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{{trope}}
[[File:uglyguyhotdaughter.png|link=Dragon Ball|frame|[[Sarcasm Mode|The resemblance is uncanny.]]]]

{{quote|'''Mokie''': You do not know what it means to have a homely daughter, Mayhi. I'm ready to give him a cow, just to take her off my hands. This is what comes of having a two-cows wife. Look at you! You paid four cows for your wife--
'''Mayhi''': Five!
'''Mokie''': ... and she gave you beautiful daughters. Your investment has been doubled.
|Two incredibly ugly fathers in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}x-PLyy0XM3Y Johny Lingo]''}}

So you meet and befriend some older guy on your quest to save the world. He's [[The Big Guy|big]], [[Large Ham|loud]], [[Intergenerational Friendship|much older than you]], and probably [[Gonk|ugly as sin]] - but he's [[Boisterous Bruiser|fun to be around]] and you generally respect him. Some time after you become friends, you learn that he has a daughter. More than that, he's already set you two up on a blind date.

Okay, you can deal with that. She won't be pretty, but she'll probably be nice enough. You don't want to insult the father and after the whole thing you can probably just say that she's not your type—mother of God [[Hello, Nurse!|is that her?!]] ''Daaaaaayumn.''

Congratulations, you've just met '''The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter'''. (Or, in some cases, The Ugly Guy's Cute Daughter.) Sometimes, not only is there a lack of [[Strong Family Resemblance]], but they barely even look like they're of the same ''species''. Often this will be [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by making the child the spitting image of [[Gender Equals Breed|her]] [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|mother]] instead or by stating that daddy ''[[I Was Quite a Looker|used to]]'' be quite a catch, but the point stands that she looks ''nothing'' like her undeniably unattractive father.

This trope usually only applies [[Always Female|to girls]] (though not without exceptions), but you probably knew that already. Often [[Daddy's Little Villain|the ugly guy is the villain]].

Daughter of [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] ([[I Was Quite a Looker|unless...]]). The twin sister of the [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]. In Science Fiction and Fantasy stories, can combine with [[Cute Monster Girl]] as a form of [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]. Contrast [[Strong Family Resemblance]].

{{noreallife|this is way too much [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on both the father and the daughter.}}

