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▲[[File:AllGrown1C_2679.png|link=Iinchou No Koibito|right|"[[Comically Missing the Point|I distinctly remember you]] [[The Noseless|not having a nose]]."]]
|''[[Gigi]]'', “Thank Heaven For Little Girls”}}
So the hero hasn't seen this [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood friend]] in a long time. Then they meet again, and holy crow, she's stunning. He realizes that his friend that he never thought of
▲{{quote|''Thank heaven for little girls <br />
▲for little girls get bigger every day!<br />
▲Thank heaven for little girls<br />
▲they grow up in the most delightful way!''|''[[Gigi]]'', "Thank Heaven For Little Girls"}}
A variant of this: the first story part, they're so-so to okay looking. Cue the sequel, and BAM! knockout. There are various reasons for this; sometimes the character was too young to be thought of
▲So the hero hasn't seen this [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood friend]] in a long time. Then they meet again, and holy crow, she's stunning. He realizes that his friend that he never thought of "that way" really can be thought of "that way," usually as she starts dating someone else. If he gets her in the end, it will invariably be revealed that she had been in love with him all along; she just needed [[Beautiful All Along|a new hairstyle and contacts]] for him to finally notice her.
▲A variant of this: the first story part, they're so-so to okay looking. Cue the sequel, and BAM! knockout. There are various reasons for this; sometimes the character was too young to be thought of "that way" in the first part. In live action shows and movies, this can happen to a character when puberty hits the actor or actress like a [[Colony Drop]].
This is [[Truth in Television]] for many girls in their early teens, though it's not often addressed in TV or movies, which almost universally portray girls as absolutely ecstatic about their physical changes and the (male) attention it gets them. Apparently in fiction-land a girl isn't allowed to want to be anything but sexy once they hit their teens, but then again [[Most Writers Are Male|there's a reason for that.]] [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunately]].
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Contrast with [[Lolicon]], and [[I Was Quite a Looker]]. This can sometimes lead to [[First Girl Wins]]. Sometimes overlaps with [[She Cleans Up Nicely]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A more platonic and gender-swapped variant of this trope is seen in the first episode in the original Japanese dub of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', with old friends Hikari and Takeru. Upon their reunion (after a couple of years of not having seen each other) Hikari compliments Takeru by saying that
** On a somewhat related note, the lyrics at the beginning of the show's first end theme in the original Japanese dub has a line which basically translates to
*** There's a reason the Saban dub places the elder 6 in high school. [[Hello, Nurse!|Hello, Sora/Mimi]]
* Genderswapped in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Ascot the Summoner was a little boy in the first part of the series, but when the Knights returned to Cephiro in the second part, he was a handsome teenager tall enough to tower over the girls (even more with his [[Nice Hat]]). Caldina [[Lampshade Hanging|says]] he
* Another genderswapped variation occurs in ''[[Kekkaishi]]'': Tokine initially has difficulty seeing Yoshimori as anything but the crybaby kid she used to try and cheer up when they were younger even after other people have pointed out that he won't stay a kid forever. Events later in the manga, however, have her admitting to herself that Yoshimori is growing to be a strong, reliable young man. She even finds herself imagining how he'd look in a few years and finds her mental image of an older Yoshimori
* Yet another gender-swapped variation occurs in the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, the main character Edward's love interest/childhood friend/automail mechanic has been out of town with a job for months, and Edward finds her, has his limbs adjusted, and goes on his way. Winry notes to herself (as she further realizes she is in love with Ed) that his back/shoulders are broader now, and Ed is becoming a man and is no longer a child.
** At least in once instance, this was mostly due to Ed regaining his self-confidence and his posture improving as a result.
** Both Ed and Winry get this at the start of the last arc. ''[http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9669/1267480357027.jpg Especially]'' Ed.{{dead link}}
* This happens to Goku and Chichi in the last part of ''[[
** And shortly before that, Bulma and company's reaction to seeing the roughly 3 foot taller 18 year old Goku after he gained a couple of feet of growth and the hotness to match.
