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[[File:1141580294775-resize2.jpg|link=Pani Poni Dash!|frame| Over-the-top ugliness [[Verbal Tic|dotchomm]].]]
Pretty much the only way in animation to make someone ugly or unusual looking is to do it deliberately and often non-subtly. If a character is not attractive looking, they're usually absurdly ugly. The
This is because of [[Generic Cuteness]]. Occasionally, [[Artistic Age]] means that Gonk has to be applied to make older characters seem downright decrepit in order to seem older than the generically young cast.
Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and some Gonks may be viewed as [[Ugly Cute|rather cute]] to certain viewers.
Gonks are also common as the "leads" in [[Hentai]] works revolving around non-consensual sex, including rape and [[Mind Control]]. The jury is out on whether this character type -- also known in this context as the "ugly bastard" -- is employed to clearly identify them as villainous, to give the presumed audience a protagonist [[Audience Surrogate|they can more easily identify with]], or both. Unlike other examples, such Gonks frequently have [[Eyeless Face]]s.
Not to be confused with [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gonk_droid a certain type of power droid], which looks more like a walking trashcan/safe.
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'''Simply not being attractive or a [[Bishonen]] does not make a character a Gonk but rather if they're so over the top ugly they [[Non-Standard Character Design|don't fit the art style of the series]].'''
{{noreallife|calling real-life people "ugly" [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|is a poor idea.]]}}
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Most fat characters in anime suffer from some level of Gonk. Examples include:
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** A number of anime will have impromptu cheerleading squads show up that will always include a female Gonk that will go without comment. Examples include ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' and ''Yawara''.
** ''[[Blue Drop]]'' has Hiroko, the leader of the high school dorms. She may not be straight-on gonk in and of itself, but she's so ridiculously large that she skirts the line.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190927183955/http://
* Dan in ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' is short and has a head shaped like an acorn. Yet he's [[Official Couple|got a girlfriend]], is ranked high in the school, can draw very well, and is shaping up to be good at kendo. He's probably the luckiest male in the entire show, and most fans think him a victim of a ''[[Ping Pong Club]]'' [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]].
* Mrs. Q from "Ayashi no Ceres", all the way. Her face brings instant funny. [[Plucky Comic Relief|And therein lies her purpose.]]
* The anime ''[[Basilisk]]'' features some downright grotesque character designs. Tokugawa Ieyasu has a deformed chin that looks like [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617023452/http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091108193932/basilisk/images/thumb/a/ae/Ieyasu.jpg/250px-Ieyasu.jpg a huge scrotum].
** [[Men in Black (film)|"Watch out, its a ballchinian!"]]▼
* [[Beck]] has at least a couple. Koyuki's friend Tanabe appears to be fourteen going on forty at the start of the series, and the gentleman who sells him his Fender also has some physical oddities.
* Several of the less important ''shinigami'' characters in ''[[Bleach]]'' - but most of the shinigami outside the main cast are just comic relief/cannon fodder, so this is understandable.
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* ''[[Desert Punk (manga)|Desert Punk]]'' has quite a few. If a character is unnamed or over 40, chances are they're gonks. The titular character is pretty normal looking but becomes gonked out if he's doing something disturbing.
* Sumiyoshi from ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]''. One episode has his gonkness drained out of him, turning him into a generic [[Bishonen]]. His friends are visibly shocked, and he doesn't seem to be pleased with the change either. It was eventually shown that he gets it from his mother.
** The Puchuus in the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime are cute mascot characters whose faces become Gonk (resembling scarred, haggard manga assassin
* In ''[[Ga-Rei]]'', anyone who isn't a main character or relatively young is ugly. It's a bit jarring to see the really attractive [[Generic Cuteness|Kagura]] next to the extremely old-looking [[Cool Old Lady|Fujiko]], for example.
* [[Getter Robo]] teams always have "The fat guy", with varying levels of gonk. Musashi from the original looks a bit gonkish, especially compared to his impossibly handsome teammates (and his ridiculous, slapped together "uniform" doesn't help, either), but most of the subsequent incarnations had Musashi or his equivalent drawn with the similar rugged good looks to his compatriots. Kaede from the all girl Getter Robo Zan team is probably the gonkiest of all the Getter pilots (being a [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Musashi), but then again all the girls on that team are pretty homely by anime standards.
