Beauty Is Bad: Difference between revisions

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* Heavily implied in the case of many supporting characters in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''. (Not the ''named'' ones, but the extras- wanting to look or feel better automatically makes you a shallow, surgery addicted drug whore in this film.) It was implied in the extra material that there was a group of people who were addicted to plastic surgery. Original art for these people showed that they weren't attractive by any means.

* The Alpha Beta fraternity and thier associated sorority, Pi Delta Pi in ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]''.

* Subverted in ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'': The blonde hottie (played by [[Cameron Diaz]]) with whom the [[Big Bad]] is involved gets paired up with Stanley at the end.

** More a subversion of [[Evil Is Sexy]]. Played kind of straight in ''The Mask'', Stanley isn't exactly a sexy dude.

** Famously Inverted with {{spoiler|seemingly wholesome Peggy}}

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* This idea was played with on the reality show ''True Beauty'', which took a cast of good-looking people and then attempted to see if they were as good on the inside as they were on the outside by testing their kindness and morals. Some of them were, some of them... weren't.

* Most children's shows where the main characters are a [[Grotesque Gallery]].

* A classic [[Doctor Who]] example from very early in the show's run is the story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E1 Galaxy 4|Galaxy 4]]" - the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped on a planet along with the beautiful female Drahvins and the hideous Rills.

* A classic [[Doctor Who]] example from very early in the show's run is the story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E01 Galaxy 4|Galaxy 4]]" - the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped on a planet along with the beautiful female Drahvins and the hideous Rills.

* Any very attractive teenage girl or adult woman in a [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]].

* Played straight with Morgana and several one-off characters in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''.

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== Western Animation ==

* The Trix in the [[Winx Club]]: They are as psychopathic, bitchy, and homicidal as they are beautiful. Heck their hobbies are torturing others for shits and giggles (Mirta, Lucy etc)

* In the "The List" episode of ''[[South Park]]'', after Kyle is voted the ugliest kid in the class, Abraham Lincoln tells Kyle that ugly people develop character and kids who are considered to be hot rarely do.

** Subverted (Or even inverted) because Stan (The third) is the [[Only Sane Man]] and [[The Messiah]], Token (The Second) is a [[Nice Guy]], while the Cartman (The Ugliest kid) is a Bastard and a [[Villain Protagonist]].

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** This seems to be the main point of Dove's [[True Beauty Is on the Inside|Campaign For Real Beauty]] as well. You'll notice that all the women in the commercials have ''very'' attractive faces and perfect hair; they just happen to weigh twenty pounds more than your average model (they're not even fat, either; just the larger end of average). [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_collins?currentPage=5 They even Photoshopped them to be prettier.]

*** That seems more an attempt to get larger women to buy more beauty products than to make anyone feel better.

* Bullies of the Millennial Generation have been described as '''attractive''', athletic and academically accomplished by ''USA Today'' in this article, [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-04-bullying_N.htm here].

* Some religions discourage (or outright ban) the use of makeup, the idea being that it leads those who view the enhanced person's face into sin [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|(of lust, generally)]] and/or that the (usually women) who use it are trashy or [[Vain Sorceress|vain]].

* Back in [[The Dung Ages]], anyone who was "too anything" -- too rich, too beautiful/handsome, too smart -- was thought to have made a [[Deal with the Devil]].

** Only if they didn't match their social station. Nobles and royals could be as pretty as they liked. Attractive peasants needed to tread carefully, however.

* [http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/onthejob/archive/2009/job0903.html The recommendation career coach Marty Nemko makes to employers is to hire ugly people.] The reasons he gives are that they're nicer, work harder and are more loyal.

* How many times have you heard the word [[Bishonen|pretty]] [[Mr. Fanservice|boy]] used as an insult? You can bet that any attractive man, especially a younger [[Teen Idol]] will get a lot of hate, and accusations of homosexuality ([[Sarcasm Mode|because anybody that's effeminate is obviously gay]]), from anybody outside their demographic, look at [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] (Titanic era), [[Johnny Depp]] (Pre-[[Tim Burton]]), Orlando Bloom (Still). The hate dries up when they <s>appear in action movies</s> mature as actors. Theoretically.

* Thanks to that whole [[Sarcasm Mode|lovely]] [[Double Standard]] business, in some ways a pretty woman is taken much less seriously than an attractive man. This is often rooted in the "pretty = "[[Alpha Bitch]]" idea, or the assumption that pretty women are [[Brainless Beauty|automatically stupid]] and anything they achieve is through use of their looks rather than any actual talent. Even attractive women who are nowhere near [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]] territory are, in many fields of work, far too often dismissed as having "slept their way to the top" or something equally demeaning. In a depressing number of situations they're more likely to be leered at than listened to. Attractive or muscular men can catch this, too, sometimes objectified to the point of being called a "beefcake" and also dismissed as [[Brainless Beauty|dumb]]. And all too often it doesn't matter how attractive or unattractive you are--if you're [[Dumb Blonde|blonde]], you might as well get used to being treated as though you're mentally deficient.

** Indeed, according to scientific studies, it's far harder for a beautiful woman to get work in the traditionally male professions, like the police, than her less attractive peers, and if by some fluke they get in, they can expect endless sexual harassment and are unlikely to ever be taken seriously. Beauty really is a curse (professionally) if your goals in life involve more than being pretty for a living.

* A recent People magazine story on bullying featured interviews with numerous children who had been victimized, including one lovely young woman who had been harassed because of her good looks--people automatically assumed that she was promiscuous and treated her as such.

** That's the go-to bullying method for victims who are considered attractive. Paradoxically, less attractive victims are mocked for the ''opposite'' reason.

* Many of the prettiest animals in Nature are that way because they use bright, striking colors to advertise to predators how poisonous they are. Do ''not'' touch the pretty jungle frogs.