History Main / BeastAndBeauty

* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has the Grinch and Martha May Whovier. The Grinch is, well, TheGrinch, except [[CharacterExaggeration even more manic depressive]] than in [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the original book]] and [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas TV special]], and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer alienated from his peers for his odd looks and behavior]]. Martha is a MsFanservice who has always had a crush on the Grinch since childhood but couldn't admit it until the movie's end when they finally get together. A more platonic example that takes up significantly more of the movie's run time is the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who, the latter who's an innocent 8 year old girl struggling to find the meaning of Christmas and thinks she can find it by helping him. No matter how much the Grinch [[{{Tsundere}} tries to scare her]] and convince her he's a CardCarryingVillain, she never gives up on seeing the good in him, and he eventually becomes a welcome citizen of Whoville after his HeelFaceTurn.

** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', the ''Skull Island'' version of Kong eventually forms a much stronger, life-altering bond with a human being, a native Skull Islander girl named Jia, who - like him - is [[TheLastOfHisKind last of her kind]]. Jia, being a child, their relationship is emphatically non-sexual, and she seems to see him almost as an older brother.

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* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': Snake Eyes and Scarlett. She's a beautiful, cheerful (her file-card mentions it's difficult to believe someone as deadly as her could have such a good sense of humour) [[HeroesWantRedheads redhead]]. He's a [[TheVoiceless mute]], orphaned killing machine suffering constant pain from a face so horribly scarred it's been known to shock people who see it into a sort of traumatic paralysis. Scarlett isn't just the love of his life, she's the main reason he bothers to go on living in the first place.

** ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'': The pair are still happily together after a thousand years of marriage, although not without their problems to overcome. Beast usually looks human in the series, but shifts between his human and bestial forms depending on his wife's moods towards him. Also slightly subverted as Beast is an all-around nice guy who doesn't really get that angry, while Beauty is occasionally seen as ambitious and overly critical.

** ''ComicBook/TheBalladOfBetaRayBill'': Characters/BetaRayBill is an alien of the Korbinite race technologically transformed into a bio-machine resembling the "most ferocious carnivore in the Burning Galaxy" , although its head looks like a horse's. On her turn, Sif is a [[ActionGirl hot warrior goddess]] and [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]]'s romantic interest. Unusually, it's Bill's gentle heart that helps Sif to become more compassionate during their adventures on space. [[DidTheyOrDidntThey It has never been clear if they were "just friends" or something else.]]

* ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Post-disfiguration Wade as the Beast and Vanessa as the Beauty. He's a scarred-up unkillable mutant HeroicComedicSociopath who is disturbingly good at stabbing people, she's a beautiful HookerWithAHeartOfGold. Fitting the cheerfully cynical tone of the movie, however, the Beauty is not idealized - Vanessa is beautiful and reasonably good-hearted but she's also a very snarky GoodBadGirl.

* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has the Grinch and Martha May Whovier. The Grinch is, well, TheGrinch, except [[CharacterExaggeration even more manic depressive]] than in [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the original book]] and [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas TV special]], and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer alienated from his peers for his odd looks and behavior]]. Martha is a MsFanservice who always had a crush on the Grinch since childhood, but couldn't admit it until the end of the movie where they finally get together. A more platonic example that takes up significantly more of the movie's run time is the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who, the latter who's an innocent 8 year old girl struggling to find the meaning of Christmas and thinks she can find it by helping him. No matter how much the Grinch [[{{Tsundere}} tries to scare her]] and convince her he's a CardCarryingVillain, she never gives up on seeing the good in him, and he eventually becomes a welcome citizen of Whoville after his HeelFaceTurn.

