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** [[All There in the Manual|Databook]] descriptions aside however, Kishimoto draws Hinata buxom and [[Moeand|cute as a button]] while Sakura reaps all the benefits of [[Generic Cuteness]] and makes up for her lack of endowment with a different focal point.

* ''[[Soul Eater]]'': Some people are trying to figure out what Shinigami-sama looks like behind his mask. Of course, since his son is the somewhat Bishounen Death The Kid, people (read: mostly fangirls) think that he must be even more [http://mikageakizuki.deviantart.com/art/Gijinka-Shinigami-sama-107450662 sexy-looking.]

** He's the anthropomorphic personification of ''death''. What do you expect to find under the mask?

** The manga has, in fact, indicated that Shinigami ''might'' have/had a human form at one point; one, Mosquito knows what the Lines of Sanzu are, which Shinigami doesn't obviously have at the moment, and two Kid is a sort-of clone of Shinigami.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[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.

* This often happens to the kids from ''[[Peanuts]]''. A few examples would be [http://ctw36.deviantart.com/art/Play-it-again-Schroeder-90276883 this picture of Lucy and Schroeder], [http://gugi40.deviantart.com/art/Linus-74902185 this Linus], or [http://blackjack-davie.deviantart.com/art/Peppermint-Patty-puberty-137735565 this Peppermint Patty].

 

== Film ==

* Given that the entire cast of ''[[9]]'' 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!

** And Lucius' son, played by Tom Felton, isn't too shabby himself.

*** This actually came up in one of the interviews with J.K. Rowling, once—she mentioned not quite understanding [[Draco in Leather Pants|Draco's leather-pantsed status]], pointing out that she never said he was attractive in the actual books.

* Crowley is almost always depicted as suavely handsome in the ''[[Good Omens]]'' fandom, which does make sense. Aziraphale was also commonly portrayed as angelically beautiful in early ''GO'' fandom, but more recent fanworks seem to be moving away from this trope in regards to him, going for a more plausibly middle-aged, plump, and/or bookish appearance. Some of them do go the [[Nerds Are Sexy]] route, but it's still a far cry from pretty!Aziraphale.

* There's fan art for ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' which depicts one of the minor villains—a bald, big-nosed [[Dirty Old Man]] who sometimes wears a scruffy white wig—as a gothy [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]].

 

* Oh, the things the ''[[LazyTown]]'' fandom does to Sportacus and Robbie Rotten... The extreme athleticism of the former and... ''suspicious bulge'' of the latter may be bordering on [[Parent Service]]. Either way, the [[Periphery Demographic]] has made some... ''interesting'' things of both of them. And, from an entirely different quarter, [[Lolicon|Stephanie.]]

* Apparently some ''[[Supernatural]]'' fans think that Gabriel isn't pretty enough and thus give him a new, drop-dead gorgeous vessel in their fanfics so that he can fit the archangel part better in looks. No, really. [http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9660970.html There's even a post on fanficrants about it.]

 

== Toys ==

** Don't forget [[Furry Fandom|Frog]].

** To be fair, he was [http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Guile.html designed to be very pretty in the sequel(s).]

*** He always had Vegeta's face, except paler. And Piccolo's body structure (tall and muscular). [[Akira Toriyama]] tends to reuse character designs, after all.

** Also Lucca.

** Mario is a short, plump, round-faced toon with a big nose and solid mustache. When the trope is applied, you get the most average looking anime character in existence that happens to be wearing a red cap with overalls, that used a pencil to scribble on their upper lip. Oddly enough he'll always stand taller than Peach, even though not a single video game has portrayed him taller than the princess. Luigi is the same, just taller. Wario replaces all fat with muscles, maybe a slightly thicker mustache, and Waluigi is just a sly, tall, lanky version of Mario.

** Both Peach and Daisy also get this a lot. ''A lot.'' It's considered a fetish to a good amount of people. Peach goes from a slightly ditzy, easily tricked lady with plain expressions, with absolutely nothing overly sexual about her character other than that she's pretty. The fans amp up the boobs and remove 50% of her dress. This is assuming she's IN a dress and not something sluttier...

** Even fans who aren't really trying to pretty them up generally draw them younger than the character models appear to be, i.e. as young adults or sometimes teenagers; the Special Infected may be [[Younger Than They Look]] [[Epileptic Trees|as a side effect of the virus]] (this is a common fan theory), but they still ''look'' like they're at least in their thirties in-game. Again, this happens the most with the Witch and the Hunter. Mind you, getting close enough to take a good look at their faces in-game (as opposed to in Garry's Mod or looking at a reference picture) is difficult and inadvisable, so this is forgivable.

** Also, since a lot of their grossness comes from icky details, simplifying an Infected's appearance will obviously make them cuter as well.

* Characters from ''[[Okami]]'' find themselves subject to this quite a bit. [[The Faceless|Perpetually]] [[Mask Power|masked]] Oki is invariably assumed to be [[Bishonen]] under the disguise and tiny, [[The Napoleon|Napoleon]] Issun usually ends up as a [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]. The most notorious example has to be the protagonist, Amaterasu. In the game, she's a nonanthropomorphic wolf. In fanart... well, [http://kaze-hime.deviantart.com/art/Okami-83412801 maybe] [http://oreo-the-artist.deviantart.com/art/Okami-73020562 you] [http://kaze-hime.deviantart.com/art/Okami-45412844 should] [http://kaze-hime.deviantart.com/art/Okami-Amaterasu-84283977 just] [http://draa.deviantart.com/art/Okami-Amaterasu-65889723 see] [http://ryo-hakkai.deviantart.com/art/Amaterasu-90056462 for] [http://ferazhin.deviantart.com/art/okami-73302928 yourself]. (It is true that the wolf isn't Amaterasu's original form and that one character sees her as an attractive young woman, but the player doesn't get to see this, so it still counts as an example.)