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* An unusual example in a serious anime is the sinister Kazundo Gohda (or Gouda) from ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex|GitS: 2nd Gig]]'', whose face was hideously disfigured in an accident. Gohda decided ''not'' to have his face reconstructed because his new appearance made him distinctive and nobody who meets him will ever forget him. This is deliberately contrasted with Hideo Kuze, the show's nominal (but less villainous) villain, whose prosthetic body wears a handsome mask-like face.
** The Home Affairs Minister, on the other hand, is the conventional sort.
* The octopus form of Korosensei from ''[[Assassination Classroom]]'', although said form also definitely qualifies as [[Ugly Cute]].
* [[Girls Saurus]]: [http://read.homeunix.com/onlinereading/?image=Girls%20Saurus%20Complete/Girls%20Saurus%20c010/0009.jpg&server=nas.html Ichigo]. Sweet mother of god, [http://read.homeunix.com/onlinereading/?image=Girls%20Saurus%20Complete/Girls%20Saurus%20c010/0032.jpg&server=nas.html Ichigo].▼
** Natsuhiko Koyama, however, is a far more traditional example of this trope, basically looking like a deformed Japanese caricature of [[Tommy Wiseau]] (with extremely crooked teeth '''and''' a unibrow, no less).
▲* [[Girls Saurus]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110917143410/http://read.homeunix.com/onlinereading/?image=Girls%20Saurus%20Complete
** Pre-weight loss Haruka was rather ugly as well, though definitely [[Up to Eleven|not to the same grotesquely ludicrous degree]] as Ichigo.
* Itsuki/Iggy in [[Initial D]] has gonky features (helped by the author's drawing style, though).
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* Justified in ''[[Narutaru]]'' with Sato's fiancee, whose odd appearance is due to Down's Syndrome.
* [[Naruto|Konohamaru]]'s early attempts to perform the Sexy no Jutsu were frequently comically grotesque. An entire early episode was devoted to his mastery of it.
** One of the Tsuchikage's bodyguards is [https://web.archive.org/web/20100728075919/http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/454/02-03/ a giant name Akatsuchi] who has big fat cheeks, a bowling bin-shaped body, and a bulbous nose. In fact, [[Miniature Senior Citizens|the Tsuchikage himself]] also has an even weirder looking nose.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has ''dozens'' of examples, both among good guys ''and'' bad guys:
** Alvida
** And much later we have Kokoro and Lola, as well as the island of Amazon Lily, whose population is roughly equal parts Gonk and hot women.
** No discussion of One Piece Gonkiness regarding the obese is complete without Satori, Hotori and Kotori (whose bodies are, in fact, perfect spheres in addition to being ugly), and ESPECIALLY Fukurou.
** Wanze and Duval. So Gonky that repeated kicks to the face rendered them ''[[Magic Plastic Surgery|better looking]].''
** And Duval happens to look {{spoiler|exactly like the poorly drawn wanted poster of Sanji, which in and of itself is Gonky in how it exaggerates Sanji's attributes, especially his spiral eyebrow}}.
** We forgot one: [http://www.onepiece.de/media/pictures/pics/5/Episoden/054/032.jpg 'Admiral' Nelson]{{Dead link}}, from one of the anime's fillers. Aside from being rather ugly, what REALLY makes him stand out is how very fat he is.
** Wapol. The guy ate ''himself'' to become thin.
** Emporio Ivankov, a transvestite and drag queen, has quite an oversized head, odd facial expression with a face locked into an almost perpetual grin and eyes wide open. (He's one of the good guys, by the way.) Mr. 2 also has quite an odd face for being a crossdresser, enough so that when he decided to make the world's weirdest face from a collection of all the faces he's encountered, he only had to add Usopp's nose.
** Most of the members of the Blackbeard Pirates qualify like the titular Captain and Doc Q, but two of the newest members {{spoiler|Catarina Devon and Vasco Shot}} definitely are.
** We see in chapter 651 that {{spoiler|Big Mom of the Four Emperors}} is one. And like [[Perfect Blue|Me-Mania]], it's NOT [[Played for Laughs]].
** Let's just say the world of One Piece is not only a [[World of Ham]], but a World Of Gonk. So many characters, ranging from protagonists, antagonists, and even neutral background characters, are incredibly out there and ugly, yet go hardly unnoticed because it just happens all the time. Worth noting that the Grand Line has more gonk than the rest of the ocean; whether this is due to Oda's art evolving to be more free or the Grand Line actually being just that weird... we're not too sure.
