History Main / BeautyIsNeverTarnished

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7aN2AopyZc This ad]] for Tröegs beer features a woman in a bikini burping and farting while promoting the beer.

* Behind the scenes, the Divas had to resort to lots of hacks and tricks so that the bruises and scrapes they got from wrestling most of the week wouldn't show up on TV. Strategically applied makeup would take care of the face, while most women resorted to weaves and extensions to prevent their hair from getting too damaged. Likewise their gear was secured with lots of double-sided tape to prevent any WardrobeMalfunction (or revealing too many body bruises).

** Seen in earlier X-Men teams, too, where the physical mutations seemed to pop up only in male characters -- [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler]] are visibly abnormal, [[Characters/MarvelComicsAngel Angel]] has hard-to-hide wings, Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} had claws. The only female X-Men character of that period who had a visible mutation [[Characters/XMen60sMembers Polaris]], with easily-dyed green hair (technically, [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]]'s white hair and blue eyes are physical aspects of her mutation, but they only add to her exotic beauty). Even today, the X-Men have not had a female member who wasn't at least a CuteMonsterGirl.
** [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] is the pretty, {{Fanservice}}y, OppositeSexClone/daughter of Wolverine. Besides the fact that she's a clone of the famously ''un''attractive Wolverine, she's been shot, stabbed, slashed, gutted, blown up, burned down to a ''skeleton'', and had limbs hacked off entirely, and the only lasting mark on her body is the [[spoiler: emblem associated with ComicBook/CaptainUniverse]] on the palm of her right hand. {{Justified|Trope}} since she has a HealingFactor, but the sheer amount of physical abuse she sustains makes it pretty egregious.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': While [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Bruce Banner]] gets grotesquely muscular and [[ClothingDamage rips his shirt]], depending on the artist, his [[Comicbook/SheHulk female counterpart]] merely gets two feet taller and turns green, or bulks up some, but nowhere near as much as Bruce.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Film/SpiderMan1'' where Spidey is badly injured in the climactic showdown, including taking a grenade to the face and being beaten to a bloody pulp by the superhuman Green Goblin. His mask and costume are all torn and his exposed face is bloody and bruised, but by Norman's funeral, he is all healed up and looks completely okay. This could be explained away as his HealingFactor kicking in, but due to the brutal and violent nature of the film, the next movies toned down the blood, so despite getting in more battles, Peter rarely suffered that much. In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', his face remains completely intact, but his suit gets torn, and this is after the control panel of a train exploded near his masked face (his mask has some burn marks, his face has none). The worst he suffers is some bruises across his face in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' despite getting bashed across the face by [[Characters/VenomEddieBrock Venom]] with a metal stick with jagged edges. Also, no matter how bad his hair gets messed up, whenever he pulls his mask off, it is neatly combed back to normal within the very next shot.

* The Brazilian comic Comicbook/MonicasGang has a story wherein two six-year-old boys are being babysat by a hot teenager. She lets slip that girls actually ''poop,'' and the boys faint from the shock. She hurries to assure them that when girls poop it's pretty and white and smells of flowers.

* Sylvanas Windrunner from the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series. Once a beautiful High Elf, she put up a heroic LastStand against [[VillainProtagonist Arthas]] when he invaded Quel'Thalas. Arthas rewarded her for her trouble by having her brutally tortured, then killing her and turning her into a banshee. Her corpse was left to rot for what was presumably an extended period of time before banshee Sylvanas eventually broke free of Arthas' grasp and possessed it. Despite all this, she's still depicted as beautiful in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', in an EvilIsSexy sort of way. [[UndeathlyPallor Her skin is now blue]] and her [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes red]], but there's no visible scarring or decomposition. As mentioned below, it seems this is a feature of high-ranking undead.

* Apparently invoked by the Capitol in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. After her Games, Katniss finds that the hearing in her left ear is restored, and while she was out the Capitol apparently enhanced her appearance for the cameras -- her skin's perfection, smooth and glowing with no burns, scars, or anything. Peeta, on the other hand, has his lower leg replaced with a metal and plastic device. This is true for all victors, who will go on to live in the spotlight after their bloodbath. However, in subsequent books, she gets a nasty scar on her arm at the end of the second book, and by the end of the third much of her body is covered by burn scars and skin grafts. Even after this, however, her face suffers no lasting damage.

* Slightly subverted in the climactic shoot-out in ''Duel in the Sun'': although Pearl's ''face'' is untouched, her clothes and especially her hands are realistically torn and bloody after she crawls up a mountain on her hands and knees--possibly because actress Jennifer Jones really did injure herself in the process.

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* In the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', while playing the game with the normal skins will avert this trope, playing the game with the special DLC skins will play this trope straight -- Batman can get shot, beaten up, thrown out of windows, survive explosions, the works and he and his costume will look pristine. Doesn't matter how far into the past or the future that suit is, it will be clean and Batman without even a split lip.

* ''Anime/AgnisPhilosophy'': Averted. Agni is certainly attractive, but the fight with the attackers and the tracker beasts clearly takes a toll on her. And in ''WITCH'', something rather more serious seems to be happening...

* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': Gadget Hackwrench has given birth to 42 children with no physical degradation. Granted, [[ToonPhysics she is a type of being who can ignore such wear and tear]] among other reasons, but this is notable since others of her kind suffering the physical and mental ravages of time drives the main plot.

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* The "What If... Zombies?!" episode of Marvel's ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' series, all the men have torn skin, visible wounds, missing noses, holes all the way through their bodies, etc., while Scarlet Witch... just gets the blue skin and blank eyes, with a few minor scrapes.