* 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]{{broken link}} in his appearance in HGSS.

** 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.

* ''[[Touhou]]'', due to being about ninety percent fandom and possessing official character art that... leaves much to be desired. Oddly enough the majority of drawings are fairly true to the characters (young girls are drawn like young girls, older women are drawn like older women etcetera), though more bizarre interpretations are certainly not absent.

** Perhaps the most notable example is [[Badass Bookworm|Patchouli]]: loli-lovers draw her [[Pettanko|flat]] and, well, loli-esque, big breast lovers give her larger breasts and an adult body and everyone else makes her "medium-sized" and teen-ish. It helps her character type fits either way, and that her clothing is baggy enough that her body type is totally ambiguous.

* ''[[Disgaea]]'' characters get this done to them sometimes, although it's almost always [[Pettanko|Etna and Flonne]].

** On the other hand, [[lolicon]]s 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.

** Oh, and [http://media.photobucket.com/image/Sexy%20Sonic%20Shadow/bluecynder/Sonic%2520The%2520Hedgehog/sexyshadowOMFG.jpg Shadow] too.

* While a good deal of ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' fan art uses the same simplistic stick figure art style as the game itself, there's still some artists that invoke this from time to time.

** Duster also gets this treatment quite a lot.

** 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.

* To name a few particularly notable examples from the ''[[Undertale]]'' fandom:

** Burgerpants (who looks like a [[Gonk|grotesque John Kricfalusi caricature]] of himself in the actual game) becoming handsome (and sometimes even a [[Bishonen]]) in his fanart.

** 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.

* ''[[Freefall]]'': Florence Ambrose [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fc01526.htm in canon.] [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|Florence Ambrose]] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/abyother/microgravity.jpg in fanon.]<ref>This is the most [[Incredibly Lame Pun|outstanding]] example, other aren't so bad.</ref>

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' used to have threads on its forum titled "Oots Fanservice", the contents of which were not drawn by the creator, therefore...

** [[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.

 

== Web Original ==

** On that matter, it looks like turning Strong Sad into a hoodie-wearing Emo kid has become increasingly popular. A rather ''thin'' one too.

* While nobody is denying that some of the people of [[That Guy With The Glasses]] are attractive anyway, fangirls turning the boys into skinny bishies and fanboys making the girls thinner and bustier than they are in real life are both popular.

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', with its [[Estrogen Brigade]] and humongous following on [[Pixiv]], has a large percentage of its fanart containing [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]s 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

** [http://miimochi.deviantart.com/ Miimochi] has what could be considered some of the best example(s) of EE&E Self Fanservice. (though all the character's tongues are the same... unusual colors as in the show...)

** 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.

** Zim is not the only recipient of Self Fanservice in the series. Far from it.

** Did you know Irkens are not actually supposed to [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|have boobs]]? No, really, go check the show. See how flat Tak's chest is? Yeah, it's quite different than the fanart, isn't it?

** Canon Dib is a scrawny little 11-year-old boy with glasses and a big head. Fanon depictions add 5–7 years to his age and make him [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] instead while still retaining his trademark [[Anime Hair]].

** Like her brother, 10-year-old Gaz in fanart is aged up and given all the beauty that comes with it.

*** 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.

** Nathan Explosion also tends to lose his slight paunch and gets a sixpack instead.

* In ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fanfics, Ron, who is honestly pretty goofy looking, is usually amped up considerably in the looks department... to the point that some authors both [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade on it]] and apologize to the reader.

* Despite what her trademark yellow jumpsuit may make one think, ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' April O'Neil would very rarely display [[Absolute Cleavage|cleavage]] while wearing it—even in cases when she realistically would. Of course this attribute is commonly made prominent in fan art.

* Due perhaps to heavy abuse of [[Thick Line Animation]], ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has enourmous amounts of this, mostly directed towards the main eponymous character although resident [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] magnet Vlad certainly isn't bereft.

* The more clunky ''[[Transformers]]'' are sometimes transformed into very pretty, and noticeably more Human-like forms (usually for your [[Companion Cube|CLANG]] action).

** Notably with a ''female'' shape.

* [[Toy Story (franchise)||Woody]] has a rather extraordinary number of fangirls (and boys), considering he's a foot-tall cowboy doll.

** Jessie tends to get a bit of extra "stuffing" in certain strategic areas in fanart.

* Heloise in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. In the show, she looks like a little girl ([[Word of God]] says she is [[Vague Age|14ish]]). In fanart, she's a very busty and very [[Evil Is Sexy|sexy]] figure.

* Venger from ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' is sometimes illustrated by fans as beautiful slab of beefcake with long flowing hair under his cowl.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is getting this treatment too. Expect to see lots of bishonen versions of the characters, yaoi of the main characters, and sexy humanized versions of Perry the platypus.

* While [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]] is already beautiful, many fanartists tend to forget that's she's only 14 years old and meant to have a modest figure, opposed to being another [[Hourglass Hottie]].