History Main / FreakinessShame

* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Hordak is ashamed of his deformities caused by a genectic disease,which caused him to be cast aside by his creator. When Entrapta finds out, she not only is not repulsed, but comforts him saying that "Imperfections are beautiful." She also confesses him that she sees herself as a failure because ofher social inabilities (she is canonly autistic). Hordak, by his turn, tells her that everyone who discount her are "utter fools".

** Gwen is freak-shamed by her own mother, Natalie, in''{{WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce}}''. In "It's Not Easy Being Gwen", she asks her mom if she'll invite her anodyte relatives to their family reunion. Natalie answers that "polite people don't glow."

'''Natalie:''' Not when I'm around.

* A recurring theme with Kevin throughout the ''{{WesternAnimation/Ben10}}''franchise. Although he is not ashamed of his energy-absorbing powers, he is quite sensitive about being considered a "freak", cuasing him to be jealous of Ben, whose "cool watch" allows the latter to transform and turn back to normal without apparent collateral effects, and the insanity caused by constant absorbing doesn't help. When he is turned into an amalgam of the Omnitrix aliens and unable of turning back in "Framed", he [[SannitySlippage grows berserk]], [[NeverMyFault blaming Ben]] for [[TragicMonster his fate.]]
** Even after his HeelFaceTurn in ''{{WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce}}'', he still has this. He freaks out when Vulcanus encases him into a hideous taedenite shell in "Kevin's Big Score", and when Gwen frees him, he clutches on her in a HeroicBSOD. It gets a lot worse in the season 3, after Kevin is turned into an amalgam of the matters he absorbs. He retains his human form this time but is quite depressed and starts drifting away from Gwen, although she insists she doesn't care about his appearance. Fortunately, he turns back to normal in the last episode, when the Omnitrix (which was keeping him in that form), is destroyed, gaining a "victory kiss" from Gwen.
** Gwen also experiences some of this in''{{WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce}}'', from her own mother. Whe she asks her mom if she'll invite her anodyte relatives to their family reunion, Natalie answers that "educated people doesn't glow."

'''Natalie:''' Not when I'm around.\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Hordak is ashamed of his deformities caused by a genectic disease. When Entrapta finds out, she not only is not repulsed, but comforts him saying with her CatchPhrase "Imperfections are beautiful." She also confesses him that she feels a failure because of her social inhabilities (she's canonly autistic) and Hordak, by his turn, tells her that everyone who discount her are "utter fools".
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** One episode reveals that Amethyst feels this way because she took longer than most gems to emerge, resulting in her being about half the size of most Quartz soldiers (the purpose she was created for); she thus becomes obsessed with taking down Jasper, "the perfect Quartz". Moreover, because she was created on Earth, she feels guilty about only existing because of Homeworld's invasion. Pearl manages to comfort her by saying, "You're the one good thing that came out of this mess."
** In "Steven's Birthday", Steven becomes worried when he realizes on his fourteenth birthday [[OlderThanTheyLook he hasn't physically aged since he was about eight years old]]. Fearing this will alienate him from his human friend Connie, Steven tries to fake a growth spurt with his Gem powers of shape-shifting, only to strain himself and end up [[FountainOfYouth accidentally turning into a baby]] for much of the rest of the episode.
** In [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie The Movie]], there's Spinel. Originally an [[NonIronicClown adorable entertainment Gem]], the trauma of [[spoiler:being abandoned by Pink Diamond for 6000 years]] caused her to take on a much more menacing physical form, with darker colors, sharper angles, and the UncannyValley in full effect. After her HeelFaceTurn, she is shown to be ashamed of her form, thinking that there is no way anyone will want her looking the way she does. Luckily for her, [[spoiler:the Diamonds find her new form to be [[CreepyCute adorable.]]]]

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Discord, from all "people", has this in "Discordant Harmony", after some ponies comment how his friendship with Fluttershy is strange because they are too different. Afraid of losing her, gives his house and himself an extreme make over to make Fluttershy comfortable, which backfires splendidly. Not only she is disappointed, but his efforts to be "normal" make him [[FadingAway fade away]], forcing her to create some chaos to make Discord solid again. She tells him that maybe their friendship makes no sense for others, but it works perfectly well for THEM.