** There's also the time that Bulma learned that (future) Trunks was her [[Kid From the Future]]. Her reaction (after the requisite [[GASP]] of surprise, of course) was,
* Subverted in ''[[Da Capo
** In the sequel ''D.C. II'', which takes place 50 years after the original, Sakura ''still'' looks the same.
* A series of [[Overnight Age
** This is repeated later in the series (the Magic World arc). This time around, though, some of them are catching onto it.
** In the more traditional sense, Princess Theodora of the Hellas Empire. Compare how she looked in [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v26/c232/2.html the flashbacks] with [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v26/c239/2.html how she looks now.]
** Also noted by Rakan in referring to Asuna. But since it's Rakan, he says
* Sasami from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''. The world's most [[Moe|adorable]] [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] is shown several times over the course of the series that she's going to grow up to be drop-dead
** She's so far beyond Ryoko and Ayeka's league that the two can't even come up with a decent come-back in the OVA. The best they can come up with is insulting each other and comparing themselves to ''her''.
** In one episode of the original series, Ayeka on seeing Sasami's adult form in Tsunami bemoaned the fact that her sister would soon surpass her own beauty.
* ''[[Genshiken]]'' starts with Saki noticing her old childhood friend, who's grown into an incredible [[Bishonen]].
* The [[Colony Drop]] version is also used as a joke in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] W'', where [[Little Miss Snarker|Ruri Hoshino]] undergoes all the physical growth she did in the six ''years'' between ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' and ''The Prince of Darkness'' in only six ''months'' between the first and second halves of the game.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', England leaves the young America and tells him to grow taller and stronger. When they see each other
** And then there's France's reaction to pubescent-but-not-quite-legal-looking-Italy.
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'''France''': It's something you do with someone you like! ''
** Played with when Hungary and Prussia meet as teens after she's defeated by the Ottoman Empire. Only ''then'' Prussia fully realised that the kid nation he used to fight against more than once was a very busty and pretty girl instead.
* Yuki in ''[[No Bra]]'' is all grown up to the main
** Now so is {{spoiler|Kaoru.}} They were in the same nursery, at least.
* In the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' manga, Momiji goes from a [[Adorably Precocious Child]] to a very handsome blond.
* While the same attention is given to all the Konoha 12 when they show up for the first time after the time skip in ''[[Naruto]]'', Hinata seems to get the most of all, to show how she's grown up, filled out (to the point that it's obvious even though she always wears thick, baggy clothes), and let her formerly short hair grow longer. It's quite a sight to behold.
** Reversed when Sakura noticed that Naruto had grown up. When she asked if she looked more like a woman, he said
** According to Tsunade, this happened to Kushina, {{spoiler|Naruto's mother}}.
** It also happened to Tsunade herself. Back in her genin days, she was called flat-chested by Jiraiya. The difference between her child and adult
* In the first episode of ''[[Basquash]]'', Dan
* There's a variant in [[
* In ''[[
* In the first ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** In that case, '' [[
* Suzuna tries to get this reaction out of Sena in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' and beats up Monta when he pulls
* [[Camp Gay|Leeron]] makes comments about this in respect to [[Bishonen|Rossiu]] after ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'''s [[Time Skip]]. There's also Simon, who as a teenager is a short and scrawny [[Beady
** On the female side of things, Nia goes from
* In ''[[Kaichou wa Maid
* In the words of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* In the final episode of ''[[Library War]]'', Komaki and a young neighbor that he only ever thought of as the little girl next door, until she turned nineteen or so.
* In the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie, Renton commented to Eureka in the sickbay that she has grown pretty since he last saw her 8 years ago.
* Chapter 45 of ''[[Natsume Yuujinchou]]'' has a bit where a girl named Miyoko complains to a friend while walking home about how this [[Creepy Child]] she knew back in preschool named Takashi Natsume. Miyoko's annoyed because he's going to be in town for a couple of days, and since her parents invited him to stay at their place, she's gonna have to put up with him the whole time. ''Ugh!'' But enough about that, why don't they talk about who that really cute guy standing at the front door is and why he's waiting there
* In a scene later on in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Yuusuke stares at his childhood friend/love interest Keiko's body before remarking,
* Yuki in ''[[Wandering Son]]'' was surprised to see how her middle school crush grew up once he reached high school, considering she dropped out of school in middle school and became a [[Hikikomori]].
