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* [[The Joker]] gets this quite frequently, ESPECIALLY after ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. Granted Heath was a pretty guy but his Joker looks quite gross with his poor hygiene, wrinkled face and nasty scars. Of course, he becomes a pretty bishonen with cool scars in loads of fanart.
* [[Wolverine]]. He's a short<ref>5' 3" officially; compare average US height (20+ years old), which is about 5' 9" for males, 5' 4" for females</ref>, surly man with more body hair then a bear. Count how many times he's given a height boost, a full-body wax, and just made flat-out generic handsome.
** Being played by [[Hugh Jackman]] in the movies for one.
* [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach.]] [http://envyskort.deviantart.com/art/HOW-DO-YOU-SEE-RORSCHACH-117644213 'Nuff said.]
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== Film ==
* There is art depicting [[The Ring|Sadako Yamamura/Samara Morgan]] as a [[Moe]] [[Shrinking Violet]].
* Given that the entire cast of ''[[9|Nine]]'' are non-humans, fanart of them as humans was inevitable... and yes, usually, every single one of them will be drawn extremely attractive. [[Action Girl|Sexy tribal warrior chick]] 7, 3 and 4 as [[Cute Mute|themselves]], [[Moe]] 5 and 6, [[Resident Evil|Chris Redfield!]]8, or - hell with it - [[Hot Dad]] 1 and 2, anyone?
** Even the regular stitchpunk versions of the characters are sexed up. And especially the OCs. So. Many. Boobs!
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== Video Games ==
* Unsurprisingly, [[Metroid|Samus Aran]] has been getting a triple serving of it ever since the introduction of the [[Latex Space Suit|Zero Suit]]. <ref>[[Super Smash Bros.|Brawl]] then proceeded to '''''[[Up to Eleven|super-size]]''''' said serving with a topping of [[Male Gaze]] and [[Fetish Fuel|incredibly blatant BDSM overtones.]]</ref> See for yourself: [http://www.metroid-database.com/mzm/art/zss_crawl.jpg original artwork,] [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/images/zerosuit_samus/zerosuit_samus.jpg Brawl,] [http://transfuse.deviantart.com/art/Zero-Suit-Samus-Animu-138572532 fan art.] Look on the bright side: at least it doesn't make her look too different from her canon portrayal.
* Alma from the ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]'' games.
** Of course, post-Project Origin, this isn't quite so applicable. Healthy (as opposed to emaciated) adult Alma is actually attractive ([[Full-Frontal Assault|and naked all the time. No matter what.]]).
* Dark Link, a mindless, faceless living shadow from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' is almost always drawn as a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], often with peach skin and normal eyes in reference to Shadow Link from the ''Four Swords Adventures'' manga.
** The only time Dark Link has had a face (along with a regular Master Sword) is in [[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl and even that's due to [[Palette Swap]] issues. When you fight him in an event match, Dark Link is his normal faceless self.
** A good bit of Midna fanart (the ones by Japanese fan artist Dogear, in particular) up her from amply-curved to extremely amply-curved. Though there's just as much that goes the opposite extreme and makes her sort of a reverse-[[Pettanko]]...
** Navi, in the games she's a floating ball of light, in the fanart she's sort of an angel with fairy wings & a skimpy costume/wearing nothing.
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** Amaterasu has gotten to the point where people SERIOUSLY want Amaterasu to appear in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in her human goddess form... even though it doesn't exist in her game.
* A few ''[[Pokémon]]'' characters get this. For example, Silver has a large fan base that makes him seem different from what he is... It's hard to tell which Silver (Special!Silver or Game!Silver) has the fan base at times though.
** Differently from what he is [[Draco in Leather Pants|personality-wise]], maybe? They're [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:HeartGold_SoulSilver_Silver.png pretty] [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:SilverinHGSS.png justified] in his appearance in HGSS.
** Red is an interesting case. While he isn't ''ugly'' per say he is more of a [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]. Even at age fourteen in the [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|original games]], he is still a rather scrawny looking kid with unruly hair. Fans however ignore this, making him [[Bishonen]] and combing his hair down. Even for the remakes, fans use this design, despite the fact he has a new design which is slick and [[Bishonen]] at that age.
** Fan arts of feminine-looking Pokémon (such as Gardevoir) are usually drawn more attractively.
** Cynthia often gets a few cup sizes larger than she is in canon.
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** On the other hand, [[Lolicon|lolicons]] find Etna and Flonne ([[Stripperiffic|especially Etna]] to be an excellent source of fanservice just the way they are.
* ''[[Kirby]]'' fans mostly leave the characters alone...except for Zero Two, who is continually transformed from a floating white ball into an angel in fanart.
** Whenever Kirby is drawn as a human fans typically don't make him that chubby. You'll often see Dedede not being as big as you'd expect either.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Blaze the Cat]] is quite a prominent victim of this. [[Fan Art]] thends to give her a humanoid body and greatly expand her bust size. Even when the rest of the cast are normal.
** Oh, and [http://media.photobucket.com/image/Sexy%20Sonic%20Shadow/bluecynder/Sonic%2520The%2520Hedgehog/sexyshadowOMFG.jpg Shadow] too.
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** Duster also gets this treatment quite a lot.
* Juhani and Mical (aka "The Disciple") from [[Knights of the Old Republic]] have somewhat unfortunate character models in-game. The [[Game Mod]] and [[Fan Art]] crews usually tweak the models just enough to make them look a little less plastic-looking.
* ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'s'' Jade, although attractive on her own, is known for her ''lack'' of fanservicey-ness, because, in contrast to [[Third Person Seductress|the trends where many female game protagonists are involved]], she dresses sensibly and has realistic, er, [[Most Common Superpower|proportions]]. Along come the fanartists, dressing her in [[Stripperiffic|skimpy clothing]] and giving her a bustline ranging from "maybe she's wearing a push-up bra in this one" to [[Gag Boobs|"Holy back problems, Batman!"]]
