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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Subverted with Tier Harribel, who has a gorgeous body. When she unzips her jacket (which hides the lower half of her face), it reveals a skeletal jaw in keeping with her shark {{Animal Motif|s}}. However, once she enters [[SuperMode resurrecion]], her face becomes just as gorgeous as the rest of her.

* ''[[VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind]]:'' While investigating the high school where the murder victim attended, you come across a young female tennis player who you initially talk to from a considerable distance. Her being this far away in contrast to most people you talk to confuses the PlayerCharacter, and so when he asks her to come closer after thinking she must be cute... she turns out to have an ''extremely'' ugly and weaselly face, [[AbhorrentAdmirer and is also implied to have a crush on your character]]. He’s suitably horrified.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has a {{downplayed|Trope}} example with Summer Smith. Her face, while not (outright) ugly, is less attractive than her body, and nobody comments on it (she takes after her dad rather than her very conventionally pretty mother).

* Ygritte from Literature/AStormOfSwords is described this way. Being a free folk raider, she has a muscled and shapely body, and she's "fire kissed" (red-haired) but her face is rather lacking, and her teeth are crooked.

** One of his more memorable sketches was a spoof called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOv9U7rWrc Archie's Angels]], where he and three other men played very homely {{expy}}s of ''Series/CharliesAngels''. It's even lampshaded.

*** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': her face looks more humanlike, with a fully functional set of lips. She still has rows of Tarkatan teeth lining her cheeks in a menacing GlasgowGrin, though. ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' further downplays this one: In this incarnation, Mileena is not locked into permanent Tarkatan face, but the Tarkat is now a disease she contracted and one of the symptoms is that she will end up having her face disfigured. There is a time when Mileena is just traditionally attractive, and she still makes the best out of her eventual ButterFace with [[AdaptationalHeroism other virtues]].

** The Great Fairies from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' have long legs, large (albeit strangely-shaped, due to the low processing power of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64) breasts, and [[{{Stripperiffic}} no clothing but vines]]. Despite this, their noses are large and misshapen, they each have a single mole on the side of their face, and their mouths are cartoonishly large. All of which is mostly an issue brought about by the N64's graphics limitations; when this Great Fairy design was used in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', the much stronger UsefulNotes/WiiU eliminated the effect.

* Based on [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Kenway's]] experience, this is Benjamin Franklin's opinion of old women. Luckily, open five-sided pulped wood containers make this a non-problem. This is one of eight of Franklin's horrifying reasons to date them anyway.

* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' does this as a recurring RunningGag, mostly revolving around the titular character's (often unsuccefssful) attempts to flirt with women far older than him. Notably one chapter where the Noharas are at a skating rink and Shin-Chan, seeing a slim lady with an attractive-looking, shapely body from behind, decide to [[ContrivedClumsiness "accidentally"]] bump into her from behind so she's help him up. The lady then turns around, only to be revealed as a hideous-looking trannie with a shaved double-chin.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Pictured atop this page is [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]'s daughter, Sin. Just stick her dad's head on a smokin' female body and you'll get the picture. [[spoiler: She got better thanks to Kobik]]. Funny thing is, she did start off as [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/e76980d1-4092-4245-bbf9-b25fd8db1069/dc0j51f-2b80555c-af67-4b0d-a47d-34fecb872b07.jpg/v1/fill/w_1024,h_1799,q_75,strp/red_skull_and_sin___the_father_daughter_of_evil_by_chaosemperor971_dc0j51f-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTc5OSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2U3Njk4MGQxLTQwOTItNDI0NS1iYmY5LWIyNWZkOGRiMTA2OVwvZGMwajUxZi0yYjgwNTU1Yy1hZjY3LTRiMGQtYTQ3ZC0zNGZlY2I4NzJiMDcuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEwMjQifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.hdk831OZc4iKqW4Sf3sVO07PnlHjYRaoJcxWmZ9XhEs a conventionally attractive young woman]], but then suffered severe burns to her face that caused her to lose her looks during ''Captain America: Reborn''.

* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Invoked and Discussed in one extra. The staff of Channel 00 discuss a famous soap opera actress who always arrives with her head covered by a scarf, large shades and a large brimmed hat, and then spends four hours in the beautician's office. Angus claims she's nicknamed "Iguana" and another one claims she has a nice pair of moustache. [[spoiler: Completely subverted when it's revealed that the actress in question has a face as beautiful as her body, she just spends four hours inside because she feel she's expected to do so, while the beautician gets a four-hour long pause, so she doesn't complain.]] Played seriously in issue 28 by [[BeastMan Rhaghor]], an Evronian beast-man supersoldier. At first he looks like a bigger, hairier Evronian whose face is covered by a helmet... then he removes the helmet, to show a bare, downright demonic face with yellowish hide and smaller fanged mouths on tendrils, a sight which shocks with horror his superior commander.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant sees what he thinks is the silhouette of Jessica Rabbit in the window of an apartment. But it turns out that it's Lena Hyena, who somehow managed to make herself look just like Jessica (toon physics or something), excluding the face. As soon as she saw Eddie, the rest of it unraveled.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': A complete inversion of this trope occurs in the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder The Eye of the Beholder]]". The main character's face -- [[BandagedFace bandaged until the reveal at the end]] -- is [[BeautifulAllAlong just as beautiful]] as her body... but to the standards of all other characters — who have hideous faces — ''she'' is the one with the butter face.

* In an ComicBook/ArchieComics story, Veronica makes herself a Butter Face temporarily by putting a piece of black paper across her front teeth, pretending that they had been knocked out. Then she comes on to Archie, who suddenly remembers [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog he has to go iron his dog]].
* Ninive from ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'' is a hot woman clad in a semi-transparent gown and a porcelain mask. What's behind that mask isn't very pretty.
* Male example: Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}}, like Spidey and Captain America, has a beefcake bod, but whose face is ''anything'' but gorgeous. At least as long as he's wearing his tights and mask, because the rest of his body is just as scarred and hideous as his face. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] - the tumors are caused by the terminal cancer he's suffering from, which his healing factor makes nonlethal, but doesn't cure.

* In both incarnations of ''ComicBook/{{Ghost|DarkHorseComics}}'', Doctor October is this. The first version is the more extreme, with (apparently) missing teeth and a voice described as sounding as if she gargled with razor blades and toxic waste; the second is badly (but normally) scarred.
* In ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', Karu-Sil from [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps the Sinestro Corps]] mutilated her own face to better fit in with the [[RaisedByWolves pack of predators that raised her]].
%%%%* Female slasher [[MeaningfulName Butter Face]] from the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' special ''Trailers 2''.
* In ''Judge Bao and the Jade Phoenix'', there's a prostitute named "Two Moons", for reasons that prove themselves quite obvious, and a very impressive figure. She also always goes around wearing a hat with a veil that hides her face. Considering the title of this trope, it should be obvious why.
* Way back in the early days of the [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], Johnny Thunder was thrown back in time and was betrothed to a princess who always wore a veil. Since this example belongs to this trope, you can see where this is going...
* The French comic ''L'Expedition'' has a Roman soldier with the nickname "the Lion of Nubia". A Nubian queen who aided rebels against Rome demanded that the soldier be given to her as part of the peace agreements. Since she was only shown from the back with a FormFittingWardrobe up to then, it makes her seriously deformed face all the more hideous (and stuck the poor bastard with an ironic nickname).
* The Lilim Mazikeen from ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} comics appears as an incredibly beautiful woman, but half of her is horribly misshapen and skeletal. Ironically, she's very proud of how she looks; when her face is made symmetrically beautiful in one arc, she treats it as a horrible, disfiguring attack on herself.