* A strange example occurs in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' when the host club does this in an attempt to cheer up Haruhi. Since the show already has quite a few crossdressers, they (with the exception of [[The Chessmaster|Kyouya]], natually) end up in hilariously overdone makeup to make the situation funny.
** Averted in the manga where only 3 of them crossdress and they [https://web.archive.org/web/20160723092032/http://www.onemanga.com/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club/10/25-26
* ''[[Pani Poni Dash!|Pani Poni Dash]]'' has several, most notably [[Delinquent|Yankee]], whose picture is at the top, and the hordes of identical Itou-sans. Then there's the characters who are drawn to look very similar to their real life originals, which...doesn't quite mesh with the [[Puni Plush]] cuteness of the rest...the Tommy Lee Jones Circa [[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] for example is especially jarring, as he's mostly seen with Ichijou...who often sports an even simpler face than normal.
* [http://media.photobucket.com/image/%2522me-mania%2522/Ryvius_Ongaku/CreepyPerfectBlueStalker.jpg Me-Mania] in ''[[Perfect Blue]]''. NOT played for laughs.
*
* One episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' has Team Rocket stressing over their current fitness, going from [[Large Ham|delightfully plump]] to outright Gonk.
** And of course the second ninja school gave us...uh...[http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d174/Razer_2mb/8U/PWSGYIU56LJT6EVKNRKBHQWRQXOGFE7F.gif 8U].
* Konatsu's step-family in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' is deliberately made hideous, despite them being hostesses at the "Sexy Kunoichi Tea Spot" (a brothel, the reader is made to assume, or at least an extremely exclusive parlor.) His stepsisters are either gangly and monkey-like, or gigantic and with lips so huge they are her entire face. To say nothing of the shrunken,
* Another exception, ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has one of Usagi's schoolfriends who pops up now and then in the first few episodes of the show. She's chubby, but not ugly in any way. She gets [[Brother Chuck]]ed pretty fast along with the rest of Usagi's former friends after other Senshi start showing up and she hangs out with them instead. Sadly, while the other girls had names, this character never did (and this is a show that has been known to give names to the most minor of characters in [[All There in the Manual|the guidebooks]]) so fans can only identify her as "Usagi's Fat Friend".
** Some of the episodic [[Monster of the Week|Youma/Daimon/Whatevers]] are pretty damn gonky too, with the final season, as serious as it's supposed to be, having a ludicrously high ratio in comparison to arcs where that would be more fitting, say the Dark Circus arc. (The completely ridiculous looking 'sailor parody' enemies)
** Same thing with the fat girl in ''[[
* Several side-characters from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' are drawn completely different from the main cast. Chiri Kitsu shifts to a Gonk [[Axe Crazy|as needed]].
* Actually averted in the film [[Spirited Away]]. Miyazaki didn't want his female protagonist Chihiro to be overly beautiful, in order to reinforce her presentation as an average girl at the film's beginning. He managed to succeed at this task without having her look exceptionally ugly or out of place, capturing just the look he was going for.
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** Whether or not it's Gonk-free is ''really'' arguable; this editor found it laughably Gonky.
* A lot of the lesser villains in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. While Ushio and Kai look rather decent, the others like Kujirada and Nezumi (whose name means 'rat' in Japanese), are outright gonk!
** and then there's Hobson, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617023439/http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071216052821/yugioh/images/3/35/DaimonSecond.jpg
** The Seto Kaiba imposter (posing as his ghost) in the Duelist Kingdom arc is horrendously this once he drops the charade.
* Kimura from [[Azumanga Daioh]], with his perpetually gaunt and slack-jawed expression.
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* Several demons in [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] and, even more so, the crimelord [http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/Gonzo_Tarukane Tarukane].
* Kaoru from ''[[Nana to Kaoru]]''. Creepy. He's also the protagonist with a BDSM fetish. See also [[This Loser Is You]].
* [[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]] High school student and gang member [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830071627/http://www.onemanga.com/Wolf_Guy_-_Wolfen_Crest/3/16-17/ Kuroda looks like an unholy union between a Beatles member and an oversized rat.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830001512/http://www.onemanga.com/Wolf_Guy_-_Wolfen_Crest/9/08/ Don't expect his twin brother to have any striking good looks either]. Despite his muscular physique and rather handsome countenance, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100403065748/http://www.onemanga.com/Wolf_Guy_-_Wolfen_Crest/5/20/ Dou also counts in his own feral way].
