History Main / SoBeautifulItsACurse

* In ''Hawaii'' by Creator/JamesMichener the leper colony on Molokai is a WretchedHive of utter depravity because there is no law. As [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the fullest expression of this depravity]], women exiled there whose leprosy has not disfigured them yet are BlessedWithSuck - so desirable that they are gang-raped for months by the terrifyingly disfigured long-term inhabitants of the leper colony until the women [[RapeLeadsToInsanity are driven insane]] and [[PromiscuityAfterRape become promiscuous]], either out of [[StrawNihilist nihilism]] or the need to deny that the advance of their leprosy has rendered them undesirable, foreshadowing their deaths.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': [[spoiler:Like in the games, Bowser has a VillainousCrush on Princess Peach, to the point where he stole the Ice Kingdom's Super Star so he can impress her. He later tries to sacrifice all his prisoners (which includes Luigi) in her honor (and almost succeeds in doing before Peach uses a smuggled Ice Flower]].

* In ''VideoGameFinalFantasyXIV'', Yotsuyu was sold into SexSlavery by her parents after her abusive husband died. Although she was not okay with this, the brothel owner continually offered her to customers because of her beauty and [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness empty, soulless eyes]] that kept drawing business.

* Lúthien in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' dies earlier than she should because "the flame of the beauty of Lúthien as she wore [the Silmaril] was too bright for mortal lands."

* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'': Elle not only finds out she only got Callahan's internship because she's pretty but finds him coming on to her with the implication that if she doesn't acquiesce he'll screw her in other ways. Earlier, she is even dumped by her long-time boyfriend for being too pretty to be a future President's wife.

* Justified in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Particularly attractive victors, such as Finnick Odair, end up being forced into prostitution in the Capitol.

* One of Creator/ArinaTanemura's one-shot manga stories dealt with this: a girl named Eve who was stunningly beautiful and hated it. She was a victim of attempted kidnapping, no girls would talk to her because she was rumored to have stolen a girl's boyfriend, and she never knows if boys are only interested in her for her looks or not. On the other hand, she gets beauty treatments and buys cute, expensive clothes because "people say a cute girl who isn't fashionable must be a slob." Thus, this trope is either self-inflicted or a [[MortonsFork damned if you do, damned if you don't situation depending on perspective]][[note]]Note to editors: don't add your perspective here. This is not a review page[[/note]].

** However attractive as Sasuke is, he's got nothing on his teacher Kakashi, as ''just a glimpse'' of his unmasked face made Ayame and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim her father Teuchi]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/a3/11/c5a31136e6547c4dc70fc48aad32e829.jpg fall for him]]. When Kakashi is disguised as another person and leaves his face uncovered, Sakura gushes over him. It's almost suggested Kakashi is so damn handsome that he wears the face wrap out of necessity.

* Similarly in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All-Kinds-Of-Fur]]" and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/shebear.html The She-Bear]]":

* In ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38488/38488-h/38488-h.htm#ch6 The Evil Eye of Sani]]'', the beautiful Chintamani is captured by boatmen and prays to Lakshmi to make her hideous and spare her rape. It works.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15033803/chapters/35463378 Fluffy Hero Izuku]]'', Izuku is not a fan of the way his quirk, Fluffy Beast, gives him the [[LittleBitBeastly features of a several cute animals]], [[ChickMagnet which naturally makes him popular with a lot of women]]. The way these women tend to baby Izuku makes him feel doubtful in his dream to become a hero.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8933157/1/Heavenly-Resonance Heavenly Resonance]]'', Lauren briefly mentions this as a very real danger she faced in Afghanistan. Though mercifully, nothing came of it.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17352398 Pigtails]]'', [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Marinette]] gains some unwanted attention from a couple of boys because her temporary hairstyle makes her look more "mature".

* Defied and mocked by DEMONDICE in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIk73rPZsrQ Appasayo]]":

* Male Example: This trope is a genuine, life-ruining ''problem'' for Holden of ''[[http://arcana.comicgenesis.com/ Arcana]]''. In addition to heightened physical beauty, Holden is also under a magical curse of unknown origin that makes people fall in love with him. But not just some people; ''practically everyone he encounters''. Sounds like a cakewalk, but after having his psycho vampire stalker slaughter his current boyfriend and threaten to kill his brother in order for them to be together, the situation becomes a lot more heartbreaking. There was a reason for that, actually. Turned out Holden was [[spoiler:actually the Harpy prince that was being sought after, he just didn't consciously know it until towards the end of the story. Apparently, Harpies in this world have that particular glamour about them]].

* A male example from ''LightNovel/{{Corsair}}'': Canale, the resident blind LongHairedPrettyBoy, has to deal with rape and [[AttemptedRape rape attempts]] fairly consistently from the age of seven upwards and [[spoiler:his brother's unwanted lust for him]] gets him blinded and left for dead in the woods. He certainly doesn't feel he deserves his beauty, but, conversely, it's also saved his life on some occasions.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'': Sousuke. Many people who get to know him or even just glance at him wind up becoming entranced by his good looks. An aside in "Ending Day by Day" notes that he was often a target of unwanted sexual advances when conducting joint operations with unfamiliar mercenary and guerilla units, including several cases of AttemptedRape all because there were no women around and he was very pretty. He's come to view it as just another occupational hazard and it’s partially why he has such a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality.

* Shungo Ninomiya from ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun''. He's harassed on a regular basis by a majority of the girls at his school who think that his "[[TroubledButCute troubled face]]" is very cute. Plus the sheer number of ''[[EvenTheGuysWantHim guys]]'' in one episode who swooned over his good looks, and crowded around him, complete with unwanted touching...Or when Reika tried to kiss him, among other things, while he was sleeping. Also, Reika's alternate personality once lured Shungo to a private location where she ''actually attempted to rape him''...

* The ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'' manga has a downplayed example; Miyuki doesn't ''hate'' her beauty, but she's irritated by it because it means egoistical strangers often make passes at her. (And it's one of many reasons she won't be able to MarryForLove- if [[AbusiveParents her family]] can make any profit off of her marriage, they will, and such a beautiful girl has no shortage of suitors.)

* Mahiro from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' might look only mildly cute to the viewers but to aliens, he's apparently the hottest guy in the universe, and it's often the source of his problems. In short order, this earns him several [[UnwantedHarem unwanted admirers]] from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos ''and'' sees him get kidnapped and almost auctioned off to unwillingly star in a BoysLove TV series. The second season of the anime adaptation adds insult to injury by showing that he's well-known enough that there are {{Yaoi|Genre}} {{Doujinshi}} of him...some of which ended up on Earth.

** From ''LightNovel/FateZero'' is Diarmuid ua Duibhne, who, like his mythological counterpart, has women fall in love with him at first glance. [[spoiler:It ends up killing him here, too.]]

* This is a problem for the title character of ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate''. Komi is ''extremely'' beautiful, and is adored by almost everyone because of it. However, this, alongside her [[NoSocialSkills crippling social anxiety]] leaving her unable to speak to others (a trait usually mistaken for [[TheStoic stoicism]] by other characters), causes people to either be to scared to try and talk to her, or lead them to believe they aren't worthy of interacting with her, something that directly contrasts [[IJustWantToHaveFriends Komi's desire to make friends]].

* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Kamala laments that she's ''too'' curvaceous to be a FashionModel, when mistaken by a besotted biker for one.

** Shiro is a delicate looking {{Bishonen}} and as such he occasionally garners unwanted attention for his good looks by men and women who want to enslave him and forcibly make him a prostitute. He also had to escape his SexSlave position at Shinohome's hand.

** Anri is also a feminine {{Bishonen}} and his good looks led to his troupe leader making him his SexSlave.

* ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'':
** Luka is a gorgeous {{Bishonen}} whose beauty has attracted a yandere stalker in the form of Elegy.
** Everyone loves Yuki, even the villain Kanata, and especially Luka. This leads to Luka fighting with other males for Yuki's attention, and he is somewhat possessive of him. He also has guys hitting on him at school, with one bully calling him pretty and a male student saying he is very cute. Also, in both past and present lives, Sairi attempts multiple times to seduce Yuki even though s/he was quite in love with Luka. He's even gone to the point of trying to use his God's Eyes on her/him, though it never worked. He says he doesn’t like boys except for Yuki who he openly declares love towards.

** Sebastian's {{Bishonen}} looks do not go unnoticed either. In fact, he garners four if not more unwanted admirers throughout the anime/manga due to his beauty.

* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'' Red Mantle, the strikingly beautiful bathroom ghost, wears a mask at all times so people don't see his face. This is not due to him actually being ugly, but rather he's so beautiful that ''anybody'' who sees his face will become passionately lovesick, a force of beauty so powerful it can even override MindControl. So how is this a [[CursedWithAwesome curse]]? Because it makes them love'''''sick''''', incapacitating the viewers for several days with a high fever.

* Fumio Usui in ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' has this problem, which makes it very difficult to hold a job because of the inevitable sexual harassment. Which she strongly [[MegatonPunch resists]].
** In Ren's anime backstory, his boarding school roommate had this problem too.

* Miu of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is quite beautiful... so much so that she had some social problems at her last school because of it (implied to be other girls bullying her). To that end, in her current school, she puts on glasses and wears her hair in braids to make herself look plainer, specifically to avoid such problems (although she's still considered gorgeous by her classmates - it's not like she makes any noticeable effort to hide how curvaceous she is, after all).

* In ''Manga/KyoumenNoSilhouette'', Teshio is a DudeLooksLikeALady bishie in a world where manly men appeal better to the girls and perverted men are the only thing Teshio can attract.
* ''Manga/LifeWithAnOrdinaryGuyWhoReincarnatedIntoATotalFantasyKnockout'': Tachibana's female form is extremely beautiful and has passive skills that keep other people attracted to him. Among the issues caused by being so beautiful is a band of thieves killing each other to be with her, and an elf chieftain fighting her and Jinguuji because she couldn't handle that there's a girl more beautiful than her. He is later selected as a sacrifice, since a Squid God wanted to eat the most beautiful girl his villagers could find.
* Alto Saotome of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' is rather annoyed about [[{{Bishonen}} his appearance]], to the point that mentioning his looks is his BerserkButton. Though, to be fair, he doesn't dislike being attractive so much as he just really hates how he [[DudeLooksLikeALady apparently got his looks from the wrong side of the gender spectrum]].

** The pirate "White Horse" Cavendish is such a parody of Bishonen characters that random women often faint in his presence. Apparently, he was the prince of a kingdom who was exiled because he was such a ChickMagnet that none of the women wanted to marry anyone else. Cavendish is also a supreme AttentionWhore who enjoys the ships of fangirls chasing after him.

* Joe from ''Manga/RainbowNishaRokubouNoShichinin'' never ''says'' anything of the sort, but his 'exotic' ButNotTooForeign blonde hair and blue eyes (in 1950s Japan) and {{Bishonen}} appearance puts him into this, having caught him the attention of multiple would-be rapists (and at least one actually successful one).

* Souma from ''Manga/SakuraGari''. The readers are constantly reminded in the story of how Souma suffered a messed up childhood due to his gorgeous looks and how anyone he gets together with later become overly possessive and jealous should he try to leave him. RapeAsDrama, anyone?

* ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'': Yuu and Mika are both Bishonen enough that they gain several admirers, the worst of which is Ferid whose bloodsucking carries rape undertones. It's notable that Ferid only drinks the blood of beautiful boys and girls.

* Akiko Aoshika from ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' is a gorgeous HotTeacher with wonderful curves, but ''because'' of this she's been sexually assaulted several times in her life [[spoiler:(and the last time was a horrifying gang-rape at the hands of Haguro and his yakuza goons... which lasted several manga chapters)]], and these bad experiences [[BrokenBird have left her so screwed up]] that she now believes her looks are to blame.

* The Polish comic book series [[ComicBook/LiliPut Lil i Put]] ("Lil and Put") has a storyline that focuses on the "most beautiful princess in the world", so attractive that everyone who saw her became mad with envy on the spot and began to hate the princess. Everyone, including male characters, her ''own reflection in the mirror'' and forces of nature. The princess was rather miserable because of this, especially that she was abandoned by everyone for being so [[UncannyValley inhumanly]], incomprehensibly pretty. [[TakeOurWordForIt Her face is never shown]] so [[FridgeBrilliance the reader doesn't turn against her, too]].

* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' had a minor character named Charma who had an [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable power]] to make all men love and want her and all women insanely jealous of her. She got put into the general population of a prison and was killed, [[CynicismCatalyst all for the purpose]] of making her MadScientist boyfriend go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against life, the universe, and everything, starting with trying to kill the Earth.
* One of the [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual specials]] in Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's ''ComicBook/RisingStars'' is a woman whose power is that she appears to everyone who sees her as the most beautiful woman they can imagine. This gets her lots of unwelcome attention and means that no one sees the real her, instead just being focused on their own lusts and such.
* ComicBook/PowerGirl sometimes complains because everyone only pays attention to her... [[MostCommonSuperpower attributes.]] Though perhaps she'd have less of a problem if she covered over the [[CleavageWindow peek-a-boo(b)]] window in the front of her costume. They're touted to be part of her disguise. Nobody's going to be [[MyEyesAreUpHere looking at her face]], after all, are they? How about putting on some pants? She's even got a belt, apparently, so her [[LeotardOfPower skintight leotard]] doesn't fall off.
* This is the power of Allure from ''ComicBook/RelativeHeroes''. She was enchanted by the god Eryx with mystic pheromones and other powers of persuasion in return for her hand in marriage.
* [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7a/a9/02/7aa9021a67244cd465aa3d14caac01c7.jpg Siryn]] has a problem with this not because of her looks, but [[ArousedByTheirVoice due to a side effect of her]] CompellingVoice. [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer It works regardless of gender]].
* Used in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' as an inversion of Bash Street Kid Plug's ugliness, in which the Kids have to try and "make a sow's ear out of a silk purse" by making a guest character who's so handsome he makes people faint, more like Plug.

* In the CastFullOfGay comic strip ''ComicStrip/ChelseaBoys'', ridiculously gorgeous, muscled young hunk Sky is a victim of this. He finds it hard to be taken seriously for his art because everyone is fawning over his hotness, but he maintains an overall cheery demeanor even when his roommate points out that some people just give him extra favors cause they want to get in his pants.

* Perhaps the all-time most famous example in fiction and folklore is the tale of "Literature/SnowWhite" a young girl sentenced to death by her envious Step-Mother, in original tellings her Mother, for the ''"crime"'' of being the [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Fairest of them All.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Puddocky}}'', a witch transforms a young woman under her care into a toad because three princes start a quarrel over the young woman's beauty.
* In ''Literature/{{Donkeyskin}}'', the queen makes the king promise not to marry until he found "a woman more beautiful and better formed than myself." In due course, the king does find such a woman: [[ParentalIncest his own daughter.]] She has to flee to escape.

* In ''Literature/TheRoseTree'', the WickedStepmother's hatred is in part incited by her golden hair.
-->''Then the stepmother hated her more for the beauty of her hair''

* In ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38488/38488-h/38488-h.htm#ch6 The Evil Eye of Sani]]'', the beautiful Chintamani is captured by boatmen and prays to Lakshmi to make her hideous and spare her rape. It works.
* In ''Literature/KateCrackernuts,'' the queen has her stepdaughter, Anne, cursed for being prettier than her own daughter, Kate. [[TrueCompanions Kate loves her stepsister]] and [[CallingTheOldWomanOut calls her mom out on this]].

* [[OverlyLongName Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]], heroine of masterful TrollFic ''FanFic/MyImmortal'', is propositioned by everyone she meets, leading to the, uh, [[JustForPun immortal]] lines:
-->''"Yeah but everyone is in love with me! Like Snape and Loopin took a video of me naked. Hargrid says he's in love with me. Vampire likes me and now even Snaketail is in love with me! I just wanna be with you ok Draco! Why couldn't Satan have made me less beautiful?... Im good at too many things! [[IJustWantToBeNormal WHY CAN'T I JUST BE NORMAL?]] IT'S A FUCKING CURSE!"''

