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This trope comes in several varieties:

** Clearly applies to [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Lily_Enstomach Lily Enstomach] from the Z's Ambition Arc. Most giants have enlarged and/or exaggerated features, making them ugly and often bestial, but Lily has human-like proportions and is quite beautiful, at least compared to [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Panz_Fry her father] Panz Fry. Along with her size-altering Devil Fruit power, she can easily pass for human most of the time.

** Charolette Pudding in the Whole Cake Island Arc is sort of an in-universe example. She's a lonely and bitter girl, as she was always [[All of the Other Reindeer|mocked by her peers (and even her mother!)]] because of her [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|third eye on her forehead]], which she usually keeps hidden under [[Peek-a-Bangs]]. She plans to disrupt her [[Arranged Marriage]] to Sanji by showing it to him when the vows are made - which ends up failing because Sanji actually thinks it makes her look cute. This leads to Pudding falling in love with him for real, though sadly the marriage is aborted due to the machinations of the other villains.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose]]'' has many appearing throughout the series.

* ''[[Invincible]]'' has a heroine who transforms into a monstrous form. While the monster transformation isn't exactly cute, the actual girl {{spoiler|who is really older than she appears}} is

 

== Fan Works ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowsette Bowsette], a fan-made [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Bowser who became popular after the [[Memetic Mutation]] of a comic.

** Not to mention [https://kotaku.com/after-bowsette-fans-go-wild-for-boosette-1829322662 Boosette], a similar formula applied to King Boo, although some artists like to give her a lolling, Boo-like tongue and/or a [[Game Face]] that isn't all-too cute.

 

== Film ==

* The eponymous character of ''[[Deadgirl]]'' is pretty good-looking... although probably not dating material, given everything that happens after she's found.

* In the fifties film ''[[The Mole People]]'', a girl named Adad was born to a race of subterranean albinos, but has none of their features, and thus is hated and shunned by her folk. One of the archaeologists falls madly for her and promises to help her escape this hell with them. Sadly [[Downer Ending|Adad is killed by a falling pillar moments after she sees the surface world for the first time]].

 

== Literature ==

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' books female Igors, known as Igorinas, are every bit as svelte and beautiful as their male counterparts are deformed, hunchbacked, and misshapen. Handwaved by the fact that Igors of both sexes are crazy-talented at all forms of surgery, including plastic, and as Igors are devoted followers of "tradithion" it is probably that male Igors remain ugly because male assistants to [[Mad Scientist]]s are ''supposed'' to be ugly, just as female assistants are meant to be beautiful.

* Asenath Waite from "The Thing on the Doorstep", part of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s fiction, ''might'' qualify, sort of. She's a Deep One hybrid from Innsmouth described as "dark, smallish and very good looking except for over-protuberant eyes." Unlike most of her brethren, she doesn't seem to perpetually smell like fish. The fact that Deep One ancestry often doesn't show up too much until you're 25 to 30 if you're a late-bloomer probably helped her, that and {{spoiler|the fact that her [[Evil Sorcerer]] father probably made arrangements so his [[Body Surf|current host body]] could interact with polite society long enough to find a more suitable one.}}

** The ''Shadow over Innsmouth''-based [[B-Movie]] ''[[Dagon]]'' throws in a Deep One Cute Monster Girl by way of [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]. They still get to play the initial reveal of her monstrous, octopoidal features for Horror somehow. This trope allows the movie to play a {{spoiler|romantic angle on the original [[Tomato in the Mirror]] ending}}, giving it minor justification.

* Used as a major plot device in the [[Neil Gaiman]] short story "Talking to Girls at Parties", where a bunch of attractive adolescent girls turn out to be odd extraterrestrial visitors.

* Subverted in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''. Her Imperial Bugginess the [[Hive Queen|Vord Queen]] ''tries'', but mostly just manages to [[Uncanny Valley|give everyone the creeps]] by combining a "[[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green]] [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Kitai]] with [[Rapunzel Hair]]" look with a few too many insectile features and a frightening lack of understanding of human emotion.

* ''[[Sandman Slim]]'' has Candy, who is probably the bubbliest and most cheerful character in the series, despite being a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vimpire-esque killing machine called a Jade]]. Aside from a few slip ups, [[Vegetarian Vampire|she's trying to cut back]].

* Junapur, in ''[[Cerberon]]'', is described as quite beautiful despite her various nonhuman traits and imposing Amazon physique.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Illyria from ''[[Angel]]''. An [[Eldritch Abomination]] trapped in a human corpse, basically her only non-human attributes (physically, at least) are blue lines on her face and blue streaks in her hair.

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', though they all look human, the male reapers all look like balding old people that can keel over anytime, while female reapers are all at least conventionally attractive.

 

== Music ==

** ''The Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss'' introduces Obyriths, outrageously bizarre demons (as opposed to the more humanoid Tanar'ri) whose forms exude such a primal ''[[Eldritch Abomination|wrongness]]'' that looking at them can do permanent damage to your mind. Pale Night (their queen, more or less) has a "soft, feminine form," though it would be hard to describe her as cute, but then you find out that that's just the veil surrounding her, which formed because the plane of ultimate, horrible madness that spawned her refuses to accept that she is real. If looking at her true form doesn't simply kill a victim, he won't remember what he saw; and if it ''does'' kill the victim, and magic is used to raise him from the dead or communicate with his soul, he ''still'' won't be able to describe what he saw.

