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{{quote|''"That's just something ugly people say."''|'''Fletcher''', ''[[Liar Liar]]''}}
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Bleach]]'': Spoofed/Played With by the flamboyant fraccion Charlotte Cuuhlhourne. He's a [[Large Ham]] who accuses his opponent Yumichika (a more reserved [[Narcissist]]) of being mean and lacking "inner beauty" when he refuses to look at him for thinking he's ugly. Despite that, Charlotte's obsession actually lies with external beauty and at the end of the fight gracefully acknowledges the beauty his opponent had been hiding.
 
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* This trope was [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] in one of the ''[[Spellsinger]]'' books. One of the characters is despondent that a beautiful woman he loves won't even give him the time of day. When the protagonist gives the, "She should see you for what you are on the inside", the despondent character points out that in [[Real Life]], looks '''do''' count. They are part of who you are. It might not be the most important, but they still are something. Not to mention that one of the reasons he wants her in the first place is for her looks, so it would be a [[Double Standard]] if he wanted her to ignore his ugliness.
* Horrifically subverted in a children's book, in which a young monster who accidentally made a "pretty face" (which was considered horrifyingly ugly by the family) and got stuck with it took her mother's advice "true beauty is on the inside" to the literal extreme and flipped her face inside out.
* Parodied in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' -- Nobby—Nobby Nobbs, who is so ugly that he has to carry around a paper from the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork stating he is human, complains that women won't date him. Angua points out to him that maybe he should lower his standards, as he shouldn't expect to be able to date the more sought-after women. Nobby eventually settles on a Verity "Hammerhead" Pushpram, an ill-tempered fish seller whose eyes don't face the same direction and who usually reacts to seeing Nobby by [[Slap Slap Kiss|telling him to bugger off and throwing fish at him]] (because hey, free seafood). When Nobby does land himself a gorgeous girlfriend in a later book, Angua is horrified for her, though fortunately by the end of the book Nobby is back with Verity (largely because she's [[Through His Stomach|a better cook]]), while Tawneee is cured of [[Attractiveness Isolation|"jerk syndrome"]].
** Also parodied in ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', where the plump and plain Agnes Nitt is sick of condescending comments like this, and thinks to herself that boys don't normally fall for an attractive pair of kidneys.
*** For the most part, though, this is played straight, albeit silently. Most of the people who can be termed "heroes" in this world tend not to be the best lookers.
* [[Older Than Print]] with ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'': in the Wife of Bath's tale, the [[Designated Hero]] knight of the story finds himself wedded to a smart woman with a great personality -- whopersonality—who's also a terribly ugly crone. She catches on to his distress and delivers this Aesop to him (along with a few others regarding wealth and noble birth), and then offers him a choice: as an enchantress, she could make herself young and beautiful, but then he'd always have to risk her sleeping around with his friends -- orfriends—or she could remain old and ugly, but be the best wife he could possibly ask for. His choice. He {{spoiler|[[Take a Third Option|humbly says that the choice is up to her]], and she, delighted that he's learned how to respect her, announces that she will be both beautiful ''and'' faithful. And they all life [[Happily Ever After]]}}.
* [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in [[Anne Bronte]]'s ''[[Agnes Grey]]''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', [[French Jerk|Fleur]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Delacour]] {{spoiler|says that Bill's scars just show how heroic he is. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|She still wants to marry him, no matters how he looks]]}}.
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== Music ==
* [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Ghosts'' short film tried to impart this moral as well as disprove [[Loners Are Freaks]]. Jackson played two characters at odds with each other -- aother—a Mayor and the mysterious Maestro (really, Jackson himself) -- and stated in the making-of documentary that the Mayor's problem was his inability to see a person's inner beauty; just because a person looks and acts strange doesn't mean they're bad. The aesop fails because Maestro is a [[Jerk Sue]] and the Mayor himself is presented as an [[Acceptable Target]]: a fat, middle-aged white guy whose concern over [[Reality Subtext|young boys secretly meeting up with Maestro for ghost stories]] is seen as merely bigotry against anyone who's different.
* It's a well-treaded Aesop, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXSkd8apbWM "More Beautiful You" by Johnny Diaz] does it in a rather heartwarming way. <ref>Yeah, it's a Christian song, but give it a shot anyway. It's nice.</ref> And as a bonus, the video even shows the two young ladies' "flaws" being photoshopped away to make the point that the standard of beauty promoted by popular media doesn't actually exist.
 
 
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