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{{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!

 

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.''

 

 

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]].

 

 

* 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.

{{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.

* 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]].

* 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.

* 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].

* [[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.

* 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.]]

* 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 ==

* [[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.

* 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]]).

* 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.}}

"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.

*** 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 ''[[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 ==

* 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.

* 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.

 

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]'': Main character Axel is shocked when he meets the shrubby and crazy Walter's gorgeous and polite daughter, Susan.

 

* Princess Medea of ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' fits this trope.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' has a few examples:

** And to a lesser extent, Keira and her father Samos.

*** And to an even lesser extent, Ashelin and her father, {{spoiler|Baron Praxis}}.

** 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]].

** Dr. Eggman, on the other hand, is almost a spitting image of Gerald, albeit younger and fatter.

 

* 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 ==

** 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]]''

 

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