* The hero of ''Fanfic/TheWorldWellLost'' mentions falling victim to something like this, although it's not due to hir being brain-breakingly beautiful, so much as it's because ze is beautiful and UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}, and some insecure straight guys react badly to this.
* ''Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman'': Mary Jane Watson is a gorgeous young coed who enjoys being the center of attention at parties and at the beach, and takes pride in how good she looks. Unfortunately, her beauty has also been a major source of grief for her:
** The parents of one boy she was dating hated her because they were convinced she was a GoldDigger who was only using her beauty to try and get a share of the family money;
** The parents of her current boyfriend despise her because she works as an actress and a model, and they see her as flaunting her body and sexuality to sell products. They're also enraged because they think that Mary Jane cheated on their son and that it's the reason he came home from a date with her suffering a HeroicBSOD. Mary Jane was WronglyAccused, but she and her boyfriend can't explain the truth without compromising her SecretIdentity;
** Some of the directors she's auditioned for think that she's trying to get by on her looks rather than her actual talent as an actress;
** Another director assumes that Mary Jane only got a role in an indie film because she was sleeping with one of the film's major sponsors;
** The middle-aged, perverted owner of one of the modeling agencies she worked for groped and sexually harassed her, and used his influence to keep her from getting work once she rejected his advances;
** A particularly LoonyFan of Mary Jane in her identity as the spectacular Spider-Woman began murdering people to show his affection for her, up to and including becoming a PsychoElectro supervillain to do it. When Spider-Woman expressed her disgust and horror at what he was doing, the LoonyFan became determined to kill her for [[InsaneTrollLogic "leading him on"]].
* As Dr. Merlin of ''[[http://firefox.org/news/articles/651/1/The-Original-Mary-Sue-Litmus-Test/Page1.html the original Mary Sue Litmus Test]]'' says, "Anyone who says 'She's so pretty that it's like a disability because everyone hates her or wants to have sex with her' will be summarily keelhauled."
* In ''FanFic/{{Deserving}}'', Dennis Creevey (!) becomes a {{Bishonen}} GaryStu who laments this at one point. The [[http://szaleniec1000.livejournal.com/22799.html review]] has some ''FanFic/MyImmortal''-related fun with this.
* A pirate version of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic wished once that he could disfigure himself because of this. It's not as pretentious as it sounds though, because he's thinking this while being traumatized from being gang-raped by Ask That Guy and the crew.

* The ''Naruto'' fanfiction ''Winds Of Change'' invokes this trope seriously, with some members of the Uchiha clan (usually male members), but with other characters commenting on it, instead of the characters themselves complaining, [[spoiler:with the exception of Sasuke at one point, who winds up scarring himself]] and treats it in a half-humorous, half-creepy way with [[spoiler:Hinata]], who wistfully expresses the wish she wasn't so attractive when she keeps on having guys fall for her/lust after her. [[spoiler:The creepy part is that one of her "admirers" is Eight-Tails, who wants to recreate ''Rosemary's Baby'' with her]].

* Hinted in ''Fanfic/TheDressmakerQueen'' as being the cause of Jenny Thompson's troubles when Prince Gray sees her and announces that he'll marry her. It also doesn't help that he has a habit of taking the most beautiful women he can find for his own selfish purposes...
--> The prince didn’t have a kind reputation when it came to womankind, often taking those who suited his fancy… Some he kept as mistresses in his various homes around the country, well paid until they got too old and wrinkled or he sighted another one. Others disappeared, whether they ran away, were shipped off to convents, sent to live with distant family members or committed suicide. All were ruined.
* Mabel in the older AU fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13020704/1/The-Big-Pines The Big Pines]]'' grew to be almost [[BuxomBeautyStandard ridiculously buxom]]. At first, she enjoyed the attention but found that the only kind of guys she attracted were perverts who thought she was [[AllWomenAreLustful easy]] and only cared about her body, not the young woman attached to it.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8933157/1/Heavenly-Resonance Heavenly Resonance]]'', Lauren briefly mentions this as a very real danger she faced in Afghanistan. Though mercifully, nothing came of it.
-->"I was trapped for five hours in a four by four crawl space, with two children, while a rebel gang ransacked the village my team was responsible for assessing and helping. Knowing any noise, we made, any movement would give away our position and that would mean..." ''(shudders)'' "The children would probably be taken to join the rebels, they were boys, old enough to be trained, strong enough to hold a gun. And a pretty blonde foreigner like me well..."

* John experiences this in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''. Having been transformed into a [[WingedHumanoid muscular winged demigod]], he is sexually attractive to everyone...but he's also no longer human and has no interest whatsoever in human women (and men, for that matter). Indeed, he finds them vaguely repellent when considered as sexual partners. This makes life...awkward...at times.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10221824/1/Fangirls-and-Fanboys Fangirls and Fanboys]]'', Many of [[Manga/Reborn2004 Tsuna's]] classmates begin to take notice of him after puberty turns him into a {{Bishonen}}. While at first he enjoyed it because the other kids started being nice to him and he was no longer [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer being bullied]], he soon starts regretting his good looks when his admirers became more obsessed with him.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17330426/chapters/40771925 Midoriya Izuku. Quirk: Cuteness]]'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] is bothered by all the attention he receives becomes of his quirk's ability to make him cute, especially since people always dismiss his dream of being a hero on the basis that he's too "cute" and "fragile" for that kind of work.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15033803/chapters/35463378 Fluffy Hero Izuku]]'', Izuku is not a fan of the way his quirk, Fluffy Beast, gives him the [[LittleBitBeastly features of a several cute animals]], [[ChickMagnet which naturally makes him popular with a lot of women]]. The way these women tend to baby Izuku makes him feel doubtful in his dream to become a hero.
* ''Fanfic/GinnyWeasleyAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': Fleur is dismissive of her own beauty, seeing it as something that she never had to work for (as a consequence of her Veela heritage) and therefore something she didn't earn. All it does is make people ignore all her other skills and accomplishments. She got a job at Gringotts not to be close to Bill (though that was a nice bonus) but because goblins consider her to be just as ugly as all other humans, and so any advancements are purely on her merit.
* ''Fanfic/ArrowRebirth'': Before the ''Gambit'' went down, Sara Lance used to take a lot of pride in her looks. After it went down and she started getting raped for said looks, that changed, and she now despises men who ogle her as nothing more as a sex object. One of the reasons why she fell in love with [[NiceGuy Barry Allen]] is because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan he's one of the few who only saw her as a person]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': In Esmeralda's case, the downside to being the MsFanservice is, occasionally, you get the [[VillainousCrush wrong attention]] from [[SinisterMinister the wrong sources]].
* Belle of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is attractive to the point that everyone notices and she attracts unwanted attention from Gaston due to her beauty which turns into a homicidal crush.

* Parodied in ''Film/AKnightsTale'', Jocelyn is chided by a bishop for giggling with her handmaiden over the antics of "Sir Ulrich". She says the following exchange in [[DeadpanSnarker perfect monotone]], and the priest is mollified.
-->'''Bishop:''' Does this not shock you, ladies!\\
'''Jocelyn:''' Certainly my lord. I just, I only laugh to keep from weeping.\\
'''Bishop:''' Beauty is such a curse. Pray your years come swiftly, pray your beauty fades, so you may better serve God.\\
'''Jocelyn:''' I do. I pray for it all the time. Why, God, did you curse me with this face?

* ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'':
** Pretty, confident Bernadette gets sent away to the titular laundries because of her beauty. Her teachers see her flirting with boys, and the nuns declare that she must be hidden away just in case she inspires boys to do sinful things because of her beauty.
** Discussed earlier in the film between Bernadette and two other orphan girls, who ask if it's a sin to be beautiful.
--->'''Bernadette:''' "Look at the Virgin Mary. She's beautiful. It's a sin to be vain."

* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': Sparta's Ephors (old, inbred, diseased priests) ''"choose only the most beautiful Spartan girls to serve as oracles"'', and what do the Ephors do with them in their spare time? (hint: it's not predicting the future).
-->'''Dilios''': Their beauty is their curse, for the old wretches have the needs of men... and souls as black as hell.

* This happens to the main character's daughter and her friend in the film ''Film/{{Taken}}''. After landing in Paris unattended, they're targeted and kidnapped by HumanTraffickers to be made into {{Sex Slave}}s.
* In ''Film/TheMexican'', a character asks her kidnapper whether she's [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe attractive enough to be raped]]. He explains that rape is about hate, not attraction.
* ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' makes many comments on Susannah's beauty. It sadly causes discord between the Ludlow brothers - as she's to be the wife of Samuel, but both Tristan and Alfred lust after her as well. After Samuel's death, Tristan uses her for sex and then abandons her. The family ends up divided partially because of their attraction to Susannah. Notably before [[spoiler:killing herself]], Susannah cuts some chunks out of her beautiful long hair - which has been interpreted to be an attack on the beauty that landed her in this situation. A deleted scene from the trailer even has the family patriarch blaming Susannah for the discord between the brothers.
* ''Film/SuckerPunch'''s heroine Baby Doll has beauty that makes her look like TheIngenue, and that means Blue wants to rape her. Likewise, some of the other girls in the asylum are quite pretty but it's implied they too are sexually abused by Blue and his orderlies.
* ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'' has Patsey, played for all the horror it's worth. Patsey (played by Kenyan actress and model Creator/LupitaNyongo) is not only very beautiful but also really good at picking cotton, and her master Edwin Epps is [[{{Yandere}} crazy about her...]]. He rapes her and subjects her to beatings out of possessiveness, and his wife is also violently jealous of the girl. She is DrivenToSuicide but [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot go through with the deed herself]], and tries to pay Solomon to drown her (in real life, ''Mrs. Epps'' tried to pay Solomon to drown her, and Mr. Epps treatment of her was ''more'' abusive than depicted - that's right, what you see in the film is ''toned down'').
* Taken to an intentional extreme in the dark teen comedy ''Looks That Kill'', where a young man is born with a face so beautiful it kills anyone who sees it.
* Beverly Marsh from ''Film/It2017'' is an uncommonly pretty young girl, but her looks bring her nothing but jealousy from other young girls, unwanted attention from adult men (including her own father) and an undeserved reputation for promiscuity.