{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Pictured above: Chi-Chi from ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', after the aptly named Ox King produces a photo of her, the only response anyone has to offer is, "Whoa. She certainly doesn't take after ''you''."
** One could say Videl from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' qualifies as a mild example, as her dad Mr. Satan is fairly average looking.
* A near textbook case is an episode of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', where Alex Armstrong gets the idea that Lt. Havoc would just love to date his sister Katherine. After Havoc spends a good deal of time freaking over what she'll look like after seeing her super-stout father and giantess mother (complete with the memorable "Pomato" theory), it turns out that Katherine is an adorable [[Moe]] girl that looks nothing like her brother, father, ''or'' mother...[[Butt Monkey|who then promptly rejects him]]. Additionally, Alex also has [[Hot Amazon|the totally hot]], [[Action Girl|absurdly badass]] sister [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Olivier/Olivia]] Armstrong. (An [[Omake]] from the manga shows that in addition to Alex's two gorgeous sisters, [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fma/images/a/ad/ArmstrongFamily.jpg he also has two other sisters who look just like him], only ''bigger''.)
* In addition to placing in the [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] trope, Mr. Kimura from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' raises a cheerful and apparently well-adjusted daughter. However, she's only a little girl instead of someone who would be ogled over.
** Chiyo as well, [[Mind Screw|maybe]].
* The ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' manga plays with [[Gonk]] Guy's [[Moe|Cute]] Little Sister for all it's worth with Sumiyoshi and his sister Canal, who "talks" like her brother despite the lack of resemblance. Sumiyoshi's friends spend the entire chapter speculating about the genetic implications: {{spoiler|their father's a [[Hot Dad]] with the "family voice", while their mother's the Sumiyoshi lookalike, with normal speech balloons}}.
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. The huge, monstrous king of the alien Oni looks nothing like his green-haired bombshell of a daughter, [[Cute Monster Girl|Lum]], who definitely takes after her [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|mother]]. In fact, even compared to the other male Oni in the series (particularly [[Chick Magnet]] Rei), Mr. Invader is something of a [[Gonk]].
** And with Sakura there's a Ugly Gal Hot Daughter example.
* Ranma of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' is a looker, as is his [[Gender Bender|magical-change female form]]. His father Genma's appearance is noticably improved by being changed into a panda (And even then, a female of the species commented that he was pretty damn ugly for a panda). This is explained by Ranma getting all his looks from [[Hot Mom]] Nodoka.
** That and [[I Was Quite a Looker|Genma apparently USED TO look attractive]]. It's just that, unlike Nodoka, he didn't age very well.
** Another example is a story from the first season. There's a noodle salesman whom Genma promised Ranma his daughters hand in marriage in exchange for some food; he is a short fat ugly guy with enormous ears, but his daughter Kaori [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|is quite attractive.]]
* [[Code Geass|Charles zi Britannia]]. Granted, he's not as hideous as some of the guys on this list, he still gets credit for the sheer number of stupidly hot kids (Lelouch, Nunally, Cornelia, Schneizel, Euphemia, Clovis, Guinevere, Carline—and that's just the ones we manage to see onscreen) he's produced, male or female.
** Try saying that after seeing the Emperor Chuck [http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/File:Charles_Zi_Britannia_And_VV.JPG in his] [http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/File:Young_charles.jpg younger days]. [[I Was Quite a Looker|He just aged badly]].
*** I wouldn't say he aged badly, its just that hairdo that does him unjustly.
** With Lelouch and Nunnally, their mother was beautiful. Strangely, Nunnally is a cute character who has the smallest chest of any of the Emperor's children even though her mother has the largest chest of woman in the show, though she's still young and thus she has time to grow. [[Bishonen|Clovis]] is a particularly interesting case, since the unidentified middle-aged woman sitting in the front row at  {{spoiler|his funeral}}, presumably his mother Princess Gabrielle, is plain.
* Amelia {{spoiler|and Gracia aka Naga}} from [[Slayers]]. Their father Philionel is described as looking like an ugly, oversized dwarf. The difference is more openly acknowledged in the novels.
* Ennis from ''[[Baccano!]]!''. No, she doesn't get a pass for being an [[Artificial Human]]: a significant majority of her body is made from Szilard's intact cells (though she does make mention of an unwilling female donor), meaning she may even be the creepy old guy's [[Opposite Gender Clone]] for all we know. However, Szilard was quite old by the time he became immortal, so that could be a factor.
* Although [[Mahou Sensei Negima|Asuna]] [[Precocious Crush|would]] [[Hot Dad|tell you different]], veteran [[Master Swordsman|sword master]] Eishun has usually been described as plain-looking and unintimidating. He was [[I Was Quite a Looker|much more handsome in his younger days]], but this was usually offset by his [[The Comically Serious|serious personality]] and single-minded density. Despite all that, his daughter Konoka is one of the most [[Yamato Nadeshiko|naturally beautiful]] characters in the cast. This was later [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Eishun's old partner Rakan.
{{quote|"''Ohhh? I suppose you must be Konoka-chan, then! Now this is a shock! How did that straight-laced old ponce manage to come out with a beautiful little girl like this?''"}}
* [[Porco Rosso]]: Piccolo is [[Ugly Cute]] at best, but his granddaughter is a typical Miyazaki heroine.
* Tsuna from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. Thank ''God'' that he took after the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090130091721/http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/158/14/ Vongola Primo] instead of his [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620094603/http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/85/03/ father].
* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', this is followed with [http://www.gurren-lagann.net/chara/images/lordgenome.gif Lord Genome] and his [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427234904/http://hoshikudaki.lagrange-points.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/2004675741996202841-rs.jpg daughter Nia]. It's shown that Lord Genome looked ''[[Strong Family Resemblance|exactly]]'' like his daughter [[I Was Quite a Looker|back when]] he was [[Cute Shotaro Boy|young]], which explains her looks. (As seen [[media:LordGenomeKid.jpg|here]], especially when compared with Nia [[media:niacuthair.jpg|when she cut her hair]].)
* Ryoko and Sanzo in [[Angel Densetsu]]. Every time he comes to parent-teacher meetings is mistaken for a yakuza. Goes (a bit less) for Ikuno as well. And of course when you add in Kitano's father as well you have a [[Melee a Trois]] on school grounds. We conveniently never see the girls' mothers, but for Ikuno you just have to take a look at her [[Expy]]: [[Claymore|Claire]].
* [[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]] has Kensei Ma and his daughter Renka. It's a sort of subversion as Kensei [[I Was Quite a Looker|used to be quite attractive]].
** Kenichi's parents may also be an example, though his father isn't exactly ugly. On the other hand, the men in this manga can look very different in body structure, while the women have three body structures: preteen, ''smoking damn whOaMG hot,'' [[And Zoidberg]] Kisara.
* Ranzou Saotome of ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is not an attractive man, either due to age or just being born rather plain. His son Alto, on the other hand, is a [[Bishonen|pretty, pretty]] ''[[Dude Looks Like a Lady|princess]]''—and nobody will [[Never Live It Down|ever let him live it down]]. Apparently, he gets it from [[Hot Mom|his mother]].
* [[Angel Heart (manga)|Xiang Ying]] is quite the looker despite the fact that her real biological father (no not that [[City Hunter|lecherous dude]]) literally scares the heck out of people by [[Kubrick Stare|his stare alone]]. There is indeed a scene where they are trying to figure out how to work a photo machine and end up having [[Strong Family Resemblance|the same expression]]. It also helps knowing about her mother, Xiang Ping, looks almost like her and is also [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|quite the looker]] as well.
* Borderline case: [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Gendo Ikari]] is a scary looking man with fierce eyes, even as a young man. His son Shinji is [[Bishonen]] enough that his character design is lifted almost wholesale from a ''female'' character. Assuming you don't [[Base Breaker|hate his guts]], Shinji's adorable. Flashbacks in the series and other sources do give Shinji a slight but still quite noticeable resemblance to Gendo, but for the most part he takes after his dead mother Yui, who ''was'' very beautiful. A straight example is  {{spoiler|Gendo and Rei, since she is a partial-clone of Yui.}}
* Death the Kid from ''[[Soul Eater]]''. Not that his dad, Shinigami-sama, is ugly, per se, it's just that all we see of him is a skull mask on a shadowy cloak with inexplicably large, goofy hands. His son? A pale bishonen with black hair (except for his 3 white stripes), and [[Eyes of Gold]], who usually sports a suit.
** It should be noted that Shinigami-sama said he changed his look from frightening to a [[Lighter and Softer]] image for the school's image.
*** Given recent indications, there's a [[Unreliable Narrator|chance]] that at some point in time Strong Family Resemblance actually applied, with [[Truly Single Parent|Shinigami]] looking like Kid. Because Mosquito had to have seen the Sanzu Lines somewhere before.
** Kid is seen wearing a similar outfit to the one his old man appears in at one point, though he looks noticeably more badass.
* In ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'', the cute/pretty [[Single-Minded Twins]] are the granddaughters of a guy who is adorable-looking in an [[Ugly Cute]] kind of way- he looks about eighty and bears something of a resemblance to [[The Simpsons (animation)|Hans Moleman]]. Also, he was definitely so old that he was a hero of the last great war and he dies of old age near the end of the TV series.
* Happens in the [[Trigun]] anime. The only identified daughter of the Nebraska family, the first named villains to show up, is a fairly normal and physically attractive girl. Her dad looks like a horrifically ugly old guy with three teeth, and her mother is... younger looking, but pretty much a cybernetics-free [[Opposite Gender Clone]] of her son, Gofsef. That is to say, a 20+ foot giant built like a bodybuilder and with a swollen, deformed head.
* Big bruiser Tennouji from [[School Rumble]] has an adorable little sister, Mio.
* Happens a lot in ''Et Cetera'' (although the daughters are more cute than hot). [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427201530/http://manga.animea.net/et-cetera-chapter-8a-page-10.html Luriele and her dad in the second book], Cornelia and her (literal) bear-looking dad in the eighth book, the priest and his daughter Coronet in the fifth book, hell, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427010438/http://manga.animea.net/et-cetera-chapter-1-page-20.html even Mingchao and her grandpa could count].
** Also an Ugly Guy Hot Son variant, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427005650/http://manga.animea.net/et-cetera-chapter-11-page-5.html with the rather attractive Alternate] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427005827/http://manga.animea.net/et-cetera-chapter-11-page-6.html being the the son of the giant, hulking Gordy].
* One of the secondary antagonists in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', Dozle Zabi, is a heavily scarred, hulking ogre of a man who in all likelihood wasn't good-looking even before the explosion that scarred him. 17 years later in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]]'', we find that his now [[She's All Grown Up|grown up]] daughter Mineva Lao Zabi is [http://otakujanai.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/audrey-burne.jpg quite attractive].
** Quite the contrary, Dozle [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022134406/http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/00/2/7/3/78842644188296922.gif wasn't really all that ugly]—at worst he was just plain, or even attractive [[Rated "M" for Manly|in a testosterone overdosed]] sort of way, if you just happen to like that.
* [[Fairy Tail]] has Lucy and her father.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' there Omeada's [[Kawaiiko|little sister]] compared to the other [[Gonk|members]] of the family and he thinks ''she's'' the ugly one.
* Kurotsuchi from [[Naruto]] compared to her father and grandfather.
* ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. Bianca's father is a very short, very angry, mustachioed man. In [[Pokémon (anime)|the anime adaptation]], her father, while more plain than outright ugly, is a large, bulky man.
* In [[One Piece]], we have [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101000013/http://read.mangashare.com/One-Piece/chapter-611/page010.html King Neptune] and his only daughter [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031233525/http://read.mangashare.com/One-Piece/chapter-613/page011.html Princess Shirahoshi]. Though [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031234118/http://read.mangashare.com/One-Piece/chapter-609/page009.html his sons] have inherited his looks ([[Your Mileage May Vary]] on the oldest Fukaboshi). [[Our Mermaids Are Different|The explanation is that they are merfolk.]] Their genes have a long memory, meaning that it’s more likely that a baby takes after his/her ancestors than his/her parents.
* Vice-principal Uchiyamada and his daughter in [[Great Teacher Onizuka]].
* Just about every single heroine from Adachi's works, of the [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|she takes after her mom]] variety. Some of the dads aren't exactly ugly but they sure aren't a looker either. The hero's dads though, could very well pass for [[Gender Equals Breed|being quite a looker in their younger days.]]
* [[Tokimeki Tonight]], pretty rich girl Yoko's yakuza father is horrible ugly, looking more like a shaved gorilla than an actual human, much to the dismay of main protagonist Ranze when {{spoiler|she transforms into the doting father's daughter}}.
* ''[[Death Note]]'' has a male example, while Soichiro isn't ''ugly'' exactly his son the [[Bishonen]] Light looks nothing like him.
** And played straight in the case of Souchirou's youngest daughter Sayu, who grows into a ''very'' [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] teenager.