* ''[[Futakoi]]'' has [[Childhood Friend Romance|Nozomu and Ichijou sisters,]] with flashbacks and stuff.
* Tsugumi Shibata from season 1 of ''[[Hell Girl]]'' reappears in season 3 as an stunning adult, bonus points for becoming a nurse.
==
* ''[[Sin City]]'''s
* The comic strip ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' had a slight variation: Michael returned home to find that his sister Elizabeth was actually good-looking, and remarked on this, prompting her to go mark that date on the calendar. (Of course, being her brother, he ''still'' can't think of her ''that way'' for himself...)▼
** In another strip, he noticed that she actually looked similar to his girlfriend Deanna. [[Brain Bleach]] may have been needed. ▼
* In ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'' Fat Freddy goes back to his hometown and meets an attractive teenage girl who invites him home. As they're sharing a bath together, her parents come home - and Freddy realises they're his parents too, having not recognised his now attractive sister.
* ''[[Runaways]]'' has done this a couple of times:
** In the very first issue, Alex refers to Nico as
** In the second volume, the gang meets a future version of Gert, described in Brian K. Vaughan's script as
* Layla Miller in the recent ''[[X-Factor (
* Gender-swapped in ''[[Zot!]]'': Short-and-nebbish Woody, who has a crush on Jenny (who of course only has eyes for hero Zot), goes to France for the summer. When he returns, he's six inches taller and quite a bit buffer. Jenny's reaction:
* An [[Archie Comics]] story titled
{{quote|
'''Suzy:''' Gosh, Reggie! You must still be sick! You're turning a bit green!
'''Betty:''' Yeah! Green with envy! }}
:* In another Archie story, Jughead claims that when he was about 5 years old, he was best friends with a girl his age named Joani before he moved to Riverdale and they were separated. He has an old photo of her but it, naturally, depicts her as a 5-year-old, the type a teenage girl would likely be embarrassed by. When Joani appears in person at the end of the story, she is a knockout, so much that both Archie and Reggie swoon when they see her.
* ''[[Asterix]] Legionary'' has Panacea, who returns after many years studying outside the village.
* Ironically inverted in [[
** the same comic later plays it straight in a minor way with character [[Girl Genius|Toopie]], who started out as a regular child and as such was still able to grow up until she reaches 12. When the heroes meet her again, she has reached such age, and [[The Big Guy|Razzia]] is quick to notice how much she has grown up, pissing his girlfriend [[Dark Action Girl|Tenebris]] off in the process.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[After the End (
▲== Fan Fics ==
** Another fic, set five or ten years post-Hogwarts, has Harry encounter and become interested in a Millicent Bulstrode who has somehow transformed from hulking to [[Hot Amazon]]. (Sadly, it's actually a subversion, as the "new" Millicent is really an illusion used to lure Harry in as part of a scheme to do nasty things.)
▲* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[After the End (Fanfic)|After the End]]'', everyone is surprised to suddenly find out Eloise Midgen has become ''extremely'' attractive. Also Colin Creevey has become rather tall and good looking.
** In contrast, JMaria's ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=5279 Interoffice Stereotypes]'' has a grown-up Millicent who, while not a stunning beauty, is in no ways hard on the eyes.
* Fans of ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' who like [[Shipping]] the titular character with Olivia (canonically a young girl) [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this trope to enable the pairing without being [[
* In the ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'' alternative continuity fanfic, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130616114629/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6318423/1/Hitchups Hitchups]'' has a parental version of this when Hiccup, having fled Berk with Toothless for two years of adventures, returns to help his people against the Red Death. To the Berkians amazement, the clumsy boy named Hiccup has returned as a mighty and tested [[Dragon Rider]] warrior on top of being a brilliant inventor and dragon expert favored by Thor himself.
