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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Miracleman]]'', Miraclewoman gets this from the most advanced being in the universe, a brain the size of a continent. "In spite of your ugliness, you are wise."
* In ''[[Zits]]'', a fly declares Jeremy ugly just as he declares the fly ugly.
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* Bast, the Egyptian Goddess of Cats doesn't exactly say Morpheus is ''ugly'', but in ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue "Season of Mists", she says she finds him much more attractive in cat form. Bast ''is'' an anthropomorphic cat.
== [[Film]] ==
== Films -- Animation ==▼
* In ''[[Spirited Away]]'', the spirits seem to have this opinion of humans, or at least of <s>Chihiro</s> Sen. Likely because, despite many taking humanoid forms, they're not actually human spirits, but creatures like weasels, etc..
* In the original ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', Dr. Zira has to get over her human revulsion when Taylor asks for a goodbye kiss. She also remarks how ugly he looks after shaving off his beard.
* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'': The first thing the Duras sisters see through LaForge's VISOR is Dr. Crusher. Their response? "Human females are so repulsive!"
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'''Jerry:''' ''(grinning)'' You... are... welcome. }}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* Discussed in ''[[Ender's Game]]'', when Ender muses that the aliens (nicknamed "Buggers" by humans, [[Captain Obvious|presumably because they resemble giant bugs]]) probably refer to humans as "Slimies" owing to their soft oily exteriors rather than hard exoskeletons.▼
▲== Literature ==
▲* Discussed in [[Ender's Game]], when Ender muses that the aliens (nicknamed "Buggers" by humans, [[Captain Obvious|presumably because they resemble giant bugs]]) probably refer to humans as "Slimies" owing to their soft oily exteriors rather than hard exoskeletons.
* In [[Robert Silverberg]]'s ''Ishmael in Love'', the dolphin narrator, despite being [[Mars Needs Women|in love with a human woman]], often describes the human body as being ugly and ungainly.
* In [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth|Nor Crystal Tears]]'', the Thranx are deeply unnerved and revolted by humanity's endoskeletal bodies and bizarre upright posture. Of course, humans return the favor, as Thranx are essentially four-foot-tall praying mantises. Fortunately, both sides largely get over those gut reactions with a lot of work.
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{{quote|'''Blair:''' You are displaying the childish human weakness of hating the different. On its own world it would probably class you as a fish-belly, white monstrosity with an insufficient number of eyes and a fungoid body pale and bloated with gas. Just because its nature is different, you haven't any right to say it's necessarily evil.}}
* ''[[In the Courts of The Crimson Kings]]''. A Martian biologist examines a captive human, and despite his similar bipedal form is squicked by such things as body hair and sweat.
* In [[C. S.
* In the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' short story "Myth Congeniality", the drop-dead-gorgeous Bunny is rated lowest in a cross-dimensional beauty contest, competing against females from hundreds of nonhuman and non-humanoid species. {{spoiler|But she wins the prize anyway, being the only contestant who wasn't disqualified for cheating.}}
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''; in the episode "Devil in the Dark", the horta claims it finds humans "revolting".
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Home Soil": The ship is taken over by intelligent microscopic crystals that call humans (and every other sentient being on the ''Enterprise'') "UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER".
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{{quote|'''The Groosalugg''': (''confused that Cordelia finds him attractive'') Don't you see this strange bulge in my arms? (''points to his biceps'') This strange curve in my mouth? (''points to his mouth'') My heart... beating in the wrong place? (''puts Cordelia's hand over his heart'')}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Trope Overdosed|Naturally]], ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has it's own contributions to the trope. Orks, [[Our Orcs Are Different|hulking fungus-beasts]], view humans mostly with derison instead of outright disgust due to being less capable in combat, referring to them as pink and squishy, while [[Our Elves Are Better|the Eldar]], [[Fantastic Racism|massive specieist dicks that they are]], view humans as ungainly, hairy beasts on top of being bumbling and stupid.
** Of course, Orks tend to shut up when the [[Warrior Monk|Space]] [[Super Soldier|Marines]] are deployed in combat. Eldar continue their view of us as clumsy, inelegant beasts however. At least they do up until the point aformentioned [[Space Marine]] buries a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsword]] in their face.
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'',
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The VUX from ''[[Star Control]] II'' think humans are so ugly and repulsive that they can't help but want them exterminated. Ironically, when the game starts, humanity thinks they're on bad terms with the VUX because, on first contact, the human captain involved insulted ''their'' looks, not knowing how advanced VUX [[Translator Microbes]] are. You have to pry the real reason out of them. Except for Admiral ZEX... who [[Nightmare Fetishist|finds them rather attractive]]...
** Or remember the dialog when you first find a Spathi ship and you haven't allied with them yet.
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* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' has Garrus as a romance option for a female Shepard. He outright states that he finds humans ugly, but he's far more attracted to Shepard's personality than her face.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', Quentyn reacts to his new sidekick's, Sam, demands to respect her modesty when she is forced to bathe by him by noting that he finds nothing attractive in beings like Humans and Elves who look like naked rodents to him. However, when Sam emerges, Quentyn notes that her now clean bright blonde hair looks nice, and that if she had proper body fur someone could come after her for her pelt.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', one of Princess Voluptua's subordinates criticizes her for [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|disguising herself as a human.]] "'Tis undignified for the heir apparent to dress like a monkey!"
* On the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' episode "The Mirror", Goliath mentions that he never realized Elisa was beautiful until she was turned into a gargoyle. She replies "You mean you thought I was ugly?" Goliath quickly changes the subject.
* In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Band Geeks", Squidward's band ends up playing at a human football game.
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* In ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'' this is the general opinion the frog-like residents of Wartwood have; even the ones who ''like'' Anne call her "ugly", while most townsfolk think she's some sort of monster. Until the episode "Breakout Star", when she wakes up with bad acne, and everyone thinks they're warts, which to their eyes, makes her ''beautiful''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Koko, the gorilla who knows sign language, dismissed the idea that humans are better than gorillas because the humans are so much uglier. In the same conversation, she said she doesn't think that humans are smarter, either, since Koko was the one who figured out how to talk to humans with sign language.
* Deconstructed by humanity's attitude to earthbound "alien" species, like
* Otherkin, Therians, Na'vi-kin and other people with body identity disorders who believe themselves to belong to species other than the [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|human race]] tend toward this. It's played for laughs in public, but...
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