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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fandom, of course. Snape was originally supposed to be rather unattractive, with greasy hair, pale skin, and a long, hooked nose. You would think this would have put more people off, but no. Of course, many of these people were simply finding [[Alan Rickman|the actor who
** Lucius Malfoy is another example. He's not unattractive in the books, but that's because he's given virtually no description at all. Put [[Jason Isaacs]] in a blond wig and fancy wizard clothes? ''Now'' you're talking.
** 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,
** Hermione, however, is by far and large the best-known example of this trope; the fans who use her as a [[Possession Sue]] will have her undergo a makeover, making her bushy hair slick, and having her grow "curves in all the right places" over summer vacation, to get all the boys lusting after her. ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' even ran a skit about it with ''[[Lindsay Lohan]]'' as post-curves Hermione.
*** Like Snape, though, her movie self shoulders a good part of the blame. [[Emma Watson]] [[She's All Grown Up|filled out nicely]].
* 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 - this nerdy middle aged version has been exacerbated by [[Michael Sheen]]'s interpretation in the Amazon Prime adaptation. Some of them do go the [[Nerds Are Sexy]] route, but it's still a far cry from pretty!Aziraphale.
* Kyp Durron in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' gets this in a way. He's usually just the same appearance in both, but the [[Slash Fic]] tends to make him a [[Troubled but Cute|victim of sexual abuse]] with [[Anything That Moves]] tendencies and he spends most of his leisure time [[Fan Service|naked]]. Oh, and he gets to call Luke Master, nudge nudge.
* 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]].
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