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18->''"It must be that ass, cuz it ain't your face!"''
19-->-- '''Music/{{Nelly}}''', "Tip Drill"
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21Suppose you see a gorgeous woman walking down the street. [[MaleGaze Your eyes pan up]] the long, luscious legs, those beautiful hips [[SupermodelStrut swaying oh so nicely]], that slim waist, and of course, [[BuxomBeautyStandard those bazooms]]... ''[[{{Pun}} butter face]]'', [[{{Gonk}} somethin' ain't right about 'er face...]]
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23In short, everything is great about her but her face! [[DontExplainTheJoke Get it? "But her face"? Butter face?]]
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25This is when a woman is otherwise a total package, but MotherNature didn't ''complete'' the package and [[MirrorCrackingUgly she has a face with the shapelessness and sliminess of butter]]. The kind of face that makes you want to [[BrownBagMask put a bag over it]]. Often PlayedForLaughs in cartoons and comedy films. In gags, the woman will often be wearing a MysteriousVeil, setting up for TheReveal. This woman often ends up being an AbhorrentAdmirer. Somewhat the opposite of the GorgeousGorgon. If a character scores with her, [[BeerGoggles alcohol is usually involved]].
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27Although this is mostly intended for female characters, the trope is unisex. Often overlaps with FanDisservice.
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29Also known by the acronym BOBFOC ("Body Off ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'', Face Off ''[[Series/CrimewatchUK Crimewatch]]''").
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31Given the usual attempt for a male observer to get closer for a better look (and looking in exactly the order listed above) this may also be known as "Good from far, far from good".
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33Compare with CuteCreatureCreepyMouth, where an otherwise cute creature has a disturbing mouth.
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35The term for a man with a good body but ugly face is a Shrimp Guy, because you want to remove the head before eating.
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37Needless to say, this is a ''hugely'' impolite thing to say to or about another person; for which reason we want Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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45* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG832oA0-fQ This]] 2010 back-to-school commercial from Foot Locker parodies the butter face idea in a scene with two high school boys checking out female classmates. A hot girl crosses their view and the boy in front exclaims "she is so fine!", but his classmate behind laments she's a "buttershoes": everything is hot ''but her shoes''. Directing their attention to her ugly shoes, both of them recoil in disgust. Then the second boy spots a cute pair of shoes belonging to a cute girl, and they exchange flirty looks.
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49* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' pulls this off on the two depictions of females holding the Founding Titan. In these forms, their large, [[BarbieDollAnatomy nude]] bodies have the female curves to them, but the faces are anything but what one would call pretty. When Frieda Reiss turned into the Founding Titan, her face was absolutely demonic with teeth bared and crazy eyes. Depictions of [[spoiler:Ymir Fritz]] in her Founding Titan form showed that her head was lacking any skin and was nothing but a ''skull with hair''.
50* One episode of ''Anime/AyakashiAyashi'' has a scene with a monster that looks like a regular woman from behind, but has a face that looks like an angler fish. An angler fish that's almost as big her the rest of its body.
51* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Subverted with Tier Harribel, who has a gorgeous body. When she unzips her jacket (which hides the lower half of her face), it reveals a skeletal jaw in keeping with her shark {{Animal Motif|s}}. However, once she enters [[SuperMode resurrecion]], the bony lower half of her face turns out to be a mask which breaks to reveal that what lies beneath is just as beautiful as the rest of her.
52* Douji Kodama's mother Ryoko in ''Manga/BlackJoke'' has an absolutely smoking body, especially for a 53-year old woman. However, she bears an UncannyFamilyResemblance to her son, and thus has a face like a bull's -- a flat, wide nose and beady eyes that are much too far apart.
53* The Abyssal Eaters from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''; 11 women that are either outright naked if not {{Stripperiffic}}, with pretty good bodies.....but their eyes are sewn shut and their teeth are just weird.
54* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' does this as a recurring RunningGag, mostly revolving around the titular character's (often unsuccefssful) attempts to flirt with women far older than him. Notably one chapter where the Noharas are at a skating rink and Shin-Chan, seeing a slim lady with an attractive-looking, shapely body from behind, decide to [[ContrivedClumsiness "accidentally"]] bump into her from behind so she's help him up. The lady then turns around, only to be revealed as a hideous-looking woman with a shaved double-chin.
55* Celty from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' is a variation: Her problem isn't that her face is ugly, but that [[HeadlessHorseman she doesn't have one]]. Or rather, she did, but it's never been ''attached''. Her head does, in fact, have a pretty face, but given that it's in a jar instead of on her body...
56* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Catherine has the body of a busty catgirl and the face of a ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing gyroid]]''. Doesn't help that she has the aggressive bitch personality to match.
57* Downplayed with Tomiko in ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'', who has a nice body, but her wide lips and big nose make her ''a lot'' less attractive than other female characters. That however isn't an issue for her boyfriend Aoki, [[HasAType since he prefers women with ugly faces anyway.]]
58* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', when Supushan spots [[BigBad Dakki]] having a bath and tries to pull a sneak attack on her. The gorgeous Dakki suddenly turns around, revealing a monstrous face that makes him faint... only to reveal that it was a mask, and that [[InvokedTrope she meant to do that.]]
59* Machio from ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' has a bodybuilder's physique... but has a perfectly normal young man's face attached to it. Hibiki sees it the other way around: the face is handsome, but the macho body's throwing her off. [[HasAType Akemi]], on the other hand, sees him as fanservice incarnate.
60* Happens in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' after defeating Midler, the user of the Stand High Priestess. Polnareff goes to take a look at the Stand Master Rose and comments on her gorgeous body, before realizing her teeth have all been broken due to the way Jotaro took out her Stand.
61* Manga/{{Kinnikuman}} is something of a male example, having a [[HeroicBuild truly impressive phsyique]] and an ugly, ridiculous-looking face. It's played with however, in that the "face" is actually a mask of sorts, though considering that Kinnikuman is almost never seen without it, combined with it being [[ExpressiveMask very expressive]], it pretty much functions as a second face for him anyway. It's also subverted during the few times we get to see him without his mask, where he's actually shown to be incredibly handsome.
62* Gouda of ''Manga/MyLoveStory''. Almost 7 feet tall, with superhuman strength and a body built like an Olympic athlete. From the neck up however, he has an unfortunate case of GagLips and looks a bit gorilla-ish, leading to him having a bit of dating trouble. Until he meets Yamato anyway.
63* Kichikujima: Mari who had her face disfigured thanks to her grandma by accident as a child and thus wears masks. She still has a nice curvy body as a teenager/ young adult. Kanna one of the twin younger sisters of Mari was born with a deformed face unlike her sister Mari.
64* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
65** The 140 years ''young'' [[BattleaxeNurse ass-kicking medic]] Kureha has a lovely, hourglass shaped body, but the face of a hag. Don't let her know -- you ''WILL'' get your ass handed to you.
66** There's also Kokoro, the drunken railroad inspector of the Puffing Tom in Water 7. While in the present day she's a straight {{Gonk}}, the flashback sequence shows she used to be physically attractive from the neck down before Tom's death caused her to really hit the bottle, though another flashback sequence to presumably her 20s shows she was very beautiful before then. [[spoiler: Probably has something to do with the species of fish her mermaid traits take after.]]
67** A male example in [[spoiler:Charlotte Katakuri]], whose face is mostly alright and who generally looks like a dark, brooding {{Hunk}}. His ''mouth'', however, looks like something that belongs on a demonic dog, and he's [[BerserkButton not proud of it at all, nor happy with others knowing about it]].
68** Catarina Devon has a lovely figure, but an incredibly ugly face, with a sloping brow, crooked teeth and lips, and a stereotypical witch's nose. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/catarina_devon_anime.png Yeah]].
69** Boa Sandersonia, from the neck down, has the body of a gorgeous big-breasted woman [[StatuesqueStunner whose great height in no way impedes on her loveliness]]. But her head is an enlarged, flattened oval that [[AnimalMotif evokes the face of a snake]] and looks disproportionate on her otherwise lovely, slender neck. The perpetual forked snake-like tongue may or may not also apply for this, depending on your tastes.
70* ''Anime/OutlawStar'':
71** Inverted in ''The Strongest Woman In The Universe'': Gene decides that Fred Loe's fiance is cute when he sees a picture of her face, but changes his mind when he sees her whole body and discovers that she's [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon a huge, freakishly muscular woman]].
72** In the HotSpringsEpisode, Gene and Jim are happy to find a woman pulling the MarilynManeuver...until they look up and realize she's a ''[[http://www.oocities.org/katizua/bios/silgrian1.JPG Silgrian]]'' woman.
73* ''Literature/Overlord2012'': Albedo's sister Nigredo has a voluptuous body similar to hers, but her face has no skin, meaning it just have exposed muscle, her eyes, and teeth.
