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'''[[Those Two Guys|Kitamoto and Yushimura]]''': ''Liar!''<br />
'''Natsume''': Eh? Are you serious? }}
* A conversation in the fifth volume of ''[[Durarara!!]]'' suggests that Shizuo Heiwajima is entirely oblivious to the fact that he looks like... well, ''[[Bishonen|Shizuo Heiwajima]]''.
* Yura of ''[[Honey Hunt]]'' believes herself to be plain. This isn't helped by how other people tell her that compared to her beautiful and successful mother she's quite plain. However, once she loses the glasses and fixes her hair she can actually be quite good looking.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|Kushina}} says this word by word when {{spoiler|we finally meet her. Even if she's, well, dead. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].}}
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* Anne Shirley, of ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]''. While in the first book she genuinely ''is'' as plain as she believes herself to be, as she matures she takes on a kind of attractiveness that's just unconventional for her time period. The fact that she's a [[Fiery Redhead]] in a time period where red hair was deemed horribly unattractive does give her some grounds for believing this even as an adult, however untrue it really is. It's implied that sympathetic people are the kind who will find her pretty, while the jerks think her plain.
* Early on, [[Jane Eyre]] believes [[Byronic Hero|Mr. Rochester]] isn't interested in a homely woman like her, and is instead pursuing [[Alpha Bitch|Blanche Ingram]], a beautiful and classy dame.
* Parodied in [[Discworld]]. Where the human-despite-all-appearances-to-the-contrary-Nobby Nobbs starts dating a beautiful strip dancer, no one can believe it. Apparently, she thinks herself ugly. Why? Because every other guy assumed that she was out of there league and never approached her, leading her to believe she was unattractive.
* The heroine of Stephen R. Donaldson's ''The Mirror of Her Dreams'' is described from the start as beautiful. Those who meet her frequently remark on how lovely she is; her love interest's sister-in-law says, approximately, "He told us a great deal about you, and yet he never mentioned that you could have any man you wanted." Due mostly to [[Abusive Parents|her father's emotional abuse]], her response to all such remarks is to silently wonder (she's too shy to say it aloud), "Do you really think I'm pretty?"
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