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{{quote|"Tell you what, if you think it's wrong for you to think of them as ugly, just think of how you look to them. Short, squat, unlined skin, a nose that puffs up like a rodent, tiny little mouth with jagged white things in it, a horrible shrub-like growth on your head."<br />
"This, from the man who's worn a bowl-cut hairstyle almost all his adult life."|Luke and his son, ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars:]] [[
Ever notice how, when [[Humans Through Alien Eyes|aliens look at humans]], they can't help but be repulsed? Even though the only visible difference between humans and the aliens is usually [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|a bunch of forehead ridges?]] Who knew forehead ridges were the sexiest thing in the universe? Or is the lack of them enough to put humans in the [[Uncanny Valley]]?
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== Comics ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Zits]]'', a fly declares Jeremy ugly just as he declares the fly ugly.
* Blind [[Green Lantern]] Rot Lop Fan, who himself looks a bit like a cave salamander, was kind enough to sympathize to fellow Green Lantern [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Katma Tui]] on how hideous she felt to him, despite her lovely voice. This is a bit of a subversion however, in that Katma ''isn't'' human, she just [[Human Alien|looks human]] (albeit with pink skin).
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* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'': The first thing the Duras sisters see through LaForge's VISOR is Dr. Crusher. Their response? "Human females are so repulsive!"
* ''[[Halloweentown]] III: Halloweentown High'' has the main character's brother falling for a troll. At the end, they are about to share a kiss, but they both say that it is too weird/gross, and decide to stay as friends.
* From the film ''[[Enemy Mine (
{{quote| '''Davidge:''' ''(after Jerry saves Davidge from sand monster)'' You saved my life. Why?<br />
'''Jerry:''' Maybe I need to look at another face... even one as ugly as yours.<br />
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* In [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth|Nor Crystal Tears]]'', the Thranx are deeply unnerved and revolted by humanity's endoskeletal bodies and bizarre upright posture. Of course, humans return the favor, as Thranx are essentially four-foot-tall praying mantises. Fortunately, both sides largely get over those gut reactions with a lot of work.
** Played with a bit also, as many thranx find humans' ''flexibility'' remarkably graceful, even if they're ugly otherwise. Likewise, even the most insect-phobic of humans have to admit that thranx smell lovely.
* In [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s ''[[
** One of Ijon Tichy's voyages in ''[[
* In ''[[His Dark Materials|The Amber Spyglass]]'', Mary Malone stays with a village of ''mulefa'', wheeled antelope/elephant-like creatures. They're intelligent and kindly and adopt her readily -- but they admit, even after months of getting to know her, that they find her shape ugly and hideous because she's utterly unlike anything they've ever seen.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s short story ''I Am the Doorway'' (appears in the collection ''[[Night Shift]]''), aliens infect an astronaut, and eyes appear on his fingers. Those eyes see everything in the world -- but especially humans -- as [[Cosmic Horror|monstrous and abominable]].
* Grendelkin, a race of monsters from ''[[
* In the novel ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers: The Vieled Threat]]'', the Decepticons wax at length about how ugly they find humans. Even an Autobot comments to a swimming human ally that he likes her better when she wears her goggles, as they give her head a more robotic look. Of course, they are giant, mechanoid, robotic aliens, so their perspective on what is attractive is very different to say the least.
* In ''Le jour des fourmis'' (i.e. ''[[Empire of the Ants]]''), Arthur Ramirez uses a small TV screen in order to show the human world to the ant 103th. Afther seeing some models, the soldier ant said in her head that she find the human females very ugly!
* In the ''[[Worldwar
* Variant: While the Auditors of ''[[Discworld]]'' have no concept of beauty or ugliness, they find the human form repugnant due to its possession of (Ewwww!) ''orifices'', with all the messiness and inefficiency such features entail.
* In ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' the novel, the human protagonist Ulysse and female ape scientist Zira feel mutual intellectual attraction. Once they [[Almost Kiss]]... but Zira can't bring herself to it, as Ulysse is too ugly in her eyes.
* In Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski's ''[[
* In ''[[
{{quote| '''Luke''': "Tell you what, if you think it's wrong for you to think of them as ugly, just think of how you look to them. Short, squat, unlined skin, a nose that puffs up like a rodent, tiny little mouth with jagged white things in it, a horrible shrub-like growth on your head."<br />
'''Ben''': "This, from the man who's worn a bowl-cut hairstyle almost all his adult life." }}
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* The conquering aliens in the ''Pandora's Planet'' series of short stories (later anthologized under that title) seek to play up this trope after capturing Earth, to limit pro-human empathy by members of the alien race.
