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{{quote| '''Akane:''' I'll show her! When you dress Ranma up, he can be plenty cool!}}
* Similarly, in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'': Ryūnosuke, who is easily the [[Bifauxnen|most manly]] character in the show, has an episode dedicated to her struggle to become feminine. She really only wished to wear a sailor suit, but in the end ends up wearing the same dress as seen in ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' -- yes, it is the dress you are thinking of -- and looked amazing. In fact she could easily be the [[Trope Codifier]]. [[media:ryuunosuke1_4524.jpg|Before]] and [[media:ryuunosuke2_8055.jpg|After]]. Yes, it is the same girl.
* Misty of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' fame has done this from time to time. The infamous example of her wearing a kimono at the [[Festival Episode|Summer Festival]] and actually rendering Ash speechless comes to mind.
** Also, in one episode, Ash and Company met a girl who dresses and acts tough. At the end of the episode, when she invoked the trope, Brock reacted the way he usually does around beautiful girls, which prompted her into resume her boyishness.
* Kaname of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'' does this to Sōsuke while posing as an older, married, and sexually frustrated woman. It works amazingly.
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* Nadja Applefield from ''[[Ashita no Nadja]]'' embodies the trope whether dolled up via Leonardo and Thierry or wearing her [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] inherited from her [[Missing Mom]]. {{spoiler|When said gown is destroyed by Rosemary, with help of Grandma Anna Nadja sews the intact top part into a new dress.}}
* [[Tomboy|Cagalli]] had this trope [[Genre Savvy|deliberately]] invoked on her in the ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' first season. ''Twice''. She [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|wasn't really amused]] in any occasion.
* Continually subverted in ''[[The Wallflower]]'' -- whenever the guys trick/force Sunako-chan into some proper clothes, Kyohei knows she's still the same person, and is (frustratingly) not quite cognisant of any attraction to her no matter how good she looks.
* Even [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Amy Rose]] has done this on ''[[Sonic X]]'', complete with the reaction from Sonic himself.
* Subverted in ''[[Code Geass]]'', where Nina Einstein is all dressed up in the pre-wedding celebration but is still much more confident at work as a scientist, which is demonstrated by comparison to matter. However, played straight with Milly Ashford on the same occasion and Cecile Croomy earlier. [[Absolute Cleavage]] indeed.
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** Setsuna also cleaned up nicely in that same ball. Seeing him in a black suit was a very, ''very'' nice surprise.
* In ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' Deedlit, wearing an extravagant white gown, walks down the stairs with Parn, who is having a LOT of trouble looking her in the eye. Subverted slightly as he spends most of the ball ignoring her advances and [[Ho Yay|swooning]] [[Even Heroes Have Heroes|over a famous hero.]]
** And Deedo is so uncomfortable that she whines quite a bit at first, too.
{{quote|'''Deedlit:''' Ah, this dress is so tight! Seriously, I don't know how you court ladies can wear these things ever day...}}
* Subverted in ''[[Private Prince]]'', where female lead Miyako looks extremely good but is ''terribly'' uncomfortable and trips over her high heels and long dress... [[Meet Cute|in front of Will, the lead male.]]
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'''Amu:''' And it looks like we have a winner... }}
* Pai in the first chapter of ''[[Sazan Eyes]]''.
* Happens during a [[Fancy Dinner]] scene in ''[[Gun X Sword]]'', with Wendy borrowing a fancy dress, taking her hair out of pigtails, and using makeup. Her dinner companion doesn't even recognize her at first. In context, his surprise may have a lot to do with the fact that she looks older--like a young woman rather than a child--than she does in her usual clothing.
* Used in a somewhat weird way in the seventh ''[[Detective Conan]]'' movie. {{spoiler|When Kazuha and Heiji were little, they visited Kazuha's family in Kyoto. Little Heiji ran off to a temple, and while waiting for him little Kazuha was dolled up in a kimono and got her hair done by her relatives. Little Heiji then saw her playing under the [[Cherry Blossoms]], but didn't recognize her... and "that girl from Kyoto" remained in his memory as "his first love". Since the movie had a subplot in which Heiji was searching for the anonymous girl he once liked, it means Kazuha was jealous of... her dolled up little girl self. And Heiji didn't find out until the end of the movie.}}
* In another male example, {{spoiler|Brief}} from ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' cleans up [[Bishonen|very]] nicely.