** This is emphasized in [[Film/KingKong1976 the 1976 remake]], which plays the whole thing with a peculiar sense of eroticism, and has Denham specifically referring to Kong as having "tried to rape" the heroine.
** In Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/KingKong2005'', the two actually communicate through actions several times. WordOfGod is that the affectionate interactions between Anne and Kong were based on the story of Koko the gorilla and her pet kittens.
** Downplayed in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' as the human heroine, Mason Weaver, ''does'' share a connection with Kong, [[spoiler: who even rescues her at one point]], but it is not the focus of the story, nor is it remotely sexual or romantic in nature. Furthermore, we don't get any sense that he is forever changed by meeting her, the way the original Kong was changed by Anne.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', the ''Skull Island'' version of Kong eventually forms a much stronger, life-altering bond with a human being, a native Skull Islander girl named Jia, who - like him - is [[TheLastOfHisKind last of her kind]]. Jia being a child, their relationship is emphatically non-sexual, and she seems to see him almost as an older brother.
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'': Etienne of Navarre and Isabeau d'Anjou are StarCrossedLovers cursed by a [[CorruptChurch corrupt Bishop]] rejected by her. She becomes a hawk by day and he turns into wolf at night, so they only can see see each other (as humans) briefly, when the sun rises. Even non-sentient in his wolf form, Navarre is protective of Isabeau, and she calms him down, keeping him from attacking Phillip, the young thief who helps them.
* ''Film/{{Lili}}'' : Played with. Paul the puppeteer is an attractive man but he doesn't see himself as such because of his bad leg. His bitterness and self-hatred take him to be very harsh to Lili, so it really takes a loooong time for her to see the best in him (actually, their interactions remind a lot [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle and Beast]], before Beast's change of heart). To not leave doubts, Paul [[spoiler: tells Lili he is like his puppet Golo, the oger: ugly and yearning for love]].

* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'': Though both are female and the relationship is akin to mother and daughter, Maleficent and Aurora fit this. The first is a winged, horned fairy who loses faith in love and curses the latter, who, through her sunny personality, inadvertently teaches Maleficent how to love again.

** ''ComicBook/XMen'' has an interesting example, where ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} is in a relationship with Abigail Brand, an attractive woman with green hair. Personality-wise, Beast is kind and gentle and Brand... isn't.

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': Deconstructed in the most twisted way possible in "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS2E1DeadRight Dead Right]]". Kathy is a beautiful GoldDigger (played by Demi Moore) who marries Charlie, an obese, sloppy, gluttonous man because a FortuneTeller told her he would inherit a large amount of money and die violently. As months pass, she can't stand to be in the same room as him, but Charlie doesn't die, to her total frustration. [[spoiler: Then she suddenly wins millions in a lottery and dumps him, but he kills her in a rage. The prophecy is fulfilled, for Charlie inherits Kathy’s money and dies violently in the electric chair for her murder.]]

* In the Hazbin Hotel AU fic “Love Is Never Ugly.” https://archiveofourown.org/works/32308114/chapters/80084377, Charlie and Alastor play the main roles in this darker and more mature retelling of the classic fairy tale in which the beast is monstrous-looking and driven to cannibalism by his curse, and the beauty is a lonely maiden who seeks to redeem him with love and compassion. It’s a tale that embraces the elements of horror and fantasy, giving it an atmosphere that is scary yet whimsical.

See also UglyGuyHotWife (along with its rarer counterpart HotGuyUglyWife) and SexyDimorphism for cases of a beastly partner and a pretty partner, where the difference comes from real-life beauty standards and doesn't symbolize anything about the characters' personalities. See also FreakinessShame. Can be paired with DragonsPreferPrincesses if the dragon and/or the princess loves the other. If the "beast" part is downplayed, it may be a case of InterspeciesRomance. If they are only friends or work together with no romantic subtext, or that subtext being in the background, that's MonsterAndTheMaiden. For the metaphorical variety, see DeathAndTheMaiden. Also see MarsNeedsWomen.

** ''ComicBook/XMen'' has an interesting example, where [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]] is in a relationship with Abigail Brand, an attractive woman with green hair. Personality-wise, Beast is kind and gentle and Brand... isn't.

* ''VideoGame/Persona4 Golden'': The tag-team combo the Kanji and Naoto is named after Beauty and the Best. Appropriate in that Kanji is over six feet tall, bulging with muscle, has a delinquent look going on, is feared by his peers as a bit of a brute, and is a grappler/brawler character with some of the most brutal physical skills in the game. Naoto on the other hand is absolutely tiny and exudes an androgynous charm that makes her very popular with the ladies and quite a number of guys (including, naturally, Kanji). Turns out that Kanji's actually a really nice guy, whereas Naoto starts as something of an apathetic jerk before the CharacterDevelopment kicks in.