== Comic Books ==
* ''Hagar the Horrible'''s daughter Honi is a beautiful, full-figured blonde. Even better, she can't be explained by Hagar's wife, Helga, who looks like a stereotypical Wagnerian soprano (as in: "It's not over until she sings") playing Brunnhilde.
** Though an early comic mentions that Helga ''[[I Was Quite a Looker|was]]'' [[I Was Quite a Looker|a lot lighter in her younger years]], when Hagar [[Abduction Is Love|stole her from her father's castle]].
* [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Sivana]], [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]]'s archenemy, has four children: Georgia and Junior, who look just like him, and the subtly named Magnificus and [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Beautia]], who take after [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|their mother Venus]].
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' has Sparkle Plenty, stunningly beautiful daughter of clock stopper B.O. Plenty ''and'' his (former) [[Abhorrent Admirer]] wife, Gertie Gravel.
* Wolverine and X-23 from the [[X-Men]] series (although not in the traditional sense, since she's a test tube baby / partial clone).
* [[Batgirl|Cassandra]] and her father David Cain, although this is quite realistic. David is rather grizzled and scarred, as he has been a top level assassin most of his adult life and Cassandra really gets her looks more from her mother  {{spoiler|Shiva Wusa}}.
* In ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'''s ''Mutant League'' comic (unrelated to the [[Mutant League|cartoon]]), we have Coach Brikka (orc-like mutant) and his daughter Brenda (apparently normal human, and a busty blonde one at that). Could be justified in that mutations may not be hereditary.
* Tenebris and Shun-Day from [[Les Legendaires]] both play with this trope; Tenebris, despite her father being the creepy old [[Evil Sorcerer]] Darkhell, is an [[Ms. Fanservice|incredibly sexy]] [[Dark Action Girl]], though this is justified both because Darkhell, once brought back to his youth, is shown to be a quite attractive Bishonen, and because {{spoiler|she is not exactly his daughter in the genetical sense; he created her through a formula that allowed her mother, Queen Adeyrid, to breed her without mating}}; Shun-Day, on the other hand, {{spoiler|is the "dauthger" of a [[Big Badass Bird of Prey|bird-like]] [[Our Demons Are Different|demonical]] [[Evil Sorcerer]] who looks like a monster by human standards. While she is not his real daughter either, the fact she is a clone of her still makes it weird.}}

