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== [[Film]] ==
* In the 1980's live-action ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|movies]], the turtles are almost wanking over April. She's pretty much the first woman they've ever met in person.
* Dale Arden is described as beautiful in ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'', despite, you know... [[Ms. Fanservice|Princess Aura]], ''right next to her''. "She (Dale) even rivals your daughter (Aura)."
* In ''Enigma'', Saffron Burrows' character is continually portrayed as the more attractive of the two female characters (the [[Hollywood Homely|other female character]] is played by [[Kate Winslet]])
* Lisa from ''[[The Room]]''. The main characters state that she's "so beautiful" almost ad nauseam. In fairness, the actress is probably the best-looking one from the female cast, but she isn't helped by many of the styling choices she receives to make her look age-appropriate for Tommy Wiseau.
* Taylor Vaughan from ''[[She's All That]]'' is described as the girl that every other girl wants to be and every guy wants to nail. However, it's also implied that her reputation is mostly [[Loving a Shadow|built on an illusion]].
* Liza Minnelli in ''[[Arthur (film)|Arthur]]'' is portrayed as more desirable than Arthur's gorgeous blonde fiancee, though this is probably in part due to her personality.
* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'': When Edward Cullen is first introduced (slow motion entrance), Jessica describes him as "totally gorgeous" while Bella and Angela are practically drooling over him. The waitress at the restaurant is also shown checking him out. People also gush about Bella even though the school is filled with attractive girls actresses and the character is crushingly antisocial.
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* Lucy and Johanna in ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. The Judge goes psycho over them, though he is himself a psycho.
* Summer Finn in ''[[500 Days of Summer]]'' has an entire scene in the film that explains the "Summer Effect", which is basically this trope. There's a lot of work put into making sure that the audience understands that it isn't only Tom that's crazy about her. Tom gets into a bar fight over her with another guy for saying that she's too good for him.
* In ''[[The Hottie and The Nottie]]'' [[Paris Hilton]]'s character is the most beautiful woman in [[Los Angeles]] to the point where guys flock around her jogging route just to see her run. It may or may not be significant that Paris Hilton [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue|is one of the executive producers]].
* Amanda Jones in ''[[Some Kind of Wonderful]]'' is said to be the most attractive girl in school , while tomboy Watts is pretty much invisible to her best friend Keith.
* In ''[[American Pie]]'', Stifler's mom is considered something of a legend among high school boys and apparently even popularized the term [[Stacy's Mom|MILF]].
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* ''[[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time]]''{{'}}s Princess Tamina is said to be beautiful and when we get to see her Tus says "for once the stories are true" which all then men leer at her. Even the Prince can't take his eyes off her.
* In the movie to the musical ''[[Rent]]'', Maureen is described as a girl who "all the boys would look at since puberty".
* ''[[Snow White and the Huntsman]]'' sees [[Kristen Stewart]] cast against [[Charlize Theron]] as "fairest of them all". Stewart is quite attractive, but her alternative rocker-like looks and styling fall behind Theron's more conventionally attractive and glamorous appearance.
* In the [[Barbra Streisand]] vehicle ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]'', her [[Hollywood Homely|plain Jane]] character Rose undergoes a makeover to win over her inattentive husband. Suddenly, whereas no one gave her a second look before, every male within sight is fawning and gushing over her, even her 20-something years younger students, to the point where she needs to stop in the middle of a lecture to chastise them for ogling her.
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe, Twi'Leks. Female Twi'Leks are seen as incredibly sexy and beautiful. Out of universe, the opinion is more mixed.
* A plot point in ''[[Turning Red]]'': when Mei accompanies her friends to see Devon, the teenage clerk they all have a crush on, she finds the guy to be surprisingly normal: not ugly, but not as handsome as, say, the members of 4*Town, and truly not deserving the amount of attention he gets. Abby replies by pointing out that he ''is'' the most handsome guy about their age range they actually have any access to, as their boy band idols, while more attractive, are simply unattainable to teenagers like them. Sure off, much to her own chagrin, Mei gets a crush on Devon too, enough to stop a second to gawk at him and scream "AWOOGA!" while she is going on her first panda transformation rampage.
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