74* Invoked but subverted in the Italian Dub of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': upon breaking Shaina's mask in the first episode, Pegasus is very surprised to see how cute she is and remarks that he thought her face was "ugly as a devil's", despite the fact that her body clearly shows she's attractive.
75* ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' had several minor female characters who were mostly beautiful humanoids except for their grotesque alien faces, like a mouse lady during the Mt. Mayfly arc and the scorpion woman from the opening scene of the Hell Crusaders arc. This trope was noticeably used by Buichi Terasawa to get away with drawing [[NippleAndDimed topless women with defined nipples]] under the excuse of FanDisservice.
76* In the high school episode of ''Anime/SpaceDandy'', Dandy goes to prom with a girl who isn't much to look at, with freckles and thick coke bottle glasses that cover up weird orifices she has instead of eyes. But she has such a great ass that it gets its own training montage and musical number.
77* Used in a much more serious context in ''Manga/TheYagyuNinjaScrolls'', when BigBadWannabe Akinari and his Seven Spears try to slander both the "Hannya Mask" (Jubei) and O-Senhime by having recently-married couples kidnapped. The grooms are tied up and raped by beautiful girls who are forced to wear horrible Hannya Masks to scare them.
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81* [[http://images.wikia.com/digimon/images/0/0b/Kinkakumon_b.jpg Kinkakumon]] from ''[[TabletopGame/{{Digimon}} Digimon Jintrix]]''. Despite being an [[BeastMan Ogre Digimon]], that would appear to be some sort [[CoolMask animal-fashioned tribal mask]] Kinkakumon is wearing. Of course, [[TheFaceless like most female/feminine Digimon with masks/helmets]], that begs the question of what her face looks like underneath.
82%%%%* The Geisha Gorgon in the ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' card game.
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86* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In one story, Veronica makes herself a Butter Face temporarily by putting a piece of black paper across her front teeth, pretending that they had been knocked out. Then she comes on to Archie, who suddenly remembers [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog he has to go iron his dog]].
87* ''Arzach'': In one of Creator/{{Moebius}}' comics, the titular character watches an attractive woman changing through a window. He goes through great pains to get to her before discovering she is an alien with a face like a dog crossed with a gas mask.
88* ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'': Ninive is a hot woman clad in a semi-transparent gown and a porcelain mask. What's behind that mask isn't very pretty.
89* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Pictured atop this page is [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]'s daughter, Sin. Just stick her dad's head on a smokin' female body and you'll get the picture. [[spoiler: She got better thanks to Kobik.]] Funny thing is, she did start off as [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/e76980d1-4092-4245-bbf9-b25fd8db1069/dc0j51f-2b80555c-af67-4b0d-a47d-34fecb872b07.jpg/v1/fill/w_1024,h_1799,q_75,strp/red_skull_and_sin___the_father_daughter_of_evil_by_chaosemperor971_dc0j51f-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTc5OSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2U3Njk4MGQxLTQwOTItNDI0NS1iYmY5LWIyNWZkOGRiMTA2OVwvZGMwajUxZi0yYjgwNTU1Yy1hZjY3LTRiMGQtYTQ3ZC0zNGZlY2I4NzJiMDcuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEwMjQifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.hdk831OZc4iKqW4Sf3sVO07PnlHjYRaoJcxWmZ9XhEs a conventionally attractive young woman]], but then suffered severe burns to her face that caused her to lose her looks during ''Captain America: Reborn''.
90* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Male example. [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]], like Spidey and Captain America, has a beefcake bod, but whose face is ''anything'' but gorgeous. At least as long as he's wearing his tights and mask, because the rest of his body is just as scarred and hideous as his face. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] - the tumors are caused by the terminal cancer he's suffering from, which his healing factor makes nonlethal, but doesn't cure.
91** Played straight by his alternate-reality female counterpart, Lady Deadpool. Hot bod, but her face is as ugly as Deadpool's.
92* ''ComicBook/{{Ghost|DarkHorseComics}}'': In both incarnations, Doctor October is this. The first version is the more extreme, with (apparently) missing teeth and a voice described as sounding as if she gargled with razor blades and toxic waste; the second is badly (but normally) scarred.
93* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Karu-Sil from [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps the Sinestro Corps]] mutilated her own face to better fit in with the [[RaisedByWolves pack of predators that raised her]].
94%%%%* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': Female slasher [[MeaningfulName Butter Face]] from the special ''Trailers 2''.
95* ''Judge Bao and the Jade Phoenix'': There's a prostitute named "Two Moons", for reasons that prove themselves quite obvious, and a very impressive figure. She also always goes around wearing a hat with a veil that hides her face. Considering the title of this trope, it should be obvious why.
96* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': Way back in the early days of the JSA, Johnny Thunder was thrown back in time and was betrothed to a princess who always wore a veil. Since this example belongs to this trope, you can see where this is going...
97* ''L'Expedition'': The French comic has a Roman soldier with the nickname "the Lion of Nubia". A Nubian queen who aided rebels against Rome demanded that the soldier be given to her as part of the peace agreements. Since she was only shown from the back with a FormFittingWardrobe up to then, it makes her seriously deformed face all the more hideous (and stuck the poor bastard with an ironic nickname).
98* ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'': The Lilim Mazikeen appears as an incredibly beautiful woman, but half of her is horribly misshapen and skeletal. Ironically, she's very proud of how she looks; when her face is made symmetrically beautiful in one arc, she treats it as a horrible, disfiguring attack on herself.
99** Justified in that her previous hideous appearance was a deliberate shapeshifting choice that she could have changed any time she pleased. "Healing" her actually [[ShapeshifterModeLock trapped her in one shape]].
100* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': A short comic by Don Martin features a guy posing at what appears to be a traditional photo stand-in. Only when he steps away after his photo is taken do you see that the studly body is actually his--the stand-in is the handsome face hiding his gaunt, bug-eyed one.
101* ''ComicBook/{{Morbius}}'': Michael Morbius had kind of a weird-looking face even as a human; being turned into a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent living vampire]] made it more extreme, while it did wonders for his physique.
102* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Invoked and discussed in one extra. The staff of Channel 00 discuss a famous soap opera actress who always arrives with her head covered by a scarf, large shades and a large brimmed hat, and then spends four hours in the beautician's office. Angus claims she's nicknamed "Iguana" and another one claims she has a nice pair of moustache. [[spoiler: Completely subverted when it's revealed that the actress in question has a face as beautiful as her body, she just spends four hours inside because she feel she's expected to do so, while the beautician gets a four-hour long pause, so she doesn't complain.]] Played seriously in issue 28 by [[BeastMan Rhaghor]], an Evronian beast-man supersoldier. At first he looks like a bigger, hairier Evronian whose face is covered by a helmet... then he removes the helmet, to show a bare, downright demonic face with yellowish hide and smaller fanged mouths on tendrils, a sight which shocks with horror his superior commander.
103* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In a male example, an old comic from the Silver Age had Superman pretend to be this as a prank on Lois to teach her a lesson on appearances after she pulled a similar move on a poor schmoe to discourage him from trying to date her.
104* ''[[Creator/ECComics Tales from the Crypt]]'': The story "Only Skin Deep" features a man who meets a sexy woman at Mardi Gras whom he thinks is wearing a hideous witch mask. Turns out it's her real face, which he doesn't figure out until the morning after their quickie marriage, when he tries to remove the mask. This being ''Tales from the Crypt'', [[TearOffYourFace it doesn't end well.]]
105* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Some fans consider [[BadassNormal Rorschach]] to be one. Since he spends his nights beating up criminals twice his size, he at the very least must be quite fit. Emphasized in the film, where Rorschach is very muscular but somewhat lacking in the face department. It might explain why he considers his mask to be his true face.
106* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'': ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'' #14 has a YukiOnna trying to seduce Zachary, but when she's caught and reveals her true form, her body retains it's voluptous curves but her head is just a giant MonsterMouth.
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110* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey''
111** There's a strip in which Beetle and Killer both whistle at a woman who looks attractive from behind, but when she eagerly turns her buck-toothed face to look at them, both point at each other in an "it was him" kind of way.
112** Sarge's imaginary picture of his ideal woman in a raven-haired muscular woman with a face exactly like his own.
113%%%%* A number of recurring female characters in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' fit this description.
114* The ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' comic strips has at least one example of this in the form of Lena the Hyena. The "ugliest woman in the world", Lena hailed from Lower Slobbovia, and while from the neck down she was shown as a fairly attractive woman, her face was always censored in the strips themselves in order to "protect the reader from her madness-inducing visage". In fact, the strip creator Al Capp himself never drew Lena's face, but instead held a contest for people to submit what they thought she might look like. After submissions from the likes of Creator/CarlBarks and [[ComicBook/PlasticMan Jack Cole]], the winning picture was by Basil Wolverton: [[https://www.tattooarchive.com/assets/img/history/lena_hyena_wm.jpg a barely describable caricature]], with a spindly, forward-jutting neck, back-sloping head, thinning hair dangling in greasy curls, large cauliflower ears, bristly eyebrows, an elongated yet flattened almost trunk-like nose, a dangling lower lip perpetually dripping with drool, a dry tongue with a cracked and lumpy texture, and massive, twisted teeth that jut so far out of the jawline past the lips the effect is reminiscent of a skinned horse's snout pushing out through a human skin mask.
