Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: Difference between revisions

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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Differs from a subversion of [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] in having this specific pairing. Expect the villain to play upon Genre Blind characters to make them turn against the hero and for [[An Aesop]] about the villain "being the real monster". This is fairly common in [[Beast and Beauty]] plots.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Kitano and Suda of ''[[Angel Densetsu]]''. Suda is meant to be a parallel or antithesis to Kitano. While Kitano is frightening in appearance and often called a monster, while actually being kind and gentle, Suda is quite attractive and charismatic, whom people often adore and proclaim to be awesome or hot (If by people, you mean Ikuko). However, he is more like a monster in his behavior, often lying to people and manipulating them to achieve his ends. He even goes so far as to try to turn Koiso against Kitano in order to emotionally devastate him and win the war going on between them at the time.

** Similarly, while not exactly a villain, St. John Rivers is domineering, self-righteous and classically handsome. On the other hand, Rochester is not handsome (and {{spoiler|is by the end of the book actually disfigured}}), but for all his flaws, he is at heart a good person.

 

* The 1980s retro-cop show ''[[Crime Story]]'' had pockmarked, scary police detective Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) pitted against sharp-dressing, impeccably coiffed, good-looking mobster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison).

* ''[[El Chavo del Ocho]]'': Don Ramon invoked the trope while selecting a cast for a play held at the neighborhood when Dona Florinda complained about her son playing a villain instead of a hero. She bought the excuse.

 

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[[Category:Personal Appearance Tropes]]