History Main / Butterface

* Done as a gag with a horse-faced alien prostitute in the SoBadItsAwful 80's movie "Space Raiders."

* Many who have watched Queen's video for I Want to Break Free have admitted that, facial hair aside, Freddie Mercury makes a pretty hot chick.

** Same can be said about Baraka, a RareMaleExample, whose body is suitably muscular and athletic for a fighting game but whose body is ''anything'' but attractive.

** YourMileageMayVary, especially for Baraka.

* A number of recurring female characters in ''DickTracy'' fit this description.

* Marian Halcombe in ''The Woman In White'' by WilkieCollins.

Suppose you're a heterosexual man and you see a gorgeous woman walking down the street. [[MaleGaze Your eyes pan up]] the [[ShesGotLegs long luscious legs]], that [[BabyGotBack nice round bottom]] swaying oh so nice, that slim waist, [[BuxomIsBetter full, round breasts]]... [[NightmareFuel BUTTERFACE!]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke "But her face", get it?]])

* In ''TheThreeStooges'', Curly or Shemp often ended up wih one of these while Moe and Larry got attractive women.

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You see a gorgeous woman walking down the street. [[MaleGaze Your eyes pan up]] the [[ShesGotLegs long luscious legs]], that [[BabyGotBack nice round bottom]] swaying oh so nice, that slim waist, [[BuxomIsBetter full, round breasts]]... [[NightmareFuel BUTTERFACE!]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke "But her face", get it?]])

* The Geisha Gorgon in the {{Game/Munchkin}} card game.

* Big Ethel in the ''ArchieComics'' could be considered one, in her early days. But [[FailPolish she got better]]...
* A number of recurring characters in the ''DickTracy'' comics fit this description.

* In ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant sees what he thinks is the silhouette of Jessica Rabbit in the window of an apartment. But when he gets up there, she's wearing the same outfit... ButterFace!
** This is only a ''technical'' ButterFace, as she actually looks great only in the silhouette.
* ''DeuceBigalow, European Gigolo'': the chick from Chernobyl with the, erm, ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean appendage]]'' in place of her nose.

--> '''Captain of the Guard:''' ''(yelling at his men)'' You IDIOTS! ''These'' are not them! [[spoiler:You've captured their ''stunt doubles''!]].
** Makes sense for this trope when you take into account that [[spoiler:Princess Vespa's stunt double is a grotesque-looking man with long, straggly hair and a cigar, who just happens to have a fantastic body.]]
* In ''Porky's Revenge!'', Porky's daughter Blossom is like this, with Porky forcing a ShotgunWedding on Meat because she told her father they went "all the way." (They hadn't, and however far they did get it was all her.)

* A complete inversion of this trope occurs in the ''TwilightZone'' episode, "The Eye of the Beholder" (aka "The Private World Of Darkness"). 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 everyone else - who have hideously ugly faces - ''she'' is the one with the butter face.

* The nurses in the SilentHill video game series apparently have [[HospitalHottie very nice bodies]], [[NightmareFuel but...]]
** Plus they're [[{{Squick}} undead]]...

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*** Technically they were ''all'' literal dogs... but this one was a dog in more ways and one. Also became an AbhorrentAdmirer at the end.

* ''FamilyGuy'': Quagmire approaches a hottie at a bar, she turns around & we (and he) discover that she's carrying all her fat in the front and has a terrible face. She turns away again and Quagmire is about to hit on her again, but then reminds himself of what he saw the first time.
* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' pilot, Leela is introduced this way, with the camera following Fry's MaleGaze up her body until it reaches her single, giant eye. Since she looks perfectly "normal" otherwise ([[ActionGirl better than, in fact]]) it doesn't bother him (or [[PerverseSexualLust the audience]]) for long.

* In the Tex Avery cartoon ''Big Heel-Watha'', the chief's daughter is one of these... but turns out to be [[RedHotRidingHood Red]] wearing an ugly mask.

[[quoteright:244:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/butterface_3888.jpg]]You see a gorgeous woman walking down the street. [[MaleGaze Your eyes pan up]] the [[ShesGotLegs long luscious legs]], that [[BabyGotBack nice round bottom]] swaying oh so nice, that slim waist, [[BuxomIsBetter full, round breasts]]... [[NightmareFuel BUTTERFACE!]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke "But her face", get it?]])