== Film ==
* In the Marlon Wayans comedy ''Senseless'', we learn this in reverse. Wayans' character, Darryl Witherspoon, spends the entire movie wooing a gorgeous, light-skinned black girl, and later on we find out that her father is Darryl's boss, who is both plain-looking and white. Upon discovering this, Darryl immediately assumes an interrracial marriage was involved.
** IIRCL, "marriage" wasn't mentioned, but he did compliment his boss on having "jungle fever"
* Paulie Bleeker of ''[[Juno]]'' is somewhat of a male example. Being played by Michael Cera, he is cute in a male-[[Moe]] kind of way, with a frumpy mother described by Juno as "[[I Was Quite a Looker|possibly was hot once]], but now looks like a hobbit."
* Victoria of ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', while not necessarily "hot," is quite pretty. What's interesting is that not only is her father not much of a looker, her mother is, quite possibly, worse.
* In ''[[Grown Ups]]'', Rob Schneider's character has two beautiful daughters from previous marriages, and another one that looks exactly like him.
* In the classic monster movie ''[[Them]]'', the dorky [[Absent-Minded Professor]] who is sent to help shows up with another entomologist too. An incredibly gorgeous brunette. His daughter. How on earth this could have happened is stranger than the idea that atomic bomb tests could have turned ants into giant monsters the size of a truck.
* In ''[[Run Fatboy Run]]'', Mr. Goshdashtidar is the father of the unbelievably, incredibly hot Maya.
* [[Gender-Inverted Trope|Gender inverted]] in the ''[[Shrek]]'' films: Fairy Godmother is short, plump and plain featured at best. Her son is ''literally'' [[Prince Charming]].
* The grouchy landlord Mr. Ditkovich's daughter in the ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' series.
* In [[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', you look at Cedric Diggory and his dad and you think Ced got '''all''' his looks from his mom.
* The Virgin Suicides, commented on in the movie.

