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* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': An in-universe example occurs when Felix becomes enamored with Calhoun. From the perspective of the humans playing the game, Felix is a cartoonish 8-bit character whereas Calhoun is rendered on modern technology with a more realistic art-style to represent the better graphics of the gaming generations compared to previous ones. However, when seen outside of the game world, all characters are rendered in high-resolution CG and this distinction is lost.
-->'''Felix''': ''(referring to Calhoun)'' "Look at that HIGH DEFINITION!"

* In ''Film/TwentyFifthHour'', Ed Norton's character is apparently supposed to be a pretty boy. Numerous characters cringe at the thought of "[[PrisonRape what they do]] to guys like him in prison." Norton's character is so scared that he's too pretty for prison that he forces his friend to pummel his face into hamburger so he'll be uglier in the critical first few weeks of his sentence.

* PlayedForLaughs in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/ScoobyDoo,'' which he does along with his past and future selves. In the present, he [[PerverseSexualLust becomes excited]] when he discovers that Creator/IslaFisher is in the movie, only for him to be disappointed when he finds her less attractive than expected. His past self becomes confused, describing her as "[[SoOkayItsAverage okay]]." His present self insists that she's supposed to be a bombshell. The reason for their harsh reaction is apparently because she has blonde hair for the role instead of her natural [[HeroesWantRedheads red]].

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Orihime is the target of Kon and Keigo's worship, especially her cleavage. EvenTheGirlsWantHer as Chizuru is her very own StalkerWithACrush. Yumichika, who classifies beauty by his own unrelenting standards, is reduced to a mumbling wreck when he first meets her. By the time she's in her final year of school, she's the subject of wide-spread school gossip about how she's so beautiful and sneaking photos of her face. At one point, Shishigawara is sent flying backwards by her appearance alone, leaving him dazed, shaken and wondering if she's inhuman because nobody human could be that beautiful.
** According to WordOfGod and AllThereInTheManual, Captain Unohana is worshipped as the most beautiful woman in Soul Society, Rangiku can get any man to do anything for her because she's the sexiest woman in Soul Society and Byakuya is considered the sexiest man in Soul Society.

** Main character Yamada is explicitly introduced as the hottest girl in school, and much of the plot and setting revolves around how attractive she is; but in neither the anime nor the manga does much in the art style distinguish her from a number of her classmates that don't receive comparable attention.
** Yamada's main rival for most beautiful girl in school, Kyouka Kanejou, is drawn with more extreme artistic emphasis on her supposed beauty, including an ever-present [[BishieSparkle cloud of sparkles]] around her head. Her brother, Keiichi, receives similar treatment on the male side of things. Still, their beauty receives establishment and support by frequent comments from other characters.
** Particularly informed attractiveness for Yamada's one-year-younger sister Chika, who is even more popular with the boys than Yamada, and effortlessly goes through a constant stream of good-looking boyfriends who shower her with gifts.

** Main character Yamada is explicitly introduced as the hottest girl in school, and much of the plot and setting revolves around how attractive she is; but in neither the anime nor the manga does much in the art style distinguish her from a number of her classmates that don't receive comparable attention (she even has relatively small breasts, although she is self-conscious about this in-universe).

** Particularly informed attractiveness for Yamada's one-year-younger sister Chika, who, despite being practically flat-chested and looking more like a middle schooler than a high schooler, is even more popular with the boys than Yamada, and effortlessly goes through a constant stream of good-looking boyfriends who shower her with gifts.

** Parodied in "Quintuplets 2000"

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Mary Jane is presented as so stunning even the popular girls are instantly jealous of her, even though really she and geeky Gwen having basically the same design; Gwen just wears glasses and less fashionable clothes. Late in season 2 Gwen [[TheGlassesGottaGo stops doing that]], and everybody comments about [[BeautifulAllAlong how stunning she is]]. Though the fans see this as an UnnecessaryMakeover as it pretty much just makes her look like a blonde MJ.

* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. In series, Danny isn't seen as remarkable looking by his coeds at Casper High; but most of the girls he has gone out with, younger and older than him, consider him cute.

* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': Similar to the other light novel entries on this page, Kazuma describes Aqua, a goddess, as incomparably beautiful. However, in the official artwork ''all'' the female characters are drawn to be very pretty, and Aqua doesn't come off as being particularly more attractive than Darkness or Whiz.

* Lois Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is often described as very attractive and would normally be way out of Peter's league. Inverted by her daughter Meg, who is treated as though she were the single ugliest thing ever to exist in this or any other universe. What makes this really funny is, the only physical difference between them drawing-wise is that Lois is taller, slightly thinner, and [[RedheadsAreArvishing red-headed]].