--->'''Beth''': They're kind of beautiful, but...so alien.
--->'''Elisa''': After a while, all you notice is the beauty.
* Non-romantic example in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', in a fifth season episode showing how the team met. Cyborg's used to people being cruel towards him because of his robotic body, but when Beast Boy first sees him, he exclaims "Cool!" {{Justified|Trope}} in that Beast Boy grew up in the presence of another robot.

* While Nightcrawler is initially ashamed of his appearance in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', he soon seems to become more relaxed about it around other mutants (understandably, since the fans already know blue + fuzzy = adorable). He's still afraid of letting normal people see his true face, constantly wearing a device that projects a hologram around him to make him look like a normal person in public, but this trope is invoked when [[spoiler:the girl who likes him, Amanda Sefton, convinces him to turn off his image inducer, then happily reassures him - "blue is my favorite color". To her, "your fur is ''adorable''!"]]

* Miss Martian on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' normally appears as an attractive, green-skinned teenage girl, but in reality, she's not a Green Martian like her uncle, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, she's actually a ''white martian'', a disenfranchised underclass on Mars who don't look anything [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/98fe44d38ba1224b51f656a3049d4d92/tumblr_o3laytVJih1sh87v9o3_400.gif close to human]], and is deeply ashamed when a psychic attack from Psimon exposes her true form. The team is surprised at first but quickly accepts her.
** PlayedWith: WordOfGod is that her inhuman appearance is actually standard for all Martians, including her [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter uncle]], and that the difference between White and Green Martians is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything only the color of their skin]].

-->''She wasn’t perfect. She had two different colored eyes, which is definitely a flaw and not a magnetic, compelling, unusual form of beauty.''
-->''“It makes you so special,” he told her. She shook her head.''
-->''“Bad special,” she said.''
-->''“Good special,” he said. She didn’t know what to believe.''
-->''“I don’t know what to believe,” she told him. “You think the thing I think is ''[sic]'' bad thing is good thing.”''
-->''“That’s good thing,” he said.''

* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' {{Genderflip}}s the usual situation, when [[{{Bishounen}} Van]] first shows his wings to Hitomi. Apparently, he was ashamed of them all along (because they marked him as a descendant of the Atlanteans, who are universally disdained in the setting) but Hitomi (who comes from another world altogether) just finds them beautiful.

* Gannet in ''Webcomic/{{Avialae}}'' Gannet hates the wings that painfully sprouted from his back [[spoiler:and has an identity crisis when he learns that he's not fully human]], but Bailey thinks that he's beautiful and his wings are cool.

* {{Inverted}} with the Unstoppable Higgs from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', who [[spoiler: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200221#.YaRR8MfMLt8 turns out to be the only Jaeger to not mutate in any way after taking the Draught]]. While retaining his human appearance has proved quite useful for his role as the Heterodyne spymaster, he's still apparently a little ashamed of his lack of mutations.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Bella feels this way about Edward's sparkling. In the movie, he retorts, "This is the skin of a killer, Bella!" [[ItMakesSenseInContext Not as ridiculous as it sounds;]] the sparkling ''is'' kind of inconvenient, as it happens whenever he's exposed to direct sunlight and tends to strain TheMasquerade. It's also only the tip of the iceberg with regards to Edward's issues.
* [[WingedHumanoid Hawk]] in S.L. Viehl's ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'' series is revealed to have a full-sized pair of wings, courtesy of part-alien heritage. How did he hide them, you ask? By strapping them down to his back, under his clothing, so tightly that he was in constant pain. The resulting crouched posture and uncamouflagable hump on his back caused the main character to assume he had a horrendous spinal birth defect instead. Upon finally being let in on the secret, a stunned and enchanted Cherijo utters this trope practically to the letter. (Then again, Hawk wasn't hiding his wings so much because he was ashamed of them as because they could get him in trouble with the [[HumansAreTheRealmonsters Earth]] [[FantasticRacism government]]. [[spoiler:As if being a [[TransparentCloset closet]] [[StraightGay case]]—and having [[DepravedBisexual Rico]] take advantage of his feelings—wasn't bad enough.]])