115** Historical figure Sadie Hawkins, who inspired the Sadie Hawkings Day, when spinsters and the unmarried were allowed to violently capture men who took their fancy and forcibly wed them, had a nice enough figure, but was widely regarded as the homeliest woman in Dogpatch at the time, due to her abundant freckles, buck teeth, big, crooked nose, thin neck, prominent Adam's Apple and large ears.
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119* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Blaze describes his [[FishEyes walleyed]] girlfriend Tracey as having an ugly face in "The Cameo." He uses the phrase "two-bagger" while doing so, suggesting that Tracy is sexy as long as you cover her head in a doubled paper bag.
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123* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'': During the scene where Mater, Finn [=McMissile=] and Holly Shiftwell are looking for Tomber, an odd three-wheeled car running the local black market in Paris, France; Mater actually sees a car facing away from him while inside the black market, and as soon as Mater talks to her, the car immediately turns around, revealing that her eyes are actually on her headlights instead of her windshield like everyone else's! Mater than screams and drives away to find his teammates.
124* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'' with Valerie Da Vinci. We get a panning shot showing her rather shapely figure...and then we get to her GagNose.
125* ''WesternAnimation/{{Entergalactic}}'': Ky brings up having a brief relationship with a white woman who turned out to be a Russian hacker. He mentioned she had an amazing body, especially her butt, but an alright face.
126* A variant in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation''. Frankenlady is, for the most part, conventionally attractive. It's not her face but rather her huge, hulking right arm that scares off Drac.
127* In ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'', during the song "A Whole Bunch of World", a hula girl is seen dancing with her arm in front of her face (except her eyes). Then she takes her arm away from her face to reveal her face is crooked and ugly.
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131* In ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'', Cesar Rodriguez has this reaction after seeing a photo of Mrs. Slocombe sticking her head through a hole to make it look as if she had a glamorous body:
132-->'''Cesar''': The face, '''oh, ay-ay'''... but the body, heh? ''Ay-ay-ay!''
133* The Witches of Ar in ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' are bikini-clad centerfoldesque women...with hideously deformed faces.
134* Referenced in ''Film/{{Booksmart}}'' when a group of teens say that Molly is cute but has a "[[AcademicAlphaBitch butter-personality]]" that they'd need to put a bag over. While Molly is within earshot [[BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults in a bathroom stall]].
135* Played with in Creator/JohnWaters's ''Film/CryBaby'' -- the aptly named Hatchetface is introduced in the classic "gag" manner in the opening scene, where two hoodlums standing in line behind her waiting to get vaccinations reach for her attractively swaying bottom, only to be shocked when she turns around and reveals her flattened nose, crossed eyes, and horrible teeth. The traditional AbhorrentAdmirer aspect of this trope is averted in the rest of the film, though -- she has a very happy relationship with one of the male characters, and none of the Drapes treat her any differently than the gorgeous Wanda, played by TraciLords.
136* ''Film/DeuceBigalowEuropeanGigolo'': The chick from Chernobyl with the, erm, ''appendage'' in place of her nose.
137* Very briefly in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' when Santanico Pandemonium shows her true face to Seth Gecko, which just LooksLikeOrlok while from the neck down she still has [[MsFanservice Salma Hayek's bod]].
138* 1940s film star Martha Raye was often this. She had a great body and a terrific singing voice but was often the "butter face" sight gag in films like 1941's ''Film/{{Hellzapoppin}}'' due to her disproportionately large mouth.
139* ''Film/LoveHard'': When Natalie does sexy karaoke at the local bar, the men react with interest while her back is to them, but this turns to shock and embarrassment when she turns around to reveal a red, puffy face (the result of being allergic to the kiwi in some shots she took prior).
140* In ''Film/PorkysRevenge'', Porky's daughter Blossom is like this, with Porky forcing a ShotgunWedding on Meat because she told her father they went "all the way". (They hadn't, and however far they did get, it was all Blossom.)
141* Parodied with the ghoul that attacks Shorty in the second ''Film/ScaryMovie''. At first he's horrified and it looks like she's strangling him, but he's actually having sex with her, solving the problem with a paper bag ("No no, no kissing!"). They're still together at the very end.
142* Employed with a pretty racist twist in Buster Keaton's 1927 ''Film/SevenChances''.
143* ''Galaxina'' sees Captain Cornelius Butt and his crew in a bordello staffed by RubberForeheadAliens. He lets his fingers do the walking up the torso of one such only to part her hair, do a quick double-take, then beckon the madam to him. Butt is handed a paper sack with eye holes cut out, he puts in on the courtesan, and the duo head off to complete their transaction.
144-->'''Captain Butt:''' "Good thing you're not two-faced, otherwise you wouldn't have chosen the one you've got on. Come on."
145* Happens in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' when the Captain of the Guard believes they've recaptured Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and her compatriots. Turns out he's only half right.
146--> '''Captain of the Guard:''' ''(yelling at his men)'' You IDIOTS! ''These'' are not them! [[spoiler:You've captured their ''stunt doubles''!]]
147** Makes sense for this trope when you take into account that [[spoiler:Princess Vespa's stunt double is a grotesque-looking man with long, straggly hair and a cigar, who just happens to have a fantastic body]].
148** Princess Vespa herself was an example before undergoing ''major'' rhinoplasty. The Spaceballs {{blackmail}} her father the king by threatening to undo it, and he cracks almost instantly. And judging by [[BigNo by her response]], she was not [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-NhD15ocwA any bigger of a fan of going back]] either!
149* Done as a gag with a horse-faced alien prostitute in the SoBadItsGood 1980s movie ''Space Raiders''.
150* ''Film/SpiderMan3'' has a male example with Venom. Unlike the comics, his height and build are very similar to Spider-Man's, but he retains the symbiote's horrifying face.
151* In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', UncannyValleyGirl Dren is described as a "butterlegs".
152* In ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration'', Barry constantly refers to Jenny (played by a young Renée Zellweger) as "ugly" or "a dog." But his girlfriend has seen her change in the locker room, and insists she "has a body to die for." She merely hides it to deflect the attentions of her stepfather.
153* In ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', Curly or Shemp often ended up with one of these while Moe and Larry got attractive women.
154** A few times, Curly and Shemp ''became'' this as they dressed up in a drag disguise.
155** Done with a veil reveal in "[[RhymingTitle Mummy Dummies]]."
156* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant sees [[BaitAndSwitchSilhouette what he thinks is the silhouette of Jessica Rabbit]] in the window of an apartment. But it turns out that it's Lena Hyena, who somehow managed to make herself look just like Jessica (toon physics or something), excluding the face. As soon as she saw Eddie, the rest of it unraveled.
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160* ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'' has an optional (but compulsory) encounter with the Liche Queen, whose body looks like that of an attractive woman... but with a fleshless face whose skin is literally stretched into her skull. The accompanying illustration doesn't do her any favours.
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164* The titular villain of ''Literature/TheBeetle'' is initially described as being so hideous “it was impossible such a creature could be feminine”, and most people assume she is a man. After she transforms back into a human in front of [[MadScientist Sydney Atherton]] he sees that not only is the Beetle a woman, she's "[[DistractedByTheSexy by no means old or ill-shaped either]]."
165* Ygritte from ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'' is described this way. Being a free folk raider, she has a muscled and shapely body, and she's "fire kissed" (red-haired) but her face is rather lacking, and her teeth are crooked.
166** Sandor Clegane is a male example. His face is a burned mess, but Sansa Stark and some female servants at the Red Keep have noted his strong, well-build body.
167* Marian Halcombe in ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' by Creator/WilkieCollins.
168--> To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model—to be charmed by the modest graces of action through which the symmetrical limbs betrayed their beauty when they moved, and then to be almost repelled by the masculine form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended—was to feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar to us all in sleep, when we recognise yet cannot reconcile the anomalies and contradictions of a dream.
169* In ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' by Creator/DavidFosterWallace, Joelle Van Dyne is genuinely gorgeous until an accident leaves her face "hideously and improbably deformed." Her body, however, remains pristine.
170* In ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'' by Creator/CSLewis, the main character, Orual, is thought to be extremely hideous--until she starts wearing a veil regularly, and everyone realizes that her body is actually extremely shapely.
171* Homer Hickham acknowledges this as a cruel nickname in ''Literature/RocketBoys''. The Coalwood High version was "Old Glory," much like Poland's.
172* Played with in ''One Lonely Night''. Literature/MikeHammer hits on a plain-faced woman in order to [[HoneyTrap get information from her]]. Unexpectedly she turns up at his apartment in "a dress that could have been painted on", and turns out to have an amazing body.