* Hideyoshi Kinoshita in ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' is [[DudeLooksLikeALady a guy so feminine-looking and beautiful]] no one believes him to be a guy, and gets confessions from guys every day. Then there's the poem a certain someone wrote to him which kind of gave him nightmares for a while.

* In ''Charm'', a re-telling of ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' by Francesca Lia Block, the protagonist says she has this. Kinda a JustifiedTrope in that well, she's Sleeping Beauty in modern times. She was forced to star in pornography from childhood, got addicted to heroin, and is being pimped out by a douchebag.

* In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':

* In Justina Ireland's ''Dread Nation'', a steampunk alternate history zombie thriller, the main characters are black girls are training to be Attendants, bodyguards who protect rich women. One of them, Katherine, is ''so'' gorgeous it ruins her chances of ever being hired, because her potential clients all see her as competition instead. This gets her shipped off to a horrible town run by a racist, tyrannical Sheriff--her friend's quick thinking allows her to pass as white, which allows her to escape being enslaved, but lands her as almost every man in town's new crush. This is not a good thing when she knows what they'd do to her if they found out she was actually biracial.

* Stealth in ''Ex-Heroes'' dons a superhero costume specifically to obscure her beauty, so she can be judged on her actions rather than her looks. At the same time, her costume is designed to show off her figure. To give an idea of how extreme her case is, prior to the ZombieApocalypse that the story revolves around, she was a genius of such a high caliber you could consider her a combination of Batman, Reed Richards, and Bruce Banner (minus the Hulk), all rolled into one, and that would still not be doing her justice to her intellect and physical prowess. But from even an early age she was, due to her gender and overall attractiveness, treated as less than a person. Case in point, in spite of making perfect grades in high school, and setting records in track and field and weight lifting, the guidance counselor recommended she take an "easier" school. She broke his nose, and then went on to make the Dean's list at MIT with a 4.0.

* In Robin Hobb's ''Literature/{{Farseer}} Trilogy'', when Burrich gets around to discussing his backstory, he talks about his grandmother, who was a slave in the Chalced States. Apparently (paraphrased) "Beauty is the worst trait a slave can possess. Her mistresses hated her and her masters raped her."

* Justified in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. Particularly attractive victors, such as Finnick Odair, end up being forced into prostitution in the Capitol.

* Inverted oddly in Literature/IDoNotWantToDoThis. Joanna is not particularly beautiful, but is cursed with a succubus aura that makes any man who gets too close to her think she's the hottest thing ever and start desiring her. Worse still, it works on her as well, attracting her indiscriminately to any and every guy around. This leaves her [[ShrinkingViolet shy and withdrawn,]] unable to get close to anyone she might build a relationship with [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality for fear of losing control.]]

* Played straight in Creator/RobertAsprin's ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Little Myth Marker]]''. Skeeve's new moll (aka doxy) plays the role of brainless beauty/aggressive sex kitten to the hilt because it makes her clients leave her alone so she can just live her own life. She only does that because, being beautiful, no one would take her seriously if she tried to actually use her brains, because (paraphrased):

* Virtually every stranger Scarlet meets in the ''Scarlet and the White Wolf'' books tries to rape him. [[spoiler:They don't succeed]].

* Lúthien in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' dies earlier than she should because "the flame of the beauty of Lúthien as she wore [the Silmaril] was too bright for mortal lands."
* Nicci of the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth''. She is repeatedly mentioned as one of the most attractive females in the series, to the point where the heroine, previously stated to be the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, felt "as ugly as a clod of dirt" in her presence. Nicci, however, is quite familiar with the downsides of being physically perfect, as her beauty has gotten her quite a bit of [[RapeAsBackstory unwanted attention]] from several villains and other male characters, and provided another opportunity for [[AbusiveParents her mother]] to bully and cast blame on her.

* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''The Snow Queen'':
** In Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms, there's Kaari, whose attractiveness actually doesn't come from physical attractiveness. In her people, they read runes at a certain age to tell their talents and abilities. Kaari's first two are simple -- Craft and Hearth -- but her last one is ''Heart''. This means that everyone likes and wants to either marry her or be friends with her -- which is awkward when it involves old married men. She actually considers early on that it is good it is her -- if she hadn't been sweet-tempered and good-natured or had been spoiled, she could have very well been a tyrant -- the worst kind for no one would rise against one who is ''loved''. Unfortunately, this means the villagers try to stop her and her mother-in-law from saving the one guy, her fiance Veikko, who cares for her ''because'' she is herself, and not because of the Heart rune.

* In ''Trickster's Choice'', the aristocrat Aly never stops being proud of her looks, but quickly decides they'll attract unwanted attention when she's kidnapped and sold as a slave, so she deliberately disfigures herself while in the pens. An onlooker recognizes why she's doing it, but remarks that some people would prefer concubinage to the backbreaking lives of labor slaves.

* In Literature/WillOfHeaven, the [[DudeLooksLikeALady historically pretty]] Zhang Liang is so distinctive-looking that he has to spend years in hiding after his failed assassination attempt on the First Emperor.

* In ''Wolfsangel'', a slave mutilates her face so that her owner will stop raping her. It doesn't work--her pretty face was a bonus, obviously, but it wasn't the exact...body part...he was interested in.

* Addressed in ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' where Kerry sets out to make a documentary showcasing that her sister Bridget has it easy because of her looks. During filming, Bridget gets a broken nose and has to wear a facial mask. She tries to stay at home from school because she's worried that all she has is her beauty and without it, she'll be rejected by everyone else. Her mother pointedly makes her go to school to prove that she has more to owe the world than her looks. [[spoiler:True enough, the other students still love her]]. Elsewhere in the sitcom, it's shown that Bridget is very concerned with maintaining an image -- not wanting people to know she ''uses the bathroom''.

* In ''Series/MrRobot'', Elliot is beautiful in both his looks and "power", which causes him to attract unwanted attention from and be used by most villains. He nearly gets gang-raped in prison by the neo nazis before Leon saves him, he gets forced to strip and verbally harassed by a drug dealer while buying morphine from him and both Tyrell and Vera become immediately obsessed with him for different reasons, though Vera's obsession with him is worse than Tyrell's.

** But PlayedForIrony in the later episode "Mr. Monk and the Genius", when Natalie's daughter uses her own wiles to get Monk into a chess tournament, and it drives Natalie crazy:

* In the ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'' episode "[[RecapSharpeS2E1SharpesCompany Sharpe's Company]]", Sally Clayton is regarded as the prettiest wife among the regiment's soldiers. The problem with this is that she attracts the attention of the resident SociopathicSoldier Obadiah Hakeswill, who will try and rape any pretty woman he can find. Sure enough at the end of the episode, [[spoiler:Sally is raped and murdered by Hakeswill when he deserts the army.]]

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "The Bubble". Liz's boyfriend is so handsome (to give you an idea, he's played by Creator/JonHamm) that people don't acknowledge his incompetence.