* The story of Petrus Gonsalvus (1517-1618) probably served as inspiration to Gabrielle de Villeneuve conceiving Beauty and the Beast. He was a Guanche, an aborigin race of the Canary Islands, with a rare medical condition called "hypertrichosis", which covers one's face and body entirely with hair. Because of this, he was captured in a young age and given to Henri II of France as a "wild man". Henry II, however, soon noticed that Petrus was actually calm and docile in spite of his captivity, and decided to have him transformed in a true gentleman. Petrus learned to speak, write and social manners; after Henri II death, his wife Catherine de Medici decided to marry him out of curiosity, to check if his children would be hairy, too. The chosen one was one of the the prettiest ladies of her court, who was also called Catherine and that had no idea to whom she was marrying until the bridal night. Legends say that she fainted when she saw Petrus for the first time; however, as it was said before, he was a good, patient man. They had seven children; four of them were born with hypertrichosis thus sent as gifts to European courts, so the story of Petrus and Catherine is far from being happy. The registers hint that they truly loved their children, and there is an image were she is represented touching Petrus' shoulder as a sign of affection, which was very unusual in couple portraits.

** Another subversion can be found in the story of the giant cyclops Polyphemus and his [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited]] love for the beautiful nereid Galatea. While Galatea accepts Polyphemus''as a friend'', she ultimately falls for Acis who is the [[DivineParentage son of Pan]]. [[MurderTheHypotenuse Polyphemus doesn’t take it well]]. Played straight in the versions of the story where she does accept his love.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoxBallet'': the short shows what happens when a rude, big, ugly boxer falls in love with a frail ballerina. Realistically, their worlds are too different... but living in them is [[CrapsackWorld very hard, sometimes unbearable]], so both boxer and ballerina find support on each other.

The ideal is often so high that [[ChastityCouple sexual relations are not mentioned]] ([[RuleThirtyFour not by the creators, at least]]). If they happen or are mentioned, the results could be [[DeathBySex doom]], [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex risky]], [[HeadTiltinglyKinky kinky]] or [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction mysterious in how it works]]. By means of FunctionalMagic, AppliedPhlebotinum, or a good old-fashioned TrueLovesKiss, the issue could be avoided entirely by one of them permanently turning into the other's species. The relation may not even be romantic; all that matters is the contrast between the two characters.

See also UglyGuyHotWife (along with its rarer conterpart HotGuyUglyWife) and SexyDimorphism for cases of a beastly partner and a pretty partner, where the difference comes from real-life beauty standards and doesn't symbolize anything about the characters' personalities. See also FreakinessShame. Can be paired with DragonsPreferPrincesses if the dragon and/or the princess loves the other. If the "beast" part is downplayed, it may be a case of InterspeciesRomance. If they are only friends or work together with no romantic subtext, or that subtext being in the background, that's MonsterAndTheMaiden. For the metaphorical variety, see DeathAndTheMaiden. Also see MarsNeedsWomen.

** There is a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short called [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast1934 ''Beauty And the Beast'']] that subverts completely the fairy tale. The protagonist, an unnamed, chubby little girl who dreams she is in Slumberland, where everybody welcome her but warn about the “terrible beast”. She makes friends with a toy soldier and together they read a book supposedly of the fairy tale; however, the book portraits the Beast as [[AdaptationalVillainy an unrepentantly vicious monster]] whom [[LivingDrawing jumps out of the book]] and grabs the little girl, supposedly to eat her. Fortunately, she wakes up.

* [[UnicornsPreferVirgins A maiden with an unicorn]] was a very common theme in medieval art, as symbol of purity and innocence (only a damnsel could placate the beast). The most famous example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn a series of six French tapestries]], where a young lady is portraited with an unicorn and a lion (occasionally, a monkey and a maidservant show up, too). Their true meaning is obscure, mostly interpreted as love or self-knowledge, as one of them has the motto ''My Will Alone'' (''À Mon Seul Désir'')

* ''ComicBook/BeautyAndTheBeast(2014)'': a French retelling of the fairy tale, written by Maxe L’Hermenier, which seems loosely based upon [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Pirates of the Caribbean]]. Belle wears pants and spends her time reading whenever she hasn’t to put up with her sexist ChildhoodFriend or her abusive sisters. Beast is the titanic captain of a flying ship full of pirate zombies that search for dark souls(including the aforementioned sisters, the reason of Belle offering herself as a hostage). [[spoiler: Their relationship is purely platonic, since he is HappilyMarried, or was, before an evil sorcerer became obsessed with his wife, but Belle is more than happy to help the StarCrossedLovers.]]