* Lois Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is often described as very attractive and would normally be way out of Peter's league. Inverted by her daughter Meg, who is treated as though she were the single ugliest thing ever to exist in this or any other universe. What makes this really funny is, the only physical difference between them drawing-wise is that Lois is taller, slightly thinner, and [[HeroesWantRedheads red-headed]].

* ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' has [[spoiler:Werner]] describe Lyblac as extremely beautiful in narration revealed in the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.

* Inverted in all adaptations of ''Film/JaneEyre''. Jane and Rochester are described as plain and ugly in the book, respectively. These descriptions get carried over into film and television adaptations because their romance is about a personal connection rather than physical attraction.

* ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'': Many people refer to Jessa Duggar as the prettiest daughter. Or just the pretty daughter, period.

* Veronica from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' is usually treated in-story (more commonly early on) as more attractive than Betty, despite being famously the same face & body with new hair. It's excusable when one considers that Ronnie dresses much better, often showing more skin, and Betty can compete on an even keel whenever she dresses in skimpy gowns/bikinis. One story even makes fun of this, when Archie thinks he's talking to Veronica, only to find out that it's Betty trying out a black wig.
* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'', WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck is considered the most attractive woman in all of Duckburg and has even done some modeling work. She looks just like WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics in a dress]].

* In ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'', writer Lee Falk sometimes went to extreme lengths to point out just how beautiful Mandrake's fiancée Narda is. She once won a secret contest arranged by a mad collector to determine who is the most beautiful woman in the world (not that she was happy to win it, since the collector was ''really'' mad, and wanted to include her in his collection). She also won an intergalactic beauty contest, competing against ''ten million'' alien women!!

* ComicBook/{{Mystique}} briefly infiltrated the ''ComicBook/XMen'' as a new student named Foxx. Character dialogue constantly reminds us she is stunningly gorgeous, to the point she drove one character into insane lust and possibly seduced Gambit.
* Tulip from the ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' comics is treated by her male companions and female best friend like she's the perfect woman. Jesse is also referred to by several characters as incredibly handsome. They still have [[OnlySixFaces the same face as everyone else]].
* Vanity Smurf of ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' is constantly informing us that he's the most handsome Smurf in the village, though it's unclear if we're supposed to accept this self-critique. Physically, he's drawn identically to the rest of the Smurfs.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': When Peter Parker goes to college, while Ditko draws him looking a little older, he doesn't look much different than how he did while in high school. However, according to Sally Green and Gwen Stacy (in thought balloons), Peter is a dream-boat! Sally notes that he has a "dreamy smile", and with Gwen huffing that she never thought someone so "manly looking" could be so cowardly.
* ComicBook/SpiderWoman is an interesting example as she's often drawn extremely attractive, but it's her pheromones that make men especially attracted to her.
* ComicBook/SteveTrevor is said to be quite attractive and during the Golden Age gained a lot of female attention.
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is usually described by male characters as stunningly beautiful and incredibly alluring even though she doesn't look more attractive than your run-of-the-mill DC heroine.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' is a good male example with women such as ComicBook/LoisLane, Ice, and others commenting on how good-looking he is. Even with glasses.
* ''Franchise/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Starfire}} tends to catch a lot of gushing over her beauty, even when standing next to a [[ComicBook/WonderGirl young Amazon]] and a [[ComicBook/{{Raven}} half-demon in a leg-revealing evening gown]]. One memorable scene in ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' had every male cop - and both gay women - staring at her in wordless, slack-jawed awe.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' is often described as the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, having been blessed at birth by the goddess Aphrodite, even though she usually isn't drawn any more attractively than any other DC chick.

* Nermal from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' is constantly said to be obnoxiously adorable. This especially applies to the redesign he got with the strip's ArtEvolution, which makes him resemble Garfield a lot more.

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Snow White is, of course, "the fairest in the land," while her wicked stepmother the Queen is the second fairest. Whether or not the princess's 1930s china-doll charms really do look like a kingdom's greatest beauty, or really are superior to the Queen's elegant, mature beauty, is naturally a matter of taste for the viewer. But it definitely helps that Snow White and her stepmother are the only two female characters in the film, so we have no one to compare them to except each other.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': When Peter Parker goes to college, while Ditko draws him looking a little older, he doesn't look much different than how he did while in high school. However, according to Sally Green and Gwen Stacy (in thought balloons), Peter is a dream-boat! Sally notes that he has a "dreamy smile", and with Gwen huffing that she never thought someone so "manly looking" could be so cowardly.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' is a good male example with women such as ComicBook/LoisLane, Ice, and others commenting on how good-looking he is. Even with glasses.

* Franchise/WonderWoman is often described as the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, having been blessed at birth by the goddess Aphrodite, even though she usually isn't drawn any more attractively than any other DC chick.