** During the Dressrosa Arc, the Donquixote Pirates has two non-{{Gonk}} female members. One is beaten simply by frightening her into fainting (twice!), while the other is convinced into pulling a HeelFaceTurn. By contract, all the men and the uglier women are beaten up.

** Another anime-only example. In the Skypeia Arc, when Conis speaks out against Enel and tries to warn the populace about his plans to kill everyone, a kid throws a rock at her head for speaking ill of Enel, causing her to bleed a little. In the anime, this is changed to a tomato. The anime has regularly shown violence from the manga far more graphic than that, so it can be assumed this case was changed simply because showing the face of a pretty woman character being wounded was unacceptable.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'': Karlach the tiefling barbarian spent ten years as a slave-warrior in the Nine Hells. Her budy and arms are covered in enough scars to qualify as BodyHorror, but her face is completely unblemished.

** Seen in earlier X-Men teams, too, where the physical mutations seemed to pop up only in male characters -- [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Beast]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler]] are visibly abnormal, [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Angel]] has hard-to-hide wings, Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} had claws. The only female X-Men character of that period who had a visible mutation [[Characters/XMen60sMembers Polaris]], with easily-dyed green hair (technically, [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]]'s white hair and blue eyes are physical aspects of her mutation, but they only add to her exotic beauty). Even today, the X-Men have not had a female member who wasn't at least a CuteMonsterGirl.

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

Compare DirtForcefield, KickingAssInAllHerFinery. Contrast UnkemptBeauty. For the clothing only, see BulletProofFashionPlate. A common specific form involves characters (especially women) who DoesNotLikeShoes, whose feet are very rarely shown to be as dirty and/or calloused as those of people who habitually go barefoot outdoors are in real life.

** Then, in FF7 remake, Aerith goes through Corneo's rape mansion, a literal sewer, a train graveyard, exploding helicopters, and Marlene, a kid, and kids aren't known for filters, claims she smells nice, like a flower. By contrast, Biggs and Tifa both comment on their own BO and need for a shower, so smelling good is clearly a Cetra power in Remake.

* Every single one of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's heroines, except for the one point (''if'' it occurs) in each movie where they get a little bit dirty or stained on purpose to show they're not afraid to do it, e.g. [[Anime/PrincessMononoke San]] cleaning the blood out of one of her "brother"s musket-shot wounds, or Manga/{{Nausicaa|OfTheValleyOfTheWind}}'s dress being stained with Ohm blood (which is actually a key plot point). Sorta like their skin and clothes are made out of Teflon. (How else do you explain San's gear being clear of blood stains not much later when even modern soap powder has difficulty getting it all out?)

** In the prequel ''Caterpillar'', Imomushi is said to be CoveredInScars that aren't actually detailed on the artwork by any of the three illustrators who portrayed her in the overall series. She and Kabutomushi get beat up a lot over the course of the story but receive no lasting injuries.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'':

* ''WebVideo/MonsterFactory'' makes plenty of genuinely gross-looking female monsters. They generally prefer to make [[CatchPhrase boys]] but will do runs of female monsters to address the balance.

This is also part of the reason that MenAreTheExpendableGender, and that female characters who '''do''' die generally get much "gentler" deaths or [[GoryDiscretionShot don't die onscreen.]] After all, you can't show a woman getting set on fire, riddled with bullets, or having her head ripped off by the monster without ruining her '''good looks''', and [[MostWritersAreMale nobody wants that]]. There is also a practical possibility for this in long-running works - characters who have particularly bad scars will get them on their back, chest or legs to save make-up artists the trouble of having to apply more prosthetics than they would if the scars were on the face.

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** In the prequel ''Caterpillar'', Imomushi is said to be CoveredInScars that aren't actually detailed on the artwork by any of the three illustrators who portrayed her in the overall series. She and Kabutomushi get beat up a lot over the course of the story, but receive no lasting injuries.
** In ''Arachnid'', Alice gets beat up so much by Kamadouma that she spends one chapter with bandages and an EyepatchOfPower. Gokiburi considers her ''"moe"'' anyway. Later on, Dinoponera tortures Alice by stabbing her on the palms, arms, legs and butt with a potent venomous needle. This ''does'' leave visible scars on Alice's palms, but the sequel ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}'' is drawn by the illustrator of ''Caterpillar'' and so Alice goes back to looking pristine. In fact, one chapter retcons away the slash injury Kabutomushi had suffered during the Arachnid Hunt.

** When Revy and Roberta have their NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at the end of Roberta's first arc, they are bruised and bloodied, but suffer no permanent damage.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': At one point in the story, Light Yagami and his father Soichiro are both imprisoned and placed under constant surveillance in order to determine if either of them are Kira. Soichiro's appearance starts radically changing as a result of the stress; he grows a beard and his hair starts graying. Light, on the other hand, being a textbook {{Bishonen}}, is hardly affected at all.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', both students and heroes end up in dangerous situations against villains and disasters that leave them bloodied, heavily injured and often scared, however, this only applies to the male characters. Female characters are rarely, if at all, seriously injured and at worst rendered unconscious without serious external damage due to an enemies quirk.

*** In the manga, for some time the scar was still visible a bit under her new tattoo the times she wore sleeveless shirts, but by the Whisky Peak arc it completely disappeared. Maybe Creator/EiichiroOda thought it was too much of a hassle to draw.
** Double-subverted with [[spoiler:Sanji's brother]] Vinsmoke Yonji. Sanji kicked him so hard in the face during their confrontation that his face resembled a piece of bent metal, and stayed that way for a while. The only way he could successfully restore his face to normal was by using a ''press machine'', and he's looking fine afterwards.

* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' tends to go both ways on this. In both the anime and the manga, women are engaged in battle just as much as, if not more than, men. However, in the animated version, the effects of combat towards the girls tend to be limited to ClothingDamage or injuries which don't obscure beauty, like bruises away from the face or sprained limbs. The manga, which is a great deal more violent, has many female characters face ''terrible and permanent'' disfigurement for their lifestyle choices (such as crushed faces, severed limbs, eyes stabbed, and other wonderful things). However, the main female cast, like Maya and Aya, tend to not face such consequences. Although, since they are legendary fighters, it could just be their skill. Maya is also [[spoiler:nearly beaten to death by Kagiroi]].

** The spin-off ComicBook/GenerationX notably featured a team of three girls (all extremely attractive) and three boys -- two of whom had powers that left them physically deformed. Which didn't stop them being considered attractive by many readers, of course -- but when the series' primary MrFanservice has ''no lower jaw'' (when he took his mask off), while his girlfriend is a generic all-American blonde it smells a little like a double standard.

* [[{{Ninja}} Ninjette]] from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' had been seen to take all types of nasty injuries as she fended off rival ninja clans from abducting her for ninja breeding stock, but nevertheless generally looks hale and hearty. [[spoiler:It's revealed in Volume 8 that, to keep up a strong front for Empowered's sake, she hides all of her blunt force trauma and stab wound scars with 'yasegaman no jutsu'[[note]]"Grin and bear it", or "Faked Stoicism", magic[[/note]] illusions, lamenting how it drains up her ki reserves that could have been dedicated towards actually healing.]]

* In ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'', when the two (male) spies, Black Spy and White Spy went at each other, there was a roughly equal chance either one would end up brutally clobbered or reduced to LudicrousGibs. However, the (female, and much more attractively drawn) Grey Spy who occasionally appeared was an InvincibleHero (or InvincibleVillain, as it's never clear who, if any, are the good guy) who was ImmuneToSlapstick that would effortlessly destroy the other two spies every time without fail. This predictably made her unlikeable to both the cartoonist and fans, and she was soon PutOnABus and has since only made rare appearances.

** Miss StatuesqueStunner Beth gets one scene of SheCleansUpNicely after having gone around several months as a [[WholesomeCrossdresser Wholesome but often dirty and scraped Crossdresser]] (for practicality and SweetPollyOliver purposes). She is also branded once and shot not long after, but is also healed in the TARDIS, leaving her skin unmarred... except for [[ScarsAreForever one scar on her neck]] from an AttemptedRape. In the next season, she's said to have a lot of scars from her time as a DeathSeeker.

* In ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Alice falls down a rabbit hole, gets shrunk, enlarged and stuffed in a teapot, then fights the Jabberwocky...all without a curl of hair getting out of place. She gets a scratch on her arm, but that's it.

** Subverted by [[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Selina Kyle]] after she is pushed through a window to her (presumed) death. She has a large, bloody cut on her head from where a shard of glass slashed her, and upon landing in the alley she loses consciousness and lays in the snow for so long that her skin goes icy white. Then about a dozen cats show up and crawl over her body, one of them ''chewing her fingers'' and drawing a fair amount of blood. Then her eyes roll around in their sockets, [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker Undertaker]]-style, as she regains consciousness. ''Then'', upon arriving home, she slowly undergoes a [[HeroicBSOD Heroic Breakdown]] that begins with her messily downing an entire carton of milk, spilling a good portion of it on her dress and leaving her with a "milk mustache"; she can also be seen ''drooling'' the milk from her [[SlasherSmile maniacally grinning lips]] as she goes crazy in subsequent shots.

** Played straight in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. Storm gets into some pretty rough fights scenes with Callisto but never comes away with anything worse than tousled hair.

* In ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'', all of the men look suitably disheveled following their hard cross-country ride/hike: dusty, sweaty, unshaven, numerous small wounds, their clothes rumpled, etc. Anne [=McKeever=], however, still looks fresh and rested, her face clean, and her hair styled in a suspiciously 50s coif. Her sister Jennie also looks presentable, but has more justification: being dressed in hardwearing buckskin and having her hair in practical plaits.

** Laura Lizzie plays with the trope. As revenge for bullying Rochelle, Sarah casts a spell to make all her hair fall out. There is one scene where she's half-bald, and looks quite pitiful. But the next time she's seen, she's wearing a wig. It's admittedly never said whether the snap back at the end would have her hair grow back.
* ''Film/DWar'' has the heroes' car blasted by a dragon's fireball, flip a few times in the air and skid along the ground, only to have the woman emerge (white sweater included) completely unscathed. Of course, there was a little bit of black soot on her face.
* In ''Film/Daredevil2003'', Matt Murdock has many scars all over his body, although his face is left untouched. Elektra, despite [[spoiler:a stab through her hand, a cut on her neck, broken back, head injury and getting gutted]], is still pretty enough that Bullseye tried to kiss her.

