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== Comic Books ==
* [[Wonder Woman]] is canonically described as the [[
* Tulip from the ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' comics is treated by her male companions and female best friend from acting like she's the perfect woman.
* Mystique briefly infiltrated the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' as a new student named Foxx. Character dialogue constantly reminds us she is stunningly gorgeous, to the point she drove one character into insane lust and possibly seduced Gambit.
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* Princess Leia in ''[[Star Wars]]''. Luke gushes "she's beautiful" upon seeing her for the first time in a grainy, miniature hologram.
* Elizabeth Berkley in ''[[Showgirls]]'' gets a lot of praise, especially for her breasts.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' has Ilia, a Deltan whose beauty and pheromones give a sexual reaction in many species, so much so that she has an "Oath of Celibacy" on record. She's played by Persis Khambatta, a professional model and Miss India 1965. The male bridge crew all stare when she arrives, with Sulu having the most obvious [[Hello, Nurse!]] reaction. They just return to professionalism once she announces the oath of celibacy. This is all in spite of the fact that she's completely bald, which one of the authors found [[Author Appeal|quite sexy]].
* Mary Jane Watson in ''[[Spider-Man (Film)|Spider-Man]]''. Peter Parker harbors a very long crush on her and thinks she's gorgeous. She also easily lands a number of strapping, handsome boyfriends such as James Franco and a hero astronaut.
* ''[[A
* The plot of ''[[The Truth About Cats and Dogs]]'' is based around [[Uma Thurman]]'s character being ''much'' more attractive than [[Janeane Garofalo (Creator)|Janeane Garofalo]]'s character, who is [[Hollywood Homely]].
* Any adaptation of ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]'' is going to run into this problem. Helen of Troy is the most beautiful woman in the world, as selected by Aphrodite. Even in the nonmagical ''[[Troy]]'', Helen is beautiful enough for Paris to start a war over.
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** Gilderoy Lockhart, played by [[Kenneth Branagh]], has a considerable in-universe fan girl following.
** [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Order of the Phoenix Members/Characters|Fleur Delacour]]. In the movies she is described as a breath-taking beauty with Veela (a stunningly beautiful magical creature) ancestry. Possibly justified in that [[Harry Potter (Literature)|the books]] imply that she possesses a magic charm that men find entrancing, but the audience obviously is not susceptible to.
* In ''[[
* Another book-derived film example: ''[[Being There]]'', in which Chance the Gardener is described by a senator's wife as "very, very sexy" to Eve, who agrees with that assessment. In the book, he's described as a cross between a young Ted Kennedy and Cary Grant. Interestingly, Sellers deliberately gained weight for the role, believing that Chance would live a sedentary lifestyle.
* Kelly LeBrock in ''[[Weird Science (Film)|Weird Science]]'' is supposed to be the absolute teen dream girl.
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* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'': This trope is the very reason why Jan Brady will spend most (if not all) of her adult life cursing the name of her sister Marcia (to a long line of therapists trying to reconstruct her self-esteem, most likely), having spent her entire childhood being told Marcia is prettier than she is.
* In ''[[Being Human]]'', several women mention how attractive they find Mitchell, usually while talking to George.
* Played with in regards to Rory in ''[[
* Mary on ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' was constantly referred to as being, as one of her co-workers put it, "terrifically attractive and desirable," and virtually every male guest character fell for her and wanted to date her.
* Parodied in ''[[Son of the Beach]]'' where everyone (apart from the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]] Kimberlee]] seem to consider Notch Johnson as having perfect male physique. In reality he is ordinary-looking, skinny, pasty-white, middle-aged and balding.
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== Mythology ==
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* In ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'', Miranda is supposed to have been genetically modified to be perfect, even her looks.
* In ''[[Rise of the Kasai]]'', [[Co-Dragons|the twins]] are apparently supposed to be attractive female sorceresses who are able to enslave the whole Horde (the ''all male'' army of the Kasai cult) through magically assisted seduction, and even manage to do this to the main hero, Rau. How much of their power was meant to be based off of actual attractiveness and how much was meant to be pure magic is never really addressed.
* Princess Kaguya of ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' is meant to be, well, [[Public Domain Character|Princess Kaguya]] of [
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* Lois Griffin from ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' is often described as very attractive and would normally be way out of Peter's league. Inverted by her daughter Meg, who is treated as though she were the single ugliest thing ever to exist in this or any other universe. What makes this really funny is, the only physical difference between them drawing-wise is that Lois is taller, slightly thinner, and [[Heroes Prefer Redheads|red-headed]].
* Quinn Morgendorffer's attractiveness is mentioned frequently throughout the ''[[Daria (Animation)|Daria]]'' series. Daria gets the same treatment when she dresses up like Quinn and gets a [[Beautiful All Along]] scene.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Ty Lee calls Azula "the most beautiful, smartest, perfect girl in the world", Azula treats this as an "[[As You Know]]". Explainable in that Ty Lee has a history of [[Professional Butt
* Played for laughs in ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]: Bender's Game.'' Hermes turned into [[Punny Name|Hermaphrodite]], the most beautiful of centaurs. He merely looked like a centaur version of Hermes with a boob job and blonde hair.
* The beauty of Belle in ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' is at one point described as "[having] no parallel".
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