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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 (Literature)|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]].}}
* In ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'', the teenage Angelina believes she's ugly, [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry|especially when compared to her big sister]].
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Vietnam considers herself to be plain and not photogenic. Taiwan tells her she's a cutie, though.
** Belgium also considers herself as such, but doesn't make a big fuss of it. In her own words:
{{quote| '''Belgium:''' "With all these strong guys around me, I may appear a bit plain, but I'm doing my best"}}
* Sakurako Sanjou from ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'' gets extensive plastic surgery just because other children, especial importance placed on Tsukasa, called her ugly as a kid. In the Japanese drama, the girl playing her is [[Hollywood Homely|not at all ugly.]]
* A very tragic case is {{spoiler|Yuri Tokikago}} from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum (Anime)|Mawaru Penguindrum]]'', who believes herself to be ugly {{spoiler|because of her [[Mad Artist]] dad's abuse.}}
 
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* Lizzie in ''[[Theater/The Rainmaker|The Rainmaker]]'' insists she's plain. Starbuck [[Letting Her Hair Down|takes her hair down]] and convinces her otherwise.
* Adrian in ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|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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* Sara Crewe in ''[[A Little Princess]]'' thinks she must not be pretty because she doesn't mesh with the beauty standards of late-nineteenth-century England, being small, skinny, black-haired and green-eyed, but the author tells us that she's definitely pretty in her own way.
* In ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (Literaturenovel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', it's more of a matter that Sophie lacked confidence and self-esteem to see herself as pretty and sees herself as plain and doomed to a boring life.
** And [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Wrong Genre Saviness]]: Sophie ''is'' the eldest of three sisters, and ''is'' in a story - she just assumes it's a classic fairy tale instead of modern fantasy.
* Bella of ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' does this ''constantly''.
* Anne Shirley, of ''[[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|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.
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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 Aa 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 [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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