* In the mini-series ''A Man Called Intrepid'', a woman has been recruited as a spy to be dropped into Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite her exceptional language skills David Niven's character wants to reject her, pointing out that she's so beautiful anyone who saw her would never forget her. She does, in fact, get remembered by a German sentry, leading to her eventual capture.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': There are no ''specific'' examples, but in a world with amorous jerkass gods, nightmarish demons, nihilistic ghosts, soul-sucking fairies, insane god-kings, eldritch abominations, and worse entities, being attractive enough to attract the attention of one or more of them definitely counts as a curse. For example, it's explicitly stated that concubines chosen by the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears... don't survive the night. And as the Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals puts it:
-->Sometimes, [[EldritchAbomination Adorjan]] falls in love. Her hatred is safer.
** And having a character with High Appearance stat (3+) and a few dots in Infamy is never a good combination.
** There's also the fact that the [[VainSorceress Storm Mothers]] forbid any woman more beautiful than them from sailing on ships in the West and will often attack vessels for this reason. However, the Storm Mothers themselves are so ugly that that "women more beautiful than them" means "women in general".
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has the Fairest, humans who were taken by [[TheFairFolk the True Fae]] to be playthings, lovers, and toys. On the one hand, the lot of them are beautiful and have a buy-in with magic powers that give them unearthly beauty and influence; on the other hand, their Durance likely swung between ''Kubla Khan'' and ''Hellraiser'' with little warning, and the special attention the True Fae ladled on them have left them disconnected from humanity and more prone to a fall down the SanityMeter.
* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' has this as part of the Disquiet effect for Galateids, who are universally beautiful and, as the name implies, were originally created for purposes of companionship. However, their form of Disquiet initially manifests as a crush that slowly develops into an obsession (or, in the case of folks dealing with sexual orientation issues, [[StupidSexyFlanders severe discomfort]]) and from there turns into mindless adulation (for those directly affected) and envy and vitriol towards "that slut" (for the loved ones of those directly affected).

* Ananda, Lord of Murder, the Infinite, and the Fourth Age in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' has this. When he shows up, everything -- and we mean ''everything'' -- loses itself in rapture at his presence. In one town he visited, the humans went insane or died, the grass turned to crystal, and the birds fell out of the sky, singing until their hearts gave out. Even ''pictures'' of him cause physical/psychological damage.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'', novas (superhumans) with Mega-Appearance can have this due to Taint effects. Taint is more likely to produce deformities, but possible effects also include [[UncannyValley inhuman beauty that frightens rather than attracts]], irresistible desire, or an inability to be taken seriously (known as the "bimbo-nova" effect).
* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' has "Curse of Venus" as one of the Flaws that a character can take. Characters who have this Flaw are very attractive to people the character does not ''want'' to attract, who get crushes on him or her and will not be dissuaded. The character also tends to fall in love with inappropriate people in inappropriate circumstances, and the people the character ''is'' interested in tending to think that the character is vain and shallow.
* In the old ''Franchise/JamesBond'' RPG, attractiveness is a characteristic you have to buy for your character. Being [[TheNondescript average looking]] is actually far more expensive than being stunningly attractive because good looks make you more recognizable (generally a bad thing for a spy). On the other hand, average looks are also far more expensive than being remarkably ugly. This encourages players to re-create the James Bond atmosphere, where most main characters are either stunningly attractive or hideously deformed while requiring them to pay a price if they want to have looks that help them blend in with the crowd.
* A similar concept is discussed in the ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' sourcebook ''Lawyers, Guns and Money''. One character is noted as being attractive though not amazingly beautiful, the ideal point for a con-woman. After all, being attractive sends a little false hope to the mark, a very subtle encouragement. Being amazingly beautiful, however, would instead [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction raise questions]]: Why me? What do I have for this girl? As a con-woman, you never want your mark asking questions.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
** Whereas aasimars have traditionally been portrayed as universally loved since they first appeared in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', ''Pathfinder''[='=]s ''Blood of Angels'' sourcebook describes them as having this trait to the extent they are BlessedWithSuck. In essence, aasimars are seen as being so beautiful, special and talented that they are invariably accosted by superstitious people begging for lucky charms (such as locks of their hair), or for healing touches or similar, and who often get upset with the aasimar when they refuse, even if told that such trinkets and actions won't work. Many aasimars who fall to evil do so due to this making them feel all others are selfish, shallow, petty creatures. On top of everything else, the aasimars' beauty and their disconnect from their communities make them common victims of the [[SuperhumanTrafficking slave trade]].
** From ''Pathfinder'' also comes the changelings, the daughters of humanoids and [[MageSpecies hags]] who are described as always being beautiful, but in such a fashion that the effect is eerily... ''[[UncannyValley off]]'' and so people find them unnerving more than they do attractive.
** Nymphs are some of the beautiful creatures in existence in the material world, to an extent that their magic likely plays a role in making them the visions of beauty that they are. Anyone looking at a nymph is gripped by a supernatural obsession with the fey that will drive them to seek closeness with her by any means possible -- and nymphs cannot control this. The result is that most nymphs need to live in hiding to know anything like peace, and while they're more than capable of fending off nosy mortals and lesser fey, things become rather more dangerous when someone like a powerful wizard or a demon becomes obsessed with a nymph.
* In the Sword and Sorcery game ''Blade of the Iron Throne'', the Legendary Beauty asset can be taken as either a Good asset or a Poor asset. While the Good version of the asset gives you bonuses for interactions with those compatible to you and penalties for interactions with those not compatible to you, the Poor version of the asset falls right into this trope, with the character in question receiving more than their fair share of unwanted attention from powerful but obnoxious suitors, leches, slavers and the like.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Kult}}: Divinity Lost'', a character with the disadvantage "Object of Desire" has something about them that tends to ignite deep and unhealthy desires in other people that they are unable to keep in check. The Doll archetype, whose life has been made hell by the unwanted attentions of others and seeks to break free and take control of their own life, has this disadvantage by default.

* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', Maureen uses her beauty as an excuse for 'flirting with a woman in rubber.'

* Stupefyin' Jones (see entry under Film) originated here.
* Vicki Bliss, the character from the books by Elizabeth Peters, complains at least once a book about how no one takes her seriously as an intellectual because she looks like a supermodel.
* Princess Eboli, lady in waiting to the Queen of Spain in Verdi's {{Opera}} ''Don Carlo'', dedicates a setpiece aria, "''O don fatale''" ('O fatal gift'), to cursing her beauty ("''Ti maledico, o mia beltá''") when she realises that [[spoiler:her affair with King Philip II has cost her both her job and her friendship with the Queen]]. [[NarmCharm In the right hands]], the effect is [[RageAgainstTheHeavens awesome]] rather than angsty.
* Another male example: in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Patience}}'', Grosvenor constantly complains about how he charms every young lady he meets. In fact, he's so beautiful that the woman he loves refuses to marry him because keeping him all to herself would be too selfish.

* ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'':
** In the original Christopher Bond version, Sweeney believes this about his wife, and with good reason -- it's the reason he was falsely transported for life.
--->'''Anthony:''' What was your crime?\\
'''Sweeney:''' My wife was beautiful.
** The musical ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' (which is based on Bond's version) also follows this. Sweeney's wife was so beautiful that she attracted Judge Turpin, which kick starts the plot. Then her daughter Johanna is equally as beautiful and also attracts the Judge (despite him [[WifeHusbandry being her adoptive father]]). Sweeney himself is also cursed since he attracts Mrs. Lovett, which leads to several of the tragic circumstances throughout the story. So really the plot is because a whole family is So Beautiful, It's A Curse.

* Male example: Gannayev in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'' asserts that the reason he's in jail is that he's "too handsome to look upon." He's not lying either -- sort of. According to the warden, Gann has the habit of [[TheCasanova bedding nearly anything in a skirt]], much to the dismay of every BoyfriendBlockingDad on the continent. There's even a set of elaborate runes lining his cell just to make sure he doesn't do it in his ''sleep'' (which he can. Gann's probably the only Spirit Shaman who uses his dream hopping powers to get laid.)
* The whole premise of ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' is that you play as poor Fiona Belli a very beautiful and curvaceous 18 year old girl who is trapped in a creepy castle where every single male (apart from Hewie who’s a dog) wants to either “play with her” such as Debiltas or worse rape and impregnate Fiona which is Riccardo‘s [[StalkerWithATestTube goal]]. The only other female is Daniella who spites Fiona jealousy for being a “complete woman” while she’s not, though even Daniella [[EvenGirlsWantHer gropes Fiona while she’s sleeping]] probably done out of envy... probably.
* Fall-From-Grace doesn't actually ''complain'' in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' about all the attention her looks get her -- that would be unladylike. But it's got to ''suck'' being a blazingly-hot demon that normally gets its jollies through seduction and having willingly taken a vow of chastity...
* The Heron tribe in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' seems to suffer this, and its few survivors have to cope with the constant threat of poachers. A substantial mission in the first game involves saving Reyson [[spoiler:and his sister]] from a beauty-obsessed noble collector.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'', Celica's mother, Lady Liprica, was the victim of this trope. King Lima IV forced her into his RoyalHarem due to how beautiful she was (the remake shows that she looks [[StrongFamilyResemblance VERY much]] like a lighter-haired Celica, who is very cute herself).
* Miranda Lawson from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is genetically engineered to be perfect (in her "father"'s opinion), this is the cause of a lot of her angst, as she doesn't believe she's genuinely earned the position she has on her own merit.
** What really causes her to angst, is that she looks at [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]], and sees their accomplishments and feels that Shepard earned them through hard work rather than genetic modifications. She references their past and tells Shepard that she looks at them and feels inferior.
** There's also the fact that you probably wouldn't be too proud of your physical appearance if a) you were engineered to have it, and b) the person who designed said appearance was your '''father'''. Implications... ''unpleasant.''

