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* 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.}}
** ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'':
** 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.
** From the ''[[Seekers of Truth]]'', Natalie Beckett aka Golem. Fairly attractive if you can ignore the stone skin. And apparently her boyfriend, Timothy Landerman aka Echidna, can. It helps that he's basically a venomous lobster-man.
** Cthulhu itself has a daughter named Cthylla; most stories portray her as similar to her father (as in, a horrific, disgusting abomination) but the story "In the Hall of the Yellow King" has her assume a pleasing, human-like form in order to seduce Hastur, another of the Great Old Ones.
*** And of course, there are the [[Widget Series| weird modern adaptations]] like ''[[Chaos Code]]'' and ''[[Devil Maker: Tokyo]]'' where she is a [[Magical Girl]].
* 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.
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