* Masane from ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' looks rather good when she gets dolled up for a party. Unfortunately, her personality and manners are exactly the same.
* When Maka of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' shows up in Soul's soul, wearing heels and a black ballgown. he's [http://www.mangareader.net/157-10163-34/soul-eater/chapter-18.html rather] [http://www.mangareader.net/157-10163-35/soul-eater/chapter-18.html shocked.]
* Liechtenstein, Ukraine and Hungary from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Hetalia]]''. The first looks very cute [http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-837.html in a blue ballgown], the second is quite a babe [http://hetalia.livejournal.com/11219211.html in her national dress], and Finland got a picture of [http://www.hetarchive.net/scanlations/hetastreeeem/xmas20113.php the third] wearing a very elegant [[Pimped-Out Dress]] during the [[Hetalia Bloodbath 2010]].
** Taiwan also [http://hetalia.livejournal.com/11597580.html looks very pretty in traditional clothing].
** Not to mention the usual [[Shorttank]] Wy looks adorable [http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/mcr_1920.jpg all dressed up.]
* ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'': Emma is convinced to attend a ball, and is shown to clean up nicely when she wears a ball gown and no glasses in comparison with her usual maid outfit and glasses.
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* Used in ''Rapunzel's Revenge,'' by Shannon and Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation). It's a graphic novel that sets the fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the American South, and turns the title character into a hair-lassoing cowgirl. [[Better Than It Sounds]], really.
* [[Yoko Tsuno]] isn't afraid to dress up in a kimono once when she's invited to have dinner in a German castle, much to the surprise of everyone who sees her ("A kimono! In my castle! This is definitely something to celebrate for!", says their host). She also dolls up when she and her partners spent the night in a Scottish castle, and later spends a whole chase scene in a dress.
* In the [[Furry Fandom]] comic ''Ebin and May'', Prince Ebin insists on having his girlfriend, May the servant girl, join him for a royal function. Lord Valkyn is against this since he thinks the humble rabbit doe would feel terribly out of place, but Ebin insists she'll do fine. Valkyn is instantly convinced when May joins them [http://www.radiocomix.com/ebin-and-may/2009/07/01/cinderella-complex-pg5 all properly made up and wonderfully dressed to look like something like the most idealized fairy tale princess] while Ebin smugly enjoys his point being proven.
* ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'''s Katchoo says this to Detective Walsh (and he to her) when {{spoiler|he goes undercover to help her bust Darcy}}. The normally tomboyish and disheveled Katchoo is wearing a fancy evening dress and makeup.
* Inverted in the early [[Post-Crisis]] ''[[Wonder Woman]]'', Mynda Mayer, publicist extraordinaire, first appears in a sleazy dress and jewelry when she comes to Julia Kapatelis' residence to talk turkey with the new superhero. After being told to take a hike by the Greek professor as a cheap opportunist, Mayer doesn't give up and asks for a meeting in her office. Princess Diana and Ms. Kapatelis decide to come to stop her harassment, and are stunned to see the publicist in plain casual clothes and pants with far more subtle makeup and thus looking cute as a button.
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* ''[[Mulan]]'' looks quite nice in her matchmaker ceremony dress.
* Deunan of ''[[Appleseed]]'' stunned everyone when she turned up for Hitomi's birthday party in a stylish dress, specially designed by [http://chloeings.blogspot.com/2007/08/prada-designs-costumes-for-cartoon.html Muiccia Prada]
** It was even lampshaded by one of the people present. Not surprising, considering the vast difference from Deunan's usual [[Action Girl|tomboy-ish]] looks.
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* The entire point of the movie ''[[Miss Congeniality]]''. The scene where Gracie originally walks out of the hangar in a tight short knit dress with her hair up and makeup on, has all of her fellow FBI agents standing there with their [[Jaw Drop|jaws dropping]].
** [[Dojikko|Then she stumbles on her heels and falls on her face.]]
* Patrick and Kat have this effect on each other in ''[[
* In an inversion of the trope, ''[[Australia]]'' has the male lead follow the trope nearly to the letter at a charity ball.