* In the ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]'' fanfic, ''Prelude to Heaven'', Balian is tall, gangly, pale and somewhat clumsy. Then after serving in an army, turns
== Film ==
* ''[[Sabrina]]'', the [[Audrey Hepburn]] movie, later remade with Julia Ormond, builds a story around this trope.
** Speaking of Julia Ormond films, that Indian girl from ''[[Legends of the Fall]]'' also counts. She even marries Tristan.
* In ''[[13 Going
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'', Riddick (and the audience) discovers that "Jack" not only grew up and filled out, she also [[Took a Level
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Nala]] in ''[[The Lion King]]''.
** Kiara in the sequel
* ''Just Friends'' stars Ryan Reynolds as the fat, nerdy teenager in love with his best friend, Amy Smart, who loves him
* The movie ''[[The Namesake (
* A somewhat wacky version in ''[[Brother Bear|Brother Bear 2]]''. By the time Kenai meets his childhood friend Nita again, she's a pretty young bride-to-be, and he's a bear. {{spoiler|It works out in the end; Nita becomes a bear in order to stay with him.}}
* ''[[Gigi]]''. The plot pretty much turns on the fact that the male lead falls in love with the female lead without even knowing it because he considers her a child, and therefore discounts her charm and appeal until it is all-but shoved in his face (so to speak)!
* This trope can be inferred in Lord Steyne's attraction to Becky Sharpe when he meets her as an adult after having had an interesting encounter with her as a child in [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[Vanity Fair]]''.
* In ''[[Rush Hour]] 3'', we meet Ambassador Han's daughter again after almost ten years. Carter mentions that they should get her a teddy bear, then he sees her and adds
* In ''She's Out of Control'', dowdy Katie gets a makeover where she gets contact lenses, a new hairdo at a professional hair salon, a new wardrobe, and her braces removed while her father is out of town. He returns to be shocked and horrified that Katie is now being chased by practically every teenaged boy.
* Norrington noticed this in Elizabeth in the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''.
* A male example in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Attack of the Clones]]'', when Padme sees Hayden Christensen-era Anakin for the first time. He replies
== Literature ==
* In most variations of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', Christine and Raoul are childhood friends, becoming involved after Christine's musical enhancement by the Phantom. In the musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Raoul actually sings the line
* Spoken nearly word for word by Joe Keller about Ann Deever in Arthur Miller's ''All My Sons'', though it's his son that's interested in her.
* Kheldar
* The pre-reviz ''[[Magic:
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has the returning Theon Greyjoy flirting heavily (and we mean ''heavily''; there is groping aplenty by both parties) with a local ship builder's wife while talking about his little sister Asha, who was a skinny little thing with knocky knees and who allegedly has grown into chain mail and leather underclothes. Surprise; the ship builder's wife ''is'' Asha, who was deliberately fucking with him. [[Brain Bleach|Theon is none too pleased]].
* One Star Wars EU novel features Wes Janson (who flew back seat with Wedge Antilles at Hoth) flirting with a female pilot, who he later finds out she's Han Solo's ''daughter''.
* Invoked in [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''[[
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The girl tossed her head, her eyes sparkling.
Retief's eyes widened.
* Invoked in Protector of the Small by Tamora Peirce.
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* Molly Carpenter of ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Harry met her first when she was
* In ''[[The Dragonlance Chronicles]]'', [[The Hero|Tanis]] notices this after he pulls [[Rebellious Princess|Laurana]] down on top of him. Especially justified as he is a half-elf and she is a full elf, so he hit puberty at least a decade before she did.
== Live
* In ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' Cory and Shawn are stunned when they find out Topanga went through puberty during summer vacation.
{{quote|
Topanga: Thanks I got it over the summer
Shawn: Summer was very good to you }}
* Likewise, ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' with Winnie Cooper. This trope was pretty much a major plot point.