** In the later book ''The Nightmare Stacks'', the protagonist Alex Schwarz has severe hang-ups about his vampirism despite the combo platter of benefits it nets him, mostly because the way vampirism works in this universe means whenever he drinks someone's blood he's doomed them to death by rapid-onset dementia. Sure, the Laundry sources his blood from terminal cancer patients in hospitals and the like, but he still feels complicit in shortening their lives even just by a few hours.
* The relationship between [[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Admiral Miles Naismith]] and [[SuperSoldier SGT Taura]] started out equal parts this and an inverted ScarpiaUltimatum (gallant young officer, suicidal CuteMonsterGirl, these things happen).
* Geryon in ''Literature/AutobiographyOfRed'' is ashamed of his wings and often hides them under a trenchcoat. Much later, [[spoiler:Ancash marvels at them enough to even start the final sideplot to throw Geryon into a volcano and see if he lives]]. Literally or metaphorically.

* Lidelle from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' is very shy and ashamed of her long ears and the horns on her head and the situation is not improved when many other characters refer to her as an imp. In ''Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary'', she meets [[spoiler:the bishounen Satan, who also has horns, and realizes how beautiful horns can be.]]

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': It's revealed that one of [[TheWatson Dr. Agasa's]] childhood friends was a half-Japanese girl named Fusae Campbell Kinoshita. She was very self-conscious of her hair color; her fondest memory of her childhood is Dr. Agasa claiming that he liked her hair.

** Part of the stigma comes from the fact that being an alicorn OC is a typical MarySue trait. While Nyx has a legitimate reason for being one, very few other original characters do. Even canon character Cadance suffered a lot of flak for being one without clear justification, at least until she won the fans over.

** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Hibachi]]: [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100313.html "You fly on wings like unto the stained glass of a cathedral."]]

* WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer. Although this is more along the lines of "But Your Wings Are Useful".

* ''Anime/EurekaSeven': During the last episodes, [[spoiler:when Eureka's Coralian attributes begin to manifest themselves, she grows a pair of green, butterfly-like wings. At first, she is worried Renton will reject her new form, but Renton admires her new wings and thinks she has become even more beautiful. Of course, her fear here is pretty justifiable, seeing as her entire left side during a previous transformation broke out in [[BodyHorror luminous green boils]]. Even in the form where she grows wings, her left arm has become translucent and green, with some weird purple... thing roughly tracing where the bones should be. And some of the skin on her neck/face (and one assumes, the rest of the left side of her body) is similarly colored, though it doesn't quite look infected anymore.]]

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', it's revealed that one of [[TheWatson Dr. Agasa's]] childhood friends was a half-Japanese girl named Fusae Campbell Kinoshita. She was very self-conscious of her hair color; her fondest memory of her childhood is Dr. Agasa claiming that he liked her hair.
** This is true in real life, too. In Japan, [[ValuesDissonance a culture that often values conformity]], having oddly colored hair is sometimes seen as "disruptive" by school officials, or just viewed as an unpleasant tendency to stand out. Some half-Japanese schoolchildren ''dye their hair'' to avoid this. Supposedly the stigma is becoming smaller over time but is still strong in many of the less cosmopolitan areas.
*** The inverse is also true, of course: it's become not uncommon for Japanese students to bleach or dye their hair so that they stand out ''more''. But where in the West this would be viewed as a fashion statement, in Japan people who do this are often assumed to be [[DelinquentHair very rebellious or even dangerous]], though this stereotype is also fading a bit.
* In ''Manga/BlackButler'', Madame Red ''hated'' her red hair... until Earl Phantomhive (Ciel's father) told her he liked it. That it was beautiful, and really suits her. Unfortunately for [[UnrequitedLove her]], he still chooses to marry her older sister...
* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', Meryl and Millie accidentally walk in on Vash with his shirt off, and shockingly learn that his entire body is CoveredWithScars due to his ActualPacifist lifestyle. He laments that it's not the kind of thing he wants girls to see, as he believes it would scare them, but Meryl [[{{Tsundere}} sheepishly disagrees.]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Setsuna Sakurazaki, who is half-Tengu and albino, is ashamed of her white wings, although her human friends think they make her look awesome. To her defense, she was cast away by her fellow demons because of her albinism, which probably didn't improve her self-image.
-->'''Asuna:''' ''What'' is ''wrong'' with you, girl?! Don't you know how ''cool'' having wings is...?
* In ''Manga/ElfenLied'', this is generally the first step towards befriending a Diclonius, as prior to developing their vectors they're often persecuted because of their unusual horns. Then they start using their vectors to get revenge/follow their instincts and there's a ''new'' reason they're hated.

* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' {{Genderflip}}s the usual situation, when [[{{Bishounen}} Van]] first shows his wings to Hitomi. Apparently, he was ashamed of them all along (because they marked him as a descendant of the Atlanteans, who are universally disdained in the setting) but Hitomi (who comes from another world altogether) just finds them beautiful.
* [[DarkMagicalGirl Princess Kraehe]] (aka Rue) from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' was raised her entire life believing that she a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil raven]] born in a "disgusting human body", and thus too pathetic to be loved by either humans ''or'' ravens (apart from Mytho, on the basis that he's a FriendToAllLivingThings and thus [[LoveYouAndEverybody loves everyone]] by default). Thus it comes as a complete surprise to her when Autor insists that not only does he love her, but enough to die for her.
* ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'': After [[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji]] finishes utterly ''trashing'' a ten-foot robot with his bare hands in front of his girlfriend Sayaka, he freaks out and asks her [[IAmAMonster if she was as terrified of that sudden show of inhuman ability as he was]]. Sayaka's response can be summed up as, "Hell no! That was both completely awesome ''and'' hot."
* Short-term in ''Manga/PrincessAi'': at the end of volume 1, Ai begins to grow wings, and thinks they're hideous. And yeah, the initial sprouts aren't that attractive. But her boyfriend, Kent, insists her wings are beautiful. A volume later, and her wings have grown, BeautifulAllAlong has kicked in, and the wings take a back seat to other, more pressing issues, like stopping a race war in her homeland.
* Manga/InuYasha's UnusualEars mark him as a HalfHumanHybrid, but what does his LoveInterest do upon seeing them for the first time? ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zseoPxveIS8 Tweak, tweak!]]'' The gag is repeated with Kagome's mother and brother (evidently it runs in the family), except this time [=InuYasha=] is awake, not sealed to a tree. In general, he's less bothered by his youkai side than his human one, and his full-youkai half-brother ironically looks more human than he does, at least until he comes out of SleepModeSize and into the giant dog their father was, and he gets pretty defensive about it in early arcs. Especially big, sweet, horse-faced Jinenji whose home village abused him roundly. And the arc with the cute little half-bat youkai with cruel neighbors ''and'' an abusive bat youkai grandfather. Clearly had a HalfBreedDiscrimination thing going on, he just preferred the strong option to the powerless one.

* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' during the last episodes, [[spoiler:when Eureka's Coralian attributes begin to manifest themselves, she grows a pair of green, butterfly-like wings. At first, she is worried Renton will reject her new form, but Renton admires her new wings and thinks she has become even more beautiful. Of course, her fear here is pretty justifiable, seeing as her entire left side during a previous transformation broke out in [[BodyHorror luminous green boils]]. Even in the form where she grows wings, her left arm has become translucent and green, with some weird purple... thing roughly tracing where the bones should be. And some of the skin on her neck/face (and one assumes, the rest of the left side of her body) is similarly colored, though it doesn't quite look infected anymore.]]
* Zelgadis Graywords of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is a chimera, being a third demon and a third golem, giving him bluish skin with studded stones across his body, as well as wiry, stiff hair. Despite [[CursedWithAwesome the immense powers and stamina he gained]] as a result of his transformation, he hates his appearance and [[IJustWantToBeNormal spends most of his time between seasons searching for a cure]]. Most of the cast, Lina and Gourry included, don't find him unappealing at all (and he is rather handsome), and Amelia, who he is [[ShipTease somewhat attracted to]], finds his appearance "cool".
** The fifth season of the anime reveals that he can cope with his appearance in the long run; rather he is angry that the one who transformed him, Rezo, used him as a guinea pig for his own personal gain.
* Manga/PlusAnima are discriminated against because of their partial animal-like features. Some kids hate their anima, some like how useful it is but are self-conscious about the scar-like marks it leaves, etc; and then there's some people who think an anima is the coolest thing since sliced bread (looking at you, Cooro) and make this trope come into play a few times. (However, interestingly, it does ''not'' apply to the main character, who has black wings and is often called an angel of death, but has [[AngstWhatAngst zero angst]] about it [[spoiler:until the last volume, anyway]].)
* In ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'', most people found Reiko Natsume's [[SupernaturalGoldEyes yellow]], [[HellishPupils slit-pupil]] eyes ([[ISeeDeadPeople among other things]]) to be creepy. Hinoe, on the other hand, [[WhatBeautifulEyes thought they were beautiful]].
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', the Zodiac family members often have odd hair and eye colors that correspond to whatever spirit is possessing them. This often leads to accusations that they dye their hair, or to be mercilessly bullied. Tohru, being the sweet girl she is, is constantly awed and impressed by these features, finding them very attractive. In a flashback, we also see that Yuki liked Kyo's orange hair (though he never gets a chance to say so).
** Another example would be Kyo's other form. [[spoiler:It's a monster that smells like something rotting, so he understandably hates anyone finding out about it. Even Tohru needs a bit of time to recover, after the shock of seeing it.]]
* Referred to in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''. [[spoiler:Yuri Tokikago was once [[GoodScarsEvilScars heavily scarred]] thanks to [[AbusiveParents the physical abuse]] that she got from her MadArtist father, and often was seen covered in bandages. Out of all the people that know about her scars, only Momoka Oginome wasn't either shocked or repulsed and still found Yuri to be beautiful no matter what.]]
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', until he met Dr. Hiriluk, everyone who met Chopper treated him as a monster, attacking him and calling him as such. because of this, he is ashamed of his abilities and believes he really is a monster until Luffy and co come along and find it TOTALLY AWESOME! SEVEN TRANSFORMATIONS! JOIN MY CREW! It helps that after he joins he realizes Luffy is much weirder than he is. But this leads up to him eventually being proud of being a monster, because of how it can help his friends, and because his TrueCompanions think it's cool.
** Later we meet [[spoiler:Charlotte Pudding, who is mocked and called a monster for having three eyes. In fact, their plan to kill [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] relied on her revealing her third eye, shocking him so much that they could shoot him. But the instant he sees her third eye he calls it beautiful, causing her to break down in tears and start to [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe fall for him]].]]
* In ''Manga/HungryJoker'', self-described [[{{Ojou}} Oujo-sama]] Vivian [[IronLady "The Iron Woman"]] is ashamed of her [[ExtraOreDinary metal-manipulating powers]] because they aren't "proper" (her skin becomes metallic and spikes pop out of her arms and legs) and [[ParentalAbandonment her parents didn't have any use for an improper child]] no matter how valuable she is. When [[GravityMaster Haiji]] pretends to be a hostage so he can observe her power he tells her it's beautiful (for [[TinMan a guy who claims to only see people as research subjects]] he always knows the right thing to say). Prior to that, she'd been [[TsunDere putting up a front]] about how much she didn't care about her "horrible power" and that she [[IWorkAlone always works alone]].
* In ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', this turns out to be the core of Akitsu's UndyingLoyalty to her master, Mikogami. As a [[BlackSheep Scrapped Number]], she's considered a failed project and utterly worthless since she can never bond with an Ashikabi. When he asked her to join him, she protested that she was broken and thrown out as trash. He responded by telling her it didn't matter, and that it meant she was special! And rare! Her startled, hopeful expression...
* In ''Literature/{{Another}}'' the first time Mei shows Kouichi what is under her eyepatch, he is already somewhat unnerved and confused, but the second time she shows him he remarks that the [[spoiler:fake eye her mother made is oddly beautiful, and that she should go without the eyepatch more often.]]
* The middle-school-aged protagonist of ''Manga/NozomuNozomi'' hides his inexplicable spontaneous GenderBender for a full year because he can't figure out how to reveal it to his family and friends.
* ''Anime/CaptainEarth'' has Teppei, who has the ability to spontaneously create circular rainbows with his hands at the beginning of the series. He used to be proud of this ability as a child, but while growing up, he realized this is not an entirely normal thing and began to hate this ability and pretends to have lost it. His shame becomes even worse after he finds out he is actually [[spoiler:an alien who's millennia-old and whose group of comrades wants to wipe out all life on Earth]] and even after he fully loses his ability and the reason why it existed in the first place, he still doesn't stop worrying about himself [[spoiler:and him having spent centuries of slaughtering other life forms around the galaxy]], as it is revealed several episodes later, meaning that for most of the series, he has battled his inner demons all alone while [[StepfordSmiler putting up a confident front to his friends]].
* ''Anime/TokyoGhoul'' has a non-romantic example with Kimi calling Touka's kagune, something she despises with a passion as something tied to her existence as a ghoul, "beautiful".
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', When Videl asks Gohan why he'd do something as silly as creating a secret superhero identity instead of just go out and fight criminals as himself like she does, Gohan replies that he was afraid people would think he was some kind of freak if they had any idea what he was capable of. Videl simply points out that he just implied ''she'' was a freak before blackmailing him into teaching her how to fly.
* In ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', Rachnera mentions that her previous host family were disgusted to see that her lower half has spider legs. She assumes that Kimihito will feel the same way about her when he tells her it's quite the opposite. [[{{Fetish}} He's a leg man.]]
* Sophia from ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' was often bullied and said to be cursed due to her being an albino. Catarina finds these very same features to be beautiful (even going so far as to compare her bleach white hair to silk), which quickly endears her to both Sophia and her older brother Nicol.
* in ''Literature/PsychicDetectiveYakumo'', the titular character was ostracized because of his [[MagicalEye ghost seeing red eye]]; by the point of the story, he's been hiding it with a contact lens that matches the color of his other eye.

