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** However, completely and utterly averted in the sequel, where at the end of it all she's covered in blood, dirt, and sweat, having been shot in the leg and stabbed in the shoulder, and her hair looks like ten washes woouldn't be enough to get it clean again.

* ''{{Film/Terminator}}'' Sarah Connor's hair is immaculate at the end of the first film, despite having been at ground zero for two explosions, being chased all night by a Terminator, and all the other damage she suffered.

* In ''Film/TempleOfDoom'', the heroine's clothes never tore or got stained.

* Averted in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8514012/1/Keena-the-Defendants-of-Constan-Magic-Academy Keena & the Defendants of Constan Academy]], as pretty much anyone can get hurt, most notably chapter 5 with Keena [[spoiler: literally breaking the bones in Samantha's arm.]]

* Body odour and/or halitosis in general seems to be something of an exception as it makes a point [[TakeOurWordForIt without detracting from the actresses physical beauty.]] Carla from ''{{Scrubs}}'' was told off in one episode for her bad breath after her regular hummus breaks, while over on ''TheOC'' Summer Roberts became a student activist, and gave up bathing for a while. She didn't ''look'' dirty, but the other characters certainly commented on the smell. Also she stopped shaving her legs, but, slightly conveniently, we didn't see the results.
** Likewise, Kimmy from ''FullHouse'' is said to have feet that smell, which is played up for humor. But since we can only see and not smell Kimmy, we have to [[TakeOurWordForIt take their word for it]], since she is not ugly or anything.
** Lily Truscott from ''HannahMontana'' is also said to have smelly feet, by Hannah/Miley herself.

* Played painfully straight in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. Halle Berry's Storm gets into some pretty rough fights scenes with Callisto, but never comes away with anything worse than tussled hair.

* Brilliantly averted in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8514012/1/Keena-the-Defendants-of-Constan-Magic-Academy Keena & the Defendants of Constan Academy]], as pretty much anyone can get hurt, most notably chapter 5 with Keena [[spoiler: literally breaking the bones in Samantha's arm.]]

* Sci-Fi horror movies, such as ''{{Yeti}}''. Members of both genders survive a horrific plane crash and a battle with a crazy ass monster trying to off them all. Perfect hair.

** Completely averted with Cerberus troops in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': The AlwaysFemale [[PsychicPowers Phantoms]] and [[ColdSniper Nemeses]] enemies are capable of dying just as messily as the other Cerberus units that wear [[AmbiguousGender Feature Concealing]] armor, though it helps that all of them are FacelessGoons.

** First averted but ultimately played straight in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' with Ashley, whose face is bloody and bruised all over after [[spoiler:being beaten up by Dr. Eva]], but once she gets out of the hospital, she looks just the same as before that. Possibly justified due to advanced future medicine.
* Present and averted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''; male party members get covered in [[LudicrousGibs ridiculous amounts of]] [[{{Gorn}} blood spatters]], but [[JeanneDArchetype Leliana]], [[HotWitch Morrigan]], and [[CoolOldLady Wynne]] come away perfectly clean, however the Warden gets pretty messy regardless of gender. Justified in that this has more to do with combat class than gender, every close-combat fighter gets sprinkled with blood, while all the female companions are archers or mages.

* Averted with Nika Tamiya from ''Switch Girl'', the SchoolIdol who provides all the {{gross out|show}} humor. She is also shown [[{{Gasshole}} farting]] numerous times.

* {{Lampshaded}} on ''BreakingIn'', when, after being caught in a very strong security system, all of the male members of the team sustained bruises or some other sort of minor injury (including one getting his eyebrows burned off), and Melanie does not. She gets called out on it, with people wondering why she doesn't seem to have a scratch on her.

** It works that way for men as well. Many superheroes get thrown through walls, blasted, and slammed with few signs of damage and it is rare that any male heroes recieve permenant scars from the ordeals. While it may make sense for guys with superhuman durability and healing factors to remain unchanged, BadassNormal characters like {{Batman}} or DareDevil should be quite ugly by now. Instead, they remain as handsome as ever. It was directly {{Lampshaded}} as far back as the 1960s by {{Spider-Man}}, who noted that the bruises he'd suffered in several fights tended to heal very quickly.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "A Witch is Born" Tamaris

* In the first book of the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', there's Arya after she's been rescued; as Eragon notes while [[DudeShesLikeInAComa ogling her unconcious body]], a month of torture and imprisonment in a dirty dungeon apparently wasn't enough to dimish her constantly-reiterated hotness.

** Of particular note was ''her hair''. Almost all of her hairstyles would be difficult - if not impossible - for a hairstylist to create, to say nothing of keeping them in place. Ironically, the most realistic one was the style she had in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' while [[GoGoEnslavement Jabba's prisoner]]. (And in that case, ''the rest'' of the outfit was very unrealistic.)