* In the novelizations of the [[Alien vs. Predator|Alien Vs Predator]] world, when the point of view is [[Humans Through Alien Eyes|from a Predator,]] if they are looking at a "ooman," they refer to him/her as "ugly," "pale," or "sickly."
* Terry Bisson's short story ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''Chess With A Dragon'', humans are one of only a dozen mammalian races in a galaxy dominated by thousands of reptilian and invertebrate civilizations. The only races that don't think we're unspeakably disgusting are the ones that think mammals like us belong on a plate.
* ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]] Saves the Universe'' has humanity involved in a genocidal war with slimy tentacled aliens, simply because they find us so repulsive. The protagonist discovers that the Grey Men (villains from a previous novel) are using brainwashing to engineer the war, and so he uses the same technology to make the aliens see the positive aspects of humanity. Like our slimy sweat and flickering red tongues.
* Invoked in ''[[
{{quote| '''Blair:''' You are displaying the childish human weakness of hating the different. On its own world it would probably class you as a fish-belly, white monstrosity with an insufficient number of eyes and a fungoid body pale and bloated with gas. Just because its nature is different, you haven't any right to say it's necessarily evil.}}
* ''[[In the Courts of The Crimson Kings]]''. A Martian biologist examines a captive human, and despite his similar bipedal form is squicked by such things as body hair and sweat.
* In [[
* In the [[Myth Adventures]] short story "Myth Congeniality", the drop-dead-gorgeous Bunny is rated lowest in a cross-dimensional beauty contest, competing against females from hundreds of nonhuman and non-humanoid species. {{spoiler|But she wins the prize anyway, being the only contestant who wasn't disqualified for cheating.}}
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek:
** The Ferengi tend to find humans (and human-looking aliens) repulsive, and think those members who believe otherwise to be deviants.
{{quote| ''(Lwaxana Troi and Deanna Troi have been captured and stripped naked)''<br />
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'''Daimon Tog:''' Actually, ''his'' is a look of revulsion. But it is not a feeling that I share. ''(stares at them pervertedly)'' }}
** The first lines we hear from a Ferengi (whose [[Hypocritical Humor|ugly face is filling the viewscreen]]) is that the hideousness of humans has clearly not been exaggerated.
* In the same vein, the Founders of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' take this view among their more general [[Fantastic Racism]] against "solids".
* And in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', although humans aren't necessarily unattractive to Vulcans, they do smell terrible.
* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' has an alien say "Boy, humans are ugly!"
* This was the [[Karmic Twist Ending]] of a ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode called "The Eye of the Beholder", and to say anything else would be a spoiler.
* In ''[[
{{quote| '''The Groosalugg''': (''confused that Cordelia finds him attractive'') Don't you see this strange bulge in my arms? (''points to his biceps'') This strange curve in my mouth? (''points to his mouth'') My heart... beating in the wrong place? (''puts Cordelia's hand over his heart'')}}
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** Or remember the dialog when you first find a Spathi ship and you haven't allied with them yet.
* In ''[[Warcraft III]]'', in the first orc mission, when encountering the [[Pig Man|quillboars]] in Kalimdor for the first time, one of the orcs commented on the curiosity of the new beings with, "At least they're prettier than the humans".
* In the prehistoric era of ''[[
* HK-47, the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] (and sociopathic droid) of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' calls humans "meatbags" and wonders how they can stand to walk around as sloshing bags of organs. He can even cause the player character to feel a moment of self-doubt.
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' has Garrus as a romance option for a female Shepard. He outright states that he finds humans ugly, but he's far more attracted to Shepard's personality than her face.
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== Western Animation ==
* On the ''[[
* In the ''[[
{{quote| '''Patrick:''' These are some ugly looking fish.<br />
'''Spongebob:''' Maybe we're near one of those toxic waste dumps.<br />
'''Mr. Krabs:''' I think I'm gonna be sick... }}
* The animated ''[[Earthworm Jim (
* What the bugs from ''[[Thumbelina]]'' think of the title character after she's accidentally stripped of her bug disguise.
* This is Granamyr the Dragon King's opinion of humans in ''[[He
* In the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Twitching Channels", he and Megavolt are transported into [[Welcome to The Real World|our world]] and shrieks in terror at the "beakless mutants".
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