** Done again with Kevin's cousin in an episode starring Soleil Moon Frye.
** Reappears in ''[[Working!!]]'', when the two ''Wonder Years'' characters meet in this setting.
* Parodied in ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode
* [[Gender Flip|Gender flipped]] in ''[[Sister, Sister]]''. Tia and Tamera's neighbor Roger was always trying to get a date/a kiss/SOMETHING from either one of them and they'd always blow him off with
* Twisted in an episode of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', where a homely childhood friend of Alan's shows up, now a knockout. As Alan and Charlie compete for her affections,
* The second episode of ''[[Blossom]]'' is
* ''[[Towards the Republic]]'': When Sun Yat-sen first met little Song Qingling, she was a seven-year-old girl. And when he met her again years later, she had grown into a nubile young woman whose childhood crush on him had become full-fledged love.
* In the first episode of ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'', Steve realizes that Regina Grier, the fat girl he tormented in high school is no longer fat, and is now his boss at the high school he teaches at.
* ''[[Malcolm in
** Another episode featured an incredibly sexy babysitter hired for the boys, who turned out to have been an old classmate's of Francis'. Francis calls them from military school, and we see his image of her as an obese, awkward nerd.
* [[That '70s Show|
** Also played with in regards to [[Exactly What It Says
* An episode of ''[[Cheers]]'' has Sam reuniting with an
* Done on an episode of ''[[Growing Pains]]''. Mike, on the first day of school, spots an incredibly beautiful girl in the halls and spends the day following her around trying to get her to tell him her name. She seems to know him already. Turns out that she's
** Mike's friend Boner catches Carol in her night gown, ogles her chest, then says to her
* Amy Pond in the first episode of the new ''[[
** The cricket bat to the head may not have helped.
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode
** The Mayor gets all teary-eyed seeing Faith go on a torture/kill date with Angelus.
* In the ''[[Castle]]'' episode
== Music ==
* Subject of the song
*
*
* Easily interpreted in the song
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but she sure looks different than the way she looked
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*
* Well, we used to play when we were
* [[Gorillaz]]'s Noodle caused rampant [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] in her Phase 1 preteen days, became more obviously feminine ([[Bokukko|if still with a tomboyish style of dress]]) in Phase 2 at the age of thirteen and fourteen,
* ''Control'' by [[Janet Jackson]] from the first person point-of-view.
*
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== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* The comic strip ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' had a slight variation: Michael returned home to find that his sister Elizabeth was actually good-looking, and remarked on this, prompting her to go mark that date on the calendar. (Of course, being her brother, he ''still'' can't think of her ''that way'' for
▲** In another strip, he noticed that she actually looked similar to his girlfriend Deanna. [[Brain Bleach]] may have been needed.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* An angle in [[ECW]] between Tommy Dreamer and Raven revolved around a fat girl named Beulah McGillicuddy whom Dreamer and Raven had both known at summer camp. Dreamer had made fun of her at the time for her weight, see, and so she fell in with Raven. Beulah grew up not just to be a hottie, but according to many wrestling fans, the most classically beautiful valet of all time. She ended up with Dreamer in both the storyline and real life.
== Theatre ==
* The film musical, [[Screen to Stage Adaptation|and later stage musical]], ''[[Gigi]]'' is built on this trope. Whether it's creepy or not depends on how it's handled; in the original, Gigi is fifteen and her erstwhile suitor is in his fifties, and has had Gigi raised to be his eventual mistress.
* In a more sentimental and nostalgic way, in ''[[Fiddler
* Played with in ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]''. To avoid execution, Col. Fairfax masquerades as Leonard Meryll, who's been away in the army for years. When Leonard's sister Phœbe greets him in front of everybody, Fairfax is baffled and has to be told who she is. He quickly covers with
== Video Games ==
* 8 year old Kaylie from Hunter: The Reckoning returns in Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer as an 18 year old hottie.