* Inverted also in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'' after Rick O'Connell is rescued from the gallows. His shiny reappearance is [[Right Behind Me|nicely timed]] to Evelyn's rant about what a filthy, rude, complete scoundrel he is.
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== Literature ==
* See the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' example under Film, above. Except since the director of the third movie decided to prematurely tame Hermione's hair and give her more stylish muggle clothes, the sleek up-do and gorgeous dress effect on Emma was rather lost in the movie.
* Gaia Moore in one of the ''[[Fearless (novel)|Fearless]]'' books, although Gaia does not recognize this about herself.
* Male example with Harry Dresden in ''[[The Dresden Files]]: Death Masks''. Harry seems to enjoy the effect he has in his tuxedo when he goes to an art sales event with Susan to investigate Johnnie Marcone.
** [[Truth in Television]]: There's a reason they've never gone out of style. It's incredibly hard not to be a dude that cleans up nicely once wearing a fitted tux.
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* Lessa in ''[[Dragonriders of Pern|Dragonflight]]'', who begins the book as a filth-encrusted drudge, gets this after a vigorous bath and acquires something of a bathing fetish thereafter.
* Though she doesn't actually do so, Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan, in ''[[Discworld|The Color Of Magic]]'', is implied to be the sort who would clean up well. Unlike most women depicted on fantasy cover art, though, she is described as wearing sensible mail and no leather (except the boots. However, the boots are not black leather).
* ''[[Redwall]]'' did this in ''Mariel of Redwall''. Dandin is described as being surprised that the previously scruffy Mariel (then the amnesiac Storm Gullwhacker), after having been forced to take a bath and get a new green dress, could actually be pretty.
* ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'': Dagny Taggart, several times.
* ''[[Hero Series]]'': Lee Mallorough, at least once in every book.
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{{quote|''The curtains parted and a woman came toward them. Her silks and laces trailed across the polished floors. The lights gleamed on her neck and arms, and flashed from rare jewels. She was smiling brightly; and until she spoke, Freckles had not realized fully that it was his loved Bird Woman.
Noticing his bewilderment, she cried: "Why, Freckles! Don't you know me in my war clothes?" '' }}
* In ''[[The Fangs Of Kaath]]'', Sandhri manages to finagle herself into the palace to find her love, Prince Raschid, and finds herself washed up and beset by tailors who manage to create a dress that best flatters her underweight figure. When Sandhri sees herself in the mirror, she is stunned and delighted to see herself transformed into the stuff of [[Arabian Nights]] sexual fantasies.
* In [[Devon Monk]]'s ''[[Allie Beckstrom|Magic In the Shadows]]'', Allie is struck by how Zayvion looks when he arrives for their date, and says, "Don't you clean up nice."
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** Also, in "A Death in the Family", Alexis in her prom dress combines this with a [[She's All Grown Up]] moment for her father.
* Kaylee, in the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode, "Shindig". Some women at the party snark at her for wearing a store-bought dress, but she is happily vindicated when one male partygoer comes to her defense (and later the men [[Geeky Turn On|are delighted]] to discover [[Wrench Wench|how tech-savvy she is]]).
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (2004). The sight of Starbuck in a long slinky blue dress instead of her usual military-issue tanks or flight suit renders Apollo quite literally speechless. Lampshaded by a previous exchange between them where he teases her about her (lack of) hygiene, and she tells him she cleans up nicely sometimes.
** Though it should be noted, Starbuck is an [[Unkempt Beauty]] anyway, and Apollo was attracted to her long before the cleanup.
* Audrey Parker on ''[[Haven]]'' is so inept at picking out pretty clothes she has to have elderly bachelor brothers do it for her but she wears them so, so well.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'':
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** Many episodes got use out of Chateau Sheffield's sweeping staircase.
** Also happens with Brighton's nerdy classmate Brooke, who Brighton (initially) didn't want to go to a dance with in "The Playwright".
* Mark's boyfriend Cliff on ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' has one of these at Bradford and Wilhemina's wedding, causing Amanda to quip "Who knew there were hardwood floors under that shag rug?"
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': While the brothers Winchester are hardly chopped liver [[Unkempt Beauty|even at their slobbiest]], in the episode "Red Sky at Morning" the costume designers very wisely put Dean in a tux and had him swagger down a staircase to the sounds of Bond music. A more surefire recipie for swoon-age I cannot conceive.
