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This trope provides a layer of [[This Loser Is You]] when taken to include not just an average-to-ugly appearance but also crude behavior. The moral of stories where this holds becomes, "[[Be Yourself]], [[Broken Aesop|and that never means being pretty or acting polite.]]"
Often, [[Beauty Is Bad]] appears alongside [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] in the same work, especially in romantic situations, because of the [[Double Standard]]. The poor, working-class underdog will have rich pretty-boy rivals, all of whom have the personality of a toad. At the same time, the rich girl for whom he is competing will have a heart of gold despite being the most beautiful girl in school... [[Uptown Girl]] and [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] both run off "Beauty Is Bad, but only for men."
This trope is the opposite of [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] and is related to, but not the same as, [[Evil Is Sexy]]. [[Evil Is Sexy]] refers to the use of sexuality and attractiveness to add appeal to a villain (intentionally or otherwise); [[Beauty Is Bad]] refers to making a character good-looking to indicate that they are insufferable and unlikable.
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Can overlap with [[Alpha Bitch]], [[The Brainless Beauty]], [[The Cheerleader]], [[Light Is Not Good]], [[Sex Is Evil]] and [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Videogames ==
* In the ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' series, nearly every female that other characters describe as "beautiful" turns out to be pure evil. Plenty of "good" female characters are considered attractive by the fandom - [[The Obi
* One of the Hoenn-introduced Pokémon from ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'' versions is Beautifly. Despite its appearance of a seemingly innocent butterfly, it has a much darker side. It drains other Pokémon's body fluids to survive. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|Of course, this is not possible in game]].
** Also introduced in the same game, meet Gorebyss. Despite its elegant appearance, it aggressively chases its prey with its spear-shaped mouth into submission. After it catches its prey, it proceeds by draining the prey's bodily fluids with its mouth.
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== Real Life ==
* "[[So Beautiful
* Fashion model [[Naomi Campbell]]. She's taken potshots at other black models (including [[Tyra Banks]]) and has quite a habit of abusing her assistants. An incident where she threw her cellphone at someone has gained [[Memetic Mutation]] status. Now she's in court for war crimes accused buying blood diamonds from former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's regime. Or it could be seen as society's need to prove this trope. According to others, she's exacting but polite to her staff, and if you would turn down a handful of diamonds someone gave you, throw the first stone.
* There is an increasing size discrimination against women who are "supermodel thin". Never mind that some women really are built to be size 2 and there's no more they can do about it than the natural size 14s of the world; they are automatically classified by some as negative and unrealistic role models and earn the frequent scorn of groups and individuals who say that a thin woman isn't a "real" woman and that "real women have curves."
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* [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 Di Caprio]] (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
** 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.
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