* In an episode of Series/AndyRichterControlsTheUniverse, Keith is ashamed to tell Wendy about his [[spoiler: small feet]]. She only convinces him that it can be a good thing when it enables him to go out on a window ledge and rescue a cat.

* In ''Anime/{{Another}}'' the first time Mei shows Kouichi what is under her eyepatch, he is already somewhat unnerved and confused, but the second time she shows him he remarks that the [[spoiler:fake eye her mother made is oddly beautiful, and that she should go without the eyepatch more often.]]

* In ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', Rachnera mentions that her previous host family were disgusted to see that her lower half has spider legs. She assumes that Kimihito will feel the same way about her when he tells her it's quite the opposite. [[Main/{{Fetish}} He's a leg man.]]

* To a certain extent, this applies to Mina's extensive, horrific scars in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', the legacy of being attacked by Dracula. She's deeply ashamed by them and covers them with a scarf. She's convinced Allan is repulsed and only relaxes when he says they're part of what makes her special.

* Comicbook/{{Concrete}} is generally rather self-conscious of his hulking alien body, as his InnerMonologue often reveals. Played with in that while his unrequited love interest doesn't find him attractive, she does find him fascinating and has dedicated her life to studying him.

* In [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1504488/1/The-Third-Side The Third Side]] fanfic, [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] is working on a restaurant after Thid Impact. One of his co-workers is a purple-haired girl who dyes her hair because she is ashamed of it. When Shinji finds out she thinks he'll get freaked out, but Shinji tells him he doesn't understand why it is an issue and reassures her it looks pretty. She was pretty surprised cause it (of course, she doesn't know he had lived with a woman with purple hair, fought beside a girl with blue hair and [[HeroesWantRedheads he is in love with a girl with red hair]], which is very unusual hair color in Japan).

'''Fenris:''' [[{{ReallyGetsAround}} You've enjoyed many, I suspect.]]\\

* Occurs in ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', though in regards to a WalkingSpoiler. [[spoiler:After they're finally reunited, Fiora starts explaining some of the perks with her new [[RobotGirl mechon body]] and starts getting insecure, telling Shulk he can walk away and say ThatManIsDead and she wouldn't blame him. Shulk shuts her down immediately, caring far more about her as a person than what she looks like.]]