* ''Film/TheFinal'' both plays straight and averts the trope. Two female bullies get chemicals smeared all over their face to destroy their good looks forever, and one gets two of her fingers cut off. However, far more male bullies are tortured than females despite there being a well developed female bully who never gets tortured. Also, Emily is [[spoiler: shot in the head]] but this isn't shown.
* If you go with the hypothesis that Jenny from ''Film/ForrestGump'' has AIDS, you'll be left wondering why you don't see her with sores and lesions from Kaposi's Sarcoma, hair graying and loss, and other nasty symptoms associated with that disease. Particularly naïve children watching the film might speculate that she died from...being extremely tired, perhaps? The same goes for his cancer-stricken mother.

** Played with in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''. Bond is filthy with a shaggy beard and hair after being tortured for 14 months. This is 007 at his most unkempt in the entire ''series'', and audiences at the time were a bit shocked to see the character in such a disheveled state. However, Bond is still in remarkably good shape for someone who had endured that type of hell for so long. All it takes are a single shave, a hair cut and a change of clothes for Bond to become sexy again.

* ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' goes for "extreme realism" according to the director, with the depiction of 1800s France, and the trope is averted by having Fantine's beauty get destroyed by poverty (Creator/AnneHathaway lost a lot of weight and had her hair cut off to provide the effect). But it's still played straight in other areas; Eponine for example is poor and unhealthy in the book, yet this version of her has clear skin and perfectly waxed eyebrows with her hair only attractively messy. Cosette's child self only has a little bit of messy hair, and looks very good for someone forced to work like a dog in the Thernardiers' inn. And Mme Thernardier is given a healthy dose of AdaptationalAttractiveness and just has UnkemptBeauty for the scenes where she's starving on the streets.

* Creator/GreerGarson's Oscar-acceptance speech for ''Film/MrsMiniver'' was famously the longest in history. She thanked her hairdresser and costume designer and everyone else who had anything to do with the production. She had reason to be thankful, since her character gets through the [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront London Blitz]] without a hair out of place.

* A studio enforced example in ''Film/NowVoyager'', the TropeCodifier for BeautifulAllAlong. Charlotte Vale is intended to be overweight and completely unattractive due to her mother's abuse - and after [[MentalHealthRecoveryArc getting therapy]], she gets a glamorous makeover. Creator/BetteDavis wanted to look even uglier for Charlotte's 'before' self, even having her costumes padded. The studio however considered it too grotesque, so she's HollywoodHomely with glasses, an unflattering dress and BigOlEyebrows.

* The trope is in full force in ''Film/{{Predators}}''. All the male characters are filthy and battle damaged by the end of the film (or at least, the end of their participation in it). The lone female? Barely covered in a light, even film of dirt, not any hint of actual damage. The one bit of damage she's seen to take is suitably out of the way that it doesn't have to get filmed in subsequent shots.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Film/SpiderMan1'' where Spidey is badly injured in the climactic showdown, including taking a grenade to the face and being beaten to a bloody pulp by the superhuman Green Goblin. His mask and costume is all torn and his exposed face is bloody and bruised, but by Norman's funeral, he is all healed up and looks completely okay. This could be explained away as his HealingFactor kicking in, but due to the brutal and violent nature of the film, the next movies toned down the blood, so despite getting in more battles, Peter rarely suffered that much. In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', his face remains completely intact, but his suit gets torn, and this is after the control panel of a train exploded near his masked face (his mask has some burn marks, his face has none). The worst he suffers is some bruises across his face in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' despite getting bashed across the face by [[Characters/VenomEddieBrock Venom]] with a metal stick with jagged edges. Also, no matter how bad his hair gets messed up, whenever he pulls his mask off, it is neatly combed back to normal within the very next shot.

** Carol Marcus [[spoiler: gets fed a piece of the scenery by Khan when she gets in his way, and shortly afterwards has her leg stepped on by him, complete with a sickening crunch. Cut to a shot of her being dragged to a teleporter and sickbay, and she has absolutely no external signs of injury]].

** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', only Rey remains unwounded while Finn and Kylo Ren both have serious injuries after the three of them duel with lightsabers. Also when Poe is strapped to the torture machine he is shown to have gotten bruises and blood all over, but when Rey is put to the same device, not a single one to be seen[[note]]Actually, that frame doesn't seem to be a torture device, just a restraint. Poe was tortured by an interrogation droid that can be seen over Kylo Ren's shoulder in a few shots. We never see the droid in Rey's interrogation scene, so Rey probably wasn't tortured at all. But, that just further enforces this trope[[/note]].

** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' plays this trope noticeably straight. Megan Fox looks as though her (rather overdone) makeup was being touched up every 30 seconds. This is particularly jarring in the final battle, when every other (human) character is covered in filth and blood, Fox still looks perfectly clean and her make up is totally untouched after both her and the main lead get poorly teleported to the other side of the world, run several miles through the hot desert, have several explosions happen basically on top of them, and get thrown into the sand. The main lead is bleeding, grimy, and filthy while she just has her hair a bit rumpled.

* The first ''Film/UltramanZearth'' plays this trope for laughs in the disastrous initial attack against Alien Benzene and his monster Cotton-Pope. The MYDO Strike Team tries a tactical strike on the alien, only to backfire with their jets blown up, but while all the men ends up badly bruised and injured, their faces covered in bandages (all which are AmusingInjuries) the sole female, Tohru Hoshimi, suffers from having some soot on her nose and cheek. It helps that she's a genuine NiceGirl and the only character who treats Asahi (Zearth's accident-prone human form) with respect instead of picking on him repeatedly.

* ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong'' - the prostitutes in the Nam Kok all look very good considering they make their money sleeping with as many sailors as possible. Suzie in fact has been homeless since she was ten, and is attractively svelte. This is all explained in the book - where Suzie previously lived with a cousin who took care of her for a couple of years before she became a prostitute. And even then they worked a dance hall with rich businessmen as their clients - so they weren't sleeping with that many. The girls at the Nam Kok are also considered a step above street walkers and the hotel arranges for them to have weekly medical checks.

** While Rachel of tends to get beaten up as badly as ([[LeeroyJenkins if not worse than]]) the rest of the Animorphs crew in battle, everyone describes her as being the type of girl who could walk through a hurricane and still have perfect hair. Cassie compares her to TheUndead, except un-dirty. On a similar note, Cassie is the only character described as being able to make the sometimes horrific-looking process of morphing look beautiful and elegant (the Andalites call it morph-dancing).

* Apparently invoked by the Capitol in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. After her Games, Katniss finds that her hearing in her left ear is restored, and while she was out the Capitol apparently enhanced her appearance for the cameras -- her skin's perfection, smooth and glowing with no burns, scars or anything. Peeta, on the other hand, has his lower leg replaced with a metal and plastic device. This is true for all victors, who will go on to live in the spotlight after their bloodbath. However, in subsequent books, she gets a nasty scar on her arm at the end of the second book, and by the end of the third much of her body is covered by burn scars and skin grafts. Even after this, however, her face suffers no lasting damage.

* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Hailey Heleti is a {{reconstruction}} of the trope. Yes, she does get bruised during a fist fight, cut by blades, etc. [[MundaneUtility but she has a spell for that]]. She's so skilled with it that she doesn't need words or a staff. Give her a minute and she won't look like she was ever in a fight.
* ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'': Phèdre usually heals from injuries without any scars; even after being burned and partly FlayedAlive, her scars are only mentioned once and don't detract from her sex appeal (or ability to get into her amorous adventures) at all, when realistically they should be quite severe. She {{lampshade|Hanging}}s her improbable healing as a side benefit of the divine blessing that supports her [[CasualKink Casually Kinky]] life as a sacred prostitute.

* Inverted in Stephen R. Donaldson's two book series ''Mordant's Need''. Twice, a woman is wounded, and both times it's noted that the wound only ''enhances'' their otherwise shallow beauty.

* In ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', Nazi officer Captain Halsing provides a Rare Male Example by appearing unexpectedly clean and well-kempt after a long and arduous trek through the wilderness. This is specifically commented on, and showcases his competence and fastidious nature. More symbolically, it also illustrates the [[RepressiveButEfficient insistent neatness and orderliness]] his fascist state represents.

** It's usually [[PlayingWithATrope played straight]] with Simmons, who can get infected with deadly viruses, chased and captured by the bad guys, and generally be thrown around a lot without looking too much the worse for it a few minutes later. Though in the latter circumstance it might be a subtle case of PlayedForLaughs, since she's [[TheDividual usually standing with]] [[ButtMonkey Fitz]], who can [[RunningGag reliably catch a few good bruises to the face and head]] during even a minor stand-off. Even when she's [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and Fitz is [[ForcedToWatch forced to hear her screams]] in the other room, once she's freed she has nothing more than a few bruises and a little blood on her lip.

* [[Creator/AndAndDec The Ant & Dec Show]]'s short-lived 'Beat The Barber' sketch was short lived for a reason. It turns out MoralGuardians were shocked at a girl having her hair cut from losing a challenge and they protested. There were no protests over two boys having their hair cut before the girl. [[note]]The girl claimed she volunteered for the skit and had wanted to have her head shaved like the boys, but they were reluctant to shave her head and just gave her a bob instead.[[/note]]

* In the UK science show ''Brainiac'', there are male and female test subjects (called 'Brainiacs') who are subject to experiments. You will find that for all of the experiments that subject a person to pain (such as electric shock), getting dirty, urinating, or just behaving in an uncivilized manner, female Brainiacs are never chosen. They usually take on administrative roles and assess the males who perform these kinds of experiments. The exception seems to be the "Can You Do Your Job While Being Electrocuted?" skit -- where a female checkout operator, ballroom dancer and school teacher were used.

*** While attempting to defeat The Beast in "[[Recap/AngelS04E13Salvage Salvage]]", Faith suffers a horrific beatdown, and is so bloody and battered afterwards that she can barely walk. Her reactions afterwards show that her confidence is just as damaged as her body.
** The first fight Buffy and Faith had with each other did leave a few bruises on each other's face.

** When Martha Jones appears in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]], she's a refugee who has been walking the post-apocalyptic Earth for a year, barely a step ahead of the Master and his forces, facing exhaustion, blistering heat and freezing cold. Despite all this, she looks no less well-rested and well-groomed than she did while traveling with the Doctor. Some fanfiction writers spoofed this by having her travel pack secretly filled with cosmetics and hair products.

* In the ''Series/EmeraldCity'' episode [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E1TheBeastForever "The Beast Forever"]], after the tornado throws Dorothy's car at East, neither of them look much the worse for wear, even though East went up over the hood and Dorothy got smacked in the face with the airbag ''after'' the car flipped a couple times. There's a little trickle of blood, but that's all.

** Another such example which can even be contrasted with a female is that in Season 7, [[spoiler:Jorah Mormont is cured of greyscale]], leaving virtually no visible effect. In contrast, [[spoiler:Shireen Baratheon was permanently marked by the disease]].

** The party of Bran, Rickon, Meera, Jojen, and Osha likewise look very good for people who have spent months travelling through the wilderness. Bran is riding in a wheelbarrow yes but his hair always looks like it's just been washed.

