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== [[Literature]] ==
* There are many examples of this in [[Discworld]]:
** Granny Weatherwax was never particularly attractive (although ugly would be an exaggeration), her sister Lilith is a [[Knight Templar]] fairy godmother (did the writers of ''Shrek'' read ''[[Witches Abroad]]''?) who looks like a younger and prettier version of Granny, and ironically was supposed to be the good one of the family.
** In ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'', the villainous Captain Swing believes in something like phrenology and thinks that rough heroic cop Sam Vimes has the face of a murderer, while [[Serial Killer]] Carcer has an honest face. Although it's been noted (and explored particularly in that book) that Vimes does have the capacity to be a murderer, but doesn't let himself.
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** Not to mention ''[[Lords and Ladies]]'', the Pratchett version of [[Can't Argue with Elves]]. Elves are ''beautiful'', or at least appear to be.
* Played with in [[Harry Potter]]. [[The Hero|Harry]] starts off as a scrawny ten year old with "knobbly knees" and [[Nerd Glasses]], but is definitely implied to get more attractive as the series progresses. [[Big Bad|Lord Voldemort]] on the other hand, is stated to be very good-looking when he was younger, but as he gets older [https://web.archive.org/web/20210302191721/http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp19/pinkpandachan16/pictures%2520of2%250people%2520in%2520places%2520and%2520time/large_lord-voldemort.jpg?t=1247704758 this diminishes somewhat]{{Dead link}} ([[Evil Makes You Ugly|although it was his own fault]]). This is also shown with Draco Malfoy; although Harry is more unconventional than ugly, he's not played up to be anywhere near as good-looking as [[Draco in Leather Pants|his enemy]], who is described to sound almost [[bishonen]] (and a bit [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Aryan]]).
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'': Outside social shunning in general, the good-hearted but grotesque Quasimodo has his counterpart in handsome Phoebus, who is an utter bastard (and who, typically of [[Victor Hugo]], gets a [[Karma Houdini]]).
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* ''[[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.
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
* Interestingly enough, ''[[The Bible]]'' may qualify for this, depending on how it's interpreted. Ezekiel 28:12-19 is often understood to be referring to Satan; it describes him as beautiful, even going so far as to say he was "perfect in beauty". Jesus, on the other hand, is described as plain-looking, if not downright ugly; Isaiah 53, which is believed by Christians to be a Messianic prophecy, says He "had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him."
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Aesop that just won't die in ''[[Gargoyles]]'': First, there's [[Villain with Good Publicity|David Xanatos]]. Then comes [[Badass Grandpa|Macbeth]]. Then the creators decided to finally make it explicit with the Hunter family, especially [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|the youngest Canmore brother]].
* In the second episode of ''[[Ruby-Spears Superman]]'', Superman has a problem with an alien monster from a space police officer's spaceship. He had a choice between a ugly male and a beautiful female as either cop or crook
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