%%* Sypha from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'' is pissed off that she has such large breasts. This is only mentioned in Maria Renard's story, where Sypha is one of the three characters that Maria has dialogue outside of the pre-match words.
%%-->'''Maria:''' [[DistractedByTheSexy Uh huh... They're huge...]]\\
%%'''Sypha:''' ''[annoyed]'' Will you stop? These things only get in the way.
%%** HilariousInHindsight seeing as when she was first introduced in the canon [[SamusIsAGirl she was being played straight as a]] SweetPollyOliver
* Viola [=DeWynter=] in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' was none too happy being the ''very'' well-endowed comic character, [[NaughtyNun Bloody Canoness]], in the mission to capture Nyte Blayde. Viola's opinion is pretty valid, given that the Bloody Canoness' default outfit has a NavelDeepNeckline that is a lot skimpier than Viola's normal modesty-preserving clothes.
-->'''Viola:''' I feel ridiculous.\\
'''Player Character:''' Really? I think it looks sexy. Slutty... but sexy.\\
'''Viola:''' I didn't get a masters in economics to look like a slut.\\
'''Player Character:''' Isn't it nice to know you can surprise yourself?\\
''[...]''\\
'''Player Character:''' Not gonna lie, I thought this whole thing was a stunt for Pierce to see your tits, but it's actually working.\\
'''Viola:''' I don't care if it works or not, I'm not making going out like this [[AccidentalPun a habit]].\\
'''Player Character:''' See? You're already making nun jokes. I knew you could get in this.\\
'''Viola:''' I hate you.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' Leon's beauty was an annoyance to him, but not all that big of a problem, but when it comes to gag omakes and bonus skits, he gets roped into many of Rutee's get rich quick scams because of his beauty and popularity with women [[EvenTheGuysWantHim and some men]] when he just wants to be left alone.

* Lucio from ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' is often mobbed by people who want to recruit him into some kind of business for his good looks and those people sometimes end up fighting to get to him. Lucio himself is displeased by all the fighting he causes and crowds getting in the way but doesn't seem aware of why they're fighting.
* The [[DanceBattler Shieldbreaker]] in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' was a talented and beautiful dancer who could mesmerize men with her movements. She was enslaved by an infatuated Vizier who had his men carry her off presumably for his harem, though she succeeded in escaping. It's shown in her Fearful or Paranoid state that she is traumatized by the whole ordeal (especially since she had to [[LifeOrLimbDecision amputate her hand to save herself]]) and fears the Vizier's men are still hunting her. It also might explain why she wears a veil across the lower half of face at all times to hide her beauty.
* Maguro Sasaki in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' has this problem since, according to Ringo, he possesses [[{{Bishonen}} an incredibly handsome face]] that's only obscured by his bangs. If anyone were to get even a small peek at his full face, they'll be so overwhelmed by his dazzlingly good looks that they'll either pass out or fall madly in love with him. And yes, it even works on males (just ask Klug) and '''FISH''' (as Suketoudara can attest to). He's not very comfortable with it at all (not helping matters is Ringo insisting on testing that trait of his).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'', Aurea. She was so beautiful people began to worship her. As a pious woman of the theocracy of Cvstodia, [[UnwantedFalseFaith she was horrified by this]], so she burned her face with hot oil and joined a convent. The Miracle saw to it that, as a reward for her devotion, the scar never healed -- [[MartyrdomCulture Cvstodia]] and [[JerkassGods the Miracle]] have a strange definition of "reward". [[{{Irony}} This all led to her being worshipped as a saint]].

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has [[TheFashionista Junko Enoshima]], who tends to attract guys that are only interested in her looks, which infuriates her. When [[TheHero Makoto Naegi]] is surprisingly perceptive of this, she's impressed and pegs him as an "herbivore man" (that is to say, a passive man) and [[TheMatchmaker promises to hook him up with a "carnivore girl"]] when they get out of Hope's Peak. [[spoiler:Subverted in that, while Junko ''is'' very beautiful... the one who said this to Naegi is not ACTUALLY Junko but her twin sister Mukuro, [[BodyDouble disguised as Junko]], and what she said was a part of her "role". (Or maybe not, according to other sources). In any way, it doesn't matter since everything goes FromBadToWorse.]] [[spoiler:Doubly funny since ''Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf'' and other media reveal Mukuro [[VillainousCrush is in love with Makoto]] -- which puts her interactions with him in the game in an interesting perspective...]]
** Jataro Kemuri in ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'' wears his mask all the time because he believes he's ugly, and he was bullied in the past for looking different. In reality, the source of his problems is that he's ''beautiful'', not ugly. [[AbusiveParents His emotionally abusive mother]] neglected him and hated looking at him since she felt that his beauty meant that they had to put more effort into looking after him than they already did.
* All the love interests in ''VisualNovel/{{Nameless}}'', being dolls [[HumanityEnsues turned into humans,]] are exceedingly [[{{Bishonen}} handsome/cute/pretty]]. This attracts a lot of fangirls that they aren't interested in since they're all [[SingleTargetSexuality in love]] with their previous owner, the protagonist.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Cupid}}'', both [[spoiler:Rosa]] and [[spoiler:Guilleme]] have led hard lives trying to evading this curse. They have tried to [[spoiler:scar themselves]] to appear less desirable, mundane or invisible. Unfortunately, it isn't beauty that's the problem, but desire itself. One character advised to appear aristocratic or powerful to give people another reason to find them attractive. Otherwise, the curse will confuse most people, pushing them to violence or jealousy.

* This is lampshaded in the Spanish web animation ''Cálico Electrónico''. In the fifth episode, a female burglar, with a Femme Fatale look, tries to steal some jewels and is discovered by Cálico, but instead of fighting her, he flirts with her the whole episode, making her feel frustrated. In other episodes, a section with the characters answering fans questions was introduced. The same burglar was asked to dress like Tifa from ''Final Fantasy VII''. She agreed to appear in the outfit, but then, to her dismay... you can hear the fan jerking off.

* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' has a short arc featuring the main character, who's improbably busty and thin, and another character working as a model, who is also improbably thin, lamenting how people can't take them seriously. Since it begins with the main character's friend dismissing the model as ditzy, it does serve as a decent [[AnAesop Aesop]] about not judging someone by how they look. However, the main character blames some self-esteem issues on how she is too ideally shaped, inverting the norm in a way that can be frustrating.

* Played horrifically straight in ''Webcomic/{{Marilith}}'': In a flashback of PsychoForHire hitwoman/mob enforcer Valentino's StartOfDarkness, it's shown that she was the daughter of "purged" dissidents in the last days of the USSR. Along with other attractive young girls in the same situation, she is shipped to a secret gulag/training camp operated by party hardliners who want to mold them through TrainingFromHell into assassin-spies to compromise, blackmail or eliminate key individuals to stop the country's slide towards implosion. The grizzled, bearlike old general in charge of the camp mentions while discussing the plot with a co-conspirator that only God can give such a curse as beauty (the reason those girls were chosen in the first place). [[MoralEventHorizon Then, as a part of training, the general brutally and repeatedly rapes the girls, starting with Valentino]]. No wonder she's a sadistic maniac...
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'''s Seras Victoria occasionally complains about the effects of [[MostCommonSuperPower her rather stunning figure]] in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow''. Her {{Love Interest|s}} counters that he can enjoy her company and respect her as a person ''and'' appreciate her chest.
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] on [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/428 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' strip with Alice complaining about men looking at her breasts all the time, but refusing to wear more modest clothes because she's so hot it wouldn't make a difference. According to her anyways.
* {{Subverted}} in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive:'' Kharisma considers herself to be a victim of this. While she is attractive, this is really just a sign of her vanity and self-absorption. She gets better...[[ChewToy in a "horrid burn damages on face"]] sort of way. (Oh, and eventually actual CharacterDevelopment.)
* [=DiDi=] of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' is so attractive that it ruins her sex life. No man she has ever slept with has been able to last more than a few seconds before blowing his load (one didn't even last long enough to ''start having sex with her in the first place'', just seeing her naked was enough). As a result, she has never had an orgasm (though she eventually manages to finally have one). She also hasn't developed proper social skills, since her looks cause everyone to behave strangely around her.
* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' plays the trope even straighter than Twilight -- a mummy's wrappings are used to counter the curse (rather than to cover the rotting skin) in an obvious fashion. No one must know!