* Doronjo's sidekicks Boyacky and Tonzura from ''[[Yatterman]]'' fit this. In fact, they're so ugly they actually look [[Ugly Cute|cute.]]
* One of the more prominent running gags in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple]]'' involves Ragnarok member Loki having numerous body doubles a la Saddam. One of the body doubles is moderately gonky and looks extremely out of place when compared to the rest. Come to think of it, he [https://web.archive.org/web/20160528174027/http://blog.seiha.org/images/kenichi33/kenichi33%20(13).jpg
* ''[[Kemonozume]]'' has a number of these, most obviously the main villain, Ooba Kyuutarou.
* [[Those Two Guys]] from [[Moyashimon]].
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* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] has the Armstrong family where the father and the mother and the middle children look pretty much the same except for the [[Hot Amazon|oldest]] and [[Kawaiiko|youngest.]]
** Also, Gluttony.
* ''[[My Hero Academia]]'' has no shortage of hero characters with odd or unusual physical appearances, but most are of the [[Little Bit Beastly]] or [[Cute Monster Girl]] (or boy) categories. Villains, however, are almost universally unpleasant to look at. Some are simply ugly or have twisted expressions, some are deformed, and many [[Evil Makes You Monstrous| are outright monstrous.]]
* Most of Tsukimi's friends in ''[[Kuragehime]]'' fall on the Gonky side, especially compared to their gender-flipped [[Nerd Nanny]], [[Bishonen|Kuranosuke]].
* Frequently happens in [[Go Nagai]] series, due to his very cartoony style. Of note are ''[[Mazinger Z]]''{{'}}s Boss Borot, whose mouth apparently opens to the side, and Juzo Kabuto, who scares even his own grandson.
** Several ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' characters such like Danbei Makiba also count.
* In the infamous "Sandbox Sequence" from the complementary conclusion to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', ''[[The End of Evangelion]]'', Shinji sees two doll-like girls with very disturbingly-accentuated features, that definitely fall under Gonk. As with [[Perfect Blue]] (see above), it is ''
* [[Fat Bastard|Buppa]], a gang leader in ''[[Tokyo Tribe|Tokyo Tribe 2]]'', from the [[Memetic Mutation|infamous]] "Goosh [[Rape Is Funny When Its Male On Male|Goosh]]" sequence.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130730132630/http://www.batoto.net/read/_/45696/addicted-to-curry_v7_ch71_by_trinity-bakuma/6 Gokita (first panel)] from ''Addicted to Curry''.
* Played for laughs in the anime version of ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]''. The girls wanted to be more adult, wearing make-up, high heels, padding... It... doesn't end well.
* Phryne, the Amazoness leader of the Ishtar Familia in ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]'', is firmly convinced that she isn't ugly.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' used this in many of its villains, such as Pruneface, Flathead, The Brow, Rodent...▼
* The Yellow Bastard from ''[[Sin City]]'' stands out, but Marv could possibly be viewed as this as well, due to the impossible skeletal structure of his face, but in his case, it makes him look equal parts gonk and equal parts badass. The same can't be said for That Yellow Bastard. He's just one ugly (and smelly) dude.
* Penelope Platypus from [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] looks more or less like a cartoony platypus on two legs wearing a backpack, while other orginal females from the comic have the figures of developed young women, yet still retain animal heads and fur.
* A lot of ''[[Archie]]'''s supporting characters in the early decades qualified. In the '40s, most anyone outside the main cast fell under this trope; Miss Grundy was almost toothless and had a prominent wart. Well into the '80s, being a Gonk was Big Ethel's ''defining character trait''. Both characters have had makeovers in the last couple of decades; Miss Grundy has upgraded to [[Cool Old Lady]] status, and Ethel is tall, lanky and a little mannish, but no longer a runner-up in the Lena the Hyena contest.
* Sam Lesser from ''[[Locke and Key]]''.
== Film ==
* In ''What Planet Are You From?'', Garry Shandling played a Gonk. It counts as character design because the problem wasn't his natural features so much as his 'I just ate a bag of lemons' expression. By the end of the movie,
** That's not too far off from Shandling's normal face, really. While calling him a real-life Gonk would just be mean, he's still never exactly been a heartbreaker.