* In ''[[John Adams (TV series)|John Adams]]'', Abigail Adams spends most of the first few episodes in rather plain dresses. When she does the make-up hair and nice dress thing at Versailles, her husband is lost for words.
** [[Truth in Television]], adorably enough! When Gilbert Stuart mentioned that he "wished to God he could have painted Mrs. Adams when she was young; she would have made a perfect Venus," Mr. Adams expressed emphatic agreement.
* On ''[[Friends]]'' when Rachel heads out for her first night with the girls since having Emma, she does this. As Ross puts it: "You clean up good!" Yes, Mr. "I'm a Doctor" used improper grammar. One imagines his brain wasn't in control at the time.
** "You clean up good" is how the trope is usually phrased in Westerns. Ross is invoking this.
* In the ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode, "The Tale of the Closet Keepers", the resident tomboy, Kiki gets one of these. When she is revealed to the Midnight society by Betty Ann, she even gets a whistle from Gary and Tucker incredulously says, "I don't believe it! You look like... Like a girl!"
** Happened again in "The Tale of the Mystical Mirror" which featured a rather homely girl starting work in a beauty shop. After a bit of primping by the owner, the girl walks out in a stylish black dress with full hair and make-up to the glee of her two co-workers. She's back to her normal clothes when she finishes work however.
* Parodied mercilessly in the finale of ''[[Spaced]]''. Daisy tries to invoke this trope (including a memorable sequence where she extends a lipstick accompanied by the ''[[Star Wars]]'' lightsaber sound effect) and at first appears it's working, but then it turns out that the men were actually ooh-ing and aah-ing over a spectacular flaming birthday cake behind her.
* In an early ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode, Helen decides to wear a sexy dress to a cello audition. When she doesn't get the job, she isn't sure whether it was because her cello playing wasn't good enough, or she wasn't sexy in the dress. She shows Joe what she looks like in the dress, and after noting his reaction, she promptly hurries off to practice her cello some more.
* Yes, there's a few ''[[Doctor Who]]'' examples...
** Subverted in "Enlightenment". Tegan changes into [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] to the amazement of everyone. Except the 5th Doctor, who doesn't seem to notice. Much to Tegan's annoyance.
** In "The Unquiet Dead", Rose is ordered to change from her 21st century clothes into something a bit more appropriate for the Victorian period. The Doctor is impressed.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s spinoff ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' gives one of these to Luke Smith, who is rather stunned to notice that [[True Companions|Rani]] ''does'' clean up nicely. Actually, he has one right after the other - first for his mum Sarah Jane, and then for Rani. (This version, obviously, is purely platonic on both counts.)
* While Van Pelt of ''[[The Mentalist]]'' already looks pretty sharp in her work attire, when she really dresses up to pretend to be co-worker Rigsby's girlfriend for a sting, she drives the poor man to distraction.
** And Lisbon, who is often overshadowed by Van Pelt, has one of these moments at a society fundraiser that she's been ordered to go to because the CBI is broke. Jane, [[UST]]-ee/[[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited love]]/co-worker seems not to notice, but then he ''is'' [[The Chessmaster|Patrick Jane]], and probably thought he could screw with her in some way by not mentioning it. Made better by the fact that when she gets called away to a crime scene, she just sticks her regular leather jacket over the top and looks eccentric and beautiful.
** Some fans have drawn a connection between this and his [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] stunt of the week -- an unexpected [[Undercover As Lovers]], which leaves poor Lisbon stunned and furious. [[Action Girl|She goes with furious]].
* In the BBC's ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', tomboy Djaq glams up in order to infiltrate Nottingham castle. The scene features both the possible outcomes mentioned in the trope description: Will is reduced to a staring, stuttering mess and receives a somewhat sharp [[Moment Killer]] response, while Allan manages to be a little more smooth, pays her a compliment and gets the gratified smirk.
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* Happens in ''[[Bones]]'' (sort of) when the title character descends the stairs in an awful bridesmaid's dress. Her main love interest says she looks "nice", until Cam helps her fix the dress to be prettier. He then tells her that she looks "gorgeous" to which she simply complains "I thought you said I looked nice before!"
** In the Halloween-themed episode "The Mummy In The Maze", Booth has a similar reaction to seeing Bones in a [[Wonder Woman]] costume.