== Literature ==
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', the female offspring of Igors were described as uniformly lovely. Which makes one wonder how/why (at least) one of them could pass as a male Igor.
** It's suggested that Igors are good enough surgeons that visible stitches, stoops, lisps etc are completely avoidable and are only kept for the sake of fashion/tradition - but this doesn't apply to Igorinas, who get the full benefit of cosmetic surgery with none of the mandatory hideousness ([[Sensual Slavs|and the Uberwaldian blood probably helps]]).
** ''[[Sourcery]]'' has Conina, the beautiful warrior-maiden (who would rather be a hairdresser) who happens to be the daughter of Cohen the Barbarian, who when we last saw him a few books ago, in ''[[The Light Fantastic]]'', is a skinny, bald old man covered in scars. She says she got her looks from her mother (who was a temple dancer).
*** Even though Cohen takes into account the fact that he is ''ancient''. As a young man, he was the greatest barbarian alive, and probably way better looking.
** It's possibly that Twoflower and his at least one gorgeous daughter (depending on what you think of the description of Pretty Butterfly in ''[[Interesting Times]]'') could count. He's probably closer to "not handsome" than "ugly", though, so perhaps not.
* A [[Subversion]] of the "looks like mother" explanation was used in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|The Warrior's Apprentice]]'' where Elena Bothari has all the features of her father, but rather than being scary and ugly, they are beautiful. For example, Sargeant Bothari is a six-foot-six monster of a man, quite imposing. Elena Bothari is a tall, slender woman.
** Becomes a painful plot point when  {{spoiler|after Bothari's death, Elena's mother can't stand to even look at her}}, because she looks too much like  {{spoiler|the man who raped her.}}
* Eileen Stoker in ''The Butler Did It'' (by [[P. G. Wodehouse]]). Her father was a boxer.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''Indiscretions of Archie'': "Your mother must have been terribly attractive."
** In the Mulliner story, "Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer" this trope evokes the following dialogue:
{{quote|"What do you mean," [Clarence Mulliner] cried, "by saying that she took after you?"
"She does."
"She does not. She is the loveliest girl in the world, while you look like [[Lon Chaney]] made up for something." }}
** Somewhat [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in that the girl in question is implied to be quite plain, possibly even a bit homely. Clarence is a photographer and is so tired of taking photographs of lovely girls that she seems beautiful to him.
* Fleur Delacour of ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fame was easily the most beautiful good guy in the entire series. When we meet her parents in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)||Deathly Hallows]],'' her father is described as short and plump with a pointed black beard, and "[[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|nowhere near as attractive as his wife]]." (Who Fleur of course closely resembles.)
*** Granted, Fleur and her mother are part-[[The Beautiful Elite|Veela]] so ''everybody'' next to them looks plain.
** Also a [[Gender-Inverted Trope|gender inversion]] in the case of Tom Riddle. His mother Merope is rather unfortunate-looking due to inbreeding in the family, and used a love potion to snare handsome muggle Tom Riddle Sr. The head of the orphanage recalls that when Tom was born, Merope said shortly before she died that she hopes he looks like his daddy. Boy howdy, did he! And the woman who ran the orphanage told Dumbledore that she also hoped Riddle Jr. looked like his father because "[Merope] was no beauty". Ouch.
* In the book ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'', Buttercup's mother and father are both described as quite tiny and ugly, and both of them are not exactly sure how they managed to produce ''Buttercup,'' but they're not going to investigate the happy accident.
* [[Gender Flip]]ped in one of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short stories in ''Keepsakes and Treasures'', in which a specific human bloodline is marked by the women all being hideous-looking and the rare male offspring being the most beautiful people in the world.
* [[Subverted Trope]] in ''Cookie'' by Jacqueline Wilson. The main character, Beauty's, father was expecting his daughter to take after her gorgeous mother, but instead she took after him...her name doesn't suit her.
* Kitai in the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' is a [[Hot Amazon]] [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]. Her dad, on the other hand, is the cheerfully fugly and grotesquely overmuscled chief of the Gargant tribe. [[Cool Old Guy|We like him anyway]].
* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[X Wing Series|The Bacta War]]'', Corran Horn meets his girlfriend Mirax Terrik's father Booster for the first time. His immediate response is "Oh, I guess you take after your mother."
* [[Redwall]] has Bowfleg and Bluefen from The Outcast of Redwall. It explicitly states Swartt was VERY surprised that the ugly, stupid, overweight Bowfleg could father the frail and pretty Bluefen.
* In Alexandre Dumas ''The Woman With the Velvet Collar,'' Antonia looks like an angel. Her dad is wizened, pockmarked, and has a leg twisted like a corkscrew.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Roslin Frey certainly won the genetic lottery. Her father, Walder Frey, is described as weaselly (he was at best on the ugly side of average in his youth, but old age has deteriorated his appearance) and thoroughly unpleasant. Roslin, on the other hand, is a classic delicate beauty. It's worth noting that Walder Frey had 29 children, just counting the ones born in wedlock, and most of them were varying degrees of unattractive.
** Sansa Stark could also count, since on a few occasions her father Lord Eddard Stark is described as having a plain and unremarkable appearance. Sansa, meanwhile, is an extremely beautiful redhead who takes after her mother Catelyn Tully.