** Comicbook/CloakAndDagger consist of a beautiful, buxom blonde and a shadowed, hidden black man. Cloak tends to be the darker of the two (no surprise) and is more prone to violence and angst. Dagger is the front woman, and in a minor subversion, they actually feed off of each other -- Cloak depends on her to keep him alive, by feeding him light-energy to resist the drain of his powers, and Dagger needs a safe outlet to release the energy that builds up inside her or it'll kill her.
** ''Comicbook/TheEnchantress'': Amora takes great pride in her own beauty and appreciates handsome men just fine. But being an immortal ages-old goddess, she is able to see beyond mere physical attractiveness. She kept Skurge, an imposing brutish warrior, at her side for centuries and cherished him. She also once took Keep, a huge and only vaguely humanlike thing of green wood and tendrils with a truly monstrous face, to her bed. She remarked that it was a suitably '''epic''' experience.
** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Benjamin J Grimm, a.k.a. the Thing, and the blind girl Alicia Masters. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the second movie, where Johnny asks Ben about the details. Ben is not amused.
** ''ComicBook/XMen'' has an interesting example, where Beast is in a relationship with Abigail Brand, an attractive woman with green hair. Personality-wise, Beast is kind and gentle and Brand... isn't.
** ''ComicBook/TheBalladOfBetaRayBill'': Beta Ray Bill is an alien of the Korbinite race technologically transformed into a bio-machine ressembling the "most ferocious carnivore in the Burning Galaxy" , although its head looks like a horse's. On her turn, Sif is a [[ActionGirl hot warrior goddess]] and Thor's romantic interest. Unusually, it's Bill's gentle heart that helps Sif to become more compassionate during their adventures on space. [[DidTheyOrDidntThey It has never been clear if they were "just friends" or something else.]]

** ''ComicBook/AngelAndTheApe'', a fairly obscure detective series from the late 1960s, avoided ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin only by virtue of the fact that Angel is her name, not a literal description. The ape, on the other hand...[[note]]Humans are ''technically'' apes, but Sam Simeon, the Ape in question, is a gorilla. Under at least one writer he was [[Franchise/TheFlash Gorilla Grodd]]'s grandson.[[/note]]
** In ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'', June Moone is a beautiful woman working as a graphic designer. She's romantically linked with her teammate [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Killer Croc]], who's a giant cannibalistic lizard-man.

* ''Rowlf'': The first fantasy comic created by Richard Corben depicts the story of a wolfdog with a lustful passion for his curvaceous owner, princess Marayara, a.k.a. Yara. She is kidnapped by "demons" (probably a mutant race, since the story happens in an [[AfterTheEnd apocaliptic world]]); Rolph seeks help from Yara's suitor, Raymon, but the genius hates the dog so much that he thinks that Rowlf killed her. He asks a mage to transform Rowlf into a human, so they'll torture him into telling where Yara's corpse is. The magic turns Rowlf in a tall, muscled dogman, still unable to talk but much more intelligent than Raymon and the magician. He decides to save Yara by himself.
** A curiosity: [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki Hayao Miyazaki]] wanted once to animate Rowlf, but the project was abandoned.

* Deconstructed in ''ComicStrip/{{Mutts}}': Doozie decides to recreate the film with Moochie, believing that the cat will become a prince if they'll dance together and fall in love. They dance briefly, dressed (in her imagination) as Belle and Beast, but she is disappointed to see that Moochie is still a cat. [[BeingHumanSucks He tells Earl that he loves happy endings]].

** In ''TheBlackBullOfNorroway'', three sisters consult a witch to seek fortune. The witch tells them to look at the back door. The first girls find rich coachs that take them away, but the youngest finds just a bull. The bull takes her to the castles of his three brothers and each of them gives the girl a gift to open when she'll need help. After this, the bull takes her to a valley of glass and tells her that he's going to fight the Devil. If the sky gets red, it 'll mean the bull has lost; if the sky gets blue, he won, but the girl must not move an inch or he'll not be able to find her. The sky becomes blue, but the girl naturally moves and gets stuck in the valley. She meets a blacksmith, who says that if she'll work for him for ten years, he'll repay her by making her a pair of shoes to climb out of the valley. The rest of the story happens just like "The Singing, Springing Lark" and "East Of The Sun West Of The Moon", with the girl using her gifts to stop her [[ShapeshiftingLover now human fiancé (a knight)]] from marrying another woman - the witch's daughter, this time.