* ''[[Ace Lightning]]'''s Jessica Fisgus, during the dance at the end of the first season.
* In ''Young Riders'', Louise "Lou" Macloud has to keep her gender a secret from most folks but on one occasion she gets a chance to dress like a girl and wow her teammates.
* In ''[[The West Wing]]'', Leo says this to Congressman Matt Santos...no, it's not [[Ho Yay]], it's just meant to be taken literally.
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* Most of the contestants for NBC's ''[[The Biggest Loser]]'' are quite good looking once they achieve a healthy weight.
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' Both played straight and subverted in the episode, "You Are So Sue-able To Me". When Lilly's crush Matt asks her to the school dance, Miley convinces Lilly to get a [[Girliness Upgrade]] to impress him. When she later shows up at school with her new look, she has quite a few guys drooling over her, but then she gets stood up by Matt. It turns out he preferred her [[Tomboy]] look.
* ''[[iCarly]]'' The focus of the episode "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|iMake Sam Girlier]]", both played straight and subverted. Sam is feeling down about her [[Tomboy]]/[[The Ladette|ladette]] image and decides to get a [[Girliness Upgrade]] to impress a boy she likes named Pete. She looks quite good in her more feminine outfit, prompting an audience reaction, and even though Pete is quite smitten with her new look, he reveals that he actually liked her tough girl image better.
** However, there have been other times in the series, before and after this episode, that Sam has put a dress on, and she looks quite good in them.
* Subverted to the point of parody in the ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' episode "Stars & Stripes". Margaret likes Sgt. (busted to Pvt.) Scully, whose attitude toward women is shall we say less than enlightened. To prove to him she's a woman along with being a Major and a Head Nurse, she gets all dolled up in an outlandish pink prom gown with Stepford pearls, high heels and lipstick. He appreciates it so much he flops down on her bed and asks her to (literally) [[Feminine Women Can Cook|cook him an omelet]].
* ''Dårfinkar & dönickar''. Simone, having been masquerading as a boy at her new school, turns up to class in a dress and lipstick. Subverted in that Isak, her crush, decides he likes her back after finding out she's a girl, but before he's ever seen her in girls' clothes.
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' Zack is persuaded to take tomboy Max out on a date. She appears at the restaurant in a nice dress with her hair done up and Zack's jaw drops.
* In an episode of ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' Zane buys tomboy Rikki a dress for her to wear at a dinner party at his house. Emma is at the dinner and her jaw drops when she sees Rikki walking down the stairs in the dress with her hair down. She's seen wearing dresses more frequently afterwards.
* In ''[[New Girl]]'', this is Schmidt and Coach's reaction when they see Jess in the [[Little Black Dress]] her friend Cece helps her pick out... a reaction which is killed soon after, when Jess breaks into a celebratory dance.
* Played With in an episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]''. Topanga suddenly becomes self-conscious about her looks, and decides to get a makeover. However, Cory and Shawn recognize that she was already beautiful before getting "cleaned up" and now with the makeover she will be "mega-beautiful", and sure enough she stuns them when she walks out of the beauty parlor. At the end of the episode she decides not to keep up the new appearance because it's not who she is.
* In ''[[Cheers]]'', Frasier starts salivating with desire when Lilith, who normally sports a criminally tight bun, lets her hair down.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': Delenn is always lovely, as per her [[Lady of War]] status, but her usual clothing is Minbari and, while quite beautiful, isn't all that revealing. So when Delenn [[Babylon 5/Recap/S02 E08 A Race Through Dark Places|has dinner with John Sheridan]] and puts on a human-style [[Little Black Dress|black evening gown]], Sheridan is lost for words.
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* Anyone remember Molly Holly? The [[Hollywood Homely]] self righteous prude who as a heel was always promoted as unattractive? Well [http://img20.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=60178_Molly_Holly_122_218lo.jpg this] is her at the 2009 Hall of Fame.
* This probably wasn't intentional but [[The Ladette|ODB]] sure looked pretty at her TNA wedding.
== [[Tabletop Game]] ==
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== Theater ==
* Subverted in, of all things, the musical ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' where Elphaba appears at the top of the stairs at a party and everyone turns to stare, before bursting out in raucous laughter at the hideous hat she's been tricked into wearing.
