably typical flowing court dresses, she switches to baggy pants and tight T-shirts when she becomes a rebel against [[The Federation]] in the second season.
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'': Tenma is a rare male example, which is odd, considering that the hotter he gets, the more the other characters will tell him that he looks [[Informed Attribute|awful and too skinny]].
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* Lucy in ''[[The Frighteners]]'' starts out as a beleaguered widow, a little frumpy, and a doctor who's not taken seriously by the patients of the male doctor she occasionally replaces. After the events of the movie, she ends up with Frank, the hero, in more ways than one.
* Ellie Sawyer of ''[[My Science Project]]'' starts out as a dowdy, glasses-adorned nerd, eventually losing her hairpins and glasses in the midst of the action. In the end, though, she's still a nerd -- just a more attractive one.
* Over the course of the three films, Elizabeth Swann of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' loses the corset, lets her hair down, and gets the upgrade from [[
* [[Guy Pearce]] in the remake of [[The Time Machine]].
* Somewhat of an inversion with Annie from ''[[The Invisible]]''. She starts out brutal, violent, and dressed in guys' clothes, no to mention the leader of the school bullies. As she realizes the consequences of her violent life, her bad choices, and the fact that Nick was more like her than she gave him credit for, she feminizes -- beginning to wear her hair down, and her clothing less gender neutral.
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