History Main / PunishedWithUgly

* In ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'', the stunningly beautiful Alex is permanently disfigured after a sadistic pimp beats her face in to destroy her physical beauty. [[spoiler:Alex's face is ruined by the beating, and she will likely never be beautiful again.]]

* In ''Film/Irreversible'', the stunningly beautiful Alex is permanently disfigured after a sadistic pimp beats her face in to destroy her physical beauty. [[spoiler:Alex's face is ruined by the beating, and she will likely never be beautiful again.]]

* In ''Irreversible'', the stunningly beautiful Alex is permanently disfigured after a sadistic pimp beats her face in to destroy her physical beauty. [[spoiler:Alex's face is ruined by the beating, and she will likely never be beauiful again.]]

* In the film ''Film/{{Penelope}}'', the title character is "cursed" to have a pig nose. People tend to respond to her looks extremely negatively.

* The Morlock Masque from ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics does this to victims with his (later her) mutant powers; because Masque can't (initially) use their powers to make their own ugly face handsome, they take it out on others by deforming their appearance.

* In ''Film/{{Freaks}}'', when the titular circus freaks learn that the conventionally beautiful Cleopatra plans to marry and kill one of them for his money, they mutilate her to make her a freak just like them. Also counts as a KarmicTransformation, since Cleopatra had been disdainful of the freaks for how ugly they were.

* In ''Film/TheFinal'', this is how Heather and Bridget, the {{Alpha Bitch}}es at the high school, are tortured by the outcasts: Emily smears a flesh-eating chemical goo onto their faces in order to destroy their good looks. The prologue and epilogue reveal that, afterwards, Bridget became an outcast herself as a result, with her hiding her scarred face under a hoodie and her hair.

* The book ''Literature/{{Beastly}}'' matches this, as it is a modern version of "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast". Protagonist Kyle is a rich jerk who embarrasses Kendra, an unpopular girl who turns out to be a witch. He gets cursed by turning into a hideous beast, until he receives True Love's Kiss. In the book, at least. In [[AdaptationalAttractiveness the movie]], he just gets cursed into looking like a member of the Jim Rose Circus.

* In "The Case of Lady Sannox" by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, Lady Sannox, known for her great beauty, has an affair with the surgeon Douglas Stone. He is tricked into horribly disfiguring her by her husband, who believes it will be morally good for her.
* In the first book of Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents one of Olafs henchmen grabs Violet by her face and says she better not do anything to anger Olaf or he will ruin her pretty face as punishment.

* Part of the ''TabeltopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'' backstory has the Irda, a beautiful, powerful race of blue-skinned humanoids who were the first sentients created on Krynn who enslaved first the elves, than men when they proved more useful as laborers. After growing too arrogant, all but one clan (who were friendly to humans) were cursed by the gods and become the hideous green-skinned monsters known as Ogres.
* One very harsh example in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. Although this might have been a side effect of the viral and nuclear bombardment of Io by the Europans, the Iotes went from being described as the most beautiful species in the solar system to looking like disease ridden, mutated dog men. Knowing the Europan's [[DisproportionateRetribution track record]], they probably didn't even do anything to deserve it.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIV'' where the ugly, but good hearted [[TheIgor Igor-like]] Edgar is turned into a PrinceCharming by the fairy Genesta for his part in helping the Heroine. Though a later {{Retcon}} made it so that was his original form.
* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', as in [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade the tabletop game]], the Nosferatu sometimes inflict their LooksLikeOrlok variety of undeath on vain beauties to take them down a notch. One Nosferatu, Imalia, is a former [[FashionModel top supermodel]]... who will pay handsomely to have her UnknownRival successor's life ruined, suggesting that the lesson in humility didn't stick. (Justified, in that she's a Fledgling, a newly turned vampire.)

* This is how you permanently defeat S.M.A.S.H.'s Super Agent Mariana Mamba in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', as she [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey uses her sexiness to cause your minions to desert you]] (simply reducing her health bar to zero forcrs Super Agents to leave only temporarily). The exact details involve [[spoiler:capturing her, then performing plastic surgery to make her fat and ugly.]]

