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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''
** In an in-universe comic inspired by her, Comicbook/SpiderGirl has flowing blonde hair and [[MostCommonSuperpower a large bust]].

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''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In an in-universe comic inspired by her, Comicbook/SpiderGirl ComicBook/SpiderGirl has flowing blonde hair and [[MostCommonSuperpower a large bust]].



** Comicbook/{{Loki}}, usually portrayed as a wrinkled old man at the time, is here portrayed as looking like a handsome twenty-something.
** Odin in ''ComicBook/UltimateThor'' looks a lot younger and fit than the obese old man of the Prime earth.
** George Tarleton in ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'' is a handsome man. The original is Comicbook/{{MODOK}}, an ugly floating head with tiny arms and feet.

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** Comicbook/{{Loki}}, Loki, usually portrayed as a wrinkled old man at the time, is here portrayed as looking like a handsome twenty-something.
** Odin in ''ComicBook/UltimateThor'' ''ComicBook/UltimateComicsThor'' looks a lot younger and fit than the obese old man of the Prime earth.
** George Tarleton in ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'' is a handsome man. The original is Comicbook/{{MODOK}}, Modok, an ugly floating head with tiny arms and feet.



* In the French YA supernatural thriller Je suis ton secret ( I am your secret ), the fifteen-year old heroine is a remarkably gifted karateka, but also big and ungainly, which causes her to dislike and envy her school's pretty girls; her not-quite-boyfriend, who is comically inept at sports, is thin and much shorter than her. In the comic adaptation, they're both conventionally good-looking teens and he's taller than her ( although still inept at sports ).

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* In the French YA supernatural thriller Je ''Je suis ton secret ( I secret'' ("I am your secret ), secret"), the fifteen-year old fifteen-year-old heroine is a remarkably gifted karateka, but also big and ungainly, which causes her to dislike and envy her school's pretty girls; her not-quite-boyfriend, who is comically inept at sports, is thin and much shorter than her. In the comic adaptation, they're both conventionally good-looking teens and he's taller than her ( although (although still inept at sports ).sports).

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!!The following have their own pages:
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness/TheDCU
* AdaptationalAttractiveness/MarvelUniverse
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Alfred, when he first appeared in the comics, was rather portly and clean-shaven, but when he appeared in the movie serials in the 1940s, he was portrayed by actor William Austin, who was very lean and sported a mustache. His appearance was soon changed in the comics to more closely resemble his actor, the change was explained by having him go off to a health spa for a period of time and growing a mustache during that period.
** Due to
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being so many different versions of him, the Joker has been subject to both this ''and'' AdaptationalUgliness: in some cases, he's attractive but still disfigured, whereas in others he [[{{Gonk}} barely passes for human]]. Most of the latter cases give him a [[SinisterSchnoz grotesquely long and skinny nose]] and a huge, exaggerated mouth stuck in a permanent SlasherSmile.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness/TheDCU
Practically the poster-girl for this in comics, ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' character Amanda Waller is, in the comics, a middle-aged overweight woman. She also tends to have her hair rather short, making her look rather... well... mannish. {{Animated Adaptation}}s followed suit, with her ranging from having her comic look to going full-on {{Gonk}}. ...and then in ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', she's played by Creator/AngelaBassett, and in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', she is played by Creator/PamGrier. Her ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' counterpart is similarly prettified. The comics {{re|tcanon}}vamped her in ''ComicBook/New52'' to be much younger and slimmer. Normally, making a character prettier goes over well (see Wolverine), but Amanda Waller is someone fans didn't ''want'' pretty; "The Wall" is an old, hardened battle ax, ''not'' your sexy bikini babe love interest.[[note]]It didn't help that DC's response to criticism on social media was pretty close to "Why are ''you'' judging this woman on her body type?", as though making her look like this was just a random accident they hadn't even noticed until someone pointed it out.[[/note]] Her change was undone in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness/MarvelUniverse
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''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Golden Age, Etta Candy was a boisterous overweight short woman, who loved a good fight and leapt at chances to beat up Nazis. In the Silver Age she was reimagined as a thin conventionally attractive woman who tended to end up a DamselInDistress.
** The original Duke of Deception was a tiny skinny little imp with an oversized balding head and bulging eyes, though he did frequently use his illusion powers to project himself a more attractive appearance. The version of the Duke in ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' is the far more attractive redheaded British man Tomas Byde.
** Done InUniverse in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey'' by Doctor Psycho to try and keep Diana from turning away. When she convinces him to show his original self, she still accepts his visions of the alternate times.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''
** In an in-universe comic inspired by her, Comicbook/SpiderGirl has flowing blonde hair and [[MostCommonSuperpower a large bust]].
* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel''
** Comicbook/{{Loki}}, usually portrayed as a wrinkled old man at the time, is here portrayed as looking like a handsome twenty-something.
** Odin in ''ComicBook/UltimateThor'' looks a lot younger and fit than the obese old man of the Prime earth.
** George Tarleton in ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'' is a handsome man. The original is Comicbook/{{MODOK}}, an ugly floating head with tiny arms and feet.

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