* Hongkong slapstick comedies will sometimes cast such ugly actors just to get this effect.
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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness|All the bad guys]] in ''[[Yojimbo]]'' except for Unosuke are [http://littleimg.com/files/1415_5ceqs/Yojimbo8.png extremely ugly.]
* The douchey Prince from ''[[Dragonheart]]'', or at least according to [[The Nostalgia Chick]].
* In [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings]] most of the hobbits are fairly normal looking and the younger ones look like children, but Samwise is very ugly. He has a huge head, crooked teeth, a big nose and chin, and at times seems to have a lazy eye.
* Sykes, Ernie and Bernie from ''[[Shark Tale]]''.
* Dr. Glickenstein, King Malbert and His Royal Guards from ''[[Igor]]''
* [[Steve Buscemi]] is usually cast as creeps of some sort, and not without reason.
* The main actor playing the main character in ''[[Gummo]]'' looks quite unusual, which actually fits very well with the overall strangeness of the film.
== Literature ==
* Corporal Nobby Nobbs from ''[[Discworld]]'' is ugly enough to require documented evidence to prove that he's (probably) human, and to completely avert and/or subvert the [[Attractive Bent Gender]] trope (this is footnoted in the text itself). Official art of him is indeed Gonklike.
* According to the original drawings, both the [[Alice in Wonderland|Queen of Hearts and the
* Ichabod Crane, the protagonist of ''[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]'', is described as rather odd-looking, having a small head, big ears, a long nose, long arms and legs, and a very skinny build. The narrator even compares him to a scarecrow and a grasshopper.
* One of Count Olaf's henchmen in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is a large person [[Ambiguous Gender|who looks like neither a man nor a woman]], appropriately called "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Person of Indeterminate Gender]]".
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The troll doll from ''[[Doctor Who|Terror of the Autons]]'' was billed as a Gonk novelty. {{spoiler|Actually, it was an Auton.}}
** The Sontarans
{{quote|''Guard:'' He looks like a giant baked potato!}}
* Father Jack from ''[[Father Ted]]'' is incredibly ugly, with stringy unwashed hair, crusted lips and skin, and a near-permanent grimacing snarl.
* Peg's mother was implied to be one of these on ''[[Married... with Children]]'', although we were fortunate enough to never actually see what she looked like. Chances are we'd probably [[Go Mad
* Half of the non-Puppet aliens in ''[[Farscape]]''. They seem to try to go overboard on crusty features and grotesque prosthetics.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Cathy]]'' bears the unusual distinction of having a Gonk protagonist, with gigantic eyes, stringy hair, and [[The Noseless|no nose]]. Out-of-universe, she's sometimes considered [[Ugly Cute]], but in-universe she remarks that the only people who've ever called her attractive have been trying to sell her things.
* In ''[[The Family Circus]]'', ''the protagonists themselves'' are drawn in such a way that they bear no resemblance to their parents, i.e., the children are squat, stocky and have melon-shaped heads while their parents are drawn fairly realistically.
* ''[[Garfield]]'' has rather bland characters, most of the time. Liz is supposed to be quite attractive, but she pretty much looks like Jon, who is usually said to be, at best, plain, and Nermal, the cutest cat in the world, is not that much skinnier than the ostensibly obese Garfield, so when the strip has to convey that a character is ugly, or especially beautiful, they have to go way out of their way.
▲* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' used this in many of its villains, such as Pruneface, Flathead, The Brow, Rodent...
== Video Games ==
* [[Ape Escape]]: Monkey Yellow is a good example of this. And he (she?) considers himself (herself?) the best-looking character in the series.
* Eunice in ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]''. Subverted in Beatrice, who would be attractive if she lost the glasses and got some Abreva for her mouth.
* The ''[[
** And her son Pokey looks quite disturbing, even for someone of his weight; when he {{spoiler|fights alongside Giygas in the final battle}}, he appears to have blue skin.
* Queen Brahne in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', who outranks most of the monsters in the game in sheer ugliness for no easily explained reason. This may be a vague dig at [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] (compared to the villainous but attractive Kuja) as her subjects usually insist Brahne is a competent and respectable leader, at least pre-game. It is particularly bizarre because her daughter doesn't look anything like her {{spoiler|which theoretically isn't a problem because Garnet is revealed to not be her biological child. Except that Garnet was adopted by the royal family because she looked close enough to the real Princess Garnet to take her place, which means that Brahne still had a biological child that looked nothing like her.}}
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** The Gourmet. Dear lord, the Gourmet. Some fans are convinced he's not actually ''human''. ''Island of Happiness'' and related replaced him with a cute kid [[Expy]].
