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{{quote|'''Ted (upon seeing Hell)''': "This is not what I expected."
'''Bill''': "Yeah, we were totally ''lied to'' by our album covers."
|''[[Bill and Ted (film)|Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]''}}
Don't judge a book by its cover—no, [[Stealth Pun|literally]]. Nor a video, a comic, or even a record. The cover is an essential part of the marketing plan. As is common in [[Advertising Tropes|marketing]], it can be an entirely inaccurate representation. It's not just the artwork that's misleading, either. The Blurb on the back may be even more disconnected from the story.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140712002414/http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/02/dra-gon/ This cover] confused that site in that it is neither fantasy or sci-fi, but political thriller. Oh, and they review [[Contemptible Cover]]s.
* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] covers are notorious for showing Ben Skywalker as looking like his father Luke when he in fact looks like his mother Mara.
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] herself complained about covers depicting the hero of ''[[Earthsea Trilogy|A Wizard of
* The paperback of ''Islands in the Net'' by Bruce Sterling features a [[The Vamp|sultry black-haired dame]] in [[Hell-Bent for Leather|a leather jacket opened to show the cleavage]]. While there are female characters in the book (including the protagonist), at no point are any of them sultry, black-haired, ''or'' wearing leather.
* The cover of Steven Harper's ''Trickster'' features a rather badly-drawn Kendi and Sci-Fi cover babe Gretchen, who, though not quite a [[Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Game|Lady Not Appearing in this Book]], definitely doesn't play a prominent enough role to warrant cover status. Potentially misleading on two levels since, though most people would probably assume Kendi and Gretchen were a couple due to their sharing the cover (and Gretchen's rather [http://www.amazon.com/Trickster-Silent-Empire-Steven-Harper/dp/0451459415/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6#noop revealing dress]), Kendi is actually married [[Ho Yay|TO A MAN]] and Gretchen is quite a bit older and plainer than her cover counterpart.
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