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'''Starbuck''': There! You see? -- you don't know you're a woman!
'''Lizzie''': I am a woman! A plain one!
'''Starbuck''': There's no such thing as a plain woman! Every real woman is pretty! They're all pretty in a different way -- but they're all pretty!
|''[[The Rainmaker (theatre)|The Rainmaker]]''}}
Basically, this is when a girl (or, in some cases, a guy), regardless of her actual attractiveness, believes herself to be unattractive. Many such girls ''are'' lacking in conventional attractiveness, but it's rare for them to be actually ugly. Often the complaint of a girl who believes herself to be 'plain' or 'boring'.
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This is often the basis behind a [[Beautiful All Along]] or [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] event, when a character who is seen (rightly or wrongly) as unattractive is gussied up and made the Belle of the Ball. However, the main issue at hand is not how other characters see her, but the fact that she sees ''herself'' as unattractive. If the girl can realize her worth and attractiveness [[Just the Way You Are|without a makeover]], so much the better.
The [[Trope Namer]] is Thelma Possum from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110507020431/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00544.html Nip And Tuck]'', a webcomic by RH Junior. It takes a huge effort on the part of her beau and friends to convince her that she's beautiful and worth knowing.
Related to [[Hollywood Homely]], where we are ''informed'' that the girl is unattractive or ugly, and everyone in the show seems to believe it, but to us she seems quite pretty. With [[Suetiful All Along]], the author [[Informed Deformity|insists the character isn't pretty at the outset]], then lavishes complimentary descriptions on her the rest of the time. A girl who is fishing for compliments may ''pretend'' to feel this way, but she really doesn't. This can be [[Truth in Television]], if the girl in question has a poor self-image and/or unrealistic ideas of what constitutes beauty.
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* A very tragic case is {{spoiler|Yuri Tokikago}} from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'', who believes herself to be ugly {{spoiler|because of her [[Mad Artist]] dad's abuse.}}
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* The title character from ''[[Empowered]]'' tries to believe she's beautiful, but rarely manages it, despite being drop-dead gorgeous even by superheroine standards. [[Alpha Bitch|Sistah Spooky]]'s constant digs do nothing to help.
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* [[She's Got Legs|Dierdre "Nezumi" Mitako]] from the ''[[Inuyasha]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.suericfanfictions.com/ Purity 3: Forever]'' is a [[Wrench Wench]] who has been [[One of the Boys]] for so long that she has a hard time thinking about herself as an attractive woman, even though almost the entirety of the story is about a guy trying to convince her he actually loves her and wants to marry her.
* Ranma Saotome (who is locked in her [[Gender Bender|female form]]) suffers from this in spades in the ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossover fic ''[[Relatively Absent]]''. After reverting from her first transformation into Guardian Khronos, she retains the gorgeous mass of red hair she gained and is even ''more'' stunning in appearance than she was to start with -- but despite the obvious effect her appearance has on the residents of the Yamada compound ''and'' their verbal reassurances -- some very enthusiastic -- to the contrary, she is convinced she looks like "a complete idiot". "a total doofus" and "awful".
== Film (Animated) ==
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== Film (Live Action) ==
* Lizzie in ''[[
* Adrian in ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Shallow Hal]],'' when Hal (Jack Black) believes that his "slender" love-interest (Gwyneth Paltrow) has been abused into simply ''thinking'' she's not beautiful—when the fact is that she weighs 300 lbs., but he's simply been ''hypnotized'' into thinking that she looks like Gwyneth Paltrow.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[The Medic|Nurse Pamela]] from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' starts out believing herself to be 'plain and ordinary', but when she [[Letting Her Hair Down|lets her hair down]], she reveals that she was [[Beautiful All Along]]... and quite a [[Hospital Hottie]] to boot. [
* Marigold Farmer from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' believes herself to be fat and ugly. While she does have bad skin and poor hygiene, she's actually considered rather cute, and has a not-terrible figure, being [[Hollywood Pudgy]].
** Put her in a nice dress, and then [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1678 she] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1681 has] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1684 ''BREASTS'']
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* [[Audrey Hepburn]] thought she wasn't very attractive. Allegedly, she once said: "I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine".
* [[Meganekko]] [[Rachel Maddow]] said at a 2009 "New Yorker" Festival, "I'm not very pretty...I am what I am. I look like a [[Bifauxnen|dude]]. [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit|I wear boring jackets]] . I have a [[Cleopatra Nose|big nose]]. I have [[Boyish Short Hair|short hair]]. No one is going to mix me up with a Fox Business anchor."
* Male example: [[Benedict Cumberbatch]], who usually [https://web.archive.org/web/20130130154654/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4343480/Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-Im-not-even-the-sexiest-man-in-my-own-flat.html describes his looks] in a [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecating]] way.
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