Beauty Equals Goodness: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' does an almost facepalmingly straight adherence to this rule. Almost all the good guys will be bishonen, ruggedly handsome men, hot chicks, [[Cool Old Guy]]s (sometimes good looking for their age too) and most of the bosses will be [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081028112002/fireemblem/images/c/c6/Heintz.gif old], [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081120190454/fireemblem/images/e/e7/GLASS.png plain] or [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080910224036/fireemblem/images/a/a4/Gheb.png gonks]. They'll attempt to mix things by always adding [https://web.archive.org/web/20131220132500/http://fireemblemwod.net/fe6/big/gonzales.gif one or two gonks] and a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111118065920/http://serenesforest.net/media/fe10illust/e/makalov_en.png non hottie] to the good guys side, and typically the bad guys will have one or two good looking guys on their side, however they'll usually be either [[Anti-Villain|good at heart]] or [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/VincentASM/Site/FE6/Narshen.png wear an unflattering facial expression on their portrait]. Sometimes a few of the ugly minor bosses will hint or be revealed to not have been bad at heart after their death. The simplest way to put it is ugly characters are the [[Token Minority]] for the good guys and attractive characters are the [[Token Minority]] for the bad guys. Ugly good guys far outnumber attractive bad guys, seems [[Evil Is Sexy]] is not one of Intelligent Systems' favorite tropes... for males. When it comes to females, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110209060746/http://www.serenesforest.net/media/tcg/3/fe3-049.jpg evil] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140807034135/http://serenesforest.net/media/fe6illust/s/brunnya.png is] [http://serenesforest.net/media/fe7illust/s/ursula.png sexy]{{Dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20100702223936/http://www.serenesforest.net/media/fe8illust/few/Selena.jpg too]. This can sometimes make sense (Most of the early foes are low class bandits, the latter ones are old nobles are in some games a separate species, while most player characters are nobility or young), but often doesn't.

** Basically if you're a sympathetic character in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', you're either at least quite attractive, or you're old. And if you fall into the latter category, you were likely [[I Was Quite a Looker|quite a looker when you were younger]]. There are only a few major exceptions to this (i.e. most axe-users).

* Played straight in ''[[Drakengard]]''. Another layer is added on with the [[Our Elves Are Better|impossibly beautiful and pacifistic elves]] and the [[Nightmare Fuel]]-inspired design for the monsters, who are bloodthirsty and primitive. These other creatures are [[Low Fantasy|rarely seen]], however. And really, what's more beautiful than {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination|a baby?]]}}

* Played straight in ''[[World of Warcraft]]: The Burning Crusade'', where the draenei were revamped from the ugly Lost One model into uncorrupted eredar. The new storyline then went on to say that the old draenei with the ugly appearance were [[Exclusively Evil|evil by default]] and gave all friendly Draenei of the old appearance a more [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|humanish]] form. And the Horde got the pretty, fine-featured blood elves, presumably for the sole purpose of [[Fan Service]]. However, it's subverted by the broken ones, who are certainly not as good looking as their Draenei cousins, but there are a bunch of good ones, specially those in the Earthen Ring. Played more-or-less straight in that Broken verge on [[Ugly Cute]], while the more mutated Lost Ones are far less likely to be sympathetic. Played straight again with Worgen who all become [[Progressively Prettier]] once they are an Alliance race. The new Worgen all have human hairstyles(as opposed to just fur like the old worgen) and soft puppyish faces as opposed to the hideous snarl, deformed fangs, and [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|pure red eyes]] of the old Worgen. Averted with the Horde's goblins. Averted again with the revamped male worgen models, which look like angry werewolves again. They look like bedraggled panicky dog-women for the most part, but have an even more puppyish skull structure and big soft heavy-lidded human eyes.