== Live-Action TV ==
* One ''[[Three's Company]]'' episode had an Ugly Guy's Hot ''Cousin'': Mr. Roper asks Jack to take his cousin Karen out to cheer her up (he thinks Jack's gay and won't make a move on her). Jack initially tells him that he can't do it because he has other obligations on the same night, he and the girls speculate on what a woman would look like with Mr. Roper's face and/or body... and then Karen shows up at the door. Jack very quickly changes his mind about turning down Mr. Roper's request (though it also was partly because Mr. Roper offered to pay him).
* Similarly, Drew's cousin, played by Nikki Cox, on ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''; all of the Careys (and Drew's friends and acquaintances) marvel at ''her very existence''.
* Elle Bishop on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': "And Stephen Toblowsky fathered Kristen Bell... ''how''?"
** Making it twice for that actress: a scene in season one has a death row inmate taunting ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' by [[Lampshade Hanging|asking if she really thinks she's the daughter of the schlubby sheriff]].
* On ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan Fielding, Prosecutor and Man-Whore, is told by his boss the D.A. to look after the Boss's niece. As the D.A. is a Small Person, he expects the niece to be as well. Instead, she's an industrial-strength hottie. (And he's under orders to be a ''gentleman'', which is difficult because he's a man-slut and she's handing out nude pictures of herself and bragging about being double-jointed.)
** To make it even worse, she looks like a [[Hey, It's That Guy!|young]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iyPtsAGLUg Lois Lane]
* ''The Munsters'' was a show in which the entire family were freakish monsters...except for Marilyn, the hot blond "black sheep" of the family. This was usually played for humor - a normal guy would get stuck having to meet what he assumed would be an even more hideous monster than her parents, while her family would try and talk down her "bad points"...and the guy would finally meet her.
** Given the basic cast were a Frankenstein's Monster and a Vampire, who somehow produced a Wolfman son, Marilyn is probably the most least odd example of genetics on the show.
*** Considering that a made-for-TV movie depicted her parents as Bride Of Frankenstein and a meek mad scientist... no she isn't.
* In a ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' episode, the Solomons befriend an overweight, unattractive couple. Tommy sees a picture of their hot daughter ([[Take Our Word for It|which we don't]]) and describes her as "a triumph of aerobics over genetics".
** In another episode Tommy meets his girlfriend's parents. When he sees her father, a bald, ugly man, Tommy's perplexed. Then he meets the mother, a perky blonde just like her daughter, he goes "Oh, now I get it!"
*  Al and Kelly Bundy from ''[[Married... with Children]]''. His backstory has him being a football player good-looking enough to score with a cheerleader (what Peg used to be). The only reason Al is "ugly" is that he's gotten older and his diet hasn't helped any.
** In Ed O'Neill's new show ''[[Modern Family]]'' not only does he have a young, hot wife but his grownup daughter from a previous marriage is hot as well.
* Tiffany Malloy (played by the aforementioned Nikki Cox) in ''[[Unhappily Ever After]]'' (a blatant self-rip-off from the producers of ''MWC'').
* Scorpius and his daughter Trakeena on ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]''
** She is supposed to evolve into a form similar to her father, but she dislikes the idea.
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'': Will reluctantly agrees to go on a date with Jazz's sister, whom ''everyone'' assumes will look like Jazz in drag. In reality, she's very attractive, but she has [[Yandere|other issues]].
* Chris on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' has this exact reaction when he begins to date [[Butt Monkey]] Jerry's beautiful daughter.
* Donna Pincilotti on ''[[That '70s Show]]'' definitely takes more after her mother.

== Theatre ==
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'': Sweeney Todd and Johanna. [[Averted Trope]] in [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|the movie]], where he's [[Hollywood Homely|allegedly ugly]] but it's still [[Johnny Depp|Johnny-frakking-Depp]]. Forced transport to Australia for years of hard labor probably do one's looks no favors. In the theater performances, Sweeney Todd more often looks like he's played by a foot. A fat foot.
* Variation: "Meeskite" from ''[[Cabaret]]'' is the ballad of an ugly couple who eventually have a beautiful baby boy; the wife, Pearl, is even uglier than the narrator.
** That's the expurgated version. In the original version, the wife isn't ugly, she's Jewish. The resulting child doesn't look Jewish. Or, at any rate, through the doting father's eyes. The joke is that Jewish = ugly; the only attractive Jew is one who happens by some accident not to look Jewish. Since the song is one of the cabaret songs, and is thus a burlesque song sung in Germany just before WWII, it makes perfect sense, but some audience members didn't quite "get" the difference between the songs that were part of the ordinary score, and the songs in the cabaret, and were offended, so the song was changed. In the 1980s rewrite and revival (where Cliff is finally gay), the song was not used. However, in the 1972 movie, where all the songs are in the cabaret, and none are in the body of the film, the original "she wouldn't look Jewish at all!" version is used.
* [[Rigoletto]], an ugly hunchback, has a beautiful daughter, Gilda. (Based on ''Le Roi s'amuse'' by Hugo, who must've liked hunchbacks.)
* ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]'': Main character Axel is shocked when he meets the shrubby and crazy Walter's gorgeous and polite daughter, Susan.