* Justin from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' takes this to [[PlayedForLaughs ridiculous extremes]]; nearly every female character (as well as a few [[EvenTheGuysWantHim male characters]] and [[SerialEscalation most animals]]) become dreamy idiots whenever he walks into the room (or [[ShirtlessScene rips off his shirt]], which he does [[WalkingShirtlessScene ridiculously often]]). [[LatinLover Alejandro]] seems to be getting even ''more'' attention than Justin ever did, though they look nearly the same. To a lesser extent [[AlphaBitch Heather]] gets this too. Geoff called her "the hottest girl on the show" (after she had become bald) and Harold expressed his attraction to her early in ''Total Drama Action'' (again, when she was bald). Lindsay also counts seeing as how Chris called her the hottest contestant despite not being any more attractive than most of the female contestants in the franchise except her bust size.

** Camilla from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' also gets hyped up as WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, and though she is attractive, there are other women in the games who are also very pretty who don't get the same amount of focus in their looks, especially ''cutscenes'' dedicated to showing off Camilla's body. It may be because she's a main character and is the most scantily-clad of the female Royals of the game, though [[TheLadette Charlotte]] and [[BoobsOfSteel Kagero]] in particular are just as busty as Camilla.

* Brian Kinney in ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' is written as if he were impossibly attractive.

* Mio Akiyama from ''Manga/KOn'' is repeatedly treated like she's the most beautiful of the main characters and her looks are frequently exploited for the sake of the band's publicity, to the point that she's the series' MsFanservice as well as TheFaceOfTheBand. Despite this, [[OnlySixFaces she doesn't look any different from her fellow band members]] aside from being the tallest.

* PlayedForLaughs with [[CasanovaWannabe Ichiban-Boshi]] of ''VisualNovel/GreenGreen''. He's considered to be the most attractive of his friend group, and while he ''is'' distinctly better looking than both [[{{Gonk}} Bacchi-Guu]] and [[FaceOfAThug Tenjin]], he's still fairly goofy-looking, [[NormalFishInATinyPond and his status as the handsomest clearly says more about the ugliness of his friends than it does anything about himself]]. [[SmallNameBigEgo This doesn't stop him from acting as though he were a classical]] {{Bishonen}}, complete with [[LargeHam flamboyant posing and cheesy one-liners]]. Perhaps the most depressing part of it all is that, in spite of this, he still actually manages to ''be'' [[OnlySaneMan the coolest]] of the trio by virtue of the other two being just that hopeless. Official character descriptions [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this by listing him as "The Idiot Trio's (Sorta)Handsome Guy".

* Justin from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' takes this to [[PlayedForLaughs ridiculous extremes]]; nearly every female character (as well as a few [[EvenTheGuysWantHim male characters]] and [[SerialEscalation most animals]]) become dreamy idiots whenever he walks into the room (or [[ShirtlessScene rips off his shirt]], which he does [[WalkingShirtlessScene ridiculously often]]). [[LatinLover Alejandro]] seems to be getting even ''more'' attention than Justin ever did, though they look nearly the same. To a lesser extent [[AlphaBitch Heather]] gets this too. Geoff called her "the hottest girl on the show" (after she had become bald) and Harold expressed his attraction to her early in ''Total Drama Action'' (again, when she was bald).

* Lisa from ''Film/TheRoom''. The main characters state that she's "so beautiful" almost ad nauseam. There's even a side character whose only line in the movie is "Lisa looks hot tonight." To make matters worse, he says it to a woman who's possibly his date/wife.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': While Belle is certainly pretty, she's described as an unparalleled beauty in the movie, which also depicts many of the background women as busty and very attractive, particularly the Three Bimbettes. Her design is taller and more slender, thus giving her a different kind of beauty than the other women. Also, she shines because of her "pure" natural beauty because she doesn't play it up (until she starts dressing more elegantly while in the castle), in contrast to all of the young women appearing in the movie. Even the only other innocent girl in the town (the one with almost no speaking lines, asked in the song "Belle" how her family is) is more fashionably dressed than our heroine, while the rest -- the Bimbettes, Babette, the woman teasing the baker -- use a heavy dose of sex-appeal. The live-action remake by contrast would give all the other women a dose of AdaptationalUgliness, while having Belle played by Creator/EmmaWatson, who was famously criticised as being too pretty to play [[Film/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]].

* Summer Finn in ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' has an entire scene in the film that explains the "Summer Effect", which is basically this trope. There's a lot of work put into making sure that the audience understands that it isn't only Tom that's crazy about her. Tom gets into a bar fight over her with another guy for saying that she's too good for him, which is quite a statement, considering Tom is played by 90s heartthrob Joseph Gordon Levitt.