** The entire crew comes out ridiculously unscarred from the cataclysmic battle against the undead horde. Nevermind that most of them should've been certainly dead 2-3 times over - they barely have any visible injuries!

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Other than after a traffic accident in "The Four Percent Solution", Mac never sustains any visible injuries throughout the show. In "A Tangled Webb", she was about to subjected to ElectricTorture, but [[TheHero Harm]] saved her in the nick of time.
* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': Liv is scuffed up with her hair bedraggled as a result of her time in the wilderness, along with getting injured, though it's not that visible. She's still good looking, with only minor bruises that are all hidden under her clothing.

* ''Series/MaidMarianAndHerMerryMen'' is a very good example. The show featured a considerable amount of slapstick (mostly mess), though almost no actual violence, but Maid Marian herself is practically never a victim, even when all of the rest of her band are. Admittedly Rose once got paint poured over her, but then Rose is a villain. (The trope seems to apply slightly less strongly to female villains.)

* Despite the setting being AfterTheEnd and humans living with no water and electricity, the whole cast of ''Series/{{Revolution}}'' has impeccable hygiene; hair neatly cut, clothes clean, and the men seemingly have a way to shave. Naturally, the reason is never addressed.

** In the Season 4 episode "Delete", Chloe shows absolutely no injury after she has been slammed head-first into walls multiple times, thrown down two flights of stairs and hit by a few of Lana's most vicious kicks, with at least one directly to the face. Oddly, she actually had blood on her face when it is over and she definitely isn't beaten as badly as Chloe.

** [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] on a regular basis. The two pretty boy leads, Sam and Dean, might get beaten up regularly (Dean particularly is barely recognizeable a few times after being pounded to a pulp) - but it's rare to see the effects last even until the end of the episode. Dean even says at one point that coming BackFromTheDead erased all his old scars and sorted out his broken fingers. Uh, we've seen your hands, sweetie, they had a lovely manicure. The inversion makes more sense when you remember that ''Supernatural'' is targeting a [[EstrogenBrigade very different audience]] than most of the shows on this list.

** At the end of Season 12, Kelly Kline goes into labor wearing a white nightgown and makeup, barely breaks a sweat and dies in childbirth looking angelic. Possibly justified since her child is a highly powerful angel/human hybrid so it's possible he prevented the process from being too painful for her.

* Krissy Vaine claimed that in her time in the WWE developmental system -- which was just as the Diva Searches were happening and more models than ever were brought in (Krissy has said she believes the only reason she was kept on was because of her own modeling background). So all the developmental Divas felt pressured to preserve their good looks 24/7 -- which is not easy when one is getting beaten up in training. She has admitted that [[OldMaid at the age of 26]] she freaked out and was spending over half her monthly pay on botox.

* Played with in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] when they had a women's First Blood match but at the end, there was only a small trickle of blood when Tara hit Wrestling/{{Daffney|Unger}} with a tool box.

* Behind the scenes, the Divas had to resort to lots of hacks and tricks so that the bruises and scrapes they got from wrestling most of the week wouldn't show up on TV. Strategically applied make-up would take care of the face, while most women resorted to weaves and extensions to prevent their hair from getting too damaged. Likewise their gear was secured with lots of double-sided tape to prevent any WardrobeMalfunction (or revealing too many body bruises).

* Present in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''; male party members get covered in [[LudicrousGibs ridiculous amounts of blood spatters]], but, [[HotWitch Morrigan]], and [[CoolOldLady Wynne]] come away perfectly clean. Justified, in that mages in the game never get blood splatters on them during combat, except for when they're being attacked in melee, as attested to by a male mage Warden.

** Part of Tifa's backstory is Sephiroth slashing her across the torso with his giant sword. You'd think this would leave a pretty noticeable scar, right? Nope, she recovers from it just fine with no ill-effects whatsoever. She spends the whole game in a tank top. Pity she never taught Aerith her secret, isn't it?

* Seen somewhat in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', near the end of the game, when [[spoiler:Bastila goes over to the Dark Side. For everyone else, including your character, the result of drastic drops into the Dark Side is progressive disfigurement. Bastila remains as good looking as ever]].

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where both Princess Zelda and Mipha and seen tending to a wound on his right arm in memory flashbacks, but this is most likely PlayedForDrama for the sake of the situation regarding his relationships with them. There is also another memory depicting Link and Zelda's escape from Calamity Ganon and the Divine Beasts; both of them are completely soiled head-to-toe in grime, mud, and rain. It is also played with where a lady in the Gerudo Town Inn points out the scars she sees on Link's body while giving him to a spa treatment.

* Resident damsel Ashley Graham in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' fits this bill, as while she is vulnerable to many attacks that hit Leon, she doesn't bleed or show any damage when hit. And while Leon has many death animations assigned to him Ashley tends to use the same death animation when killed by the same attacks. Miss Graham does have her own two unique death animations that not even the other female character Ada shares but do not show much physical damage. The first is having a giant rock fall on her during Leon's second fight with El Gigante, but in this instance she isn't shown at all and her other [[https://i.imgur.com/Qpnhgdk.mp4 unique death animation is a neck snap by a zealot when she fails to escape being strangled in time]] before her HP runs out. Her physical appearance does not change in this instance (aside from a dangling body) and her enemy simply proceeds to toss her corpse over his shoulder as the enemy does with the AI Ashley.
* The protagonists for most of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games never suffer a scratch or a cut of any kind no matter how much they get bitten or sliced by the monsters. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' where the characters are shown with lots of dirt, brusies, and blood on their bodies and faces.
* Naturally in Fanservice game ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'', the girls can be whipped, kicked in the nose, and have their joints manipulated in superhuman ways but no matter how much damage they receive they never show any physical injury aside from just holding the area most damaged when damage is high, though this damaged area doesn't affect their ability to fight. A notable example is Anesthesia who shocks her opponent's bellies with a medical AED for the girls that have the area exposed and take the shock straight to the skin they do not show any damage afterwards to the area either.