* Sarah at the ball in ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]''.
* At the climax of the ballet ''Rodeo'', the dancing grinds to a halt and [[Aaron Copland]]'s hoedown music [[Letting the Air Out of the Band|loses pitch like a record winding down]] as the tomboy reappears in a nice dress.
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* ''[[Persona 4]]'' {{spoiler|Naoto Shirogane}} if you get her Christmas Eve event.
* ''[[Quintessence]]: The Blighted Venom'' Reivier masquerading as Duke Heath had his jaw drop when Lunair enters the room in her wedding gown.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'' There's an ongoing line of [[Game Mod|texture hacks]] at [http://stacksmash.cultnet.net Stack Smash] based on this concept. So far, [http://stacksmash.cultnet.net/?p=2406 Yoshi], [http://stacksmash.cultnet.net/?p=3480 Pikachu], and even [http://stacksmash.cultnet.net/?p=3300 Wario] had this done to them.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' Depending on who the character chooses, someone will have this effect on Lloyd during a subquest. Sheena's is notably the most like this trope, though.
** This also applies to Lloyd himself in a formal outfit. Sheena tells him he's handsome during the above sidequest, and Lloyd gets embarrassed.
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* Jean Poule in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' gets a [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100119.html moment] like this when they attend Voluptua's royal ball.
* Policeguy in [[Girly]], as lampshaded [http://girlyyy.com/go/407 by Mystery Girl.] {{spoiler|1=So does she- [http://girlyyy.com/go/408 she's his date, Officer Hipbone.] [http://girlyyy.com/go/408&comments=on#comments Even the readers were shocked]!}}
* One girl comments that Eiji Hayashihara has cleaned up well between school years in [http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=706 this] ''[[Red String]]'' strip; even though all he seems to have done is lose the ponytail.
* In ''[[Rhapsodies]]'', Kate, who usually favors thrift store and army surplus clothes, prefers that nobody [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=205 finds] [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=1495 this] [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=1650 out.]
* "Max Overacts" has the "you scrub up nice" phrasing in [http://occasionalcomics.com/751/latest-comic-155/ this comic].
* ''[[Skin Horse]]'''s Marcy was the physical embodiment of dowdy -- until she (briefly) started dating Tip. Once that happened she took a [http://skin-horse.com/comics/11072009/ sudden turn for the attractive], and has kept up this look even after they broke up.
* ''[[Strays]]'': [http://www.straysonline.com/comic/169.htm Meela has to be cleaned up for the party -- even though she's going as a servant.]
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* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' Doc Holiday dons a lovely white dress for one episode. Rex himself also looks suave in one of Six's suits and his hair combed back.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': An episode had Jimmy attending one of Lucius' formal events, on edge that he's going to find out about how he ruined things for him earlier. He states it's all he can think about...[[Ship Tease|until he sees]] Heloise dressed up.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Lisa, in one episode convinced that she's ugly, in an attempt to rectify this, Homer enters her in a beauty pageant. Lisa competes, and wins second place. Bart more or less tells her in this episode that she is quite pretty.
* ''[[Ka Blam!]]'': June, the tomboyish female host is usually shown to be very beautiful in a dress, aside from her usual t-shirt, shorts, and hoodie.
** It's actually stated in an episode that she'll only wear one if she's made to, otherwise, she dislikes wearing them. (Was her little act in "Won't Stick to Most Dental Work" plainly fanservice?)
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* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' makes himself over to be "long, tan and handsome" to chaperon Mr. Krabs' daughter Pearl to her prom, by way of a wig and stilts. Mr. Krabs even comments "Well he cleans up nicely" when he sees the new look.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'': Occurs to April in the first cartoon, after Irma insists she dress up for a royal ball at an embassy. All four turtles go gaga over her new look and despite the fact that she's never been a slouch in the looks department, and the fact that they're...well, ''turtles''.
** [[Improbable Species Compatibility]]!
** In the new series Casey Jones looks ''damn'' sexy in a tux.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Robin experiences this with Starfire in when she unexpectedly shows up at the party all dolled up so she can "investigate Kitten (the episode's [[Alpha Bitch|antagonist]]) thoroughly". [[If You Know What I Mean|Whatever that means.]]
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