** {{Bishonen}} Rufioh is frequently frustrated that everyone he knows is in love with him or stalking him.

%%* Ash from ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Not the least of all because they're especially big reminders of her [[GenderBender position]].
%%* His treatment of a woman who felt this way is the reason [[Webcomic/LeastICouldDo Rayne Summers]] isn't allowed to go into Subway anymore.
%%-->'''Buxom Sandwich Artist:''' Sir, I told you my eyes are...\\
%%'''Rayne:''' ''[still staring at her cleavage]'' ... up there, yes, I know. I'll get to them in a minute.
%%* [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00879.html Candy]] of ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'' suffers from frequent backaches because of her breasts and is saving up for reduction surgery.
* Maxima of ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' is a StatuesqueStunner with golden (it's made of a gold-colored metal) skin. She dislikes it because she feels people look at her as an exotic blowup doll, fueling her strong feminist mindset. Also, she's in the military and her large bust interferes with drawing her sidearm occasionally.
* ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'' had a minor biodynamic character whose mutation was that she was a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe who complained about how nobody ever took her seriously because of her looks -- everyone just viewed her as fetish material. Another biodynamic woman, who resembled a humanoid reptile, called it FirstWorldProblems and said that all her problems could be solved with a can of body paint. As the conversation was taking place in a support group for biodynamic women, many of whom had far more extreme mutations than the second woman (including one who was a living liquid), this did not really do the second woman any favors.
* ''Webcomic/{{Bastard|2014}}'': Kyun is repeatedly stated to be rather cute but this has only made her the target of two serial killers.

* ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged'': PlayedForLaughs; ''everyone'' is highly attracted to Saber, many of them to a creepy and unflattering extent (especially Medea, whose primary goal is getting a threesome between them and Soichiro, who himself isn't opposed, Saber's consent be damned). Saber and Shirou have taken to keeping a ''list''.

* Rebecca Stone from ''WebVideo/DemoReel''. There's no MaleGaze on her, but she was sexually abused at a young age, bitterly complains about everyone outside of the main cast treating her like some BrainlessBeauty, and is played by a part-time model who improvised at least half of the "sexism in Hollywood" speech.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Squidward getting a door slammed in his face makes him So Handsome, It's a Curse. He likes it at first, but soon tires of all of Bikini Bottom following him around ''everywhere''. Mr. Krabs tries to take advantage of this by charging people to see Squidward, who gets [=SpongeBob=] to slam the door in his face again, ''repeatedly'', to try to get things back to normal. Somehow, it turns him even ''more'' ridiculously handsome and muscled. [[StatusQuoIsGod And, somehow, he gets back to normal at the end]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Like in the games, Bowser has a VillainousCrush on Princess Peach, to the point where he stole the Ice Kingdom's Super Star so he can impress her. He later tries to [[spoiler:sacrifice all his prisoners (which includes Luigi) in her honor (and almost succeeds in doing before Peach uses a smuggled Ice Flower]].

* Vida in Creator/RichardBrautigan's ''Literature/TheAbortion'' is the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman -- by American standards. She's tall, slim, has "Playboy-furniture" legs and [[DCupDistress huge breasts]]. Inside, she is an elfin, delicate creature and wanted to be a ballerina, but instead became trapped in a body she feels is a "[[GagBoobs grotesque, awkward machine]]". Since she was eleven years old, the men around her have imploded simply from being in her presence. They're so DistractedByTheSexy that they have car crashes or fall downstairs; they commit suicide because she won't go out with them. She writes a book about what it's really like to have the perfect body, decides to donate it to a mysterious library filled with books no one reads, and there she meets the librarian who, though enchanted by her beauty, is not driven insane by it, and is actually able to listen to her story.

* In ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', the bullying that Kotonoha Katsura has gone through ever since middle school is related to her huge GagBoobs [[AttractivenessIsolation and her physical beauty.]] Many of the girls around her (like Nanami, Otome, Otome's GirlPosse) '''hate''' Kotonoha out of envy and bully her, and this only increases after she gets tangled in the LoveTriangle with Makoto and Sekai (who does NOT bully her for it, but happens to be friends with some of said bullies). [[spoiler:It can be a plot point in the game itself: the girls can potentially decide to ''increase the bullying further'' to give Sekai the biggest shot in the LoveTriangle, and if Makoto doesn't put an end to Kotonoha's torment... ''Sekai will pay with her life''.]]

** Thomas Raith is a good incubus. Naturally, he has the (supernaturally) good looks one would expect an incubus to have, however he feeds on people via sex, and it can easily lead to DeathBySex, which he is unwilling to do due to being a good person and having made the woman he loved almost suffer that fate. He was also for a while unable to hold a job, as his ([[EvenTheGuysWantHim mostly]]) female colleagues would throw themselves at him. He couldn't even go for a walk without random joggers throwing themselves all over him.

A very specific form of AppearanceAngst and/or BlessedWithSuck that comes up regularly where a character's beauty is a source of problems. This is usually because of its effect on other characters, often times inspiring [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], [[AttractivenessIsolation intimidation]], [[BeautyIsBad suspicion]], or [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl unwanted]] [[StalkerWithACrush attention]]. Otherwise, the character is only noticed because of their looks and not their personal merits. In cases where a character complains about their beauty, expect their complaints to be dismissed or add more resentment from other characters.

* One of Creator/ArinaTanemura's one-shot manga stories dealt with this: a girl named Eve who was stunningly beautiful and hated it. She was a victim of attempted kidnapping, no girls would talk to her because she was rumored to have stolen a girl's boyfriend, and she never knows if boys are only interested in her for her looks or not. On the other hand, she gets beauty treatments and buys cute, expensive clothes because "people say a cute girl who isn't fashionable must be a slob." Thus, this trope is either self-inflicted or a [[MortonsFork damned if you do, damned if you don't situation depending on perspective]] [[note]] Note to editors: don't add your perspective here. This is not a review page [[/note]].

** Casca certainly has shades of this in the Golden Age Arc, but it's even more prevalent after the Eclipse when she became insane. True to TheOphelia ideal, Casca is now much more desirable with the added bonus of becoming [[DamselInDistress innocent and (mostly) defenseless]]. Since the Berserk-verse is very much a world where [[AllMenArePerverts everything with a dick has the high potential of being a scumbag rapist]], post Eclipse Casca is prime prey for a plethora of men AND monsters who want to have their way with her and [[{{Protectorate}} has to be protected 24/7]]. Luca, Casca's one-time [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold kind-hearted prostitute]] [[TheCaretaker caretaker]], is aware of this, and tries to [[DefiedTrope defy this outcome as best as she can]] by [[BandagedFace wrapping Casca's face in bandages]] and passes her off as a victim of syphilis.
** [[MagnificentBastard Griffith]], being quite beautiful for a man, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim happens to attract the attention of not just women, but also other men]]. In fact, [[AntagonisticGovernor Governor]] [[DepravedHomosexual Gennon]] is lewd enough to want to have sex with him, and Griffith begrudgingly does to fund the Band Of The Hawks. [[SubvertedTrope However]], Griffith tends to use his attractiveness to his advantage, rather than being outright taken advantage of.

* Kirie from ''Manga/GirlsBravo''. Her overall prettiness (and her large breasts) have gotten her not one, but two [[PsychoLesbian psychotic]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer female admirers]] who ''refuse'' to take "No" for an answer. She also tends to be a favorite target of local pervert Fukuyama. Plus, sometimes she can't even walk down the street without being bombarded by guys who fall in love with her on sight. And yes, this once included a perverted old man and a ''little kid''.

* Ayase of ''Manga/OkaneGaNai''. It has absolutely horrific consequences for Ayase. He is raped in the first chapter by the man who "bought" him, and virtually enslaved to said man by working off the money through sex in the chapter after that, and in the next ''thirty'' chapters he has had at least [[EvenTheGuysWantHim nine different men]] [[CrapsackWorld attempt to rape him]], with about eight others [[EvilPlan still plotting to]] (one of the nine was one of Ayase's [[IJustWantToHaveFriends few friends]], and five of the eight are the rest of Ayase's [[FalseFriend small friend group]]).