173* Mentioned in Benjamin Franklin's letter ''Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress''. Franklin gives 8 reasons why the best mistresses are old women. Number 5 is that when a woman begins to show signs of aging the face goes before the rest of the body, and you can just put a basket over her head.
174* A straight example in ''Literature/DoBlackPatentLeatherShoesReallyReflectUp'': The main character is at a "mixer" dance and he approaches a girl with a nice butt, shapely legs, and long shiny hair. Then she turns around... The MC comments (in the narrative) that she'd do the world a favour by going around with her back to it.
175* Referenced in ''Literature/{{Aztec}}''. In Nahuatl, there's a spirit in some areas called the ''Xtabai'', who appears first as a flame, and then a beautiful naked woman who dances a ways off, but the unwary traveller can't see her face. When she's lured him to quicksand, she reveals her face to him, and it's a grinning skull. When Mixtli follows the flame, he finds some sort of muck that smells like rotten eggs, and comments that no matter how beautiful, no one would want the Xtabai if she reeks like that. It turns out to be useful, though, as the muck is a sort of tar that is good fuel for his fire.
176* In ''Literature/AndIDarken'' Lada is very honest with herself about how ugly she is (so is everyone else) but Huma, a successful concubine, sees a lot of potential within her for 'feminine wiles', though she only advises to draw attention to Lada's body. Though not the stick-thin and delicate style of the time, she's described as pretty shapely.
177* In Ellen Godfrey's ''Literature/GeorgiaDisappeared'', Jane's first meeting with Georgia is written as a homage to Marian Halcombe's introduction in ''The Woman in White'' -- Jane first sees Georgia silhouetted in a restaurant doorway, then walking gracefully towards her. Only when Georgia gets close does Jane realise how pretty she isn't.
178* Mildmay in ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'' is a male version. He's athletic and well-built, but has a bad case of FaceOfAThug due to a large, disfiguring facial scar from a knife fight.
179* A non-visual version in ''Literature/JudgeDee'' when the judge meets a blind old courtesan, whose voice is impossibly beautiful and arousing, but the dissonance between the voice and the body it's coming from feels wrong.
180* In Ralph Ellison's short story "A Coupla Scalped Indians", the eleven year old protagonist Riley finds himself in the yard of Aunt Mackie, an old herb doctor whom he thinks is a witch. He ends up looking through the window of her shack and sees a naked woman with a young girlish body whose back is turned to him. He is briefly stunned when she turns around as she drinks from a glass only to get the shock of his life when she lowers the glass when sees "the wrinkled face of Old Aunt Mackie."
181* John Wilkes Hopkins from Creator/RayBradbury's ''Literature/DeathIsALonelyBusiness'' is a male example, being an aging actor with an idealized young athlete's body straight out of the ancient art world thanks to a strict lifelong regimen. It doesn't strike others immediately as he meticulously conceals his physique in suits, but when he reveals a photograph of himself stripped down, the protagonist is floored by the contrast and tries to figure out whether he pasted on the head.
182-->It was like those contest picture puzzles they used to print in newspapers when I was a boy. The faces of presidents, cut in three sections and mixed. [...] But here a young man’s Greek-statue body was fused to the neck, head and face of a hawk-eagle-vulture ascending into villainy, madness or both.
183%%* ''Literature/HouseMadeOfDawn'':
184* ''Literature/{{Stinger}}'': Nancy "Nasty" Slattery's skintight pants and figure are repeatedly emphasized in her admirer Ray Hammond's pov scenes, but he also admits she has a pointy chin and chipped teeth and marks of having once broke her nose (the latter two features from falling face first during a track meet) that cause her to "just [miss] being pretty."
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188* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': Season 4 introduces [=DeBrie=] Bardeaux, who not only has a rather worn face (from the years of drug problems), but at one point is even referred to as a butter face. Granted, it was because [[VisualPun her face was covered in butter]] at the time, but this show rather likes puns.
189* ''Series/GetSmart''. 99 is relaxing in a bubble bath when she gets an AvengersAssemble call from the Chief. A RevealShot then shows she's posing for a photographer, who objects in vain about her walking out on him. So the photographer asks another woman if she wants to hop in the tub. Cue a camera {{pan}} up the long legs...of the photographer's middle-aged mother. She refuses, naturally.
190* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': A complete inversion of this trope occurs in the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E6EyeOfTheBeholder Eye of the Beholder]]". The main character's face -- [[BandagedFace bandaged until the reveal at the end]] -- is [[BeautifulAllAlong just as beautiful]] as her body... but to the standards of all other characters — who have hideous faces — ''she'' is the one with the butter face.
191* Inverted the in the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "The Different Ones", also written by ''Twilight Zone'' creator Creator/RodSerling. A severely disfigured teenager is sent as Earth's representative on a cultural exchange with a newly contacted alien planet with the theory that he'll be treated better there because they won't know the difference. During the transfer he meets their representative, a conventionally handsome youth who interacts with the protagonist as thought he were the butterface. The planet's inhabitants are later revealed to look just like him, in fact he's considered "gorgeous" by local standards.
192* In ''Series/Reno911'', Deputy Trudy Wiegel is said to have a decent body but she's still a triple-bagger (a bag for you, a bag for her, and a bag for anyone unfortunate enough to be watching).
193* In ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', this turns out to be the case with a woman who was wearing a full burqa and veil on her date with Larry's blind friend...who dumps her as soon as he finds out she's ugly.
194* This was often a gag on ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'', in a manner similar to the ''Spaceballs'' example above (the "female" actor would actually be a man in drag, often with a rugged face and a beard).
195** Often a twist on the concept would be skits when Benny would be dancing with four other dancers. The partners of the other three would come out, one at a time, and be spectacularly beautiful, with Benny anticipating his to be equally sexy, only for her to come out and be extremely homely.
196** One of his more memorable sketches was a spoof called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOv9U7rWrc Archie's Angels]], where he and three other men played very homely {{exp|y}}ies of ''Series/CharliesAngels''. It's even lampshaded.
197--->'''David Doyle expy:''' Yes, they're here, Archie... and they're looking as lovely as ever.\
198''[Slow pan across the three girls' incredibly homely male faces, one of them even smoking a cigar.]''
199* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E08Meridian Meridian]]", one of Quark's customers requests a holobrothel session with [[KissMeImVirtual a duplicate of Major Kira]]. Kira and Odo find out about it, and hack the program so that the client is greeted with an image of Kira's body topped off by Quark's head.
200* Creator/PattyMaloney as the [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/File:Little_Woman.jpg little woman]] in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E23TheThaw The Thaw]]".
201* The title character of the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E4Jenifer Jenifer]]" is this. Possibly to the point of [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration]], in that her face looks downright monstrous while still having a model's body.
202* In an episode of ''Series/ADifferentWorld'', Dwayne and Ron are admiring the shapely figure of a young woman who is facing away from them. Dwayne wants to go and talk to her, but Ron cautions him: "This could be a case of dreamboat body, but shipwreck face!" Dwayne comes up with an idea--he sneezes, knowing the woman will likely [[ReflexiveResponse turn toward the sound]]. Sure enough, she's hideous, and the guys are ''horrified''.
203* Brought up in the first episode of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' where Angel and Masuka are discussing why the body of the prostitute they found had no head.
204* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
205** In a "Wayne's World" segment run in the early days of the first Iraq war, Mike Myers referred to the word "Scud" [an Iraqi missile] as sounding like when "you see a girl from a distance and go 'Hello, babe alert!' then when she gets closer you say 'Omigod, she's a scud!'"
206** In the sketch "The Sinatra Group", this is invoked somewhat by Frank Sinatra (played by Phil Hartman) regarding Sinéad O'Connor (Jan Hooks), rather her face isn't ugly, but the fact that her head is completely shaved is distracting to him. When Luther Campbell (Chris Rock) says he doesn't care about her head and prefers the rest of her body, Sinatra agrees and suggests maybe putting a paper bag over her head.
207* ''Series/InLivingColor'': One of Jamie Foxx's recurring characters was "Wanda, the Ugly Girl" who was ''made'' of this trope.
208* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E18Frontierland Frontierland]]", Dean travels back in time to TheWildWest, and is looking forward to getting on with the saloon girls, unfortunately they're a bit too homely for his taste. Another girl flounces down the staircase, only when we see her face, she's not only homely but also has skin blemishes hinting at certain social diseases. Dean is bending backwards over the bar as she tries to smooch him, when fortunately a man who'd already booked her interrupts.
209* In the pilot episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Lucy & Ethel make themselves up as homely country gals and then come on to their husbands as a SecretTest.
210* Series/{{Castle|2009}} is overjoyed when Beckett invites him for a private showing of her Nebula 9 cosplay uniform (which naturally follows TheissTitillationTheory). After [[TheTease teasing him from behind a door with a showing of leg and butt]], she then leaps out and growls wearing a hideous alien mask. Castle flees.
