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* In an early ''[[Mack Bolan]]: Executioner'' novel, the hero gets plastic surgery that makes him look ''Italian''. More specifically, like an Italian-American buddy of his in the [[Vietnam War]], making it even more unlikely (underlying bone structure?)
* In a popular spy series, the hero receives plastic surgery after every mission. He no longer remembers what he used to look like.
* [[Gore Vidal]]'s book ''Myra Breckinridge'' involved a gay man (Myron Breckinridge) [[TranssexualTranssexualism|getting a sex change]] to become the title character. For the movie version, they hired Raquel Welch to play the female Myra... and ''Rex Reed'' to play Myron.
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'' there exists a type of plastic surgery called biosculpting, using nanotech to... basically do what modern-day plastic surgery does.
** Biosculpting is repeatedly mentioned in the series as something the rich indulge in. The phrase "could have easily afforded it but didn't, saying interesting things about X's character" seems to appear in some variation quite frequently too suggesting that the author doesn't like or think much of those who use plastic surgery as all the "principled" people don't use biosculpt.