== Video Games ==
* Princess Medea of ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' fits this trope.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' has a few examples:
** ''[[Links Awakening]]'' has father Tarin (who [[All Just a Dream|looks]] like [[Super Mario Bros./Characters|Mario]]) and his cute & gorgeous daughter Marin (who is said to look like [[The Legend of Zelda/Characters|Zelda]]).
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|{Ocarina of Time]]'', there is a bit of a ''contrast'', shall we say, between the esteemed [http://www.zeldawiki.org/King_Zora_(Ocarina_of_Time) King Zora XVI] and his daughter [http://www.zeldawiki.org/Princess_Ruto Ruto]. Malon and Talon, modelled after Marin and Tarin, are similarly dissimilar. In Malon's case, it is possible due to one of Talon's remarks that her mother was a Gerudo or had traits of one, explaining her appearance.
** In ''[[The Wind Waker]]'', Mila and her father.
** This also happens in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', where Ilia is quite cute compared to the Mayor of Ordon Village.
*** This is lampshaded in universe. By a ''Goron''.
** And in ''[[Skyward Sword]]'', where Zelda's cuteness has nothing to do with her owl-faced dad.
* Bartre's daughter Fir in ''[[Fire Emblem]] 6''. She [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|takes after her mother]].
* In [[Dynasty Warriors]], the daughter of Zhang Fei, Xing Cai. [[Gender-Inverted Trope|Gender inverted]] with Xiahou Ba, who is much more handsome and attractive than his father, Xiahou Yuan.
** Xiahou Ba's attractiveness is even lampshaded by Zhang Fei, who complains that Ba bears no resemblance to his father at all.
* Princess Garnet of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' turned out ''[[Subverted Trope|not]]'' to be the daughter of the [[Gonk|gigantically obese, blue, ogreish]] Queen Brahne, seemingly averting this, but then you remember that Garnet {{spoiler|was picked for Brahne's adopted daughter because she looked nearly identical to the Queen's recently deceased baby}} and then your mind starts boggling again.
* [[Gender-Inverted Trope|Gender inverted]] in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2|Mask of the Betrayer]]''. Want to know what [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Guy]] Gannayev's mother looked like? ''[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG193.jpg This].'' Good thing he took after the father, huh?
* Sweet little Eliza from ''[[Harvest Moon]] DS: Island of Happiness'' always gets weird looks when she mentions that she's the daughter of the [[Perpetual Frowner|constantly scowling]] carpenter, Gannon.
** ''The Tale of Two Towns'' has adult stunner Laney and her hulking, [[Camp Straight]] [[Gonk]] of a father, Howard.
* {{spoiler|Natalia}} from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' is considerably cuter than her father, {{spoiler|Largo}} and her {{spoiler|adoptive father: King Ingolbert}}.
* Not a real application, but invoked in ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'': to smuggle Nina (an adorable little winged-human girl) out of Wyndia, Garr (a giant beast-man) claims she's his daughter. The border guard blanches for a second, then declares she must have a beautiful mother.
* Rayn from the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series is the daughter to Krew. And if you've seen what Krew looks like, [[Improbable Species Compatibility|heaven help the woman he ended up with to produce her]]!
** And to a lesser extent, Keira and her father Samos.
*** And to an even lesser extent, Ashelin and her father,  {{spoiler|Baron Praxis}}.
* While Manfred von Karma from the first ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' game is rather weathered and harsh looking, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520012429/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/1/11/Franzygk.jpg his daughter] is rather [[Fetish Fuel|more pleasant in court]]. If a bit [[Whip It Good|harsh]].
** ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' case 3:3 features [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/49320/1154103-viola_cadaverini_large.jpg Viola Cadaverini]{{Dead link}} who is quite pretty (in a dark and edgey way) as apposed to her grand father, Bruto Cadaverini, and her father who is never named but shown very briefly in case.
** This may be [[Your Mileage May Vary|different depending on your views]] but [http://images.wikia.com/aceattorney/images/c/cd/Lauren_Paups_OA.PNG Lauren Paups] is attractive while her [http://images.wikia.com/aceattorney/images/e/eb/Colin2.PNG father] is more on the unattractive side. Once again, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on this one.
* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' has a case of ugly ''woman's'' hot daughter: Dizzy, the [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]], is actually the daughter of Justice, a borderline [[Eldritch Abomination]].
** Justice once used to be a human woman but turned into an [[Eldritch Abomination]] so that may not count.
** Justice is pretty much given to be hot when she was still human, Sol would probably not be so hung up on her if she wasn't.
* [[Subverted Trope]] in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'': It's revealed at the very end of the game that {{spoiler|Rozalin and the guy claiming to be Zenon are ''not'' in fact related by blood}}.
** Played semi-straight with Mao in [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]: Mao's a somewhat cute (creepy [[Mad Scientist]] tendencies notwithstanding) nerdy humanoid-looking demon. Then you meet his father's  {{spoiler|Ghost}}. The guy's ''single finger'' is four or five times Mao's height! Pity his mother.
*** Hey they live long, they have a long time to grow big or get fat.
**** Remember that said overlord was extremely fond of using elaborate ruses to scare people away and a VERY powerful sorceror if provoked into combat. That brings the question of how much of that was actual size and how much was illusion. Regardless he was probably pretty tall anyway, especially with that menacing armor to bolster said size.
* Hypothetically, [[Samurai Shodown|Gen'an Shiranui]] and [[Fatal Fury|Mai Shiranui]] according to some fans. However, this is unconfirmed.
* ''[[The Sims]] 2'' players who marry their sims to funny-looking townies often end up with surprisingly attractive sim offspring. Pleasantview townie [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Goopy_GilsCarbo Goopy Gilscarbo] is particularly infamous for having gorgeous kids.
* Gender flipped in the ''[[Mushihime-sama]]'' series. Larsa is fat and her beauty or lack thereof leaves much to be desired. Yet her older son Aki is [[Bishounen|beautiful]], and Palm [[Cute Shotaro Boy|looks to be following in Aki's footsteps]].
* Gerald and Maria Robotnik in [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. Subverted in that Maria is Gerald's granddaughter.
** Dr. Eggman, on the other hand, is almost a spitting image of Gerald, albeit younger and fatter.