* ''VideoGame/SegaNinja'' (international title: ''Ninja Princess''), despite being a ninja-themed game, doesn't have a death animation for it's heroine. Instead, if she lose a life, she then cries before respawning.

** Chun-Li's defeat portrait in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' is pretty tame compared to the other character's portraits -- her {{Odango|Hair}} are messed up and she's tearful, but that's mostly it. Cammy, too -- she just looks out of breath, and her beret is a bit bashed up. The men, however, are bruised, swollen and bloody.

** In ''Videogame/StreetFighterV'' Necalli has a unique winpose that he lifts his defeated opponent from the back of the [[https://imgur.com/M3D4tNm head up]] as an offering. The females such as Ibuki (as seen in the picture) tend to have more subdued discomforted facial expression while males have more extreme expressions such as Ryu with one eye open widely. Furthermore while no character shows physical damage, the angle for the girls seems to be fixed so their chests are easily viewable while held in this way compared to the males who vary much more wildly in height and body shape. You can barely see the face of bigger males such as Abigail [[https://sta.sh/0rx8sz9k2lt compared to the girls]].
* Diva is the first boss in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 4'' who is female and rather pretty looking in a punk sort of way. When you beat her, the following cutscene shows her face which has a bruise and a scratch here and there, but still has her pretty looks. Nora, another female boss you fight later on, doesn't even show any damage in the proceeding cutscene after she is beaten.
* In ''Star Wars Chess'' being the only female character in the good side Princess Leia benefits from this, while many of her ''deaths'' [[https://i.imgur.com/2cmcNX4.mp4 somehow manage to]] [[WouldntHitAGirl avoid hitting her]] the few that do such as getting hit straight by an energy beam has her show no visible damage or others are in angles where her injury point wouldn't be shown. Luke on the other hand shows all damage.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' male characters typically snore when put to sleep; none of the girls do and typically just make more pleasant idle noises. In their defeated poses while they clap all of the girls are also shown taking their loss rather well and bare no ill will but some of the males like Bowser look rather unpleased and refuses to face the camera and Wario seemingly hurls insults towards his opponents. When screen ko'ed a lot of the men are shown as if their face is being pressed against the screen while the girls are just shown looking cutesy in front of the screen before going away.
** While it wasn't implemented, unused game files from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' shows the concept of characters getting some sort of damage. However all the characters these were made for are male with none of the girls having anything associated with them. Some later games did implement physical damage to an extent but even then it has never applied to any lady in the roster.

** And in the reboot, while Lara gets put through the ringer, her friend and ally Sam goes through much the same affair without so much as a scratch on her. [[spoiler:Then again, that may be justified because the Solarii [[DemonicPossession want to use her body as the next vessel for]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Himiko]], so they want her unharmed and as beautiful as possible.]]
* Sylvanas Windrunner from the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series. Once a beautiful High Elf, she put up a heroic LastStand against [[VillainProtagonist Arthas]] when he invaded Quel'Thalas. Arthas rewarded her for her trouble by having her brutally tortured, then killing her and turning her into a banshee. Her corpse was left to rot for what was presumably an extended period of time before banshee Sylvanas eventually broke free of Arthas' grasp and possessed it. Despite all this, she's still depicted as beautiful in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', in an EvilIsSexy sort of way. [[UndeathlyPallor Her skin is now blue]] and her [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes red]], but there's no visible scarring or decomposition. As mentioned below, it seems this is a feature of high ranking undead.

* ''Webcomic/Level30Psychiatry'' plays with it. [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft's]] more injury prone reboot is a side effect of surgery to remove her fan-service.

* ''Webcomic/BoyfriendOfTheDead'': Justified. Alex still wears makeup, clean clothes, and bathes regularly despite it being a ZombieApocalypse. She is in fact first introduced going through a clothing store looking for anything good. Other survivors are pissed when they meet her, because they're huddled in stinky and cramped buildings while she's strolling around without a care in the world. Of course, the reason she is so unconcerned is that [[OneManArmy she's killed hundreds of zombies without breaking a sweat]], [[HorrifyingTheHorror and they've all learned to leave her alone]].

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is a [[GenderInvertedTrope Rare Male Example]] PlayedForLaughs. No matter how many beatings, suicides or shots to the head, a few seconds later he'll be clean and pretty again. In ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', a giant window explodes right in the face of him and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick yet they remain their {{Fanservice}}y selves. Justified, as seeing them scarred wouldn't matter one bit to the plot.

** In her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]] Poison Ivy winds up totally unscathed from Batman kicking her square in the face, no bruises, blood or anything.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', Amy is treated the same as the other characters. However, the DVD commentary of the YouMeanXmas Episode, it is said that this was done deliberately to '''test''' whether people would laugh at a woman being hurt in amusing ways.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', while Oggy, Jack, Bob, the cockroaches, and all background characters are frequently beaten up, crushed, squeezed, incinerated or disintegrated by cartoon violence, Oggy's relatives, including his grandma, his girlfriend (now wife) Olivia and his twin sister Monica, rarely suffer physical damage at all.