211* On the American ''[[Series/ShamelessUS Shameless]],'' Frank's arc in season two had him romantically involved with Dottie "Butter face" Coronis -- or, rather, the insurance money he might collect if and when she passed away.
212* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie''. It's Albert and Laura's first day back to school, and they have a new teacher. Albert, convinced she will be young and beautiful, takes special care with his looks because he wants to make a good impression. As they enter, they see Miss Wilder from behind as she is writing on the chalkboard. She does indeed appear to be young and beautiful--until she finishes writing and turns to face the class. TheReveal comes complete with a jarring trombone sound effect. She is a gaunt, middle-aged spinster with a shrill voice. Albert is visibly disappointed, and Laura teases him.
213* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer:'' OneShotCharacter Candy spends all of her screen time wearing form-fitting yoga pants and a sports bra but also spends all of her screen time vamped out, displaying her demonic face.
214* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''. Season 10 had contestants Asia O'Hara, Aquaria, Monet X Change, and Yuhua Hamasaki promote a dating app called "Madam Buttrface", with Asia putting on [[https://tv-fanatic-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--ujs4g00e--/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1523060642/the-mug-heard-around-the-world-rupauls-drag-race-s10e3.jpg the most hideous makeup she could muster]] to be the face of the app.
215-->'''Asia:''' Everyone knows that during the summertime... A bangin' body is way more important than a cute face.
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219* Perilously close to the {{Trope Namer|s}} is Music/TheMonks (who, amazingly were most of Music/TheStrawbs!) CultClassic, "Nice Legs, Shame about Her Face".
220* Used in Music/AphexTwin's music video for "Windowlicker", which has plenty of bikini-clad women...with the catch being that they all have James' bearded face and [[SlasherSmile creepy grin]]. Special note goes to the [[NightmareFace ugly bucktoothed woman]].
221** The same DigitalHeadSwap effect is also used on the song's single cover.
222%%%%* The Strawbs' song (covered later by The Monks), "Nice Legs, Shame About the Face".
223* Music/{{Nelly}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r67xcDqKQYo "Tip Drill"]][[note]]FYI, the phrase tip drill is a street colloquialism for a Butter Face. The image comes from basketball; if you barely got the ball on the tip of the basket and it made it in, you technically got it in, but it's nothing to brag about![[/note]] got a lot of flak for exploring this trope in a provocative manner. ('''WARNING:''' The music video is definitely {{N|otSafeForWork}}SFW.)
224* DJ Jimi's "Where They At": "It must be your pussy cuz it ain't your face."
225* The AlternativeRap group Black Sheep's song "Strobelite Honey" is about the rapper Dres meeting a girl in a club. He can't see her face due to the strobe lights, but he can make out her "slammin" silhouette. Then he gets her in the light. Hilarity Ensues.
226* An example used in both the song and the video for [[Music/IceCube "Gangsta Nation"]]: "I don't holler at these hoes that sing like Music/{{Ashanti}}, body like Music/{{Beyonce}}, face like [[Wrestling/AndreTheGiant Andre]]!"
227* Raimundos had the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxC4rc2I_A "Pequena Raimunda"]], based off Music/{{Ramones}}' "Ramona", named after the local name for a Butter Face - akin to BritishEnglish/CockneyRhymingSlang, "Raimunda" rhymes with ''Ruim de cara, boa de bunda'', "[[SkewedPriorities bad face, pretty butt]]". It's filled with phrases describing her such as "if she's leaving you can care, if she's coming better not stare" and "great on all fours, terrible on a 3x4"[[note]]size of [[https://www.persofoto.com/lexicon/passport-photo/size/ a regular document headshot]] in centimeters, roughly 1.77" X 1.38"[[/note]], and a chorus where the narrator [[BeerGoggles says he's going to the bar to be able to face her]].
228* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's video for "Perform This Way" features a half naked woman dancing around in bizarre but revealing outfits... who also has the face of Weird Al himself edited onto her body.
229* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXd6u9o6dYY Keep it Goin' Louder]]" by Music/MajorLazer features a bunch of mostly plus-sized scantily clad women dancing, complete with slow-motion [[ShakingTheRump twerking]] and bouncing. It would be titillating if not for the fact that most of them look like... well, [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11112/111129932/3283496-girls.jpg this]].
230* Music/NeonIndian's "Fallout" video is about a woman with long, sculpted legs, flowing pink hair, and gigantic breasts [[MaleGaze which the camera keeps focusing on.]] The mechanics in the video fall madly in love with her, and give her car a full tuneup. Then, at the very end, she takes off the sunglasses she'd been wearing up to that point, revealing some [[FishEyes seriously derpy eyes]], and the mechanics gape in shock as she drives off.
231* Inverted in [[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]]'s song "Not Too Tall And Not Too Short", where one of the girls the singer dated "had a face like a summer's morn... and a shape like a bag of nails."
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235* {{Medusa}} always has a hideous face with snakes for hair, and usually fangs, a beard, and bulging eyes as well. But sometimes she's depicted with a beautiful human body. Then again, in ancient Greek artwork she's usually depicted with a scaly, clawed, inhuman body below the neck. And one of the oldest images of her incongruously makes her a centaur with a leering skull for a head.
236* Inverted with [[OurSirensAreDifferent the Sirens]]; their ''faces'' were pretty, but their bodies were like those of [[FeatheredFiend birds]] (''not'' [[SirensAreMermaids fish]], but birds), from either the waist or neck down [[note]] The bird form was common because of their beautiful singing voice. [[/note]]
237* A Japanese {{Youkai}} appears as a beautiful yet familiar girl if seen from behind, but has actually the face of a bearded brute or an old man. Its name can be translated as "Irony". One could also count many examples of trickster youkai who pretend to be normal humans, only to suddenly reveal a massive mask-like face to scare the shit out of their victims.
238* The Kuchisake-Onna. Genuinely beautiful, until she shows you her GlasgowGrin and asks if you think she's pretty with it. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption If you say no, she kills you for being rude. If you say yes, she kills you for being a liar.]] You can [[TakeAThirdOption weird her out by asking]] if ''you'' are beautiful, or [[TakeAThirdOption confuse her]] by saying she's average or only a little pretty. She'll leave, either out of ire or not knowing what to do next.
239* In Nordic mythology, the goddess Hel is depicted as [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Hel.jpg half beautiful woman, half rotting corpse]] (as befits the Death and Underworld deity). Depictions vary as to which half is corpse and which beautiful woman. One version has the dividing line run vertically down her body from crown to feet. Thus viewed from one profile she is stunningly beautiful. But when she turns to face you...
240* In modern-day Central American urban legends, we have the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihuanaba Sihuanaba]], a spirit that looks like a beautiful woman from behind. She appears bathing in a lake or river and lures men to their deaths, but not before revealing that her face is actually that of a horse. Mind you, in this case, [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom there are men who wouldn't be put off by]] TheReveal [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom at all]].
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244* In the late 90s WCW went through the motions of starting a woman's division, and they hired a female wrestler named Dee Dee Venturi for it. Commentator Wrestling/BobbyHeenan called Venturi a butter face, and was met with (possibly legitimate) irritation from his co-commentator Wrestling/TonySchiavone.
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248%%%%* Comedian Pablo Francisco has a routine called "Nice body, ugly face."
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251* One of the sample characters in the Nosferatu clanbook from ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', Mary Contrary. She loves to wear {{Stripperiffic}} clothes that complement her hot body, but her face..."looks like it's been hit with a shovel. Over and over again". Being a Nosferatu, Mary exaggerates the trope. It would be bad enough just with this description, but then we actually get to see her.
252* In the ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'' monster book ''Creature Collection II: Dark Menagerie,'' the [[MeaningfulName Blood Maiden]], is introduced as an otherwise gorgeous shoal-dwelling siren who just so happens to have a ''lamprey-like maw instead of a face.'' Obviously, they feed on blood, and not only that, but they [[SingleGenderRace are all female]] as well. Guess how they reproduce?
253* This trope applies InUniverse to Trixiebelle the Gremlin in ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'', where her ample cleavage, smooth limbs, nice butt and penchant for skimpy clothing are spoiled by the fact she has a fairly typical gremlin face (faintly glowing solid red-orange eyes, blank skin where her nose should be, a somewhat oversized mouth full of sharp pointy teeth), even if other gremlins think she's gorgeous due to the combination of her body and her lack of any inbreeding-induced facial deformities. Consequently, she's got a special ability called "Gremlin Lure" that lets her draw other gremlins towards her, but forces other races to move away -- even the [[{{Necromancer}} Resurrectionists]] and [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn]]. To some fans, though, she looks more like a CuteMonsterGirl.
254* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has the powerful vampire [[https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Shauku Shauku]] (represented in the game with the card [[https://scryfall.com/card/mir/142/shauku-endbringer Shauku, Endbringer]]), who has long, flowing dark hair, a nice body with large breasts highlighted by her very revealing, elegant dress... [[https://assets.moxfield.net/cards/card-LKxGP-art_crop.webp and a horrifically withered face that looks more bestial than human]], sporting MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. Unlike most examples, she does also have eerily bony arms with razor-sharp claws that give her monstrous nature away even without looking at her face.
