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* Rosalie Hale from ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. {{spoiler|Her beauty led her to get bashed and gang-raped as a human.... By her fiance and his friends, no less.}}
** Not to mention Bella, who {{spoiler|is attacked by a gang of rapists only to be saved by her True Love}}. It's actually inverted for Bella: she is so lovely and pale and beautiful that she has several guys in class suing for her prom date, but she spends most of the books [[Suetiful All Along|complaining about how ugly she is]].
* Parodied in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'': the thin, beautiful, [[The Brainless Beauty|brainless]], talentless Christine, when questioned about her scanty breakfast, tells the fat but highly talented Agnes, "It's lucky for you, you can eat whatever you want." Agnes tries to be charitable but "deep down inside, [she] thought a rude word." Of course, the book goes on to say that while being a talentless beauty can be a curse, being a talent with no beauty can be a ''worse'' curse.
** And in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]'' Tawneee, so beautiful that Sally and Angua (no slouches themselves in the looks department) feel [[Green-Eyed Monster|stirrings of envy]] at her attractiveness, suffers from "Jerk Syndrome", and figuring this out allows them to overcome their [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealousy]]. She is so beautiful that most men "[[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me|can't believe she would notice a guy like me]]", so they don't approach her for fear of rejection. Which leads her to think something is wrong with her, and date pathetic losers...the kind of people who are ''used'' to rejection. On top of that, she is "[[Brainless Beauty|thicker than a yard of lard]]", and doesn't think she's very attractive at all.
** And yet it's ''Nobby'' who dumps ''her''...after Angua cleared things up for Tawneee.