** Korra gets kidnapped one episode, and in the process gets several cuts and bruises. They stay for the episode after but disappear the next episode. It's justified by the fact that she has HealingHands that need water to work, and until she got loose she had no access to water. She's shown bruised in a future episode though.

* A good example of this is The Kinnikuman Lady series. Kinnikuman Lady actually falls under both kinds of this. Kinnikuman lady is never shown doing anything even remotely gross unlike her male counterpart who is a major {{Gasshole}} that did all sort of toilet humor. She also never shown getting as badly hurt as her male counterpart. The worst to ever happen to her was some of her clothing gets torn up.

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Kagura regularly averts this. She is seen picking her nose or ears nearly as often as Gintoki, and even proud herself in being the first Shonen Jump heroine to vomit on television. But aside from her, the other female characters tend to be subjected to milder cases of ToiletHumour, if any, compared to what the guys get into.
** A small example in the [[GenderBender dekoboko]] arc. The ending used at the time was [[EvolvingCredits adapted]] to show the characters genderbent forms, and where the regular version featured Gintoki poking his nose while reading ''Magazine/ShonenJump'', Female Gintoki is just striking a pose with her wooden katana.

* The Brazilian comic Comicbook/MonicasGang has a story wherein two six-year-old boys are being baby-sat by a hot teenager. She lets slip that girls actually ''poop,'' and the boys faint from the shock. She hurries to assure them that when girls poop it's pretty and white and smells of flowers.

* ''Film/{{Captivity}}'' plays the physical version of this trope straight with its heroine Jennifer, the film seemingly afraid to make Creator/ElishaCuthbert look anything less than beautiful, with the one serious physical torture she's subjected to later revealed to be a fake-out. However, it does subject her to ''psychological'' torture and gross-outs, most notably a scene where she's [[ForceFeeding force-fed]] a smoothie made of [[ImAHumanitarian human body parts and blood]].

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Averted when Aeryn, the tough but usually-beautiful main love interest, is infected with Pilot's DNA and turns into a pretty disgusting slimy hybrid for an epidode.

* ''Series/TheWilds'': Realistically averted, with the girls having messy hair, sunburns and grimy skin after days living on the island. The lack of shampoo is even discussed at one point.
* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Only a a few days after the girls' plane crashes and leaves them stranded in the Canadian wilderness, they start looking disheveled and unwashed. Taissa, one of three African American team members, is keeping her hair in a headwrap, likely because she can't give it the attention it would need. She later gives herself an ImportantHaircut.

* This is one area not even WWE can avoid. Put two bodies in the middle of a thousand screaming fans under those lights and have them run around? You'll be sweating buckets in fifteen, maybe even ten minutes. Granted, they ''try'', and have at times been known for cutting women's matches down to two minutes or less (though some people think an exerted athlete [[WomenPreferStrongMen has an appeal]] all [[AmazonChaser its own]].) Although according to the performers themselves, there are lots of unseen bits of trickery in order to stop them looking ''worse''. This includes make-up to hide bruises sustained from training, double-sided tape to prevent the gear from looking too disheveled and careful dieting to avoid [[HollywoodPudgy water weight showing]].
* WWE tends to try and portray their wrestlers, male and female, as superhuman and as shown on ''Series/TotalDivas'' wrestlers even have to follow eating guidelines before a match to avoid any problems. Some wrestlers such as John Cena have told stories about their bowels in the ring and told a story during a live event he had acute diarrhea, he stated during a segment with Scott Steiner he had to go under the ring and do his business before coming back up to finish the segment.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonsLair 2 Time Warped'', the evil wizard Mordroc turns the beautiful Princess Daphne into a hideous purple skinned wart covered monster. You change her back to normal after removing the ring he placed on her finger.
* Futaba from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' spent almost two years as an anti-social shut-in who spent all her time working on her computer and eating junk food, never leaving her dark, trash filled room and never exercising. Despite this, she remains slender, has clear and healthy skin, well maintained dyed hair and wears clean and stylish clothing.

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' avoids this trope and heaps on the gore pretty even-handedly, lady-players included. So far, Addy's been shot at least once through the chest, Daisy's playing on an amputated leg, Jigsaw hulks out into her zombie-esque SuperpoweredEvilSide roughly once an episode (after being shot and getting cut up a bit), Cypress dove head-first into a pool of rapidly-dissolving nanotech compared to stomach acid... and then, well... [[https://www.lastres0rt.com/comic/lets-play-ragging-on-the-man-with-the-gun/ this.]] The boys get beat up too, but there's only so many of them...

** An example is used in the first episode; it's particularly blatant when Appa sneezes toward [[ButtMonkey Sokka]] and Katara, and almost magically only one winds up covered in green goo. Guess which.

* Lil in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' was just as gross and filthy as her twin Phil. However, in the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', she attempts to be a girly-girl, but doesn't quite get there. She farts in one episode and repeatedly denies it.

* Apparently invoked by the Capitol in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. After her Games, Katniss finds that her hearing in her left ear is restored, and while she was out the Capitol apparently enhanced her appearance for the cameras -- her skin's perfection, smooth and glowing with no burns, scars or anything. Peeta, on the other hand, has his lower leg replaced with a metal and plastic device. This is true for all victors, who will go on to live in the spotlight after their bloodbath. Averted in subsequent books, as she has a nasty scar on her arm at the end of the second book, and by the end of the third much of her body is covered by burn scars and skin grafts. Even after this, however, her face suffers no lasting damage.