** On the fan''girl'' end of the scale, there's Double H. Although he has an [[Adorkable|appealing personality]], his character design isn't especially attractive. Fanart either tends to soften his extremer traits, making him more conventionally handsome, or ignore them completely to make him cute and adorable.
* A divisive example of this is fan-made mods for games like [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]] and the [[Dragon Age]] series, where in-game modifications to "beautify" characters like Aela the Huntress and Aveline exist, though male characters aren't immune either. Far more controversial are the mods that give Dragon Age's Isabella [[Race Lift|lighter skin]], especially if they're explicitly stated by the mod's creator to be self-fanservice.
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* Quite possibly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [http://brawlinthefamily.com/images/W017.jpg this] ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' strip (original page found [http://brawlinthefamily.com/comic151.html here]).
* Given the cartoonish style of ''[[Homestuck]]'', there's a lot of room for interpretation as to how attractive the characters are, but the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Trolls]] are generally drawn in fanart as pretty good-looking for grey-skinned, horned aliens.
** It's actually ''[[Playing with a Trope|inverted]]'' with the Exiles and other characters from Prospit/Derse, who are often drawn with carapaces, claws, and other details that are left out of the more stylistic art of the main series.
** The scrawny, wheel-chair bound Tavros is depicted as being [[the Big Guy]] shockingly often.
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** The elf Vaarsuvius is perfectly androgynous and, by implication, not necessarily attractive to human eyes. Give the character the Woobie treatment and make their modestly-lengthed (purple) hair grow to long, wild and luxurious (purple) lengths as a side effect of a magic spell, however, and what you get is fanart and fanfic that accentuate the character's ethereal and feyish frailty, their delicate appearance, etc. etc. And don't forget the pointed ear fetishism.
*** It becomes apparent in Vaarsuvius fanart that his/her androgeny is difficult to translate into more detailed (i.e. not stick figure) art styles. So usually you get feminine features on an [[Pettanko|ambiguously feminine]] body.
** [[Lovable Rogue|Haley]], [[Cloudcuckoolander|Elan]], and [[Knight Templar|Miko]] are all treated as being quite attractive by other characters, so it's understandable that they're drawn as such.
** Of course, everyone in the comic is a [[Stick Figure Comic|stick figure]], so any fanart depicting them as attractive is [[Self Fanservice]].
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.
** Strong Bad intentionally does this to himself all the time, and he invented [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Different_Town_Character_Variations#Modestly_Hot_Homsar Modestly Hot Homsar].
** On that matter, it looks like turning Strong Sad into a hoodie-wearing Emo kid has become increasingly popular. A rather ''thin'' one too.
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** Taken to ridiculous levels in the [[Hate Fic]]/WankFic "Beer Enema". A lot of people think the Critic is pretty, yes, but there is NO FUCKING WAY you could think he has a "barbie doll face".
* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', with its [[Estrogen Brigade]] and humongous following on [[Pixiv]], has a large percentage of its fanart containing [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Moe Anthropomorphisms]] of the critters. Not a big deal, but humanized Flippy is almost always a teenage [[Bishonen]], undoubtedly due to being [[Draco in Leather Pants]]. Being that Flippy was a war veteran, he should theoretically be ''much'' older than how he's often drawn. And then there's Flaky, who despite her well-known [[Ambiguous Gender|androgyny]] tends to get a [[Girliness Upgrade]] thrown on her like a ton of bricks.
* The [[The Runaway Guys|Runaway Guys.]] Not only are they transformed into cute anime-versions of themselves in fanart, they're also subject to some peculiar [[Self-Insert Fic|Self Insert Fanart]] at the hands of their fangirls. It doesn't help that, between them, [[Proton Jon]] is noted for his resemblance to erstwhile fangirl bait [[Metal Gear Solid|Otacon]], [[Chuggaaconroy]] is [[Adorkable]] (in particular, his [[Flanderized]] wearing of polo shirts), and [[Nintendo Capri Sun]] is a legendarily [[Nice Guy]].
== Western Animation ==
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** More surprisingly, [[Terrible Trio|the Kanker Sisters]] also get a lot of this, especially [http://14-bis.deviantart.com/art/Trailer-Trash-208760185 Marie].
* ''[[South Park]]'' gets rampant Stan/Kyle slash and anime-style fanart of the boys as [[Bishonen]]. Sometimes you realize that the '''skinny''', bishonen guy in the red shirt...is supposed to be Cartman.
** Even typically most people rarely draw Cartman as obese as he actually is. They draw him larger than the others but he's not half as fat as he should be. On a different note most fanarts also don't draw Kyle with a jewfro (instead making it into a vaguely curly, straight hairstyle), give Kenny longer hair, and give Butters more hair.
* Fanart of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' as a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Skinned Space Stud]].
** Zim is not the only recipient of Self Fanservice in the series. Far from it.
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** Like her brother, 10-year-old Gaz in fanart is aged up and given all the beauty that comes with it.
** Non-shipper fans of Invader Zim live in fear of the day GIR gets this treatment. It's only a matter of time.
*** Those who spend a lot of time on Hentai Foundry know it's already happened.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' fanfiction makes the average men musclebound beefcake via [[Applied Phlebotinum|Science Induced Phlebotinum]]. And turns Hank's and Dean's brotherly love into [[Yaoi]]. Not to mention those Brock on Doc fics where Doc somehow grows hair and muscles.
* In ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', one minor, self-conscious use of this trope in the fandom involves giving [[Ugly Cute|Murderface]] a more flattering haircut than the triangular 'do he has in the show.
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