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{{quote| '''Victim''' (in a flashback, talking to an old friend of both him and the killer): Can you imagine it? She altered her face ''for me''! I ''never'' asked her for anything like that! ''Why'' did she change herself '''just to please me'''...? }}
** You would think the girl would get a hint when he made her sing ''Rudolph The Red '''Nose'''d Reindeer''.
* As far as manga goes, the popularity of ''[[Kimi
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Rather touchingly played straight in ''[[Bridget Jones]]'s Diary'', when Mark Darcy tells her he likes her "Just as she is".
* Played straight the very first ''[[Arthur (
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Harry on ''[[Empty Nest]]'' spends an episode talking a young female patient (played by Mayim Bialik of ''[[Blossom]]'', who was well-known in [[Real Life]] for her large nose) out of having rhinoplasty. She finally decides against in after speaking with a woman who has had tons of plastic surgery and is not any happier with herself.
* Brian on ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' becomes obsessed with a bump on his nose after a plastic surgeon points it out. He eventually plans to have his face overhauled until his brother Joe points out how much his various feature resemble those of several deceased relatives.
* In a refreshing change, Hawkeye and Trapper in an early episode of ''[[MASH]]'' actually give a soldier who wants it a nose-job (after a token attempt to talk him out of it), but in a later episode BJ refuses to perform blepharoplasty (eyelid lift) on an Asian boy because he's fine Just The Way He Is.
** This might have been (in part) because the Korean boy wants the eye lift to "look more American." BJ, quite disillusioned with the state of the world by this point, wants the boy to see that Americans aren't better than Koreans.
* This is, of course, exactly the opposite of how it works on ''[[Nip
* Rather cynically played with (perhaps an outright deconstruction) in a second-season episode of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', where in an attempt to investigate a plastic surgeon's possible gang connections, Veronica (played by ''[http://amansworldonline.com/wp-content/gallery/kristen-bell-1/kristen-bell-1.jpg Kristen Bell]'', people) starts listing "flaws" that she wants fixed for her eighteenth birthday. (She doesn't have a large chest--which she of course starts with as "the obvious"--but it wouldn't work with her body type anyway.) The surgeon hands her a pamphlet that deals with body issues, saying he'd refuse to operate on her, and leaves his obvious. She ''immediately'' gets suspicious of him...and turns out to be right.
* Averted on ''[[Daves World]]'', where Dave's friend Shel is an unrepentant plastic surgeon. During one episode, Shel's brother shows up unexpectedly at his office and convinces a potential patient of his with a Jimmy Durante nose that she's fine Just The Way She Is. Shel is, understandably, not pleased.
* Subverted in ''[[Malcolm in
* The entire "Born This Way" episode of [[Glee]]. Rachel breaks her nose, and decides to get a nose job. (Somehow, without parental consent?) The entire club takes sides, with nearly everyone on the "don't change how you look" side, and Quinn, interestingly, on Rachel's. Rachel, after 40 minutes of angsty singing, decides against a nose job, to the delight of her peers. Quinn, it is revealed, used to be overweight and had glasses, but now changed. However, this somehow works out for her, as people admire her for both being beatiful now and for being "herself" then. It's unclear what the message is for Quinn, as she still remains beautiful. One could argue that the message was for her to accept her old self, but that must be much easier [[Grass Is Greener|looking the way she does now]].
* In ''[[
* Sarah in ''Raising Dad'' became insecure about her nose (it didn't help that her father and sister were constantly making fun of it) and opted to get a nose job, which her friends were all against. A popular girl (whom Sarah secretly wanted to be more like) supports her and says she's planning to get a lot more surgery done on herself. Sarah is shocked at this since she considers the girl to look fine and then decides against the nose job.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Kat from ''[[
** A subtle subversion in that Antimony is almost always wearing makeup and manages to avoid carrying on a conversation directly after this [[Cosmetic Catastrophe]] with Kat as to why Annie needs to wear it.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Cyclopean Leela on ''[[Futurama]]'' gets another eye, but after seeing a three-eared girl get teased, decides she was wonderful Just The Way She Was and [[Status Quo Is God|reverts to normal]].
* One ''[[
* On ''Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys'' (2001), the cheesy CGI sequel to ''[[Rudolph the Red
* This happened twice on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', to both Marge (breasts) and Moe (face) although both cases were sufficiently surreal and self-consciously bizarre to sort-of-avoid such direct moralizing as this trope implies.
** Moe never actually learns the Aesop, and indeed everyone around him treats him ''better'' due to his plastic surgery. The only reason he changes back at the end is because [[Status Quo Is God|of a freak accident that hideously deforms his face, coincidentally changing it back to the way it once was]].
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