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* Sophia from ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAvillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' was often bullied and said to be cursed due to her being an albino. Catarina finds these very same features to be beautiful (even going so far as to compare her bleach white hair to silk), which quickly endears her to both Sophia and her older brother Nicol.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Setsuna Sakurazaki, who is half-Tengu and albino, is ashamed of her white wings, although her human friends think they make her look awesome. To her defense, she was cast away by her fellow demons because of her albinism, which probably didn't improve her self-image.

* Referred to in ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''. [[spoiler:Yuri Tokikago was once [[GoodScarsEvilScars heavily scarred]] thanks to [[AbusiveParents the physical abuse]] that she got from her MadArtist father, and often was seen covered in bandages. Out of all the people that know about her scars, only Momoka Oginome wasn't either shocked or repulsed and still found Yuri to be beautiful no matter what.]]

* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': The first signs of [[BloodKnight Asuka]] was transforming into a ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Khornate]]'' [[TheBerserker berserker]], were the white of her eyes becoming red and her crying blood tears. She tried to hide it and thought it meant that she was a freak, but [[AntiHero Shinji]] told her that it was a gift and not something to be ashamed of... and [[HeroesWantRedheads he]] [[AmazonChaser still found her hot]], no matter what.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' fanfic, ''FanFic/ErisGame'', the titular character gives Shiki this saying [[spoiler:about being in her body]].

* In ''FanFic/ACharmedLife'' Ryuk is well-aware that he's perceived as quite ugly by human standards of beauty but Light still finds him to be "cute" and even attractive in an exotic and alien way. Light likes Ryuk's wings among [[DoubleEntendre other things.]]

* During a [[BreatherEpisode cuddling break]] in ''FanFic/ABridgeOnceBroken'' Loki and Jahanna manage to have a mutual one, with him ashamed of being a Jotunn, and her of her [[WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}} eliatrope]] wings.

* ZigZagged in the weirdest ways possible in ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Undefined Fantastic Object]]'': Nue Houjuu is a CuteMonsterGirl with red and blue misshapen wings that look more like scythes and arrows than anything else... and in an inversion of the trope, it's the part about looking like a cute girl that she's ashamed of: She really wishes that her ShapeShifterDefaultForm actually looked like a horrifying monster, to the extent that she's even been using her power of [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Non-Identification]] to distort people's perception of her, appearing as a MixAndMatchCritter for the last couple of hundreds of years. The trope is then played straight when [[{{Miko}} Sanae Kochiya]] lays eyes on Nue, [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee starts gushing about how cool she is,]] decides that they're going to become best friends and completely refuses to accept that Nue is a youkai... and Nue, keeping with the inversion of the trope, ends up feeling that Sanae's lack of fear of her validates her Freakiness Shame.

* This is a recurring theme in Fry and Leela's relationship in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''. Leela is extremely sensitive about her huge single eye, due in large part to being made fun of while growing up in the Orphanarium. In fact, her eye continues to be her BerserkButton into adulthood. Fry had always been attracted to Leela, eyeball and all, and vehemently objected to her getting plastic surgery to make her look "normal". Unusual for this Trope, Leela's insecurity regarding her eye continues through the series.

* [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] is widely recognized as one of ''the'' most beautiful VisualKei artists, as well as one of the most fashion-forward and talented in regard to styling and makeup - to the point where imitating him is often a rite of passage for Visual Kei artists, especially other guitarists and electronic musicians. Sadly, though, in life, he saw himself as absolutely ugly, hopelessly fat, and deformed, most likely as a result of being an obese child and teenager and being repeatedly abused and ostracised for his weight until he became thin, alongside ''how'' he became thin - the eating disorder bulimia.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRevengeOfTheIsland'': Throught the season, [TheMentallyDisturbed Mike] is ashamed of his SplitPersonality disorder and he is afraid that by telling the truth to [LoveInterest Zoey] she will reject him. In "Grand Chef Auto" when she does find out, it turns out she isn't even in the slightest bothered by it, as she actually [FreakIsCool loves "oddballs"].