** In ''[[Planescape]]'', female tieflings and aasimar often fit; PC versions of both have Charisma bonus to show it.

* Used to its fullest in the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game-setting with the [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|Batrean race]], whose females are [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-haired space babes]] (except when they're ''[[Flip-Flop of God|blue]]''-haired) with [[Love Is in the Air|seductive pheromones]], and whose males are gangling hairy ogres. Technically also true of the singular race of Gnorls and Weirdlings, although not for the usual reasons: Although Gnorls (the females) look like someone's 80-year-old grandma, that's ''still'' prettier than their male counterparts, the Weirdlings (who look like anorexic Yodas in their skivvies).

* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a woman who has become a draconic Fairest is this by default, as Fairest are literally "the fairest of them all", and draconics have aspects of the Great Beasts of Faerie, such as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dragons]].

* Technically, ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' could apply this Trope to ''dozens'' of female [[Mons]], seeing as they are called Monster Cards, but many look "cute" while still appearing "monstrous". The Harpie Lady Sisters were the earliest example. Later, there was [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Fabled_Krus Fabled Krus] who also appears to be a [[Shrinking Violet]], the [[Little Bit Beastly]] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Nekogal_1 Nekogal]s and Traptrix, who seem to be [[Man-Eating Plant]]s using a cute female shape to lure prey. In fact, Cute Monster Girls seem to have almost dominated the meta since around 2019, with Cyber Girls, Armoages, Charmers, Dragonmaids, Lunalights, Fairy Tails, Trickstars, Windwitches, and Witchcrafters, to name just the most prominent.

 

* Kate Monster from ''[[Avenue Q]]'' was going to have a lot of fuzz, similar to Trekkie Monster, but was shaved before production so she would look better with a male (and human) love interest.

* Magda in ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]'' becomes a gorgeous vampiress after she's bitten (though some actresses in the part do subvert this by applying some rather distorted makeup after she's been turned). In addition, sometimes female chorus vampires fall into this as well. {{spoiler|Sarah is one by the end of the show, without exception between actresses.}}

* Iroha from ''[[Samurai Shodown]]'' (sixth and seventh games). She looks like a perfectly human - very attractive - young girl, but is in fact a Tsuru Nyōbō, a type of [[Yokai]]. Her true form is a crane.

* Roxy from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach]]'' is a Cute Robot Wolf Girl who has quickly become popular among the [[Furry Fandom]].

 

== Web Comics ==

** Female Goblins are drawn sexier than their male counterparts in several panels, especially when the male leads are fantasizing.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' parodies this in the Years of Yarncraft storyline, especially in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225063519/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080813 this strip].

* [[Discussed Trope|Mentioned occasionally]] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''.

** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040916.html "You 'member dem comics where da alien girls were all pretty an' stuff?" "Comic book artists don' get out much, I don' think."]

** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953] is [[Yokai|a Korean fox spirit or ''kumiho'']], mixing this with [[Little Bit Beastly]]: she has fox ears, paws, and seven tails, and can take on a fox-like form. She is a malevolent demon who despises humans, and seduces humans in order to torture them to death and eventually eat their livers (technically making her more succubus-like than SCP-166).

** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2396 SCP-2396] (“Ms. Sweetie”) is a [[Statuesque Stunner]] of an [[Artificial Human]], intended as a [[Living Toy]] for girls. She seems to hate men and can turn them into [[Slave Mook]]s made of candy, claiming this is in order to deal with annoying brothers and their friends.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Marceline the Vampire Queen from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' may occasionally turn into a giant, monstrous bat or an amorphous mass of tentacles and darkness, but most of the time she's a tall, pale humanlike girl who's as sexy as the show's art style allows for.

* All of the female ''[[Gargoyles]]'' shown in the original TV series are sexy winged humanoids, except for Una, who resembles an anthropomorphic unicorn and is thus still "cute", while male gargoyles have many other types. However, the comic continuation eventually introduced Constance (Coco), a heavy-set female who resembles a wild sow, and Brooklyn's mate at the end of his Timedance, Katana, has a face that includes a beautiful beak.

* In the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' series we meet other members of Marvin the Martian's species for the first time. Seems that while the males are short and cartoony the females, particularly Queen Tyr'ahnee are, well, [http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/010/5/0/Martian_Queen_by_SFToon.png this]. Then again, the male Martian General Z9 is tall and well-built, so it's possible that Marvin is just a midget among his people.

** One episode had the hero crash-land onto a planet made up of attractive bug-like women... until the sun goes down.

** A later episode introduced Cricket, a girl who's still pretty cute despite being green and having spines on her arms. {{spoiler|Later episodes reduce the amount of spines, make her figure fuller, and give her a cuter face.}}

* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' has Diana becoming a half-lizard girl in the second part of the third season finale. The eponymous character even jokingly compliments that she's only a mini-mutant because her eyes changed and she has a tail.

* In ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', Wasp becomes one when she's mutated by Gamma Radiation.

* {{spoiler|Lena Dupree}} from ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' is an... interesting variation. She's certainly [[Moe|cute]], and she's certainly a monster, but her monster form itself? NOT. CUTE.

* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Dot is usually the [[Little Miss Badass]] type of cute, but in one episode of the relaunch, she turns into this Trope briefly due a [[Genre Shift]] to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0h9I2dA0W8 anime style animation.]

* Eden, a female genie in the [[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|''Aladdin'']] ongoing series. Pretty much a [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Genie himself.

* Sort of a G-rated example, the Chipettes from ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (animation)|Alvin and the Chipmunks]]'', the foils and [[Distaff Counterpart]]s of the main protagonists. You just ''know'' they'll play this Trope completely straight when they're ten years older, [[Not Allowed to Grow Old|assuming that ever happens.]]

 

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