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An unbelievably hot woman appears to seduce the protagonist, but ends up humiliating and rejecting him. He then finds out she is the acne-ridden wallflower he ridiculed in [[High School]] -- [[She
If she's really pissed off, this plot can morph into [[Reunion Revenge]].
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Not often seen gender-reversed, but it's not unheard of.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[
== Film ==
* The '70s TV movie ''[[The Girl Most Likely To]]'' has Stockard Channing as a campus ugly duckling who gets in a car accident, and subsequently undergoes plastic surgery that turns her into a knockout. She spends the rest of the movie finding the pretty people who'd picked on her before the accident and bumping them off one by one.
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== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' has flipped example where Oswald, who was likeable enough in high school, had dumped a girl because she was extremely fat and never talked to her again after the second date (he specifically goes out of his way to avoid her). As an adult the same girl, now 140 pounds lighter, gets him to a agree to be handcuffed on the bed where all the guests coats are for a party. She then pulls his underwear down and tells him who she was; she actually told him her name at the beginning but Oswald had only remembered her as "porky" the fat girl
* Gender-reversed: Donny Doyle in ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[Fantasy Island]]'', Adrienne Barbeau played an overweight woman whose fantasy was to become thin and beautiful so that she could seduce the man who humiliated her in high school (who also happened to be on the island) and get revenge on him.
* ''[[Friends]]'', in at least one episode. Chandler has always been a [[Man Child]], apparently since he ''was'' a child, and there was one incident in high school where he pantsed a girl during a school play or something. When they happen to bump into each other as adults she's played by Julia Roberts. Since at this point in the series Chandler is an [[Unlucky In Love]] [[Butt Monkey]], he's grateful for the attention from someone so hot, and very grateful that she seems to have forgiven him. In fact, he's so grateful for it that he goes along with it when she expresses an interest in him wearing woman's underwear for a day, and then having sex in a bathroom stall. Of course, she takes his clothes and leaves. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Turns out she hadn't forgiven him]].
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* Completly averted in ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]''. Jim is being haunted by the ghost of a girl he knew in highschool. She was a supermodel before she died, but the ugly duckling in school. The twist is she's trying to comunicate with him because he was the only guy who ever made her feel pretty back before all the plastic surgery. And she wants him to save her sister from the same fate she suffered.
* ''[[Growing Pains]]''
* A one-shot antagonist ([[Black and Grey Morality|protagonist?]]) in ''[[
* ''[[Married...
** She didn't get off scott free anyway. Kelly, figuring this would happened, manged to bind and gag her, dress her in nothing but a towel and then tie a string to Buck's mouth while waiting for morning classes in the school. She then called Buck over and had him tug off the towel just as kids were filling the halls.
*** There was another example from ''[[Married...
* ''[[Sports Night]]'': Bobbi Bernstein is a substitute anchor who rails against Dan for having slept with her in Spain and then never called her. Dan claims to have never met Bobbi before she started working on his
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' in an episode where Eric's attractive female cousin convinces Eric that she's not really his cousin and pretends to be interested in him, then humiliates him when he makes advances on her.
* Interesting variation in ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' where it happens to Alan of all people. The girl was very attracted to him in high school, and gave him many not so subtle hints. Alan wasn't mean to her, in fact they were great friends, but his general obliviousness towards women kept him from making a move. Still, she was quite pissed.
* ''[[Ugly Betty]]''
* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'' featured a subversion: Annie was seeking revenge on several people who made her life hell during high school, only to be prevented at the last minute (for instance, her [[Sadist Teacher|sadistic gym coach]] became a nun). This culminated in her parading in front of the apparently happy and successful ex-boyfriend showing him "what he missed" and finally asking him "Well, like what you see?". His response? "I can't see anything, ''I'm blind''."
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