* A short ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' comic by Don Martin features a guy posing at what appears to be a traditional photo stand-in. Only when he steps away after his photo is taken do you see that the studly body is actually his--the stand-in is the handsome face hiding his gaunt, bug-eyed one.
* In one of Creator/{{Moebius}}' ''Arzach'' comics, the titular character watches an attractive woman changing through a window. He goes through great pains to get to her before discovering she is an alien with a face like a dog crossed with a gas mask.
* Michael Characters/{{Morbius}} had kind of a weird-looking face even as a human; being turned into a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent living vampire]] made it more extreme, while it did wonders for his physique.
* Invoked and Discussed in an extra of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': the staff of Channel 00 discuss a famous soap opera actress who always arrives with her head covered by a scarf, large shades and a large brimmed hat, and then spends four hours in the beautician's office. Angus claims she's nicknamed "Iguana" and another one claims she has a nice pair of moustache. [[spoiler: Completely subverted when it's revealed that the actress in question has a face as beautiful as her body, she just spends four hours inside because she feel she's expected to do so, while the beautician gets a four-hour long pause, so she doesn't complain.]] Played seriously in issue 28 by [[BeastMan Rhaghor]], an Evronian beast-man supersoldier. At first he looks like a bigger, hairier Evronian whose face is covered by a helmet... then he removes the helmet, to show a bare, downright demonic face with yellowish hide and smaller fanged mouths on tendrils, a sight which shocks with horror his superior commander.
* Pictured atop this page is [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]'s daughter, Sin. Just stick her dad's head on a smokin' female body and you'll get the picture. [[spoiler: She got better thanks to Kobik]]. Funny thing is, she did start off as [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/e76980d1-4092-4245-bbf9-b25fd8db1069/dc0j51f-2b80555c-af67-4b0d-a47d-34fecb872b07.jpg/v1/fill/w_1024,h_1799,q_75,strp/red_skull_and_sin___the_father_daughter_of_evil_by_chaosemperor971_dc0j51f-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTc5OSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2U3Njk4MGQxLTQwOTItNDI0NS1iYmY5LWIyNWZkOGRiMTA2OVwvZGMwajUxZi0yYjgwNTU1Yy1hZjY3LTRiMGQtYTQ3ZC0zNGZlY2I4NzJiMDcuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEwMjQifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.hdk831OZc4iKqW4Sf3sVO07PnlHjYRaoJcxWmZ9XhEs a conventionally attractive young woman]], but then suffered severe burns to her face that caused her to lose her looks during ''Captain America: Reborn''.
* In a male example, an old ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comic from the Silver Age had Superman pretend to be this as a prank on Lois to teach her a lesson on appearances after she pulled a similar move on a poor schmoe to discourage him from trying to date her.
* The [[Creator/ECComics ''Tales from the Crypt'']] story "Only Skin Deep" features a man who meets a sexy woman at Mardi Gras whom he thinks is wearing a hideous witch mask. Turns out it's her real face, which he doesn't figure out until the morning after their quickie marriage, when he tries to remove the mask. This being ''Tales from the Crypt'', [[TearOffYourFace it doesn't end well.]]
* Some fans consider ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s [[BadassNormal Rorschach]] to be one. Since he spends his nights beating up criminals twice his size, he at the very least must be quite fit. Emphasized in the film, where Rorschach is very muscular but somewhat lacking in the face department. It might explain why he considers his mask to be his true face.
* ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'': Issue #14 has a YukiOnna trying to seduce Zachary, but when she's caught and reveals her true form, her body retains it's voluptous curves but her head is just a giant MonsterMouth.

* Used in a much more serious context in ''Manga/TheYagyuNinjaScrolls'', when BigBadWannabe Akinari and his Seven Spears try to slanter both the "Hannya Mask" (Jubei) and O-Senhime by having recently-married couples kidnapped. The grooms are tied up and raped by beautiful girls who are forced to wear horrible Hannya Masks to scare them.

* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' tie in graphic novels company agent Penny Logan has a nice enough figure but a face that causes her mother (who has the power to shapeshifter other people) to give her a different one for the purpose of her scoring a date once. Whether her face is just a bit plain next to the other characters or has lips that are too thin, cheeks too wide, a nose that's too big or some combination of the three is DependingOnTheWriter.