* The Polish comic book series [[ComicBook/LiliPut Lil i Put]] ("Lil and Put") has a storyline that focuses on the "most beautiful princess in the world", so attractive that everyone who saw her became mad with envy on the spot and began to hate the princess. Everyone, including male characters, her ''own reflection in the mirror'' and forces of nature. The princess was rather miserable because of this, especially that she was abandoned by everyone for being so inhumanly, incomprehensibly pretty. [[TakeOurWordForIt Her face is never shown]] [[FridgeBrilliance so the reader doesn't turn against her, too]].

* In ''Literature/KateCrackernuts,'' the queen has her stepdaughter, Anne, cursed for being prettier than her own daughter, Kate. [[TrueCompanions Kate loves her stepsister]] [[CallingTheOldManOut and calls her mom out on this]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': In Esmeralda's case, the downside to being the MsFanservice is, occasionally, you get the [[VillainousCrush wrong attention]] from [[{{Yandere}} the]] [[SinisterMinister wrong]] [[DirtyOldMan sources]].

* ''Film/TheGumballRally'': The 911 Porsche team loses time twice because men chase after them and force them to pull over to flirt with them. The first time (the girls tried to outrace them and the car's engine malfunctioned), the men were nice enough to fix it for them. The second time [[YankTheDogsChain is a whole lot more unfortunate]]: they make it within minutes of getting to the finish line but they end up arriving at night, almost dead last ([[BrickJoke except for]] [[ButtMonkey Lapchik the Mad Hungarian]]), because of a pair of highway patrolmen.

* In the Creator/DanielleSteel novel ''Kaleidoscope'', one of the three heroines wonders why [[AllMenArePerverts every man she meets]] [[PsychoLesbian (and some women)]] have made advances to her or outright tried to assault her. She says this bawling her eyes out having just fended off yet ''another'' AttemptedRape. The narration explains, plain and simple, "It was because she was beautiful."

* In ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', poor Christine Daae is subject to this, being exceptionally beautiful ever since she was a little girl. Christine, during her time at the Opera House, gets plenty of jealous detractors as well as admirers (particularly ThePrimaDonna Carlotta), and Christine’s childhood friend Raoul stalks her feverishly. Worse ''still'', Christine becomes the obsession of the titular, deformed, AxCrazy musical genius, ''[[{{Yandere}} who threatens to blow up half of Paris]] [[ScarpiaUltimatum if she doesn’t consent]] [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe to marry him]]''. However, Christine’s appeal also comes from her [[BeautifulSingingVoice angelic singing voice]] and her [[PurityPersonified pure hearted compassion]], not just her good looks.

* Nicci of the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth.'' She is repeatedly mentioned as one of the most attractive females in the series, to the point where the heroine, previously stated to be the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, felt "as ugly as a clod of dirt" in her presence. Nicci, however, is quite familiar with the downsides of being physical perfect, as her beauty has gotten her quite a bit of [[RapeAsDrama unwanted]] [[RapeAsBackstory attention]] from several villains and other male characters, and provided another opportunity for [[AbusiveParents her mother]] to bully and cast blame on her.

** Hyacinthos was another famous victim from Greek mythology. He was so beautiful that [[TriangRelations two gods fell in love with him]], Apollo and Zephyrus. Zephyrus ended up killing him in a jealous rage.

** What really causes her to angst, is that she looks at [[PlayerCharacter Commander]] [[TheHero Shepard]], and sees their accomplishments and feels that Shepard earned them through hard work rather than genetic modifications. She references their past and tells Shepard that she looks at them and feels inferior.

* Similarly in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All-Kinds-Of-Fur]]" and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/shebear.html The She-Bear]]".

* ''Allerleirauh'', the eponymous heroine of a Grimm fairytale. When her mother dies and tells her father to re-marry only a woman that has golden hair too...[[ParentalIncest now guess where he looks.]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Kult}}: Divinity Lost'', a character with the disadvantage "Object of Desire" has something about them that tends to ignite deep and unhealthy desires in other people that they are unable to keep in check. The Doll archetype, whose life has been made hell by the unwanted attentions of others and seeks to break free and take control of their life, has this disadvantage by default.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Kult}}: Divinity Lost'', a character with the disadvantage "Object of Desire" has something about them that tends to ignite deep and unhealthy desires in other people that they are unable to keep in check. The Doll archetype, a character whose life has been made hell by the unwanted attentions of others and seeks to break free and take control of their own life, has the disadvantage in question by default.

* Discussed in-universe about Arslan's mother Queen Tahamine in ''Literature/TheHeroicLegendOfArslan'', though she herself has yet to voice an opinion about it. Her incredible beauty seems to have a knack for provoking powerful men to go toextremes to have her for themselves, leading them to unfortunate ends.

* German band Tic Tac Toe has a song called "Spiegel" ("Mirror") about two young women and a guy in group therapy. The second young woman (Michelle, 21 years old) is beautiful and is an example of this trope, in contrast to the first one who wishes she were pretty. To translate:

* Dandoodle from ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' was an extremely attractive man when he was alive, to the point where he ended up being fired from his job for being too distracting. After being crushed by a giant plank of wood, he was reborn as a [[OlympusMons Legendary Yo-Kai]] with the uncontrollable ability to make anyone and anything around him "handsome". Unfortunately, most people affected by his ability usually end up looking more [[UncannyValley creepy]] than handsome, as shown when Whisper and Jibanyan become "[[Creator/BruceWillis Bruce Willisper]]"[=/=]"[[Creator/WillSmith Will Smithper]]" and "[[Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio Leonyardo DiCaprinyan]]".

* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' has this as part of the Disquiet effect for Galateids, who are universally beautiful and, as the name implies, were originally created for purposes of companionship. However, their form of [[UncannyValley Disquiet]] initially manifests as a crush that slowly develops into an obsession (or, in the case of folks dealing with sexual orientation issues, [[StupidSexyFlanders severe discomfort]]) and from there turns into mindless adulation (for those directly affected) and envy and vitriol towards "that slut" (for the loved ones of those directly affected).

RapeAsDrama is the most vivid form of illustrating this "curse". This trope is also a CyclicalTrope in that a given audience may or may not take it seriously depending on current events and the time period. If the character in question is pushed far enough, they might end up TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty. May take the form of OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers, particularly in PrettyBoy and {{Bifauxnen}} characters. See also IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn.

Contrast LooksWorthKillingFor, and the FatalAttractor, whose victimization is not explicitly tied to their looks.

* Mabel in the older AU fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13020704/1/The-Big-Pines The Big Pines]]'' grew to be almost ridiculously buxom. At first, she enjoyed the attention but found that the only kind of guys she attracted were perverts who thought she was [[AllWomenAreLustful easy]] and only cared about her body, not the young woman attached to it.

** Over the course of it, there's a subtle [[DeconstructedTrope realistic]] version of what the curse of being beautiful really means: when people hate you for being beautiful, they go out of their way to look for your flaws in order to prove you're not ''perfect'', which implies both that you're so close to perfect that people have to actively seek out any imperfections you have, and that even the smallest, single one of those imperfections is evidence that you're a lesser person who has the un-earned benefit of being beautiful. Jana's running irritation with Taffy's one crooked bicuspid continues on-and-off for most of the book, and blinds her to the fact that Taffy ''doesn't actually have friends''. The worst thing she ever does is wear the same dress to school as Jana and look better in it because of [[BuxomIsBetter her more developed figure]]. All the "snobby" behavior the Club disdains is really just ''loneliness'', filtered through [[UnreliableNarrator the eyes of girls who go out of their way to hate her.]]
** The follow-up series ''The Fabulous Five'' plays this straight too. Taffy (while still present), has been replaced by SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Laura [=McCall=], who, like Taffy, is blonde and beautiful. When Laura beats out Beth for the role of Glinda in the school's production of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', a jealous and angry Beth immediately decides that this is because Laura is buxom. It couldn't possibly be that Laura possessed genuine acting talent (never mind that Beth has just insinuated that the casting director is a pedophile). Laura being an AlphaBitch doesn't help much, but Beth uses her bust size, something she has no control over, as yet another reason to dislike her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie ''Bender's Big Score'', buxom and blonde Dr. Cahill gets annoyed when Fry calls her "Dr. Good n' Sexy''.

* ''Manga/SensualPhrase'': Sakuya is widely known for both his talents as a musician and his striking natural blue eyes. However, later he reveals to Aine that he also thought that his blue eyes were a curse, because it's [[spoiler:the main cause of why his stepdad walked out on him and his mom resulting his mom to neglect him, blaming him for it]]. Even in the epilogue, it is shown that when he was a child he was bullied by other children for it as he looked weirdly different.