Blind and the Beast: Difference between revisions

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Compare [[Freaky Is Cool]], [[Mailer Daemon]].

== Anime ==

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** This is how the Thing and Alicia Masters started their relationship in the series. There were many times, though, that he worried that the only reason she was with him was because she couldn't see how ugly he was (never mind that she has felt his face, ''knows'' it's rocky, and she is also a ''sculptor'' who has seen fit to use him as a subject a number of times.)

** Subverted with his later girlfriend (and eventual fiance) Debbie Green who could see just fine and still thought he was attractive.

* Arseface from ''[[Preacher]]'' eventually meets a girl who doesn't see reality quite as it is, as she's severely inbred and has a neurological disorder. She thinks he's gorgeous, and it looks as if they're going to live happily ever after.

* Arseface from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' eventually meets a girl who doesn't see reality quite as it is, as she's severely inbred and has a neurological disorder. She thinks he's gorgeous, and it looks as if they're going to live happily ever after.

** Even better, Lorrie Bobs was born with only an eye, she seems like a Cyclops. Both characters are subversions of [[The Grotesque]]: They are the two only true decent people of all the cast and for that, they will [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: In [[Preacher]], [[An Aesop|everyone is a grotesque freak. Except the guy with an arse for a face and the one eyed girl]].

** Even better, Lorrie Bobs was born with only an eye, she seems like a Cyclops. Both characters are subversions of [[The Grotesque]]: They are the two only true decent people of all the cast and for that, they will [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: In [[Preacher (Comic Book)]], [[An Aesop|everyone is a grotesque freak. Except the guy with an arse for a face and the one eyed girl]].

* A short piece in a Mirage ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' special has this happen with Raphael and an old blind woman; the sequence was later adapted as part of an episode of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|2003 cartoon]].

* In an early issue of ''[[Superman]]: [[The Man of Steel (Comic Book)|The Man of Steel]]'', Lois Lane's sister Lucy tried to commit suicide after being blinded in an accident. She was rescued by Bizarro, but she thought it was Superman. This was an homage to the first appearance of Bizarro in ''Superboy'' back in the 1950s, where [[The Woobie|Bizarro's]] only friend is a blind girl who doesn't realize he's a monster.

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* [[ALF (TV)|ALF]] befriends a blind woman in one episode of that series.

* The ''[[Dark Angel]]'' episode "Hello, Goodbye" deals with a friendship between [[Half Human Hybrid|genetically engineered dog-man]] Joshua and a blind girl named Annie. She spends much of the episode talking about wanting to "see" him by feeling his face, something that he's understandably reluctant to do. He ends up having one of his more human-looking friends "stand in" for him. He eventually lets her "see" his real face and she accepts him even though he's obviously not all human. {{spoiler|Later, [[The Men in Black]] from the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] learns of their friendship and snaps her neck to frame the [[Half Human Hybrid|only ones]] that the public knows has [[Super Strength]] for the murder}}.<br /><br />When she does find out the truth, she brings up the potential [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this trope. Although she doesn't hate him, she's miffed that he took advantage of the fact she couldn't see.

* The ''[[Dark Angel]]'' episode "Hello, Goodbye" deals with a friendship between [[Half-Human Hybrid|genetically engineered dog-man]] Joshua and a blind girl named Annie. She spends much of the episode talking about wanting to "see" him by feeling his face, something that he's understandably reluctant to do. He ends up having one of his more human-looking friends "stand in" for him. He eventually lets her "see" his real face and she accepts him even though he's obviously not all human. {{spoiler|Later, [[The Men in Black]] from the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] learns of their friendship and snaps her neck to frame the [[Half-Human Hybrid|only ones]] that the public knows has [[Super Strength]] for the murder}}.<br /><br />When she does find out the truth, she brings up the potential [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this trope. Although she doesn't hate him, she's miffed that he took advantage of the fact she couldn't see.

* The ''[[MST3K]]'' episode ''[[The Brute Man]]'' had the large-faced [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_Hatton Rondo Hatton] befriending a blind girl. When the police discover their relationship, they talk her into luring him into a trap (which she feels bad about doing, even if he ''is'' a crazed killer.)

* Done in an episode of the ''[[In the Heat of The Night]]'' series, where one of the deputies considers himself hideous because he's overweight and awkward, and he falls for a blind girl who couldn't care less.

* In a late episode of the sitcom ''[[Taxi]]'', Louie DePalma falls in love with a blind girl. While she undergoes an operation to restore her sight, he frets about whether she will reject him when she sees him. One thing he does while stewing is pluck out some of his eyebrow hairs. When the woman finally sees him, he's exactly like she expected, except that she pictured him having more hair in his eyebrows..

* Subverted on ''[[~~Thirty~~ Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'': Kenneth falls for a blind woman who rejects him after feeling his face.

* Subverted on ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'': Kenneth falls for a blind woman who rejects him after feeling his face.

* Inverted, or subverted, or perverted, or...''something'' on ''[[Becker]]'', when Jake (a blind black man) ends up going out with a blind white woman, but it ends in tears when he mentions his skin colour offhand several weeks later and she turns out to be a racist.

* Somewhat similarly twisted on ''[[Chappelles Show]]'' with Clayton Bigsby, the blind white supremacist who doesn't realize he's black. His entire KKK chapter serves as the Magoo to his Monster, because he is hooded in all public appearances.

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* On ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]],'' the crew once had to transport an alien called a Medusan, who was so hideous you would [[Go Mad From the Revelation|go mad if you saw it]]. The Medusan's human companion, however, is a blind telepath, who describes his mind as the most beautiful thing she had ever experienced.

** This episode's title is "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"

* Subverted on an episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'' in which Will, who is a good-looking man, is set up on a date with a blind man. (Leads to a sort of [[~~Whos~~ On First]] incident when he realizes it's a ''literal'' blind date.) The man asks to feel Will's face so he can "see" him, which Will permits, and then the guy complains that just because he's blind, people always set him up with ugly dates.

* Subverted on an episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'' in which Will, who is a good-looking man, is set up on a date with a blind man. (Leads to a sort of [[Who's On First?]] incident when he realizes it's a ''literal'' blind date.) The man asks to feel Will's face so he can "see" him, which Will permits, and then the guy complains that just because he's blind, people always set him up with ugly dates.

* ''[[Beauty and The Beast (TV)|Beauty and The Beast]]:'' Catherine has her eyes covered with bandages when she first meets Vincent, and has fallen in love with him by the time her eyesight has been restored.