* Most of the characters in the ''[[River City Ransom|Kunio-kun]]'' games are [[Generic Cuteness|generically cute]]... except for Misuzu, who is a seven-foot schoolgirl with a head the size of a pumpkin and the face of a middle-aged woman.
* Monokuma from ''[[Danganronpa (video game)|Danganronpa]]'', due to the right half of his face looking like a cuddly polar bear while the left half of said face [[Nightmare Face|looks like the monster that he actually is]].
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'': [http://files-ds-scene.net/triforce/tingle.jpg Tingle.][https://web.archive.org/web/20141028202532/http://followingrevolution.com/wp-content/gallery/pictures/tingle.jpg Seriously.][https://web.archive.org/web/20160913231433/http://www.kasuto.net/image/officialart/oracleart_tingle.jpg Look][https://web.archive.org/web/20121105015817/http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2006/news/06/09/tingle.jpg At][http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/793/793389/ssbm13_1180664762.jpg Him]. The only thing that can be said is that he looks way different than any other person you come across.
** And let's not forget, that in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', Link, Zelda, and MAYBE a few of the villagers seem to be the only Hylians that WEREN'T born with severe birth defects.
** The doctor in Castle Town. He looks like the elderly arthritic love child of Moleman from [[The Simpsons]] and a goblin. Actually, come to think of it, the ''actual in game goblins aren't as ugly as he is.''
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* Large amounts of recruitable characters in [[Inazuma Eleven]] are gonks among other weird faces.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'': With their [[Gag Nose|huge pink noses]], constantly clenched teeth, wicked mustaches and nonstandard bodily proportions, [[Fat Bastard|Wario]] and [[Lean and Mean|Waluigi]] are a lot uglier than the rest of the cast. However, that's part of their charm.
* In ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'', pretty much everyone except Alice - good or evil, real world or Wonderland - is ugly, creepy, or both. (Alice is "just" creepy.) At least some of it may be distorted by her condition, however.
* Although many NPCs in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]: Oblivion'' are homely at best and hideous at worst due to the random face generation, there are a few that go to cartoonish extremes. One member of the Bravil Mages' Guild {{spoiler|who turns out to be evil}} has a ridiculously large forehead for no apparent reason. Also, pretty much everyone in Hackdirt, but especially the "Breathren", although they have the excuse that it's implied they're descended from nonhumans.
* ''[[Wario Land]]'' ''4'' gives us its "Wario Princess" and basically all of its bosses (most notably Spoiled Rotten's "[[Understatement|angry]]" form, the Golden Diva's unmasked form, and Cuckoo Condor's clock form).
* Prince from ''[[Power Instinct]]'' is a fat, ugly parody of all the [[Prince Charming]] stereotypes... until you knock him down. When he hits the ground, he briefly transforms into a [[Bishonen]].
* Stunfisk in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''. It's not ''so'' bad (Okay, yes it is), but it lives in a world of cuteness. {{spoiler|Ironicaly, in the [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] anime, Cilan, a character known for his good looks and [[Bishonen]]-ness, is the one who catches it.}}
** Jynx is a Gonk all the way from the Indigo League. It also looks like a [[Unfortunate Implications|blackface]] caricature, possibly intentional assuming it's a combination of [[Captain Ethnic|Black Pete and an Opera Singer]]. Another interpretation is that it was based on Japanese fashion trend "Ganguro" but Gamefreak admit they don't remember what they were thinking when they drew it, most likely it was this trope.
* ''[[Jet Set Radio]]'' has a collection of colorful and unique-looking characters. [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100812070523/jetsetradio/images/9/97/Slate.png Soda] takes this a step further with his tall height, long limbs, [[Gag Nose|big nose]], and odd hairstyle, which make him look sorta like a Muppet.
* ''[[Undertale]]'' has [[Deranged Animation|Burgerpants]] and [[Eldritch Abomination|the]] [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Amalgamates]].
** Meanwhile, ''Radiation's [[Earthbound]] Halloween Hack'' has [[Nightmare Face|the Desire Dog]], [[Third Eye|the Phaze Destrortur]] and [[Mix-and-Match Critters|the Amalgamates]].