* [[Subverted Trope]] What Red is to {{spoiler|Asellus}} in ''[[
* One of the most interesting bits of ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' 2. The game features an interactive prologue where the protagonist is in grade school, and meets the various female characters as children. After the prologue, the protagonist moves out of town, and is only reunited with his childhood friends when he starts high school (the game proper): naturally, they're all grown up. The protagonist and Hikari, [[Childhood Friend Romance|his closest childhood friend]], regularly have discussions of how much and in which way they have changed, throughout the storyline. Also, if the protagonist is a Track & Field Club member, and sees Hikari if [[The Peeping Tom|he peeks at the girls' bathroom]] during Summer Training Camp, he'll make a comment on how much she has grown physically.
* Male example: In ''[[The Legend of Zelda
** You also have the same thing with Zelda, Ruto, and Malon. Especially Ruto.
* {{spoiler|Rydia}} from ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', after she spends some time in the Feymarch.
== Visual Novels ==
* In ''[[Fate/stay
* There's a weird
** In ''Trials and Tribulations'', the third game, an old man who goes to a coffee shop to ogle the waitresses refuses to talk to Phoenix, who then semi-concocts a scheme to get Maya employed at the coffee shop. He then convinces her to come with him to meet the old man, who looks at her uniform with obvious
== Web Animation ==
* Parodied on [[
* [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF151-b.jpg This] ''[[Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' comic. [[Pungeon Master|B-lieve it or not]]. ▼
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' did a [http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20080312 particularly obnoxious round] of this trope in early 2008 - after a three-year absence, the hero's former student-exchange partner becomes worthy of his romantic attentions after straightening her hair and getting contact lenses. She has also become magically cool, interesting and something of a [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]], the latter probably due to the fact that she is French. Meanwhile the audience is encouraged to laugh at her little sister, {{spoiler|who is as ugly now as she was three years ago}}. But hey, if it follows, said sister will probably grow out of it too.▼
* ''[[Dream Tales]]'' comics, "A Tale of Two Sisters," "The Big Splash" and "Regression to the Mean" feature a younger sister outgrowing her older sister. ▼
* Gordito in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', as Doc himself put it, [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p21 "got handsome"] over the course of the [[Bad Future]].▼
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Elliot notes this about Sarah's older sister [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-11-05 here].▼
== Web Comics ==
▲* [http://www.pbfcomics.com/
▲* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' did a [https://web.archive.org/web/20160603111625/http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20080312 particularly obnoxious round] of this trope in early 2008 - after a three-year absence, the hero's former student-exchange partner becomes worthy of his romantic attentions after straightening her hair and getting contact lenses. She has also become magically cool, interesting and something of a [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]], the latter probably due to the fact that she is French. Meanwhile the audience is encouraged to laugh at her little sister, {{spoiler|who is as ugly now as she was three years ago}}. But hey, if it follows, said sister will probably grow out of it too.
▲* ''[[Dream Tales]]'' comics,
▲* Gordito in ''[[
▲* In ''[[
* ''[[Magick Chicks]]'' [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/old_crush_-_chapter_10 Chapter 10: Old Crush] started with a flashback to a day when Melissa told Ace she doesn't date freshmen and made fun of his fuzzy paws. And now, back to the time when Ace physically matured a little after a magical misadventure and Melissa is somewhat starved on male attention…
== Western Animation ==
* Happens to Princess Odette in the [[The Movie|animated version]] of ''[[The Swan Princess]]''. With the added twist that she and Prince Derek were [[Arranged Marriage|engaged]] from an early age, but couldn't stand each other because she was an incorrigible tomboy and he thought [[Girls Have Cooties|girls had cooties]].
* Parodied with Stewie and his old dancing school rival Olivia in ''[[Family Guy]]''. Stewie falls in love with her because
* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' Baljeet has this reaction when his old childhood friend Mishti comes to visit; he refers to her transformation as
* A platonic variation: In ''[[The Princess and
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* In ''[[Goof Troop]]'', Max hasn't seen his (now college age) cousin Debbie in a while. [[Squick|By his own admission, she's now super hot.]]
** Though, [[Kissing Cousins|he's not actually lusting after her]]. He's just glad because her hotness plays a key role in his plan to get him and PJ into the burger joint they've spent the episode trying to get into.
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