== Web Original ==
* Doctor Thadeus Thanos. a [[Mad Scientist]] villain from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' was an ugly, scrunched up hunchback whose face looked half-melted. His daughter Gladiola, on the other hand, was not just beautiful, she was stunningly so. Of course, he ''did'' genetically engineer her to be that way...
* Jobe of the [[Whateley Universe]] started out as a carbon copy of his unattractive supervillain dad: short, nerdy, weasel-faced,... But one lab accident later, and he's now the Beautiful (drow) Daughter of the Ugly Father.
** Or Techwolf's (Harry Wolfe) father and his sisters. Due to a curse on an ancestor, the men in Harry's family look like the werewolves from ''The Howling''. The daughters all look ''gorgeous''.

== Western Animation ==
* In episodes taking place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the future]], [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer and Lisa Simpson]] provide an example of this trope.
** See [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] for an explanation of Homer's ugliness. Also, Lisa wins second place in a beauty pageant.
*** During a game of Monopoly.
*** ... And also a real pageant in season 4.
** Future Maggie also resembles Future Lisa pretty closely.
** In an episode set in the future, Lisa marries Milhouse and they have a teen daughter named Zia who resembles Lisa. She was genetically engineered to have the "best of their DNA" which meant mostly Lisa's.
* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]]
** One wonders how [[Beauty and the Beast|Maurice]] ended up with tall, skinny Belle for a daughter.
** Likewise concerning the [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Sultan]].
** This is mentioned by [[The Nostalgia Chick]] in her [[Disney Princess]] review. She talks about how there is a period of time when the princesses seemed to have goofy, old dads who they tried to escape by getting married.
** Averted in [[Mulan]]. Fa Zhou is still quite good-looking, and is even a [[Cool Old Guy]] instead of being a [[Bumbling Dad]].
* Pixar's ''[[Brave]]'' has Mérida, a [[Tomboy Princess]] who is quite attractive. Her father King Fergus is a good ruler and family man, but he's not really much of a looker.
* [[A Goofy Movie]] features the hero's crush Roxanne, a short, curvy, pretty young girl with an extremely large, hairy, mean, overweight [[Overprotective Dad]].
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' averts this. Peter Griffin is no looker, but his daughter Meg is as ugly as sin.
** Canon may try to make her as ugly as possible but Meg [[Only Six Faces|has the same facial design as]] her mom who is considered drop-dead gorgeous.
*** And [[Word of God]] states that people are really harder on Meg than her appearance or behavior warrants.
** However: the episode Meg gets a makeover, she turns out to be drop dead gorgeous.
*** And when Peter went blind from nickel poisoning, Lois stopped wearing makeup. Brian urged her to resume using it.
* ''[[The Replacements]]'' inverts this trope, too. How the beautiful Shelton's mother could give birth to a two hideous abominations like Shelton and Shelly defies all rational explanation.
** Shelton [[The Glasses Gotta Go|is handsome without his glasses]]. His sister Shelly, however, is still very ugly.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has [[Mad Scientist|Professor Calamitous]] and his [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|daughter]] Beautiful Gorgeous ([[Awesome McCoolname|Yes, that is her real name]])
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has Dr. Doofenshmirtz and [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|his daughter Vanessa]].
* [[Subverted Trope]] in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''. Helga and her father both have unibrows and billy goat shaped ears, and Helga is so plain looking that she tends to get mistaken for a boy. In contrast, Miriam (Helga's mom) and Olga (Helga's older sister) are better looking than both of them.
** Although in episodes where Helga wears different outfits, such as the Valentine's Day episode, she's actually quite pretty.
* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' early 70s spinoff ''[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show|The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show]]'' where Fred Flintstone's daughter Pebbles is now a teenager.
** And the movies that came in [[The Nineties]], in which [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Pebbles marries Bamm-Bamm]] and later becomes a [[Hot Mom]].
* [[Rebellious Princess|Amalia]] and her dad, from ''[[Wakfu]]''
* In ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', both the Scotsman ''and'' his wife are pretty ugly. Fifth season, however, shows they now have ''twenty-nine'' grown daughters, and ''all'' of them are [[Hot Amazon]] [[Statuesque Stunner]] [[Action Girl]]s. 

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