* Name any ''ComicBook/XMen'' romance fanfiction involving ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} or the Beast. Now see how many of those feature a female protagonist who is not a mutant herself.

* There's a ''WebAnimation/{{HazbinHotel}}'' AU on Tumblr which parodies Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{BeautyAndTheBeast}}'' with Charlie as Belle, Alastor as the Beast/Adam, Angel Dust as Lumiere, Husk as Cogsworth and Vaggie as Maurice.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Quasimodo and Esmeralda. She ends up with Phoebus in the end, but it is indicated that she and Quasimodo remain good friends. An absolute subversion of the original story, in which Esmeralda is just as revolted by Quasimodo's looks as everybody else. The sequel plays it straight all the way with a girl named Madellaine hooking up with Quasimodo.

* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'' - a non-romantic example. Francoeur is a flea accidentaly transformed into a GentleGiant with an angelic voice because of a chemical explosion caused by Raoul, the supposed-to-be protagonist. Lucille, a beautiful singer, is the first person to realize that Francoeur is not a monster, but they're more LikeBrotherAndSister. Besides, Lucille already has a crush on Raoul.

** Shrek and Princess Fiona, with a few interesting twists: Fiona is the one with the curse that turns her into an ogre after dark. When Shrek gives her TrueLovesKiss, instead of Shrek turning into a prince, Fiona turns into an ogre. She takes this rather well considering her already ogre-like behavior. It comes back again in [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek2}} the first sequel]] when Shrek takes a potion that makes him a handsome human and restores Fiona's form... and when given the chance to make this permanent, she passes it up because they were both happier as ogres.

* ''Beauty And The Beast (1962)'' is the first English language adaptation of the fairy tale, although it has a completely different plot. Lady Althea pays a visit to Duke Edward Marc, her fiancé and heir of the throne, but finds out he transforms every night into a werewolf, because of a curse tossed by an alchemist that his late father killed many years ago. She decides to help him break the curse, but a rival of Edward discovers his secret and [[TorchesAndPitchforks stirs the townspeople against him]]. It’s not hard to guess what happens next.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' has a villainous example: Bane and Talia Al Ghul. He's a hulking brute with a permanent gas mask, while she's a high-society seductress.

* In ''Film/{{Freaks}}'', Hans is a dwarf who performs in a travelling circus despite being heir to a small fortune. He develops a crush on a beautiful trapeze artist named Cleopatra, but he's too blinded by this trope, his excitement over getting with a "big person", and his own [[IJustWantToBeNormal his own self-hatred]] that he can't see that she's only interested in his money, barely hides her disgust for him and the other "freaks", and is planning to murder him so she can inherit.
* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has the Grinch and Martha May Whovier. The Grinch is, well, TheGrinch, except [[CharacterExaggeration even more manic depressive]] than in the original book and TV special, and alienated from his peers by his odd looks and behavior. Martha is a MsFanservice who always had a crush on the Grinch since childhood, but couldn't admit it until the end of the movie where they finally get together. A more platonic example that takes up significantly more of the movie's run time is the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who, the latter who's an innocent 8 year old girl struggling to find the meaning of Christmas and thinks she can find it by helping him. No matter how much the Grinch [[{{Tsundere}} tries to scare her]] and convince her he's a CardCarryingVillain, she never gives up on seeing the good in him, and he eventually becomes a welcome citizen of Whoville after his HeelFaceTurn.

* ''Film/{{Lili}}'' : Played with. Paul the puppeteer is an attractive man but he doesn't see himself as such because of his bad leg. His bitterness and self-hatred take him to be very harsh to Lili, so it really takes a loooong time for her to see the best in him (actually, their interactions remind a lot [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle and Beast]], before Beast's change of heart). To not leave doubts, Paul [[spoiler: tells Lili he is like his puppet Golo, the oger: ugly and yearning for love.]]

* ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' has a ShipTease between the beautiful Storm and the Demon-esque mutant ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} who is blue, scaly with MoreTeethThanTheOsmonds. In a slight subversion, he is the [[NiceGuy kind]] and [[NonActionGuy gentle pacifist]] [[spoiler: when he's not BrainwashedAndCrazy that is]], whilst she is more likely to [[ActionGirl kick some serious ass]] [[MamaBear if she feels her fellow mutants are in the slightest danger]].

* Series/Lucifer2016: Lucifer Morningstar is the Devil himself. He's hedonistic, cynical and [[MrFanservice doesn't miss the chance to display his sculpted body]], but this is a façade to hide his longtime (read millenial) family issues. Deep down, he is a decent guy (differently from his comic counterpart) who despises the worst of humanity. Chloe Decker is the no-nonsense, incorruptible detective that reluctantly accepts his help to solve the MysteryOfTheWeek. She helps him to change for better, but that doesn't keep him from showing his horrifying devilish form to whoever he thinks that deserves it.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Mostly {{deconstructed|trope}} and {{subverted|Trope}} .

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': Deconstructed in the most twisted way possible in [[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS2E1DeadRight Dead Right]]. Kathy is a beautiful GoldDigger (played by Demi Moore) who marries Charlie, an obese, sloppy, gluttonous man because a FortuneTeller told her he would inherit a large amount of money and die violently. As months pass, she can't stand to be in the same room as him, but Charlie doesn't die, for her total frustration. [[spoiler: Then she suddenly wins millions in a lottery and dumps him, but he kills her on a rage. The prophecy is fulfilled, for Charlie inherits Kathy’s money and dies violently on the electric chair for her murder.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Bronze}}'': A darker retelling of the classic fairy tale. Beast is moreally ambiguous and Beauty must decide if she'll save or kill him.

** Gender-flipped with [[CuteMonsterGirl Evelynn]] and [[TheGambler Twisted Fate]] - a female demon and a male human, respectively - that were formerly in a relationship. While Evelynn is [[HeadTurningBeauty quite shockingly beautiful]], despite being clearly inhuman, she was also very AxeCrazy. Weirdly, she was the one who ''broke up'' with him and he took it very poorly. [[DrowningMySorrows Drunkenly so]].

* ''Webcomic/TheFlowerAndTheNose'': An interesting [[https://tapas.io/episode/8252 gender-flipped version]]. Lani is cursed with a humungous nose by a flower that blooms once every thirty years. She builds a very successful perfum industry thanks to her keen sense of smell, but the bitterness caused by her appearance makes her drive people away. Until she meets a handsome, mysterious man who is surprisingly interested on her.

* The story of Petrus Gonsalvus (1517-1618) probably served as inspiration to Gabrielle de Villeneuve conceiving Beauty and the Beast. He was a Guanche, an aborigin race of the Canary Islands, with a rare medical condition called "hypertrichosis", which covers one's face and body entirely with hair. Because of this, he was captured in a young age and given to Henri II of France as a "wild man". Henry II, however, soon noticed that Petrus was actually calm and doctile in spite of his captivity, and decided to have him transformed in a true gentleman. Petrus learned to speak, write and social manners; after Henri II death, his wife Catherine de Medici decided to marry him out of curiosity, to check if his children would be hairy, too. The chosen one was one of the the prettiest ladies of her court, who was also called Catherine and that had no idea to whom she was marrying until the bridal night. Legends say that she fainted when she saw Petrus for the first time; however, as it was said before, he was a good, patient man. They had seven children; four of them were born with hypertrichosis thus sent as gifts to European courts, so the story of Petrus and Catherine is far from being happy. The registers hint that they truly loved their children, and there is an image were she is represented touching Petrus' shoulder as a sign of affection, which was very unusual in couple portraits.

* Percilla Lauther (1911-2001) and Emmit Bejano (1915-1995) lived a true love story in spite of their advertisies. She had hypertrichosis and two rows of teeth and he had a calloused skin that earned him the nickname of "Alligator Man"; but she was also a graceful woman with a enchanting singing voice, while he was gentle and kind. They saw past their physical differents and lived together for many years, until Emmit's death.

* "Literature/PrinceLindworm": The shepherd's kind, beautiful daughter gets married to the hideous, violent prince Lindworm and manages to turn him into a human.