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258* Male example: Alvaro Mangiacavallo of ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'' has a finely sculpted body, but his face looks as ridiculous as his last name sounds. Serafina keeps repeating to herself that he has a clown's face on her late husband's body.
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262* ''You'' can play as one in basically every game that lets you fully create your characters, such as ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' onwards or the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series; your female character can look drop-dead gorgeous from the neck-down, but play around with the face sliders enough and you can end up with a Butter Face that would make even [[Franchise/MortalKombat Mileena]] look like a fashion model.
263* The nurses in the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series have [[HospitalHottie very nice bodies]] and [[TheBlank what are apparently tumors for heads]].
264* ''VideoGame/AtomicHeart'' has the Twins, who much like the nuns from ''Franchise/SilentHill'' above [[TheBlank lack faces entirely]] and can easily be in the UncannyValley, but more than make it up to it with shapely figures that look like Soviet ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' {{Fembot}} models. Heck, their trailer scene literally has sexual connotations to it, though that last part can be seen as [[{{Twincest}} quite disturbing]] for some.
265* The Battle Nuns in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' look pretty hot from the neck down. Their, uh, "faces", on the other hand...[[spoiler:look like zippers (and little more) that produce weaponized {{Vomit Indiscretion Shot}}s]]. When Eddie first sees one, he says she's "the definition of butter face. [[NightmareFetishist But kinda sexy, though, in a weird way]]".
266* One of the bosses in ''VideoGame/HarmfulPark'' is a [[GiantWoman gigantic anime girl]] whose face remains outside the screen for most of the battle. If you defeat her on easy mode, she sits down and you realize her face to be ''hideous'' compared to the rest of her body - from her acne-ridden face to the gigantic mole and oversized nose (on hard mode, however, she looks like an average anime girl).
267* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
268** Mileena has become one of the best-known Butter faces in video games (Johnny Cage even calls her such in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''). At first she looks like your typical FemmeFatale in a purple ninja outfit. That is, until she takes off her mask and turns out to have MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. This is due to being part-Tarkatan (like Baraka, below). In spite of all this, Mileena still tends to be considered attractive by fans.
269*** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': her face looks more humanlike, with a fully functional set of lips. She still has rows of Tarkatan teeth lining her cheeks in a menacing GlasgowGrin, though. ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' further downplays this one: In this incarnation, Mileena is not locked into permanent Tarkatan face, but the Tarkat is now a disease she contracted and one of the symptoms is that she will end up having her face disfigured. There is a time when Mileena is just traditionally attractive, and she still makes the best out of her eventual Butter Face with [[AdaptationalHeroism other virtues]].
270** Same can be said about Baraka, a [[GenderInvertedTrope Rare Male Example]], whose body is muscular in an attractive way but whose face is ''anything'' but attractive.
271** Shao Kahn is another male example. The guy has the physique of a bodybuilder and normally wears little else than a loincloth, boots, shoulderpads, and a harness. He also normally wears a full-faced helmet, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/5/5b/Shao_Kahn_comic.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060613183106 but when]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/c/cf/Screen_Shot_2019-04-25_at_11.31.41_PM.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190426093346 he doesn't...]] except in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', where he has a normal human face (specifically, that of Brian Thompson) under the helmet. He also has a normal human face in ''WebVideo/MortalKombatLegacy''.
272* The Ghost Lady from ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}''. When seen from behind, she does kind of look harmless and look like [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Scarlett O'Hara]]. When you look at her face, though...well, [[DemBones she doesn't really have a face, per se.]]
273* [[ChivalrousPervert Zevran]] of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' mentions this trope by name in a conversation with Leliana, remarking on a woman that he'd been ogling. Leliana tells him, "You are a very bad man."
274* One of the EnemyChatter from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' has a soldier comment how hot the zombie girls are if you put a bag on their head. Another soldier openly questions how he got past the psych eval.
275* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
276** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', the DarkWorld Great Fairy has a monstrous face due to Ganon's curse.
277** The Great Fairies from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' have long legs, large (albeit strangely-shaped, due to the low processing power of the Platform/Nintendo64) breasts, and [[{{Stripperiffic}} no clothing but vines]]. Despite this, their noses are large and misshapen, they each have a single mole on the side of their face, and their mouths are cartoonishly large. All of which is mostly an issue brought about by the N64's graphics limitations; when this Great Fairy design was used in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', the much stronger Platform/WiiU eliminated the effect.
278* The Wraith enemies in ''VideoGame/DarksidersII''. When the very first one shows up, the camera is focused on her shapely butt, then slowly pans up and around to give the player a good view of her figure before revealing that she has the facial features of the other undead enemies in the area.
279* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': Based on Kenway's experience, this is Benjamin Franklin's opinion of old women. Luckily, open five-sided pulped wood containers make this a non-problem. This is one of eight of Franklin's horrifying reasons to date them anyway.
280%%* Stalkers in ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'', especially the "Lovely Assistant" reskin.
281%%* A common complaint about the ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' take on the sims themselves.
282* Clover in ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' was made with the trope in mind due to the player base wanting to avoid the stereotypical hot female action character many video games use. Bonnie and Joy were also made in a similar fashion, the former having DelinquentHair, the latter having a TomBoy motif. Sydney and Hila are the only ones that could be considered "Attractive", though this is down to sharing [[InkSuitActor their faces with their [=VA's=],]] Sydney has Georgia Van Cuylenberg, and Hila has Hila Klein)
283* ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClubTheGirlWhoStandsBehind'' While investigating the high school where the murder victim attended, you come across a young female tennis player who you initially talk to from a considerable distance. Her being this far away in contrast to most people you talk to confuses the PlayerCharacter, and so when he asks her to come closer after thinking she must be cute... she turns out to have an ''extremely'' ugly and weaselly face, [[AbhorrentAdmirer and is also implied to have a crush on your character]]. He’s suitably horrified.
284* The Sirens from the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series are depicted as floating, beautiful girls with large breasts, but their heads are mostly hair and a gaping, fanged LampreyMouth. This is better seen with the Siren Widows from the second game, who keep their hair in a bun, allowing you to see that their only facial feature are the maws. The ones from ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]'' have a more humanoid face, coupled with a hideously large, fanged mouth.
285* In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'', you have the living toon, Alice Angel, from chapter 3. From the neck down, she has the body of a curvaceous woman with an hourglass build. From the chin up, she's TwoFaced, with both equally bad -- the left half distorted like it's been badly burned, the right so smooth and toony that it hits the UncannyValley -- and has a lopsided halo visibly growing out the left side of her skull.
286* This trope is {{discussed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany''. Most of the squad, Sweetwater in particular, expresses adoration for [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Mike-One-Juliet]] based on nothing but the sound of her voice. Eventually, however, Haggard questions whether that automatically means she's physically as beautiful as Sweetwater imagines, noting that he has a cousin with a beautiful voice "but a face like a can of dog food".
287-->'''Sweetwater:''' Wasn't she the one you dated?\
288'''Haggard:''' [[BluntYes Yeah]].\
289'''Sweetwater:''' ...[[InsultBackfire Cool]].
290* Scythian Witch-Harpies in ''VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE'' look like ''very'' hot women with wings for arms [[MaleGaze and exposed breasts]], even up close. That is until [[https://i.imgur.com/VPot1.png they open their mouths]]. Then they show that their heads aren't even human, more like a red-skinned raptor wearing headgear in the visage of a human woman's head. The Witch-Harpy's breasts are detailed by NETRICSA as having no mammary function, so all they are is SchmuckBait to horny humans.
291* The Mother Harlot from the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' franchise appears to have the body of a beautiful woman, but being a Fiend gives her the standard SkullForAHead all Fiends share. In her debut appearance in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', she initially faces away from the Demi-Fiend before turning around and revealing her face right before the battle starts.
292* Altasgracias of ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'' is an attractive, naked, GiantWoman... with [[FacialHorror three faces horiffically fused onto one head]] and a [[GirlsWithMoustaches beard]] that could make a {{wizard|Beard}} jealous. She was [[MindHive originally three sisters]] who were all forced into unwanted marriages, and prayed to [[JackassGenie the Grievous Miracle]] for a way out of them. Well, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor they got one]].
293* {{Inverted}} by Fragile in ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''. She has a young, attractive face while her body is extremely withered and aged. Everything from her neck down was exposed to Timefall, water that induces RapidAging, which created the contrast.
294* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' has the painting "Beauty Looking Back", which is a RealLife example of using this trope. The painting's title in Japanese is a phrase more accurately meaning "this is a woman who is only beautiful when seen from behind".
295* [[EvilKnockoff Pseudo-Palutena]] from ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' looks exactly like [[HotGoddess Palutena]]... until her mask of beauty is destroyed, revealing her grotesque, zombie-like real face.