->"You're quite a pretty girl... You don't want to stop being pretty, do you...?"
-->-- Gustav threating Gina, ''VideoGame/RunawayARoadAdventure''

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* Taako of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' sacrifices his elven beauty during the Suffering Game arc. Downplayed slightly in that he only becomes average looking, and [[LoopholeAbuse immediately casts Disguise Self to make himself look like his past self.]]
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* Kavonn of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' cursed a female character with a reactive version of this: She switches between beautiful and ugly depending on her actions.

* The [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek mythical]] monster Medusa, who was so ugly that anyone who beheld her face was [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]], was supposedly afflicted with this. In many versions of the myth, she was originally a beautiful girl, but [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal made the mistake of being raped by Poseidon]] in Athena's temple. Athena really didn't take it too well.

* ''Film/{{Freaks}}'', where it's also a KarmicTransformation.

* The Morlock Masque from ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics does this to victims with his (her?) mutant powers; because Masque can't use his/her powers to make his/her own ugly face handsome, he/she takes it out on others by making them ugly.

* Inverted in ''VideoGameKingsQuestIV'' where the ugly, but good hearted [[TheIgor Igor-like]] Edgar is turned into a PrinceCharming by the fairy Genesta for his part in helping the Heroine. Though a later {{Retcon}} made it so that was his original form.

** It's likewise believed that the Clan's founder, Absimiliard, was one of the most beautiful (and vain) of all the antediluvians, conspiring to murder his second-generation sire because she'd slightly marred his perfect looks during the Embrace. When he went through with it, Caine made things much, ''much'' worse.

* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', as in [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade the tabletop game]], the Nosferatu sometimes inflict their LooksLikeOrlok variety of undeath on vain beauties to take them down a notch. One Nosferatu, Imalia, is a former [[FashionModel top supermodel]]... who will pay handsomely to have her UnknownRival successor's life ruined, suggesting that the lesson in humility didn't stick.

** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', at least two members of the LA brood are (or were) Cleopatras: A supermodel named Imalia (who hasn't gotten over it), and a former silent movie star and their current primogen "Gorgeous" Gary Golden (who has gotten over it, considering he is Imalia's Sire).

* In ''[[Literature/HomecomingDrizzt Homecoming]]'' [[spoiler: Braelin Janquay]] is turned in to a drider by the priestesses of House Melarn. What makes this worse, is, that driders are outcasts of drow society, not only ugly but ''reviled'' by the populance. And the process of turning into one is so incredibly painful that all driders start out with memories of their torment and former lives wiped, because they coudln't stand living otherwise.

Related to BeautyEqualsGoodness and KarmicTransformation.

* Inverted for one story arc of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': The normally hideous merc is cursed... into looking like [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Thom Cruz]]. Otherwise played exactly straight, as it was an effective punishment[[note]] He explains that he has no problem with looking ''pretty'', and he even ''wants'' to look pretty, but he wants to look pretty ''himself''. He doesn't want someone else's face[[/note]].

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* In ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', the Pride kill has John Doe cutting up the face of a beautiful but vain woman and making her choose between suicide and life with an ugly face. [[spoiler:She chooses suicide.]]

* The book ''Literature/{{Beastly}}'' matches this, as it is a modern version of "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast". Protagonist Kyle is a rich jerk who embarrasses Kendra, an unpopular girl who turns out to be a witch. He gets cursed by turning into a hideous beast, until he receives True Love's Kiss.
** In the book, at least. In [[AdaptationalAttractiveness the movie]], he just gets cursed into looking like a member of the Jim Rose Circus.

* An episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had a variation: During a particularly vain phase, Sabrina meets a kindhearted and charitable ([[InformedAbility according to Hilda and Zelda]]) yet ugly relative (her skin is spotted green) whom Sabrina treats with apprehension. Said relative decides to teach her a lesson...by gradually turning Sabrina's ''boyfriend'' Harvey into a werewolf-esque creature (so much for kindhearted). She changes Harvey back only when Sabrina accepts him despite his looks.

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* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Peppermint Patty supposed that her ugliness was a punishment for something she had done in a previous life.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Tear Of A Smurf", Chlorhydris' daughter Priscilla was a young woman punished by her mother by being turned into an old hag, and she seeks the tears of a Smurf for her formula to restore her youth.

* In ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', the Pride kill has John Doe cutting up the face of a beautiful but vain woman and making her choose between suicide and life with an ugly face.

* ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is the most obvious.