== Web Comics ==
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* Waluigi in ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' is particularly hideous among a cast of generally-adorable characters.
* Reika Kongouji, from ''Getter Love!!'' And she's ''female''!
== Western Animation ==
* Duchess in ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
* Ren and Stimpy from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''.
* Cotton in ''[[King of the Hill]]''.
* Debbie the prostitute in ''[[The Life and Times of Tim]]''.
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** Not just him either; the extreme divergence of body and facial types between natives of different islands makes for some '''really''' weird-looking people.
* Most of the characters from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' who don't quite fit in with the standard character design of the oUo face end up invoking this trope. Special mention goes to Xergiok, many of the monsters, the Tree Witch, and arguably, Lemongrab. In a show where most of the characters have very similar faces, the difference can be extremely jarring, and the gonks may not even appear to be from the same show.
* Han Solo in ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'''s animated segment. He looks nothing like [[Harrison Ford]] ''or'' anyone else in the cartoon. Scroll down to the bottom of [https://web.archive.org/web/20141004202625/http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/photos/cartoon.htm this page] and compare Luke and Han. * shudder*
* So many of [[Spark Plug Entertainment]]'s characters are like this, but the best example is the lantern-jawed bee Pistol in [[Bee Movie|Plan Bee]]. All the cars in ''[[Cars|A Car's Life:]] [[A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure|Sparky's Big Adventure]]'' easily qualify, too.
* A large number of (recurring) backround characters in ''[[Invader Zim]]''.
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* Kate from ''[[Will and Dewitt]]''.
* Snips and Snails from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' qualify (''especially'' Snips, who looks more like a buck-toothed piglet than anything equine). They're unicorns like some of the other [[Incredibly Lame Pun|mane cast]] but even among the colts of the series are pretty ugly, just barely bordering on [[Ugly Cute]].
* Anyone who lives in Planville who isn't [[Idiot Hero|Rudy]] or [[Secret Keeper|Penny]] from ''[[
* Peppertmint Larry and Doctor Barber from ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''.
** [[Grotesque Gallery|Most of the people]] in Stormalong would qualify, actually.
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* Most non-humans in ''[[Ugly Americans]]'', [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as the title would suggest]].
* Two cars in Paris in [[Cars|''Cars 2'']] have mismatched eyes on their windshields, have dented bodies, and crooked teeth inside their bumpers. However, a forklift artist for some reason actually decided to draw them as both being extremely attractive-looking.
* Anton St. Germain and Penny from [[The Mighty B!]]. An online reviewer even stated theat Penny looks like a gorilla.
* The Angry Cop and the guy that sold [[Butt Monkey|Gerold]] a highway from [[The Goode Family]] episode "[[Parody Episode|Gerold's Way or The Highway]]".
* [[Fat Idiot|Baby Taz]] from [[Baby Looney Tunes]].
* [[Keet|Meelo]] from ''[[The Legend of Korra]].''
* '''Many''' of the characters in the ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' series, most notably:
** Mondo, whose true form looks like a horrifically mutated version of [[Super Mario Bros|NES Bowser]].
** The Ulcer, who is basically a living fetus with a comically oversized head and a barely-even-existent actual body.
** Di Lung, who is so '''absurdly''' skinny that he might as well literally just be his own skeleton.
** Ma Bagge, who is a bald '''woman''' with a [[Lantern Jaw of Justice|chin]] that is almost as big as Eustace's.
** The "Perfect" creature, to the point where one of his arms is basically just a giant tentacle that happens to be connected to the top of his head (while his other arm seems to be some sort of "hammer thing").
** Conway The Contaminationist, whose physical condition '''far'''-too-clearly reflects both [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|his age]] and his "wallowing in filth" lifestyle.
== Other ==
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* Quentin Matsys' painting "[[wikipedia:The Ugly Duchess|The Ugly Duchess]]", which is believed to be the inspiration for the Duchess in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/forever-alone The Forever Alone guy], especially when he opens his mouth.
** Probably all the rage comic guys count. the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160724205333/http://viralmeme.us/okay-guy-memes/ okay guy], the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/me-gusta Me Gusta guy], the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rage-guy-fffffuuuuuuuu Rage Face guy], [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-crap-omg-rage-face Oh Crap guy], and especially the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/y-u-no-guy Y U NO guy].
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