296* ''[[VideoGame/{{Lisa}} LISA: The First]]'': Played for drama in the secret ending. [[spoiler:The last tape Lisa can obtain transports her to a void that's empty aside from a woman seen from behind. The woman apologises to Lisa, but when she turns around to face her, she has the face of Marty, Lisa's [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]]. As Lisa has been encountering nearly nothing but instances of Marty in her dreamscape and the tape is called "Mom's Tape" in the files, this represents Lisa's trauma overwriting even the distant memory of her long-gone mother.]]
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300* A ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/406/ comic]] shows a classic example of this trope, as a man walks past while a woman, viewed only from behind, bends over to pick up the papers she dropped. Then she turns around.
301* Luna of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' got this sort of response from Siggy, [[GorgeousGorgon even though her face is fine]], and from several supporting characters. She has orc tusks because of a curse.
302* The bride in the "Maid Maleen" retelling in ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'', while in possession of a nice figure and gorgeous hair, has a long, pointy nose and a massive unibrow, explaining why she hides her face behind a veil and makes the heroine Maleen take her place at the wedding ceremony.
303* The main character Leez in ''Webcomic/{{Kubera}}''. Although she's normally drawn the same as the other characters, that's just GenericCuteness turned to her benefit (explicitly) because she's the main character. Everyone in the story treats her as ugly as sin, and every once in a while the author draws her "normally," resulting in her looking like a {{gonk}}.
304* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' tie in online graphic novels, Company agent Penny Logan has a nice enough figure but a face that causes her mother (who has the power to shapeshift other people) to give her a different one for the purpose of her scoring a date once. Whether her face is just a bit plain next to the other characters or has lips that are too thin, cheeks too wide, a nose that's too big or some combination of the three is DependingOnTheArtist.
305* Thelma of ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', in her original appearance, is implied to be this. SheCleansUpNicely, though.
306* Wonderella describes ''Earth'' as this in ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''. [[http://nonadventures.com/2012/08/11/battlefield-worth/ She has a point.]]
307* Sister Germany in ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld''. She has one of the [[BuxomBeautyStandard most buxom figures]] among the female cast, but the author describes her face as not very pretty. She even has a moustache!
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311* One Website/{{Cracked}} article about words in other languages that we really need in English has a Japanese word for this, the aforementioned "bakku-shan".
312* When LetsPlay/TheDarkId's LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' reaches the [[CameBackWrong "Goddess"]] boss fight, he can best describe her as [[BodyHorror "Butterholyfuckwhatiswrongwitheverythingbelowtheneck."]]
313* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'':
314** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkgmtsjExU "I was forcibly taken to the pool by a woman with a great figure.But she was ugly face, so ..."]] [sic]: Maki has a great body and cute eyes but wears a mask to hide her manly, ugly face from the eyes down.
315** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30nO8BXuU4 "A woman with a great style but not a great face tried to stand out at a wedding"]]: Mayu is a friend of Ram's from school and is quite confident in her attractive body. However, she has a long chin that makes her face look masculine.
316** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUd1caO2WWA "A misunderstood woman who pretends to be a lover when she is not even in a relationship"]]: Misato has a nice body, but her face is full of wrinkles. She tries to act cute around her male coworkers, but they are grossed out.
317** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywEhPgHoqI "The tragedy of a misunderstood woman who can't stop boasting about her beautiful hair,"]]: Sarah has an attractive body and luscious hair, charming any man who looked at her from behind until she turned to face them, which scared them off because her face looked, in Haru's words, "like a Noh mask."
318** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijwb9R-u7Y "The result of a junior who pretended to be drunk at a company drinking party clung to a man…"]]: Minami has an attractive body and will take every opportunity to brag about it while comparing her senior coworker Kanade to herself. However, once she takes off her mask to seduce Alto, it's revealed her face is unattractive from the nose down.
319** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmH1LF0Y9M "When a beautiful woman with outstanding style takes off her mask for a meal…"]]: Ruri has an attractive body and likes to flaunt it while mocking her friend Haru for her "toddler-like" body. However, when she takes off her mask, it reveals a grotesque overbite that drives guys away in disgust.
320** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rmf3JCeTg "When a woman who boasts of style takes off her mask, the shock develops"]]: Saki has an attractive body and misunderstands boys whenever they help her, acting as if they fell in love with her. When they went to the pool, she bragged about how beautiful she was and sought to have Narita as her boyfriend while mocking Haru's underdeveloped body. However, once her mask slipped off on the waterslide, it exposed her ugly face.
321** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjbBJLUbZ7U "Teacher Brags About Her Nice Body → But When A New Teacher Tells Her Something Shocking…"]]: Coach Miyu always wore a cap and goggles in swimming class while flaunting her attractive body, acting sweet around the male students and picking on female students' appearances whenever the latter group complained about her unprofessional behavior. However, when her cap and goggles come off after she fell into the pool, her ugly face is revealed and the boys who previously fawned over her become repulsed by her face.
322* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "different town", Strong Bad imagines replacing Homsar with a "modestly hot" female version. Modestly Hot Homsar has a voluptuous body, but still has [[InvisibleAnatomy no arms]] and a slighty-feminine version of Homsar's cartoony face.
323-->'''Strong Bad:''' Modestly hot, my eye!
324* The fourth "ssenmodnaR" video by [[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]] shows Princess Peach as well as various sexy women with an old man's face.
325* Carly Jean-Dooley in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version four is described this way.
326* The Creator/CS188 YouTubePoop [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS1g8Ruw9qw "Pooping the Charts Vol. 7 - Why Can't I Think Of A Title"]] does this with Music/JustinBieber. Literally for about a second.
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330* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Screwy Squirrel]]'' short ''Big Heel-Watha'', the chief's daughter is one of these...but turns out to be [[WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood Red]] wearing an ugly mask.
331** A similar switch happens in the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon, ''Socko in Morocco''. Woody and Buzz Buzzard fight over a harem girl; in the end Buzz lifts the veil to see a horridly ugly face. Woody finds out after Buzz gives up that the face was a mask and she's really beautiful.
332** In another Woody Woodpecker short, ''Buster's Last Stand'', an Indian tries to grab Woody's scalp to get the hand of the Indian Chief's daughter, in the end, after getting it, the father gradually shows his daughter with a curtain at the end, an ugly face appears.
333** Another Avery ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' cartoon, ''The Chump Champ'', has the Queen of Sports, who looks shapely from the neck down, but is a [[FunnyAnimal literal dog]] from the neck up.
334*** Technically, they were ''all'' literal dogs...but this one was a dog in more ways than one. She also became an AbhorrentAdmirer at the end.
335* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "[[Recap/AmericanDadS2E14HelpingHandis Helping Handis]]", Steve grows a pair of breasts as a result of a steroid pill given to him by his dad Stan. When Steve revealed his newly developed breasts to Stan, Klaus (who was next to Stan at the time) says "Talk about a butterface".
336* In the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Interfection," Meatwad encountered a pop-up ad that had bikini clad women with men's faces.
337-->'''Master Shake:''' Listen to me, Meatwad. Is it hot girl-on-girl action?
338-->'''Meatwad:''' Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're girls. But this one looks kinda strong.
339* [[ProfessionalKiller Curare]], a villain from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', has a rather nice body. But apparently she wears the mask for reasons besides stealth. When Terry sees her without it, he looks rather repulsed, though we don't get to see it. Here [[https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Curar%C3%A9?file=CurareFace.jpg is the concept art]].
340* Mrs. Manface from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' is a woman with the face of a man with a huge, stubbly chin.
341* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', Linda uses the term to refer to a mechanical shark used as a prop in an old ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' CaptainErsatz.
342* Inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' episode "Hello Dottie". When Woody outsources most of his employees' jobs to India (as in he has the work done by robots which are being remote controlled from India), Steve falls in love with one of the outsource workers, whose face is shown on a monitor mounted on the robot. Eventually, he decides to fly to India to meet her in person. When he arrives, he discovers that below her beautiful face, she is grossly overweight, with hairy man arms. Steve promptly heads back to America.
343* [[GravityMaster Gravitina]] in ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' is a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]] except for her enormous cranium, which she was mocked for that lead her to villainy.
344* An inversion occurs on ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''. Cat and Dog get [[TrappedInTVLand sucked into a space opera movie]] and must rescue the DamselInDistress, who communicates with them via monitor and has a beautiful face. When they do rescue her, they finally see the rest of her body, which consists of slimy green tentacles--and Cat is less than thrilled when she insists on showering him with kisses.
345* Ms. Demeanor of ''WesternAnimation/COPS1988'' is a tall, [[AmazonianBeauty muscular yet full-figured]] woman with a less than attractive face, sporting pronounced cheekbones, a narrow and pointy chin, and cruel eyes. It was even a plot point in one story in the comics: [[spoiler: she was originally a beautiful woman who was going to marry Berserko, but an experiment by Dr. Badvibes gave her the face she has in the cartoon, which made her so ugly that Berserko called the wedding off in disgust]].
346* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Stormy Weather", Courage comes across a french couple kissing each other with the woman's face hidden behind the man's. She looks very attractive at first glance, until they stop kissing and her horrific face is revealed (Her boyfriend doesn't seem to mind though).
347* Bleh from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', who's basically identical to Princess Clara but has a blatant set of FishEyes.
348* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the "About Face" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', in which the titular character develops a strong rapport with a 911 operator [[ArousedByTheirVoice with a silky voice]]. Upon meeting up for drinks, he discovers that she's this - but simply shoots out the lights because he's growing to care about her. After even ''Fluffy & Uranus'' react negatively to her, she decides to get cosmetic surgery and becomes the full package - drop-dead gorgeous and very sweet. The episode ends with [[spoiler: Duckman deciding that he's not good enough for her, [[CruelToBeKind so he breaks up with her and refuses to answer her phone calls]].]]
349* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
350** In an episode Quagmire approaches a hottie at a bar, she turns around, and we (and he) discover that she's carrying all her fat in the front and has a terrible face. She turns away again and Quagmire is about to hit on her again, but then reminds himself of what he saw the first time. Meg later receives a similar treatment from another guy.
351** In the episode "Boys Do Cry", Peter says: "You can't ask me to make dinner, Lois. That's like asking me to choose between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kirsten Dunst in a hot body/weird face contest. It can't be done."
352*** Even more to the point, in reference to late-night Cinemax: "There was one on last night where the girl had a butt face but her breasts was immaculate."
353** Another episode had Meg join the Baton Squad in school, after being rejected as a cheerleader. The squad contains all unattractive girls...and one perfectly acceptable looking one. Meg asks her why she's in the group, and when she opens her mouth a super-long tongue rolls out.
354** In the episode "Scammed Yankees", Brian accidentally sees Patty, one of Meg's lame friends (frizzy red hair, glasses and braces) undress, and finds out that she has a beautiful body.
355* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
356** In the pilot, [[{{Cyclops}} Leela]] is introduced this way, as Fry [[MaleGaze only sees her from behind]] until she turns around, revealing her single, giant eye. Since she looks perfectly "normal" otherwise ([[ActionGirl better, in fact]]) it doesn't bother him (or [[PerverseSexualLust the audience]]) for long. However, notwithstanding the show's GenericCuteness, in-universe she's generally treated as the horrifying UncannyValley exemplar that someone with her features would be in RealLife.
357--->'''Elderly Nightclub Janitor:''' My, my, ''my,'' what's a beautiful lady like you--''Ew!'' Oh, sorry, I thought you had two eyes.
358** Male inversion in "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love": While at the gym, Amy flirts with a man who is in a steam cabinet. When the man walks out, it's revealed that despite having a handsome face he has a grotesquely obese body.
359** In one episode, when Zapp encounters a genderswapped Fry, he thinks ''most'' of her is attractive.
360--->'''Zapp''': Well, hello from the neck down!
361* A particularly extreme example is given with Spydra, the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/GadgetBoyAndHeather''. Her body is very shapely, and while her face is never seen uncovered, it is established that she wears a mask because her actual face is hideous enough to turn whoever sees it into stone.
362* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' cartoon "The Ugly Duckling" has Wade Duck in the title role, and is so hideous he has to wear a paper bag over his head to hide his "ugly face". [[spoiler:He ultimately weaponizes it when [[PowerLimiter the bag]] [[TheGlovesComeOff comes off]], as his face is so ugly, it frightens and repulses the Wicked Witch of the Wool and her Lackeys. This actually gives him the confidence to be proud of his ugliness from then on... and it doesn't hurt that [[SelfDeprecation he has thousands of 'He's so ugly' jokes about himself]] to use up.]]
363* ''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'' takes this to a while new level: Mr. Stiletto's goddaughter Angel has a lean, lithe and attractive body... but her hideous face resembles a bulge-eyed fish-lizard with a huge mouth.
364* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', arch-villain Skeletor has the physique of a body-builder and the face of a skeleton.
365* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': [[ButtMonkey Helga]] [[CosmicPlaything Pataki]] inherited her [[{{Gonk}} father's face]] while her [[UglyGuysHotDaughter sister]] got the good stuff from their [[UglyGuyHotWife mom]]. And that's the least of Helga's problems.
366* Parodied insanely in ''WesternAnimation/KorgothOfBarbaria''. After Orala is hit in the head with Specules' EyeBeams and Specules is later killed, Korgoth goes over to check up on the apparently-dead Orala...[[spoiler: who now has Specules' head on her shoulders. He]] even asks Korgoth, "What's the matter, doncha want me anymore?"
367* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "A Gander at Mother Goose" uses this gag in the short's take on Little Miss Muffett. Miss Muffett is depicted as a curvaceous woman viewed from the back who turns out to have a comically ugly face, resulting in her frightening the spider away rather than the other way around.
368%%%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'' provides a rare serious example in [[spoiler: Kaia, and arguably the other Terras.]]
369* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has a {{downplayed|Trope}} example with [[Characters/RickAndMortySummerSmith Summer Smith]]. Her face, while not (outright) ugly, is less attractive than her body, and nobody comments on it (she takes after her dad rather than her very conventionally pretty mother).
370* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': The episode "Magical Golden Singing Cheeses" has one of the most literal examples, as the ending has two cheeses transform into princesses with shapely bodies, but featureless lumps of milk curd for faces; the duo were forced to marry them.
371* Anyone who wears ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' tends to get this, as their heads tend to get all cartoony and green-skinned on them:
372** Stanley Ipkiss, the Mask's most prominent wearer, has a very good-looking body along with wearing clothes that do look nice on him, but he is bald, got cartoony eyes, no ears and buck teeth. It is somewhat downplayed as he is very easy looking even with all of that and he is still a NiceGuy as well, so the girls get attracted to him because of it.
373** Masked Eve has a very good-looking body as she's slender, and has huge boobs and slim legs too, but her face has questionable-looking makeup on such as red lips and blue eyelids. She also [[GagLips turns her lips to comedic size]] which can put people off along with cartoony eyes and buck teeth. Then again, her being a nice girl is enough to make up for it as Stanley does find her very attractive even if he thinks that her face is off-putting (mostly because it's green headed).
374** Masked Dr. Neuman wears nice clothes along with having hair that goes straight up as well which can make him attractive, but like the above examples he also has buck teeth, cartoony eyes and a bald patch. The fact that he's also a psychopath doesn't really help matters.
375* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', Shadow Weaver has a shapely figure, delicate hands (usually), toned, slender arms... and a (concealed) face that revolts Hordak. Apparently it was the price of her power. A flashback to her younger years before she turned to the dark side showed that her face used to be beautiful.
376* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo'': ZigZaggingTrope with the Princess in "World of Giants". At first, she appears as a beautiful, giant woman wearing a veil that hides her face. When she removes her veil and reveals to the heroes (and us) just how hideous she is, her body (somehow) transforms from slender and curvaceous to ugly and overweight to match her unattractive face.
377* Barb from ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', in contrast to her curvaceous figure.
378* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
379** During a sort of {{Music Video|s}} of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," Buster falls for a mermaid who hides most of her face in her hair until they're in a Tunnel of Love.
380** Pulled in another episode where Plucky appears in a video for the Music/TheyMightBeGiants cover of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)." He plays a private detective hired by an Arabian-style sheik to recover a priceless artifact. Among the many possible rewards are the sheik's daughter's hand in marriage, and she has a bangin' body but her face his hidden behind a veil. Plucky succeeds and returns, only for the beautiful woman to turn out to be...''Elmyra''!
381* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'':
382** Hunter, post sex change operation. Body of a supermodel, same face as when he was a dude.
383** Anna Baldavich is a TakeOurWordForIt example. Her face is never shown, but when she asks Brock Samson to make love to her (after Bud Manstrong, the only other crew member on Gargantua One for all this time, refused to satisfy her), he agrees, but only if she wears her spacesuit helmet.
384** Myra has a very hot body, especially given her SpyCatsuit, but her face, with sharp cheekbones, wide eyes, and lines, reflects her insane personality.
385* In a second season episode of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', Lance and Hunk are invited by a city of [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids and mermen]] to have some dinner and enjoy a show. What looks like a dancing mermaid behind a curtain (which gets Lance grinning) turns out to be an octopus with a smaller octopus on top of its head. Lance's reaction turns from delight to disgust. Inverted at the end of the episode, where one of the rebelling mermaids gives Lance a kiss on the cheek. Since she has a jellyfish covering her head to protect her mind, Lance is at first reluctant, but removing the jellyfish to reveal her beautiful face makes him change his mind immediately.
386* ''WesternAnimation/YogisSpaceRace'': From the "Galaxy Goof-Ups", the space disco segments show a woman with a human body and a bizarre alien face that changes forms as she dances.
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